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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Jouppi | Norman Paul Jouppi is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist.
Career
Jouppi was one of the computer architects at the MIPS Stanford University Project (under John L. Hennessy), an early RISC project. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1980 and was awarded a PhD in 1984 from Stanford University. In 1984 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. He worked at Compaq and at Hewlett-Packard in 2002, where he ran the Advanced Architecture Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto from 2006 to 2008 and then the Exascale Computing Lab from 2008 to 2010 and the Intelligent Infrastructure Lab from 2010 to 2011. After that, he became a computer engineer at Google.
He pioneered developments in the field of memory hierarchies (victim buffers, prefetching stream buffers multi-level exclusive caching), heterogeneous architectures (single ISA heterogeneous architectures) and the introduction of the CACTI simulator for memory design (modeling of cache time, area and power).
He was the principal architect of four microprocessors and contributed to the development of graphics accelerators. He also deals with telepresence technology and the application of nanophotonics in the computer field.
In 2015, he received the Eckert–Mauchly Award for contributions to the design and analysis of high performance processors and computer storage systems. In 2002 he became Hewlett Packard Fellow, in 2003 fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the design of high-performance processors and memory systems
, and in 2007 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. The ACM awarded Jouppi its Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award in 2013. In 2014 he received the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award. Also in 2014, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design of computer memory hierarchies.
From 2007 to 2011, he headed the ACM's computer architecture special interest group, SIGARCH.
From 1984 to 1996, he was also a consulting assistant or associate professor at Stanford University. He holds over 35 US patents. He is a member of the editorial boards of Communications of the ACM and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters.
References
External links
Jouppi named ACM Fellow, 2007
CV 2011
AIP Oral History Interview, 2021
Stanford University alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Google employees
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Hewlett-Packard people
Digital Equipment Corporation people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Kindberg | Tim Kindberg is a computer scientist, notable for being co-author (together with George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Gordon Blair) of one of the standard distributed computer systems textbooks, Distributed Systems (). Kindberg has been cited over 10,000 times.
Selected research
Kindberg, Tim, and John Barton. "A web-based nomadic computing system." Computer Networks 35.4 (2001): 443–456.
Kindberg, Tim, et al. "People, places, things: Web presence for the real world." Mobile Networks and Applications 7.5 (2002): 365–376.
Kindberg, Tim, and Armando Fox. "System software for ubiquitous computing." IEEE pervasive computing 1.1 (2002): 70–81.
Kindberg, Tim, et al. "The ubiquitous camera: An in-depth study of camera phone use." IEEE Pervasive Computing 4.2 (2005): 42–50.
References
External links
Living people
Nationality missing
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Computer scientists
Textbook writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAM | DYAM may refer to:
DYAM-FM, an FM radio station broadcasting in Toledo, Cebu, branded as Hope Radio
DYAM-TV, a GMA Network station broadcasting in Roxas, Capiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynet%20%28company%29 | Cynet is a cyber-security company. It converges essential cyber security technologies that help enterprises to identify security loopholes, and threat intelligence, and manage endpoint security. It was founded in 2015 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and is headquartered in Boston, United States.
History
Eyal Gruner and Netanel Amar are the co-founders of Cynet.
In 2015, a team of researchers from Cynet and BugSec discovered vulnerabilities in Next Generation Firewalls. In 2016, they discovered a major security problem in LG G3 smartphones, leaving millions of devices at risk.
In June 2018, Cynet received $13 million in investment from Ibex Investors, Norwest Venture Partners, and Shlomo Kramer.
In March 2021, Cynet raised a 40 million dollar Series C funding round.
Cynet 360
Cynet 360 Incidence Response Tool is an all-in-one breach protection platform of Cynet which uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, and automation to manage vulnerabilities and threat intelligence, analyze user behavior, and give endpoint protection within a centrally unified system. It supports SaaS, IaaS, hybrid, and on-premises deployments.
Awards
References
External links
Official Website
Technology companies of Israel
Software companies of Israel
Companies
Security companies of Israel
Technology companies established in 2015
Computer security companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsariichthys%20hieni | Opsariichthys hieni is a species of cyprinid in the genus Opsariichthys. It inhabits Vietnam. It is not considered harmful to humans.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
IUCN Red List data deficient species
Taxa named by Nguyen Thia Tu
Fish described in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Instead%20Senior%20Care%20UK | Home Instead Senior Care UK is a franchise network, specializing in relationship-led domiciliary care for the elderly and in support of aging in place.
Its establishment began with the Home Instead Senior Care, in Nebraska, founded in 1994. Which in August 2021, was acquired by Honor Technology based in San Francisco. It has 210 franchised offices across the UK, employing more than 13,000 people.
Martin Jones, based in Stretton, Warrington is the CEO. He is also involved with Business in the Community He sees the company as a major provider of community-based care in line with the strategy outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.
In August 2020 the firm launched a three-year research partnership with the University of York’s Social Policy Research Unit.
Performance
In 2020 the organisation had 64 Care Quality Commission ‘outstanding’ ratings across England.
In 2019, it was congratulated by the chief inspector of Adult Social Care. They won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (2016). At that time they had 56 offices and in 2019 they had 195, with about 10,500 clients and about 9,500 caregivers. Jones was appointed to the board of trustees at The Silver Line in March 2019. Staff are matched with clients that share their interests, and all home visits are at least an hour.
It was awarded the Princess Royal Training Award in 2016 and 2019.
In December 2020 it was named the UK's number one franchise business in the Elite Franchise Top 100 league table.
Operations
The national office of Home Instead Senior Care UK is based in Warrington. There are 210 franchise offices UK wide.
See also
Private healthcare in the United Kingdom
References
Further reading
Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions (paperback), Paul and Lori Hogan, McGraw-Hill, 2009, ,
External links
Companies based in Warrington
Elderly care
Social care in England
Franchises
Health care companies of England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark%20flat%20crossing | Newark flat crossing is the last remaining flat railway crossing on the Network Rail network in the United Kingdom where two standard gauge lines intersect. It is located to the north of Newark Northgate station. It is the point where the Nottingham to Lincoln Line intersects with the East Coast Main Line.
On 4 October 1852 a Great Northern train collided with a Midland train which was on the crossing. The Great Northern engine No. 204 driven by William Lightfoot heading north struck the third wagon from the end of the Midland train. The three wagons of the Midland train left the line and ended up in water at the bottom of the embankment. Three passenger coaches from the Great Northern train were also derailed and several passengers were injured. The guard of the Midland train was severely injured and taken to the Lion and Adder Public House in Newark for surgical treatment.
There have been numerous proposals to replace it with a grade separation, none of which have been implemented. A geographical constraint is the proximity of the site to the River Trent which is crossed by a bridge immediately to the north of the junction.
It is renewed about every 16 years, most recently in May 1986, August 2003 and August 2019. During the August 2019 renewal the wooden bearers were replaced with Fiber Form Urethane (FFU) which is expected to have a 30-40 year working life.
References
East Coast Main Line
Rail junctions in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLBC-TV2 | KLBC-TV2 is a cable-only television station in Laughlin, Nevada, United States. It broadcasts local programming on cable systems in Laughlin as well as nearby Bullhead City and Kingman, Arizona, and Needles, California. KLBC produces local news programming and other productions, including Tri-State On Patrol, following the activities of local police departments. It was an affiliate of UPN in the early 2000s.
While not carried on any broadcast translators, KLBC made overtures in 2014 to be carried on the translators owned by Mohave County, which operates transmitter sites in Kingman, Lake Havasu City, and other communities. The channel was removed from Suddenlink cable in Laughlin in 2019, as a result of a severed fiber-optic link and what Suddenlink claimed was $70,000 in unpaid fees to be included on the system over a three-year period.
References
External links
KLBC-TV2
Television stations in Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada
1989 establishments in Nevada
Television channels and stations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal%20coping | Communal coping is the collective effort of members of a connected network (familial or social) to manage a distressing event (Lyons, Michelson, Sullivan and Coyne, 1998). This definition and the scope of the concept positions communal coping as an offshoot of social support. According to Lyons et al. (1998), the communal coping conceptual framework emerged for two reasons. First, to expand the research that supports the claim that the coping process sometimes requires individual and collective effort (e.g. Fukuyama, 1995). Second, the need for a specific framework for investigating the cooperative characteristic of coping. To support the need for a framework which explores the social aspect of coping as a combined effort, the authors argued that the communal coping conceptual framework emphasizes the connectedness and reliance on personal network for coping. Developments to the communal coping framework include the explanation of the complex nature of the communal coping process (Afifi, Helgeson & Krouse, 2006) and specific personal outcomes (Helgeson, Jakubiak, Vleet, & Zajdel, 2018) following a communal coping process.
Background
Lyons et al. (1998) introduced the communal coping framework. The first model Lyons et al. (1998) proposed mainly distinguished between communal coping and existing perception of coping as an individualistic or prosocial process. Also, the model provided a lens for examining other aspects of coping such as the benefits, cost and influential factors. Afifi, Hutchinson, and Krouse (2006) noted some of the achievements of the model is that it accounts for the relational process within coping and shifts the focus of researchers from treating the phenomenon as mainly a psychological process but also a relational or communication.
However, despite the contributions of the model to the coping research, some questions still need an answer and a couple of research challenges remained unaddressed. For instance, Afifi et al. (2006) noted some researchers confused the process of communal coping for collective coping, types, provision and seeking of social support. The scholars attributed the lack of conceptualization of communal coping as one of the factors responsible for the confusion. To address this gap in research and advance the existing model by Lyon's and colleagues, Afifi et al. proposed a theoretical framework. The scholars anticipated the model will serve as a template for measuring communal coping.
The goals for designing the new model were specifically to understand the communal coping process within naturally occurring groups (e.g. postdivorce families). Through the new model, Afifi et al. (2006) attempted to (a) provide a description of the complexities that characterize relying on other people to cope with a stressful event; (b) expand the discourse on the dynamic and interactive nature of the coping process; (c) explore the various factors that contribute to stressors within groups; (d) identify how characte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Tauman%20Kalai | Adam Tauman Kalai is an American computer scientist who specializes in Machine Learning and works as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England.
Education and career
Kalai graduated from Harvard University in 1996 and received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, where he worked under doctoral advisor Avrim Blum. He did his postdoctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a faculty member at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and then the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Microsoft Research in 2008.
Contributions
Kalai is known for his algorithm for generating random factored numbers (see Bach's algorithm), for efficiently learning learning mixtures of Gaussians, for the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm for learning parity with noise, and for the intractability of the folk theorem in game theory.
More recently, Kalai is known for identifying and reducing gender bias in word embeddings, which are a representation of words commonly used in AI systems.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Georgia Tech faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Harvard University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20Networking | Deterministic Networking (DetNet) is an effort by the IETF DetNet Working Group to study implementation of deterministic data paths for real-time applications with extremely low data loss rates, packet delay variation (jitter), and bounded latency, such as audio and video streaming, industrial automation, and vehicle control.
DetNet operates at the IP Layer 3 routed segments using a software-defined networking layer to provide IntServ and DiffServ integration, and delivers service over lower Layer 2 bridged segments using technologies such as MPLS and IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking. Deterministic Networking aims to migrate time-critical, high-reliability industrial control and audio-video applications from special-purpose Fieldbus networks (HDMI, CAN bus, PROFIBUS, RS-485, RS-422/RS-232, and I²C) to packet networks and IP in particular. DetNet will support both the new applications and existing IT applications on the same physical network.
To support real-time applications, DetNet implements reservation of data plane resources in intermediate nodes along the data flow path, calculation of explicit routes that do not depend on network topology, and redistribute data packets over time and/or space to deliver data even with the loss of one path.
Rationale
Standard IT infrastructure cannot efficiently handle latency-sensitive data. Switches and routers use fundamentally uncertain algorithms for processing packet/frames, which may result in sporadic data flow.
A common solution for smoothing out these flows is to increase buffer sizes, but this has a negative effect on delivery latency because data has to fill the buffers before transmission to the next switch or router can start.
IEEE Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) task group has defined deterministic algorithms for queuing, shaping and scheduling which allow each node to allocate bandwidth and latency according to requirements of each data flow, by computing the buffer size at the network switch. The same algorithms can be employed at higher network layers to improve delivery of IP packets and provide interoperability with TSN hardware when available.
Requirements
Applications from different fields often have fundamentally similar requirements, which may include:
Time synchronization at each node (routers/bridge)across the entire network, with accuracy from nanoseconds to microseconds.
Deterministic data flow, which shall support:
unicast or multicast packets;
guaranteed minimum and maximum latency endpoint-to-endpoint across the entire network, with tight jitter when required;
Ethernet packet loss ratio from 10−9 to 10−12, wireless mesh networks around 10−5;
high utilization of the available network bandwidth (no need for massive over-provisioning);
flow processing without throttling, congestion feedback, or other network-defined transmission delay;
a fixed transmission schedule, or a maximum bandwidth and packet size.
Scheduling, shaping, limiting, and controlling transmiss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitken%20%28supercomputer%29 | The Aitken is a future petascale supercomputer installed at the Ames Research Center facility, manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It consist of 1,150 HPE SGI 8600 nodes, with an estimated performance of 3.69 petaflops.
It is based on the supercomputer prototype Electra, where more efficient cooling methods were sought, being energy saving over performance is one of its features.
Aitken is intended for lunar landing and related research, as part of the plans for sending people to the moon in 2024.
References
NASA supercomputers
SGI supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBC%3A%20The%20Next%20Round | PBC: The Next Round is the branding used for monthly Premier Boxing Champions cards broadcast on the Bounce TV digital multicast network.
Coverage overview
On May 7, 2015, Bounce TV announced that they would be airing live boxing events from Premier Boxing Champions. Rather than having the broadcasters pay the promotion a rights fee, the telecasts are brokered by Al Haymon to the networks in exchange for a cut of advertising revenue. Bounce's first PBC card aired on August 2, 2015. The inaugural live telecast delivered 459,000 total viewers and averaged 333,000 households between 9:00 p.m.-12:15 a.m. It hit a peak audience of 667,000 total viewers and 444,000 households.
This wasn't the first time that Bounce carried boxing events. In 2012, Bounce carried World Boxing Association (WBA) Title matches and undercards.
Notable bouts
The inaugural card consisted of a four-man super welterweight tournament, John Jackson winning a 10-round unanimous decision over Dennis Laurente. The second tournament bout featured Jorge Cota defeating Yudel Johnson. In the main event, Juan Carlos Payano defeated Rau'shee Warren in a close, 12-round split decision to retain his Bantamweight Title.
On October 30, 2015 at The Venue at UCF in Orlando, Florida on Bounce TV, Gervonta Davis defeated former featherweight world titleholder Cristobal Cruz (40–18–4, 24 KOs) of Mexico.
Bounce's final PBC card was broadcast on August 3, 2018.
Commentators
Fran Charles (blow-by-blow)
Kevin Cunningham (analysis)
Fred Hickman (host)
Austin Trout (analysis)
Deontay Wilder (analysis)
References
External links
Boxing television series
2015 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
Bounce TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil2D | Pencil2D is a free and open-source 2D animation software for Windows, macOS and Unix-like operating systems. It is released under the GNU General Public License and uses the Qt framework. It is used for making cartoons using traditional techniques (tracing drawings, onion skinning etc), managing vector and bitmap drawings.
It allows saving the animations in its own native file format, as well exporting it as a sequence of images in PNG, JPEG, BMP or TIFF format, and also in a video file in AVI, MP4, WebM, GIF or APNG format.
History
The original version of the software was called Pencil, created by Patrick Corrieri and Pascal Naidon in 2005, but was abandoned and discontinued in 2009.
The abandonment of the project led to the creation of numerous forks, several of which were eventually merged into that of Matthew Chang, resulting in the project now known as Pencil2D.
The project then continues on the pencil2D.org site. From spring 2019, changes are made to the organization of updates, with the deletion of the CR, and the implementation of regular updates whose version numbers are even with patches, and more occasionally, odd versions adding features. The goal is to quickly fix bugs as soon as they appear, rather than letting them accumulate, and to offer stability fixes more quickly. It started with version 0.6.4, released in May 2019. The developers are also setting up a project upload page in order to establish a library of tests for debugging and validity tests.
See also
List of 2D animation software
References
2D animation software
Free software
Cross-platform software
Software that uses Qt
Free and open-source software
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20Up%20Steve%20Austin | Straight Up Steve Austin is an American reality television series that airs on USA Network hosted by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. The series premiered on August 12, 2019, after Monday Night Raw. This series focuses on Austin and a celebrity guest swap stories about their lives and careers as they travel across the country.
On January 10, 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 11, 2021.
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2021)
References
External links
2019 American television series debuts
2021 American television series endings
English-language television shows
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlan%20%28Shadowrun%29 | Aztlan is supplement published by FASA in 1995 for the cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun .
Contents
Aztlan, written by Nigel Findley, details the nation of Aztlan for the Shadowrun setting. Aztlan features a mix of Aztec mythology, cybertech and corporate crime, with chapters on corporate security, religion, fashion, and history.
Reception
In the December 1995 edition of Dragon (Issue #224), Rick Swan thought the blend of Aztec and cyberpunk culture was deft. He found the chapter on religion was "especially good". Swan concluded that this book was "One of the late Nigel Findley's best."
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1995
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacy | Spacy may refer to:
Spacy (film), a 1981 experimental short film
spaCy, an open-source software library for advanced natural language processing
See also
Spacey (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra%20%28supercomputer%29 | Electra is a petascale supercomputer located at the Ames Research Center facility, manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2016 and commissioned at 2017. This is the first modular supercomputer prototype designed by NASA, as part of its research on making supercomputing more efficient and environment-friendly. Its research resulted in the Aitken supercomputer, destined for Moon landing and related research.
Electra was in 12th place among the most powerful supercomputers in the United States, and 33rd place in the world, in the TOP500 list at November, 2018.
It has 2,304 HPE SGI 8600 and SGI ICE X nodes, each with a second generation Intel Xeon dual CPU, delivering up to 8.32 theoretical petaflops, and 5.44 petaflops (LINPACK) as of June 2019.
References
SGI supercomputers
NASA supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%E2%80%94in%20the%20Service%20of%20Communism | Cybernetics—in the Service of Communism was the title of a symposium and accompanying publication sponsored by Aksel Berg, a prominent promoter of cybernetics in the Soviet Union. He provided an eponymous introduction noted for its length and programmatic nature. The symposium was held in 1961, prior to the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where cybernetics was declared the one of the "major tools of the creation of a communist society".
The response from the USA
An American organizational theorist, Donald G. Malcolm, remarked: “If any country were to achieve a completely integrated and controlled economy in which ‘cybernetic’ principles were applied to achieve various goals, the Soviet Union would be ahead of the United States in reaching such a state”. He also suggested that cybernetics “may be one of the weapons Khrushchev had in mind when he threatened to ‘bury’ the West”. As a result of such concerns the Central Intelligence Agency established a special unit to study the Soviet cybernetics.
References
Bibliography
Cybernetics
Science and technology in the Soviet Union
1961 in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Center%20of%20Applied%20Data%20Science | The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS) is a private company established in Malaysia in October 2015. CADS's professed purpose is to nurture a new generation of data scientists and data professionals through programs that focus on solving real business challenges.
Founding/History
CADS was founded by Sharala Axryd, a Malaysian entrepreneur; her unusual position as a female CEO was noted by several publications.
In December 2015, CADS partnered with the Data Incubator, which was founded with grants from Cornell Tech, the computer science school at Cornell University. The Data Incubator is considered among the leading data science incubators in the United States. Through this partnership, CADS was the first in the Association of South-East Asian Nations to offer a data science accelerator program to transform science and engineering talents in Southeast Asia into qualified data scientists. With support from the Malaysian government, the programme was Data Incubator's first international campus.
Programs
In 2016, CADS collaborated with Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education to launch a customised Big Data Analytics (BDA) program, with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) as stakeholders. The four-day programme took place for the first time at Hilton Kuala Lumpur from 25th to 28 April 2016 with 53 C-level participants. It was also notable for being the first time Harvard Business School had conducted a program outside its Boston campus. The programme attracted criticism from the Malaysian newspaper The Edge. The paper questioned the integrity of the HRDF's spending allocations and CADS's role in the process. CADS stated in response, denying the allegation and filed a legal case against The Edge. It then ended in a settlement and The Edge had revoked its articles ever since.
To position Malaysia as a big data hub in the region, CADS previously served as a delivery partner for the ASEAN Data Analytics eXchange (ADAX). Launched in March 2017, ADAX is an initiative by MDEC and Malaysia’s and the world’s first physical data exchange. The Data Star Program was then launched in October 2017 previously as a collaborative effort between ADAX and MDEC with CADS as a delivery partner. Now run exclusively by CADS, it is a training program for graduates that includes one to two months in-class intensive data science enablement training and mentorship with experienced data scientists. That same year, CADS collaborated with Coursera, the largest ‘massive open online course’ (MOOC) platform in the world to offer a host of data science courses to Malaysians.
Other initiatives
CADS has also moved forward with several nation-building initiatives in Malaysia to develop data-driven states. In 2018 alone, CADS delivered training through Sarawak Centre of Performance Excellence (SCOPE) to oversee the development of 2,500 data professionals by 2022 with programmes such as the Sarawak Talent Enrichmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Women%27s%20Register | The Australian Women's Register is a fully searchable online database which aims to cover Australian women and Australian Women's organisations. It combines many resources and allows users to find historical and contemporary material on notable Australian women in all fields. It aims to help users find
women
organisations
archives
publications
and other digital resources.
Part of the Australian Women's Archives Project, it was established in 2000 and is maintained by the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), together with the University of Melbourne.
National Foundation for Australian Women
The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) was set up by a group of women's rights campaigners who wished to establish a body to promote women's movement ideas and policies. It was established in 1989 with seed money of $100,000 from Pamela Denoon and a trust fund in her name. It was to be independent of political parties and was to form partnerships with other women's organisations. Its purpose was to ensure that women's history, knowledge, and wisdom would be accessible to new generations of women, and to advance and protect Australian women's interest in all spheres of life.
See also
Convict women in Australia
List of Australian women artists
List of Australian women writers
List of Australian sportswomen
Women and government in Australia
Women in the Australian military
References
External links
National Federation for Australian women: website
2000 establishments in Australia
Databases in Australia
Online databases
Women's organisations based in Australia
Women in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX%20Productions | FX Productions (FXP) is an American television and in-house production company owned by FX Networks (and jointed with Disney Television Studios), a division of the Disney Entertainment unit of The Walt Disney Company. The studio currently produces series for FX, FXX and FX on Hulu, as well as TBS (Miracle Workers). In the past, FXP also produced series for Amazon Prime Video (One Mississippi), Epix (Perpetual Grace, LTD) and Fox (The Cool Kids, season 1 of Wayward Pines), but have since returned sole focus on the FX channels.
History
FX Productions was formed in August 2007 to take stakes in FX programming. Eric Schrier was appointed senior vice president of the company and the post of senior vice president of original programming in charge of current series and alternative programming.
In July 2014, Fox Networks Group and DNA Films formed DNA TV Limited joint venture. Fox Networks Group would have first global first rights with co-financing options to the joint venture's shows. DNA TV would be managed by DNA Films management with Eric Schrier, president of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions handling Fox's joint venture interest.
Paul Simms signed an overall television production deal with FXP in October 2017.
In November 2019, it was announced that a number of new series originally ordered for FX produced by FX Productions before the Disney-Fox merger would be carried over to Hulu as part of the move of FX's streaming presence for most of the network's library not already under contract with another streaming provider. The series would remain under the purview of FX Productions, and be marketed under a new Hulu sub-brand, "FX on Hulu". It was planned by the end of 2021 that a third of Hulu's original series input would be produced by FX Productions. More recently, Debra Moore Munoz has struck a deal with FX Productions.
Television programs
References
2007 establishments in the United States
Television production companies of the United States
FX Networks
Disney Television Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice%20Joubert | Fabrice O. Joubert is a French film director, animator, story artist, and producer. He made his directorial debut with the computer-animated film French Roast (2008), for which he was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
Life and career
Joubert was born in France and grew up in Paris where he graduated from the Gobelins Animation School after majoring in film studies at the Sorbonne University. He started his career in Los Angeles, hired by DreamWorks Animation in 1998 to work as an animator on their first 2D animated feature The Prince of Egypt, and honed his skills in traditional and cg animation on their next five movies “
In 2007, he settled in Paris to write and direct his first short animated film French Roast. The film was screened throughout the world and won multiple awards before being nominated for an Oscar in 2010. In 2013, he moved back to Los Angeles to work for Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing ...). There, he directed a series of short films and commercials.
In 2019, Fabrice wrote, directed and produced his first live action short film "Safety".
Filmography
Fabrice worked on many different films, formats and techniques, here is a list of the film he worked on:
1998: The Prince of Egypt – animator
2000: The Road to El Dorado – animator
2002: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – animator
2003: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas – Supervising Animator
2004: Shark Tale – Supervising Animator
2005: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Stop-Motion Animator
2006: Flushed Away – Supervising Animator
2008: French Roast – writer, director
2008: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - animator of Lucasfilm Animation France
2010: Despicable Me – Character Animation Lead
2011: A Monster in Paris – Animation Director
2012: The Lorax – Lead Animator
2013: Despicable Me 2 – Story Artist
2013: Panic in the Mailroom – Co-Director
2015: Binky Nelson Unpacified – Co-Director
2019: Safety (live action) – director, writer, producer
References
External links
Living people
French film producers
French film directors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20Video%20Bridging | Audio Video Bridging (AVB) is a common name for the set of technical standards which provide improved synchronization, low-latency, and reliability for switched Ethernet networks. AVB embodies the following technologies and standards:
IEEE 802.1AS-2011: Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications (gPTP);
IEEE 802.1Qav-2009: Forwarding and Queuing for Time-Sensitive Streams (FQTSS);
IEEE 802.1Qat-2010: Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP);
IEEE 802.1BA-2011: Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Systems;
IEEE 1722-2011 Layer 2 Transport Protocol for Time-Sensitive Applications (AV Transport Protocol, AVTP); and
IEEE 1722.1-2013 Device Discovery, Enumeration, Connection Management and Control Protocol (AVDECC).
IEEE 802.1Qat and 802.1Qav amendments have been incorporated to the base IEEE 802.1Q-2011 document, which specifies the operation of Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks.
AVB was initially developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Audio Video Bridging task group of the IEEE 802.1 standards committee. In November 2012, Audio Video Bridging task group was renamed to Time-Sensitive Networking task group to reflect the expanded scope of its work, which is to "provide the specifications that will allow time-synchronized low latency streaming services through IEEE 802 networks". Further standardization efforts are ongoing in IEEE 802.1 TSN task group.
To help ensure interoperability between devices that implement the AVB and TSN standards, the AVnu Alliance develops device certification for the automotive, consumer, and professional audio and video markets.
Background
Analog audio video (AV) equipment historically used one-way, single-purpose, point-to-point connections. Even digital AV standards, such as S/PDIF for audio and the serial digital interface (SDI) for video, retain these properties. This connection model results in large masses of cables, especially in professional applications and high-end audio.
Attempts to solve these problems were based on multi-point network topologies, such as IEEE 1394 (FireWire), and included adaptation of standard switched computer network technologies such as Audio over Ethernet and Audio over IP. Professional, home, and automotive AV solutions came to use specialized protocols that do not interoperate between each other or standard IT protocols, while standard computer networks did not provide tight quality of service with strict timing and predictable or bounded latency.
To overcome these limitations, Audio Video Bridging networks transmit multiple audiovisual streams through standard Ethernet switches (i.e. MAC bridges) connected in a hierarchical tree topology. AVB includes layer 2 protocols to reserve connection bandwidth and prioritise network traffic, which guarantee precise sync clock and low transmission latency for each stream.
Tight sync between multiple AV streams is needed for lip sync between video and related |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Clark | Keith Clark may refer to:
Keith Clark (bugler), American bugler
Keith Clark (computer scientist), British computer scientist
Keith Clark (conductor), American conductor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolper | Wolper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David L. Wolper (1928–2010), American television and film producer
Pierre Wolper, Belgian computer scientist
Characters
Faith Wolper, psychiatrist from Season 4 of Nip/Tuck
Mark Wolper, waiter from Sunset Beach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Railways%20and%20Roads | The Department of Railways and Roads was a subdepartment of the Victorian Government's Board of Land and Works, which administered the Australian state's railway system and main road network between 1871 and 1877.
History
Amalgamation of the Department of Railways and the Department of Roads and Bridges to save on administration costs was proposed by the ministry of Chief Secretary and Premier John Alexander MacPherson in March 1870. The following year some parliamentarians argued in favour of broader reforms, combining the responsibilities of the Roads, Railways and Public Works departments into a single public service body. The restructure which occurred in April 1871, however, saw the Assistant Commissioner of Roads and Bridges appointed to the position of Secretary for Railways, enabling the joint administration of the departments. The combined department remained under the control of the Board of Land and Works, but road and railway expenses continued to be reported separately.
The department was abolished by an order of the Governor in 1877 which created a second Department of Railways and passed responsibility for roads and bridges to the Public Works Department.
References
Road infrastructure in Australia
Rail transport in Victoria (state)
1871 establishments in Australia
1877 disestablishments in Australia |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahej%20railway%20station | Dahej railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Dahej railway station is 62 km far away from Bharuch Junction railway station. One MEMU train starts from here.
Trains
Dahej - Bharuch MEMU
See also
Bharuch district
References
Railway stations in Bharuch district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-native%20computing | Cloud native computing is an approach in software development that utilizes cloud computing to "build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds". These technologies such as containers, microservices, serverless functions, cloud native processors and immutable infrastructure, deployed via declarative code are common elements of this architectural style. Cloud native technologies focus on minimizing users' operational burden.
Cloud native techniques "enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil."
Frequently, cloud-native applications are built as a set of microservices that run in Open Container Initiative compliant containers, such as Containerd, and may be orchestrated in Kubernetes and managed and deployed using DevOps and Git CI workflows (although there is a large amount of competing open source that supports cloud-native development). The advantage of using containers is the ability to package all software needed to execute into one executable package. The container runs in a virtualized environment, which isolates the contained application from its environment.
See also
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud-native processor
Dapr
References
Cloud computing
Service-oriented (business computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakor%20railway%20station | Dakor railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Dakor railway station is 29 km far away from Anand Junction railway station. MEMU trains halt here.
See also
Kheda district
References
Railway stations in Kheda district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20work | Ghost work is work performed by a human, but believed by a customer to be performed by an automated process. The term was coined by anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri in their 2019 book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass.
Definition
Ghost work focuses on task-based and content-driven work that can be funneled through the Internet and application programming interfaces (APIs). This work can include labelling, editing, moderating, and sorting information or content.
Ghost work can be performed remotely and on a contractual basis. It is an invisible workforce, scaled for those who desire full-time, part-time, or ad-hoc work. Though it usually operates independent of location via the Internet, there are data factories in China that mine "the Saudi Arabia of data" by parsing, cataloguing, and assembling data useful to the nation's artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. The core characteristics of ghost work are that it is low-wage, disposable, and menial. Ghost workers play a low-tech role in high-tech production, producing concerns that AI will make ghost work obsolete.
A benefit of ghost work is flexible hours because the worker chooses when they complete a task, making it an appealing option for those in between jobs or in need of side work. However, with the promise of flexible hours and endless tasks, companies can potentially undervalue, under-appreciate, or under-compensate workers. The modern workforce is beginning to adapt to this labor style, similar to Uber and Lyft drivers, as opposed to the standard nine-to-five workday.
In contrast to peer production which emphasizes the community spirit and co-work on open-source products, ghost work tends to be benefit-driven.
Ghost work is differentiated from gig work or temporary work because it is task-based and uncredited. While gig work involves a general platform, ghost work emphasizes the software or algorithm aspect of assisting machines to automate further. Through labelling content, ghost workers teach the machine to learn. Ghost workers at Amazon have found ways to help each other and self-organize, often through WhatsApp groups where they mobilize to push for changes to the platform.
Examples
Amazon is the most notable instance of a company offering ghost work. The website requires a constant uploading of products, verification of product photos, the creation of product captions, and the updating of book reviews dating back to 2005. As a result, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website was created for "crowd workers" to claim and complete posted microwork tasks. The worker is paid after completing the tasks. Amazon also charged a small surcharge to match posters with those who had certain qualifications to complete the projects and tasks. This allowed almost anyone to use the site and find work. This platform allows for easy and inexpensive participation among workers, particularly young individuals.
Devaluation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus%20%28TransLink%29 | RapidBus is an express bus network with bus rapid transit elements in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
History
On November 23, 2016, the Mayors' Council and TransLink's board of directors approved the first phase of the 10-Year Vision, which included provisions for new B-Line routes (later rebranded as RapidBus) which began service in January 2020. In July 2019, TransLink announced that all future B-Line routes would officially be launched under new "RapidBus" branding and that the 95 and 96 B-Lines would also transition to that branding, leaving route 99 as the only remaining B-Line. The first wave of routes using the RapidBus brandingconsisting of the R1 King George Blvd (the former 96 B-Line), the new R3 Lougheed Hwy, the new R4 41st Ave (replacing the 43 express service along 41st Avenue), and the R5 Hastings St (the former 95 B-Line)launched on January 6, 2020. The R2 Marine Dr launched on April 6, 2020, after construction delays, replacing the former 239.
Features
All-door boarding
Shelters and benches at stops
Tactile pads
Real-time information
Information panels at stops
On-board route diagrams
Transit priority measures on streets to improve travel times
Custom exterior bus livery
RapidBus routes
Phase 1
Future phases
Bus rapid transit lines
TransLink intends to implement bus rapid transit (BRT) lines in the coming decade. There are 9 BRT routes being planned but the line from Metrotown to Park Royal is the only one listed for immediate planning.
Cancelled RapidBus routes
Fraser Highway
Proposals for a Fraser Highway B-Line were made in 2018 along with what would become the Marine Drive, Lougheed Highway, and 41st Avenue RapidBus routes. However, a decision was made in December of that year to cancel the proposed route (which would have been rebranded as RapidBus) in favour of a revision of service on routes 502 and 503 in the short term, and an extension of the Expo Line from Surrey to Langley Centre in the long term.
R7 Richmond – Metrotown station
This line was cancelled in October 2023 following the rejection of a proposed route by Richmond's city council. The R7 route would have roughly followed the existing 430 route via Bridgeport Road, the Knight Street Bridge, and 49th Avenue.
See also
List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver
External links
TransLink
References
TransLink (British Columbia)
Transport in Greater Vancouver
2020 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20Zoom | Ricky Zoom is a computer-animated children's television series created by Alexander Bar and produced by Hasbro Entertainment (formerly produced by Entertainment One) and Frog Box in collaboration with Maga Animation Studio. The series was first released on Youku Kids on June 28, 2019.
Synopsis
Set in the town of Wheelford, the series follows young anthropomorphic motorcycle Ricky Zoom and his friends, Loop Hoopla, Scootio Whizzbang and DJ Rumbler. They form the "Bike Buddies" and have adventures in their community, and Ricky dreams of becoming a rescue bike just like his parents and his idol, Steel Awesome.
Characters
Main
Ricky Zoom (voiced by Max Fincham) is a red motorcycle with dark blue eyes and equipped with rescue gadgets who dreams of becoming a rescue bike like his parents. His symbol is a Z, which stands for his last name.
Loop Hoopla (voiced by Keith Wickham) is a blue dirt bike with green eyes and paddle tires who can hover via boosters on his side. He loves doing wild stunts. His symbol is a spiral. Loop is the only Bike Buddy other than Ricky to have a sibling, but he is also the only one not to have his mother appear.
DJ Rumbler is a green 3-wheeled ATV motorcycle with brown eyes, and is equipped with a robotic arm and several tool attachments. His symbol is a criss-crossed screwdriver and hammer. He is extremely strong, capable of pulling several hundred pounds unassisted.
Scootio Wizzbang (voiced by Finty Williams) is a yellow scooter with blue eyes, and is equipped with a drone called a Zoomcam and miniature robots called ScootBops. She keeps a tablet in her front wheel arch. Her symbol is a sun. Scootio is the only female of the main four Bike Buddies.
Recurring
Toot Zoom (voiced by Frances White) is a little lavender motorcycle with blue eyes, and Ricky's younger sister. Sweet yet sassy, Toot is always eager to get in on some fun with the Bike Buddies whenever she can – though her habit of recounting embarrassing tales and titbits about Ricky means that although he adores her, he can be resistant to having her around! They think of her rather like an extra set of wheels: nice to have around when you need them, but whoever heard of a bike with four wheels?! However, though smaller than the other buddies, Toot is impossible to ignore – and often ends up stealing the show!
Hank Zoom is a red adult motorcycle with blue eyes who is Ricky and Toot's father. He has a special job as a rescue bike which Ricky wants to be when he grows up.
Helen Zoom is an orange adult motorcycle with green eyes who is Ricky and Toot's mother. She had a past life as the Wheelford Wheeler, a bike who rescues those in need and vanishes before anyone found out who she was.
Dasher Zoom is a Lightblue pre-teenage motorcycle with green eyes which is Ricky and Toot's cousin and Hank and Helen's nephew, he loves racing.
Steel Awesome is a superhero that Ricky idolizes. Movie star, comic-book hero and huge celebrity, stunt bike Steel Awesome has pac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antequera%E2%80%93Granada%20high-speed%20rail%20line | The Antequera–Granada high-speed rail line opened in 2019, linking the Spanish city of Granada to the AVE network via a branch from the existing Madrid–Málaga high-speed rail line at Antequera.
Background
The line from Antequera to Granada is a part of the under construction Andalusian Transverse Axis high-speed rail line. The three times per day AVE service between Madrid Atocha and Granada covers the distance of in 3 h 5 min. The daily AVE train between Granada and Barcelona Sants connects the two cities in 6 h 25 min. S-102 and S-112 (Pato, max speed ) trains are used for these services and all trains call at Córdoba, offering a journey time of 90 min from Granada. The total cost of building the line was €1.4 billion.
Stations
After branching from the existing Antequera-Santa Ana railway station, the line serves Loja and Granada. In 2019, construction was set to begin on a €16 million underground AVE station in Antequera town centre, making Antequera the only city in Spain outside of Madrid to have two high-speed rail stops.
Services
The line is used by AVE services to Madrid and one daily service to Barcelona. In November 2019, a daily patronage of 2,600 passengers using these services was reported.
References
High-speed railway lines in Spain
Granada
Province of Granada
Rail transport in Andalusia
Railway lines opened in 2019
Standard gauge railways in Spain
2019 establishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhayapuri%20railway%20station | Chhayapuri railway station (station code:- CYI) is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Chhayapuri railway station is 6 km far away from Vadodara Junction. Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Recently, Union Minister of State for Railways, Suresh Angadi inaugurated the Chhayapuri railway station on 14 December, 2019 in Vadodara. Chhayapuri railway station will now serve as a satellite station of Vadodara to improve mobility and punctuality of trains, reduce vehicular traffic congestion around Vadodara railway station and help in expansion of the city.
Trains
Following Express and Superfast trains halt at Chhayapuri railway station in both directions:
12941/42 Parasnath Express
19167/68 Ahmedabad - Varanasi Sabarmati Express
19165/66 Ahmedabad - Darbhanga Sabarmati Express
12947/48 Ahmedabad - Patna Azimabad Express
19421/22 Ahmedabad - Patna Weekly Express
12917/18 Ahmedabad - Hazrat Nizamuddin Gujarat Sampark Kranti Express
11463/64 Somnath - Jabalpur Express (via Itarsi)
11465/66 Somnath - Jabalpur Express (via Bina)
19309/10 Gandhinagar Capital - Indore Shanti Express
19575/76 Okha - Nathdwara Express
12475/76 Hapa - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Sarvodaya Superfast Express
12477/78 Jamnagar - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Sindhu Superfast Express
12473/74 Gandhidham - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Sarvodaya Superfast Express
15045/46 Gorakhpur - Okha Express
22969/70 Okha - Banaras SF Express
19489/90 Ahmedabad - Gorakhpur Express
See also
Vadodara Junction railway station
References
Railway stations in Vadodara district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Gift%20episodes | The Gift is a 2019 Philippine drama television series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad evening block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 16, 2019 to February 7, 2020, replacing Love You Two.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%203.2 | The Nokia 3.2 is a Nokia-branded entry-level smartphone released 21 May 2019 running the Android operating system.
Models
The phone comes in 3 variants: the 2/16 GB,3/32 GB and 3/64 GB storages, and have two colour variants the gray & black.
Design
The phone has a plastic body. It has dual sim support and a screen to body ratio of ~80.5%
Reference List
3.2
Mobile phones introduced in 2019
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statscore | STATSCORE is a Polish sports data company with headquarters in Katowice, Poland. STATSCORE provides sports statistics, data and live match information to sports organizations, leagues, media outlets, broadcasters and betting operators.
The company was founded as softnetSPORT in January 2006 in Katowice by Tomasz Myalski. STATSCORE's products include sports widgets, live trackers, sports data visualizations, minisites, and data feeds.
STATSCORE's data currently covers 29 sports and over 10,000 sports competitions from all over the world, including soccer, American football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, rugby, ice hockey, tennis, futsal and ski jumping. The company also provides data for e-sports, such as League of Legends, Counter Strike, Dota 2. STATSCORE employs teams of professional scouts responsible for collecting live data from sporting events held around the world.
Partners and clients
STATSCORE is a data provider to numerous sports leagues and federations, including Polish Fortuna 1 Liga, Polish Futsal Ekstraklasa, PGNiG Superliga (both men and women competitions), Polska Hokej Liga (Polish Hockey League), and Slovak Slovnaft Handball Extraliga., as well as professional sports clubs, such as Sporting Clube de Portugal. STATSCORE's data has been widely used by sports betting companies, such as EveryMatrix, BtoBet, Altenar, STS, and tipp3. Sports statistics collected by the company have also been employed by media outlets, including Le Figaro and Onet.pl.
In 2020 STATSCORE became the naming rights sponsor of the Polish Futsal Ekstraklasa.
Awards
In 2016, STATSCORE won the Deloitte Rising Stars Award. In 2017 and 2020, the company was shortlisted in two categories at the SBC Awards. In 2018, STATSCORE was recognised as one of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Central Europe (Technology Fast 50 CE).
References
Sports databases
Providers of services to on-line companies
Online companies of Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroG | MicroG (typically styled as microG) is a free and open-source implementation of proprietary Google libraries that serves as a replacement for Google Play Services on the Android operating system. It is maintained by German developer Marvin Wißfeld. In a presentation, Wißfeld described microG as "the framework (libraries, services, patches) to create a fully-compatible Android distribution without any proprietary Google components".
Background
Although Google initially released the Android operating system as open-source software in 2007, the company gradually replaced some of Android's open-source components with proprietary software as Android grew in popularity. Marvin Wißfeld, a German software developer, created the NOGAPPS project in 2012 as a free and open-source drop-in replacement for Google Play Services, Google's closed-source system software that has been pre-installed on almost all Android devices. The NOGAPPS project became MicroG by 2016.
Features
MicroG allows Android apps to access replica application programming interfaces (APIs) that are provided by Google Play Services, including the APIs associated with Google Play, Google Maps, and Google's geolocation and messaging features. Unlike Google Play Services, MicroG does not track user activity on the device, and users can selectively enable and disable specific API features. Depending what apps are installed by users, user activity may still be tracked by Google.
LineageOS for MicroG
In 2017, microG released "LineageOS for microG", a fork of LineageOS – a free and open-source Android-based operating system – that includes both MicroG and the F-Droid app store as pre-installed software. LineageOS for MicroG was created after LineageOS developers declined to integrate MicroG into LineageOS; the developers cited MicroG's need to spoof code signatures as a security concern. To enable MicroG's functionality, LineageOS for MicroG includes limited support for signature spoofing.
MicroG developers claim that older smartphones consume less battery power using LineageOS for MicroG compared to operating systems that use Google Play Services. LineageOS for MicroG supported 39 device models in 2017, and now supports the same device models as LineageOS. Devices receive newer versions of LineageOS for MicroG through semi-monthly over-the-air updates.
Adoption
For a 2018 paper on Android app privacy, security researchers from Nagoya University used MicroG to bypass Google's SafetyNet security mechanism on an Android Marshmallow emulator. The researchers altered Android's package manager and implemented signature spoofing to enable MicroG on the emulator.
CalyxOS includes options for using MicroG as a privacy enhanced replacement for some of the functionality in Google Play Services.
DivestOS, a LineageOS soft fork, chose not to support MicroG or other ways of installing or running proprietary Google apps.
Essential Products' "Project Gem" smartphone, previously in development, used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeciras%20railway%20station | Algeciras railway station is the southernmost rail station on the Spanish rail network and on the European mainland, and serves the town of Algeciras, Andalusia.
Information
Algeciras station is located at the end of the Algeciras-Bobadilla railway. It is served by Renfe Media Distancia and Altaria train services to Granada, Córdoba and Madrid. The line is being upgraded by Adif at a cost of €13.5 million.
Services
References
Railway stations in Andalusia
Buildings and structures in Algeciras
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1890 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Rafferty | Karen Rafferty (née McMenemy) is the Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. She works with virtual and augmented reality for health care and automation.
Early life and education
Rafferty is an alumnus of St. Patrick's Girls Academy, Dungannon County Tyrone and studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. After undertaking a year of industrial practice with NIE and in Norway she earned her master's degree with distinction in 1999. She stayed there for her graduate studies, and was a doctoral student specialising in imaging processing. Her PhD was supported by the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate pattern recognition techniques and image processing. Her research involved environmental sensing, and in particular considered the automatic assessment and validation of the performance of airport landing lighting arrays. After completing her PhD, under the guidance of Dr. Gordon Dodds, she worked as a teaching fellow, and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2005. Rafferty made various innovations in teaching, including introducing computer graphics and animation into the assessment modules of the course in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Since 2000 her research interests have led her to focus most on Virtual and Augmented Reality, especially: how the visual aspects of VR and AR can be enhanced through the interface to other senses.
Research and career
Rafferty was appointed a lecturer in the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. She became interested in virtual reality and tactile feedback. Her research focuses on health and training and industry and automation. She is involved with Performance without Barriers, a research program that improves access to music and performance.
In 2016 Rafferty was made Deputy Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at Queen's University Belfast. She was promoted to Head of School in 2018. She serves as the Athena Swan coordinator for EEECS, and has been involved with their Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Inclusion Matters grant. She serves as a judge for the Belfast Telegraph IT awards. In 2019 she announced forty full scholarships in cybersecurity at Queen's University Belfast.
Awards and honours
Her awards and honours include;
2005 Royal Academy of Engineering Teaching Award
2011 Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers Award
2011 Institution of Engineering and Technology Innovation Award
2018 Queen’s University of Belfast Students Union Most Inspiring and Motivating Teaching Staff Members
2019 Springer Best Paper Award
Selected publications
Her publications include;
References
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computer scientists fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20wisdom | Artificial wisdom is a software system that can demonstrate one or more qualities of being wise.
Artificial wisdom can be described as artificial intelligence reaching the top-level of decision-making when confronted with the most complex challenging situations. The term artificial wisdom is used when the "intelligence" is based on more than by chance collecting and interpreting data, but by design enriched with smart and conscience strategies that wise people would use.
When examining computer-aided wisdom; the partnership of artificial intelligence and contemplative neuroscience, concerns regarding the future of artificial intelligence shift to a more optimistic viewpoint. This artificial wisdom forms the basis of Louis Molnar's monographic article on artificial philosophy, where he coined the term and proposes how artificial intelligence might view its place in the grand scheme of things.
References
Further reading
Artificial intelligence
Cybernetics
Formal sciences
Computational neuroscience
Emerging technologies
Unsolved problems in computer science
Computational fields of study |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechify | Speechify is a mobile, chrome extension and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer generated text to speech voice.
The app also uses optical character recognition technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio. The app lets users take photos of text and then listen to it read out loud. Speechify uses aws ocr reader and aws polly for text to speech
Speechify was founded by Cliff Weitzman, a dyslexic college student at Brown University who built the first version of the tool himself to help him keep up with his class readings.
References
External Sources
Official Website
Speech synthesis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merope%20%28supercomputer%29 | Merope was a cluster composed of repurposed Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) processors that were once part of the Pleiades supercomputer. The system is used both for running real-world computational jobs for NASA scientists and engineers and for testing purposes. Housed in an auxiliary processing center located about 1 kilometer from the NAS facility at NASA Ames Research Center.
Merope (pronounced MEH-reh-pee) is named after one of the seven stars that make up the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
References
attribution This article contains text from the public domain source https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/merope.html
NASA supercomputers
SGI supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical%20Software%20Engineering | Empirical Software Engineering is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Nature. It was established in 1996 and covers the area of empirical software engineering. The editors-in-chief are Robert Feldt and Thomas Zimmermann.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.762.
Past Editors in Chief
Lionel Briand (University of Ottawa).
Victor Basili (University of Maryland).
Warren Harrison (Portland State University).
See also
List of computer science journals
List of engineering journals and magazines
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
References
External links
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Computer science journals
Software engineering publications
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring%20Networks | Herring Networks Inc. is a media company based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 2003 by Robert Herring. Through its Herring Broadcasting division, the company owns and operates two cable networks: AWE Network (originally known as Wealth TV), an American lifestyle and entertainment cable network founded in 2004, and the news service One America News Network (OAN or OANN), founded through a strategic partnership with The Washington Times in 2013.
References
Companies based in San Diego
2004 establishments in California
American companies established in 2004
Cable television companies of the United States
Television broadcasting companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elham%20Kashefi | Elham Kashefi () is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verification of quantum computing, and cloud quantum computing.
Early life and education
Kashefi went to school at the Aboureihan High School in Tehran. She studied applied mathematics at Sharif University of Technology earning her bachelor's degree at Sharif University of Technology in 1996 and her master's degree in 1998. Kashefi was a doctoral student at Imperial College London, and completed her PhD in 2003 supervised by Vlatko Vedral and Steffen van Bakel.
Career and research
After completing her PhD Kashefi was selected as a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. Here she worked on the foundational structures of quantum computation. She was a research fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing during 2005, before moving to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a visiting scientist. Here she worked on depth complexity and parallel computing. Kashefi was appointed a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. She holds an established career fellowship in quantum computing from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a Personal Chair at the University of Edinburgh, and is a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University.
Much of her research considers quantum cryptography and verification of quantum protocols. Her research looks to validate and verify quantum technologies, from computers to simulators to gadgets. Notably she was one of the originators of Universal Blind Computing which was the first protocol to permit privacy protection during general quantum computations. She believes that to achieve secure communications in a data-dependent society will require a combination of classical cryptography and quantum cryptography.
Kashefi has also contributed to the development of quantum cloud computing. In 2017 she co-founded VeriQloud, a software provider for quantum networks. Working with members of the quantum computing community, Kashefi co-founded the national quantum networks QUantum OXford Imperial College (QuOxIC) and Quantum Information Scotland Network (QUISCO). These hubs combine physicists and computer scientists to work together on quantum science.
Selected publications
Her publications include;
Universal blind quantum computation
Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
The measurement calculus
Awards and honours
She was elected to the Young Academy of Scotland.
References
Living people
Iranian women academics
Iranian women engineers
Iranian women scientists
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Sharif University of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Boulevard%20Transit%20Corridor | The Lincoln Boulevard Transit Corridor is a proposed bus rapid transit or light rail line in the public transport network of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles County, California. It is planned to operate on a north to south route on Lincoln Boulevard between the C and K Line's LAX/Metro Transit Center station with the E Line's Downtown Santa Monica station on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. A proposed completion date of 2047 for BRT and an unknown date for rail conversion. It is funded by Measure M and Measure R. The route will have signal priority at traffic lights and will have a dedicated right of way.
History
The transit corridor seeks to provide a one seat ride between LAX/Metro Transit Center station and Downtown Santa Monica station via a bus rapid transit or light rail line along Lincoln Boulevard. The BRT line will be converted to LRT in the future if ridership outgrows the BRT service capacity, but there is currently no funding for an LRT conversion. The corridor will service LAX, Playa Del Rey, Westchester, Venice and Santa Monica, all beach communities along Santa Monica Bay.
References
External links
https://www.metro.net/projects/
Los Angeles Metro Busway projects
Metro Rapid
Los Angeles Metro Rail projects
Metro Rapid
Proposed railway lines in California
Transportation in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Valley%20Yokuts | Northern Valley Yokuts is a dialect network within the Valley Yokuts division of the Yokutsan languages spoken in the Central Valley of California. Among the languages belonging to the network are Chawchila, Nopṭinṭe, Kechayi, Dumna, Dalinchi, Toltichi, and Chukchansi. Of these, Kechayi, Dumna, Dalinchi, Toltichi, and Chukchansi are frequently grouped under the label Northern Hill dialects.
References
Yokutsan languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgica%20Milenkovic | Olgica Milenkovic is a coding theorist from the former Yugoslavia, known for her work in compressed sensing, low-density parity-check codes, and DNA digital data storage. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Education and career
Milenkovic graduated from the University of Niš in 1996, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She wrote a bachelor's thesis on Channel Capacity of a New Class of Modulation Codes, supervised by Bane Vasic. She moved to the University of Michigan for her graduate studies, continuing to work with Vasic there on a 2001 master's thesis, Multidimensional Modulation Codes for Magnetic and Optical Recording. She completed her Ph.D. at Michigan in 2002, with a dissertation Combinatorial Problems in Analysis of Algorithms and Coding Theory supervised by Kevin Compton.
After her completing her doctorate, Milenkovic joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2007, and was promoted to full professor there in 2015.
In 2019, she served as Guest Editor in chief of a special project dedicated to interdisplinary work of V.I Levenshtein.
Contributions
Milenkovic's research includes using DNA to store and retrieve content such as Wikipedia articles and the Gettysburg Address.
Awards
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
The DARPA Young Faculty Award
The Dean's Excellence in Research Award
Recognition
Milenkovic was a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2015. In 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to genomic data compression".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Niš alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Serbian women engineers
21st-century women engineers
Serbian engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soccer%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast the Soccer Bowl, which was the annual championship competition of the North American Soccer League. The NASL was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.
1980s
Notes
1984 - Sportsvision televised the series in the Chicago area; this coverage was simulcast on the then-new TSN (which had started up a month earlier) cable channel in Canada.
1981 - ABC aired the Soccer Bowl on tape delay.
1970s
Notes
1978 - This would be the final NASL game broadcast TVS, as the league signed a deal with ABC Sports in the fall of 1978. Gardner would continue as the color analyst for ABC's coverage, while Miller would move on to a long career announcing Major League Baseball.
1974 - Although the Aztecs had a league-best record and points total, and rightly should have hosted the championship final, CBS intervened and strongly influenced the NASL's decision to play the match in Miami. CBS was under contract to air the game live and was unwilling to black-out the large Southern California viewing audience. At the time it was the standard in many U.S.-based sports for the host market not to broadcast games locally unless they were sold out. At the time, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum had a capacity of 94,500 and, even in a best-case scenario, an Aztecs sell-out was unlikely. Moreover, in an effort by CBS to capture more viewers during the peak East Coast time slot, a Los Angeles-hosted game would have begun at 12:30 (PDT) local time. The league recognized that both these factors would be detrimental to ticket sales and agreed to move the game to the Miami Orange Bowl with a 3:30 (EDT) local start. CBS had also stepped in the previous week and forced the Toros to play their semi-final match at the much-smaller Tamiami Stadium in Tamiami Park. This was done so that if Miami did win, CBS's production crews would have a full week for set-up in the Orange Bowl stadium.
1960s
Notes
In 1966, a group of sports entrepreneurs led by Bill Cox and Robert Hermann formed a consortium called the North American Professional Soccer League with the intention of forming a professional soccer league in United States and Canada. However this was just one of three groups with similar plans. The NAPSL eventually merged with one of these groups, the National Soccer League, led by Richard Millen, to form the National Professional Soccer League. A third group, the United Soccer Association was sanctioned by both the USSFA and FIFA. Because of this the NPSL was branded an outlaw league by FIFA and players faced sanctions for signing with it. Despite this the NPSL, which secured a TV contract from CBS, set about recruiting players, and announced it would be ready to launch in 1967. In December 1967, the NPSL merged with the United Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League.
See also
List of MLS Cup broadcasters
Refer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Stoecker | Dean A. Stoecker (born 1956/1957) is an American businessman, and the co-founder (in 1997), chairman and former CEO (19972020) of Alteryx, a computer software company.
Stoecker was born and grew up in Colorado. His family is from Boulder, Colorado, where his "father was an entrepreneur who built A-Frame houses", and Dean was the youngest child.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
In August 2019, Forbes assessed Stoecker's net worth at $1.2 billion, following Alteryx's near 900% share price rise since its 2017 IPO.
He was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from California.
He is married to Angie. They live in Irvine, California.
References
Living people
American billionaires
American company founders
American chief executives
1950s births
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Pepperdine University alumni
People from Boulder, Colorado
People from Irvine, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaylata | Yaylata is a protected area in Sveti Nikola village in Dobrich province, Bulgaria. It is part of the network of protected areas Natura 2000.
References
Natura 2000 in Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20Authority%20for%20Data%20and%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) is a government agency in Saudi Arabia that was established by a royal decree on 30 August 2019. The authority has three other bodies linked to it. Two of which were also created by a royal decree on the same day. These two bodies are a center called "The National Centre for Artificial Intelligence" and an office called "The National Data Management Office." The third is the National Information Center, which is an existing entity.
The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) celebrated the launch of its brand identity at an event held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on 4 March 2020, in Riyadh under the theme, 'Data is the Oil of the 21st Century'.
Structure
The authority is directly linked to the Prime Minister and will be governed by a board of directors chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister.
References
2019 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Government agencies of Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA%201600 | The RCA 1600 is a discontinued 16-bit minicomputer designed and built by RCA in West Palm Beach, Florida and Marlboro, Massachusetts. It was developed to meet the needs of several RCA divisions, including the Graphics Systems Division (GSD), Instructional Systems, and Global Communications. It was introduced in 1968, and at the time of UNIVAC's purchase of the RCA Computer Division in 1972 the 1600 was estimated to be in use by 40 customers. The 1600 was intended for use in embedded systems, and was retained by UNIVAC and used in products such as the Accuscan supermarket checkout system in the 1970s.
Description
The 1600 uses magnetic-core memory with a cycle time on 1.6μsec, structured as words of 18 bits—16 data bits, one parity bit, and one memory protection bit. Four configurations offered memory sizes of 8 K, 16 K, 32 K, and 64 K bytes (4,8,16,and 32 KW). Individual words of memory can be protected by setting the associated protection bit. Attempts to store into protected memory are trapped if memory protection is enabled by a console switch.
The processor has sixteen 16-bit "standard" registers, eight for each program state. Program state one is used for normal execution, program state two is used for interrupt service routines. Because each state has an independent set of registers, switching states can be done "essentially instantaneously." Register 8 is the instruction counter in both states. If high-speed I/O (cycle stealing) is used, registers 6 and 7 in program state two are used for I/O address and byte count respectively. The architecture defines 29 instructions in three groups. All instructions are 16 bits, must be located on a word boundary, and therefore can be accessed in one machine cycle of 1.6μsec. There are also seven "special" registers serving particular functions which can also be read and written programmatically.
References
External links
RCA 1600 Users Guide Preliminary
Minicomputers
RCA brands
16-bit computers
Computer-related introductions in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Pop%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | The American cable and satellite television network Pop was originally launched in 1981 as a barker channel service providing a display of localized channel and program listings for cable television providers. Later on, the service, branded Prevue Channel or Prevue Guide and later as Prevue, began to broadcast interstitial segments alongside the on-screen guide, which included entertainment news and promotions for upcoming programs. After Prevue's parent company, United Video Satellite Group, acquired the entertainment magazine TV Guide in 1998 (UVSG would in turn, be acquired by Gemstar the following year), the service was relaunched as TV Guide Channel (later TV Guide Network), which now featured full-length programs dealing with the entertainment industry, including news magazines and reality shows, along with red carpet coverage from major award shows.
Following the acquisition of TV Guide Network by Lionsgate in 2009, its programming began to shift towards a general entertainment format with reruns of dramas and sitcoms. In 2013, CBS Corporation acquired of a 50% stake in the network, and the network was renamed TVGN. At the same time, as its original purpose grew obsolete because of the integrated program guides offered by digital television platforms, the network began to downplay and phase out its program listings service; as of June 2014, none of the network's carriage contracts require the display of the listings, and they were excluded entirely from its high-definition simulcast. In 2015, the network was rebranded as Pop. In March 2019, CBS acquired Lionsgate's 50% stake in the network; which in turn the network has been managed by ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) in December that year.
History
1980s
Electronic program guide
Launched in 1981 by United Video Satellite Group, the network began its life as a simple electronic program guide (EPG) software application sold to cable system operators throughout the United States and Canada. Known simply as the Electronic Program Guide, the software was designed to be run within the headend facility of each participating cable system on a single, custom-modified consumer-grade computer supplied by United Video. Its scrolling program listings grid, which cable system operators broadcast to subscribers on a dedicated channel, covered the entire screen and provided four hours of listings for each system's entire channel lineup, one half-hour period at a time. Because of this, listings for programs currently airing would often be several minutes from being shown. Additionally, because the EPG software generated only video, cable operators commonly resorted to filling the EPG channel's audio feed with music from a local FM radio station, or with programming from a cable television-oriented audio service provider such as Cable Radio Network.
By 1985 and under the newly formed Trakker, Inc. unit of United Video Satellite Group, two versions of the EPG were offered: EPG Jr., a 16KB EPROM version |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit%20Vogel-Heuser | Birgit Vogel-Heuser (born 1961) is a German computer scientist and professor at The Technical University of Munich (TUM). She has been cited over 5,000 times. Vogel-Heuser's research focuses on systems and software engineering, and modeling of distributed embedded systems.
She received her engineering degree in 1987 and her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1990 from the RWTH Aachen University. She was appointed to the Chair of Automation and Information Systems at TUM in 2009.
Selected research
Hehenberger, Peter, et al. "Design, modelling, simulation and integration of cyber physical systems: Methods and applications." Computers in Industry 82 (2016): 273-289.
Vogel-Heuser, Birgit, and Dieter Hess. "Guest editorial Industry 4.0–prerequisites and visions." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 13.2 (2016): 411-413.
Vogel-Heuser, Birgit, et al. "Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions." Journal of Systems and Software 110 (2015): 54-84.
Vogel-Heuser, Birgit, Daniel Witsch, and Uwe Katzke. "Automatic code generation from a UML model to IEC 61131-3 and system configuration tools." 2005 International Conference on Control and Automation. Vol. 2. IEEE, 2005.
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1961 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha%20Kilmer | Misha Elena Kilmer is an American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. She is William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. Starting July 1, 2021, she will serve as Deputy Director of ICERM, where she served on the Scientific Advisory Board.
Kilmer graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1992, and earned a master's degree from Wake Forest in 1994.
She completed her Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation, Regularization of Ill-Posed Problems, was jointly supervised by Dianne P. O'Leary and .
After postdoctoral research at Northeastern University, she joined the Tufts faculty in 1999. She was given the William Walker Professorship in 2016, and chaired the Tufts Mathematics Department from 2013 to 2019.
In 2019 Kilmer was named a SIAM Fellow "for her fundamental contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing, including ill-posed problems, tensor decompositions, and iterative methods".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Wake Forest University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Tufts University faculty
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venta%20de%20Ba%C3%B1os%E2%80%93Gij%C3%B3n%20railway | The Venta de Baños–Gijón railway is a Spanish railway linking Gijón, Asturias to the rest of the mainline Spanish rail network.
Route
The line branches from the Madrid–Hendaye railway at Venta de Baños, and serves Palencia, León and Oviedo before reaching Gijón. At León, the León–A Coruña railway starts.
Services
The Cercanías Asturias commuter rail service operates to Puente de los Fierres from Gijón; and a Renfe Regional service runs the full length of the line from Gijón to Valladolid-Campo Grande, taking 5 hours and 43 minutes.
Future
The line is to be extended from its current Gijón terminus further into the city to Cabueñes via a tunnel with underground stations. This project, known as Metrotrén Asturias, stalled in 2006, but is due to resume in 2019 and conclude in 2023.
References
Railway lines in Spain
Railway lines opened in 1884
Iberian gauge railways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murcia%20del%20Carmen%20railway%20station | Murcia del Carmen railway station is the main railway station in the Spanish city of Murcia.
Services
The Cercanías Murcia/Alicante commuter rail network connects Murcia del Carmen with Alicante railway station and Águilas through lines C-1 and C-2. Alvia high speed services use the Madrid–Levante high-speed rail network as far as Albacete, then the classic rail tracks to Murcia and on to Cartagena. Talgo services also operate to Valencia Nord and Barcelona Sants.
Future
The AVE high-speed rail system is due to be extended to Murcia in 2022 as part of the Madrid–Levante high-speed rail network, (and later, in 2023, as the starting point for the Murcia–Almería high-speed rail line) with platforms and track possibly being relocated underground. In October 2017, protesters against the underground alignment blocked the track leading to the station, leading to multiple train cancellations.
References
Railway stations in the Region of Murcia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Brazil | Cable News Network Brazil ( and abbreviated as CNN BR) is a Brazilian news-based pay television channel. Launched on 15 March 2020, CNN Brazil is owned by Novus Media, a joint-venture between Douglas Tavolaro, former header of RecordTV's news division, and Rubens Menin, owner of MRV Engenharia. Novus Media has a licensing agreement with original CNN channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN Brazil is the second local franchise of CNN in South America, after CNN Chile.
Its headquarters are in São Paulo, with offices in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, besides international bureaus with almost 400 journalists. Previously, in 2017, the channel did a partnership with RedeTV! and Simba Content, formed by SBT and RecordTV, which had no success.
Programs are aired 24 hours daily via digital terrestrial TV networks, pay TV providers in Brazil; and live streaming services for overseas viewers.
History
CNN looked to enter the Portuguese language market, one of the only ones still not covered by the many affiliates of the brand around the world. In 2019, it was announced that the broadcaster would act in Brazil, with local strategic partners. The business montage in Brazil was in charge of the businessman Rubens Menin, with a vast and well-known performance in the civic construction and financial markets, and the journalist Douglas Tavolaro, co-founder and CEO of the new channel.
Initially, the first announced names to act in CNN Brazil came from companies such as Globo, Record, BBC and Band. On 4 June 2019, two former TV Globo presenters were announced. Evaristo Costa and William Waack were hired to, respectively, present a show in CNN London headquarters, with a mix of journalism and entertainment, and the second, a TV news during prime time, from Mondays to Fridays. The premiere of the pay television channel is predicted to second semester of 2019. It is expected that CNN Brazil will also have a strong online presence, covering all social medias and innovating in the distribution of journalistic content through these platforms.
On Tuesday, 18 June, images of the CNN Brazil headquarters were published in the broadcaster official profile. The location will be in Paulista Avenue, in the district of Bela Vista, in front of the São Paulo Metro station Trianon-Masp. The building has more than and was the Banco Real operations center. According to the founder-partner and Chairman of CNN Brazil, Douglas Tavolaro, the decision to establish the future news channel in that place was "strategic", aiming a larger approach with the audience. "We want to be part of the everyday life of the Brazilians and be integrated with the audience. Because of that, the chose to be in the pulsing center and postcard of the largest city in the country, next to the people", said Tavolaro.
On 22 July 2019, the broadcaster announced the hiring of the couple Mari Palma and Phelipe Siani.
On 25 July 2019, CNN Brazil announced the hiring of its first black journalist, Luciana Barre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Noon%20Kickoff | Big Noon Kickoff is an American college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for Fox College Football, and in particular, Big Noon Saturday—the network's weekly 12:00 p.m ET/9:00 a.m PT kickoff window.
It is hosted by Rob Stone, and features former national champion USC Trojans teammates, 2005 Heisman Trophy winner running back Reggie Bush and 2004 Heisman Trophy winner quarterback Matt Leinart, former Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback Brady Quinn, and former Utah, Florida, and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer as panelists, with Bruce Feldman acting as Fox's CFB insider, as well as Tom Verducci, who usually does baseball for Fox, and Tom Rinaldi, both working on feature reports. Radio host Clay Travis serves as a contributor, and 1997 Heisman Trophy winner and former Michigan Wolverines cornerback Charles Woodson will also join the show on select weeks, most notably if Michigan is featured.
Meyer was on the show as an analyst for the first two seasons, but left after the 2020 season to take the Jacksonville Jaguars head coaching job, and was replaced by former Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops for the 2021 season. Meyer returned for the 2022 season replacing Stoops. Bush left after the 2022 season, with 2009 Heisman Trophy winner running back Mark Ingram II joining the cast for the 2023 season.
History
In the 2013 season, Fox aired a college football pre-game show on its Fox Sports 1 channel, Fox College Saturday. The program was unable to compete with ESPN's popular and established College GameDay, with Fox only being able to sustain an average viewership of 70,000. The show was cancelled after a single season, and its role was supplanted by the Friday-night edition of Fox Sports Live.
Fox introduced the Big Noon Saturday window for its college football coverage in the 2019 season; the network had aired occasional noon kickoffs during the season before (including, after having acquired the Big Ten's primary football rights in 2017, the Michigan–Ohio State rivalry), and they were among Fox's top-viewed games in the 2018 season. Fox has positioned the timeslot as featuring one of its flagship games of the day. Fox made that decision in order to boost their ratings by avoiding competition with CBS that has their featured SEC game of the week in the 3:30 p.m. timeslot, and ABC with their featured game in primetime. Big Noon Kickoff was henceforth introduced as a pre-game show for the new window.
Sports Illustrated described the show as being "built around" Urban Meyer (who retired as head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes at the end of the 2018 season, and had previously been an ESPN analyst). Meyer stated that he had prepared for the role by studying clips of Fox's NFL pre-game show Fox NFL Sunday, and Alex Rodriguez (who joined ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in 2018), as an example of another player-turned-television analyst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro%20Computer%20Museum | The Retro Computer Museum (RCM) is a museum in Leicester, England dedicated to the benefit of the public for the preservation, display, and public experience of computer and console systems from the 1960s onwards.
Overview
The museum is a registered charity, and staffed entirely by volunteers. The museum is run by a board of trustees chaired by Andy Spencer, the founder of the museum. On display are a number of computers and consoles from throughout history, from the early home consoles such as the Atari 2600, more advanced machines like the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and NES, through to more recent consoles like the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. A number of rarer items are also on display.
The collection is built largely on donations by the public, and the museum holds around 300 unique systems. Over 40 systems are on display to the public and may be freely used for gaming or, for users with existing knowledge, programming, as well as a public software library holding around 40000 titles. The museum also holds a large collection of magazines and manuals, which are also available to the public.
The museum is open to the public on most Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 3:30pm, as well as offering private events (such as parties and school visits) at the main building in Leicester or other premises. The museum also attends other retro gaming and computing events, often providing systems for use by other attendees.
History
The museum began as Andy Spencer's personal collection, which eventually outgrew his garage and became the Retro Computer Museum. The museum first opened to the public in 2008, with an open day held in Swannington, Leicestershire on 16 November 2008. Several more events were held over the following years, both at the original location in Swannington and other venues.
In 2011, the museum moved into its first permanent building in Heather, Leicestershire. Several open days and events were held here. In 2013, the museum moved to larger premises at Troon Way Business Centre in Thurmaston, where it remains (in a different building). In 2016, the museum moved to a larger building in Troon Way, where it currently remains. The museum was moved over less than two weeks in January 2016, and reopened shortly after.
References
2008 establishments in England
Charities based in Leicestershire
Computer museums in the United Kingdom
Museums established in 2008
Museums in Leicester
Science and technology in Leicestershire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon%20%281979%20video%20game%29 | Backgammon is a video game adaptation of the board-game backgammon developed by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) and released in 1979. The game was one of the earliest electronic versions of Backgammon.
The cover art for the game was by Chris Spohn, who created the cover art for many early Atari games.
Gameplay
Eight different modes of playing backgammon were included in the game, including "Acey deucey". A doubling cube was available in-game for use in gambling. The rolling of the dice and other gaming operations were controlled via the paddle/joystick. The game was playable in both single-player and two-player, competitive mode.
Reception
Contemporary reviewers were relatively positive about the game. In an October 1979 review, American computer magazine Creative Computing described the game as "excellent for someone learning Backgammon" and as "provid[ing] an interesting challenge to beginner to intermediate players". UK-based TV Gamer called it "fairly challenging" in one-player mode.
In Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide, Brett Weiss described it as "user friendly and clearly defined", although he also noted that it was easy to beat the computer.
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
References
1979 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Backgammon video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Calvetti | Daniela Calvetti is an Italian-American applied mathematician whose work concerns scientific computing, and connects Bayesian statistics to numerical analysis. She is the James Wood Williamson Professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University.
Education and career
Calvetti earned a laurea in mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1980. She went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree there in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989. Her dissertation, A Stochastic Round Off Error Analysis for the Fast Fourier Transform, was supervised by John Tolle.
After taking faculty positions at North Carolina State University, Colorado State University–Pueblo, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, she moved to Case Western Reserve University in 1997. She was given the James Wood Williamson Professorship in 2013.
Calvetti was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.
Books
With Erkki Somersalo, Calvetti is the co-author of three books, Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing: Ten Lectures on Subjective Computing (Springer, 2007), Computational Mathematical Modeling: An Integrated Approach Across Scales (SIAM, 2013) and Mathematics of Data Science: A Computational Approach to Clustering and Classification (SIAM, 2020).
References
External links
Home page
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
20th-century Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
University of Bologna alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Colorado State University Pueblo faculty
Stevens Institute of Technology faculty
Case Western Reserve University faculty
21st-century Italian mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
20th-century Italian women
21st-century Italian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pematang%20Panggang%E2%80%93Kayuagung%20Toll%20Road | Pematang Panggang–Kayuagung Toll Road is a toll road that connects Pematang Panggang to Kayuagung in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This toll road is part of a network of Trans-Sumatra Toll Road, and is a continuation of the Terbanggi Besar–Pematang Panggang Toll Road and it is connected to the Kayu Agung–Palembang–Betung Toll Road.
Exits
See also
References
Toll roads in Lampung
Toll roads in South Sumatra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripchat | Stripchat.com is an international adult website and social network featuring free live-streamed webcam performances, often including nudity and sexual activity, through traditional, virtual reality and mobile broadcasts.
The site averages over 400 million visitors a month, according to SimilarWeb. The site first launched in 2016, and has since won numerous awards including "Cam Site of the Year" and "Cam Company of the Year" at the XBIZ Europa Awards.
The company has attracted mainstream attention with controversial campaigns and offers, such as offering $15M to rename the New Orleans Superdome and providing jobs to crew members who walked off the set of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One following a rant by Tom Cruise.
COVID-19 Pandemic
Stripchat and other cam sites saw significant growth in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdowns in March 2020, visits to the site surged 25% in countries like the United States and United Kingdom. Even after restrictions were lifted in most countries, traffic continued to rise, hitting a peak of nearly 120 million in August, up from about 60 million in January, a reverse of traditional traffic patterns. By November 2020 monthly visits to the site were more than double what they had been a year earlier. In the same period, the number of models appearing on the site increased by 300,000. In an interview with BBC News, a representative said that many traditional adult performers had moved to camming due to the lack of production on traditional porn sets, as had other types of sex workers and amateurs. Stripchat attempted to off-set increased competition from new performers coming onto the site by providing free tokens for new users.
Many of the new users to the site are the result of changing work patterns. According to data released by the company in June 2020, 75% of visitors to the site came between the hours of 10AM and 6PM.
In June 2020, following the extended shutdown of many businesses due to the COVID pandemic, Stripchat offered small businesses free advertising on the platform. The company asked small businesses to send in branded clothing for it to send to its most popular models. Multiple businesses applied and were accepted, including an art supply company, an erectile dysfunction device, a photography studio and a make-up artist. Models wore the clothing during their regular shows.
Sexuality Resource Center
In addition to its adult content, Stripchat manages the Sexuality Resource Center, featuring videos of therapists answering questions about sex and relationship issues. The site began hosting live stream sessions with licensed therapists from the Sexual Health Alliance in July 2019 after a study of users showed that many felt anxiety about their cam viewing.
Sports partnerships
Stripchat has repeatedly sought business relationships with pro-athletes and sports organizations. In 2020, Stripchat offered the New Orleans Saints $15M in hopes of gaining naming righ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgefy | Bridgefy is a Mexican software company with offices in Mexico and California, the United States, dedicated to developing mesh-networking technology for mobile apps. It was founded circa 2014 by Jorge Rios, after conceiving the idea while participating in a tech competition called StartupBus. Bridgefy's smartphone ad hoc network technology, apparently using Bluetooth Mesh, is licensed to other apps. The app gained popularity during protests in different countries since it can operate without Internet, using Bluetooth instead. Aware of the security issues of not using cryptography and the criticism surrounding it, Bridgefy announced in late October 2020 that they adopted the Signal protocol, in both their app and SDK, to keep information private, though security researchers have demonstrated that Bridgefy's usage of the Signal Protocol is insecure.
Usage
The app gained popularity as a communication tactic during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and Citizenship Amendment Act protests in India, because it requires people who want to intercept the message to be physically close because of Bluetooth's limited range, and the ability to daisy-chain devices to send messages further than Bluetooth's range.
Security
In August 2020, researchers published a paper describing numerous attacks against the application, which allow de-anonymizing users, building social graphs of users’ interactions (both in real time and after the fact), decrypting and reading direct messages, impersonating users to anyone else on the network, completely shutting down the network, performing active man-in-the-middle attacks to read messages and even modify them.
In response to the disclosures, developers acknowledged that "no part of the Bridgefy app is encrypted now" and gave a vague promise to release a new version "encrypted with top security protocols". Later developers said they plan to switch to Signal Protocol, which is widely recognized by cryptographers and used by Signal and WhatsApp. The Signal Protocol was integrated into the Bridgefy app and SDK by late October 2020, with the developers claiming to have included improvements such as the impossibility of a third person impersonating any other user, man-in-the-middle attacks done by modifying stored keys, and historical proximity tracking; among others.
However, in 2022, the same security researchers, now including Kenny Paterson, published a paper describing how Bridgefy's usage of the Signal Protocol is incorrect, failing to remedy the previously discovered issues. The researchers performed a demonstration showing that it was possible for users to intercept messages intended for others without the sender noticing. The researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities to the developers of Bridgefy in August 2021, but, according to the researchers, the developers have yet to resolve the issues as of June 2022.
Then, on July 31, 2023, the security firm 7asecurity released a blog post and pentest report of a white box penet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey%20%28disambiguation%29 | Plessey was a British electronics company.
It can also refer to:
Plessey Code, a British barcode system
Plessey System 250, a computer system that implements capability based addressing
Plessey railway station, a disused halt near Plessey village, in Northumberland
Plessey Woods Country Park, near Plessey village, in Northumberland
See also
Plessey v Ferguson
Pleshey
Plassey (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnIML | The Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML) is an open ASTM XML standard for storing and sharing any analytical chemistry and biological data.
AnIML and FAIR data
A main reason of using AnIML is that FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) standards are automatically implemented. As AnIML's structure is human-readable, Accessibility is given. Interoperability, Reusability and Findability are secured by the AnIML Core and AnIML Technique Definitions.
History
AnIML has been continuously worked on starting from 2003 up to 2020. The last AnIML Core Version update happened in 2010. So far, no standardisation document nor public example files have been published. The standard exists only in pre-release form.
Architecture
AnIML is a XML standard which consists of two logical layers:
AnIML Core
AnIML Technique Definitions
Additionally, AnIML Technique Definition Documents apply constraints to the AnIML Core and are specified by the AnIML Technique Definitions.
The AnIML Core consists of a set of rules defining the structure of the XML document, providing a universal container for arbitrary analytical data. AnIML Technique Definitions describe how to use the AnIML Core to record experiments of a particular scientific discipline. There is a big similarity between the mechanisms of AnIML and the AVI format. The AnIML Core defines the data container whereas the AnIML Technique Definitions act similar to the AVI codec. It defines how the data needs to be structured and labeled. Technique Definitions are XML documents, specified by the Technique Schema.
References
External links
AnIML Website
AnIML GitHub
AnIML on ASTM
BSSN Software Website
Fairsharing Website
XML-based standards
Cheminformatics
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202010 | Regional Mexican Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine 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
2010 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ma | Mary Ma or Ma Xuezheng (; 1952 or 1953 – 31 August 2019) was a Chinese businesswoman and investor. She served as chief financial officer of the computer maker Lenovo, and played a key role in the company's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division in 2005. She was named by Forbes as the world's 57th most powerful woman in that year. After retiring from Lenovo in 2007, she worked in private equity and co-founded Boyu Capital, which invested in companies including Alibaba Group and Megvii.
Early life and career
Ma Xuezheng was born in 1952 or 1953. She graduated from Capital Normal University in 1976, one of the few college graduates during the Cultural Revolution. She later studied at the University of London in England.
After returning to China, she worked for 12 years at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as an interpreter for Chinese national leaders, including Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang.
Lenovo
In 1988, Ma met Liu Chuanzhi, the founder and CEO of the computer company Legend (now Lenovo), for the first time, and was impressed by his vision and management style. Two years later, she quit her government job to join Legend as the assistant general manager of its Hong Kong branch.
By 1997, Ma had risen to the position of deputy general manager of Legend Holdings. In that year, Ma proposed to implement employee stock ownership for Legend, which was unprecedented for a Chinese company. Liu accepted her proposal and further broadened it to cover all employees of Legend, which numbered several thousand at the time. Legend's employee ownership has been credited with helping the company weather the major downturn of the dotcom crash in 2000, and Ma was promoted to chief financial officer.
In 2005, Ma orchestrated Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division, including ThinkPad and ThinkCentre. The US$1.75 billion deal quadrupled Lenovo's size overnight and turned the largely domestically oriented company into the world's third-largest computer maker. In that year, Forbes named her as one of the world's 100 most powerful women at number 57. Lenovo has since grown into the world's largest PC maker in 2019, with a quarter of the global market share.
In 2006, Ma was involved in negotiating Lenovo's sponsorship deal for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin; it was the first time a Chinese company had sponsored a major global sports event.
Boyu Capital and later life
Ma retired from Lenovo in 2007, but continued to serve as a non-executive director. She joined the private equity company TPG, and later co-founded her own investment firm Boyu Capital (博裕资本) in 2011. Boyu raised close to US$10 billion, and invested in major companies and startups including Alibaba Group, NetEase Music, LY.com, Easyhome, and Megvii.
In March 2019, Ma was appointed an independent director of the board of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She was also a non-executive director of Unilever and Swire Paci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct%20%28film%29 | Extinct is a 2021 computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed by David Silverman, and co-directed by Raymond S. Persi, from a screenplay by Joel Cohen, John Frink, and Rob LaZebnik. It features the voices of Rachel Bloom, Adam Devine, Zazie Beetz, Ken Jeong, Catherine O'Hara, Benedict Wong, Reggie Watts, and Jim Jefferies in a story following two flummels named Ed and Op, an extinct bunny-like species with giant holes in the center, that find themselves transported from their island home in the year 1835 to modern day Shanghai.
Extinct was released in Russia on February 11, 2021, then theatrically by Sky Cinema in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2021, and then was released worldwide on Netflix on November 19, 2021.
Plot
Op and Ed are two flummels, fluffy bunny-like creatures with giant holes in their center who are native to the Galápagos Islands. The siblings are ostracized by their community, due to Op's proneness to disaster, and are labelled weird by mallei. Just before Charles Darwin discovers their island during one of his voyages, Op and Ed find and fall into a large flower that teleports them to modern-day Shanghai, where they meet and befriend a white poodle named Clarance. The siblings learn their species is now extinct after Darwin found the island destroyed by a volcanic eruption.
Clarance brings them to the Time Terminal, a pavilion where Clarance's owner, Dr. Lee Chung, kept and studied the flowers and their seeds, which have time-traveling properties. Op accidentally knocks some seeds out, causing the Terminal to malfunction and sending Clarance to 1915 Antarctica, along with the seed that leads the flummels home. In Antarctica, Clarance is captured by Ernest Shackleton's expedition team. With the help of the Extinctables — a team of extinct animals composed of Dottie, a dodo bird; Burnie, a Tasmanian thylacine; Alma, a female Macrauchenia; and Hoss, a male Triceratops, who were bought by Dr. Chung to the Terminal — Op and Ed travel through each seed in order to find the one that can bring them home and rescue Clarance.
Following a falling out with Ed, Op returns to the flummels' time, where she attempts to warn the rest of the flummels about the volcano. Clarance imprisons her, telling her that flummels ruined his life and that he is actually behind their extinction. Clarance had been adopted by Dr. Chung, but after Dr. Chung was charmed by the adorable flummels, Clarance went Maverick, pushing Dr. Chung into one of the flowers and destroying the seed that would send him back. He then caused the flummels' extinction by planting a drone bomb. Following Ed's arrival after seeing the video Op made, they make several attempts to escape and stop the bomb, eventually deploying a seed to move the entire island into the present day. Clarance survives, but Dr. Chung arrives and punishes him by sending him back to 1915 Antarctica, thanking the flummels and the Extinctables.
A year later, Op and Ed are finally accepted by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun%20With%20Food | Fun With Food was a television cooking program that screened on the Nine Network in Australia between 1960 and 1971. The compere of the program was cooking expert Geraldine Dillon.
History
Fun With Food was a half hour television cooking show made in Melbourne and screened nationally every week-day on the Nine Network in the 1960s. Each episode featured the host demonstrating how to prepare several different dishes, drawing on various national cuisines and using a variety of cooking methods. It was one of the first television cooking series after television began in Australia in 1956.
The compere was Melbourne-born culinary expert Geraldine Dillon. She had studied at The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Sciences in Melbourne and had completed an advanced course at The Cordon Bleu School in London.
Dillon later hosted another television show for the Nine network. It was called TV Kitchen and was a cooking show that ran for 15 minutes and was screened once a week on the Nine Network from February 1971 till 1976.
References
Australian cooking television series
Nine Network original programming
1960 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCEC%20Season%2016 | The 16th season of the Top Chess Engine Championship began on 15 July 2019 and ended on 13 Oct 2019.
The season showed how fast neural network-based engines were progressing relative to traditional ones, with neural network-based engines making up half of Premier Division for the first time. Furthermore, AllieStein, a neural network-based engine that had reached Premier Division last season, made its first appearance in the superfinal after finishing second in Premier Division. Nonetheless, a traditional engine – Stockfish – won both Premier Division and the superfinal.
Overview
Structure
TCEC changed its format for this season again, with the aim of allowing more chances for new engines to climb the rankings. This is in turn necessary because of the fast pace of development in computer chess, with numerous very strong engines emerging quickly. The superfinal and Premier Division were kept, but the lower divisions were replaced by three leagues: a Qualification League, League Two, and League One. The top six engines from the Qualification League promote to League Two (where the bottom six relegate), while the top four engines from League Two promote to League One (where the bottom four relegate). Finally, the top four engines in League One contest a playoff, with the top two finishers advancing to Premier Division. The top two engines in Premier Division then contest the superfinal. All three lower-division leagues are single double-round robins, while Premier Division is 3x double-round robin, and the superfinal remains a 100-game match.
Results
Qualification League
The qualification league comprised 18 engines; however, one engine - Leela Chess Zero's CPU version - would only be used as a benchmark, and its scores zeroed out to determine final standings.
Right from the start it became apparent that two engines - the new engine Stoofvlees and ScorpioNN - were significantly stronger than everyone else. ScorpioNN had been plagued by crashes last season, but those issues had been fixed, and it had further improved rapidly. It defeated ten of its seventeen rivals 2-0, and did not drop a match. Stoofvlees turned in a similarly dominant performance, also defeating ten of its seventeen rivals 2-0, but it dropped a game to 3rd-place Marvin. Both engines comfortably claimed the first two spots, six points ahead of Marvin. The remaining promotion slots were more contested. Marvin and Wasp were able to distance themselves from the chasing pack, but Asymptote and Winter were able to keep up with Topple and chess22k up until the final rounds, eventually finishing two points off the pace.
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League Two
Fresh from promotion and with an update before the start of League Two, Stoofvlees comfortably placed first with 22.5/30, two points ahead of ScorpioNN. Ominously however, it showed erratic play and lost three games. Second-placed ScorpioNN did not lose a game and promoted smoothly as well. In contrast, the remaining two promotion spots were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Escape%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ape Escape is a series of video games developed primarily by SCE Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Ape Escape may also refer to:
Ape Escape (video game), the first game in the series
Ape Escape (American TV series), a 2009 American animated series of television shorts for Nicktoons based on the video games
Ape Escape (Japanese TV series), a 2002 series of computer-generated anime television shorts for Tokyo TV based on the video games
Saru Get You -On Air-, also known as Ape Escape -On Air-, a 2006 Japanese CGI-anime television series produced by Xebec (now Sunrise Beyond), and based on the video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Leaders%20Programme | The International Leaders Programme (ILP) is an international leadership development and networking programme. The programme is organised and delivered by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the Government of the United Kingdom. The ILP is not to be confused by programmes of a similar name provided by other organisations.
Background
The ILP was established in March 2013 by former Foreign Secretary William Hague. It identifies potential global leaders of the future and brings them to the United Kingdom for high-level meetings, briefings, and diplomatic visits. The goal of the programme is to promote lasting global partnerships with emerging leaders and future decision-makers.
ILP participants have represented 100 countries, and the alumni has over 350 members to date.
Notable participants
Participants in the programme have included:
Ilwad Elman, Somalia
Bogolo Kenewendo, Botswana
Naheed Nenshi, Canada
References
External links
International Leaders Programme - Official Website
Organizations established in 2013
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
International organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20Capture | Flag Capture is a video game published in 1978 by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982). It is based on the traditional game Capture the flag. The game was designed and programmed by Jim Huether. The cover art for the game is by John Enright.
The game was later included with the Atari Flashback 3 console.
Gameplay
The player is shown a grid with white squares in it and must guess which square the flag is behind. To aid the locating of the flag the player may be shown a flag or a number to indicate where the flag may be.
The game may be played in single-player mode, or in a two-player mode where the players play together.
Reception
In a retrospective review, videogamecritic.com criticised the controls, the gameplay, the sound, and the graphics. In Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide, Brett Weiss described it as "one of the most primitive looking (and sounding) games ever".
Capture the Flag was among a number of Atari games recommended for use in cognitive rehabilitation as it trained coordination of visual input with motor output. It was also used in a psychological test carried out on subjects from the US Navy related to skill-retention.
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
References
1978 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Puzzle video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Slay | Jill Slay is a British-Australian engineer and computer scientist. Her work has attracted international attention and she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the information technology industry through contributions in the areas of forensic computer science, security, critical infrastructure protection, and cyberterrorism."
Career
Slay completed a B.Sc. degree with honours in mechanical engineering from the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, in 1975. After working as a professional engineer she returned to university to undergo a Doctor of Philosophy in science education, at Curtin University: Perth, WA, AU, which she completed in 2000.
Upon receiving her Ph.D. Slay began her academic career as an information security researcher at the University of South Australia. During this time she was approached by South Australia Police to assist with cases involving computer devices. After 12 years at the University of South Australia, Slay moved to Namibia where she served as the Dean of IT at the Polytechnic of Namibia (now known as Namibia University of Science and Technology). Slay returned to Australia in 2014 where she was the Founding Chair and Director of the Australian Cyber Security Centre as a professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy through the University of New South Wales in Canberra.
Honors and awards
Slay was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2011 Australia Day Honours. She is a Fellow of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium and also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. In 2015 Slay was awarded the Australian Information Security Association InfoSec Educator of the Year.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the Order of Australia
Australian computer scientists
British computer scientists
British emigrants to Australia
British women engineers
Australian women engineers
20th-century British engineers
20th-century women engineers
20th-century Australian engineers
21st-century British engineers
21st-century Australian engineers
Australian mechanical engineers
British mechanical engineers
Alumni of the University of Hertfordshire
Academic staff of the University of South Australia
Academic staff of the Namibia University of Science and Technology
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Academic staff of La Trobe University
Idaho State University faculty
21st-century women engineers
Australian women computer scientists
British women computer scientists
British expatriate academics
20th-century Australian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HONR%20Network | HONR Network is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 2014 by Lenny Pozner. The organization began as an advocate for the survivors and the victims of mass casualty, and highly publicized, violent incidents, who were revictimized online by conspiracy theorists. More recently, HONR's mission has expanded to assist all victims of online hate and harassment and it has been involved in bringing about significant policy changes at Facebook, WordPress YouTube and other major online platforms.
History
On Friday, December 14, 2012, Lenny Pozner's six-year-old-son Noah became the youngest victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, when a lone gunman entered the school in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire, killing twenty children and six educators.
Almost immediately after the shooting, conspiracy theorists began claiming that the event was staged by the US government in order to generate sympathy and justification for a drastic ban on guns and a weakening of the Second Amendment. They claimed that no one died at Sandy Hook Elementary and that the families of victims and first responders were crisis actors. As the youngest victim, Noah's photo was frequently used by the media when reporting on the aftermath. Stories on conspiracy theorist's websites, such as Infowars, began claiming that Noah either never existed, or that he was an actor, alive and well, participating in other "false flag" incidents. Because of the news coverage, and the use of Noah's picture globally, conspiracy theorists began focusing on the Pozner family and defacing pictures of Noah that the family had placed on an online memorial page. Less than a month after the shooting, Noah's mother, Veronique de la Rosa and her brother, attorney Alexis Haller spoke out in the media advocating gun control. The online harassment continued as the conspiracy theorists posted hateful, defamatory, harassing, and anti-Semitic comments, as well as claims that Noah didn't die or even existed.
Some of the harassment was incited by InfoWars host Alex Jones. Seven weeks after the shooting, Pozner emailed Jones and asked "Haven't we had our share of pain and suffering? All these accusations of government involvement, false flag terror, new world order, etc...I feel that your type of show created these hateful people and they need to be reeled in!" InfoWars staff denied that Jones was participating in what Pozner had called "Hoax Theory". In response, Jones told his audience of over 12 million viewers to rise up and "find out the truth".
Pozner attempted to appease the conspiracy theorists by talking with them online, as well as sharing photos of Noah, his birth certificate, school reports and death certificate. His attempts at engaging with these people were largely rejected. These "hoaxers", a term Pozner used to describe conspiracy theorists who believed that mass casualty events were government perpetrated hoaxes, began an intense campaign of harassment, that i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryshev%20AVB-7.62 | AVB-7.62 is a battle rifle designed by Anatoly F. Baryshev that is derived from his weapon operating system. It is characterized by significantly reduced recoil.
Variants
AB-7.62 and AB-5.45
The rifle shares nearly 2/3s of its common parts with the AKM and AK-74. The 5.45 version was not developed due to the futility of already low-powered 5.45 cartridges that are not needed to reduce recoil.
The weapon externally differs from the AKMS only in the absence of a gas tube (a carrying handle is installed instead) and a different stock design. Due to such small differences, their balancing is almost the same, although the folding butt is undoubtedly more convenient than AKMS's, but the difference in shooting is significant: the recoil is almost not noticeable, the barrel isn't thrown up, its point of impact is maintained, and the direction of shooting is maintained without effort. Because the 7.62 mm assault rifle cartridge is a softer shooting cartridge, the advantages of the new design become apparent to the shooter after more than one hundred rounds.
According to its tactical characteristics, the AB-1(AB-7.62) has almost no difference from the AKM, but it allows the user to perform much more accurate automatic firing at a greater distance.
Derivatives
KPB-12.7 and ARGB-85
The ARGB-85 is a 30mm automatic grenade launcher which uses standard VOG-17 grenades.
The KPB-12.7 is based on the ARGB-85 and chambered with 12.7×108mm cartridge. It was not to be interested due to its constructive analogy with the ARGB-85.
Test results showed great recoil reduction, making it easily usable as a small arm with half of weight of the pre-existing AGS-17.
Because of Baryshev recoil-reducing operation, this weapon can be fired from the shoulder, but it still has drawbacks that are common with all other Baryshev weapons – insufficient reliability and inferior accuracy when performing single shots more so than conventional weapon mechanisms.
RAG 30 is an (unlicensed) prototype, with ammunition feeding supplied from the magazine located on top of the receiver, thus it is possible to replenish the magazine without removing it.
See also
AEK-971
AK-107
Kord machine gun
AGS-30
List of Russian weaponry
List of firearms
References
External links
Modernfirearms
Baryshev rifle video
Still with no recoil - Baryshev Weapon Systems (in Russian).
Demonstration tests in military unit 68665 by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (in Russian)
Assault rifles of the Soviet Union
Trial and research firearms of the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmonette | CARMONETTE (Combined ARms Computer MOdel) is a 1953 mainframe computer Monte Carlo simulation developed by the US Operations Research Office (ORO). While the first computerized simulation of conventional combat was "Air Defense Simulation", developed by the Army Operations Research Office at Johns Hopkins University in 1948, the Carmonette series was a later variant of the genre, featuring ground combat at the levels of the individual soldier and company. The principal architect of Carmonette was Richard E. Zimmerman.
It was followed by CARMONETTE II which included infantry (1960–1965); CARMONETTE III which added armed helicopter support (1966–1970); also CARMONETTE IV added communications and night vision.
Piero Scaruffi described it as the first digital computer game.
References
Mainframe games
Military combat simulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComicSpace | ComicSpace was an online social network and webcomic hosting service created and managed by Josh Roberts and Joey Manley between 2006 and 2012. The website was inspired by MySpace and was intended as a place where writers, artists, publishers, and fans could interact and share their work. Though ComicSpace was highly successful upon launch, it never fully took off. Roberts and Manley expanded the scope of the project with the help of investment firm E-Line Ventures in 2007, and Manley began merging his existing websites into ComicSpace, starting with Webcomics Nation. By 2012, interest in ComicSpace had waned, and Roberts and Manley abandoned the project.
Concept and early development
Josh Roberts had created and run the webcomic directory OnlineComics.net since 2001, and began restructuring its codebase in the early summer of 2006. Robert had registered the domain name ComicSpace.com on a whim in 2005. In November 2006, shortly after being introduced to the social media website MySpace and longing for a break from the OnlineComics.net code, Roberts decided to build a comics-oriented version of MySpace to host on ComicSpace.com. ComicSpace launched within a month after being conceptualized, on December 5, 2006. Roberts sent out an email to the 4,600 webcomic creators who were registered on OnlineComics.net in order to give them a chance to register an account before making the website fully public. Because the actual webcomic hosting features were not in place yet, Roberts expected only a few hundred people to register. However, the website was an early hit, accumulating 3,500 members within the first week. Among these early users were cartoonists Warren Ellis, Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, and Ed Brubaker.
Roberts' initial plans for the website included to make RSS a major feature, and to allow users to specify their connection to the field of comics, letting users browse writers, artists, publishers, and retailers as sub-groups. When Joey Manley joined Roberts in 2007, he described ComicSpace as a user-generated content website, in order to contrast it with his own Modern Tales-family of curated subscription services. When asked what skills he and Roberts might bring to the table for ComicSpace, Manley noted that Roberts has experience with helping readers find and keep track of webcomics, while he had more experience with publishing and monetization himself.
Advertising network Project Wonderful was incorporated into ComicSpace shortly after its launch in late 2006. The service auctioned 16 small advertisements at the top of the ComicSpace website, and Roberts expected to earn $1,000 USD per month after Project Wonderful took its cut.
E-Line Media investment and mergers
In October 2007, Joey Manley announced that he had partnered with Roberts, and that they had received an infusion of capital from an investment firm. Between November 2007 and April 2008, Manley's free webcomic hosting service Webcomics Nation, Manley's blog TalkAboutComics, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETDATA | NETDATA is a file format used primarily for data transfer and storage on IBM mainframe systems, although implementations are available for other systems.
Description
NETDATA files are 80-byte card image files containing unloaded file data plus metadata to allow the original file to be reconstituted on the receiving system. A complete NETDATA file consists of a number of control records, followed by data records and terminated by a trailer record. All records have the same format:
A one-byte length field containing the length of a logical segment of the file. A segment has a maximum length of 255 bytes. With the length and flags a segment can contain up to 253 bytes of data.
A one-byte flags field describing this segment:
X'80' - this is the first segment of a record
X'40' - this is the last segment of a record. If the record requires only one segment the flags will contain X'C0'
X'20' - this segment is part of a control record
X'10' - this segment contains the record number of the next record
X'0F' - reserved
Control records
Control records have a six-character EBCDIC identifier in bytes 2-7 following the length and flags. They contain a number of self-defining fields, called text units. Each text unit consists of a two byte text unit key identifying this text unit, a two-byte big-endian binary number of length-data pairs that follow for this key (usually one), a two byte length field identifying the length of the text unit data, and a text unit of the specified length. Implementations are expected to ignore any text unit information not relevant to the receiving system.
Header Control Record
The header record must be the first record of a NETDATA file. It has the identifier "INMR01". It contains information identifying the sender: node (host), timestamp, and user id, the length of the control record segments, and the target (receiving) node and user id. It may optionally contain a request for acknowledgement of receipt, the version number of the data format, the number of files in the transmission, and a "user parameter string." CMS allows only one file per transmission, but TSO/E and other systems may allow more than one.
File Utility Control Record
This record describes how the file's data is to be reconstituted. Its identifier is "INMR02". Bytes 8-11 contain the big-endian binary number of the file to which this record applies. If there are multiple files in a transmission they are numbered starting with one. The rest of this record describes the file's format, and one or more steps ("utility programs") which must be executed in order to rebuild this file. The text units identify the file's organization (INMDSORG: sequential, partitioned, etc.), its fixed of maximum record length (INMLRECL), its record format (INMRECFM: fixed, variable, etc) the approximate size of the file (IBMSIZE), and the utility program name(s) (INMUTILN). It may also contain the file's block size, creation date, number of directory blocks, name, expiration d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20theology | Digital theology or cybertheology is the study of the relationship between theology and the digital technology.
Terminology
In Catholic discourse, the more dominant term has been cybertheology. There has also been the yearly Theocom symposium since 2012 at Santa Clara University, which has explored topics related to theology and digital communications.
In more recent discourse related to digital humanities and digital religion, some scholars have begun to use the term "digital theology." They identify four kinds of digital theology:
Digital technology as a pedagogical tool to teach theology
Digital technology that opens new methods for theological research
Theological reflection on digitality or digital culture
The reappraisal and critique of digitality based on theological ethics
They also suggest a fifth aspect of digital theology, which offers a more integrated yet critical use of digital technology in the study of theology and religious belief and practice.
However, as digital theology is a burgeoning field, much of the literature has been critiqued as having a poor understanding of technology and digital culture.
Digital church
Much of the research on digital theology relates to church communities online. Some studies have explored churches which only have online existence, whereas others explore the relationship between how people connect through online and offline communities. Often the conversation is around the nature of Christian worship and how it changes when in an online format.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many churches have needed to implement social distancing measures and make choices to run services online. However, these decisions were often made quite haphazardly and for practical reasons, as opposed to more considered choices about the implications of digitizing church services. This has resulted in growing revived discussions around what it means to be a church and what being socially distant and being online does to ecclesiology.
See also
Douglas Groothuis
References
Digital humanities
Theology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Dorsey | Julie Dorsey is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics. With architecture as a driving application, her research in computer graphics has included work on high-dynamic-range imaging, image-based modeling and rendering, and billboarding. She is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, and the founder and Chief Scientist of 3D sketching software company Mental Canvas.
Education and career
Dorsey was an undergraduate at Cornell University, where she earned bachelor's degrees in both architecture and computer science.
She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell in 1993. Her dissertation, Computer Graphics Techniques For Opera Lighting Design And Simulation, was supervised by Donald P. Greenberg.
She was a tenured professor of computer science and engineering and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Yale in 2002.
Contributions
Dorsey is the co-author of the book Digital Modeling of Material Appearance (with Holly Rushmeier and François Sillion, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). She was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2012 to 2014.
Recognition
Dorsey was the winner of the Richard Kelly Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2018 she was a winner of the Microsoft Female Founders Competition, providing venture capital to fund her company Mental Canvas.
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
Cornell University alumni
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
Yale University faculty
MIT School of Engineering faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Weirich | Stephanie Weirich ( ) is an American computer scientist specializing in type theory, type inference, dependent types, and functional programming. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Weirich graduated magna cum laude in 1996 from Rice University, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. At Rice, she became interested in programming languages through an undergraduate research project with Matthias Felleisen. She moved to Cornell University for her graduate studies, completing her Ph.D. in 2002. Her dissertation, Programming with Types, was supervised by Greg Morrisett. She joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2002.
Weirich's work on type inference has been incorporated into the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. She has also been a leader of the POPLmark challenge for benchmarking type systems of programming languages. Weirich won the Robin Milner Young Researcher Award of ACM SIGPLAN in 2016.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Rice University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWNH | DWNH (100.1 FM), broadcasting as 100.1 Radyo Kapalayawan, is a radio station owned and operated by the National Nutrition Council under the Nutriskwela Community Radio Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at the Pamilihang Bayan, Paluan. "Kapalayawan" stands for love in Mangyan.
References
Radio stations established in 2017
Radio stations in Mindoro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitaria%20longiflora | Digitaria longiflora is a species of crabgrass. It is the wild progenitor of the West African domesticated crop Digitaria exilis.
References
External links
African Plant Database
longiflora
Grasses of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea%20praehensilis | Dioscorea praehensilis is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea native to Africa. It is the wild progenitor of the West African domesticated crops Dioscorea rotundata and Dioscorea cayennensis. It is a liana with an edible tuber root found in African rainforests and seasonal tropical forests. The roots reach their maximum starch reserves during the dry season. The species renews its stems every year at the start of the rainy season.
References
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa
praehensilis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea%20cayenensis | Dioscorea cayenensis is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea that is a widely consumed West African domesticated crop. Dioscorea rotundata is sometimes treated as a subspecies, and sometimes also as a separate species. Common names include Guinea yam, yellow yam, and yellow Guinea yam.
It may be a triploid hybrid between the cultivated D. rotundata and the wild D. burkilliana.
References
cayenensis
Yams (vegetable)
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Crops originating from Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Emelianenko | Maria Emelianenko is a Russian-American applied mathematician and materials scientist known for her work in numerical algorithms, scientific computing, grain growth, and centroidal Voronoi tessellations. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University.
Education and career
Emelianenko earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics in 1999 and a master's degree in 2001 from Moscow State University, both summa cum laude. Her master's thesis, Numerical approach to solving Andronov–Hopf and Bogdanov–Takkens systems of differential equations, was supervised by Alexander Bratus.
She then came to Pennsylvania State University for additional graduate study.
She earned a second master's degree in 2002 with the thesis Analysis of Constrained Multidimensional Birth-Death Processes supervised by Natarajan Gautam. Gautam moved to Texas A&M University in 2005, and Emelianenko completed her Ph.D. the same year under the supervision of Qiang Du, with the dissertation Multilevel and Adaptive Methods for Some Nonlinear Optimization Problems.
After postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Emelianenko joined the George Mason University mathematics faculty in 2007. She was promoted to full professor in 2017. At George Mason, she is also affiliated faculty with the Computational Materials Science Center, and directs the Math PhD Industrial Immersion Program.
Activism
Emelianenko has acted as an activist for women in mathematics, writing of differential treatment of female faculty members in mathematics departments and of prejudice against talented women deriving from a misguided belief that their success was due to tokenism. She has been an organizer of many workshops and symposia, including several aimed at women in mathematics.
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Home page
Maria Emelianenko personal website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians
Russian materials scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American materials scientists
American women mathematicians
Women materials scientists and engineers
Applied mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Moscow State University alumni
Eberly College of Science alumni
George Mason University faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Kubecka | Chris Kubecka is an American computer security researcher and cyberwarfare specialist. In 2012, Kubecka was responsible for getting the Saudi Aramco network back up and running after it was hit by one of the world's most devastating Shamoon cyberattacks. Kubecka also helped halt a second wave of July 2009 cyberattacks against South Korea. Kubecka has worked for the US Air Force as a Loadmaster, the United States Space Command and is now CEO of HypaSec, a security firm she founded in 2015. She lives and works in the Netherlands.
Early life
Kubecka's Puerto Rican mother became a robotics programmer and lacking money for daycare would take Kubecka to work with her. Kubecka said she "fell in love with programming" when she programmed a haunted house on the screen to say "boo". She learned to program and at the age of 10 hacked the US Department of Justice. At 18, she began working for the US Air Force.
Saudi Aramco security work
In 2012, Saudi Aramco's network experienced one of the worst hacks in history and Kubecka was contacted then contracted to get the company's systems back up and running. Kubecka explained that the Saudi Aramco network was flat so hackers were able to roll through quickly and infected close to 35,000 of its computers. Facing the emergency and immediately following the hardware attack, Saudi Aramco purchased 50,000 computer hard disk drives (off a production line).
Cyber Terrorism work
In 2014, Kubecka fixed an email and rootkit attack on the Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. The first phase of the attack was caused by a weak email password of 123456 used on the official business embassy email. An Embassy insider and ISIS collaborator attempted to extort money from Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz, Sumaya Alyusuf and from the Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy of The Hague. During the second phase of the attack, the insider sent an extortion demand of 25,000 USD each from several Middle Eastern and Turkish Embassies. The third phase of the attack was caused by the Diplomatic Corps sending a warning notification to all The Hague embassies via email using CC not BCC, exposing the other official embassy email accounts to the attacker. During the fourth phase of the attack, the insider taunted the Diplomatic Corps, The Hague embassies and hacked into the Secretary to the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia personal Gmail account. The attacker rose the extortion demand to $35,000,000, then to $50,000,000 saying ISIS would destroy the Kurhaus of Scheveningen during the planned National Saudi Day celebrations to which over 400 dignitaries had been invited.
After the Shamoon attack and Dutch Embassy hacks, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Aramco made security a top priority. Stanford University signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with one of the security colleges of Saudi Arabia in 2018.
Career
Kubecka was at Saudi Aramco until the mid-2015 and then founded HypaSec. Kubecka is considered an expert o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impute.me | Impute.me. was an open-source non-profit web application that allowed members of the public to use their data from direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests (including tests from 23andMe and Ancestry.com) to calculate polygenic risk scores (PRS) for complex diseases and cognitive and personality traits. In July 2022, Lasse Folkerson, initiator and operator of impute.me, took the website offline.
Impute.me calculates PRSs, which are used to estimate the risk of developing complex diseases from the combined effects of numerous common single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome.
It is intended for use by people who have obtained genetics data from a direct to consumer genetic testing company. If they upload the files, the uploaded data is expanded into ungenotyped SNPs and the overlap with public GWAS summary statistics used to estimate risk. The data is then subjected to analysis scripts including PRS calculations for approximately 2,000 traits and complex diseases. PRSs are calculated based on the combined effect of all SNPs reported in the summary statistics of the underlying GWAS or of the top, genome-wide significant SNPs in the underlying GWAS. The scores based on all SNPs are only available for about 20 complex diseases and traits. Users can then make use of the web tool GenoPred to translate their PRSs onto an absolute risk scale using summary statistics from the GWAS studies.
Criticisms
Numerous criticisms has been raised against consumers accessing their own genetic information, including findings that more than 30% of direct-to-consumer related contacts to clinical genetics departments involve the use of imputed risk estimates and that third party genetics analysis site generally invoke science's power without accepting its limits, while failing to make clear the limitations and potential dangers. In addition there are concerns that many people will react negatively to accessing their own polygenic risk scores, with findings that over 5% of users score over the threshold for potential post-traumatic stress disorder.
Notably, this criticism match the FDA-regulation imposed on the major direct-to-consumer genetics company 23andme.
References
External links
Open Source Code
fork of Open Source Code
Genomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raissa%20D%27Souza | Raissa M. D'Souza is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Davis as well as an External Professor and member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 and Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2019. D'Souza works on theory and complex systems.
Early life and education
When D'Souza was younger she faced the personal choice of going to college or moving to Paris to become a fashion designer. She eventually settled on university and studied physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She earned her doctoral degree in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999, where she worked with Mehran Kardar and Norman Margolus. After graduation, she worked in both the fundamental mathematics group at Bell Labs and the Theory group at Microsoft Research. She held a visiting research position at the École Normale Supérior and the California Institute of Technology.
Research and career
D'Souza was appointed as an Assistant Professor to the University of California, Davis in 2005, promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and to Full Professor in 2013. She works on the mathematics of networks and the dynamics of how processes unfold on networks. These networks could be in technological, biological or social systems. She has studied the interaction between nodes, and how these can lead to self-organizing behaviour. She demonstrated that there exists a percolation threshold, where at a certain point a small number of additional connections can result in a considerable fraction of the network becoming connected. The percolation transition can be applied to a variety of real-world systems, from nanotubes to epileptic seizures or social networks. Large-scale connectivity and synchronisation can be crucial to the structure and function of complex networks. She demonstrated that sparse connections between separate networks helps to suppress cascading failures. She has also studied cascading behaviours in general, including power-grid failures, crashes in financial markets and spreads of political movements.
In 2014 D'Souza was awarded a United States Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award to investigate the prediction and control of interdependent networks for the period 2014–2019.
Academic service
She is an External Professor at both the Santa Fe Institute and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She was a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences several times and previously served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council of Complex Systems. She was made an inaugural member of the Global Young Academy in 2010. In 2015, D'Souza was appointed the 2nd President of the Network Science Society, and served in this role until 2018.
In 2019, she was awarded the Network Science S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Williams%20%28software%20engineer%29 | Laurie Williams is an American software engineer known for her writings on pair programming and agile software development. She is a distinguished professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, and interim head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Education and career
Williams graduated from Lehigh University in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. After earning an M.B.A. from Duke University in 1990, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 2000. Her dissertation, The Collaborative Software Process, was supervised by Robert R. Kessler.
She joined the North Carolina State University in 2000, and was named a distinguished professor in 2018.
Books
With Robert R. Kessler, Williams is the author of the book Pair Programming Illuminated (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
With Michele Marchesi, Giancarlo Succi, and James Donovan Wells, she is an author of Extreme Programming Perspectives (Addison-Wesley, 2003).
Recognition
In 2009, Williams became one of the two inaugural winners of the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, for her work on pair programming in computer science education.
In 2018, Williams was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to reliable and secure software engineering".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Lehigh University alumni
Fuqua School of Business alumni
University of Utah alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Software engineering researchers
American software engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20J.%20Stiffler | Jack Justin Stiffler (1934–2019) was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and entrepreneur, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers who made key contributions in the areas of communications (especially coding theory) and fault-tolerant computing.
Education and career
Stiffler was born May 22, 1934, in Mitchellville, Iowa, and graduated from Mitchellville High School. In 1952 he entered Harvard College, where he lived in Adams House, and graduated in 1956 with an AB magna cum laude in physics. He immediately moved to Los Angeles and joined the research department of Hughes Aircraft Company. He received an MS in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1957, and after a year at the Sorbonne on a Fulbright scholarship returned to Caltech, where he completed his PhD in 1962. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
In 1959 he began part-time work in the Communications Systems Research Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and in 1961 he became a full-time Member of the Technical Staff there. In 1967 he became a Consulting Engineer with the Space and Information Systems Division of Raytheon Company in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he worked on advanced communications systems.
In 1981 he founded Sequoia Systems Incorporated in Marlborough, Massachusetts, which produced fault-tolerant computer systems, specialized for transaction processing, using a tightly coupled architecture of his design. Nine years later the company began trading on the NASDAQ exchange.
Stiffler died March 24, 2019, in Watsonville, California.
Research
Stiffler was author or coauthor of numerous papers and books, and was awarded several hundred patents.
His thesis, "Self-synchronizing binary telemetry codes", supervised by Solomon Golomb, combined the ideas of binary orthogonal codes (in which codewords are completely uncorrelated with one other) and self-synchronizing codes (in which there is no ambiguity about the positions of the boundaries between code words);
he found constructions of self-synchronizing binary orthogonal codes for all codeword lengths greater than or equal to four, and proved nonexistence for all shorter lengths.
In 1964 he developed the puncturing technique (and proved the Solomon–Stiffler bound) with Gustave Solomon, and coauthored Digital Communications with Space Applications with Golomb, Andrew Viterbi and two others.
His 1971 book Theory of Synchronous Communications grew out of NASA's need for highly power-efficient synchronous serial communication during data transmissions for its deep space program;
a review called it "unparalleled in its comprehensive treatment of the synchronization problems of time-discrete communications" and "a landmark in the theoretical development" of the subject.
In 1971 he edited a special issue, on error correcting codes, of IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology,
and in 1980 he edited a special issue of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Utilities | Remote Utilities is a remote desktop software that allows a user to remotely control another computer through a proprietary protocol and see the remote computer's desktop, operate its keyboard and mouse.
The program utilizes the client-server model and consists of two primary components: the Host that is installed on the remote computer and the viewer that is installed on the local PC. Other modules include Agent, Remote Utilities Server (RU Server) and portable Viewer.
Feature and architecture
Remote Utilities provides full control over the remote system and allows to view the remote computer without disrupting its user. The connection is established via an IP address or the Internet ID and it has an IP filtering system allowing to restrict access to only certain IP addresses.
It has the following connection modes:
Full control
View only
File transfer
Task manager
Terminal
Inventory manager
RDP Integration
Text chat
Remote registry
Screen recorder
Execute
Power control
Send message
Voice and Video chat
Remote settings
The Internet-ID
The Internet-ID technology became available in Remote Utilities starting with version 5.0. It allows the user to bypass software and hardware firewalls and NAT devices when setting up a remote connection over the Internet.
Remote Utilities Agent
Remote Utilities Agent was introduced with the release of version 5.1 which works as a program module for spontaneous support that runs without installation and administrative privileges.
Remote Utilities Server
Remote Utilities Server (RU Server) is a program module which serves as a self-hosted replacement for Remote Utilities hosted relay servers. RU Server has been made available with Remote Utilities version 5.1 release. The most recent version of RU Server as of December 22, 2021 is version 3.1.0.0.
History
The developer company Remote Utilities, formerly known as Usoris Systems was founded in 2009. The predecessor project, Remote Office Manager was started in 2004 and were available for free download and use from 2004 until early 2010. The current name, Remote Utilities, was given to version 4.3 in mid-2010 as part of a rebranding effort.
After version 4.3, Remote Utilities released version 5.0 in 2011 with a major update. On 27 April 2012 there was a minor update for version 5.2 which included new features, a free license, and an updated licensing model.
Operating system support
Remote Utilities was initially developed for Microsoft Windows. It currently supports Windows, macOS (viewer only), Linux (viewer only), iOS (viewer only), Android (viewer only).
Remote Utilities has also developed applications for iOS and Android devices allowing users to control computers remotely with their phone.
Reception
Following Remote Utilities's launch, the software received consecutive positive reviews in PC World by editors in 2011 and 2012. It was featured in TechRadar's best free remote desktop software in 2019.
References
External link |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila%20Shabir | Laila Shabir is game developer known for founding the Girls Make Games summer camp that introduces girls and nonbinary children to computer game development.
Early life and education
Shabir's family is from Pakistan and she grew up in the United Arab Emirates in the town of Al Ain. While her parents wanted Shabir and her sister to think independently, the environment around them expected more traditional actions from women. When she was not accepted to any universities in the United Arab Emirates, Shabir moved to the United States for college, and she graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied economics.
Career
After graduation, she was an intern at Merrill Lynch, and then worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the investment company BlackRock. In 2013 Shabir and her husband, Ish Syed, co-founded LearnDistrict a company to make educational video games. Their first video game, Penguemic, was released in 2013.
Shabir started a camp, Girls Make Games, that focuses on introducing girls and nonbinary children to game development during three-week periods in the summer. The camp was started in 2014 when Shabir noticed the gender gap in applicants for jobs in the video game industry. In 2023, Girls Make Games announced a scholarship fund that aimed to makes college more affordable for alumni of the camp.
Awards and honors
In 2014, GamesIndustry.biz included Shabir in their people of the year list in recognition for her work with Girls Make Games. In 2018 the Entertainment Software Association recognized Shabir with their visionary award for her work in broadening participation in game development; this was the first time a woman received this award.
References
External links
Living people
Pakistani women in business
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Women video game developers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American businesswomen |
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