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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS%2B%2B | JS++ is a proprietary programming language for web development that extends JavaScript with a sound type system. It includes imperative, object-oriented, functional, and generic programming features.
History
JS++ first appeared on October 8, 2011. The modern implementation was announced at DeveloperWeek 2016 and released on May 31, 2016. The language is designed by Roger Poon and Anton Rapetov.
Syntax
Type annotations
Since JS++ is a superset of JavaScript, declaring types for variables is optional.
int x = 1; // declares the variable x with an "internal type" (JS++ type)
var y = 2; // declares the variable y with an "external type" (JavaScript type)
bool z = true; // declares the variable z with an "internal type" (JS++ type)
Features
JS++ features a type system that is sound.
JS++ is able to efficiently analyze out-of-bounds errors at compile time.
Development tools
Compiler
The JS++ compiler is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The compiler generates JavaScript output.
Editor integration
JS++ integrates with various code editors including Visual Studio Code, Atom, and Sublime Text.
Build tools
JS++ can be integrated with third-party build tools like Webpack.
Release history
See also
TypeScript
PureScript
References
Programming languages
Web programming
Class-based programming languages
Functional languages
Statically typed programming languages
High-level programming languages
Programming languages created in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Scully%20%28actor%29 | James Nicholas Scully (born April 19, 1992) is an American actor, best known for portraying JD in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018) and Forty Quinn in the Netflix thriller series You.
Early life
Scully was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Driscoll Middle School and LEE High School's North East School of the Arts (Class of 2010), both of which are in North East Independent School District. In his youth, he spent a brief period in England when his father was stationed there as a part of the United States Air Force.
He later attended Otterbein University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater. Scully was also a cycling instructor for three and a half years at SWERVE Fitness.
Career
Prior to working in Los Angeles, Scully resided in New York performing Off-Broadway.
In 2016, Scully made his acting debut in the web series drama series, Sublets. Following on from his first role, Scully later made appearances in television series, such as Quantico and 9-1-1.
He has also done commercial work for Outback Steakhouse and a public service announcement about Vicodin abuse with Riverdale actress, Camila Mendes.
In 2018, Scully starred in the main role of JD on the Paramount Network series Heathers. In January 2019, it was announced that Scully had been cast as Forty Quinn on the second season of the Netflix thriller series You.
He also portrayed Charlie, one of the main love interests in the 2022 Hulu film Fire Island.
Personal life
Scully is gay.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American male actors
American male television actors
American gay actors
LGBT people from Texas
Male actors from San Antonio
Otterbein University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20J | News J is all year round Tamil news broadcasting channel headquartered at Nungambakkam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and is run by Mantaro Network Private Limited, founded by Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K.Palaniswami, C.Ve.Radhaakrishnen, S.Dineshkumar, A.Vivek and K.Kubenthiran from Tamil Nadu. It is named after late AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa.
This channel was launched on 14 November 2018 as a replacement of Jaya TV News. W. Hansraj Saxena is the CEO of the Channel.
References
External links
News J on YouTube
Television stations in Chennai
Tamil-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Direct broadcast satellite services
Indian direct broadcast satellite services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20E.%20Carpenter | Anne E. Carpenter is an American scientist in the field of image analysis for cell biology and artificial intelligence for drug discovery. She is the co-creator of CellProfiler, open-source software for high-throughput biological image analysis, and a co-inventor of the Cell Painting assay, a method for image-based profiling. She is an Institute Scientist and Senior Director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute.
Education & early career
Undergraduate training
Carpenter received her B.Sc. in Biological Sciences in 1997 from Purdue University, West Lafayette. During this time, she spent a summer in 1996 as an HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellow in the laboratory of Robert E. Malone at the University of Iowa, working on the control of recombination in yeast. Following her graduation, she spent a summer working on enhancers in Drosophila neural development as a research assistant in the laboratory of Chris Q. Doe, then at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Graduate training
Carpenter carried out research for her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Andrew S. Belmont at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. There, she developed molecular biology and automated imaging systems to rapidly assess the effects of transcriptional activators on large-scale chromatin structure using fluorescence microscopy. This work laid the foundation for studies of engineered regions of the genome, the movement of genes within the nucleus upon gene activation, and chromatin-related high-throughput screens. She received her PhD in cell biology in May 2003.
Post-doctoral training and creation of CellProfiler software
Carpenter trained in the laboratory of David M. Sabatini at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA, during her postdoctoral work (July 2003 to December 2006). Through co-mentoring by Polina Golland, professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Carpenter transitioned into a computational researcher during this time. Her research focused on high-throughput microscopy and living cell microarrays to reveal gene function. This required new image analysis methods, so Carpenter and collaborator Thouis Jones designed and in 2005 released the first open-source high-throughput cell image analysis software, CellProfiler, which was first published in 2006. Using this new tool, she led a team of 5 researchers to develop advanced data mining methods to systematically examine the necessity of proteins for a variety of biological processes.
Research and impact
In January 2007, Carpenter founded her laboratory at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, as the Director of the Imaging Platform. Her first NIH R01 grant was awarded in 2010, at the age of 33. In 2017, she became a Broad Institute Scientist.
The Carpenter group develops novel strategies and tools to analyse biological images, particularly microscopy images from high-throughput experiments. Her computer scientists and biologists develop free |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20G.%20Cowan | Louis G. Cowan (December 12, 1909 – November 18, 1976) was a president of the CBS broadcasting network in the United States and a creator of quiz shows (including Quiz Kids radio program, Stop the Music, and The $64,000 Question for television), a television producer and was director of the Voice of America from 1943–1945.
Early life
Cowan was born Louis Cohen in 1909 in Chicago but changed his name at age 21. Cowan's parents were Orthodox Jews. His father was Jacob Cohen, a failed businessman, and his mother was Hetty Smitz Cohen. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he met his wife Pauline "Polly" Spiegel, granddaughter of Joseph Spiegel, founder of the Spiegel catalog.
Career
He produced more than 50 programs during his three years with CBS, including Captain Kangaroo, and won two Peabody Awards. After he left CBS, he founded Chilmark Press, was director of the Brandeis University Communications Center, special lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and founded the William E. Wiener Oral History Library for the American Jewish Committee.
Personal life
In 1976, Cowan died along with his wife in a house fire in New York City. The fire was believed to have been caused by “smoking carelessness”. They had four children: Paul Cowan, Geoffrey Cowan, Holly Cowan Shulman, and Liza Cowan.
Legacy
Cowan's papers and archives, along with the archives of Chilmark Press, are held at Columbia University.
References
External links
1909 births
1976 deaths
20th-century American Jews
20th-century American businesspeople
Presidents of CBS Entertainment
Accidental deaths in New York (state)
University of Chicago alumni
Television producers from Illinois
Voice of America people
Spiegel family
Deaths from fire in the United States
Brandeis University staff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoyuan%20Tu | Xiaoyuan Tu (born 1967) is a Chinese researcher and computer scientist specializing in machine learning, behavior modeling, physics modeling, biomechanical modeling, motion control interfaces, and intelligent virtual characters. She holds a Ph.D in computer science from University of Toronto and currently serves as a lead scientist and software engineer at Apple Inc, researching and developing next generation motions control and recognition technology.
Education
Tu attended Tsinghua University where she earned BEng in control theory and information science. She then continued her education at McMaster University earning her MSc in computer science with a focus on algorithms for parallel computation between the years 1990 and 1991. Immediately thereafter she enrolled in University of Toronto where she completed her Ph.D in computer science in 1996 as well as the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation "Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior". She is both the first woman and the first Canadian academic to receive this award.
Industry
After completing her Ph.D, Tu spent a brief period of time at Silicon Graphics as a researcher and at Stanford University as a guest lecturer prior to being hired at Intel as a research scientist. There she worked to research and develop a 3D animation testbed for the creation of intelligent virtual characters. In addition to this she was the lead developer on an interactive commerce interface.
In May 2000 she left her position at Intel to create the company AiLive Inc with Wei Yen. There she assumed the role of co-founder, lead scientist and product manager, working to implement machine learning algorithms as middleware in video games. Additionally, she worked to implement LiveMotion, a program focused on motion recognition, tracking and control in games. This technology was used in the creation of Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus controller and helped enable a generation of motion controlled games for the platform.
After leaving AiLive Inc in December 2009 she entered a position at Apple where she currently works to develop and implement motion recognition and control in next-generation iOS devices. Projects she has been instrumental in designing and implementing include:
Orientation Recognition
Raise to Talk
iOS Motion Activity Classification
Compass Algorithms
iOS CoreMotion Technology
In her time at Apple she has also been credited as an inventor on several patents filed by Apple including AirDrop data encryption, improvement to Magnetometer mapping on iOS devices, as well as Apple CarPlay automation.
Awards
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award — "Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior"
Technical Excellence Award from the Canadian Academy of Multimedia and Arts
Books
Artificial animals for computer animation (1999)
References
1967 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20airplay%20number-one%20songs%20of%202016 | The official German airplay chart ranks the most frequently broadcast songs on German radio stations. In 2016, 20 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 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%20Line%20%28disambiguation%29 | U Line is a rapid transit line in Seoul, South Korea.
U Line or Uline may also refer to:
Uline, an American industrial supply company
Transilien Line U, a line of the Paris transport network
U (Los Angeles Railway), a former streetcar line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPE%20Programming%20Environment | ZPE Programming Environment (or simply ZPE) formally the Zenith Parsing Engine is a general-purpose compiler, parser and runtime environment for the YASS language designed for educational use as well as for its general use. The language it interprets, YASS, is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. YASS is largely built upon making the language easy to read and use, with optional support for syntaxes such as curly-bracket syntax. YASS supports dynamic typing or static typing, as well as strong typing and weak typing.
It was started in 2015 as a planned university project but later was changed to be a replacement for another programming language developing at the time known as BlackRabbit Script, also built by Jamie Balfour. ZPE and YASS were designed to help with the automation of scripts by clearing up the inconsistent syntaxes of other scripting languages. The Zenith Parsing Engine (formerly ZenithParser) powers the underlying parsers including the CSV, JSON and XML parsers.
YASS
The language interpreted by the ZPE runtime is known as YASS or Yet Another Simple Syntax. Several languages influenced the YASS syntax including C, PHP, Java, JavaScript, VB.NET, C#.NET, SML and Python which has remained largely the same since about version 1.5. ZPE/YASS can be used for general purpose programming, support client and server communications and can be used for server side scripting. Some websites are already using ZPE alongside other languages such as PHP.
The ZPE Programming Environment itself is written in Java making it cross-platform. A side effect of this is that certain plugins and built-in objects are completely written in Java.
Whilst ZPE is closed source, the standard library is open-source and written in YASS itself.
Features
ZPE features many built-in functions including functions that simplify mathematical problems such as the greater_than_all function, the to_binary, to_octal and to_hexadecimal functions as well as many functions to simplify processing of arrays such as list_process, list_find_duplicates and list_auto_populate. ZPE also features a built-in parser known as the ZenithParser which forms the foundation of the whole language processor and performs both lexical analysis and compiler optimisation on textual input.
On the original subsite dedicated to ZPE, there is a documentation section that documents all language constructs, internal functions and the syntax of the language.
ZPE was originally built as a planned university project that never came to fruition and in the end and was eventually used as the replacement for the BlackRabbit Script language that Balfour was developing at the time. ZPE originally had no mathematical parser which meant that functions were used for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. An example of this early syntax:
$x = 10
$y = 15
$z = add($x, $y)
print($z)
In late 2015, still in version 1.3.x of ZPE, the Real Math Mode (RMM) parser was added. Sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Dynasties | Mexican Dynasties is a television series on the American television network Bravo, which premiered on February 26, 2019.
Overview
Mexican Dynasties follows three wealthy families in Mexico City and their over-the-top lifestyles. The Allendes, Bessudos, and Madrazos are connected to one another through personal and professional relationships dating back decades.
Cast
The Allende family
Fernando Allende
Considered the ultimate heartthrob in his earlier years, Fernando has enjoyed an illustrious career as a singer, actor, and artist, and serves as the backbone of his family. He married Mari in the late 1980s and the couple have two sons, Elan and Adan.
Mari Allende
Puerto Rico-born Mari works as her husband's manager.
Adan Allende
The younger son of Fernando and Mari, Adan is trying to start a solo career in the music industry and move away from his father's shadow.
Elan Allende
The elder son of Fernando and Mari, Elan has made a career in commercial real estate but is also trying to make it in the music industry with his wife, Jenny. The couple are in a latin pop duo called Shambayah, which merges "tropical, urban, pop and reggae influences." During season one, Elan is working to fix a strained relationship with his father and brother, caused by his decision to leave the band he and his brother shared.
Jenny Allende Colón
Jenny is a Puerto Rican singer, TV host, model, and pageant queen, who represented Puerto Rico in Miss World 2009. She and her husband, Elan, have two children, María Valentina and Fernando José. During season one, Jenny tries to solidify her place within the Allende family when she and Elan move to Mexico City; she's often at odds with Fernando and Mari, who never approved of her marrying their son.
The Bessudo family
Raquel Bessudo
Raquel is a television show host and is considered the “Grand Dame of Beauty” in Mexico. She was married to Leon Bessudo, whose father owned the beverage company Jarritos, for 58 years before his death in 2018.
Doris Bessudo
Doris is managing her mother's career and is a partner at a Los Angeles-based, female-led public relations firm, Nine Muses. In season one, she returns to Mexico City to help her mother, Raquel, navigate life in the aftermath of her husband's death. Doris is also the cousin of Mauricio Umansky, who is married to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards.
The Madrazo family
Óscar Madrazo
owns the largest and most prestigious modeling agency in Latin America, which he started when he was 18 years old. He also owns a social media and production house and co-hosts “Qué Madrazo,” an entertainment talk show, with his sister, Paulina. He made headlines when he became the first openly gay man in Latin America to have children through surrogacy.
Paulina Madrazo
Paulina is an executive at her brother Óscar Madrazo’s modeling agency and co-hosts “Qué Madrazo,” an entertainment talk show in Mexico City, with him.
Episodes
Production
Bravo reached out to J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFsharp | PDFsharp is an open source .NET library for processing PDF files.
It is written in C#. The library can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, modify, and extract text and meta-data of PDF files.
Features include images with transparency (color mask, monochrome mask, alpha mask), font embedding and subsetting, and graphical implementation based either on GDI+ or WPF.
See also
List of PDF software
Notes
PDFsharp is a registered trademark of empira Software GmbH, Kirchstraße 19, 53840 Troisdorf, Germany.
References
Free PDF software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Concordance%20Program | The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) was first released in 1981 and was a result of a project started
in 1978 by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) to create a machine independent text analysis program for producing word lists, indexes and concordances in a variety of languages and alphabets.
In the 1980s it was claimed to have been licensed to around 240 institutions in 23 countries.
History
OCP was designed and written in FORTRAN by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriott of Oxford University Computing Services in the period 1979–1980 and its authors acknowledged that it owed much to the earlier COCOA and CLOC (University of Birmingham) concordance systems.
During 1985–86 OCP was completely rewritten as version 2 to increase the efficiency of the program, a version was also produced for the IBM PC called Micro-OCP.
See also
Concordance (publishing)
References
History of software
Digital humanities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kara%20Mia%20episodes | Kara Mia is a 2019 Philippine drama television series broadcast by GMA Network. The series premiered on the network's Telebabad evening block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from February 18, 2019 to June 28, 2019, replacing Cain at Abel. It was replaced by The Better Woman in Sahaya's timeslot.
Series overview
Episodes
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20law%20of%20processor%20performance | In computer architecture, the iron law of processor performance (or simply iron law of performance) describes the performance trade-off between complexity and the number of primitive instructions that processors use to perform calculations. This formulation of the trade-off spurred the development of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) whose instruction set architectures (ISAs) leverage a smaller set of core instructions to improve performance. The term was coined by Douglas Clark based on research performed by Clark and Joel Emer in the 1980s.
Explanation
The performance of a processor is the time it takes to execute a program: . This can be further broken down into three factors:
Selection of an instruction set architecture affects , whereas is largely determined by the manufacturing technology. Classic Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) ISAs optimized by providing a larger set of more complex CPU instructions. Generally speaking, however, complex instructions inflate the number of clock cycles per instruction because they must be decoded into simpler micro-operations actually performed by the hardware. After converting X86 binary to the micro-operations used internally, the total number of operations is close to what is produced for a comparable RISC ISA. The iron law of processor performance makes this trade-off explicit and pushes for optimization of as a whole, not just a single component.
While the iron law is credited for sparking the development of RISC architectures, it does not imply that a simpler ISA is always faster. If that were the case, the fastest ISA would consist of simple binary logic. A single CISC instruction can be faster than the equivalent set of RISC instructions when it enables multiple micro-operations to be performed in a single clock cycle. In practice, however, the regularity of RISC instructions allowed a pipelined implementation where the total execution time of an instruction was (typically) ~5 clock cycles, but each instruction followed the previous instruction ~1 clock cycle later . CISC processors can also achieve higher performance using techniques such as modular extensions, predictive logic, compressed instructions, and macro-operation fusion.
See also
Reduced instruction set computer
Classic RISC pipeline
References
Computer architecture statements
Rules of thumb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Concurrency%20Theory | The International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) is an academic conference in the field of computer science, with focus on the theory of concurrency and its applications. It is the flagship conference for concurrency theory according to the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on Concurrency Theory (WP 1.8). The conference is organised annually since 1988. Since 2015, papers presented at CONCUR are published in the LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, a "series of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics established in cooperation with Schloss Dagstuhl –Leibniz Center for Informatics". Before, CONCUR papers were published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
According to CORE Ranking, CONCUR has rank A ("excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area").
According to Google Scholar Metrics (as of 1. April 2023), CONCUR has H5-index 17 and H5-median 22.
Editions
34th CONCUR 2023: Antwerp, Belgium
33rd CONCUR 2022: Warsaw, Poland
32nd CONCUR 2021: Paris, France Online
31st CONCUR 2020: Vienna, Austria Online
30th CONCUR 2019: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
29th CONCUR 2018: Beijing, China
28th CONCUR 2017: Berlin, Germany
27th CONCUR 2016: Québec City, Canada
26th CONCUR 2015: Madrid, Spain
25th CONCUR 2014: Rome, Italy
24th CONCUR 2013: Buenos Aires, Argentina
23rd CONCUR 2012: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
22nd CONCUR 2011: Aachen, Germany
21st CONCUR 2010: Paris, France
20th CONCUR 2009: Bologna, Italy
19th CONCUR 2008: Toronto, Canada
18th CONCUR 2007: Lisbon, Portugal
17th CONCUR 2006: Bonn, Germany
16th CONCUR 2005: San Francisco, CA, USA
15th CONCUR 2004: London, UK
14th CONCUR 2003: Marseille, France
13th CONCUR 2002: Brno, Czech Republic
12th CONCUR 2001: Aalborg, Denmark
11th CONCUR 2000: Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
10th CONCUR 1999: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
9th CONCUR 1998: Nice, France
8th CONCUR 1997: Warsaw, Poland
7th CONCUR 1996: Pisa, Italy
6th CONCUR 1995: Philadelphia, PA, USA
5th CONCUR 1994: Uppsala, Sweden
4th CONCUR 1993: Hildesheim, Germany
3rd CONCUR 1992: Stony Brook, NY, USA
2nd CONCUR 1991: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1st CONCUR 1990: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Concurrency: Theory, Language, And Architecture 1989: Oxford, UK
Concurrency 1988: Hamburg, Germany
Seminar on Concurrency 1984: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Test-of-Time Award
In 2020, the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) and the IFIP Working Group 1.8 on Concurrency Theory
established the CONCUR Test-of-Time Award.
The goal of the Award is to recognize important achievements in concurrency theory that
have stood the test of time, and were published at CONCUR since its first edition in 1990.
Starting with CONCUR 2024, an award event will take
place every other year, and recognize one or two papers presented at CONCUR in the 4-year period from 20 to 17 years earlier.
From 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDX-AM | DXDX (693 AM) Radyo Ronda is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Philippines Network. The station's studio is located along P. Acharon Blvd., Brgy. Dadiangas West, General Santos.
References
Radio stations in General Santos
Radio stations established in 1961
Radio Philippines Network
RPN News and Public Affairs
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie%20Rivers%20Network | Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) is a non-profit organization (a registered 501(c)(3) organization in the United States), located in Champaign, Illinois. Their work goes on throughout Illinois as an independent, state affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation. The organization describes its mission:
"Using the creative power of science, law, and collective action, we protect and restore our rivers, return healthy soils and diverse wildlife to our lands, and transform how we care for the earth and for each other. We protect water, heal land, and inspire change."
History
The organization was founded in 1967 by Bruce and Patricia Hannon under the name Committee on Allerton Park. Initially organized to stop a dam project by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the Sangamon River near Decatur, Illinois. The dam was opposed because the resulting reservoir would have flooded large parts of Allerton Park and adjacent lands. The effort to stop that project, that would have created the Oakley Reservoir, was ultimately successful and it was federally deauthorized in 1985.
The organization changed its name in 1984 to Central States Education Center, and again in 1998 to Prairie Rivers Network.
PRN advocates for waterways and the health of riparian ecosystems throughout Illinois. The key areas of the PRN's work include pollution from industrial agriculture and factory farming, contamination from coal ash and coal mining, and working with communities and farmers on efforts to maintain and restore the health of soil and water.
Coal ash and the suit against Dynegy
In May 2018, PRN, represented by Earthjustice, sued the company Dynegy over violations of the Clean Water Act resulting from coal ash piles along the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River. The coal ash piles are connected to the Vermilion Power Station, which was closed by Dynegy in 2011. The Power Station was built by Illinois Power along the west bank of the Vermilion River in 1956, and acquired by Dynegy in 2000. After the station's closure in 2011, Dynegy merged with Vistra Energy Corporation, and the new company now operates under the name Vistra.
References
External links
Prairie Rivers Network
The History of Allerton Park
Ecojustice Collaborative
Crane, Tracey, "Dynegy faces federal lawsuit over coal-ash pits on Middle Fork," The News Gazette, May 31, 2018. Accessed February 3, 2019.
Brighton, Jack, "Loose Regulations Allow Coal Ash To Threaten River," Illinois Public Media News, September 7, 2018. Accessed February 3, 2019.
"Coal Ash Threat Dead Ahead!," The Mike Nowak Show, Accessed February 3, 2019.
Environmental organizations based in Illinois
Organizations established in 1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch%20MB.800 | The Bloch MB.800 was a French low-wing monoplane three-seat trainer / mailplane developed by Société des Avions Marcel Bloch. It was of all-wood construction.
Variants
Data from: Dassault Aviation
MB 800 P3the first aircraft, a three-seat flying trainer to a P3 specification, powered by two Bloch 6B-1 6-cylinder engines.
MB 800 T3the second aircraft, a three-seat crew trainer to a T3 specification, was under construction in 1939.
MB 800P 'Biarritz'the third aircraft, a mailplane, completed during WWII as the Sud-Ouest SO.80 / Sud-Ouest SO.800, powered by two Béarn 6D engines.
Specifications
See also
References
MB.800
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
1940s French aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandlodiya%20railway%20station | Chandlodiya railway station is a railway station in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. It serves Chandlodiya area of Ahmedabad city. Chandlodiya railway station is 10 km from . Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby stations
Ambli road is the nearest railway station towards , whereas is the nearest railway station towards . The other part of Chandlodiya railway station is Chandlodiya B on the Mehsana line.
Chandlodiya B Railway station
Its station code is CLDYB and is present at 1 km away from Chandlodiya railway station. It is present on Jaipur - Ahmedabad line and Viramgam - Khodiyar line. Here there are 2 platforms and 3 tracks are present. It joins trains from Saurashtra and Kutch towards Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh by saving time train by not going to Ahmedabad Junction or Sabarmati Junction. So train passing from here are as follow:
Gandhinagar Capital - Indore Shanti Express
Ala Hazrat Express (via Ahmedabad)
Porbandar–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Superfast Express
Porbandar–Muzaffarpur Express
Anand - Gandhinagar MEMU
Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Chandlodiya railway station in both directions:
Mumbai Central - Porbandar Saurashtra Express
Somnath - Jabalpur Express (via Itarsi)
Somnath - Jabalpur Express (via Bina)
Mumbai Central - Okha Saurashtra Mail
Bandra - Veraval Saurashtra Janta Express
Gorakhpur - Okha Express
Vadodara - Jamnagar Intercity Superfast Express
Ahmedabad - Viramgam MEMU
References
Railway stations in Ahmedabad district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamwanthali%20railway%20station | Jamwanthali railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Jamwanthali railway station is 31 km far away from Jamnagar railway station. Passenger and Superfast trains halt at Jamwanthali railway station.
Nearby stations
Aliyavada is nearest railway station towards , whereas Jaliya Devani is nearest railway station towards .
Trains
The following Express/Superfast trains halt at Jamwanthali railway station in both directions:
22945/46 Saurashtra Mail
22959/60 Surat–Jamnagar Intercity Express
See also
Jamnagar district
References
Railway stations in Jamnagar district
Rajkot railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin%20Air%20%28Morgan%20novel%29 | Thin Air is a dystopian cyberpunk military science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan first published in 2018. Set in the same reality as his 2007 novel Black Man (published as Thirteen or Th1rte3n in the United States), it is set "well over a century" later than the earlier novel, with all the action taking place on Mars, whereas Black Man / Thirteen is set on Earth.
Plot
Protagonist Hakan Veil was genetically engineered from childhood to be a "hibernoid", a genetically enhanced and deeply augmented human essentially sold into indentured servitude at conception, when the conditioning and modification processes begin. This process and the extent of their integration is so taxing that those who undergo the treatments must spend four months of every [Earth] year asleep in order for their minds and bodies to cope with the tremendous strains that result. Bred to be a crisis commando, Veil and those like him are referred to as Overriders or "Black Hatch Men", used as a last resort measure to protect the bottom line for companies who can afford to hire them. As an Overrider, Veil is conditioned to view saving human life as a secondary concern in favor of monetary assets and commodities like spaceships or freighters and their cargo. Overriders are so fierce and so violent in the execution of their duties, they've taken on an almost mythical status in society, their exploits elevated to sensationalized "boogey man" stories worthy of being syndicated into a popular program, a tagline for which is repeated throughout the novel: "Don't wake the Overrider", as it is understood just how dangerous they are.
Veil was fired after many years of service and countless missions for a private military contractor, exiled to Mars after the "failure" of his final mission in which he not only refused to kill the daughter of a public figure, but ensured her escape and eventual return to her family. Exploiting loopholes in the decommissioning process, Veil begins his exile to Mars fully intact, retaining nearly all of his military-grade augmentations including his AI combat and analysis system. He works as muscle-for-hire to pay for his four-month hibernation, as his augmented physiology still requires him to go into stasis. Veil dislikes being marooned on Mars, but he knows all the players, and at some point or another, has done work for each of them. He would like more than anything to return to Earth, but the expense of such travel is no longer within his reach; he can barely afford to pay the mortgage on his small living space while also paying the storage fees for the cryopod he needs for his annual hibernation period.
At the novel's opening, Veil has just come out of a hibernation cycle and is "running hot", an idiom for the physical and biological state his body is in upon waking. Overriders are an emergency measure, and as such, need to be at peak performance the moment they are activated so everything from physical strength, metabolism, endorphin production, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIDOC | UNIDOC is an XML-based standard to support electronic data interchange (EDI) in business transactions between trading companies. Unlike other XML-based EDI formats, such as UBL, ebXML, RosettaNet or , UNIDOC relies one a single structure ("all in one"). The first idea of such a universal format was published in 2014, its first specification in 2016 in the journal of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Swabia (Bavaria, Germany). The current specification can be found in the UNIDOC XML Schema Definition.
UNIDOC message types
Electronic business documents are called message types within UNIDOC files. The respective message type ("document type")
is specified in the header. The names of the message types are based on the six-digit "qualifier" known from the EDIFACT standard.
In version 2.0 fifteen different message types are defined:
CORINV = correction invoice
DELFOR = delivery forecast
DESADV = despatch advice
IFCSUM = /forwarding and consolidation summary
IFTMIN = transport order
INVOIC = invoice and credit note
INVRPT = inventory report
ORDCHG = order change
ORDERS = purchase order
ORDRSP = order response
OSTRPT = order state report
PRICAT = price list and catalogue
RECADV = receipt advice
REMADV = remittance advice
SLSRPT = sales report
History
The UNIDOC standard was developed in 2016 on the initiative of EDICENTER, which is a member of the European EDI Network (EEDIN). This European EDI Network is establishing a pan-European EDI infrastructure based on "every-to-every-interconnect". The exchange format between the providers is UNIDOC.
UNIDOC has already been implemented as a standard interface by several ERP system providers, e.g. Comporsys, Hirschmann or Line Software.
See also
Electronic data interchange
EDIFACT
References
External links
UNECE
Schema file
Data interchange standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purl%20%28film%29 | Purl is a 2018 American computer-animated short film directed and written by Kristen Lester with the story written by Michael Daley, Bradley Furnish, Lester, and James Robertson, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first short released as part of Pixar's SparkShorts program, and focuses on a ball of yarn named Purl, who gets employed in a male-dominant company, which causes her to be ignored by her fellow employees. The short was previewed at SIGGRAPH on August 14, 2018, premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on January 18, 2019 and released on YouTube on February 4, 2019, and on Disney+ on November 12, 2019 to universal acclaim from critics, particularly for its themes.
Plot
Purl, an anthropomorphic pink-colored ball of yarn, begins an entry-level position at a company named B.R.O. Capital. While excited at first to work there, she soon realizes that her partners barely notice her, in spite of her attempts to fit in. After being left alone while her coworkers go out for a group lunch, Purl observes from photos of the company's capital team that it is composed entirely of white men in similar power suits and hairstyles. This inspires her to change her appearance and personality to resemble theirs. After the other employees return, Purl, now talking and acting like everyone else, is noticed by her coworkers, who invite her out for drinks. Before the group leaves, however, a yellow-colored ball of yarn named Lacy arrives at the office to begin working. When she notices the new ball of yarn is also ignored, Purl befriends Lacy and invites her to join them for drinks. After some time has passed, Purl has returned to her original appearance, and B.R.O. Capital is shown to be staffed by a more diverse combination of men and balls of yarn, who work together as a team.
Cast
Bret Parker as Purl
Emily Davis as Lacy
Pixar employees Michael Daley, Michael Frederickson, Erik Langley, Jimmy Lillard, Austin Madison, Kelsey Mann, Kyle McDaniel, Victor Navone and Michael Yates provided the voices for the male employees at B.R.O. Capital, while Aphton Corbin, Mitra Shahidi, and Pixar director Domee Shi voiced the female employees.
Production
Purl is the first short of Pixar's "SparkShorts" program, in which employees at Pixar are given six months and limited budgets to produce short animated films. Producer Gillian Libbert-Duncan described the short as "a movie about belonging". Writer/director Kristen Lester was inspired by her first experiences working in animation, in which she was the lone female, in writing the film's story. Lester related that to fit in, she "sort of became one of the guys"; her move to Pixar where she worked on a team with female employees helped her rediscover the female aspects of herself that she had suppressed. When she explained the story and concept to Libbert, Libbert also related to being a woman in a male-dominated world.
Lester described the B.R.O. Capital office |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ales%20Leonardis | Aleš Leonardis is professor of computer and information science at the University of Birmingham and at the University of Ljubljana. He is also an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Graz University of Technology and a former visiting researcher of the Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, postdoc of TU Wien and visiting professor at ETH Zurich.
His research concerns computer vision, including object recognition, tracking, and image segmentation. He has also been one of the organizers of an annual series of Visual Object Tracking challenges.
References
External links
20th-century births
Living people
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
University of Pennsylvania faculty
TU Wien
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20Linux | Container Linux (formerly CoreOS Linux) is a discontinued open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure for clustered deployments while focusing on automation, ease of application deployment, security, reliability, and scalability. As an operating system, Container Linux provided only the minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers, together with built-in mechanisms for service discovery and configuration sharing.
Container Linux shares foundations with Gentoo Linux, ChromeOS, and ChromiumOS through a common software development kit (SDK). Container Linux adds new functionality and customization to this shared foundation to support server hardware and use cases. CoreOS was developed primarily by Alex Polvi, Brandon Philips, and Michael Marineau, with its major features available as a stable release.
The CoreOS team announced the end-of-life for Container Linux on May 26, 2020, offering Fedora CoreOS, and RHEL CoreOS as its replacement, both based on Red Hat.
Overview
Container Linux provides no package manager as a way for distributing payload applications, requiring instead all applications to run inside their containers. Serving as a single control host, a Container Linux instance uses the underlying operating-system-level virtualization features of the Linux kernel to create and configure multiple containers that perform as isolated Linux systems. That way, resource partitioning between containers is performed through multiple isolated userspace instances, instead of using a hypervisor and providing full-fledged virtual machines. This approach relies on the Linux kernel's cgroups and namespaces functionalities, which together provide abilities to limit, account and isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) for the collections of userspace processes.
Initially, Container Linux exclusively used Docker as a component providing an additional layer of abstraction and interface to the operating-system-level virtualization features of the Linux kernel, as well as providing a standardized format for containers that allows applications to run in different environments. In December 2014, CoreOS released and started to support rkt (initially released as Rocket) as an alternative to Docker, providing through it another standardized format of the application-container images, the related definition of the container runtime environment, and a protocol for discovering and retrieving container images. CoreOS provides rkt as an implementation of the so-called app container (appc) specification that describes the required properties of the application container image (ACI). CoreOS created appc and ACI as an independent committee-steered set of specifications aimed to become part of the vendor- and operating-system-independent Open Container Initiative, or OCI, initially named the Open Container Project (OCP)
containerization standard, whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom | Acxiom (pronounced "ax-ee-um") is a Conway, Arkansas-based database marketing company. The company collects, analyzes and sells customer and business information used for targeted advertising campaigns. The company was formed in 2018 when Acxiom Corporation (since renamed LiveRamp) spun off its Acxiom Marketing Services (AMS) division to global advertising network Interpublic Group of Companies.
The company has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
History
The business that became Acxiom was founded in 1969 as Demographics, Inc. by Charles D. Ward in Conway, Arkansas. In 1988 it became Acxiom Corporation, and by 2012, the New York Times reported that the company had the world’s largest commercial database on consumers.
On May 14, 2014, Acxiom Corporation announced that it had acquired LiveRamp, a data onboarding company, for $310 million.
In January 2017, Acxiom Corporation launched Audience Cloud, an anonymous targeting tool that allowed demographic segmentation of customers without revealing their actual identities.
In February 2018, Acxiom Corporation announced a reorganization into two divisions - Acxiom Marketing Solutions (AMS) and LiveRamp. In July, advertising company Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) announced they were buying Acxiom Corporation's AMS business for $2.3 billion. In September, Acxiom Corporation officially changed its name to LiveRamp, allowing the AMS business owned by IPG to keep the Acxiom name. Also in September, the company introduced an open data framework allowing clients to combine online and offline data sources.
In December 2019, Acxiom integrated its data on AWS Data Exchange.
Business
Acxiom provides anonymized customer data to marketers, allowing the delivery of more relevant ads to consumers, with more effective measurement.
Acxiom's client base in the United States consists primarily of companies in the financial, insurance and investment services, automotive, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, travel, entertainment, non-profit and government sectors.
Products
Audience Cloud identifies anonymous audience segments, and matches them with publications to display targeted ads when a member of the audience visits a particular site.
Global Data Navigator service allows agencies to select global data elements by country.
InfoBase is the company's brokered warehouse of consumer data.
Personicx is a customer segmentation tool.
Unified Data Layer (UDL) uses cloud architecture to help firms connect online and offline data, to better identify consumers' identities, with a goal of complying with GDPR privacy laws.
Locations
Acxiom's headquarters is located in Conway, Arkansas, United States. The company has an additional U.S. office in New York, New York. International offices are located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and China.
References
External links
Business intelligence companies
Data collection
Information privacy
Technology companies of the United States
Companies ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202019%20%28Slovenia%29 | List of the Slovenian number-one singles of 2019 compiled by SloTop50, is the official chart provider of Slovenia. SloTop50 publishes weekly charts once a week, every Sunday. Chart contain data generated by the SloTop50 system according to any song played during the period starting the previous Monday morning at time 00:00:00 and ending Sunday night at 23:59:59.
Charts
Number-one singles by week
Weekly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
Number-one singles by month
Monthly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
References
Number-one hits
Slovenia
Lists of number-one songs in Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20benchmarking | Randomized benchmarking is an experimental method for measuring the average error rates of quantum computing hardware platforms. The protocol estimates the average error rates by implementing long sequences of randomly sampled quantum gate operations.
Randomized benchmarking is the industry-standard protocol used by quantum hardware developers such as IBM and Google to test the performance of the quantum operations.
The original theory of randomized benchmarking, proposed by Joseph Emerson and collaborators, considered the implementation of sequences of Haar-random operations, but this had several practical limitations. The now-standard protocol for randomized benchmarking (RB) relies on uniformly random Clifford operations, as proposed in 2006 by Dankert et al. as an application of the theory of unitary t-designs. In current usage randomized benchmarking sometimes refers to the broader family of generalizations of the 2005 protocol involving different random gate sets that can identify various features of the strength and type of errors affecting the elementary quantum gate operations. Randomized benchmarking protocols are an important means of verifying and validating quantum operations and are also routinely used for the optimization of quantum control procedures.
Overview
Randomized benchmarking offers several key advantages over alternative approaches to error characterization. For example, the number of experimental procedures required for full characterization of errors (called tomography) grows exponentially with the number of quantum bits (called qubits). This makes tomographic methods impractical for even small systems of just 3 or 4 qubits. In contrast, randomized benchmarking protocols are the only known approaches to error characterization that scale efficiently as number of qubits in the system increases. Thus RB can be applied in practice to characterize errors in arbitrarily large quantum processors. Additionally, in experimental quantum computing, procedures for state preparation and measurement (SPAM) are also error-prone, and thus quantum process tomography is unable to distinguish errors associated with gate operations from errors associated with SPAM. In contrast, RB protocols are robust to state-preparation and measurement errors
Randomized benchmarking protocols estimate key features of the errors that affect a set of quantum operations by examining how the observed fidelity of the final quantum state decreases as the length of the random sequence increases. If the set of operations satisfies certain mathematical properties, such as comprising a sequence of twirls with unitary two-designs, then the measured decay can be shown to be an invariant exponential with a rate fixed uniquely by features of the error model.
History
Randomized benchmarking was proposed in Scalable noise estimation with random unitary operators, where it was shown that long sequences of quantum gates sampled uniformly at random from the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ecuadorian%20provinces%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index |
2021
This is a list of Ecuadorian regions by Human Development Index as of 2023, using the 2021 data.
2018
This is a list of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2019, using the 2018 data. The following report is not official, but it is calculated with the official data of the indicators of the index, given by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE).
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Provinces
Ecuador
Ecuador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Thunderbirds%20Are%20Go%20episodes | Thunderbirds Are Go is a computer-animated science fiction television programme produced by ITV Studios and Pūkeko Pictures. It is a reboot of the series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson which follows the exploits of International Rescue (IR), a rescue organisation run by the Tracy family out of their secret island base in the Pacific Ocean. They use technologically-advanced craft for land, sea, air and space rescues in their operations, the most important of which are a set of vehicles called the Thunderbirds, piloted by the five Tracy brothers.
The programme premiered on 4 April 2015 and concluded on 22 February 2020, running for 78 episodes across three series.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1 (2015–16)
Series 2 (2016–17)
Series 3 (2018–2020)
Notes
References
Lists of British action television series episodes
Lists of British animated television series episodes
Lists of British children's television series episodes
Lists of British science fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s%20Road | The Pilgrim's Road or Pilgrims' Road was a route through Asia Minor to the Holy Land.
Description
The name Pilgrim's Road has been traditionally given to the network of roads that connected Constantinople with the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire such as Syria and Arabia. The route started in Chalcedon, opposite to Constantinople and went to Antioch via Nicomedia, Nicaea, Ancyra, the Cilician Gates and then Tarsus. The surface was paved with small pebbles covered with gravel shortly after the Roman conquest. It was widened from 21.5 feet to 28 feet in the Christian era to accommodate commercial travel.
While the route ensured primarily a rapid connection especially for military forces, pilgrims such as the anonymous pilgrim of Bordeaux who wrote the Itinerarium Burdigalense came to take this route in 333-34 and thus gave it the name Pilgrim's road. Apart from the Itinerarium Burdigalense, two other sources, the Itinerarium Antonini and the Tabula Peutingeriana, describe the route with only one minor divergence between the sources. Pilgrims would also often take detours to visit shrines of saints, such as Egeria who visited the shrine of St. Thecla close to Tarsus in the 380d.
History
The possibly first prominent pilgrim that took the Pilgrim's road was the mother of Constantine the Great, Helena, whose route was retraced by the author of the Itinerarium Burdigalense and who took around two months to get from Constantinople to Jerusalem in 326. In the century after the Bordeaux pilgrim, possibly on instigation of bishop Basil of Caesarea, many hostels were founded along the road, often by wealthy Roman women. These hostels, also known as xenodochia, resembled earlier Greek or Roman inns but were catering specifically to pilgrims, were operated by monks and were typically funded from Church funds or by donations so that also poor pilgrims could use the facilities.
During the middle Byzantine period the route via Ancyra fell out of favour as the Byzantines preferred the route to the Cilician Gates via Dorylaeum, Amorium and Iconium. There were also several other important roads that branched of the Pilgrim's road to the Amasia and Neocaesarea or to Melitene.
See also
First Crusade, who used this route
Other pilgrimage routes
Hajj, Muslim pilgrimage, using routes known as Darb al-Hajj
Stepped street (Jerusalem), a.k.a. "Jerusalem pilgrim(s)/pilgrimage road"
Pilgrim's Road from Ballycumber to Clonmacnoise monastic site
References
History of road transport
Pilgrimage routes
Christian pilgrimages
Catholic pilgrimage sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoyBase%20Database | SoyBase is a database created by the United States Department of Agriculture. It contains genetic information about soybeans. It includes genetic maps, information about Mendelian genetics and molecular data regarding genes and sequences. It was started in 1990 and is freely available to individuals and organizations worldwide.
History
SoyBase was instituted by the Corn Insects and Corn Genetics Research Unit (CICGRU) in Ames, Iowa as a central repository for the soybean genetics community's published information. Originally, the database concentrated on genetic information such as genetic linkage maps and other Mendalian information. SoyBase genetic maps are a manually-curated composite of all published mapping and QTL studies, and thus provide a species level view of markers and QTL.
In 2010 the soybean genome sequence was released along with gene models and many other types of genome annotations that were integrated in to SoyBase. SoyBase genetic linkage maps were integral to the assembly of the soybean genome.
In 2018 the database received approximately 63,000 page requests from 2,600 users per month from 130 countries. About 40 organizations in the United States and 82 foreign educational institutions access SoyBase yearly. SoyBase supplies data to U.S. and foreign government organizations and corporate entities.
Data submission and release policy
Data is accepted from the original source generators only. Users that independently identify data for inclusion into the database can contact SoyBase directly. A number Excel-based spreadsheet templates are available to facilitate the inclusion of data into SoyBase.
All data in SoyBase are available without restrictions. A number of data sub-setting and download tools are provided, and when needed ad hoc subsets of the data can be requested from the SoyBase Curator.
Search tool
The SoyBase Database Search Tool uses a text entry box for queries. Results are returned as text and as displays. Results display soybean genetic (and genomic) data using Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) open-source software. In addition to SoyBase, objects identified by exact lexical matches to the query term, the tool also uses a soybean-specific ontology to identify biologically-related SoyBase objects.
Some SoyBase sequence data and annotations are available through an InterMine instance (SoyMine), which is a collaboration with the Legume Information System Project.
Graphical displays
Genetic maps contain information on markers (SSR, RFLP, SNP, etc.), genes, and biparental and Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL). Soybean genetic maps are displayed using the CMap comparative genetic map viewer. Soybean genomic sequence and gene model data are displayed using the GBrowse sequence viewer. Other genome annotations in this viewer include epigenetic data such as DNA methylation and gene expression data of various soybean strains subjected to different treatments and from dif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Stephens-Davidowitz | Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz (born September 15, 1982) is an American data scientist, economist, and author. He has worked as a New York Times op-ed contributor, a data scientist at Google, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly.
His first book Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book subsequently became a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist.
Biography
Stephens-Davidowitz was born on September 15, 1982, in Englewood, New Jersey into a Jewish family, son of Esther Davidowitz and Mitchell Stephens. He grew up in Alpine, New Jersey, and attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, graduating in 1999. He went on to earn his B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University before enrolling at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in economics in 2013.
Everybody Lies
Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book has received several reviews and other coverage, was a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist.
The overriding theme of the book is that people aren't as honest about their true natures when responding to standard questionnaires as they are when searching the internet, on the assumption that search is a private activity. Of particular note is the empirical chapter, Chapter 4: Digital Truth Serum, derived from extensive Big Data analysis of search engine search histories (primarily Google's) on sensitive subject matters such as prejudice, violence, and sexuality. The remainder of the book addresses the surrounding issues of methodology, epistemology, and moral philosophy.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Data scientists
21st-century American economists
People from Alpine, New Jersey
People from Englewood, New Jersey
The New York Times columnists
20th-century American Jews
Google people
Stanford University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Tenafly High School alumni
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Shostak | Robert Eliot Shostak (born July 26, 1948, in Arlington, Virginia) is an American computer scientist and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He is most noted academically for his seminal work in the branch of distributed computing known as Byzantine Fault Tolerance. He is also known for co-authoring the Paradox Database, and most recently, the founding of Vocera Communications, a company that makes wearable, Star Trek-like communication badges.
Shostak has authored more than forty academic papers and patents, and was editor of the 7th Conference on Automated Deduction. He has Erdős number 2 through his collaboration with Kenneth Kunen.
Shostak is a brother of Seth Shostak, who is Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and who frequently appears on television and radio.
Education
Robert Shostak was born in a Jewish family in Arlington, Virginia, the son of Arthur and Bertha Shostak (née Gortenburg); his father was an electrical engineer. He studied mathematics and computer science at Harvard College, graduating in 1970 with high honors. As part of his senior dissertation work, he designed and built one of the earliest personal computers using discrete RTL logic (microprocessors were not yet available) and a magnetic core memory. He continued at Harvard to earn his A.M. degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1974. While at Harvard he was awarded the Detur Book Priz', and fellowships from IBM and the National Science Foundation.
Career
Afterwards, Shostak joined the research staff in the Computer Science Lab (CSL) at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, California. Much of his work there focused on automated theorem proving, and specifically on the development of decision procedure algorithms for mechanized proof of the kinds of mathematical formulas that occur frequently in the formal verification of correctness of computer programs.
In collaboration with CSL's Richard L. Schwartz and P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Shostak implemented a semi-automatic theorem prover incorporating some of these decision procedures. The prover was used to verify correctness properties of an abstract specification of the SIFT (for Software Implemented Fault Tolerance) operating system and was later incorporated into SRIís Prototype Verification System. The work was published in the paper, SIFT: Design and analysis of a fault-tolerant computer for aircraft control This paper was awarded the 2014 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing established by the IFIP Subgroup 10.4 on Dependable Computing.
Interactive Consistency and Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Perhaps Shostak's most notable academic contribution is to have originated the branch of distributed computing known as Byzantine fault tolerance, also called interactive consistency.
This work was also conducted in connection with the SIFT project at SRI. SIFT was conceived by John H. Wensley, who proposed using a network of general-purpose computers to reliably co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Liu | David Liu may refer to:
Chung Laung Liu (1934–2020), also known as David Liu, Chinese-born Taiwanese computer scientist
David Liu (figure skater) (born 1965), Taiwanese figure skater
David R. Liu (born 1973), American chemist
David Liu, founder of Jiepang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F3%20Nation | F3 Nation, or F3, is a network of free, peer-led workouts for men, founded in the United States on January 1, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina with an estimated 40,000+ active participants. These participants can be found at approximately 3,300 workout locations in 46 different states and 6 countries on 4 continents
The F3 name is an initialism, which stands for fitness, fellowship and faith, referring to the group's three organizing principles.
F3 has 5 "Core Principles" for their workouts.
Be free of charge.
Be open to all men.
Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.
Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary.
End with a Circle of Trust.
F3 is affiliated with FiA, or Females in Action, a network of free, peer-led workouts for women.
Each man participating in an F3 workout is assigned a nickname which he'll use during subsequent workouts.
F3 began in 2011, in North Carolina, when two friends (David Adams and a friend to be named later) in Charlotte started a boot camp style workout for men.
F3 participants apply a distinctive lexicon of terms during their workouts. For example, an informal group leader is known as a "Nantan," a term adopted from an Apache word meaning chief.
References
External links
Organizations established in 2011
Exercise organizations
Men's organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Schuller | Björn Wolfgang Schuller (born April 18, 1975) is a scientist of electrical engineering, information technology and computer science as well as entrepreneur. He is professor of artificial intelligence at Imperial College London., UK, and holds the chair of embedded intelligence for healthcare and wellbeing at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He was a university professor and holder of the chair of complex and intelligent systems at the University of Passau in Germany. He is also co-founder and managing director as well as the current chief scientific officer (CSO) of audEERING GmbH, Germany, as well as permanent visiting professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in the People's Republic of China and associate of CISA at the University of Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland.
Career
Schuller was born in 1975 in Munich, Germany. After graduation in 1994, he received his diploma in 1999, a doctorate in 2006, and the state doctorate (habilitation) in the field of signal processing and machine intelligence as well as adjunct teaching professor in 2012—each in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. There, he headed as scientific assistant, academic council, and junior fellow the Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing Group at the chair of human–machine communication. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a computer scientist at the French CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay near Paris, as well as visiting scientist in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK. In 2011, he was an ERASMUS lecturer at the University of Ancona, Italy, and a guest at NICTA in Sydney, Australia. In 2012, he was Visiting Key Researcher at the Institute for Information Technology and Communication Technology at Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH in Graz, Austria, for which he remained a consultant until 2017. At the end of 2012, he co-founded audEERING GmbH, based in Gilching near Munich and Berlin, Germany, where he has been managing director ever since and is the current chief scientific officer (CSO). The startup of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, deals with solutions for intelligent audio analysis and counts major global enterprises among its customers. In 2013, he was honored as a permanent visiting professor at the Chinese Harbin Institute of Technology, was a visiting professor at CISA at the University of Geneva and was subsequently appointed associate. He also represented the new chair of computer science with a focus on sensor technology at the University of Passau. He received calls to Great Britain in Edinburgh and London – and accepted a position as senior lecturer at Imperial College London, which promoted him in 2015 to reader in machine learning, and in 2018 to professor of artificial intelligence. He further accepted a call to the University of Passau as full professor of the newly established chair of complex and intelligent systems (initially chair of co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAILS%20Library%20Network | The SAILS Library Network, formerly Southeastern Automated Integrated Library Services, is a non-profit library consortium of 70 member libraries in 39 communities located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. SAILS was founded in 1995 to link the ABLE and SEAL library networks, which were later dissolved into SAILS in 2000. The network provides library patrons with access to check out and return items at member libraries, interlibrary loans through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners' Commonwealth Catalog, mobile app access, and access to electronic collections (including OverDrive). Member libraries are provided customized online catalog services, digital collections storage, internet and telecommunications services, email and Google Apps accounts for library staff, access to SirsiDynix software, and staff training.
Approximately 70 percent of funding for SAILS comes from dues from member libraries, with the remaining portion coming from government subsidies and grants. In fiscal year 2017, the network's 463,000 patrons checked out almost 3.6 million items, worth an estimated $44 million. Deliveries of materials between member libraries and other library networks in Massachusetts through an interlibrary loan program are made by the Massachusetts Library System, which has offices in Northampton and Marlborough. The network uses SirsiDynix integrated library system (ILS) for staff function workflows: acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, ILL, and serials as well as for their patron's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The libraries provide access to reference databases, digital libraries, access to free music online, museum passes, genealogy, workshops, and other free services that vary from each location. In 2018, the network introduced automatic renewals on most items.
Member libraries
Public libraries
Acushnet Public Library
Guildford H. Hathaway Public Library (Assonet)
Attleboro Public Library
Berkley Public Library (Massachusetts)
Bridgewater Public Library
Carver Public Library
Dartmouth - North Dartmouth Library
Dartmouth - Southworth Library
Dighton Public Library
East Bridgewater Public Library
James White Memorial Library (East Freetown)
Ames Free Library (Easton)
The Millicent Library (Fairhaven)
Fall River Main
Charlton Library of Fall River History
Boyden Library (Foxboro)
Holmes Public Library (Halifax)
Hanson Public Library
Lakeville Public Library
Mansfield Public Library
Elizabeth Taber Library (Marion)
Mattapoisett Free Public Library
Middleborough Public Library
New Bedford Bookmobile
Casa da Saudade Library (New Bedford)
Howland-Green Library (New Bedford)
Lawler Library (New Bedford)
New Bedford Main Library
Wilks Library (New Bedford)
Norfolk Public Library
Richards Memorial Library (North Attleboro)
Norton Public Library
Pembroke Public Library
Plainville Public Library
Plympton Public Library
Raynham Public Library
Blanding Public Library (Rehoboth)
Joseph H. Plu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computed%20axial%20lithography | Computed axial lithography is a method for 3D printing based on computerised tomography scans to create objects from photo-curable resin. The process was developed by a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Unlike other methods of 3D printing, computed axial lithography does not build models through depositing layers of material, as fused deposition modelling and stereolithography does, instead it creates objects by projecting a 2D image of the spinning 3D model onto a cylinder of resin spinning at the same rate. It is notable for its ability to build an object much more quickly than other methods using resins and the ability to embed objects within the objects.
References
3D printing processes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20smuggling%20in%20southern%20Africa | The wildlife trafficking network in southern Africa involves the illicit extraction, transportation and transaction of wildlife within and across the nations of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini. Involvement in the illegal trading network can be divided into three general roles: poachers, traffickers and intermediaries, and consumers. There are a wide range of motives depending on an individual's role in the network. Some motivations include profit, sustenance, and reducing human-wildlife conflict.
Wildlife commodities
Animals subject to wildlife trafficking include any animal that is not explicitly sanctioned by the government to wound, kill, or export. In the southern region of Africa, some species that are common in the illegal trading network are exotic birds, large African cats, rhinoceros, and elephants.
Threatened exotic bird species are the most exported wildlife from the southern region of Africa. Top importer of exotic birds is South Africa, though there are also buyers in the United States and Europe. The African Gray Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) is the most poached parrot of South Africa.
Large African cats that are poached include lions, cheetahs, and leopards. Body parts of African cats, particularly lions, are traded both pan-nationally and transnationally for zootherapeutic practices. Eighty percent of the African Lion (Panthera leo) population is concentrated in east and southern Africa. Trade of lion skin, teeth, and claws occurs most frequently within the continent. While domestic trade of lion parts is much more common, there is also a significant amount of lion bone trade across East-Southeast Asia.
Elephants and rhinoceros are poached for ivory and rhinoceros horn. The trends of rhinoceros and elephant poaching are largely dependent on global demand. Rhinoceros horns are used for decorative purposes and some Asian medicines. In South Africa, rhino poaching commonly happens on privately owned land, which is difficult for officials to prevent. Another common place to poach is Kruger National Park. The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the elephant species that inhabits southern Africa. While elephant populations in Eastern and Central Africa are steadily decreasing, elephant population sizes in southern Africa are stable. The current elephant population in southern Africa is 293, 447. However, poaching continues to threaten the status of elephant populations, specifically in Kruger National Park, where the PIKE (Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants) value has increased 23% from 2014 to 2015.
Poachers
Poachers function as the suppliers to the wildlife market. Illegal poaching occurs locally and on larger, commercial scales. There are various motivations for poaching, some of which include an aim to reduce human-wildlife conflict, trophy hunting, and consumer demand.
Small-scale poaching may occur to protect domestic animals and crops. Farmers poach predatory animals, such as lions, cheet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IP%20version%20numbers | Packets that hold Internet Protocol data carry a 4-bit IP version number as the first field of its header. Currently, only IPv4 and IPv6 packets are seen on the Internet, having IP version numbers 4 and 6, respectively.
IP version numbers
As the version number is carried in a 4-bit field, only numbers 0–15 can be assigned.
History
During the development of the first version of the Internet Protocol in the 1970s, the initial experimental versions 1 to 3 were not standardized. The first working version that was widely deployed was assigned version number 4.
A separate protocol based on reliable connections was developed and assigned version 5.
IP version 7 was chosen in 1988 by R. Ullmann as the next IP version because he incorrectly assumed that version 6 was in use for ST-II. However, ST-II had reused version 5 of the original ST protocol.
In the early 1990s, when it became apparent that IPv4 could not sustain routing in a growing Internet, several new Internet Protocols were proposed. The Internet Protocol that finally emerged was assigned version number 6, being the lowest free number greater than 4.
The PIP protocol and TUBA protocol used versions 8 and 9, following version 7 for TP/IX.
In 2004, an IPv9 protocol was developed in China using 256-bit addresses.
References
Internet Protocol
IPv4 protocol numbers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Network%20Exchange%20Format | Neural Network Exchange Format (NNEF) is an artificial neural network data exchange format developed by the Khronos Group. It is intended to reduce machine learning deployment fragmentation by enabling a rich mix of neural network training tools and inference engines to be used by applications across a diverse range of devices and platforms.
History
NNEF was proposed in 2015 by member companies of the Khronos Group as a device and implementation independent transfer format capable of describing any artificial neural net in terms of its structure, operations and data.
The first version of the standard was launched in provisional form in December 2017, and was ratified as an official Khronos standard in August 2018.
Objectives
The goal of NNEF is to enable data scientists and engineers to easily transfer trained networks from their chosen training framework into a wide variety of inference engines. NNEF encapsulates a complete description of the structure, operations and parameters of a trained neural network, independent of the training tools used to produce it and the inference engine used to execute it.
Governance and Availability
NNEF is maintained by the Khronos Group under its Open Governance Principles as follows:
Any company is invited and able to join Khronos to contribute to and influence the development of its specifications;
Finalized specifications are publicly and freely distributed at zero cost from the Khronos web-site;
Any company can implement a Khronos specification and participating implementers can obtain a trademark license for conformant implementations and pay zero royalties to Khronos participants; and
Developers may freely use implementations of Khronos specifications.
The NNEF specification is available on the Khronos NNEF registry and tools are available on Github
Versions
NNEF 1.0 Provisional, Released 20 December 2017.
NNEF 1.0, Released 13 August 2018
NNEF 1.0.1, Released 10 May 2019
NNEF 1.0.2, Released 13 July 2019
Industry Participation
The following Khronos members have participated in the NNEF working group:
Tools
The NNEF tools project on GitHub contains the following open source tools:
File format Parser
Bidirectional converters between NNEF and ONNX, Caffe, Caffe2, TensorFlow (python), TensorFlow (protobuf)
Model zoo: reference collection of models converted to NNEF
See also
Open Neural Network Exchange
References
Neural network data exchange formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Minqiang | Huang Minqiang (; born October 1960) is a Chinese mathematician and computer scientist, with a specialization in information processing. He is a research professor of the 58th Research Institute of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Biography
Huang was born in October 1960 in Shanghai. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Fudan University in 1980, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1989.
Huang is a research professor of the 58th Research Institute of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force. His research focus is on information processing, systems analysis, and discrete mathematics. He served as a member of the Information Assurance Expert Group of the 863 Program.
In 2005, Huang was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2017.
References
1960 births
Living people
Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese computer scientists
Fudan University alumni
Mathematicians from Shanghai
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
University of Science and Technology of China alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHO%20IV | ECHO IV, or ECHO 4 (Electronic Computing Home Operator, or Electronic Computer for Home Operation) is a prototype of a home computer developed by Westinghouse Electric engineer James (Jim) Sutherland in the mid-1960s (1965-1966).
History
James Sutherland worked as an engineer for the American company Westinghouse Electric, designing fossil and nuclear power plant control systems. In 1959 the company built a computer called PRODAC IV (he was the designer of the arithmetic logic unit), using destructive-readout core memory and NOR logic.
When PRODAC IV was replaced by a UNIVAC design, some of the Westinghouse controller hardware was declared surplus in 1965. Sutherland took up surplus boards and memory to build a home computer, ECHO IV (the "IV" in ECHO IV came from the PRODAC IV). It was made public for the first time in 1966.
The computer was working in the Sutherland's house until 1976, and was donated to the Computer Museum in Boston in 1984.
Technical specifications
Processor
Transistorized (2N404), with RTL NOR logic elements
120 circuit modules
18 commands
4 registers
Add time: 216 μs
Frequency: 160 kHz
Main memory:
8,192 15-bit words, magnetic core
Input/Output:
paper tape reader and punch
keyboard made from parts of IBM Selectric typewriter
Kleinschmidt teleprinter
Physical specifications:
Four large wooden cabinets, each with approximate dimension of:
Width: 4 feet
Height: 6 feet
Depth: 2 feet
Weight: about
Uses
Accounting
Household inventory
Calendar
Manage all digital clocks through the house
Real-time clock with delay of 1 second
Air conditioning management
TV and television antenna management; on school nights children were required to answer questions if they wanted to watch television
Meteorological program for reading and storing data from a meteorological station that was connected to ECHO IV and weather forecast
References
Bibliography
External links
ECHO IV photos with description:
Home computers
Pages with unreviewed translations
Early microcomputers
Computer-related introductions in 1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex%20character%20set | The character sets used by Videotex are based, to greater or lesser extents, on ISO/IEC 2022. Three Data Syntax systems are defined by ITU T.101, corresponding to the Videotex systems of different countries.
Data Syntax 1
Data Syntax 1 is defined in Annex B of T.101:1994. It is based on the CAPTAIN system used in Japan. Its graphical sets include JIS X 0201 and JIS X 0208.
The following G-sets are available through ISO/IEC 2022-based designation escapes:
Mosaic sets for Data Syntax 1
The mosaic sets supply characters for use in semigraphics.
� Not in Unicode
Data Syntax 2
Data Syntax 2 is defined in Annex C of T.101:1994. It corresponds to some European Videotex systems such as CEPT T/CD 06-01. The graphical character coding of Data Syntax 2 is based on T.51.
The default G2 set of Data Syntax 2 is based on an older version of T.51, lacking the non-breaking space, soft hyphen, not sign (¬) and broken bar (¦) present in the current version, but adding a dialytika tonos (΅—combining form is U+0344) at the beginning of the row of diacritical marks for combination with codes from a Greek primary set. An umlaut diacritic code distinct from the diaeresis code, as included in some versions of T.61, is also sometimes included.
The default G1 set is the second mosaic set, corresponding roughly to the second mosaic set of Data Syntax 1. The default G3 set is the third mosaic set, matching the first mosaic set of Data Syntax 1 for 0x60 through 0x6D and 0x70 through 0x7D, and otherwise differing. The first mosaic set matches the second except for 0x40 through 0x5E: 0x40 through 0x5A follow ASCII (supplying uppercase letters), whereas the remainder are national variant characters; the displaced full block is placed at 0x7F.
Representation of 0x5B-5E is not guaranteed in international communication and may be replaced by national application oriented variants.
0x5F may be displayed either as ⌗ (square) or _ (lower bar) to represent the terminator function required by Videotex services.
Data Syntax 3
Data Syntax 3 is defined in Annex D of T.101:1994. The graphical character coding of Data Syntax 3 is based on T.51.
The supplementary set for Data Syntax 3 is based on an older version of T.51, lacking the non-breaking space, soft hyphen, not sign (¬) and broken bar (¦) present in the current version, and allocating non-spacing marks for a "vector overbar" and solidus and several semigraphic characters to unallocated space in that set.
See the comments in the T.51 article for caveats about the combining mark Unicode mappings shown below. Unlike Unicode combining characters, T.51 diacritic codes precede the base character.
C0 control codes
C0 control codes for Videotex differ from ASCII as shown in the table below. The , , (LS1), (LS0) and codes are also available in some or all data syntaxes, but without change in name or semantic from ASCII.
C1 control codes
The following specialised C1 control codes are used in Videotex. There are four re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20transformation | Intelligent transformation is the process of deriving better business and societal outcomes by leveraging smart devices, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud technologies.
Process
Intelligent transformation takes place where devices and data center infrastructure work together to create end-to-end solutions. It addresses the needs of a customer and improves the performance of individual vertical industries. This takes place by leveraging big data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.
Intelligent transformation typically involves three capabilities. On the front end, there needs to be smart devices, or sensors and modules in the field to generate the information to be analyzed, a process called Smart Internet of Things (SIoT). On the back-end, data center infrastructure processes the information and through algorithms, generate patterns and insights. This is called smart infrastructure. The final is called smart vertical and takes place once the data for specific use cases to be addressed.
The more use cases a vendor is able to address, the more quickly that it will likely become the leading provider of intelligent solutions to a particular industry.
Use cases and industry recognition
There are multiple uses cases for smart manufacturing. In the healthcare industry, intelligent transformation can help to develop the next generation of radiology tools and help surgeons create more precise analytics for pathology images. For example, advanced machine learning methods developed can achieve more accurate demand forecast in certain scenarios.
Predix Asset Performance Management from General Electric is designed to optimize the performance of assets. Its goal is to increase reliability and availability and also minimize costs.
Microsoft incorporates intelligent transformation in its Surface Hub 2 digital whiteboard for smart office by integrating hardware and software solutions together. Features developed through intelligent transformation include a 4K camera for Skype, 4 screen tilling, and incorporation of collaboration tools such as Windows, Office, and Skype.
Intelligent transformation is used by Lenovo in various products such as smart speakers, smart watches and smart displays which use various AI technology. Smart devices would include Smart PC Yoga S940 by Lenovo which uses AI technologies to detect user attention and protect work privacy by automatically adjusting the display background. Smart infrastructure would include ThinkAgile Software Defined Infrastructure which is optimized for a variety of workloads and designed to provide more efficient resource allocation to support business growth. An example of vertical use case would include DaystAR for remote monitoring of airline maintenance process, which has been applied to manufacturing and aviation.
Intelligent transformation is also used by LiveTiles to create employee and customer-facing chatbots powered by Microso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noesis%20%28software%29 | Noesis is software for viewing, converting, and reverse engineering data. Common data types supported by the software include images, 3D models, medical imaging (DICOM), and animation.
Noesis was created and is actively maintained by video game programmer Rich Whitehouse. The software supports hundreds of file formats, with a focus on allowing users to understand and analyze data in a way which would not be possible without reverse engineering. This is exemplified by the software's support for many proprietary file formats (including, more recently, animation data from the video game Final Fantasy XV), in tandem with a continued focus on user plugins and Python scripting features. Noesis has also received a great deal of community support, with native plugins and scripts available to add support for hundreds of additional file formats.
History
A full version history is maintained in the software's current documentation. Articles have been written to elaborate upon the addition of notable features throughout development, including Python support, physically based rendering, and Autodesk FBX support.
Noesis has been leveraged for numerous well-publicized projects. In late 2010, a video was published to demonstrate the software's real-time physics simulation and Microsoft Kinect motion capture ability. Footage of a real-world subject being tracked in a range-mapped depth view can be seen alongside a rendered view of Ivy, a character from the Soulcalibur series. The character's movements echo the subject's and demonstrate real-time collision between the character's limbs and breasts. The video was featured by numerous press outlets, including Kotaku and The Escapist.
On August 6, 2014, an article was published on a Library of Congress blog, in which Trevor Owens chronicles his discovery of a disc containing an unreleased copy of Duke Nukem: Critical Mass for the PlayStation Portable. In the article, Noesis is used to explore the game data, and an animated GIF embedded in the article shows a jetpack-equipped Duke Nukem rendering inside of Noesis.
Another article was published by the author of Noesis on the Video Game History Foundation blog on October 7, 2017. In this article, the author explores the source code and data of Disney's Aladdin for the Sega Genesis. Readers are invited to follow along with the use of Noesis, leveraging support for extracting and viewing data from the retail distributions of the game.
In December 2018, a script was created for Noesis in order to generate levels for the video game DOOM by tracking the movements of a Roomba. This script, titled DOOMBA, received coverage from a wide range of press outlets, including Variety, Engadget, Popular Mechanics, Polygon, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Hackaday, Gizmodo, and The Verge.
Features
Noesis is most commonly known for its ability to view and export 3D model and animation data across many different file formats. However, the software also employs native plugin and scriptin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N305%20highway%20%28Philippines%29 | National Route 305 (N305) forms a part of the Philippine highway network. It is a secondary road that acts as a four-lane spur road that spans and consists two major streets in Olongapo, serving as the main road of Olongapo city proper.
Route description
N305 was constructed by the United States Government when the Olongapo was a Naval Reservation. U.S. Navy personnel used the route to provide access to Manila while the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay existed in Olongapo.
Magsaysay Drive
N305 starts at the Magsaysay Bridge as its southern terminus, a pedestrian walkway that used to be a roadway for vehicles, then provided access to the Subic Bay Freeport Zone until 2011 when SM City Olongapo was built. The route is entirely a one-way road for northbound vehicles. Magsaysay Drive ends at the Friendship Rotunda, a roundabout intersection that was built in the 1970s.
Rizal Avenue
Going further north, N305 continues the route after the Friendship Rotunda, as Rizal Avenue. the Bajac-Bajac Bridge also crosses the route. N305 terminates north at the Ulo ng Apo roundabout – intersecting with other major roads of Jose Abad Santos Avenue (N3) and Olongapo–Bugallon Road (N306).
Maintenance
N305 was maintained by the City Government of Olongapo and the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Enforcement
The route was equipped with CCTV camera, traffic cones and proper traffic signage to provide safety features and guide direction for motorist. the whole route has assigned traffic personnel enforced by Office of the Traffic Management and Public Safety.
Intersections
Rizal Avenue
Sta Rita Intersection
26th Street West Junction
25th Street (OCES) West Junction
24th Street Intersection
23rd Street (City Hall) West Junction
22nd Street East Junction
Rizal Triangle Junction
20th Street Intersection
Ulo ng Apo Rotunda
Rizal Avenue Extension
Hospital Road - Anonas Street Intersection (known as SM City Olongapo Central Intersection)
16th Street Intersection
14th Street (Jackson) Intersection
12th Street Intersection
11th Street West Junction
9th Street (Wesley) Intersection
Friendship Rotunda
Magsaysay Drive (North to South)
Fendler Street Intersection
Gallagher Street East Junction
Hansen - 3rd Street Intersection (Police Station 3)
Gordon Avenue - 1st Street Intersection (Magsaysay Drive Main Crossing)
Main Gate - Columban Junction (end of Magsaysay Drive)
References
Roads in Zambales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20style%20transfer | Neural style transfer (NST) refers to a class of software algorithms that manipulate digital images, or videos, in order to adopt the appearance or visual style of another image. NST algorithms are characterized by their use of deep neural networks for the sake of image transformation. Common uses for NST are the creation of artificial artwork from photographs, for example by transferring the appearance of famous paintings to user-supplied photographs. Several notable mobile apps use NST techniques for this purpose, including DeepArt and Prisma. This method has been used by artists and designers around the globe to develop new artwork based on existent style(s).
Earlier style transfer algorithms
NST is an example of image stylization, a problem studied for over two decades within the field of non-photorealistic rendering. The first two example-based style transfer algorithms were image analogies and image quilting. Both of these methods were based on patch-based texture synthesis algorithms.
Given a training pair of images–a photo and an artwork depicting that photo–a transformation could be learned and then applied to create new artwork from a new photo, by analogy. If no training photo was available, it would need to be produced by processing the input artwork; image quilting did not require this processing step, though it was demonstrated on only one style.
NST
NST was first published in the paper "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" by Leon Gatys et al., originally released to ArXiv 2015, and subsequently accepted by the peer-reviewed CVPR conference in 2016. The original paper used a VGG-19 architecture that has been pre-trained to perform object recognition using the ImageNet dataset.
In 2017, Google AI introduced a method that allows a single deep convolutional style transfer network to learn multiple styles at the same time. This algorithm permits style interpolation in real-time, even when done on video media.
Formulation
The process of NST assumes an input image and an example style image .
The image is fed through the CNN, and network activations are sampled at a late convolution layer of the VGG-19 architecture. Let be the resulting output sample, called the 'content' of the input .
The style image is then fed through the same CNN, and network activations are sampled at the early to middle layers of the CNN. These activations are encoded into a Gramian matrix representation, call it to denote the 'style' of .
The goal of NST is to synthesize an output image that exhibits the content of applied with the style of , i.e. and .
An iterative optimization (usually gradient descent) then gradually updates to minimize the loss function error:
,
where is the L2 distance. The constant controls the level of the stylization effect.
Training
Image is initially approximated by adding a small amount of white noise to input image and feeding it through the CNN. Then we successively backpropagate this loss through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%20Dickinson%20Hospital | Cooley Dickinson Hospital is a nonprofit community hospital located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the primary hub of Cooley Dickinson Health Care, a regional network of primary and specialty care medical providers, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, which is part of Mass General Brigham.
Facilities and current operations
Cooley Dickinson Hospital has 140 licensed beds and 11 licensed bassinets. It is used by more than 77,000 community members a year. Notable subsections of the facility include its Childbirth Center, the Kittredge Surgery Center and the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
Cooley Dickinson Health Care encompasses more than 20 locations in the Pioneer Valley including members of Cooley Dickinson Medical Group, and Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice, a homecare provider that employs nurses, rehabilitation therapists and social workers in western Massachusetts. The organization is a major regional employer, retaining approximately 2,000 employees, and provides funding for numerous other nonprofit and community health organizations.
Affiliated institutions
Since 2013, Cooley Dickinson Hospital has been an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital.
In addition to shared billing and medical records, the hospitals currently collaborate in the areas of tele-medicine (stroke), maternal-fetal medicine, organ transplant evaluation and cancer treatment. Since 2001, Cooley Dickinson has worked in partnership with the UMass Amherst School of Nursing to help train and to recruit nurses.
History
The Cooley Dickinson Hospital was founded with a bequest from the will of Caleb Cooley Dickinson, a descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, the first settler in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and a cousin of poet Emily Dickinson. It was originally established as a "Hospital for the sick poor," and admitted its first patient in 1886.
From 1901 to 1975, the facility turned out thousands of graduates from its Cooley Dickinson School of Nursing, including hundreds trained through an accelerated program during World War II for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
In the summer of 1964, U.S Senator Edward Kennedy spent approximately two weeks at Cooley Dickinson Hospital recovering from a plane crash in neighboring Southampton, before being moved to New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. The crash killed the plane's pilot, Edwin Zimny, and one of Kennedy's aides, Edward Moss, whose name is still honored by a Cooley Dickinson nursing scholarship that Kennedy established in his memory. Fellow Senator Birch Bayh (D, IN) and his wife Marvella also survived the crash and were also treated at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
In 2011, amid the nation's recovery from the 2008 financial crisis which led to widespread mergers and acquisitions across healthcare, Cooley Dickinson Hospital sought a new owner to avoid closure. Among candidates which included Baystate Health and Vanguard Health Systems, an overwhelming majority of staff supported acquisit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Hyatt | Ariel Hyatt (born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American digital marketer, writer, and teacher who develops independent musicians. The author of Music Success in 9 Weeks (2009), Cyber PR For Musicians (2013), the crowdfunded Crowdstart (2016), among other books, she is the owner of Cyber PR, a New York-based public relations firm.
Background and education
Hyatt is the daughter of entrepreneur Carole Hyatt and television producer Gordon Hyatt; the former wrote The Women's Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself and Anything Else, which was a New York Times bestseller. Ariel grew up in New York City attending clubs like CBGBs, The Limelight and The Tunnel. She has said of her upbringing, "I think sitting at the dinner table was the beginning of my education, just having this amazingly dynamic mother who was creating things when women weren't really yet in the work force."
Hyatt attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she studied theater, and sang in the Clark Bars an a cappella group, graduating in 1993.
Early career
After college Hyatt worked at New York City's WNEW-FM, a record store, a music public relations firm, and a record label, What Are Records?. She moved to Boulder, Colorado with the label, was hired full-time then assisted a concert promoter and managed a local funk band, Lord of Word, and handled their publicity. When the band experienced success, Hyatt picked up more work. She was then employed by the city's Fox Theatre, which had music nightly, and has said it was her best job.
Career
Hyatt founded Ariel Publicity which she ran from her Boulder apartment. Three years into the company, she had a roster of 22 bands from across the United States. She was called by Denver Live "one of the most respected and sought after artist relations representatives" in the state and quoted by the alternative weekly Westword, in assessing the music scene in Colorado's capital. She told the latter, "I've come to realize that Denver is a very unique market. Things that are very, very popular in Denver don't necessarily translate once you're out of Denver.... It's the same thing for national acts. I've seen shows that have sold out nationwide take a bath in Denver. Colorado audiences don't care what's hot or in or trendy. They just want to have a good time." She also noted that bands in the north-central city held a geographic disadvantage for touring compared to music groups from cities on the East Coast which were located within more tolerable driving distances of each other.
She opened Ariel Publicity's office in New York City in 2000, before moving back permanently. The company went completely digital in January 2007.
Her clients included the Toasters (whose shows she used to attend avidly as a teen), Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and George Clinton. She credits her time at What Are Records? for allowing her to "really [watch] what everyone in every department did." At this small scale, the employees also all knew every aspect o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20Adventures%21 | Learning Adventures series is a set of two games of point-and-click educational computers games developed by Cloud 9 Interactive, published by Macmillan Digital Publishing and released on both Windows and Macintosh on CD-ROM.
The series consists of the titles "I can be a Dinosaur Finder" (Paleontologist) released in 1997 and "I can be an Animal Doctor" (Veterinarian) released in 1998. The games revolve around three characters Addie the kangaroo (voiced by Mary Kay Bergman), Rufus the dog (voiced by Jeannie Elias) and Katie the chameleon (voiced by Debi Derryberry,) who dive into a special chest to go on adventures.
Games
I can be a Dinosaur Finder
Addie, Rufus and Katie go to a dig site to help Dr. Rock Hound to excavate and assemble a prehistoric animal's skeleton and become official fossil finders.
In this game, players learn about paleontology, uncovering fossils, the different time periods of prehistory and prehistoric animal species (most notably dinosaurs). There are also nine extra activities.
I can be an Animal Doctor
Addie, Rufus and Katie go to an animal hospital to aid in the care of injured and sick animals.
In this game, players learn how to treat wild and domestic animals afflicted with some ailment, using the correct treatments for different ailments.
Reception
The game was recommended by the American Humane Association.
References
External links
Official Website
1997 video games
Children's educational video games
Classic Mac OS games
Windows games
Video games about dogs
Video games about reptiles
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Life%20Is%20Murder | My Life Is Murder is an Australian and New Zealand murder mystery, crime comedy-drama television series, broadcast on Network 10 and TVNZ 1. The ten part series premiered on 17 July 2019, at 8:40 pm. In the United States, the series began streaming on Acorn TV on 5 August 2019 and in the United Kingdom, to Alibi on 24 September 2019.
By the end of October 2020, the series had been renewed for a second 10-episode season, with TVNZ, Network 10, Acorn and other networks signed on to broadcast. The second season premiered August 9, 2021 on TVNZ 1, and began streaming in North America on Acorn on August 30, 2021. In February 2022, the series was renewed for a third 10-episode season by Acorn.
Synopsis
My Life Is Murder follows the adventures of fearless private investigator Alexa Crowe, who solves the most baffling crimes as well as coping with the frustrations of everyday life.
Cast
Main
Lucy Lawless as PI Alexa Crowe, former investigator of Melbourne PD. As a side hustle, she bakes bread in her kitchen for Baristas Café. From the second season, she moved to Auckland to be closer to her brother, Will. She also starts bread deliveries to Reuben's.
Ebony Vagulans as Madison Feliciano, Alexa's assistant. She's a former hacker and enrolled into the scientific police to avoid being arrested.
Bernard Curry as DI Kieran Hussey (Season 1; guest Season 2), investigator for the Melbourne PD for whom Crowe consults.
Rawiri Jobe as Detective Harry Henare (Season 2—), a friend of Kieran who gives cases to Crowe.
Alex Andreas as George Stathopoulos (Season 1), owner of the Baristas Café.
Joe Naufahu as Reuben Wulf (Season 2—), owner of the Reuben's.
Recurring
Dilruk Jayasinha as Dr. Suresh (Season 1)
Kate McCartney as Dawn Mason (Season 1), Alexa's landlady and neighbour
Martin Henderson as Will Crowe (Seasons 2 and 3), Alexa's brother
Todd River as Captain Thunderbolt, Alexa's pet cat (Season 1)
Zeppelin as Chowder, Alexa's pet cat (Seasons 2 and 3)
Tatum Warren-Ngata as Beth, a Navy Cryptologist and Madison's gamer friend (Season 3)
Steffen Schweizer as Gerhardt (Season 1)
Laura Daniel as Isla (Season 2)
Nell Fisher as Olive Crowe (Season 3). Alexa's niece and Will's daughter
Notable guests
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2021)
Season 3 (2022)
Home media
References
External links
Acorn TV
2010s New Zealand television series
2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 New Zealand television series debuts
Australian comedy-drama television series
Australian mystery television series
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
New Zealand comedy-drama television series
New Zealand mystery television series
Television shows filmed in New Zealand
Television shows set in Auckland
Television shows set in Melbourne
Television series by Greenstone TV
TVNZ 1 original programming
Cozy mystery television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacu%20jawi | The pacu jawi () is a traditional bull race in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. In the race, a jockey stands on a wooden plough loosely tied to a pair of bulls and holds them by their tails while the bulls cover about of muddy track in a rice field. Although the name means a "bull race", the bulls do not directly compete against each other, and no formal winner is declared. Instead, spectators judge the bulls by their performance (mostly their speed and their ability to run straight), and have the ability to buy well-performing bulls, albeit at well above usual price. The people of Tanah Datar—especially the nagaris (villages) in four of its districts—have been conducting this tradition for centuries to celebrate the end of the rice harvest. The race is held concurrently with a village festival of culture called alek pacu jawi. Recently it has become a tourist attraction supported by the government and the subject of multiple award-winning photographs.
Background
The pacu jawi is performed in Tanah Datar, one of the regencies of West Sumatra, Indonesia. According to tradition, the race can only be held where the 2,891 m-tall Mount Marapi—reputed to be the origin of the Minangkabau people who populate West Sumatra—is visible. It is held by the region's agrarian population, when the rice fields are empty after harvest and before the next planting. Its location is rotated between several nagaris of Tanah Datar. Traditionally, the hosts are the nagaris in four of Tanah Datar's districts: Sungai Tarab, Pariangan, Lima Kaum and Rambatan. Together, these four districts consist of 26 nagaris (as of 2014) with altitudes ranging between , and have rice fields and more than 12,000 cattle (2012 data). The race originated as post-harvest entertainment and a celebration for the villagers and has been taking place for centuries, predating the Indonesian independence. In the past, the event was held only twice a year, but the shortening of rice harvest cycle has allowed more frequent installments of pacu jawi. By 2013, one of the nagaris hosted it every two months, with each instance consisting of four events on Wednesdays or Saturdays.
Race
Despite its name pacu jawi (literally "bull race" or "cow race" in Minangkabau), it is not generally conducted as a direct competition between the animals. Instead, each participant (a jockey, with a pair of bulls) takes a turn running across the track. The animals are usually bulls (male cattle) between 2–13 years old, and run in pairs. Both bulls are connected by a rope to a wooden plough, where the jockey stands. They run in a muddy track, an empty patch of rice fields that have been cleared after harvest. Sources—witnessing different instances of the race—describe various length of the track, including around , , and . The track can be covered by up to of mud. The bulls are trained to start running when the plough is on the ground and someone steps on it. The jockey controls the animals and remains standing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highest-grossing%20films%20in%20Pakistan | The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Pakistan, with gross revenue in Pakistani rupees. This is not an official tracking of figures, as reliable sources that publish data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates. For a list of the highest-grossing Pakistani films worldwide, see List of highest-grossing Pakistani films.
Highest-grossing films
The Legend of Maula Jatt is the highest-grossing film of all time in Pakistan, and it was released in October 2022.
This is the list of the top 22 highest-grossing films of all time released in Pakistan. These figures are not adjusted for ticket prices inflation.
Domestic films
Choorian was the first film ever to cross the 20 crore mark in Pakistan and it was released back in 1998.
Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 is the first movie to cross the 50 crore mark and The Legend of Maula Jatt is the first and only movie to cross the 100 crore mark in Pakistan.
This is the list of the highest-grossing Pakistani films within local Pakistani cinemas, which include films from all the Pakistani languages. These figures are not adjusted for ticket prices inflation.
Foreign films
Spider-Man: No Way Home records the biggest opening weekend for any film during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, third highest for a Hollywood release which grossed nearly 9.2 crore, highest grossing film during Covid-19, and Pakistan is one of the few countries where Spider-Man: No Way Home has managed to surpass the record of Avengers: Endgame to become the highest grossing Hollywood film in the country. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness released in Pakistan 3 days after Eid al-Fitr when five local films were already running in theaters from Eid Day 1 but still managed to surpass them all. This angered local producers and they demanded a ban on foreign films but the fans' reaction on social media blocked off the protest as the audience was more interested in watching Doctor Strange which later became the highest grossing film of 2022 at the Pakistani box office where it grossed more than 23 crore.
This is the list of the highest-grossing Foreign films released in Pakistan. These figures are not adjusted for ticket prices inflation.
Highest-grossing openings in Pakistan
This is the list of the highest-grossing opening weekends released in Pakistan. Since many films do not open on Fridays, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release. These figures are not adjusted for ticket prices inflation.
See also
List of highest-grossing Pakistani films
Lists of highest-grossing films
List of 2022 box office number-one films in Pakistan
List of 2023 box office number-one films in Pakistan
References
External links
The History of Lollywood Decade By Decade (1947—present)
Pakistani Movies On IMDb
Best Pakistani Movies On IMDb
Best Bollywood Movies On IMDb
Best Hollywood Movies On IMDb
Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20F.%20Hayes | Jeremiah F. Hayes was an award-winning North American professor of electrical engineering. In 1983, he was honored as an IEEE fellow for his first published book which was about computer communications. On that project, Hayes worked with Andrew Viterbi on combining Erlang (unit) with Shannon–Hartley theorem. He also co-authored a communications textbook entitled Digital Communications Principles with Stephen Weinstein and Richard D. Gitlin. He received the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research in 1996, and was a senior editor of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). His most noted work was subgroup polling. Jeremiah Francis Hayes was born on July 8, 1934, in New York NY, and died on May 8, 2018, in Victoria BC, Canada.
Early life and education
On July 8, 1934, Jeremiah F. Hayes was born to Irish immigrants in Manhattan, and grew up there with his mother Mary, father James and siblings Catherine, Marjorie and John. After graduating from Cardinal Hayes High School, he went on to receive his B.E.E Degree from Manhattan College 1956 with honors. He later received a M.Sc. Mathematics degree from New York University. From 1956 to 1959, Hayes received professional training under Bell Telephone Laboratories Communications Development Training Program. He graduated with a PhD from University of California, Berkeley with distinction in 1966; his Ph.D supervisor was George L. Turin.
Honors & Awards
-IEEE Communications Society Magazine Prize Paper, 1982 for paper entitled “Local Distribution in Computer Communications”, Vol.. 19, No.2, March 1981.
-IEEE Information Theory Group Special Acknowledgment in 1982 for paper entitled “An Adaptive Technique for Local Distribution”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. Com-26, 1978.
-Fellow - (IEEE), January 1983 for contributions to local distribution.
-NSERC Senior Industrial Fellow 1989–1990.
-Fourth Recipient-Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research, June 3, 1996, for contributions to computer communications and communication networks.
-Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, 1997.
-Hayes's paper on The Viterbi Algorithm Applied to Digital Data Transmission was honored by the IEEE Communication Society for being among the top ten best papers appearing in the Communication Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, March 1975, pp. 15–20.
Career
Hayes was an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCB from 1962 to 1964, and returned as assistant professor in 1966. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana, as an assistant professor from 1966 to 1978. During that time, he made important contributions to data and computer communications at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey. From 1974 to 1978, he served as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York. Hayes also worked as a professor at McGill University, in the Department of Electrical Enginee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20of%20War%20%28video%20game%29 | Man of War is a 1997 real-time strategic naval combat video game developed by Strategy First and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and Microsoft Windows. A sequel, Man of War II: Chains of Command, was released in 1999.
Plot and gameplay
Players complete naval battles through a series of historical scenarios. The games included a character creator, and a scenario editor.
Development
The game was developed by the small studio Strategy First (established in 1991), and would become one of its flagship series. Man of War was released December 31, 1997, while the sequel was released December 31, 1999. On June 17, 1997, Virgin Interactive signed a distribution agreement with Strategy First for North and South America; as part of the deal Virgin Interactive would also distribute two additional titles from Strategy First.
Reception
CD Mag felt the game took players to places they had never been before, though described it as a "pretty straightforward classic wargame with a new-fangled wrapper". Game Revolution said that while the game sounds good on paper it falls flat in its execution. The game sold 30,000 copies by April 1999.ref name="Copies"></ref>
Legacy
Man of War II was released in North America in 1999 by GT Interactive.
References
External links
Man of War at Strategy First (archived)
Man of War II at Strategy First (archived)
1997 video games
DOS games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in Canada
Windows games
Naval video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20ITV%20in%20Wales | This is a timeline of the history of ITV in Wales, including the current service ITV Cymru Wales. It does not include events that affect the whole UK network.
1950s
1956
26 October – Television Wales and the West is awarded the ITV franchise for South Wales and the West of England.
1957
No events.
1958
14 January – At 4:45pm, TWW starts broadcasting.
1959
No events.
1960s
1960
No events.
1961
Following pressure from Welsh-speaking businessmen, the ITA awards a licence covering a new North and West Wales region to Wales West and North Television.
1962
14 September – Wales (West and North) Television launches as Teledu Cymru. This brings ITV to north Wales for the first time, although people living on north east Wales and along much of the north Wales coast had been able to watch ITV since 1956 as this area is within reach of the Winter Hill transmitting station and therefore served by Granada Television.
1963
Delays in switching on the transmitters at Arfon (north west) and Moel-y-Parc in the north east destroys the finances of WWN. Free programming from the ITV network, plus other support from its neighbours ABC, ATV and TWW just about kept the ship afloat, but Granada decided to dispense with its productions in the Welsh language, and the loss of this programming stream proved fatal to WWN.
1964
26 January – Wales (West and North) Television stops broadcasting after going bankrupt. TWW offers a generous package to WWN's shareholders, in order to gain control of the territory, and kept the Teledu Cymru name on the air as a service separate from its existing service to South Wales and the West.
1965
For the first time, TWW is able to provide separate programming for the whole of Wales and the West of England. This is made possible by the addition of a second VHF transmitter to the St Hilary mast to extend the Teledu Cymru service into south east Wales. Viewers in South Wales are able to receive both services.
1966
No events.
1967
21 June – TWW loses its licence to the Harlech Consortium. TWW unsuccessfully fought the ITA's decision, both formally and through the press. However, the ITA remained resolute that it is legally entitled to remove any contract at any time for any reason.
1968
4 March – TWW stops broadcasting five months before its contract was due to expire, selling the final months of airtime to Harlech. However the new contractor is not yet ready to go on air so the ITA provides an interim service called Independent Television Service for Wales and the West.
20 May – Harlech Television takes over the Wales and West of England franchise just over two months ahead of the planned hand-over date. It launches two news magazines – Y Dydd (The Day) in Welsh and Report Wales in English. They are broadcast for a full half-hour. Previously, TWW had provided short evening bulletins known as TWW Reports, presented jointly from studios in Cardiff and Bristol, where the station ran a joint news operation covering the t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash%20and%20Grab%20%282019%20film%29 | Smash and Grab is a 2019 American computer-animated science fiction action adventure short film directed and written by Brian Larsen, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the second film in Pixar's SparkShorts program, and focuses on two robots who try to escape from their work routine. The short premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on January 18, 2019, before being released on YouTube on February 11, 2019. The short was also released on Disney+ on November 12, 2019.
Plot
Smash and Grab, two laborer robots who live on a futuristic Mars-like planet, work in a giant train fueled by glowing rocks. Smash breaks the rocks apart, and tosses them to Grab, who feeds them into the train's engine. They attempt to amuse themselves by turning their work into a game, but are hindered from moving freely about the room or seeing out the window by their power cables. The cords are so short that the robots cannot touch each other, even to high five, much to Smash's frustration.
One day, Smash builds itself a stack of rocks so it can partially see out the window. It learns there is a world outside the train, and that all the free robots move about unhindered thanks to spherical batteries, which can attach to the same port the power cables do. Seeing that some of these batteries have been loaded onto the train, Smash cuts its power cable and uses what little power it has left to steal two batteries, attaching one to itself and the other to Grab so they can flee together.
Security robots pursue Smash and Grab and attempt to kill them before they reach freedom. Trapped atop the train, Smash catches and throws security robots to Grab when they come through the door. Grab flings them against obstacles the train passes, noticing their batteries explode if damaged. One security robot manages to shoot Grab's arm off. Grab deactivates, and Smash attempts to revive its friend, but is confronted by eight security robots. Smash deliberately damages its own battery and throws it at the security robots. The battery explodes, causing a chain reaction which kills the security robots and derails the train.
In the crater left by the explosion, Grab reactivates, finds a powered down but intact Smash, and connects its battery to Smash via a cable so both of them can share its power. The two high five for the first time, and set out to explore the outside world together.
Cast
Kenny Pickett
Production
Smash and Grab is the second short of Pixar's "SparkShorts" program, which consists in Pixar giving employees six months and limited budgets to produce short animated films. Writer/director Brian Larsen was inspired by the concept of people wanting a change in routine, particularly him wanting a change in his work as a head of story in Pixar. Larsen used robots as main characters in the film because he felt it was "a nice way to express" the idea of wanting a change. As the film focused on robots, Larsen developed it as a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20data%20integration | Web data integration (WDI) is the process of aggregating and managing data from different websites into a single, homogeneous workflow. This process includes data access, transformation, mapping, quality assurance and fusion of data. Data that is sourced and structured from websites is referred to as "web data". WDI is an extension and specialization of data integration that views the web as a collection of heterogeneous databases.
Data integration techniques in the context of the web, forms the foundation for businesses taking advantage of data available on the ever-increasing number of publicly-accessible websites. Corporate spending on this area amounted to about USD 2.5bn in 2017, and it is expected that by 2020 the market will reach almost USD 7bn.
Sources
Web data integration extends and specializes data integration to see the web as a collection of views of databases accessible over the web protocols, including, but not limited to:
Open data catalogs
Government data catalogs
Web applications and sites
UI (web scraping)
API
The semantic web (SPARQL)
HTML embedded structured data
HTML data tables
Spreadsheets
PDFs
Online encyclopedias
Data access and transformation
WDI has technical challenges different from data integration due to the data access and transformation required for the web data sources being often unstructured or semi-structured data without a standard query mechanism.
Data quality
Understanding the quality and veracity of data is even more important in WDI than in data integration, as the data is generally less implicitly trusted and of lower quality than that which is collected from a trusted source. There are attempts to try to automate a trust rating for web data.
Data quality in data integration can generally happen after data access and transformation, but in WDI quality may need to be monitored as data is collected, due to both the time and the cost of re-collecting the data.
Applications
WDI has application in many fields, including bioinformatics, search engines, price comparison, and forensic search data analysis, business intelligence, ecommerce, healthcare, pharmaceutical and product development.
Most price comparison engines and recommendation systems use user generated data to create recommendations for their users. Similarly, healthcare systems use results of competitions conducted on websites like Kaggle to see the accuracy of data and to create user-focused products. In fact, IBM estimates that poor quality WDI is costing companies over $3 trillion in revenue each year.
References
Data management
Data integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55%20Tufton%20Street | 55 Tufton Street is a four-storey Georgian-era townhouse on historic Tufton Street, in Westminster, London, owned by businessman Richard Smith. Since the 2010s the building has hosted a network of libertarian lobby groups and think tanks related to pro-Brexit, climate science denial and other fossil-fuel lobby groups. Some of the organisations it houses have close connections with those at 57 Tufton Street next door, including the Centre for Policy Studies and CapX.
A group of these lobbying organisations, dubbed "The Nine Entities", used the building for biweekly meetings to coordinate policy and public messages. The nine lobby groups—the TaxPayers' Alliance, the office of Peter Whittle (a former deputy leader of UKIP), Civitas, the Adam Smith Institute, Leave Means Leave, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (the UK's principal climate change denial group), BrexitCentral, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs—were accused by former Vote Leave employee Shahmir Sanni of using the meetings to "agree on a single set of right-wing talking points" and "securing more exposure to the public".
This network has been linked to major US funders of climate change denial and right-wing political causes including the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer, and to populist far-right parties in Europe, such as the Sweden Democrats and the Brothers of Italy.
Ownership
The building is owned by Richard Smith, a businessman who runs an aerospace company, the HR Smith Group, and who is a trustee of the Politics and Economics Research Trust founded by Matthew Eliott.
He is a major donor to the Conservative Party and pro-Brexit causes. The building was purchased for £4.25 million in 2009 by Specmat, a technology manufacturing company owned by Smith.
Residents
Civitas
Civitas is a think tank that describes itself as "classical liberal" and "non-partisan". The Times and The Daily Telegraph have described it as a "right-of-centre think-tank". Its chair is Alan Rudge. Its director, David G. Green, writes occasionally in The Daily Telegraph and its deputy director, Anastasia de Waal, frequently contributes to The Guardian's "Comment is free" section. The Times has described Civitas as an ally of former Education Secretary Michael Gove. It is opposed to green regulations, to legislation designed to reduce climate change, and to greater reliance on renewable energy. It has been criticised by Transparify for its "opaque" operations.
European Foundation
The European Foundation is a Eurosceptic think tank based in the United Kingdom. It is chaired by Bill Cash, a Conservative MP. The organisation produces the European Journal. It has been advised by Matthew Elliott. One of its directors is 55 Tufton Street owner Richard Smith. During the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, it published an influential paper promoting skepticism about anthropogenic climate change.
Feeding Britain
Feeding Britain is a charity set up in October 2015 to im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Standard%20Template%20Library | In computing, the Standard Template Library (STL) is a software library for the C++ programming language. The architecture of the STL is largely the creation of Alexander Stepanov. In 1979 he began working out his initial ideas of generic programming and exploring their potential for revolutionizing software development. Although David Musser had developed and advocated some aspects of generic programming already by 1971, it was limited to a rather specialized area of software development (computer algebra).
Conception
Stepanov recognized the full potential for generic programming and persuaded his then-colleagues at General Electric Research and Development (including, primarily, David Musser and Deepak Kapur) that generic programming should be pursued as a comprehensive basis for software development. At the time there was no real support in any programming language for generic programming.
The first major language to provide such support was Ada (ANSI standard 1983), with its generic units feature. In 1985, the Eiffel programming language became the first object-oriented language to include intrinsic support for generic classes, combined with the object-oriented notion of inheritance. By 1987 Stepanov and Musser had developed and published an Ada library for list processing that embodied the results of much of their research on generic programming. However, Ada had not achieved much acceptance outside the defense industry and C++ seemed more likely to become widely used and provide good support for generic programming even though the language was relatively immature. Another reason for turning to C++, which Stepanov recognized early on, was the C/C++ model of computation that allows very flexible access to storage via pointers, which is crucial to achieving generality without losing efficiency.
Development
Much research and experimentation were needed, not just to develop individual components, but to develop an overall architecture for a component library based on generic programming. First at AT&T Bell Laboratories and later at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs (HP), Stepanov experimented with many architectural and algorithm formulations, first in C and later in C++. Musser collaborated in this research and in 1992 Meng Lee joined Stepanov's project at HP and became a major contributor.
This work undoubtedly would have continued for some time being just a research project or at best would have resulted in an HP proprietary library, if Andrew Koenig of Bell Labs had not become aware of the work and asked Stepanov to present the main ideas at a November 1993 meeting of the ANSI/ISO committee for C++ standardization. The committee's response was overwhelmingly favorable and led to a request from Koenig for a formal proposal in time for the March 1994 meeting. Despite the tremendous time pressure, Alex and Meng were able to produce a draft proposal that received preliminary approval at that meeting.
The committee had several requests for chang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.i.R.T.%3A%20Origin%20of%20the%20Species | DiRT: Origin of the Species is a third-personal action-adventure computer game with action elements developed by British studio Nu Generation Games and published by Tri Synergy in 2006. It was published by Nobilis in France and THQ Entertainment in Germany.
Plot and gameplay
Eva Cash, also called Dirt, wakes up in a prison cell and must work out what happened to her.
The game plays like a typical third-person-shooter where Eva travels through mostly linear levels in search for an exit. The game contained over 20 weapons.
Development
Nu Generation Games was founded in 2002 in Nottingham, UK, and their members came from Core Design / Eidos PLC. The company was founded to create original games that weren't bound by the restrictions of licences titles.
The game was announced in a press release on 21/05/2004, and Nu Generation and Tri Synergy released the first 8 game screenshots on 12/20/2004. The game was originally scheduled for Spring 2005 but this was delayed in March 2005. Two trailers were released in anticipation for E3 2005. A Russian-language site featuring extra information about the game was unveiled by Nu Generation on September 6, 2006. By November 20, 2006, the PC version of the game was ready to be published in the US. It was original meant to be released on PC in France in April 2007, but by mid 2007, the game was yet to be released on the PC and Playstation. In March 2007, Nobilis France held a competition to find a lookalike Eva Cash. The publisher unveiled the official French website for the game in April of that year.
The game has been known as: Origin of The Species, D1RT, DiRT: Origin of The Species, and Eva Cash: DiRT project.
Critical reception
Jeuxvideo felt the game's good ideas were let down by the "obsolete and ill-conceived game mechanics". Gameswelt felt the story was "pretty stupid". 4Players felt that the game exemplifies the perception that the better a game's box art was, the more the developers were trying to hide. Gry Online acknowledged the game's advanced graphics engine. Gamezone felt that character animations were choppy and that it would appeal to those who were having a withdrawal from a lack of Tomb Raider-esque games. Gamespot criticised the game's numerous bugs. ComputerBills felt the name 'Dirt' was an apt name because the game came across as filth (German for 'dirt' is 'dreck', which also means filth). Gamer.no felt the game was a low budget title with archaic graphics and lots of bugs.
The game won the 4Players award for 2007 – Worst Game of the Year.
References
External links
Russian main page
French main page
Information on Nu Generations page
2006 video games
Third-person shooters
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games featuring female protagonists
Tri Synergy games
Cancelled PlayStation 2 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20K.%20Datar | Pandit Damodar Keshav Datar (14 October 1932 – 10 October 2018), popular as D. K. Datar, was an Indian violinist. He was born in Kurundwad, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra. His brother Narayanrao introduced him to music and he took early lessons in violin from Pandit Vighneshwar Shastri, who used to teach at the Deodhar School of Indian Music, Mumbai. Datar completed his Bachelor's Degree but took music as full time profession. He was nephew of Hindustani classical vocalist D. V. Paluskar, under whom he later on studied music. Influenced by Paluskar, Datar adjusted his violin playing technique to vocal dominated style and played violin according to the khyal style of Gwalior gharana. Apart from khyal, he popularly also played on bhajan, thumri and natya sangeet styles. Among various countries, he toured Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan. He was also employed by Films Division of India and regularly provided background score for various documentary films. He received Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Hindustani Music in 1995 and in 2004 was conferred with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour. he died on 10 October 2018 of old age at his residing home in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Awards
1995 - Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Hindustani Music
2004 - Padma Shri
References
1932 births
2018 deaths
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
Hindustani violinists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase%20%28disambiguation%29 | Firebase may refer to:
Military
Fire support base, a type of artillery base
Forward operating base, a type of military base
Base of fire, a type of military force
Computing
Firebase Inc., a subsidiary of Google
Firebase application platform, from Firebase Inc.
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) from Firebase Inc.; formerly Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
Other uses
Any basis of combustion, any one of the three legs of the fire triangle
The point at which a flame emerges in a fire
See also
Fire (disambiguation)
Base (disambiguation)
FB (disambiguation)
Disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Scottish%20Television | This is a timeline of the history of the British broadcaster Scottish Television (now known as STV Central). It provides the ITV network service for Central Scotland.
The timeline also includes events for the whole of the merged STV channel covering Central and Northern Scotland after 2006.
1950s
1952
14 March – Television becomes available in Scotland for the first time following the switching on of the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station.
1957
31 August – At 5:30 pm, Scottish Television starts broadcasting and becomes the first ITV company to broadcast seven days a week.
18 September – Scottish launches a sports programme called Sports Desk which was soon renamed Scotsport. The programme would be broadcast for the next fifty years.
1958
No events.
1959
No events.
1960s
1960
No events.
1961
No events.
1962
May – Scottish Television's weekly listings magazine is renamed from TV Guide to The Viewer.
1963
No events.
1964
Scottish is given a three-year extension to its licence. This is later extended by a further year.
15 August – Scottish launches Scotsport Results to provide Scottish viewers with a round-up of the day's Scottish football. It is broadcast on Saturday teatimes at around 5pm during the football season.
1965
The chairman of the Independent Television Authority Charles Hill pays a visit to STV's Glasgow studios during which he observed an edition of the popular daytime entertainment show The One O'Clock Gang. He was so appalled by it, he personally axed the programme with the words My God, how long have you been getting away with this?. Consequently, Scottish no longer broadcasts programming at lunchtime.
September – The final edition of Scottish TV's listings magazine The Viewer is published. Subsequently, Scottish's listings are carried in the magazine TVTimes.
1966
Scottish Television is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
1967
Scottish Television retains its franchise, despite strong competition from a consortium led by the future BBC Director General Alasdair Milne and strong indications that the company would lose its franchise. Lord Thomson is forced by the ITA to reduce his stake in the station from 80% to 25%, effectively ending the company's standing as a subsidiary of the Thomson Group.
1968
August – A technicians strike forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management manage to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations.
1969
October – Scottish starts producing programmes in colour and marks the occasion by opening new secondary studios at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh.
November – A major fire badly damages Scottish's Glasgow studios.
13 December – Scottish starts broadcasting in colour.
1970s
1970
Scottish launches a brand new ‘’STV’’ logo with the words Scottish Television displayed below the actual logo.
1971
No events.
1972
Scottish begins the construction of its new purpose-built complex in Glasgow, at Cowcaddens.
11 September – Sco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hiram%20na%20Anak%20episodes | Hiram na Anak (lit. Borrowed Child) is a 2019 Philippine television drama series starring Yasmien Kurdi, Leanne Bautista and Dion Ignacio. The series premiered on GMA Network's noontime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from February 25 to May 3, 2019.
The series ended, but its the 9th-week run, and with a total of 48 episodes.
Series overview
Episodes
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20Mission%201999 | Jupiter Mission 1999 is an action-adventure game written by Scott Lamb for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games in 1983. The game shipped on four floppy disks. It was followed by a sequel in 1984, Quest of the Space Beagle.
Gameplay
Jupiter Mission 1999 is an adventure game in which the government chooses the player to pilot a spaceship to Jupiter. The game consists of 11 interrelated mini-games.
Reception
Mark Bausman, in a review for Computer Gaming World, wrote, "All eleven games have been tied together nicely to present a coherent adventure." Bausman disliked the amount of time spent waiting for parts of the game to load, but concluded "from the standpoint of overall playability, I would have to say that this is the best adventure game I have seen in a long time." Bill Wallace reviewed Jupiter Mission 1999 in Space Gamer No. 70, writing "If Jupiter moon trivia is your thing, or if you enjoy clunky Basic games, you should own Jupiter Mission 1999." Scott Mace of InfoWorld wrote, "What Jupiter Mission lacks in characterization, it makes up for in action, strategy, and the sheer panorama of the game." He also commented on the difficulty of the space navigation.
References
External links
Jupiter Mission 1999 at Atari Mania
Magazine ad
Review in Family Computing
1983 video games
Action-adventure games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
Microcomputer Games games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Cowboy%20%28video%20game%29 | Space Cowboy is video game written by Scott Lamb for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games in 1983.
Gameplay
Space Cowboy is a game in which the Space Cowboy maneuvers along a walkway shown in three-quarter perspective, avoiding blasts from wall-mounted lasers.
Reception
Bill Wallace reviewed Space Cowboy in Space Gamer No. 70. Wallace commented that "The action is idiotic, wooden, boring after only a couple of minutes of play. If you'd never seen Zaxxon the three-quarter perspective would be interesting, though it doesn't really contribute to play."
References
1983 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Microcomputer Games games
Shoot 'em ups
Space Western video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthia%20S-Bahn | The Carinthia S-Bahn () is a regional transport system in the Austrian state of Carinthia and East Tyrol. The system is run ÖBB, the national railway company.
History
The Carinthia S-Bahn network was launched on 12 December 2010. The first line in operation was the S1, running hourly between and via , with a half-hourly frequency between and . Two other lines were planned for 2011: the S2, running hourly between and St. Veit an der Glan via ; and the S3, running hourly between and Klagenfurt. Further expansion from Klagenfurt to depended on the construction of the Koralm Railway. The S3 began operation on 1 August 2011 between Klagenfurt and , with connecting bus service to Feistritz im Rosental and other destinations. The S2 began operating on 11 December 2011, with hourly service between Villach and Feldkirchen and service every two hours between Feldkirchen and St. Veit an der Glan.
The operation of the S2 south of Villach was delayed by the reconstruction of the drawbridge that carries the Rudolf railway line over the Drava river in Villach. The S2 began operating to Rosenbach on 10 June 2012. The S1 was extended west to on 13 December 2015. On 11 December 2016, ÖBB began running the S4 on an hourly schedule (every two hours on weekends) between Villach and . The introduction of the S4 coincided with the closure of the beyond Hermagor.
Three major changes occurred with the 9 December 2018 timetable. The S3 was formally extended east from Klagenfurt to via Bleiburg, and two new weekend-only services were added: the S21, running from Villach to (in Slovenia), and the S41, running from Villach to (in Italy). The two international services operated between June and September. On 12 December 2021, the section of the S2 south of Villach became the S5.
Lines
the Carinthia S-Bahn has five services. These are numbered S1 through S5, which is typical of S-Bahn networks. ÖBB operates all five services.
Network map
References
External links
S-Bahn in Austria
Transport in Carinthia (state)
Transport in Tyrol (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Loeb%20Award%20winners%20for%20Television | The Gerald Loeb Award is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The first television awards were given for "Network and Large-Market Television" (1997, 1999–2000), "Other TV Markets" (1997), and "Television" (2001–2002). Subsequent television awards were given in 2003–2011 and broken down into several different categories: "Television Long Form" (2003–2004), "Television Short Form" (2003–2004), "Television Deadline" (2005–2006), "Television Enterprise" (2006–2011), "Television Daily" (2007–2008), "Television Breaking News" (2009–2010).
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Network and Large-Market Television (1997, 1999–2000)
1997: "On Dangerous Ground" by Byron Harris, WFAA-TV
1999: "Investigative Piece on the International Pharmaceutical Industry" by Mike Wallace and Walt Bogdanich, CBS News 60 Minutes
2000: "Sweepstakes Series" by Brian Gaffney, Lea Thompson, Neal Shapiro and John Reiss, Dateline NBC
Their series provided an in-depth look at the practices of the sweepstakes industry.
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Other TV Markets (1997)
1997: "My First House" by Antonio Valverde, KMEX-TV
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Television (2000–2002)
2001: "The Paper Chase" by Lynne Dale and John Larson Dateline NBC
2002: "The Money Trail" by Allan Dodds Frank and Lisa Slow, Cable News Network/CNNfn
Air Dates of Reports:
September 21, 2001
November 25, 2001
October 3, 2001
October 11, 2001
October 17, 2001
October 31, 2001
November 16, 2001
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Television Long Form (2003–2004)
2003: "La Oroya, City of Lead" by Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler and Andrea Torrence, KMOV-TV
The depth and complexity of their investigation of a local company far exceeded the expectations for a local television station.
2004: "Imported from India" by Rome Hartman and Lesley Stahl, CBS News 60 Minutes
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Television Short Form (2003–2004)
2003: "Enron Investigation" by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Chris Vlasto, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Gerilyn Curtin and Simon Surowicz, ABC News
Their investigation exposed questionable actions by Enron and led the way for investigations by other news organizations.
Stories in Series:
World News Tonight, January 21, 2002
World News Tonight, January 29, 2002
World News Tonight, January 31, 2002
World News Tonight, February 4, 2002
World News Tonight, February 6, 2002
World News Tonight, February 8, 2002
World News Tonight, February 11, 2002
World News Tonight, February 13, 2002
2004: "The Jobless Recovery" by Doug Adams, Christiana Arvelis, Donna Bass, Steve Capus, Joo Lee, Karen Nye, Albert Oetgen, Felicia Patinkin, Charles Schaeffer, Nikki Stamos and Anne Thompson, NBC Nightly News
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Television Deadline (2005–2006)
2005: "Money for Nothing?" by Chris Cuomo, Shelley Ross, Bob Lange, Thomas Berman and Jack Pyle, ABC News: Primetime
2006: "The Katrina Effect" by Anne Thompson, Doug Adams, Liz Brown, Carl Sears, Kelly Venardos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD%20Faith%20in%20Indonesia | According to the Association of Religion Data Archives in 2015, accurate figures for the number of adherents to the Baháʼí Faith in Indonesia are not available. Baháʼís in Indonesia are subject to a measure of government discrimination.
History
The Baháʼí Faith's presence in Indonesia can be traced to the late 19th century, when two Baháʼís visited what is now Indonesia, as well as several other Southeast Asian countries. The Mentawai Islands were one of the first areas outside the Middle East and the Western world where significant numbers of conversions to the religion took place, beginning in 1957. In 2014, the Baháʼí International Community (BIC) established a regional office in Jakarta.
Legal status and discrimination
The activities of the Baháʼí Faith were banned in Indonesia in 1962 based on Presidential Decree No. 264 of 1962 by President Sukarno. The Decree was then revoked in 2000 by Presidential Decree No.
69 of 2000 by President Abdurrahman Wahid.
Nevertheless, the Indonesian Baháʼí community continues to face discrimination. Social acceptance appears to have been greater during the Dutch colonial period than in the New Order period and the subsequent Reform period. In 2002, the Indonesian Ulema Council issued a fatwa declaring it forbidden for Baháʼís to be buried in public places. A 2011 research paper reported various forms of discrimination against the small Baháʼí community in the town of Canga'an, Banyuwangi, East Java. Furthermore, the USCIRF stated in a 2016 report:
Indonesia's Baha'i community still experiences government discrimination because of their faith. Despite Religious Affairs Minister Lukman's 2014 statement that the Baha'i faith should be recognized as a religion protected by the constitution, the government has not changed official policy. Baha'i followers are not able to obtain state recognition of civil marriages, have limited educational opportunities, and must state a faith other than their own on their ID cards. Only recently have some Baha'is been allowed to leave blank the religion field on their ID cards. Although some schools now allow Baha'is to provide their own religious education, Baha'i instruction is not part of the official curriculum on religion set by the national standards board, and some Baha'i students instead are forced to study Protestantism or Catholicism.
Statistics
The religion had approximately 22,800 adherents in Indonesia in 2010, according to an estimate by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) based on data from the World Christian Encyclopedia. In its 2015 profile of the country, the ARDA noted that while the Indonesian Baháʼí community claimed a membership in the thousands, no reliable figures were available.
See also
Baháʼí Faith in Asia
Religion in Indonesia
Religious freedom in Indonesia
Persecution of Baháʼís
References
External links
Official website (in Indonesian)
Baháʼí International Community – Jakarta office
Indonesia
Indonesia
Religion in Indo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Reed%20%28journalist%29 | Robert James Reed was a Canadian journalist, producer and news anchor, best known for his work on W5, a CTV Television Network current affairs program.
Early life
Reed was born in Goderich, Ontario in 1938. He had three sons.
Broadcasting career
Reed joined W5, a national Canadian newsmagazine and current affairs program, in 1972 as a producer. His notable achievements with W5 included an interview with Susan Nelles, a nurse falsely accused in the Toronto hospital baby deaths in 1980 and 1981, and the first North American interview with Yasser Arafat in 1981. Subsequent to this, Reed worked for 12 years as a journalist at CBC News, and also worked for TVO and as a freelance journalist for The Associated Press, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail.
During his career, he was awarded three Gemini Awards and a Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in journalism.
Reed died on 12 February 2011 in Toronto of non-small cell lung cancer.
Career timeline
1972: CTV Television Network, W5, producer
1972–1990: CTV Television Network, W5, anchor
1990–2002: CBC News, journalist
Awards
Public and industry awards
Gordon Sinclair Award, 1986
References
1938 births
2011 deaths
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Journalists from Ontario
CBC Television people
CTV Television Network people
People from Goderich, Ontario
20th-century Canadian journalists
Canadian Screen Award winning journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable%20programming | Differentiable programming is a programming paradigm in which a numeric computer program can be differentiated throughout via automatic differentiation. This allows for gradient-based optimization of parameters in the program, often via gradient descent, as well as other learning approaches that are based on higher order derivative information. Differentiable programming has found use in a wide variety of areas, particularly scientific computing and artificial intelligence. One of the early proposals to adopt such a framework in a systematic fashion to improve upon learning algorithms was made by the Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency in early 2016.
Approaches
Most differentiable programming frameworks work by constructing a graph containing the control flow and data structures in the program. Attempts generally fall into two groups:
Static, compiled graph-based approaches such as TensorFlow, Theano, and MXNet. They tend to allow for good compiler optimization and easier scaling to large systems, but their static nature limits interactivity and the types of programs that can be created easily (e.g. those involving loops or recursion), as well as making it harder for users to reason effectively about their programs. A proof of concept compiler toolchain called Myia uses a subset of Python as a front end and supports higher-order functions, recursion, and higher-order derivatives.
Operator overloading, dynamic graph based approaches such as PyTorch and AutoGrad. Their dynamic and interactive nature lets most programs be written and reasoned about more easily. However, they lead to interpreter overhead (particularly when composing many small operations), poorer scalability, and reduced benefit from compiler optimization. A package for the Julia programming language Zygote works directly on Julia's intermediate representation, allowing it to still be optimized by Julia's just-in-time compiler.
A limitation of earlier approaches is that they are only able to differentiate code written in a suitable manner for the framework, limiting their interoperability with other programs. Newer approaches resolve this issue by constructing the graph from the language's syntax or IR, allowing arbitrary code to be differentiated.
Applications
Differentiable programming has been applied in areas such as combining deep learning with physics engines in robotics, solving electronic structure problems with differentiable density functional theory, differentiable ray tracing, image processing, and probabilistic programming.
See also
Differentiable function
Machine learning
Notes
References
Differential calculus
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsythe%20%28surname%29 | Forsythe is a surname.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
Abe Forsythe (born 1981), Australian actor
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe (1918–1980), American computer scientist
Clifford Forsythe (1929–2000), Northern Ireland politician
Diana E. Forsythe (1947–1997), American anthropologist
Drew Forsythe (born 1949), Australian entertainer
George Forsythe (1917–1972), American mathematician and computer scientist
Gerald Forsythe co-owner of Champ Car World Series and owner of the Forsythe Championship Racing Team
Henderson Forsythe (1917–2006), American actor
Jack A. "Pee Wee" Forsythe, American college football player and coach
John Forsythe (1918–2010), American actor
Keith Forsythe (1927–2003), New Zealand field athlete
Linda Forsythe (born 1950), American model
Mark Forsythe (born 1965), Northern Irish long jumper
Robert E. Forsythe, American economist
Stone Forsythe (born 1997), American football player
William Forsythe (actor) (born 1955), American actor
William Forsythe (dancer) (born 1949), American dancer and choreographer
William E. Forsythe (1881–1969), president of the Optical Society of America
Fictional characters
Adam Forsythe, in a British soap opera
Miss Forsythe, a minor character in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Stacey Forsythe, one of the main characters of Dead Rising 2
Pax and Pri Forsythe, main characters of the Beyblade Burst QuadStrike anime
Felix Forsythe (commonly known as fmoney), one of the main characters in the movie Frenzy
Ariana Forsythe, main character in Linore Rose Burkard's Christian romance novel, Before the Season Ends
See also
Forsyth (surname)
Clan Forsyth
Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sahaya%20episodes | Sahaya is a 2019 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV on March 18, 2019 to September 6, 2019 replacing Onanay.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 24th-week run, and with a total of 122 episodes. It was replaced by Beautiful Justice.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
September 2019
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%20Channel%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Smithsonian Channel was a British free-to-air television channel that was launched as the UK version of the US documentary network Smithsonian Channel. It launched on 12 February 2019 and closed down on 6 January 2023.
The content of the channel, much of which is drawn from the US station, comprised predominantly original non-fiction programming covering a range of historical, scientific and cultural subjects.
Carriage
Test transmissions for the new services began with the addition of HD and subsequently SD broadcast capacity on the Astra 2G satellite in late 2018.
The channel was officially made available on 12 February 2019. Ahead of the launch, it had been suggested that the network would begin on satellite, then launch on Freeview in the spring, though it launched on all four platforms, along with Freesat.
Closure
On December 15, 2022, it was announced that the channel would be closing on January 6, 2023 after nearly four years on air. Its programming shifted online to other Paramount Global presences, including Paramount+, My5 and Pluto TV.
See also
Smithsonian Channel – original US version of the station
Smithsonian Channel (Canada) – Canadian version of the station
PBS America – similar UK channel showing predominantly US documentaries
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Television networks in the United Kingdom
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Smithsonian Channel
2023 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevundimonas%20faecalis | Brevundimonas faecalis is a bacterium from the genus of Brevundimonas.
References
External links
Type strain of Brevundimonas faecalis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 2012
Caulobacterales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20of%20the%20Space%20Beagle | Quest of the Space Beagle is an action-adventure game written by Scott Lamb for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games in 1984. It's the sequel to Jupiter Mission 1999. A Commodore 64 port followed in 1985.
Gameplay
Quest of the Space Beagle is a collection of minigames about the player finding and returning to Earth after a failed trip to Jupiter in the previous game.
Development
Scott Lamb wrote the game in Atari BASIC.
The manual contains a note about a programming technique used to create the visuals: "One effect employs alternating graphics screens every 60th second, which considerably extends the graphics capabilities of the Atari computer. A side effect of this technique is flicker."
Reception
In an Antic review, Michael Ciraolo wrote, "there is little incentive to get to the next level so the game gets boring quickly. You do the same thing again and again." He also disliked the flickering effect of the graphics. Steve Hudson wrote in COMPUTE!: "The game's programmers have used some pretty fancy techniques to jazz up an already exciting game," and called one screen "an incredibly realistic display".
References
External links
Quest of the Space Beagle at Atari Mania
1984 video games
Action-adventure games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
Microcomputer Games games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitSight | BitSight is a cybersecurity ratings company that analyzes companies, government agencies, and educational institutions. It is based in Back Bay, Boston. Security ratings that are delivered by BitSight are used by banks and insurance companies among other organizations.
The company rates more than 200,000 organizations with respect to their cybersecurity.
History
BitSight was founded in 2011 by Nagarjuna Venna and Stephen Boyer and currently has both United States-based and international employees. In 2016, BitSight raised $40 million USD in funding in the month of September.
In 2014, BitSight acquired AnubisNetworks, a Portugal-based cybersecurity firm that tracks real-time data threats.
By September 2016, BitSight had raised $40 million in a Series C round led by GGV Capital, with participation from Flybridge Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Shaun McConnon, and the VC divisions of Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, and Singtel Innov8.
Shaun McConnon stepped down as the CEO of BitSight in July 2017 but remains the executive chairman of the board. The CEO position was filled by Tom Turner in 2017, and then by Stephen Harvey in 2020.
In June 2018, BitSight closed $60 million in Series D funding, bringing the company's total funding to $155 million. BitSight's Series D financing was led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital and Singtel Innov8.
In 2018, the company was located in Cambridge but purchased property in order to shift to Back Bay, where BitSight is currently located. Forbes has estimated BitSight's revenue as being US$100 million as of 2018.
Services
Organizations purchase BitSight's services in order to understand "security risks associated with sharing sensitive data with business partners." As of 2018, BitSight serves clients, including Lowe's, AIG, and Safeway.
BitSight assembles models that produce company ratings, which are based on a scale that enables insurers to rule on the ability of businesses to receive coverage. It produces ratings for 200,000 organizations as of 2020.
With respect to its services, Amy Feldman of Forbes wrote that "Customers pay on a subscription basis with annual fees ranging from a few thousand dollars to analyze a single company to more than $1 million to review thousands of suppliers." Similar to a credit score, BitSight's ratings range from 250 to 900.
References
External links
BitSight
Back Bay, Boston
Companies based in Boston
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee%20Sports%20Network | Marquee Sports Network is a regional sports network operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Chicago Cubs, launched on February 22, 2020. It is devoted exclusively to Cubs baseball, replacing a trio of channels (cable channel NBC Sports Chicago and broadcast partners WLS-TV and WGN-TV) as the exclusive broadcaster of Cubs games not shown on national TV.
History
On November 16, 2015, in an interview with WSCR radio, the Cubs' president of business operations Crane Kenney stated that the team was seeking to launch its own in-house regional sports network after its current broadcast contracts with NBC Sports Chicago, WGN Sports, and WLS-TV expire after the 2019 season.
On December 18, 2018, it was reported by the Chicago Sun-Times that the team was preparing to launch its RSN, "Marquee", in 2020, and that Sinclair Broadcast Group was a frontrunner to serve as managing partner. Sinclair had previously attempted to purchase WGN's parent company Tribune Media, and runs the national sports network Stadium with the White Sox's investment arm Silver Chalice. The venture was officially announced in February 2019 to be launched in 2020 with Sinclair.
On May 22, 2019, Michael McCarthy was named general manager of the Marquee Sports Network after being the Cubs' consultant on the channel. He is the former president of the MSG Network and a former top official with the Milwaukee Bucks (COO) and the St. Louis Blues (vice chairman).
On August 22, 2019, a consortium of Sinclair and Entertainment Studios acquired Fox Sports Networks for $10.6 billion, thus making Marquee a sister to them (FSN previously operated a Chicago network, but it became defunct when Chicago's professional teams abandoned it in favor of a joint venture with Comcast—currently known as NBC Sports Chicago). The divestiture was mandated as part of Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, who chose not to retain the networks under its successor Fox Corporation.
Early reception of Marquee was mixed by fans, culminating in fans booing Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts during the annual Cubs Convention in 2020 after mention of the new network.
Marquee Sports Network officially launched on February 22, 2020, at 1 p.m. CT, with its first program being a launch special hosted by actor and Cubs fan Bill Murray, followed by a documentary on Ernie Banks. The channel aired its first live spring training game against the Oakland Athletics at Sloan Park later in the day; the game had been postponed from the afternoon due to the threat of rain. However, because the start of the season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its first regular-season game was not until July 24, 2020.
Marquee's Cubs broadcasts underwent tweaks for the 2021 season. Alongside its new play-by-play voice Jon Sciambi, the network would no longer require commentators to wear a suit and tie on-air (a mandate made during the inaugural season by executives insisting that Marquee's broadcasts have a "national network quality") |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuantConnect | QuantConnect is an open-source, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform for equities,
FX, futures, options, derivatives and cryptocurrencies. QuantConnect serves over 100,000 quants from 170+ countries, with customers including hedge funds and brokerages, as well as individuals such as engineers, mathematicians, scientists, quants, students, traders, and programmers.
History
Jared Broad founded QuantConnect in 2011. Broad started the company in his downtime while doing humanitarian work in Chile. QuantConnect became incorporated in 2013, and became open-sourced in 2015.
QuantConnect has seen substantial user growth in recent years, going from 45,000 users in December 2017, to 55,000 users in May 2018, then to over 65,000 users in October 2018. About half of the company's users are in the U.S. and the other half are international. QuantConnect added cryptocurrency support in October 2017, integrating with Coinbase’s GDAX exchange.
Business Model
QuantConnect provides market data and a cluster computer directly to engineers around the world, backtesting and building quantitative trading strategies across multiple markets, including equities, futures, options, cryptocurrencies, CFDs and FX. Once the team greenlights a user-generated algorithm, it is loaded into QuantConnect's Alpha Streams API and priced accordingly by the quant who developed it.
According to Broad, about 5% of users consider their work with QuantConnect to be full-time. Rather, many algo traders use the platform's technology infrastructure to launch their own hedge fund startups.
QuantConnect launched its Alpha Streams project in December 2017. This marketplace provides the community the freedom to license their alpha-generating insights to quantitative funds. Hedge funds that leverage the Alpha Streams API search for algorithms that fit their specific criteria and license them for a monthly fee. Quants earn 70% of these fees, which can run anywhere from $100 to $30,000.
Technology
QuantConnect supports coding in Python and C#, but also supports other languages through its open-source project, the Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine (LEAN). LEAN is an open-source algorithmic trading engine that allows users to do the same algorithm design, backtesting, and trading that they can do on the website. Once users code an algorithm, they can run a backtest on historical data, which provides a full breakdown on how it could have performed in the market in the past.
LEAN is free to download and extend for commercial purposes. As of January 2021, there are over 100 LEAN-Powered Hedge Funds and 103,000 live algorithms successfully deployed on LEAN, with over $8.1 billion of asset volume traded through the engine.
Industry and Competition
Founded in 2011, Quantopian was an early leader in the space and a key competitor of QuantConnect. Platforms like QuantConnect and CrunchDAO capitalized on Quantopian's shut-down in 2020, with an industry journalist commenting in November 2020, "QuantCo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elanor%20Huntington | Elanor H. Huntington is Executive Director of Digital, National Facilities & Collections at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and a Professor of Quantum Cybernetics at the Australian National University. She led a research program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.
Early life and education
Huntington studied physics at the Australian National University and graduated in 1996 with a University Medal. She decided that she enjoyed using science to help others, and switched to engineering. She earned her PhD in 1999 working in experimental quantum optics. Huntington joined the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation after graduating, where she worked for 18 months before joining the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Research
Huntington specialises in high speed measurements and the generation of non-classical states. She works on quantum computation, creating optical microchips that can detect, generate and manipulate states of light. She is interested in the intersection of quantum theory and applications. She joined the University of New South Wales in 2000. She has worked in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian Defence Force Academy at University of New South Wales, where she was made Head of the School of Engineering and IT in 2010. She leads a research program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.
In 2011, Huntington and collaborators made a major breakthrough in quantum computation, by demonstrating that it was possible to teleport quantum non-Gaussian beams of light on a quantum superposition. These days, she makes use of waveguide technology, coupled with systems engineering, to design and build quantum technologies. She was appointed Dean of the Australian National University College of Engineering and Computer Science in June 2014. She was the first woman to be made an Executive Dean of Engineering in Australia, the first woman to be a professor of engineering at ANU, and the first woman to be Chair of the Australian Group of Eight Engineering Deans. She is also a member of the Global Engineering Deans Council. She discussed quantum computation at the World Economic Forum.
Huntington believes that in the future, public trust in engineering will become increasingly important. She delivered a TED Talk in 2017 on Why We Need Engineers Now More Than Ever and is leading the Reimagine Investment at the Australian National University to bring those ideas into being. The Reimagine Investment under Huntington is intended to redefine the nature of engineering and computing skills, who will exercise them and how. Genevieve Bell is a foundation member of Reimagine and the leader of its flagship program to create the next engineering discipline. Huntington has discussed the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanan%20Singh | Chanan Singh is an Indian-American electrical engineer and professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, Texas A&M University. He was named Irma Runyon Chair Professor and Texas A&M System Regents Professor.
Education
Singh got his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and B.Sc. (honors) from the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India.
Career
From 1997 to 2005 he served as the department head of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M and later, from 2012 to 2015, he served as interim head. He has held a position as a guest professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has also served as program director at the National Science Foundation of US. He is also a principal and Vice-President of Associated Power Analysts Inc. a firm that specializes in developing software and conducting reliability studies of the electric power grid. Before joining Texas A&M University he worked in the R&D Division of Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications on the development of innovative public transit systems.
Singh is known for his contributions to electric power system reliability evaluation, particularly in developing the theoretical foundations for frequency and duration methods, non-Markovian models, modeling of interconnected power systems, integration of renewable resources and machine learning method for reliability analysis of large power systems. He is author/co-author of four books, several book chapters, and over 400 technical articles.
Major awards and recognition
2018. Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "advancement of theory, practice, and education in electric power system reliability"
2010. Inaugural recipient of the Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award from the Power & Energy Society (PES) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
2008. Merit Award by the PMAPS International Society for lifelong achievements.
1998. recipient of the 1998 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award given by the IEEE-PES.
1997. awarded a D.Sc. degree by the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
1991. elected a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to theory and applications of quantitative reliability methods in electric power systems".
Major publications
Textbook: Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods (Chanan Singh, Panida Jirutitijaroen and Joydeep Mitra; Wiley-IEEE Press, 2019; )
Textbook: Engineering Reliability: New Techniques and Applications (Balbir S. Dhillon and Chanan Singh; Wiley, 1981; )
Textbook: System Reliability Modelling and Evaluation (Chanan Singh and Roy Billinton; Hutchinson, 1977; )
References
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Punjab Engineering College alumni
Texas A&M University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Living people
American electrical engineers
21s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 46th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honored the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2018. The ceremony was held on May 5, 2019, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. Actors and television hosts Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood hosted the ceremony for the third consecutive time.
The drama pre-nominees were announced on January 24, 2019, and the standard nominations were announced on March 20, 2019.
Rule changes
Changes were made to the Daytime Emmys rules and procedures to avoid a repeat of the previous year when the NATAS had to rescind the awarding of the Outstanding Guest Performer in a Digital Daytime Drama Series Emmy to Patrika Darbo, after it was determined that she appeared in a prior season of The Bay and entered scenes from multiple episodes for judging, both violations of the submission guidelines. The four network daytime dramas (The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless) had threatened a boycott if no changes to the rules were made.
Winners and nominees
Nominations were announced on March 20, 2019. Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Judge Judy Sheindlin, Judge Judy
Jacques Pépin
Presenters and performances
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical acts.
Presenters (in order of appearance)
Performers
References
046
2019 in American television
2019 television awards
2019 in Los Angeles
May 2019 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Emmy%20Awards | 2019 Emmy Awards may refer to:
71st Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2019 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 2018 – May 2019
46th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2019 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2018
47th International Emmy Awards, the 2019 ceremony honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Celebrity%20Big%20Brother%20%28American%20TV%20series%29%20houseguests | Celebrity Big Brother is the American adaptation of Celebrity Big Brother and second spin-off of the United States version of Big Brother. It premiered on CBS on February 7, 2018 as counterprogramming to the 2018 Winter Olympics. The series is hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, and is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America; Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan serve as executive producers.
The Celebrity HouseGuests for the first season were revealed during a live pre-show of the 2018 Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018. The first season began filming on January 31, 2018 and concluded twenty-six days later on February 25, 2018, when Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ross Mathews were announced as the winner and runner-up of the season, respectively. On May 5, 2018, CBS renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on January 21, 2019. Twelve HouseGuests were announced on January 13, 2019, during a commercial break of CBS's NFL football coverage. The second season lasted for twenty-nine days and ended on February 13, 2019, when Tamar Braxton won in a unanimous vote over Ricky Williams.
After a three-year hiatus the series was revived for a third season that premiered on February 2, 2022, this time as counterprogramming to the 2022 Winter Olympics. This is the first season to follow casting quotas for CBS, set in 2020, requiring at least half of the contracted celebrities to be black, indigenous, (and) people of color. The eleven HouseGuests were later revealed on January 26, 2022, during a commercial break for The Amazing Race. Twenty-nine days later on February 23, 2022, Miesha Tate defeated Todrick Hall in a 7 to 1 vote by the eliminated contestants.
Thirty-four participants have competed in Celebrity Big Brother, but Anthony Scaramucci was declared to be a fake HouseGuest as part of a twist. The series follows a format similar to the main edition in which players leave the game when they are "evicted" from the house by vote of their fellow HouseGuests. In 2018, Mathews and Jaret Winokur received their own aftershow, Off the Block with Ross and Marissa, that aired alongside the twentieth season of Big Brother. In addition, some of the contestants returned for the subsequent seasons of both the celebrity and civilian editions to host competitions. Brandi Glanville previously participated in the twentieth season of the United Kingdom's version of Celebrity Big Brother while Omarosa was a contestant in the Australian version of Celebrity Big Brother, entitled Big Brother VIP.
Contestants
Notes
Gallery
References
Celebrity Big Brother (American TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20Special%20Tatay%20episodes | My Special Tatay () is a 2018 Philippine television drama series starring Ken Chan, Lilet, Candy Pangilinan and Arra San Agustin. The series premiered on GMA Network's Afternoon Prime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 3, 2018 to March 29, 2019, replacing Hindi Ko Kayang Iwan Ka.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 30th-week run, and with 150 episodes. It was replaced by Bihag in Inagaw na Bituin's timeslot.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Grampian%20Television | This is a timeline of the history of the British broadcaster Grampian Television. It provides the ITV network service for the north of Scotland.
Events after the renaming of Grampian Television as STV North in 2006 and the replacement of North Tonight with STV News at Six in 2009 are covered on the timeline of Scottish Television.
1960s
1960
August – North of Scotland Television is awarded the licence to cover north and north east Scotland on the condition that positions on the board are offered to the two losing applicants, Caledonian Television and North Caledonian Television
1961
11 January – North of Scotland Television is renamed Grampian Television as it is thought that the North of Scotland TV name would be too cumbersome.
30 September – At 2:45pm, Grampian Television, the ITV franchise for North East Scotland, goes on the air.
1962
In a bid to increase viewership, especially in the Dundee area, Grampian begins broadcasting light entertainment and music shows. Previously, Grampian's only local programming had been in news and current affairs.
1963
No events.
1964
Grampian is given a three-year extension to its licence. This is later extended by a further year.
1965
No events.
1966
No events.
1967
Prior to the 1968 contract round, smaller regional stations sought an affiliation with one of the four major ITV companies, who would provide the bulk of their programming. Grampian links up with ABC Weekend Television. Grampian goes on to retain its licence for a further seven years.
1968
August – A technicians strike forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management manage to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations.
1969
No events.
1970s
1970
No events.
1971
30 September – Grampian Television marks its tenth birthday by commencing colour transmissions.
1972
16 October – Following a law change which removed all restrictions on broadcasting hours, Grampian is able to launch an afternoon service.
1973
No events.
1974
The 1974 franchise round sees no changes in ITV's contractors as the huge cost in switching to colour television would have made the companies unable to compete against rivals in a franchise battle.
1975
No events.
1976
No events.
1977
Grampian makes slight changes to its logo, most notably removing the animation.
1978
Grampian Television becomes the first British television station to adopt ENG video cameras for news coverage, a move which finally allows its regional news programme, Grampian Today, to extend from three to five nights a week. Grampian also develops its own outside broadcast unit, initially using studio equipment.
1979
10 August – The ten week ITV strike forces Grampian Television off the air. The strike ends on 24 October.
1980s
1980
7 January – Grampian Today is relaunched as North Tonight as part of an effort to reflect northern Scotland as a whole. The new programme replaces Grampian Today which had been on air since a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber | A , or , is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement. The digital trend originated in Japan in the mid-2010s, and has become an international online phenomenon in the 2020s. A majority of VTubers are English and Japanese-speaking YouTubers or live streamers who use avatar designs. By 2020, there were more than 10,000 active VTubers. Although the term is an allusion to the video platform YouTube, they also use websites such as Niconico, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, and Bilibili.
The first entertainer to use the phrase "virtual YouTuber", Kizuna AI, began creating content on YouTube in late 2016. Her popularity sparked a VTuber trend in Japan, and spurred the establishment of specialized agencies to promote them, including major ones such as Hololive Production, Nijisanji, and VShojo. Fan translations and foreign-language VTubers have marked a rise in the trend's international popularity. Virtual YouTubers have appeared in domestic advertising campaigns, and have broken livestream-related world records.
Overview
Virtual YouTubers (although more commonly referred to as VTubers) are online entertainers who are typically YouTubers or live streamers. They use avatars created with programs such as Live2D, portraying characters designed by online artists. VTubers are not bound by physical limitations, and many of them engage in activities that are unconstrained by their real-world identity. Some VTubers, particularly those from marginalized communities, choose to use avatars to reflect their online identity for personal comfort and safety reasons. Transgender VTubers may use their avatars as a means to better reflect their preferred presentation to their audience.
VTubers often portray themselves as a kayfabe character, not unlike professional wrestling; Mace, a WWE wrestler who himself began streaming on Twitch as a VTuber in 2021, remarked that the two professions were "literally the same thing".
VTubers are associated with Japanese popular culture and aesthetics, such as anime and manga, and moe anthropomorphism with human or non-human traits. Some VTubers use anthropomorphic avatars, non-human characters such as animals.
Technology
A VTuber's avatar is typically animated using a webcam and software, which captures the streamer's motions, expressions, and mouth movements, and maps them to a two- or three-dimensional model. Both free and paid programs have been developed for loading models and performing motion capture, with some capable of being used without a webcam (albeit with pre-determined animations), and some also supporting virtual reality hardware, or hand tracking devices such as the Leap Motion Controller. Some programs use iPhone smartphones—particularly, those that include Face ID—as an external webcam, using their infrared-illuminated sensor for more precise motion capture.
The proprietary ani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheirer%E2%80%93Ray%E2%80%93Hare%20test | The Scheirer–Ray–Hare (SRH) test is a statistical test that can be used to examine whether a measure is affected by two or more factors. Since it does not require a normal distribution of the data, it is one of the non-parametric methods. It is an extension of the Kruskal–Wallis test, the non-parametric equivalent for one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), to the application for more than one factor. It is thus a non-parameter alternative to multi-factorial ANOVA analyses. The test is named after James Scheirer, William Ray and Nathan Hare, who published it in 1976.
Test description
The Scheirer–Ray–Hare test is analogous to the parametric multi-factorial ANOVA of investigating the influence of two different factors on a measure for which different samples are available for the factors. As with the parametric analysis of variance, the test can be used to investigate the null hypotheses that the two factors examined in each case have no influence on the positional parameter of the samples and thus on the measure, and that there are no interactions between the two factors. A p-value less than 0.05 for one or more of these three hypotheses leads to their rejection. As with many other non-parametric methods, the analysis in this method relies on the evaluation of the ranks of the samples in the samples rather than the actual observations. Modifications also allow extending the test to examine more than two factors.
The test strength of the Scheirer–Ray–Hare test, i.e. the probability of actually finding a statistically significant result, is significantly lower than that of the parametric multi-factorial ANOVA, so that it is considered more conservative in comparison of both methods. For this reason, and because the method was described later than most other parametric and non-parametric variance analysis tests, it has found little use in textbooks and statistical analysis software. With computer programs that contain a function for parametric multi-factorial ANOVA, however, with additional manual effort and a calculation of the Scheirer Ray Hare test is possible.
Since the Scheirer–Ray–Hare test only makes a statement about the diversity of all samples considered, it makes sense to perform a post-hoc test that compares the individual samples in pairs.
Alternative procedures
The parametric alternative to the Scheirer–Ray–Hare test is multi-factorial ANOVA, which requires a normal distribution of data within the samples. The Kruskal–Wallis test, from which the Scheirer–Ray–Hare test is derived, serves in contrast to this to investigate the influence of exactly one factor on the measured variable. A non-parametric test comparing exactly two unpaired samples is the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test.
References
Literature
Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf: Biometry: The Principles And Practice of Statistics In Biological Research. Third edition. Freeman, New York 1995, , pp. 445–447
Design of experiments
Statistical tests
Nonparametric sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20City%20Adventures | Lego City Adventures is a computer-animated television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in the United States on June 22, 2019, loosely based on the long-running Lego City toyline theme. The third season of the series was released on Netflix on April 15, 2022, and the fourth season was released on The Lego Group's YouTube channel on October 25, 2022. It is the second Lego series on Nickelodeon, following 2010's Lego Hero Factory.
Overview
Lego City Adventures is an animated series set in a busy metropolis. The series follows the adventures of the city's community workers, such as the police, firefighters and sanitation workers. Among the characters thrust into extraordinary adventures are cop Sgt. Duke DeTain, crisis-ready fire Chief Freya McCloud, grumpy street sweeper Shirley Keeper, eager handyman Harl Hubbs, dedicated city Mayor Solomon Fleck, Vice Mayor Carol Yea, rivalry business people R.E. Fendrich and Mary Sinclair, Freya's troublesome nephew Billy McCloud, and skateboarding police Chief Percival "Wheelie" Wheeler.
Characters
Sergeant Duke DeTain (voiced by Joe Zieja)
Freya McCloud (voiced by Misty Lee)
Shirley Keeper (voiced by Alex Cazares)
Harl Hubbs (voiced by Daniel MK Cohen)
Tippy Dorman (voiced by James Arnold Taylor)
Solomon Fleck (voiced by Roger Craig Smith)
Percival "Wheelie" Wheeler (voiced by Mick Lauer)
Production
On February 14, 2019, it was announced that Lego City Adventures would be a part of Nickelodeon's 2019 slate. On May 14, 2019, it was announced that the program would premiere on June 22, 2019. The series is a co-production between Axis Studios and French companies Passion Paris and Circus for The Lego Group.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2022)
Season 4 (2022)
Critical reception
Lego City Adventures has received favourable comments from critics about its positive messages but has also been criticised for its consumerism. Reviewer Emily Ashby for Common Sense Media gave the show a three-star rating, commenting that, "despite the fact that this series doubles as a pretty effective advertising campaign for the Lego brand/merchandise, it's a genuinely funny show with fast-paced, unpredictable humor". TV Guide UK gave the show a rating of 6/10.
Merchandise
Lego City Adventures was produced to accompany the Lego City theme, a core product of The Lego Group. According to a Lego announcement, the series was designed as, "an important evolution of Lego City" that aimed to, "bring the unique characters, style and humor of Lego City Adventures to life".
References
External links
Lego television series
2019 American television series debuts
2010s American animated television series
2010s Danish television series
2010s Nickelodeon original programming
2020s American animated television series
2020s Danish television series
2020s Nickelodeon original programming
American children's animated comedy television series
American computer-animated television serie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive%20computer-aided%20design | Responsive computer-aided design (also simplified to responsive design) is an approach to computer-aided design (CAD) that utilizes real-world sensors and data to modify a three-dimensional (3D) computer model. The concept is related to cyber-physical systems through blurring of the virtual and physical worlds, however, applies specifically to the initial digital design of an object prior to production.
The process begins with a designer creating a basic design of an object using CAD software with parametric or algorithmic relationships. These relationships are then linked to physical sensors, allowing them to drive changes to the CAD model within the established parameters. Reasons to allow sensors to modify a CAD model include customizing a design to fit a user's anthropometry, assisting people without CAD skills to personalize a design, or automating part of an iterative design process in similar fashion to generative design. Once the sensors have affected the design it may then be manufactured as a one-off piece using a digital fabrication technology, or go through further development by a designer.
Context
Responsive computer-aided design is enabled by ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things, concepts which describe the capacity for everyday objects to contain computing and sensing technologies. It is also enabled by the ability to directly manufacture one-off objects from digital data, using technologies such as 3D printing and computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Such digital fabrication technologies allow for customization, and are drivers of the mass-customization phenomenon. They also provide new opportunities for consumers to participate in the design process, known as co-design.
As these concepts mature, responsive design is emerging as an opportunity to reduce reliance on graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as the only method for designers and consumers to design products, aligning with claims by Golden Krishna that "the best design reduces work. The best computer is unseen. The best interaction is natural. The best interface is no interface." Calls to reduce reliance on GUIs and automate some of the design process connects with Mark Weiser's original vision of ubiquitous computing.
Related concepts
A variety of similar research areas are based on gesture recognition, with many projects using motion capture to track the physical motions of a designer and translate them into three-dimensional geometry suitable for digital fabrication. While these share similarities to responsive design through their cyber-physical systems, they require direct intent to design an object and some level of skill. These are not considered responsive, as responsive design occurs autonomously and may even occur without the user being aware that they are designing at all.
This topic has some common traits with responsive web design and responsive architecture, with both fields focused on systems design and adaptation based on functional c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDV | IDV or IdV may refer to:
Indinavir, an antiretroviral drug
Integrated Data Viewer, a software library
Italy of Values (Italian: Italia dei Valori), a political party
C.S.D. Independiente del Valle, a football club
IDV, a successor company to Diageo
Identity V, a 2018 video game
International Distillers & Vintners, a former wine and spirits distribution company
Individualism Index (IDV), a measure of a person's independence from organizations or collectivity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20curve%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning, a learning curve (or training curve) plots the optimal value of a model's loss function for a training set against this loss function evaluated on a validation data set with same parameters as produced the optimal function. Synonyms include error curve, experience curve, improvement curve and generalization curve.
More abstractly, the learning curve is a curve of (learning effort)-(predictive performance), where usually learning effort means number of training samples and predictive performance means accuracy on testing samples.
The machine learning curve is useful for many purposes including comparing different algorithms, choosing model parameters during design, adjusting optimization to improve convergence, and determining the amount of data used for training.
Formal definition
One model of a machine learning is producing a function, , which given some information, , predicts some variable, , from training data and . It is distinct from mathematical optimization because should predict well for outside of .
We often constrain the possible functions to a parameterized family of functions, , so that our function is more generalizable or so that the function has certain properties such as those that make finding a good easier, or because we have some a priori reason to think that these properties are true.
Given that it is not possible to produce a function that perfectly fits our data, it is then necessary to produce a loss function to measure how good our prediction is. We then define an optimization process which finds a which minimizes referred to as .
Training curve for amount of data
Then if our training data is and our validation data is a learning curve is the plot of the two curves
where
Training curve for number of iterations
Many optimization processes are iterative, repeating the same step until the process converges to an optimal value. Gradient descent is one such algorithm. If you define as the approximation of the optimal after steps, a learning curve is the plot of
Choosing the size of the training dataset
It is a tool to find out how much a machine model benefits from adding more training data and whether the estimator suffers more from a variance error or a bias error. If both the validation score and the training score converge to a value that is too low with increasing size of the training set, it will not benefit much from more training data.
In the machine learning domain, there are two implications of learning curves differing in the x-axis of the curves, with experience of the model graphed either as the number of training examples used for learning or the number of iterations used in training the model.
See also
Overfitting
Bias–variance tradeoff
Model selection
Cross-validation (statistics)
Validity (statistics)
Verification and validation
Double descent
References
Model selection
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Dragon%20Prince%20episodes | The Dragon Prince is a computer-animated television series created for Netflix by Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, produced by Wonderstorm and animated by Bardel Entertainment.
The first season premiered on September 14, 2018, on Netflix. The second season premiered on February 15, 2019. The third season premiered on November 22, 2019, concluding the first saga of the series.
Following a three-year hiatus, the fourth season premiered on November 3, 2022 and started the series' second saga, under the subtitle Mystery of Aaravos. The fifth season premiered on July 22, 2023. The series has been renewed for two additional seasons (seven in total) that will bring the series to its conclusion.
Series overview
Episodes
Book 1: Moon (2018)
Book 2: Sky (2019)
Book 3: Sun (2019)
Book 4: Earth (2022)
Book 5: Ocean (2023)
References
Dragon Prince
Dragon Prince
The Dragon Prince |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20rate | In machine learning and statistics, the learning rate is a tuning parameter in an optimization algorithm that determines the step size at each iteration while moving toward a minimum of a loss function. Since it influences to what extent newly acquired information overrides old information, it metaphorically represents the speed at which a machine learning model "learns". In the adaptive control literature, the learning rate is commonly referred to as gain.
In setting a learning rate, there is a trade-off between the rate of convergence and overshooting. While the descent direction is usually determined from the gradient of the loss function, the learning rate determines how big a step is taken in that direction. A too high learning rate will make the learning jump over minima but a too low learning rate will either take too long to converge or get stuck in an undesirable local minimum.
In order to achieve faster convergence, prevent oscillations and getting stuck in undesirable local minima the learning rate is often varied during training either in accordance to a learning rate schedule or by using an adaptive learning rate. The learning rate and its adjustments may also differ per parameter, in which case it is a diagonal matrix that can be interpreted as an approximation to the inverse of the Hessian matrix in Newton's method. The learning rate is related to the step length determined by inexact line search in quasi-Newton methods and related optimization algorithms.
Learning rate schedule
Initial rate can be left as system default or can be selected using a range of techniques. A learning rate schedule changes the learning rate during learning and is most often changed between epochs/iterations. This is mainly done with two parameters: decay and momentum. There are many different learning rate schedules but the most common are time-based, step-based and exponential.
Decay serves to settle the learning in a nice place and avoid oscillations, a situation that may arise when a too high constant learning rate makes the learning jump back and forth over a minimum, and is controlled by a hyperparameter.
Momentum is analogous to a ball rolling down a hill; we want the ball to settle at the lowest point of the hill (corresponding to the lowest error). Momentum both speeds up the learning (increasing the learning rate) when the error cost gradient is heading in the same direction for a long time and also avoids local minima by 'rolling over' small bumps. Momentum is controlled by a hyperparameter analogous to a ball's mass which must be chosen manually—too high and the ball will roll over minima which we wish to find, too low and it will not fulfil its purpose. The formula for factoring in the momentum is more complex than for decay but is most often built in with deep learning libraries such as Keras.
Time-based learning schedules alter the learning rate depending on the learning rate of the previous time iteration. Factoring in the decay the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Ulster%20Television | This is a timeline of the history of Ulster Television (now known as UTV). It provides the ITV network service for Northern Ireland.
1950s
1953
1 May – BBC Television becomes available in Northern Ireland for the first time although initially from a temporary transmitter, brought into service in time for the Queen's Coronation. A permanent mast at Divis is brought into service on 21 July 1955.
1958
September – The Independent Television Authority, advertises the franchise for Northern Ireland. Two consortia apply and the ITA persuades the applicants to merge their bids to obtain the new franchise, on the provision that a greater stake of investment in the station was offered to Catholic sources.
1959
31 October – Ulster Television launches at 4.45pm.
1960s
1960
No events.
1961
No events.
1962
Ulster opens a second studio at its Havelock House, Belfast base.
1963
18 February – The Strabane transmitter opens, bringing coverage to the west of Northern Ireland for the first time.
1964
Newsview replaces Roundabout as Ulster's regional news programme.
Ulster is given a three-year extension to its licence. This is later extended by a further year.
1965
No events.
1966
No events.
1967
The Independent Television Authority renews Ulster's licence for a further seven years.
1968
3 August – A technicians strike forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management manage to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations. The strike ends on 18 August.
14 September – The final edition of Ulster Television's listings magazine TV Post is published. Listings are subsequently carried in an Ulster edition of TVTimes which now becomes a national publication on 21 September.
1969
UTV Reports replaces Roundabout as Ulster's regional news programme.
1970s
1970
14 September – Ulster launches a colour television service, but only from the Divis transmitter. To mark the change, the logo is redesigned.
1971
The music used as part of the station's daily start-up routine is changed when The Antrim Road, a classical symphony composed by Wayne Hill and Earl Ward, replaced Seamus, written by the American musician, composer and bandleader Van Phillips, which had been used since the station's launch.
1972
16 October – Following a law change which removed all restrictions on broadcasting hours, ITV is able to launch an afternoon service.
1973
No events.
1974
The 1974 franchise round sees no changes in ITV's contractors as it is felt that the huge cost in switching to colour television would have made the companies unable to compete against rivals in a franchise battle.
1975
1 December – The Limavady transmitting station starts broadcasting a colour service to the north west of Northern Ireland, with additional coverage provided by the Londonderry transmitter. Consequently, colour broadcasts from Ulster Television is now available in the North West.
1976
No events.
1977
No events.
1978
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie%20Leung | Debbie Leung is a University Research Chair at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. She works in theoretical quantum information processing.
Leung's research areas include quantum cryptography, quantum communication, measurement-based quantum computation, fault-tolerant quantum computation and error correction.
Leung earned her Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from Caltech in 1995. She received her PhD under doctoral advisors Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Isaac Chuang at Stanford. In her PhD thesis, entitled "Towards Robust Quantum Computation", she demonstrated the surprising result that approximate quantum error-correcting codes can outperform their exact counterparts.
In 2002, Leung won the Tolman postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Quantum Information at Caltech and the Croucher Fellowship. In 2005, she won a 10-year Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications. Her recent work focuses on quantum channel capacities, quantum network coding, and quantum information processing with limited entanglement.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Machine%20Intelligence | Nature Machine Intelligence is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio covering machine learning and artificial intelligence. The editor-in-chief is Liesbeth Venema.
History
The journal was created in response to the machine learning explosion of the 2010s. It launched in January 2019, and its opening was met with controversy and boycotts within the machine learning research community due to opposition to Nature publishing the journal as closed access. To address this issue, now Nature Machine Intelligence gives authors an option to publish open access papers for an additional fee, and "authors remain owners of the research reported, and the code and data supporting the main findings of an article should be openly available. Moreover, preprints are allowed, in fact encouraged, and a link to the preprint can be added below the abstract, visible to all readers."
Abstracting and indexing
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 25.898, ranking it 1st out of 144 journals in the category "Computer Science, Artificial intelligence" and first out of 113 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications".
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Official website
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Machine learning
Artificial intelligence publications
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