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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got%20Your%206 | Got Your 6 is a national network of veteran service providers, managed by the Bob Woodruff Foundation. In 2018, the Bob Woodruff Foundation acquired veteran nonprofit Got Your 6 and relaunched the brand in 2020 as the organization’s “enduring commitment to the veteran community.” The Got Your 6 Network includes community-based collaborative initiatives encompassing thousands of veteran-serving organizations, as well as individual partner organizations and programs. Through Got Your 6, the Bob Woodruff Foundation provides funding as well as no-cost learning and networking opportunities to help partners “achieve the maximum positive impact on their local veteran and military community.” Got Your 6 also produces public awareness campaigns to show support for the military and veteran community and educate the public on ways to support veterans.
History
Originally founded in 2012 by US Army veteran, Chris Marvin, Got Your 6 was a nonprofit organization working to ensure veterans were portrayed more accurately in film and television. In May 2012, it was announced that a collection of entertainment industry and media companies were joining together with twenty-four nonprofit organizations for a campaign to create awareness of veterans' issues such as employment, health, housing, and education. Some of these issues also formed the six "pillars" of the organization which included jobs, education, housing, health, family, and leadership. Focusing on each of these "pillars", the organization set out various goals and targets related to them such as 500,000 jobs for veterans, housing 10,000 chronically homeless veterans, and the completion of 1.5 million volunteer service hours by veterans. All of the commitments were expected to be formalized by Clinton Global Initiative. Participating entertainment companies consisted of A+E Networks, American Broadcasting Company, Bad Robot Productions, Creative Artists Agency, CBS Corporation, Directors Guild of America, Entertainment Industries Council, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Fox Audience Strategy, foursquare, Funny or Die, HBO, International Creative Management, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Producers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, Shine America, Showtime Networks, Sony Pictures Entertainment, United Talent Agency, Viacom Media Networks, Warner Bros., William Morris Endeavor, and Writers Guild of America, West. The organization was expected to use their partner organizations' resources such as ilm, television, gaming, print, radio, outdoor media and social media platforms to further their message. A public service announcement publicizing the organization was released alongside the announcement which included appearances from Alec Baldwin, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Milla Jovovich, Bradley Cooper, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tracy Morgan, Brian Williams, Pharrell Williams, and Wendy Williams
A year later, the organization partnered with Macy's for a new "American Icons" campaign where the retailer offered a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypixel | Hypixel, officially the Hypixel Network, is a Minecraft minigame server released on April 13, 2013, by Simon "Hypixel" Collins-Laflamme and Philippe Touchette, and is managed and run by Hypixel Inc. Hypixel is only available on the Java Edition of Minecraft, but was formerly available on the Bedrock Edition of the game. Hypixel has held four Guinness World Records and is widely considered to be the largest currently active Minecraft server.
History
The Hypixel server was released in beta on April 13, 2013, by Simon Collins-Laflamme, and Philippe Touchette. The server is managed and run by Hypixel Inc. The two originally created Minecraft adventure maps together and uploaded trailers to their YouTube channel. The Hypixel server was created to play and further showcase these maps. Minigames were originally created for users to play on while waiting for other players, but the minigames themselves gained popularity on their own and became the server's main identity, and efforts from Hypixel were put towards new server content instead of the making of other Minecraft maps and games.
Hypixel Inc., Hypixel's maintainer, was registered as a Canadian corporation under the name "8414483 Canada Inc" on January 23, 2013. Its name was then modified to "Hypixel Inc." on February 2, 2015.
In 2015, it was revealed that the server cost around $100,000 a month to maintain.
As of April 2021, the server regularly reaches over 150,000 concurrent players, peaking at over 216,000 on April 16. On December 21, 2016, Hypixel reached 10 million unique players in total, and had reached 14.1 million unique players by the time Hytale was announced on December 13, 2018. The server reached 18 million unique players in April 2020, according to a tweet by the server owner. , Hypixel attracts 1.9 million players every month.
Hypixel China
In May 2017, Hypixel partnered with NetEase, the publisher of Minecraft China, to release a version of Hypixel in China, sometimes known as "Chypixel". This separate version of Minecraft and the Hypixel Minecraft server would be operated and translated by NetEase, as part of their partnership.
On April 13, 2020, due to the expiration of their agreement, NetEase announced that the Chinese version of the server would be shutting down on June 30, 2020.
Cyberattacks
Around April 2018, Hypixel began to use Cloudflare Spectrum as a DDoS protection after being the victim of multiple attacks hosted by Mirai, a malware, against the server.
On 18 June 2021, Hypixel shut down for emergency maintenance, stating their host was under "large-scale DDoS attacks". Connection problems were reported by players before the server was shut down, and the Hypixel team had claimed to have "identified the issue with an upstream provider". The server subsequently remained closed for four days before fully reopening. In its statement, the Hypixel team re-iterated that they had "dealt with DDoS attacks for well over 8 years", and that "recent changes at [their] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20filter | A cuckoo filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set, like a Bloom filter does. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set". A cuckoo filter can also delete existing items, which is
not supported by Bloom filters.
In addition, for applications that store many items and
target moderately low false positive rates, cuckoo filters can achieve
lower space overhead than space-optimized Bloom filters.
Cuckoo filters were first described in 2014.
Algorithm description
A cuckoo filter uses a hash table based on cuckoo hashing to store the fingerprints of items. The data structure is broken into buckets of some size . To insert the fingerprint of an item , one first computes two potential buckets and where could go. These buckets are calculated using the formula
Note that, due to the symmetry of the XOR operation, one can compute from , and from . As defined above, ; it follows that . These properties are what make it possible to store the fingerprints with cuckoo hashing.
The fingerprint of is placed into one of buckets and . If the buckets are full, then one of the fingerprints in the bucket is evicted using cuckoo hashing, and placed into the other bucket where it can go. If that bucket, in turn, is also full, then that may trigger another eviction, etc.
The hash table can achieve both high utilization (thanks to cuckoo hashing), and compactness because only fingerprints are stored. Lookup and delete operations of a cuckoo filter are straightforward.
There are a maximum of two buckets to check by and . If found, the appropriate lookup or delete operation can be performed in time. Often, in practice, is a constant.
In order for the hash table to offer theoretical guarantees, the fingerprint size must be at least bits. Subject to this constraint, cuckoo filters guarantee a false-positive rate of at most .
Comparison to Bloom filters
A cuckoo filter is similar to a Bloom filter in that they both are fast and compact, and they may both return false positives as answers to set-membership queries:
Space-optimal Bloom filters use bits of space per inserted key, where is the false positive rate. A cuckoo filter requires space per key where is the hash table load factor, which can be based on the cuckoo filter's setting. Note that the information theoretical lower bound requires bits for each item. Both bloom filters and cuckoo filters with low load can be compressed when not in use.
On a positive lookup, a space-optimal Bloom filter requires a constant memory accesses into the bit array, whereas a cuckoo filter requires at most memory accesses, which can be a constant in practice.
Cuckoo filters have degraded insertion speed after reaching a load threshold, when table expanding is recommended. In contrast, Bloom filters can keep inserting new items at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20railway%20stations%20in%20North%20America | This is a list of the busiest railway stations in North America. The figures are collected by the operating agencies of each railway station, and are estimates based on ticket usage data, crowd sizes and other extrapolations.
The ranking is based on annual passengers traveling by passenger rail or commuter rail; other visitors are not included. For example, Grand Central Terminal, a major attraction in New York City, sees nearly 750,000 people daily to shop, dine, conduct business, meet family and friends, or admire the station. As well, nearly 45 million passengers use the nearby subway station each year. Because these people are not using passenger or commuter rail services, they are not included in Grand Central's passenger count.
List
As of 2018, stations that see at least 10 million annual passengers include:
See also
List of busiest Amtrak stations
List of busiest railway stations in Europe
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Notes
References
Rail transport-related lists of superlatives
Transport in North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwar%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberwarfare is warfare waged in the context of computers and electronic networks.
Cyberwar or Cyber War may also refer to:
Cyberwar (video game)
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President, a 2018 book
Cyberwar (TV series), a Viceland documentary series
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It, a 2010 book by Richard A. Clarke
Avatar (2004 film), also known as Cyber Wars
See also
Electronic warfare
Virtual war
Cyberware (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six4Three | Six4Three is a tech company which produced a way to search for bikini pictures from your contacts on Facebook. After Facebook closed off access to data in 2014, the company sued Facebook for destroying that line of business, hoping to recover the money invested in the app. During discovery Six4Three obtained email and/or internal documents allegedly showing how much Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg knew about the privacy gaps in the Facebook partner API. This same API was abused by Cambridge Analytica to data mine information on tens of millions of US voters from a few hundred thousand users. Damian Collins, a UK MP investigating Cambridge Analytica, took interest in the documents and compelled their release in November 2018 by threatening the founder of Six4Three with imprisonment while he was in the UK on other business.
References
Facebook criticisms and controversies
2018 controversies in the United States
Bikinis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20Science%20Hub%20Vienna | The Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) is a Vienna-based research organisation with the aim to bundle, coordinate and advance the research of complex systems, system analysis and big data science in Austria.
Organization
The CSH was founded in 2015 as a joint initiative to foster big data science for the benefit of society and to increase the international visibility of Austrian complexity research. The official start was in 2016. Since May 2016 the CSH has been located in Palais Strozzi in Vienna.
The first four member institutions were the TU Wien, the Graz University of Technology, the Medical University of Vienna and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. In 2016, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) became members of the CSH. Further members are the Danube University Krems and Austrian Economic Chambers (since 2018), the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology IMBA and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (since 2019), and the Central European University (since 2020).
The CSH is embedded in an international network of complexity research centers and universities, including the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Arizona State University, and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Amsterdam. Since April 2017, there has been a partnership with the Central European University in Budapest.
Complexity scientist Stefan Thurner has been the first president and scientific director of the CSH since its foundation. The international science advisory board is chaired by the Austrian sociologist Helga Nowotny.
Research
The main topics of research at the CSH include:
theoretical foundations of complexity science (f.i. properties of complex systems, entropy of complex systems, statistical mechanics, the origin of Power laws, the mathematics of collapse, evolution and co-evolution, path dependence, Agent-based models)
health and medicine (efficiency and resilience of health care systems, based on health care data; personalized medicine; disease prediction and prevention)
Systemic risk (Why do complex systems such as banking networks collapse? What is the likelihood of collapse? Can collapse be predicted? How to build a complex system to be stable? )
Cities ("Science of Cities") (How can data be used for the benefit of cities, the population, the administration ("Smart city")? How do cities become more sustainable? How to increase citizen participation? Is there a direct link between city size and city life?)
the "Internet of things" (Does a more efficient production automatically lead to more vulnerability? How secure is a fully digitized production when it comes to attacks? How can sensor data be used to answer systemic questions?)
computational social science (Opinion formation in social networks and heterogeneous societies. How do conflicts arise? How can conflicts be solved? What is the difference betwee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2018, until May 31, 2019, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on September 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was broadcast in the United States by Fox; it was preceded by the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 14 and 15. The show did not have a host for the fourth time in its history, following the telecasts in 2003 (when the ceremony also aired on Fox), 1998 (on NBC), and 1975 (on CBS).
At the main ceremony, Fleabag led all programs with four wins and won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Game of Thrones won two awards, including its record-tying fourth win for Outstanding Drama Series. Chernobyl received the award for Outstanding Limited Series among its three wins. Other overall program awards went to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, RuPaul's Drag Race, and Saturday Night Live, while The Act, Barry, Fosse/Verdon, Killing Eve, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ozark, Pose, Succession, A Very English Scandal, and When They See Us each received at least one award. Including Creative Arts Emmys, Game of Thrones won 12 awards from 32 nominations – tying and breaking the single-season records, respectively – and helped HBO to 34 total wins, the most of any network. Watched by 6.9 million viewers in the United States, it was the lowest-rated Emmy broadcast in history, amounting to a 32% drop from the 2018 ceremony.
Winners and nominees
The nominations were announced by D'Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong alongside Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma on July 16, 2019. Including its nominations at the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Game of Thrones established a new record for the most Emmy nominations received in a single year by any comedy or drama series with 32 nominations, breaking the record of 26 nominations set by NYPD Blue in 1994. Game of Thrones also extended its own record for most total nominations for a scripted series, ending with 161 nods across its eight-season run, and it finished tied for the second-most nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, its eight nominations trailing only Law & Orders 11. HBO returned to its status as the most-nominated network after being surpassed the previous year by Netflix, earning a record-setting 137 nominations to beat its own record from 2015. Pop TV received its first ever Emmy nominations, earning four nominations with Schitt's Creek.
The main ceremony was held on September 22. Fleabag led all shows with four wins, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge winning three of those for producing, writing, and acting on the show. Fleabags win for Outstanding Comedy Series gave Prime Video its second straight win in the category. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel also performed well for Prime Video, tying its record of eight wins from the previous year between the main and Creati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202018 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2018, the list was published on December 4, calculated with data from December 2, 2017 to November 17, 2018.
The top Hot 100 artist of 2018 was Drake, who placed eight songs on the list, including the number-one song of the year, "God's Plan". Rapper Cardi B also placed eight songs on the list.
The 2018 Billboard Year End list is also notable for being one of five Billboard Year-End lists that featured 14 songs that appeared in the previous year (in this case 2017's) repeat on this list. With the highest being Camila Cabello's "Havana", barely making it onto 2017's list at number 96 and repeating much higher at number 4 in 2018's. Only four more year-end list would repeat the same feat, that being 1997, 2010, 2016 and 2022.
Year-end list
See also
2018 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2018
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2018
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
2018 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidyverse | The tidyverse is a collection of open source packages for the R programming language introduced by Hadley Wickham and his team that "share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures" of tidy data. Characteristic features of tidyverse packages include extensive use of non-standard evaluation and encouraging piping.
As of November 2018, the tidyverse package and some of its individual packages comprise 5 out of the top 10 most downloaded R packages. The tidyverse is the subject of multiple books and papers. In 2019, the ecosystem has been published in the Journal of Open Source Software.
Critics of the tidyverse have argued it promotes tools that are harder to teach and learn than their base-R equivalents and are too dissimilar to other programming languages. On the other hand, some have argued that tidyverse is a very effective way to introduce complete beginners into programming, as pedagogically it allows students to quickly begin doing powerful data processing tasks.
Packages
The core packages, which provide functionality to model, transform, and visualize data, include:
ggplot2
dplyr
tidyr
readr
purrr
tibble
stringr
forcats
Additional packages assist the core collection. Other packages based on the tidy data principles are regularly developed, such as tidytext for text analysis, tidymodels for machine learning, or tidyquant for financial operations.
References
Data analysis software
Statistical software
Free R (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Garmadon | Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon is a fictional character in the computer-animated television series Ninjago (previously known as Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) which is produced by The Lego Group. He was created by the original Ninjago screenwriters, Dan and Kevin Hageman, and first appeared in the first season of Ninjago, titled Rise of the Snakes, released in December 2011. A different incarnation of Lloyd also serves as the main protagonist of The Lego Ninjago Movie, released in September 2017. Jillian Michaels voiced Lloyd in the first seven seasons of the television series before being replaced by Sam Vincent from the eighth season onward. Dave Franco voices the character in the film.
In the series, Lloyd develops from a young boy aspiring to become a powerful villain like his father, Lord Garmadon, to his main role as the legendary Green Ninja, a prophesied hero within the lore of the series who is destined to protect the land of Ninjago from the forces of evil. He is also the Elemental Master of Energy, which gives him a range of elemental powers, such as shooting green energy beams at enemies and passively shielding his body.
Lloyd is portrayed as the strongest member and eventual leader of a team of six teenage ninja, which is formed in the pilot season of Ninjago. The original team consists of just four members, and Lloyd joins their team in the first season. In both the series and film, the storyline repeatedly places him in opposition to Lord Garmadon, his father and prophesied enemy. Although many other villains appear in the series, this complicated relationship between father and son is an overarching storyline in the show's portrayal of the battle between good and evil.
From its launch, the Ninjago series achieved continued popularity amongst its target audience, with Lloyd being a consistently popular character. He is depicted in numerous short films, children's books, graphic novels and other media, and has also been repeatedly released in Lego minifigure form as part of the Lego Ninjago sets that coincide with each Ninjago season.
Concept and creation
Development
In 2009, The Lego Group proposed to make a series about ninja, deciding that there would be four ninja with elemental powers. The Lego Ninjago theme concept originated in the Lego Ninja theme, which was released by Lego in 1998. In 2011, Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu was launched and included some of the concepts from the Lego Ninja theme, such as dragons and fortresses, but also combined this with a modern setting. The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen, two Danish film producers. The character of Lloyd Garmadon was conceived by two screenwriters, Dan and Kevin Hageman following the pilot season. The first sketch depicting Lloyd Garmadon was created in 2010 by co-creator Tommy Andreasen. The Hageman Brothers have stated that "Lloyd" Garmadon was created as a pun on "Lord" Garmadon.
The Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu series was animated in Copenh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLTV | BLTV may refer to:
Beautiful Life Television, formerly known as Buddha's Light Television, a television station in Taiwan
Boston Latino TV, a 2003–13 television show on Boston Neighborhood Network
Birmingham Local TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20the%20Philippines%20by%20GDP | This is a list of regions and highly urbanized cities of the Philippines by GDP and GDP per capita according to the data by the Philippine Statistics Authority.
Data for 2023 estimates (international US$ using 2023 PPP conversion factor from the International Monetary Fund).
Regions by GDP
Regions by GDP per capita
Highly urbanized cities (HUCs) by GDP
Figures exclude cities in Metro Manila, and some cities in the rest of the Philippines.
Highly urbanized cities (HUCs) by GDP per capita
Figures exclude cities in Metro Manila, and some cities in the rest of the Philippines.
See also
List of ASEAN country subdivisions by GDP
References
Gross state product
Economy of the Philippines by province
Economy of the Philippines-related lists
GDP
Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YL%20Ventures | YL Ventures is an American-Israeli venture capital firm that specializes in seed stage cybersecurity investments.
Investment Firm
YL Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. The company’s managing partner Yoav Leitersdorf who founded the firm with John Quigley in 2007, along with Israel and U.S. partners Ofer Schreiber and John Brennan. Current partners also include Sharon Seeman and Michael Cortez. The firm has headquarters in San Francisco and Tel Aviv. A main focus of YL Ventures is to introduce Israeli cybersecurity start-ups to the American market and develop a U.S. customer base.
In 2018, YL Ventures established its Venture Advisory Board. As of 2021, the Venture Advisory Board had included northward of 100 global CISOs and cybersecurity executives from Fortune 100 companies, that assist YL Ventures in vetting investments and provide ideation support before the investment occurs.
In 2019, YL Ventures inaugurated a CISO-in-Residence role. Roger Hale served as YL Ventures’ first CISO-in-Residence. In 2020, Sounil Yu took the role and in 2021, Ryan Gurney replaced him. The CISO-in-Residence for 2022 is Frank Kim.
Finances
As of 2020, YL Ventures manages over $300 million across 4 funds, including a $135 million fund raised in 2019 and a $75 million fund raised in 2017. By 2023 this had increased to $800 million across 5 funds.
Exits
References
2007 establishments in California
Israeli investors
Venture capital firms of Israel
2007 establishments in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boi%20Faltings | Boi Volkert Faltings (born April 10, 1960) is a Swiss professor of artificial intelligence at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Education
Faltings was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and he received a diploma with distinction from ETH Zurich in 1983, where he studied electrical engineering with James Massey. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1987 under the supervision of Ken Forbus. His thesis was entitled "Qualitative kinematics in mechanisms" and showed for the first time how to derive kinematic interactions from object shapes.
Work
Faltings is noted for work in artificial intelligence, especially in qualitative reasoning about mechanisms, case-based reasoning in design, constraint satisfaction in design and logistics, and intelligent user interfaces. His recent work has centered on multi-agent systems, in particular the DPOP family of algorithms for distributed constraint optimization, the blocking island abstraction technique for network routing, and game-theoretic techniques for eliciting truthful information, in particular the peer truth serum.
In 1997, Faltings co-founded the company Iconomic Systems, known for development of an agent-based paradigm for travel e-commerce. He subsequently co-founded 5 other companies. Among them, in 2004 he co-founded NexThink, providing network security and data analytics. In 2007, he co-founded Prediggo, a company that provides recommender systems.
Faltings was nominated professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1987 and promoted to full professor in 1993. He founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and served as head for the Department of Computer Science. He has spent 6 months each as visiting professor at Stanford University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has served as associate editor for numerous journals, including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Artificial Intelligence, the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, and the ACM Transactions on Social Computing. He was president of the Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science from 1995 to 2014, and member of the executive council of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence from 2014 to 2017.
Honors
In 1983, Faltings received the silver medal of the ETH Zurich for his diploma thesis. In 1984, he received an IBM graduate fellowship. In 2000, he received a distinguished service award from IFIP. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, and in 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Selected publications
He is the main author (with Goran Radanovic) of Game Theory for Data Science. Morgan Claypool, 2017, which summarizes recent work on game-theoretic mechanisms for eliciting truthful information.
Tw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20higher%20virus%20taxa | This is a list of biological virus upper-level taxa. See also Comparison of computer viruses
This is an alphabetical list of biological virus higher taxa. It includes those taxa above family, ranging from realm to suborder, that are included in the ICTV's 2020 taxonomy release.
For a list of individual species, see List of virus species.
For a list of virus genera, see List of genera of viruses.
For a list of family-level viral taxa, see List of virus families and subfamilies.
Realms
Adnaviria
Duplodnaviria
Monodnaviria
Riboviria
Ribozyviria
Varidnaviria
Kingdoms
Bamfordvirae
Heunggongvirae
Helvetiavirae
Loebvirae
Orthornavirae
Pararnavirae
Sangervirae
Shotokuvirae
Trapavirae
Zilligvirae
Phyla and subphyla
Phyla
Artverviricota
Cossaviricota
Cressdnaviricota
Dividoviricota
Duplornaviricota
Hofneiviricota
Kitrinoviricota
Lenarviricota
Negarnaviricota
Nucleocytoviricota
Peploviricota
Phixviricota
Pisuviricota
Preplasmiviricota
Saleviricota
Taleaviricota
Uroviricota
Subphyla
Haploviricotina
Polyploviricotina
Classes
Alsuviricetes
Amabiliviricetes
Arfiviricetes
Caudoviricetes
Chrymotiviricetes
Chunqiuviricetes
Duplopiviricetes
Ellioviricetes
Faserviricetes
Flasuviricetes
Herviviricetes
Howeltoviricetes
Huolimaviricetes
Insthoviricetes
Laserviricetes
Leviviricetes
Malgrandaviricetes
Magsaviricetes
Maveriviricetes
Megaviricetes
Miaviricetes
Milneviricetes
Monjiviricetes
Mouviricetes
Naldaviricetes
Papovaviricetes
Pisoniviricetes
Pokkesviricetes
Polintoviricetes
Quintoviricetes
Repensiviricetes
Resentoviricetes
Revtraviricetes
Stelpaviricetes
Tectiliviricetes
Tokiviricetes
Tolucaviricetes
Vidaverviricetes
Yunchangviricetes
Orders and suborders
Orders
Algavirales
Amarillovirales
Articulavirales
Asfuvirales
Baphyvirales
Belfryvirales
Blubervirales
Bunyavirales
Caudovirales
Chitovirales
Cirlivirales
Cremevirales
Cryppavirales
Durnavirales
Geplafuvirales
Ghabrivirales
Goujianvirales
Halopanivirales
Haloruvirales
Hepelivirales
Herpesvirales
Imitervirales
Jingchuvirales
Kalamavirales
Lefavirales
Ligamenvirales
Martellivirales
Mindivirales
Mononegavirales
Mulpavirales
Muvirales
Nidovirales
Nodamuvirales
Norzivirales
Ortervirales
Orthopolintovirales
Ourlivirales
Patatavirales
Petitvirales
Piccovirales
Picornavirales
Pimascovirales
Polivirales
Priklausovirales
Primavirales
Recrevirales
Reovirales
Rowavirales
Sepolyvirales
Serpentovirales
Sobelivirales
Stellavirales
Timlovirales
Tolivirales
Tubulavirales
Tymovirales
Vinavirales
Wolframvirales
Zurhausenvirales
Suborders
Abnidovirineae
Arnidovirineae
Cornidovirineae
Mesnidovirineae
Monidovirineae
Nanidovirineae
Ronidovirineae
Tornidovirineae
See also
Virus
Virology
Virus classification
WikiSpecies:Virus
Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses
List of virus species
List of virus genera
List of virus taxa
References
External links
ICTV
Master Species Lists at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip%20Jamieson | Pip Jamieson (born 1980) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Dots, a professional network for people in the creative industry.
Education and early life
Jamieson's father worked in the music industry. She is dyslexic and could not read until she was 11 years old. She studied economics at the University of Edinburgh and graduated with first class Master of Arts (MA) degree with honours.
Career
After graduating, Jamieson joined the Government of the United Kingdom fast-track civil service program for economists. She worked for David Blunkett.
Jamieson joined the creative industries in 2004, working for the Brit Awards then as Head of Business Strategy for MTV Australia. She helped to develop the model that launched MTV and Nickelodeon to New Zealand. She launched the Mile High Gig in 2008, where Dizzee Rascal performed live on a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Jamieson believes that homogeneous teams are dangerous for creativity. At MTV she struggled to find new talent and service providers.
In 2009 she launched The Loop in Australia, a visual networking platform that was used by 67% of Australian professionals.
The Dots
Jamieson moved to the UK in 2014 and lived on a houseboat in Kings Cross, London. She noticed that there was no networking site for people in the creative industries, as LinkedIn is optimised for a white-collar workforce. She launched the Dots, a professional network that is used by 10% of the UK creative sector. She raised £4 million from Hambro Perks Ltd., John Hegarty and Tom Teichman. Jamieson appointed John Hegarty as chairman. Their membership is around 500k, 62% of whom are women and 31% Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME). It does not allow for companies to search for candidates by their alma mater, making sure people are judged based on their work. Their clients include Tate, Somerset House, Google, Channel 4, Soho House and Facebook. She has appeared on several podcasts and radio shows, including for Monocle magazine. She believes that happier teams are more productive.
In July 2018 Jamieson launched an LGBTQ+ takeover on The Dots to celebrate Pride Month.
Honours and awards
In 2017 Jamieson was named by Creative Review as one of the Top 50 Leaders in the UK.
She was named as one of The Sunday Times Top 100 Disruptive Entrepreneurs, and British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Top 100. She was listed as one of the 2018 Campaign trailblazers for change. She is concerned about algorithmic bias. She supports companies that celebrate diversity in technology and creativity.
Jamieson was part of Sadiq Khan's Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) trip in May 2018.
In November 2018 she was named as one of the Inspiring50 Top 50 Women in Technology in the UK.
References
Women founders
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
British chief executives
1980 births
Living people
People with dyslexia
British people with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20Catalla | Melania Cristina Catalla (born December 25, 1950 — disappeared on July 31, 1977) was an anti-martial law activist who belonged to a network of community organizations in the Southern Tagalog region in the Philippines whose disappearance on July 31, 1977, became a rallying cry of the Philippine resistance against the Marcos dictatorship.
Catalla's name is inscribed on the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, a memorial that honors martyrs and heroes who fought the dictatorship. She is also one of the heroes honored by the University of the Philippines Los Baños on its 'Hagdan ng Malayang Kamalayan' memorial.
See also
Bantayog ng mga Bayani
List of people who disappeared
Southern Tagalog 10
References
1954 births
1970s missing person cases
Enforced disappearances in the Philippines
History of the Philippines (1965–1986)
Individuals honored at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani
Marcos martial law victims
Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
Missing person cases in the Philippines
Political repression in the Philippines
Presidency of Ferdinand Marcos
Southern Tagalog 10
University of the Philippines Los Baños
University of the Philippines Los Baños people honored at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani
Year of death uncertain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Namibian%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Namibian regions by Human Development Index as of 2021.
Note: the HDI values are calculated using the pre-2013 regional borders, so the Kavango Region is included in the data which represents the current Kavango East and Kavango West regions.
References
Namibia
Human Development Index
Regions by Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/%20%28operating%20system%29 | /e/ (also known as /e/ OS and /e/OS, formerly Eelo) is a fork of LineageOS, an Android-based mobile operating system, and associated online services. /e/ is presented as privacy software that does not contain proprietary Google apps or services, and challenges the public to "find any parts of the system or default applications that are still leaking data to Google."
Software
/e/ is a fork of LineageOS, which is a fork of the CyanogenMod and Android operating systems. /e/ uses MicroG, "an open source project that hijacks Google API calls." according to Ron Amadeo of ars Technica, as an alternative for Google Play Services, and Mozilla Location Service for geolocation.
Some /e/ applications and sources are proprietary. As of June 2022, /e/ includes a proprietary maps app. A privacy app was proprietary when first developed, then open source after release. Sources for some devices are not publicly available, according to foundation staff.
History
In 2017, Mandrake Linux creator Gaël Duval proposed the concept of an operating system without privacy-invasive software as a "non-profit project 'in the public interest'". Duval wrote, "Apple, Google, Facebook etc., business models are harmful for our economical and social environments". The operating system was initially called Eelo; the name was inspired by moray eels, which Duval saw as "fish that can hide in the sea". Duval launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign with an initial goal of €25,000, and received at least €71,000 from contributors.
Eelo was renamed to /e/ in July 2018 due to a conflict with the "eelloo" trademark, which was owned by a human resources company. In a March 2020 interview, Duval stated the /e/ name would be abandoned "for something else quite soon".
Beta versions of /e/ were released for 20 to 30 smartphone models in September 2018. As of November 2019 /e/ supported 89 smartphone models. As of April 2020, /e/ was teaming with Fairphone to sell phones.
Corporations and organizations
ECORP SAS, a privately held corporation founded in 2018 with Gael Duval President and Alexis Noetinger General Director, operates the online store selling phones with /e/ operating system pre-installed, and the included online services.
ESolutions SAS, a privately held corporation, was formed in January 2020 with Ecorp SAS listed as President and Alexis Noetinger as General Director. ESolutions operates the online store for sales of phones and cloud storage subscriptions.
As of May 2022, it was announced a "Murena One" phone would be sold by Murena company with /e/ included. The Murena company was established as a different entity for selling these phones, and ESolutions SAS was re-named Murena Retail.
Reception
The Free Software Foundation declined to endorse /e/ because it "contains nonfree libraries". Ross Rubin of Fast Company described /e/'s strategy as a "Google-like approach" of maximizing user adoption, in contrast to hardware manufacturer and software developer Purism's "App |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory%20causal%20analysis | Causal analysis is the field of experimental design and statistical analysis pertaining to establishing cause and effect. Exploratory causal analysis (ECA), also known as data causality or causal discovery is the use of statistical algorithms to infer associations in observed data sets that are potentially causal under strict assumptions. ECA is a type of causal inference distinct from causal modeling and treatment effects in randomized controlled trials. It is exploratory research usually preceding more formal causal research in the same way exploratory data analysis often precedes statistical hypothesis testing in data analysis
Motivation
Data analysis is primarily concerned with causal questions. For example, did the fertilizer cause the crops to grow? Or, can a given sickness be prevented? Or, why is my friend depressed? The potential outcomes and regression analysis techniques handle such queries when data is collected using designed experiments. Data collected in observational studies require different techniques for causal inference (because, for example, of issues such as confounding). Causal inference techniques used with experimental data require additional assumptions to produce reasonable inferences with observation data. The difficulty of causal inference under such circumstances is often summed up as "correlation does not imply causation".
Overview
ECA postulates that there exist data analysis procedures performed on specific subsets of variables within a larger set whose outputs might be indicative of causality between those variables. For example, if we assume every relevant covariate in the data is observed, then propensity score matching can be used to find the causal effect between two observational variables. Granger causality can also be used to find the causality between two observational variables under different, but similarly strict, assumptions.
The two broad approaches to developing such procedures are using operational definitions of causality or verification by "truth" (i.e., explicitly ignoring the problem of defining causality and showing that a given algorithm implies a causal relationship in scenarios when causal relationships are known to exist, e.g., using synthetic data).
Operational definitions of causality
Clive Granger created the first operational definition of causality in 1969. Granger made the definition of probabilistic causality proposed by Norbert Wiener operational as a comparison of variances.
Some authors prefer using ECA techniques developed using operational definitions of causality because they believe it may help in the search for causal mechanisms.
Verification by "truth"
Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines introduced the idea of explicitly not providing a definition of causality. Spirtes and Glymour introduced the PC algorithm for causal discovery in 1990. Many recent causal discovery algorithms follow the Spirtes-Glymour approach to verification.
Techniques
There are m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smenospongia | Smenospongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Thorectidae.
Twelve new species of Korean Smenospongia were described in 2016. , the World Porifera database accepted the following species of Smenospongia:
References
Thorectidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Highlights | House of Highlights (often abbreviated as HoH) is a social media network that focuses on the distribution of videos online. HoH is headquartered in New York City within Bleacher Report’s office. Known primarily for popular sport highlights, HoH has positioned itself as a distributor in the sport media industry, but also in the short video clip industry. In 2019, the National Basketball Association experienced rapid popularity growth in social media, increasing the popularity of HoH, as they were known to create videos about basketball. The House of Highlights videos range from 30 second or less clips, or 2-10 minute long videos that are often highlights of a recent NBA game or post game interviews of a popular player.
Since being acquired by Bleacher Report in December 2016, House of Highlights has expanded into a multi-platform media business with over 24 million followers across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. According to Bleacher Report, House of Highlights accounted for 10% of Bleacher Report’s total revenue as of June 2019.
History
Founding: 2014-2016
The company was founded by Omar Raja in his college dorm room at the University of Central Florida in the summer of 2014. The company started when he wanted to relive and share memorable moments of LeBron James and the Miami Heat after the NBA star left the Miami Heat to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers that same summer. Raja then started an Instagram account called “The Highlight Factory”, but eventually changed the name to “House of Highlights”.
Bleacher Report Acquisition: 2015 - Present
House of Highlights had gained about half a million followers on Instagram by the time the account caught the eye of Doug Bernstein, then the vice-president of social media at Bleacher Report, who expressed interest in the brand in July 2015. After a year and a half later, Bleacher Report officially acquired House of Highlights in December 2016. While under Bleacher Report, House of Highlights started to see increased traffic and viewership as reported by Esquire that HoH would get about 700 million video views a month during the NBA season, with 10,000 new followers daily. In 2016, House of Highlights struck its initial brand partnership deals with the companies such as Lexus, Nike, Jordan Brand, Adidas and Netflix. An early brand partnership with Under Armour had the brand create “The Curry Challenge” where they posted clips of ordinary people trying to imitate Stephen Curry’s signature pre-game basketball moves that went viral. As the company’s followers rose on Instagram and continued to build partnerships with brands such as these, HoH eventually caught the attention of the fast food chain, Taco Bell. AdAge outlined how Taco Bell will sponsor HoH stories on Instagram during the NBA season, to target the company’s young audience.
As reported by Billboard, House of Highlights was a platform for the viral 2016 dance craze the Running Man Challenge, the Drive By Dunk Challenge, and “Hoodie Melo” i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette%20Bangert | Colette Stuebe Bangert (born 1934, Columbus, Ohio) is an American artist and new media artist who has created both computer-generated and traditional artworks. Her computer-generated artworks are the product of a decades-long collaboration with her husband, Charles Jeffries "Jeff" Bangert (1938–2019), a mathematician and computer graphics programmer. Bangert's work in traditional media includes painting, drawing, watercolor and textiles.
Early life and education
Colette Bangert attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1948 to 1952. In 1952 she enrolled at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, where she majored in painting and lithography and graduated with a BFA in 1957. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Boston University (1958). In Boston she met Charles Bangert, then a student in Mathematics at Harvard University. They married in 1959.
Career
Work in traditional media
Early in her career, before her work in digital media, Bangert's paintings and drawings received critical attention. Her work in drawing, watercolor, painting and textile has continued throughout her life. The algorithmic methods she and her husband developed for creating digital prints arose from her practice of drawing and in turn influenced her work in traditional art media. The midwestern landscape of North America permeates her work, though it may simply be evoked by the treatment of lines and the organization of space. Lines and space can be analyzed, described, and generated by programming code: In her collaboration with Jeff, the computer extended their understanding of "what a drawing about landscape can be." Throughout her career Bangert has continued to exhibit both streams of work.
Computer-generated work
Beginning in 1967, Bangert's collaboration with her husband produced a series of "algorithmic drawings", which have been extensively documented and collected. The earliest work was created at the University of Kansas Computer Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and output to a plotter, the Draft-O-Matic. Colette's signature "CB" signaled the collaborative nature of their work. Seeking out the Bangerts at the University of Kansas in 1968, sculptor Robert Mallary described their collaboration as a process whereby Jeff as a programmer "enabled the computer to plot endless simulations of the kinds of drawings and paintings that Colette was creating by hand in her studio." Software allowed them "to explore the relationships between algorithmically defined numerical functions and the drawing."
The Bangerts viewed the computer both as tool for research into the nature of the world and as a collaborator in the production of art. An artist made a drawing by laying down lines on paper, impelled by the mind's insight into visual form. A plotter made a drawing by laying down lines on paper, impelled by the mind's insight into mathematical form. If the algorithmic form was modeling the artist's drawn line and, like the artist, creatin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transilien%20stations | The following is a list of all stations of the Transilien network. For stations of the RER network, see the list of RER stations.
Stations
See also
Transilien
List of SNCF stations in Île-de-France
List of RER stations
List of tram stops in Île-de-France
References
SNCF Open Data - Gares et points d'arrêt du réseau Transilien
Open Data Île-de-France Mobilités - Gares et stations du réseau ferré d'Île-de-France (par ligne)
SNCF Transilien RER et Trains
Transilien
Lists of railway stations in France
Transilien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20aggregation | In wireless communication, carrier aggregation is a technique used to increase the data rate per user, whereby multiple frequency blocks (called component carriers) are assigned to the same user. The maximum possible data rate per user is increased the more frequency blocks are assigned to a user. The sum data rate of a cell is increased as well because of a better resource utilization. In addition, load balancing is possible with carrier aggregation. Channel selection schemes for CA systems taking into account the optimal values for the training length and power, the number of the probed sub-channels and the feedback threshold such that the sum rate is also important for optimal achievable capacity.
Types of carrier aggregation
Depending on the positions of the component carriers three cases of carrier aggregation are distinguished:
The case where the component carriers are contiguous in the same frequency band is called intra-band contiguous carrier aggregation.
If the component carriers are in the same frequency band but are separated by a gap the carrier aggregation is called intra-band non-contiguous.
The most complex case is when the component carriers lie in different frequency band. This is called inter-band carrier aggregation applied to heterogeneous networks.
There is no difference between these three cases from a baseband perspective. However, the complexity from an radio frequency (RF) point of view is increased in the case inter-band carrier aggregation.
Applications
UMTS/HSPA+
The channel bandwidth for UMTS/HSPA+ is about 3.8 MHz with a carrier spacing of 5 MHz. Carrier aggregation is also called Dual Cell in the context of UMTS/HSPA+.
Through carrier aggregation (part of the UMTS extension HSPA+) two downlink carriers may be assigned to one user since Release 8. Release 10 supports four-carrier aggregation and eight-carrier-aggregation is supported since Release 11. 3GPP standardized carrier aggregation for HSPA+ for the uplink for up to two component carriers since Release 9.
LTE/LTE-Advanced
LTE supports since its first release channel bandwidths of 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz. Since LTE-Advanced Rel. 10 any two channels (of possibly different bandwidths) may be aggregated and be assigned to a single user. A difference between two aggregated 10 MHz component carriers and a single ordinary 20 MHz channel is that in the case of carrier aggregation the control information is transmitted on both component carriers.
LTE Advanced with carrier aggregation allows Gigabit LTE. This is made possible through higher-order modulation (256QAM), carrier aggregation and 4x4 MIMO. Since LTE Release 10 up to 5 component carriers may be aggregated, allowing for transmission bandwidths of up to 100 MHz. Using five aggregated component carriers, MIMO and 256QAM allows theoretical data rates of up to 2 gigabits per second. A management architecture that can aggregate particular systems, networks, and terminals in view |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documation | Documation was an American Stock Exchange-listed computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1969 in Melbourne, Florida that went public in 1976. They made (punched card) card readers
used in some American elections 3 decades later. They also produced Impact Line printers.
In late 1980, Storage Technology Corporation (STC) acquired Documation, which was subsequently spun off, and those companies which subdivided from it, most of which use Documation-like names, no longer manufacture computer peripherals.
Documation was described as "a financially troubled printer manufacturer."
IMPACT Line printers
Documation's IMPACT 3000, named for its 3,000 lines per minute rating, was followed a year later by the 3,800 LPM IMPACT 3800.
A 5,000 lines per minute printer was introduced in 1986, by which time the company was operating under the name StorageTek Printer Corp. Like earlier impact printer models, it is manufactured in Florida. At the time of the Series 5000's introduction, the company said that "impact printers dominate 85 percent of the market."
The company's laser printers are rebadged from Siemens.
Documation's Burroughs-rebadged printers
Four Documation printers, rebadged by Burroughs as DOC 2000B, DOC 1800B, DOC 1500B and DOC 1250B were introduced in 1978.
Per their names, they were rated at "2,000-, 1,800-, 1,500- and 1,250" lines per minute, when using 48 character ASCII.
Card readers
Among the card readers made by Documation for minicomputers in the 1970s were:
M-200 card reader, 300 cards/minute also sold by DEC as the CR-11 card reader for the PDP-11
M-600 card reader, 600 cards/minute, also sold by HP as 2892A and 2893A
M-1000-L card reader 1,000 cards/minute
Their card readers have been used in elections, including the 2000 "Chads" election in Florida.
End-user market
In late 1977 Documation successfully entered the end-user market. They initially focused on selling card readers to end-users; their model 6501 is IBM-compatible.
They subsequently added line printers to the equipment they sold to end-users.
Storage Technology Corporation and thereafter
By 1992, the name Documation was no longer affiliated with Storage Technology Corporation in the US, but the latter still owned two Documation-named subsidiaries, one in France and the other in UK.
Ubeo, DOCUmation, Documation Inc
The New York Times (adding "Inc") continued earnings and other coverage in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Ubeo Business Services and DOCUmation are regional companies somewhat related to the original Documation that had been acquired by StorageTek.
Documation Inc is covered by Bloomberg;
DOCUmation is a name that came into being in 1997, post-Storage Tek. At that point, neither company manufactured card readers or printers. Their niche is service and distribution of printers and duplicators/copying machines.
Another "Documation" is named Documation, LLC (founded 1994) and is based in Wisconsin. Their focus is described by Bloomberg as "print and digi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Lunardi | Alessandra Lunardi (born 1958) is an Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the University of Parma. She is particularly interested in Kolmogorov equations and free boundary problems.
Education and career
Lunardi was educated at the University of Pisa, completing her undergraduate studies there in 1980 and earning a Ph.D. there in 1983. Her dissertation, Analyticity of the maximal solution to fully nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, was supervised by Giuseppe Da Prato.
After continuing on at Pisa as a researcher from 1984 to 1987, she was hired as a full professor at the University of Cagliari in 1987, and moved to Parma in 1994.
Contributions
Lunardi is the author of Analytic semigroups and optimal regularity in parabolic problems (Birkhäuser, 1995, reprinted 2013) and of Interpolation theory (Edizioni della Normale, 1998, 3rd ed., 2018). With G. Da Prato, P. C. Kunstmann, I. Lasiecka, R. Schnaubelt, and L. Weis, she is a co-author of Functional Analytic Methods for Evolution Equations (Springer, 2004).
Lunardi is one of six editors-in-chief of the journal Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (NoDEA).
She also served as editor-in-chief of Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma for Series 7 of the journal, from 2002 to 2008.
Recognition
In 1987, Lunardi won the Bartolozzi Prize of the Italian Mathematical Union. In 2017, she won the of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
References
External links
Home page
1958 births
Living people
Italian mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Cagliari
Academic staff of the University of Parma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20American%20Baking%20Show%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Great American Baking Show, titled The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition, premiered December 6, 2018 on the ABC network as part of the year's 25 Days of Christmas lineup.
This is the first season hosted by Spice Girls member Emma Bunton. Returning for their second seasons are Anthony "Spice" Adams and Paul Hollywood. Joining the judging panel is three-time James Beard Award recipient and pastry chef Sherry Yard. This is the first season without original judge Johnny Iuzzini. Iuzzini was dismissed from the ABC network following sexual harassment allegations, days after the season three premiere and, prematurely, pulled the season off the air.
The competition concluded after six weeks, in which Tina Zaccardi was crowned the season winner. Amanda Nguyen and Andrea Maranville finished the competition as runners-up.
Bakers
Results summary
Color key:
Episodes
Episode 1: Cake
Color key:
During the showstopper bake, Tina scrapped her original recipe for pumpkin spice cake when it did not rise. She substituted a chocolate cake recipe she knew well, and presented her showstoppers as "Autumn Harvest Cakes".
Episode 2: Pastry
Episode 3: Cookies
Episode 4: Bread
Episode 5: Semi-Final
Episode 6: Final
Ratings
References
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2018 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Intelligence%20House | Cyber Intelligence House, formerly Kinkayo, is a Singapore-based cyber intelligence agency which specializes in cyber exposure. The company detects and monitors cyber exposure via dark web, deep web, and data breaches to alert individuals and businesses about potential cyber threats.
Products
The Cyber Exposure Index (CEI), the company's research-driven project, is the world's first proprietary global scoring system that calculates the exposure index of listed companies.
Scores are based on exposed credentials, hacker-group activity, and leaked sensitive information. CEI is a cyber risk score given to public companies listed on stock exchanges hosted in 11 countries (Australia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, South Africa, UK, US, Malaysia, and Singapore). The CEI scores around 6,000 listed companies on their levels of exposure, after analyzing data collected on each company from publicly available sources in the dark web and deep web, and published data breaches. Evaluated companies are given a score ranging from 0 to 300+, with 0 indicating no exposure over the past 12 months and 300+ indicating that the company is among the top 10% most exposed companies globally.
The index was first launched in October 2017. The results concluded that publicly listed companies in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore were the least exposed to cyber threats. In October 2018, the results were updated and Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia were earmarked as the least exposed countries. This has led to some speculation that cyber threat exposure is very location-centric, as Asia Pacific firms tend to have lower exposure than their American or EU counterparts.
Hacked is a cyber exposure monitoring app for individuals, launched in June 2018. It is available on Android, and provides free email account monitoring plus additional paid monitoring options.
Controversies
The CEI faced some negative press in South Africa, when it was ranked as the third most exposed country in October 2017. The South African Banking Risk Information Center (SABRIC) speculated that the research findings might cause unnecessary fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
References
External links
Computer security software companies
Software companies of Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky%20bans%20and%20allegations%20of%20Russian%20government%20ties | Kaspersky Lab has faced controversy over allegations that it has engaged with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to use its software to scan computers worldwide for material of interest—ties which the company has actively denied. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky products from all government departments on 13 September 2017, alleging that Kaspersky Lab had worked on secret projects with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). In October 2017, subsequent reports alleged that hackers working for the Russian government stole confidential data from the home computer of a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor in 2015 via Kaspersky antivirus software. Kaspersky denied the allegations, stating that the software had detected Equation Group malware samples which it uploaded to its servers for analysis in its normal course of operation.
The company has since announced commitments to increased accountability, such as soliciting independent reviews and verification of its software's source code, and announcing that it would migrate some of its core infrastructure for selected foreign customers from Russia to Switzerland. The allegations of ties to the Russian government were ignited again with the company's controversial response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Alleged Russian intelligence collaboration
According to the International New York Times, Kaspersky has "become one of Russia's most recognized high-tech exports, but its market-share in the United States has been hampered by its origins". According to Gartner, "There's no evidence that they have any back-doors in their software or any ties to the Russian mafia or state... but there is still a concern that you can't operate in Russia without being controlled by the ruling party". CEO Eugene Kaspersky prior work for the Russian military and his education at a KGB-sponsored technical college has led to allegations of being employed by Russia to expose US cyberweapons, though he denies this. Analysts such as Gartner's Peter Firstbrook say suspicions about the firm's Russian roots have hindered its expansion in the US. The company has denied that it has direct ties with or has engaged with the Russian government.
In August 2015, Bloomberg News reported that Kaspersky Lab changed course in 2012, as "high-level managers have left or been fired, their jobs often filled by people with closer ties to Russia's military or intelligence services. Some of these people actively aid criminal investigations by the FSB, the KGB's successor, using data from some of the 400 million customers". Eugene Kaspersky criticized Bloomberg's coverage on his blog, calling the coverage sensationalist and guilty of exploiting paranoia to increase readership.
From July 2017 to December 2017, U.S. government agencies phased out their use of Kaspersky software. In July 2017, the United States' General Services Administration (GSA) removed Kaspersky Lab from its list of vendors authori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20stack | Full stack, full-stack or fullstack might refer to;
Full stack, a player positioning strategy in the sport of pickleball
Fullstack Academy, a software engineering bootcamp
Full-stack developer, a software developer able to work at all levels of the program stack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Aaron | Anne Aaron is a Filipina engineer and the director of video algorithms at Netflix. Her responsibilities include "hiring and managing software engineers and research scientists, strategic decision-making on software architecture and research, project management, and cross-team coordination"
Education
Aaron attended the Philippine Science High School and the Ateneo de Manila University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1998, and another in computer engineering the year after. She then entered Stanford University where she received a PhD in electrical engineering. During these years, Aaron received the AT&T Asia Pacific Leadership Award and C.V. Starr Southeast Asian Fellowship.
Career
After Stanford, Aaron dove into video streaming companies, such as Modulus Video and Dyyno, then followed a stint at Cisco Systems, where she was the engineering lead for video encoding for its FlipShare Video desktop software. She has been working at Netflix since 2011.
Awards
Aaron was recognized as one of the 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017 by Business Insider. In 2018 she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.
External links
References
Living people
People in information technology
Netflix people
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Filipino electrical engineers
21st-century women engineers
21st-century Filipino women
Filipino emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Dimension%20Data%20season | The 2019 season for the Team Dimension Data cycling team will begin in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they will be automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
Team roster
Riders who joined the team for the 2019 season
Riders who left the team during or after the 2018 season
Season victories
National, Continental and World champions 2019
Footnotes
References
External links
2019 road cycling season by team
Team Qhubeka NextHash
2019 in South African sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Big%20Ten%20baseball%20tournament | The 2019 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, from May 22 through 26. The event aired on the Big Ten Network.
Format and seeding
The 2019 tournament was an 8 team double-elimination tournament. The top eight teams based on conference regular season winning percentage earned invites to the tournament. The teams then played a double-elimination tournament leading to a single championship game. A run rule (10 run lead after 7 innings) was in effect for the tournament.
Bracket
Conference championship
References
Tournament
Big Ten baseball tournament
Big Ten baseball tournament
Big Ten baseball tournament |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsNet | NewsNet (stylized as NEWSnet) is an American news-oriented free-to-air television network and newscast production company owned by Bridge News, LLC, which itself is owned by Manoj Bhargava's Bridge Media Networks. The network is structured to broadcast a tightly-formatted 30-minute newswheel 24 hours a day, incorporating freshly-updated information that covers various areas of interest (such as national news, sports, entertainment, weather and business). Breaking news stories are updated constantly as they develop and new information becomes available.
In addition to being carried on digital subchannels of affiliated television stations, NewsNet also distributes its programming through a livestream that is available on its website, as well as its mobile app in areas where it does not have a terrestrial TV affiliate. The network also provides an optional turnkey local news production service (Custom Newsroom Solutions) for stations that do not maintain their own local news departments to produce local news capsule segments or full-length newscasts. NewsNet's primary studio facilities (which also houses master control operations of the network's flagship station WMNN-LD [channel 26] and dual MyNetworkTV/Cozi TV affiliate WXII-LD [channel 12]) are located on West 13th Street and 3rd Avenue in Cadillac, while its secondary studio facilities are located on Haggerty Road in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Background and history
On September 28, 2017, Eric Wotila – who founded low-power all-news station WMNN-LD in Cadillac, Michigan and oversaw the studio design and construction for News Channel Nebraska, a Norfolk, Nebraska-based quasi-state network of five low-power stations that also maintained an all-news programming format – started a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund the launch of a 24-hour national news channel – under the working title, the Local News Network (LNN) – intended for broadcast, online and mobile distribution.
Citing favorable opinions from viewers about the "straight-to-the-facts, no-nonsense and commentary-free" coverage provided by WMNN-LD, the Local News Network proposed to offer a news wheel format (similar in structure to the 1982–2005 format of HLN, and the formats of defunct all-news networks such as All News Channel and Satellite News Channel) that would eschew the often-politically focused panel discussion programs that have populated the afternoon, nighttime and weekend schedules of cable news channels (particularly CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel) since the early 2000s. The project called for LNN to be based out of WMNN's Cadillac studio facility, with the hope of eventually opening bureaus elsewhere around the United States. The project failed to reach its funding goal of $100,000 needed to develop LNN – which would have been used to pay for equipment and staffing necessary to handle the national broadcasts – by the closure of the 50-day campaign on November 17, 2017, raising only $8,012 from 78 public backers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Dalli | Angelo Dalli (born 14 April 1978) is a computer scientist specialising in artificial intelligence, a serial entrepreneur, and business angel investor.
Early life and education
Dalli was born in Malta and grew up in the town of Birżebbuġa. Dalli was educated at the Archbishop's Seminary, Malta and represented Malta in the Young European Environmental Research contest held in Cologne in 1994. Dalli represented Malta in the International Olympiad in Informatics held in Eindhoven in 1995, where he won a bronze medal. Dalli started selling computer software as a teenager, and worked for the International Data Group as a freelance contributor for PC World.
Academic work
After graduating from the University of Malta, Dalli spent time lecturing on artificial intelligence and natural language processing before reading for his PhD at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Yorick Wilks. Dalli has published over 20 peer reviewed papers in the artificial intelligence and natural language processing fields, including one of the earliest methods on timestamp extraction from documents that is now commonly used in most email applications. Angelo has also contributed to the encoding of European languages in Unicode, in particular for the Common Locale Data Repository.
In the field of Bioinformatics Dalli has found a particularly useful integer sequence which efficiently computes all alignments of strings of length 3 together with other generalisations , for applications in natural language and sequence alignment. Dalli has an Erdős number of 3.
Dalli has led the Maltese national informatics team in the International Olympiad in Informatics at IOI 2002 in Seoul, South Korea and IOI 2004 in Athens, Greece.
Artificial intelligence
Ethical AI
Angelo has been a vocal proponent of ethical AI that impacts society positively and believes that AI should be properly regulated. Angelo has been appointed by the Government of Malta on the taskforce that produced Malta's new AI regulation and national AI strategy, and is an active member of the AAAI, ACM and the ACL.
AI in transport
Angelo had led the introduction of different machine learning techniques in intelligent transport systems (ITS), including parking, controlled vehicle access zones and dynamic traffic interchange control. His intelligent transport company, Traffiko, operated in Europe, Australia and the Middle East, and was eventually sold to Q-Free in Norway in 2015.
AI in gaming
Angelo is a well known speaker in the online gambling industry.
Angelo setup one of the first companies that applied artificial intelligence in the online gambling industry, called Bit8 (now part of Intralot), with the most notable work being on algorithms that estimate and maximise player lifetime value and personalised bonusing systems. These techniques have since been widely adopted by the online gambling industry Intralot subsequently bought Bit8 in 2017.
AI in art
Angelo has been collaborating with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentina%20Bunea | Florentina Bunea is a Romanian-American statistician, interested in machine learning, the theory of empirical processes, and high-dimensional statistics. She is a professor at Cornell University.
Education and Career
Bunea earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Bucharest in 1989 and 1991. After working as an assistant professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 1991 to 1995, she returned to graduate study at the University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D. there in 2000; her dissertation, A Model Selection Approach to Partially Linear Regression, was supervised by Jon A. Wellner.
She joined the statistics faculty at Florida State University in 2000, and moved to Cornell University in 2011. At Cornell, she is a faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, a member of the Center for Applied Mathematics and the Machine Learning Group in Cornell Computing and Information Science (CIS).
Recognition
In 2017, Bunea was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
American statisticians
Romanian statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Bucharest alumni
University of Washington alumni
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Mbui | Joyce Mbui, is a Kenyan lawyer, who is a Partner at Coulson Harney LLP, a law firm, based in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city. Coulson Harney LLP, is a member of the Bowman Law Firm Network, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with offices in Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Durban, Kampala and Nairobi.
Ms Joyce Mbui is qualified as an English solicitor of England and Wales as well as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She is a member of the Law Society of Kenya and the Law Society of England and Wales.
Background and education
Mbui was born circa 1986, in Kenya. She attended Precious Blood Girls High School, in the Riruta neighborhood of Nairobi, where she obtained her High School Diploma.
She was admitted to the University of Leicester, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree. She then enrolled in the Legal Practice Course at The Nottingham Trent University. Having passed that course, she was admitted to the English Bar.
She went on to obtain a Master of Science degree in Real Estate, from the University of Reading. Joyce Mbui is also a member of the Kenya Bar, having successfully completed the Advocates Training Programme, at the Kenya School of Law.
Work experience
Ms. Mbui started out in 2003 as a Customer Billing Representative
at British Gas, working in that capacity for two years. In 2009, she returned to Kenya and worked as a Legal Associate at Kaplan & Stratton, another Nairobi law firm, where she worked until 2011. In 2012, she joined Bowman as an associate attorney, working there for one year, before returning to the United Kingdom for further studies. In 2015, she was promoted to senior associate at Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group and posted to the group's headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2018, she made Partner at Bowman and assigned to the group's office in Nairobi, Kenya (Coulson Harney LLP).
Joyce Mbui's expertise is corporate and commercial law, corporate financing, capital markets and restructuring. She was a member of the legal team that advised Kenya Airways (IATA:KQ) during the re-structuring in 2017. During that process, the government of Kenya and several Kenyan commercial banks converted several hundred million dollars worth of loans into equity, to allow KQ to continue operating as a going concern.
Other considerations
In September 2018, Joyce Mbui was named among the "Top 40 Women Under 40 in Kenya 2018", by the Business Daily Africa, an English language Kenyan daily newspaper.
See also
Topyster Muga
Emma Miloyo
Cynthia Wandia
References
External links
Partial list of articles authored by Joyce Mbui
Living people
1986 births
21st-century Kenyan lawyers
Kenyan women lawyers
Alumni of the University of Leicester
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
Kenya School of Law alumni
Alumni of the University of Reading
21st-century women lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcotyle%20caudata | Microcotyle caudata is a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.
Systematics
Microcotyle caudata was first described by Goto in 1894, based on specimens obtained from the gills of rockfish, Sebastes sp.
Unnithan created the subgenus Microcotyle in which he placed Microcotyle caudata as Microcotyle (Microcotyle) caudata.
Microcotyle caudata was redescribed by Yamaguti based on two specimens found on the gills of Sebastodes inermis (currently Sebastes inermis )from Ise Bay, that differs from Microcotyle caudata of Goto only by the characters of the esophagus and the frame of clamps. Four years later, Yamaguti provided some measurements of Microcotyle caudata based on several specimens recovered from the gills Sebastodes inermis.
Yamaguti hesitated in assigning his specimens to Microcotyle caudata as he was uncertain of the extent of variability of the number of clamps according to individuals. He even pointed that the specimens of Microcotyle caudata recovered from Sebastodes inermis may represent a distinct species.
An issue that remains currently is that Sebastes inermis (= Sebastodes inermis) was separated into three species (S. inermis, S.ventricosus, and S. cheni) by Kai and Nakabo in 2008, and thus it is unclear which species corresponds to Yamaguti (1938)’s host
Morphology
Microcotyle caudata has the general morphology of all species of Microcotyle, with an elongated symmetrical body. The body comprises an anterior part which contains most organs and a posterior part called the haptor. The haptor bears about 50 clamps, arranged as two rows (about 25 on each side). The clamps of the haptor attach the animal to the gill of the fish. There are also two buccal suckers provided with a membranous septum and situated at the anterior extremity. The digestive organs include an anterior, terminal mouth, a pharynx, and a posterior intestine with two branches provided with lateral branches both inwards and outwards; the left branch and extends beyond the vitellarium into the caudal haptor while the right branch ends with the vitellarium. Each adult contains male and female reproductive organs. The reproductive organs include a genital atrium opening on the same level as the beginning of the intestinal branches, armed with conical and slightly curved spines, unarmed vagina opening behind the common genital opening, at about six times as far forwards from the anterior end of the ovary, a single ovary, with the oviduct end on the right side, thence extending towards the left, presenting a convex border in front, 23 large testes posterior to the ovary and occupy a little less than one quarter of the whole length of the body. The egg is fusiform, with a very long filament at only one pole and a shorter one at the other.
In the original description Goto noted that the curvatures of the body observed in some specimens were not taken into account. He also pointed out that the length of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20array | In computer science, and more precisely regarding data structures, a persistent array is a persistent data structure with properties similar to a (non-persistent) array. That is, after a value's update in a persistent array, there exist two persistent arrays: one persistent array in which the update is taken into account, and one which is equal to the array before the update.
Difference between persistent arrays and arrays
An array
is a data structure,
with a fixed number n of elements . It is expected that, given the array ar and an
index , the value can be
retrieved quickly. This operation is called a
lookup. Furthermore, given the array ar, an index
and a new value v, a new array ar2 with
content can
be created quickly. This operation is called an update. The
main difference between persistent and non-persistent arrays being
that, in non-persistent arrays, the array ar is destroyed during
the creation of ar2.
For example, consider the following pseudocode.
array = [0, 0, 0]
updated_array = array.update(0, 8)
other_array = array.update(1, 3) last_array = updated_array.update(2, 5)
At the end of execution, the value of array is still [0, 0, 0], the
value of updated_array is [8, 0, 0], the value of other_arrayis [0, 3, 0], and the value of last_array is [8, 0, 5].
There exist two kinds of persistent arrays. A persistent array may be
either partially or fully persistent. A fully persistent
array may be updated an arbitrary number of times while a partially
persistent array may be updated at most once. In our previous example,
if array were only partially persistent, the creation ofother_array would be forbidden; however, the creation oflast_array would still be valid. Indeed, updated_array is an array
distinct from array and has never been updated before the creation
of last_array.
Lower Bound on Persistent Array Lookup Time
Given that non-persistent arrays support both updates and lookups in constant time, it is natural to ask whether the same is possible with persistent arrays. The following theorem shows that under mild assumptions about the space complexity of the array, lookups must take time in the worst case, regardless of update time, in the cell-probe model.
Implementations
In this section, is the number of elements of the array, and is the number of updates.
Worst case log-time
The most straightforward implementation of a fully persistent array uses an arbitrary persistent map, whose keys are the numbers from 0 to n − 1. A persistent map may be implemented using a persistent balanced tree, in which case both updates and lookups would take time. This implementation is optimal for the pointer machine model.
Shallow binding
A fully persistent array may be implemented using an array and the
so-called Baker's trick. This implementation is used in the OCaml module parray.ml by Jean-Christophe Filliâtre.
In order to define this implementation, a few other definitions must
be given. An initial array is an array that is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20household%20debt | The following lists sort countries by Stock of loans and debt issued by households as a percentage of GDP according to data by the International Monetary Fund and Institute of International Finance.
International Monetary Fund
Institute of International Finance
See also
List of countries by corporate debt
List of countries by external debt
List of countries by government debt
Global debt
References
household
Household debt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave%20Prove | Brave Prove (ブレイヴ・プローヴ) is a 1998 Japanese video game for the PlayStation. It was developed by Data West Corporation, and directed by Noburo Nishizawa.
It is a 2D action role-playing game with real time combat and top-down perspective. At the time of release only got mediocre reviews, with most saying the game is too derivative of other action RPGs from the past. The game has never been released outside of Japan. A complete English fan translation was released in January 2020.
Story
The hero of the story goes on a quest to regain the love of a girl named Sheena.
Gameplay
Brave Prove is a two-dimensional action role-playing game with real time combat. Dashing in the game requires the use of double tapping the d-pad. Attacks in the game have a simple three hit combo, but incorporating inputs can result in more moves. Elemental magic can also be found in the game, and the player executes those via button inputs and directional inputs. Attacks can be chained together and combined, for up to 400 unique combinations.
The game incorporates simple puzzle mechanics into the game, such as pushing blocks or extinguishing fire torches to open doors. Various settings in the game include forests, labyrinths, and mountain passes. Using bombs on cracked walls can expose secret new areas or secret rooms to explore.
Development and release
The game was developed by Data West and directed by Noboru Nishizawa who also is credited as the main programmer and one of the planners for the game. Data West created a series of games in the 1980s and 1990s in many genres, including shooting games, rail shooters, visual novel adventure games.
Characters have only two or three frames of animation for attacks. The game features entirely 2D graphics, including portraits, sprites, and backgrounds, when most games on the PlayStation were using 3D graphics.
Brave Prove was released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation on April 16, 1998 and was published by Data West Corporation. The game has never been released outside of Japan, nor has it been re-released. In 2019 it received a fan translation into English. Data West ceased game development and moved to developing car navigation systems.
Reception
Weekly Famitsu gave the game a score of 20 out of 40. Reviewers remarked that it is a particularly orthodox action role-playing game. Mike Griffon writing in Gamers' Republic magazine, gave the game a score of C. He was critical of the music being "generic", and the graphics as looking like something that could have appeared on the Super NES. He said the gameplay is similar to previous games while not improving on the genre. He says the game borrows heavily from such games as Alundra, Legend of Oasis, Ys, and Zelda. However, he recommends playing Alundra or Legend of Oasis as they're better games.
GameFan writer Eggo was more positive of the game. He praised the 2D graphics, saying they are a welcome relief from the majority of new games being 3D, while saying the music was fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Devitt | Simon John Devitt (born 17 July 1981) is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist who has worked on large-scale Quantum computing architectures, Quantum network systems design, Quantum programming development and Quantum error correction. In 2022 he was appointed as a member to Australia's National Quantum Advisory Committee.
Education
Devitt received his BSc (Hons) in Physics from Melbourne University in 2004. He completed his PhD in physics under Lloyd Hollenberg at the Center for Quantum Computation (CQCT) at the University of Melbourne in 2008, with a thesis entitled Quantum information engineering: concepts to quantum technologies. During his Ph.D, Devitt was awarded the Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, where he worked within the Centre for Quantum Computation, headed by Artur Ekert.
Career and research
Following his PhD, Devitt did postdoctoral research at the Japanese National Institute of Informatics in the group of Kae Nemoto, where he was promoted to assistant professor in 2011. Later, in 2014, he took a position of associate professor in physics at Ochanomizu University at the Leading Graduate School Promotion Center. In 2015 he took up a position as senior research scientist at the Japanese National Laboratories, Riken, in the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, headed by Jaw-Shen Tsai.
In 2017, he returned to Australia where he was appointed research fellow for the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) at Macquarie University and in 2018 he was appointed as lecturer in quantum architectures at the Center for Quantum Software and Information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2020 he was awarded the inaugural Warren prize by the Royal Society of New South Wales for his service to quantum computing development and in 2021 he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Australian Institute of Physics. In 2022 Devitt was appointed associate professor and research director of the Center for quantum software and information at UTS.
Devitt's research has focused on the design of practical large-scale systems architectures for quantum computing and communications system. He published the first architecture, in an atom-optical system, that utilised techniques in topological quantum error correction that could be conceptually scaled to an arbitrary number of encoded qubits. In 2014, in collaboration with NTT Communications and TU Wien, he developed a design for a scalable system using the Nitrogen-vacancy center and in 2017 he developed a large-scale system design for Ion trap quantum computing in collaboration with the University of Sussex. Devitt has also worked in the development of scalable Quantum networks, developing designs for what is now known as 2nd and 3rd generation quantum repeaters and inventing, with scientists in Japan and Australia, a quantum ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20agriculture | Digital agriculture, sometimes known as smart farming or e-agriculture, is tools that digitally collect, store, analyze, and share electronic data and/or information in agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has described the digitalization process of agriculture as the digital agricultural revolution. Other definitions, such as those from the United Nations Project Breakthrough, Cornell University, and Purdue University, also emphasize the role of digital technology in the optimization of food systems.
Digital agriculture includes (but is not limited to) precision agriculture. Unlike precision agriculture, digital agriculture impacts the entire agri-food value chain — before, during, and after on-farm production. Therefore, on-farm technologies, like yield mapping, GPS guidance systems, and variable-rate application, fall under the domain of precision agriculture and digital agriculture. On the other hand, digital technologies involved in e-commerce platforms, e-extension services, warehouse receipt systems, blockchain-enabled food traceability systems, tractor rental apps, etc. fall under the umbrella of digital agriculture but not precision agriculture.
Historical context
Emerging digital technologies have the potential to be game-changers for traditional agricultural practices. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has referred to this change as a revolution: “a ‘digital agricultural revolution’ will be the newest shift which could help ensure agriculture meets the needs of the global population into the future.” Other sources label the change as “Agriculture 4.0,” indicating its role as the fourth major agricultural revolution. Precise dates of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution are unclear. The World Economic Forum announced that the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (which includes agriculture) will unfold throughout the 21st century, so perhaps 2000 or shortly thereafter marks the beginning of Agriculture 4.0.
Agricultural revolutions denote periods of technological transformation and increased farm productivity. Agricultural revolutions include the First Agricultural Revolution, the Arab Agricultural Revolution, the British/Second Agricultural Revolution, the Scottish Agricultural Revolution, and the Green Revolution/Third Agricultural Revolution. Despite boosting agricultural productivity, past agricultural revolutions left many problems unsolved. For example, the Green Revolution had unintended consequences, like inequality and environmental damage. First, the Green Revolution exacerbated inter-farm and interregional inequality, typically biased toward large farmers with the capital to invest in new technologies. Second, critics say its policies promoted heavy input use and dependence on agrochemicals, which led to adverse environmental effects like soil degradation and chemical runoff. Digital agriculture technologies have the potential to address negative side effects of the Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic%20%28company%29 | Mnemonic is a Norwegian privately owned cybersecurity company and managed security service provider (MSSP) founded in 2000. The company is headquartered in Oslo with additional presence in Stavanger, Kista, Sweden, The Hague, London, and Palo Alto, and is with 241 employees (2019) one of the largest companies in the computer security business within the Nordics.
Mnemonic functions as an advisor for Europol.
References
Companies based in Oslo
Software companies established in 2000
Norwegian companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegrass | Telegrass was a cannabis distribution network in Israel with over 200,000 members, that uses the encrypted messaging application Telegram.
The network enables anonymous cannabis delivery and an option to rate the product and the vendors.
It is estimated that the revenues of Telegrass are 60 million NIS monthly. According to Haaretz, there are more than 70,000 Telegrass users and over 1,300 dealers, and the numbers are constantly increasing. According to Times of Israel, there are over 100,000 registered users.
The usage of the application in this manner was founded by Amos Silver, a 33-year-old Israeli activist.
In March 2019, Israeli and Ukrainian police arrested the leaders of Telegrass, including the CEO. Silver was extradited to Israel in August 2019.
Telegrass ended its operation at 23 July 2023.
References
External links
Etti Abramov, ‘Telegrass steps in where the state fails’, Ynetnews, March 13, 2019
Miriam Kresh, It Rained Cannabis In Tel Aviv Today Green Prophet September 3, 2020
Cannabis trafficking
Cannabis in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mauritanian%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Mauritania by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021. An HDI value is calculated for the Trarza Region and the city of Nouakchott (comprising the regions of Nouakchott-Nord, Nouakchott-Ouest and Nouakchott-Sud since 2014) combined.
References
Mauritania
Human Development Index
Regions by Human Development Index
HDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Criminal%20Records%20Information%20System | European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) is a database of criminal records, shared between members of the European Union, which started operation in April 2012.
See also
eu-LISA
Schengen Information System (SIS II)
References
Government databases of the European Union
Policies of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%20%28Arrowverse%29 | Gideon (Arrowverse) may refer to:
Gideon (The Flash), an artificial intelligence from the television series The Flash
Gideon (Legends of Tomorrow), an artificial intelligence from the television series Legends of Tomorrow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Belongie | Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech, where he also served as Associate Dean. He has also been a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning, specifically object recognition and image segmentation, with his scientific research in these areas cited over 50,000 times according to Google Scholar. Along with Jitendra Malik, Belongie proposed the concept of shape context, a widely used feature descriptor in object recognition. He has co-founded several startups in the areas of computer vision and object recognition.
Career
Belongie received a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from University of California, Berkeley, in 2000, where he was advised by computer scientist Jitendra Malik.
While an undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology, Belongie co-founded Digital Persona, Inc., which created what has been called "the world's first mass-market fingerprint identification device". Digital Persona was acquired by biometric identification company Crossmatch, Inc in 2014. He has also been the co-founder of image recognition startup Anchovi Labs (acquired by Dropbox, Inc. in 2012), and computer vision/video analysis company Orpix, Inc. He is also an Expert in Residence at LDV Capital. Belongie is the creator, along with Pietro Perona, of Visipedia, an image recognition platform that promises to combine computer and human capabilities to allow users to identify and annotate images.
Belongie was a professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego between 2001 and 2013, where he was the director of the SO(3) Computer Vision Group. He joined Cornell Tech as a professor in 2014. At Cornell, he is the director of the SE(3) Computer Vision Group, and a member of the Connected Experiences Laboratory. While in San Diego, Belongie was the lead singer/bass player in a band named SO3, which achieved some local success at various clubs and bars.
From 2013 to 2021, Belongie was full professor of computer science at Cornell University.
In 2021, he moved to Europe to become the director of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Awards
The MIT Technology Review named Belongie to their list of Innovators under 35 for 2004. In 2007, Belongie and his co-authors received a Marr Prize Honorable mention for a paper presented at International Conference on Computer Vision. In 2015, he was the recipient of the ICCV Helmholtz Prize, awarded to authors of papers that have made fundamental contributions to the field of computer vision. Belongie also received an NSF Career Award and a Sloan Research Fellowsh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoxing%20Metro | Shaoxing Metro (), also known as Shaoxing Rail Transit, is the metro system in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China.
Network
Line 1
Line 1 began construction in 2016. The section from Guniangqiao to China Textile City opened on 28 June 2021, the remaining section from China Textile City to Fangquan opened on 29 April 2022. A branch line from Huangjiu Town to Convention & Exhibition Center will open in 2024.
The western terminus, , is also the eastern terminus of Hangzhou Metro Line 5.
Line 2
Line 2 is 10.73 km in length with 9 stations. All stations are located underground. Line 2 opened on 26 July 2023.
Future Development
Planned
The Phase II Construction Plan of Shaoxing Metro, including Line 2 (Phase 2) and Lines 3, 4, 5, is under planning. Line 4 is a southern extension of the Line 1 branch which is currently under construction.
Lines S2 (Shaoxing–Zhuji) and S3 (Shaoxing–Shengzhou–Xinchang) are under planning.
References
Rapid transit in China
Rail transport in Zhejiang
Railway lines opened in 2021
2021 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20Asokan | Nadarajah Asokan is a professor of computer science and the David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University.
Education and career
Asokan received a bachelor of technology (BTech) honours in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1988, a Master of Science (MS) in computer and information science from Syracuse University in 1989, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1998. His doctoral thesis was on the topic of Fairness in Electronic Commerce.
From 1999 to 2012 he was employed at Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where he worked on several notable projects, including contributions to the design of the numeric comparison protocol as part of the Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing update, as well as what would become the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture.
From September 2012 until December 2017 he was a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki (part-time from August 2013 onwards). In 2013 he became a tenured (full) professor of computer science at Aalto University, where he co-led the Secure Systems Group (SSG) and established the Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC), since renamed to the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity.
At Aalto University he led research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Business Finland, and various companies. He was a principal investigator (PI) of the Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Resilient and Autonomous Systems (CARS).
In 2019 he joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo as a (full) professor and a David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems.
Asokan is the inventor of over 50 granted patents.
Awards and recognition
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems (2018)
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award for pioneering research on fair-exchange protocols, trusted device pairing and mobile trusted execution environments that has had widespread impact and led to large-scale deployment (2018)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to system security and privacy (2017)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist (2015)
Google Faculty Research Award in the field of security (2013)
Other contributions
Asokan was part of the team that translated the book Operaatio Elop (Operation Elop) from Finnish into English.
References
External links
N. Asokan at DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
N. Asokan at ACM Digital Library
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Computer security academics
Nokia people
Living p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20coherence%20tomography%20angiography | Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) developed to visualize vascular networks in the human retina, choroid, skin and various animal models. OCTA may make use of speckle variance optical coherence tomography.
OCTA uses motion contrast between cross-sectional OCT scans (B-frames) to differentiate blood flow from static tissue, enabling imaging of vascular anatomy. To correct for patient movement during scanning, bulk tissue changes in the axial direction are eliminated, ensuring that all detected changes are due to red blood cell movement. This form of OCT requires a very high sampling density in order to achieve the resolution needed to detect the tiny capillaries found in the retina. This has allowed OCTA to obtain detailed images of retinal vasculature in the human retina and become widely used clinically to diagnose a variety of eye diseases, such as age related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), artery and vein occlusions, and glaucoma.
Medical uses
While conventional dye-based angiography is still the common gold standard, OCTA has been evaluated and used across many diseases. OCTA was first introduced in clinical eyecare 2014.
OCTA has applications in several diseases, including leading causes of blindness such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. In diabetic retinopathy (DR), OCTA was shown to resolve previously established markers of severe disease (i.e., vitreous proliferation). Moreover, OCTA was shown to provide a plethora of additional biomarkers including subclinical loss of vessel density. Thus, OCTA may offer in future the potential to monitor the progression of DR at an earlier, pre-clinical state. Similarly, OCTA was shown to provide more refined information compared to dye-based angiography in other vascular occlusive diseases such as central (or branch) retinal vein occlusion.
How it works
OCTA detects moving particles (red blood cells) by comparing sequential B-scans at the same cross-sectional location. To simply put it, the backscattered light reflected back from static samples would remain the same over multiple B-scans while the backscattered light reflected back from moving samples would fluctuate. Multiple algorithms have been proposed and utilized to contrast such motion signals from static signals in various biological tissues.
Calculating blood flow
An algorithm developed by Jia et al. is used to determine blood flow in the retina. The split-spectrum amplitude decorrelation angiography (SSADA) algorithm calculates the decorrelation in the reflected light that is detected by the OCT device.
The blood vessels are where the most decorrelation occurs allowing them to be visualized, while static tissue has low decorrelation values. The equation takes into account fluctuations of the received signal amplitude or intensity over time. Greater fluctuations receive a greater decorrelation valu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhya%20Dwarkadas | Sandhya Dwarkadas is a professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She was formerly the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor and Chair of the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Rochester. She is known for her research on shared memory and reconfigurable computing.
Education
Dwarkadas was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Rice University, completing her Ph.D. at Rice in 1993. Her dissertation, Synchronization, Coherence, and Consistency for High Performance Shared-Memory Multiprocessing, was jointly supervised by J. Robert Jump and Bart Sinclair.
Recognition
Dwarkadas became a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2017.
She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability".
References
External links
Interview with Sandhya Dwarkadas, Amanda Stent, Computing Research Association Women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian%20Lee%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Lillian Lee is a computer scientist whose research involves natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science. She is a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Education
Lee graduated from Cornell University in 1993 with an undergraduate degree in math and science. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1997. Her dissertation, Similarity-Based Approaches to Natural Language Processing, was supervised by Stuart M. Shieber.
Career
Lee has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1997.
Recognition
Lee has been a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence since 2013, and of the Association for Computational Linguistics since 2017.
Lee was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte%20%28disambiguation%29 | Megabyte (MB) is a decimallized unit of data storage measurement equalling 106 bytes.
Megabyte may also refer to:
Mebibyte (MiB), the idiomatic unit of data storage measurement, equal to 220 bytes, similar to "megabyte" (MB).
Megabyte (ReBoot), a fictional character from the CG animated TV fictional universe ReBoot
MEGABYTE Act of 2016 (Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies) H.R. 4904, a federal law of the United States of America
See also
Megabite (disambiguation)
Megabit (Mb) 106 bits
Mebibit (Mib) 220 bits
M-Byte, a battery electric car from Sino-American marque Byton, see Future Mobility Corporation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild%20of%20European%20Research-Intensive%20Universities | The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (also called The Guild) is a university network founded in 2016. It currently comprises twenty-one of Europe's research-intensive universities in sixteen countries.
The Guild released a series of position papers as part of the European Commission's consultation for Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and the next Framework Programme (FP10).
Its current president is Svein Stølen, Rector of the University of Oslo, in Norway.
Members
Since 2021, the group is made up of the following universities:
Austria: University of Vienna
Belgium: Ghent University, University of Louvain
Denmark: Aarhus University
Estonia: University of Tartu
France: Paris Cité University
Germany: University of Tübingen, University of Göttingen
Italy: University of Bologna
Norway: University of Oslo
Netherlands: University of Groningen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Poland: Jagiellonian University
Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University
Slovenia: University of Ljubljana
Spain: Pompeu Fabra University
Sweden: Uppsala University
Switzerland: University of Bern
United Kingdom: University of Glasgow, King's College London, University of Warwick
See also
List of higher education associations and alliances
References
Organizations established in 2016
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Organisations based in Brussels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira%20Narayanan | Kira Narayanan is an Indian Actress and TV Presenter. She is best known for playing Aayat in "Jee Karda" on Amazon Prime Video, hosting Cricket Live on the Star Sports Network and for playing the role of Princess Jasmine in Disney and BookMyShow's Aladdin the Musical in India.
Personal life
Kira grew up in Malaysia and started acting when she was 13. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (London).
Career
Television
Kira debuted as an English Television Sports Anchor for Star Sports India during Vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 7 (2019). She then went on to anchor for "Cricket Live" in the absence of Mayanti Langer, hosting her first Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2020, as well as the India/England Test, ODI and T20I Series in 2021. She's appeared alongside cricket greats and network regulars Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Brett Lee, VVS Laxman, Gautham Gambhir, Greame Swann, Lisa Sthalekhar, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh and Dean Jones.
Stage
Kira was cast by Tess Joseph to play Princess Jasmine in the stage Musical version of the Disney film Aladdin, produced by Disney International and BookMyShow.
In 2019, Kira stepped into the iconic shoes of Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews to play the role of Eliza Doolittle in Rael Padamsee's My Fair Lady the Musical.
Web series
Kira plays Aayat Merchant in "Jee Karda" on Amazon Prime Video starring Tamannah Bhatia, and in the 2019 web series Minus One, she appeared as Devika/Lavanya opposite Indian web stars Aisha Ahmed and Ayush Mehra.
Film
Kira made her feature film debut as Sri Devi (a classical dancer) in the 2018 Tamil Picture Koothan, where she starred alongside Kollywood greats Urvashi, Bhagyaraj and Manobala.
Work and filmography
Television
Plays/Musicals
Films
Web series
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Musicians from Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysian television actresses
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Malaysian television personalities
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Voorhees | Ellen Marie Voorhees (born March 13, 1958) is an American computer scientist known for her work in document retrieval, information retrieval, and natural language processing. She works in the retrieval group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Education and career
Voorhees was born in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, and was the 1976 valedictorian at Bensalem High School.
She did her undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She attended Cornell University where she received her master's degree and then went on to complete her Ph.D. in 1985. Her dissertation, The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agglomerative Hierarchic Clustering in Document Retrieval, was supervised by Gerard Salton.
Prior to joining NIST she was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ, where her work on intelligent agents applied to information access resulted in numerous patents. A dedicated researcher and prolific writer, she is the author of hundreds of technical papers.
Recognition
Voorhees was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions in evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language technologies". Voorhees is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and has been elected as a fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences. She has published numerous articles on information retrieval techniques and evaluation methodologies and serves on the review boards of several journals and conferences.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20in%20American%20television%20network%20changes | The following are lists of changes to American television networks, including changes of station affiliations, that occurred in 2018.
Networks and services
Network launches
Network conversions and rebrandings
Network closures
Television stations
Station launches
Notes
Stations changing network affiliation
Major affiliation changes
This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish language networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Subchannel affiliations
Station spectrum transitions
Station closures
See also
2018 in American television
2018 deaths in American television
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%20Qiu | Lili Qiu is a Chinese computer scientist known for her research on wireless networks. She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.
Education and career
Qiu was born in Shanghai, where she attended Nanyang Model High School.
She moved to the US for her undergraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree with honors for a double major in computer science and physics at the University of Bridgeport.
She completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University. Her dissertation, An Integrated Approach to Improving Web Performance, was jointly supervised by Robbert van Renesse and George Varghese.
After working at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, WA from 2001 to 2004, she joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in 2005, and later promoted to a tenured Professor.
In Spring 2022, she joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as vice managing director and is currently leading MSRA Shanghai branch.
Recognition
Qiu became a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2017 , elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems" , and selected as a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2022 . She was also recognized as N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2017, ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2013, and NSF CAREER Award in 2006. She got best paper awards at ACM MobiSys'18 and IEEE ICNP'17.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNI%20%28disambiguation%29 | JNI is the Java Native Interface, a Java programming framework.
JNI or jni may also refer to:
Junín Airport (IATA code), serving Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Janji language (ISO 639:jni), a Kainji language of Nigeria
Jama'atu Nasril Islam, an umbrella group for the Nigerian Muslims community
See also
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), a militant jihadist organisation in the Maghreb and West Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan%20Marie%20Jokerst | Nan Marie Jokerst is an American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University known for her work integrating optoelectronics with semiconductor substrates in order to create portable environmental and medical sensors. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Since 2004, Jokerst has been J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University. Jokerst previously served as faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor of Optoelectronics.
Education
BS in Mathematics, Creighton University, 1982
BS in Physics, Creighton University, 1982
MSEE in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1984
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1989
Awards
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
Fellow of the Optical Society, 2001
IEEE Education Society Harris B. Rigas Medal, 2002
IEEE Fellow, 2003
Alumni in Academia Award for the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, 2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly%20Keeton | Kimberly Kristine Keeton is an American computer scientist specializing in databases and computer data storage. She worked at HP Labs as a Distinguished Technologist and is currently employed by Google as Principal Engineer, and was one of the designers of the Express Query metadata database used by Hewlett-Packard as part of their StoreAll large-scale data storage systems.
Education
Keeton did her undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, with a double major in computer engineering and in engineering and public policy.
She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Computer Architecture Support for Database Applications, was supervised by David Patterson.
Recognition
A paper written by Keeton in 2004 with four other researchers on the automated design of disaster-resistant enterprise storage systems won the Usenix FAST Test of Time Award in 2018. She also won the 2018 SIGMOD best paper award for her work with other collaborators on "range filtering" data structures that combine the memory-efficient filtering abilities of bloom filters with the ability of range query data structures to find data with a range of key values rather than with a single exactly matching key.
Keeton was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to improving the dependability, manageability, and usability of storage and novel memory".
She became an IEEE Fellow in 2021.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kilobyte (kB) is a decimalized unit measure of data storage, equalling 1000 bytes.
Kilobyte may also refer to:
Kibibyte (KiB) an idiomatic unit measure of data storage equalling 1024 bytes, also called a "kilobyte" (KB)
Kilobyte (Ace Lightning), a fictional character, a cyberstalker from Ace Lightning, see List of Ace Lightning characters
Kilobyte (ReBoot), a fictional character from the CG animated TV fictional universe ReBoot, see List of ReBoot characters
Kilobyte Magazine, former name of the computer magazine Kilobaud Microcomputing
See also
K-Byte, a battery electric car from Sino-American marque Byton, see Future Mobility Corporation
Killobyte (1993 novel) science fiction novel by Piers Anthony
Kilobit (kb) 103 bits
Kibibit (Kib) 210 bits
Killabite (disambiguation)
KB (disambiguation)
Kilo (disambiguation)
Byte (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamal%20Dey | Tamal Krishna Dey (born 1964) is an Indian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and computational topology. He is a professor at Purdue University.
Education and career
Dey graduated from Jadavpur University in 1985, with a bachelor's degree in electronics. He earned a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 1987, and completed his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1991. His dissertation, Decompositions of Polyhedra in Three Dimensions, was supervised by Chandrajit Bajaj.
After postdoctoral research with Herbert Edelsbrunner at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Dey joined the Purdue faculty in 1992. He moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1994, and moved to the computer science and engineering department at Ohio State University in 1999. At Ohio State, he obtained a courtesy appointment in the department of mathematics in 2015. He became the interim chair of the computer science department at Ohio State in 2019, before moving to Purdue in 2020.
Contributions
Dey is known for proving the tightest-known upper bounds on the -set problem and for his work on 3D reconstruction and computational topology.
He is the author of the book Curve and Surface Reconstruction: Algorithms with Mathematical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
With Siu-Wing Cheng and Jonathan Shewchuk, he is the co-author of Delaunay Mesh Generation (CRC Press, 2012).
Recognition
Dey was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to computational geometry and computational topology". He is also a fellow of the IEEE.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Kalmus%20%28climate%20scientist%29 | Peter Kalmus (born May 9, 1974) is an American scientist and writer based in Altadena, California. He is a data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an associate project scientist at UCLA's Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering.
In addition to his scientific work, he is the author of the book, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. A documentary by the same title complements the book. In addition to authoring articles about climate change, he is the founder of the website noflyclimatesci.org and co-founder of the app, Earth Hero: Climate Change.
Education and early career
Kalmus attended Harvard University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in physics in 1997. At Harvard, he used Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy to discover and categorize the quantum-mechanical rotational spectra of several cyanopolyynes which were subsequently found in interstellar clouds. He then taught high school physics in Massachusetts and wrote software in New York City. In 2004 he enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University and received his PhD in physics in 2008. His PhD work involved searching for gravitational waves as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (thesis: "Gravitational Waves Associated with Soft Gamma Repeater Flares"). He continued his work with LIGO as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, leading major full-collaboration searches for gravitational waves from magnetars, gamma ray bursts and supernovae and contributing to the precise calibration of the world's gravitational wave observatories.
Research
After focusing on LIGO related work for several years, Kalmus's focus transitioned into earth and climate science. Kalmus's recent research centers on cloud physics, specifically improving basic understanding of marine stratocumulus clouds and severe convective weather such as tornadoes with the goal of improving projections of how these phenomena will change as the planet heats, using remote sensing data, in situ data, and models. Marine stratocumulus clouds reflect incoming sunlight, cooling the planet, and are difficult to model accurately in climate models; this makes them a major source of uncertainty in climate projections.
A common thread in his research is improving the utility of satellite observations of the Earth. His work on severe weather unlocks the potential of polar orbiting satellites to observe rapidly changing convective environments by using air parcel trajectory modeling to span the temporal gap between satellite overpass and convective initiation. He has used in situ data from a ship-based campaign to bias-correct the CloudSat warm rain retrieval. He also uses in situ data to validate retrievals from the AIRS instrument on the Aqua (satellite).
Recently, Kalmus has begun to work in the nascent field of ecological forecasting. He is the principal investigator on a NASA grant to study the projected future of the w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20anti-ICERD%20rally | The Anti-ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) Rally or Himpunan Aman Bantah ICERD (Malay) is a rally that was held in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 December 2018. The rally was organised by opposition Islamist political parties Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) and United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), with the support of various non-governmental organisations.
The rally was held in response to the new Malaysian government's plan to ratify the United Nations convention known as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). The opposition parties from UMNO and PAS seriously deny the ratification of the convention, as it is contrary to the Constitution of Malaysia. The constitution recognizes special rights for the Malay and Bumiputra. Even though the government announced that it would not ratify the convention on 23 November 2018, the organiser decided to push on with the rally and shifted its main focus towards celebrating the government's decision on not ratifying ICERD.
Background
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention which commits its members to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races. Malaysia is one of the 18 countries in the world that have not ratified this convention. It is also one of the two Muslim-majority countries that have yet to ratify it, along with Brunei. On 28 September 2018, the prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad addressed the UN General Assembly, announcing the new government has to "ratify all remaining core UN instruments related to the protection of human rights", including ICERD and other five unratified conventions. However, Khairy Jamaluddin disputed the UN address and raised concerns about ICERD's impact on bumiputra, Malay and Islam privileges and special treatment in the country. On 19 November 2018, in Parliament, Waytha Moorthy, who is in charge of National Unity and Social Wellbeing, started speaking on the intention of the government in ratifying ICERD and said that consultations with relevant stakeholders would be held in the first quarter of 2019, to the Opposition's denunciations.
Participants
While the organizers set a target of half-million people to attend the rally, the Kuala Lumpur police's official figures estimated 55,000 people attended the rally (mostly PAS supporters), including PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and former prime minister Najib Razak. In Kelantan, the state government declared a public holiday on the next day (9 December 2018) to allow Kelantanese people to attend the rally in Kuala Lumpur. The organisers, however, claimed that the number of participants reached more than 300,000 based on their estimation.
Rally
On the day of the rally before the rally started at 2 pm, the silat alliance Pertubuhan Gabungan Silat P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Data%20Integrator | Space Data Integrator is a process/service platform or tool being developed by the US FAA to integrate space launch and reentry into the US National Airspace System.
History
The project was initiated in 2015.
No funds for SDI were included in the FAA 2018 budget request.
In March 2018 the FAA initiated a Market Survey on the requirements for SDI.
References
Further reading
Improving the Integration of Launch and Reentry Operations into the National Airspace System Mazzotta and Murray. 2015?
Aerospace engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese%20neural%20network | A Siamese neural network (sometimes called a twin neural network) is an artificial neural network that uses the same weights while working in tandem on two different input vectors to compute comparable output vectors. Often one of the output vectors is precomputed, thus forming a baseline against which the other output vector is compared. This is similar to comparing fingerprints but can be described more technically as a distance function for locality-sensitive hashing.
It is possible to build an architecture that is functionally similar to a siamese network but implements a slightly different function. This is typically used for comparing similar instances in different type sets.
Uses of similarity measures where a twin network might be used are such things as recognizing handwritten checks, automatic detection of faces in camera images, and matching queries with indexed documents. The perhaps most well-known application of twin networks are face recognition, where known images of people are precomputed and compared to an image from a turnstile or similar. It is not obvious at first, but there are two slightly different problems. One is recognizing a person among a large number of other persons, that is the facial recognition problem. DeepFace is an example of such a system. In its most extreme form this is recognizing a single person at a train station or airport. The other is face verification, that is to verify whether the photo in a pass is the same as the person claiming he or she is the same person. The twin network might be the same, but the implementation can be quite different.
Learning
Learning in twin networks can be done with triplet loss or contrastive loss. For learning by triplet loss a baseline vector (anchor image) is compared against a positive vector (truthy image) and a negative vector (falsy image). The negative vector will force learning in the network, while the positive vector will act like a regularizer. For learning by contrastive loss there must be a weight decay to regularize the weights, or some similar operation like a normalization.
A distance metric for a loss function may have the following properties
Non-negativity:
Identity of Non-discernibles:
Commutativity:
Triangle inequality:
In particular, the triplet loss algorithm is often defined with squared Euclidean (which unlike Euclidean, does not have triangle inequality) distance at its core.
Predefined metrics, Euclidean distance metric
The common learning goal is to minimize a distance metric for similar objects and maximize for distinct ones. This gives a loss function like
are indexes into a set of vectors
function implemented by the twin network
The most common distance metric used is Euclidean distance, in case of which the loss function can be rewritten in matrix form as
Learned metrics, nonlinear distance metric
A more general case is where the output vector from the twin network is passed through additional network layers implemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Crusader%20%28video%20game%29 | Operation Crusader is a 1994 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Avalon Hill.
Operation Crusader was among the first titles released in Avalon Hill's push to revive its computer game division during the 1990s, in an attempt to diversify its business because of falling board wargame sales. The company hired Atomic Games as a key to this initiative, and Crusader acted as the spiritual success to its earlier V for Victory wargame series, reusing and updating much of the game design and code from those titles.
Operation Crusader was the first game in the World at War series, and was followed by World at War: Stalingrad and D-Day: America Invades.
Gameplay
The player takes control of a military commander during World War II. The player is tasked with building up an army in order to destroy the opposing military. The player has the choice between being an Ally, or being part of the Axis.
Development
Starting with the hire of producer Jim Rose in December 1992, Avalon Hill began an effort to revive its computer game branch in response to flagging board wargame sales during the 1990s. Rose signed developer Atomic Games in 1993 as a key part of this initiative. The Atomic team was known for the V for Victory series with Three-Sixty Pacific, but had recently left that publisher, after a period of financial problems that culminated in a lawsuit for unpaid royalties. While Avalon contracted Atomic primarily to create a computer version of Advanced Squad Leader, Alan Emrich of Computer Gaming World reported rumors in 1993 that "Avalon Hill will [also] be publishing a second game from Atomic" centered on the North African Campaign. He speculated that this was "what would be the next V for Victory game in an Avalon Hill wrapper". By January 1994, Atomic Games had revealed the World at War series as the successor to its V for Victory line under Avalon, and its first entry was entitled Operation Crusader.
Alongside Kingmaker, Operation Crusader was one of the first two titles released as part of Avalon Hill's new initiative. The computer game division had previously been known for low-quality titles, a problem that Avalon Hill's Don Greenwood blamed on his and the company's "hubris" and favoritism toward board products. Ross Hetrick of the Baltimore Sun reported that the company's first venture ran from 1983 to 1986, and ended "when its games began to lag those of competitors." For Operation Crusader, Zabalaoui noted that Avalon Hill's president had informed him that " 'good' isn't good enough".
Atomic and Avalon Hill experienced creative friction during the development of Operation Crusader.Computer Gaming World columnist Alan Emrich wrote in 1995, "To say there was no love lost between [...] Jim Rose and Atomic's Keith Zabalaoui would be a gracious understatement." However, the magazine's Terry Coleman noted that the "tensions" between the companies' design philosophies "worked positively" on Operation Crusader.
Operation Crusa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20at%20War%3A%20Stalingrad | World at War: Stalingrad is a 1995 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Avalon Hill. It is the second game in the World at War series, following Operation Crusader.
Stalingrad was followed by D-Day: America Invades (1995).
Gameplay
World at War: Stalingrad simulates the battle of Stalingrad including several different scenarios up to the entire campaign.
Development
The game was released on Mac computers in November 1994.
Reception
World at War: Stalingrad sold fewer than 50,000 units globally. This was part of a trend for Avalon Hill games during the period; Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World wrote in late 1998 that "no AH game in the past five years" had reached the mark.
In PC Gamer US, T. Liam McDonald called Stalingrad "as good as wargaming gets." The magazine's editors later nominated Stalingrad for their 1995 "Best Wargame" award, but ultimately gave the prize to Steel Panthers.
Czech magazine Score rated the game 8 out of 10.
Reviews
MikroBitti (Jun, 1995)
References
External links
World at War: Stalingrad
1995 video games
Atomic Games games
Avalon Hill video games
Classic Mac OS games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the Soviet Union
Windows games
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbola%20GNU/Linux-libre | Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is a Linux distribution for the i686 and x86-64 architectures. It is based on Arch Linux snapshots and Debian development. It includes the GNU operating system components and the Linux-libre kernel instead of the generic Linux kernel. Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a completely free operating system, true to their Free System Distribution Guidelines.
History
Hyperbola was born at the 17th annual Fórum Internacional Software Livre (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
On 5 August 2017, support for systemd was dropped in favor of OpenRC as its default init system to support the Init Freedom Campaign begun by Devuan.
On 6 December 2018, Hyperbola was the first Brazilian distribution recognized as a completely free project by GNU, making it part of the FSF list of free distributions.
On 23 September 2019, Hyperbola announced its first release with the implementation of Xenocara as its default display server for the X Window System and LibreSSL as its default system cryptography library.
In December 2019, Hyperbola announced that it would cease to be a Linux distribution, and that it would become a hard fork of OpenBSD with GPL-licensed code. The project cited objections to recent developments in the Linux kernel that they deemed to be an "unstable path", including inclusion of optional support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection, the kernel "being written without security in mind", GNU and "core" components with non-optional dependencies, and endorsement of the Rust programming language — due to objections to the Mozilla Foundation trademarks policy and "a centralized code repository that is more prone to cyber attack and generally requires internet access to use". Support for the Linux version will cease at the end of its current release's lifecycle.
Social contract
Hyperbola has established a Social Contract. The Hyperbola Social Contract commits the project to the free software community, free culture, privacy, stability, init freedom, and to follow Arch-based system packaging, yet under the principles of stability, development and maintenance of Debian. Under the covenant are included the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines.
Development
Packaging guidelines
Hyperbola has established packaging guidelines. The Hyperbola Packaging Guidelines contain a collection of common issues and the severity that should be placed on them for its development, such as backporting, package releases and Debian patches.
Codenames
Hyperbola aliases its stable releases using galaxy names as codenames chosen from the list of nearest known galaxies of the Milky Way, in ascending order of distance.
Release cycle
A stable version of Hyperbola gets released approximately every three years. Point releases will be available every few months. For each Hyperbola release, it will receive two years of extra security updates after its End Of Life (EOL). However, no further point releases will be made. Ea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20past%20fertility%20rate | This is a list of countries showing past fertility rate, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. The fertility rate equals the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.
List of countries 1950 to 2015
List of regions
References
External links
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Population Division – World Population Prospects, the 2017 Revision
Fertility rate, past
Fertility rate, past
Human geography
Fertility |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare%20%28company%29 | Foursquare Labs Inc., commonly known as Foursquare, is a geolocation technology company and data cloud platform based in the United States. Founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009, the company rose to prominence with the launch of its local search-and-discovery mobile app. The app, Foursquare City Guide, popularized the concept of real-time location sharing and checking-in.
Alongside additions and iterations to its consumer apps, the company also began to create products that leverage the location data collected via billions of check-ins.
History
Launch and early years
Co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai founded Foursquare in 2008 and launched Foursquare City Guide in 2009 at SXSW. Crowley had previously founded the similar project Dodgeball as his graduate thesis project in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University and subsequently sold it to Google in 2005.
In November 2009, Foursquare opened up access to its API, enabling developers to access data generated by the Foursquare app and build applications on top of that data. Foursquare opened its second office, in San Francisco, the next year, shortly after reaching one million users. In 2011, Foursquare began working on Pilgrim SDK, the core technology that combines stop-detection and snap-to-place functions in order to provide contextual awareness to Foursquare's apps. As of January 31, 2023, Foursquare renamed its Pilgrim SDK product to Movement SDK.
Swarm release
In May 2014, the company launched Swarm, a companion app to Foursquare City Guide, that moved the social networking and location sharing aspects of the service to a separate application. In August 2014, the company launched Foursquare 8.0, a completely new version of the service that shifted the focus from check-ins to focus on local search and recommendations.
2015 to present
In April 2015, Foursquare began offering location-based enterprise products for marketers and advertisers with the launch of Pinpoint. The company subsequently released Attribution, a tool for media performance measurement, in February 2016, and the Movement (FKA Pilgrim) software development kit, which allows developers to use Foursquare's core Movement technology to add context into their own apps and services, in March 2017. Each of these tools can be used independently, or they can be bundled together.
On January 14, 2016, co-founder Dennis Crowley stepped down from his position as CEO. He moved to an Executive Chairman position while Jeff Glueck, the company's COO, succeeded Crowley as the new CEO.
In 2017, Foursquare announced its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region with partners like Tencent and Samsung, and a new office in Singapore. Over the course of the three-year period from 2015 through 2017, the company's revenue grew by more than 50% each year. In early 2018, Foursquare opened a new engineering office in Chicago.
In May 2019, Foursquare bought Placed from Snap Inc.
On Decembe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet%20loss | Triplet loss is a loss function for machine learning algorithms where a reference input (called anchor) is compared to a matching input (called positive) and a non-matching input (called negative). The distance from the anchor to the positive is minimized, and the distance from the anchor to the negative input is maximized.
An early formulation equivalent to triplet loss was introduced (without the idea of using anchors) for metric learning from relative comparisons by M. Schultze and T. Joachims in 2003.
By enforcing the order of distances, triplet loss models embed in the way that a pair of samples with same labels are smaller in distance than those with different labels. Unlike t-SNE which preserves embedding orders via probability distributions, triplet loss works directly on embedded distances. Therefore, in its common implementation, it needs soft margin treatment with a slack variable in its hinge loss-style formulation. It is often used for learning similarity for the purpose of learning embeddings, such as learning to rank, word embeddings, thought vectors, and metric learning.
Consider the task of training a neural network to recognize faces (e.g. for admission to a high security zone). A classifier trained to classify an instance would have to be retrained every time a new person is added to the face database. This can be avoided by posing the problem as a similarity learning problem instead of a classification problem. Here the network is trained (using a contrastive loss) to output a distance which is small if the image belongs to a known person and large if the image belongs to an unknown person. However, if we want to output the closest images to a given image, we want to learn a ranking and not just a similarity. A triplet loss is used in this case.
The loss function can be described by means of the Euclidean distance function
where is an anchor input, is a positive input of the same class as , is a negative input of a different class from , is a margin between positive and negative pairs, and is an embedding.
This can then be used in a cost function, that is the sum of all losses, which can then be used for minimization of the posed optimization problem
The indices are for individual input vectors given as a triplet. The triplet is formed by drawing an anchor input, a positive input that describes the same entity as the anchor entity, and a negative input that does not describe the same entity as the anchor entity. These inputs are then run through the network, and the outputs are used in the loss function.
Comparison and Extensions
In computer vision tasks such as re-identification, a prevailing belief has been that the triplet loss is inferior to using surrogate losses (i.e., typical classification losses) followed by separate metric learning steps. Recent work showed that for models trained from scratch, as well as pretrained models, a special version of triplet loss doing end-to-end deep metric learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy%20School%20of%20Business | Burgundy School of Business (BSB), created in 1899 by the Dijon Chamber of Commerce, is a private higher educational establishment. The school is a member of the network of French Grandes écoles (Conférence des Grandes Écoles).
History
Founded in at the end of the 19th century as École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (ESC Dijon), BSB is one of the oldest business schools in the world.
1899 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (ESC Dijon) founded by an entrepreneur, Léon Gadeau, with the support of industrialists and Burgundy wine merchants (now called: Burgundy School of Business).
1900 - ESC Dijon officially recognized by the government of France.
1916 - School admits girls, and becomes co-educational.
1919 - The first American students arrive at ESC Dijon.
1987 - ESC Dijon is one of the 14 founding schools of the Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles de Commerce.
1998 - First international double degrees.
1965 - ESC Dijon students go to China on an exchange trip, the first of its kind for a French school.
1968 - First international exchange agreement with the Staatliche Höhere Wirtschaftschule in Pforzheim, Germany.
2000 - First international courses (offered in English, Spanish and German) and first management courses in a foreign language in the Grande École programme.
2012 - Opening of the Paris campus.
2013 - Opening of the Lyon campus, and first Bachelor programme.
2014 - Opening of the Lyon Confluence Campus.
2015 - ESC Dijon, along with 7 other schools, found the Université Bourgogne Franche Comté.
2016 - ESC Dijon becomes BSB - Burgundy School of Business.
Grande école degrees
Burgundy School of Business is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.
The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France). Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters. Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern%E2%80%93Neuch%C3%A2tel%20railway | The Bern–Neuchâtel railway is a Swiss railway that was opened on 1 July 1901 by the Bern–Neuchâtel Railway (Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn). It is now part of the BLS AG network and is also called the Direkt Linie (direct line), because it crosses the Grand Marais in an almost straight line. In addition, the connection is part of the shortest railway line between Bern and Paris.
Route
The line was initially designed as a single track line for its full length. For the most part, it is still single track, but it is gradually being doubled.
The –Holligen (BLS depot) section is shared with the Bern–Belp–Thun railway (Gürbetalbahn) and the line to Schwarzenburg.
There was a connection to the Flamatt–Gümmenen railway (Sensetalbahn—Sense Valley Railway) in Gümmenen between 1904 and 1993.
Immediately in front of Kerzers station, the line crosses the Palézieux–Kerzers railway (Broyelinie–Broye line) at a 60° angle. This is the only full crossing of two standard gauge railway lines in Switzerland. The station complex is designed as a Keilbahnhof (literally "wedge station"), a station located between branching tracks.
With the opening of this line, the Fribourg–Ins railway (French: Chemin de fer Fribourg–Morat–Anet) was extended from Murten to Ins; this section was also opened on 1 July 1901. The metre-gauge Biel–Täuffelen–Ins railway (Biel-Täuffelen-Ins-Bahn) has ended at the station forecourt since 19 March 1917.
In Neuchâtel, the route meets the existing Biel–Neuchâtel railway, which runs along the foot of the southern Jura. Lines branch from Neuchâtel station to Yverdon, Pontarlier and Le Locle.
Electric train operations on the Bümpliz Nord-Neuchâtel section commenced on 14 May 1928. The Bern (Holligen)–Bern Bümpliz Nord section had been electrified at 15 kV 16.7 Hz on 13 September 1923.
Doubling
The BLS plans to complete doubling of the line to allow operations at 160 km/h. This has already been completed between Bern and Rosshäusern. The double track Rosshäusern Tunnel was opened on 25 August 2018 and doubling to the Saane is under way.
Double track was put into operations on the Ins–Fanelwald section on 24 June 2007 and it was extended to Zihlbrücke on 16 September 2012. The section is designed for operations at 160 km/h.
Operations
Two BN Ea 3/6 tender locomotives were purchased for the line in 1913. They were the most powerful steam tender locomotives in Switzerland. Because of their high axle weights, no suitable alternative use could be found after the electrification of their home line, so they were scrapped early.
Today, in addition to the S5, S51 and S52 services of the Bern S-Bahn, BLS RegioExpress services run over the line.
References
Footnotes
Sources
Railway lines in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 1901
1901 establishments in Switzerland
BLS railway lines
Standard gauge railways in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE-M | LTE-M or LTE-MTC ("Long-Term Evolution Machine Type Communication"), is a type of low-power wide-area network radio communication technology standard developed by 3GPP for machine-to-machine and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. LTE-M includes eMTC ("enhanced Machine Type Communication"), also known as LTE Cat-M1, whose specification was frozen in 3GPP Release 13 (LTE Advanced Pro), in June 2016.
Competing 3GPP IoT technologies include NB-IoT and EC-GSM-IoT.
The advantage of LTE-M over NB-IoT is its comparatively higher data rate, mobility, and voice over the network, but it requires more bandwidth, is more costly, and cannot be put into guard band portion of the frequency band for now. Compared to LTE Release 12 Cat-0 modem, an LTE-M model is claimed to be 80% less expensive (in terms of the bill of materials), support up to 18 dB better coverage, and a battery lifetime that can last up to several years. In March 2019, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported that over 100 operators had deployed/launched either NB-IoT or LTE-M networks.
3GPP Narrowband Cellular Standards
Deployments
As of March 2019 the Global Mobile Suppliers Association had identified:
60 operators in 35 countries investing in LTE-M networks
34 of those operators in 24 countries had deployed/launched their networks
As of February 2022, GSMA had listed LTE-M as being launched on 60 commercial networks.
See also
NB-IoT
6LoWPAN
Sigfox
LoRa / LoRaWAN
NB-Fi
Weightless
DASH7
LTE User Equipment Categories
Multefire
LTE sidelink
802.11ah (Wi-FI HaLow)
References
External links
Standards for the IoT
Internet of things
LTE (telecommunication)
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryne%20Maundu | Kathryne Maundu is a Kenyan lawyer, corporate executive, counselor and mentor, who serves as the Corporation Secretary of Safaricom, Kenya's largest mobile network operator.
She also concurrently serves as a Senior Manager at the Nairobi office of Deloitte, the multinational professional services conglomerate.
Background and education
Ms Maundu was born in Kenya, circa 1979. She obtained her High School Diploma from Alliance Girls High School, in the town of Kikuyu, in Kiambu County, in 1996.
She was admitted to the law school of Nairobi University, where she earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2002. She went on to attend the Kenya School of Law, where she successfully underwent the Advocates Training Programme. As of December 2018, she is enrolled in the Master of Laws degree course at the University of London, with a graduation date in 2022.
Joyce Maundu is registered by the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya, as a Certified Public Secretary and as an Accredited Governance Auditor.
Career
After graduating with her law degree, for a period of almost two years, Ms. Maundu worked as an associate lawyer at two Nairobi-based law firms.
In 2010, she joined Deloitte and was posted to the Tanzania office in Dar es Salaam, where she worked as a Senior Consultant for over two years. She was then transferred to the Uganda office, based in Kampala, working there as Principal Consultant for two years, until 2014. She was then moved to the Kenya office, rising to Senior Manager in 2015. As of December 2018, she maintained that position at Deloitte Kenya Limited. In 2016 she was appointed as Corporation Secretary at Safaricom Plc., a position she still occupies as at December 2018.
Other considerations
Ms. Maundu mentors young girls at Safaricom's Mpesa Foundation Academy. She is single. In September 2018, Business Daily Africa, an English language daily newspaper, named Kathryne Maundu among the "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya 2018".
See also
Rose Ogega
Theresia Kyalo
Linda Watiri Muriuki
References
External links
Safaricom announces change of name As of 28 February 2018.
Living people
1979 births
21st-century Kenyan lawyers
Kenyan women lawyers
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
University of Nairobi alumni
Kenya School of Law alumni
Alumni of the University of London
21st-century women lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TODA%20One%20I%20Love | TODA One I Love (International title: To the One I Love) is a 2019 Philippine television drama political romantic comedy series broadcast on GMA Network. Directed by Jeffrey Hidalgo and Nick Olanka, it stars Ruru Madrid and Kylie Padilla. It premiered on February 4, 2019 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Waves of Life. The series concluded on April 17, 2019 with a total of 53 episodes. It was replaced by Love You Two in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Set in San Bernabe, where two elections are underway; officers of the local Tricycle Owners and Drivers' Association and the new mayor. Involved in both elections is Gelay Dimagiba, who takes over her father's battles and his tricycle after he is murdered.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Angela "Gelay" H. Dimagiba-Magsino
Ruru Madrid as Raymond "Emong" Magsino
Supporting cast
David Licauco as Kobe T. Generoso
Gladys Reyes as Dyna Tuazon-Generoso
Victor Neri as Miguel "Migs" Generoso
Kim Domingo as Vicky
Cai Cortez as Josefina "Finny" Rogers Obrero
Jackie Rice as Tiffany "Tiffy" Obrero
Maureen Larrazabal as Jane Magsino
Tina Paner as Lea Hofilena-Dimagiba
Raymond Bagatsing as Jessie Magsino
Ayeesha Cervantes as Rachel H. Dimagiba
Bruce Roeland as Anthony "Utoy" H. Dimagiba
Buboy Villar as Bogart Cruz
Kimpoy Feliciano as Dino Magsino
Archie Alemania as Kevin
Guest cast
Divine Aucina as Diyosa
Arvic Tan as Tonny
Joel Palencia as Tonyo
Tommy Peñaflor as Troy
Kevin Sagra as Jonas
Gerhard Acao as Tintoy
JJ Arao
Scarlet James
Baymax
Katrina Halili as Georgina Ferreira / Gregoria "Oriang" Catacutan
Christopher de Leon as Enrique Sixto
Jaclyn Jose as Princess
Denise Barbacena as young Dyna
Lianne Valentin as young Georgina
Ping Medina as Piping
Sofia Pablo as young Gelay
Dentrix Ponce as young Emong
Allen Dizon as Joselito "Tolits" Dimagiba
Odette Khan as Tasing
Ashley Rivera
Isabelle de Leon as Magnolia
Boobay as Britney
Phytos Ramirez as Nonoy
Rodjun Cruz as Robert
Christopher Roxas as Henry Alvarado
Mathias Rhodes as Alvin
Episodes
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine political television series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%20File%20n%C2%BA221%3A%20Kabukicho | is an original anime television series produced by Production I.G which premiered on October 11, 2019 on the Animeism programming block.
Story
Taking place in modern times in and around Kabukicho in a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes, a team of detectives are solving a string of serial murders committed by Jack the Ripper.
Cases hounding Kabukicho and its residents are brokered by Mrs. Hudson through Pipe Cat, an underground bar, where the detectives meet to accept the cases that interest them.
Characters
Sherlock is an eccentric individual who once dreamed of becoming a rakugoka but failed. He became a detective instead and is one of the detectives of detective row. He employs rakugo once he has deduced the answers to the case at hand.
John is currently employed at a university hospital on the west side of Shinjuku but had to cross over to Kabukichou in order to get someone help him with an odd case. His search leads him to the Pipe Cat.
James is the acting leader of the Kabukicho Irregulars, a group of children who have made it their mission to steal from the rich and support the needy. It is later revealed that he is the son of the ward mayor and has stayed in Kabukicho to track and take revenge on the serial killer who killed his twin sister.
She is the younger of the Morstan siblings, who grew up with her older sister as her only companion. On the day she was taken up for adoption, she decided to run away to Kabukicho with Lucy.
Lucy is the older of the Morstan siblings. When they were younger, she run away to the east side with Mary. She dresses as a man and is usually mistaken as such.
Production and release
Anime
The original anime television series by Production I.G was announced on August 9, 2018. The series is directed by Ai Yoshimura and written by Taku Kishimoto, with Toshiyuki Yahagi handling character designs. Takurō Iga is composing the music. It premiered on October 11, 2019 on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS. Ego-Wrappin' performed the series' opening theme song "CAPTURE", while Lozareena performed the series' ending theme song "Hyakuoku Kōnen". Huwie Ishizaki will perform the series' second ending theme song "Parade". The series will run for two cours. Funimation has licensed the series for a simuldub.
Prior to the show being announced, it was known as Kabukicho no Yatsu (That Man in Kabukicho).
A six-episode OVA series was released on August 26, 2020. It centers on Moriarty's background and the release included the original pilot video and audio commentaries made by the main cast.
Manga
A manga version is serialized in Monthly Comic Garden and written by Kinu Mizukoshi. It was released on January 4, 2020.
Novel
As of 2019 a novel version will be serialized by Kadokawa Shoten under the Kadokawa Bunko novel label, which will have an original story.
Web radio
A web radio show, known as Kabukicho Pipecat Radio, aired its first radio episode on October 9, 2019. It is hosted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Grohe | Martin Grohe (born 1967) is a German mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on parameterized complexity, mathematical logic, finite model theory, the logic of graphs, database theory, and descriptive complexity theory. He is a University Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, where he holds the Chair for Logic and Theory of Discrete Systems.
Education
Grohe earned his doctorate (dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Freiburg in 1994. His dissertation, The Structure of Fixed-Point Logics, was supervised by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus.
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford University, he earned his habilitation at the University of Freiburg in 1998.
Books
Grohe is the author of Descriptive Complexity, Canonisation, and Definable Graph Structure Theory (Lecture Notes in Logic 47, Cambridge University Press, 2017). In 2011, Grohe and Johann A. Makowsky published as editors the 558th proceedings of the AMS-ASL special session on Model Theoretic Methods in Finite Combinatorics, which was held on January 5-8 2009 in Washington, DC. With Jörg Flum, he is the co-author of Parameterized Complexity Theory (Springer, 2006).
Recognition
Grohe won the Heinz Maier–Leibnitz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation in 1999.
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to logic in computer science, database theory, algorithms, and computational complexity".
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
University of Freiburg alumni
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
21st-century German mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukkonen | Ukkonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Esko Ukkonen (born 1950), Finnish theoretical computer scientist
Kari Ukkonen (born 1961), Finnish footballer and manager
Finnish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm%20Wi-Fi%20SON | Qualcomm Wi-Fi SON (Self-Organizing Network) is a solution developed by Qualcomm for Wi-Fi networks to simply and automatically select and link different wireless networking devices together, using the concept of "mesh networking". It is supposed to improve network coverage in different corners in a house or an apartment, and also provide improved security. Note that the technology behind the solution is more like mesh networking than cellular self-organizing network which would have included dynamical adjustment between different access points and client devices.
References
Qualcomm
Wi-Fi
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Joseph | Deborah A. Joseph is an American computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry, computational biology, and computational complexity theory. She is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Education and career
Joseph graduated from Hiram College in 1976 with an interdisciplinary major in ecology.
She earned her Ph.D. in 1981 at Purdue University. Her dissertation, On the Power of Formal Systems for Analyzing Linear and Polynomial Time Program Behavior, was supervised by Paul R. Young.
At Wisconsin, Joseph was a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation. She was also an active member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
Selected publications
. This paper introduces the -creative sets, which form a potential counterexample to the Berman–Hartmanis conjecture.
. Expanded version of a paper from the 23rd Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 1982).
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. Expanded version of a paper from the 2nd Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 1990) and the PhD thesis of Joseph's student Gautam Das, in which they discover greedy geometric spanners.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Hiram College alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Goldsmith%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Judith Anne (Judy) Goldsmith is a computer scientist whose publications span a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, computational complexity theory, decision theory, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky.
Education and career
Goldsmith graduated from Princeton University in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in mathematics (with a minor in computer science) in 1988.
Her dissertation, Polynomial Isomorphisms and Near-Testable Sets, was supervised by Deborah Joseph.
After short-term positions as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, research instructor at Dartmouth College, and NSF visiting professor at Boston University, she joined the computer science faculty at the University of Manitoba in 1991. She moved to the University of Kentucky in 1993.
Public opinion
In computer science education, Goldsmith has spoken in favor of using science fiction in preference to case studies for teaching the ethics of artificial intelligence.
She is Jewish, and participates in the Lexington, Kentucky Havurah.
Dr. Goldsmith serves on the board of Sapiens Plurum, which offers annual prizes for short science fiction that envisions options for a better future.
Recognition
Goldsmith won the Mentor Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 1997.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American Jews
Princeton University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Dartmouth College faculty
Boston University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
University of Kentucky faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compucolor%20II%20character%20set | Compucolor II is a character set developed by Compucolor Corporation for their Compucolor computers. These used a SMC CRT5027 video controller, a Japanese-produced version of the Texas Instruments TMS 9927, programmed to provide a screen format of 32 lines with 64 characters per line.
Character set
The following table shows the Compucolor II character set:
� Not in Unicode, most are pieces designed to make 2x2 character large letters
See also
Compucolor
Intelligent Systems
Intecolor/Compucolor 8001 character set
References
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Zhang%20%28biochemist%29 | Yi Zhang () is a Chinese-American biochemist who specializes in the fields of epigenetics, chromatin, and developmental reprogramming. He is a Fred Rosen Professor of Pediatrics and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, a senior investigator of Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also an associate member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, as well as the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is best known for his discovery of several classes of epigenetic enzymes and the identification of epigenetic barriers of SCNT cloning.
Education
Zhang received his B.Sc. and master's degrees in biophysics from China Agricultural University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He then received his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from Florida State University in 1995. From 1995 to 1999, He did his postdoctoral training in the lab of Danny Reinberg at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Career and research
Appointments
2012–present Fred Rosen Professor, Department of Genetics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital
2005–present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2007–2013 Founder and scientific advisor of Epizyme, Cambridge, MA
1999–2012 Assistant Professor to Kenan Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research
Zhang has published more than 180 highly influential papers. These studies have been cited over 84,020 times (H-index 118), making him one of the top 10 authors of high impact papers in the fields of molecular biology and genetics (ScienceWatch 2008), and one of the "most influential scientific minds" (ScienceWatch 2014). He was also a Founder of Epizyme, and NewStem (Natick, MA). His current efforts are focused on the molecular mechanism of embryonic development & reprogramming, brain reward-related learning & memory, pancreatic cancer.
Zhang has made several landmark discoveries in the fields of epigenetics, chromatin and developmental reprogramming.
Zhang was the first to systematically identify and characterize six histone methyltransferases, including the H4R3 methyltransferase PRMT1, the H3K79 methyltransferase Dot1L, and the H3K27me3 methyltransferase EZH2/PRC2. He went on to demonstrate the function of H3K27me3 methylation in X chromosome inactivation, genomic imprinting, and non-coding RNA regulation. He was also the first to uncover PRC1 as an E3 ligase mediating H2A ubiquitylation. By discovering two enzymatic activities of two PcG protein complexes, Zhang has contributed significantly to our current understanding of the PcG silencing mechanism.
Zhang was the first to show JmjC domain is a signature motif for histone demethylases. He not only worked out the demethylation mechanism, but also demonstrated that JmjC demethylas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20a%20Celebrity...Get%20Me%20Out%20of%20Here%21%20%28Australian%20season%205%29 | The fifth season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here was commissioned by Network 10 on 10 September 2018. It launched on 13 January 2019 and was hosted by Julia Morris and Chris Brown. The series ended after 33 days on 13 February 2019 and a pre-recorded finale, won by Richard Reid, was aired on 17 February 2019.
Celebrities
Celebrity guests
Results and elimination
Indicates that the celebrity received the most votes from the public
Indicates that the celebrity was immune from the vote
Indicates that the celebrity was named as being in the bottom 2 or 3.
Indicates that the celebrity received the fewest votes and was eliminated immediately (no bottom three)
Tucker trials
The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food. These trials aim to test both physical and mental abilities. Success is determined by a team winning the trial, with the winning team getting a large meal to share and the losing team getting small portions of rice and beans. If a participant in the trial says I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in the trial, the other team automatically wins.
The public voted for who they wanted to face the trial
The contestants decided who did which trial
The trial was compulsory and neither the public nor celebrities decided who took part
The contestants were chosen by the evicted celebrities
The voting for the trial was of dual origin - see note for details.
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! scope="col" | Air date
! scope="col" | Name of trial
! scope="col" | Celebrity participation
! scope="col" | Number of stars/Winner(s)
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" | Source
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| 1
| 13 January
| Snakes and a Plane
| Everyone
| Red Team (Campers)
| 1
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|- style="background:#99CCFF
| 2
| 14 January
| Flying Helicopters
| Ajay (red team) & Richard (blue team)
| Richard (blue team)
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 3
| 15 January
| A Frost Fight
| Angie (blue team) & Justin (red team)
| Justin (red team)
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 4
| 16 January
| Breakfast in Bed
| Jacqui & Justin (red team) and Justine & Natasha (blue team)
| Jacqui & Justin (red team)
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 5
| 17 January
| Basket Fall
| Luke (blue team) & Justin (red team)
| Luke (blue team)
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 6
| 20 January
| The Sunday Slam (1)
| Tahir (blue team) & Justin (red team)
| Tahir (blue team)
| None
|
|- style="background:lightgrey
| 7
| 21 January
| Tunnel Vision
| Shane & Justin
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| 2
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 8
| 22 January
| Meal of Fortune
| Justin, Dermott, Sam & Shane
|
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFaaaa
| 9
| 23 January
| Drop n' Pop
| Yvie & Angie
|
| 3
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 10
| 24 January
| Shocking Shopping
| Natasha, Luke, Justin & Richard
|
| None
|
|- style="background:#FFFF99
| 11
| 27 January
| The Sunday Slam (2)
| Justin & Jacqui
|
| 4
|
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalogic | Datalogic S.p.A. is an Italian company working in the automatic data capture and process automation markets. The group specializes in the design and production of barcode readers, mobile computers, radio-frequency identification, sensors for detection, measurement and safety, vision and laser marking systems. Datalogic products are used in many supermarkets and points of sale, at airports, at shipping and postal services, and in factories and hospitals worldwide.
In 2022 the company recorded sales of : Datalogic S.p.A. is listed on the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange as DAL.MI. since 2001.
History
Datalogic was founded in 1972 by Eng. Romano Volta in a room in the rectory of the parish in Quarto Inferiore, on the outskirts of Bologna, in Italy. Initially, production was centred on electronic devices, but soon the direction changed towards the design and production of photoelectric sensors for textile, ceramic and packaging industries. Due to the need for expansion, the plant was soon moved to the current site of Lippo di Calderara di Reno (BO).
The first scan of a barcode in a retail store took place on June 26, 1974. A pack of chewing gum was scanned in a store in Troy, Ohio with a "Magellan Model-A": the world's first fixed retail scanner was signed by Datalogic. Today, only two copies of the original scanner are still known to exist: one kept at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. and the other is currently exhibited in the museum at the entrance to one of the Datalogic business locations in Eugene, Oregon.
In 1984 a Datalogic barcode reader was used at Linate Airport to sort baggage, the first use of a barcode reader for this purpose The first RFID application in the world with use in a post office dates back to 1999, while in 2000 the Shopevolution™ middleware was born, the first self-shopping solution involving the use of a small handheld computer with integrated barcode reader.
On June 8, 2009, Romano Volta receives the "Premio Imprese per l'Innovazione” (Business Prize for Innovation) from the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano for the company's growth both in Italy and globally resulting from investing in innovative technologies and methods.
Chairman and CEO
On 1 January 2017, Valentina Volta became the CEO of Datalogic. Volta has a graduate degree in Business Economics from the University of Bologna with a master's degree in Management from the Harvard Business School of Boston (USA). Before her entry into Datalogic, Dr. Volta worked for over 10 years in the Ferrero Group, with managerial roles in sales and marketing.
Eng. Romano Volta, founder of the company, holds the office of Executive President. In 1997, Romano Volta received the Cavaliere del Lavoro (awarded by the President of the Italian Republic). Eng. Volta is President of Aczon S.r.l. (pharmaceutical research and biotechnology) and Hydra S.p.A.
Acquisitions
Over the years, Datalogic has acquired many subsidiary companies. These include: P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Awards | The 24th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 13, 2019, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2018. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Taye Diggs. The nominations were announced on December 10, 2018. HBO and Netflix co-led with 20 nominations, followed by FX with 16.
Winners and nominees
Film
#SeeHer Award
Claire Foy
Television
The Critics' Choice Creative Achievement Award
Chuck Lorre
Films with multiple nominations and wins
The following twenty-eight films received multiple nominations:
The following seven films received multiple awards:
Television programs with multiple nominations and wins
The following programs received multiple nominations:
The following programs received multiple awards:
References
External links
24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards – Winners
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
2018 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim%20Register%20of%20Marine%20and%20Nonmarine%20Genera | The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) is a taxonomic database which attempts to cover published genus names for all domains of life from 1758 in zoology (1753 in botany) up to the present, arranged in a single, internally consistent taxonomic hierarchy, for the benefit of Biodiversity Informatics initiatives plus general users of biodiversity (taxonomic) information. In addition to containing over 490,000 published genus name instances as at March 2020 (also including subgeneric names in zoology), the database holds over 1.7 million species names (1.3 million listed as "accepted"), although this component of the data is not maintained in as current or complete state as the genus-level holdings. IRMNG can be queried online for access to the latest version of the dataset and is also made available as periodic snapshots or data dumps for import/upload into other systems as desired.
Description
IRMNG contains scientific names (only) of the genera, a subset of species, and principal higher ranks of most plants, animals and other kingdoms, both living and extinct, within a standardized taxonomic hierarchy, with associated machine-readable information on habitat (e.g. marine/nonmarine) and extant/fossil status for the majority of entries. The database aspires to provide complete coverage of both accepted and unaccepted genus names across all kingdoms, with a subset only of species names included as a secondary activity. In its March 2020 release, IRMNG contained 492,620 genus names, of which 232,093 were listed as "accepted", 121,389 "unaccepted", 7,462 of "other" status i.e. interim unpublished, nomen dubium, nomen nudum, taxon inquirendum or temporary name, and 131,676 as "uncertain" (unassessed for taxonomic status at this time). The data originate from a range of (frequently domain-specific) print, online and database sources, including (among others) Nomenclator Zoologicus for animals and Index Nominum Genericorum for plants, and are reorganised into a common data structure to support a variety of online queries, generation of individual taxon pages, and bulk data supply to other biodiversity informatics projects. IRMNG content can be queried and displayed freely via the web, and download files of the data down to the taxonomic rank of genus as at specific dates are available in the Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) format. The data include homonyms (with their authorities), including both available (validly published) and selected unavailable names.
Estimates for "accepted names" as held at March 2020 are as follows, broken down by kingdom:
Animalia: 239,093 accepted genus names (± 55,350)
Plantae: 28,724 accepted genus names (± 7,721)
Fungi: 10,468 accepted genus names (± 182)
Chromista: 11,114 accepted genus names (± 1,268)
Protozoa: 3,109 accepted genus names (± 1,206)
Bacteria: 3,433 accepted genus names (± 115)
Archaea: 140 accepted genus names (± 0)
Viruses: 851 accepted genus names (± 0)
The cited ranges of uncer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH44 | Asian Highway 44 or AH44 is a route of the Sri Lankan highway network, running from Dambulla in Central Province to Trincomalee in Eastern Province. This route is composed of A6 Highway.
Route
AH44 runs across three provinces of Sri Lanka and it is composed of only A6 Highway. The route is in three segments on A6.
Dambulla - Habarana :
Habarana - Kantale :
Kantale - Trincomalee :
Junctions
at Dambulla
See also
AH43
List of Asian Highways
References
External links
Treaty on Asian Highways with routes
Asian Highway Network
Roads in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Plains%20Indian%20trading%20networks | The Great Plains Indian trading networks encountered by the first Europeans on the Great Plains were built on a number of trading centers acting as hubs in an advanced system of exchange over great distances. The primary centers were found at the villages of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, with a surplus of agricultural produce that could be exchanged. Secondary centers were found at the villages of the Pawnee, Kansa, and Osage on the central great plains, and at the Caddo villages on the southern plains. The Dakota rendezvous was an important annual trading fair among the Sioux. European demand for fur changed the relations of the plains, increased the occurrence of war, and displaced several Indian nations that were forced away by the Sioux coming from the east. On the northern plains, European trade lay in the hands of the Hudson's Bay Company, although most of the territory belonged to France, and later Spain. European trade on the central plains was controlled by French merchants, first from New Orleans, later from St. Louis. From the mid-1700s', the Comanche became an increasingly important military and commercial factor on the southern plains, forcing the Apaches into the mountains, and exchanging goods and spoils with the Southwestern trading networks hubs in New Mexico.
Geographical and tribal structure
The trading networks encountered by the first Europeans on the Great Plains were built on a number of trading centers acting as hubs in an advanced system of exchange over great distances. The major centers were found at the villages of sedentary peoples with a surplus of agricultural produce that could be exchanged. Treasured commodities such as marine shells, obsidian, and turquoise were transported thousands of miles from their origin.
The primary trading centers were found on the middle Missouri River, at the villages of the Mandans, Hidatsa, and Arikara. The central place of these villages in the exchange system was based on an advantageous geographical position combined with a surplus from agriculture and craft. Historical sources show that the Middle Missouri villages were visited by Cree, Assiniboine, Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Plains Apache, and Comanche. The Arikara villages were also frequented by the Sioux. South of the Arikara the Sioux gathered at the Dakota Rendezvous, an annual fair exchanging goods acquired from other Indian nations. The villages of the Pawnee, Kansa, and Osage were secondary centers on the central plains. On the southern plains, the Caddo villages formed important secondary centers whose westward exchange connected the Plains trading networks with the Southwestern trading networks.
Important middlemen in the exchange system were Assiniboine and Cree, who connected the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara trading centers with the Northern Plains, and with the forest peoples north of Lake Superior. The Sioux brought goods from the Dakota Rendezvous to the Arikara, while the Kansa acted as intermediarie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser%20%28software%29 | Eraser is an open-source secure file erasure tool available for the Windows operating system. It supports both file and volume wiping.
Eraser securely erases data by overwriting it such that the data is irrecoverable. It supports a variety of data destruction standards, including British HMG IS5 (Infosec Standard 5), American DoD 5220.22-M, and the Gutmann method which features a 35-pass overwrite.
The tool has been recommended in TechAdvisor, The Guardian, and PC World, and is a tool suggested by the United States government Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
See also
BleachBit
CCleaner
Data erasure
Shred (Unix)
References
External links
Official website
Documentation
Data erasure software
2003 software
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller%20Supplement%2011%3A%20Library%20Data%20%28N-Z%29 | Traveller Supplement 11: Library Data (N-Z) is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, published by Game Designers' Workshop.
Contents
Library Data (N-Z) is an encyclopedia of information about the Traveller universe.
Library Data (N-Z) is a sourcebook containing data on the worlds of the Imperium and its residents, and a region map of the Imperium.
Publication history
Library Data (N-Z) was written by John Harshman, Marc W. Miller, and Loren K. Wiseman for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1982 as a digest-sized 48-page book.
Thirteen Traveller supplements were published. A single collected volume was published by Far Future Enterprises in 2000.
Reception
William A. Barton reviewed Library Data (N-Z) in The Space Gamer No. 60. Barton commented that "Library Data (N-Z) should prove to be quite useful to any Traveller player or referee whose campaign is set in the official GDW universe."
Reviews
Different Worlds #30 (Sept., 1983)
See also
Traveller Supplement 8: Library Data (A-M)
Classic Traveller Supplements
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1982
Traveller (role-playing game) supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspera%20%28company%29 | Aspera is a data transport and streaming technology company that provides high-speed data transfer services. Aspera belongs to the hybrid cloud business unit of IBM.
History
Aspera was founded in 2004 by Michelle Munson and Serban Simu. Munson and Simu patented and Aspera developed FASP, a high-speed data transfer protocol, and software products based on FASP. IBM acquired Aspera in January 2014.
Aspera won a 2013 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development and a 2014 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for Secure Accelerated File Movement over IP including the Internet. The company received a Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Engineering Excellence Award for its Telestream Vantage with Lightspeed Live Capture product in 2018.
Patents
Aspera has been granted the following patents:
2005: Bulk data transfer technology.
2007: Methods and systems for aggregate bandwidth control.
2009: Practical models for high speed file delivery services, supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated service levels.
2010: Methods and systems for input and output driven rate adaptation.
2012: Multicast bulk transfer systems.
2015: Bulk data transfer and measuring the roundtrip time of requests and transmissions.
See also
List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM
References
External links
IBM acquisitions
IBM subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin%20Schnass | Karin Schnass (born 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck.
Education and career
Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger. She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design, and her doctoral advisor was Pierre Vandergheynst.
After postdoctoral research at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz (chosen over Stanford University to stay close to her family) and as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the University of Sassari and University of Innsbruck, she joined the Innsbruck Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in 2016.
Recognition
Schnass was a winner of the Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund in 2014. She was a keynote speaker at iTWIST 2016.
References
External links
Home page
1980 births
Living people
People from Klosterneuburg
Austrian women computer scientists
Austrian mathematicians
University of Vienna alumni
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck |
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