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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blue%20Sky%20Studios%20productions | This is a list of productions from Blue Sky Studios, a former American computer-animation film production company based in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, including feature films, shorts, specials, and television series. Blue Sky had released 13 feature films, which were all released by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) before its closure on April 10, 2021. The company produced its first feature-length film, Ice Age, in 2002. Their second production, Robots, was released in 2005, followed by their first sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown, in 2006.
Blue Sky Studios was one of the Fox film studios that was acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019.
Blue Sky's final film was Spies in Disguise, which was released on December 25, 2019. The studio's final production overall was the miniseries Ice Age: Scrat Tales, released on April 13, 2022.
Feature films
All films are co-produced with 20th Century Fox Animation; with the exceptions of Ferdinand, which is a co-production with Davis Entertainment, and Spies in Disguise, which is a co-production with Chernin Entertainment.
Television specials
Short films
Television series
Contributions
Joe's Apartment (1996) – dancing and singing cockroaches
Alien Resurrection (1997) – the aliens
A Simple Wish (1997) – numerous characters and special effects
Mouse Hunt (1997) – several mice and household effects
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – several alien creatures
Jesus' Son (1999) – sacred heart, "liquid" glass, and screaming cotton ball effects
Fight Club (1999) – the "sliding" penguin
The Sopranos (2000) – the "talking fish" in the episode "Funhouse"
Titan A.E. (2000) – 3D animation: creation of the new world in the final "Genesis" sequence
Family Guy (2006) – Scrat's cameo in the episode "Sibling Rivalry"
Commercials
Braun "The Last Word" (1992)
Nicktoons "3-D Laughing Boy Open" (1993)
Chock full o'Nuts "Complements / Weddings" (1993)
Nestlé "Cookie Jar" (1993)
Berry Berry Kix "Recliner Boy" (1994)
M&M's "Celebrity Campaign" (1994)
Brother "Glitches" (1994)
Cheerios "Little O, Big Taste" (1995)
Clamato "Skaters" (1995)
Mopar (1996)
Honey-Comb (1996)
Bell Atlantic "The Big Deal" (1996)
Pepsi "Swingers" (1996)
Rayovac "Fierce Creatures / Super Stomper" (1997)
Capri Sun "Waterspout" (1997)
Mannington Floors "Mosaics" (1997)
Hostess "The Last Doughnut" (1998)
Tennent's Lager "Re-Incarnated" (1998)
Mott's "Fruitsations" (1998)
Target Toys "Big Adventure / Dog & Robota" (1998)
Nature's Resource "St. John's Wort / Ginko / Echinacea" (1998)
Blockbuster Video (1998)
Starburst "Tunnel" (1999)
Rice Krispies "Proud Parent" (1999)
Cartoon Network "Ice Age: Frozen Fantasy Sweepstakes" (2002)
Related productions
Cancelled films
Reception
Critical and public reception
Box office performance
Accolades
Academy Award wins and nominations
Annie Awards wins and nominations
Golden Globes Award wins and nominations
See also
20th Century Animation § Co-productions and or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppSheet | AppSheet is an application that provides a no-code development platform for application software, which allows users to create mobile, tablet, and web applications using data sources like Google Drive, DropBox, Office 365, and other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms. The platform can be utilized for a broad set of business use cases including project management, customer relationship management, field inspections, and personalized reporting.
AppSheet was acquired by Google in January 2020.
Platform
The AppSheet platform allows users to create mobile apps from cloud-based spreadsheets and databases. Apps can also be created directly as an add-on from spreadsheet platforms like Google Sheets. The platform is available from both a self-service model and a corporate licensing model for larger organizations with more governance, data analytics, and performance options. Compared to low-code development platforms which allow developers to develop with faster iteration cycles, AppSheet is a no-code platform which allows business users familiar with basic spreadsheet and database operations to build apps.
AppSheet compatible data sources include:
Google Sheets
Google Forms
Microsoft Excel on Office 365
Microsoft Excel on Dropbox
Microsoft Excel on Box (company)
Smartsheet
Salesforce
DreamFactory
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Amazon DynamoDB
Features
Data Capture
AppSheet apps capture data in the form of images, signatures, geolocation, barcodes, and NFC. Data is automatically synced to the cloud-based, or users can opt to manually sync the data at any time. Common uses for data capture include field or equipment inspections, safety inspections, reporting, and inventory management.
Data Collaboration
Synced, shared data allows users to collaborate across mobile or desktop devices. Workflow rules can also be used to trigger notifications or work-based assignments where appropriate. Offline access is also possible as data storage is localized to the device and synced upon internet connectivity returns.
Data Display
AppSheet data can be displayed in graphical and interactive formats. Common data views include tables, forms, maps, charts, calendars, and dashboards. Each app can hold multiple views consisting of data from various sources.
Declarative Programming Model
AppSheet's platform allows users to declare the logic of the app's activity in order to customize the app's user experience rather than use traditional code. This level of abstraction essentially trades a granular level of customization that would be available through hard code for increased efficiency, scalability, and security that would be available through a declarative model.
Security
Data is stored on a user's device and the user's existing cloud-based storage system. When users sync their app, changes they make are sent to the AppSheet web service over an encrypted protocol (HTTPS). AppSheet then applies the changes to the backend spreadsheet (o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalini%20Urs | Shalini R. Urs is an information scientist who pioneered the digital library movement in India, particularly the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD). She was awarded the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations–Adobe Leadership award in 2004 for her initiatives. She built a multilingual online digital library called Vidyanidhi in 2000, long before the digital era captured the imagination of many in India. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gooru and is an Associate Editor of Information Matters.
Career
Dr. Urs started her career with University of Mysore in 1976 which she served till her retirement in 2016. She founded the first iSchool in India—the International School of Information Management, at the University of Mysore. She was a Fulbright scholar and a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA during 2000 -2001. She was a visiting professor at the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute from 1998 -1999. She was an adjunct faculty at the International Institute of Information technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) from 2005-2008. She was awarded the Mortenson Distinguished Lecturer 2010 by the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA and was invited to deliver their annual lecture series.
Research
Her research areas include Information Retrieval, Ontology Development, and Social Media and Network Analysis. As a leading digital library expert, she was commissioned to carry out studies and projects by UNESCO, Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA and others. Some of her well-known projects/studies are:
UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), 2002
UNESCO Directory of Open Access Education and Training Opportunities, 2011
UNESCO sponsored Training Program called UN4IM Training Library and Information Professionals in India.
UNESCO Workshop on eBooks, ISiM. September 2004
Digital Library of Learning Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA Project the Dot-EDU digital library of audiovisual learning materials for underprivileged school children developed under the project 'Technology Tools for Teaching and Training in India
Unicode Implementation for Indian Scripts funded by Microsoft
She has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and prestigious academic conferences and also edited five books published by Springer. Her Google Scholar profile has more than 650 citations. She received the Emerald Research Fund Award 2007/2008 for her research "Networks and Turning Points: An Exploration of the Dynamics of Academic Networks and Social Movements in India".
Vidyanidhi
Vidyanidhi, the digital library project that was conceptualized and developed by Dr. Shalini Urs was funded by Government of India, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under their National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT). After further funding from the Ford Foundation, Vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN | STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks. Caller ID spoofing is used by robocallers to mask their identity or to make it appear the call is from a legitimate source, often a nearby phone number with the same area code and exchange, or from well-known agencies like the Internal Revenue Service or Ontario Provincial Police. This sort of spoofing is common for calls originating from voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems, which can be located anywhere in the world.
STIR, short for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited, has been defined as a series of RFC standards documents by a Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It works by adding a digital certificate to the Session Initiation Protocol information used to initiate and route calls in VoIP systems. The first public connection on the system, typically the VoIP service provider, examines the caller ID and compares it to a known list of IDs they provide to that customer. The provider then attaches an encrypted certificate to the SIP header with the service provider's identity and a trust value. VoIP software on the receiving end can check the authenticity of the message by decrypting STIR using the provider's public key.
For non-VoIP systems, like cell phones and landlines, call routing information is carried by SS7. In these cases, the SIP header is not directly useful as it cannot be sent to users unless they are on a VoIP connection. This is the purpose of the SHAKEN system, short for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs. SHAKEN is a suite of guidelines for public switched telephone networks that indicate how to deal with calls that have incorrect or missing STIR information. This may be in the form of additional information in the CNAM information of caller ID indicating the number has been spoofed, but the details have not been finalized.
, STIR/SHAKEN is a major ongoing effort in the United States, which is suffering an "epidemic" of robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission requires use of the protocols by June 30, 2021. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requires use of the protocols by November 30, 2021.
The name was inspired by Ian Fleming's character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis "shaken, not stirred". STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN "tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym."
Background
Caller ID
The idea of sending the phone number to the customer for identification purposes dates to 1968, when Ted Paraskevakos introduced the idea of modem-like devices that would send and receive the information over normal voice lines. It sent a small burst of information using the 1200 bit/s Bell 202 modulation in the time between the first and second rings. The concept was developed through the 1970s and had its first public trial with Bell Atlantic in 1984 and a follow-up in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the American psychological thriller television series You was ordered by Lifetime on July 26, 2018. On December 3, 2018, it was announced that the network had passed on the second season and that the series would move to Netflix as a Netflix Original series. Penn Badgley and Ambyr Childers reprise their roles while new cast members include Victoria Pedretti, James Scully, Jenna Ortega, and Carmela Zumbado. The 10-episode second season is loosely based on the novel Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes and was entirely released on Netflix on December 26, 2019.
Synopsis
In the second season, Joe Goldberg moves from New York to Los Angeles to escape his past, and starts over with a new identity. He meets a series of people, including his neighbors Delilah and Ellie Alves, and Forty Quinn. When he meets avid chef Love Quinn, twin sister of Forty, Joe begins falling into his old patterns of obsession and violence. As Joe attempts to forge a new love, he strives to make his relationship with Love succeed at all costs, to avoid the fate of his past romantic endeavors.
Cast and characters
Main
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg, a serial killer and bookstore clerk at Anavrin, now using the pseudonym Will Bettelheim for a new identity
Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn, an aspiring chef and health guru in Los Angeles
Jenna Ortega as Ellie Alves, Joe's savvy 15-year-old neighbor
James Scully as Forty Quinn, Love's troubled twin brother
Ambyr Childers as Candace Stone, Joe's ex-girlfriend and a fledgling musician posing as an indie film producer
Carmela Zumbado as Delilah Alves, an investigative reporter and Ellie's older sister
Recurring
Adwin Brown as Calvin, a manager at Anavrin, a trendy high-end grocery store
Robin Lord Taylor as Will Bettelheim, a hacker whose identity Joe briefly assumes
Marielle Scott as Lucy Sprecher, an edgy-chic talent agent and Sunrise's partner
Chris D'Elia as Joshua "Henderson" Bunter, a famous stand-up comedian in Los Angeles
Charlie Barnett as Gabe Miranda, a successful acupuncturist and Love's oldest friend and closest confidant
Melanie Field as Sunrise Darshan Cummings, Lucy's partner and a stay-at-home lifestyle blogger
Aidan Wallace as Little Joe Goldberg
Magda Apanowicz as Sandy Goldberg, Joe's mother
Danny Vasquez as David Fincher, a LAPD officer
Saffron Burrows as Dottie Quinn, Love and Forty's mother
Guest
Elizabeth Lail as Guinevere Beck, Joe's deceased ex-girlfriend and former obsessive interest
Steven W. Bailey as Jasper Krenn, a criminal to whom Will owes money
Kathy Griffin as Mary, comedienne friend of Henderson
Michael Reilly Burke as Ray Quinn, Love and Forty's father
John Stamos as Dr. Nicky, Joe's ex-therapist whom he framed for Beck's murder in the previous season
David Paladino as Alec Grigoryan, a private investigator hired by Love to investigate Candace
Haven Everly as Gigi, Will's fiancée
Andrew Creer as Milo Warrington, James' best friend and Love's new boyfrie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Other%20Ocean | On the Other Ocean is the debut studio album by American composer David Behrman, released in 1978 by Lovely Music, Ltd. Considered a pioneering work in the genre of computer music, the album pairs computers with live players.
Background and recording
"On the Other Ocean" was recorded on September 18, 1977 at the Recording Studio, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College in Oakland, California.
"Figure in a Clearing" was recorded on June 9, 1977 at the Electronic Music Studio, State University of New York at Albany in Albany, New York.
Release
The album was reissued by Lovely Music in 1996 on CD and again on vinyl on February 1, 2019.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review, Andy Beta of Pitchfork said, "Over 40 years after its initial release, the composer's pioneering work pairing computers with live players feels not only prescient but also refreshingly optimistic." Nilan Perera of Exclaim! praised the record, saying, "What both pieces excel in is a rich, organic, complexity that on the surface may be considered "ambient," but eschews that convention in the most artful way. This recording has achieved landmark status in New Music and it's easy to hear why."
Accolades
Legacy and influence
An excerpt of "On the Other Ocean" was featured on Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian Vol. II. a 2012 compilation album by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian.
On April 16, 2017, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes selected "On the Other Ocean" in his "Bedtime Mix" on Phil Taggart's BBC Radio 1.
American choreographer Molissa Fenley has used "On the Other Ocean" and "Figure in a Clearing" in her choreography work.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
David Behrman – composition, electronics
Arthur Stidfole – bassoon
"Blue" Gene Tyranny – engineering
Maggi Payne – flute
David Gibson – cello
Richard Lainhart – engineering
Ariel Peeri – jacket design
References
1978 debut albums
David Behrman albums
Lovely Music albums
Minimalistic compositions
1977 compositions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN | StyleGAN is a generative adversarial network (GAN) introduced by Nvidia researchers in December 2018, and made source available in February 2019.
StyleGAN depends on Nvidia's CUDA software, GPUs, and Google's TensorFlow, or Meta AI's PyTorch, which supersedes TensorFlow as the official implementation library in later StyleGAN versions. The second version of StyleGAN, called StyleGAN2, was published on February 5, 2020. It removes some of the characteristic artifacts and improves the image quality. Nvidia introduced StyleGAN3, described as an "alias-free" version, on June 23, 2021, and made source available on October 12, 2021.
History
A direct predecessor of the StyleGAN series is the Progressive GAN, published in 2017.
In December 2018, Nvidia researchers distributed a preprint with accompanying software introducing StyleGAN, a GAN for producing an unlimited number of (often convincing) portraits of fake human faces. StyleGAN was able to run on Nvidia's commodity GPU processors.
In February 2019, Uber engineer Phillip Wang used the software to create This Person Does Not Exist, which displayed a new face on each web page reload. Wang himself has expressed amazement, given that humans are evolved to specifically understand human faces, that nevertheless StyleGAN can competitively "pick apart all the relevant features (of human faces) and recompose them in a way that's coherent."
In September 2019, a website called Generated Photos published 100,000 images as a collection of stock photos. The collection was made using a private dataset shot in a controlled environment with similar light and angles.
Similarly, two faculty at the University of Washington's Information School used StyleGAN to create Which Face is Real?, which challenged visitors to differentiate between a fake and a real face side by side. The faculty stated the intention was to "educate the public" about the existence of this technology so they could be wary of it, "just like eventually most people were made aware that you can Photoshop an image".
The second version of StyleGAN, called StyleGAN2, was published on February 5, 2020. It removes some of the characteristic artifacts and improves the image quality.
In 2021, a third version was released, improving consistency between fine and coarse details in the generator. Dubbed "alias-free", this version was implemented with pytorch.
Illicit use
In December 2019, Facebook took down a network of accounts with false identities, and mentioned that some of them had used profile pictures created with artificial intelligence.
Architecture
Progressive GAN
Progressive GAN is a method for training GAN for large-scale image generation stably, by growing a GAN generator from small to large scale in a pyramidal fashion. Like SinGAN, it decomposes the generator as , and the discriminator as .
During training, at first only are used in a GAN game to generate 4x4 images. Then are added to reach the second stage of GAN game, to gener |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dragon%20Lady%20episodes | Dragon Lady is a 2019 Philippine television drama fantasy series starring Janine Gutierrez and Tom Rodriguez. The series premiered on GMA Network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from March 4, 2019 to July 20, 2019, replacing Asawa Ko, Karibal Ko.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20Riding%20Club | Barbie Riding Club is a 1998 computer game developed by American studio Human Code and published by Mattel Media. Its gameplay involves feeding, grooming and riding horses.
Gameplay
Reception
In the United States, Barbie Riding Club took #1 on PC Data's computer game sales rankings in its opening week. It debuted on the monthly charts in second place for November 1998, a position it held in December. By the end of the year, its sales in the United States had totaled 288,381 units, for revenues of $9 million. This made it the country's 14th-best-selling computer game of 1998, according to PC Data. The game was also named as a finalist by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for "PC Children's Entertainment Title of the Year" at the 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.
See also
List of Barbie video games
References
1998 video games
Barbie video games
Video games about horses
Software for children
Video games featuring female protagonists
Children's educational video games
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games
Video games developed in the United States
Mattel video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20problem | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, the equivalence problem is the question of determining, given two representations of formal languages, whether they denote the same formal language.
The complexity and decidability of this decision problem depend upon the type of representation under consideration.
For instance, in the case of finite-state automata, equivalence is decidable, and the problem is PSPACE-complete.
Further, in the case of deterministic pushdown automata, equivalence is decidable, Géraud Sénizergues won the Gödel Prize for this result. Subsequently, the problem was shown to lie in TOWER, the least non-elementary complexity class.
It becomes an undecidable problem for pushdown automata or any machine that can decide context-free languages or more powerful languages.
References
Formal languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20China%20Top%20100 | The Billboard China Top 100 () was the music industry standard record chart in China for local songs, compiled by Nielsen-CCData and published weekly by Billboard China. Chart rankings are based on digital sales, radio play, and online streaming in China.
The short-lived chart was last updated on September 6, 2019.
List of number one songs
See also
Billboard China
Billboard China Airplay/FL
References
External links
2019 establishments in China
2019 disestablishments in China
China Top 100
Chinese record charts
Top lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202019 | The 61st Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony was held at The Star Gold Coast in Queensland and was broadcast live on the Nine Network. Public voting for the Most Popular Award categories ran from 4 to 31 March 2019, with the shortlist of nominees released on 26 May.
Each network is restricted in the number of personalities and programs they can submit for consideration in the publicly voted category, including up to 10 names in both the Most Popular Actor and Actress categories, 15 names for Most Popular Presenter, and 5 programs for Most Popular Drama. These restrictions on nominations often lead to controversy as being widely panned for the second consecutive year over those who are not listed in the voting form, and as a result, they are not eligible to be nominated for an award.
Nominees
Nominees were announced on 26 May 2019.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Changes to the ceremony
The 2019 ceremony saw the introduction of two new industry-voted awards: Most Outstanding Reality Program and Most Popular TV Commercial. The awards for Most Popular Panel or Current Affairs Program and Most Outstanding Entertainment Program also returned after being absent from the 2018 Logies.
Presenters
Tom Gleeson
Hamish Blake & Andy Lee
Waleed Aly
Tracy Grimshaw
Scott Tweedie
Julia Morris
Performers
Guy Sebastian — Before I Go, Battle Scars, Choir
Jessica Mauboy — Little Things
Delta Goodrem — Greatest Hits Medley: Sitting On Top Of The World, Wings, In This Life, Lost Without You, Born To Try, Physical
Why Don't We — I Don't Belong in This Club
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Tracy Grimshaw paying tribute to Mike Willesee. A clip of Geoff Harvey playing the piano was played. The following deceased were honoured:
Jimmy Hannan, singer and entertainer
Penny Cook, actress
Mike Williamson, broadcaster
Judy McBurney, actress
Michael Audcent, executive
Valerie Nelson, stylist
Shane Senior, executive
Carol Burke, presenter
Jim Murphy, presenter
Ian Johnson, executive
Jackie Martin, supervising post producer
Andrew Prowse, director
Paula Zorgdrager, editor
Sam Chisholm, executive
Ron Casey, broadcaster
Carmen Duncan, actress
Quentin Kenihan, writer, producer
Trish Ramsay, executive
Terry McDermott, actor
Peter Ross, presenter
Eleanor Witcombe, writer
Damian Hill, actor
Paul Blackwell, actor
Mick Turski, camera
Melissa Attard, graphics supervisor
Chris Eichler, audio
Darius Perkins, actor
John Bluthal, actor
Ian Jones, writer, director
John Proper, producer
Harry M. Miller, producer, talent manager
Ross Crabtree, camera
Jerry Thomas, actor
Josh Murphy, news reporter
Rod Myers, staging
Roland Sampson, camera
Tony Featherstone, announcer
David Johnson, broadcast operators
Bryan Marshall, actor
Barry Spicer, newsreader
Billy J. Smith, broadcaster
Annalise Braakensiek, actress
Bill Collins, presenter
Geoff Harvey, musical director
References
Extern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyavada%20railway%20station | Aliyavada railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Aliyavada railway station is 19 km far away from Jamnagar railway station. Passenger and Superfast trains halt at Aliyavada railway station.
Nearby stations
is nearest railway station towards , whereas is nearest railway station towards .
Trains
The following Superfast train halts at Aliyavada railway station in both directions:
22945/46 Okha - Mumbai Central Saurashtra Mail
References
See also
Jamnagar district
Railway stations in Jamnagar district
Rajkot railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithapur%20railway%20station | Mithapur railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Mithapur railway station is 10 km far away from Okha railway station. Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.
Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Mithapur railway station in both directions:
19251/52 Okha - Somnath Express
22945/46 Okha - Mumbai Central Saurashtra Mail
References
See also
Devbhumi Dwarka district
Railway stations in Devbhoomi Dwarka district
Rajkot railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-free%20%28reinforcement%20learning%29 | In reinforcement learning (RL), a model-free algorithm (as opposed to a model-based one) is an algorithm which does not estimate the transition probability distribution (and the reward function) associated with the Markov decision process (MDP), which, in RL, represents the problem to be solved. The transition probability distribution (or transition model) and the reward function are often collectively called the "model" of the environment (or MDP), hence the name "model-free". A model-free RL algorithm can be thought of as an "explicit" trial-and-error algorithm. An example of a model-free algorithm is Q-learning.
Key 'Model-Free' reinforcement learning algorithms
References
Reinforcement learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-Wide%20Standardized%20Seismograph%20Network |
The World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) – originally the World-Wide Network of Seismograph Stations (WWNSS) – was a global network of about 120 seismograph stations built in the 1960s that generated an unprecedented collection of high quality seismic data. This data enabled seismology to become a quantitative science, elucidated the focal mechanisms of earthquakes and the structure of the Earth's crust, and contributed to the development of plate tectonic theory. The WWSSN is credited with spurring a renaissance in seismological research.
The WWSSN also "created a global network infrastructure, including the data-exchange procedures and station technical capabilities needed to support the establishment of the more advanced networks in operation today", and has been the model for every global seismic network since then.
A principal feature of the WWSSN was that each station had identical equipment, uniformly calibrated. These consisted of three short-period (~1 second) seismographs (oriented north-south, east-west, and vertically), three long-period (~15 seconds) seismographs, and an accurate radio-synchronized crystal-controlled clock. The seismograms were produced on photographic drum recorders, developed on-site, then sent to a Data Center for copying onto 70-mm and 35-mm film (until 1978, and then after onto microfiche). The WWSSN also featured a data distribution system that made this data available to anyone at nominal cost from a single location, providing the basis for much research.
The WWSSN arose from a political concern. In the 1950s concerns about radioactive fallout from above-ground testing of nuclear weapons prompted the leadership of the three leading nuclear nations (President Eisenhower of the United States, General Secretary Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Macmillan of the United Kingdom) to ban further testing of nuclear weapons.
However, there was a hitch. The United States would not agree to banning kinds of nuclear tests where there was no capability to detect and identify any violations, and for smaller, underground tests seismology was not sufficiently developed to have that capability. The Eisenhower Administration therefore convened the Berkner panel to recommend ways to improve the nation's seismic detection abilities. The Berkner report, issued in 1959, was the basis of a comprehensive research and development program known as Project Vela Uniform, funded through the U.S. Department of Defense Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA then funded the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (C&GS) to implement one of the Berkner Report recommendations, designing and building what became the WWSSN. Performance specifications and a request for proposals were published in November 1960, a contract awarded in early 1961, and the first station was installed in the C&GS Albuquerque (New Mexico) Seismological Laboratory (ASL) in October 1961. An additional 89 stations were instal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20sequence | In mathematics, a Stanley sequence is an integer sequence generated by a greedy algorithm that chooses the sequence members to avoid arithmetic progressions. If is a finite set of non-negative integers on which no three elements form an arithmetic progression (that is, a Salem–Spencer set), then the Stanley sequence generated from starts from the elements of , in sorted order, and then repeatedly chooses each successive element of the sequence to be a number that is larger than the already-chosen numbers and does not form any three-term arithmetic progression with them.
These sequences are named after Richard P. Stanley.
Binary–ternary sequence
The Stanley sequence starting from the empty set consists of those numbers whose ternary representations have only the digits 0 and 1. That is, when written in ternary, they look like binary numbers. These numbers are
0, 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 27, 28, 30, 31, 36, 37, 39, 40, ...
By their construction as a Stanley sequence, this sequence is the lexicographically first arithmetic-progression-free sequence. Its elements are the sums of distinct powers of three, the numbers such that the th central binomial coefficient is 1 mod 3, and the numbers whose balanced ternary representation is the same as their ternary representation.
The construction of this sequence from the ternary numbers is analogous to the construction of the Moser–de Bruijn sequence, the sequence of numbers whose base-4 representations have only the digits 0 and 1, and the construction of the Cantor set as the subset of real numbers in the interval whose ternary representations use only the digits 0 and 2. More generally, they are a 2-regular sequence, one of a class of integer sequences defined by a linear recurrence relation with multiplier 2.
This sequence includes three powers of two: 1, 4, and 256 = 35 + 32 + 3 + 1. Paul Erdős conjectured that these are the only powers of two that it contains.
Growth rate
Andrew Odlyzko and Richard P. Stanley observed that the number of elements up to some threshold in the binary–ternary sequence, and in other Stanley sequences starting from or , grows proportionally to . For other starting sets the Stanley sequences that they considered appeared to grow more erratically but even more sparsely. For instance, the first irregular case is , which generates the sequence
0, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 16, 23, 26, 31, 33, 37, 38, 44, 49, 56, 73, 78, 80, 85, 95, 99, ...
Odlyzko and Stanley conjectured that in such cases the number of elements up to any threshold is . That is, there is a dichotomy in the growth rate of Stanley sequences between the ones with similar growth to the binary–ternary sequence and others with a much smaller growth rate; according to this conjecture, there should be no Stanley sequences with intermediate growth.
Moy proved that Stanley sequences cannot grow significantly more slowly than the conjectured bound for the sequences of slow growth. Every Stanley sequence has elements u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri%20Amirgadh%20railway%20station | Shri Amirgadh railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the North Western railway network. Shri Amirgadh railway station is 35 km from . Passenger and DEMU trains halt here.
Trains
Abu Road - Mahesana DEMU
Ahmedabad - Jodhpur Passenger
Ahmedabad - Jaipur Passenger
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ajmer railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanera%20railway%20station | Dhanera railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the North Western Railway network. Dhanera railway station is 36 km far away from . DEMU, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Trains
The following trains halt at Dhanera railway station in both directions:
22483/84 Gandhidham–Jodhpur Express
14805/06 Yesvantpur–Barmer AC Express
14803/04 Bhagat Ki Kothi–Ahmedabad Weekly Express
12489/90 Bikaner–Dadar Superfast Express
14817/18 Bhagat Ki Kothi–Bandra Terminus Express (via Bhildi)
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Jodhpur railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sample%20hypothesis%20testing | In statistical hypothesis testing, a two-sample test is a test performed on the data of two random samples, each independently obtained from a different given population. The purpose of the test is to determine whether the difference between these two populations is statistically significant.
There are a large number of statistical tests that can be used in a two-sample test. Which one(s) are appropriate depend on a variety of factors, such as:
Which assumptions (if any) may be made a priori about the distributions from which the data have been sampled? For example, in many situations it may be assumed that the underlying distributions are normal distributions. In other cases the data are categorical, coming from a discrete distribution over a nominal scale, such as which entry was selected from a menu.
Does the hypothesis being tested apply to the distributions as a whole, or just some population parameter, for example the mean or the variance?
Is the hypothesis being tested merely that there is a difference in the relevant population characteristics (in which case a two-sided test may be indicated), or does it involve a specific bias ("A is better than B"), so that a one-sided test can be used?
Relevant tests
Statistical tests that may apply for two-sample testing include:
Hotelling's T-squared distribution#Two-sample statistic
Kernel embedding of distributions#Kernel two-sample test
Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
Kuiper's test
Median test
Pearson's chi-squared test
Student's t-test
Tukey–Duckworth test
Welch's t-test
See also
A/B testing
Statistical hypothesis testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIP%20terminal | VIP (Visual Information Projection) terminals are a series of computer terminals by Honeywell/Bull, used to connect to their mainframe systems.
External links
terminals-wiki.org
Honeywell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnon%20Avron | Arnon Avron (; born 1952) is an Israeli mathematician and Professor at the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on applications of mathematical logic to computer science and artificial intelligence.
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv in 1952, Arnon Avron studied mathematics at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, receiving a Ph.D. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1985. Between 1986 and 1988, he was a visitor at the University of Edinburgh's Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, where he began his association with computer science.
In 1988 he became a senior faculty member of the Department of Computer Science (later School of Computer Science) of Tel Aviv University, chairing the School in 1996–1998, and becoming a Full Professor in 1999.
Research
Avron's research interests include proof theory, automated reasoning, non-classical logics, foundations of mathematics, and applications of mathematical logic in computer science and artificial intelligence. Avron made a significant contribution to the theory of automated reasoning with his introduction of hypersequents, a generalization of the sequent calculus. Avron also introduced the use of bilattices to paraconsistent logic, and made contributions to predicative set theory and geometry.
Selected works
Books
Articles
References
1952 births
Living people
Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli Jews
Israeli mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot%20Pilz | Margot Pilz (born 1936, Haarlem, Netherlands) is an Austrian visual artist and a pioneer of conceptual and digital art in Austria. She was one of the first Austrian artists to combine computers and photography. Her works reflect the avant-garde culture of the 1960s and 1970s in their experimental techniques and performative aspects. Her work received renewed attention in the 2010s.
Pilz's photographs have been described as "one-second sculptures" or "flash-sculptures". She often chooses feminist approaches, addressing taboos, stereotyping, and environmental concerns. In this regard, her work has been compared to that of Valie Export. Much of her work is autobiographical.
She has received a number of awards, including the Theodor Körner Prize (1990).
Biography
Pilz was born in 1936 in Haarlem in the Netherlands. In 1939, when she was three years old, her family fled from the National Socialists to Semarang in Central Java, Indonesia. When the Japanese invaded Indonesia in March 1942, Pilz's father was sent to a concentration camp in Sumatra. She and her mother spent two years among 8,000 prisoners in Lampersari concentration camp, Semarang, Central Java. In Pilz's case, seven women and two children lived in a tiny filthy room. They suffered from typhus and one of Pilz's legs became infected and as a result is shorter than the other.
In 1954 Pilz went to Vienna to study photography at the Höheren Graphischen Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt, the Federal Training and Research Institute of Graphic Arts. She worked with Hans Weiss as a commercial photographer in Vienna from 1971 to 1978. In 1976, she received her Meisterprüfung (master's certification) in photography.
Pilz was strongly affected by her arrest by plainclothes police officers at the Third Women's Festival in Vienna on 14 April 1978. She addressed these events through the creation of a body-centered series of self-portraits, communicating emotion to the audience both through expressive gestures and through the state of the linen jacket that she wore at the time of the arrest. These photographs, in which she is portrayed with crumpled clothes and in crouched postures, have been described as "one-second sculptures" or "flash-sculptures".
In 1978 Pilz also joined the feminist artists network Internationalen Aktionsgemeinschaft bildender Künstlerinnen (International Action Community of Fine Artists, IntAkt). Her work is closely related to the feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In her work she explored and reflected on the institution of marriage, working conditions of women, and the social role of women. For example, for the work "Arbeiterinnenaltar" (Workers altar, 1981), she photographed workers at the coffee roastery Eduscho and questioned working conditions.
Her photo sequence, The White Cell Project (1983–1985), placed her subjects within a small cardboard room, 165 centimeters wide, that concretized the weight and constraint of societal expectations and norms. She invi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDX | Aviation Information Data Exchange (AIDX) is the global XML messaging standard for exchanging flight data between airlines, airports, and any third party consuming the data. It is endorsed as a recommended standard by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and the Airports Council International (ACI).
History
The development of AIDX began in 2005 and launched in October 2008 as a combined effort of over 80 airlines, airports and vendors. To date, it consists of 95 distinct data elements, including flight identification, operational times, disruption details, resource requirement, passenger, baggage, fuel and cargo statistics, and aircraft details. The goal of the project was to standardize information exchange and tackle problems of disruption for a variety of use cases.
References
External links
Aviation Info. Data Exchange (AIDX) at International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Airport IT - Documentation at Airports Council International (ACI)
Aviation infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20North%20West | Go North West is a bus operator in Greater Manchester, England. It is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group, operating franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester.
History
Go North West commenced operations on 2 June 2019 following the Go-Ahead Group's purchase of First Greater Manchester's Queens Road depot with 163 vehicles.
In December 2022, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority announced that Go North West had won the first round of franchising to run the first Bee Network bus services in Bolton and Wigan from September 2023, displacing the operations of Diamond North West and Stagecoach Manchester in both towns. Go North West will take delivery of 50 Bee Network branded Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV battery electric buses for use on these services.
Services
Go North West operate 28 public services and 13 school services from the Queens Road depot as of April 2023. It largely serves suburban areas in the north of Manchester along with Salford and Bury.
Certain routes have been specifically branded by the company. The 52 and the 53, the latter being Manchester's oldest unchanged bus route, are branded with an orange livery as the 'Manchester's Orbits', while the 135 route has received a similar green livery, both based on the standard fleet livery. In 2021, the CrossCity brand was launched on the 41 service serving Sale and Middleton via the city centre.
Fleet
As of April 2023, Go North West operates 41 routes with a fleet of 215 buses, a large amount of which were initially acquired from First Greater Manchester. Buses were initially painted into a livery designed by local marketing agency We Are Buzz, however the livery was redesigned in late 2019. This redesign later coincided with the introduction of the Manchester's Orbits and 135 branding.
The majority of Go North West's buses are based at the former First depot in Queen's Road, Cheetham Hill, opened in 1901 by the Manchester Carriage and Tramways Company as the first electric tram depot to open in Manchester. The depot premises is adjacent to the Museum of Transport in Manchester. Following the acquisition of the garage in 2019, Go North West had the depot's original clock restored to working order and also funded an auction bid to help return the golden key used to first open the garage to the adjacent museum.
Go North West also operate out of a temporary "pop-up" depot, based in Heywood in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. This was acquired in April 2023 to store extra vehicles which are used on the emergency Bolton contracts Go North West acquired from Diamond North West on 17 April 2023. These extra vehicles were cascaded from other areas of the Go-Ahead Group, namely Go North East and East Yorkshire.
Controversies
2021 strike action
On 28 February 2021, a strike was called by the union Unite over concerns that the new payment package was a 'fire and re-hire' scheme, following Go North West making a loss of £1.8 million per year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Hindu%20Temples | The National Council of Hindu Temples (NCHTUK) is an umbrella body of Hindu temples (mandirs) in the United Kingdom. It connects a network of over 200 temples in the country. It supports the temples, their management, employees and operations in order to enable public access to some of the oldest heritage sites of Hinduism. NCHTUK is also involved in areas of interfaith dialogue at forums like The Interfaith Network UK.
History
It was established in July 1978,
In 2013, NCHTUK announced the formation of the British Board of Hindu Scholars in order to provide an alternative, authoritative, scholarly source for Indology studies. In December, Sharma represented the council during the Ambassadors reception where he presented Prince William a copy of the ancient Indian epic of Valmiki Ramayana on behalf of the council.
In May 2016, NCHTUK and HFB were requested by DCLG for improving the crematorium provisions in line with the Hindu traditions for cremating the dead. Later in December, the council protested the issue of £5 notes by Bank of England that contained tallow (a form of animal fat). Several temples across UK refused to accept the £5 currency as donations. NHCHT secretary Pt. Satish Sharma explained this was against the ethos of Hindu dharmic perspective and that printing currency and using substances derived from acts of violence upon vulnerable, non-aggressive creatures was not the behaviour of civilised beings. The organization was at the forefront of opposing an overreaching legislation by the UK parliament on caste discrimination in 2018.
Celebrations
In August 2021, there were simultaneous prayers held across 150 temples as NCHTUK marked the laying of the foundation stone of the Ram mandir at Ayodhya.
References
Further reading
External links
Hindu organisations based in the United Kingdom
1978 establishments in the United Kingdom
Religious organizations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla%20Air%20Express | Isla Air Express is a Spanish airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The airline intends to set up a network of inter-island routes using DHC-6-300 Twin Otter float planes.
Destinations
After the second expansion phase, the route network is intended to link the port areas (not airports) of the following destinations:
Palma de Mallorca
Menorca
Ibiza
Formentera
Valencia
Alicante
Fleet
The Isla Air Express fleet is set to consist of DeHavilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter float planes.
References
External links
Official website
Airlines of Spain
Airlines established in 2019
2019 establishments in the Balearic Islands
Transport in the Balearic Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landquart%E2%80%93Thusis%20railway%20line | The Landquart–Thusis railway line is a Swiss metre-gauge railway line running from Landquart via Chur to Thusis. It is part of the Rhaetian Railway core network and provides a connection between the Landquart–Davos Platz railway and the Albula Railway. Between Landquart and Chur, the line runs largely parallel to the standard-gauge Chur–Rorschach railway of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). The line from Chur to Thusis was opened in 1896.
Description
is the starting point of the Rhaetian Railway, historically part of the Landquart–Davos railway, operationally the location of the main workshop and network. It is kilometre 0 for the measurement of distances (chainage) on all core network lines.
While the passenger traffic of the SBB ends in Chur, there is a connection with the Arosa Railway and there is a link for standard gauge freight operations using a dual gauge (three-rail) section in Untervaz and a dual gauge section (22.5 tonne axle load) for standard-gauge freight traffic from Chur to Domat/Ems for the factory premises of Ems-Chemie and the large sawmill of Mayr-Melnhof Swiss Timber AG. All rail infrastructure is metre-gauge from Domat/Ems. The line to Disentis/Mustér branches off in Reichenau-Tamins; this connects with the trunk line of the MGB and these lines are served by Glacier Express services running between Chur and .
The line connects at Thusis directly with the Albula Railway, which continues the chainage from Landquart to St. Moritz and continues from Bever on the two branches of the Engadin line to Scuol-Tarasp and Pontresina.
Services at Trimmis station were discontinued at the timetable change on 10 December 2006. As a result, Untervaz station was renamed Untervaz-Trimmis, which reflects the uneven development of the municipality of Trimmis.
References
Footnotes
Sources
(Festschrift for the 100-year anniversary of the line)
Railway lines in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 1896
1896 establishments in Switzerland
Rhaetian Railway lines
Metre gauge railways in Switzerland
11 kV AC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture%20Notes | Lecture Notes may refer to the following book series, published by Springer Science+Business Media
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Lecture Notes in Physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20M.%20Rabaey | Jan M. Rabaey (born August 15, 1955 in Veurne, Belgium) is an academic and engineer who is Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School of in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as the CTO of the Systems Technology Co-Optimization division at imec, Belgium.
He has made major contributions to a number of fields including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. Some of the systems he helped envision include the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad), PicoRadios (IoT avant-la-lettre), the Swarm (IoT on steroids), Brain-Machine interfaces and the Human Intranet. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation distributed systems, as well as the exploration of the interaction between the cyber and the biological worlds. Furthermore, he is the primary author of the influential “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” textbook that has served to educate hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium.
Biography
After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1983, he joined the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 to1987 he was a research manager at imec, Belgium, and in 1987 he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Swarm Lab. He was director of the DARPA/SRC co-funded multi-university GSRC and MuSyC research centers, and served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. In 2019, he became Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School at Berkeley. That same year, he also became the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of imec, Belgium.
Awards and honors
Awards
Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
Analog Devices Career Professorship, 1990
IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Award, 1994
IEEE Fellow, 1994
Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering, 2001
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Mac Van Valkenburg Award, 2008
European Design Automation Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009
Gigascale Systems Research Center A. Richard Newton Industrial Impact Award for the PicoRadio Project, 2009
Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, 2010
Honorary degrees
Rabaey has received honorary doctorates from Lund University (2012), University of Antwerp (2017), Tampere Technical University Finland (2017), and Hasselt University (2021). He also received a Grand Professorship at the Technical University Dresden in Germany in 2014.
Books
Digital Integrated Circuits: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesogale | Nesogale is a genus of tenrecs, which are a family of afrotherian mammals endemic to Madagascar. On the basis of molecular data indicating its two species form a sister group to the rest of Microgale (21 extant species), they were transferred from Microgale to Nesogale in 2016, thus resurrecting a genus first erected by Oldfield Thomas in 1918. These genera, along with Oryzorictes, form the tenrec subfamily Oryzorictinae. Nesogale contains the following species:
Dobson's shrew tenrec (N. dobsoni) - (Thomas, 1884)
Talazac's shrew tenrec (N. talazaci) - (Major, 1896)
These species are distinguished from the other shrew tenrecs of Microgale by being more robust and larger, and by their lack of premolar diastemata. They are distributed over much of the eastern and northern areas of the island. Nesogale and Microgale are estimated to have split during the Early Miocene, about 19 million years ago.
References
Afrosoricida
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting%20the%20Last%20Laugh | Getting the Last Laugh was a comedy TV movie special produced by the Landsburg Company, and first broadcast on the ABC network in 1985. It consisted of multiple segments with humorous tips to get revenge on the things that annoy us in everyday life. Guest stars included Danny Thomas, Shirley Jones, Rona Barrett, Ray Parker Jr., Jerry Mathers, and Barbara Billingsley. It was written by Fred Willard and Shelley Ross. In one segment, Ray Parker Jr. reprises his hit Ghostbusters theme ("Who you gonna call?") in a parody poking fun at uncooperative machines, with cameo appearances by Richard Simmons, Hervé Villechaize, Barbara Billingsley, and Rene Auberjonois.
References
External links
American comedy television films
1985 television films
1985 films
1985 comedy films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%27s%20recurrence%20algorithm | Miller's recurrence algorithm is a procedure for calculating a rapidly decreasing solution of a linear recurrence relation developed by J. C. P. Miller. It was originally developed to compute tables of the modified Bessel function but also applies to Bessel functions of the first kind and has other applications such as computation of the coefficients of Chebyshev expansions of other special functions.
Many families of special functions satisfy a recurrence relation that relates the values of the functions of different orders with common argument .
The modified Bessel functions of the first kind satisfy the recurrence relation
.
However, the modified Bessel functions of the second kind also satisfy the same recurrence relation
.
The first solution decreases rapidly with . The second solution increases rapidly with . Miller's algorithm provides a numerically stable procedure to obtain the decreasing solution.
To compute the terms of a recurrence through according to Miller's algorithm, one first chooses a value much larger than and computes a trial solution taking initial condition to an arbitrary non-zero value (such as 1) and taking and later terms to be zero. Then the recurrence relation is used to successively compute trial values for , down to . Noting that a second sequence obtained from the trial sequence by multiplication by a constant normalizing factor will still satisfy the same recurrence relation, one can then apply a separate normalizing relationship to determine the normalizing factor that yields the actual solution.
In the example of the modified Bessel functions, a suitable normalizing relation is a summation involving the even terms of the recurrence:
where the infinite summation becomes finite due to the approximation that and later terms are zero.
Finally, it is confirmed that the approximation error of the procedure is acceptable by repeating the procedure with a second choice of larger than the initial choice and confirming that the second set of results for through agree within the first set within the desired tolerance. Note that to obtain this agreement, the value of must be large enough such that the term is small compared to the desired tolerance.
In contrast to Miller's algorithm, attempts to apply the recurrence relation in the forward direction starting from known values of and obtained by other methods will fail as rounding errors introduce components of the rapidly increasing solution.
Olver and Gautschi analyses the error propagation of the algorithm in detail.
For Bessel functions of the first kind, the equivalent recurrence relation and normalizing relationship are:
.
The algorithm is particularly efficient in applications that require the values of the Bessel functions for all orders for each value of compared to direct independent computations of separate functions.
References
Algorithms
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Remote%20Management | WinRM (Windows Remote Management) is Microsoft's implementation of WS-Management in Windows which allows systems to access or exchange management information across a common network. Utilizing scripting objects or the built-in command-line tool, WinRM can be used with any remote computers that may have baseboard management controllers (BMCs) to acquire data. On Windows-based computers including WinRM, certain data supplied by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) can also be obtained.
Components
WinRM Scripting API
Provides an Application programming interface enabling scripts to remotely acquire data from computers that perform WS-Management operations.
winrm.cmd
Built-in systems management command line tool allowing a machine operator to configure WinRM. Implementation consists of a Visual Basic Scripting (VBS) Edition file (Winrm.vbs) which is written using the aforementioned WinRM scripting API.
winrs.exe
Another command line tool allowing the remote execution of most Cmd.exe commands. This tool utilizes the WS-Management protocol.
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) driver
Provides hardware management and facilitates control of remote server hardware through BMCs. IPMI is most useful when the operating system is not running or deployed as it allows for continued remote operations of the bare metal hardware/software.
WMI plug-in
Allows WMI data to be made available to WinRM clients.
WMI service
Leverages the WMI plug-in to provide requested data or control and can also be used to acquire data from most WMI classes. Examples include the Win32_Process, in addition to any IPMI-supplied data.
WS-Management protocol
Web Services Management is a DMTF open standard defining a SOAP-based protocol for the management of servers, devices, applications and various Web services. WS-Management provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across the IT infrastructure.
Ports
By default WinRM HTTPS used 5986 port, and HTTP uses 5985 port. By default, port 5985 is in listening mode, but port 5986 has to be enabled.
Common uses
Ansible communicates with Windows servers over WinRM using the Python pywinrm package and can remotely run PowerShell scripts and commands.
Thycotic's Secret Server also leverages WinRM to enable PowerShell remoting.
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitoring software (SAM) utilizes a WinRM server on monitored servers for its PowerShell integration.
CloudBolt leverages WinRM as part of Blueprints, Server Actions, and CB Plugins to execute remote scripts on Windows servers using the python pywinrm module.
Security
WinRM uses Kerberos for initial authentication by default. This ensures that actual credentials are never sent in client-server communications, instead relying on features such as hashing and tickets to connect. Although WinRM listeners can be configured to encrypt all communications using HTTPS, with the use of Kerberos, even if unencrypted HTTP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20CAD%20software | Designers have used computers for calculations since their invention. Digital computers were used in power system analysis or optimization as early as proto-"Whirlwind" in 1949. Circuit design theory or power network methodology was algebraic, symbolic, and often vector-based.
1940s–1950s
Between the mid-1940s and 1950s, various developments were made in computer software. Some of these developments include servo-motors controlled by generated pulse (1949), a digital computer with built-in operations to automatically coordinate transforms to compute radar related vectors (1951), and the graphic mathematical process of forming a shape with a digital machine tool (1952).
In 1953, MIT researcher Douglas T. Ross saw the "interactive display equipment" being used by radar operators, believing it would be exactly what his SAGE-related data reduction group needed. Ross and the other researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory were the sole users of the complex display systems installed for the pre-SAGE Cape Cod system. Ross claimed in an interview that they "used it for their own personal workstation." The designers of these early computers built utility programs to ensure programmers could debug software, using flowcharts on a display scope, with logical switches that could be opened and closed during the debugging session. They found that they could create electronic symbols and geometric figures to create simple circuit diagrams and flowcharts. These programs also enabled objects to be reproduced at will; it also was possible to change their orientation, linkage (flux, mechanical, lexical scoping), or scale. This presented numerous possibilities to them.
Ross coined the term computer-aided design (CAD) in 1959.
1960s
The invention of the 3D CAD/CAM is often attributed to French engineer Pierre Bézier (Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Renault). Between 1966 and 1968, after his mathematical work concerning surfaces, he developed UNISURF to ease the design of parts and tools for the automotive industry. UNISURF then became the working base for the following generations of CAD software.
In parallel, French carmaker Citroen had developed its design system SPAC (system de programmatic automatique Citroen) as part of its CAD/CAM solution SADUSCA (aid systems for the defining and the machining of bodywork surfaces), both based on the 1959 mathematical works of Paul de Casteljau. In 1968, it used an IBM 360-40, then 360-65 for batch jobs, but already had a graphical interface with an IBM 2250 prototype.
However, CAD may have been in use earlier at Boeing, having been used to help design the outer surface of Boeing's 727 airplane (which rolled out in 1962). A computer graphics department was established in 1962, and by 1965 had begun to make movies by computer.
In the 1960s, technological developments in the industries of aircraft, automotive, industrial control, and electronics provided advancements in the fields of three |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutok%2013 | Tutok 13 (pronounced as Tutok Trese / lit. Focus Thirteen) is the flagship national network news program produced by the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation's news department, based in the Philippines. Originally anchored by Vincent Gregory Santos and premiered on February 25, 2019, coinciding with the network's relaunch, replacing the former news program News Team 13, and airs live daily from 5:00 – 5:30 PM (PST) on IBC, It is also simulcast on Radyo Budyong Panay and official Facebook pages of IBC and Tutok 13. Princess Jordan currently serves as the sole anchor.
The 30-minute revamped news program focuses on delivering the latest national news stories and specialized news packages and feature stories on health, sports, travel, business, science & technology, entertainment, lifestyle, culture and the lighter side of the news. Currently, Tutok 13 is one of two IBC-produced news programs (along with Express Balita).
Anchors
Current
Princess Jordan (since 2022)
Former
Vincent Gregory Santos (2019–2020)
Miguel Dela Rosa (2019)
Bryan Ellis Castillo (2019–2022)
Shawntel Nieto (2022)
Erica Honrado (2022)
CK David (2022)
Reporters / News Writers and Segment Producers
Jess Caduco (House of Representatives)
Jinky Baticados (Malacañang)
Princess Jordan (Senate)
Zon Ballesteros
JM Pineda
Jenny de Juan
Divina Dela Torre
Mary Anne Tolentino
Krizel Insigne
Jaybee Santiago
Earl Tobias
Patricia Lopez
News Digital Team
Kurt Mustaza
Veronica Corral
Ivy Padilla
Aly Luciano
Divine Paguntalan
Roen Cueto
Correspondents
Bingbing Josue (IBC TV-12 Iloilo)
Rena Manubag-Dagoon (IBC TV-12 Iloilo)
Robert Nem (IBC DYJJ Roxas)
Eleanor Defensor-Reyes (IBC DYJJ Roxas)
Carol Panday-Marku (Britanya Ngayon)
Segments
Current
Balitang Aprub - human interest and inspiring stories
Handa Sakuna - a segment focusing on disaster preparedness and Climate Change information and education
Headlines - top stories news
Internasyunal - foreign news
Isport Lang! - sports news
Provincial Round-Up - regional news
Star Tracks - showbiz news
Tutok Express - 60-seconds news
Ulat Panahon - weather report
Former
Adventurista - travel segment with partner travel bloggers
EntrePinoy - business and economy segment
Inspirasyon - human interest and inspiring stories
KKK: Kainan, Kultura, Kaganapan - features (sponsored) segment
Tuklas Pinoy - Filipino-made inventions / science & technology
References
See also
List of programs broadcast by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation news shows
IBC News and Public Affairs shows
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation original programming
2020s Philippine television series
2019 Philippine television series debuts
Philippine television news shows
Filipino-language television shows
Flagship evening news shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud%20Dataflow | Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.
History
Google Cloud Dataflow was announced in June, 2014 and released to the general public as an open beta in April, 2015. In January, 2016 Google donated the underlying SDK, the implementation of a local runner, and a set of IOs (data connectors) to access Google Cloud Platform data services to the Apache Software Foundation. The donated code formed the original basis for Apache Beam.
References
External links
Dataflow
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Nord | Brian D. Nord is an American astrophysicist and machine learning researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as Fermilab or FNAL).
Early life and education
Nord grew up in Wisconsin. Nord studied physics at the Johns Hopkins University, graduating with a B.A. in physics in 2003, and went on to graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he got a PhD in physics. Nord's doctoral dissertation is titled Virtual Sky Surveys and Multi-wavelength Investigations of Galaxy Clusters.
Career
After getting his doctorate, Nord won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship, and remained at the University of Michigan to continue his research. In 2012, Nord became a postdoctoral associate at Fermilab, and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2017.
Nord is part of Fermilab's Machine Intelligence Group, which works to apply Artificial Intelligence to a diverse set of problems in high energy physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.
Nord's research focuses on a number of areas in cosmology: he studies novel methods for detecting gravitational lenses, as well as cosmological survey simulation and design. Nord's work has been written about extensively in such outlets as The Atlantic, Science, symmetry, and others.
Public engagement
In June of 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Nord organized a global "Strike for Black Lives" along with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and the Particles for Justice Group. Nord authored a letter on the Particles for Justice page titled "How Long Should We Wait?" On June 10, the day of the strike, over 4,500 academics pledged participation in the strike. Additionally, numerous organizations including Nature, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Institute of Physics supported and/or participated in the strike.
Honors and awards
AGEP Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2012)
University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship (2004-2010)
University of Michigan Marcellus L. Wiedenbeck Teaching Award (2009)
University of Michigan Jerry Soffen Leadership Award (2004)
NASA Academy, Goddard Space Flight Center Trustee Scholarship (2000-2003)
Johns Hopkins University Hess Memorial Scholarship (2000-2003)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American astrophysicists
People associated with Fermilab
University of Michigan alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Scientists from Wisconsin
American cosmologists
21st-century American astronomers
21st-century American physicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Mary%20Hilton | Alice Mary Hilton (June 18, 1919 - August 10, 2011) was a British-American academic and author. She coined the term cyberculture in 1963. She served as president of The Institute for Cybercultural Research, which she founded, and of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science.
Early life and education
Hilton was born in Vienna to Frederick O. Hilton and Thea von Weber. She studied classics, comparative literature and mathematics at the University of Oxford. She went on to earn a PhD in electrical engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. Here she took courses in mathematics. She was a postdoctoral scholar in the Sorbonne University, the Claremont Graduate University and Columbia University.
Career
At first Hilton was optimistic that new technologies could help to eliminate poverty and cheap labour focused on repetitive tasks, but she became more wary of technology and increasingly pessimistic in the late 1960s as a result of the Vietnam War growing social unrest of that period. In 1963 Hilton created the term cyberculture. Cyberculture was defined by Hilton as "that way of life made possible when an entire process of production is carried out by systems of machines monitored and controlled by one computer". She described how, in the era of cyberculture, "plows pull themselves and the fried chickens fly right onto our plates". In the early 1960s Hilton published as series of essays entitled the Age of Cyberculture. She described how computers could someday become conscious, and that the interactions that take place in a human body could be performed by human-made circuits. Her first book, Logic, Computing Machines and automation was read by Bertrand Russell. She wrote about the need for science teachers to the dangers of modern science and technology, as well as their potential to build a new world. She maintained that a curriculum needed to be developed for the technological future."A new age is being born. In this century, humanity must prepare for the emerging cyberculture. Never has humanity had to make so many profound decisions in so short a time. Never has great civilisation been so attainable. Never has harmonious balance been so remote and never has balance been so desperately needed. The cybercultural revolution can create a world where machine systems produce undreamed of abundance, and where human beings live human lives, free to pursue human tasks."In an article in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Hilton discussed the future of work in a world of automation. She was the first to point out that civil liberties, human rights and the economy are part of the cyberculture. She emphasised the needs for a "pattern for a world of leisure and abundance". She wrote about the need for an Ethos for the Age of Cyber Culture and for government involvement to develop a good cybercultural society. She delivered lectures on "The Human Spirit and the Cybercultural Revolution" around the United States. In 1964 Hilton founded The Insti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamify%20%28TV%20series%29 | Gamify is an Australian Children's TV program which airs on 10 Peach on Network 10. It is hosted by Jesse Baird (J.B.) and premiered on 22 February 2019 on 10 Peach at 8 am. The show follows three teen adventurers (who are 12—14 years), who have been picked by the Global Expedition Organisation (GEO) to engage in a mission.
They must complete many action-packed, real-world adventure challenges to beat the game to win a prize, which have included an Event Cinemas ticket for the group, vouchers to iPlay Adventure Australia, gift cards for EB Games, Kingpin Bowling or Urban Xtreme and special game prize packs from uGames Australia. The participants must help GEO in their fight against the HAVOC Organisation (also known as Anarchy Labs) by completing the 3 different challenges and ranking as high as possible.
Series overview
Broadcast History
From 22 February 2019 – 2020, the show aired on 10 Peach from Friday–Sunday, at 8 am on Fridays, 8:30 am on Saturdays and at 10:30 am on Sundays.
Cast
Jesse Baird as host, known as J.B.
Emily Dickson as Vicki Volt, Arcadia Steele, Agent Storm, Eve Doom & Elizah Wolf
Jack Kelly as CJ Clamp, Dr Niles Ice, Bruce Bass & Agent 19
Brooke Marsden as Magenta Crowe, Sandra Stone & Zero
Stacey Thomson as Savannah Hart
Elizah Caruana as Penelope Fox
References
Australian children's television series
10 Peach original programming
2019 Australian television series debuts
Television shows set in Brisbane
2010s Australian game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellemetry%20Data%20Services | Cellemetry Data Services, abbreviated Cellemetry and stylized Cellemetrysm, was a cellular-telephony-based Internet of things network introduced commercially in 1996. Cellemetry was designed to operate over the existing cellular network, allowing it to be rapidly deployed.
History
Cellemetry was invented by Peter Roach, Scott Laster, and Ed Comer in 1994 while working for BellSouthsm. BellSouthsm partnered with Numerexsm to offer Cellemetry and Numerex eventually acquired the rights to Cellemetry data service. Numerexsm was eventually acquired by Sierra Wireless. The Cellemetry network was decommissioned when the cellular network transitioned from analog to digital cellular. Sierra Wireless still uses the Cellemetry name, with a different technology.
Products and technology
Cellemetry operated by sending messages over the signalling channel of the analog cellular network. It used a non-dialable telephone number as the device identifier and inserted a device generated data message in place of the phone serial number. The Cellemetry device would then send out a registration message to the home cellular system. The Cellemetry message would then transverse the SS7) signaling network along with normal traffic. When the message arrived at the home cellular system, a specialized server would act as the home location register (HLR) and would take the message off of the cellular network and send it to the intended application or application service provider.
For an outbound message, the Cellemetry server would receive a message from an application or service provider, and then send a 'ring' signal to the device as if it was ringing a normal cellular telephone.
The inbound channel (device to the network) channel was much more robust than the outbound channel (network to device). Outbound messages were generally restricted to trigger messages that caused a large number of devices to perform an action, report status, or other similar action. For example, an outbound messages might cause a set of vending machines to report their inventory level, change pricing, etc. Later versions of Cellemetry used other signaling messages such as USSD messages as the outbound messaging mechanism.
Cellemetry had a number of advantages that led to its widespread adoption worldwide.
CSMA-style channel sharing with exponential backoff.
Since the Cellemetry messages were carried over the cell site signaling channel, they tended to have a higher coverage than cellular voice calls. This was mainly due to the architecture of the signaling channel where the messages are repeated several times (typically three) and included check bits. This allowed Cellemetry devices to be placed further into buildings or on the edge of the cellular coverage were normal voice calls may not have been possible
Cellemetry devices utilized many of the components of a traditional analog cellular telephone. This allowed the Cellemetry devices to take advantages of the cost efficiencies of the rap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnificent%21 | Dragnificent! is a television series on the American network TLC. The show started as a special branded as Drag Me Down the Aisle which aired on March 9, 2019. It features Alexis Michelle, BeBe Zahara Benet, Jujubee, and Thorgy Thor, four drag queens who are all RuPaul's Drag Race alumnae, helping an engaged woman to plan her upcoming wedding. On January 15, 2020, TLC announced that it had given a full season run to Dragnificent!, a new show to be based on the Drag Me Down the Aisle special. The series premiered on April 19, 2020.
Premise
The series follows the Dragnificent team as they transform women into their best, most beautiful and confident selves for the big days of their lives.
Cast
Alexis Michelle, make up and body image
BeBe Zahara Benet, event planner
Jujubee, fashion
Thorgy Thor, music and entertainment
Episodes
Special (2019)
Season 1 (2020)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s LGBT-related reality television series
2019 American television series debuts
2020s LGBT-related reality television series
American LGBT-related reality television series
Drag (entertainment) television shows
TLC (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henzinger | Henzinger is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Thomas Henzinger (), Austrian computer scientist and researcher
Monika Henzinger (), German computer scientist
See also
Henninger
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Kinect | The Azure Kinect DK is a developer kit and PC peripheral which employs the use of artificial intelligence sensors for computer vision and speech models, and is connected to the Microsoft Azure cloud. It is the successor to the Microsoft Kinect line of sensors.
The kit includes a 12 megapixel RGB camera supplemented by 1 megapixel-depth camera for body tracking, a 360-degree seven-microphone array and an orientation sensor. The sensor is based on the depth sensor presented during 2018 ISSCC.
While the previous iterations of Microsoft's Kinect primarily focused on gaming, this device is targeted towards other markets such as logistics, robotics, health care, and retail. With the kit, developers can create applications connected to Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. The Azure Kinect is used in volumetric capture workflows through the use of software tools that can connect many Azure Kinects into one volumetric capture rig, allowing users to create interactive virtual reality experiences with human performances.
The Azure Kinect was announced on February 24, 2019 in Barcelona at the MWC. It was released in the US in March 2020, and in the UK, Germany, and Japan in April 2020.
Microsoft announced that the Azure Kinect hardware kit will be discontinued in October 2023, and will refer users to third party suppliers for spare parts.
References
External links
Microsoft video game hardware
Microsoft cloud services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20Bharat | Republic Bharat (stylized as R. भारत) is a free-to-air Indian Hindi-language news channel affiliation of Republic TV, launched on 2 February 2019, operated and owned by Republic Media Network, co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. It is also available on DD Free Dish. It is a sister channel of Republic World which broadcasts news primarily in English.
History
Republic Bharat was officially launched on 2 February 2019 with slogan 'Rashtra Ke Naam'.
As of 2 October 2020, according to the Broadcast Audience Research Council, Republic Bharat has the highest TV viewership among all Hindi news channels of India with 206861K weekly impressions.
Genre
Soon after the launch of the channel, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) received three complaints against the channel alleging that the channel was violating TRAI's broadcast sector regulations. The complaint was filed by TV Today network which owns Aaj Tak, India TV and TV18. According to the complaint, Republic Bharat had declared its genre as Hindi news, but it was being added in additional genres. This was seen as a deliberate attempt to illegally garner higher Broadcast Audience Research Council ratings and increase viewership.
TRP scam
In 2020, Mumbai Police initiated an investigation into the TRP manipulation scam of the channel after a complaint was filed that some channels were fraudulently inflating their viewership ratings. The police conducted an audit into the accounts of the ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd accounts. It showed that the TRPs (TV rating points) and viewership of Republic Bharat, were high from the first month of its launch in 2016. With an inflated TRP ARG Outlier Media (the company which owns Republic World and Republic Bharat) was able to bargain for higher revenue from advertisers.
In October 2020, upon receiving a complaint accusing some channels of fraudulently inflating their viewership ratings, Mumbai Police launched an investigation into Republic World's viewership ratings. The police allege that the channel inflated its ratings by bribing low-income individuals, including people who did not comprehend English, to keep their televisions tuned to Republic World; logs of WhatsApp chats between Goswami and the former chief executive of Broadcast Audience Research Council (the agency responsible for measuring TRP) were published to provide further evidence of collusion. The inflated TRP was leveraged to bargain for higher revenues from advertisers.
Goswami denies the allegations and has accused the Mumbai Police of retaliating against the channel's recent criticism of their activities. On 21 October, Central Bureau of Investigation got involved in the investigation, with the case now potentially covering every news channel in India. On 13 December, Republic World CEO was arrested in Mumbai, before being granted bail.
Ofcom censure
In December 2020, the channel was fined 20,000 pounds (approximately 19.73 lakh INR) by the Office of Communica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20TVB%20dramas%20and%20series | Following are lists of dramas and series produced by Hong-Kong bases television network TVB.
Dramas
List of TVB dramas in 2010
List of TVB dramas in 2011
List of TVB dramas in 2012
List of TVB dramas in 2013
List of TVB dramas in 2014
List of TVB dramas in 2015
List of TVB dramas in 2016
List of TVB dramas in 2017
List of TVB dramas in 2018
List of TVB dramas in 2019
List of TVB dramas in 2020
List of TVB dramas in 2021
List of TVB dramas in 2022
List of TVB dramas in 2023
List of TVB dramas in 2024
Series
List of TVB series (1977)
List of TVB series (1978)
List of TVB series (1979)
List of TVB series (1980)
List of TVB series (1981)
List of TVB series (1982)
List of TVB series (1983)
List of TVB series (1984)
List of TVB series (1985)
List of TVB series (1986)
List of TVB series (1987)
List of TVB series (1988)
List of TVB series (1989)
List of TVB series (1990)
List of TVB series (1991)
List of TVB series (1992)
List of TVB series (1993)
List of TVB series (1994)
List of TVB series (1995)
List of TVB series (1996)
List of TVB series (1997)
List of TVB series (1998)
List of TVB series (1995)
List of TVB series (1999)
List of TVB series (2000)
List of TVB series (2001)
List of TVB series (2002)
List of TVB series (2003)
List of TVB series (2004)
List of TVB series (2005)
List of TVB series (2006)
List of TVB series (2007)
List of TVB series (2008)
List of TVB series (2009) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamia%20cyclocheilus | Andamia cyclocheilus is a species of combtooth blenny which is known from a single specimen from Atjatuning, western New Guinea. The IUCN rate it as Data Deficient because its taxonomy is unclear. It is associated with reefs.
References
cyclocheilus
Taxa named by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
Fish described in 1909 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamia%20expansa | Andamia expansa is a species of combtooth blenny which is known from a few specimens from the eastern Indian Ocean, with the type being collected in the Andaman Islands. The IUCN rate it as Data Deficient because its taxonomy is unclear. It forms pairs and lays adhesive eggs on the substrates.
References
expansa
Taxa named by Edward Blyth
Fish described in 1858 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Albert%20%28composer%29 | Richard Albert (born 26 July 1983 as Richard Albert Bretschneider) is a German composer and songwriter.
Early life and music
Richard Albert is a self taught musician, he studied computer sciences and communication sciences at the RWTH Aachen University from 2004 to 2010. He made his debut as a film composer for the short film Sachliche Romanze in 2007. With the web-series Hell's Kitty he started working for various production companies in the USA. Richard Albert works frequently with writer/director and musician Nicholas Tana. Richard mainly is active in the indie-horror genre. He lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
Feature films
2016: Losing Touch
2016: Sticky: A (Self) Love Story
2016: The Last Night Inn
2018: Hell's Kitty
2018: Hide in the Light
2019: The Bone Box
Awards
2009: European Talent Award (nominated)
2011: Jerry Goldsmith Award, Film Music Festival Úbeda (nominated)
2011: European Talent Award (nominated)
2013: Jerry Goldsmith Award, Film Music Festival Úbeda (nominated)
2016: The Marshall Hawkins Awards – Best Musical Score – Feature (nominated)
2016: German Film Music Award, Category "New talent" (nominated)
2018: American Tracks Music Award, Category "Best song for a film"
2019: American Tracks Music Award, Category "Best film score" (semi-finalist)
2019: Paris Art and Movie Awards, Category "Best Soundtrack Song" (nominated)
2019: Jerry Goldsmith Award, Category "Best Soundtrack Song" (nominated)
2023: Tracks Music Awards, Category "Best Score for a film of the month"
References
External links
Official website
1983 births
German film score composers
Musicians from Wuppertal
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdm%20%28software%29 | fdm (fetch/filter and deliver mail) is a mail delivery agent and email filtering software for Unix-like operating systems, similar to fetchmail and procmail. It was started in 2006 by Nicholas Marriott who later also started tmux in 2007.
Adoption
fdm is available as a package in many Unix-like operating systems. It has been included in OpenBSD ports since 2007-01-18.
In 2014, the last maintainer of procmail posted a message to an OpenBSD mailing list himself suggesting that he removed the procmail port, it had been suggested by a well-known OpenBSD ports maintainer that fdm is the natural alternative (the procmail port, however, had not been removed and remained in place as of 2020).
fdm is listed on the OpenBSD Innovations page, in the section of projects maintained by OpenBSD developers outside of OpenBSD.
See also
fetchmail
procmail
maildrop
Sieve (mail filtering language)
References
External links
Unix software
Free email software
Mail delivery agents
OpenBSD
Free software programmed in C
Software using the ISC license
Email clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel%20scheduling | In mathematics and computer science, the pinwheel scheduling problem is a problem in real-time scheduling with repeating tasks of unit length and hard constraints on the time between repetitions.
Definition
The input to pinwheel scheduling consists of a list of tasks, each of which is assumed to take unit time per instantiation. Each task has an associated positive integer value, its minimum repeat time (the minimum time from the start of one instantiation of the task to the next). Only one task can be performed at any given time.
The desired output is an infinite sequence specifying which task to perform in each unit of time. Each input task should appear infinitely often in the sequence, with the largest gap between two consecutive instantiations of a task at most equal to the repeat time of the task.
For example, the infinitely repeating sequence ... would be a valid pinwheel schedule for three tasks a, b, and c with repeat times that are at least 2, 4, and 4 respectively.
Density
If the task to be scheduled are numbered from to , let denote the repeat time for task . Then the density of a pinwheel scheduling problem is . For a solution to exist, it is necessary that the density is at most .
This condition on density
is also sufficient for a schedule to exist in the special case that all repeat times are multiples of each other (for instance, if all are powers of two), because in this case one can solve the problem using a disjoint covering system. Having density at most is also sufficient when there are exactly two distinct repeat times. However, it is not sufficient in other cases. In particular, there is no schedule for three items with repeat times , , and , no matter how large may be, even though the density of this system is only .
Every instance of pinwheel scheduling with density at most has a solution, and it has been conjectured that every instance with density at most has a solution. Every instance with three distinct repeat times and density at most does have a solution.
Periodicity and complexity
When there exists a solution, the solution can be assumed to be periodic, with a period at most equal to the product of the repeat times. However, it is not always possible to find a repeating schedule of sub-exponential length.
With a compact input representation that specifies, for each distinct repeat time, the number of objects that have that repeat time, pinwheel scheduling is NP-hard.
Applications
Applications of pinwheel scheduling include scheduling communications between satellites and a ground station, scheduling maintenance of a collection of objects (such as oil changes for automobiles), computer processing of multimedia data, and contention resolution in real-time wireless computer networks.
References
External links
Pinwheel scheduling (1989), Douglas B. West, University of Illinois
Processor scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20the%20Road | 1 the Road is an experimental novel composed by artificial intelligence (AI). Emulating Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Ross Goodwin drove from New York to New Orleans in March 2017 with an AI in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output the AI turned into words that were printed on rolls of receipt paper. The novel was published in 2018 by Jean Boîte Éditions.
Goodwin left the text unedited. Although he felt the prose was "choppy", and contained typographical errors, he wanted to present the machine-generated text verbatim, for future study. The story begins: "It was nine seventeen in the morning, and the house was heavy".
Concept and execution
Emulating Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, Ross Goodwin traveled from New York to New Orleans in March 2017 with three sensors, providing real-world input; a surveillance camera mounted on the trunk, trained on the passing scenery; a microphone, picking up conversations inside the car, and additionally the Global Positioning System (GPS), tracking the car's location.
Input from these sources, and the time provided by the computer's internal clock, was fed into a long short-term memory recurrent neural network, which in turn generated sentences on rolls of receipt paper.
The car was a Cadillac; Goodwin explained later he wanted an "authoritative" car (and was unable to get a Crown Vic), and worried that people might think him a terrorist if they saw the car with its electronics and wires. Google paid part of the cost, having become interested in Goodwin's work at New York University.
Accompanying him were five other people (including his sister and his fiancée), and the Cadillac was followed by a film crew which documented the four-day journey; the documentary was directed by Lewis Rapkin.
Training dataset
The training dataset included a sample fiction, consisting of three different text corpora, each with about 20 million words—one with poetry, one with science fiction, and one with "bleak" writing, in Goodwin's words. It had also been fed a data set from Foursquare; the AI recognized locations from Foursquare, and appended commentaries to them.
The conversations captured inside the car were rendered in mutated fashion. The locations provided by the GPS were outputted verbatim, to open the day's writing.
The novel was generated letter by letter. Due to continual input from the GPS and time clock, the novel often mentions the latitude, longitude, and time of day. It was printed unedited and thus is "choppy", according to Goodwin; typos were retained, since he wanted to show the text "in its most raw form".
Goodwin said his main purpose for this novel is to reveal the way machines create words: "In the future when this text becomes more sophisticated it's a warning. If you see patterns like this, it may not have been written by a human".
Reviews
Thomas Hornigold, writing for Singularity Hub, concluded that the AI is no Jack Kerouac, but that "you might see, in the odd line, the flickering g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXVB-TV | DXVB-TV, channel 21, is a commercial television station of Philippine television network GTV, owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, a subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Brgy. Cabatangan, Zamboanga City.
Digital television
Digital channels
DXVB-TV's feed is broadcast on DXLA-TV digital subchannel operates on UHF channel 41 (635.143 MHz) and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
GTV 21 Zamboanga on Cable
See also
GMA Network
GTV
DXLA-TV
List of GTV stations
References
GTV (Philippine TV network) stations
Television stations in Zamboanga City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20synthesis | Reactive synthesis (or temporal synthesis) is the field of computer science that studies automatic generation of state machines (e.g. Moore machines) from high-level specifications (e.g. formulas in linear temporal logic). "Reactivity" highlights the fact that the synthesized machine interacts with the user, reading an input and producing an output, and never stops its operation.
The synthesis problem was introduced by Alonzo Church in 1962, with specifications being formulas in monadic second-order logic and state machines in the form of digital circuits.
See also
Program synthesis
Model checking
References
Subfields of computer science
Logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL%20%28disambiguation%29 | BCPL may refer to:
Computer Science
BCPL, a programming language
Legislature
Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, a Wisconsin state agency
Public service
Baltimore County Public Library, a public library in the state of Maryland. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTHV-LD | WTHV-LD (channel 29) is a low-power television station in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate WAFF (channel 48). The two stations share studios on Memorial Parkway (US 431) in Huntsville; WTHV-LD's transmitter is located south of Monte Sano State Park.
History
On January 19, 2022, it was announced that Gray Television would purchase the station, then known as WMJN-LD, from Emmanuel Broadcasting Corporation for $330,000; the sale was completed on March 8.
Gray announced on May 3, 2022, that it had reached an agreement with Telemundo to start Telemundo channels, primarily as adjuncts to Gray stations, in 22 additional Southern markets and renew existing affiliations in 12 others. The new service launched September 2, 2022, with the renamed WTHV-LD also carrying the main WAFF 48.1 subchannel as 29.2.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
THV
THV-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Telemundo network affiliates
Gray Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Zhu%20Scott | Jennifer Zhu Scott (朱晋郦) is an entrepreneur and investor based in Hong Kong, specialized in blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and other deep tech.
Early life and education
Jennifer Zhu Scott is originally from the Sichuan Province in Southwestern China. She graduated with the Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Sichuan University, China in 1997. She later on got an MBA in Finance at Manchester Business School, where she earned a distinction with her research on PE/VC (Private Equity/Venture Capital) in China. There, she was also awarded the honour of being Distinguished Alumni.
She has participated in debates since then such as at Oxford University in 2017 where she argued against the concept of Universal Basic Income and at Princeton in 2018 about Sustainable Energy.
Career
Jennifer Zhu Scott has a long professional experience in the fintech industry. More specifically, she is a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, data ownership and has a deep understanding of these topics within a Chinese context and in a global landscape. She has been the Head of Business Development and Strategy in APAC for Thomson Reuters and an independent investor and advisor for fintech start-ups. Jennifer also co-founded one of the first education companies in China and she sold it before moving to the UK to become senior advisor to the education subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust.
In 2015, she founded Radian Partners, an advisory company and investment community based in Hong Kong, focusing on direct investment in deep tech and renewable energy.
In terms of career achievements, Jennifer was appointed as one of the 18 council members of the China Council, convened by the Global Agenda Council, the World Economic Forum’s think tank and co-chaired by former NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission) Chair Zhang Xiaoqiang and Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. In 2016, Jennifer was re-appointed by the World Economic Forum to be one of the 20 members of the inaugural Council of The Future of Blockchain. She had previously been honoured in 2013 by the WEF as a Young Global Leader. Jennifer Zhu Scott was listed at the Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. She is an Associate Fellow of The Royal Institute of International Affairs (also known as Chatham House) and a China Fellow of Aspen Institute and a permanent of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Jennifer has also been a frequent speaker on Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, China macroeconomics and Sustainable Investment on different events and conferences. One of the highlights of her career is speaking at Davos 2018 when she debated against Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Shiller and Swedish Central Bank Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley on Crypto Assets, which was broadcast on television on Yi Cai in China. She also plays an important role as an opinion writer. She is, in fact, a lead author and co-author of several White Papers by the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Q | Channel Q (stylized as CHANNEL Q) is an LGBT lifestyle talk and EDM top 40 radio network created, owned, and operated by Audacy, Inc. The network airs on the Audacy internet radio service, as well as on Audacy-owned terrestrial radio stations throughout the United States. Channel Q's programming schedule consists of LGBT-centered talk shows, most notably a rebooted version of Loveline, along with Dance/Top 40 music on afternoons, late nights, and weekends.
History
Channel Q started life as Out Now Radio, and soft-launched in August 2018 on Radio.com as well as the HD Radio signal of Entercom's KAMP-FM in Los Angeles (97.1FM-HD2). A full launch occurred on October 11, 2018, a date chosen to coincide with National Coming Out Day, and featured a daily morning program co-hosted by Queer Eye alum Jai Rodriguez; weekly shows featuring internet personality B. Scott and lawyer/politician John Duran; and a revamped version of the syndicated radio program Loveline. By November 1, the network would adopt the Channel Q name, tweak its program lineup, and add its first analog radio affiliate (KQPS in Palm Springs, California).
Programming
Brian Holt is Channel Q's original architect and founding Program Director/Operations Manager. Prior to joining the network, Holt developed programming for iHeartMedia including Live from the Lounge w/Ryan Seacrest, Valentine in the Morning, The Bill Carroll Show, The Dr. Wendy Walsh Show, and HOME w/Dean Sharp the House Whisperer.
As of March 2020, Channel Q's program schedule features early morning, afternoon, and weekend blocks of Top 40, pop, EDM, and dance music along with regularly-scheduled shows.
Terrestrial radio affiliates
In addition to being heard on the Audacy internet radio platform, its related app, and the network's website, Channel Q is also heard on the over-the-air stations listed below. Those shown with an "HD2" or "HD3" suffix air Channel Q on an HD radio subchannel that can be heard through HD-accommodating receivers.
Station list
Former affiliates
Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast.
Gray background indicates low-power FM translator.
KQPS also served as Channel Q's monitored reporter on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay panel.
See also
Pride Radio, a competing LGBT-oriented radio service owned and operated by iHeartMedia
References
HD Radio
Audacy, Inc. radio stations
LGBT-related radio stations
Radio stations established in 2018
2010s LGBT-related mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrynium%20macrocephalum | Phrynium macrocephalum is a plant in the family Marantaceae, whose native range is New Guinea.
References
External links
Phrynium macrocephalum GBIF (includes occurrence data)
Marantaceae
macrocephalum
Flora of New Guinea
Plants described in 1889
Taxa named by Karl Moritz Schumann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran%20Canetti | Ran Canetti (Hebrew: רן קנטי) is a professor of Computer Science at Boston University. and the director of the Check Point Institute for Information Security and of the Center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security. He is also associate editor of the Journal of Cryptology and Information and Computation. His main areas of research span cryptography and information security, with an emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols.
Biography
Born in 1962 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Canetti obtained his BA in Computer Science in 1989, his BA in Physics in 1990, and his M.Sc in Computer Science in 1991, all from the Technion, Haifa. He received his PhD in 1995 from the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot under the supervision of Prof. Oded Goldreich. He then completed his post-doctoral training at the Lab of Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1996 under the supervision of Prof. Shafi Goldwasser. He then joined IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and was a Research Staff Member until 2008.
Canetti is known for his contribution to both the practice and theory of cryptography. Prominent contributions include the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), the definition of which was first published in 1996 in a paper by Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti, and Hugo Krawczyk, and the formulation of the Universally Composable Security framework, which allows analyzing security of cryptographic protocols in a modular and robust way.
Canetti is the recipient of the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (2018). He is a Fellow of the Association of Cryptologic Research. He received the IBM Research Outstanding Innovation Award in 2006, the IBM Corporate Award in 2005, the IBM Research Division Award in 1999, two IBM Best Paper Awards and the Kennedy Thesis Award from The Weizmann Institute in
Current roles
Since July 2011, Canetti has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University and the Director for Research at the Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS) at Boston University since September 2011. His current positions include being the Head of the Check Point Institute of Information Security at Tel Aviv University, the Editor for the Journal of Cryptography and Editor of Information and Computation, and an advisor at Identiq, a Peer-to-Peer Identity Validation Network.
Canetti currently lives in Brookline, MA and is married with two children.
Patents
Canetti's registered patents and recognized and authorized standards include:
R. Canetti, S. Halevi, M. Steiner. Mitigating Dictionary Attacks on Password-Based Local Storage. Patent application submitted August 2006.
R. Canetti, M. Charikar, R. Kumar, S. Rajagopalan, A. Sahai, A. Tomkins. Non-Transferable Anonymous Credentials. U.S. Patent No. 7,222,362, May 2007.
R. Canetti and A. Herzberg, A Mechanism for Keeping a Key Secret from Mobile Eavesdroppers. US patent No. 5,412,723, May 1995.
R. C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul%20%28software%29 | Consul is a service networking platform developed by HashiCorp.
Overview
Consul was initially released in 2014 as a service discovery platform. In addition to service discovery, it now provides a full-featured service mesh for secure service segmentation across any cloud or runtime environment, and distributed key-value storage for application configuration.
Registered services and nodes can be queried using a DNS interface or an HTTP interface. Envoy proxy provides security, observability, and resilience for all application traffic.
See also
Envoy (software)
Open Service Mesh
References
External links
GitHub - hashicorp/consul
Network software
Free and open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhestan%20railway%20station | Bhestan railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Bhestan railway station is 10 km away from Surat railway station. Passenger, MEMU, and Express trains halt here.
Trains
19003/04 Bandra Terminus–Bhusaval Khandesh Express
59049/50 Valsad–Viramgam Passenger
59037/38 Virar–Surat Passenger
69149/50 Virar–Bharuch MEMU
69141/42 Sanjan–Surat MEMU
59439/40 Mumbai Central–Ahmedabad Passenger
59441/42 Ahmedabad–Mumbai Central Passenger
69151/52 Valsad–Surat MEMU
09069 Vapi–Surat Passenger Special
09070 Surat– Valsad MEMU Special
59048 Surat–Valsad Shuttle
69139 Borivali–Surat MEMU
22972 Patna-Bandra Suparfast Express
22971 Bandra Terminus-Patna Superfast Express
22914 Sasara-Bandra Terminus Humsafar
22913 Bandra Terminus - Sasara Humsafar
19102 Surat-Virar Memu Express
19101 Virar - Bharuch Memu Express
Notes
References
See also
Surat district
Railway stations in Surat district
Mumbai WR railway division
Transport in Surat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryze%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ryze is a social networking website connecting business professionals, especially entrepreneurs.
Ryze may also refer to:
Ryze Trampoline Parks, an international chain of trampoline and extreme sports parks
Ryze (League of Legends), a co-founder of Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends
See also
Ryse: Son of Rome, a 2013 video game developed by Crytek
Ryzen, a brand of microprocessors
Terra Ryzing, the first ring name of professional wrestler Paul Michael Levesque, better known by the ring name Triple H
Rhys (name)
Rhyse (disambiguation)
Rhyze (band)
Rice (disambiguation)
Rise (disambiguation)
Rize (disambiguation)
Ryce (surname)
Ryse (disambiguation)
Rys (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHS%20Alliance | The Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance, known as the CHS Alliance, is a network of non-governmental organizations working in humanitarian aid.
The focus of the CHS Alliance is the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability.
History and mandate
The CHS Alliance was founded in June 2015 by the merger of HAP International and People In Aid.
It is a coalition of humanitarian and international development organizations that works to strengthen accountability in the sector.
Activities
One of its core mandates of the CHS Alliance is to apply and promote the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), which was developed HAP International, People In Aid, and (later) Groupe URD.
The CHS now forms part of the Sphere Handbook on minimum standards in humanitarian response.
The Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative was created in 2015 to audit compliance with the CHS.
The CHS Alliance published the Protection from Sexual Exploitation Index and handbook and works with Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to create whistleblowing guidance.
In 2021 the CHS Alliance was critical of the use of non disclosure agreements in the aid sector.
Criticisms
Sandrine Tiller of Médecins Sans Frontières described the standards that the CHS Alliance promote as too simplistic and generic. That criticism was rejected by Simon Eccleshall of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies who said that the simplicity was intentional, considering the wide range of potential users of the standard.
Further reading
German first-aid Alliance
References
Humanitarian aid organizations in Europe
Charities based in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki%20Transport%20Authority | The Thessaloniki Transport Authority (, ΟΣΕΘ), is an anonymous company which plans, coordinates, and oversees the urban transportation network of Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. It is abbreviated as TheTA in English, a wordplay on the letter Theta which the first letter the word "Thessaloniki" in Greek. Its creation was necessitated in anticipation of the completion of the Thessaloniki Metro in 2023, which will see the city's bus network redeveloped, and the TheTA will take over the role of the Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization once the metro is opened.
References
Transport in Thessaloniki
Organizations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20L.%20Shoemaker | Martin L. Shoemaker is an American computer programmer and science fiction author, active in the field since 2011.
Biography
Shoemaker is the third of four children of John and Dawn Shoemaker from Byron Center. A lifelong resident of West Michigan, he lived in Monterey Township in 2015. He was educated at Byron Center High School, the University of Michigan and Grand Valley State University. He attributes his love of reading and, creative urge and work ethic to his parents, and his interest in science fiction as his "genre of choice" to Star Trek and the televised Apollo Moon landings. Shoemaker has described himself as "a programmer who writes on the side."
A second place win in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest rewarded him with a lunch with astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Literary career
Shoemaker's work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines, podcasts and anthologies, including Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, Clarkesworld, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Galaxy's Edge, The Glass Parachute, Humanity 2.0, Little Green Men: Attack!, Nebula Awards Showcase 2017, Time Travel Tales, Trajectories, Writers of the Future Volume 31, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Year's Top Short SF Novels 4, and The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8.
Bibliography
Novels
Today I Am Carey (2019)
The Last Dance (Near-Earth Mysteries 1, 2019)
The Last Campaign (Near-Earth Mysteries 2, 2020)
Short fiction
Collections
Family Secrets (2017)
Blue collar space (2018)
HMI : Human-Machine Interface (2019)
Stories
Nonfiction
"Jack McDevitt, History Builder" (2018)
Awards
"Scramble" won second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest. "Murder on the Aldrin Express" placed second in the 2013 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novella. "Not Close Enough" placed second in the 2013 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novelette. Unrefined took third place in the Writers of the Future contest, 2014. "Racing to Mars" won the Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novelette. "Today I Am Paul" won the Washington Science Fiction Society's Small Press Award, was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and placed 22nd in the 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story. "Not Far Enough" placed fifth in the 2017 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novella.
References
Further reading
External links
Living people
21st-century American male writers
American speculative fiction writers
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20printing%20protocols | A printing protocol is a protocol for communication between client devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.) and printers (or print servers). It allows clients to submit one or more print jobs to the printer or print server, and perform tasks such as querying the status of a printer, obtaining the status of print jobs, or cancelling individual print jobs.
Dedicated protocols
Protocols listed here are specific for printing.
The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (or LPD, LPR) is a network protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the 2.10 BSD UNIX operating system in 1988; the LPRng project also supports that protocol. The LPD Protocol Specification is documented in RFC 1179. LPD printing normally happens over port 515.
AppSocket, also known as Port 9100, RAW, JetDirect, or Windows TCPmon is a protocol that was developed by Tektronix. It is considered as 'the simplest, fastest, and generally the most reliable network protocol used for printers' though 'it also offers no security and is often an attack vector with printers'. AppSocket printing normally happens over port 9100.
The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is an Internet protocol for communication between client devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.) and printers (or print servers). IPP can run locally or over the Internet. Unlike other printing protocols, IPP also supports access control, authentication, and encryption, making it a much more capable and secure printing mechanism than older ones. IPP is supported by over 98% of printers sold today. IPP printing normally happens over port 631. It is the default protocol in Android and iOS.
Generic protocols
These protocols put the printer as similar class to remote disks, scanners and multimedia devices. This is especially true for multi-function printers, that also produce image files (scans and faxes) and send them back through the network.
Telnet is based on simply transferring data safely to/from TCP ports that are now being used for printing purposes. This approach is sometimes called raw TCP/IP, Stream, or direct sockets printing.
Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-layer network protocol for file and printer sharing originally developed by IBM in the mid-80s. It is the default method used by Windows based computers to share files and printers.
Wireless protocols
Wireless protocols is designed for wireless devices. This kind of protocol is based on one kind of printing protocols plus Zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) mechanisms. In this way, printers can be used by wireless devices seamlessly. Note that the printer itself is not necessary to be wireless.
AirPrint is a feature in Apple Inc.'s macOS and iOS operating systems for printing via a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), either directly to AirPrint-compatible printers, or to non-compatible shared printers by way of a computer running M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdigani%20Diriye | Abdigani Diriye (born 1986) is a Somali computer scientist and research scientist at IBM Research – Africa, working in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), data mining and financial technology (FinTech). Diriye was named a TEDGlobal 2017 fellow, an MIT Technology Review 'Innovator Under 35', and a 'Next Einstein Forum' fellow.
Education
Abdigani Diriye was schooled in the United Kingdom, moving from Somalia at age 5 due to civil unrest. Diriye received a Bachelor's degree in Computer science and Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London. Continuing onto the postgraduate level, Diriye earned a Master's in Advanced Computing from King's College London, a PhD in Computer Science at University College London in 2012 and an MBA from INSEAD in 2022.
Research and career
Under the guidance of Prof. Ann Blandford and Dr. Anastasios Tombros, Diriye conducted his PhD research on understanding the role searching interfaces play in the process of information seeking.
Diriye, during his PhD, undertook internships with Microsoft Research (June 2010 - October 2011) and Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto labs (June 2011).
Following his PhD, Diriye worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. This position, working with Dr. Aniket Kittur led Diriye to develop new approaches that combine human and machine-generated data that helps people find and understand information on the internet more effectively.
Currently Diriye is a research scientist and manager at IBM Research Africa and steers Innovate Ventures: a startup technology fund in Somalia, having founded it in 2012. With Innovate Ventures, Diriye has partnered with Oxfam, VC4Africa, and Telesom. Diriye, through Innovate Ventures, has funded over $17,500 towards startups in Africa.
With IBM, Diriye and his team develop and deploy new approaches to securely mine, model and score individuals who are applying for financial loans. In 2016, Diriye and his team developed a machine learning approach that leverages new data sources to evaluate financial profiles and credit scores of hundreds of millions of Africans.
Over his career, Diriye has published over 35 patents and papers.
Awards
TEDGlobal 2017
Next Einstein Fellow (NEF) 2017-2019
MIT Technology Review 'TR35' 2017
Quartz Africa Innovators 2018
References
1986 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Alumni of University College London
Computer scientists
Somalian scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe | MeWe is a global social media and social networking service. As a company based in Los Angeles, California it is also known as Sgrouples, Inc., doing business as MeWe. The site has been described as a Facebook alternative due to its focus on data privacy.
In 2022, MeWe announced it will migrate its platform over time to a Web3, blockchain-based web infrastructure, becoming the first major social network to migrate its tech over to the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which will make it the largest decentralized social media platform.
Platform
Features
In March 2020, MeWe launched dual-camera videos, which allow for both inward ("selfie") and outward-facing camera views. MeWe also touts its "Privacy Bill of Rights" as the primary differentiator between it and Facebook.
By 2015, as MeWe neared the end of its beta testing cycle, the press called MeWe's software "not dissimilar to Facebook". In 2020, Mashable described MeWe as replicating Facebook's features.
The MeWe site and application has features common to most social media and social networking sites: users can post text and images to a feed, react to others' posts using emoji, post animated GIFs, create specialized groups, post disappearing content, and chat.
Online chat may occur between two or more people or among members of a group. Person-to-person online chat is similar to that in most other social media and social networking sites, and supports text, video calling, and voice calling. No longer a product offering, "Secret Chat" is limited to the paid subscription tier of MeWe, and uses double ratchet encryption to ensure that chats are private and not visible even to MeWe employees.
MeWe reported in June 2018 that the site had 90,000 active groups, 60,000 of which were "public" and open to all users. Following the influx of Hong Kong users in 2020, MeWe's former CEO, Mark Weinstein, announced that the website would provide a Traditional Chinese language version by the end of the year.
User base and content
United States
Although MeWe has not intentionally positioned itself as a social network for conservatives, Mashable noted in November 2020 that its active userbase trends conservative. The platform's choice not to moderate misinformation on the platform has attracted conservatives who felt mainstream social networks were censoring their posts, and those who have been banned from those platforms. MeWe is considered an alt-tech platform.
MeWe's loose moderation has made it popular among conspiracy theorists, including proponents of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, which was banned from Facebook in 2020, and the "Stop the Steal" conspiracy theory relating to the 2020 United States presidential election. According to Rolling Stone, MeWe has "played host to general interest communities related to music and travel, but it has also come to be a haven for anti-vaxxers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and, as reported by OneZero, far-right militia groups." Vice has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirq | Cirq is an open-source framework for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers.
History
Cirq was developed by the Google AI Quantum Team, and the public alpha was announced at the International Workshop on Quantum Software and Quantum Machine Learning on July 18, 2018. A demo by QC Ware showed an implementation of QAOA solving an example of the maximum cut problem being solved on a Cirq simulator.
Usage
Quantum programs in Cirq are represented by "Circuit" which is made up of a series of "Moments" representing slices of quantum gates that should be applied at the same time. The programs can be executed on local simulators or against hardware supplied by IonQ, Pasqal, Rigetti, and Alpine Quantum Technologies
The following example shows how to create and measure a Bell state in Cirq.
import cirq
# Pick qubits
qubit0 = cirq.GridQubit(0, 0)
qubit1 = cirq.GridQubit(0, 1)
# Create a circuit
circuit = cirq.Circuit.from_ops(
cirq.H(qubit0),
cirq.CNOT(qubit0, qubit1),
cirq.measure(qubit0, key='m0'),
cirq.measure(qubit1, key='m1')
)
Printing the circuit displays its diagram
print(circuit)
# prints
# (0, 0): ───H───@───M('m0')───
# │
# (0, 1): ───────X───M('m1')───
Simulating the circuit repeatedly shows that the measurements of the qubits are correlated.
simulator = cirq.Simulator()
result = simulator.run(circuit, repetitions=5)
print(result)
# prints
# m0=11010
# m1=11010
Projects
OpenFermion
OpenFermion is a library that compiles quantum simulation algorithms to Cirq.
TensorFlow Quantum
TensorFlow Quantum is an extension of TensorFlow that allows TensorFlow to be used to explore hybrid classical-quantum machine learning algorithms.
ReCirq
ReCirq is a repository of research projects done using Cirq.
Qsim Cirq
Qsim is a high performance wave function simulator that leverages gate fusing, AVS/FMA instructions, and OpenMP to achieve fast simulation rates. Qsimcirq allows one to use qsim from within Cirq.
References
Quantum programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%205140 | The Nokia 5140 is a mobile phone manufactured by Nokia. Released in 2003, it has a white backlit screen, FM radio, VGA display, and a USB pop-port operating on the GSM Network. The Nokia 5140 was the successor to the Nokia 5100, but has since been discontinued.
The 5140 and 5140i were Nokia's first phones that could be NFC-enabled, via NFC shells that could be attached to the phones.
References
5140 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20Falcon | Stealth Falcon is a cybercrime group affiliated to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which is associated with Project Raven.
The nickname "Stealth Falcon" was given to the group by Citizen Lab.
The group has been known to deploy spear-phishing attacks against journalists and human rights activists. The group uses a variety of attack vectors, including PowerShell macros, URL shorteners, and social engineering.
See also
DarkMatter (Emirati company)
References
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMatter%20Group | DarkMatter Group is a computer security company founded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2014 or 2015. The company describes itself as a purely defensive company.
Company history
DarkMatter was founded in either 2014 or 2015 by Faisal al-Bannai, the founder of mobile phone vendor Axiom Telecom and the son of a major general in the Dubai Police Force. Around 2014, Zeline 1, a wholly owned subsidiary of DarkMatter, became active in Finland.
DarkMatter's public launch came in 2015, at the 2nd Annual Arab Future Cities Summit. At this time, the company advertised capabilities including network security and bug sweeping, and promised to create a new, "secure" mobile phone handset. It promoted itself as a "digital defense and intelligence service" for the UAE.
In 2016, DarkMatter replaced CyberPoint as a contractor for Project Raven. Also in 2016, DarkMatter sought smartphone development expertise in Oulu, Finland. DarkMatter recruited several Finnish engineers.
By early 2018, DarkMatter's turnover was hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars. Eighty percent of its work was for the UAE government and related organizations, including the NESA. It had developed a smartphone model called Katim, Arabic for "silence". DarkMatter was an official provider for the Expo 2020, but has since been dropped in favour of a different company.
In 2021, DarkMatter's cyber activities have already been transferred to Digital14 which now distributes the secure communications system 'Katim'.
Recruitment practices
In addition to recruiting via conventional routes such as personal referrals and stalls at trade shows (e.g. Black Hat), DarkMatter headhunts staff from the U.S. National Security Agency and has "poached" competitors' staff after they were contracted to the UAE government, as happened with some CyberPoint employees.
The company has reportedly hired graduates of the Israel Defense Force technology units and is paying them up to $1 million annually.
Simone Maragitelli, an Italian security researcher, blogged about DarkMatter's vague and dubious recruiting practices as a warning to others. He claimed that any questions or objections to the company's practices would result in being told that "things had been blown out of proportion" and that information about the job opening was extremely vague despite asking questions.
Allegations of surveillance for UAE government
In response to alleged cyber spying on opponents of Iran's best interests by the government of Iran during 2010 and 2011, the United States assisted the United Arab Emirates in late 2011 with establishing the National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which is the UAE's equivalent to the US NSA.
Project Raven
Project Raven was a confidential initiative to help the UAE surveil other governments, militants, and human rights activists. Its team included former U.S. intelligence agents, who applied their training to hack phones and computers belonging to Project Raven's victims. The operation was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%20filters%20in%20bioinformatics | Bloom filters are space-efficient probabilistic data structures used to test whether an element is a part of a set. Bloom filters require much less space than other data structures for representing sets, however the downside of Bloom filters is that there is a false positive rate when querying the data structure. Since multiple elements may have the same hash values for a number of hash functions, then there is a probability that querying for a non-existent element may return a positive if another element with the same hash values has been added to the Bloom filter. Assuming that the hash function has equal probability of selecting any index of the Bloom filter, the false positive rate of querying a Bloom filter is a function of the number of bits, number of hash functions and number of elements of the Bloom filter. This allows the user to manage the risk of a getting a false positive by compromising on the space benefits of the Bloom filter.
Bloom filters are primarily used in bioinformatics to test the existence of a k-mer in a sequence or set of sequences. The k-mers of the sequence are indexed in a Bloom filter, and any k-mer of the same size can be queried against the Bloom filter. This is a preferable alternative to hashing the k-mers of a sequence with a hash table, particularly when the sequence is very long, since it is very demanding to store large numbers of k-mers in memory.
Applications
Sequence characterization
The preprocessing step in many bioinformatics applications involves classifying sequences, primarily classifying reads from a DNA sequencing experiment. For example, in metagenomic studies it is important to be able to tell if a sequencing read belongs to a new species. and in clinical sequencing projects it is vital to filter out reads from the genomes of contaminating organisms. There are many bioinformatics tools that use Bloom filters to classify reads by querying k-mers of a read to a set of Bloom filters generated from known reference genomes. Some tools that use this method are FACS and BioBloom tools. While these methods may not outclass other bioinformatics classification tools like Kraken, they offer a memory-efficient alternative.
A recent area of research with Bloom filters in sequence characterization is in developing ways to query raw reads from sequencing experiments. For example, how can one determine which reads contain a specific 30-mer in the entire NCBI Sequence Read Archive? This task is similar to that which is accomplished by BLAST, however it involves querying a much larger dataset; while BLAST queries against a database of reference genomes, this task demands that specific reads that contain the k-mer are returned. BLAST and similar tools cannot handle this problem efficiently, therefore Bloom filter based data structures have been implemented to this end. Binary bloom trees are binary trees of Bloom filters that facilitates querying transcripts in large RNA-seq experiments. BIGSI borrows bitsli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20reinforcement%20learning | Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) is a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning. RL considers the problem of a computational agent learning to make decisions by trial and error. Deep RL incorporates deep learning into the solution, allowing agents to make decisions from unstructured input data without manual engineering of the state space. Deep RL algorithms are able to take in very large inputs (e.g. every pixel rendered to the screen in a video game) and decide what actions to perform to optimize an objective (e.g. maximizing the game score). Deep reinforcement learning has been used for a diverse set of applications including but not limited to robotics, video games, natural language processing, computer vision, education, transportation, finance and healthcare.
Overview
Deep learning
Deep learning is a form of machine learning that utilizes a neural network to transform a set of inputs into a set of outputs via an artificial neural network. Deep learning methods, often using supervised learning with labeled datasets, have been shown to solve tasks that involve handling complex, high-dimensional raw input data such as images, with less manual feature engineering than prior methods, enabling significant progress in several fields including computer vision and natural language processing. In the past decade, deep RL has achieved remarkable results on a range of problems, from single and multiplayer games such as GO, Atari Games, and Dota 2, to robotics
Reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning is a process in which an agent learns to make decisions through trial and error. This problem is often modeled mathematically as a Markov decision process (MDP), where an agent at every timestep is in a state , takes action , receives a scalar reward and transitions to the next state according to environment dynamics . The agent attempts to learn a policy , or map from observations to actions, in order to maximize its returns (expected sum of rewards). In reinforcement learning (as opposed to optimal control) the algorithm only has access to the dynamics through sampling.
Deep reinforcement learning
In many practical decision-making problems, the states of the MDP are high-dimensional (e.g., images from a camera or the raw sensor stream from a robot) and cannot be solved by traditional RL algorithms. Deep reinforcement learning algorithms incorporate deep learning to solve such MDPs, often representing the policy or other learned functions as a neural network and developing specialized algorithms that perform well in this setting.
History
Along with rising interest in neural networks beginning in the mid 1980s, interest grew in deep reinforcement learning, where a neural network is used in reinforcement learning to represent policies or value functions. Because in such a system, the entire decision making process from sensors to motors in a robot or agent involves a single neural netw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timed%20word | In model checking, a subfield of computer science, a timed word is an extension of the notion of words, in a formal language, in which each letter is associated with a positive time tag. The sequence of time tags must be non-decreasing, which intuitively means that letters are received. For example, a system receiving a word over a network may associate to each letter the time at which the letter is received. The non-decreasing condition here means that the letters are received in the correct order.
A timed language is a set of timed words.
Example
Consider an elevator. What is formally called a letter could be in fact information such as "someone pressed the button on the 2nd floor", or "the doors opened on the third floor". In this case, a timed word is a sequence of actions taken by the elevators and its users, with time stamps to recall those actions. The timed word can then be analyzed by formal methods to check whether a property such as "each time the elevator is called, it arrives in less than three minutes assuming that no one held the door for more than fifteen seconds" holds. A statement such as this one is usually expressed in metric temporal logic, an extension of linear temporal logic that allows the expression of time constraints.
A timed word may be passed to a model, such as a timed automaton, which will decide, given the letters or actions that already occurred, what is the next action that should be done. In our example, to which floor the elevator must go. Then a program may test this timed automaton and check the above-mentioned property. That is, it will try to generate a timed word in which the door is never held open for more than fifteen seconds, and in which a user must wait more than three minutes after calling the elevator.
Definition
Given an alphabet A, a timed word is a sequence, finite or infinite with , with for each integer .
If the sequence is infinite but the sequence of is bounded, then this word is said to be a Zeno timed word, in reference to Zeno's paradoxes, where an infinite number of actions occur in a finite time.
The word is the word without its time stamps, i.e. it is . Given a timed language , is then the set of for .
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasper%20Green%20Larsen | Kasper Green Larsen is a Danish theoretical computer scientist. He is currently full professor at Aarhus University.
Biography
Larsen earned his doctorate from Aarhus University in 2013 under the supervision of Lars Arge.
He received several best paper awards at major conferences in theoretical computer science, including Symposium on Theory of Computing, Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, and the International Cryptology Conference, including the Machtey Award and Danny Lewin Award for best student paper.
In 2019, Larsen received the Presburger Award from the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science for his work on lower bounds.
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Danish computer scientists
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Living people
1986 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Bringmann | Karl Bringmann is a German theoretical computer scientist. He is currently senior researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
Biography
Bringmann earned his doctorate from Saarland University under the supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn.
In 2019, Bringmann received the Presburger Award from the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science for his work on lower bounds. The same year, he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on fine-grained complexity and a near-linear pseudopolynomial time algorithm for the subset sum problem.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogg%20%28surname%29 | Fogg is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
People
Alan Fogg,
Angus Fogg,
B. J. Fogg, American psychologist and computer scientist
Billy Fogg,
Clarence J. Fogg,
Dave Fogg,
David Fogg,
Daniel Fogg,
E. Knowlton Fogg,
Ellis D Fogg,
Eric Fogg (1903–1939), English composer and conductor
George G. Fogg (1813–1881), American diplomat and politician
Gordon Elliott Fogg,
Howard L. Fogg (1917–1996), American artist
John Fogg (born 1944), American politician
Josh Fogg (born 1976), American baseball pitcher
Karen Fogg, British diplomat
Kevin Fogg,
Kirk Fogg, American game show host
Kyle Fogg,
Laurence Fogg,
Martyn J. Fogg (born 1960), British physicist and terraforming researcher
Mieczysław Fogg (1901–1990), Polish singer
Mr. Fogg,
Peter Fogg,
Rodney D. Fogg,
Ron Fogg,
William Perry Fogg,
Fictional characters
Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days
Madeline Fogg, from Ludwig Bemelman's book series Madeline
Marco Fogg, the protagonist of Paul Auster's novel Moon Palace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll%C3%A9%20Mystery%20Theatre | Mollé Mystery Theatre was a 30-minute anthology radio program that ran from 1943 to 1948 on NBC prior to its moving to the CBS network, where it ran till 1951 and was altered to center around a single character, Inspector Hearthstone. It finally ran from 1951 to 1954 on ABC. The show, sponsored initially by Sterling Drugs, manufacturers of Mollé Brushless Shaving Cream, began airing on Tuesday evenings during prime time.
In 1948, Mollé ceased sponsoring the program, and its title became Mystery Theater. It featured stories of mystery and suspense and boasted performances from up-and-coming actors such as Richard Widmark and Frank Lovejoy. The show bears no relation to the radio series ABC Mystery Theater.
References
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CBS Radio programs
NBC radio programs
1943 radio programme debuts
American radio dramas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergiant%20Industries | Hypergiant is an Austin, Texas based technology company, founded in February 2018, and currently headed by CEO Mike Betzer.
The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) products, focused on its CommandCenter Platform.
In August 2019, global consulting firm Booz Allen announced a venture with Hypergiant to deliver AI products for public sector clients. In September 2019, its algae-based air cleaner, was noted by Fast Company as a "world-changing idea", and was reviewed in Popular Mechanics, and other media.
In August 2023, it was announced the Dallas-based private equity company, Trive Capital had acquired Hypergiant for an undisclosed amount.
References
Companies based in Austin, Texas
2018 establishments in Texas
American companies established in 2018
Privately held companies based in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane%20Bortzmeyer | Stéphane Bortzmeyer is a French engineer specialised in computer networks.
Biography
Stéphane Bortzmeyer is a research engineer at (Afnic). He has worked mostly on DNS security.
He is a member of Gitoyen and of the Board of France-IX, the main exchange for the Internet in France.
As a member of IETF, he authored several Request for Comments, most notably on DNS and privacy.
He contributes to the website anti-rev.org, which fights against Revisionism in France.
Bibliography
See also
Afnic
References
External links
Official blog
Articles by Stéphane Bortzmeyer on RIPE.net
French Wikimedians
Telecommunications engineers
Pages with unreviewed translations
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20%28model%20checking%29 | In model checking, a subfield of computer science, a signal or timed state sequence is an extension of the notion of words in a formal language, in which letters are continuously emitted. While a word is traditionally defined as a function from a set of non-negative integers to letters, a signal is a function from a set of real numbers to letters. This allow the use of formalisms similar to the ones of automata theory to deal with continuous signals.
Example
Consider an elevator. What is formally called a letter could be in fact information such as "someone is pressing the button on the 2nd floor", or "the doors are currently open on the third floor". In this case, a signal indicates, at each time, which is the current state of the elevator and its buttons. The signal can then be analyzed using formal methods to check whether a property such that "each time the elevator is called, it arrives in less than three minutes, assuming that no one held the door for more than fifteen seconds" holds. A statement such as this one is usually expressed in metric temporal logic, an extension of linear temporal logic that allows the expression of time constraints.
A signal may be passed to a model, such as a signal automaton, which will decide, given the letters or actions that already occurred, what is the next action that should be performed, in our example, to which floor the elevator must go. Then a program may test this signal and check the above-mentioned property. That is, it will try to generate a signal in which the door is never held open for more than fifteen seconds, and in which a user must wait more than three minutes after calling the elevator.
Definition
Given an alphabet A, a signal is a sequence , finite or infinite, such that , each are pairwise disjoint intervals, , and is also an interval. Given for some , represents .
Properties
Some authors restrict the kind of signals they consider. We list here some standard properties that a signal may or may not satisfy.
Finite variability
Intuitively, a signal is said to be finitely variable, or to have the finite variability property, if during each bounded interval, the letter change a finite number of times. In our previous elevator example, this property would mean that a user may only press a button a finite number of times during a finite time. And similarly, in a finite time, the elevator can only open and close its door a finite number of times.
Formally, a signal is said to have the finite variability property, unless the sequence is infinite and is bounded. Intuitively, the finite variability property states that there is not an infinite number of changes in a finite time. Having the finite variability property is similar to the notion of being non-Zeno for a timed word.
Bounded variability
The notion of bounded variability is a restriction to the notion of finite variability. A signal has the bounded variability property if there exists a lower bound between the beginnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao-i | Shanghai Xiaoi Robot Technology Co. Ltd or Xiao-i () is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2001 by Max Yuan and Pinpin Zhu. It develops AI technologies and industry applications specializing in data domain and Natural Language Processing.
The company is headquartered in Shanghai and has branches, research facilities and "AI+" experience centers in Beijing, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Shenzhen to provide conversational AI applications and data solutions. In 2018, Xiao-i opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
History
Xiao-i was founded in 2001 in Shanghai and debuted its first chatbot in 2004 over Microsoft Network’s (MSN) messaging platform. Xiao-i’s first development phase focused on natural language processing(NLP) with the aim of enhancing the customer experience with AI technology and applications. In 2006 the company offered their chatbot with specific company related knowledge in addition to weather reports and stock market data.
In 2008, Xiao-i began to collaborate with its first corporate client Jiangsu Mobile to develop an intelligent customer service robot that provided service to the telecommunications company’s customers through its website and addressed customer queries over mobile phone text messaging. The chatbot greatly helped to reduce Jiangsu Mobile’s labor costs. Xiao-i currently supports China’s three mobile carriers with its AI technology and applications. Xiao-i entered its second development phase in 2011. During 2012-2014, Xiao-i grew its client base in the banking sector, for example it launched a virtual customer assistant (VCA) for China Merchants Bank and China Construction Bank in 2012. Xiao-i also rolled out solutions for Smart TV, Smart Homes, Smart Appliances and Smart Automobiles, serving clients such as Samsung, Haier and LG
During 2015-2016, Xiao-i released its proprietary Cloud Platform that powers AI systems and enables them to make prompt and accurate decisions. Later, Xiao-i upgraded this platform and launched intelligent robotic operating system iBot OS.
To expand its international presence, Xiao-i established its research and development center in Hong Kong in 2017, followed by the opening of its Asia-Pacific headquarters in the same city in 2018. Hong Kong Chief Executive Ms. Carrie Lam officiated the opening ceremony.
In August 2020, Xiao-i filed a $1.4 billion lawsuit against Apple Inc. on allegations of patent infringement. The company argued that Apple's Siri infringes on a patent granted to the company in 2009.
References
2023 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Companies based in Shanghai
Chinese companies established in 2001
AI companies
Computer companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Cui | Ang Cui () is an American cybersecurity researcher and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Red Balloon Security in New York City, a cybersecurity firm that develops new technologies to defend embedded systems against exploitation.
Career
Cui was formerly a researcher with Columbia University's Intrusion Detection Systems Lab where he worked while pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at Columbia University.<ref></refdref name="auto"></ref> His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Embedded System Security: A Software-Based Approach,” focused on scientific inquiries concerning the exploitation and defense of embedded systems. Cui received his Ph.D. in 2015, and founded Red Balloon Security to commercialize his firmware defense technology now known as Symbiote.
Cui has publicly demonstrated security vulnerabilities in widely used commercial and consumer products, including Cisco and Avaya VoIP phones, Cisco routers and HP LaserJet printers. He has presented his research at industry events including Black Hat Briefings, DEF CON conference, RSA Conference, REcon security conference and the Auto-ISAC 2018 Summit. Cui's security research has earned the 2011 Kaspersky Labs American Cup Winner, 2012 Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship and the 2015 DARPA Riser
In 2017, the United States Department of Homeland Security cited his company with the “Crossing the Valley of Death” distinction for the development of a commercially available cyber defense system for critical infrastructure facilities, which was produced following a 12-month DHS funded pilot study to evaluate cyber sabotage risks to the building systems of a DHS Biosafety Level 3 facility.
Dukedom
In 2020, Cui received the noble title of duke from the Principality of Sealand. Cui's royal title grants him an official territory, or duchy, of one square foot within the micronation, which he has named SPACE. As a Duke of the Principality of Sealand, Cui joins the ranks of notable figures who have also received nobility titles from the micronation, including English cricketeer Ben Stokes and musician Ed Sheeran.
Security Research
Symbiote
Cui is best known for his role in the development of Symbiote, a host-based firmware defense technology for embedded devices.
Symbiote is injected into the firmware of a legacy embedded device where it provides intrusion detection functionality. It does so by constantly checking the integrity of static code and data at the firmware level, in order to prevent unauthorized code or commands from executing. Symbiote is operating system agnostic and is compatible with most embedded devices. Red Balloon Security has already released Symbiote for commercial printer brands like HP and other devices.
On June 21, 2017, Red Balloon Security announced the launch of Symbiote for Automotive Defense, an automotive version of the standard Symbiote technology, at the Escar USA Conference in Detroit.
In 2016, Popular Science named Symbiote one of the “9 Most Imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20Federation%20for%20Cybersecurity%2C%20Programming%20and%20Drones | The Saudi Federation For Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) is a national institution in Saudi Arabia aiming at developing professional skills in the fields of cybersecurity and programming.
Structure
SAFCSP is associated with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and governed by the board of directors that is chaired by Faisal Al-Khamisi.
Hajj Hackathon
In 2018, SAFCSP organized the Hajj Hackathon event in Jeddah, west of Saudi Arabia, with 2,950 participants from over 100 countries. With this number of participants, SAFCSP broke the Guinness World Record for 'Most participants in a hackathon'.
Bug Bounty
In 2019, SAFCSP has introduced Bug Bounty, a rewards platform that aims at exploiting the capabilities of individual talents and research to detect and discover vulnerabilities in software and websites of organizations.
References
Government agencies of Saudi Arabia
Hackathons
World record holders
2017 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Sports governing bodies in Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney%20Fink | Courtney Fink is an American organizer, arts advocate, curator and writer. She is the co-Founder and Director of Common Field, a national network of art spaces and projects. Courtney Fink currently serves as a board member for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
From 2003–2015 she served as the Executive Director of Southern Exposure, a non-profit alternative art space in San Francisco, California. While at Southern Exposure she pioneered the Alternative Exposure granting program which distributed funds to alternative spaces and artists projects throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Courtney Fink holds a B.A. degree in art history and fine arts from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
References
External links
Living people
Artists from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Skidmore College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American company founders
American women company founders
American art curators
American women curators
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Field | Common Field is an American national network of artist-centered organizations and projects. Founded in 2014 by co-founders Elizabeth Chodos, Courtney Fink, Nat May, Stephanie Sherman, Abigail Statinsky, and Shannon Stratton with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, it hosts meet-ups and convenings for artists, organizers, and cultural professionals as an opportunity to share ideas and arts advocacy strategies. Common Field held its first official Convening in Minneapolis, MN in September 2015. In 2016 the convening was held in Miami, Florida, in 2017 it was held in Los Angeles, California and in April 2019 the convening will be held in Philadelphia, PA.
References
Arts organizations based in California
Arts organizations established in 2014
Non-profit organizations based in California
Advocacy groups in the United States
American artist groups and collectives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anirudh%20Devgan | Anirudh Devgan (born September 15, 1969) is an Indian-American computer scientist and CEO, known for his contributions to electronic design automation, specifically circuit simulation, physical design and signoff, statistical design and optimization, and verification and hardware platforms. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with the class of 2007.
, Devgan serves as President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems. He also serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the ESD Alliance.
Education
IIT Delhi, Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering (1986-1990)
Carnegie Mellon University, Master's (1990-1991) and PhD (1991-1993) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (since 2018)
Career
Devgan began his career at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) where he spent 12 years in management and research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Server Division, IBM Microelectronics Division, and IBM Austin Research Lab. He later went to Magma Design Automation where he served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Custom Design Business Unit.
In 2012, Devgan joined Cadence Design Systems serving in a number of senior leadership roles before being named President in 2017. In 2021, Devgan joined the board of directors, and later assumed the role of CEO, taking over from Lip-Bu Tan.
Awards and honors
Award-winning scholarly work
Devgan's scholarly work on statistical analysis and optimization of integrated circuits was published in peer-reviewed proceedings of international conferences. Two such publications were recognized with awards from the top conferences in the field of electronic design automation, sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2003, Devgan shared the IEEE William J. Macalla Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) for his work on block-based statistical timing analysis.
In 2005, Devgan shared a best-paper award at ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference(DAC) for his work on statistical minimization of total power under timing yield constraints.
Elected society memberships
2007: Elected an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to electrical analysis, and simulation of integrated circuits." Announced November 2006
2021: Phil Kaufman Award for his contributions to Electronic Design Automation.
2023: Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering "for technical and business leadership in the electronic design automation industry"
References
External links
Electronic design automation people
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
1969 births
American chief executives
Electrical and computer engineering
American people of Indian descent
Businesspeople from New Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilili%20in%20Paris | Dilili in Paris () is a 2018 French, German, and Belgian computer-animated period adventure film written and directed by Michel Ocelot, with pre-production by Studio O and animation production by Mac Guff, about a Kanak girl investigating a mystery in Paris in the Belle Époque. It stars the voices of Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, and Natalie Dessay as Emma Calvé in the original, French-language version.
The film had an invitation-only world premiere on 11 June 2018 as the opening ceremony feature, and its public premiere on June 12, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival before being released in cinemas on October 10 in France, on October 24 in Belgium and in 2019 in Germany. It won the César Award for Best Animated Feature at the 44th César Awards.
It has been licensed for distribution in the United States and English-speaking Canada by Samuel Goldwyn Films (having already been released in Quebec by Axia Films), who released it in cinemas in 2019.
Synopsis
During the Belle Époque, the little mixed race girl Dilili was part of a Kanak village set up in a Parisian public garden. Orel, a scooter driver, slips into the enclosure to meet Dilili, who finds him in the evening. She tells him her story: she has both European ancestors and Kanak ancestors, she was educated by Madame Michel (who is none other than Louise Michel), then on her arrival in Paris, she met a countess who taught him good manners. Orel offers Dilili a ride around Paris on his scooter while he makes his deliveries. Enthusiastic, Dilili discovers the streets and squares of Paris. They meet Marie Curie, to whom Orel had to bring his daughter Ève, then the singer Emma Calvé, friend of Orel, who likes to sing on the underground lake which extends under the Garnier Opera, as well as the writer Marcel Proust in the company of his friend Reynaldo Hahn. The little girl writes down in her notebook the names of the celebrities she meets and who give her all kinds of ideas for jobs she would like to do later. Very quickly, Dilili is intrigued by the announcements from newspaper sellers: little girls are regularly kidnapped by a network of bandits who sign their crimes under the name “Male-Masters”. Dilili immediately decides to investigate to find the missing girls. Herself the victim of a first kidnapping attempt in a public garden, she is saved by Orel.
The investigation leads Dilili and Orel to the Moulin du Diable, in Montparnasse, in the poor neighbourhoods where they are poorly received. They cross the fence, but are attacked by a rabid mastiff who bites Orel at the risk of transmitting the disease to him. Dilili puts Orel in the scooter and races back down the slope to the Pasteur Institute, where she begs Louis Pasteur to vaccinate Orel. Once the latter is out of danger, the investigation can resume. Pasteur and his entourage give new leads to the investigative duo. They then go to the boat wash, a building which houses many painters of the moment. There, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Thornton%20%28disambiguation%29 | Grant Thornton may refer to:
Grant Thornton International, a professional services network
Grant Thornton LLP, a U.S. accounting firm
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, a Canadian accounting firm
Grant Thornton Tower, an office tower in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Grant Thornton (cricketer), a British cricket player
See also
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park, a baseball stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Thornton (surname)
Thornton (disambiguation)
Grant (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Baofa | Yu Baofa (; born in 1958) is a Chinese oncologist and researcher in intratumoral cancer therapy and drug development. He is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Baofa Cancer Hospital Network China in Jinan, Beijing and Dongping. He also developed Ultra Minimum Incision Personalized Intra-Tumoral Chemo-Immuno (UMIPIC) Therapy.
Early life and education
Yu was born in 1958 in Jinan, Shandong, China. During his childhood, the local doctors he saw in his village inspired him to become a physician in the future. He was educated in Binzhou Medical College. Four years later, he graduated and landed a job in the Shandong Tumor Research Institute and transferred to the China Academy of Medical Sciences for further studies in cancer.
In 1984, his mother was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and later died. Soon after, his best friend's father died of cancer as well. These experiences motivated him to deepen his research of cancer.
In 1985, Yu enrolled in Peking Union Medical College (tumour department) in Beijing to further his studies and received a master's degree of Medicine. After graduation, he worked at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing for a year, before attending the School of Medicine of University of California, San Diego for doctoral studies.
Career
In February 1990, Yu performed research on anti-cancer medicines and intratumoral therapy. It was at the time he researched on drug slow-release system therapy (SRST).
In 1992, Yu joined the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California as Senior Associate Researcher for tumour and cancer genes. A year later, he was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego.
In 1998, he returned to China and founded the TaiMei Baofa Cancer Hospital in Dongping, China.
In 2003, Yu was elected as the deputy of the 10th National People's Congress.
At present, he is the CEO of Immuno Oncology Systems (IOS) & Baofa Therapy Inc.
Hospitals
Taimei Baofa Cancer Hospital was the first hospital established among three of Dr. Yu's hospitals. Since 1997, it has raised 38 million yuan (US$4.6 million). Yu also invited experts from Beijing and Jinan to offer training to his medical staff occasionally.
His hospitals utilize various cancer treatments including surgery, radiotherapy, biological therapy, UMIPIC, as well as traditional Chinese medical treatments.
Awards
2006- China Youth Volunteer Action Contribution Award
2005- First overseas Chinese "Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award"
Patents
Publications
References
External links
Baofa Therapy.com
Baofa UMIPIC Therapy
Shandong Baofa Oncotherapy Corporation Limited
Beijing BaoFa Tumour Hospital
1958 births
Living people
Chinese oncologists
Cancer researchers
China Zhi Gong Party politicians
People from Jinan
Scientists from Shandong
Peking Union Medical College alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Physicians from Shandong
Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress
21st-century Chinese physicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorakhpur%20Metro | The Gorakhpur Metrolite is a light rapid transit system proposed for the city of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The network will consist of 2 elevated lines serving 27 stations with a total length of 27.41 kilometres. The project is estimated to cost . It is expected to be completed by 2024.
History
The Government of Uttar Pradesh appointed the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation to build a metro system in Gorakhpur in 2017. Rail India Technical and Economic Service prepared the feasibility study and the detailed project report for the project and submitted it to the corporation in March 2019. The report was approved by the state cabinet on 9 October 2020.
The Public Investment Board approved the first phase of the project on 22 November 2021, and the project is expected to be completed by 2024.
Route Network
The first line would be constructed from Shyam Nagar to Sooba Bazaar covering a distance of 16.95 km and comprise 16 stations whereas the second line would be constructed from Gulariha to Kachehri Chauraha covering a distance of 10.46 km and comprise 11 stations.
Line 1 (Shyam Nagar – Sooba Bazar)
Length: 16.95 km
Alignment: Elevated
No. of Stations: 16
Stations:
Shyam Nagar
Bargadwa
Shastri Nagar
Nathmalpur
Gorakhnath Mandir
Hazaripur
Dharmshala (Interchange)
Gorakhpur Railway Station
University
Mohaddipur
Ramgarh Lake
AIIMS
Malviya Nagar
MMM Engineering College
Divya Nagar
Sooba Bazar
Line 2 (Gulariha – Kachehri Chauraha)
Length: 10.46 km
Alignment: Elevated
No. of Stations: 11
Stations:
Gulariha
BRD Medical College
Mugalaha
Khanjanchi Bazar
Basharatpur
Ashok Nagar
Vishnu Nagar
Asuran Chowk
Dharamshala (Interchange)
Gol Ghar
Kachehri Chauraha
See also
Urban rail transit in India
Kanpur Metro
Lucknow Metro
References
Proposed rapid transit in Uttar Pradesh
Transport in Gorakhpur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Estonian%20parliamentary%20election | Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 5 March 2023 to elect all 101 members of the Riigikogu. The officially published election data indicate the victory of the Reform Party, which won 37 seats in total, while the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) placed second with 17 seats. The Centre Party won 16 seats, a loss of 10, while Estonia 200 won 14 seats, gaining representation in the Riigikogu.
After the previous parliamentary election in 2019, the Centre Party, led by Jüri Ratas, formed a government with Ratas serving as prime minister. His government was brought down in January 2021 after a corruption investigation, and Kaja Kallas of the Reform Party formed a coalition government with the Centre Party, which collapsed in June 2022. Kallas then formed a government with Isamaa and the Social Democratic Party and remained in the position of prime minister.
In January 2023, the National Electoral Committee announced that nine political parties and ten individual candidates had registered to take part in the 2023 parliamentary election. During the campaign period, issues discussed most extensively regarded the Estonian economy, and the country's national defence and security due to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. Individuals from contesting political parties also participated in multiple organised debates in January and February 2023. Voting at foreign embassies for Estonians outside the country took place from 18 to 23 February, while Estonian residents could vote during the pre-election period from 27 February to 4 March.
These were the first national elections where more than half of the votes were cast electronically over the Internet. Following the election, EKRE submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court of Estonia, requesting that the results be annulled and claiming that "anomalies and technical errors in the e-voting process had been observed", though the appeal was later dismissed. Reform successfully negotiated afterward with the Social Democratic Party and Estonia 200, forming a government headed by Kallas in April.
Background
The previous parliamentary election, which was held in March 2019, saw the loss of the absolute majority held by Jüri Ratas's first cabinet in the Riigikogu, the unicameral parliament of Estonia. Ratas's Centre Party, Isamaa, and Social Democratic Party (SDE) all suffered a setback in favour of the Reform Party, led by Kallas, and the EKRE. Kersti Kaljulaid, then-president of Estonia, gave a mandate to Kallas to form a government after the election. The Reform Party negotiated with the Centre Party, Isamaa, and SDE but ultimately failed to form a government. After the vote in April 2019, Ratas received the mandate and successfully formed a government with Isamaa and EKRE. Jüri Ratas's second cabinet was sworn in on 29 April 2019.
In January 2021, the Centre Party-led government collapsed after a corruption investigation in which the Centre Party was accused of requesting financial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Orji | Rita Orji is a Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist who is a Canada Research Chair in Persuasive Technology and the Director of the Persuasive Computing Lab at Dalhousie University. Her work is in the area of human–computer interaction with a major focus on designing interactive systems to achieve health and well being objectives. She has won over 70 awards and recognitions from both national and international organizations. She has addressed a United Nations panel about the status of women and at the Parliament of Canada.
Early life and education
Orji grew up in Enugu State Nigeria. She is Igbo by tribe. She was raised by parents, Maria and Okonkwo Orji, who never attended school, in a remote town called Owelli with no electricity and pipe-borne water. She is one of nine siblings and her parents supported the family through peasant farming. Orji did not have access to a computer growing up, and was admitted to study Computer Science at Nnamdi Azikiwe University without having used a computer. She graduated top of her class with First Class Honours. During her secondary education, she entered the Nigerian team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2002, she launched "Education for Women and the Less Privileged in Nigeria", a nonprofit organisation that provides mentorship and scholarships for women in education. Orji joined a master's program at Middle East Technical University, where she was the only African student in class. She completed her master's in 2009 and moved to Canada as a graduate student.
In 2012, Orji presented at the Parliament of Canada, where she spoke about health promotion and disease prevention. She was awarded a Vanier scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Orji earned her PhD at University of Saskatchewan in 2014. She was the first woman from her town of 50,000 people to earn a PhD. She joined McGill University as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked on technological interventions that can effect behavioural change.
Career
Orji joined the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo as a Banting Fellow in 2016. She is interested in persuasive technology and how to design technologies that can promote health and wellness and technologies for promoting social and public goods. Orji joined the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University as an assistant professor in 2017. She designs interactive systems and persuasive technologies, particularly to benefit under-served populations. She has studied how culture and age influence the efficacy of persuasive technologies. She analysed how reward, competition, social comparison and social learning differ between men and women in collectivist and individualist cultures, finding that in collectivist cultures, men are more susceptible to reward and competition.
Advocacy and engagement
Orji is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) diversity ambassador, working towards increased participation of women and m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204230 | NGC 4230 is a loosely scattered open cluster in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered by John Herschel on April 5, 1837.
The ESO catalog (and SIMBAD database) misidentify ESO 171-SC14 as NGC 4230.
See also
Open cluster
List of NGC objects (4001–5000)
Centaurus (constellation)
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SEDS
Open clusters
Centaurus
4230
Astronomical objects discovered in 1837
Discoveries by John Herschel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo%20Africa | Telemundo Africa is an African cable television channel broadcast on 12 August 2013 by DStv in more than 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Owned by NBCUniversal International Networks, the channel programming is dedicated to the Spanish-language telenovelas produced by Telemundo Television Studios. The channel is available in English and Portuguese.
Overview
Telemundo Africa is only available for the African market, with Spanish-language programming dubbing in English for the countries of South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and in Portuguese for Angola and Mozambique. The dubbing in Portuguese is done in Miami by the studios The Kitchen and Universal Cinergia Dubbing. The dubbing in English is done in South Africa by MultiChoice. When the channel began its broadcasts in August 2013, it began to show the telenovelas Aurora, Rosa diamante, Mi corazón insiste en Lola Volcán and La casa de al lado.
From April 2021, the channel started airing all their shows 7 days a week similar to other channels such as Zee World, Star Life and Novela Magic.
In June 2023, Nurses was removed from the channel amidst the final season due to Cameroon and Uganda implementation of anti-gay laws requiring TV broadcasters not to promote homosexual content or risk having their licence revoked or face possible jail time.
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Telemundo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Michael%20Dunn | J. Michael Dunn (June 19, 1941 – April 5, 2021) was Oscar Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Informatics and Computer Science, was twice chair of the Philosophy Department, was Executive Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and was founding dean of the School of Informatics (now the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) at Indiana University.
Early life and education
Dunn was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He went to high school in Lafayette, Indiana, where he worked in Purdue Biology laboratories after school and summers. He was the first in his family to go to college.
He obtained an A.B. in Philosophy from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in philosophy (Logic) from the University of Pittsburgh, where he wrote his dissertation, The Algebra of Intensional Logics.
Career
He taught at Wayne State University and at Yale University before coming to Indiana University Bloomington in 1969, from which he retired in 2007.
He received grants from NSF, NEH, ACLS, and was a visiting scholar at, among other places, the Australian National University, University of Oxford, and the University of Melbourne. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at his Ph.D. alma mater the University of Pittsburgh. In 2002, he accepted on behalf of the School of Informatics the Techpoint (Indiana Information Technology association) Mira for Outstanding Education Contribution to Information Technology. In 2007, he was awarded the Indiana University Bloomington Provost's Medal, and was made a Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana.
He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as President of the Society for Exact Philosophy, and on the executive committee of the Association for Symbolic Logic. He was also an editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and chief editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. He published six books and over 100 papers, and directed or co-directed 17 Ph.D. dissertations (Philosophy, Computer Science, Mathematics).
After he retired, he served on the board of HealthLINC for ten years, the regional health information exchange, and was president there for three years. From 2010, he was affiliated with the Info-Metrics Institute, American University, and was a member of its advisory board (co-chair 2017–2021).
Work
Dunn's research focuses on information based logics, particularly relevance logics and other so-called "substructural" logics. He has an algebraic approach to these under the heading of "gaggle theory" (for generalized galois logics), which he has developed in articles, his book with G. Hardgree Algebraic Methods in Philosophical Logic (Oxford, 2001), and a book with Katalin Bimbó, Generalized Galois Logics: Relational Semantics of Nonclassical Logical Calculi. (CSLI Publications, 2008).
He studied as a graduate student with the two major figures in relevance logic, Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap He was a contributing author to their book Entail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dattalla | Dattalla or Datala () was a town of ancient Crete. The inhabitants of Dattalla are documented in a decree dated at the end of the sixth century BCE, that deals with the agreement of the city with a scribe for the public affairs of the city.
Its exact location is unknown but it must have been located between Cnossus and Lato. The modern Afrati has been suggested as a possible location - although some identify that site with Arcadia - or the hill Agios Georgios Papura near the town of Pinakiano.
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Populated places in ancient Crete
Former populated places in Greece
Lost ancient cities and towns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDK%20Global | CDK Global Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, providing data and technology to the automotive, heavy truck, recreation, and heavy equipment industries.
The company has 37 locations in 25 countries and its products are sold in over 100 countries, however most of its customers are in the United States. In 2020, the company ranked 911 on the Fortune 1000 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Products
CDK Global provides integrated information technology and digital marketing to the automotive, heavy truck, recreation, and heavy equipment industries. The company's products help to integrate clients buying processes and include targeted advertising and marketing, as well as products for the sale, financing, insuring, parts supply, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. Competitors include Reynolds and Reynolds and Dealertrack.
History
The company has its origins as the Dealer Services division of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) which was formed in 1973 after ADP's acquisition of National Inventory Control System, Portland OR (NICS) and Computer System Inc., Cincinnati, OH (CSI) providing computerized Accounting, Financial Reporting, Sales Analysis, Lease Accounting, Parts Inventory Control, Customer Relations, Management Systems for both Sales and Service, and Payroll Services for automotive dealerships. As ADP Dealer Services, the division was subsequently built up of more than 30 acquisitions completed over the next 41 years.
On October 1, 2014, ADP Dealer Services division was spun-off to form the independent company CDK Global. The CDK in the company's name was inspired from different acquisitions; C from Cobalt Digital Marketing, D from the original ADP Dealer Services business and Kerridge Computer Company, a UK-based DMS supplier acquired by ADP in 2005, from which the 'K' stems.
Notable acquisitions include BZ Results (Automotive Dealer Services), winner of the 2006 “Innovative Company of the Year”, by ADP in 2006.
In 2020, CDK Global announced the sale of its international operations (to be called Keyloop) to Francisco Partners, as an effort to focus more on its North American business.
On April 7, 2022, CDK Global agreed to be acquired by Brookfield Business Partners and institutional partners for a total enterprise value of $8.3 billion. The deal will offer CDK investors $54.87 for each share held, representing a 30% premium. Brookfield completed the deal on July 6, 2022.
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Software companies of the United States
Companies based in Cook County, Illinois
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
American companies established in 2014
Software companies established in 2014
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
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2022 mergers and acquisitions
American subsidiaries of foreign companies
Private equity portfolio companies |
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