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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanalus%20Junction%20railway%20station | Kanalus Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Kanalus Junction railway station is 26 km from Jamnagar railway station. One Passenger and one Superfast train halt here.
Trains
The following Superfast trains halt at the Kanalus Junction railway station in both directions:
22945/46 Saurashtra Mail
See also
Jamnagar district
References
Railway stations in Jamnagar district
Rajkot railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katkola%20railway%20station | Katkola railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Katkola railway station is 40 km far away from Porbandar railway station. Passenger trains halt here.
References
See also
Jamnagar district
Railway stations in Jamnagar district
Bhavnagar railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungar%20Junction%20railway%20station | Dungar Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Dungar Junction railway station is 22 km away from Mahuva Junction railway station. Passenger trains halt here.
References
See also
Bhavnagar district
Railway stations in Bhavnagar district
Bhavnagar railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talala%20Junction%20railway%20station | Talala Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Talala Junction railway station is 25 km far away from Veraval Junction railway station. Passenger trains halt here.
Major trains
52929/52930 Amreli - Veraval MG Passenger (UnReserved)
52933/52946 Amreli - Veraval MG Passenger (UnReserved)
52949/52950 Delvada - Veraval MG Passenger (UnReserved)
52951/52952 Delvada - Junagadh MG Passenger (UnReserved)
References
Railway stations in Gir Somnath district
Bhavnagar railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodinar%20railway%20station | Kodinar railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Kodinar railway station is 70 km away from Veraval Junction railway station. Passenger trains halt here.
References
See also
Gir Somnath district
Railway stations in Gir Somnath district
Bhavnagar railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delvada%20railway%20station | Delvada railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Delvada railway station is 160 km far away from Junagadh Junction railway station. Passenger trains halt here.
Major trains
52949/52950 Delvada - Veraval MG Passenger (UnReserved)
52951/52952 Delvada - Junagadh MG Passenger (UnReserved)
References
See also
Gir Somnath district
Railway stations in Gir Somnath district
Bhavnagar railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Miglin | Marilyn Miglin ( Klecka; October 18, 1938 – March 14, 2022) was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and longtime host on the Home Shopping Network. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Makeovers".
Miglin garnered significant media attention as the widow of Lee Miglin, a business tycoon and philanthropist who was murdered in 1997 by the spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
Biography
Born Marilyn Janice Klecka in Chicago, Illinois to Frank & Helen Klecka, she was a model and dancer in Chicago.
Miglin started her beauty company and boutique in June 1963 on Oak Street, which grew to become a cosmetics empire. She created more than 36 fragrances and perfumes through Marilyn Miglin Cosmetics. She appeared on the Home Shopping Network for over 25 years, and her business's worth is estimated at over 50 million dollars. Miglin served on Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's special committee on tourism, as an officer of the Chicago Convention, the State of Illinois Board of Economic Development, and on the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Miglin was an advocate for individuals who are facially disfigured and burn survivors. She was a founding member of the University of Illinois' advisory board for the craniofacial center.
Personal life
In 1959, she married Lee Miglin. He was murdered on May 4, 1997, by the spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
At the time of Miglin's murder, the couple had been married for 38 years. They had two children: Marlena (born 1968) and actor Duke Miglin (born 1971). Miglin remarried two years after Lee's death, in 1999. Her second husband died only months after the wedding.
Honors
The City of Chicago designated "Marilyn Miglin Way" as the honorary name of Oak Street's shopping district.
Miglin was a recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award and the Best Face Forward Award. In 1998, the City of Chicago proclaimed April 15 as "Marilyn Miglin Day".
In popular culture
Miglin was portrayed by Judith Light in the 2018 miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Light garnered critical acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance.
Death
Marilyn Miglin died on March 14, 2022, at her home in Chicago surrounded by her family at the age of 83 from complications of a stroke.
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1938 births
2022 deaths
People from Plzeň
Czech emigrants to the United States
Businesspeople from Chicago
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
American cosmetics businesspeople
American people of Czech descent
People associated with direct selling
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Experience%20%28season%2031%29 | Season thirty-one of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 15, 2019 and concluded on September 10, 2019. The season contained seven new episodes and began with the film The Swamp.
Episodes
References
2019 American television seasons
American Experience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahinsara%20Junction%20railway%20station | Dahinsara Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Dahinsara Junction railway station is 27 km from Morbi railway station. Passenger trains halt here. Navlakhi Port is well connected to Dahinsara Junction by rail.
See also
Morbi district
References
Railway stations in Morbi district
Rajkot railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranuj%20Junction%20railway%20station | Ranuj Junction railway station is a railway station in Patan district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Ranuj Junction railway station is 13 km from . Passenger and DEMU trains halt here.
References
Railway stations in Patan district
Ahmedabad railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroj%20railway%20station | Detroj railway station is a railway station in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Detroj railway station is 29 km far away from . Passenger trains halt here.
Detroj has a car-stacking facility that serves a nearby Maruti Suzuki India factory.
References
Railway stations in India opened in 1908
Railway stations in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambliyasan%20Junction%20railway%20station | Ambliyasan Junction railway station is a railway station in Mahesana district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Ambliyasan Junction railway station is 17 km away from . Passenger, DEMU trains halt here. Ambliyasan Junction railway station is well connected by MG Rail bus to .
References
Railway stations in Mahesana district
Ahmedabad railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petlad%20Junction%20railway%20station | Petlad Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Petlad Junction railway station is 21 km far away from Anand railway station. Passenger, DEMU trains halt at Petlad Junction railway station.
See also
Anand district
References
Railway stations in Anand district
Vadodara railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochasan%20Junction%20railway%20station | Bochasan Junction railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Passenger trains halt at Bochasan Junction railway station.
Major trains
Following trains halt at Bochasan Junction railway station in both direction:
59101/02 Kathana–Vadodara Passenger
59103/04 Kathana–Vadodara Passenger
See also
Anand district
References
Railway stations in Anand district
Vadodara railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathana%20railway%20station | Kathana railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Passenger trains start from Kathana railway station. Kathana railway station is connected by rail to and .
Major Trains
Following trains start from Kathana railway station:
59101/02 Kathana - Vadodara Passenger
References
See also
Anand district
Railway stations in Anand district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khambhat%20railway%20station | Khambhat railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. DEMU trains start from Khambhat railway station. Khambhat railway station is well connected by rail to .
Six trains pass Khambhat station most days of the week.
References
See also
Anand district
Railway stations in Anand district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorable%20explanation | An explorable explanation (often shortened to explorable) is a form of informative media where an interactive computer simulation of a given concept is presented, along with some form of guidance (usually prose) that suggests ways that the audience can learn from the simulation. Explorable explanations encourage users to discover things about the concept for themselves, and test their expectations of its behaviour against its actual behaviour, promoting a more active form of learning than reading or listening.
Definition
The term "explorable explanation" was first used in passing by Peter Brusilovsky in a 1994 paper, but did not enter into common use until 2011, when Bret Victor published an eponymous essay (the essay included an explorable explanation of a digital filter). Victor distinguishes explorable explanations from isolated interactive widgets and visualizations by the fact that they deliberately guide the attention of their audience towards particular phenomena within the simulation. In characterizing the concept, Victor explains:
Some of the ideas Victor espoused in the essay occurred to him while during work with Al Gore on the app version of the 2009 book Our Choice. He had proposed that the app should contain interactive models, but this idea was rejected on the basis that all numerical values proposed regarding climate change needed to have a citation, and the interactive models would generate un-cited numbers.
The term has since also been characterized as being about learning through play. The related term "active essays" was used by Alan Kay to refer to text-based explorable explanations, and a major goal of Squeak (the precursor to Scratch) was to allow for the creation of them.
A few video games may be considered explorable explanations. For example, Sim City uses a complex city simulation that is intended to present issues that appear in real-world urban planning. Many other games in the simulation genre have a similar intention, although with many it is not a necessity that the simulation be scientifically accurate. In the puzzle genre, games such as Incredipede also involve interacting with systems with the intention of learning. Video games may not involve explanatory text or narration.
Educational video games have an overlap with explorable explanations. They are similar in that both involve a computer simulation that is visualized, and both have the intended goal that the audience learns something. However, in an educational video game, the simulation is not necessarily a simulation of the game's intended learning content. Instead, learning content in educational video games is usually put in a non-interactive form such as text or voiceover; the educational game then usually has some schedule whereby the audience alternates between seeing the text and, separately, playing a game, usually a game with mechanics from a standard genre, such as a platformer.
Explorable explanations are also distinct from gamification, w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection%20No.%201 | Collection #1 is the name of a set of email addresses and passwords that appeared on the dark web around January 2019. The database contains over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, resulting in more than 2.7 billion email/password pairs. The list, reviewed by computer security experts, contains exposed addresses and passwords from over 2000 previous data breaches as well as an estimated 140 million new email addresses and 10 million new passwords from previously unknown sources, and collectively makes it the largest data breach on the Internet.
Collection #1 was discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of "Have I Been Pwned?," a website that allows users to search their email addresses and passwords to know if either has appeared in a known data breach. The database had been briefly posted to Mega in January 2019, and links to the database posted in a popular hacker forum. Hunt discovered that the offering contained 87 gigabytes of data across 12,000 files. Not only was this discovery of concern to Hunt, but he further found that the passwords were available in plaintext format rather than in their hashed version. This implied that the creators of this database had been able to successfully crack the hashes of these passwords from weak implementation of hashing algorithms. Security researchers noted that unlike other username/password lists which are usually sold on the dark web, Collection #1 was temporarily available at no cost, and could potentially be used by a larger number of malicious agents, primarily for credential stuffing.
By January 30, 2019, security researchers observed that similar sets of data, named Collections #2 through #5, have been seen for sale on the dark web. Collections #2-5 included over 845 gigabytes of data, with a total of 25 billion email/password records. Security researchers at Hasso Plattner Institute estimated that Collections #2-5, after removing duplicates, has about three times as much data as Collection #1. Many of the email/password pairs in the collection were found to be from previous breaches including the Yahoo! data breaches, and breaches from LinkedIn and Dropbox.
Arrests
According to threat intelligence firm IntSights, Collection #1 through #5 had been compiled by a hacker known as Sanix; however, the data was leaked online by a rival data broker known as Azatej. Both hackers were arrested in May 2020. Azatej was arrested in Poland, and Sanix in Ukraine.
References
Data breaches
Database security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Informatix%20Cyber%20Security | World Informatix Cyber Security is an organisation focusing on the cyber security aspect of developing countries. The primary focus of the organisation is to work with Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication aka SWIFT as part of their customer security platform and to perform incident response in case of security breaches. The company caught attention for handling the high-profile case of the Bangladesh Bank robbery.
Activities
The company handled the high-profile case of the Bangladesh Bank robbery. The organisation assisted and advised the bank to make remediation measures post-breach. World Informatix Cyber Security later brought in FireEye to perform forensic analysis of the heist.
World Informatix has also been involved in numerous incident response, breach and remediation projects for Central Banks, Financial Institutions and NGOs.
References
Computer security companies
Companies with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhatiya%20railway%20station | Bhatiya railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Bhatiya railway station is 42 km far away from Khambhalia railway station. Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt at Bhatiya railway station.
Major trains
Following Express/Superfast trains halt at Bhatiya railway station in both direction:
19251/52 Okha - Somnath Express
16733/34 Okha - Rameswaram Express
22945/46 Okha - Mumbai Central Saurashtra Mail
19565/66 Okha - Dehradun Uttaranchal Express
References
See also
Devbhumi Dwarka district
Railway stations in Devbhoomi Dwarka district
Rajkot railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20corporate%20debt | The following list sorts countries by nonfinancial corporate debt as percentage of GDP according to data by the International Monetary Fund.
* indicates "Economy of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
See also
List of countries by external debt
List of countries by household debt
List of countries by government debt
Global debt
References
Corporate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/123Movies | 123Movies, GoMovies, GoStream, MeMovies or 123movieshub was a network of file streaming websites operating from Vietnam which allowed users to watch films for free. It was called the world's "most popular illegal site" by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in March 2018, before being shut down a few weeks later on foot of a criminal investigation by the Vietnamese authorities. , websites imitating the brand remain active.
Development
The site went through several name changes after being shut down from different domains; sometimes the name appeared as "123Movies", and other times as "123movies". The original name, and URL, was 123movies.to, which changed to other domains including 123movies.is before redirecting to gomovies.to and later gomovies.is. It was changed to gostream.is, and then to memovies.to, before changing to 123movieshub.to/is and remaining there until shutdown.
In October 2016, the MPAA listed 123Movies in its Online Notorious Markets overview to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), stating that: "The site has a global Alexa rank of 559 and a local rank of 386 in the U.S. 123movies.to had 9.26 million worldwide unique visitors in August 2016 according to SimilarWeb data". In October 2016, Business Insider reported that 123movies.to was the "most-used pirate website" in the United Kingdom.
123Movies included HD, HD-RIP, Blu-ray and camera qualities of films. The video hosters and players it used included Openload, Streamango, and MyCloud. During its existence and shutdown period, the site was covered by TorrentFreak regarding its features, uptime/downtime, shutdown, and reasons for shutdown.
In December 2017, the creators of 123movies launched another streaming site dedicated to anime, named AnimeHub.to, which remained online for months after 123Movies's shutdown.
Shutdown
In March 2017, TorrentFreak reported that the US ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, had been in talks with the local Minister of Information and Communications, Truong Minh Tuan, about shutting down illegal video streaming sites operating from Vietnam, and listed 123movies as one specific site.
In October 2017, the MPAA listed 123Movies (and GoStream.is) in its Online Notorious Markets overview to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, stating that while the site was technically hosted from Ukraine that: "The site takes numerous steps to hide the identity of the
operator, including using Cloudflare, but there is strong reason to believe the operator is still in Vietnam; content is uploaded using cyberlockers from numerous email accounts originating from Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy".
In March 2018, the MPAA said that the site was the "most popular illegal site in the world", stated it was operated from Vietnam and estimated that it received 98 million visitors per month. On 19 March 2018, a note on the site's home page announced its shutdown, and urged users to "respect filmmakers by p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages%20of%20War | Wages of War is a video game developed by American studio Random Games and published by New World Computing and 3DO for Windows.
Gameplay
Wages of War is a turn-based combat game at squad-level, in which players send mercenaries on dangerous missions.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the arcade version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Wages of War has its moments, but overall it is an average title that adds little but a Windows 95 interface to the genre of turn-based, squad-level combat."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World #153 (Apr 1997)
GameSpot - Dec 19, 1996
Pelit - Feb, 1997
PC Player (Germany) - Dec, 1996
References
1996 video games
New World Computing games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettering%20the%20Evaluation%20and%20Care%20of%20Health | Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) is a system established in April 1988 by the Australian Department of Health in order to "provide a reliable and valid data collection process for general practice".
It fulfils the first of the General Practice Statistics and Classification Unit (GPSCU)'s objectives, namely to fill the void existing in 1997 in data about general practice.
After 18 years of data collection from 1998 to 2016, BEACH contained almost 1.8 million GP-patient encounter records,
and was described by the University of Sydney as "the most valid, reliable GP dataset in Australia", "proven to be nationally representative of patients at all Medicare-claimed GP services".
At this point, data collection had ceased, but the resource is maintained by the University of Sydney, to which requests for analysis of any topic should be directed.
BEACH data describe GP-patient encounters, with data linkages between indication and patient management,
making them suitable for research into primary healthcare delivery or specific health problems, and to inform pricing and strategy.
According to the website:
The program has generated or contributed to several hundred academic publications and grant applications. It has provided data and reports to industry, government and not-for-profit organisations. It has been used to support health system planning, policy development, development of educational material and to inform marketing and pricing business decisions.
References
External links
Webpage (with contact details): https://sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/our-research/research-centres/bettering-the-evaluation-and-care-of-health.html
Health policy in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo%20TV | Cleo TV (stylized as CLEOTV) is an American cable television network owned by Urban One. The network serves young millennial and Generation X African American women, and serves as a complement to TV One. The network officially launched on January 19, 2019, after a week-long soft-launch period highlighting its programming offerings. At launch, Comcast Xfinity and Charter Spectrum served as the network's main debut base.
The network's programming is mainly made up of lifestyle programming, syndicated sitcoms and dramas, and Black film telecasts.
References
External links
Official website
TV One (American TV channel)
Urban One
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2019
African-American television
African-American television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Goldenberg | Anna Goldenberg is a Russian-born computer scientist and a full professor at University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, a senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute and the Associate Research Director for health at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is the first chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence at the Hospital for Sick Children.
Early life and education
As a young child born and raised in Voronezh, Russia, Goldenberg faced antisemitism in school. Eventually, in 1995, when she was 17 years old, Goldenberg's family left Russia and moved to Kentucky, U.S.A. There, Goldenberg completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree, in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, at the University of Louisville.
Goldenberg completed a Master's in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, followed by a PhD in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where her thesis explored scalable graphical models for social networks. While in graduate school, Goldenberg was close with Joyce Feinberg - who was later one of 11 victims killed in the Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue shooting in October 2018.
Research career
Goldenberg moved to Canada in 2008 as a post-doctoral fellow. She is currently appointed as an associate professor at University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics and a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute. Her laboratory explores how machine learning can be used to map the heterogeneity seen in various human diseases - specifically to develop methodologies to identify patterns in collected data and improve patient outcomes. She has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Similarity Network Fusion, a networking method devised by her research group is the first data integration method developed to integrate patient data which improved survival outcome predictions in different cancers. She has an h-index of 17, and her research has been cited over 2,000 times.
In 2017, Goldenberg was appointed as a new Tier 2 CIHR-funded Canada Research Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Toronto.
On 15 January 2019, Goldenberg was named the first chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence at the Hospital for Sick Children, which is the first of its kind to exist in a Canadian children's hospital. This position is partially funded by a $1.75 million donation from Amar Varma (a Toronto entrepreneur whose newborn son underwent surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children).
Selected bibliography
Anna Goldenberg, Galit Shmueli, Richard A Caruana, Stephen E Fienberg. Early statistical detection of anthrax outbreaks by tracking over-the-counter medication sales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2002.
Anna Goldenberg, Alice X Zheng, Stephen E Fienberg, Edoardo M Airoldi. A survey of statistical network models. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROSPERO | The International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews, better known as PROSPERO, is an open access online database of systematic review protocols on a wide range of topics. While it was initially restricted to medicine, , it also accepts protocols in criminology, social care, education and international development, as long as there is a health-related outcome. Researchers can choose to have their reviews prospectively registered with PROSPERO. The database is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York in England, and it is funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Registration of systematic reviews in the database has been supported by PLoS Medicine, BioMed Central, the EQUATOR Network, and BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee, among others.
History
After the PRISMA statement was published in 2010, the University of York responded to its recommendation for prospective systematic review registration by beginning development of an online database of systematic reviews. The resulting PROSPERO database was launched in February 2011 by Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health. It was simultaneously launched at a Vancouver, Canada meeting organized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that month. By October 2011, the database included 200 records of systematic reviews that were being conducted at the time. In October 2013, the Cochrane Collaboration began automatically including protocols of its systematic reviews in PROSPERO. By October 10, 2017, the number of registered reviews in the database had increased to 26,535.
Responses
In 2017, concern was raised that some protocols in PROSPERO could be "zombie reviews" for which the protocol had been registered, but its record in the database had not been updated to indicate that it had been completed. Andrade et al. showed that only 7% of all reviews registered in PROSPERO from 2011 to 2015 had since been marked as "completed". These authors suggested that many of these reviews were either abandoned, meaning they had not been completed or published, or, if they had been completed, had not had their PROSPERO record updated to reflect this. Sideri et al. (2018) showed that orthodontics-related systematic reviews that were registered in PROSPERO were on average of higher methodological quality than those not so registered. Proportion of registration in systems other than PROSPERO in the systematic review protocol is 1% from 2011 to 2020.
References
External links
Databases in England
English websites
Health in Yorkshire
Internet properties established in 2011
Medical databases in the United Kingdom
Online databases
Systematic review
Organisations associated with the University of York
2011 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef%20And%20Dairy%20Network%20Podcast | Beef And Dairy Network Podcast is a monthly comedy podcast, which began in July 2015. It is written, produced and hosted by comedian Benjamin Partridge who plays the host of a fictional industry podcast for the beef and dairy industries.
In 2016, the podcast joined the Maximum Fun podcast network.
In 2017 and 2018, ten episodes were acquired for broadcast by BBC Radio 4, which was notable as the first time that the station had bought the repeat rights for an existing podcast.
Format
Podcast
It describes itself as "the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested, in the production of beef animals and dairy herds" and consists of fictional interviews, spoof adverts, fictional letters from listeners, and documentary features. The show is a surrealist comedy played straight, and features a number of ongoing storylines, such as the search for (and government cover-up of) a "fifth meat" and the many ventures of disgraced slaughterhouse owner Eli Roberts.
Live Show
There have been live show versions of the podcast, at Kings Place in London in 2017 and 2022 and in 2019 at London Southbank Centre.
Guests
Partridge is joined by different guests each week, playing various characters from the beef and dairy industries. Guests have included Nick Offerman, Greg Davies, Josie Long, Henry Paker, Andy Daly, Kevin Eldon, Mike Wozniak and Katy Wix.
Reception
The Guardian named it one of the top 50 best podcasts of 2016, and also as one of the top 50 comedy podcasts of 2021. The Observer called it a "lovely, funny show." The Daily Telegraph wrote, "It's the ramrod straight delivery that makes The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast by far the best audio comedy around". The A.V. Club wrote "When dealing with the absurd, few things help heighten comedy quite like commitment, something that Beef And Dairy does better than most."
Gilly Smith called the podcast a "cult classic" in a book about starting podcasting.
The podcast won Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards in 2017 and 2018. the Beef and Dairy Network's unofficial Facebook group has 1.3 thousand members.
Episodes
References
External links
2015 podcast debuts
Audio podcasts
Comedy podcasts
Maximum Fun
British podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Craig%20of%20the%20Creek%20episodes | Craig of the Creek is an American animated television series created by Matt Burnett and Ben Levin for Cartoon Network. The show's pilot episode premiered on the Cartoon Network app on December 1, 2017, and the first episode of its first season ("Itch to Explore") was previewed there on February 19, 2018, before officially premiering on Cartoon Network on March 30 of that year, alongside its second episode ("You're It"). The season consisted of 40 episodes of 11 minutes each and concluded on March 11, 2019.
The second season ran from March 18, 2019, until June 11, 2020, and totaled 38 episodes, of which two ("The Other Side" and "Craig and the Kid's Table") are double-length. The third season premiered with a double-length episode ("The Other Side: The Tournament") on June 21, 2020. The fourth season premiered with a special episode ("The Legend of the Library"). Additionally, five shorts were aired in late 2019.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2017)
Season 1 (2018–19)
Season 2 (2019–20)
Season 3 (2020–21)
Season 4 (2021–23)
Season 5 (2023)
Shorts (2019)
On the streaming services Max and Hulu, these shorts are combined to make an episode titled "Creek Shorts," listed under season 3. They also take up the production code of one entire Craig episode.
Notes
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Korpela | Eric Korpela is a research astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, He is the director of the SETI@home project, a distributed computing project that was launched in 1999 to use individuals computers to analyze data collected in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Korpela notes that with modern-day mobile devices having greater capacities than personal computers did in 1999, SETI@home has developed an Android app to analyze data gathered by the Breakthrough Listen SETI project.
Scientific work
Korpela is known for his assessment of putative signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. He was skeptical about the claim that 234 signals detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey may be from extraterrestrial intelligence, suggesting instead that this may be due to instrumental effects or the method by which the data was analyzed. When a radio signal was detected from the vicinity of the star HD 164595 that some interpreted as a possible signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, Korpela was skeptical, noting "there's really nothing about this 'signal' that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient." Korpela said he was unimpressed by this signal, observing that SETI@home had detected millions of similar signals in the past. He suggested the signal could not be differentiated from signals generated by space-based human technologies, adding "there's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view." In reviewing criteria for a more credible signal from extraterrestrial intelligence than the signal from HD 164595, Korpela said that a credible signal would be detectable from two telescopes on two continents, with the best candidate signals originating from a single point in space. Signals from extraterrestrial intelligence should also be continuous, he suggested.
Looking to future best practices for announcing possible detection of extraterrestrial intelligence, Korpela argued that putative detections should be confirmed by another telescope before being reported to the public. He also advocated the use of the Rio Scale to give "some realism" to possible detections. If a signal is confirmed to be from extraterrestrial intelligence, he advocates not replying without a decision by the world community.
According to Korpela, among the promising targets for future SETI searches are TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima b.
Korpela suggested that extraterrestrial intelligence may be motivated to contact humans because they may have evolved to be curious.
Most cited papers
Related to SDETI
DP Anderson, J Cobb, E Korpela, M Lebofski et al. (2002) SETI@ home: an experiment in public-resource computing - Communications of the ACM, 2002 45: p. 56-61. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 2001 times
E Korpela, D Werthimer, D Anderson, J Cobb, M Lebofsky (2001) SETI@ home—massively distributed computing for SETI. Computing in science & engineering 3 (1), 78-83 Ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Bedrooms | Five Bedrooms is an Australian comedy-drama television series, which first screened on Network 10. The eight part series premiered on 15 May 2019, at 8:40 pm. In the United States, the series started streaming on Peacock on April 15, 2020.
In October 2019, the drama was renewed for a second season by 10 which was set premiere in 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second season was rescheduled to air in 2021 instead. In May 2021, the Australian broadcast of the series was announced to be moving from Network 10 to the 10 affiliated streaming service, Paramount+. Filming of the fourth season began in Melbourne in September 2022.
Synopsis
Five Bedrooms tells the story of five people at different times of their lives. They bond after they find themselves seated together at the singles table at a wedding. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a house together; a five bedroom house.
Production
In January 2019, it was announced Roy Joseph, Doris Younane, Katie Robertson, Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Kate Jenkinson and Hugh Sheridan had been cast in the new drama. In July 2021, it was announced that Rodger Corser would join the cast of the second season to guest star as Stuart, Liz's ex-husband. In October 2019, the drama was renewed for a second season by Network 10 which began filming in February 2020 before the production was closed down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second season's production resumed filming between June and July 2020. On 6 May 2021, it was announced the series moved to Paramount+, and that the second season premiered on 11 August 2021, coinciding with the Australian re-branding of 10 All Access to Paramount+. In October 2020, it was announced that a third season had been renewed which began filming in August 2021. It premiered on New Year's Day 2022. In May 2022, it was announced that a fourth season had been renewed which would begin filming in October 2022.
Cast
Main cast
Kat Stewart as Liz Wendell
Stephen Peacocke as Ben Chigwell
Doris Younane as Heather Doyle
Katie Robertson as Ainsley Elling
Roy Joseph as Harpreet "Harry" Sethi
Hugh Sheridan as Lachlan Best (seasons 1–2, season 4)
Johnny Carr as Kevin "Simmo" Fitzsimons (seasons 3–4; recurring seasons 1–2)
Recurring cast
Episodes
Series overview
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Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2021)
Season 3 (2022)
Season 4 (2023)
Ratings
Season 1
International broadcast
Five Bedrooms was shown on BBC One from 10 March 2020, and was the fifth Australian drama to be broadcast on the BBC after Out of the Blue, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, A Place to Call Home and 800 Words since the broadcasting rights of Neighbours went to Channel 5 in 2008. Five Bedrooms airs on Peacock in the United States. It was also shown on RTP2 in Portugal and began airing on W Network in Canada in 2021. It began airing on RTÉ2 in the Republic of Ireland in July 2021, season two aired from November 2021 and seas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kumon is an educational network and a teaching method created by the Japanese educator Toru Kumon (1914–1995). It may also refer to
Kumon Leysin Academy of Switzerland, an associated school
Hiroaki Kumon (born 1966), Japanese football player
Katsuhiko Kumon (born 1992), Japanese baseball player
See also
Camon (disambiguation)
Kamon (disambiguation)
Japanese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Frieze | Carol Frieze works in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as director of the Women@SCS and SCS4ALL professional organizations.
She is co-author of a book on the successful efforts to attract and retain women in computing at Carnegie Mellon, where women represented 50% of the incoming class to the computer science major in fall 2018. She has been recognized by the A. Nico Habermann Award of the Computing Research Association and the AccessComputing Capacity Building Award.
Education and career
Frieze studied English literature for a while at the University of London before moving into cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon, eventually earning her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Cultural Studies in Computer Science. Her 2007 dissertation, The critical role of culture and environment as determinants of women's participation in computer science,
was supervised by Lenore Blum.
She has taught at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital School in England and in the English department at Carnegie Mellon before coming to work for the School of Computer Science.
Women@SCS, one of the organizations Frieze directs at Carnegie Mellon, is based on the guiding premise of leveling the playing field, working to ensure that women receive the same social, networking, mentoring, and professional opportunities, that are more readily available to the majority male peers. She also works on diversity and inclusion through BiasBusters@CMU, an academic interactive program aiming to raise awareness of bias and mitigate the harmful effects of unconscious bias on campus.
Books
With Jeria Quesenberry, Frieze is a co-author of the book Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University (Dog Ear Publishing, 2015). The book describes Carnegie Mellon's successful work to attract and retain female students in Carnegie Mellon's computer science major by focusing on the culture of computing rather than by making changes to the computer science curriculum.
Frieze and Quesenberry are co-editors of the book Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World, Cambridge University Press, 2020. This collection of global perspectives challenges the view that men are more suited to computing fields than women, a belief often perpetuated as an explanation for women’s low participation in computing in the USA. By providing an insider look at how different cultures from all continents around the world impact the experiences of women in computing, the book introduces readers to theories and evidence that support the need to turn to cultural and environmental factors, rather than innate potential, to understand what determines women’s participation in computing. The book is a wakeup call to examine the obstacles and catalysts within various cultures and environments that help determine women's participation in this rapidly growing field.
Recognition
Frieze won the A. Nico Habermann Award of the Computing Research A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Marimar%20%282007%20TV%20series%29%20characters | This is a List of Marimar characters from the Marimar (2007 TV series), a Filipino drama television series created by Inés Rodena, developed by Dode Cruz and produced by GMA Network. The series premiered on August 13, 2007, on the network's prime time block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The series concluded on March 19, 2008, with a total of 155 episodes. The lead stars are Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes, and the villain Katrina Halili.
Main characters
Marimar Perez-Santibañez / Bella Aldama / Marimar Aldama-Santibañez
Portrayed by Marian Rivera. Marimar is simple and innocent and was Angelika's former best friend. Her adoptive grandparents raised her well. Her life was happy until she met Sergio, the man who changed her life. She married Sergio but his jealous stepmother and arrogant father made Marimar's life miserable as hell. She was framed up and was shot by a gun but was able survived until she met a rich businessman and she agrees to work as a maid in Aldama Mansion and changed her name to Bella. Esperanza, the cruel and violent sister of Gustavo made Marimar's life in the mansion a living hell like what Sergio's stepmother did to Marimar. However, later, when Esperanza and Marimar became friends, another evil being named Natalia had stepped in the house of Aldama where she pretends the long lost daughter of Gustavo, however Esperanza is suspicious on her identity and didn't like her because of her cruel and bratty attitude, until Bella remembers that she is the real daughter of Gustavo, this made Natalia to become more evil and murderous as she hostages her and Cruzita until she got shot by the authorities. Gustavo died because of this incident and after few years, the simple Marimar turns into a heartless and scheming woman. She even planned to fool Angelika, Renato, and Sergio. The mosf famous scene is where Marimar made Angelika get the key in the mud by using her mouth and kicking her out like what Angelika did to her before. But Angelika will not let Marimar fool her again so she will stop at nothing to make her dead. In the finale, she survived all the latter's evil deeds and lived happily ever after. She is the main protagonist of the series.
Sergio Santibañez
Portrayed by Dingdong Dantes. A handsome and rich but a certified playboy. He uses Marimar and marries her to make his stepmother jealous. He goes to Macau to pursue his dream of becoming a professional racer, unfortunately he was clueless about Angelika's manipulation and ruthless torture to Marimar. After he heard the news of Marimar's death, he was devastated and dumped Kim. He attended a party and was shocked to see a girl named Bella Aldama's face and personality as well. He started to stalk Bella and will not stop to search the latter's identity. Until, the merciless Bella said the truth that she is Marimar and will stop at nothing to accomplish her revenge plans. At first Bella orders Innocencia to take Cruzita away from Sergio but was soon enough, Sergio and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waifu2x | waifu2x is an image scaling and noise reduction program for anime-style art and other types of photos.
waifu2x was inspired by Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN). It uses Nvidia CUDA for computing, although alternative implementations that allow for OpenCL and Vulkan have been created.
Etymology
Waifu (from the Japanese pronunciation of "wife") is anime slang for a female character to whom one is attracted.
2x means two-times magnification.
Example
See also
Comparison gallery of image scaling algorithms
References
External links
Image processing
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20external%20memory | In computer science, a parallel external memory (PEM) model is a cache-aware, external-memory abstract machine. It is the parallel-computing analogy to the single-processor external memory (EM) model. In a similar way, it is the cache-aware analogy to the parallel random-access machine (PRAM). The PEM model consists of a number of processors, together with their respective private caches and a shared main memory.
Model
Definition
The PEM model is a combination of the EM model and the PRAM model. The PEM model is a computation model which consists of processors and a two-level memory hierarchy. This memory hierarchy consists of a large external memory (main memory) of size and small internal memories (caches). The processors share the main memory. Each cache is exclusive to a single processor. A processor can't access another’s cache. The caches have a size which is partitioned in blocks of size . The processors can only perform operations on data which are in their cache. The data can be transferred between the main memory and the cache in blocks of size .
I/O complexity
The complexity measure of the PEM model is the I/O complexity, which determines the number of parallel blocks transfers between the main memory and the cache. During a parallel block transfer each processor can transfer a block. So if processors load parallelly a data block of size form the main memory into their caches, it is considered as an I/O complexity of not . A program in the PEM model should minimize the data transfer between main memory and caches and operate as much as possible on the data in the caches.
Read/write conflicts
In the PEM model, there is no direct communication network between the P processors. The processors have to communicate indirectly over the main memory. If multiple processors try to access the same block in main memory concurrently read/write conflicts occur. Like in the PRAM model, three different variations of this problem are considered:
Concurrent Read Concurrent Write (CRCW): The same block in main memory can be read and written by multiple processors concurrently.
Concurrent Read Exclusive Write (CREW): The same block in main memory can be read by multiple processors concurrently. Only one processor can write to a block at a time.
Exclusive Read Exclusive Write (EREW): The same block in main memory cannot be read or written by multiple processors concurrently. Only one processor can access a block at a time.
The following two algorithms solve the CREW and EREW problem if processors write to the same block simultaneously.
A first approach is to serialize the write operations. Only one processor after the other writes to the block. This results in a total of parallel block transfers. A second approach needs parallel block transfers and an additional block for each processor. The main idea is to schedule the write operations in a binary tree fashion and gradually combine the data into a single block. In the first roun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowville%20railway%20line | The Rowville railway line is a proposed extension to the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. The line was first proposed by the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan, and a variety of studies have been conducted into its feasibility and possible routes, but no construction work has been undertaken. Major obstacles to the line's construction include the proposed connection to the existing Dandenong corridor, one of the busiest in Melbourne, and the lack of a protected reservation in which to build the line. As a consequence, various alternative proposals for providing mass public transport to the Rowville area have also been proposed, although none have yet been constructed.
Background
Rowville is a primarily residential suburb of Melbourne approximately from the Central Business District. It forms part of the City of Knox local government area. The main Clayton campus of Monash University is nearby, designated as a major suburban employment cluster in the Melbourne 2030 development plan.
Stations on the Lilydale, Glen Waverley and Dandenong lines are within of Rowville and the university, but the area is described by local residents as a "black hole" for public transport due to a lack of coordinated or high-frequency bus services.
History
The 1969 Transportation Plan recommended three significant extensions to the suburban rail network: a Doncaster railway line; a connection from Frankston to Dandenong and a semi-orbital line from the Dandenong line near Huntingdale to the Belgrave line near Ferntree Gully via the Rowville area.
A study conducted by consultants for the government of Premier Jeff Kennett in the late 1990s to examine alternatives to the Scoresby Freeway investigated an extension of the Glen Waverley line to the Rowville area. It estimated the cost at $326 million but found patronage would be too low to justify the outlay.
The 2012 Rowville Rail Study studied the possibility of a rail link to Rowville. The first stage of the report was released in March 2012, and found that congestion on the Glen Waverley line, Belgrave line and Pakenham line would reduce if the rail link were constructed. It proposed stations at Huntingdale, Monash University, Mulgrave, Waverley Park, EastLink (possible future station) and Rowville.
In 2013, the railway line was brought up again in the PTV Network Development Plan. Including a new railway station at Monash University, this project will be expected to carry out in stage 3 of the plan. By the 2020s, the proposal was known as Monash Rail.
In October 2022, the newly-elected federal Labor government withdrew funding for the project in its budget. The cutting of funds would later be one of Liberal's election campaign points against Labor for the Aston by-election in April 2023.
In the early 2020s, a similar trackless tram proposal, the Caulfield-Rowville Trackless Rapid Transit (TRT) was jointly proposed by Monash University and Vicinity Centres and would run along Dandenong Road, Fer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBlocks | NetBlocks is a watchdog organization that monitors cybersecurity and the governance of the Internet. The service was launched in 2017 to monitor Internet freedom.
Work
Projects
NetBlocks publishes original reporting on Internet governance and sustainable energy, providing tools to the public to observe possible Internet restrictions and to estimate the economic consequences of network disruptions. NetBlocks has established a high level of trust in communities around the world, facilitating the spread of information during emergencies and Internet censorship events, according to peer-reviewed research published in the scientific journal Nature.
Events
On 25 November 2017, NetBlocks and the Digital Rights Foundation provided information about the nationwide censorship of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media services by the Pakistani government following the Tehreek-e-Labaik protests.
During the 2018–2019 Sudanese protests, NetBlocks stated that the Sudanese government maintains "an extensive Internet censorship regime" following the censorship of social media websites in the country. Following the 2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt, NetBlocks monitored censorship in the country. The cost of the three-day Internet shutdown following the Zimbabwean fuel protests was also calculated to cost Zimbabwe an estimated $17 million.
The block of Wikipedia in Venezuela and other censorship incidents during the Venezuelan presidential crisis were also monitored by NetBlocks, with several international media outlets covering the situation with NetBlocks' work.
In July 2020, as the Somalian Parliament passed a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, NetBlocks reported that Internet access had been disrupted impeding media coverage of political and public reactions to events on the ground, presenting evidence contradicting network operator Hormuud Telecom's claim that the outage was due to "windy conditions."
From February 2022, NetBlocks set up a reporting initiative providing extensive coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, documenting Russian efforts to disable communications at nuclear sites and in conflict zones.
References
Internet censorship
Information technology organizations
Organizations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisscows | Swisscows is a web search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland. It uses semantic data recognition that gives faster answers to queries and claims to not store users' data. Swisscows also deems itself family-friendly, with explicit results entirely omitted. The engine's servers are based in underground data centers under the Swiss Alps, and geographically outside of EU and US.
Swisscows uses Bing for web search, but has also built its own index for the German language edition. It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.
History
Swisscows was founded in 2014 by Andreas Wiebe.
As of 2018, there were 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.
In January 2021, the company launched TeleGuard, a messaging app that intends to focus on privacy and data protection.
See also
Comparison of web search engines
List of search engines
Search engine
References
External links
Official Website
SEO White Label Services
Internet search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion%20%281804%20ship%29 | Centurion was launched in 1804. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage to India. She then sailed between Britain and Quebec City. Centurion was last listed in 1839, but with data stale since 1834. Centurion, Heppinstall, master, was wrecked in 1848.
Career
She first entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1804 with Gladstale, master, Tindall, master, and trade London–Jamaica.
Centurion, W.Meade, master, sailed from England in February 1818, bound for Bombay. She sailed under a license from the British East India Company. sailed for England from the Cape of Good Hope but had to put into St Helena on 22 August 1821, leaky. It was expected that she would be condemned and so her cargo was transshipped on Centurion, Mead, master. Egfrid was surveyed and condemned as a constructive total loss on 28 September. Centurion sailed from St Helena on 29 September and arrived at Deal on 4 December, with Egfrids cargo.
Centurion sprang a leak and was beached on Goose Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was refloated the same day. She returned to Quebec City on 18 May, then went to Munn's Cove to unload her cargo and undergo repairs.
In a letter from Miramichi dated 13 May 1828, Captain Barkier reported that Superb, Cain, master, was on her way from Bristol to Quebec, when on 23 April, on the Newfoundland Banks, Superb struck ice and was stove in. The next day Cain and two men boarded a schooner; seven crewmen boarded Superbs pinnace but the pinnace drifted off without provisions and it was believed that they had perished. The brig Diana, Lookup, master, took off the remaining 11 crew members. Diana was on her way to the Bay de Chaleurs. Barkier took three of the eleven from Diana and brought them too to Miramichi.
Fate
Centurion, Heppenstall, master, was wrecked on 22 June 1848, at St. Shott's, Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to London. She was described as having been built in 1804 as the 100th vessel built by John Tindall, the father of her present owners, the members of Tindall & Co.
Citations
References
1804 ships
Age of Sail merchant ships of England
Maritime incidents in May 1825
Maritime incidents in June 1848
Ships sunk with no fatalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSatur | DSatur is a graph colouring algorithm put forward by Daniel Brélaz in 1979. Similarly to the greedy colouring algorithm, DSatur colours the vertices of a graph one after another, adding a previously unused colour when needed. Once a new vertex has been coloured, the algorithm determines which of the remaining uncoloured vertices has the highest number of colours in its neighbourhood and colours this vertex next. Brélaz defines this number as the degree of saturation of a given vertex. The contraction of the term "degree of saturation" forms the name of the algorithm. DSatur is a heuristic graph colouring algorithm, yet produces exact results for bipartite, cycle, and wheel graphs. DSatur has also been referred to as saturation LF in the literature.
Pseudocode
Let the "degree of saturation" of a vertex be the number of different colours being used by its neighbors. Given a simple, undirected graph compromising a vertex set and edge set , the algorithm assigns colors to all of the vertices using color labels . The algorithm operates as follows:
Let be the uncolored vertex in with the highest degree of saturation. In cases of ties, choose the vertex among these with the largest degree in the subgraph induced by the uncolored vertices.
Assign to the lowest color label not being used by any of its neighbors.
If all vertices have been colored, then end; otherwise return to Step 1.
Step 2 of this algorithm assigns colors to vertices using the same scheme as the greedy colouring algorithm. The main differences between the two approaches arises in Step 1 above, where vertices seen to be the most "constrained" are coloured first.
Example
Consider the graph shown on the right. This is a wheel graph and will therefore be optimally colored by the DSatur algorithm. Executing the algorithm results in the vertices being selected and colored as follows. (In this example, where ties occur in both of DSatur's heuristics, the vertex with lowest lexicographic labelling among these is chosen.)
Vertex (color 1)
Vertex (color 2)
Vertex (color 3)
Vertex (color 2)
Vertex (color 3)
Vertex (color 2)
Vertex (color 3)
This gives the final three-colored solution .
Performance
The worst-case complexity of DSatur is , where is the number of vertices in the graph. This is because the process of selecting the next vertex to colour takes time, and this process is carried out times. The algorithm can also be implemented using a binary heap to store saturation degrees, operating in , or using Fibonacci heap, where is the number of edges in the graph. This produces much faster runs with sparse graphs.
DSatur is known to be exact for bipartite graphs, as well as for cycle and wheel graphs. In an empirical comparison by Lewis in 2021, DSatur produced significantly better vertex colourings than the greedy algorithm on random graphs with edge probability , while in turn producing significantly worse colourings than the recursive largest first algor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDK%20Flight%20Recorder | JDK Flight Recorder is an event recorder built into the OpenJDK Java virtual machine. It can be thought of as the software equivalent of a Data Flight Recorder (Black Box) in a commercial aircraft. It captures information about the JVM itself, and the application running in the JVM. There is a wide variety of data captured, for example method profiling, allocation profiling and garbage collection related events. The JDK Flight Recorder was designed to minimize the Observer Effect in the profiled system, and is meant to be always on in production systems. The technology was open sourced in 2018.
Analysis and visualization of flight recordings are normally done using JDK Mission Control.
Technology
A recording file consists of binary chunks of data. Each chunk is self describing and self contained. In other words, the metadata (such as the datatype and the content type of each attribute) needed to make use of the data (not only parse the events, but actually use them) is included in the chunk. Also all the values required to be resolved through e.g. constant pools are also included in the chunk.
There is a wide variety of technologies employed to make the JFR efficient, for example:
Binary representations, no translations back and forth to strings, the buffers are efficiently emitted to disk
Most events are recorded into thread local native buffers
On some platforms invariant TSC is employed for efficient time stamping
Integer compression scheme, to keep in-memory and on-file size down
Since implemented in the JVM, much data is readily available, or emitted at a time when the data is readily available, keeping cost down
If converting a binary recording to JSON, it can easily blow up by two orders of magnitude or more, depending on length and content recorded.
The expected performance overhead of JFR using the default template is less than a percent, and for the profiling template, less than two percent.
History
JDK Flight Recorder started out as JRockit Flight Recorder, and was originally used as a means to collect data to be used to improve the JVM itself. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, JRockit Flight Recorder was rebranded Java Flight Recorder. In 2018 Java Flight Recorder was open sourced and released as part of OpenJDK 11. When open sourced it was rebranded JDK Flight Recorder, due to Java trademark issues.
Versions
These are the versions of JFR file format available. It does not encompass all the versions that have ever existed, but rather versions that exist in JVMs after the migration to HotSpot.
Devlopment
The development of JDK Flight Recorder is taking place as part of the OpenJDK JDK project on GitHub, although most of the public discussions are taking place on the OpenJDK hotspot-jfr-dev mailing list.
See also
Java platform
JDK Mission Control
Java version history
JRockit
References
Java (programming language) software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2%20%28A%26E%20Networks%29 | H2 (or History2) is a brand name owned by A&E Networks (a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Walt Disney Television division of The Walt Disney Company), used for a sister television channel of History. The brand was debuted in September 2011 when History International in the United States was relaunched as H2. The brand was expanded outside the U.S. since then. H2 in the United States was relaunched on February 29, 2016 as Viceland, but the H2 brand is still used for sister channels to History in other markets.
A&E Networks began rebranding the remaining versions of H2 as History2, starting with Latin American version on January 1, 2019.
On November 6, 2018, concerning Disney's proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the European Commission required Disney to sell A&E's television operations in Europe, which include the versions of H2 in the area.
Versions
North America
The H2 brand was introduced in the United States, when History International was re-branded as such on September 26, 2011, with its programming being refocused to feature documentary content from its sister network History prior to that network's shift towards more reality programming. The American channel was later replaced by Viceland on February 29, 2016.
On August 27, 2012, Shaw Media, relaunched the male-focused Category A digital channel The Cave as a domestic Canadian version of H2.
Latin America
In 2014, a Latin American version of H2 was launched under the ownership of A+E Networks Latin America (a joint venture between A+E Networks and Ole Communications) and distributed by Ole Distribution. On January 1, 2019, H2 was re-branded as History2.
Europe
Croatia: The Croatian version of H2 was launched on 1 February 2018 on Hrvatski Telekom's MaxTV.
Poland: The Polish version of H2 was launched on 28 October 2014. On 6 February 2019, the channel was rebranded as History2.
Serbia: On 12 April 2015, the Serbian version of H2 was launched to Orion TV customers. It was also made available to MTS TV customers in May of that year.
United Kingdom and Ireland: On 4 May 2013, the local version of Military History was re-branded as H2. It launched on TalkTalk on August 28, 2014, and a few months later on BT TV. An HD version launched on Virgin Media on 1 December 2015, and later on BT TV in October 2016. On February 6, 2019, this version was re-branded again as History2. On May 27, 2020, to coincide with the launches of Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature, History and History2 rebranded to Sky History and Sky History2, respectively, in the UK and Ireland.
MENA
In the Middle East and North Africa, the regional version of H2 is available on OSN since 1 February 2016.
Asia
In Southeast Asia, A+E Networks launched a regional version of H2 on 14 June 2013. After 9 years of broadcasting, H2 Asia ceased broadcasting on 1 October 2022.
See also
List of programs broadcast by History (TV channel)
References
A&E Networks
Television channels in North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Guinea-Bissau%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Guinea-Bissau by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHPFRT-FM | XHPFRT-FM is a radio station on 95.3 FM in El Fuerte, Sinaloa. It is owned by Luz Network and known as La Morrita with a grupera format.
History
XHPFRT was awarded in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017 and signed on in January 2019. The station's launch returned local radio to El Fuerte after a 34-year absence. The prior local station in El Fuerte, XEORF, relocated its studios to Los Mochis in 1985, though the transmitter remained in El Fuerte.
References
External links
Radio stations in Sinaloa
Radio stations established in 2019
2019 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202019%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Digital Album Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2019 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one albums of 2019 (Australia)
References
Digital 2019
Australia digital albums
Number-one digital albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20streaming%20tracks%20of%202019%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Streaming Chart ranks the best-performing streaming tracks of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collects music data for the weekly ARIA Charts.
Chart history
See also
2019 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2019 (Australia)
References
Australia Streaming
Streaming 2019
Number-one Streaming Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDPR%20fines%20and%20notices | The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation that specifies standards for data protection and electronic privacy in the European Economic Area, and the rights of European citizens to control the processing and distribution of personally-identifiable information.
Violators of GDPR may be fined up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater. The following is a list of fines and notices issued under the GDPR, including reasoning.
Fines and notices
References
External links
European Data Protection Board
Privacy law
Law enforcement
Crime in the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briarpatch%20%28TV%20series%29 | Briarpatch is an American television series starring Rosario Dawson based on the 1984 Ross Thomas novel of the same name. The series was picked up in late January 2019 by USA Network, after being ordered to pilot in April 2018.
In advance of its broadcast premiere, several episodes of the series received a preview screening in the Primetime program of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
The series premiered on February 6, 2020. On July 17, 2020, the series was canceled after one season.
Premise
When Detective Felicity Dill is killed in a car bombing, her sister Allegra Dill, an investigator working for a senator, returns home to San Bonifacio to find her killer. In the process of her investigation, she uncovers a web of corruption in the small Texas town.
Cast
Main
Rosario Dawson as Allegra "Pick" Dill
Jay R. Ferguson as Jake Spivey
Edi Gathegi as A.D. Singe
Brian Geraghty as Captain Gene Colder
Kim Dickens as Eve Raytek
Recurring
Charles Parnell as Cyrus
Allegra Edwards as Cindy McCabe
Kirk Fox as Sid
Enrique Murciano as Senator Joseph Ramirez
John Aylward as Freddie Laffter
Timm Sharp as Harold Snow
Christine Woods as Lucretia Colder
Susan Park as Daphne Owens
Alan Cumming as Clyde Brattle
Mel Rodriguez as Mayor Tony Salazar
David Paymer as Jimmy Jr.
Ed Asner as James Staghorne Sr.
Michele Weaver as Felicity Dill
Episodes
Reception
Briarpatch has received a Metacritic score of 66 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave an approval rating of 76% based on 25 critics, its consensus reads: "Briarpatch ambiance is at times more intriguing than the simmering mystery at its center, but a captivating Rosario Dawson and surreal setting ensure it's never less than watchable."
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2020 American television series debuts
2020 American television series endings
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2020s American drama television series
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Television series by Paramount Television
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Television shows filmed in New Mexico
Television shows set in Texas
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogging%20phenomenon | Fogging phenomenon in computerized tomography (CT) scanning of the head is vanishing signs of an infarct on the serial CT imaging in a patient with a recent stroke. It is a reversal of the hypodensity on the CT after an acute ischemic stroke. This happens as a result of re-nourishment of the infarcted area in subacute phase about one to three weeks after the stroke. In fact, resolution of the edema, which was caused by the accident, leads to increased attenuation of infarcted area that may regain near-normal density and mask the stroke. However, in the third week, parenchymal volume loss commonly appears as a hypoattenuation (decreased attenuation) with a negative mass effect (shrinkage).
References
Radiologic signs
Stroke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamzat%20Lawal | Hamzat B. Lawal is an anti-corruption activist. He is the founder of Follow The Money, a social accountability initiative that comprises data analysts, journalists, activists, and students. Hamzat is also the Chief Executive of Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organization that is empowering marginalised communities in Africa with access to information on how to better engage their government for the implementation of public services.
Early life
Lawal is a native of Kogi State. He attended the Model Primary School Asokoro in Abuja, and served as a Boys Scout leader. During his secondary school years, at Government Secondary School Karu in Nasarawa State, he served as the coordinator of Boys Scout and also as a Utility Prefect. He completed his secondary school at Seta International College, Nasarawa State.
Higher Education
Lawal is a graduate of the University of Abuja with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science.
Career
He has worked as a Rep Serviceman in an information technology firm. He later worked as an information technology specialist with International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED) during which his passion for climate change grew. When his boss noticed the area of his passion, he gave him a United Nations Framework on Climate change website to research, and after going through documents and protocols, he developed more interest in that area. He later registered with many climate change platforms and participated in several activities.
In 2012, Lawal was grieved by the poisoning that took place in Zamfara state two years earlier. When he realized that nobody was talking about the disaster and the people affected after killing more than 400 people, he embarked on a 14 hours journey to the community, Bagega, where the incident took place, in order to learn more about the aftermath of the problem. This propelled him towards community activism and to start a grass-roots movement known as Follow The Money, using data to hold government accountable, and demanding action from government agencies. In March 2021, Hamzat Lawal Emerged as the Finalist for the $120,000 Gothenburg Sustainability Award.
Activism
Lawal started his activism while in University of Abuja. There after, he was responsible for advocating for good governance among the student and within the student community. He is constantly speaking out against corruption, human rights abuses and disfranchisement of young people and the general citizens. In 2013, he was almost arrested by Department of State Securities after he was accused of instigating youths against the then government.
Work
Lawal is a co-convener of the Not Too Young To Run movement, a Nigerian Youth movement whose support for young people's right to run for political offices ensured that an age reduction bill was passed across the country promoting youth inclusion in Nigeria's politics. He is an executive board member of African Youth Initiative on Climate Change.
#SaveB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G%20NR | 5G NR (New Radio) is a new radio access technology (RAT) developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for the 5G (fifth generation) mobile network. It was designed to be the global standard for the air interface of 5G networks. It is based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), as is the 4G (fourth generation) long-term evolution (LTE) standard.
The 3GPP specification 38 series provides the technical details behind 5G NR, the successor of LTE.
The study of NR within 3GPP started in 2015, and the first specification was made available by the end of 2017. While the 3GPP standardization process was ongoing, the industry had already begun efforts to implement infrastructure compliant with the draft standard, with the first large-scale commercial launch of 5G NR having occurred in the end of 2018. Since 2019, many operators have deployed 5G NR networks and handset manufacturers have developed 5G NR enabled handsets.
Frequency bands
5G NR uses frequency bands in two broad frequency ranges:
Frequency Range 1 (FR1), for bands within MHz – MHz
Frequency Range 2 (FR2), for bands within MHz – MHz
Network deployments
Ooredoo was the first carrier to launch a commercial 5G NR network, in May 2018 in Qatar. Other carriers around the world have been following suit.
Development
In 2018, 3GPP published Release 15, which includes what is described as "Phase 1" standardization for 5G NR. The timeline for Release 16, which will be "5G phase 2", follows a freeze date of March 2020 and a completion date of June 2020, Release 17 was originally scheduled for delivery in September 2021. but, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was rescheduled for June 2022.
Release 18 work has started in 3GPP. Rel.18 is referred to as "NR Advanced" signifying another milestone in wireless communication systems. NR Advanced will include features such as eXtended Reality (XR), AI/ML studies, and Mobility enhancements. Mobility is in the core of 3GPP technology and has so far been handled on Layer 3 (RRC), now, in Rel-18 the work on mobility is to introduce lower layer triggered mobility.
Deployment modes
Initial 5G NR launches will depend on existing 4G LTE infrastructure in non-standalone (NSA) mode, before maturation of the standalone (SA) mode with the 5G core network. Additionally, the spectrum can be dynamically shared between 4G LTE and 5G NR.
Dynamic spectrum sharing
To make better use of existing assets, carriers may opt to dynamically share it between 4G LTE and 5G NR. The spectrum is multiplexed over time between both generations of mobile networks, while still using the 4G LTE network for control functions, depending on user demand. Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) may be deployed on existing 4G LTE equipment as long as it is compatible with 5G NR. Only the 5G NR terminal needs to be compatible with DSS.
Non-standalone mode
The non-standalone (NSA) mode of 5G NR refers to an option of 5G NR deployment that depends on the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusu%20Wang | Yusu Wang is a Chinese computer scientist and mathematician who works as a professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego . Her research concerns computational geometry and computational topology, including results on discrete Laplace operators, curve simplification, and Fréchet distance.
Education and career
Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in 1998. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at Duke University in 2004. Her dissertation, Geometric and Topological Methods in Protein Structure Analysis, was jointly supervised by Pankaj K. Agarwal and Herbert Edelsbrunner.
After postdoctoral research with Leonidas J. Guibas at Stanford University, Wang joined the faculty of the Ohio State University in 2005, and she was promoted to the rank of full professor there in 2017. She moved to her current position at the University of California, San Diego in 2020.
Service
Wang is on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Computing and Journal of Computational Geometry.
With Gill Barequet, Wang was program co-chair of the 2019 Symposium on Computational Geometry.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese mathematicians
American women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Tsinghua University alumni
Duke University alumni
Ohio State University faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar%20%28software%29 | AlphaStar is a computer program by DeepMind that plays the video game StarCraft II. It was unveiled to the public by name in January 2019. In a significant milestone for artificial intelligence, AlphaStar attained Grandmaster status in August 2019.
Background
Games created for humans are considered to have external validity as benchmarks of progress in artificial intelligence. IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue (1997) and DeepMind's AlphaGo (2016) were considered major milestones; some argue that StarCraft would also be a major milestone, due to StarCraft's "real-time play, partial observability, no single dominant strategy, complex rules that make it hard to build a fast forward model, and a particularly large and varied action space." Though difficult, StarCraft may still be tractable with current technology because "its rules are known and the world is discrete with only a few types of objects".
StarCraft II is a popular fast-paced online real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment.
History
DeepMind Technologies was founded in the UK in 2010. As early as 2011, founder Demis Hassabis called StarCraft "the next step up" after games like Go. DeepMind became a Google subsidiary in 2014, after demonstrating self-learning bots with superhuman ability at a variety of Atari 2600 games. In February 2015, computer scientist Zachary Mason predicted Deepmind's research "leads to StarCraft in five or ten years". In March 2016, following AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol, a world champion Go player, Hassabis publicly mulled building an AI for StarCraft, citing it as a strategic game with incomplete information where (unlike Go) much of the "board" is invisible. A formal collaboration was announced at BlizzCon in November 2016, alongside a plan to release an open development environment for bots in Q1 of 2017.
By 2017, DeepMind was experimenting with feeding StarCraft data into its software. In August 2017, DeepMind and Blizzard released development tools to assist in bot development, as well as data from 65,000 past games. At the time, computer scientist and StarCraft tournament manager David Churchill guessed it would take five years for a bot to beat a human, but made the caveat that AlphaGo had beaten expectations. In Wired, tech journalist Tom Simonite stated, "No one expects the robot to win anytime soon. But when it does, it will be a far greater achievement than DeepMind's conquest of Go."
On 19 December 2018, DeepMind's bot defeated "a top professional player", Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz, 5-0. DeepMind announced the bot, named "AlphaStar", on 24 January 2019. A journalist at Ars Technica and others argued that AlphaStar still had unfair advantages: "AlphaStar has the ability to make its clicks with surgical precision using an API, whereas human players are constrained by the mechanical limits of computer mice". AlphaStar also had a global view rather than being limited by the in-game camera. Furthermore, while there was a cap on the number of ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold | AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet, which performs predictions of protein structure. The program is designed as a deep learning system.
AlphaFold AI software has had two major versions. A team of researchers that used AlphaFold 1 (2018) placed first in the overall rankings of the 13th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) in December 2018. The program was particularly successful at predicting the most accurate structure for targets rated as the most difficult by the competition organisers, where no existing template structures were available from proteins with a partially similar sequence.
A team that used AlphaFold 2 (2020) repeated the placement in the CASP competition in November 2020. The team achieved a level of accuracy much higher than any other group. It scored above 90 for around two-thirds of the proteins in CASP's global distance test (GDT), a test that measures the degree to which a computational program predicted structure is similar to the lab experiment determined structure, with 100 being a complete match, within the distance cutoff used for calculating GDT.
AlphaFold 2's results at CASP were described as "astounding" and "transformational." Some researchers noted that the accuracy is not high enough for a third of its predictions, and that it does not reveal the mechanism or rules of protein folding for the protein folding problem to be considered solved. Nevertheless, there has been widespread respect for the technical achievement.
On 15 July 2021 the AlphaFold 2 paper was published at Nature as an advance access publication alongside open source software and a searchable database of species proteomes.
Protein folding problem
Proteins consist of chains of amino acids which spontaneously fold, in a process called protein folding, to form the three dimensional (3-D) structures of the proteins. The 3-D structure is crucial to the biological function of the protein. However, understanding how the amino acid sequence can determine the 3-D structure is highly challenging, and this is called the "protein folding problem". The "protein folding problem" involves understanding the thermodynamics of the interatomic forces that determine the folded stable structure, the mechanism and pathway through which a protein can reach its final folded state with extreme rapidity, and how the native structure of a protein can be predicted from its amino acid sequence.
Protein structures are currently determined experimentally by means of techniques such as X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance, techniques which are both expensive and time-consuming. Such efforts have identified the structures of about 170,000 proteins over the last 60 years, while there are over 200 million known proteins across all life forms. If it is possible to predict protein structure from the amino-acid sequence alone, it would greatly help to advance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Bruce%20Yerke | T. (Theodore) Bruce Yerke (1923–1998) was an American science fiction author and editor. A member of "an extensive network of active enthusiasts,", he was an early and active member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, serving as its secretary for many years, and recruited Ray Bradbury as a member. With Forrest J Ackerman he edited the Hugo Award-winning fanzine Imagination!. His unfinished biography, Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan provides great insight into the early days of science fiction fandom in Los Angeles.
He also occasionally wrote under the name Carlton J. Fassbinder.
References
External links
T. Bruce Yerke at Fancyclopedia
T. Bruce Yerke bibliography on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Theodore Bruce Yerke author page on WikiSource
1923 births
1998 deaths
American science fiction writers
Hugo Award-winning fan writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20J.%20Hanson | Andrew J. Hanson (born 1944) is an American theoretical physicist and computer scientist. Hanson is best known in theoretical physics as the co-discoverer of the Eguchi–Hanson metric, the first Gravitational instanton. This Einstein metric is asymptotically locally Euclidean and self-dual, closely parallel to the Yang-Mills instanton. He is also known as the co-author of Constrained Hamiltonian Systems and of Gravitation, Gauge Theories, and Differential Geometry, which attempted to bridge the gap between theoretical physicists and mathematicians at a time when concepts relevant to the two disciplines were rapidly unifying. His subsequent work in computer science focused on computer graphics and visualization of exotic mathematical objects, including widely used images of the Calabi-Yau quintic cross-sections used to represent the hidden dimensions of 10-dimensional string theory. He is the author of Visualizing Quaternions.
Early life and education
Hanson was born at Los Alamos where his father, son of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders, spent his first postdoctoral years as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project. His mother was a self-taught ecologically oriented historian of Central Illinois. His maternal was Dean of Agriculture at the University of Missouri, and all three of his maternal uncles were professors of physics.
Hanson and his family survived the shipwreck of the Andrea Doria in 1956. His family was on their way back to the United States from his father's sabbatical year in Torino, Italy, working with Gleb Wataghin on the post-war recovery of the Italian nuclear physics program.
As a high-school student in Urbana, IL, he wrote the core real-time multi-user CDC 1604 operating system used for the PLATO automated teaching project. He received a B.S. in chemistry and physics from Harvard College in 1966 and a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 under Kerson Huang. Sergio Fubini and Roman Jackiw were also influential mentors of his at MIT.
Career
As Hanson completed his doctoral work, Fubini introduced him to Tullio Regge, with whom he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1971 to 1973. (Both Fubini and Regge had by coincidence studied physics at Torino with Wataghin shortly before the Hanson family came to Torino.) He spent the 1973–1974 academic year at Cornell and then was at SLAC from 1974 to 1976 and LBL from 1976 to 1978. He worked briefly at the Exploratorium for Frank Oppenheimer, was employed in the Silicon Valley software industry, and then joined the machine vision group of the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center in 1980. In 1989, he moved to Indiana University Bloomington, where he served as Computer Science Department Chair from 2004 to 2009, retiring in 2012, and continues as an Emeritus faculty member.
Hanson's physics research ranges from early aspects of string theory to field theory and general relativi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Bangla | Sun Bangla is an Indian Bengali-language free-to-air general entertainment channel owned by Sun TV Network based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was launched on 2 February 2019 and broadcasts Bengali entertainment programming. Sun Bangla is the first entry of Sun TV Network into the East Indian market. Its slogan is "Mone Prane Bengali", which means "Bengali In Heart and Soul."
Currently broadcast
Formerly broadcast
Drama series
Dubbed series
References
External links
Sun Group
Bengali-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Television stations in Kolkata
2019 establishments in West Bengal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV5 | VTV5 is a Vietnamese state-owned television network aimed at ethnic minorities and sports in Vietnam.
Since 2016, VTV5 has expanded its programs through its operated-and-owned local channels under the VTV5 banner. The first was VTV5 Tây Nam Bộ, which relaunched in 2016, originally belonged to Vietnam Television Center in Can Tho. The second is VTV5 Tây Nguyên, which broadcasts programs aimed at the Central Highlands minorities.
Although the main broadcast of VTV5 is for ethnic groups, several sports events and football matches (Bundesliga, V.League) are also live on VTV5. These sports content are also shown on VTV6 (from 2018 to 9 October 2022), and VTV2 (from 10 October 2022 to now).
References
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television
Vietnam Television
Television channels and stations established in 2002
Television networks in Vietnam
Television in minority languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura%20and%20Ojai%20Valley%20Railroad | The Ventura and Ojai Valley Railroad gave Ojai, California, a connection to the national rail network Pacific Coast Line at Ventura Junction. Ventura Junction was located at Southern Pacific Railroad milepost (MP) 397.3 a short distance west of Ventura station. The railway required grades as steep as three percent following the Ventura River upstream through Chrisman, Wadstrom, Ortonville, and then turning east through Mira Monte into Ojai. The line completed by Captain John Cross in 1898 became a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1899. The first passenger train reached Ojai (then called Nordhoff) on 12 March 1898. Trains leaving Ojai at 07:20 and 16:00 made passenger stops at Grant (near Rotary Community Park), Tico, Las Cross, and Weldons before turning around at Ventura to return to Ojai at 13:00 and 20:15. Southern Pacific operated only one daily passenger train during the summer months; and all passenger service ended in the early 1930s.
Sources of freight included the Ojai Olive Company olive oil extraction plant built near the Ojai depot in 1901, and the Ojai Orange Association citrus packing house built on the east side of Bryant Street about 1910. The packing house was handling from 15% to 20% of the Ventura County citrus production before World War II, and a Shell Oil refinery near the Ventura River shipped refined petroleum products from the Ventura Oil Field.
Demise
A Pineapple Express beginning on 18 January 1969 caused the largest and most damaging recorded flood on the Ventura River watershed. Rainfall intensity at Ojai reached per day. Flood damage caused abandonment of the railway upstream of MP 402.68; however, freight service to the refinery at Canet continued until Southern Pacific filed for abandonment of the branch in 1995. The upstream portion of the rail line from Foster Park to Ojai, abandoned in 1969, became the Ojai Valley Trail completed in 1989; the remaining downstream portion of the line was later opened as the Ventura River Trail in October of 1999.
Locomotives
References
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Passenger rail transportation in California
Defunct public transport operators in the United States
Transportation companies based in California
History of Ventura County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202009 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2009 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Kazakhstan%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Regions of Kazakhstan by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Kazakhstan
regions, Human Development Index
Kazakhstan, Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwrecked%3A%20Battle%20of%20the%20Islands%202019 | Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2019 is a United Kingdom reality television series, part of the Shipwrecked franchise which originally aired on Channel 4's youth programming label T4 in different formats from 1999 until 2012. The 2019 series is the ninth series of Shipwrecked overall, and the fifth to adopt the "Battle of the Islands" format.
The series was confirmed by Channel 4 on 22 May 2018 with castaway auditions and filming for the series commencing in Summer 2018. It began airing on 28 January 2019, at 9pm on E4, and aired every weeknight for 15 episodes, concluding on 15 February 2019. The series was narrated by Vick Hope.
The series was the first series of Shipwrecked to air since Shipwrecked: The Island concluded on 31 January 2012 and the first revived series of the "Battle of the Islands" format since 2009.
The Tigers won against the Sharks sharing the £50,000 prize. On 15 July 2019, it was announced that the revived show had been axed due to low ratings.
The Game
Shipwrecked is a reality programme in which a number of people from the UK live on one of two islands (Shark Island and Tiger Island) for a period of several weeks. Each week, one or more new arrivals spend equal time on each island with the weekly beach party announcement where the new arrival will choose which island they wish to live on for the remainder of the competition.
At the end of the series, the island with the greater number of castaways wins, sharing the cash prize of £50,000.
Tribes
Departed Castaways
Eliminated Castaways
For this series there were numerous twists introduced to determine how castaways are eliminated from the competition. These twists included a tribal vote used in the first few episodes whilst subsequent episodes have introduced "duels" where two castaways face off against one another in a competition to remain on the island, and newcomers tasked to eliminate one (or more) players from competition.
Episodes
Reception
Reviewing the first episode, The Telegraph described it as "fiendishly watchable" and "smartly edited", though concluding "this felt like a backwards step. A throwback to the early days of reality TV - the likes of Castaway and Survivor - not to mention a transparent bid to cash in on Love Island's success. In Shipwrecked’s favour, at least the casting was more diverse in terms of ethnicity, sexuality and social class. And this lot also possessed more brain cells than most of ITV2’s villa-dwellers."
References
External links
Official website
British reality television series
2019 British television seasons
Channel 4 reality television shows
E4 (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20Conflict | Strategic Conflict is a play-by-mail game by Schubel & Son begun in 1983.
Gameplay
Strategic Conflict was a computer-moderated play-by-mail game set in modern times, involving nations fighting each other for supremacy in their region of the world. It had ten players and a world with twenty regions. Players could choose from up to eight types of combat units. Players owned and built units worth points, with no more than 250 points in each region. A player reaching 2,000 points of units won the game.
Reception
W.G. Armintrout reviewed Strategic Conflict in Space Gamer No. 68. He stated that it "s the most intricate, subtle game yet produced by the play-by-mail industry. Armintrout further commented that "I have not been impressed like this in some time – Strategic Conflict is a play-by-mail game for players who want a real contest. I only hope there are enough of this type of player out there to keep the game going."
A reviewer in a 1983 issue of PBM Universal stated that "The game has no outstanding flaws, and is playable".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
American games
Grand strategy wargames
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20IFC | IFC is an American premium television channel owned by AMC Networks.
Original programming
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Web series
Cutting Ties
Dead & Lonely
Four Eyed Monsters
Funnel of Darkness
Get Hit
Getting Away with Murder
Good Morning Internet!
Lunchbox
Like So Many Things
The Mary Van Note Show
The Stagg Party
Wilfred
The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.
Trapped in the Closet
Pushing Twilight
Young American Bodies
Acquired programming
Current
The Three Stooges (2013–present)
Two and a Half Men (2018–present)
Parks and Recreation (2020–present)
Three's Company (2020–present)
3rd Rock from the Sun (2021–present)
Everybody Loves Raymond (2021–present)
Gilligan's Island (2022–present)
Who's the Boss? (2023–present)
Monk (2023-present)
Former
Basilisk (2006–2007)
Samurai 7 (2006)
Gunslinger Girl (2007)
The Jon Dore Television Show (2007–2010)
Hell Girl (2008)
The IT Crowd (2008–2012)
Witchblade (2008)
Arrested Development (2009–2014)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (2009)
Dead Set (2010)
Freaks and Geeks (2010–2012)
The Kids in the Hall (2010–2012; 2021–2022)
Undeclared (2010–2012)
Wilfred (2010)
The Ben Stiller Show (2011–2012)
The Larry Sanders Show (2011–2012)
Malcolm in the Middle (2011–2014)
Mr. Show with Bob and David (2011–2012)
Action (2012–2013)
Dilbert (2012–2013)
Toast of London (2013–2015)
The Monkees (2015–2016)
Orphan Black (2015)
That '70s Show (2015–2020)
Baroness von Sketch Show (2017–2021)
Blue Planet II (2018)
Fleabag (2018–2019)
Pee-Wee's Playhouse (2018–2020)
Batman (2019)
Dynasties (2019)
Community (2020–2021)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2020–2021)
Saved by the Bell (2020–2022)
Saved by the Bell: The College Years (2020–2022)
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2020–2021)
Back (2021)
Good Grief (2021)
Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021)
The Ropers (2021)
Scrubs (2021–2023)
Slo Pitch (2021–2022)
Three's a Crowd (2021)
Hogan's Heroes (2022)
References
Starz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20horror%20films%20of%202019 | This is a list of horror films that were released in 2019.
References
External links
Horror films of 2019 on Internet Movie Database
2019
2019-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-based%20editor | A frame-based editor is a specific kind of structure editor, typically used as a source code editor for the manipulation of computer programs. Program elements are represented by frames, which form the standard atomic unit of manipulation in the editor.
Frames in the editor represent nodes in the underlying syntax tree of the language being written, such as simple statements, control structures, or methods, and are manipulated as single entities in the user interface.
The representation of frame-based programs on screen makes use of graphical and textual elements. Most fundamentally, scope is presented by graphical boxes (the "frames" that give these editors their name), but other graphical elements, including color and graphical presentation, are also employed. Manipulation of frames in frame-based editors is typically supported equally via mouse-based gestures and keyboard manipulation.
Origin
The concept of Frame-based editing was developed at King's College London as a combination of features of standard text editors and block-based editing systems, such as Blockly and Scratch. The concept attempts to merge beneficial aspects of block and text programming in a single system.
Relation to block-based editors and text editors
Frame-based editors are technically hybrid structure/text editors which support editing at the higher level of the syntax tree in structure mode, while allowing expression edits in text mode. They copy a number of concepts from block-based editors, such as the graphical representation of statements, which are manipulated as atomic units, presented graphically with distinct colouring, can be dragged-and-dropped with mouse gestures, and the provision of statement palettes from which statements may be chosen.
Other elements are modelled on traditional text editors, such as display of the program as linear text, keyboard-driven editing, and free-form editing at the expression level.
An academic study has compared effectiveness of frame-based editors to text editors for beginning programmers.
Application
Currently, frame-based editors are used in educational systems to facilitate entry into programming for novice programmers, or to support the transition for learners from educational block-based systems, such as App Inventor, Scratch, Snap!, or Alice, to professional, text based programming environments.
Theoretically, these types of editors can be used for manipulation of any structured text, including computer programs, web pages, and XML files. The editor benefits especially non-professional users, such as novices or casual programmers, due to its support for discoverability of statements and reduction of syntax errors.
Examples
Two examples of frame-based editors are the BlueJ and Greenfoot educational development environments. Both support frame-based editing for the Stride programming language.
References
Text editor features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%20AI | Element AI was an artificial intelligence company based in Montreal, Quebec. It was funded by the Government of Canada for CAD$5 million, and raised US$102 million independently, before being acquired by ServiceNow. Many employees were terminated, their stock options cancelled, and its business was abandoned by ServiceNow. Before being acquired, it had collaborated with Amnesty International, Twitter, Singapore Management University, the Port of Montreal, LG Electronics, and others to release several studies.
History
Element AI was founded in October 2016 by Jean-François Gagné and co-founders Yoshua Bengio, Anne Martel, Nicolas Chapados, and Philippe Beaudoin, along with Jean-Sébastien Cournoyer of Montreal venture capital fund Real Ventures. In early 2017, the company acquired the entire team of an open source machine learning database. It then raised US$102 million from US investors in a series A round led by the San Francisco venture fund Data Collective and Microsoft Ventures.
In December 2018, the Government of Canada gave a loan of up to CAD$5 million to Element AI with the goal of creating 900 new jobs. They later hosted a conference on the effects of AI, with Justin Trudeau and Mounir Mahjoubi establishing a global panel to study the effects of AI. In December 2018, Element AI also partnered with Amnesty International and released a study measuring online abuse against women in politics and journalism on Twitter.
Element AI had partnerships with GIC, Singapore Management University, the Port of Montreal, LG Electronics, among others. At the Port of Montreal, Element AI was working to predict how long trucks will wait to drop off or pick up goods at the port.
The company's first standalone product Underwriting Partner, an AI-assisted insurance underwriting workflow software, was released in September 2019. In December 2019, they released Knowledge Scout, a platform for data set management in manufacturing companies.
On November 30, 2020, ServiceNow, a Californian cloud-based IT services company, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Element AI. The company was running out of money and options and sold for US $230 million, terminating the vast majority of employees whose stock options expired worthless.
References
AI companies
Companies based in Montreal
Canadian companies established in 2016
2021 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Larsson%20%28scientific%20computing%29 | Elisabeth Larsson (born December 30, 1971) is a Swedish applied mathematician and numerical analyst. She is a professor in the Department of Information Technology of Uppsala University, and the director of the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science.
Research
Larsson's research involves the applications of radial basis functions to scientific computing. It has included work on the propagation of sound waves through water, pricing of financial options, and simulation of the earth's climate.
Education and career
Larsson was born on December 30, 1971 in Ljusdal, and went to high school in Ljusdal. She earned a master's degree in engineering physics at Uppsala University in 1994, and completed a Ph.D. in numerical analysis at Uppsala University in 2000. Her dissertation was Domain Decomposition and Preconditioned Iterative Methods for the Helmholtz Equation. Her doctorate was supervised by Kurt Otto, with as outside examiner.
She became a junior researcher in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University in 2001, and an assistant professor in 2007. She was promoted to senior lecturer (associate professor) in 2011 and professor in 2020.
Recognition
In 2007, Larsson was one of two winners of the Göran Gustafsson Award for outstanding young Swedish scientists.
References
External links
Home page
1971 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish mathematicians
21st-century Swedish mathematicians
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Numerical analysts
Academic staff of Uppsala University
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Swedish women mathematicians
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20th-century Swedish women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Danezis | George Danezis, FBCS (born 6 December 1979) is a computer scientist and Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University College London where he is part of the Information Security Research Group, and a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart contract platform, and was Head of Research before it was acquired by Facebook. After leaving Facebook he co-founded MystenLabs and is one of the designers of the Sui Blockchain. He currently works part-time as a Professor at University College London and as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs.
Education
Danezis was educated at the University of Cambridge where he received a BA in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science. His PhD was supervised by Ross Anderson, where he completed his thesis on anonymous communications.
Career and research
Before joining University College London, Danezis worked as a researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium and Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He has published research on anonymous communications and computer security.
In 2005, Danezis and Steven Murdoch published research showing that the Tor anonymity network was susceptible to traffic analysis that allowed adversaries to reduce the anonymity provided by Tor by inferring the network nodes that relay the anonymous data.
He has contributed to the design of anonymity networks including Hornet and Loopix, as well as the Sphinx packet format.
He has also contributed to the design of cryptocurrency systems, including RSCoin, a centrally banked cryptocurrency, and Chainspace, a sharded distributed ledger, which was spun-out into a commercial company and subsequently the first blockchain start-up acquired by Facebook.
Awards and honours
Danezis was recognised as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2014, an award given to those who "demonstrate a commitment to advancing standards; strategic leadership and best practice, and encourage this in others".
References
Living people
Computer security academics
1979 births
Academics of University College London
Alumni of the University of Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20Magic%20Hair%20Styler | Barbie Magic Hair Styler is a dress-up computer game developed by EAI Interactive and published by Mattel Media for Microsoft Windows in 1997.
Gameplay
Players can cut and style Barbie, Kira, Christie, or Teresa's hair, as well as regrow hair with a specific lengthening tool. They can also apply makeup including eyeshadow, lipstick, blush or temporary tattoos. Application of makeup is limited to appropriate areas for makeup and using offbeat colors can trigger a "that looks funny" response from the game.
Players can also add jewelry and thematic accessories. At the end of the styling session players can be treated to a video of the chosen character with the player's results. Accessories meant to go with a certain career are limited to nurse, firefighter, gym coach, or construction worker.
Reception
In their review, AllGame gave the game 4 and half stars out of a possible 5, complimenting its replay value and the vast combinations of styles and accessories, as well as the "well-designed gameplay". However they were more critical of some of the controls and some of the prescriptivist fashion opinions expressed by Barbie in the game.
See also
List of Barbie video games
References
1997 video games
Barbie video games
Mattel Interactive games
Software for children
Video games featuring female protagonists
Children's educational video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Dress-up video games
Cosmetics
Hairdressing
EAI Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega%20SC-3000%20character%20set | Sega SC-3000 is a character set developed by Sega Corporation for the SC-3000 home computer.
Character sets
The following table shows the SC-3000 character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Space and control characters are represented by the abbreviations for their names.
� Not in Unicode
� Not in Unicode
References
Character sets
Sega |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MullenLowe%20Group | MullenLowe Group is a global integrated marketing communications network headquartered in London. It is a part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), and consists of four divisions: MullenLowe, MullenLowe Comms, Mediahub, and MullenLowe Profero.
History
A precursor of MullenLowe Group, Lowe & Partners was an international advertising agency with an extensive network created through numerous mergers and acquisitions. Lowe was founded in 1981 by Frank Lowe, and he sold the firm to IPG in 1990.
Another predecessor, Lintas, had a history stretching back to 1899, starting as the house agency for London soap maker Lever Brothers. Lintas was an acronym for Lever International Advertising Services.
In 1996, Ammirati Puris AvRutick and Lintas merged, forming Ammirati Puris Lintas.
In 1999, Lowe Group merged with Ammirati Puris Lintas, to form Lowe Lintas & Partners. Eventually the company dropped the Lintas and became known just as Lowe & Partners. The Lintas name lives on with MullenLowe Lintas Group in India.
Also in 1999, IPG acquired a majority stake in Wenham, Massachusetts-based agency Mullen Advertising. Mullen initially kept its name as an autonomous part of Lowe.
In 2015, MullenLowe Group was created when IPG merged Lowe & Partners with Mullen Advertising. Lowe & Partners was a network of agencies with offices around the world, while Mullen was based in the United States. Mullen CEO Alex Leikikh became the CEO of the combined group.
Lowe offices around the world changed their names to include MullenLowe. Some would use the change as an opportunity to shed old names. For example, the London agency DLKW Lowe changed its name to MullenLowe London. Others chose to keep heritage names, such as the Indian operation Lowe Lintas which became MullenLowe Lintas Group. Lowe's digital agency Lowe Profero was rebranded as MullenLowe Profero.
The group launched its new branding in January 2016 with four main brands: MullenLowe, an integrated marketing communications agency; MullenLowe Profero, a digital marketing company; MullenLowe Mediahub, a provider of media planning and buying solutions; and MullenLowe Open, offering behavior-driven activation and shopper marketing. At the time, the group claimed to have 90 offices in 65 markets with about 6,400 employees.
In 2017, the group purchased strategic communications agency salt Communications, which was integrated as MullenLowe salt, adding to its public relations capabilities. MullenLowe salt and MullenLowe PR were subsequently grouped into a fifth division, MullenLowe Comms.
In April 2020, MullenLowe Group merged its MullenLowe Open agency into MullenLowe Profero.
Organisation
MullenLowe Group has 90+ offices in over 65 locations around the world. The group's bundled operating model combines agencies with expertise in creativity, technology, media, activation, analytics and public relations. The divisions of the group are:
MullenLowe, a marketing communications network focused on brand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asen%20Asenov | Asen Asenov (born 30 January 1954, in Sofia) is a Bulgarian scientist and entrepreneur in the field of microelectronics and device modelling and has focused on Technology Computer Aided design (TCAD). Currently he is the James Watt Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow and the Leader of the Glasgow Device Modeling Group.
Biography
Asen Asenov (FIEEE, FRSE) received his M.Sc. degree in solid state physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1979 and a PhD degree in physics from The Bulgarian Academy of Science in 1989. He has ten years of industrial experience as a head of the Process and Device Modelling Group in the Institute of Microelectronics, Sofia. In 1989–1991 he was a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of Technical University of Munich, Germany. He joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow in 1991, and served as a Head of Department in 1999–2003. He was appointed as the James Watt Professor in Electrical Engineering in 2003.
Accomplishments
As a head of the Device Modelling Group in the institute of Microelectronics Asenov and his colleague Evgeni Stefanov developed the first integrated two dimensional TCAD Process and Device Simulators IMPEDANCE. Little know in the western world due to the Iron Curtain IMPEDANCE was licensed and used in USSR, Poland and East Germany. As a head of the Department of Electronics and Electrical engineering, together with Professor Chris Wilkinson he played instrumental role in the establishment of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Asenov works on understanding the impact of the statistical variability associated with the discreteness of charge and granularity of matter as a maker or breaker of the contemporary and future CMOS technology. He directed the development of the first ‘atomistic’ TCAD simulator GARAND.
Entrepreneurship
Asenov was a co-founder, CEO and a qualifying director of Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) Ltd. Apart from selling GARAND licences, GSS developed the first TCAD based Design Technology Co-Optimisation (DTCO) tool chain. The GSS customer basis grew up rapidly including most of the major semiconductor players. In 2016 GSS was acquired by Synopsys resulting in the establishment of the Synopsys TCAD R&D centre in Glasgow. Asenov is also the founder and the CEO of Semiwise, a semiconductor technology and device IP company. He is a non-executive director of Surecore, along with Ashwin Kumaraswamy from Mercia Asset Management a memory IP company, and Ngenics, an EDA company.
Awards
In 1987 Asenov received an award from the Polit Buro of the Bulgarian Communist Party for the development of IMPEDANCE.
In 2010 he received and R&D achievement award from the National Microelectronics Institute (UK) for the establishment of GSS.
Asenov is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Scotland and a Fellow of IEEE.
External links
Device Modelling Group
University of Glasgow Academic Profile
List of publicatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftime%20Heat | Halftime Heat was a series of professional wrestling broadcasts produced by WWE used as Super Bowl counterprogramming. They aired during their respective year's halftime of the Super Bowl.
History
Originally produced under the World Wrestling Federation banner (WWF), Halftime Heat aired during a 20-minute block on USA Network during Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, as a special episode of Sunday Night Heat. The inaugural Halftime Heat featured an Empty arena match between The Rock and Mankind. The match was also accompanied by a Super Bowl ad purchased by the WWF, tying into their Attitude Era branding. During the match, Mankind won his second WWF Championship.
Halftime Heat returned the following year, featuring highlights from The Hardy Boyz taking on The Dudley Boyz as well as the bikini contest, both from that year's Royal Rumble. It concluded with an Interview with Jim Ross and Stone Cold Steve Austin, which discussed an injury update and his engagement to Debra McMichael.
It was announced in January 2019 that it would be brought back as a special event on the WWE Network, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. During the pre-show of the Royal Rumble footage was shown of what happened after NXT TakeOver: Phoenix went off the air, which led to the announcement of Aleister Black, Ricochet, and Velveteen Dream taking on Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano, and Tommaso Ciampa, during the returning Halftime Heat. Shawn Michaels was also announced as part of the announce team, and was joined by Vic Joseph. During the match, the team of Black, Ricochet and Dream were victorious. WWE personnel later announced that the match had 3 million viewers, making it the most watched NXT match in history.
Events
The events included matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by WWE's writers.
1999
Halftime Heat was a professional wrestling show produced by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The event was pre-recorded and aired on January 31, 1999, the night of Super Bowl XXXIII, at the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona.
On January 26, 1999 WWF recorded their episode of February 1 Raw. Prior to the recording the empty arena match that aired as Halftime Heat was filmed.
2019
Halftime Heat was a professional wrestling event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their NXT brand division. The event took place on February 3, 2019, the night of Super Bowl LIII, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
After NXT TakeOver: Phoenix went off the air, Aleister Black, Ricochet, and Velveteen Dream would brawl with Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano, and Tommaso Ciampa. The brawl led to a six-man tag team match between the wrestlers which was scheduled for Halftime Heat.
Other on screen personnel
References
2019 WWE Network events
Recurring events disestablished in 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Jaggar | David Jaggar (born 4 February 1967)
is a computer scientist who was responsible for the development of the ARM architecture between 1992 and 2000, redefining it from a low-cost workstation processor to the dominant embedded system processor.
Early life and education
Jaggar was born in 1967 in Christchurch, New Zealand and was educated at Shirley Boys' High School. He attended the University of Canterbury, where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1987 and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science in 1991. His Master's thesis was titled A Performance Study of the Acorn RISC Machine, in which he exposed shortcomings of the early ARM designs.
Career
Jaggar joined Cambridge-based ARM in June 1991, as a programmer and initially developed the ARMulator instruction set simulator. He is the designer of the ARM7 microprocessor and architect of the ARM7D, ARM7DM and ARM7TDMI processors. He is also the architect of the ARM9TDMI processor, having derived that family from the Digital StrongARM. He is the author of the ARM Architecture Reference Manual. In 1996 he founded the ARM Austin design center where he designed the ARM10 family, the VFP Vector Floating Point unit and ARMv5 System and Debug architectures.
Jaggar is best known for creating the Thumb architecture to re-position ARM as an embedded processor. The original ARM architecture, inherited from Acorn, had both commercial and technical flaws which made it unsuitable for ARM's Intellectual Property licensing business model. Firstly it had no patent coverage and was therefore fully vulnerable to being copied and licensed for free (e.g. Amber). Secondly it suffered from poor code density, typical of a RISC instruction set, and therefore to reach its maximum performance required an expensive memory system, in terms of both cost and power consumption.
In response to these problems, Jaggar invented a new instruction set architecture, incorporating the concept of a CPU with two instruction sets each sharing a common datapath, the first encoded in 16 bits designed for maximum code density, and the second encoded in 32 bits for maximum performance (based largely on the original ARM instruction set for backwards compatibility). This "imaginative leap" solved the code density problem and resulted in two key patents for ARM, and enabled ARM to defend its intellectual property. The Thumb compressed instruction set was first implemented in the ubiquitous ARM7TDMI which underpinned the successful ARM licensing business model for many years.
Subsequently, in the ARM Cortex-M family (ARM's most prolific processor cores) the legacy 32-bit ARM instruction set was dropped altogether in favour of just the Thumb instruction set, and Thumb continues as the basis of the ARMv8-M architecture at the center of ARM's expectation of one trillion ARM-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Honours and awards
Jaggar received the 2019 James Clerk Maxwell Medal from the IEEE and RSE with fellow A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20airplay%20number-one%20songs%20of%202018 | The official German airplay chart ranks the most frequently broadcast songs on German radio stations. In 2018, 19 different songs reached the top, based on weekly airplay data compiled by MusicTrace on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The radio stations are chosen based on the reach of each station. A specific number of evaluated stations is not given.
Felix Jaehn's collaboration "Like a Riddle" with Hearts and Colours & Adam Trigger was the first number one of the year. It was replaced the following week by P!nk's "Beautiful Trauma". Lost Frequencies' & Zonderling's "Crazy" dethroned P!nk after her two-week reign and topped the chart for the following five weeks. "Flames", released in March, by French DJ David Guetta and Australian singer Sia reached the top on 11 May. After eight consecutive weeks atop, it was replaced by Calvin Harris' and Dua Lipa's "One Kiss" on 29 June, which was the second best-performing song of the year and was played more than 48,000 times within 2018. Namika's "Je ne parle pas français (Beatgees Remix)", featuring Black M, was the only German and French song atop the chart in 2018 and was played 35,000 times on evaluated stations. Nico Santos' "Safe" and Alle Farben, Kelvin Jones & Younotus "Only Thing We Know" topped the chart for four weeks each in the summer.
Calvin Harris' song "Promises", alongside English singer Sam Smith, was his second song to top the chart and the second to hold the position for eight consecutive weeks in 2018. The final number one of 2018 was "Sweet but Psycho" by American singer Ava Max which topped the chart for the last three weeks of the year. The best-performing single of the year was "Flames" by David Guetta and Sia.
Chart history
References
Germany airplay
Airplay 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20airplay%20number-one%20songs%20of%202019 | The official German airplay chart ranks the most frequently broadcast songs on German radio stations. In 2019, 19 different songs reached the top, based on weekly airplay data compiled by MusicTrace on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The radio stations are chosen based on the reach of each station. A specific number of evaluated stations is not given.
Chart history
References
Germany airplay
Airplay 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Broido | Daniel Broido (17 May 1903, Kirensk-1990) was a Russian-British engineer who played a significant role in the development of computers.
Daniel was the son of Mark Broido and Eva (née Lwowna) while they were political exiles in Kirensk, Siberia. They had been active Mensheviks and Eva had translated Women under Socialism by August Bebel into Russian. She was active with an illegal workers library producing and distributing written material. She was arrested in January 1901 and, after 15 months in prison, sentenced to three to five years in exile in Siberia. The family returned to St Petersburg illegally, where his sister Vera Broido was born in 1907.
He moved to Germany and studied mechanical engineering in Berlin, and found work as an engineer working for Rotaprint. In 1934 Rotaprint sent him to London, where he settled. He remained in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, working for Caterpillar Tractors during World War II.
In 1956, Broido was appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer to work on the LEO computer.
References
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1990 deaths
Computer engineers
People from Kirensky District
Engineers from Berlin
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany
German emigrants to the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hyderabad%20Metro%20stations | This is the list of stations of the Hyderabad Metro, a rapid transit system serving the city of Hyderabad in India. , there are 58 metro stations in the network, which were completed and operational as a part of Phase I making it the second longest operational metro network in India after Delhi Metro.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Hyderabad Metro on 29 November 2017 by opening a 30 km stretch from Miyapur to Nagole and hence making it the longest stretch commissioned in the first phase among all metros in India. It has since been expanded to around of route length. The system is operated by the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL). The signboards of Hyderabad Metro are displayed in Telugu, English, Hindi and Urdu at metro stations. All stations of Hyderabad Metro Rail are equipped with tactile pathway right from street level till the platform level along with elevator buttons equipped with Braille, for providing a barrier less navigation for the visually impaired commuters.
Each line of the Hyderabad Metro is identified by a specific colour. The system uses rolling stock of standard gauge and has the elevated lines. The Metro is open from about 06:30 to 22:30 hours with trains operating at a frequency of 3.5 to 6.5 minutes with SelTrac Communications-based train control (CBTC) and integrated telecommunication and supervision systems that allows an unattended train operation (UTO). , Hyderabad Metro has an average daily ridership of around 475,000 commuters. The Red Line connects Miyapur to the north and LB Nagar to the south, while the Blue Line connects HITEC City to the west and Nagole to the east.
Stations
Statistics
References
External links
Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift%20Playgrounds | Swift Playgrounds is an educational tool and development environment for the Swift programming language developed by Apple Inc., initially announced at the WWDC 2016 conference. It was introduced as an iPad application alongside iOS 10, with a macOS version introduced in February 2020. It is available for free via Apple's App Store for iPadOS and Mac App Store for macOS.
In addition to publishing the Swift Playgrounds application itself, Apple also produces a series of educational lessons teaching programming and debugging skills. The application can also subscribe to lessons and other content published by third parties, including lessons allowing users to control educational toys such as Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Sphero robots. Apple publishes a curriculum guide for educators wishing to incorporate Swift Playgrounds into their teaching.
Features
Swift Playgrounds was designed to be a development environment and an education tool simultaneously. The app allows users to download lessons and challenges. Once stored on the iPad, these can be copied and modified without the need of an active internet connection.
Apple's initial lessons, available for all Swift Playgrounds users to download, introduce three characters: Byte, Blu, and Hopper. In each challenge, young coders are asked to assist these characters achieving simple goals by coding simple instructions. As challenges become more difficult, more complex algorithms are required to solve them and new concepts are introduced. Advanced lessons in Playgrounds introduce users to more complex features such as Apple's Bluetooth and Augmented Reality development platform (ARKit) APIs.
In addition to Apple's own educational content, Swift Playgrounds can download third-party lessons through its subscriptions feature. Some third-party lessons allow the app to control robots (such as Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Sphero educational toys) and drones (such as the Parrot). Apple also offers coding classes using Swift Playgrounds at Apple Stores.
Swift Playgrounds was designed to be fully accessible to users with disabilities. It supports Apple's VoiceOver screen reader technology, and at WWDC 2020 Apple introduced a series of lessons called "Swan's Quest" which use accessibility features to help students solve puzzles.
History
The Swift Playgrounds application was announced on June 13, 2016 at WWDC 2016 as an iPad exclusive app to help people learning to code with Apple's Swift programming language. A beta version for Apple developers was released on the same date, followed by a public beta version in the following month. The app was presented as a teaching tool for students, introducing the core concepts of coding using an interactive environment designed for touch. The application's name is an apparent reference to Xcode's earlier Playgrounds feature, introduced in 2014.
Along with iOS 10, the app was officially released on September 13, 2016. Apple also published a curriculum guide, recommending the iP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor%20Shmerling%20Magazanik | Limor Shmerling Magazanik is a thought leader in digital technology policy, ethics and regulation. She is an expert in data governance, privacy, AI ethics and cybersecurity policy. Since November 2018, she has been the managing director of the Israel Tech Policy Institute (ITPI) and a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. She is a visiting scholar at the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. Previously, for 10 years, she was director at the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority and an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya School of Law and a research advisor at the Milken Innovation Center. Her background also includes positions in the private sector, law firms and high-tech industry. She has promoted policy initiatives in various technology sectors and has been an advocate for compliance with data protection and privacy by design.
Magazanik is on the World's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018 on Forbes List.
Education
Magazanik has a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in literature with a special focus on women and gender studies, a Master of Law (L.L.M) in public law and a Bachelor of Law (L.L.B) all acquired at Tel Aviv University.
While at the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority with the Ministry of Justice, she acquired knowledge and training in courses such as computer investigations and digital evidence handling.
Magazanik is also a Certified Privacy Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for the European and US frameworks and for Privacy Management.
Career
While working towards her L.L.B., Magazanik was a law intern at Pines, Harmlech, Milner Law Offices from 1995 to 1997 and, after, was a judicial intern for the Judicial Authority until 1998.
She was a project manager at I.T.L Product Testing Laboratories, from 1999 to 2000, where she focused on electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility standard testing.
In 2000 and 2001, she was the marketing product manager for Jungo Connectivity, a Cisco company.
Magazanik was a partner at Magazanik-Shmerling Law in Tel Aviv from 2002 until 2007. As a legal advisor, she specialized in the fields of corporate law, property law and banking.
She was a legal secretary and advisor to the head of council in 2008 for the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council at the Israel Ministry of communications.
Magazanik worked with the Israel Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) at the Ministry of Justice for a decade, originally as director of licensing and inspection when her responsibilities included managing PPA's regulation and administrative enforcement activities over the private and public sectors. These included investigations and legal proceedings, in cases of privacy law infringements and licensing of digital signature providers and credit history providers. More recently she was director of strategic alliances, responsible for the creation and maintenance of strategic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXS%20Map | AXS Map is a user-generated database of accessible locations in all major cities. Powered by GoogleMaps API, AXS Map functions by providing users with a database of locations that they can edit with ratings and reviews of accessibility metrics for disabled individuals. This in turn allows other users to see these reviews, screening which locations they choose to travel to, and adding their own reviews of the places they enter to expand the database. Rather than leaving accessibility reviews to specialists, AXS Map allows any member of the public to use the tool to report their experience. As well as offering accessibility ratings for the mobility impaired, AXS Map also reviews accessibility for the visually and hearing impaired.
History
AXS Map was founded by Jason DaSilva in 2012. DaSilva had been diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis several years prior to the creation of AXS Map, and began to recognize that many of places surrounding him in New York City were not accessible. Inspired by his increasing difficulties navigating through his daily life, DaSilva created an AXS Map as an app and web database to help people with disabilities. The creation of the database was shown in Dasilva's film When I Walk.
In 2011, DaSilva received a grant from Google Earth Outreach and a couple other foundations to build the prototype for AXS Map. After receiving this funding, he then partnered with Kevin Bluer, a skilled technologist and entrepreneur, to build the first prototype. DaSilva and Bluer discussed the project at "Maps for Good," part of the prestigious Google I/O conference, in June 2012, the same year it launched. AXS map received major media attention in 2014, including a national profile by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and a feature in Oprah Magazine. DaSilva presented AXS Map at the White House in November 2015. In a profile of AXS Map in his book Mad Genius, Randy Paul Gage wrote that AXS Map "has now morphed into a movement to map out a searchable database of accessible sites." By mid-2019, AXS Map had been used in over 200 cities. AXS Map has been supported by Google, the Government of Ontario, the Canada Media Fund, the Fledgling Fund, New York Community Trust, and the Rubin Foundation, and has had many partners over the years, including Stanford University, Parsons School of Design, New York University, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. AXS Map is being expanded to map accessibility in all of the world's major cities. It is available to access online, and by iPhone and Android phones.
AXS Mapathons
AXS Mapathons are events in which community members come together using AXS Map to map the accessibility of their neighborhoods, and are held regularly. AXS Mapathons have been held in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and over 50 other cities. Outside of North America, AXS Mapathons have been held in the countries of Georgia and Paraguay. As part of Google Serve, AXS Mapathons also take place in many Google offices around the wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Falkenbach%20Ryan | Barbara Falkenbach Ryan is an American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive. She is known for developing the Minitab statistical software package, and for being president and CEO of Minitab, Inc.
Education and early career
Ryan earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1968 at Cornell University, studying recursion theory under the supervision of Anil Nerode. Her dissertation was ω-Cohesive Sets. Nerode writes that, although Ryan moved away from this subject "immediately after her degree", Nerode still found her thesis work to be original and worth publishing many years later, and was able to persuade Ryan to publish the work in a journal by threatening to hold back a letter of reference for her.
Soon after completing their doctorates, Ryan and her then-husband, statistician and fellow Cornell graduate Thomas A. Ryan Jr. (1940–2017) found positions at Pennsylvania State University. She joined the computer science department at Penn State, and published research on a more applied topic, I/O scheduling.
Minitab
In 1972, Thomas Ryan and another Penn State statistics instructor, Brian L. Joiner, first began developing Minitab, with the consultation of Barbara Ryan. In 1974, Joiner left Penn State and Barbara Ryan joined Thomas Ryan as one of the Minitab developers.
In 1983 the Ryans spun off their software into a company, Minitab, Inc. In 1988, Barbara Ryan and her husband divorced, her husband left Minitab, and Ryan became president and chief executive officer of the company.
As originally formulated, Minitab was primarily used for engineering applications and statistical education. In the late 1990s, Ryan chose to focus Minitab more towards Six Sigma business process improvement. The software became the market leader in this area, and this change spurred significant growth for the company.
Service and recognition
Ryan chaired the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association in 1984.
In 1990, the association named Ryan as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
20th-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
Women statisticians
American women computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
American women company founders
American company founders
American women chief executives
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailando%202019 | Bailando 2019 is the fourteenth season of the Argentine television series Bailando por un Sueño. It began airing on 30 April 2019, on the El Trece network.
Cast
Couples
On 15 April, the celebrities and professional partners were announced were officially confirmed at the press conference to present the program.
Hosts and judges
Marcelo Tinelli return as host, while judges Marcelo Polino, Ángel de Brito and Florencia Peña returned this season. Pampita Ardohaín return to the show as a judge following a hiatus. Laura Fernández did not return this season as a judge.
The BAR (Bailando Assistant Referee) will be in this edition again. Would integrated by Anibal Pachano, Flavio Mendoza and Laura Fidalgo. Lourdes Sánchez, Mariela Anchipi and Jorge Moliniers did not return this season as members of BAR, although they did return to the show as participants. Only the judges, choreographers, the head of coach and Marcelo Tinelli can ask for the BAR. The order is made after the judges score. In gala, each member of the BAR will have the possibility of adding or subtracting a point. In the duel, the BAR can save a couple. , Carmen Barbieri replaces Flavio Mendoza.
Scoring chart
Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each style.
Green numbers indicate the highest score for each style.
Indicates the couple sentenced.
Indicates the couple was saved by the judges or BAR.
Indicates the couple was saved by production.
Indicates the couple was saved by the public.
Indicates the couple eliminated that round.
Indicates the couple sentenced for the next duel.
Indicates the couple withdrew.
Indicates the winning couple.
Indicates the runner-up couple.
Indicates the semi-finalists couples.
Notes:
In italics, partial scores without the secret ballot.
A: All couples are sent to duel to define the semifinalists.
S: Sanction (sentenced)
"—" indicates the couple(s) did not dance that round.
Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' (more the BAR) 43-point scale are as follows:
Styles, scores and songs
Round 1: Disco
Sentenced: Leticia Brédice (14), Silvina Escudero (20) and Felipe Colombo & Stefanía Roitman (21)
Saved by the judges: Silvina Escudero
Saved by the public: Leticia Brédice (51.22%)
Eliminated: Felipe Colombo & Stefanía Roitman (48.78%)
Round 2: Latin pop
Sentenced: Leticia Brédice (5), Luciana Salazar (19), Charlotte Caniggia (20), Sofía Pachano & Dan Breitman (20) and Julián Serrano & Sofía Morandi (20)
Saved by the judges or BAR: Sofía Pachano & Dan Breitman, Julián Serrano & Sofía Morandi and Charlotte Caniggia
Saved by production: Leticia Brédice and Luciana Salazar
Round 3: Trio Salsa
Sentenced: Charlotte Caniggia (13), Julián Serrano & Sofía Morandi (13), Luciana Salazar (15), Sofía Pachano & Dan Breitman (16), Hernán Piquín & Macarena Rinaldi (S)
Saved by the judges or BAR: Sofía Pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Horse%20%28board%20game%29 | Iron Horse is a 1983 board game published by Icarus Games.
Gameplay
Iron Horse is a game in which the historical era involving the railroad network in the United States divided the country into a transportation system spanning North America.
Reception
Creede Lambard reviewed Iron Horse in Space Gamer No. 69. Lambard commented that "I recommend the game, but those of us who prefer a more challenging railroad simulation should stick to Rail Baron or Empire Builder (or HO layouts). Anyone who comes to play without thoroughly washing and drying his hands should be tied up and left on the track in front of a speeding freight train."
References
Board games introduced in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measures%20for%20Justice | Measures for Justice is a United States, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization designed to gather data from every county in the USA on the criminal justice system and to run that data through a series of standardized performance metrics. Their aim is to foster more data-driven decision-making based on the performance and differences among counties. By the end of 2020, Measures for Justice had gathered data for 20 states. The data are publicly accessible on a user-friendly web portal.
Purpose
Measures for Justice (MFJ)'s primary goal is to provide a US-wide open database on all counties' (c.3100) justice systems and processes. By standardizing the same core metrics across all counties it seeks to enable a like-for-like comparison for data that are frequently difficult to access and compare. By determining both negative, positive, and anomalous trends in system performance, MFJ aims to allow various groups in the justice system (district attorneys, public defenders, judges, legislators, etc.) to make more informed solutions.
History
In 2010, Amy Bach published her book Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, highlighting both systemic problems in the pursuit of justice and the dearth of information about how the system operates, with a lack of awareness both outside and within the systems.
In 2011 MFJ was founded as a non-profit by Bach with a seed-stage grant from Echoing Green and MFJ researched and drafted the initial standardized metrics to be used.
In 2013, the Department of Justice funded a pilot study in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. After initial verification that the process worked the pilot remit was expanded to cover all 72 counties in Wisconsin.
2015 was the primary growth year, with a $3 million grant from the Pershing Square Foundation allowing immediate expansion into 5 other states: Washington, Utah, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida, with roughly 370 counties' data gathered. The initial alpha prototype of the visualization software was created and door to door verification of key otherwise-unobtainable data was begun.
The "20 states by 2020" campaign was commenced in 2016, primarily funded by Google ($1.5 million) and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ($6.5 million), and the goal of 20 states was reached in December 2020.
In 2021, MFJ launched Commons, a data dashboard to provide ongoing, open access to specific counties' criminal justice data.
Methodology
Data acquisition and impact
The organization's data acquisition process begins with collecting data from U.S. statewide court datasets; often, these populate the majority of the measures. MFJ may also approach local agencies (prosecutors' offices, sheriffs' offices, public defenders' offices, etc.) to acquire supplemental data; this is done in writing or in person, via pairs of MFJ researchers who travel the states county by county.
After meeting with Measures for Justice to talk about criminal justice data, in 2018 Florida lawmakers passed laws requiring "its jails, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20breakfast%20television%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | This is a timeline of the history of breakfast television in the United Kingdom.
1970s
1974
30 January – BBC2 shows the first early morning Open University programming, airing between 6:40am and 7:30am.
1975
No events.
1976
4 February – Early morning programming from the Open University begins on BBC1, with Electrons in motion airing at 7:05am.
1977
28 March – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television launch a nine-week breakfast television experiment. It is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of TV-am and the BBC's Breakfast Time. Both programmes run at the same time, with Tyne Tees, Good Morning North, and Yorkshire's Good Morning Calendar. Both programmes finish on Friday 27 May.
1978
No events.
1979
No events.
1980s
1980
24 January – The Independent Broadcasting Authority announces that in the next ITV franchising round it will offer a national licence for breakfast television.
1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show Good Morning Scotland.
28 December – The IBA announces the results of the 1980 franchise round, which includes the winner of a national franchise to provide a breakfast television service on ITV. TV-am is awarded the contract to begin transmission in 1983.
1981
March – TV-am purchases a former car showroom in Camden as its headquarters. The building is subsequently renovated to create the Breakfast Television Centre.
1982
3–9 October – As part of its coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the BBC broadcasts a two-hour breakfast programme Breakfast with Brisbane. The programme includes regular news summaries and is the first time the BBC has broadcast a scheduled news bulletin at breakfast and comes three months ahead of the launch of the BBC's breakfast television programme Breakfast Time.
1983
17 January – At 6:30am, Britain's first-ever breakfast television show, Breakfast Time, launches on BBC1.
1 February – TV-am launches on ITV, with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain.
14 February – Following the launch of Breakfast Time, the Open University (OU) programmes previously shown on BBC1 on weekday mornings move to BBC2, resulting in the weekday early morning OU transmission on BBC2 being extended from 1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes. BBC1 continues to broadcast early morning OU transmissions at the weekend until September 1992.
28 February
TV-am cuts its Daybreak programme to thirty minutes, allowing Good Morning Britain to begin half an hour earlier. Original Daybreak presenters Robert Kee and Angela Rippon are both replaced, with Gavin Scot (Weekdays) and Lynda Barry (weekends).
BBC1 begins broadcasting a 30-minute Ceefax slot prior to the start of Breakfast Time. It is called Ceefax AM. It is first mentioned in the Radio Times on 21 March.
18 March – Amid falling ratings and mounting pressure from investors, Peter Jay steps aside as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAAD%20Media%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Kids%20and%20Family%20Programming | The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming is one of the annual GLAAD Media Awards which is offered to the best youth-oriented LGBT-related television series. The category was first established in 2018 at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards following the rise in LGBTQ representation in children's television. The award was established as part of GLAAD's work to increase the quality and quantity of LGBTQ characters and stories. Starting at the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards, a separate category was created for Children's Programming, honoring works aired for younger children. Starting at the 34th GLAAD Media Awards, the category was split into Animated and Live Action categories.
Background
With the announcement of the category, GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis release a statement explaining that “GLAAD is committed to advancing representation of LGBTQ people and stories at every stage of our lives, and the groundbreaking addition of the “Outstanding Kids & Family Programming” category will raise the bar for current and future LGBTQ inclusion in this hugely popular and impactful genre. It’s vital that my two kids see their LGBTQ family portrayed in entertainment and media, and that young people, who are coming out earlier and in greater numbers, see their lives and experiences reflected in thoughtful, loving, and affirming ways.”
Winners and nominations
Programmes with multiple nominations
4 Nominations
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Steven Universe
The Loud House
3 Nominations
Andi Mack
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
The Owl House
2 Nominations
Adventure Time
Amphibia
Craig of the Creek
Diary of a Future President
First Day
Power Rangers Dino Fury
The Baby-Sitters Club
Networks with multiple nominations
17 Nominations
Netflix
10 Nominations
Disney+
Disney Channel
8 Nominations
Cartoon Network
7 Nominations
Nickelodeon
3 Nominations
Hulu
2 Nominations
DreamWorks Animation
References
External links
GLAAD Media Awards
GLAAD Media Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20airplay%20number-one%20songs%20of%202017 | The official German airplay chart ranks the most frequently broadcast songs on German radio stations. In 2017, 19 different songs reached the top, based on weekly airplay data compiled by MusicTrace on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The radio stations are chosen based on the reach of each station. A specific number of evaluated stations is not given.
Clean Bandit's collaboration "Rockabye" with Jamaican singer and rapper Sean Paul and English singer Anne-Marie was the first song to top the chart in 2017. After two weeks, the single was replaced by "Never Give Up" by Sia. Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", released in January, reached the number one on 10 February and stayed atop for eight consecutive weeks. The first song by a German artist to top the chart was "Little Hollywood" by DJ Alle Farben and Dutch singer Janieck Devy for four weeks in May and June. "OK" by German DJ Robin Schulz featuring James Blunt, topped the chart for the entirety of August. Pink's "What About Us" was the third longest reigning song of 2017, with five consecutive weeks in September and October. Zayn's "Dusk Till Dawn" featuring Sia, replaced P!nk on issue date 27 October and became the second longest reigning song with six consecutive weeks.
The year concluded with "Perfect" by Sheeran, which topped the chart in the last three weeks. The best-performing single of the year was "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran. Alongside "Galway Girl" and "Perfect", Sheeran's songs have been played more than 160,000 times on evaluated stations.
Chart history
References
Germany airplay
Airplay 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous%20Disability%20Canada%20/%20British%20Columbia%20Aboriginal%20Network%20on%20Disability%20Society | Indigenous Disability Canada / British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (IDC/BCANDS) is a national Indigenous charitable organization with its head office based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. IDC/BCANDS provides cross disability-related support and services to Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit) peoples in Canada with disabilities, and advocates for the full inclusion of all Indigenous peoples with disabilities, both socially and economically.
IDC/BCANDS was established in 1991 to address the needs of Indigenous peoples with disabilities and works to remove the barriers they face. BCANDS holds Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Approved Observer status with the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD).
The IDC/BCANDS head office is located in Victoria, British Columbia, on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen People.
Areas of work / initiatives
Indigenous Disability Canada / British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society provides one-to-one disability related services, as well as awareness and outreach activities aimed at individuals and families, federal, provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous leadership and the public, both within Canada and at the international level.
Programs/services
Indigenous Disability Case Management / Navigation
Indigenous Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) Navigation
First Nation Persons with Disabilities / Monthly Nutritional Supplement Adjudication Program
Support for Indigenous Student Learning Program
First Nation Accessibility Research
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Awareness
Indigenous Disability Awareness Month (IDAM)
In 2015, the organization established Indigenous Disability Awareness Month (IDAM) to raise awareness of the contributions that Indigenous peoples living with disabilities bring to Canadian communities, and holds annual events during the month. In 2017, the United Nations International Committee on the Rights of Persons Living with Disabilities, in its Concluding Observations Report, recommended that Canada officially recognize and proclaim the month. IDAM is observed annually by various provinces in Canada, in addition to Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and organizations.
RDSP Awareness Month
Each year during October, the organization promotes the Registered Disability Saving Plan through virtual awareness activities, community events, and the distribution of materials.
National Indigenous AccessAbility Week
Each year during National AccessAbility Week in Canada, the organization promotes accessibility from an Indigenous disability lens, through the hosting of awareness events and distribution of materials.
Indigenous Partnership Award
In 2015, the organization established the BCANDS Indigenous Partnership Award to recognize individuals or organizations that have made signi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%2010%29 | The tenth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition My Kitchen Rules, titled 10th Anniversary Season, premiered on the Seven Network on Monday 28 January, 2019.
Before this series aired, The Best of MKR was shown depicting MKR's journey over the years
Applications for contestants opened during the airing of the ninth season. Pete Evans and Manu Feildel returned as judges, with Colin Fassnidge acting as a judge/mentor in the challenge/elimination rounds.
Format Changes
MKR Restaurant – The previous Kitchen Headquarters has been replaced with an MKR restaurant, featuring two kitchens and a dining area. It is used for all head-to-head Sudden Death Cook-Offs and the Finals.
Perfect Strangers – Milly and Karolina are the first two people that haven't known each other before working as a team.
Pop Up Restaurants - Groups will go on separate challenge like Season 9 from Top 13 to Top 11. Each time for the challenge, teams will cook for Pete, Colin, the other group and the public. The team that has the most score from the public receive People's Choice and get advantage in the scoring of the Sudden Death, while Pete and Colin will choose the weakest team to go to Sudden Death.
Open Houses – From Top 10, two teams from each group will work together to make a three-course meal for Pete, Manu, the teams and the public. At the end of this round, the two teams that have the lowest score will compete against each other in a Sudden Death Cook-Off.
New Quarterfinal - In the first three quarterfinals, instead of cooking food just for the judges, contestants have to serve for the public, VIPs, contestants from past seasons, kids and adults in the MKR Restaurant. The team with the highest score will progress to the semi-finals.
Triple Elimination Quarterfinal - For the first time, three teams will be eliminated from the competition in the last quarterfinal.
Judges on the Grand Finale - Instead of having six judges to score the dishes, a total of ten judges will be present, including the six judges in the semifinals and Guy Turland, Shannon Martinez, Sean Connoly and Rachel Khoo.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group, with the two lowest scoring teams sent to the Sudden Death Cook-Off at the MKR restaurant, with a risk of being eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 8
Airdate — 28 January to 10 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The two lowest scoring teams at the end of the round will go to the Sudden Death Cook-Off at the MKR restaurant, with a risk of being eliminated.
Sudden Death Cook-Off (Group 1)
Episode 9
Airdate — 11 February
Description — Being the two bottom scoring teams from Round 1, Josh & Austin and Karito & Ian will face off in a Sudden Death C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Snake%20%28film%29 | White Snake () is a 2019 Chinese-American computer animation fantasy film directed by Amp Wong and Zhao Ji, with animation production by Light Chaser Animation. The film was inspired by the Chinese folktale Legend of the White Snake and was released in China on January 11, 2019. A sequel, Green Snake, was announced in 2020, and was released on July 23, 2021.
The film has been featured in festivals including Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, and Animation Is Film.
Synopsis
The story follows the Chinese fable the Legend of the White Snake. The protagonist is a young adult white snake-demon Blanca/Bai Suzhen who loses her memories while being disguised as a lovely human woman and falls in love with a snake hunter. This strongly displeases her young sister, Verta/Xiaoqing, the green snake-demon.
The story begins with two sisters in a traditional Chinese bath, where they both speak of immortality. It then shows that same mysterious woman (named Blanca) who is on a mission to assassinate the general. However, she is caught and is involved in a battle which results in her submerging into water and losing her memories. She is rescued by a man, Xuan/Xu Xian, who takes her to his home, Snake Catcher village, where the villagers catch snakes for the general, as snakes were thought to aid in immortality. Reluctant at first, Blanca is skeptical about Xuan. However, after spending some time with him (and with the reveal that she has magic powers) she starts to fall for him.
They find a jade hair pin which brings back some memories when it is then revealed, that the hairpin too is magical. Xuan reads the inscription, which indicates it was made at "special jade workshop". He and Blanca go journey there together.
Meanwhile, there is a cavern of snake-demon people, who are oppressed by the general. It is revealed that Blanca's sister is alive, a soldier for the Snake master. A snake had previously seen the two together, deeming Blanca a traitor as she is with a snake-catcher. Her elder sister Verta argues otherwise and says that she will find and return her, whilst also engaging in an insurance policy- if she is not back with Blanca in three days, then the Death Scales embedded in her will explode and kill her. Back with Xuan and Blanca, after a struggle on sea with another snake-demon- Blanca is forced to reveal her demon form, revealing to Xuan that she is in fact a demon. However he disregards this fact and the two bond.
Later they eventually get to Special Jade Workshop, owned by a fox-demon who makes all types of magical weaponry. The fox-demon explains that Blanca brought her the wand to let her use it instead of the original owner. The fox-demon explains that Blanca was warned that using the jade wand could have consequences, such as the memory loss.
After leaving the workshop, Xuan and Blanca return to the Snake Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfish%20%28specification%29 | The Redfish standard is a suite of specifications that deliver an industry standard protocol providing a RESTful interface for the management of servers, storage, networking, and converged infrastructure.
History
The Redfish standard has been elaborated under the SPMF umbrella at the DMTF in 2014. The first specification with base models (1.0) was published in August 2015. In 2016, Models for BIOS, disk drives, memory, storage, volume, endpoint, fabric, switch, PCIe device, zone, software/firmware inventory & update, multi-function NICs), host interface (KCS replacement) and privilege mapping were added. In 2017, Models for Composability, Location and errata were added. There is work in progress for Ethernet Switching, DCIM, and OCP.
In August 2016, SNIA released a first model for network storage services (Swordfish), an extension of the Redfish specification.
Industry adoption
Redfish support on server
Advantech SKY Server BMC
Dell iDRAC BMC with minimum iDRAC 7/8 FW 2.40.40.40, iDRAC9 FW 3.00.00.0
Fujitsu iRMCS5 BMC
HPE iLO BMC with minimum iLO4 FW 2.30, iLO5
HPE Moonshot BMC with minimum FW 1.41
Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) BMC with minimum XCC FW 1.00
Supermicro X10 BMC with minimum FW 3.0 and X11 with minimum FW 1.0
IBM Power Systems BMC with minimum OpenPOWER (OP) firmware level OP940
IBM Power Systems Flexible Service Processor (FSP) with minimum firmware level FW860.20
Cisco Integrated Management Controller with minimum IMC SW Version 3.0
Redfish support on BMC
Insyde Software Supervyse BMC
OpenBMC a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source BMC firmware stack
American Megatrends MegaRAC Remote Management Firmware
Vertiv Avocent Core Insight Embedded Management Systems
Software using Redfish APIs
OpenStack Ironic bare metal deployment project has a Redfish driver.
Ansible has multiple Redfish modules for Remote Management including redfish_info, redfish_config, and redfish_command
ManageIQ
Redfish libraries and tools
DMTF libraries and tools
GoLang gofish
Mojo::Redfish::Client
python-redfish
Sushy
Redfish is used by both proprietary software (such as HPE OneView) as well as FLOSS ones (such as OpenBMC).
Benefits of Redfish
Redfish offers several benefits for admins, such as:
Easy integration with commonly used technology such as REST or JSON
Better performance and security than other platform management solutions
Possibility to manage data center components from remote
See also
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
Create, read, update and delete (CRUD)
JSON
OData – Protocol for REST APIs
References
External links
DMTF Redfish initiative
Redfish Developer Hub
DELL Redfish ecosystem
HPE Redfish ecosystem
SuperMicro Redfish ecosystem
Lenovo Redfish ecosystem
DMTF Redfish scripting for Gigabyte systems
Networking standards
DMTF standards
System administration
Out-of-band management
Computer hardware standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern%20%28disambiguation%29 | CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) is a particle physics lab in Europe. Cern or variations thereof, may refer to:
Churches European Rural Network
15332 CERN, an asteroid
CERN httpd, the name of an httpd website software
CERN Open Hardware Licence, the CERN license
Cerner (former stock ticker: CERN), a U.S. health information technology company
Rugby Club CERN (RC Cern), a rugby team
The CERN Foundation (Collaborative Ependymoma Research Network), a non-profit cancer foundation
, Romanian name of the medieval fortress of Chern located in modern Chernivtsi, Ukraine
See also
Cerne (disambiguation)
Kern (disambiguation)
Sern (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequent%20pattern%20discovery | Frequent pattern discovery (or FP discovery, FP mining, or Frequent itemset mining) is part of knowledge discovery in databases, Massive Online Analysis, and data mining; it describes the task of finding the most frequent and relevant patterns in large datasets.
The concept was first introduced for mining transaction databases.
Frequent patterns are defined as subsets (itemsets, subsequences, or substructures) that appear in a data set with frequency no less than a user-specified or auto-determined threshold.
Techniques
Techniques for FP mining include:
market basket analysis
cross-marketing
catalog design
clustering
classification
recommendation systems
For the most part, FP discovery can be done using association rule learning with particular algorithms Eclat, FP-growth and the Apriori algorithm.
Other strategies include:
Frequent subtree mining
Structure mining
Sequential pattern mining
and respective specific techniques.
Implementations exist for various machine learning systems or modules like MLlib for Apache Spark.
References
Data mining
Cluster analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20calendar%20era%20bug | The Japanese calendar era bug is a possible computer bug related to the change of the Japanese era name.
Background
The Japanese calendar has era names that change with the reign of the Japanese emperor. Since most of the modern age of computing has occurred in the Heisei era, much of the software has support limited to that era.
A new era name was expected with the 2019 Japanese imperial transition. However, since the change of eras is infrequent, most software has not been tested to ensure that it will behave correctly with an additional era. To ensure that the new era will be handled correctly, some systems were provided test mechanisms to simulate a new era ahead of time.
In early April 2019, the new era name was announced to be Reiwa for "beautiful harmony."
Documented errors
Some minor problems have been reported due to improper handling of the era transition.
ATMs placed inside the Lawson chain of konbini reported that due to a banking holiday funds deposited would not be available until May 7, 1989, due to a date conversion improperly using Heisei 1 (1989) instead of Reiwa 1 (2019).
Planned fixes
Windows 10 version 1803 includes a registry entry with placeholder information for the expected era transition, intended to help users discover any software limitations around the expected change to the new era.
Unicode code point U+32FF has been reserved in September 2018 for representing the new era name and Unicode 12.1 finally includes the U+32FF character for Reiwa.
The GNU C Library patch will be included in the 2.30 release.
See also
Time formatting and storage bugs
2019 Japanese imperial transition
References
Calendars
Software bugs
Time formatting and storage bugs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWE%20%28disambiguation%29 | OWE is Opportunistic Wireless Encryption, an encryption standard for open Wi-Fi networks.
OWE or Owe may also refer to:
Oriental Wrestling Entertainment, founded by the wrestler Cima
Owe, a surname or given name
See also
Big Owe, a nickname for the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkhamsted%20paedophile%20network | In 2016, police discovered a child sex abuse network run from Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, England. Eight of the men were convicted and some received significant prison sentences.
The discovery resulted in a police investigation in 2017 which helped to uncover many other child abusers worldwide.
Operation Pendent
Operation Pendent was a child sex abuse investigation in 2017 into the Berkhamsted network; it was led by Hertfordshire Constabulary, and helped to uncover many other child abusers worldwide. One suspect in the United States was arrested within 48 hours of information being passed to Homeland Security.
Media restrictions
For much of 2017, media reporting on the criminal proceedings members of the network was under reporting restrictions. Restrictions were lifted on 20 December 2017, when six offenders were sentenced. A seventh was jailed in February 2018.
Sentences
References
External links
Herts Constabulary awarded for Investigation of the Year
2010s crimes in the United Kingdom
British people convicted of child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse in England
Rape in the 2010s
Rape in England
Rape trials
Sex crime trials
Sex crimes in England
Sex crimes in the United Kingdom
2010s trials
2017 crimes in the United Kingdom
2017 in England
Crime in Hertfordshire
2010s in Hertfordshire
21st century in England
Child abuse incidents and cases
Scandals in England
Child pornography
Child sex rings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Conference%20on%20Fairness%2C%20Accountability%2C%20and%20Transparency | ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT, formerly known as ACM FAT*) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series about ethics and computing systems. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, this conference focuses on issues such as algorithmic transparency, fairness in machine learning, bias, and ethics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The conference community includes computer scientists, statisticians, social scientists, scholars of law, and others.
The conference is sponsored by Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and large foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Luminate. Sponsors contribute to a general fund (no "earmarked" contributions are allowed) and have no say in the selection, substance, or structure of the conference.
List of conferences
Past and future FAccT conferences include:
References
External links
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
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