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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Boltasseva | Alexandra Boltasseva (born January 11, 1978) is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
Education and Career
Boltasseva studied her bachelor and masters in physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, completing her research projects on quantum-well lasers at the Lebedev Physical Institute. She moved to the Technical University of Denmark for her PhD studies in nanophotonics and nanofabrication, working with Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi. Following her PhD, Boltasseva worked at two photonics start-up companies before returning to the Technical University of Denmark as a postdoc and subsequently an associate professor. In 2008 she moved to Purdue University and is currently the Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as holding a courtesy appointment in Materials Engineering.
Research
Prof. A. Boltasseva’s team specializes in nano- and quantum photonics, plasmonics, optical metamaterials, optical materials, and nanofabrication. The central theme of Boltasseva’s research is finding new ways for the discovery, realization, and machine-learning-assisted optimization of nanophotonic structures - from material growth to advanced photonic designs and device demonstrations. Prof. Boltasseva’s team aims at developing new platforms to unlock properties of nanophotonic structures in previously unavailable designs and wavelength regimes and to enable new generations of low-loss, tunable, reconfigurable, semiconductor-compatible devices for applications in on-chip circuitry, information processing, data recording/storage, sensing, medical imaging and therapy, energy conversion and quantum information technologies.
Awards, honors, memberships
A. Boltasseva's research earned her a number of awards:
2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society "for important contributions to nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials, having made a broad impact in the multidisciplinary area merging optics, material science, and nanotechnology".
In 2021, for the second consecutive year named in The Highly Cited Researchers™ list by Clarivate™.
2021 Fellow of the Materials Research Society "For her contributions to plasmonic and optical metamaterials including as plasmonic waveguides for on-chip circuitry, high-temperature nanophotonics, optical structures with extremely low refractive index, and tunable plasmonics"
2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
2019 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist
2017 Fellow of The International Society For Optics And Photonic (SPIE)
2015 Fellow of The Opt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxana%20Geambasu | Roxana Geambașu is a Romanian-American computer scientist who is an associate professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. The topics of her research include cloud computing, security and privacy, and operating systems.
Education
Geambașu is originally from Ploiești in Romania, and graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2005, as valedictorian of Computer Science and Engineering.
As a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, Geambașu came to be supported in her research by Google as one of their first Google PhD Fellows. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011, with three advisors, Steve Gribble, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Hank Levy. Her dissertation was Regaining Control over Cloud and Mobile Data.
Contributions
As a graduate student, Geambașu led the Vanish project for handling "self-destructing data".
In 2014, a team at Columbia led by Geambașu developed a tool called XRay for detecting correlations between ads shown to people and their personal data. With it, they found evidence that an advertising tool used by Gmail until November 2014 targeted ads based on sensitive personal information—something its policies, both those in place in 2014 and those in place now, say it does not do.
Recognition
Popular Science named Geambașu in their "brilliant ten" in 2014 for her work tracking corporate use of personal data. She was given a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century Romanian scientists
21st-century Romanian women
American computer scientists
Columbia University faculty
Expatriate academics in the United States
Living people
People from Ploiești
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Romanian women computer scientists
University of Washington alumni
Sloan Research Fellows
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Chappell | Alex Chappell ( Corddry; born October 10, 1988) is an American journalist for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) covering the Washington Nationals. She also works as a sideline reporter for ESPN and for SEC Network for college football coverage.
Early life and education
Chappell grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father, Phillip Corddry, was a left-handed pitcher for the University of Maryland and spent the 1969 through 1972 seasons with the Boston Red Sox organization. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School and the University of Alabama, and while in college she interned at WJLA in Washington, D.C.
Chappell became a Washington Nationals fan in 2005, when the team moved to Washington, D.C., from Montreal – where they had played as the Montreal Expos from 1969 through 2004 – and she admired former MASN field reporters Amber Theoharis and Kristina Akra (now Kristina Fitzpatrick) during Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals broadcasts, respectively.
Career
After graduation from the University of Alabama, Chappell worked as a sports reporter for a CBS affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama. From there she worked briefly as a reporter on Redskins Nation on NBC Sports Washington, as a sports reporter for WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts, and as a sideline reporter for ESPN for College Football. She worked for TBS during the Major League Baseball postseason, and was the pre- and post-game reporter for Bally Sports Florida covering the Tampa Bay Rays during the 2017 season. She became MASN's on-field reporter for broadcasts of Washington Nationals games in 2019 and 2020. When MASN dropped the field reporter position from its coverage of Nationals games beginning in 2021, the Nationals hired her as a substitute anchor for their pregame and postgame shows.
Personal life
Chappell married Scott Chappell, an attorney, in January 2019. Actors and former Daily Show Correspondents Rob Corddry and Nate Corddry are her cousins. On May 31, 2022, Chappell announced via Instagram that she is expecting a baby girl due in November.
References
American women television journalists
1988 births
Living people
University of Alabama alumni
Mass media people from Bethesda, Maryland
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football announcers
21st-century American women
Walt Whitman High School (Maryland) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Takeo%20Magruder | Michael Takeo Magruder (born 1974, USA/UK) is an artist who uses digital technologies to create work that connects with real-time data, virtual worlds and networked mobile devices. His work has appeared at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, France; and what is now called the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Japan. Magruder's work is included in the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University. In 2010 Magruder represented the UK at Manifesta 8: the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2013-14 he was a Leverhulme Trust artist in residence, which culminated in his solo exhibition, 'De/coding the Apocalypse'. Magruder won the Lumen Prize Immersive Environment Award in 2015 for A New Jerusalem, which was a work in 'De/coding the Apocalypse'. Magruder was the first runner up in the British Library Labs Competition 2016 and the British Library Labs 2017 Artistic Award Winner. Magruder's solo exhibition currently at the British Library, Imaginary Cities, employs the digital map archives at the British Library.
Selected works
<event>
<event> was commissioned by Turbulence.org in 2004. The work has been described by Jo-Anne Green, as engaging "with media saturation and its subsequent devaluation of information; copyright — who actually owns the information, the event that triggered it, the history it becomes?; is it the ‘truth’?" The source material of the work was "headline news articles parsed from http://news.bbc.co.uk/ between 29.12.2003 and 01.02.2004 from which samples of audio, image, text, and video information were extracted.".
[FALLUJAH . IRAQ . 31/03/2004]
The work concerns events that occurred when four American mercenaries were ambushed and shot or beaten to death by Iraqi insurgents. The source material employed in creating the work included censored AP source footage from www.thememoryhole.org and public domain news articles from www.bbc.co.uk. The work was exhibited at FILE: Internacional Electronic Language Festival and in Turbulence Artist Studios. It was selected by Gustav Metzger for EASTinternational 05.
Encoded Presence [auto-portrait of E. Puente]
Encoded Presence [auto-portrait of E. Puente] was one of twenty finalists for the inaugural Noka/Darklight Pocket Movies Challenge in 2005. The work concerned the "re-purposing of the mobile phone from a mundane communication device to a cinematic instrument". Encoded Presence [auto-portrait of E. Puente] also appeared in Pocket Films: Festival international de films réalisés avec téléphone mobile at the Centre Pompidou in 2007.
re_collection
Magruder's work, re_collection was included in the December 2005 exhibition at Lumen Eclipse, which is a public media arts gallery located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The work was recommended to curator Ryan Hovenweep by Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green of Turbulence.org. On Magruder's website, he describes how the work consists of a person "recorded witho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Metal%20Men%20members | This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are members of the Metal Men.
References
Content in this article was copied from DC Comics Database, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.
Lists of DC Comics characters
DC Comics superheroes
Members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20districts%20of%20Kosovo%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the 7 districts of Kosovo by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Kosovo
Kosovo
Economy of Kosovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20connection | Computer connection or Computer connections may refer to:
The Computer Connection, a 1975 science fiction novel by Alfred Bester
Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry, a 1993 book by Gary Kildall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Midlands | Capital Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Birmingham, parts of the Black Country and the East Midlands from studios at Brindleyplace in Birmingham City Centre.
The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between Capital Birmingham and Capital East Midlands.
Overview
The regional station originally broadcast as four separate stations.
Choice FM began broadcasting in Birmingham on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously held by Buzz FM. It was relaunched as Galaxy in 1999 and Capital Birmingham in January 2011.
Radio Trent in Nottinghamshire, Leicester Sound in Leicestershire and Ram FM in Derbyshire operated three separate localised services before they were merged and rebranded as part of the Capital network in January 2011.
On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the two Capital stations would be merged, following Ofcom's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio.
As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show from Birmingham on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the East and West Midlands.
The station retains studios in Birmingham and regional offices in Nottingham.
Programming
All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.
Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Birmingham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, presented by Tom Watts and Claire Chambers. An additional Afro-Caribbean music programme airs from 2-4am Friday mornings in Birmingham only, presented by Capital XTRA presenter, Robert Bruce. An additional music programme airs from 2-5pm on Weekends also in Birmingham only, presented by CBBC's Kia Pegg.
News
Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during Capital Breakfast on weekdays. Separate bulletins are produced for the East and West Midlands.
The Birmingham newsroom also produce bulletins for sister stations Heart West Midlands and Smooth West Midlands. The Nottingham newsroom also produces bulletins for Smooth East Midlands (owned by Communicorp).
References
External links
Capital Birmingham
Capital East Midlands
Midlands
Radio stations established in 2019
Radio stations in the West Midlands (region)
Radio stations in Birmingham
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20South | Capital South is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Hampshire and Sussex from studios in Segensworth, Fareham.
The station launched on 6 April 2019, following the merger of Capital Brighton and Capital South Coast.
Overview
The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations.
Ocean Sound began broadcasting to Hampshire in October 1986, after taking over the licence previously held by Radio Victory. The FM service for the West of the region was subsequently split off and relaunched as Power FM in December 1988, before becoming part of the Galaxy network in November 2008 and latterly, the Capital network in January 2011.
Surf 107 began broadcasting to Brighton and Hove in March 1998, subsequently relaunching as 'Juice 107.2' in 2001. The station was sold to Global from UKRD on 17 January 2018 for an undisclosed amount. The station closed down at midnight on 14 August 2018 and relaunched part of the Capital network in September 2018.
On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the two Capital stations would be merged, following Ofcom's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio.
As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show from Fareham on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the two areas.
Programming
All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.
Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Fareham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, presented by Miranda Burns.
News
Global's Fareham newsroom broadcasts localised news updates hourly from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during Capital Breakfast on weekdays. Separate bulletins are produced for Hampshire and Sussex. The Fareham newsroom also produces bulletins for Heart South.
References
External links
South Coast page
Brighton page
South
Radio stations established in 2019
Radio stations in Hampshire
Radio stations in Sussex
2019 establishments in England
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MZ-2500 | The MZ-2500, also known as the Super MZ, is an 8-bit personal computer released on 1 October 1985 as part of the Sharp MZ series. It is a successor to the MZ-2000/2200 and a direct successor to the MZ-80B From the previous generation. The MZ-2000 was a model that was given significant functions along with a faster processing speed. It is also the final model of the entire 8-bit MZ series with its architecture. It is sometimes referred to as the best 8-bit machine along with the 6809 FM77AV and the MB-S1. In Japanese computer magazines, the MZ-2500 was also called 'The Phoenix'. Its successor was the Sharp MZ-2861 which has a compatible mode and a newly developed 16-bit mode. The development code is LEY and can be found in the circuit diagram.
Overview
Clean Design
As with the standard MZ model, the main unit does not have the system program on onboard ROM. However, while the old model included only the IPL, a program for controlling advanced hardware is included as an IOCS and several repairs have been made. One of the functions can call a specific location, so an incompatible element is specified for an application that addresses the module in the ROM and calls it directly without calling the function as a reference.
2 types of BASIC attached
The instruction set BASIC-S25, which the typical MZ user was familiar with, and the BASIC-M25, which has a Microsoft- type instruction set that was already at the forefront of the BASIC environment at that time, was prepared. It is not a conventional model, and Hu-BASIC was adopted in the company's departmental series but has become another implementation of BASIC.
CPU clock improvement
The MZ-2500 is equipped with the Z80A and operates at 4 MHz, but the MZ-2500 is equipped with the Z80B, and except for some, it has 6 MHz operation with one wait during the M1 cycle.
Memory management enhancements
While the old model only allowed one to assign a specific address to another space by bank switching to open a window with text and graphics VRAM, the MZ-2500 is equipped with a memory controller like the MB-S1, etc. It was designed to be able to allocate an arbitrary space in units of 8 KB for a memory space divided into eight. This has made it possible to manage 256 KB of main memory and 128 KB of graphics VRAM, and by enabling free allocation, the software can be mapped by mapping video memory in the same arrangement as other models. The porting of the design address space is 512 KB. Various ROMs and RAMs are arranged in this space.
Equipped with Argo Key
An Algo function has been added to BASIC due to the aforementioned increase in the degree of freedom of memory mapping and capacity. The Algo function is a key with the mark of the Argo, which is a symbol of the series, that is used as a function to call the built-in application. The "Algo" spelling came from "Algorithm". Close to the resident program, apart from the loaded program, it was possible to start a calculator or the like by key operation a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20computer | Paper computer may refer to:
Papanek paper computer (Bisociation tool), a paper computer by Victor Papanek for design work
WDR paper computer, an educational register machine computer constructed of paper
PaperWindows, a bendable electronic paper computer by the Human Media Lab
Electronic paper
Flexible display
Digital paper
Ace of Aces (picture book game)
See also
The Computer Paper, a Canadian computer magazine
Computer paper, continuous form paper for use with dot-matrix and line printers
Calculator paper, paper rolls used by printing electronic calculators
Paper calculator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Mongolia%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Mongolia by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Mongolia
Human Development Index
Regions of Mongolia by Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digico%20Limited |
Digico was a British computer company founded in 1965 by Keith Trickett and Avo Hiiemae, two ex-ICL electronics engineers. Former MP Eric Lubbock became chairman in 1969. The company was based in Letchworth initially, moving to a new factory in Stevenage in 1973 and employing about 90 staff.
Digico's first product was a laboratory data-logging and spectrum analyser hardware system named DIGIAC. This product had been developed before Digico was formed, so was an immediate source of income. Digico soon developed a 16-bit minicomputer series, the Micro 16, for which it was best known for.
Digico Micro 16
Digico quickly started developing a general purpose single accumulator 16-bit minicomputer, the Micro 16, which became available in 1966. Digico was assisted by the Ministry of Technology and the National Research Development Corporation in this development. The first version produced was the Digico Micro 16S (1968), followed by the 16P (1970), then the 16V in 1972.
The Digico Micro 16V had a standard memory of 4k words with 950 nano second cycle time, expandable to 64k words, and able to support up to 64 external interfaces. It had an optional microprogrammed floating-point unit. The Micro 16V was supported by a simple and flexibly sized executive that could optionally support multiprogramming, disc files and teletypes. The Micro 16V used semiconductor memory, rather than magnetic-core memory as in the previous models.
Digico primarily sold into the data logging market until 1969, when it expanded into areas like process control, stock control and front-end processors for the ICL 1900 mainframe. In 1974 Digico had a turnover of over £1 million (equivalent to £ million in ) and in 1977 well over £1 million.
In 1978 the Digico Micro 16E stackable minicomputer, which was well suited to an office environment, won a Design Council Award for Engineering Products.
See also
Computer Technology Limited
PDP-8
References
External links
Digico Micro 16V, Time-Line Computer Archive (with extensive photos)
1965 establishments in England
Companies based in Herefordshire
Computer companies established in 1965
Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom
Minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Uruguay%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Uruguay by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Uruguay
Human Development Index
Uruguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Love%20You%20Two%20episodes | Love You Two is a 2019 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV on April 22, 2019, replacing TODA One I Love.
Series overview
Episodes
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
September 2019
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPOM-CD | KPOM-CD (channel 14) is a low-power, Class A television station in Ontario, California, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Catchy Comedy. Owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, the station broadcasts from a transmitter, shared with KSFV-CD, at the Mount Harvard Radio Site in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Due to its low-power status, KPOM-CD's broadcasting radius does not reach all of Greater Los Angeles. Therefore, the station shares Catchy Comedy with the fourth subchannel of KTTV (channel 11).
History
The station was founded on August 23, 1989. Originally licensed to Indio, California, it carried Retro TV programming via KRET-LP (channel 45). It later became a Spanish religious music channel, then an affiliate of ShopHQ with KDUO (channel 43) for the Palm Springs area.
In January 2022, Weigel Broadcasting removed KPOM-CD's subchannels and replacing the programming on main channel 14.1 with a simulcast of MeTV Plus on KAZA 54.3. On February 28, 2022, the MeTV Plus simulcast ended and was replaced with KPOM-CD's own feed of Decades. With this change, 14.1 was upgraded to 720p HD. On March 28, 2022, Story Television launched, replacing Decades. On May 26, 2022, Story Television moved to sister station KAZA 54.2, with Decades returning to KPOM-CD 14.1. On August 1, 2022, KPOM-CD added paid programming from OnTV4U on digital subchannel 14.12.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
POM
POM-CD
Weigel Broadcasting
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in California
Catchy Comedy affiliates
OnTV4U affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Gethner | Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper A stroll through the Gaussian Primes.
Career
Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University, in 1992; her dissertation, Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, with a dissertation Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings supervised by Nick Pippenger and David G. Kirkpatrick. Gethner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Denver.
Research
Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an Escher-like tessellation of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on wallpaper patterns and on converting music into visual patterns.
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Graph theorists
Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
University of Colorado Denver faculty
1960 births
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Leonard | Kathryn Leonard is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Leonard received a Henry L. Alder Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2012. She received the AWM Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015. She served as the AWM Meetings Coordinator from 2015 - 2018. She was President of the AWM and is now AWM Past-President. She is also director of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. She is currently on the American Mathematical Society Nominating Committee.
Leonard's research focuses on geometric modeling with applications to computer vision, computer graphics, and data science. She has received multiple major grants, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Leonard and Misha Collins, together with several other collaborators, are authors of "The 2D shape structure dataset", an article on a crowd-sourced database on the structure of shapes.
References
External links
21st-century women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women mathematicians
California State University Channel Islands faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXFA-TV | DXFA-DTV/One Media TV43 is a TV station owned by Global Satellite Technology Services and currently an affiliate of One Media Network in the Philippines. Its studios and transmitter are located at Lamisahan Street, Manicahan, Zamboanga City.
History of GNN TV43 Zamboanga
GNN TV43 Zamboanga/FUBC was founded by Ma. Clara "Caling" L. Lobregat and Basilio "Bong" Apolinario II.
It brought to Zamboanga City its first FM station and its first color television station in 1977.
The television station, DWLA 9Alive, was characterized by 9 "lovely" ladies.
The network is on a massive expansion drive.
In 1995, its original TV station, VHF channel 9 in Zamboanga city was sold to GMA.
However it operates UHF 43 in Zamboanga.
FUBC's FM station, DXLA-FM 99.5 MHz, and its AM station, DXRH-AM 1080 kHz have moved to Basilan/ARMM.
However, its present goal seems to reinvent itself in the UHF spectrum nationwide rather than expand in the radio business.
On September 6, 2021, GNN TV-43 Zamboanga became the Digital TV broadcast.
Personalities
Cathy Veloso Santillan (one of the original 9Alive Girls who became a broadcaster and NewsWatch anchor of RPN-9 in the early 1990s)
Erico Basilio "Erbie" Fabian (Zamboanga City District II Congressman)
Pal Marquez (ABS-CBN Correspondent for Western Mindanao and former anchor)
See also
Global News Network
References
Television stations in Zamboanga City
Television channels and stations established in 1977
1977 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282019%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 32nd season of Home and Away began airing from 18 February 2019. Mackenzie Booth was introduced in June, along with Ian and Wendy Shaw. August saw the debuts of Alex Neilson and Teresa Masterson. Jade Lennox made her first appearance in October. Ari Parata was introduced in November.
Mackenzie Booth
Mackenzie Booth, played by Emily Weir, made her first appearance on 13 June 2019. Weir's involvement in the show had been made public months in advance due to paparazzi publishing photographs of her filming at Palm Beach. A reporter from Soap World even guessed that the character was named MacKenzie Booth and would be likely be the half-sister of established character Dean Thompson (Patrick O'Connor). Weir's casting and character details were officially announced on 10 June. Weir was attending an audition for another acting job when her agent called to inform her that she had won the role of Mackenzie. She commented, "I just screamed and started running around like a mad woman. It was such an overwhelming feeling; a dream come true." Mackenzie is the new owner of Summer Bay restaurant Salt. Describing her character, Weir said "Mackenzie is a very fierce and independent, smart woman. We don't really know what her motivation is for coming to the Bay – there is quite an element of mystery there." Jackie Brygel of New Idea also noted that buying the restaurant does not seem like Mackenzie's only reason for moving to the Bay, and dubbed the character "mysterious" and "fiery". On 20 June, it was officially revealed that Mackenzie is Dean's half-sister.
Ian and Wendy Shaw
Ian Shaw, played by Frankie J. Holden, and Wendy Shaw, played by Amanda Muggleton, made their first appearances on 27 June 2019. Of his casting, Holden stated "The role came about like everything seems to come about for me – someone, somewhere thought it would be a good idea to get me involved in the show." He also joked that he was offered the role because he had played a farmer on A Place to Call Home for six years, and the producers might have thought he seemed "like a bloke off the land". Muggleton said she was "thrilled" to be cast in Home and Away, adding "Thirty years was a long time to wait, but it was worth it! The crew, cast and creatives are so established and professional – it was made so easy." Ian and Wendy are Robbo's (Jake Ryan) parents. He brings his fiancée Jasmine Delaney (Sam Frost) to visit them at the family farm. However, Wendy is "protective" of her son and tells Jasmine that she does not approve of her marrying Robbo. Ian also shares his concerns with Robbo, and he and Wendy later tell him that they want him to move back to the farm.
Robbo visits his parents at their farm to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Manchester%20and%20Lancashire | Capital Manchester and Lancashire is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester and eastern & central parts of Lancashire from studios at the XYZ Building in Spinningfields, Manchester.
The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between Capital Manchester and 2BR.
Overview
The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations.
Kiss 102 began broadcasting to Greater Manchester in October 1994, after taking over the licence previously held by Sunset 102. After being sold to Chrysalis, it rebranded as Galaxy 102 in 1997, before becoming a part of the Capital network in January 2011.
2BR began broadcasting to the Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn areas in July 2000. It was merged in June 2016 with The Bee to form a larger station under the 2BR moniker, also covering the Blackburn and Preston areas. The station was sold by UKRD to Global in July 2018.
On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the two Capital stations would be merged, following Ofcom's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio.
As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour drivetime show from Manchester on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the two areas.
In late May 2021, transmissions covering the Chorley area moved from 96.3 MHz to 102.8 MHz.
Programming
All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.
Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Manchester studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, presented by Rob Ellis, Rachel Burke-Davies and Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas.
News
Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during Capital Breakfast on weekdays. Separate bulletins are produced for Greater Manchester, Blackburn and Preston and Burnley and Pendle.
The Manchester newsroom also produces bulletins for Heart North West, Smooth North West and XS Manchester (owned by Communicorp).
References
External links
Manchester and Lancashire
Radio stations established in 2019
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region%20%28model%20checking%29 | In model checking, a field of computer science, a region is a convex polytope in for some dimension , and more precisely a zone, satisfying some minimality property. The regions partition .
The set of zones depends on a set of constraints of the form , , and , with and some variables, and a constant. The regions are defined such that if two vectors and belong to the same region, then they satisfy the same constraints of . Furthermore, when those vectors are considered as a tuple of clocks, both vectors have the same set of possible futures. Intuitively, it means that any timed propositional temporal logic-formula, or timed automaton or signal automaton using only the constraints of can not distinguish both vectors.
The set of region allows to create the region automaton, which is a directed graph in which each node is a region, and each edge ensure that is a possible future of . Taking a product of this region automaton and of a timed automaton which accepts a language creates a finite automaton or a Büchi automaton which accepts untimed . In particular, it allows to reduce the emptiness problem for to the emptiness problem for a finite or Büchi automaton. This technique is used for example by the software UPPAAL.
Definition
Let a set of clocks. For each let . Intuitively, this number represents an upper bound on the values to which the clock can be compared. The definition of a region over the clocks of uses those numbers 's. Three equivalent definitions are now given.
Given a clock assignment , denotes the region in which belongs. The set of regions is denoted by .
Equivalence of clocks assignment
The first definition allow to easily test whether two assignments belong to the same region.
A region may be defined as an equivalence class for some equivalence relation. Two clocks assignments and are equivalent if they satisfy the following constraints:
iff , for each and an integer, and ~ being one of the following relation =, < or ≤.
iff , for each , , , being the fractional part of the real , and ~ being one of the following relation =, < or ≤.
The first kind of constraints ensures that and satisfies the same constraints. Indeed, if and , then only the second assignment satisfies . On the other hand, if and , both assignment satisfies exactly the same set of constraint, since the constraints use only integral constants.
The second kind of constraints ensures that the future of two assignments satisfy the same constraints. For example, let and . Then, the constraint is eventually satisfied by the future of without clock reset, but not by the future of without clock reset.
Explicit definition of a region
While the previous definition allow to test whether two assignments belong to the same region, it does not allow to easily represents a region as a data structure. The third definition given below allow to give a canonical encoding of a region.
A region can be explicitly defined as a zone, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karina%20Morgenstern | Karina Morgenstern (born 12 February 1968 in Bonn) is a German physicist. She is a professor of physical chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Education
She studied physics and computer science at the universities of Bonn and Knoxville. She was awarded a diploma in physics in 1993 (Forschungszentrum Jülich and University of Bonn), and a diploma in computer science in 1994 (GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik and University of Bonn). She then obtained a doctoral degree in surface physics in 1996 (Forschungszentrum Jülich and University of Bonn) and completed her habilitation in experimental physics in 2002 (Free University of Berlin).
Career
Morgenstern was a researcher at the University of Aarhus in 1996, then at the University of Lausanne from 1996 to 1999 and at the Free University of Berlin from 1999 to 2003. She then became a professor of solid state physics at the University of Hannover in 2005 and from 2012 she was a professor of physical chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Since 2018, she has been the director of the DFG graduate school "Confinement-controlled Chemistry" and the dean of the department of chemistry and biochemistry.
Awards and fellowships
Günther Leibfried Prize 1997 of Forschungszentrums Jülich for an outstanding doctoral thesis.
Hertha Sponer Prize 2002 of the German Physical Society for dynamic scanning tunneling microscopy of nanostructures, which she also dealt with in her thesis.
Heisenberg fellowship 2003–2005 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Selected bibliography
References
External links
Webpage of her chair in Bochum (including CV)
Living people
1968 births
University of Bonn alumni
Free University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum
German women physicists
Academic staff of the University of Hanover
German expatriates in Denmark
German expatriates in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPLL%28T%29 | In computer science, DPLL(T) is a framework for determining the satisfiability of SMT problems. The algorithm extends the original SAT-solving DPLL algorithm with the ability to reason about an arbitrary theory T. At a high level, the algorithm works by transforming an SMT problem into a SAT formula where atoms are replaced with Boolean variables. The algorithm repeatedly finds a satisfying valuation for the SAT problem, consults a theory solver to check consistency under the domain-specific theory, and then (if a contradiction is found) refines the SAT formula with this information.
Many modern SMT solvers, such as Microsoft's Z3 Theorem Prover, use DPLL(T) to power their core solving capabilities.
References
Automated theorem proving
SAT solvers
Constraint programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvanite | Alvanite (IMA symbol: Alv) is a zinc nickel aluminium vanadate mineral with the chemical formula O. It was originally discovered in the Karatau Mountains.
References
External links
Alvanite data sheet
Alvanite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Zinc minerals
Nickel minerals
Aluminium minerals
Vanadate minerals
Minerals described in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuanite | Apuanite (IMA symbol: Apu) is a rare iron antimony mineral with the chemical formula FeFeSbOS. Its type locality is the Province of Lucca, Italy.
References
External links
Apuanite data sheet
Apuanite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Iron(II,III) minerals
Antimony minerals
Oxygen compounds
Sulfur(−II) compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramayoite | Aramayoite (IMA symbol: Ary) is a mineral with the chemical formula . Its type locality is Sud Chichas, Potosí, Bolivia.
References
External links
Aramayoite data sheet
Aramayoite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Silver minerals
Antimony minerals
Bismuth minerals
Sulfur(−II) compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentobaumhauerite | Argentobaumhauerite (IMA symbol: Abha) is a rare mineral with the chemical formula AgPbAsS. Its type locality is the Binn valley in Switzerland.
References
External links
Argentobaumhauerite data sheet
Argentobaumhauerite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Silver minerals
Lead minerals
Arsenic minerals
Sulfur(−II) compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbecasite | Asbecasite is a calcium titanium beryllium arsenite silicate mineral with the chemical formula . Its type locality is the Binn valley in Switzerland.
References
External links
Asbecasite data sheet
Asbecasite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Calcium minerals
Titanium minerals
Beryllium minerals
Tin minerals
Arsenites
Silicate minerals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschamalmite | Aschamalmite is a mineral with the chemical formula PbBiS. Its type locality is the High Tauern in Austria.
References
External links
Aschamalmite data sheet
Aschamalmite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Lead minerals
Bismuth minerals
Sulfur(−II) compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelestite | Atelestite is an arsenate mineral with the chemical formula Bi(AsO)O(OH). Its type locality is Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany.
References
External links
Atelestite data sheet
Atelestite on the Handbook of Mineralogy
Bismuth minerals
Arsenate minerals
Hydroxide minerals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vkernel | A virtual kernel architecture (vkernel) is an operating system virtualisation paradigm where kernel code can be compiled to run in the user space, for example, to ease debugging of various kernel-level components, in addition to general-purpose virtualisation and compartmentalisation of system resources. It is used by DragonFly BSD in its vkernel implementation since DragonFly 1.7, having been first revealed in , and first released in the stable branch with DragonFly 1.8 in .
The long-term goal, in addition to easing kernel development, is to make it easier to support internet-connected computer clusters without compromising local security.
Similar concepts exist in other operating systems as well; in Linux, a similar virtualisation concept is known as user-mode Linux; whereas in NetBSD since the summer of 2007, it has been the initial focus of the rump kernel infrastructure.
The virtual kernel concept is nearly the exact opposite of the unikernel concept — with vkernel, kernel components get to run in userspace to ease kernel development and debugging, supported by a regular operating system kernel; whereas with a unikernel, userspace-level components get to run directly in kernel space for extra performance, supported by baremetal hardware or a hardware virtualisation stack. However, both vkernels and unikernels can be used for similar tasks as well, for example, to self-contain software to a virtualised environment with low overhead. In fact, NetBSD's rump kernel, originally having a focus of running kernel components in userspace, has since shifted into the unikernel space as well (going after the anykernel moniker for supporting both paradigms).
The vkernel concept is different from a FreeBSD jail in that a jail is only meant for resource isolation, and cannot be used to develop and test new kernel functionality in the userland, because each jail is sharing the same kernel. (DragonFly, however, still has FreeBSD jail support as well.)
In DragonFly, the vkernel can be thought of as a first-class computer architecture, comparable to i386 or amd64, and, according to Matthew Dillon circa 2007, can be used as a starting point for porting DragonFly BSD to new architectures.
DragonFly's vkernel is supported by the host kernel through new system calls that help manage virtual memory address space (vmspace) — vmspace_create() et al., as well as extensions to several existing system calls like mmap's madvise — mcontrol.
See also
user-mode Linux
rump kernel
References
External links
2006 software
BSD software
Computer architecture
Computer performance
DragonFly BSD
Free software programmed in C
Free virtualization software
Operating system kernels
Operating system security
Operating system technology
System administration
Virtual machines
Virtualization software
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20memory | In quantum computing, quantum memory is the quantum-mechanical version of ordinary computer memory. Whereas ordinary memory stores information as binary states (represented by "1"s and "0"s), quantum memory stores a quantum state for later retrieval. These states hold useful computational information known as qubits. Unlike the classical memory of everyday computers, the states stored in quantum memory can be in a quantum superposition, giving much more practical flexibility in quantum algorithms than classical information storage.
Quantum memory is essential for the development of many devices in quantum information processing, including a synchronization tool that can match the various processes in a quantum computer, a quantum gate that maintains the identity of any state, and a mechanism for converting predetermined photons into on-demand photons. Quantum memory can be used in many aspects, such as quantum computing and quantum communication. Continuous research and experiments have enabled quantum memory to realize the storage of qubits.
Background and history
The interaction of quantum radiation with multiple particles has sparked scientific interest over the past decade. Quantum memory is one such field, mapping the quantum state of light onto a group of atoms and then restoring it to its original shape. Quantum memory is a key element in information processing, such as optical quantum computing and quantum communication, while opening a new way for the foundation of light-atom interaction. However, restoring the quantum state of light is no easy task. While impressive progress has been made, researchers are still working to make it happen.
Quantum memory based on the quantum exchange to store photon qubits has been demonstrated to be possible. Kessel and Moiseev discussed quantum storage in the single photon state in 1993. The experiment was analyzed in 1998 and demonstrated in 2003. In summary, the study of quantum storage in the single photon state can be regarded as the product of the classical optical data storage technology proposed in 1979 and 1982, an idea inspired by the high density of data storage in the mid-1970s. Optical data storage can be achieved by using absorbers to absorb different frequencies of light, which are then directed to beam space points and stored.
Types
Atomic Gas Quantum Memory
Normal, classical optical signals are transmitted by varying the amplitude of light. In this case, a piece of paper, or a computer hard disk, can be used to store information on the lamp. In the quantum information scenario, however, the information may be encoded according to the amplitude and phase of the light. For some signals, you cannot measure both the amplitude and phase of the light without interfering with the signal. To store quantum information, light itself needs to be stored without being measured. An atomic gas quantum memory is recording the state of light into the atomic cloud. When light's information is stor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaissar%20Broadcasting%20Network | Kaissar Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at 926-B, San Jose St., Brgy. Mauway, Mandaluyong. KBNI operates a number of stations across regional places in the Philippines.
KBNI stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
Television
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed%20Valley%20Forest%20Park | Tweed Valley Forest Park is forest park in the border region of Scotland. It consists of a network of eight forests managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) spread along the valley of the River Tweed, and which are managed with an emphasis on recreational facilities for visitors.
The forest park was established in 2002, and covers .
At each location there is a car park and waymarked trails for visitors. Some of the site have more facilities, such as toilets and mountain bike trails. The eight forests are:
Caberston
Cademuir
Cardrona
Glenkinnon
Glentress - also part of the 7stanes network of mountain bike centres
Innerleithen - also part of the 7stanes network of mountain bike centres
Thornielee
Yair
References
External links
Tweed Valley Forest Park - Forestry and Land Scotland
Forests and woodlands of Scotland
Protected areas in the Scottish Borders
Tourist attractions in the Scottish Borders
Forest parks of Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo%20Navarro | Gonzalo Navarro Badino (born June 9, 1969) is a full professor of computer science at the University of Chile and ACM Distinguished Member, whose interests include algorithms and data structures, data compression and text searching. He also participates in the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).. He obtained his PhD at the University of Chile in 1998 under the supervision of Ricardo Baeza-Yates with the thesis Approximate Text Searching, then worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Esko Ukkonen and Maxime Crochemore.
He is one of the most prolific and highly cited researchers in Latin America, having authored the books Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings and Compact Data Structures, around 25 book chapters, over 160 journal articles and over 240 conference papers. He is editor in chief of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and a member of the editorial board of Information Systems, and has been guest editor of special issues of ACM SIGSPATIAL, the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Information Systems and Algorithmica.
He created the Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) in 2005 and co-created the conference SISAP in 2008; has chaired or co-chaired SPIRE 2001, SCCC 2004, SPIRE 2005, SIGIR 2005 (posters), IFIP TCS 2006, SISAP 2008, SISAP 2012, LATIN 2016, SPIRE 2018 and CPM 2018; served on the steering committees of SPIRE, LATIN and SISAP; and has given around 50 invited talks, including 12 plenary talks and 5 tutorials in international conferences.
Education
He studied for his Licenciate in Informatics (1989–1992) (5 years plus thesis) from Latin American School of Informatics (ESLAI, Argentina). His thesis was: “A Study on Control Structures”. His advisor was Prof. Jorge Aguirre (ESLAI and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina).
He studied for his Licenciate in Informatics (1986–1993) (5 years plus thesis), at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP, Argentina). His thesis was: “MediaCore: A Multimedia Interface Composition Toolkit”, Advisor: Prof. Jorge Sanz (IBM Argentina and Almaden Research Center).
He received a MSc. in computer science (1994–1995), from Faculty of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile with Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile) as his advisor. His thesis was: “A Language for Queries on Structure and Contents of Textual Databases”.
He received his PhD in computer science (1995–1998), from Faculty of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile under advisor: Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile). His thesis was: “Approximate Text Searching”.
Awards and distinctions
2022: ACM Fellow
2018: ACM Distinguished Member
2016: Article "On compressing and indexing repetitive sequences", with Sebastian Kreft, included in the Virtual Special Issue "40th Anniversary of Theoretical Computer Science -- Top Cited Articles: 1975–2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Roaming%20Agreement | The Regional Roaming Agreement, formally the Agreement on the price reduction of the roaming services in public mobile communications networks in the Western Balkans region, regulates the imposition of roaming charges within the countries in the Western Balkans; Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The agreement covers both the charges mobile network operators can impose on their subscribers for using telephone and data services outside of the network's member state, and the wholesale rates networks can charge each other to allow their subscribers access to each other's networks.
The agreement came into effect from 1 July 2019, with reduced tariffs. On average, prices for outgoing calls dropped by 65% and prices for data transfer dropped by 78%.
Since 1 July 2021, all roaming tariffs have been removed, meaning no surcharge to the domestic retail price for calls, SMS & data while roaming in Western Balkans, similar to the concept of "Roam like at Home".
History
Representatives of the economies from the Western Balkans gathered in Brussels 14 December 2018 to discuss the new Regional Roaming Agreement (RRA), at the meeting of the Western Balkans Roaming Policy, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC).
On 4 April 2019, at the 2nd Western Balkans Digital Summit in Belgrade, the Western Balkan Ministers for Telecommunications signed an agreement to gradually remove all roaming costs in the region. The agreement came into effect on 1 July 2019, enabling significantly lower roaming charges in the Western Balkans. Since 1 July 2021, all roaming tariffs have been removed, similar to the concept of “Roam like at Home” within the European Economic Area (EEA).
Territorial extent
The Agreement on the price reduction of the roaming services in public mobile communications networks in the Western Balkans region apply to the countries in Western Balkans:
Majlinda Bregu, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel discussed the new Regional Roaming Agreement (RRA2) for the Western Balkans in Skopje on 18 February 2019. Commissioner Gabriel confirmed that, once the Western Balkans reaches a new agreement on roaming prices among its economies, the EU stands ready for the reduction of tariffs.
In late 2021, the RCC announced that it would start working with the European Union on reducing roaming charges between the Western Balkans and the EU.
Prices
See also
Roaming
Telecommunications in Europe
European Union roaming regulations
Open Balkan
References
Telecommunications in Europe
Telecommunications in Albania
Telecommunications in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Telecommunications in Kosovo
Telecommunications in North Macedonia
Telecommunications in Montenegro
Telecommunications in Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%20at%20Work | Monsters at Work is an American computer-animated television series that debuted on Disney+ on July 7, 2021, as part of the Monsters, Inc. media franchise.
A direct continuation of the original 2001 film, it features the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman reprising their roles as Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan from the original film and the 2013 prequel Monsters University; several other voice actors from the films reprise their roles as guests. A second season was announced and is set for release in 2024. The show received generally positive reviews from critics.
Premise
Monsters at Work begins the day after Henry J. Waternoose III's arrest, with the Monsters, Incorporated factory making the transition to laugh power. Tylor Tuskmon, a recent Scare Major graduate from Monsters University, having previously received a letter of acceptance from Waternoose to be a scarer at the factory, is excited to work at the same company as his idol Sulley. However, Tylor is devastated to learn that the company is no longer in need of scarers, and he is reassigned to work as a mechanic on the Monsters Inc. Facilities Team (MIFT). Meanwhile, Mike and Sulley encounter the trials and tribulations of running the company.
Cast and characters
Main
Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski: The self-appointed Senior Co-President of Monsters, Incorporated, Chief Executive Vice-Deputy Administrative Director of Comedy Resources Management, and Sulley's best friend. He is also a top jokester and was Tylor's teacher in comedy during season one.
John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan: The CEO of Monsters, Incorporated and Mike's best friend.
Ben Feldman as Tylor Tuskmon: A scare graduate from Monsters University who was reassigned to the Monsters, Incorporated Facilities Team. During season one he took part-time classes to be a jokester.
Mindy Kaling as Val Little: Tylor's acquaintance from Monsters University who shared a class with him during their freshman year before she dropped out. She is an enthusiastic mechanic. As season one progresses, she and Tylor become friends.
Henry Winkler as Fritz: The friendly and scatterbrained one-eyed Tapir-nosed boss of the facilities team.
Lucas Neff as:
Duncan P. Anderson: A cunning, self-centered winged four-eyed plumber who is obsessed with getting Fritz's job, and has a one-sided rivalry with Tylor.
A human father in "The Damaged Room"
Richard, a small winged monster in "Little Monsters".
Alanna Ubach as:
Katherine "Cutter" Sterns: the officious crab-like rule follower.
Ubach also voices several minor characters, such as Carla "Killer Claws" Benitez, "Roaring" Rosie Levin, a human mother in "The Damaged Room", and the narrator of the orientation film in "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated".
Recurring
Bonnie Hunt as Ms. Flint: A monster who runs the simulation room at Monsters, Incorporated.
Curtis Armstrong as Mr. Crummyham: A monster with Gecko-like abilities who is a supervisor at Monsters, Incorpo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Moran%20%28camera%20operator%29 | Richard Moran is an Australian camera operator, best known for his work with the Nine Network's news service.
In 2003, Moran was awarded the Gold Walkley for his work during the 2003 Canberra bushfires. Moran became the first television camera operator to win the prestigious award, which is usually presented to reporters.
References
Walkley Award winners
Australian television people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOTS%20%28personality%20psychology%29 | LOTS is an acronym, suggested by Cattell in 1957 and later elaborated by Block, to provide a broad classification of data source for personality psychology assessment. Each data source has its advantage and disadvantage. Research on personality commonly employ different data source so as to represent better the pattern of one's distinctive features.
L-data, refer to the life-outcome data, such as age, education, income, student grades at school, criminal and conviction record
O-data, refer to observational data, such as observer rating from friends and family
T-data, refer to standardised and objective test measurement, such as scored test, physiological response, reaction times (RT), implicit association test (IAT)
S-data, refer to self-reports, such as questionnaires, personality test, structured interview
References
Personality
Psychometrics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Bouman | Katherine Louise Bouman (; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of computer imagery. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP), and was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope team that captured the first image of a black hole.
The California Institute of Technology, which hired Bouman as an assistant professor in June 2019, awarded her a named professorship in 2020. In 2021, asteroid 291387 Katiebouman was after her.
Early life and education
Bouman grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Charles Bouman, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Purdue University.
As a high school student, Bouman conducted imaging research at Purdue University. She graduated from West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School in 2007.
Bouman studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and graduated summa cum laude in 2011. She earned her master's degree (2013) and doctoral degree (2017) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
At MIT, she was a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). This group also worked closely with MIT's Haystack Observatory and with the Event Horizon Telescope. She was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Her master's thesis, Estimating Material Properties of Fabric through the Observation of Motion, was awarded the Ernst Guillemin Award for best Master's Thesis in electrical engineering. Her Ph.D. dissertation, Extreme imaging via physical model inversion: seeing around corners and imaging black holes, was supervised by William T. Freeman. Prior to receiving her doctoral degree, Bouman delivered a TEDx talk, How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole, which explained algorithms that could be used to capture the first image of a black hole.
Research and career
After earning her doctorate, Bouman joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow on the Event Horizon Telescope Imaging team.
Bouman joined Event Horizon Telescope project in 2013. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP). CHIRP inspired image validation procedures used in acquiring the first image of a black hole in April 2019, and Bouman played a significant role in the project by verifying images, selecting parameters for filtering images taken by the Event Horizon Telescope, and participating in the development of a robust imaging framework that compared the results of different image reconstruction techniques. Her group is analyzing the Event Horizon Telescope's images to learn more about general relativity in a strong gravitational field.
Bouman received significant media attention after a photo, showing her reaction to the dete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth%20All-Ukrainian%20Congress%20of%20Soviets | Eighth All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets () was a congress of Soviets (councils) of workers, peasants, Red-army-men deputies that took place in Kharkiv on January 17 - 20, 1924.
Composition
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Agenda
Report of government of the Soviet Ukraine
Report about the Constitution of the Soviet Union (People's Commissar of Justice and General Prosecutor Mykola Skrypnyk)
About budged of the UkrSSR
About situation of industry in Ukraine
About land use
About Red Army
Elections to the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
Decisions
(Report of government) the Congress unanimously approved the government and its activities and outlined ways of further development of national economy, culture, and education as well as increasing of the well being of working people. The Congress instructed the government of the UkrSSR to review issue of construction of hydroelectric station on Dnieper (later known as DniproHES).
(Report about Constitution) the Congress ratified the treaty approved by the First All-Union Congress of Soviets about creation of the Soviet Union and the Constitution accepted by the second session of the All-Union Central Executive Committee and instructed the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee review the Constitution of the UkrSSR in accordance with the treaty about creation of the Soviet Union and submit it for approval at the Ninth All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets.
strengthening of state budget
further development of industry and agriculture
streamlining land use regulations
underlined necessity in further strengthening of the Red Army and Fleet
other
References
External links
Brazhnikov, V. Eighth All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
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Political history of Ukraine
1924 in Ukraine
History of Kharkiv
1924 in politics
Communism in Ukraine
1924 conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPCC | TPCC may refer to:
Transaction Processing Performance Council, a computer benchmarking industry group
Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council, a former council in the Republic of China
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, a state unit of the Indian National Congress in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automation | Semi-automation is a process or procedure that is performed by the combined activities of man and machine with both human and machine steps typically orchestrated by a centralized computer controller.
Within manufacturing, production processes may be fully manual, semi-automated, or fully automated. In this case, semi-automation may vary in its degree of manual and automated steps.
Semi-automated manufacturing processes are typically orchestrated by a computer controller which sends messages to the worker at the time in which he/she should perform a step. The controller typically waits for feedback that the human performed step has been completed via either a human-machine interface or via electronic sensors distributed within the process. Controllers within semi-automated processes may either directly control machinery or send signals to machinery distributed within the process. Centralized computer controllers within semi-automated processes orchestrate processes by instructing the worker, providing electronic communication and control to process equipment, tools, or machines, as well as perform data management to record and ensure that the process meets established process criteria.
Many manufacturers choose not to fully automate a process, and instead implement semi-automation due to the complexity of the task, or the number of products produced is too low to justify the investment in full automation. Other processes may not be fully automated because it may reduce the flexibility to easily adapt the processes to reflect production needs.
See also
Automation
Autonomation
Manual labour
Distributed control system
Industrial control system
Control system
References
M. Langer and D. Söffker, "Human guidance and supervision of a manufacturing system for semi-automated production," 2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT), Amman, 2011, pp. 1-6. (LINK)
R. Parasuraman, T. B. Sheridan and C. D. Wickens, "A model for types and levels of human interaction with automation," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 286-297, May 2000. (LINK) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EulerOS | EulerOS is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Huawei based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide an operating system for server and cloud environments. Its open-source community version is known as openEuler, of which source code was released by Huawei at Gitee on December 31, 2019.
OpenEuler became an open-source project operated by OpenAtom Foundation after Huawei donated the source code of openEuler to the foundation on November 9, 2021.
KunLun Mission Critical Server
EulerOS 2.0, running on the Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server, was certified to conform to The Open Group's UNIX 03 standard, however the certification expired in September 2022.
EulerOS/KunLun allows replacing central processing unit board modules and memory modules without stopping the OS. Hot swapping of CPU and memory is provided by EulerOS.
Code shared with HarmonyOS
EulerOS shares kernel technology with Huawei's mobile operating system, HarmonyOS. Huawei plans to unify additional components between both OSes.
References
External links
EulerOS
OpenEuler
OpenEuler Gitee Repository
EulerOS at Docker Hub
Huawei products
Enterprise Linux distributions
RPM-based Linux distributions
Unix variants
X86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizzy%20Active%20Lifestyle%20Telephone | The Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone (W.A.L.T.) was a prototype "phone companion" created by Apple Computer in collaboration with BellSouth. W.A.L.T. featured "touchscreen, fax functionality, on-display caller ID, a built-in address book, customizable ringtones, and online banking access". The system was based on the PowerBook 100, and included touchscreen, stylus, and handwriting recognition. The operating system was based on System 6 with a HyperCard GUI. Announced in 1993, the system was not mass-produced. A prototype machine was sold on eBay in 2012 for US$8,000. In 2019 a video demonstration of a prototype machine was uploaded to the internet.
References
External links
YouTube video of a working W.A.L.T. prototype
Apple Inc. hardware
Macintosh platform
Network computer (brand) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-weight%20cycle%20problem | In computer science and graph theory, the zero-weight cycle problem is the problem of deciding whether a directed graph with weights on the edges (which may be positive or negative or zero) has a cycle in which the sum of weights is 0.
A related problem is to decide whether the graph has a negative cycle, a cycle in which the sum of weights is less than 0. This related problem can be solved in polynomial time using the Bellman–Ford algorithm. If there is no negative cycle, then the distances found by the Bellman–Ford algorithm can be used, as in Johnson's algorithm, to reweight the edges of the graph in such a way that all edge weights become non-negative and all cycle lengths remain unchanged. With this reweighting, a zero-weight cycle becomes trivial to detect: it exists if and only if the zero-weight edges do not form a directed acyclic graph. Therefore, the special case of the zero-weight cycle problem, on graphs with no negative cycle, has a polynomial-time algorithm.
In contrast, for graphs that contain negative cycles, detecting a simple cycle of weight exactly 0 is an NP-complete problem. This is true even when the weights are integers of polynomial magnitude. In particular, there is a reduction from the Hamiltonian path problem, on an -vertex unweighted graph with specified starting and ending vertices and , to the zero-weight cycle problem on a weighted graph obtained by giving all edges of weight equal to one, and adding an additional edge from to with weight .
References
NP-complete problems
Graph algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tas%20Tsonis | Tas Tsonis is a computer scientist who continues to play a prominent role in using graphical algorithms, computer science, and computational geometry to automate the personalization of apparel and accessories. He has been granted twelve US patents based on mathematical and graphical algorithms.
Tsonis co-founded Pulse Microsystems in 1982, with Brian Goldberg. Pulse is credited with "the first set of pattern archiving software, network management software and data acquisition software for embroidery industry." They patented methods to take artwork, stored using scalable vector graphics, and translate those into instruction for knitting and embroidery machines, enabling artwork to be incorporated into fabrics at the best resolution possible for the fabric under construction.
In 2004 Tsonis and Goldberg co-founded Viigo, a firm that developed app software.
Tsonis is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, and, in 2016, was honoured by the University with its annual J.W. Graham Medal. Each year the award recognizes one of the University's graduates who has played a significant role in the use of computers.
References
Canadian computer scientists
1953 births
Living people
University of Waterloo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-France%20Sagot | Marie-France Sagot is director of research at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and a member of staff at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 where she works on algorithms for computational biology and gene prediction and biological sequence analysis. She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2019 for "outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics". Since 2002 she has been a visiting research fellow at King's College London.
References
French bioinformaticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belapur%20%28BAP%29%20railway%20station | Belapur railway station (बेलापूर रेलवे स्टेशन) is a railway station in Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra on the Central Railways network. Its code is BAP. It is one of the main stations in Ahmednagar as many passengers come here to go to shirdi,.
It is located about 37 km away from Sainagar Shirdi railway station.
This station also has a Non-AC Retiring room, and it is maintained well.
Location
Although the station name is Belapur, it is located in the city named Shrirampur.
Trains
Towards Daund
Towards Manmad
References
Railway stations in Ahmednagar district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIRP%20%28algorithm%29 | CHIRP (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors) is a Bayesian algorithm used to perform a deconvolution on images created in radio astronomy. The acronym was coined by lead author Katherine L. Bouman in 2016.
The development of CHIRP involved a large team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and the MIT Haystack Observatory, including Bill Freeman and Sheperd Doeleman. It was first presented publicly by Bouman at the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June 2016.
Development
The CHIRP algorithm was developed to process data collected by the very-long-baseline Event Horizon Telescope, the international collaboration that in 2019 captured the black hole image of M87* for the first time. CHIRP was not used to produce the image, but was an algebraic solution for the extraction of information from radio signals producing data by an array of radio telescopes scattered around the globe. Stable sources (that don't change over short periods of time) can also gain signal by integrating the change at each location with the rotation of the earth. Because the radio telescopes used in the project produce vast amounts of data, which contain gaps, the CHIRP algorithm is one of the ways to fill the gaps in the collected data.
Evaluation
For reconstruction of such images which have sparse frequency measurements the CHIRP algorithm tends to outperform CLEAN, BSMEM (BiSpectrum Maximum Entropy Method), and SQUEEZE, especially for datasets with lower signal-to-noise ratios and for reconstructing images of extended sources. While the BSMEM and SQUEEZE algorithms may perform better with hand-tuned parameters, tests show CHIRP can do better with less user expertise.
See also
References
Radio astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Origins | The African Origins project is a database run by researchers at Emory University, Georgia, United States, which aims to document all the known facts about the African diaspora, including all documentary material pertaining to the transatlantic slave trade. It is a sister project to Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
References
External links
African-American slave records
African diaspora
African slave trade
Databases in the United States
Early modern period
European colonization of the Americas
European colonisation in Africa
Forced migration
History of sugar
Slave trade
History of the Caribbean
Slavery in North America
Slavery in South America
Slavery in the British Empire
Slavery-related organizations
Trade routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages%3A%20The%20Trans-Atlantic%20Slave%20Trade%20Database | Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a database hosted at Rice University that aims to present all documentary material pertaining to the transatlantic slave trade. It is a sister project to African Origins.
The database breaks down the kingdoms or countries who engaged in the Atlantic trade, summarized in the following table:
By 2008, the project had gathered data on nearly 35,000 transatlantic slave voyages from 1501 to 1867. For each voyage they sought to establish dates, owners, vessels, captains, African visits, American destinations, numbers of slaves embarked, and numbers landed. They have been able to find much of this material for an estimated 80 percent of the entire transatlantic African slave trade. With corrections for missing voyages, the Project has estimated the entire size of the transatlantic slave trade with more comprehension, precision, and accuracy than before. They reckon that in 366 years, slaving vessels embarked about 12.5 million captives in Africa, and landed 10.7 million in the New World. A horrific discovery is a careful estimate that the Middle Passage took a toll of more than 1.8 million African lives. In this quantitative database, the numbers are enslaved people.
See also
The 1619 Project
References
External links
African diaspora
Databases
African slave trade
European colonization of the Americas
European colonisation in Africa
Early modern period
Forced migration
History of sugar
Slave trade
History of the Caribbean
Slavery in North America
Slavery in South America
Slavery in the British Empire
African-American slave records
Trade routes
Slavery-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate%20Haste | Catherine Haste, Lady Bragg (6 August 1945 – 29 April 2021) was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US over a period of 40 years.
Television documentaries
Haste directed political and historical documentaries and series, including Munich: The Peace of Paper. For Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs' 24-part series, Haste directed five films. She directed Flashback TV's Hitler's Brides about women in Nazi Germany; produced Death of a Democrat in Secret History, the series broadcast by Channel 4; and Married to the Prime Minister, presented by Cherie Blair, the wife of the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Books
Haste's first book, Keep the Home Fires Burning (1977), was described by journalist Phillip Knightley as: "One can only hope that this important book will make it more difficult for any British government so deeply to deceive its people ever again." Maureen Freely wrote that Rules of Desire (1997) was "as diverting and as suggestive as a very good novel.... temperate, balanced, subtle and humane". The Daily Telegraph critic wrote that Nazi Women: Hitler's Seduction of a Nation (2001) "opens up the bizarre moral universe of the Third Reich ....at once comprehensible and compelling, and at times deeply moving. It is media history at its best." The prize-winning Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint (2010), a biography/monograph of the Cumbrian Expressionist landscape painter, signalled Haste's shift to biography and was, according to Andrew Lambirth, "a handsome, slim volume ....elegantly and deftly put together".
Personal life and death
Haste was one of three surviving daughters of Eric and Margaret Haste. She was married from 1973 to 2018 to the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, whom she met at a protest; the couple had two children, Tom and Alice. She was a member of English PEN, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and Directors UK (formerly Directors Guild of Great Britain), and had been a trustee of Index on Censorship and World Film Collective.
She lived in Hampstead, north London, and like her former husband was a member of the Labour Party. She died from cancer in April 2021, aged 75.
Bibliography
Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler
Craigie Aitchison: A Life in Colour
Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint
Clarissa Eden A Memoir: From Churchill to Ede (ed.)
The Goldfish Bowl, with Cherie Booth
Nazi Women: Hitler's Seduction of a Nation
Rules of Desire
Keep The Home Fires Burning
Filmography
Married to the Prime Minister (Flashback TV for Channel 4) 2005
Hitler's Brides (Flashback TV for Channel 4) 2000; part of series titled Nazi Women
Millennium (Jeremy Isaacs Productions/CNN/BBC) 1999
Cold War (CNN) 1998
Cold War (Jeremy Isaacs Productions/CNN/BBC2) 1996–98; 24-part series
Secret History: Death of a Democrat (Brook Associates for Channel 4/Arts and Entertainment)
Munich: The Peace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Darrell | Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learning and explainable AI.
Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library.
Education
1996, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under Alex Pentland
1991, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
1984, Phillips Academy
Career
When Darrell finished his PhD, he joined the Interval Research Corporation. In 1999, he left the corporation for the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he left MIT for the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a Professor in Residence.
His former students include Kristen Grauman, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Raquel Urtasun (postdoc).
Family
Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaole%20Shirley%20Liu | Xiaole Shirley Liu (刘小乐) is computational biologist, cancer researcher, and entrepreneur. She has been a Professor in the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is now the co-founder and CEO of GV20 Therapeutics.
Early life
Xiaole Shirley Liu was born 刘小乐 in Tianjin China to Meilun Liu and Xingke Hu, both on the faculty of Tianjin University.
Education
Xiaole Liu attended Peking University in 1992-1994. She transferred to Smith College and graduated Summa cum laude in 1997 double majoring in biochemistry and computer science. Her research thesis, supervised under Steve Williams, was awarded the Highest Departmental Honors in Biochemistry.
She then went to Stanford University and got her Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics and Ph.D. minor in Computer Science in 2002. Her thesis committee included Douglas Brutlag, Jun S. Liu, Russ Altman, Patrick O. Brown and Rob Tibshirani. She added Shirley as her middle name after Ph.D., and used X. Shirley Liu in her publications.
Career
Shirley Liu research work focused on algorithm development and data integration modeling for translational cancer research. Her group developed widely used algorithms for modeling transcriptional and epigenetic gene regulation (MACS, Cistrome, MDscan, BETA), analyzing CRISPR screens (MAGeCK), and characterizing tumor immunity (TIMER, TIDE, TRUST). She also contributed to the discovery of cancer drug response biomarkers, drug resistance mechanisms, and effective combination therapies.
Awards and honours
X. Shirley Liu was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2019 for her “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.
References
American bioinformaticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G3%20Canada | G3 is a Canadian grain company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It consists of two operating companies:
G3 Canada Limited operates a network of grain elevators in western Canada and port terminals in eastern Canada. G3 purchases grains and oilseeds from farmers, who deliver the crops to G3 facilities by truck. The commodities are transferred to trains and/or ships and shipped to customers around the world. The company owns the Great Lakes bulk carrier vessel G3 Marquis and a fleet of grain hopper railway cars.
G3 Terminal Vancouver, a grain export terminal at the Port of Vancouver which opened in 2020.
History
G3 Canada Limited was created in 2015, when G3 Global Grain Group (a joint venture of US agribusiness Bunge and Saudi agricultural investment firm SALIC) purchased a majority interest in the Canadian Wheat Board and combined it with the grain assets of Bunge Canada. The other shareholder in G3 Canada Limited is the Farmers Equity Trust, which owns the Class B shares in the company.
G3 has built a network of grain handling facilities.
Grain elevators:
Bloom, Manitoba, and Colonsay, Saskatchewan opened in 2015.
Glenlea, Manitoba, and Pasqua, Saskatchewan opened in 2016.
Melville and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan opened in 2018.
Maidstone, Saskatchewan opened in 2019.
Wetaskiwin, Morinville, Carmangay, Irricana, and Stettler County, Alberta opened in 2020.
Vermilion, Alberta, and Swift Current, Saskatchewan opened in 2021.
Melfort, Saskatchewan and Rycroft, Alberta opened in 2023
G3 also operates grain elevators in Leader, Kindersley, and near Plenty, Saskatchewan
Port terminals:
G3 built a new grain export terminal at the Port of Hamilton, Ontario, which opened in 2017.
The company operates port terminals at the Port of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Trois Rivières and Québec City, Québec.
In 2020, the company opened G3 Terminal Vancouver, a new grain export terminal at the Port of Vancouver in North Vancouver, British Columbia. G3 Terminal Vancouver is a joint venture of G3 Global Holdings and Western Stevedoring Company Limited.
G3's five port terminals are certified by Green Marine, an environmental certification program for North America's marine industry.
References
External links
Official website
Canadian companies established in 2015
Companies based in Winnipeg
Agricultural organizations based in Manitoba
Agriculture companies of Canada
Grain elevators
Grain companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinchand%20Chellaram | Kishinchand Chellaram was an Indian businessman who operated a global trading network, K. Chellaram & Sons. The firm was founded in 1915, an offshoot of a sindwork trading family in India.
Life and business
Chelleram was born in Madras to the family of Gianchand Chellaram, a Sindhi textile merchant. He and three brothers attended primary school in Hyderabad and were in training to join the family business. At the age of fifteen, Chellaram began working in the family business and was trained in many aspects of the business.
In 1915, he branched out on his own with the establishment of K. Chellaram and Sons in Madras, the firm merchandised silk textiles and a few other wares. A few years later a branch was opened in Yokohama. An expansion westward led to the establishment of an office in Lagos in 1923. The Lagos firm traded in textiles from India and Japan in the 1920 and 1930s competing with European firms. Prior to World War II, the firm established a local office in Sierra Leone.
The Chellarams were Hindu from Sindh province in pre-partition India, when the union was split into India and Pakistan, Chellaram sold most of its assets in Sindh and increased his interest in Nigeria.
Chellaram formally registered the business in Nigeria in 1947 and in the 1950s, he established a chain of department stores.
Chellaram owned a house in the high brow area of Ikoyi in colonial Lagos and later retired to a Pedhi in Hyderabad. Before his death, he established an educational trust in India that contributed to the development of Kishinchand Chellaram College.
References
Indian businesspeople
Retail companies of Nigeria
Year of death unknown
Businesspeople from Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20database | A chess database is a database of chess games.
List of notable chess databases
Chess Assistant
Chess Informant Expert
Chess opening book (computers)
Chess.com
Chess24.com
ChessBase
Lichess
Shane's Chess Information Database
See also
Computer chess
List of chess games
List of chess software
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20FXX | This is a list of television programs carried by FXX.
Current programming
Original programming
Comedy
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2013; moved from FX)
Dave (2020)
Animation
Archer (2017; moved from FX)
Acquired programming
The Simpsons (2014)
Family Guy (2019)
Bob's Burgers (2019)
King of the Hill (2021)
The Cleveland Show (2021)
Futurama (2021)
Solar Opposites (2022)
Former programming
Original programming
Animation
Live-action
Acquired programming
Arrested Development (2013–17)
Freaks and Geeks (2013–17)
How I Met Your Mother (2013–14; moved to FX)
The Hughleys (2013–17)
Mad About You (2013–17)
Parks and Recreation (2013–19)
Rescue Me (2013)
Spin City (2013–17)
Sports Night (2013–17)
Ali G Rezurection (2014)
In Living Color (2014–18)
Raising Hope (2014–18)
Anger Management (2016–18)
Mom (2017–21; moved to FX)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2017-18)
The Mick (2017–18)
Ghosted (2017)
LA to Vegas (2018)
Black-ish (2018–21; moved to Freeform)
The Weekly (2019–20)
Praise Petey (2023)
Footnotes
References
FXX original programming
FXX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicana%27s%20Got%20Talent | Dominicana's Got Talent (Spanish: Dominicana Tiene Talento) is a Dominican reality television series which airs on the Color Visión television network. The show is part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is the first edition of the franchise to be based in a Caribbean country. Dominicana's Got Talent follows the Got Talent format, in which contestants audition in front of four judges and a studio audience. Up until the semifinal and final rounds, the judges decide whether or not a contestant advances in the competition. During the semifinal and final rounds, viewers vote on which contestants will advance.
On April 30, 2020, the show's producers announced on a TV special broadcast by Color Visión, that a second series will air later in 2020. In-person castings were scrapped for the second series, due to the current coronavirus pandemic, and these will happen entirely online.
Format
Auditions
The general selection process of each season is begun by the production team with open auditions held in various cities across the Dominican Republic. Dubbed "Producers' Auditions", they are held months before the main stage of auditions are held. Those that make it through the initial stage, become participants in the "Judges' Auditions", which are held in select cities across the country, and attended by the judges. Each participant is held offstage and awaits their turn to perform before the judges, whereupon they are given 90 seconds to demonstrate their act, with a live audience present for all performances. At the end of a performance, the judges give constructive criticism and feedback about what they saw, whereupon they each give a vote - a participant who receives a majority vote approving their performance, moves on to the next stage, otherwise they are eliminated from the show at that stage. Each judge has a buzzer, and may use it during a performance if they are unimpressed, hate what is being performed, or feel the act is a waste of their time; if a participant is buzzed by all judges, their performance is automatically over and they are eliminated without being given a vote. Many acts that move on may be cut by producers and may forfeit due to the limited slots available for the second performance. Filming for each season always takes place when the Judges' Auditions are taking place, with the show's presenter standing in the wings of each venue's stage to interview and give personal commentary on a participant's performance. the judges and the host also have the opportunity to hit the Golden Buzzer which Can send a act straight to the live shows
Quarter Finals/Semi-Finals
During this round, the final selection of participants, which has ranged from between 20 and 60 acts and include those that were chosen as Wildcards by the judges or received the Golden Buzzer, are divided into groups and compete against each other for viewers' and judges' votes. The general structure of the live episodes focuses first on four quarterfinals, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bouman | Charles Addison Bouman Jr. () is the Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, where he has taught since 1989. His research focuses on applications of image processing in various contexts, including medicine, materials science, and consumer imaging. His work led to the development of the first commercial CT scan technology to use model-based iterative reconstruction. He is a co-inventor on over fifty patents in the field of consumer imaging. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors, as well as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, and SPIE. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
He is the father of computational imaging scientist Katie Bouman.
Fusing Sensor Models with Machine Learning Models
Bouman is the lead author of what has been described as a
"Plug-n-Play" method for fusing sensor models and
machine-learning models for joint optimization of the two
for the generation of images from noisy and incomplete
projection data.
References
External links
Faculty profile
American electrical engineers
Living people
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Princeton University alumni
Computer engineers
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of SPIE
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civiqs | Civiqs is an online opinion polling and data analytics company founded by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas in March 2018. It is a division of Kos Media, which Moulitsas also founded. The director of Civiqs is Drew Linzer. It is distinguished from other online polling firms by the large number of respondents to its polls, which it has recruited from across the United States through an online panel and asks questions on a daily basis. This allows Civiqs to monitor trends in public opinion over short periods of time, as well as across different demographic and geographic categories.
References
External links
American political websites
Public opinion research companies in the United States
Internet properties established in 2018
2018 establishments in the United States
Analytics companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20Phenology%20Ontology | The Plant Phenology Ontology (PPO) is a collection of OBO Foundry ontologies that facilitate integration of heterogeneous data about seed plant phenology from various sources. These data sources include observations networks, such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the National Phenology Network (NPN), and the Pan-European Phenology Database (PEP725), remote sensing, herbarium specimens, and citizen science observations. The initial focus during ontology development was to capture phenological data about one plant or a population of plants as observed by a person, and this enabled integration of data across disparate observation network sources. Because phenological scorings vary in their methods and reporting, this allows these data to be aggregated and compared. Changes in plant phenology can be linked to different climate factors depending on the species, such precipitation or growing degree days. Aggregated data about the timing of plant life cycle stages at different places and times can provide information about spatiotemporal patterns within and among species, and potentially offer insight into how plants may change or shift their life cycles in response to climate change. These shifts can have implications for agriculture and various biodiversity research avenues, such as shifts in pollinator and host life cycles.
General structure
The structure of the Plant Phenology Ontology relies on integrated terms from other ontologies, notably the Basic Formal Ontology, the Plant Ontology, the Information Artifact Ontology, and the Biological Collections Ontology. The basic structure of the PPO models the 'observing process' (BCO:0000003), which has an input of a 'whole plant' (PO:0000003) and an output of a 'measurement datum' (IAO:0000109). The value of the 'measurement datum' is determined by what was observed or not observed on the plant. Measurement data in the PPO are numbers of upper counts and lower counts for some 'plant structure' (PO:0009011) on the observed plant. When the upper and lower counts both equal zero, an absence is inferred for that trait by the ontology using the HermiT reasoner. Plant Ontology anatomy terms were used to enable the ontology to infer the presence or absence of hierarchical phenological traits using the reasoner. For example, if pollen-releasing flower heads are observed to be present (PPO:0002340) with an upper count of five and lower count of five (meaning there are exactly five pollen-releasing flower heads on the observed plant), the reasoned ontology can also infer that floral structures are present (PPO:0002026) on the plant.
Recent developments
Because most observation networks were only established in the early 2000s, they contain a wealth of plant phenological data for the 21st century, but do not offer insight into historical baselines. Herbarium specimens inherently capture the phenological traits of a plant in a specific location at a specific time. Because some herbarium co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhan%20Jassim | Farhan Jassim Mohammed (; born 1957) is a retired freestyle wrestler from Iraq. He represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Sports-Reference profile
UWW Database Profiles 1, 2, 3, 4
Living people
1957 births
Iraqi male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Iraq
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 1978 Asian Games
Wrestlers at the 1982 Asian Games
Wrestlers at the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Iraq
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Radio | Asian Radio () was a Bangladeshi Bengali-language radio station broadcast on FM radio. It was based in Dhaka, and was a sister network to Asian TV. It began broadcasting on 18 January 2013. It commenced official transmissions on 23 September 2013. The station was later shut down.
Notable Programs
Some notable programs of the radio channel are:
Bidyasagor Chatrabas
Looking for Bou
Sokha Tumi Kar
Telesmati
The Mama Show
References
2013 establishments in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Radio stations in Bangladesh
Mass media in Dhaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudorella | Eudorella is a genera of marine hooded shrimp in the family Leuconidae. Their skeletons are chitinous.
Species
Placed by the WoRMS.
Eudorella abyssi Sars, 1887
Eudorella acuticaudata Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella aequiremis Hansen, 1920
Eudorella arctica Hansen, 1920
Eudorella bacescui Petrescu, 1991
Eudorella bathyalis Vassilenko & Tzareva, 2004
Eudorella bathyhwanghaensis Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella breviflagella Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella dentata Lomakina, 1955
Eudorella divae Muhlenhardt-Siegel, 2005
Eudorella emarginata (Krøyer, 1846)
Eudorella fallax Zimmer, 1909
Eudorella flokkeri Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2011
Eudorella fusafusa Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella gottliebi Băcescu, 1961
Eudorella gracilior Zimmer, 1907
Eudorella gracilis Sars, 1871
Eudorella groenlandica Zimmer, 1926
Eudorella haradai Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella hirsuta (Sars, 1869)
Eudorella hispida Sars, 1871
Eudorella hurleyi Jones, 1963
Eudorella hwanghaensis Hong & Park, 1999
Eudorella intermedia Hansen, 1920
Eudorella menziesi Petrescu, 1991
Eudorella minor Lomakina, 1952
Eudorella monodon Calman, 1912
Eudorella nana Sars, 1879
Eudorella ohtai Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella orientalis Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella pacifica Hart, 1930
Eudorella parahirsuta Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella parvula Hansen, 1920
Eudorella pusilla Sars, 1871
Eudorella redacticruris Watling & McCann, 1996
Eudorella rochfordi Hale, 1945
Eudorella similis Calman, 1907
Eudorella sordida Zimmer, 1907
Eudorella spitzbergensis Zimmer, 1926
Eudorella splendida Zimmer, 1902
Eudorella suluensis Akiyama & Gamo, 2012
Eudorella tridentata Hart, 1930
Eudorella truncatula (Bate, 1856)
References
Cumacea
Malacostraca genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tales%20of%20Arcadia%20characters | Tales of Arcadia is a trilogy of American computer-animated science fantasy television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You. It follows the inhabitants of the small suburban town of Arcadia Oaks, which is secretly home to various supernatural creatures and the teenage heroes who fight against the forces of evil that lurk in the shadows.
The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the show.
Main characters
Jim Lake Jr.
Portrayed by Anton Yelchin (2017–2018) and Emile Hirsch (2018–present).
The main protagonist of Trollhunters and the epilogue film, Rise of the Titans. Jim is the first human trollhunter, the son of Barbara Lake, best friends with Toby Domzaski, and the boyfriend of Claire Nunez (but after he destroys the Kronisfere, Claire does not know him at all). Around the end of Trollhunters, he was transformed into a half-troll and into a full-on troll in Wizards, by the Arcane Order and the Green Knight. However, he is revived back to his human form by Claire and becomes Excalibur's new wielder in Rise of the Titans. However, after Toby's heroic death, Jim uses the Kronisfere to go back in time to the morning where he found the amulet and allows Toby to take up the mantle of the trollhunter. Jim has killed many great foes that notably include Bular the Butcher, Gunmar the Skullcrusher & Bellroc, keeper of the flames.
Toby Domzalski
Portrayed by Charlie Saxton.
A main character of Trollhunters. Tobias "Toby" Domzalski is Jim's best friend and confidant. Dorky and excitable, he fully embraces the secret world of trolls and aids Jim in his quests. His weapon of choice is a warhammer. In Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, however, he dies to save his best friend, and Jim makes a risky choice of turning back time to the first episode of Trollhunters, but this time, Toby is the Trollhunter.
Son of Ralph Domzalski and Mrs. Domzalski(Both Deceased), Grandson of Nancy Domzalski. Boyfriend of Darci Scott, father of Sir Isaac Gluten (Bag Of Flour)
Claire Nuñez
Portrayed by Lexi Medrano.
A main character of Trollhunters. Claire Nuñez is Jim's love interest and girlfriend whom she cares deeply for even after he was turned into a half human, troll hybrid. She is a feisty, kind, jolly, sarcastic, curious, and intelligent tomboy who enjoys books and is a talented martial artist and gymnast. She obtains the Shadow Staff, Skrathe-Hrun, a staff capable of creating portals activated by the user's emotions.
Aja Tarron
Portrayed by Tatiana Maslany.
A main character of 3Below. Aja Tarron is a member of House Tarron, a royal family in Akiridion-5. When her planet was invaded by a coup caused by Val Morando, she and her brother Krel travel to Earth. Since then, they pretended to be foreign exchange students from "Cantaloupia" while trying to fix their spaceship.
Krel Tarron
Portrayed by Diego Luna.
A main character of 3Below. Krel Tarron is a member of House Tarron, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Center%20Manageability%20Interface | Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) is a data center system management standard based on the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) but designed to be more suitable for data center management: it uses the interfaces defined in IPMI, but minimizes the number of optional interfaces and includes power capping control, among other differences.
The DCMI specification was developed at Intel, and first published in 2008.
See also
Redfish (specification)
External links
DCMI specification revision 1.5
Original Intel DCMI white paper, published in 2008
Networking standards
System administration
Out-of-band management
2008 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhoom%20Music | Dhoom Music is an Indian Bengali-language music television channel launched in 2010. The channel broadcasts the songs of Bengali movies.
Programming
Jukebox
Muzik @ 9
Muzik @ 9:30
Muzik @ 10
Dhoom Live
Muzik @ 17:30
Muzik @ 18:45
Muzik @ 20:30
References
Bengali-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television stations in Kolkata
Music television channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rocket%20Girls | The "Rocket Girls" were the women that worked at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) before the development of desktop computers. These women are mostly unknown, but they did the majority of all hand calculations for missions. Most of these women were given the nickname of "computers" due to their abilities in the fields of physics and mathematics.
The women
Barbara Paulson
Barbara Paulson was one of the lead female computers hired by JPL.
Macie Roberts
Macie Roberts was the supervisor of the female computers at JPL. She became the supervisor in the 1960s and continued her work for over thirty years.
Helen Ling
Helen Ling was a human computer supervisor at JPL. Ling followed in the footsteps of Macie Roberts as a supervisor for the female division of human computers. She recruited and trained females that were proficient in mathematics and physics. Her legacy includes diversifying the female populus at JPL and continuing the excellence of female workers at NASA and JPL.
Eleanor Frances
Eleanor Frances discovered many meteors and comets while working at NASA.
Sources mentioned in
The book Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist (2013) was written by George D. Morgan.
The book Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (2016) was written by Nathalia Holt.
The book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016) was written by Margot Lee Shetterly.
The movie Hidden Figures (2016) depicts the computers at NASA, including Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, and is loosely based on the book of the same name.
References
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
American women scientists
History of women in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20J.%20Patterson | Laurie J. Patterson is an American author and computer science professor. Her books focus on the lyricists of the Tin Pan Alley era. She has also published articles on gender and technology.
Biography
Patterson was born in Westbrook, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a Master of Education in Training and development focusing on Information Technology training. She received her Doctor of Education from Nova Southeastern University in Computer Information Technology.
Patterson is an associate professor in Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. From 2013-2017, she served as the Department Chair.
Works
The Songs of Hollywood, with Philip Furia (2010)
The American Song Book: The Tin Pan Alley Era, with Philip Furia (2015)
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists, 2nd edition Laurie J. Patterson (post-humously 2022)
References
External links
Laurie J. Patterson, at Department of Computer Science, UNCW
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
University of North Carolina at Wilmington faculty
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
Nova Southeastern University alumni
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigatron%20TTL | The Gigatron TTL is a retro-style 8-bit computer, where the CPU is implemented by a set of TTL chips instead of a single microprocessor, imitating the hardware present in early arcades. Its target is the computing enthusiasts, for studying or hobby purposes.
Architecture
The CPU is implemented through a small set of TTL 7400 series chips, running at 6.25 MHz base clock rate, that can be overclocked by providing better chips. RAM can also be increased in the same way.
Three CPU modes are implemented:
8-bit native assembly code, that implements a Harvard architecture. This mode offers a 17 instruction set, and supports up to 256 instructions: 8 ALU operations, 8 addressing modes and 4 bus modes. The ROM firmware and the vCPU interpreter are written in the 8-bit Native assembly code.
16-bit vCPU interpreter, that implements a von Neumann architecture and has a 34 instructions set. It loads and runs programs from the RAM. The integrated programs are written for this vCPU.
MOS 6502 emulator (experimental), able to run MOS 6502 machine code.
The video is generated by the ROM firmware (native assembly code), and supports a resolution of 160x120 pixels with 64 colours stored in RAM starting at address 0x0800 and ending at 0x7F9F as 120 segments of 160 bytes of non-contiguous RAM. Pixels are stored as 1 byte per pixel in XXBBGGRR format, (the top 2 bits are unused and may be used by the programmer for their own usage). The video display contains a configurable number of black (empty) scanlines in order to save vCPU time for programs; these empty/black scanlines can be configured by the user to get more displayed raster scanlines or more vCPU time for user programs. Off-screen RAM begins at 0x08A0 and ends at 0x7FFF as 120 segments of 96 bytes of non-contiguous RAM; these fragmented sections of RAM may be used for storing data or code or for scrolling effects using the video indirection table. System RAM is trivially expandable from the default 32K bytes to the full 16bit addressable size of 64Kbytes.
The audio is also generated by the ROM firmware during horizontal blanking periods, providing four 6 bit channels, (software mixed and output at 4 bit PCM), with 4 selectable and user-modifiable 64-byte waveforms stored in RAM, (re-generated at Cold Boot and for ROMv4 and above on all reboots), and providing simple amplitude and XOR modulation per channel.
Software
The programs are included in the ROM chip, and these are written in GCL (Gigatron Control Language), BASIC or vCPU.
The following programs are included:
Snake, a simple version of the snake graphical game
Racer, a Pole Position-like game
Mandelbrot, a Mandelbrot set image generator
Pictures, an image viewer for the pre-loaded pictures
Tetronis, a Tetris clone
Bricks, a Breakout clone
TicTacToe, a text-mode tic-tac-toe written in BASIC
BASIC, a Tiny BASIC interpreter
WozMon, a Woz Monitor rendition
Loader, a feature to load vCPU or BASIC programs over the joystick port
Credits, shows the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20differential%20privacy | Local differential privacy (LDP) is a model of differential privacy with the added requirement that if an adversary has access to the personal responses of an individual in the database, that adversary will still be unable to learn much of the user's personal data. This is contrasted with global differential privacy, a model of differential privacy that incorporates a central aggregator with access to the raw data.
Local differential privacy (LDP) is an approach to mitigate the concern of data fusion and analysis techniques used to expose individuals to attacks and disclosures. LDP is a well-known privacy model for distributed architectures that aims to provide privacy guarantees for each user while collecting and analyzing data, protecting from privacy leaks for the client and server. LDP has been widely adopted to alleviate contemporary privacy concerns in the era of big data.
History
In 2003, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Johannes Gehrke, and Ramakrishnan Srikant gave a definition equivalent to local differential privacy. In 2008, Kasiviswanathan et al. gave a formal definition conforming with the now-standard definition of differential privacy.
The prototypical example of a mechanism with local differential privacy is the randomized response survey technique proposed by Stanley L. Warner in 1965. Warner's innovation was the introduction of the “untrusted curator” model, where the entity collecting the data may not be trustworthy. Before users' responses are sent to the curator, the answers are randomized in a controlled manner guaranteeing differential privacy while still allowing valid population-wide statistical inferences.
Applications
The era of big data exhibits high demand for machine learning services that provide privacy protection for users. Demand for such services has pushed research into algorithmic paradigms that provably satisfy specific privacy requirements.
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection is formally defined as the process of identifying unexpected items or events in data sets. The rise of social networking in the current era has led to many potential concerns related to information privacy. As more and more users rely on social networks, users are often threatened by privacy breaches, unauthorized access to personal information, and leakage of sensitive data. To attempt to solve this issue, the authors of "Anomaly Detection over Differential Preserved Privacy in Online Social Networks" have proposed a model using a social network utilizing restricted local differential privacy. By using this model, it aims for improved privacy preservation through anomaly detection is analyzed. In this paper, the authors propose a privacy preserving model that sanitizes the collection of user information from a social network utilizing restricted local differential privacy (LDP) to save synthetic copies of collected data. This model uses reconstructed data to classify user activity and detect abnormal network behavior. The experime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentially%20private%20analysis%20of%20graphs | Differentially private analysis of graphs studies algorithms for computing accurate graph statistics while preserving differential privacy. Such algorithms are used for data represented in the form of a graph where nodes correspond to individuals and edges correspond to relationships between them. For examples, edges could correspond to friendships, sexual relationships, or communication patterns.
A party that collected sensitive graph data can process it using a differentially private algorithm and publish the output of the algorithm. The goal of differentially private analysis of graphs is to design algorithms that compute accurate global information about graphs while preserving privacy of individuals whose data is stored in the graph.
Variants
Differential privacy imposes a restriction on the algorithm. Intuitively, it requires that the algorithm has roughly the same output distribution on neighboring inputs. If the input is a graph, there are two natural notions of neighboring inputs, edge neighbors and node neighbors, which yield two natural variants of differential privacy for graph data.
Let ε be a positive real number and be a randomized algorithm that takes a graph as input and returns an output from a set .
The algorithm is -differentially private if, for all neighboring graphs and and all subsets of ,
where the probability is taken over the randomness used by the algorithm.
Edge differential privacy
Two graphs are edge neighbors if they differ in one edge. An algorithm is -edge-differentially private if, in the definition above, the notion of edge neighbors is used. Intuitively, an edge differentially private algorithm has similar output distributions on any pair of graphs that differ in one edge, thus protecting changes to graph edges.
Node differential privacy
Two graphs are node neighbors if one can be obtained from the other by deleting a node and its adjacent edges. An algorithm is -node-differentially private if, in the definition above, the notion of node neighbors is used. Intuitively, a node differentially private algorithm has similar output distributions on any pair of graphs that differ in one one nodes and edges adjacent to it, thus protecting information pertaining to each individual. Node differential privacy give a stronger privacy protection than edge differential privacy.
Research history
The first edge differentially private algorithm was designed by Nissim, Raskhodnikova, and Smith. The distinction between edge and node differential privacy was first discussed by Hay, Miklau, and Jensen. However, it took several years before first node differentially private algorithms were published in Blocki et al., Kasiviswanathan et al., and Chen and Zhou. In all three papers, the algorithms are for releasing a single statistic, like a triangle count or counts of other subgraphs. Raskhodnikova and Smith gave the first node differentially private algorithm for releasing a vector, specifically, the degree count an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Israeli%20films%20of%202015 | A list of films produced by the Israeli film industry released in 2015.
References
External links
Israeli films of 2015 at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of 2015 films by country or language
Film
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementations%20of%20differentially%20private%20analyses | Since the advent of differential privacy, a number of systems supporting differentially private data analyses have been implemented and deployed. This article tracks real-world deployments, production software packages, and research prototypes.
Real-world deployments
Production software packages
These software packages purport to be usable in production systems. They are split in two categories: those focused on answering statistical queries with differential privacy, and those focused on training machine learning models with differential privacy.
Statistical analyses
Machine learning
Research projects and prototypes
Attacks on implementations
In addition to standard defects of software artifacts that can be identified using testing or fuzzing, implementations of differentially private mechanisms may suffer from the following vulnerabilities:
Subtle algorithmic or analytical mistakes.
Timing side-channel attacks. In contrast with timing attacks against implementations of cryptographic algorithms that typically have low leakage rate and must be followed with non-trivial cryptanalysis, a timing channel may lead to a catastrophic compromise of a differentially private system, since a targeted attack can be used to exfiltrate the very bit that the system is designed to hide.
Leakage through floating-point arithmetic. Differentially private algorithms are typically presented in the language of probability distributions, which most naturally lead to implementations using floating-point arithmetic. The abstraction of floating-point arithmetic is leaky, and without careful attention to details, a naive implementation may fail to provide differential privacy. (This is particularly the case for ε-differential privacy, which does not allow any probability of failure, even in the worst case.) For example, the support of a textbook sampler of the Laplace distribution (required, for instance, for the Laplace mechanism) is less than 80% of all double-precision floating point numbers; moreover, the support for distributions with different means are not identical. A single sample from a naïve implementation of the Laplace mechanism allows distinguishing between two adjacent datasets with probability more than 35%.
Timing channel through floating-point arithmetic. Unlike operations over integers that are typically constant-time on modern CPUs, floating-point arithmetic exhibits significant input-dependent timing variability. Handling of subnormals can be particularly slow, as much as by ×100 compared to the typical case.
See also
Differential Privacy
Secure multi-party computation
References
Differential privacy
Information privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction%20attack | A reconstruction attack is any method for partially reconstructing a private dataset from public aggregate information. Typically, the dataset contains sensitive information about individuals, whose privacy needs to be protected. The attacker has no or only partial access to the dataset, but has access to public aggregate statistics about the datasets, which could be exact or distorted, for example by adding noise. If the public statistics are not sufficiently distorted, the attacker is able to accurately reconstruct a large portion of the original private data. Reconstruction attacks are relevant to the analysis of private data, as they show that, in order to preserve even a very weak notion of individual privacy, any published statistics need to be sufficiently distorted. This phenomenon was called the Fundamental Law of Information Recovery by Dwork and Roth, and formulated as "overly accurate answers to too many questions will destroy privacy in a spectacular way."
The Dinur-Nissim Attack
In 2003, Irit Dinur and Kobbi Nissim proposed a reconstruction attack based on noisy answers to multiple statistical queries. Their work was recognized by the 2013 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award in part for being the seed for the development of differential privacy.
Dinur and Nissim model a private database as a sequence of bits , where each bit is the private information of a single individual. A database query is specified by a subset , and is defined to equal . They show that, given approximate answers to queries specified by sets , such that
for all , if is sufficiently small and is sufficiently large, then an attacker can reconstruct most of the private bits in . Here the error bound can be a function of and . Nissim and Dinur's attack works in two regimes: in one regime, is exponential in , and the error can be linear in ; in the other regime, is polynomial in , and the error is on the order of .
References
Theory of cryptography
Information privacy
Differential privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobbi%20Nissim | Kobbi Nissim (קובי נסים) is a computer scientist at Georgetown University, where he is the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science. His areas of research include cryptography and data privacy. He is known for the introduction of differential privacy.
Nissim's awards include:
The 2013 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award (joint with Irit Dinur).
The 2017 Gödel Prize and 2016 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time Award (both joint with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Adam D. Smith) for the paper that introduced differential privacy.
The 2018 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time Award (joint with Dan Boneh and Eu-Jin Goh).
The 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (joint work with Aaron Bembenek, Alexandra Wood, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, Urs Gasser, David R. O’Brien, Thomas Steinke, and Salil Vadhan).
The 2021 Paris Kanellakis Award for "fundamental contributions to the development of differential privacy."
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
Georgetown University faculty
American cryptographers
1965 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Hersch | Jamie Hersch (born May 25, 1987) is an American journalist for the NHL Network and the MLB Network, where she hosts the NHL Network show On the Fly and on an occasion the MLB Network version Quick Pitch. Hersch is married with two kids. She's a fan of the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Wild.
Early life and education
Hersch was born and raised in Champlin, Minnesota, where she spent time figure skating. Her mom was a speech/language pathologist with the Anoka-Hennepin school district's early intervention program. Hersch was first interested in broadcasting by watching Michele Tafoya on Monday Night Football. Hersch started covering sports events in high school. She graduated from Champlin Park High School in 2005. She graduated from the University of Southern California magna cum laude in 2009. While at USC, Hersch covered the USC athletic teams, had a number of positions at the campus TV Station, and was third place in 2009 Hearst Broadcast Competition winning one thousand dollars.
Career
Hersch started her career in WKOW-TV in Madison, Wisconsin. Then in 2013, came back home when she hired by Fox Sports North (now Bally Sports North) to cover the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Wild. During her time with Fox Sports North, Hersch traveled to Kuwait to cover several former NHL players who brought hockey to the American troops serving overseas. They spent several days living at Camp Buehring with the soldiers while running hockey skills clinics and playing floor hockey games on the base. In 2015, when the MLB Network and the NHL Network paired up, she joined the networks. She also spent some time covering sports for the Big Ten Network.
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
American sports journalists
Women sports journalists
American women television journalists
American television talk show hosts
MLB Network personalities
University of Southern California alumni
People from Champlin, Minnesota
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Shadow | Cyber Shadow is a side-scrolling action-platform game developed by Finnish indie studio Mechanical Head Studios and published by Yacht Club Games. Using an 8-bit aesthetic, the game follows a cybernetic ninja named Shadow who sets out to rescue his clan in a world overrun by machines.
The game is mostly developed by Aarne Hunziker, who is the sole member of Mechanical Head Studios. It was first shown at PAX East 2019, having been in development from years before and silently announced before that event. It contains stated inspirations from other platform video games such as Ninja Gaiden. The game was released on January 26, 2021 to mostly positive reviews, citing the graphics and gameplay as highlights.
Gameplay
Cyber Shadow is a side-scrolling action-platformer in which players control a ninja character who battles enemies with a sword and various special abilities acquired as subweapons. It features an 8-bit aesthetic which shares similarities to Shatterhand and contains several gameplay elements of Shadow of the Ninja, Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, Castlevania and similar games, which include snaking paths and occasional backtracking. Several bosses are present.
The game's story is told primarily through cinematic cutscenes, though in-engine ones are used as well.
Plot
The game's plot follows Shadow, a cyborg ninja who sets out to free his fallen clan from synthetic lifeforms harvesting them for their powers. It is set in the ruins of the fictional Mekacity. Shadow travels across Mekacity, fighting the cybernetic beings as well as a traitor from his ninja clan called Apparitor, and ends his captured clanmates lives to free their spirits. His ultimate goal is to find the Master of the clan, with whom the original human Shadow had a seemingly romantic relationship. Shadow discovers that the Master was dying of a mysterious spiritual disease, and her father, in a mad scheme to save her life, attacked the city with his synthetic army and betrayed the Clan so as to drain their mystical powers, and use the drained energy to keep his daughter alive. Cyber-Shadow sets out to defeat him so that he can free her spirit from her dying body and reunite with her in the Ethos, the spiritual realm.
Development
Cyber Shadow was developed by Mechanical Head Studios, a team consisting purely of the creator Aarne Hunziker, and published by Yacht Club Games. Aarne Hunziker, having already been developing the game for years on his own, initially had no intention of teaming up with a publisher; he was first discovered by Yacht Club while posting about the ongoing development on Twitter, and later was convinced by them to "join [their] little family". Although most of the development is handled by Hunziker, the music will be composed by Enrique Martin and produced by Jake Kaufman; in addition to their usual role as a publisher, Yacht Club is giving design feedback from their previous experience developing Shovel Knight.
Hunziker's first experience in game developm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacom%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dacom or DACOM may refer to:
Dacom, Inc., Fax and data company
Deutsche-Afghanische Companie, German trading company
LG Dacom, South Korean cellular carrier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Mzansi%20Magic | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by the satellite television channel Mzansi Magic in South Africa.
Current programming
Soapies/Series
IsiThembiso
eHostela (6 January, 2019 - present)
Gomora (30 March, 2020 - present)
Igazi
Ingoma
iNumber Number'IsikiziLockdownMadam And Mercy
Papa Penny Ahee
Real Housewives Of Johannesburg
Saints and Sinners (3 August, 2014 - present)The HerdHousekeepersThe ImposterThe ThroneThe Queen (1 August, 2016 - present)
The River (28 October, 2019 - present)
Omen (5 January, 2020 - present)
Trackers (5 April, 2020 - present)
Grassroots (6 January, 2020 - present)
Isifiso
Real Housewives Of Capetown
Reality/DocumentaryCishe NgafaDate My FamilyLiving The Dream with SomiziNot a Diva Papa Penny AheePlease Step InThe Perfect MatchThe RanakasUtatakhouThando Nes'ThembuYimloYobeLifestyleChange DownOur Perfect WeddingMusicMassive MusicMzansi Magic Music Specials
The Lounge Series
ComedyMzansi Comedy NightsSportsHomeGroundWWE Raw (highlights)
WWE SmackDown (highlights)
FoodCeleb Feast with ZolaLet's Eat with SiphokaziFranchisesClash of the Choirs South AfricaIdols South AfricaProject Runway South AfricaAcquiredBeing BonangThe DoctorsThe TalkDr. Phil
Upcoming programmingRate My PlateShaka Ilembe
Former programming
Soapies/SeriesGreed & DesireRing of Lies
The Herd
Lockdown
The Throne
The QueenRockville The RoadThe WildZabalazaYa LlaNkululeko
Reality/DocumentaryDiski DivasMusicIcilongoMy Top 10: My Life In MusicShay'NgomaComedyLaugh Out Loud – The Comedy ShowGame ShowsCula SiboneKa-ChingKabelo's BootcampKFC Taste KitchenNguwe Na?NewsDaily Sun TVAcquiredAyeye''
References
Mzansi Magic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Capitol is a closed-end, computer-moderated play-by-mail game created and moderated by Adventures by Mail beginning in 1983.
Gameplay
Capitol involved twelve identically sized teams of 4–8 players in a competition against the other teams to conquer the galaxy. A group of players could join the game as a team; otherwise, individual players were assigned to one of the teams. (Adventures by Mail tried to group individual players geographically so that they could contact each other to discuss strategy.)
The game map was a 98 x 98 grid (9,604 squares) across which hundreds of worlds were scattered. Players would use the resources of their home world to design and build ships, then fan out, seeking to conquer new worlds, which in turn would give them the resources to explore further. When a player discovered a world controlled by a player from a different faction, combat would result.
The object of the game was to be on the team that controlled the most worlds when the game ended, which could happen in one of two ways:
When three of the twelve teams had no worlds left
When the team with the most worlds had more than twice as many worlds as the second place team
Turns were moderated by a computer every 10 days. The cost to play was $2.50 for the rulebook and plastic map overlay, and $2.50 per turn for up to 60 orders. (Players could buy 30 more orders per turn for $1.)
Reception
In the April 1985 edition of Dragon (Issue 96), Mike Gray liked the team aspect of the game, which differentiated it from other play-by-mail games of the time, and thought the team approach worked well. However he had a less-than-satisfactory experience in his first game, admitting that his inexperience led him to spend too much time developing his homeworld rather than exploring and discovering new worlds in order to harvest their resources. He concluded on an upbeat note, saying, "Capitol is a fun and very different experience. The rules are clear and easily understood, the overlays are a nice touch, and the teamwork aspect will prepare a novice for the individual diplomacy that must be developed in most other PBM games."
In the May-June 1985 edition of The Space Gamer (No. 74), Edmund Hack also had a less-than-optimal experience when, as an individual player, he was placed on a team with other players who were scattered across a wide geographic area. In the days before email, this made it difficult or expensive to coordinate turn-by-turn strategy. Hack's advice was to only sign up as a complete team, not as an individual: "I would recommend Capitol only for teams of players who ask to be set up together in the game... If you end up, like I did, on a 'pickup' team of players from different parts of the country who do not know each other, you are likely to be in for an uphill struggle. However, as a team game with your friends, Capitol can be challenging and exciting."
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
20th-century role-playing games
American games
A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Discovery | Cyber Discovery was a United Kingdom initiative to get teenagers interested in cyber security. The initiative was funded £20 million by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in partnership with SANS Institute Started in 2017, each year the program had followed a similar pattern of 4 (often overlapping) stages.
In the first year of operation, 170 students attended 3 different events in Manchester, Bristol and London in Summer 2018. The events lasted for 2 days and included talks from industry professionals, challenges, and a Capture the Flag competition.
References
Computer security
Digital media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201992 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1992 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM%20Schema | CIM Schema is a computer specification, part of Common Information Model standard, and created by the Distributed Management Task Force.
It is a conceptual diagram made of classes, attributes, relations between these classes and inheritances, defined in the world of software and hardware. This set of objects and their relations is a conceptual framework for describing computer elements and organizing information about the managed environment.
This schema is the basis of other DMTF standards such as WBEM, SMASH or SMI-S for storage management.
Extensibility
The CIM schema is object-based and extensible, allowing manufacturers to represent their equipment using the elements defined in the core classes of CIM schema. For this, manufacturers provide software extensions called providers, which supplement existing classes by deriving them and adding new attributes.
Examples of common core classes
CIM_ComputerSystem for a computer host
CIM_DataFile: Computer file
CIM_Directory: Files directory
CIM_DiskPartition: disk partition
CIM_FIFOPipeFile: Named pipes
CIM_OperatingSystem: Operating system
CIM_Process: Computer process
CIM_SqlTable: Database table
CIM_SqlTrigger: Database trigger
References
DMTF standards
Open standards
Computer standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga%20Panjami | Naga Panchami is a 1956 Indian Tamil language film produced and directed by K. Nagabushanam. The film stars Anjali Devi, S. Varalakshmi and Chittor V. Nagayya.
Cast
The list is adapted from the database of Film News Anandan
Production
While Kannamba was producing this film in Tamil, AVM produced the same story in Kannada with the title Naga Devatha. They dubbed that film into Tamil and released with the title Naga Devathai before Kannamba released her film. Therefore, Kannamba's film Naga Panchami was a flop. So, Kannamba dubbed that film into Telugu and released.
Soundtrack
The lyrics were penned by S. D. S. Yogi, Nagai Mani and V. Seetharaman. Music composer is not known.
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahil%20sa%20Pag-ibig | Dahil Sa Pag-ibig may refer to:
Dahil sa Pag-ibig (2012 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on ABS-CBN
Dahil sa Pag-ibig (2019 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on GMA Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosque%20%28programming%20language%29 | Bosque is a free and open-source programming language designed & developed by Microsoft that was inspired by the syntax and types of TypeScript and the semantics of ML and Node/JavaScript. Design goals for the language include better software quality and improved developer productivity.
Overview
Bosque was designed by Microsoft Research computer scientist Mark Marron, who describes the language as an effort to move beyond the structured programming model that became popular in the 1970s.
The structured programming paradigm, in which flow control is managed with loops, conditionals, and subroutines, became popular after a 1968 paper titled "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra. Marron believes we can do better by getting rid of sources of complexity like loops, mutable state, and reference equality. The result is Bosque, which represents a programming paradigm that Marron, in a paper he wrote, calls "regularized programming."
The Bosque specification, parser, type checker, reference interpreter, and IDE support are licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.
Examples
Add two numbers
function add2(x: Int, y: Int): Int {
return x + y;
}
add2(2, 3) // 5
add2(x=2, y=3) // 5
add2(y=2, 5) // 7
See also
Dafny
F* (programming language)
Free software movement
References
Further reading
External links
Bosque Programming Language - Microsoft Research
GitHub - microsoft/BosqueLanguage: The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.
Microsoft free software
Microsoft programming languages
Microsoft Research
Programming languages created in 2019
Software using the MIT license
2019 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foulum%20Data%20Center | Foulum Data Center (name not official) is an Apple data center at the village of Foulum in the Viborg Municipality, in Denmark. It opened in September 2020.
The data center was announced on February 23, 2015, along with a similar data center in Ireland, which plans were canceled in mid-2018. It will have a size of and Apple's total investment for the data center amounts to around €850 million.
Apple's Data Center will service the company's European customers in connection with its online services such as the iTunes Store, App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri.
The data center is located adjacent to the grid hub Tjele, where a 1.5 GW high voltage direct current line connects to hydropower in Norway. The center was intended to send surplus heat to the local district heating network. It is also planned that the center will only use renewable energy and will be able to use hydroelectricity from Norway. Apple's needs in 2017 were scheduled to be 7 megawatts for the start in 2019. Apple owns a 42 MW solar farm near Thisted, and erects two 8.4 MW wind turbines on the west coast.
The choice of Denmark instead of Norway was estimated to be due to a low Danish energy tax of just 0.5 øre per kWh compared to 12.39 øre per kWh in Norway. It is estimated that the data center consumes 700 GWh annually. As part of the project, an emergency power plant is built for use in backups of any power outages. The emergency power plant will consist of 14 units, each with an approximately high diesel generator, an earthy tank unit with room for approximately of diesel oil and an approximately high chimney.
When the data center was announced on February 23, 2015, it was received with great optimism from Viborg Municipality, and it was argued that this was the largest foreign capital investment in Denmark ever. The municipality expected that the construction phase would "create many hundred jobs", and that the operating phase would also create a lot of jobs - directly as well as derived. The construction of the first craft houses was started in November 2015.
Denmark, for over three years, secretly negotiated with Apple. In addition to the municipality, the negotiations also included Aarhus University, Energi Viborg and the Department of Foreign Affairs 'Invest in Denmark'. The then Minister of Trade and Development Mogens Jensen found that advertising had to be "the best business news of the year for Denmark". A similar Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina created 50 full-time jobs.
Through public access, Dagbladet Børsen found that tax agency SKAT was also involved in the negotiations, where a tax-technical model was constructed, so that the cooling in Apple's data center was considered heat-producing unit. The unusual construction led to several questions in the Energy, Supply and Climate Committee in the Danish Parliament.
In July 2017, another Danish Apple data center was announced. It was planned to be located at the transformer station Kassø in Aabenra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic%20computing | Memetic computing is a novel computational paradigm that incorporates the notion of meme(s) as basic units of transferable information encoded in computational representations for boosting the performance of artificial evolutionary systems in the domain of search and optimization.
The term memetic computing is often unassumingly misinterpreted to mean the same thing as memetic algorithms (MAs) that typically hybridize population-based global search algorithms with one or more local search schemes. Notably, memetic computing offers a much broader scope, perpetuating the idea of memes into concepts that pave the way towards simultaneous problem learning and optimization approaches.
Methods
There are two different methods that describe the history and rise of memetics in computing. These are human-crafted memes and machine-crafted memes.
Human-crafted memes
One of the most widely recognised instantiations of the memetic computing paradigm are the first-generation memetic algorithms (MAs). In particular, MAs are referred to as hybrid algorithms, prescribing a marriage between a population-based global search coupled with one or more local search schemes (interpreted as computational manifestations of memes) such as heuristic solution refinements, gradient descent procedures, etc. The specific choice of local search heuristics are handcrafted (manually specified) by a domain expert and often require a reasonably deep understanding of the problem at hand.
The second generation MAs focus on adaptive data driven selection and integration of memes from a manually specified catalogue of multi-memes (a pool of memes); gleaning patterns (knowledge) from the data generated during the course of a search/optimization run so as to ascertain promising combinations of memes at runtime.
Machine-crafted memes
It is only recently that the concept of memes were set free from the narrow scope of merely hand-crafted local search heuristics, paving the path towards fully automated extraction, dispersal and exploitation of knowledge memes. In this era of data-democratization with access to modern computing platforms, emerges an unmanned multi-meme setting; one in which memes, capturing diverse forms of higher-order problem-solving knowledge, are uncovered by machines. They are thereafter made available for reuse across various problems. As such, making it possible for advanced optimizers to automatically harness the transmitted memes and orchestrate custom search behaviours on the fly without human intervention.
Applications
The concept of memes have been exploited in various research fields, for example, robotics engineering, multi-agent systems, robotics, optimization, software engineering, and the social sciences etc.
See also
Memetics
Memetic algorithm
References
WIO
techitio
Memetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina%20von%20Davier | Alina Anca von Davier (born September 11, 1967) is a psychometrician and researcher in computational psychometrics, machine learning, and education. Von Davier is a researcher, innovator, and an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in EdTech and in the assessment industry. She is the Chief of Assessment at Duolingo, where she leads the Duolingo English Test research and development area. She is also the Founder and CEO of EdAstra Tech, a service-oriented EdTech company. In 2022, she joined the University of Oxford as an Honorary Research Fellow, and Carnegie Mellon University as a Senior Research Fellow.
Education
Von Davier completed a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1990. In 2000, she earned a doctorate in mathematics from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In 2019 she completed classes in an Executive MBA program at Harvard Business School.
Career
As one of the pioneers of the field of computational psychometrics, von Davier has dedicated her career to advancing the field through her work in both academia and industry. She served as Chief Officer at ACT (test) leading ACTNext, an R&D-based innovation division. Prior to this, she worked for 15 years at Educational Testing Service, where her latest position was Senior Center Director. In 2020, she left her position at ACT and joined Duolingo as Chief of Assessment for the Duolingo English Test.
Von Davier has made significant contributions to the field of psychometrics through her work in academic settings. She was the Chair of the Editorial Council of the Psychometric Society, and an associate editor of Psychometrika. She also served as guest editor for both Applied Psychological Measurement and the Journal of Educational Measurement. In 2022 she served as the Chairperson of the global board of directors for the Association of Test Publishers, and was the president of the International Association of Computerized Adaptive Testing from 2019 to 2022.
Von Davier was a member of the Board of Directors for Smart Sparrow, an adaptive learning company from 2018 to 2020. She currently serves as a Director on the Board for MACAT, an education company focused on critical and creative thinking, learning and assessment.
She currently sits on the global board of directors for the Association of Test Publishers and is the president of the International Association of Computerized Adaptive Testing.
Recognition
Von Davier’s work has been widely recognized in the academic community. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Innovator award from the EdTech Digest. In 2020, she received ATP’s Career Award for her contributions to assessment. The American Educational Research Association awarded her the Division D Signification Contribution Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award for her publications “Computerized Multistage Testing: Theory and Applications” (2014) and an edited volume on test equating, “Statistical Models for Test Equating, Scaling, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Husain | Amir Husain is a Pakistani-American artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur, founder of the Austin-based company, SparkCognition, and author of the book, The Sentient Machine.
Childhood & Education
Husain was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. His father was a businessman while his mother was an educator. At the age of four, Husain interacted with his first computer: A Commodore 64. Amazed by what the machine could do, he went back to his room and started building a contraption of a computer out of toys and cardboard, starting his lifelong obsession with computer science. He dropped out of middle school in the eighth grade, and began writing software and selling it for a profit. At the age of 15, Husain began attending the Punjab Institute of Computer Science from which he graduated two years later with a bachelor's degree in computer science.
After graduating, Husain spent time searching for an ideal research organization, and eventually found the Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory (DMCL) at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. He joined UT Austin in 1996, but upon arrival was denied entrance to the Masters program, because of his young age. He then spent a year in the Bachelors program in computer science and obtained a second BS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. While still an undergraduate, he obtained his desired position at DMCL. In 1999, while working towards his Ph.D., Husain dropped out and launched his first start-up, Kurion.
Career
Husain launched Kurion in 1999, a web services company offering website personalization engines. The company was purchased in 2001 by , then the largest internet content syndication company.
In 2002, the second startup he had founded, Inframanage, merged with ClearCube Technology. Husain became Chief Technology Officer at ClearCube, and later, CEO of ClearCube's software spin-off.
In 2013, Husain founded SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. His first investor at the new company was Michael Dell. Boeing, CME Group, Verizon, State Street and others followed. Since its inception, the company has gained clients such as Apergy, Boeing and Aker BP, Honeywell Aerospace, Flowserve, and Defense Innovation Unit. As of 2019 June, SparkCognition has raised more than $72.5M through VC investors.
In 2018, Husain became CEO of SkyGrid, a joint venture between Boeing and SparkCognition aimed at developing an aerial operating system that uses AI and blockchain technology to integrate autonomous cargo and passenger aircraft into the aerospace industry.
Awards, Patents, & Achievements
Husain has been named Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Austin Business Journal. Other awards he has received include being listed as an Onalytica Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Influencer, receiving the Austin Under 40 Technology and Science Award in 2016, and being a finalist for EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.
Husain has 33 awarded patents to his name, and several dozen add |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Lausanne | Lausanne, a city in western Switzerland and a cultural and commercial centre, has returned its tramway as a modern tram system.
Lausanne once had a standard steel wheeled tramway network. Its heyday was during the 1930s. The tram service was completely stopped in 1964. Trams returned to Lausanne in 1991.
History
Unlike many cities of the world, the Lausanne tram system was started directly as electric tram.
The first attempts to create a tramway network in Lausanne date back to the period between 1869 and 1872, when a compressed air system was proposed comparable to that used on the Trams in Bern. In 1882, engineer Bergeron proposed the installation of a funicular traction tram (such as the famous San Francisco cable car system ) to connect the station to the city center, with a branch path; the death of the engineer put an end to the project.
On December 21, 1894, the engineer Adrien Palaz obtained the federal subsidy for the construction of a tram network, the following year he presented his project on the financial plan and obtained the support of the communal authorities. In August 1895, construction began on the power station to supply electricity to the grid, located between rue Saint-Martin and the medical school.
On June 5, 1895, the company that would operate the network was created: the Lausanne Tramway Company (TL), of which Adrien Palaz would be managing director and then director. The network, consisting of six lines and a total length of 7.2 km, was inaugurated on August 29, 1896, and was put into service on 1 September following. It consisted of a circular line around the city center using the "Ceintue Pichard" and five lines towards the suburbs and the train station in Saint-François:
St. Francis - Georgette - Pully - Lutry (4.2 km );
Saint-François - School of Medicine - Pont de Chailly (1.4 km );
Saint-François - Riponne - Pontaise (1.1 km );
Saint-François - CFF Station;
Saint-François - LEB Station;
Pichard Belt.
The network then began a large wave of expansion. In 1903, it consisted of ten lines including two suburban, for a total length of 23.287 km, including 5.690 km double track.
In 1898, the line between the CFF station, Saint-François, the tunnel and the hospital was opened, then the following year a line serving Chauderon, Monétan and Prilly opened, while the line of Pont de Chailly was extended to La Rosiaz. In 1902, the line of the hospital was extended to La Sallaz, and the following year, four lines were born:
Station (Jura-Simplon) - Ouchy (1.9 km );
Boulevard de Grancy - Court - Montoie (1.6 km );
Chauderon - Renens Station (3.8 km );
Station (Jura-Simplon) - Place de Chauderon (1.1 km ).
In 1906, two lines were born: Tunnel - Le Mont - Cugy (9.3 km ) and the "Tour de Ville" departing from the CFF station by Saint - François, Riponne and Chauderon. The line of Cugy was extended to Montheron the following year. In 1909, the railway station CFF - Riponne - Bel-Air - Bergières opened in turn.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%3A%20Mewtwo%20Strikes%20Back%20%E2%80%94%20Evolution | Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution is a 2019 Japanese fantasy computer-animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara. The film is the twenty-second installment in the Pokémon film series and a CGI remake of Pokémon: The First Movie (1998) and the third and final film in the Sun & Moon series. The film was animated by OLM, Inc., OLM Digital, and Sprite Animation Studios. At the same time, the events of the CGI remake film take place during the first season of Pokémon: Indigo League.
It was released in Japan on July 12, 2019, and on Netflix worldwide on February 27, 2020.
Plot
Scientist Dr. Fuji is hired by Giovanni, leader of Team Rocket, to utilize his expertise in cloning in order to create a living weapon based on an eyelash from legendary Pokémon Mew. Soon after the weapon is created, it gains sentience and is named Mewtwo.
Several years later, Mewtwo has fully awakened from a long slumber in a laboratory on New Island and learns of his origin as Mew's clone from Dr. Fuji. Infuriated that Fuji and his colleagues see him as nothing more than an experiment, he unleashes his psychic powers and destroys the laboratory, killing Fuji and the rest of the scientists. Giovanni, witnessing the carnage afar, approaches and convinces Mewtwo to work with him to hone his powers. However, after Mewtwo learns of his purpose to be a weapon for Giovanni's benefit, he escapes back to New Island, where he plots his revenge against humanity.
After Mewtwo rebuilds the laboratory and establishes a base there, he invites several trainers with hologram messages to battle the world's greatest Pokémon trainer at New Island. Ash, Misty, and Brock receive a message and accept the invitation, but when they arrive at the port city, Old Shore Wharf, Mewtwo creates a storm, causing the boats on the wharf to be closed off for safety. As a result, Ash's group is picked up by Team Rocket disguised as captains on a Lapras-shaped sailboat. After the storm sinks their vessel in the middle of the ocean, Ash and his friends use their Pokémon instead to reach New Island.
Escorted into the island's palace by the woman who appeared on the hologram, Ash and the other trainers who were able to reach the island encounter Mewtwo. The woman is revealed to be a brainwashed Nurse Joy after she is released from Mewtwo's mind control. Mewtwo challenges the trainers using cloned Pokémon. Meanwhile, Team Rocket also reaches New Island and explores its inner sanctum with a Mew innocuously following them. After Mewtwo's clones effortlessly defeat the challengers' Pokémon, he confiscates them and expands his clone army. Ash chases after his captured Pikachu down the cloning lab, where Team Rocket's Meowth is also cloned. Ash destroys the cloning machine, frees the captured Pokémon, and leads them to confront Mewtwo and his clones. Mew then reveals itself, and Mewtwo challenges it in order to prove his superiority.
All of the Pokémon originals battle their clones save |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM%20Brasseur | V M (Vicky) Brasseur is an author and public speaker advocating in the field of free and open-source software.
Career
Brasseur is the director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks and former Vice President of the Open Source Initiative.
Brasseur is a frequent keynote speaker at tech conferences where she often discusses issues of community management and technological challenges in open source projects and environments, especially when they intersect with business environments.
Brasseur has written many articles for publications including Linux Journal and opensource.com, for which she has also been a moderator. Her 2018 book Forge Your Future with Open Source aimed to help newcomers get started in participating in the open source software community. The book was listed number 11 in BookAuthority's 21 Best New Software Development Books To Read In 2019.
Awards
Brasseur is the winner of the Perl White Camel Award in 2014 and the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2016. She won an Opensource.com Moderator's Choice Award in 2018 and in 2019.
References
Work
External links
Personal website
Open source people
Living people
O'Reilly writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zan%20TV | Zan TV (Women TV/تلویزیون زن in Dari) is an Afghan television channel that almost exclusively employs women, and offers programming that especially addresses issues relevant to women in Afghanistan. Founded by Hamid Samar, a media entrepreneur, in Kabul in 2017, Zan TV was the first station of its kind in Afghanistan.
History
Upon its founding, about half of the women hired for the station were already qualified, and the other half planned to learn on the job. This was because most Afghan media and TV companies would not historically hire women, so they had limited opportunities to develop media skills beforehand. Staff have included Nasrine Nawa, director of news programming, Yasamin Yarmal, host of the daily show, Khalida Rashid, a political reporter, Shabana Noori and Basira Joya, news anchors, and Mehria Azali, a journalist and producer of the station's political programming.
Within three months of its founding, Samar reported that the station had 90,000 viewers for its morning programs. As written in the Guardian upon its founding, "It’s a radical initiative for a country where the television industry is run solely by men and where just 16 years ago, journalism and even access to education for women were banned." However, some journalists are worried for their safety, and some face criticism from their families and communities.
In 2019, Zan TV reporter Najwa Alimi received the Per Anger Prize, an award instituted by the Government of Sweden and awarded to human rights defenders.
In August 2021 with the Taliban coming to power in Afghanistan, Zan TV temporarily suspended broadcasting. Despite the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women's activities in Afghanistan and on the media, Zan TV continued work, endeavouring to be the voice of Afghan women, under the management of Maryam Naiby and with the support of Hamid Samaris.
Programming
The station broadcasts news programmes and a variety of other shows, including cookery, entertainment, and discussion shows. In particular, it focuses on topics that are of interest of Afghan millennial women, such as feminism in the context of Islam, reproductive rights, domestic violence, women in the workplace, and family life. Interviews with Afghan female politicians and activists, such as Fareeda Kuchi Balkhi and Selay Ghaffar, are also included. Although the programming includes segments on topics that were banned under the Taliban rule, such as cosmetics and women in sports, the stated goal according to Mehria Azali is to work within the framework of Afghan culture and the existing laws.
References
External links
Television stations in Afghanistan
Televisa broadcast television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroTik | MikroTik (officially SIA "Mikrotīkls") is a Latvian network equipment manufacturing company. MikroTik develops and sells wired and wireless network routers, network switches, access points, as well as operating systems and auxiliary software. The company was founded in 1996, and as of 2022, it was reported that the company employed 351 employees.
With its headquarters in Riga, Latvia, MikroTik serves a diverse array of customers around the world. The company's products and services are utilized in various sectors, such as telecommunications, government agencies, educational institutions, and enterprises of all sizes.
In 2022, with a value of €1.30 billion, Mikrotik was the 4th largest company in Latvia and the first private company to surpass €1 billion value in Latvia.
History
MikroTik was established in 1996 by founders John Tully and Arnis Riekstiņš in Riga, Latvia, developing networking software for x86 PC hardware that would develop into a product called RouterOS. The earliest versions of RouterOS were based on Linux 2.2.
In 2002, MikroTik expanded its product line by producing their own networking-focused low-power single-board computers (SBC), branded RouterBoard, that ran RouterOS. These early SBCs could be expanded and/or integrated as components of other systems, but as time passed, this RouterBoard/RouterOS platform would develop into a full line network equipment.
Timeline
1997 – Release of software for x86 PC platform, called simply MikroTik Router Software, that would eventually develop into RouterOS.
2002 – Release of RouterBoard series PCI add-in boards to be used with MikroTik x86-based PCs running RouterOS.
2003 – Release of RouterBoard 200, a single-board router platform, and RouterBOARD 220 with the SBC integrated into an enclosure with a 2.4 GHz wireless antenna powered by Power over ethernet (PoE). Original RouterBoard was based on the Geode CPU, but later used MIPS.
2012 – Release of Cloud Core Router (CCR) 1000-series, using Tilera's TILE-Gx many-core CPUs. Tilera-base CCRs would eventually be released with up to 72-cores at 1 GHz.
2022 – Release of CCR 2000-series network routers using ARM64-architecture CPUs and featuring 100GbE capability in the CCR2216. Also, a return to PC add-in boards with the CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe.
Products
MikroTik's products mainly comprises two distinct product lines. The first is MikroTik RouterOS, an operating system for routers, which is built on the Debian GNU/Linux kernel. The second is MikroTik RouterBOARD, a line of products that includes various types of ethernet routers and switches and outdoor wireless systems.
RouterOS
MikroTik RouterOS is an operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux kernel, specifically designed for routers. It is installed on the company's produced networking hardware - RouterBOARD, as well as on standard x86 type computers, enabling these devices to fulfill router functions. Developed with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in mind, RouterOS enco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Randles | Amanda Randles is an American computer scientist who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University. Randles is an associate professor of biomedical engineering with secondary appointments in computer science, mathematics, and mechanical engineering and materials science. She is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Her research interests include biomedical simulation, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance computing.
Early career and education
In high school, Randles attended the Utica Center for Math, Science, and Technology, where she learned computer programming and its applications in the sciences. She also participated in Science Olympiad and FIRST Robotics.
Randles attended Duke University, where she completed a B.A. in physics and computer science in 2005. After working for three years as a software developer on the IBM Blue Gene project, she went to Harvard University to earn an S.M. in computer science (2010) and a PhD in applied physics (2013) advised by Efthimios Kaxiras and Hanspeter Pfister. She was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and in 2011, she was awarded a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship by the Krell Institute. She subsequently completed a practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and was a visiting scientist at Franziska Michor's laboratory in the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.
Academic career
Randles joined the Duke University Biomedical Engineering Department in 2015, where she is currently serving as the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences. She received tenure in 2023 in Biomedical Engineering and has secondary appointments in mathematics, computer science, and mechanical and materials science. She is also a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.
Research
Randles' research interests are biomedical simulation and high-performance computing; specifically, her focus is developing computational tools that can examine the behavior of different diseases, from atherosclerosis to cancer. Randles and her research group have developed fluid dynamics simulation software capable of modeling blood flowing throughout a human body based on full-body CT and MRI scans, dubbed HARVEY after the physician William Harvey. Possible applications include examining how different medical interventions in cardiovascular disease impact the circulatory system and modeling the flow of singular cancer cells through the system.
In 2018, Randles was one of ten researchers selected to test simulation-based projects on the Aurora exascale supercomputer in 2021, as part of the Aurora Early Science Program at the Argonne National Laboratory. She was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in May 2020 to support her work on HARVEY.
Awards and honors
In 2023, she was warded the NIH Pioneer award to support her work combining wearables with physics-based models. She is a Fellow of the N |
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