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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Internet%20Handbook | The Canadian Internet Handbook was a series of non-fiction books written by Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead. It was first published in March 1994 aimed at an audience new to computers, describing the basics of how to use the Internet. Books contained information on what the Internet is, how to get connected, how it works, as well as a directory of internet-based services.
Reception
Within 6 weeks of the initial publication on March 7, 1994, the Canadian Internet Handbook was the number 1 best selling book according to The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Reviews of the initial and later editions were mostly favourable, citing the expertise of the authors as well as the comprehensiveness of the books. Success continued throughout the 1990s, but the dot-com bubble of 2001 eventually resulted in the downfall of the series. No further editions were released.
References
External links
Interview with CBC
Dot-com bubble
Books about the Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20American%20countries%20by%20life%20expectancy | This is a list of South American countries by life expectancy at birth.
World Bank Group (2021)
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2021. The data is filtered according to the list of countries in South America. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.
United Nations (2021)
Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN for 2019 and 2021. By default, the list is sorted by 2021.
WHO (2019)
Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019.
Charts
See also
References
Life expectancy
South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen%20Haven | Fallen Haven is a 1997 computer game. It is a science-fiction themed turn-based strategy game. It functions on Windows 95 and 98 computers.
A sequel, Liberation Day, was released in 1998.
Plot
The game depicts a battle between the human race and an alien culture called the Taurans, sparked by a misunderstanding.
The armies of the Humans are relatively simple and rugged, while the armies of the Taurans are more technologically advanced.
Reception
The game received average reviews. The Charlotte Observer noted its multiple levels of difficulty. However, Next Generation said, "In the end, Fallen Haven is little more than a good idea with poor implementation. With a few gameplay tweaks and the addition of the two-player option Fallen Haven might have been great, but as it stands you're better off sticking with Civilization 2."
References
External links
Official website
1997 video games
IEntertainment Network games
Micomeq games
Single-player video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games developed in Canada
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty%20International%20Ghana | Amnesty International Ghana (also known as AI Ghana) is a section of the Amnesty International network and is part of the global movement focused on the defending and protecting human rights. AI Ghana's mission is to create a viable and sustainable nation-wide membership with the view to championing the course of and promoting respect for human rights in Ghana and beyond. The non-governmental organisation focuses on the protection of human rights in Ghana through undertakes advocacy and campaigns to persuade the powers that be.
Campaigns
Amnesty Ghana works in cooperation with government, private organisations and independent bodies, and conducts various activities to promote understanding and protection of human rights.
It has raised concerns around unfair trials and poor prison conditions for people on death row, the shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities and the continued discrimination, violence and police harassment to LGBTI people.
Amnesty Ghana’s high-profile campaigns also include seeking justice for the murdered undercover agent Ahmed Hussein-Suale in January 2019.
In February 2018, Amnesty International Ghana launched its annual report. Within the report it urged the Ghana government fully implement the Mental Health Act 2012 and called for improvement of funding allocation to mental health services in the country. It also presents various reports calling for an end to the human rights abuses, an end to death penalty, and a better justice system and an uphold of the rights LGBTI people in Ghana.
Vision and Mission of Amnesty International Ghana
The vision of Amnesty Ghana is for every person to enjoy all the rights as explained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other Human Rights standards. Amnesty Ghana's mission is largely to create a system that supports and promotes respect for human rights in Ghana.
Organizational structure
AI Ghana is headed by an executive board composed of 5 people elected by the members at a general assembly.
Support
AI Ghana has over 10,000 members and financial supporters across Ghana. The organisation is impartial and independent of any political ideologies, economic interests or religions, and as such does not accept any money from governments or political parties. It has also partnered with the Amnesty International, US Embassy of Ghana, Human Rights Watch and United Nations Human Rights. It is located in Kokomlemle District, Accra.
See also
Amnesty International
Human rights in Thailand
Censorship in Thailand
Criticism of Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
References
External links
Amnesty International Ghana Official Website
Amnesty International Official Website
Amnesty International
Civic and political organisations of Ghana
Human rights in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Burrows%20%28disambiguation%29 | Michael Burrows is a computer scientist.
Michael Burrows may also refer to:
Michael Burrows (artist), Australian singer-songwriter
Michael Burrows (bishop), Church of Ireland bishop
Mike Burrows (baseball)
Mike Burrows, bicycle designer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Mower%20Provost | Emily Mower Provost is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan. She directs the Computational Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) Laboratory.
Professional history
Provost received her B.S. in electrical engineering (summa cum laude and with thesis honors) from Tufts University in 2004, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2007 and 2010, respectively. After postdoctoral research in the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab at the University of Southern California, Provost joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Michigan in 2012.
In 2016 Provost was named associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia and in 2017 was named associate editor for Computer Speech and Language Journal. She is on the editorial board of Affective Science, an associate editor for IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing since 2019.
Research work
Provost directs the CHAI Laboratory at University of Michigan which focuses on behavior recognition from audio-visual speech. The laboratory has two main areas of study: emotion modeling (classification and perception) and assistive technology (aphasia and bipolar disorder). In her work Provost uses machine learning and signal processing to analyze speech, in order to understand human behavior. Her work at the Depression Center at the University of Michigan focuses on designing technology for people with bipolar disorder.
Awards
Toyota Faculty Scholar (2020)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2017)
Oscar Stern Award for Depression Research (2015)
Herbert Kunzel Engineering Fellowship from USC (2007-2008, 2010-2011)
Intel Research Fellowship (2008-2010)
Achievement Rewards For College Scientists (ARCS) Award (2009-2010)
References
External links
Professional website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of Michigan faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20Hotel | The Cartoon Network Hotel is a resort-style hotel located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The hotel is managed by Palace Entertainment, who licenses the Cartoon Network name from Cartoon Network owner, Warner Bros. Discovery The hotel was Cartoon Network's second entry into the hotel business after the Cartoon Network-branded experience at Hotel Cozzi Ximen Tainan, in Tainan, Taiwan.
The hotel opened on January 10, 2020, and consists of 165 remodeled hotel rooms, a resort-style pool, kids' play area, indoor arcade, coffee lounge, full bar, and a gift shop with Cartoon Network-related merchandise.
History
As Ramada Inn
The hotel opened as a Ramada Inn in 1971, primarily on land owned by Earl Clark, owner of the Dutch Wonderland theme park located close by. The motel ran into financial trouble and was sold to Michael Gleiberman in 1974.
As Continental Inn
The Gleiberman family renamed the motel the Continental Inn. The hotel consisted of 165 hotel rooms, along with a tennis court, an outdoor and indoor pool, free breakfast, a game room, and a fitness room. It operated until January 2018 when Palace Entertainment, the owners of nearby Dutch Wonderland, purchased the hotel for $4.7 million with the intention of remodeling it into a family-friendly resort.
Announcement of New Hotel
In October 2018, a partnership formed between Turner's then-owned Cartoon Network and Palace Entertainment to convert the former Continental Inn into the first Cartoon Network Hotel, to open in Summer 2019. In March 2019, despite the dissolution of Turner Broadcasting System, the hotel retained the Cartoon Network brand with an agreement with Warner Bros. In January 2020, after delays, the hotel opened.
Incidents
In August 2017, the hotel, then known as Continental Inn, suffered a mechanical fire near the indoor pool at around 4:20 PM. Firefighters extinguished it quickly yet two firefighters were hospitalized for chlorine inhalation. Damage from the fire was estimated at about $250,000.
See also
Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn; a former themed hotel for rival network Nickelodeon
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Cartoon Network
Tourist attractions in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2020 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damoure-Fabre%20DFL-6 | The Damoure-Fabre DFL-6 was a French ultralight monoplane built in the 1960s for amateur construction.
Variants
Data from:Les Avions Francais de 1944 a 1964
DFL-5A derivative of the earlier DFL-6; One built (DFL-5 No.01 F-PKMV).
DFL-6Light aircraft powered by a Continental C90. Two built, (No01 F-WJCQ and No02 F-PPPG)
Specifications
References
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padaba%20Radio | Padaba Radio (99.3 FM) is a radio station owned and operated by Lann's Radio Media Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Sampaguita Village, Brgy. San Juan, Roro, Sorsogon City.
History
The station was established in 2009 on Our Lady's Foundation-owned 103.9 FM. In 2017, it transferred to Allied Broadcasting Center-owned 99.9 FM. In March 2022, it migrated its operations online, with Wow Smile Radio taking over the station's frequency, it moved from 99.9 FM to 99.3 FM.
References
Radio stations in Sorsogon
Radio stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Atom%20Araullo%20Specials | The Atom Araullo Specials is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Atom Araullo, it premiered on April 1, 2018, on the network's Sunday Grande sa Hapon line up.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
The show features social issues of the Philippines, along with stories of Filipinos which host Atom Araullo chose to discuss and facilitate.
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Iliffe%20%28computer%20designer%29 | John Kenneth Iliffe (18 September 1931 – 16 February 2020) was a British computer designer who worked on the design and evaluation of computers that supported fine-grained memory protection and object management. He implemented, evaluated and refined such designs in the Rice Institute Computer, R1 (1958–61) and the ICL Basic Language Machine (1963–68). A key feature in the architectures of both machines was control by the hardware of the formation and use of memory references so that the memory could be seen as a collection of data objects of defined sizes whose integrity is protected from the consequences of errors in address calculation, such as overrunning memory pointers (whether by accident or malicious intent).
Technical contributions
Iliffe attended the EDSAC programming course in Cambridge in 1952. He eventually learned about computing by running the IBM (UK) service bureau in London. In 1958 he was invited to join the team building the R1 computer at Rice Institute, Houston, in which he took responsibility for operating system and language design and implementation. In the next 30 years he put into operation four computers demonstrating and evaluating new concepts in design.
The Rice R1 Computer
Iliffe led the development of the operating system and programming language for the Rice Computer. His design included an early instance of dynamic memory allocation and management, enabling programs to acquire storage on demand and automatically recover it when it was no longer accessible.
In the R1 Iliffe and his colleagues introduced a protection scheme for all data objects. The manipulation of references to memory (termed codewords) was restricted to privileged code, preventing some types of program error. Codewords referenced vectors of data items, sequences of instructions or other codewords . Storage was accessed by reference to a codeword and this was resolved to a conventional address or program counter giving direct access to store when necessary. The system provided functions to create, manage and update codewords, for example changing them to reflect storage management decisions. It also supported an algebraic programming language (called Genie) which was implemented using object-oriented design concepts in 1961. The Genie compiler and associated assembler were unusual in enabling the entire system to be treated as an object-management discipline. Genie was also amongst the first languages to include intrinsic operations on real and complex vectors and matrices.
The well-known Iliffe vector storage structure for multi-dimensional and irregular arrays emerged from the R1 work. It exploits a similar addressing structure but without system enforcement.
The Basic Language Machine
In the early 1960s there was a strong requirement for general-purpose computers to provide for the concurrent execution of multiple user programs, both in the form of multiprogramming to optimise the use of a computer's resources and in the form of time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMS%20II%3A%20Nations%20at%20War | UMS II: Nations at War is a 1990 video game by MicroProse.
Gameplay
UMS II: Nations at War is a sequel to the computer wargame The Universal Military Simulator. It has a strategic emphasis that includes nation management, weather systems, and naval and orbital operations as well as expanded historical scenarios.
Reception
According to designer Ezra Sidran, UMS II was a commercial success.
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Somewhere, there is a game in UMS II — the difficulty lies in ferreting it out."
Computer Gaming Worlds 1993 wargame survey gave U.M.S. II two-plus stars. A 1994 survey of wargames offered it the same rating.
A review by Neil Jackson in ST Format magazine gave it a grade of 87%, writing, "Despite its graphical and musical shortcomings this game is marvelous. The depth of detail in the combat systems is phenomenal," adding, "UMS II doesn't set out to amaze you with displays of techno wizardry; it's there to stretch your imagination and provide a basis for you to live out your military dreams (or nightmares). Without doubt there's no other program that even comes close to achieving this." In 1993 a bundle called "The Complete Universal Military Simulator" was released that included the original game, the "Nations at War" sequel, and a "Planet Editor" that let users design planets, weather systems, nations, AIs, event effects, and scenarios as well as unit types and armies. Reviewing the package in Amiga Format, Richard Jones gave it a rating of 74%, writing that it wasn't recommended for "frivolous gamers after a quick thrill", but "is a must for the serious war gamer."
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared UMS II: Nations at War the 8th-worst computer game ever released.
Reviews
Amiga Format (May, 1991)
Amiga Power (Aug, 1991)
Strategy Plus
References
External links
Review in Compute!
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Classic Mac OS games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconary | Iconary is an AI-driven, Pictionary-style online game developed at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Publicly released in February 2019, the game is designed to encourage collaborative communication between a human player and the AI player AllenAI. Iconary is the first demonstration of an AI system capable of playing a Pictionary-like game with a human partner.
Researchers at the institute intended Iconary to highlight the potential of collaborative communication with an AI agent in a game setting, as contrasted with other highly publicized AI-backed games that place humans in adversarial roles against an AI system. Pictionary creator Robert Angel noted of Iconary "it’s not me against you, it’s us as a team against another team”.
The AllenAI system behind Iconary can compose scenes based on a given phrase for the human player to guess, as well as attempt to guess a phrase depicted by the human player. The AllenAI system combines elements of computer vision, natural language understanding, and commonsense reasoning to compose scenes or to make guesses about a scene. The system was trained using data from collaborative games between two human players, using over 75,000 unique phrases and a constrained set of 1,200 icons. The phrases used in Iconary describe complex scenes or activities, e.g., “people jogging in the park” or “engineer riding a train”. The limited vocabulary of icons requires players to create novel combinations of icons to communicate a phrase to their partner, and to make use of abstract symbols (like arrows to signify motion) or contextual clues (like a stethoscope next to a figure of a person to signify "doctor") to successfully depict a concept.
References
2019 video games
Browser games
Drawing video games
Video games developed in the United States
Word puzzle video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th%20Annual%20Stellar%20Awards | The 34th Annual Stellar Awards was held on March 29, 2019, at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, and later aired for the first time on American digital cable and satellite television network BET on April 19. Musician Kirk Franklin hosted the ceremony.
The ceremony recognized the best gospel music recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which ran in 2018.
Delores Washington Green of The Caravans was given the Legend Award. James Robinson Jr., Jackie Patillo and Phil Thornton were inducted into the Stellar Honors Hall of Fame. On behalf of Aretha Franklin, the members of Franklin's family were presented with the inaugural Aretha Franklin Icon Award.
Jonathan McReynolds, who received the most nominations, also received the most wins of the night by winning in each of his nominated categories.
Nominations announcement
Nominations were announced during a radio press tour on January 15, 2019.
Nominations
Please note: The winners are highlighted in bold text and listed first in each category.
General
Artist of the Year
Jonathan McReynolds
Jekalyn Carr
Maranda Curtis
Todd Dulaney
Song of the Year
"Not Lucky, I'm Loved"
Jonathan McReynolds, Terrell Demetrius Wilson, and Anna B. Warner (songwriters)
"Nobody Like You Lord"
Maranda Curtis & Anthony Rachel (songwriters)
"Won't He Do It"
Makeba Riddick, Richard Shelton, and Loren Hill (songwriters)
"You Know My Name" (Live)
Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Brenton Brown (songwriters)
CD of the Year
Make Room - Jonathan McReynolds Bible of Love - Snoop Dogg
Open Heaven - Maranda Curtis
Your Great Name - Todd Dulaney
New Artist of the Year
Jabari Johnson Cheryl Thomas-Fortune
PJ Morgan
Phil Thompson
Vocalist
Female Vocalist of the Year (also referred to as the "Albertina Walker Female Vocalist of the Year")
Jekalyn Carr Maranda Curtis
Koryn Hawthorne
Tori Kelly
Tasha Page-Lockhart
Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year
Tasha Page-Lockhart Koryn Hawthorne
Benita Jones
Tori Kelly
Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year
Jekalyn Carr Maranda Curtis
Tammi Haddon
Shana Wilson-Williams
Male Vocalist of the Year
Jonathan McReynolds Kelontae Gavin
Tye Tribbett
Brian Courtney Wilson
Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year
Jonathan McReynolds Todd Dulaney
Kelontae Gavin
Tye Tribbett
Traditional Male Vocalist of the Year
VaShawn Mitchell Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson
Earnest Pugh
Jarrell Smalls
Group
Duo/Chorus of the Year
The Walls Group Donald Lawrence & Tri-City
Isaiah D. Thomas and Elements of Praise
Judah Band
Contemporary Duo/Chorus of the Year
The Walls Group Donald Lawrence & Tri-City
God's Chosen
Judah Band
Traditional Duo/Chorus of the Year
Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson Gospel Legends
Jarrell Smalls & Company
Nu Tradition
Quartet of the Year
Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson Gospel Legends
Jarrell Smalls & Company
The Wardlaw Brothers
Choir
Choir of the Year
Bishop Noel Jones & City of Refuge Sanctuary Choir Dexter Walker & Zion Movement
The Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Won%27t%20You%20Date%20Me%3F | Why Won't You Date Me? is a comedy and relationship podcast hosted by Nicole Byer which debuted on December 1, 2017 on the HeadGum network. The podcast features Byer and a guest exploring why she is single, while discussing topics related to love, life, and sex. The podcast has been a part of the Team Coco network starting with the January 15, 2021 episode with Conan O'Brien.
Content
The format of an episode typically involves Byer introducing her guest/s, as they then talk about their respective experiences with sex, dating, relationships, and love. In most episodes, the guest will critique Byer's online dating profiles, before closing the episode by discussing whether or not they would date her - and why.
While the featured guest is often another comedian, Byer has also hosted former partners, as well as her own childhood friends. Notable guests who have appeared on Why Won't You Date Me? include Sasheer Zamata, Rachel Bloom, Jameela Jamil, Joel Kim Booster, Vicky Vox, and Trixie Mattel.
Reception
In 2018, Why Won't You Date Me? was labelled by The Daily Dot's John-Michael Bond as one of the 20 best podcasts on Spotify, with Bond regarding the podcast as "a cathartic romp through the hellscape of modern dating, led by a joyful host who never lets the darkness win."
Jillian Selzer of Insider described the podcast as "a hilarious chronicle of (Nicole Byer's) dating life as she connects her own struggles to the bigger issues within the dating world," further writing that "Byer's personality is loud, outgoing, and wildly entertaining," while Elite Dailys Annie Foskett recommended the podcast as a "must-listen," praising Byer's transparency about her dating life as being "extremely refreshing."
In 2019, Why Won't You Date Me? won Outstanding Foreign Series at the Canadian Podcasting Awards, which is "awarded to a breakthrough show – across any format and category – produced outside of Canada." In 2021, Why Won't you Date Me? won the Best Overall Host – Female iHeartMedia Podcast Award. In 2023, it won best comedy podcast in the Ambies Awards.
Becca James, writing for Vulture in 2019, called the show "one of the most forthcoming and funny podcasts around, and [the live episode with guest Vicky Vox] offers a perfect introduction by getting to the gist, which goes beyond the titular question and into the hilarious depths of human connection."
Notable guests
Sasheer Zamata
Emily Heller
Jacob Wysocki
Matteo Lane
Brooks Wheelan
Mike Mitchell
Tess Holliday
Molly Tarlov
Eureka O'Hara
Zainab Johnson
Jon Gabrus
Nick Wiger
Sabrina Jalees
Marcella Arguello
Ego Nwodim
Jameela Jamil
Pandora Boxx
Baron Vaughn
Lisa Hanawalt
Joel Kim Booster
Elizabeth Ho
Chris Donaghue
Rachel Bloom
Trixie Mattel
Naomi Ekperigin
Grace Helbig
Jake and Amir
Dulcé Sloan
Punam Patel
Matt Rogers
Cameron Esposito
Miel Bredouw
Demi Adejuyigbe
Beth Stelling
Vicky Vox
Shangela
Alice Wetterlund
Johnny Pemberton
Jessica McKenna
DeRay Davis
Monique Heart
Ashley Nicole Black
Justin Simien
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodiyar%20railway%20station | Khodiyar railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Khodiyar railway station is 11 km from Sabarmati Junction railway station. Passenger, MEMU and Express trains halt here.
Nearby stations
and are nearest railway stations towards , whereas Saij Sertha Road is nearest railway station towards .
Trains
Gandhinagar Capital - Indore Shanti Express
References
See also
Ahmedabad district
Railway stations in Ahmedabad district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1999–2000 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
1999 official fall schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
References
External links
1999 in Canadian television
2000 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Short | Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King's College London. He founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (later Department of Digital Humanities) until his retirement (2010). He was involved in the development with Willard McCarty of the world's first PhD programme in Digital Humanities (2005), and three MA programmes: Digital Humanities, Digital Culture and Society, and Digital Asset Management.
Education & Career
Harold Short arrived in London in 1972 from the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he took an Open University degree in mathematics, computing and systems, and completed
a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, he worked at the BBC as programmer, systems analyst and then systems manager.
In 1988 he moved to King's College London to take up the post of Assistant Director in Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management.; he founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (from 2011 Department of Digital Humanities) until retirement in 2010.
He is a former Chair of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and is a general editor of the Routledge series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities.
The biennial Wisbey Lecture was initiated by Harold Short in 2003 to honour the pioneering work of Roy Wisbey in the field of humanities computing.
He was a technical director for the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) database and website, a research tool about people that lived in Anglo-Saxon England. he also supervised the Technical research of the Clergy of the Church of England database.
During 2011 to 2015 he was a visiting professor at Western Sydney University, where he was involved in establishing the Digital Humanities Research Group, which hosted the 2015 Digital Humanities conference.
Since 2016 he is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, where he is co-director of the Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project.
Publications
Bradley, John; Short, Harold; (2005) "Texts into databases: the evolving field of new-style prosopography", Literary and linguistic computing, 20 Suppl 1, 3-24.
A Road map for Humanities Computing, Willard McCarty and Harold Short (2002 - report)
See also
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
References
People in digital humanities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of King's College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bologna | The Bologna tramway network () was an important part of the public transport network of Bologna, Italy. It was established in 1880 and discontinued in 1963.
History
The first plans for six horsecar lines were approved by the town council in 1877:
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Bologna Centrale railway station
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta San Felice
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Barriera Santo Stefano
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta Maggiore
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta San Mamolo
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta Saragozza.
Works on the first stretch, linking Bologna Centrale railway station to Piazza Maggiore, began in September 1880. Service began on Saturday, 2 October 1904.
The first two electrified lines began operating on 11 February 1904.
In 1953, it was decided that, starting from the following year, tramway lines would be gradually discontinued and transformed to bus and trolleybus lines. Service was officially discontinued on Sunday, 3 November 1963, when the last tramway service operated on the last remaining line to San Ruffillo.
Routes
1902 to 1910 Network
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via Indipendenza-Bologna Centrale railway Station
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Piazza del Nettuno-Via Ugo Bassi-Via San Felice-Porta San Felice
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via dell'Archiginnasio-Piazza Galvani-Via Farini-Via Santo Stefano-Località Lo Sterlino
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via d'Azeglio-Palazzina
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta Saragozza
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta Zamboni-Sobborgo Sant'Egidio
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta San Vitale
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Porta Lame
Porta San Felice-Scala
Porta Galliera-Stabilimento Tramways della Zucca
1910 to 1932 Network
1 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Bologna Centrale railway Station
2 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via D'Azeglio
3 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via Saffi-Scala
4 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Mazzini
5 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Saragozza
6 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Santo Stefano
7 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-San Vitale
8 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Zamboni
9 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Lame
10 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Zucca
11 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Sant'Isaia
12 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Castiglione
1932 Network
1 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Bologna Centrale railway Station
2 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via D'Azeglio
3 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via Saffi-Scala
4 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Mazzini
5 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Saragozza
6 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Santo Stefano-Sterlino-San Ruffillo
7 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-San Vitale
8 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Zamboni
9 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Lame-
10 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Zucca-Casaralta
11 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Sant'Isaia-Littoriale
12 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Castiglione-San Michele in Bosco
15 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Corticella
16 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Mascarella
Network as of 1943
1 Piazza Galvani-Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Bologna Centrale railway Station
2 Bologna Centrale Railway Station-Piazza Vittorio Emanuele-Via d'Azeglio
3 Via Montegrappa-Via Saffi-Scal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%20Murria | Vinodka "Vin" Murria (born 1962) is a British businesswoman and founder of Advanced Computer Software where she was CEO until it was acquired in 2015. Prior to that she was founder and CEO of Computer Software Group Plc, acquired by Hellman&Friedman in 2007. She works as an investor/advisor to HgCapital.
In 2018, Murria received an OBE for services to the British digital economy, as well as for advancing women in the software sector.
Early life
Murria was born in Punjab, India, and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of three. She received a first class BSc in computer science and an MBA from the University of London.
Career
Murria began her career at Kewill Systems. When she left the company in 2001, she had risen to the role of group chief operating officer.
Following her time at Kewill, she started her own journey with a shell company, Computer Software Group in 2002. The Group was taken private with HG Capital in April 2007 merged with Iris software and sold to Hellman & Friedman for £500m in July 2007.
Murria has been a partner at Elderstreet Investments since 2002.
In 2008, Murria founded Advanced Computer Software Group. In 2015 she sold the business for £765 million to Vista Equity Partners and subsequently it was sold again in Sept 2019 for £2Bn with Vista and BC Partners now the owners.
Murria has also been appointed to sit on various boards. She currently sits on the boards of Bunzl Plc (FTSE 100), Softcat Plc (FTSTE 250) and Silicon Valley Bank. Previous NED roles include Chime Plc, Zoopla Plc, and SophosPlc.
In September 2018, Murria joined Pythagoras Communications as a major shareholder and chairperson. The business was acquired by E&Y in May 2021.
In May 2020, Murria became the largest shareholder in M&C Saatchi, and subsequently with her vehicle ADVT extended the holding to 22.3% of the enlarged company. In September 2022, it was announced Murria's bid to acquire M&C Saatchi was rejected by shareholders.
Awards
Murria was named Woman of the Year at the 2012 Cisco Everywoman in Technology Awards and Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2012 AIM Awards. She was also named Aim Plc CEO of the Year in 2013, and UK Tech Awards 2013 Tech Personality of the Year (shared with David Braben, CEO of Frontier Developments). In 2014 Advanced was named Technology company of the Year. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edinburgh Napier University.
Philanthropy
Murria founded the PS Foundation in 2007 to help educate young women in India and the UK. The foundation is named after her mother.
References
1962 births
British business executives
British women in business
British computer scientists
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
British company founders
Alumni of the University of London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueAllele | TrueAllele is a software program by Cybergenetics that analyzes DNA using statistical methods, a process called probabilistic genotyping. It is used in forensic identification. The program can be used in situations unsuited to traditional methods, such as when a mixture of multiple people's DNA is in a sample.
Some studies, mostly conducted by Cybergenetics' Chief Scientific Officer Mark W. Perlin, have validated the program's accuracy. In one study, TrueAllele distinguished between the genetic code of first-degree relatives with "great accuracy". The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has noted that many validation studies were made by people affiliated with TrueAllele and are therefore not independent, demanding more independent research. In one case, TrueAllele's results differed from the results of STRMix, another probabilistic genotyping program, leading to the judge rejecting the DNA evidence.
The proprietary nature of the code has led to concerns over its reliability. Unlike some similar programs, TrueAllele is not open source, so judges and attorneys cannot check the program's code.
References
Probabilistic software
Genetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20genotyping | Probabilistic genotyping is the use of statistical methods and mathematical algorithms in DNA Profiling. It may be used instead of manual methods in difficult situations, such as when a DNA sample is very small or includes a mixture of multiple individuals' DNA. Probabilistic genotyping, unlike traditional methods, avoids the need for subjective judgment. The reliability of the method has been questioned by some defense lawyers because the source code of some probabilistic genotyping programs is proprietary.
References
DNA profiling techniques
Statistical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Canright | Barbara Canright (Born St. John, 1919–1997) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who was the first female mathematician to be employed. Canright joined the team in 1939 as a human computer, which required "Teams of people who were frequently used to undertake long and often tedious calculations; the work was divided so that this could be done in parallel." During her time at the JPL program she was instrumental in calculating both the thrust-to-weight ratio for performance of engines under various conditions, and the potential of rocket propellant (which would be used by the U.S. Navy). Canright was critical in the development of the JPL program and laid the foundations for other women to work in a field which was previously closed off to them.
Pre-JPL Program
Canright was born on November 12, 1919, in Iowa during the midst of the American Roaring 20's. Canright was an exceptionally smart student during high-school and took upper-level classes, most notably in math and Chemistry. She met her future husband, Richard Canright, when they were both undergrads at Miami University of Ohio, where her father was a Professor and dean of students. After eloping when she was 19 and he was 21, they moved to Pasadena for Richard to attend graduate school at Caltech. Before joining JPL, Canright worked as a typist while attending college at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Canright graduated from Occidental College in 1940.
Career
In 1939 the National Academy of Sciences approached Caltech's Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (who were known around Caltech's campus as the "Suicide Squad" because of numerous experiments gone wrong) with a grant for Rocket Research of $1,000. The next year, the U.S. government invested $10,000 into the program, which prompted the group to hire outside help. One of the men who started JPL, Frank Malina, approached Barbara and Richard Canright for positions as mathematicians. Both Barbara and Richard accepted the positions which made Barbara the only female employee at JPL at the time. During her time at JPL, Canright calculated thrust from rocket engines and analyzed the data to increase performance. One of JPL's, and Canright's, crowning achievements was the successful use of rockets for bomber aircraft. After the successful development of jet propulsion bombers, JPL shifted its focus to designing a rocket which would reach a higher altitude than a helium-filled balloon. Canright, along with Melba Nead, Virginia Prettyman, and Macie Roberts, were responsible for calculating the potential of rocket propellants. In 1943, after the success of designing and testing of a rocket propellant, Canright became pregnant with her first child. Due to the unavailability of maternity leave in 1943, Canright had to resign.
Later life
Just like her early life, Canright's life after the JPL program has largely been forgotten. Some information has been uncovered through Barbara's daughter, Patricia Canr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLN%20%28disambiguation%29 | DLN may refer to:
Deep lambertian networks
The IATA code for Dillon Airport
Driver's License Number
DLN Series, of the original Mega Man series Robot Master
ISO 639:dln or Darlong, an unclassified Sino-Tibetan language of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99ich | Bedřich or Bedrich may refer to:
Bedrich Benes (born 1967), computer scientist and a researcher in Computer Graphics
Bedřich Bloudek, Czech military leader who participated in the Slovak Uprising in 1848
Bedřich Bridel (1619–1680), Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary
Bedřich Brunclík (born 1946), former Czech ice hockey player
Bedřich Dvořák (1930–2018), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist
Bedřich Feigl (1884–1965), Czech-Jewish painter, graphic designer and illustrator
Bedřich Feuerstein (1892–1936), Czech architect, painter and essayist
Bedrich Formánek (born 1933), Slovak chess composer
Bedřich Fritta (1906–1944), Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist
Bedřich Geminder (1901–1952), Chief of the International Section of the Secretariat of Czechoslovak Communist Party
Bedřich Golombek (1901–1961), Czech journalist and writer
Bedřich Hamsa (born 1965), Czech former football player
Bedřich Havránek (1821–1899), Czech painter, illustrator and art teacher
Bedřich Hošek (born 1911, date of death unknown), Czech middle-distance runner
Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952), Czech orientalist and linguist
Jan Bedrich Kittl (1806–1868), Czech composer
Bedřich Köhler (born 1985), Czech professional ice hockey player
Bedrich Loewy, birth name of Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883–1942), Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer
Bedřich Moldan (born 1935), Czech ecologist, publicist and politician
Bedřich Nikodém (1909–1970), male Czech international table tennis player, composer, lyricist and musician
August Bedřich Piepenhagen (1791–1868), German landscape painter who spent most of his career in Prague
Bedřich Pokorný (1904–1968), Czechoslovak secret service officer
Bedřich Pola (born 1963), Czech entrepreneur
Bedrich Posselt, Czechoslovakian bobsledder who competed in the mid-1930s
Bedřich Procházka (1855–1934), Czechoslovak mathematician
Bedřich Procházka (rowing) (1909-?), Czech rower
Bedřich Reicin (1911–1952), Czechoslovak army officer and politician
Bedřich Ščerban (born 1964), Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman
Bedřich Schejbal (1874-?), Bohemian fencer
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer
Bedřich Šupčík (1898–1957), former Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic champion
Bedřich Tylšar (born 1939), Czech horn player and music pedagogue
Bedřich Vygoda (1894-?), Czech sprinter
Bedřich Wachsmann (1820–1897), German-speaking Czech painter, decorator and architect
Bedřich Diviš Weber (1766–1842), Bohemian composer and musicologist, the first Director of the Prague Conservatory
Bedrich Weiss (1919–1944), jazz musician and arranger
Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (1883–1951), Czech organist, composer, and teacher
See also
Bedrich or Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (1142–1189), a member of the Přemyslid dynasty
Bedřich Smetana Museum in Prague, dedicated to the life and works of famous Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
Bedřichov (disambiguation)
Berich
Edrich
Czech masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20fallout%20effects%20on%20an%20ecosystem | This article uses Chernobyl as a case study of nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem.
Chernobyl
Officials used hydrometeorological data to create an image of what the potential nuclear fallout looked like after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Using this method, they were able to determine the distribution of radionuclides in the surrounding area, and discovered emissions from the nuclear reactor itself. These emissions included; fuel particles, radioactive gases, and aerosol particles. The fuel particles were due to the violent interaction between hot fuel and the cooling water in the reactor, and attached to these particles were Cerium, Zirconium, Lanthanum, and Strontium. All of these elements have low volatility, meaning they prefer to stay in a liquid or solid state rather than condensing into the atmosphere and existing as vapor.
Cerium and Lanthanum can cause irreversible damage to marine life by deteriorating cell membranes, affecting reproductive capability, as well as crippling the nervous system.
Strontium in its non-nuclear isotope is stable and harmless, however, when the radioactive isotope, Sr90, is released into the atmosphere it can lead to anemia, cancers, and cause shortages in oxygen.
The aerosol particles had traces of Tellurium, a toxic element which can create issues in developing fetuses, along with Caesium, which is an unstable, incredibly reactive, and toxic element.
Also found in the aerosol particles was enriched Uranium-235.
The most prevalent radioactive gas detected was Radon, a noble gas that has no odor, no color, and no taste, and can also travel into the atmosphere or bodies of water. Radon is also directly linked to lung cancer, and is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the populace.
All of these elements only deteriorate through radioactive decay, which is also known as a half-life. Half-lives of the nuclides previously discussed can range from mere hours, to decades. The shortest half-life for the previous elements is Zr95, an isotope of zirconium which takes 1.4 hours to decay. The longest is Pu235, which takes approximately 24,000 years to decay. While the initial release of these particles and elements was rather large, there were multiple low-level releases for at least a month after the initial incident at Chernobyl.
Local effects
Surrounding wildlife and fauna were drastically affected by Chernobyl's explosions. Coniferous trees, which are plentiful in the surrounding landscape, were heavily affected due to their biological sensitivity to radiation exposure. Within days of the initial explosion many pine trees in a 4 km radius died, with lessening yet still harmful effects being observed up to 120 km away. Many trees experienced interruptions in their growth, reproduction was crippled, and there were multiple observations of morphological changes. Hot particles also landed on these forests, causing holes and hollows to be burned into the trees. The surrounding soil was covered in ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%20Inc. | Writer (formerly known as Qordoba) is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California that provides an enterprise Generative AI Software as a Service (SaaS) writing-assistant technology, made for enterprises. The organization invented a content intelligence platform for content quality.
History
Qordoba was incorporated in the U.S. in 2015 by co-founders May Habib and Waseem AlShikh. Qordoba became Writer, Inc. in August 2020.
Writer is a privately held company, supported by investment from Gradient Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, and Broadway Angels.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Natural language processing
Natural language generation
References
External links
2015 establishments in California
Technology companies established in 2015
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Applications of artificial intelligence
Natural language processing software
American companies established in 2015
Grammar checkers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20ecosystem | Many markets are structured as platform ecosystems, they can be open or closed platforms, where a stable core (such as a smartphone operating system or a music streaming service) mediates the relationship between a wide range of complements (like apps, games or songs) and prospective end-users.
Overview
The word “ecosystem” comes from biology and is a contraction of “ecological system”; it refers to a system in which entities have some degree of mutual dependence. In a platform ecosystem, the value created by each member influences the value created by others. Because a robust and high-quality ecosystem of complements attracts more customers, complements need each other even though they might also be competing against each other.
A platform’s boundaries can be well-defined with a stable set of members dedicated wholly to that platform, or they can be amorphous and changing, with members entering and exiting freely, and participating in multiple platforms simultaneously. For example, consider the difference between the television/movie streaming services HBO on Demand and Amazon Prime. HBO on Demand exists to serve only HBO content up to consumers. The shows available are tightly controlled, and there is limited entry and exit of show producers. The Amazon Prime ecosystem is much more open. In fact, just about any content producer – including individual independent filmmakers—can make their content available on Amazon Prime.
In many platform ecosystems there are switching costs that make it difficult or costly to change ecosystems. Platforms and their complements often make investments in co-specialization or sign exclusivity agreements that bind them into stickier, longer-term relationships than the market contracts used in typical reseller arrangements. A video game that has been made for the Microsoft Xbox, for example, cannot be played on a PlayStation console unless a new version of it is made (and the game producer may have signed a contract with Microsoft that prohibits this). A platform ecosystem is thus characterized by relationships that are neither as independent as arms-length market contracts, nor as dependent as those within a hierarchical organization. It is, in essence, a hybrid organizational form. It strikes a compromise between the loose coupling of a purely modular system, and the tight coupling of a traditional integrated product. It enables customers to mix-and-match some components and complements, while still enabling some co-specialization and curation of the complements and components available for the system. In ecosystems, gaining support and approval of the other members and legitimacy matters, as the very concept of an ecosystem is based on the idea that every organism is interdependent on other organisms within the system and gaining acceptance from powerful actors is therefore crucial.
Example
Video game systems are an iconic example of platform ecosystems. Consoles need to launch with high quality games. Since |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2000–01 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
2000 official fall schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
References
External links
2000 in Canadian television
2001 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macie%20Roberts | Macie "Bobby" Roberts is a former supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She was the supervisor for a group of women nicknamed "computers" during the 1960s. Roberts paved the way for the next generation of female supervisors and computers. The team that she led had their hands on almost every project at NASA before the development of physical computers.
Early working life
Prior to working at JPL, Roberts worked as an auditor for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Career
As JPL expanded from rocket technology to missile technology the lab's director, Frank Malina promoted long time computer Macie Roberts to supervisor of the expanding division of female computers. Macie "Bobby" Roberts was the original supervisor of the human computers at NASA, later dubbed the rocket women. She believed that it would be too difficult to work with men, so she created a culture of all women that spanned much longer than her time at JPL. Roberts's job was not limited to just calculations, she hired and trained the new employees for over thirty years after being promoted. Her successor, Helen Ling, continued on the tradition of only hiring women. The women on Robert's team performed trajectory calculations for all space flights before the advent of the desktop computer.
One of the techniques that Roberts employed to find women for the job was to list the job as "not requiring a degree." This was code meant for women to know that the job was open to all women.
Legacy
Her legacy was continued on by the supervisors that followed her. Many women that were just as smart as male engineers could not find work, but they were hired on to be rocket women at JPL. These women formed a sisterhood that has lived on throughout the lifetime of NASA.
Famous quotes
"You have to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog."
References
Human computers
Living people
NASA people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBe | LittleBe (stylized as little Be) is a British children's pre-school television programming block broadcast by ITVBe. The block was launched on 3 September 2018. The block airs from 9 am to 12 noon on weekdays, and is aimed at children aged 2 to 5.
History
On 4 July 2018, the block was announced at the Children's Media Conference tentatively without a name. It was eventually named LittleBe and launched on 3 September 2018.
The block is similar to the Mini CITV block that CITV used to broadcast before the network removed all pre-school TV shows from the channel.
On 30 August 2018, it was announced that Sooty would move to the block from its original broadcaster, CITV.
Development
Jason Ford from ITV Creative made coordination with Bubble to create visual effects and animation for the block's promos and brand. Greg Claridge and James Taylor are the composers of the block's music and sound effects.
Jason Ford had stated for the development:
Programmes
Programmes on the block are aimed toward a preschool audience and range from acquisitions such as Pingu in the City, to original series such as Sooty.
References
External links
2018 establishments in the United Kingdom
Children's television networks
ITV (TV network) original programming
Preschool education television networks
Television programming blocks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Devillers | Laurence Devillers (born 8 October 1962, in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France), is a professor of artificial intelligence & ethics at Paris-Sorbonne University since 2011 and at Computer science laboratory for mechanics and engineering sciences (LIMSI) at the Scientific Research National Center, a head of the team "Affective and social dimension in spoken interaction". Laurence Devillers has taken part in several national and European projects on human-robots social and affective interactions. Laurence Devillers is leading a cluster of robots-human co-evolution at the Institute of Digital Society and "Robotic interactive" at Paris-Saclay.
Academic career
In November 1992 she has defended a thesis of Doctor in Sciences, Specialty Computer Science thesis on "Recognition of continuous speech with a hybrid neuronal and Markovian system".
Holding a PhD from Paris-Sud University (Paris XI), she is studying affective and social dimensions in Man-Robot spoken Interactions. Associated with Paris-Sud University, this laboratory conducts research on two major themes:
mechanical and energetic;
human-machine communication.
She is an author of numerous books on artificial intelligence :
"Robots and Humans" ("Des robots et des hommes : Mythes, fantasmes et réalité") ()
"Emotional robots" ("Les robots émotionnels")
"Orlanoïde: Hybrid robot with artificial and collective intelligence" (Orlanoïde : Robot hybride avec intelligence artificielle et collective)
Devillers is a co-writer of the report on ethics of the robotics researcher the Allistene Alliance Commission of the Ethics of Research in Digital Science and technology et CERNA and in other international projects: ANR Tecsan Armen, FUI Romeo, BPI Romeo2, Rex Humaine, Chist-era Joker. Laurence Devillers has published more than 150 articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals and chapters in collective works.
She participated in the deployment of the national platform TransAlgo (Transparency and Explanation of Algorithms) (2017). She is also a founding member of HUB IA (private-public eco-system) on applied ethics (since 2017).
In 2017-2018 she was a member of ISCA and ISCA Distinguished Lecturers.
Laurence Devillers was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2020. The medal was presented by the mathematician Cedric Villani on 12 April 2022 at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris ().
References
French women academics
1962 births
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Artificial intelligence ethicists
People from Côte-d'Or
Academic staff of Paris-Sud University
Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOActive | IOActive is an independent computer security services firm active in several areas. They are known for reporting high severity security vulnerabilities in a variety of products. IOActive has done researches on smart cities and the transportation and technology that connects them, and has worked with Global 500 companies in multiple industries.
References
Computer security companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20East%20railway%20station | Palace East railway station was the only location where the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway was connected to the Great Southern and Western Railway and the rest of Irish rail network until the opening of the City of Dublin Junction Railway in 1891. This connection was described by Ahrons as "in the wilds of Wexford, which was of no use to anybody". Palace East was the scene of a staged head-on collision during the Irish Civil War.
The station was opened in 1866. It closed in 1963.
References
Disused railway stations in County Wexford
1866 establishments in Ireland
1963 disestablishments in Ireland
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1866
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland closed in 1963 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZCL | DZCL (93.1 FM), broadcasting as Sky Radio 93.1, is a radio station owned and operated by Kaissar Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located along San Jose St., Zone 1, Brgy. Dunao, Ligao.
References
Radio stations established in 2005
Radio stations in Albay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Informatics%20and%20Automation%20Problems | Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) () is a scientific research institution of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. In 1957 it was founded as Computing Center of NAS of Soviet Armenia and Yerevan State University. The Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems is a leading research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in the field of applied mathematics, computer science and the introduction of computing technologies in various fields of science and technology.
It was founded in 1957 as the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and Yerevan State University.
The first Director IIAP was the mathematician Sergey Mergelyan.
At the beginning of the 50s, the main research areas of the Institute were computer science and applied mathematics. Soviet Armenia was one of the key centers of computing and research activities of the Soviet Union in the field of industrial computing, software development, etc.
The Institute became the founder of various modern areas of applied mathematics. Many scholars worked in the Computing Center in diverse research fields of cybernetics and applied mathematics.
Among them were Sergey Mergelyan, Ashot Petrosian, Rom Varshamov and Igor Zaslavski.
Since 1963, the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems has published the journal "Mathematical Problems of Computer Science".
The title of institute was changed after the collapse of Soviet Union. IIAP carried out master's degree school.
In 1994, the Armenian Scientific and Research Computer Network (ASNET-AM) was developed, created and operated at IIAP. It serves more than 65 networks of scientific and educational organizations operating in different regions of Armenia.
In 2004, the Institute launched a supercomputer "Armklaster".
It was planned to create a National Supercomputer Center at the Institute on 2015.
Currently, the institute is actively cooperating with EU organizations in the direction of supporting knowledge-intensive small enterprises.
References and notes
External links
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems Official website
Official website
CSIAM
Research institutes in Armenia
Pages with unreviewed translations
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1967
1967 establishments in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20max | Alpha max or variation, may refer to:
Critical angle of attack (α max), the highest nose-up attitude at speed before stalling
An element in the mathematical algorithm Alpha max plus beta min algorithm
AlphaMax Academy (founded 1998) a private international school in Suriname
See also
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (videogame)
Amax (disambiguation)
alpha (disambiguation)
max (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap%20Viva | ZAP Viva is one of the paid channels belonging to the Angolan company ZAP, transmitted from this December 24, 2012, broadcast 24 hours a day and its programming is based on entertainment productions such as soap operas, television series, variety show, talent, reality and talk shows. The channel is broadcast in Angola and Mozambique, through the satellite television operator ZAP. Its HD broadcast began on October 1, 2017 at position 5 of ZAP. In Portugal, the channel arrived at satellite television operator NOS on May 11, 2019. It is available in the basic package.
At the 19th annual Eutelsat TV Awards (which distinguish excellence and innovation in the broadcasting of television content), the channel won the category "Best Entertainment/Fiction Channel". The winners were announced in Milan, Italy with the participation of more than 350 broadcast industry executives from around the world, where a ZAP delegation came to receive the prize.
References
External links
Official website in Angola
Official website in Mozambique
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels in Angola
Television channels in Mozambique
Portuguese-language television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone%20Fischer-H%C3%BCbner | Simone Fischer-Hübner (born Lübeck, 1963) is an expert on IT security and personal integrity and a professor at the Department of Computer Science at Karlstad University.
Fischer-Hübner has been a member of the Cyber Security Council at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) since 2011. Moreover, she is the Swedish representative and vice chair of IFIP Technical Committee 11 on Information Security and Privacy, board member of the Swedish Forum för Dataskydd, advisory board member of PETS (Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium) and NordSec, and coordinator of the Swedish IT Security Network for PhD Students (SWITS).
She received the IFIP Silver Core Award in 2011 and the IFIP William Winsborough Award in 2016.
See also
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
References
Swedish computer scientists
Swedish women computer scientists
Computer security academics
Academic staff of Karlstad University
Karlstad University alumni
Living people
1963 births
People from Lübeck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Somalia%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Somalia by the Human Development Index, as of 2021. The data is based on the Subnational Human Development Index version 7 of Global Data Lab.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Somalia
Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Swan | Green Swan SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese holding company, founded by business angels with extensive national and international experience in areas such as Management, Computer Engineering and new technologies, Marketing, Branding and Communication.
Green Swan has a strategic focus on the toy industry and is one of the most relevant players in the European market.
In August 2018, Green Swan acquired the Spanish and Portuguese operations of Toys "R" Us.
With the acquisition of Maxi Toys, in the beginning of 2019, Green Swan's operations reached 6 European markets and a total of 230 stores. After this operation, Maxi Toys acquired all Bart Smit stores, achieving a presence in all Belgium territory and an enlarged number of stores.
In March 2019, Green Swan acquired Intertoys assets, saving 1,500 jobs and becoming the biggest toy retailer in continental Europe, managing 3 toys brands and directly stores in 7 European countries.
References
External links
Official website
Toy retailers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20for%20Women%20Film%20Composers | The Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC) is an organization dedicated to advocacy and visibility for women composers. As of 2019, there are nearly 400 members in the AWFC's database.
History
The Alliance for Women Film Composers was founded in 2014 by Lolita Ritmanis, Laura Karpman, and Miriam Cutler. Its advocacy work includes a searchable online directory of women composers, interpersonal support, networking events, and live concerts. One such concert was the subject of the 2017 documentary Women Who Score.
Leadership
Current
President: Catherine Joy
Vice President: Sharon Farber
Secretary: Esin Aydingoz
Treasurer: Thomas Mikusz
Director of Membership/ Outreach: Allyson Newman
Executive Director: Raashi Kulkarni
Board of Directors:
Alexandra Petkovski
Daisy Coole
Edith Mudge
Ghiya Rushidat
Heather McIntosh
Jenna Fentimen (UK)
Lili Haydn
Mandy Hoffman
Nami Melumad
Stephanie Economou
Past
President: Lolita Ritmanis (2017-2019)
President: Laura Karpman
Founders
Lolita Ritmanis
Laura Karpman
Miriam Cutler
References
External links
Women's organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2014
2014 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martonosi | Martonosi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
(born 1953), mayor of Maroslele in Hungary
Margaret Martonosi, American computer scientist
Susan Martonosi, American mathematician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binsted%20%28surname%29 | Binsted is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kim Binsted, American computer scientist
Norman S. Binsted (1890–1961), American Episcopalian missionary bishop
See also
Binsted
Binsted, West Sussex
Jack Binstead (born 1996), English actor, comedian, and retired athlete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20Choice%20Canada | Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC) is Canada's main anti-vaccination group. It was founded in the 1980s under the name Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) and adopted its current name in 2014. The group has been contributing to vaccine hesitancy in Canada, encouraging citizens to forgo immunization and legislators to support anti-vaccine regulations and legislation.
Vaccine hesitancy
VCC spreads the discredited hypothesis that vaccination causes autism and denies that the introduction of vaccines led to a decline of the targeted diseases. They blame vaccination for a variety of ailments, including autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD, allergies, and asthma.
The group argues incorrectly that a vaccine against COVID-19 is unnecessary. Late in the pandemic, it still repeated the discredited myth that the pandemic is no more severe than the flu.
Although a small fraction of vaccine doses provoke serious adverse reactions, health professionals agree the benefits of being protected against a wide range of infectious diseases far outweigh the risks. Responding directly to communications from Vaccine Choice Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada stated that the science on vaccines is unequivocal, but laments the actions of "a small but vocal anti-vaccination community that spreads false information. They use powerful emotional images and misinformation with their message. This creates confusion and fear for parents who are trying to make the best decisions for the health and wellbeing of their children." Timothy Caulfield estimates the proportion of Canadians who exhibit vaccine hesitancy between 20 and 30 percent, connecting the anti-vaccination movement to a rise in populism and a mistrust in expertise.
The World Health Organization has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of 2019's ten global health threats to watch.
Role in COVID-19 pandemic
Similarly to many anti-vaccination groups, Vaccine Choice Canada is opposing several measures instituted by public health authorities to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its President repeated some of the most widespread myths about the virus, including that it is no more dangerous than influenza and that developing a vaccine is therefore unnecessary. Influenza is actually responsible for 3,500 deaths in a typical year, while the death toll of four months of COVID-19 already exceeded 8,000 at that point. Jonathan Jarry from the Office for Science and Society warned that with anti-vaccination groups misrepresenting legitimate concerns about rushing vaccines into production as anti-vaccine arguments, "we have the beginnings of a perfect storm on our hands to fuel vaccine misinformation". Vaccine Choice Canada partnered newly-created group Hugs Over Masks, a newly-created group protesting against mandatory mask-wearing.
With Denis Rancourt and others, Vaccine Choice Canada tabled a lawsuit against most Canadian governments, seeking to have the courts strike down measures mandated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWSN | DWSN (97.9 FM) was a radio station owned and operated by Southern Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the SBN compound, Tupaz Street corner Muslim Community Road, Laoag, Ilocos Norte.
References
Radio stations established in 1980
Radio stations in Ilocos Norte
Radio stations disestablished in 2018
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-agent%20team | A human-agent team is a system composed of multiple interacting humans and artificial intelligence systems. The artificial intelligence system may be a robotic system, a decision support system, or a virtual agent. Human agent teaming provides an interaction paradigm that differs from traditional approaches such as supervisory control, or user interface design, by enabling the computer to have a certain degree of autonomy. The paradigm draws from various scientific research fields, being strongly inspired by the way humans work together in teams, and constituting a special type of multi-agent system.
Concept
Software agents that behave as artificial team players satisfy the following general requirements:
Observability: agents must make their status, intentions, knowledge observable to others.
Predictability: agents must be predictable to others such that others can rely on them when considering their own actions
Directability: agents must be capable of directing the behavior of others, as well as be directed by others.
To satisfy these OPD requirements, agents exhibit various behaviors such as:
Proactively communicating information to other agents to establish shared situation awareness within the team
Explaining their decisions and recommendations to other teammates to establish appropriate levels of trust (also known as Explainable artificial intelligence)
Receiving instructions at a high level of abstraction.
Choosing the right moment of interaction to prevent inconvenient interruptions of other team members.
Notifying others when they believe they can no longer contribute their part of the work required to fulfill the team goal.
The engineering efforts to develop artificial team members include user interface design, but also the design of specialized social artificial intelligence, that enables agents to reason about whether some piece of information is worthy of sharing.
Frameworks
Various frameworks have been developed that support the software engineering effort of building human agent teams, such as KAoS, and SAIL. Engineering methodologies for human agent teaming include Coactive design
Applications
Human agent teaming is a popular paradigm to approach the interaction between humans and AI technologies in various domains such as defense, healthcare, space, disaster response.
References
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Matthews | Allan Matthews (1952) is professor of surface engineering and tribology at the University of Manchester and director of the Digitalised Surfaces Manufacturing Network.
Education
Matthews attended Upholland Grammar School and completed his PhD at Salford University studying environmentally-friendly plasma-based processes, especially their use for coating industrial tools.
Career
Matthews spent his early career in the UK aerospace industry, first with Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and then British Aerospace Dynamics Group.
He is known{[whom}} as an early pioneer of the discipline of surface engineering, having founded a laboratory to research that subject at Hull University in 1982, where he established and directed the Research Centre in Surface Engineering. He and his research group led significant breakthroughs in plasma-assisted processes for surface treatment and coatings, in particular in thermionically-enhanced plasma processes for nitrogen and carbon-diffusion treatments of steels and titanium alloys, as well as oxide and nitride coatings to act as wear and heat-resisting barriers on cutting tools and aero-engine parts.
In 2002, he was invited to join the department of engineering materials at the University of Sheffield. There he continued research in plasma-based surface engineering and helped establish (and was executive director of) the Leonardo Centre for Tribology and Surface Technology, which was made possible through a benefaction by Dr. Peter Jost. In 2007 Matthews became head of department of materials science and engineering at the University of Sheffield.
In 2016, Matthews joined the academic staff in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester. Later that year Matthews was appointed Director of the International Centre for Advanced Materials (bp-ICAM)], which is a $100 million collaboration between BP, The University of Manchester, Imperial College London, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Cambridge. In his tenure as Director, Matthews worked closely with the bp-ICAM Executive Director, Vernon Gibson CB FRS.
During his time at The University of Manchester, Matthews has been an ambassador for Advanced Materials, facilitating networking between academia and industry, with a focus on the Tribology sub-theme.
Matthews has co-authored many peer-reviewed publications; most notably, Coatings Tribology: Properties, Mechanisms, Techniques and Applications in Surface Engineering, with Kenneth Holmberg.
Awards and honours
He has held positions with many Learned and Professional societies, including the British Vacuum Council, the Society of Vacuum Coaters, the AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division (AVS-ASED) and the Surface Engineering Divisional Board of the IoM3.
Matthews was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2012. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023. In 2011, Matthews was awarded The Institute of Materi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey%20Bates%20%28programmer%29 | Margery Audrey Bates (Clayton Wallis) (1928-2014) was a British-American computer programmer who, in 1948, wrote the earliest program for lambda calculus calculations on the Manchester Mark I computer.
Career
Bates graduated with a First in Mathematics from University of Manchester in the summer of 1949. She was taken on as a research student by Alan Turing, and shared an office with him and Cicely Popplewell. In 1950 Bates submitted an MSc thesis entitled "The mechanical solution of a problem in Church's Lambda calculus". This thesis documents a successful attempt to carry out higher-order logical reasoning on the extremely primitive Manchester Mark I electronic computer.
When the Manchester Mark I was commercialised by the local electronics firm Ferranti, Bates moved to work with them as a programmer. Whilst at Ferranti she composed several sections (some uncredited) of Vivian Bowdon's Faster Than Thought, a popular introduction to electronic computing.
In 1952, Bates went to work on the FERUT, the Ferranti Mark I installed at the University of Toronto. In 1955, Bates was pictured supervising the FERUT when it carried out the first automated remote access to a computer.
In 1979, Bates was working as a 'futurist' at a US military think tank.
Personal life
Bates married twice and had four children. Her first husband, Ken Wallis, was a fellow Ferranti programmer; her second husband was Leigh Clayton and it was under the name of Clayton that Bates published her later work.
References
British women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Manchester
1928 births
2014 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fact-checking%20websites | This list of fact-checking websites includes websites that provide fact-checking services about both political and non-political subjects.
The Reporters' Lab at Duke University maintains a database of fact-checking organizations that is managed by Mark Stencel and Bill Adair. The database tracks more than 100 non-partisan organizations around the world. The Lab's inclusion criteria are based on whether the organization
By region
Africa
Africa Check: Africa's first independent fact-checking organization with offices in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal and the UK checking claims made by public figures and the media in Africa.
News Verifier Africa: one-stop fact-checking and news verification platform for Africans. The non-profit platform seeks to improve public access to accurate information by simplifying fact-checking and creating varied appealing formats for fact checked news, data and viral images.
FactCheckHub: This is the verification platform of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting [The ICIR] aimed at combating misinformation in the society. It is an independent, non-partisan platform for factchecking with the primary aim of combating misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes and rumours about topical issues including the covid-19 pandemic, elections, economy, health, security and governance etc. It is also a signatory to the International Fact-checking Network's codes of principles.
Asia-Pacific
Australia
International Fact-Checking Network verified signatories:
RMIT ABC Fact Check: launched in June 2016, jointly funded by RMIT University and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
AAP FactCheck: Part of non-profit national news agency Australian Associated Press; launched in 2019.
Others:
Afghanistan
Afghan Fact: launched in January 2023, funded by journalists in exile, and not certified by IFCN.
Hoax Slayer. Defunct since 2021.
Bangladesh
FactWatch: IFCN certified independent fact-checking entity affiliated to the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
Rumor Scanner Bangladesh: IFCN certified independent fact-checking initiative.
BoomBD : IFCN certified independent fact-checking initiative.
Hong Kong
Factcheck Lab: member of International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
India
International Fact-Checking Network verified signatories:
Dfrac.org
Telugpost.com
Boomlive.in
The Quint
Factcrescendo.com
Youturn.in in Tamil language.
India Today: Fact Check is part of TV Today Network Ltd.
Factly.in
thip.media: the media arm of The Healthy Indian Project. It was certified by Health On the Net Foundation until June 2021.
Others:
Alt News
Vishvasnews.com
Newsmobile.in
Newschecker.in
Japan
GoHoo: Launched by a nonprofit association Watchdog for Accuracy in News-reporting, Japan (WANJ or 一般社団法人 日本報道検証機構) on November 16, 2014. Crowd-funded approx. 1.6 million yen through Ready For. Awarded Social Business Grand Prize 2012 Summer.
Japan Center of Education for Journalists (JCEJ): Fosters journa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hily | Hily is an online dating application that employs machine learning to match prospective partners. Named as an acronym for "Hey, I Like You", the app is designed to recommend potential matches by analyzing users' backgrounds, interests, and app activity. The app's registration options for gender include male, female, and non-binary.
Hily was initially released in August 2017. According to TechCrunch, the app had 35,000 users during its closed beta stage in October 2017. Hily later acquired additional users through a partnership with Snapchat. In 2020, the app was reported to have 15 million of users. Currently has over 26 million of users worldwide.
History
Hily was co-founded by Yan Pronin and Alex Pasykov. The concept for the app originated from Pronin's professional background in analytics and statistical modeling. The app was designed to connect prospective partners based on similar interests, instead of geographic location and physical attractiveness. On August 14, 2017, the app launched in the United States. In March 2019, it was also released in the UK, Ireland, and France.
In August 2019, the app was reported to have 5 million users and rank among the top three dating apps in U.S. consumer spending for the second quarter of 2019.
Operation
Hily employs machine learning and statistical algorithms. It analyzes data such as depth of dialogue, word choice, and mutual likes to identify profiles with a high probability for a match. In August 2018, Aime Williams of FT Magazine commented that Hily's monitoring of users' verbal exchanges "takes things a step further" than competitor geosocial networking apps.
The user platform requires account verification through live photo capture, uploading a photo of an official ID, or social media integration.
Business model
Hily is distributed under a freemium business model. The app is free to download and use, while features that are basic in other dating apps (such as limiting search to within 40km) are accessed via a paid subscription plan.
References
External links
Mobile social software
2017 software
IOS software
Online dating applications
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serena%20Ng | Serena Ng (born 1959) is the Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Her fields of research and interest include macroeconomics, time series, econometrics, and big data.
Education
Ng received a B.A. and M.A. from University of Western Ontario. Later, she did her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1993.
Career
She was an associate professor at Boston College and Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2003. She later became a professor in University of Michigan from 2003 to 2007. She has been a professor at Columbia University since 2007. Ng is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
She was the co-editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics from 2007 to 2009. She has been the managing editor of the Journal of Econometrics since 2019.
References
Canadian economists
Canadian women economists
Living people
1959 births
Princeton University alumni
Columbia University faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the Econometric Society
University of Western Ontario alumni
Time series econometricians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1%20Mikolov | Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist working in the field of machine learning. In March of 2020, Mikolov became a senior research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.
Career
Mikolov obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Brno University of Technology for his work on recurrent neural network-based language models. He is the lead author of the 2013 paper that introduced the Word2vec technique in natural language processing and is an author on the FastText architecture. Mikolov came up with the idea to generate text from neural language models in 2007 and his RNNLM toolkit was the first to demonstrate the capability to train language models on large corpora, resulting in large improvements over the state of the art.https://towardsdatascience.com/uncovering-the-pioneering-journey-of-word2vec-and-the-state-of-ai-science-an-in-depth-interview-fbca93d8f4ff
Prior to joining Facebook in 2014, Mikolov worked as a visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Université de Montréal, Microsoft and Google. He left Facebook at some time in 2019/2020 to join the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.
Mikolov has argued that humanity might be at a greater existential risk if an artificial general intelligence is not developed.
References
External links
Living people
Brno University of Technology alumni
Machine learning researchers
Facebook employees
Czech computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Czech expatriates in the United States
1982 births
Johns Hopkins University people
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Microsoft Research people
Google people
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20program | Game program may refer to:
Programme (booklet), booklet available at live events, including sporting events
Game programming, software development of video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXFO | DXFO (103.9 FM), on-air as 103.9 Marian Radio, is a radio station owned by Fairwaves Broadcasting Network and operated by the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro (formerly under Birhen Sa Kota Broadcasting). The station's studio and transmitter are located at Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Hayes St., Brgy. Camaman-an, Cagayan de Oro. As part of the local marketing agreement, it is an affiliate of Radyo Bandera for its news and talk programming.
The frequency formerly housed Energy FM 103.9 Radyo Agila (a joint venture between Ultrasonic Broadcasting System and Eagle's Eye Broadcasting Services) until its demise in 2016.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar%20station%20%28disambiguation%29 | Poplar station can refer to
Poplar DLR station, a station on the Docklands Light Railway in London
Poplar station (PAAC), a station on the Pittsburgh light rail network
Poplar railway station, a former station on the London and Blackwall Railway
Poplar (East India Road) railway station, a former station on the North London Railway
See also
Poplar (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Nodder | Elizabeth Nodder was a 19th Century publisher of the illustrated The Naturalist's Miscellany. However, she is listed in the database of Scientific Illustrators as an artist. She and her husband, Frederick Polydore Nodder collaborated in the publishing of this work, until his death circa 1800, when she continued to publish further volumes in the series, with Richard Polydore Nodder (their son) as illustrator.
George Kearsley Shaw, the naturalist, authored the texts of the miscellany from 1798-1813.
The title pages of Volumes 1-12 give George Shaw and F.P. Nodder as authors. In vol 13 E.R. Nodder is listed after George Shaw. In vol 14, George Shaw is followed by E. & R. Nodder, while in the remaining volumes (15-24) (vols 13, 14) E. Nodder is listed together with George Shaw (vols 15-24). The Biodiversity heritage library lists her as publisher in their metadata, and this is the view of Dickinson, and is borne out be the evidence of the plates.
Her contribution to George Shaw and Frederick Nodder Vivarium naturae or The Naturalist's Miscellany, in addition to publication after her husband's death, was proposed by evidence of signatures on the wrappers of some volumes. A revision of her attribution to any artwork found little evidence to support the theory, and no signatures at the printing plates, and any involvement in preparation of the illustrations remains uncertain.
Gallery
Further reading
Peltz, L. (2004) "Nodder, Frederick Polydore". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
References
19th-century naturalists
British book publishers (people)
British naturalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20security%20bug | In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs), or other devices which incorporate programmable processors or logic and have direct memory access, which allow data to be read by a rogue process when such reading is not authorized. Such vulnerabilities are considered "catastrophic" by security analysts.
Speculative execution vulnerabilities
Starting in 2017, a series of security vulnerabilities were found in the implementations of speculative execution on common processor architectures which effectively enabled an elevation of privileges.
These include:
Foreshadow
Meltdown
Microarchitectural Data Sampling
Spectre
SPOILER
Pacman
Intel VISA
In 2019 researchers discovered that a manufacturer debugging mode, known as VISA, had an undocumented feature on Intel Platform Controller Hubs, which are the chipsets included on most Intel-based motherboards and which have direct memory access, which made the mode accessible with a normal motherboard possibly leading to a security vulnerability.
See also
Hardware security
Security bug
Computer security
Threat (computer)
References
Computer security exploits
Hardware bugs
Side-channel attacks
2018 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthing%20Tramocars | The Worthing Tramocars formed part of the public transport network in Worthing, a seaside resort in West Sussex, England, during the 1920s and 1930s. The vehicles were converted dustbin lorries manufactured by Shelvoke and Drewry and adapted for use by elderly people. "The service was the brainchild" of Bill W. R. Gates, a businessman who had made his fortune in New Zealand before returning to his native England. He registered the name Tramocar as a trademark and procured and converted 13 vehicles for use on various routes around the town. Tramocar services ran from 1924 until 1942—latterly operated by bus company Southdown Motor Services, which introduced a further two Tramocars—but a replica vehicle is still operational at a museum in West Sussex.
Background
Until the late 18th century Worthing was a "small and primitive settlement" in the parish of Broadwater, consisting of a manor house, modest housing for fishermen, common land and some fields. The development of nearby Brighton as a fashionable resort encouraged slow growth, helped in 1804 by the opening of a turnpike which connected the village to London and other parts of Sussex. Growth continued throughout the 19th century as Worthing became popular with convalescents and retired people. Borough status was granted in 1890, by which time the population was nearly 15,000. By the early 20th century, public transport consisted of railway services to Brighton, London and nearby towns, and buses (successively horse-drawn, steam-powered and petrol-driven) to Brighton and within the town. The Worthing Motor Omnibus Company was founded in 1904 to provide competition with horse-drawn vehicles.
The Shelvoke and Drewry Freighter
In September 1923, in response to demand for a vehicle able to carry heavy and bulky loads without requiring lifting gear, the specialist commercial vehicle design and manufacturing company Shelvoke and Drewry of Letchworth, Hertfordshire introduced the "Freighter" (or "S.D. Freighter"). This was a small but high-capacity lorry with an unusually low loading height— above the ground—and a "remarkably small" turning circle of , giving it flexibility and manoeuvrability. It was also easy to control, as all braking, acceleration and gear change actions were undertaken using a multi-function handle similar to those found in trams. A tiller served to steer the vehicle. The handle would not operate without a safety pedal being depressed, and there was also an emergency footbrake. The vehicle was an "instant success", and about 2,500 were produced in the 15 years to 1938. Although suitable for various functions, the Freighter was "primarily built for municipal use as a dustcart". Several municipal transport operators also put them to use in the construction of tramways, where they were well suited to carrying lengths of rail and other construction materials. Shelvoke and Drewry envisaged the Freighter as a lorry: it was "not really intended for the passenger carr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaster%20%28video%20game%29 | Coaster is a 1993 video game developed by American studio Code To Go and published by Walt Disney Computer Software for DOS.
Gameplay
Coaster is a simulator which allows players to build rollercoasters. The player can ride pre-made or custom coasters and design new coasters from scratch or existing coasters. After each ride of the coaster, the player is presented with a score. The score is given based on the judgments of six evaluators. Each evaluator has a separate, distinct criterion, which determines score of the coaster. The player can fulfill criteria, leading to a higher score, by designing the coaster towards to the evaluators' specific needs. The player can also look the ride statistics by reviewing the "signature".
Reception
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Coaster the 31st-worst computer game ever released.
Reviews
Top Secret - February 1994
Computer Gaming World (March 1994)
References
External links
Coaster (1993) at MobyGames
Coaster (1993) can be played in browser at the Internet Archive
1993 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
First-person video games
Roller coaster games and simulations
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%C3%A1n%20Aspuru-Guzik | Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a professor of chemistry, computer science, chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Toronto. His research group, the matter lab, studies quantum chemistry, AI for chemical and materials discovery, quantum computing and self-driving chemical. He is the chief scientific officer and a co-founder of quantum computing startup Zapata Computing and the co-founder of Kebotix a company focused on automated chemical and material discovery.
Early life
Aspuru-Guzik was raised in Mexico City, Mexico. When he was in junior high, he represented Mexico at the International Chemistry Olympiad after which his passion for science, particularly chemistry, grew.
Aspuru-Guzik had obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1999. In 2004, he was awarded a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He continued at Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow between 2005 and 2006, working with Martin Head-Gordon.
Career
From 2006 to 2010, Aspuru-Guzik was an assistant professor at Harvard University, before becoming associate professor in 2010, and professor in 2013. In 2018, Professor Aspuru-Guzik moved to the University of Toronto as a Canada 150 Research Chair.
From 2012 to 2014, Aspuru-Guzik had worked with Michael Aziz and Roy Gordon with funding from the United States Department of Energy to develop grid-scale, metal-free flow batteries. In 2016, Aspuru-Guzik had worked with Ryan Babbush, a quantum engineer at Google to develop a new algorithm for a quantum computer which will be able to detect various molecules, such as cholesterol. Generalizing such research efforts, he has substantially contributed to developing ideas of hybrid quantum classical algorithms.
Since 2018, he has given lectures at the Information Science and Technology Center, Colorado State University, Williams College, and the College of New Jersey.
Publications record
According to Google Scholar Aspuru-Guzik has more than 60,000 citations and a H-index of 107 along with a I10-index of 375. Some of his most highly cited papers are:
Duvenaud, David K; Maclaurin, Dougal; Iparraguirre, Jorge; Bombarell, Rafael; Hirzel, Timothy; Aspuru-Guzik, Alan; Adams, Ryan P (2015). "Convolutional Networks on Graphs for Learning Molecular Fingerprints". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 28.
Peruzzo, Alberto; McClean, Jarrod; Shadbolt, Peter; Yung, Man-Hong; Zhou, Xiao-Qi; Love, Peter J.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alán; O’Brien, Jeremy L. (2014-07-23). "A variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor". Nature Communications. 5 (1): 4213.
Gómez-Bombarelli, Rafael; Wei, Jennifer N.; Duvenaud, David; Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel; Sánchez-Lengeling, Benjamín; Sheberla, Dennis; Aguilera-Iparraguirre, Jorge; Hirzel, Timothy D.; Adams, Ryan P.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alán (2018-02-28). "Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-Driven Continuous Representation of Molecules". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%2010 | Android 10 (codenamed Android Q during development) is the tenth major release and the 17th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 13, 2019, and was released publicly on September 3, 2019.
Android 10 was officially released on September 3, 2019, for supported Google Pixel devices, as well as the third-party Essential Phone and Redmi K20 Pro in selected markets. The OnePlus 7T was the first device with Android 10 pre-installed. In October 2019, it was reported that Google's certification requirements for Google Mobile Services will only allow Android 10-based builds to be approved after January 31, 2020.
As of July 2023, 9.27% of Android devices (mobile & tablet) ran Android 10 (which has ceased receiving security updates in February), making it the 4th most common Android version.
History
Google released the first beta of Android 10 under the preliminary name "Android Q" on March 13, 2019, exclusively on their Pixel phones, including the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL devices where support was extended due to popular demand. Having been guaranteed updates only up to October 2018, the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL devices received version updates to Android 10. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL were included, after being granted an extended warranty period which guaranteed Android version updates for them for at least 3 years from when they were first available on the Google Store. A total of six beta or release-candidate versions were released before the final release.
The beta program was expanded with the release of Beta 3 on May 7, 2019, being made available on 14 partner devices from 11 OEMs; twice as many devices compared to Android Pie's beta. Beta access was removed from the Huawei Mate 20 Pro on May 21, 2019, due to U.S. government sanctions, but was later restored on May 31.
Google released Beta 4 on June 5, 2019, with the finalized Android Q APIs and SDK (API Level 29). Dynamic System Updates (DSU) were also included in Beta 4. The Dynamic System Update allows Android Q devices to temporarily install a Generic System Image (GSI) to try a newer version of Android on top of their current Android version. Once users decide to end testing the chosen GSI image, they can simply reboot their device and boot back into their normal device's Android version.
Google released Beta 5 on July 10, 2019, with the final API 29 SDK as well as the latest optimizations and bug fixes. Google released Beta 6, the final release candidate for testing, on August 7, 2019.
On August 22, 2019, it was announced that Android Q would be branded solely as "Android 10" with no codename, effectively ending the practice of alphabetically codenaming major releases based on names of confectionary products (including brand names), arguing that this was not inclusive to international users, due either to the aforementioned products not being internationally known, or being difficult to pronounce by s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGS%20Groundhog%20Desktop | BGS Groundhog Desktop is a software tool developed and made available by the British Geological Survey and used for geological data visualisation, interpretation and 3D geologic modelling. It is available in both free-to-use and commercial editions. Groundhog Desktop is a key part of the BGS's work to develop 3D models of the UK subsurface.
It is widely used by other Geological Survey Organisations including at the Geological Survey of Sweden, Geological Survey of Finland and with environmental consultancies.
Features
Digitise and interpret geologic cross section
Correlate borehole logs
Display and edit borehole data
Import AGS borehole data
Display and edit geologic map linework
Import georeferenced imagery
Import digital elevation model
Develop conceptual site models (CSM)
Develop 3D geological models
3D Geological Modelling
BGS Groundhog Desktop uses an implicit modelling algorithm based on a diverse set of inputs. An interpolation algorithm processes the inputs and generates each geological layer according to geological rules in order to create a vertically consistent stack. The resulting model is visualised as a block model.
Example projects
A geological model of London and the Thames Valley, southeast England
Modelling rapid coastal catch-up after defence removal along the soft cliff coast of Happisburgh, UK
Enkoping Esker Pilot Study : workflow for data integration and publishing of 3D geological outputs
UK Minecraft Geology Model built using Groundhog
3D Geological Model of the completed Farringdon underground railway
References
3D graphics software
British Geological Survey
Geology software
Geomorphology models
Scientific visualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utran%20railway%20station | Utran railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. It serves Utran town of Surat district. Utran railway station is from Surat railway station. Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
Trains
59049/50 Valsad - Viramgam Passenger
69149/50 Virar - Bharuch MEMU
59439/40 Mumbai Central - Ahmedabad Passenger
59441/42 Ahmedabad - Mumbai Central Passenger
69111/12 Surat - Vadodara MEMU
69171/72 Surat - Bharuch MEMU
69109/10 Vadodara - Surat MEMU
Gallery
References
See also
Surat district
Railway stations in Surat district
Vadodara railway division
Transport in Surat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Haruka%20Iwao | Emma Haruka Iwao is a Japanese computer scientist and cloud developer advocate at Google. In 2019 Haruka Iwao calculated the then world record for most accurate value of pi (π); which included 31.4 trillion digits, exceeding the previous record of 22 trillion. This record was surpassed in 2020 by Timothy Mullican who calculated 50 trillion digits, but she reclaimed the record in 2022 with 100 trillion digits. She identifies as queer.
Early life and education
As a child, Iwao became interested in pi. She was inspired by Japanese mathematicians, including Yasumasa Kanada. She studied computer science at the University of Tsukuba, where she was taught by Daisuke Takahashi. She was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in 2008, before starting graduate studies in computing. Her master's dissertation considered high performance computer systems. After graduating, Iwao took on several software engineering positions, working on site reliability for Panasonic, GREE and Red Hat.
Career
Iwao joined Google as a Cloud Developer Advocate in 2015. She originally worked for Google in Tokyo, before moving to Seattle in 2019. Iwao offers training in the use of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as well as supporting application developers. She works to make cloud computing accessible for everyone, creating online demos and teaching materials.
In March 2019 Iwao calculated the value of pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits (Equal to ), using 170 terabytes (TB) of data. The calculation used a multithreaded program called y-cruncher using over 25 machines for 121 days.
In March 2022 she extended the world record to 100 trillion digits of pi.
See also
Chronology of computation of π
References
Japanese women mathematicians
Japanese women computer scientists
World record holders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Tsukuba alumni
Japanese LGBT scientists
Queer women
Queer scientists
Japanese emigrants to the United States
Google employees
Pi-related people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureScript | PureScript is a strongly-typed, purely-functional programming language that transpiles to JavaScript, C++11, Erlang, and Go. It can be used to develop web applications, server side apps, and also desktop applications with use of Electron or via C++11 and Go compilers with suitable libraries. Its syntax is mostly comparable to that of Haskell. In addition, it introduces row polymorphism and extensible records. Also, contrary to Haskell, the PureScript language is defined as having a strict evaluation strategy, although there are non-conforming back ends which implement a lazy evaluation strategy.
History
PureScript was initially designed by Phil Freeman in 2013. He started to work on PureScript since he wasn't satisfied by other attempts to transpile Haskell to JavaScript (e.g. using Fay, Haste, or GHCJS).
Since then it has been picked up by the community and is developed on GitHub. Additional core tools developed by the community include the dedicated build tool "Pulp", the documentation directory "Pursuit", and the package manager "Spago"
Features
PureScript features strict evaluation, persistent data structures and type inference. The PureScript type system shares many features with those of similar functional languages like Haskell: algebraic data types and pattern matching, higher kinded types, type classes and functional dependencies, and higher-rank polymorphism. PureScript's type system adds support for row polymorphism and extensible records. However, PureScript lacks support for some of the more advanced features of Haskell like GADTs and type families.
The PureScript transpilers attempt to produce readable code, where possible. Through a simple FFI interface, it also allows the reuse of existing JavaScript/C++11/Go code.
PureScript supports incremental compilation, and the transpiler to JavaScript distribution includes support for building source code editor plugins for iterative development. Editor plugins exist for many popular text editors, including Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Atom and Visual Studio Code.
PureScript supports type-driven development via its typed holes feature, in which a program can be constructed with missing subexpressions. The JavaScript transpiler will subsequently attempt to infer the types of the missing subexpressions, and report those types to the user. This feature has inspired similar work in the GHC Haskell compiler.
Examples
Here is a minimal "Hello world" program in PureScript:
module Main where
import Effect.Console (log)
main = log "Hello World!"
Here, the type of the program is inferred and checked by the PureScript transpiler. A more verbose version of the same program might include explicit type annotations:
module Main where
import Prelude
import Effect (Effect)
import Effect.Console (log)
main :: Effect Unit
main = log "Hello World!"
See also
References
External links
PureScript Playground
Functional languages
Pattern matching programming languages
Programming languages cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Pozner | Leonard Pozner is the father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim, Noah Pozner. He is the founder of the HONR Network, which supports the victims of mass casualty violence as well as the targets of online hate speech and harassment.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
On December 14, 2012, 20 year old Adam Lanza took a Bushmaster XM-15 semi-automatic rifle into Sandy Hook Elementary school and killed 20 children and 6 teachers. One of the children killed was Pozner's six-year-old son Noah. Shortly afterwards, conspiracy theorists used Facebook, YouTube, blogs and other social media platforms to claim the massacre was a hoax and a false flag operation and that the victims were actually crisis actors. Among them was radio-show host Alex Jones, who repeatedly used the conspiracy theory to tell the audience listening to his InfoWars radio program to rise up and "find out the truth", insisting that the shooting was staged by the federal government to destroy the Second Amendment and citizens' right to bear arms.
While mourning the loss of their children, Pozner and the other victims' families had to endure accusations that their children were not dead, and that the tragedy was a fraud designed to undermine Americans' gun rights. They received death threats and in-person, online and phone call harassment from people who took up the call from Jones and others. In response, Pozner began reporting harassing and defaming content and claims about him and his family, as well as posts and videos using photos (often defaced) of his son. "I have to absolutely defend the memory of my son — I have no choice" he said. "I know how some of these theories build up. They don't fade away and the more time they spend online, the more accepted they become. The JFK conspiracy theory in the US is very accepted. Conspiracy theories erase history, they erase our memories, and how will this event (Sandy Hook) be remembered a hundred years from now? So I think it's important, the work that I'm doing now."
After Pozner succeeded in getting Infowars videos removed from YouTube, Jones showed his audience Pozner's personal information and maps to addresses associated with his family. In an effort to protect themselves from the continuing harassment, Pozner and Noah's mother Veronique De La Rosa Haller, and their two surviving children, moved from Connecticut. The harassment has continued however, as each time they move, conspiracy theorists who stalk the family publish their new address. The family has had to move several times since leaving Connecticut. They currently live in hiding in a high-security community hundreds of miles from where their six-year-old son Noah is buried.
HONR Network
The HONR network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Pozner in response to the harassment and hate that he and other families of victims of mass casualty events endured online. After his son died in the Sandy Hook shooting, and he and his family became the targe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Palmer | Martha (Stone) Palmer is an American computer scientist. She is best known for her work on verb semantics, and for the creation of ontological resources such as PropBank and VerbNet.
Education
Palmer received a Master of Arts in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin in 1976, advised by Robert Simmons.
She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1985. Her thesis was titled "Driving semantics for a limited domain", and was advised by Alan Bundy.
Career
Palmer is currently a professor of computer science and linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was previously on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
Awards and honors
Palmer served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2005 and was named an ACL Fellow in 2014 "for significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora".
In 2017, she was awarded the Helen & Hubert Croft Professorship by the University of Colorado. In the same year, the university named her a "Professor of Distinction", a title reserved for professors who have received international recognition for their research. In 2023, she was awarded the ACL Lifetime achievement award, the highest distinction by the Association for Computational Linguistics, for her lifetime work on verb semantics.
References
External links
Martha Palmer's home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
American expatriates in Scotland
University of Texas at Austin alumni
American women computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Natural language processing researchers
American women academics
21st-century American women
Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Shapiro | Leonard D. Shapiro is an American computer scientist. He is a professor emeritus at Portland State University.
Education
Shapiro graduated from Reed College in 1965, Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a doctor of philosophy from Yale University in 1969.
Career
Shapiro was an assistant professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1976 and was a visiting professor of economics from 1976 to 1977. He was the chairman of the division of mathematical sciences at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1985. Shapiro was a visiting scholar at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He was an associate and later full professor of computer science and business economics at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1987. Shapiro was the chair of the computer science department at Portland State University from 1987 to 1994. He continues as a professor emeritus. Since 1994, Shapiro has served as the associate director and director of the Data Intensive Systems Center (DISC).
Personal life
Shapiro is married to Elayne née Halpern. They have three sons, Daniel, Joseph and Ari Shapiro. He is the vice president of Congregation Neveh Shalom.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
American computer scientists
Jewish American scientists
North Dakota State University faculty
Portland State University faculty
Reed College alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Yale University alumni
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manber | Manber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jeffrey Manber, American commercial space entrepreneur
Udi Manber, Israeli computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Travis | Matthew Travis is a businessman and former American government official. He served as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Mr. Travis served as Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) before the agency became CISA on November 16, 2018.
Career
Travis graduated from the University of Notre Dame and joined the U.S. Navy in 1991 as an active duty officer. Travis served aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer as well as the maritime interdiction boarding officer in the Northern Red Sea following Operation Desert Storm.
Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting. He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems. In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis, a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016.
Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS' NPPD in March 2018. In November 2018, Congress passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, creating CISA as a component of DHS and elevating NPPD into CISA. Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020.
References
Living people
Trump administration personnel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Georgetown University alumni
University of Notre Dame alumni
United States Department of Homeland Security officials
People from Terre Haute, Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Compatible%20Context%20Editor | ECCE (the Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor) is a text editor for computing systems and operating environments that support a command line interface. It is an original command set which is logical and regular. It was written in the 1960s by Hamish Dewar, an experienced Compiler writer and used this skill to design a command-set which could be easily parsed and coded to allow complex commands to be built up. A technique similar to threaded code in the Forth environment. The current ECCE release is licensed under the BSD License, recoded into C and released by Graham Toal in 2007.
History
Hamish Dewar in the early 1960s recognised a need for a more powerful text editor. At the time editing files was laborious as editors could only load into memory one code line at a time and insert, delete or replace only the whole line. Because of memory limitations (a large computer might have between 8k and 32k or memory) few editors could execute repeated commands or support macros for text processing.
H Dewar used his talent as a compiler author to create ECCE as a much more capable command set but retain a small footprint. From the start ECCE would endeavour to buffer as much of the file as memory allowed while earlier editors could only buffer one line of the file at a time.
ECCE became the default text editor for computers at the University of Edinburgh and remained almost unchanged for a period of almost 25 years. The editors survival is attributed to the fact that thousands of undergraduates and postgraduates would have used the tool in their higher education and wherever in the world they settled the benefits of ECCE were promoted and local implementations created from Hamish Dewar's source code. ECCE became one of the most popular and well respected text editors of the 1970s.
ECCE was originally written in Imp, a language created at the University of Edinburgh, the second implementation was coded in PDP-8 assembler and was ported to numerous other platforms. Sources are known to exist in Imp, Fortran, BCPL, Pascal, BBC Basic, LC, C, and various assembly languages. Further ports to CORAL66, ICL VME, and Babbage were known to once exist but may have become extinct.
See also
Comparison of text editors
List of text editors
List of Unix commands
References
External links
ECCE page at Edinburgh University History of Computing
ECCE page at TextEditors Wiki
ECCE Manual (1978)
ECCE manpage
Free text editors
Linux text editors
Console applications
Unix text editors
Cross-platform software
Command-line software
Free and open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridz | Gridz is a video game developed and published by Green Dragon for the Macintosh.
Gameplay
Gridz is a game that is part puzzle and part action game set in an artificial cyber environment.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the Macintosh version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Gridz is a fun, simple game, but after the sixth or seventh level, it gets a bit redundant. What elevates this game above mediocrity is an unusual clarity of purpose in graphics, control, and design."
The editors of Macworld named Gridz the best arcade game of 1997. Steven Levy and Cameron Crotty of the magazine called the game "addictive" and "maddeningly compelling".
Reviews
MacWorld
MacWorld (1.2 update)
MacHome Journal review
MacAddict
https://archive.org/details/MacAddict-016-199712/page/n69/mode/2up?q=gridz
https://archive.org/details/Macworld9801January1998/page/n81/mode/2up?q=gridz
https://archive.org/stream/macmagazin_german/Mac%20Magazin%201998-09#page/n63/mode/2up/search/gridz
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=6500
References
External links
Official page (archived)
1997 video games
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Puzzle video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20South%20Korea%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Korea, South
South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Computing%20Benchmark | The Creative Computing Benchmark, also called Ahl's Simple Benchmark, is a computer benchmark that was used to compare the performance of the BASIC programming language on various machines. It was first introduced in the November 1983 issue of Creative Computing magazine with the measures from a number of 8-bit computers that were popular at the time. Over a period of a few months, the list was greatly expanded to include practically every contemporary machine, topped by the Cray-1 supercomputer, which ran it in 0.01 seconds.
The Creative Computing Benchmark was one of three common benchmarks of the era. Its primary competition in the early 1980s in the United States was the Byte Sieve, of September 1981, while the earlier Rugg/Feldman benchmarks of June 1977 were not as well known in the United States, but were widely used in the United Kingdom.
History
The benchmark first appeared in the November 1983 issue of Creative Computing under the title "Benchmark Comparison Test". In the article, author David H. Ahl was careful to state that it tested only a few aspects of the BASIC language, mostly its looping performance. He stated:
The initial results were provided for common machines of the era, including the Apple II, Commodore 64 and the recently-released IBM Personal Computer. Most of these machines ran some variation of the stock Microsoft BASIC and thus provided similar times on the order of two minutes, while the 16-bit PC was near the top of the list at only 24 seconds. the fastest machine in this initial suite was the Olivetti M20 at 13 seconds, and the slowest was Atari BASIC on the Atari 800 at 6 minutes 58 seconds.
In the months following its publication, the magazine was inundated with results for other platforms. It became a regular feature for a time, placed prominently near the front of the magazine with an ever-growing list of results. By March the fastest machine on the list was the Cray-1 at 0.01 seconds, and the slowest was the TI SR-50 programmable calculator at 12.7 days.
The benchmark had several problems that made it less useful for general purposes. For instance, the system did not test any string manipulation, whose performance varied widely across platforms. It also did not take advantage of any "speedups" available on different platforms, like the possible use of integer variables for loop indexes or turning off video access on machines with shared main memory. These limitations were widely debated at the time. The November 1983 article stipulated using an "accurate stopwatch" to time the program execution on machines lacking a real-time clock: When applied to the faster machines, this would yield test results highly dependent on the reaction time of the individual operating the stopwatch.
Its last appearance is in the May 1984 issue, which included values for 183 machines. This issue included a note that the many criticisms of the system had been taken to heart and a new benchmark program was under design. Howeve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Saudi%20Arabia%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Saudi Arabia by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Tanzania%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Tanzania by Human Development Index based on data for the year 2021.
References
Tanzania
Human Development Index
Regions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin%20Creditcare%20Network%20Limited | Satin Creditcare Network Limited is a non-banking finance company (NBFC), licensed by the Reserve Bank of India. It was founded in 1990 by Mr. H P Singh. The company's offers financial requirements for excluded households at the bottom of the pyramid. Satin Creditcare Network Limited is a micro-finance institution (MFI) in the country with presence in 7 states and more than 12,00 villages.
History
The company launched its operations as a provider of individual and small business loans and savings services to urban lenders in 1990, going on to be registered as an NBFC with the RBI in 1998 and converting into an NBFC-MFI in November 2013. Founded by HP Singh who has over three decades of micro-finance experience.
In 2017, company incorporated a wholly owned Housing Finance subsidiary with the aim of providing financing in the affordable housing segment and leveraging rural outreach. In January 2019, company received separate NBFC license to commence MSME business "Satin Finserv Limited". SATIN forayed in digital lending "Loan Dost".
As of March 2019, SCNL had 1,168 branches and a headcount of 11,940 across 22 states and union territories serving 35 lakh clients. Satin Creditcare maintains a focus on rural and semi-urban areas.
The 1 billion mark
SATIN reached the US$1-Billion Asset Under Management mark at the close of FY2018–19.
This differential is also manifest in its faster-than-industry growth in the last five years – they posted CAGR growth of 37.3% from FY15 to FY19, as against industry growth of 25.6%.
Subsidiaries
Satin Housing Finance Limited
Incorporated on 17 April 2017, It was founded by Mr. Amit Sharma (CEO & MD - Satin Housing Finance Limited) as a wholly owned subsidiary company of Satin Creditcare Network Limited, Satin Housing Finance Limited has a registered office in New Delhi. Satin Housing Finance Limited provides long-term finance for the purchase, construction, extension and repair of houses for the retail segment, along with loans against a residential property, commercial property and plots.
TARAASHNA
Taraashna Financial Services Limited acts as a business correspondent for banks and NBFCs and provides similar services to other financial institutions in rural and semi-urban areas. Taraashna Financial Services Limited is enabled under its objects to carry out the business of, among other things, the promotion and nurturing of SBL, Cattle Finance, and JLG and providing them with capacity-building support, as well as linking them to banks and other financial institutions in order to avail different financial services.
Satin Finserv Limited
Satin Creditcare Network Limited forayed into the MSME segment with a focus on small business owners in manufacturing, trading and services. The company's MSME loan offerings to these customers account for the fact that many of these customers may not habitually maintain standard books of accounts, or that a vast majority of them may not even fall under the turnover bracket w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tykes%20Water | Tykes Water is a minor tributary of the River Colne in Hertfordshire in England.
Its head waters are a network of drainage ditches west of the A41 near Bushey that feed into Aldenham reservoir. The outlet of the reservoir then flows north into the lake in Haberdashers' Aske's School grounds known as Tykes Water Lake. It then proceeds north to make a confluence with a secondary stream, also called Tykes Water, near Kendal Hall Farm.
The combined Tykes Waters flow through the centre of Radlett parallel to the railway and then flow north to join the River Colne near Colney Street. The lower part is also called The Brook.
The secondary Tykes Water, also known as Borehamwood Brook on some maps, rises to the south of Borehamwood near Yavneh College and runs north through the town, where it has been dammed to produce ornamental lakes in Aberford Park. It then runs north through open country.
A minor tributary collects water from farmland north of Borehamwood and also joins near Kendal Hall Farm.
Kitwells Brook joins the main stream just north of Radlett and drains land to the east in the direction of Shenley.
In popular culture
Tykes Water Bridge in Aldenham Country Park features in the opening credits of the Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee film, Dracula A.D. 1972, and is used in several episodes of the Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson seasons of The Avengers . Earlier, in 1966, it was used as the setting for the opening sequence of "The Saint" episode "Little Girl Lost" featuring Roger Moore.
References
Rivers of Hertfordshire
Colne catchment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upin%20%26%20Ipin%3A%20The%20Lone%20Gibbon%20Kris | Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris () is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language computer-animated adventure film. The film follows the adventure of the twins and their friends in the fantastical kingdom of Inderaloka, where they have to save the kingdom from the evil king called Raja Bersiong. It is the third feature film based on the animated TV series Upin & Ipin by Les' Copaque Production, after Geng: The Adventure Begins in 2009 and Upin & Ipin: Jeng Jeng Jeng! in 2016. With a budget of RM20 million, it is the most expensive Malaysian animation and film ever made.
Its original Malay-language version is released on 21 March 2019 in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. The film has grossed around RM26 million in Malaysia, making it the second-highest grossing local animation film in Malaysian cinema.
The film won the Best Feature Film at the 2019 Montreal International Animation Film Festival.
Synopsis
5-year-old twins Upin and Ipin and their fellow friends: Ehsan, Fizi, Mail, Jarjit, Mei Mei and Susanti live in the village Kampung Durian Runtuh. One day, they stumble across a mystical Malay dagger named the lone gibbon kris. The kris is magical and opens a portal that transports the whole gang to the Kingdom of Inderaloka. As they try to find their way back home, they meet several classic characters from the Malaysian and Malay folklore. Together they have to help restore the kingdom back to its past glory and fight back the evil king, Raja Bersiong who is hatching an evil plan to destroy the kingdom.
Voice cast
Asyiela Putri Azhar as Upin & Ipin
Ahmad Mawardi Abdul Rahman as Raja Bersiong
Mohd Amir Asyraf Mohd Noor Rashid as Mat Jenin
Irfan Fahim as Belalang
Fakhrul Razi as Nakhoda Ragam
Ernie Zakri as Bawang Putih & Bawang Merah
Muhammad Fareez Daniel as Ehsan
Muhammad Musyrif Azzat as Mail
Muhammad Hafiz Hassan as Jarjit
Tang Ying Sowk as Mei Mei
Rufaidah Mohamed Fadzil as Fizi
Andhika Astari and Siti Nor Adwin Bt Safie as Susanti
Ahmad Razuri Roseli as Pak Belalang
Siti Hasmah Taiban as Mak Deruma
Siti Khairunnisa Binti Mohamed Riduan as Kak Ros
Hjh. Ainon Bt Ariff as Opah
Hj. Burhanuddin Md Radzi as Tok Dalang
Production
The production took 5 years to complete, and the cost is almost RM20 million, making it the most expensive Malaysian film ever made. Producer of Les' Copaque Production, Burhanuddin Md. Radzi revealed that there are some scenes that were finished earlier and were changed afterwards as the scenes did not live up to their set standards. One of the examples was changing the same scene 80 times until someone from the 200 people of the production team almost resigned. They have been challenging themselves to highlight Malay folk tale and culture in the film, taking Star Wars as a good example of putting something imaginary in a film. English dubbing has been made in Los Angeles for international releases.
Music
The lead composer for this film is Sarawak-born Andrew Bong. As the lead composer, he said that composing original music tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Gordon%20of%20Earlston | Sir Alexander Gordon of Earlston (1650–1726) was a 17th-century Scottish gentleman. He was known as a Covenanter and was member of the United Societies network. He was involved in the early 1680s in fomenting rebellion against the Crown in Scotland.
Life
Alexander Gordon was the son of William Gordon of Earlston, the correspondent of Samuel Rutherford, and brother of Sir William Gordon, 1st Baronet of Earlston.
In 1679, his father was on his way to join the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge when he was shot by a gang of English dragoons and flung into a ditch. Alexander was in the army of the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, and narrowly escaped being taken by the ingenuity of one of his tenants, who recognizing him as he rode through Hamilton, made him dismount, hid his horse's furniture in a dunghill, dressed him in women's clothes, and set him to rock the cradle.
For his participation in that conflict, Gordon was tried before the High Court of Justiciary on a charge of treason on 19 February 1680. He was found guilty and sentenced to death in absentia. He escaped capture for more than three years. On one occasion, in the dress of a servant, he helped the dragoons in searching the house for himself. From 1682, Gordon was involved with John Nisbet in seeking support and financial assistance for the radical Covenanters, a group known as the United Societies. They travelled together to London, and Gordon then went on his own to Holland.
On 1 June 1683, Gordon embarked there for Holland with a person named Edward Aitken, and both were seized by some customs officers. When they were about to set sail from Newcastle on covert business, Gordon and his servant were arrested. The pair tried to destroy papers by throwing them overboard, but they were recovered, and showed Gordon to be a conspirator. He was taken under guard to Edinburgh. They were sent for trial to Edinburgh, where, on 10 July 1683, Aitken was condemned to death on the simple charge of harbouring Gordon.
Trial and torture
A trial was thought superfluous, but Gordon was examined several times in reference to his knowledge of the Rye House plot. His depositions on these occasions, viz. 30 June, 5 July, and 25 September 1683, with Nisbet's letter, and his own commission from the ‘societies’ in Scotland, were printed at length by Thomas Sprat in his True Account of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King.
On 16 August, he had been brought to the bar of the justiciary court, and the sentence of death and forfeiture was passed upon him, and 28 September was fixed as the date of his execution. The King ordered the Privy Council of Scotland to put Gordon to the torture of the boots in order to extort from him the names of his accomplices. The council replied that it was irregular to torture malefactors after they had been condemned to death, but the King responded by sending Gordon on 11 September a reprieve till the second Friday of November.
Gordon about this time made an ineffectual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20local%20government%20areas%20of%20the%20Gambia%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of local government areas of The Gambia by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Gambia
Gambia
Local government areas By Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle%20Belgrave | Danielle Charlotte Belgrave is a Trinidadian-British computer scientist based at DeepMind, who uses statistics and machine learning to understand the progression of diseases.
Early life and education
Belgrave grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, where her high school mathematics teacher inspired her to work as a data scientist. She studied statistics and business at the London School of Economics (LSE). She was a graduate student at University College London (UCL), where she earned a master's degree in statistics. In 2010 Belgrave moved to the University of Manchester, where she earned a PhD for research supervised by Iain Buchan, Christopher Bishop and supported by a Microsoft Research scholarship. She was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin postgraduate award by Microsoft and the Barry Kay Award by the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI).
Research and career
After graduating, Belgrave worked at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she was awarded the Exceptional Scientist Award. Belgrave joined Imperial College London as a Medical Research Council (MRC) statistician in 2015. She develops statistical machine learning models to look at disease progression in an effort to design new management strategies and understand heterogeneity. Statistical learning methods can inform the management of medical conditions by providing a framework for endotype discovery using probabilistic modelling. She uses statistical models to identify the underlying endotypes of a condition from a set of phenotypes.
She studied whether atopic march, the progression of allergic diseases from early life, adequately describes atopic diseases like eczema in early life. Belgrave used a latent disease profile model to study atopic march in over 9,000 children, where machine learning was used to identify groups of children with similar eczema onset patterns. She is part of the study team for early life asthma research consortium. Belgrave is interested in using big data for meaningful clinical interpretation, to inform personalized prevention strategies.
Her research focuses on Bayesian and statistical machine learning within the healthcare to develop personalized medicine. Belgrave is developing and implementing methods which incorporate domain knowledge with data-driven models. Her research interests include latent variable models, longitudinal studies, survival analysis, ‘omics, dimensionality reduction, Bayesian graphical models and cluster analysis.
Belgrave is part of the regulatory algorithms project, which evaluates how healthcare algorithms should be regulated. In particular, Belgrave is interested in what scheme of liability should be imposed on artificial intelligence for healthcare. She serves on the 2019 organizing committee of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and as an advisor for DeepAfricAI.
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British women computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%20matrix | A Butler matrix is a beamforming network used to feed a phased array of antenna elements. Its purpose is to control the direction of a beam, or beams, of radio transmission. It consists of an matrix ( some power of two) with hybrid couplers and fixed-value phase shifters at the junctions. The device has input ports (the beam ports) to which power is applied, and output ports (the element ports) to which antenna elements are connected. The Butler matrix feeds power to the elements with a progressive phase difference between elements such that the beam of radio transmission is in the desired direction. The beam direction is controlled by switching power to the desired beam port. More than one beam, or even all of them can be activated simultaneously.
The concept was first proposed by Butler and Lowe in 1961. It is a development of the work of Blass in 1960. Its advantage over other methods of angular beamforming is the simplicity of the hardware. It requires far fewer phase shifters than other methods and can be implemented in microstrip on a low-cost printed circuit board.
Antenna elements
The antenna elements fed by a Butler matrix are typically horn antennae at the microwave frequencies at which Butler matrices are usually used. Horns have limited bandwidth and more complex antennae may be used if more than an octave is required. The elements are commonly arranged in a linear array. A Butler matrix can also feed a circular array giving 360° coverage. A further application with a circular antenna array is to produce omnidirectional beams with orthogonal phase-modes so that multiple mobile stations can all simultaneously use the same frequency, each using a different phase-mode. A circular antenna array can be made to simultaneously produce an omnidirectional beam and multiple directional beams when fed through two Butler matrices back-to-back.
Butler matrices can be used with both transmitters and receivers. Since they are passive and reciprocal, the same matrix can do both – in a transceiver for instance. They have the advantageous property that in transmit mode they deliver the full power of the transmitter to the beam, and in receive mode they collect signals from each of the beam directions with the full gain of the antenna array.
Components
The essential components needed to build a Butler matrix are hybrid couplers and fixed-value phase shifters. Additionally, fine control of the beam direction can be provided with variable phase shifters in addition to the fixed phase shifters. By using the variable phase shifters in combination with switching the power to the beam ports, a continuous sweep of the beam can be produced.
An additional component that can be used is a planar crossover distributed-element circuit. Microwave circuits are often manufactured in the planar format called microstrip. Lines that need to cross over each other are typically implemented as an air bridge. These are unsuitable for this appli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Carbone | Alessandra Carbone is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. She is a professor in the computer science department of the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Since 2009 she has headed the laboratory of computational and quantitative biology. This laboratory studies the function and evolution of biological systems. She is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2010.
Career
She gained her PhD in mathematics in 1993 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, supervised by Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, after which she took up a post doctoral post at the Paris Diderot University until 1995 when she took a position at the Technical University of Vienna until 1996. She has taught computer science at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. She is currently a professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University
Research into muscular dystrophy
The project uses cloud computing facilitated by the World Community Grid to enable the large amount of calculations necessary.
Other awards
Carbone is also a recipient in 2012 of the and the Legion of Honour in 2014.
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Living people
Italian mathematicians
Italian women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
CUNY Graduate Center alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majda%20Pajnkihar | Majda Pajnkihar (born 28 August 1959) is former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. She is one of the founding members of Udine-C Network (Understanding Development Issues in Nurse Educator Careers), an international research group with the main interest in nursing careers.
Education
Pajnkihar is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Organizational Sciences and a Master of Organizational Sciences from the University of Maribor and a PhD in nursing from the University of Manchester.
Career
Pajnkihar was the first Slovenian to obtain a Nursing PhD in Slovenia and led the establishment of the first Nursing PhD program there. On her initiative the first Institute for Nursing in Slovenia was established in 1996. Pajnkihar was the first head of the Institute for Nursing, which aims to recognize nursing as a scientific discipline and a profession.
She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau the Honor Society of Nursing.
Pajnkihar’s clinical area is child and adolescent nursing.
She has a special interest in nursing theories and research on caring, qualitative research and evidence-based nursing in the area of patient safety, diabetes and efficient patient care.
Awards
Pajnkihar is a Fellow (2018) of the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Sciences.
Publications
Pajnkihar has 25 publications listed on Web of Science that have been cited more than 150 times, giving her an h-index of 7. Her three most-cited articles are:
Book
McKenna HP, Pajnkihar M, Murphy F (2014) Fundamentals of nursing models, theories and practice Wiley Blackwell, Chichester
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External links
Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
Nursing researchers
Slovenian nurses
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Maribor
Alumni of the University of Manchester
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20switch | A modular switch or chassis switch is a type of network switch which can be configured using field-replaceable units. These units, often referred to as blades, can add more ports, bandwidth, and capabilities to a switch. These blades can be heterogenous, and this allows for a network based on multiple different protocols and cable types. Blades can typically be configured in a parallel or failover configuration, which can allow for higher bandwidth, or redundancy in the event of failure. Modular switches also typically support hot-swap of switch modules, this can be very important in managing downtime. Modular switches also support additional line cards which can provide new functions to the switch that would previously have been unavailable, such as a firewall. An example of a modular computer network switch is the Cisco Catalyst 6500, which can be configured with up to 13 slots, and supports connections from RJ45 to QSFP+.
See also
Stackable switch
References
Further reading
Examples of Network Equipment, University of Aberdeen Internet Communications Engineering Course, 2019.
Introducing Backpack: Our second-generation modular open switch, Facebook Backpack introduction
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20care%20network | A Primary care network is a structure which brings general practitioners together on an area basis, possibly with other clinicians, to address chronic disease management and prevention. In 2022 the term is used in England, Singapore and Alberta.
England
Primary care networks were introduced into the National Health Service in England as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019. The 2019 General Practitioner contract gave the opportunity for GP practices to join networks, each with between 30,000 and 50,000 patients. The stated aim is to create fully integrated community-based health services which will be an important component of integrated care systems. They are based on GP registered patient lists, and intended to serve natural communities of between 30,000 and 50,000 people. It is the location of the GP, not the patient, which determines which one a patient is attached to.
By June 2019 1,259 primary care networks had been established across England, with an average population covered of about 42,000 patients, and including all but about 55 practices. About 25 had decided not to participate.
Networks are required to deliver seven national service specifications. Structured medication reviews, enhanced health in care homes, anticipatory care (with community services), personalised care and supporting early cancer diagnosis were to start by April 2020. Cardiovascular disease case-finding and locally agreed action to tackle inequalities are to start in 2021.
This model was pioneered by the vanguard projects established under 2014's Five Year Forward View. The networks will hold local contracts for enhanced services. They will have 'expanded neighbourhood teams', which the plan envisages 'will comprise a range of staff such as GPs, pharmacists, district nurses, community geriatricians, dementia workers and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and podiatrists/chiropodists, joined by social care and the voluntary sector'.
Evidence of the effectiveness of this approach is rather limited, according to a 2019 review in the Health Policy journal.
Modality Partnership and Our Health Partnership, two of the biggest GP super-partnerships, proposed in 2019 to lead networks across the country, which may include practices not in their organisations.
Staffing
Funding is provided for the employment of clinical pharmacists and social prescribing link workers in 2019/20, and subsequently for physiotherapists, physician associates and paramedics. Each network was given £37,810 to fund a clinical pharmacist post for 2019/2020, to cover 70% of the costs, with the network expected to cover the rest. The intention is that each network will have five clinical pharmacists by 2024 – about one per practice – providing altogether an additional 7,500 pharmacists. In June 2022 there were 3,294 full-time equivalent pharmacists recorded as working in primary care networks, an increase of about 700 since 2021.
In November 2019 NHS Eng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Burundi%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Burundi by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Burundi
Human Development Index
Human Development Index,regions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Peru%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Peru by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Regions by Human Development Index
Peru
Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Tajikistan%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of the Republic of Tajikistan by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Human Development Index
Regions By Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao%20rail%20network | The Spanish city of Bilbao contains a dense urban rail network served by multiple operators, track gauges and types. It is one of a very small number of cities (also including Helsinki and Tallinn) that have both narrow and broad gauge railways without any standard gauge railways.
It currently consists of thirteen lines, counting those of metro and tram as well as suburban rail; complemented by a wide-covering bus network, as well as other means of transportation including funiculars. The services are offered by different companies, whose activity is coordinated by the Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia (Transport Consortium of Bizkaia), which integrates their respective operators and facilitates and encourages their use.
The three major operators of the rail transport network are Metro Bilbao (2 lines), Euskotren (5 Euskotren Trena lines and 1 Euskotren Tranbia line) and Renfe (3 lines of Cercanías Bilbao and 2 of Renfe Feve). The lines converge in the capital and reach six of the seven regions of the province: Arratia-Nervión, Busturialdea-Urdaibai, Duranguesado, Gran Bilbao, Las Encartaciones and Uribe. Thus, the only region without rail lines is Lea-Artibai. Areas that lack rail service are served by Bizkaibus.
Services
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Bilbao's first metro line opened in 1995, has been expanded continually over the years and attracted a ridership of 90 million passengers in 2018. Service is provided by two operators; Metro Bilbao (L1, L2) and Euskotren (L3). Interchange between the two operators is provided at Zazpikaleak/Casco Viejo station.
Commuter rail
Euskotren Trena
Euskotren is the designation given to the metre-gauge network owned by the Basque Government. The entire network uses narrow gauge rail tracks which have been owned by the Basque Government since their transferral from the Spanish government; the rail tracks and stations were part of the Feve network until its transferral. In 2018 the system carried 22,484,083 passengers.
Renfe Cercanías ("Aldiriak")
Cercanías Bilbao (Basque: Bilboko Aldiriak) is a commuter rail network in Bilbao, serving the city and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías, as part of Renfe, the national railway company. It consists of three lines, named C-1, C-2 and C-3. All three of them start at Bilbao-Abando station, which is the central station of the city. The service was used by over 10 million passengers in 2017.(2017) Renfe Feve operates two commuter rail lines from Bilbao Concordia station, adjacent to Abando.
Tram
Euskotren operates one tram line of fourteen stops in Bilbao city centre.
References
Rail transport in Spain
Transport in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Jamaica%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Jamaica by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Jamaica
Human Development Index
Jamaica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldside%20Library | Coldside Library is a community library operated by Leisure and Culture Dundee. Its opening hours run from Monday to Saturday weekly. It offers book borrowing services, free Wi-Fi and computers for internet access, as well as educational activities for families and adults in the Dundee area. The library was one of five Carnegie libraries commissioned in 1901 for the City of Dundee. The library was designed in 1906 by city architect James Thomson as one of the first two projects undertaken after his appointment to the post in 1904. Coldside library is one of the first free libraries in Dundee and has continued to operate as a public library to this day. Towards the end of the 1940s, Coldside Library also hosted the Dundee studio for BBC Radio Scotland.
History
The Coldside Library was first proposed by Dundee Town Council in 1901, who approached philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and asked him to provide funds for five new libraries (Arthurstone, Blackness, Blackscroft, Broughty Ferry and Coldside). Up until that point, Dundee was served by subscription libraries, with a two-tier borrowing system, where new books were reserved for those who could afford the cost of a yearly subscription, whereas working-class people had to wait a year before being able to access those collections free of charge. The new Carnegie libraries gave all library users free access to their collections regardless of their means.
The Coldside Library was awarded £7,200 by Andrew Carnegie. That sum, however, was to cover the cost of the building only and the site upon which it was built was gifted separately by the former Lord Provost of Dundee Charles Barrie, to serve the Northern Dundee area. Charles Barrie was born in Coldside and the property he gifted was part of his family’s property in that area.
Usage by the BBC
In 1948, the Provost of Dundee Archibald Powrie took the occasion of the opening of the BBC at Work exhibition in Dundee to make a bid to encourage greater diversity of the BBC radio broadcasting by recommending they host a local studio in Dundee. Powrie argued that it was easier to encourage greater participation through a local studio. There had previously been a studio hosted in Dundee at Lochee Road and Sir Wilson Garnett, member of the Scottish Advisory Council on Broadcasting, agreed to support Powrie’s proposal with a memorandum drafted with other members of the council.
The proposal was accepted by the BBC in 1949, who agreed to set up an outside broadcasting point in Dundee’s Coldside Library branch. The use of a room from the library for that purpose was agreed by the Dundee Public Library Finance Committee with the view of supporting one broadcast a week along with occasional rehearsals and test sessions. The broadcasting facilities continued operating until the 1970s.
2019 renovation
From 4 March 2019, the Coldside Library closed for six months during extensive user building accessibility renovations. The plans received approval from Historic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTI%20Club%3A%20Rally%20C%C3%B4te%20d%27Azur | GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.
Gameplay
GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that gives players a choice of eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city. It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.
Development and release
The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board. Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet. In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.
Reception
The game was a hit in arcades. In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.
Next Generation reviewed the arcade game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "in the end, GTI Club is a sufficiently immersive one-player game, but with a field in a Tag Race, it's a blast". Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.
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Arcade video games
Konami arcade games
Konami games
Racing video games
PlayStation Network games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumin%20Zhai | Shumin Zhai (Chinese simplified: 翟树民) (born 1961) is a Chinese-born American Canadian Human–computer interaction (HCI) research scientist and inventor. He is known for his research specifically on input devices and interaction methods, swipe-gesture-based touchscreen keyboards, eye-tracking interfaces, and models of human performance in human-computer interaction. His studies have contributed to both foundational models and understandings of HCI and practical user interface designs and flagship products. He previously worked at IBM where he invented the ShapeWriter text entry method for smartphones, which is a predecessor to the modern Swype keyboard. Dr. Zhai's publications have won the ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award and the IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award, among others, and he is most known for his research specifically on input devices and interaction methods, swipe-gesture-based touchscreen keyboards, eye-tracking interfaces, and models of human performance in human-computer interaction. Dr. Zhai is currently a Principal Scientist at Google where he leads and directs research, design, and development of human-device input methods and haptics systems.
Education
Born in Harbin, China in 1961, Dr. Zhai received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982, and his master's degree in Computer Science in 1984 from Xidian University. After that, he served on the faculty of the Northwest Institute of Telecommunication Engineering (now Xidian University) in Xi'an, China where he taught and conducted research in computer control systems until 1989. In 1995, received his PhD degree in Human Factors Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Career
From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Zhai was a visiting adjunct professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University, where he also supervised graduate research.
He was a consultant at Autodesk in 1995 before joining IBM Almaden Research Center in 1996.
From 1996 to 2011, he worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In January 2007, he originated and led the SHARK/ShapeWriter project at IBM Research and a start-up company that pioneered the touchscreen word-gesture keyboard paradigm, filing the first patents of this paradigm, publishing the first generation of scientific papers. In 2010, ShapeWriter was acquired by Nuance Communications, and taken off the market. During his tenure at IBM, Dr. Zhai also worked with a team of engineers from IBM and IBM vendors to bring the ScrollPoint mouse from research to market, and received a CES award and millions of users.
From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Zhai was also the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. At the time he had been deeply involved in both the conference side and the journal side of publishing HCI research as an author, reviewer, editor, committee member, and papers chair.
From 2011 till present, Dr. Zhai has been working at Google as a Principal Scientist, where he leads and d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations%20on%20television%20programming%20in%20Australia | Regulations on television programming in Australia are enforced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority to promote programming which reflects Australian identity and cultural diversity. Commercial networks must adhere to content quotas of Australian programming, in the categories of Australian content quotas, children's content quotas, commercial broadcasting quotas, community broadcasting quotas, public broadcasting quotas and subscription television quotas. Regulations are based on the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
The Australian Federal Government updated its programming requirements with an overhaul of local content quotas in late 2020.
Types of content quotas
Australian content quotas
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 requires all commercial free-to-air television licensees to broadcast an annual minimum transmission quota of 55% Australian programming between 6:00am and midnight (12:00am) on their primary channel. Commercial networks must also broadcast 1460 hours of Australian programming yearly on their non-primary channels.
The Government's overhaul of quotas in October 2020 maintained the requirement to produce 55% of Australian content on all primary networks and 1460 hours on non-primary channels. However, sub-quotas on drama, documentary and children's programming were removed; replaced with a points-based system rewarding productions of higher budgets, and limiting the amount of documentary used to meet the requirements. The updated quotas require broadcasters to reach 250 points annually, with a maximum of 50 points allowed for documentaries.
Streaming services content quotas
As of 1 January 2021, Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) providers operating in Australia are required to report their investment in Australian content to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), with no formal requirement to produce local content.
Children's content quotas
The Children's Television Standards 2009 were published as an amendment to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and enforced on 1 January 2010. The standards were implemented for Australian commercial television stations to broadcast a specified minimum amount of children's programming annually. Programs must be classified as either C or P by the ACMA before broadcast; deeming them as specifically appropriate for the needs of children at different ages. These programs differ to series with a G classification, which are aimed at families, but not specifically intended for an audience of children. Classifications for C and P programs last for five years, and any one episode may not be broadcast more than three times throughout this period. Each 30 minute broadcast of a C-classified program may not contain more than seven minutes of appropriate advertising, and P-classified programs must be broadcast without any advertisements. Programs must not contain prizes or endorsements for commercial products.
The content quotas on children's programming were enfo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic%20Pylon | Olympic Pylon is a 1956 ceramic sculpture by Australian artist Arthur Boyd. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Database on 7 May 2001.
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1956 sculptures
1956 Summer Olympics
Buildings and structures in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
Sculptures in Australia
Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne
Ceramic sculptures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler%20%28security%20vulnerability%29 | Spoiler is a security vulnerability on modern computer central processing units that use speculative execution. It exploits side-effects of speculative execution to improve the efficiency of Rowhammer and other related memory and cache attacks. According to reports, all modern Intel Core CPUs are vulnerable to the attack . AMD has stated that its processors are not vulnerable.
Spoiler was issued a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID of .
See also
Transient execution CPU vulnerability
Hardware security bug
References
External links
CVE-2019-0162 at National Vulnerability Database
Speculative execution security vulnerabilities
Hardware bugs
2019 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20technology | Data technology (may be shortened to DataTech or DT) is the technology connected to areas such as martech or adtech. Data technology sector includes solutions for data management, and products or services that are based on data generated by both human and machines. DataTech is an emerging industry that uses Artificial Intelligence, Big Data analysis and Machine Learning algorithms to improve business activities in various sectors, such as digital marketing, or business analysis (e.g. predictive analytics).
Key areas
Data technology has been used to manage big data sets, build solutions for data management and integrate data from various sources to discover new business or analytical insights from collected information.
Growing global amount of generated data (the number is forecast to reach 163 zettabytes in 2025) determines spendings on technologies that help control data assets. The big data market is expected to reach $156.72 billion by 2026. Spendings on data, including data technologies, in digital marketing reach $26.0 B in 2019 globally.
Data technologies are developed to help manage data generated by human or by machines, which will be 200 billion by 2020. Data technologies aim to manage growing data streams, get valuable insights from data and find solutions to integrate the most important data sources for companies and organizations. Therefore, key areas for DataTech sector are:
Data Management Technologies - technologies and platforms for managing growing sets of data, such as data generated by customers (1st, 2nd and 3rd party data). Common platforms for managing data are Data Management Platform or Customer Data Platform.
Data Integration - services that match the data from two or more sources to get more information about stored data. If company collects user data in Customer-relationship management system, it can enrich it with the data from external sources to create 360-customer view (by integrating data, the company will know e.g. interests, demography and intentions of users who are in their databases).
Data Consulting - services based on analysing customer data and discovering insights from big data sets. It uses Machine Learning algorithms to find useful information from chaotic data.
Technologies for AdTech sector - products and services that support digital marketing environment, including SSP, Demand-side platform and services used for targeting the right group in online campaigns.
Building strategic data ecosystem - service that allow to build data ecosystem in organization, by identifying and choosing the right data sources, integrating data and preparing adequate analytical algorithms to discover new insights about customers.
Internet of Things - products and services that helps store and manage data generated by machines.
Notes
References
Business analysis
Digital marketing
Big data |
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