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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thasra%20railway%20station | Thasra railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Thasra railway station is connected by rail to and .
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Kheda district
Railway stations in Kheda district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni%20Antoniadou | Eleni Antoniadou (; born 1988) is a Greek public figure and scientist.
Background
Early life and education
Eleni Antoniadou was born in 1988 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Central Greece and received a master's degree in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine from University College London.
Career
She has been reported as being a scientist active in the fields of regenerative medicine, artificial organ bioengineering and space medicine. Antoniadou co-founded a company called Transplants without Donors.
In 2014, she was included in the BBC's 100 Women, and in 2015 in Forbes 30 amazing women under 30.
In 2016 she served as president of the 2nd regular annual convention of the European Health Parliament, which describes itself as a multidisciplinary movement to suggest solutions for health to the European Union policymakers.
Toy maker Mattel produced a special edition Barbie doll with Antoniadou's image as part of their 60th anniversary Role Models series. The replica was the first time a Barbie doll portrayed a woman from Greece.
Criticism
After a commendation by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameus in 2019, scientists raised concerns that Greek media may not have verified her academic credentials and that she may have misrepresented her achievements. Greek Wikipedia later modified its article on Antoniadou after the misrepresentations were revealed, and Greek think tank Dianeosis (διαΝΕΟσις) removed her from their advisory committee.
According to the website 'Ellinika Hoaxes', the claim that she is "the scientist who made the world's first artificial trachea from stem cells that were successfully transplanted into a patient" is untrue, as the recipient passed away just 18 months after the operation, while the surgeon who performed it, Paolo Macchiarini, was heavily criticized for wrong medical practices and fired from the Karolinska Institute where he worked. Antoniadou's name was absent from the scientific publication concerning both the construction of the trachea and the operation. A few months after the death of the patient, Antoniadou appeared in interviews and incorrectly stated that the patient survived. The publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research is now retracted.
Despite the relevant reports and her resume, Antoniadou did not work directly for NASA nor did she participate in astronaut training, as reported in an interview, but instead participated in a short-lived space clothing experiment. The claim that she received the NASA-ESA Outstanding Researcher Award in 2012 is not confirmed. According to NASA Johns Hopkins University space scientist Stamatis Krimizis, NASA and ESA have only separate awards. It also does not have a name on NASA's list of recipient awards until 2012.
A BBC publication heavily criticised Greek media and their role, which, while conducting several interviews with Antoniadou, did not verify or factcheck wheth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwin%20Walther | Alwin Oswald Walther (born 6 May 1898 in Reick; died 4 January 1967 in Darmstadt) was a German mathematician, engineer and professor. He is one of the pioneers of mechanical computing technology in Germany.
Life
Alwin Walther was born in May 1898 in Reick near Dresden. From 1916 to 1919 Walther served his military service. He was wounded twice and received the Iron Cross 1st Class. From 1919 to 1922 he studied mathematics at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Göttingen. In 1922, he received his doctorate to Dr. rer. tech. (today according to Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Gerhard Kowalewski and . From 1922 to 1928, he was assistant and senior Assistant to Richard Courant at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Göttingen. In 1924, he habilitated and became a Privatdozent. The year before, he stayed in Copenhagen for scientific purposes. From 1926 to 1927 he was a Rockefeller Fellow in Copenhagen and Stockholm. On 1 April 1928 Walther became a full professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics, which he built. In 1955, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alwin Walther, Heinz Billing, Helmut Schreyer, Konrad Zuse and Alan Turing met in Göttingen in 1947. In the form of a colloquium, British experts (including John R. Womersley, Arthur Porter and Alan Turing) interviewed Walther, Billing, Schreyer and Zuse.
Walther retired on 30 September 1966. A few months later he died after a short illness at the age of 68 years in Darmstadt.
Work
Walther attached great importance to questions of the practical application of mathematics. Alwin Walther was one of the first to adapt the mathematics to the requirements of the engineers. In the early 1930s he developed the slide rules "System Darmstadt", which was widely used in engineering.
On his initiative, the German Computing Centre in Darmstadt and the International Computing Centre in Rome were built.
Walter was a nominator in two nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics, Peter Debye (1930) and Enrico Fermi (1936).
Peter Schnell, founder of Software AG, Rudolf Zurmühl and Helmut Hoelzer, the inventor and constructor of the world's first electronic analog computer, were his students.
From 1952 to 1955 he was chairman of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM). From 1958 he was board member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and from 1959 to 1962 he was vice president of the newly founded International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
Alwin Walther was active for many years in the Association of Friends of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In March 1933 he became deputy secretary. In the following year, until the late 1940s, he was their treasurer. In 1950, the general assembly appointed him as honorary member of the Association.
Institute for Applied Mathematics
In 192 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20computing%202020%E2%80%93present | Significant events in computing include events relating directly or indirectly to software, hardware and wetware.
Mostly excluded are:
events in general robotics
events about uses of computational tools in biotechnology and similar fields (except for improvements to the underlying computational tools) as well as events in media-psychology except when those are directly linked to computational tools
Currently excluded are:
events in computer insecurity/hacking incidents/breaches/Internet conflicts/malware if they aren't also about milestones towards computer security
events about quantum computing and communication
economic events and events of new technology policy beyond standardization
2023
Software-hardware systems
A two/multi-robot and beacons mesh communication paradigm for exploration by robotic probes, drones, spacecraft, disaster recovery rovers or underwater robots was reported.
Researchers showed parrots can and enjoy using a videocalling system.
A 'chef' robot developed is trained to watch and learn from cooking videos, and recreate dishes itself.
Notable innovations: a low-cost open source air pollution sensor (Flatburn) and a laser-using drone-based methane plume localization method.
Software
Researchers showed that, or how, pre-installed apps on Android smartphones in China are mass surveillance in China.
Scientists reviewed safety-by-design technology- and policy-based approaches to ensure biosafety and biosecurity to prevent engineered pathogen pandemics, including digital methods such as DNA sequence screening, some of which are already implemented and part of regulations to some degree.
Studies investigated dating apps, revealing high gender inequality, partly exploring possible relevance to the rise of both "sexual loneliness" and concentration of sex in various developed countries, and reported subsets of well-being effects.
A study hypothesized mental health awareness efforts (in current forms) or glamorised and romanticised mental disorders on social media (e.g. quotes about depression on aesthetically-appealing backgrounds shared widely on certain social media) may have contributed to the recent rise in reported mental health problems – by intensifying and over-diagnosing of such – beyond e.g. increased reporting of previously under-recognised symptoms or mental health-related issues.
A news outlet reported on a systematic study of major issues in popular currently available commercial VPNs for Internet privacy and security.
Researchers reported 'digital resignation', calling for regulations and education reform.
Parts of Twitter's recommender algorithms became open source, welcomed and requested by many albeit with several issues related to code exclusion and verifiability. Around the time, the free version of its API, which was also used for research, esd shut down – followed shortly thereafter by reddit, proprietary verification checkmarks caused controversy, parts of its source code were leaked, and applicat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20PMPC%20Star%20Awards%20for%20Television | The 33rd PMPC Star Awards for Television will honor the best in Philippine television programming from 2018 until 2019,
as chosen by the Philippine Movie Press Club. The ceremony will held on October 13, 2019, at the Henry Lee Irwin Theater in Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, and will be aired the delayed telecast by ABS-CBN on October 20, 2019. The ceremony was hosted by Kathryn Bernardo, Kim Chiu, Enchong Dee and Robi Domingo.
The nominations were announced by the Press on September 21, 2019.
Winners and Nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Networks
Programs
Personalities
Special Awards
Ading Fernando Lifetime Achievement Award
Kris Aquino
Excellence in Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement Award
Ralph Obina (Male)
Vicky Morales (Female)
German Moreno Power Tandem Award
Edward Barber and Maymay Entrata
Ken Chan and Rita Daniela
Posthumous Award for Television Excellence
Gina Lopez
Posthumous Award as Icon Philippine TV
Eddie Garcia
Celebrity Mom of the Night
Dimples Romana
Celebrity Skin Magical of the Night
Edward Barber (Male)
Dimples Romana (Female)
Frontrow International Celebrity of the Night
Edward Barber (Male)
Ariella Arida (Female)
TV Queens at the Turn of the Millennium
Carla Abellana
Bea Alonzo
Kathryn Bernardo
Kim Chiu
Sunshine Dizon
Heart Evangelista
Angel Locsin
Jennylyn Mercado
Marian Rivera
Maja Salvador
Judy Ann Santos
Liza Soberano
Most major nominations
Most major wins
Performers
References
See also
PMPC Star Awards for TV
2019 in Philippine television
PMPC Star Awards for Television
2019 in Philippine television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLO-LD | KTLO-LD (channel 46) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside ABC affiliate KRDO-TV (channel 13) and radio stations KRDO (1240 AM) and KRDO-FM (105.5). The four stations share studios on South 8th Street in Colorado Springs, where KTLO-LD's transmitter is also located.
Due to its low-power status, KTLO-LD's broadcast range only covers the immediate Colorado Springs area. Therefore, it is simulcast in 720p high definition on KRDO-TV's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market. This signal can be seen on channel 13.2 from a transmitter on Cheyenne Mountain.
Subchannel
References
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TLO-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Colorado
Low-power television stations in Colorado
Telemundo network affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Alan%20Saunders | Robert Alan Saunders is an American computer scientist, most famous for being an influential computer programmer. Saunders joined the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) led by Alan Kotok, Peter Samson, and himself. They then met Marvin Minsky and other influential pioneers in what was then known as Artificial Intelligence.
MIT: 1956–1962
From 1957–61, Robert Saunders worked with other undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they were allowed by Jack Dennis to develop programs for the then TX-0 experimental computer on permanent loan from Lincoln Laboratory. During these years, Saunders and his fellow TRMC members are described as the first true hackers in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. At MIT, Saunders earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. The TMRC group was heavily influenced by professors such as Jack Dennis and Uncle John McCarthy – and by their continued involvement in the student group known as Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC).
While a graduate student, Jack Dennis (former TMRC member) introduced students to the TX-0 on loan to MIT indefinitely from Lincoln Laboratory. In the spring of 1959, McCarthy taught the first course in programming that MIT offered to freshmen.
Outside classes, Saunders, along with fellow TMRC members Alan Kotok, David Gross, Peter Samson, and Robert A. Wagner, all friends from TMRC, reserved time on the TX-0. Dennis enjoyed watching the young hackers work and allowed them to use the TX-0 for various personal projects.
In 1961, DEC donated a PDP-1 to MIT. The PDP-1 had a Type 30 precision CRT display and you could see code run while you were working. Students from TMRC worked as support staff and used this new look at programming as a way to change the way computers were used, working the Lisp programming language and a number of other innovations at the time.
Spacewar!
One of these innovations was the first real digital game, called Spacewar!. Written by Saunders, Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell and Wayne Wiitanen in 1961, Spacewar! was inspired by Marvin Minsky's Three Position Display. After urging Russell to start the game for some time, the group had the first version running by early 1962, with some assistance from then DEC employee Alan Kotok. Primarily written by Russell, Spacewar! was one of the earliest interactive computer games.
During this time, Saunders built the first game controllers, thus allowing two people to play against each other without using the control switches on the front of the computer.
After his years at MIT, Saunders spent most of his professional career at Hewlett-Packard, working on computer operating systems. In 1993, he went to work for five years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, helping to manage the computer system which deals with maintenance of the Royal Saudi Air Force's airplanes.
Saunders devised a proof of Karl Popper's conjecture on refutability, showing that the potential information conte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Altenberg | Lee Altenberg is an American theoretical biologist. He is on the faculty of the Departments of Information and Computer Sciences and of Mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He is best known for his work that helped establish the evolution of evolvability and modularity in the genotype–phenotype map as areas of investigation in evolutionary biology, for moving theoretical concepts between the fields of evolutionary biology and evolutionary computation, and for his mathematical unification and generalization of modifier gene models for the evolution of biological information transmission, putting under a single mathematical framework the evolution of mutation rates, recombination rates, sexual reproduction rates, and dispersal rates.
Altenberg is an Associate Editor of the journal BioSystems, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and Artificial Life, and on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems.
Education
Altenberg received his B.A. in genetics in 1980 at the University of California, Berkeley with an honors thesis advised by Glenys Thomson on the theory of frequency-dependent selection. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 1985 at Stanford University with advisor Marcus W. Feldman with a dissertation that unified models of modifier gene evolution.
Career
Altenberg held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. While a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, Altenberg offered the first course on evolutionary computation to be given there. When his father became ill with cryoglobulinemia, he moved with him to Hawaii for the warm temperatures. In 2002 Altenberg was appointed associate professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He again offered the first courses in evolutionary computation to be given there. In 2013 Altenberg was a Long-Term Visitor at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University and in 2014-2016 was a Senior Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents approved his promotion to Full Professor in 2020. Since 2013, Altenberg has been a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute.
Research
Altenberg's research focuses on uncovering the mathematical relationships within the dynamics of biological evolution, and evolutionary algorithms. He is particularly interested in higher order phenomena such as the evolution of evolvability, the evolution of genetic information transmission, and the evolution of the genotype–phenotype map. His chief accomplishments have been (1) to unify the theory for the evolution of genetic systems (recombination and mutation rates) by embedding them in the space of inclusive inheritance, which includes spatial as well as cultural information, and (2) to develop the concept o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tilemann | John Alexander Tilemann (born 25 March 1974) is the director of research for the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He is a former chief of staff to the International Atomic Energy Agency directors-general Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei.
Tilemann is a retired Australian diplomat and senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). His career postings included positions in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Pakistan, Poland, to the IAEA (1987-1990), and to the Middle East. He has also had policy roles in Canberra over last 20 years related to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and arms control. He was Australia's Ambassador to Jordan from 2001 until 2005.
Biography
Tilemann was born in New South Wales and attended Newington College (1959–1963) and the University of Sydney. He later studied Buddhist issus at Vidyalankara University in Sri Lanka.
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Living people
People educated at Newington College
University of Sydney alumni
Australian diplomats
1947 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Magkaagaw%20episodes | Magkaagaw (International title: Broken Faith / ) is a 2019 Philippine drama television series broadcast by GMA Network. The series aired from October 21, 2019 to March 31, 2021 on the network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV, replacing Hanggang sa Dulo ng Buhay Ko.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Little%20Prince%20episodes | The Little Prince () is a Swiss-French stereoscopic computer-animated children's television series inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel of the same name that began broadcast in late 2010 on France 3. The series was created by Method Animation and the Saint-Exupéry-d'Agay Estate Production, in co-production with LPPTV, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Fabrique d'Images, DQ Entertainment and ARD, in participation with France Télévisions, WDR, Rai Fiction, Télévision Suisse Romande and TV5Monde.
The series aired in over 150 markets around the world. It was distributed as 36 mini-movies, each encompassing an individual story line, as well as 78 half hour episodes, where those story arcs are split into multiple parts. An English version, created by Ocean Productions, began airing in Canada on TVOntario on November 6, 2011. It also began airing on Knowledge Network on January 8, 2012. In Australia, it began airing on ABC3 on August 19, 2012. In the United States, the series launched alongside Primo TV on January 16, 2017.
This list is organized according to the show's French broadcast.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010-11)
Season 2 (2012-13)
Season 3 (2014-15)
Home media
In France, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the first two seasons of the series on DVD between November 2010 and November 2013. Sony also released the first two mini-movies on DVD in French Canada. This was followed by a release of the third season by Unidisc.
In the United States, NCircle Entertainment released 18 episodes (in the mini-movie format) of the series across six DVDs between 2016 and 2018.
Notes
References
2010 French television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Singer%20%28artist%29 | Eric Singer is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and software, electrical, computer, robotics, and medical device engineer. He is known for his interactive art and technology works, robotic and electronic musical instruments, fire art, and guerilla art.
Education
Singer holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a diploma in music synthesis from Berklee College of Music and an M.S. in computer science from New York University.
Singer has been an adjunct professor at both NYU and CMU, designing and teaching graduate courses in electronic art and music, interactive performance and controller design..
Electronic, computer and robotic music
Singer is known internationally as a creator of alternative MIDI controllers and musical instruments, interactive and algorithmic music software and robotic musical instruments.
Singer began creating interactive performance software in 1990 as an assistant to Dr. Richard Boulanger. Written primarily in the Max multimedia programming environment, this included software for MIDI controllers such as the Radio Baton and Power Glove. He quickly became known as a Max expert, releasing a series of popular Max plug-ins for video tracking, electronic conducting and artificial life bird-flocking simulation.
In the mid-90s, Singer began creating his own novel electronic instruments. One early instrument of note was the Sonic Banana, a rubber tube with bend sensors to control arpeggiators and other generative music. Later instruments included the GuiroTron, ChimeOTron, SlinkOTron, SlimeOTron, CycloTron and MIDI Steering Wheel (for Joshua Fried). Many of these instruments were featured in his 2011 solo retrospective "Living in the Future." Singer also designed and marketed a sensor and robotic interface board, MidiTron, to aid other artists in creating their own MIDI instruments.
In Brooklyn, NY in 2000, Singer founded the pioneering musical robotics group LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. Over the next decade, Singer led the group to create a large body of robotic musical instruments; produce performances with renowned musicians; present installations at well-known museums and galleries; and open LEMURplex, an early makerspace for performance, gallery shows, artist residencies, teaching and fabrication.
LEMUR presented installations and performances throughout the world, at venues including Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Virgin Festival. LEMUR also collaborated with musicians and composers on live human/robot performances as well as solo works for LEMUR's instruments. Notable musicians and groups included pop artists They Might Be Giants, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, JG Thirlwell, Morton Subotnick, Ikue Mori and George Lewis.
In 2009, Grammy-winning guitarist Pat Metheny commissioned LEMUR to build a large robotic orchestra, or orchestrion. This resulted in Metheny's 2010 Orchestrion album and world tour, with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosemantics | Nanosemantics Lab is a Russian IT company specializing in natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), speech technologies (ASR/TTS) and creation of interactive dialog interfaces, particularly chatbots and virtual assistants, based on artificial intelligence (AI). The company uses neural network platforms, including its own-made platform PuzzleLib which works on Russian-made microprocessor architecture Elbrus and Russia-based Astra Linux operating system. The company was founded in 2005 by Igor Ashmanov and Natalya Kaspersky.
Profile
The company was one of the first on Russian market to develop dialog interfaces for different branches of businesses, as well as to support community of AI developers. The company's most demanded product, as for beginning of the 2020s, is the automated "online advisers", functioning as chat bots, made for helping customers with usage of commercial products. In 2009 the company released an online service called iii.ru, where visitors were able to create their own AI-based virtual personalities entitles "infs" (for free). A visitor was able to train its own "inf" and let them chat to other "live" visitors as well with other "infs". More than 2.3 million of "infs" were created and trained by visitors over several years.
Nanosemantics Lab maintains its own linguistic programming language for AI development called Dialog Language (DL). Popular social networks and instant messaging services may be used as base platforms.
Nanosemantics' AI bots support different types of businesses: banks and financial services, telecommunications, retail, travel and automobile industry, home appliances production, etc. Among its solutions, Nanosemantics lists projects for various companies and institutions, among them VTB, Beeline, MTS, Sberbank, Higher School of Economics, Webmoney, Gazpromneft, Rostelecom, Ford Motors, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and others.
The company uses the term "inf" for naming its numerous types of chat bots. The term was coined by co-founder Igor Ashmanov, head of Ashmanov & Partners. A 2014 scholarly research at Higher School of Economics, called "Basics of Business Informatics", states that such "infs", when used at business, may lower load on employees, collect statistics useful for understanding market demand and also may increase customer loyalty by providing fast and informative answers due to usage of large databases. The same research describes Nanosemantics' project for Russian branch of Ford Motors company, when AI capabilities were used for promoting the car model Ford Kuga. The research pointed out that within 2 months since beginning, the promo-website conducted 47774 talks of visitors with the specialized "inf", which indicated several hundred thousand of questions and the longest chat lasted for 3 hours 10 minutes. One-year promo campaign showed that 28.6% of people who made pre-orders talked to an "inf".
In 2016 Nanosemantics launched a SaaS platform aimed at cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Moshkovitz | Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson () is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include approximation algorithms and probabilistically checkable proofs. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Education and career
Moshkovitz completed her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her dissertation, Two Query Probabilistic Checking of Proofs with Subconstant Error, was supervised by Ran Raz, and won the 2009 Haim Nessyahu Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union for the best mathematics dissertation in Israel.
After postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Moshkovitz became a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She moved to the University of Texas as an associate professor in 2016.
Personal life
Moshkovitz is married to American theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20O%27Neil | Elizabeth Jean (Betty) O'Neil is an American computer scientist known for her highly cited work in databases, including C-Store, the LRU-K page replacement algorithm, the log-structured merge-tree, and her criticism of the ANSI SQL 92 isolation mechanism. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Education and career
O'Neil is a 1963 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in applied mathematics. She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1968. Her dissertation was A quasi-linear theory for axially symmetric flows in a stratified rotating fluid. After postdoctoral research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, and short-term teaching positions at New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1970.
Book
O'Neil is the author, with Patrick O'Neil, of the book Database: Principles, Programming, Performance (Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed., 2001).
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
Database researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Harvard University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memsource | Memsource is a cloud-based commercial translation management system and computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool. It is developed by Memsource a.s., headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. According to research by Deloitte, in 2020 Memsource a.s was one of the top 50 fastest growing IT companies in the Czech Republic.
History
Memsource was founded in 2010 by David Čaněk. Memsource Cloud was launched for the public at the beginning of 2011.
In the third quarter of 2015 Memsource translated over a billion words on its platform for the first time.
In May 2018, Memsource was granted a patent for its AI non-translatables feature and in October 2018, launched its second AI feature, a quality estimation endpoint to enable users to see MT quality scores before post-editing
In 2019, Memsource was ranked as the Most Viable Product in the Marketflex for Language-Oriented TMS, published by Common Sense Advisory (CSA) research.
In July 2020, The Carlyle Group acquired a controlling share in Memsource for an undisclosed sum.
In January 2021, Memsource a.s acquired the Hamburg-based TMS Phrase.
Features
Memsource’s features include support for translation memory, termbases, automatic quality assurance, CMS connectors, REST API, and 3rd party machine translation engine connectors. Machine translation is also natively supported through the Memsource Translate hub, which includes AI-powered management features such as fully managed engines, MT Autoselect and machine translation quality estimation. The platform supports over 50 file types, including custom file types.
Memsource is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. It is also accessible through a mobile application on Android and iOS devices.
References
External links
www.memsource.com
Machine translation software
Translation software
Software companies of the Czech Republic
Translation companies
Software companies established in 2010
Czech companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR-33%20AMBER | ILR-33 AMBER – Polish multistage suborbital rocket designed by Warsaw Institute of Aviation – Łukasiewicz Research Network. The main goal of development of AMBER is gaining experience in building rocket engines and rockets themselves. AMBER can be used in sounding the atmosphere, performing various experiments in microgravity and as a rocket and space technologies testing platform.
Description
The rocket is 5 meters tall and has the diameter of 230 mm. It consists of two solid boosters and hybrid main engine. The main engine is a Polish construction which uses highly concentrated H2O2 as oxidiser. AMBER has reusable head. The recovery of payload is done by pyrotechnical separation from head and deploying drogue and main parachutes. Payload touches the ground with speed of about 8 m/s.
ILR-33 AMBER is designed to reach the Kármán line with 10 kilograms of payload. AMBER is a flagship project of Warsaw Institute of Aviation – Łukasiewicz Research Network.
History
The rocket is in development since 2014. The oxidising agent of main engine is highly concentrated H2O2. as researchers from Institute have patented unique method on obtaining this compound by distillation. The project was repeatedly awarded: the jury of International Invention and Innovation Show INTARG 2018 gave the platinum medal in category "Industry" and Ministry of Investment and Economic Development diploma. On Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies 2019 Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation has received silver medal for solution: „ILR-33 AMBER rocket as system of inventions and innovative platform to conduct experiments in micro-g environment”.
Because of the need to adjust regulations to perform flights od AMBER and similar rockets, the boundaries of air space of CPSP Ustka were extended.
Since 2019 a new version with higher performance is under development. New version is designated as the ILR-33 BURSZTYN 2K – which refers to Meteor 2K rocket. AMBER 2K will be equipped with enlarged boosters. Mass optimization of subsystems is also taking place. Service module is being prepared to host payloads – atmospheric sounding equipment or experiments using a micro-g environment
Missions
The first test flight took place in 2017 on Drawsko Military Training Ground, during which there were basic assumptions, mechanisms and infrastructure of rocket verified in-flight. The maximum altitude of flight was limited due to restrictions of area where AMBER was tested. Another flight, planned on the end of 2018 was cancelled due to intense jet streams.
The second successful test was in may 2019 in Drawsko Pomorskie. There was modified rocket and new systems tested, i.a. steering module. On 10 September 2019 there was another flight performed to test steering system and the recovery of payload from the surface of the Baltic Sea
See also
Meteor – series of Polish sounding rockets, built between 1963 and 1974.
References
Suborbital spaceflight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Body%20Back | The My Body Back Project was set up in London by Pavan Amara in August 2014. First intended as a website and support network for survivors of sexual assault, it has expanded its scope into first a sexual health clinic and then other projects such as a maternity clinic, a photography project and various workshops.
Foundation
Having survived a sexual assault in her teens, Pavan Amara realised in her twenties she was having trouble accessing healthcare and when she spoke to other women she realised many people had issues resulting from trauma. She therefore decided to set up the My Body Back Project in August 2014. She intended it to provide a website which could be useful for survivors of sexual assault and also a support network. She also wanted it to help medical professionals help survivors better. My Body Back became a group which would provide healthcare and also sex and relationship support groups aimed specifically at women and trans people who have survived sexual assault. It is a non-profit organisation. Amara wanted to provide physical and practical resources.
Clinic
After one year, the project set up a clinic intended for survivors of sexual assault. It was the first of its kind in the world. The clinic was funded by the National Health Service (NHS) and located at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. The clinic provided testing for sexually transmitted infections, cervical screening and birth control advice.
The clinic opened a branch in Glasgow in 2018. The project was funded by the Scottish Government. It was to be run by NHS doctors, nurses, counsellors, administrators and volunteers from Rape Crisis Scotland who had been trained by members of the London clinic.
Maternity clinic
Having heard from women that they would like to have a maternity clinic set up exclusively for survivors of sexual assault, My Body Back set up the UK's first such clinic in 2016 together with Barts Health NHS Trust. It was established at the Royal London Hospital. Amara commented that "a number of the women told me how isolated they felt throughout pregnancy and labour and how it had triggered them into remembering their experience of being raped."
Women at the clinic could attend antenatal classes, have gynaecological examinations, and receive psychological support from trained staff, such as midwives, pediatricians and psychologists. The users also had access to self-test kits to avoid being touched. This was helpful since sometimes women being examined were being unintentionally put into positions or situations which brought back the trauma of assault. Amara runs the clinic alongside gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Rehan Khan and consultant midwife Inderjeet Kaur. On the topic of why nobody had set up such a clinic before, Amara commented "I really don't think it's the fault of health workers, because everybody's been wonderful helping me do this."
Other projects
My Body Back began a photography project with photographer Rankin in 2016, focus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyn%20Moffat | Karyn Moffatt is a Canadian computer scientist working in human–computer interaction. She is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing. Her research has included work on persuasive technology and computer accessibility.
Moffatt was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia, and completed her Ph.D. at the same university in 2010. Her dissertation, Addressing Age-Related Pen-Based Target Acquisition Difficulties, was supervised by Joanna McGrenere.
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Academic staff of McGill University
Canada Research Chairs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC%20Resistor | NYC Resistor is a restricted membership private club hackerspace with 25 members in New York, inspired by Chaos Computer Club and other hacker organizations. The New York Times describes it as "kind of frat house for modern-day mad scientists." Its own website describes itself as "NYC Resistor is a hacker collective with a shared space located in downtown Brooklyn. We meet regularly to share knowledge, hack on projects together, and build community."
Membership
Membership costs $115 per month, or $75 for members who teach classes, and is by invitation.
Thursday's craft nights are open to the public and free. Classes are open to the public for a small fee.
Physical Space
Since 2011, NYC Resistor is located on 3rd Avenue in Boerum Hill, upstairs from the former Makerbot headquarters.
The industrial building houses a small kitchen, several shop tables, an epilog laser cutter, and a small machine shop. Numerous electronics projects and personal tools litter shelves of members at the space.
Notable Projects
NYC Resistor was a finalist in Red Bull Creation 2011, submitting Nautilus Terrestrial, "a hand-pumped railroad cart slapped on top of a bicycle."
References
External links
Hackerspaces.org
Computer clubs
Hackerspaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irith%20Pomeranz | Irith Pomeranz is an Israeli electrical engineer known for her research in circuit testing and fault tolerance. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and a Fellow of the IEEE.
As of 2019, her current research includes: Test generation, design for testability, built in self test and diagnosis of integrated circuits.
Education and career
Pomeranz is a 1985 graduate of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and completed her doctorate in 1989 at the Technion. Her dissertation, Fault Detection in Digital Circuits, was supervised by Zvi Kohavi.
After completing her doctorate, she became a lecturer at the Technion, and then in 1990 an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Iowa. She was promoted to full professor in 1998 and moved to Purdue in 2000.
Recognition
In 1999, Pomeranz was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the area of test generation for digital logic circuits".
In 2016, the International Test Conference selected one of her papers, "Preferred Fill: A Scalable Method to Reduce Capture Power for Scan Based Design", as "the most significant paper published ten years before".
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli electrical engineers
Israeli women engineers
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
University of Iowa faculty
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiago%20P.%20Peixoto | Tiago de Paula Peixoto is a Brazilian physicist who works in the areas of network science, statistical physics, and complex systems. He is currently an associate professor of network and data science at the Central European University.
Career
Peixoto is mostly known for his work in statistical inference in networks. He developed and maintains the graph manipulation library graph-tool, which contains readily available implementations of the methods he proposes in his publications.
Peixoto graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of São Paulo in 2003. He earned a PhD in Physics from the same university in 2007, advised by Carmen Pimentel Cintra do Prado with a dissertation entitled "Dynamics of the epicenters of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes (OFC)". In 2017 he obtained his Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bremen.
Peixoto worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Germany (2008 - 2016) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and University of Bremen before becoming an assistant professor (lecturer), in 2016, at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bath. In 2019, he joined the faculty of the Central European University as an associate professor.
Awards and honors
In 2019, Peixoto was awarded the prestigious Erdős–Rényi Prize in Network Science for his contributions for the statistical inference of network modules (aka communities), statistical analysis and network visualization. He was also the sixth recipient of the Zachary Karate Club CLUB prize.
References
External links
Web Page at the Central European University.
Web Page at the ISI Foundation.
LinkedIn Profile
Living people
Brazilian scientists
Brazilian physicists
Complex systems scientists
University of São Paulo alumni
Academic staff of Central European University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20daily | 10 daily was a news and entertainment website. Part of the Ten Network Holdings, it was launched in May 2018 as Ten daily, and rebranded as 10 daily that October as part of an overall rebranding of the network. The site had 1.04 million visitors in September 2018. 10 daily created content aimed at the 18 to 39-year-old demographic; as of May 2019, the majority of visitors were between 18 and 44, female, and accessing the website on mobile devices. On their first anniversary 10 daily launched a new tagline, "news with benefits".
The 10 daily website closed on 22 May 2020, though some content was transferred to 10 Play and social media accounts.
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Australian entertainment websites
Defunct Australian websites
Network 10
2018 establishments in Australia
2020 disestablishments in Australia
Internet properties established in 2018
Internet properties disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Carlin%20%28professor%29 | John B. Carlin is an Australian statistician. He is Head of Data Science and Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and a professor in the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He has also led the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics, a collaboration between the MCRI, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University, since 2012. The economist Wendy Carlin is his sister.
Besides Carlin's professorial appointment at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, he is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. In 2018, Carlin was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Selected works
References
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Faculty page
Australian statisticians
Biostatisticians
University of Western Australia alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%20Business%20Network | Farmers Business Network (FBN) is a farmer-to-farmer network and e-commerce platform based out of San Carlos, California. The company was co-founded by Amol Deshpande and Charles Baron, and launched as a startup in 2014. Deshpande stepped down as CEO in 2023 and was replaced by John Vaske. As of 2021, FBN has approximately 30,000 farmers in their network between the U.S. and Canada.
In 2016, FBN launched an online input buying system called FBN Direct. The platform aggregates data on seed prices and performances to assist farmers in agronomic resource management.
The company introduced their first non-GMO corn and soybean seed offerings with F2F Genetics Network in August 2018. Some farmer members have reported saving thousands of dollars through the purchase of FBN seeds. Later in 2018, FBN announced a partnership with Amazon.
In 2019, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue attended FBN's annual Farmer2Farmer conference in Omaha, Nebraska, and gave a keynote speech. The event saw nearly 4,000 attendees.
In February of 2020, a Canadian federal court issued subpoenas to a group of major agriculture companies in order to conduct an antitrust probe based on allegations that businesses cooperated in an attempt to block online farm-supply startup Farmers Business Network Inc (FBN).
In 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Canadian Competition Bureau was investigating allegations that Bayer, BASF, and Corteva engaged in anti-competitive practices toward FBN in Canada.
Early financial backers for FBN included Kleiner Perkins and GV.
References
Online companies of the United States
Agriculture companies established in 2014
American companies established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya%20Raskhodnikova | Sofya Raskhodnikova (born 1976) is a Belarusian and American theoretical computer scientist. She is known for her research in sublinear-time algorithms, information privacy, property testing, and approximation algorithms, and was one of the first to study differentially private analysis of graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Boston University.
Education and career
Raskhodnikova completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Her dissertation, Property Testing: Theory and Applications, was supervised by Michael Sipser.
After postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Raskhodnikova became a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University in 2007. She moved to Boston University in 2017.
Other activities
While a student at MIT, Raskhodnikova also competed in ballroom dancing.
She has been one of the organizers of TCS Women, a community for women in theoretical computer science.
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Home page
1976 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Belarusian computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Boston University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20Coaster%20%28Fuji-Q%20Highland%29 | Giant Coaster was a steel roller coaster located at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. According to some sources (i.e. the roller coaster database), Giant Coaster was the longest roller coaster in the world when it opened as featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as a commemorative display placed in Fuji-Q Highland during the 2019 season.
References
Fuji-Q Highland
Roller coasters introduced in 1966
Roller coasters in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushmita%20Ruj | Sushmita Ruj is an Indian-Australian computer scientist whose research concerns access control, computer security and information privacy. Formerly an associate professor at the Indian Statistical Institute and senior research scientist at CSIRO in Australia, she is a senior lecturer in computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales.
Ruj graduated from the Bengal Engineering College (now the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur) in 2004, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She earned a master's degree in computer science in 2006 from the Indian Statistical Institute, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2010. Her dissertation, Application of Combinatorial Structures to Key Predistribution in Sensor Networks and Traitor Tracing, was supervised by Bimal Kumar Roy.
After postdoctoral research at Lund University and the University of Ottawa, Ruj returned to India as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in 2012, and moved back to the Indian Statistical Institute in 2013. She was promoted to associate professor there before moving to CSIRO and then UNSW.
References
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Home page at ISI
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian women computer scientists
Indian Statistical Institute alumni
Academic staff of the Indian Statistical Institute
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra%20Visi%C3%B3n | Nuestra Visión (translation: Our Vision) is an American Spanish language free-to-air television network, owned by Publicidad y Contenido Editorial S.A. de C.V. a subsidiary of América Móvil. The network launched on November 21, 2017 and is available in select markets across the United States.
The network primarily features Mexican movies from the golden era of Mexican movies to recent productions. Programming also includes live sporting events as well as special events, such as concerts, interviews with top-tier celebrities, series and music clips. It also airs daily newscasts and sportscasts produced live through companies owned by América Móvil, UNO TV and Claro Sports.
History
The plans to launch Nuestra Visión were first revealed on January 17, 2017 by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's telecommunications corporation, America Movil. The network's strategy was to specifically target the millions of Mexican Americans living in the United States, as revealed by CEO Víctor Herrera in a statement. The network launched on November 21, 2017, with only five affiliated stations
By 2019 it more than doubled its coverage and is available in over 4.2 million homes. In order to make the network available to everyone in the United States, the network launched an app on September 16, 2019, coinciding with Mexican Independence Day.
In August 2020, the network was added to the line-up of the Pluto TV streaming service. As of the summer of 2022, it became part of the ViX lineup.
Programming
Nuestra Visión's programming consists of Mexican movie libraries, composed of over 2,300 movie titles, spanning from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema to recent productions. Nuestra Vision also features sports programming, including live games from Ascenso MX and Liga MX Femenil, as well as American football, boxing, CMLL wrestling, baseball, and mixed martial arts. The network also features sports news and content, and news produced live from Mexico by Claro Sports and UNO TV respectively. Nuestra Visión also features shows and interviews with top-tier Mexican and International talent and celebrities. Additionally, the network offers productions from Claro that target different types of audiences, ranging from young Latin adults to seniors, with content rating from TV-G to TV-MA.
Current programming
Talk/lifestyle/reality shows
Aprende:
Dress Code
El Libro Rojo
La Caja de Pandora
Noctámbulos, Historias De Una Noche
Palabra de Cine
News programming
Marca Claro Radio en Vivo
Noticias en Vivo Gabriela Calzada
Noticias en Vivo José Cárdenas
Scripted programming
El Torito
¡Yo Soy Yo!: Dar El Primer Paso
Music programming
Domingo estelar
Children programming
Cantinflas show
Sports programming
Sports talk
Deportes en Claro
Deportes en Claro Matutino
Game Plan LFA
Jugando Claro en Vivo
Vidas extraordinarias
Sporting events
Ascenso MX
Liga MX Femenil
Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Nuestro Box
Affiliates
Nuestra Visión is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Dirty%20Dancing | The Real Dirty Dancing is an Australian talent show-themed television series that premiered on Seven Network on 30 September 2019. The series follows eight celebrities who revisit key locations and moments from the movie Dirty Dancing and learn the iconic dance routines under the guidance of choreographers Todd McKenney and Kym Johnson.
Contestants
Hugh Sheridan
Jessica Rowe
Jamie Durie
Anne Edmonds
Stephanie Rice
Firass Dirani
Jude Bolton
Anna Heinrich
Episodes
American version
On 19 January 2022, an American version was announced. It was hosted by Stephen "tWitch" Boss and produced by Eureka Productions and Lionsgate Television. It premiered on 1 February 2022 on Fox.
British version
On 25 August 2021, Channel 4 announced that the British version would be hosted by Leigh Francis (formerly from Channel 4's Bo' Selecta!, and appearing in character as Keith Lemon on The Real Dirty Dancing), Pussycat Dolls member Ashley Roberts, and Dreamboys choreographer Jordan Darrell. This version is produced by Fremantle's Thames production company and premiered in February 2022 on E4.
References
External links
The Real Dirty Dancing on 7plus
Seven Network original programming
2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
Television series by Eureka
English-language television shows
Dance competition television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Piatko | Christine Diane Piatko is a computer scientist known for her heavily cited publications on k-means clustering, high-dynamic-range imaging, computer graphics, and document classification.
Piatko is a 1986 graduate of New York University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Geometric Bicriteria Optimal Path Problems, was supervised by Joseph S. B. Mitchell. She is an assistant research professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, and a research computer scientist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
New York University alumni
Cornell University alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
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Living people
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianzhuang | Qianzhuang () were local independent Chinese banks in the early modern period, as distinguished from the nation-wide bank networks headquartered in Shanxi province called the "Shanxi banks" (票號, piaohao). Also known by a variety of regional names, such as qiansi (錢肆), qianpu (錢鋪), yinhao (銀號), duihuan qianzhuang (兌換錢莊), qiandian (錢店), qianzhuo (錢桌), duidian (兌店), qianju (錢局), yinju (銀局), or yinpu (銀鋪) in Mandarin Chinese, and translated as money shops, native banks, private Chinese banks, or old-style banks in English, qianzhuang banks first sprung up during the Ming dynasty but greatly expanded during the Qing dynasty. Unlike the Shanxi banks, the qianzhuang tended to have much more risky business practices.
These institutions first appeared in the Yangzi Delta region, in Shanghai, Ningbo, and Shaoxing. The first qianzhuang can be traced to at least the mid-eighteenth century. In 1776, several of these banks in Shanghai organised themselves into the banking guild known as the Qianye Gongsuo. In contrast to piaohao, most qianzhuang were local and functioned as commercial banks by conducting local money exchange, issuing cash notes, exchanging bills and notes, and discounting for the local business community. Qianzhuang maintained close relationships with Chinese merchants, and grew with the expansion of China's foreign trade. When Western banks first entered China, they issued "chop loans" (彩票, caipiao) to the qianzhuang, who would then lend this money to Chinese merchants who used it to purchase goods from foreign firms. During the latter half of the 19th century the qianzhuang worked as intermediaries between Chinese merchants and foreign banks. Unlike the Shanxi banks the qianzhuang survived the fall of the Qing dynasty because of their close relationships with foreign banks. The qianzhuang have always been a true financial service provider for Chinese agribusiness and commercial households. The control of deposit and loan risk in the qianzhuang business model is a concentrated expression of the localisation advantages of qianzhuang.
It is estimated that there were around 10,000 qianzhuang in China in the early 1890s. There were several financial crashes which occurred in China during which a large number of qianzhuang closed, the largest of these occurred in the years 1883, 1910, and 1911. By and by the traditional qianzhuang banks were being replaced by modern credit banks in China, particularly those residing in Shanghai. This would continue to happen well into the Republican period. The last qianzhuang banks were nationalised in 1952 by the government of the People's Republic of China.
During the 1990s qianzhuang made a come back in mainland China, these new qianzhuang are informal financial companies which are often operating just within the edges of what is legal. The government attitude towards these new qianzhuang isn't that much different from their attitude in the 1950s.
Regional names for private banks in China
Qianzhuang had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N59%20highway | National Route 59 (N59) is a primary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Antipolo, Rizal to Cubao, Quezon City, Metro Manila.
Route description
N59 follows a route that runs from Antipolo to Cainta in Rizal, which then enters Metro Manila through Pasig then Marikina towards Quezon City. The highway connects most major regional centers on its route, and runs through different landscapes. The highway continues westward as N180 highway and eastward as N600 highway.
Sumulong Highway
N59 begins at Antipolo in Rizal at the endpoint of L. Sumulong Memorial Circle Road (N600) in front of Robinsons Place Antipolo. The highway passes through different key locations at Antipolo known for its scenic views of Metro Manila given its mountainous terrain. The roadway goes downward until it meets with Marikina-Infanta Highway at the Masinag Junction wherein the N59 route turns left.
Marikina–Infanta Highway
As soon as it turns left, the highway soon enters the Marikina–Infanta Highway (Marcos Highway) where it follows the LRT Line 2 from Masinag Junction, Antipolo, Rizal, where it begins on a straight route as it crosses over to Cainta. N59 then enters Metro Manila in Pasig and Marikina at the Felix Avenue and Gil Fernando Avenue intersection. N59 then crosses the Marikina River veering upwards in a curve towards its junction with A. Bonifacio Avenue. It then enters Quezon City before it terminates at C-5/Katipunan Avenue (N11) and Aurora Boulevard (N59) intersection. The LRT Line 2 utilizes the center island of Marikina-Infanta Highway on all segments of N59.
Aurora Boulevard
Entering Quezon City, N59 follows Aurora Boulevard which runs on a four to six-lane highway passing through intersections such as Anonas Street in Project 3, 20th Avenue in Project 4, and Araneta City streets in Cubao. It then terminates at its intersection with EDSA (N1/AH26) wherein it continues westward after the intersection as N180 highway but still as Aurora Boulevard. The LRT Line 2 utilizes the center island of Aurora Boulevard on all segments.
References
Roads in Rizal
Roads in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N180%20highway | National Route 180 (N180) is a secondary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Cubao, Quezon City to Ermita, Manila.
Route description
N180 follows a route that stars at Cubao in Quezon City, which then passes through the district of New Manila in Quezon City, the city of San Juan, Quezon City once again, and the districts of Santa Mesa, Sampaloc, Quiapo, San Miguel, and Ermita in Manila. The highway connects key locations on its route, and runs through the heart of Manila. The highway continues westward as Padre Burgos Avenue (N180) and eastward as a continuation of Aurora Boulevard (N59). The highway's section from EDSA in Quezon City to Recto Avenue/Mendiola Street in Manila forms part of Radial Road 6 (R-6), while the rest of the route up to Taft Avenue forms part of Circumferential Road 1 (C-1).
The LRT Line 2 runs on top of the route, utilizing the center island on most segments.
Aurora Boulevard
Starting in Cubao, N180 follows Aurora Boulevard which runs on a four lane highway primarily in New Manila passing through intersections such as Betty Go-Belmonte Street and Gilmore Avenue (N184). Then it briefly crosses to San Juan crossing through major crossings such as J. Ruiz street. It then terminates at its intersection with G. Araneta Avenue (N130) wherein it continues westward after the intersection as Magsaysay Boulevard (N180). LRT Line 2 runs on the center island through the entirety of this segment.
Magsaysay Boulevard
As it enters Santa Mesa and Sampaloc, Manila, N180 becomes Magsaysay Boulevard which runs on an eight lane highway passing through intersections such as Victorino Mapa Street (N141) and Pureza Street before it terminates at Lacson Avenue and Nagtahan Street (N140) at the Nagtahan Interchange. It then terminates at the Magsaysay Boulevard-Legarda Street Flyover at the interchange wherein it continues westward as Legarda Street (N180). LRT Line 2 runs on the center island almost through the entirety of this segment.
Legarda Street
As it crosses the Nagtahan Interchange, Legarda Street takes over the N180 designation which runs as a four-lane road passing through intersections such as Earnshaw Street and Recto Avenue (N145) before it terminates at Nepomuceno Street (N180) which briefly takes over the route. LRT Line 2 runs on the center island from Lacson Avenue to Earnshaw Street, after which it deviates by turning towards Recto Avenue westward.
Nepomuceno Street
N180 briefly becomes Nepomuceno Street until its junction with P. Casal Street which takes over the route.
P. Casal Street
From its intersection at Nepomuceno Street, P. Casal Street takes over the N180 designation until before it crosses the Pasig River as the Ayala Bridge.
Ayala Boulevard
Ayala Boulevard takes over N180 from Ayala Bridge to Taft Avenue (N170).
Finance Road
Finance Road is the last short segment of N180 starts from the Taft Avenue (N170) intersection until its western end at Padre Burgos Avenu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBAL | SCELBAL, short for SCientific ELementary BAsic Language, is a version of the BASIC programming language released in 1976 for the SCELBI and other early Intel 8008 and 8080-based microcomputers like the Mark-8. Later add-ons to the language included an extended math package and string handling. The original version required 8 kB of RAM, while the additions demanded at least 12 kB.
The language was published in book form, with introductory sections followed by flowcharts and then the 8008 assembler code. The book described ways to save more memory, turning off arrays for instance, and how the user could add their own new features to the language.
History
The primary author of SCELBAL is Mark Arnold, who was a high-school student in 1974 when the SCELBI was announced. Arnold was friends with professors at the University of Wyoming (UW), and through them had arranged to have an account on their Sigma 7 mainframe computer. The first version of what became SCELBAL was written for this machine. Later that year, he wrote an 8008 cross compiler on that platform.
Arnold entered UW in 1975 and contacted Nat Wadsworth, one of the founders of SCELBI, pitching the idea of a compiled version of BASIC for their new platform. This would be a multi-pass system that would save the intermediate versions on cassette tape. This would be very tedious to use but would produce programs that would run on the 4 kB 8H models of the system. Wadsworth favored an interpreter, which would require 8 kB, which would be available on the new 8B models of the system. The language used floating point routines published by Wadsworth in 1975 in Machine Language Programming for the 8008.
It took Wadsworth several months to finally arrange a contract, which included sending Arnold an 8B development system. This significantly delayed the release of the language into 1976. Arnold speculated that, lacking these delays, SCELBAL could have been released at about the same time as Altair BASIC in late 1975. It was first presented in a lengthy article in the second issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal in February 1976.
The release of SCLEBAL was announced in an advertisement in Byte's June 1976 issue. The ad did not specifically link the language to the SCELBI platform, instead, it simply offered itself in book form as a complete source listing to create a version of BASIC on any 8008 or 8080 system with the requisite 8 kB of RAM. The book's price was $49, about $ in .
Description
SCELBAL used a 32-bit (four byte) floating point format for numeric calculations, with a 23-bit mantissa, 1-bit sign for the mantissa, a 7-bit exponent, and 1-bit sign for the exponent. These were organized in reverse order, with the least significant byte of the mantissa in the first byte, followed by the middle and then most significant byte with the sign in the high bit. The exponent came last, again with the sign in the high bit. The manual provides well-documented assembly code for the entire math package, including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz%20Zgiep | Łukasz Sebastian Zgiep (; born July 9, 1988) is a Polish entrepreneur and consultant of the Blockchain-based business models. He is the chief operating officer of the equity crowdfunding platform Beesfund. Doctor of economics at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW).
Career
Zgiep has been an innovation management consultant, improving companies' efficiency of their business processes. He co-authored a report Economics of Cooperation in Poland 2016, and the annual summary The Polish Collaborative Economy Honeycomb, a matrix of companies that use innovative business models. He has been teaching on cooperation economy, business innovation, and crowdfunding.
Since 2018, Zgiep has been the Chief Operating Officer of the Polish equity crowdfunding platform Beesfund. He is a member of the Blockchain and New Technologies Chamber of Commerce, and the Blockchain and New Technologies Chamber of Commerce. He has been mentoring startups in acceleration programs around Poland, and consulting companies on the Blockchain-based sharing economy business models.
Recognition
In January 2017, Zgiep won a Polish Chamber of Commerce's competition “Digital Poland 2020+”, for the essay Collaborative Economy as an Opportunity for the Polish Economy During the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Publications
References
External links
Łukasz Zgiep's blog
1988 births
Polish business executives
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelorette%20%28Australian%20season%205%29 | The fifth season of The Bachelorette Australia premiered on Network 10 on Wednesday, 9 October 2019. The season features Angie Kent, a 29-year-old marketing and production assistant and former Gogglebox Australia star from Sydney, courting 21 men.
The first episode involved a twist with an undercover intruder, Angie's brother Brad Kent (under an anonymous name Mark), a personal trainer, entering the mansion to gain an insight into the other contestants.
Contestants
Three contestants, Ciarran, Timm and Jamie, were revealed by Network 10 on social media prior to the full cast being revealed.
The season began with 20 contestants which were revealed on 6 October 2019. In episode 3, Ryan entered the competition as an intruder, bringing the total number of contestants to 21.
Call-Out Order
Colour Key
The contestant received the first impression "yellow rose", having the opportunity to spend 24 hours alone with Kent on the first date.
The contestant received a rose during a date.
The contestant received a rose during the rose ceremony or outside of a date.
The contestant was eliminated outside the rose ceremony.
The contestant was eliminated during a date.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant quit the competition.
The contestant won the competition.
Notes
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate: 9 October 2019
Episode 2
Original airdate: 10 October 2019
Episode 3
Original airdate: 16 October 2019
Episode 4
Original airdate: 17 October 2019
Episode 5
Original airdate: 23 October 2019
Episode 6
Original airdate: 24 October 2019
Episode 7
Original airdate: 30 October 2019
Episode 8
Original airdate: 31 October 2019
Episode 9
Original airdate: 6 November 2019
Episode 10
Original airdate: 7 November 2019
Episode 11
Original airdate: 13 November 2019
Episode 12
Original airdate: 14 November 2019
Ratings
References
2019 Australian television seasons
Australian (season 05)
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Myrvold | Wendy Joanne Myrvold is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on graph algorithms, planarity testing, and algorithms in enumerative combinatorics. She is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Victoria.
Myrvold completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation, The Ally and Adversary Reconstruction Problems, was supervised by Charles Colbourn.
References
External links
Home page
Canadian women mathematicians
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Graph theorists
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Victoria
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20forest | Isolation Forest is an algorithm for data anomaly detection initially developed by Fei Tony Liu in 2008. Isolation Forest detects anomalies using binary trees. The algorithm has a linear time complexity and a low memory requirement, which works well with high-volume data.
In essence, the algorithm relies upon the characteristics of anomalies, i.e., being few and different, in order to detect anomalies. No density estimation is performed in the algorithm. The algorithm is different from decision tree algorithms in that only the path-length measure or approximation is being used to generate the anomaly score, no leaf node statistics on class distribution or target value is needed.
Isolation Forest is fast because it splits the data space randomly, using randomly selected attribute and randomly selected split point. The anomaly score is invertedly associated with the path-length as anomalies need fewer splits to be isolated, due to the fact that they are few and different.
History
The Isolation Forest (iForest) algorithm was initially proposed by Fei Tony Liu, Kai Ming Ting and Zhi-Hua Zhou in 2008. In 2010, an extension of the algorithm - SCiforest was developed to address clustered and axis-paralleled anomalies. In 2012 the same authors demonstrated that iForest has linear time complexity, a small memory requirement, and is applicable to high dimensional data.
Algorithm
The premise of the Isolation Forest algorithm is that anomalous data points are easier to separate from the rest of the sample. In order to isolate a data point, the algorithm recursively generates partitions on the sample by randomly selecting an attribute and then randomly selecting a split value between the minimum and maximum values allowed for that attribute.
An example of random partitioning in a 2D dataset of normally distributed points is given in Fig. 2 for a non-anomalous point and Fig. 3 for a point that's more likely to be an anomaly. It is apparent from the pictures how anomalies require fewer random partitions to be isolated, compared to normal points.
Recursive partitioning can be represented by a tree structure named Isolation Tree, while the number of partitions required to isolate a point can be interpreted as the length of the path, within the tree, to reach a terminating node starting from the root. For example, the path length of point in Fig. 2 is greater than the path length of in Fig. 3.
Let be a set of d-dimensional points and . An Isolation Tree (iTree) is defined as a data structure with the following properties:
for each node in the Tree, is either an external-node with no child, or an internal-node with one “test” and exactly two child nodes ( and )
a test at node consists of an attribute and a split value such that the test determines the traversal of a data point to either or .
In order to build an iTree, the algorithm recursively divides by randomly selecting an attribute and a split value , until either
the node has onl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Kaehler | Ted Kaehler (born 1950) is an American computer scientist known for his role in the development of several system methods. He is most noted for his contributions to the programming languages Smalltalk, Squeak, and Apple Computer's HyperCard system, and other technologies developed at Xerox PARC.
Background
Kaehler is a son of a mechanical engineer and grew up tinkering with mechanical toys. During the 1960s, he built a computer on his own following an article published in Scientific American. He went to Gunn High School, a public school in Palo Alto, California. He graduated in 1968. While in high school, Kaehler was accepted to a summer job at then named Fairchild Industries. During this work, he learned the programming language Fortran. During his high school days, he was introduced to his first computer, an IBM 1620, operated by the Palo Alto Unified School District. Kaehler then attended Stanford University to study physics, studied programming under Donald Knuth, learned the language APL, and met Dan Ingalls. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics in 1972. Later, Xerox began a pilot program with Gunn High School, loaning them a Xerox Alto.
Xerox PARC
Ingalls introduced Kaehler to PARC when he secured a contract with Xerox. They formed a team that included George White, who was already with the company working on speech recognition software. During his early years at PARC, he attended Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated with a Master of Science (MSc) in computer science in 1976. By the 1980s, he was reportedly demonstrating a virtual reality (VR) technology that involved a user in Maze War 3D game. This depiction successfully voiced a response in-world to another user in the real world. The development has been touted as the first avatar-centric reference to this kind of VR technology.
Kaehler was also documented as one of the researchers at PARC who briefed Steve Jobs about the company's three innovations: the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Xerox Alto computer, Smalltalk, and Ethernet network at PARC.
Smalltalk
Kaehler was part of a group led by Dr. Alan Kay who refined the concept of network computing through Smalltalk. This is a system that drew from John McCarthy's language LISP and from simulation programming language Simula, versions 1 and 67, which were developed by the Norwegian Computing Center. In Kay's account of Smalltalk's early development, he cited key milestones attributed to Kaehler. According to Kay, along with Ingalls, Dave Robson, and Diana Merry, for instance, Kaehler successfully implemented the Smalltalk-76 system from scratch within a period of seven months. It constituted 50 classes that composed 180 pages of source code. Kaehler was also credited for designing the virtual memory system named Object-Oriented Zoned Environment (OOZE). This system gave Smalltalk more speed, and the development of a system tracer used to clone Smalltalk-76 since the technology can write out new virtu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Dorsen | Annie Dorsen (born 1973) is an American theater director. She is the co-creator and director of the Broadway musical Passing Strange, and her work in "algorithmic theater" includes the plays Hello Hi There, A Piece of Work, and Yesterday Tomorrow. Dorsen has received an Alpert Award in the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Early life and education
Dorsen was born in 1973 in New York City to Harriette and Norman Dorsen. She has two sisters. She graduated with a BA degree from Yale University in 1996, and received an MFA degree from Yale School of Drama in 2000.
Career
In collaboration with Heidi Rodewald and Stew, Dorsen created and directed the rock musical Passing Strange, a semi-fictional story about Stew's life that was co-commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater. The show opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2007, and had its Broadway premiere at the Belasco Theatre in 2008. While Passing Strange was running on Broadway, Dorsen also created Democracy in America, an Off-Broadway satire of American politics and polling, in which anyone could pay a fee to add their own material to the script being performed.
Dorsen has collaborated with computer programmers to produce "algorithmic theater" in which custom algorithms process source material to generate live scripts and scores that are performed by chatbots and human actors.
Her first piece of "algorithmic theater" was Hello Hi There, in which chatbots use text from the Chomsky–Foucault debate, the works of William Shakespeare, the Bible, and YouTube comments to create unique dialogue for each performance. In the five-act play A Piece of Work, chatbots and a human actor perform a script created in real-time by processing the text of Hamlet. Yesterday Tomorrow, the final piece in Dorsen's trilogy of algorithmic performances, uses custom algorithms to produce a live score, performed by three singers, that transitions from the Beatles song "Yesterday" to the song "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie.
In 2017, Dorsen received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to support her play The Great Outdoors, in which audience members lie down inside an inflatable planetarium and listen to a human performer read recent Internet comments selected and processed by an algorithm. A year later, Dorsen received the Spalding Gray Award, which provided funds to produce her play The Slow Room. The play, a human performance of a fixed script assembled from virtual sex chat room messages, premiered later that year at Performance Space New York.
Recognition
Dorsen received one of the 2014 Alpert Awards in the Arts, which recognize the work of experimental artists by providing a US$75,000 prize to each recipient. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The following year she received a MacArthur Fellowship. She was one of six MacArthur fellows from New York City.
References
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
American theatre directors
American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20magnetic%20recording | Two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) is a technology introduced in 2017 in hard disk drives (HDD) used for computer data storage. Most of the world's data is recorded on HDDs, and there is continuous pressure on manufacturers to create greater data storage capacity in a given HDD form-factor and for a given cost. In an HDD, data is stored using magnetic recording on a rotating magnetic disk and is accessed through a write-head and read-head (or read-element). TDMR allows greater storage capacity by advantageously combining signals simultaneously from multiple read-back heads to enhance the recovery of one or more data-tracks. In this manner, data can be stored with higher areal-density on the disks thus providing higher capacity in each HDD. TDMR is a read-back technology and thus applies equally well to future recording (writing) technologies such as Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR).
Overview
The TDMR approach arose from a working group set up under INSIC to explore alternative future storage technologies. In the initial concept, the data-tracks were assumed to be very narrow tracks created by shingled recording and subject to considerable mutual interference. The read-heads were assumed to be each centered over a corresponding data-track and a joint detector would optimally recover data from several tracks simultaneously. The technique was viewed as akin to PRML in providing gains similar to and in addition to the gains from PRML but operating across the tracks rather than down the track. A relatively large body of subsequent work has explored this configuration primarily from the perspective of signal processing. However, the technical challenge of creating an array of closely spaced read-heads and the complexity of jointly detecting data simultaneously on several tracks are both considerable.
Implementations
In 2017, M. Fatih Erden announced at the TMRC conference that Seagate had been shipping HDDs with TDMR since earlier that year. This was followed by Western Digital in 2018 and Toshiba in 2019. These actual first implementations of TDMR are much simpler and very different to the scenario originally envisioned above. Current implementations recover only a single track using a read head with just two read-elements stacked one above the other (i.e. downtrack) and rely on the skew arising from the use of a rotary actuator to create some cross-track separation between the sensors. This TDMR approach is being applied to both Shingled (SMR) and conventional PMR HDDs. The gains achieved are quite modest (6 to 12%) but are expected to increase going forward as more complex schemes are implemented .
In concept, there is little change to the read electronics except that the equalizer that shapes the signal prior to detection now has two inputs and must be appropriately optimized. However, In practice, there is significant added complexity in the read electronics and in the setu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxia%20SM | Galaxia SM (; stylized as galaxiaSM) is a South Korean sports marketing and management company under Trinity Asset Management and SM Entertainment with advertising, broadcast programming, content creation, digital marketing, event management, and production business.
History
Established in November 2004, the company specialized in sports marketing, channels, content, and publishing rights and was listed on the KOSPI market in October 2006. The largest shareholder is Trinity Asset Management, an affiliate of the Hyosung Group, with a 22.4% stake in the company and a 37.1% stake, including affiliated parties.
On August 25, 2015, IB Worldwide, and entertainment company SM Entertainment signed a partnership through mutual investment. IB Worldwide announced through the board of directors on the same day that it had decided to raise 11.5 billion won from SM and 8.9 billion won from affiliates of Hyosung Group and changed the company name to Galaxia SM. SM also announced a third-party capital increase of 6.5 billion won for IB Worldwide, marking the first business partnership in South Korea between a sports and entertainment company. Shim Woo-taek revealed that the two companies combined will be able to develop a variety of content and contribute to the national interest by expanding their scope to the global market. Kim Young-min stated that the partnership would be trying to pioneer a global market with a new marketing and business model through the combination of sports and entertainment. The two companies are also expecting various synergies from this strategic alliance by developing sportainment broadcasting content, merchandising businesses, body management system development, and digital marketing business through a multi-channel network (MCN).
People
Galaxia SM supports the sponsorship contracts of the athletes and is in charge of advertising and other management. All information listed is adapted from the company's players page and content page of its official website.
Athletes
Creators
DocSwing Kim Jun-nyeon
EvaYoga
Jopro's Just Turn
Kim Myung-seop's Fitness Class
Long-legged Lina
ManUTube
Muscular Rich Arnold Hong
The Point of Swimming
Water Tank
WinterPapa
Working Out Dave
Yang Löw
Association partners
All sports governing bodies listed are adapted from Galaxia SM's sports marketing page of its official website.
Korea Basketball Association
Badminton Korea Association
Korea Volleyball Association
Korea Skating Union
Daejeon Hana Citizen
References
External links
SM Entertainment subsidiaries
Hyosung
South Korean companies established in 2004
Sports management companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranaditya%20Satya | Rāṇāditya Satya (formerly read Raṇa Datasatya on his coins), was a ruler in the area of Sindh, modern-day Pakistan, in the 5-6th centuries CE, probably circa 480 CE. The name "Rāṇāditya" is otherwise known, and it appears in several parts of the Rajatarangini.
His coins employ a sun symbol together with the portrait of the ruler, and have on the reverse a fire altar of the type seen on Sasanian coinage, in which the traditional attendants of Sasanian coinage are replaced by a legend in Brahmi script. The legend in Brahmi reads Rāṇāditya Satya.
The coins of Rāṇāditya Satya are considered as modelled on the coins of Peroz I, particularly from the portrait type.
These coins are the latest known of the series of Sasanian-type "coinage of Sindh", which were minted in the area of Sindh in modern Pakistan, from Multan to the mouth of the Indus river, on the model the coinage of Sasanian Empire rulers Shapur II down to Peroz I, and are covering approximately the period from 325 to 480 CE. Sasanian rulers from the reign of Shapur I did claim control of the Sindh area in their inscriptions. Shapur I installed his son Narseh as "King of the Sakas" in the areas of Eastern Iran as far as Sindh.
These coins are often attributed to the Hephthalite Huns, whose Alchon Huns tribe invaded India in the 5th century. According to R.C. Senior, Hunnic characteristics only appear on the later phases of the Sasanian coinage of Sindh, with the apparition of Hunnic Tamghas on the coinage, corresponding to the period when the Hephthalites took over Sasanian rule in India. The Sasanians may have been forced to cede the area of Sasanian Sindh to Hunnic tribes.
This type of coinage disappeared with the Arab conquest of Sindh, in the 8th century CE.
Ranaditya Satya is now often considered as the first ruler of the Rai dynasty of Sindh. He has been tentatively identified with the ruler named Rai Diwaji (Devaditya) in Arab sources, and may have ruled circa 524 CE.
References
Hephthalites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXCG | DXCG (102.3 FM) The Last Days Radio is a radio station owned by Prime Broadcasting Network and operated by the Last Days Ministries. Its studios and transmitter are located at Purok Waling Waling, Brgy. Visayan Village, Tagum.
The station was formerly known as Prime Gospel Radio under Yeshua Victorious Discipler's Team from its inception in 2018 to 2020. Back then, it was located along J. Abad Santos St.
References
Philippine FM Stations 2022
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External links
DXCG Facebook Page
Radio stations in Davao del Norte
Christian radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20Boxing%20Archive%20Network | Women Boxing Archive Network (also known as WBAN) is an American-based women’s boxing website. The website reports women's boxing news, archives women's boxing history, publishes women's boxing results, creates their own women's boxing world ranking and profiles women boxers. The website was founded and is owned by former professional boxer (ranked number 1 in the world in 1979) Sue Fox; it began in May 1998.
History
In 2013, WBAN started planning for the inaugural International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. Their primary mission is to "call honorary attention to those professional female boxers (now retired) along with men and women whose contributions to the sport and its athletes, from outside the ring, have been instrumental in growing female boxing." The first induction took place in 2014 and since then it has occurred annually.
WBAN World Champions
Similar to the magazine The Ring, WBAN has created their own lineal world champions. It was designed to recognize the "best of the best" of boxing championship title holders. WBAN does not act as a sanctioning body, or has sanctioning fees. The only thing that is paid by the promoter is the belt to be made. WBAN uses BoxRec as their preferred rankings website, as the belt is only contested between boxers that are ranked 1st and 2nd. The title was first contested on June 13, 2008, on a televised PPV Event called "Finally", in Isleta Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico between Holly Holm and Mary Jo Sanders. Holms took the title home with a 10-round Unanimous Decision win.
Current WBAN world champions
List of WBAN world champions
Super bantamweight
Featherweight
Super Featherweight
Lightweight
Super Lightweight
Welterweight
Super Welterweight
Super Middleweight
References
External links
Boxing websites
Women's boxing
Archives in the United States
American women's websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching-Lai%20Sheng | Dr Sheng Ching-lai or Sheng Qinglai (July 20, 1919 June 23, 2018) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He served at the president of the National Chiao Tung University from 1972 to 1978.
Career
In 1941, Sheng graduated from the National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai with a B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. From 1941 to 1945, he worked as a civil servant in the province of Sichuan, where the wartime capital Chongqing was situated.
After the war he studied at the University of Edinburgh. He earned a doctorate from the university in 1948. Through high career he taught at the National Taiwan University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Windsor, and the Tamkang University. He also served as the dean of the National Chiao Tung University College of Engineering. He also served as the president of the university from 1972 to 1978, where he planned the expansion of the campus.
Sheng wrote extensively on utilitarianism, and developed a "unified utilitarian theory", described as "a decision-theoretical model of value that approximates the moral mathematics of Jeremy Bentham."
Sheng died on June 23, 2018.
References
1919 births
2018 deaths
Academic staff of Tamkang University
National Chiao Tung University alumni
Academic staff of the National Chiao Tung University
Utilitarians
Chinese expatriates in the United Kingdom
Chinese emigrants to Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesate%20railway%20station | Cesate railway station is a railway station in Italy. It serves the town of Cesate.
Services
Cesate is served by lines S1 and S3 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway network
References
External links
Ferrovienord official site - Garbagnate Milanese railway station
Railway stations in Lombardy
Ferrovienord stations
Railway stations opened in 1955
Milan S Lines stations
1955 establishments in Italy
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1950s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20Transient%20Analyzer%20Program | Electrical Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP) is an electrical network modeling and simulation software tool used by power systems engineers to create an "electrical digital twin" and analyze electrical power system dynamics, transients and protection.
Dr. Farrokh Shokooh is the founder of ETAP. While Dr. Shokooh worked at Fluor Corporation he was made in charge of selecting electrical engineering software. Realizing a lack of comprehensive, efficient and intelligent power system analysis software, the vision of Electrical Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP) was born. Dr. Shokooh left Fluor Corporation to develop ETAP and founded Operation Technology, Inc (OTI) in 1986. OTI dba ETAP is an ISO 9001-certified electrical power system design and automation software company headquartered in Irvine, California, with international offices in India, UAE, KSA, Brazil, Mexico, France, UK, Malaysia and China.
Schneider Electric took controlling stake in ETAP on November 16, 2020, to spearhead smart and green electrification. The current CEO of ETAP is Tanuj Khandelwal who previously held the role of CTO and has been employed at ETAP for over 20 years.
ETAP was developed for utilization on MS-DOS operating system and intended for commercial and nuclear power system analysis and system operations.
Power system simulation requires an electrical digital twin consisting of a power system network model that includes system connectivity, topology, electrical device characteristics, historical system response and real-time operations data in order to make offline or online decisions. ETAP power engineering software utilizes an electrical digital twin in order for electrical engineers and operators to perform following studies in offline or online mode.
References
Simulation software
Electric power distribution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Staddon | Jessica Nicola Staddon is an American computer scientist with broad research interests that include cryptography, human–computer interaction, information visualization, coding theory, and information privacy. She is a research scientist at Google, and an adjunct professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.
Education and career
Staddon earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, A Combinational Study of Communication, Storage and Traceability in Broadcast Encryption Systems, was supervised by Leo Harrington.
Her interests in computer science broadened through successive moves to RSA Security (1997–1999), Bell Labs (1999–2001), PARC (2001–2010), and Google, where she began working in 2010. She returned to academia as an associate professor at North Carolina State University in 2015, but later returned to Google.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Scientists at PARC (company)
Google employees
North Carolina State University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20J.%20Kiviat | Philip J. Kiviat (born October 15, 1937) is noted, along with Alan Pritsker, for half a century of work on computer simulation.
Biography
Kiviat studied at Cornell University from 1955-1961. While working from 1961-1963 for U.S. Steel Corporation he pioneered the development of the original GASP software, which was later enhanced by Alan Pritsker to form GASP II. After moving to RAND Corporation in 1964, Kiviat worked with Harry Markowitz to produce SIMSCRIPT II.
His subsequent work at the 1972-founded Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) earned him recognition as "the simulation czar of the federal government."
He is also known for the eponymous Kiviat Graph (also identified as a Kiviat diagram, Kiviat chart, Polar chart or Radar chart).
View of the future
In a 2013 interview about the future of simulation software in the hands of non-professionals, he said "I saw above the door to the MIT simulation lab back in the early 1960s which was SINSFIT - Simulation is No Substitute For Intelligent Thinking."
Following years with FEDSIM, Kiviat went "into management and selling."
References
1937 births
Living people
External links
Guide to the Philip J. Kiviat Papers 1962-2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Island%20Australia%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Love Island Australia premiered on the Nine Network and 9Now on Monday, 7 October 2019 presented by Sophie Monk and narrated by Eoghan McDermott.
Format
Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders (in the show) living in isolation from the outside world in a villa in Fiji, constantly under video surveillance. To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship or money, as the overall winning couple receives $50,000. On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series, they are forced to "re-couple" where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap and change.
Any Islander who remains single after the coupling is eliminated and dumped from the island. Islanders can also be eliminated via public vote, as during the series the public vote through the Love Island app available on smartphones for their favourite couple, or who they think is the most compatible. Couples who receive the fewest votes risk being eliminated. Often a twist has occurred where it has been up to the Islanders to vote one of their own off the island. During the final week, the public vote for which couple they want to win the series and therefore take home $50,000. The winners can pick between share the money ($25,000 each) or take it all depending on an envelope they open as seen in love island Australia series 1.
Islanders
The first Islanders were announced on 29 September 2019, one week before the premiere episode.
Coupling and elimination history
Notes
Series details
Weekly summary
The main events in the Love Island villa are summarised in the table below.
Australia’s Vote
Throughout the series, Australia was given the opportunity to vote to affect the islanders. This included voting for islanders to go on a date, voting to save or dump islanders from the island, and ultimately for the winner of Love Island Australia.
Ratings
Ratings
Notes
References
Nine Network original programming
2019 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Fiji
Television shows set in Fiji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatar%20Deul | Jatar Deul is located in district South 24 Parganas of the Indian state West Bengal. This is a brick temple and is datable to c. 10th -11th century AD on the basis of its architecture. However, this type of brick temple we can see at Nebia Khera, Uttar Pradesh.
Geography
Location
The Jatar-Deul stands isolated on a small hill in the surroundings of the locality Kanakan Dighi, about 5 km east of the small town of Raidighi in the Mathurapur II community development block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the district of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
History
The temple is known by the name of "Jatar Deul ". This brick temple is traditionally connected with an inscription (not traceable now) of one Raja Jayantachandra, purported to have been issued in 975 AD. It was probably dedicated to Mahadev or Siva, who also goes by the name of Jatadhari. The Archaeological Department board at the temple site places establishment around 11th century. However there was no deity inside the temple. The discovery of Jatar Deul dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century, when land surveyors stumbled upon a towering brick structure in the midst of the Sundarban.
Consecration
What purpose it served is now a matter of conjecture.There is neither a cult nor any other sculptural or inscriptional evidence available, it is also the consecration of the temple is unclear – some believe it was originally for a Buddhist structure; others see it as a building in honor of the Hindu God Shiva (Mahadev).
Architecture
It towers nearly 100 ft. above the plain. The entrance which is on the east is 9.5 ft. wide and is spanned by a pointed arch. The inside is about 10 ft. square and the walls are about 10 ft. thick. No plinth is visible and the floor is some six feet below the ground, and is reached by a flight of steps.
According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal Jatar Deul is an ASI listed monument.
References
External links
Jatar-Deul – photos + Infos (English)
Jatar-Deul-floor plan, photo + short info (ASI, English)
Jatar-Deul – Satellite photo + Infos (English)
Kankandighi und Jatar-Deul – Satellite photo
Shiva temples
Hindu temples in West Bengal
Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal
Tourist attractions in South 24 Parganas district
Hindu temples in South 24 Parganas district
11th-century Hindu temples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Wunsch | Donald C. Wunsch II is Mary K. Finley Distinguished Professor of computer engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers He is known for his work on " hardware implementations, reinforcement and unsupervised learning".
Education
Wunsch obtained a B.S. in Applied mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1984, a M.S. in Applied mathematics from the University of Washington in 1987, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, also from the University of Washington in 1991 with a thesis "An optoelectronic learning machine". Later, in 2006, he obtained an Executive MBA from the Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business.
Career
From 1984 to 1993 he worked for Boeing, rising to the level of Senior Principal Scientist. In 1993 he joined Texas Tech University, as assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. In 1998, he was promoted to associate professor.
In 1999, he left Texas for the Missoouri University of Science and Technology, becoming Mary K. Finley Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with courtesy appointments in the departments of System Engineering, Computer Science, and Business Administration.
Publications
He is author or coauthor of:
Lei Meng, Ah-Hwee Tan, and Donald C. Wunsch II, Adaptive Resonance Theory in Social Media Data Clustering, Springer-Verlag, 2019.
Baydyk, T., Kussul, E., & Wunsch, D. C. (2019). Intelligent automation in renewable energy. Springer, 2019
Khalid Al-Jabery, Gayla Olbricht, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi and Donald C. Wunsch II, Computational Learning Approaches to Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications, Elsevier, 2019.
J. Sieffertt and D.C. Wunsch, Unified Computational Intelligence for Complex Systems: Studies in Neural, Economic and Social Dynamics. Springer-Verlag, 2010.
E. Kussul, T. Baidyk, and D.C. Wunsch II, Neural Networks in Micromechanics, Springer-Verlag, 2010.
R. Xu and D.C. Wunsch II, Clustering. IEEE Press / Wiley, 2009.
Gorban, Alexander N., Balázs Kégl, Donald C. Wunsch, and Andrei Y. Zinovyev. 2008. Principal Manifolds for Data Visualization and Dimension Reduction. Springer 2008
The most highly cited of his papers, according to Google Scholar, are
Prokhorov, D.V. and Wunsch, D.C., 1997. Adaptive critic designs. IEEE transactions on Neural Networks, 8(5), pp. 997–1007. (cited 1182 times)
Saad, Emad W., Danil V. Prokhorov, and Donald C. Wunsch. "Comparative study of stock trend prediction using time delay, recurrent and probabilistic neural networks." IEEE Transactions on neural networks 9.6 (1998): 1456–1470. (cited 578times)
Li, Shuhui, Donald C. Wunsch, Edgar A. O'Hair, and Michael G. Giesselmann. "Using neural networks to estimate wind turbine power generation." IEEE Transactions on energy conversion 16, no. 3 (2001): 276–282. (cited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia%20Code | Cascadia Code is a purpose-built monospaced TrueType font for Windows Terminal, the new command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
It includes programming ligatures and was designed to enhance the look and feel of Windows Terminal, terminal applications and text editors such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The font is open source under the SIL Open Font License and available on GitHub. It has been bundled with Windows Terminal since version 0.5.2762.0.
Cascadia Code includes box drawing glyphs.
Font family
Multiple typefaces are part of the Cascadia Code font family, representing a variety of text styling options and adjustable weights. The main and Powerline variants of the types are suitable as display fonts. With the exception of Cascadia Mono, all types replace common character combinations with their elided counterparts. Other styles supported by this font family include textual arrows and stylistic sets for italics, alternate graphics, alternate control character glyphs, and a cursive form of italic. Tables of the supported styles and more examples can be viewed in the GitHub README document.
Cascadia Code - Variable type intended for terminals and displayed text.
Cascadia Code PL - A version of Cascadia Code with embedded Powerline symbols.
Cascadia Mono - Monospaced type intended for use with text editors. It preserves characters as entered, without ligatures.
Cascadia Mono PL - A version of Cascadia Mono with embedded Powerline symbols.
In addition to the prevalent TTF variable format, these sets are available also in other formats. See the GitHub README for details.
See also
Consolas
Fixedsys
List of monospaced typefaces
References
Monospaced typefaces
Open-source_typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Belcher | Marta Francesca Belcher is an American technology attorney who has been called a pioneer in the area of blockchain law.
Early life and education
Belcher was born in Pasadena, California and grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
Belcher received a B.A. in rhetoric, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
During college and law school, she served as the executive director of No Worries Now, a national nonprofit, for which she received numerous awards, including being named Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day.
At Stanford Law School, Belcher and two other students delivered a crowdsourced commencement speech written using an online wiki.
Career
Belcher serves as general counsel of Protocol Labs, chair of the Filecoin Foundation, and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She was previously an attorney focusing on blockchain and emerging technologies at Ropes & Gray in San Francisco.
She has spoken about blockchain law around the world, including presenting three times in Davos during the World Economic Forum, testifying before the New York State Senate, and speaking in European Parliament, the OECD, the Horasis Global Meeting, and United States Congress.
Belcher serves as general counsel for one of the largest cryptocurrency projects, defended one of the first patent litigations against a blockchain company, and was recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards in 2018 for her pioneering work on the first blockchain-transferable software license and in 2019 for her work on the Protocol Labs Permissive License Stack. She also represents major blockchain industry groups and civil liberties organizations—including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Blockchain Association—in matters relating to blockchain and public policy.
Belcher has also represented public interest organizations in high-profile matters involving technology and civil liberties, including submitting briefs on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy and Technology, Open Technology Institute, National Consumers League, and Cato Institute in the United States courts of appeals and Supreme Court of the United States.
Belcher received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization's Web3 Pioneer Award at the United Nations in 2022, celebrating her as a trailblazer and innovator in her field. The prestigious award, also recognized by the US Congress, highlights women entrepreneurs and the meaningful impact they are having on the world
References
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Stanford Law School alumni
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21st-century American lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Suk-joong | Kim Suk Joong (died June 2014) was a South Korean military officer and whistleblower. He claimed that the Republic of Korea Army Cyber Command's meddled in the 2013 election.
Whistleblower
Kim was in charge of making composite pictures and videos in a cyber history psychological warfare unit. His work is believed to have been aimed at opposition politicians or cultural and artistic figures who were critical of the government. The Defense Ministry launched an investigation in 2013. Cyber history psychological warfare agents tried to destroy evidence by erasing computer hard disks, but sensitive information such as reports from Cheong Wa Dae (home of the President), was left intact on the computers that Kim submitted to investigation. The ministry announced that it had found no internal and external instructions on intervention in the election. Kim Ki-hyun, former head of the cyber history psychological warfare unit, said that Kim told him that he would "make a declaration of his conscience at an appropriate time". He died about 15 days after saying that.
Death
Kim was assigned to Daegu military hospital, which has nothing to do with intelligence work, after he was reported as a whistleblower," said Kim Jin-pyo, a lawmaker of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea. "He died in a car accident while walking. We should also thoroughly investigate this as well."
"If we look at the data of the 2017 findings, the details are the exact opposite," Kim said. "At that time, Baek Nak-jong, the head of the Defense Ministry's investigation division, asked whether he could cover up suspicions alone, and whether he was willing to thoroughly investigate former Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin." Defense Minister Song Young-moo said, "The order is not subject to any scope of investigation." Seo Young-kyo of the same party said, "The NIS chief, identified only by his surname Lim, died when there was a cyber problem, and when there was a military cyber problem, Kim Suk Joong was killed in a car accident". "The military should thoroughly investigate and sternly punish those who died while trying to save Korea by declaring their conscience at the time so that there was no unfair death," Song said. "We will completely overhaul the military's cyber history."
References
South Korean whistleblowers
Year of birth missing
2014 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decauville%20railway%20Nar%C3%A8s%E2%80%93Inglis%E2%80%93Top%C3%A7in%E2%80%93Vatiluk | The Decauville railway Narès–Inglis–Topçin–Vatiluk was around 1916 a long narrow-gauge military railway near Thessaloniki in Greece with a gauge of
Route
The long semicircular narrow gauge network with a track gauge of from Narès (now Nea Filadelfeia, Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια) via Bumardza (now Bougaríevo, Μπουγαρίεβο), Sari-Omer (Σαρή Ομέρ), Inglis (now Anchialos, Αγχίαλος) and Topçin (now Gefyra, Γέφυρα) to Vatiluk (now Vathylakkos, Βαθύλακκος).
References
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Rail transport in Greece
Railway lines opened in 1916
600 mm gauge railways in Greece
Decauville |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain%20as%20a%20service | Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) allows businesses to use cloud-based solutions to build, host and use their own blockchain apps, smart contracts and functions on the blockchain infrastructure developed by a vendor. Just like the growing trend of using Software-as-a-service (SaaS) where access to the software is provided on a subscription basis, BaaS provides a business with access to a blockchain network of its desired configuration without the business having to develop their own Blockchain and build in-house expertise on the subject.
Many major cloud services providers now provide Blockchain-as-a-Service, including IBM, SalesForce, Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba, Oracle and Baidu to name a few.
References
As a service
Cloud applications
Software delivery methods
Software distribution
Software industry
Blockchains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphant%20Hearts | Triumphant Hearts is an album by American musician Jason Becker. Though paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Becker is able to compose new material with a computer-assisted system. In October 2016, Becker launched a campaign to fund the album, which was initially estimated for release in July 2017. The campaign raised more than $100,000. The album was released on December 7, 2018.
The album has many guest appearances, including guitarists Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani, Jeff Loomis, Richie Kotzen, Gus G., Greg Howe, Steve Morse, Paul Gilbert and Steve Vai.
Track listing
"Triumphant Heart" (feat. Marty Friedman, Glauco Bertagnin & Hiyori Okuda) - 4:08
"Hold On To Love" (feat. Codany Holiday) - 7:26
"Fantasy Weaver" (feat. Jake Shimabukuro) - 5:07
"Once Upon A Melody" - 6:45
"We Are One" (feat. Steve Knight) - 5:50
"Magic Woman" (feat. Uli Jon Roth & Chris Broderick) - 7:07
"Blowin’ in the Wind" (Gary Rosenberg & Jason Becker) - 4:57
"River of Longing" (feat. Joe Satriani, Aleks Sever, Guthrie Govan, Steve Morse) 5:49
"Valley of Fire" (feat. Michael Lee Firkins, Steve Vai, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Gilbert, Neal Schon, Mattias IA Eklundh, Marty Friedman, Greg Howe, Jeff Loomis, Richie Kotzen, Gus G., Steve Hunter, Ben Woods) - 9:04
"River of Longing" (feat. Trevor Rabin) - 5:53
"Taking Me Back" - 4:23
"Tell Me No Lies" - 4:20
"Hold On To Love" (feat. Codany Holiday) [Chuck Zwicky Remix] - 5:56
"You Do It" - 0:54
References
Jason Becker albums
2018 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Northern%20Railway%20in%20Yorkshire | The Great Northern Railway developed an extensive network over time, having started in 1846 with the intention of connecting London and York, as well as other major Yorkshire towns. The Great Northern Railway in Yorkshire was a major part of that, although the GNR did not succeed in reaching York as it originally intended. By acquiring running powers it reached Leeds, Bradford and Halifax over other companies' lines, as well as Barnsley Sheffield and Grimsby, and then York too. After acquiring local companies it developed a network, chiefly in West Yorkshire. Later it built lines north and west of Bradford into hilly terrain, and these were very expensive to build, and never repaid the initial cost.
Carrying coal to the southern counties was its primary business: huge volumes were conveyed; however fast passenger express trains memorably caught the public imagination. Passenger express operation within West Yorkshire was important too, especially as residential travel developed. The St Leger race meetings at Doncaster attracted huge volumes of excursions, 1,149 excursion trains over four days in 1888. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the earlier raw competition softened, and some co-operation with other major companies became possible, especially with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
The Great Northern Railway was a constituent of the London and North Eastern Railway from the Grouping of the railways in 1923, and the LNER itself formed part of the nationally owned British Railways from 1948. As mineral extraction declined in the areas originally served, the fortunes of many branch lines declined too, and in the 1960s many lines closed. Many of the former GNR lines were closed, and the remaining GNR Yorkshire routes are Doncaster to Shaftholme Junction (towards York), Doncaster to Leeds, and Leeds to Bradford via New Pudsey.
Authorisation of the Great Northern Railway
The Great Northern Railway got its authorising Act of Parliament on 26 June 1846. It was a huge project: its authorised share capital was £5.6 million. At first it had named itself the London and York Railway, and York was to be its northern destination. There were to be branch lines to Sheffield and Leeds. However, Parliament reduced the scope of the project, and the Sheffield and Wakefield branches were removed from the scheme; the name was changed to the Great Northern Railway. The authorised network was therefore to be a main line to York: 186 miles, and a loop line from Peterborough to Bawtry via Boston and Lincoln: 86 miles; in addition there were some short branches in the south.
The directors were elated to have received authorisation for their line after a considerable Parliamentary struggle, but were dismayed to have lost the Yorkshire branches, which they considered commercially important. They set about securing alternative means of serving the lost areas.
Wrottesley elaborates:
The GN itself failed to gain independent access to Leeds only because of an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi%20Thornquist | Heidi Krista Thornquist is an American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories known for her work on the Trilinos system of software for scientific computing. Her research interests include numerical linear algebra and electronic circuit simulation.
Thornquist majored in mathematics at Humboldt State University, graduating summa cum laude in 1998. She became a doctoral student of Danny C. Sorensen in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2006. Her dissertation was Fixed-Polynomial Approximate Spectral Transformations for Preconditioning the Eigenvalue Problem. She began working at Sandia in 2003, while she was still at Rice, and remained there after completing her doctorate.
Thornquist is the lead developer of three packages within the Trilinos system: Anasazi, for computing eigenvalues, Belos, for solving systems of linear equations, and Teuchos, a suite of utilities and wrappers.
References
External links
Home page
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt alumni
Sandia National Laboratories people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20L.%20Collins | Karen Linda Collins is an American mathematician at Wesleyan University, where she is the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Professor of Integrative Sciences. The main topics in her research are combinatorics and graph theory.
Collins graduated from Smith College in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Distance Matrices of Graphs, was supervised by Richard P. Stanley. In the same year, she joined the Wesleyan faculty.
She was given the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professorship in 2017.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Graph theorists
Smith College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Wesleyan University faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Airflow | Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines. It started at Airbnb in October 2014 as a solution to manage the company's increasingly complex workflows. Creating Airflow allowed Airbnb to programmatically author and schedule their workflows and monitor them via the built-in Airflow user interface. From the beginning, the project was made open source, becoming an Apache Incubator project in March 2016 and a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in January 2019.
Airflow is written in Python, and workflows are created via Python scripts. Airflow is designed under the principle of "configuration as code". While other "configuration as code" workflow platforms exist using markup languages like XML, using Python allows developers to import libraries and classes to help them create their workflows.
Overview
Airflow uses directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to manage workflow orchestration. Tasks and dependencies are defined in Python and then Airflow manages the scheduling and execution. DAGs can be run either on a defined schedule (e.g. hourly or daily) or based on external event triggers (e.g. a file appearing in Hive). Previous DAG-based schedulers like Oozie and Azkaban tended to rely on multiple configuration files and file system trees to create a DAG, whereas in Airflow, DAGs can often be written in one Python file.
Managed providers
Three notable providers offer ancillary services around the core open source project. Astronomer has built a SaaS tool and Kubernetes-deployable Airflow stack that assists with monitoring, alerting, devops, and cluster management. Cloud Composer is a managed version of Airflow that runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and integrates well with other GCP services. Starting from November 2020, Amazon Web Services offers Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow.
References
External links
Airflow
Big data products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Virtual%20Desktop | Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), is a Microsoft Azure-based system for virtualizing its Windows operating systems, providing virtualized desktops and applications securely in the cloud (over the Internet). It is aimed at enterprise customers rather than at individual users.
WVD was first announced by Microsoft in September 2018, available as a public preview in March 2019, and generally available at the end of September 2019.
Azure Virtual Desktop with Windows 10/11 Enterprise Multi-Session is a cloud-based alternative to an on-premise Remote Desktop Server (RDS). AVD is deployed in Azure Cloud as a virtual machine. License costs are already included in several Microsoft 365 subscriptions, including Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Microsoft 365 E3.
Availability / compatibility
Azure Virtual Desktop supports Windows 10/11 multi-session, Windows 10/11 single-session, Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer operating systems.
See also
Windows 365
Remote Desktop Services
Windows Virtual PC
References
External links
Centralized computing
Remote desktop
Thin clients
Microsoft cloud services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info%20Myanmar%20University | Info Myanmar University (; abbreviated IMU) is a private university in Yangon, Myanmar. Info Myanmar College (IMC), the computing arm of IMCS Co., Ltd. which achieved the success in the International ICT courses and vocational trainings since 2007, was established in 2014 with the strong commitment to firmly pillar the educational requirements of the age of knowledge-based society through transforming digital economy in Myanmar. IMC was promoted to Info Myanmar University (IMU) in 2019. IMU offers the Higher National Certificate In Computing, Higher National Diploma In Computing and B.Sc(Hons) in Computing programs in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University since 2017.
History
IMCS was founded by Daw Nu Nu Thant in 2007 as a vocational training center. And then in 2014, as the computing arm of IMCS Co., Ltd., IMC was established as a Pearson Accredited Center. In 2019, IMC was promoted to IMU (Info Myanmar University). In 2017, IMC was partnered with a government University of United Kingdom, Edinburgh Napier University. Info Myanmar University, IMU, currently offers B.Sc (Hons) in Computing, M.Sc ( Advanced Security & Digital Forensics) Programs in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
Campuses
The University is based at its main campuses near Pyay Rd, Kamayut Township, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).
External links
IMU Official Website
References
Universities and colleges in Yangon
Universities and colleges in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge%20Koch%20%28statistician%29 | Inge Koch is an Australian statistician, author, and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics. Koch is the author of Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data (2013), and is a Professor in Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Previously, she has worked as an associate professor at University of Adelaide and taught statistics at the University of New South Wales.
From 2015 to 2019, she was the Executive Director of Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)’s Choose Maths Program, encouraging girls and young women to participate in mathematics. In 2004, she cofounded the Girls Do the Maths movement at the University of New South Wales.
Koch completed her PhD in Statistics at the Australian National University in 1991. Her dissertation, Theoretical Problems in Image Analysis, was supervised by Peter Gavin Hall. She completed an MSc at the University of Oxford, and her M.Phil. at the University of London.
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Living people
Australian statisticians
Women statisticians
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20technique | Memory technique may refer to:
In psychology and cognitive sciences
Art of memory
Memory improvement techniques
Mnemonics
In computer science
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCB%20reverse%20engineering | Reverse engineering of Printed circuit boards (sometimes called “cloning”, or PCB RE) is the process of generating fabrication and design data for an existing circuit board, either closely or exactly replicating its functionality.
Obtaining circuit board design data is not by necessity malicious or aimed at intellectual property theft. The data generated in the reverse engineering process can be used for troubleshooting, repair, redesign and re-manufacturing, or even testing the security of a device to be used in a restricted environment.
Uses
Legacy product support
Legacy systems need maintenance and replacement parts to operate past their intended life cycle. Demand for parts that are no longer being manufactured can lead to material shortages of parts, called DMS/DMSMS.
There is much demand that entire government divisions have been created to regulate and plan the obsolescence of those systems and parts. Areas commonly affected by technical obsolescence include power station controls, ATC and aviation controls, medical imaging systems, and many aspects of military technology.
There are many legacy systems developed in the 70s, 80s or 90s whose original manufacturer is no longer in business or no longer has the original design data, but whose original equipment is still in use. In many cases exact Form, fit and function is required, either that so parts can “handshake” properly with the existing framework, or to avoid requirements of time-consuming and costly testing.
For industries with highly regulated electronics, (like military or aerospace) this approach can vastly reduce the time required to fabricate replacement parts for system repairs, since the new part's specifications match the original design exactly and therefore do not need to undergo the same level of rigorous re-certification and testing that would be required of a newly designed or revised circuit board.
For example, a power company in Florida was forced to shut down due to the failure of a single, inexpensive PCB, which had no replacement parts and no data available to print them. The failure occurred during peak usage hours, and a power outage at that time can cost a power company thousands of dollars per hour.
An engineering firm successfully reverse engineered the PCB to generate an exact copy of the PCB using the destructive imaging and milling process, and the power station was subsequently able to resume normal operation.
Benchmarking
The process can be used to provide important benchmarking information about newly acquired products, prototype PCBs or any circuit board the company does not own. For example, reverse engineering a circuit assembly reveals whether or not the fabricator has exactly matched the design specifications of the board.
The process can be used to inspect for counterfeit or malicious circuits embedded in a PCB, or, if a new product has been purchased by a company, to create schematics or other documentation that may not have been included |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freivalds | Freivalds can refer to:
People
Laila Freivalds, Swedish politician
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, Latvian mathematician
Mathematics
Freivalds' algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Blandford | Ann Blandford FHEA is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London (UCL). She serves as deputy director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare.
Education
Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) and education at the Open University supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook.
Career and research
Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.
Blandford has served as professor in human-computer interaction at UCL since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon. With Stephann Makri she worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences". Her current work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity.
Awards and honours
In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the Open University
Academics of Middlesex University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placogobio%20bacmeensis | Placogobio bacmeensis is a species of cyprinid in the genus Placogobio. It inhabits Vietnam in inland wetlands. It has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Fish of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placogobio%20nahangensis | Placogobio nahangensis is a species of cyprinid in the genus Placogobio. It inhabits Vietnam and has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
IUCN Red List data deficient species
Fish of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poropuntius%20brevispinus | Poropuntius brevispinus is a species of cyprinid in the genus Poropuntius. It inhabits inland wetlands in Vietnam. It has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List and is considered harmless to humans.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Fish of Vietnam
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%203 | The Surface Laptop 3 is a laptop computer developed by Microsoft. It is the third generation of Surface Laptop and was unveiled alongside the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Pro X on an event on 2 October 2019. It succeeds the Surface Laptop 2 that was released in October 2018.
Surface Laptop 3 keeps the same form and design, but with an addition of a USB Type-C port, improved battery life, hidden antenna lines, and an AMD CPU for the 15-inch model—a first for a Surface device.
Microsoft now offers an aluminum keyboard deck as an option for some models alongside the traditional Alcantara material covering. The 15-inch models are only available with an aluminum keyboard deck.
The device comes installed with Windows 10 Home but a free upgrade to Windows 11 is available.
The 13.5-inch model's display is the same resolution as previous generations, but the new 15-inch model features increased display resolution to maintain high pixel density. The 13.5-inch model comes with a 2256 x 1504 resolution and the 15-inch model comes with a 2496 x 1664 resolution. Both models have a 3:2 aspect ratio and pixel density of 201 pixels per inch (ppi).
The Surface Laptop 3 13.5-inch model starts at $1,000 and goes up to $2,400. The 15-inch model starts at $1,200 and goes up to $2,800.
Configuration
Surface Laptop 3 for consumer comes preloaded with Windows 10 HomeSurface Laptop 3 for business comes preloaded with Windows 10 Pro
Features
Windows Hello face authentication via integrated near infrared (IR) camera
10th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processor for the 13.5-inch model
AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 Surface Edition processor for the 15-inch model
Memory options are 32 GB, 16 GB and 8 GB
Storage options are 1 TB, 512 GB, 256 GB and 128 GB
A 3.5 mm headphone jack, USB-C (3.2 Gen 2 with USB-PD 3.0) and USB-A (3.2 Gen 2) ports
All configurations can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for an additional $50. (Business models come pre-installed with Windows 10 Pro)
Up to 11.5 hours battery life for either model
Factory calibrated IPS-type sRGB display with 400 nits peak brightness and 1400:1 contrast ratio
Hardware
The Surface Laptop 3 is the 3rd addition to Surface Laptop lineup. The Surface Laptop 3 is aimed toward business professionals and the enterprise market.
The device is available with either a 13.5-inch or 15-inch display touchscreen. The device features a full-body aluminum alloy construction alongside an Alcantara material on the keyboard deck. Between the 13.5" or 15" screen size options, while the resolutions differ, they both have the same pixel density of 201 pixels per inch.
The Surface Laptop 3 features quad core Intel Core i7 1065G7 or an Intel Core i5 1035G7 CPU for the 13.5-inch consumer and business model and 15-inch business model. Custom Surface Edition AMD Ryzen 5 3580U and Ryzen 7 3780U CPUs for the 15-inch consumer model are offered. The Intel CPU variants come with an Intel Iris Plus G7 integrated GPU for both the 13.5-inch consume |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways%20of%20Cambodia | The Expressway network of Cambodia currently consists of one expressway in operation, one expressway under construction, and one under feasibility study. The government has noted three goals for developing an expressway network:
Regional Integration with neighboring countries
Linking the wealthier Phnom Penh with other cities to let other provinces benefit from the development
Improving transportation in Cambodia, reducing congestion and allowing more suitable roads for heavy trucks
Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway
The first expressway, the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway, is funded by the China Road and Bridge Corporation for US$2 billion under a build-operate-transfer contract.
The road has two lanes in each direction and will have a speed limit of for light vehicles, for two axle trucks, buses and motorcycles and for shipping containers truck with a minimum speed of for all vehicles. This will allow the travel time between the two terminal cities to be halved from 6 hours.
The road will be opened to the public starting on October 1, 2022, until October 31, 2022, under a one-month trial free of charge.
Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway
On November 9, 2022, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has signed a memorandum of understanding to build the 138 km Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway.
The second expressway, the Phnom Penh-Bavet being studied and planned by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, and expected to start construction in June 2023. The expressway will have a length of 138 kilometers, with width of 25.5 meters, consist of 4 lanes (2 lanes a side).
Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway is expected to booster the transportation and import-export between Cambodia and Vietnam and reduce the transportation cost and time between the two countries.
On June 7, 2023, Samdech Hun Sen officially announced and presided over the ground-breaking ceremony of the Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway with the length of 135.10 km. The expressway’s construction is set to be carried out by the esteemed China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), adhering to a 48-month timeline and scheduled for completion in 2027.
Phnom Penh-Siem Reap-Poi Pet Expressway
On March 28, 2023, Ministry of Public Works and Transport announce in a letter to related-provincial authorities on the feasibility study of Phnom Penh Siem Reap Expressway. The announcement was met with great reception from the public as Siem Reap is one of the most popular tourist destination for Cambodians and National Road 6 is currently one of the most of traffic and congested road in Cambodia due to its crossing many populated provinces such as Kampong Cham, Kampong Thom, and Siem Reap.
In tandem with presiding over the ground breaking ceremony for PP-Bavet Expressway, Samdech Hun Sen also announced the feasibility of the highly anticipated Phnom Penh-Siem Reap-Poi Pet Expressway, a massive project which touted to be cost somewhere around $4 billion. The Phnom Penh-Siem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Pro%207 | The Surface Pro 7 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft. It is the seventh generation of Surface Pro and was announced alongside the Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X at an event on 2 October 2019. An updated version of the device was introduced on the 11th of January 2021 called the Surface Pro 7+. Surface Pro 7 and 7+ maintain the same form and design as previous models but with the Mini DisplayPort receptacle replaced by a USB-C port. The display of the device is the same as the previous model with a 2736 x 1824 resolution touchscreen in 3:2 aspect ratio and 267 ppi. The Surface Pro 7 starts at $750 and goes up to $2,300. The Surface Pro 7+ for Business starts at $900 and goes up to $2,800.
Microsoft started offering the Surface Pro 7+ to consumers as announced at their Surface Event on September 22, 2021.
Hardware
The Surface Pro 7 is the 7th addition to Surface Pro lineup. The tablet is aimed towards professionals while the Surface Pro 7+ an updated version aimed towards the enterprise.
The Surface Pro 7+ comes with a removable SSD while the Surface Pro 7 does not.
Both are available with a 12.3-inch LCD touchscreen display and features a full-body magnesium alloy construction in platinum and black finish.
The device is the first Surface Pro to contain a USB-C port with power delivery.
The kickstand is still present just like previous models and unfolds from 0 degrees to 165 degrees.
The Surface Pro 7 includes 1 USB-C port, 1 USB A port, 1 3.5 mm audio port, 1 microSD card port (non-LTE models), and a Surface Connect port.
The Surface Pro 7 size is 11.5 x 7.9 x 0.33 inches and weighs ~1.7 pounds.
The Surface Pro 7's battery is 43.2Wh which offers battery life of ~8 hours. The Surface Pro 7+ for Business battery is 50.4Wh for even longer life.
Software
Surface Pro 7+ for Business models ship with a pre-installed 64-bit version of Windows 10 Pro; consumer models ship with a pre-installed 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home. Windows 10 comes pre-installed with Mail, Calendar, People, Xbox, Photos, Movies and TV, Groove, Your Phone, a 30-day trial of Office 365, and the Edge browser. The device also supports Windows Hello login using biometric facial recognition.
Configuration
Consumer models come preloaded with Windows 10 HomeBusiness models come preloaded with Windows 10 Pro
Timeline
References
Microsoft Surface
2-in-1 PCs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitra%20Simeonidou | Dimitra E. Simeonidou is a Professor of High Performance Networks at the University of Bristol. She works on the development of telecommunications networks, including 5G, and is a specialist in smart city infrastructures.
Early life and education
Simeonidou studied engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1987 and master's degree in 1989. She moved to the University of Essex for her doctoral studies, and earned a PhD in 1994.
Research and career
After graduating she spent four years at Alcatel Submarine Networks, where she worked as Chief Engineer and introduced wavelength-division multiplexing networks. She returned to Essex in 1998, where she established the High Performance Network group.
In 2012 Simeonidou was appointed a Professor at the University of Bristol, where she Directs the Smart Internet Lab and High-Performance Networks group. She studies high performance networks and wireless-optical convergence. In 2017 it was announced that Simeonidou would lead the University of Bristol efforts to become a testbed for 5G technologies. Her group designed a small 5G emitting box which can ensure connectivity on the move. She is responsible for the city of Bristol's 5G urban pilots and leads experiments on the UK's 5G test network.
Simeonidou is the chief technology officer (CTO) of the "Bristol is Open" project, which is a joint project between the Bristol City Council and University of Bristol. Bristol is Open provides a test bed for research in future communication technologies. She was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship to develop these technologies. Simeonidou founded two University spin-off companies, Ilotron, which was acquired by Altamar in 2001, and Zeetta Networks. Zeetta delivers software-defined networking (SDN) platforms for enterprise networks. She has investigated the use of quantum cryptography to protect 5G networks. In 2018 Simeonidou worked with the Government of the United Kingdom on their Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, which outlined the strategy to make the United Kingdom a world leader in 5G.
She is interested in ways that 5G can transform skills development and cultural experiences. Working with Zeetta, the BBC and Cambridge Communication Systems, Simeonidou demonstrated a 5G-enabled tourism catalyst project at the 2019 Digital Transformation World conference in Nice. The catalyst allowed visitors to immerse themselves in history of the sites they were visiting using virtual reality. The demonstrations included an animation to bring to life the Roman Baths. The application used 5G network slicing, low latency and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to provide a resilient service. She has also worked with Jamie Cullum and the charity Music for All to deliver the world's first music lessons across 5G networks. She was announced as the head of the University of Bristol Digital Futures Institute in 2019.
Alongside her research, Simeonidou is committe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildBrain%20Spark | WildBrain Family International Limited, operating as WildBrain Spark (formerly WildBrain), is a British multi-channel network owned by Canadian media company WildBrain (formerly DHX Media). It distributes and produces children's video content for YouTube and other digital platforms. The division officially launched in 2016; it reuses trademarks associated with Wildbrain Entertainment, an animation studio that had been acquired by DHX. It maintains offices in London.
The division is responsible for distributing pre-existing material and creating original animated and live-action shorts based on properties owned by its parent company and partners. WildBrain Spark also manages the YouTube presence for a number of external brands and businesses, including Beyblade Burst, Cyber Group Studios, BRB Internacional, Benesse, Larva, Moomins, Playmobil, The Smurfs, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros. Discovery, among others.
In September 2019, DHX Media changed its name to WildBrain, citing strong brand recognition stemming from the MCN. Concurrently, the MCN was renamed WildBrain Spark.
Productions
Akedo: Ultimate Arcade Warriors (2021–present) (produced with Moose Toys)
Animal Mechanicals (2019)
BFF Bright Fairy Friends (2020–2022)
Boy & Dragon (2019–present)
Brum (2016)
Brum & Friends (2017–present)
Caillou: New Adventures (2017–present)
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets (2020–present)
DJ Lance and the Upbeat Retreat! (2017–2018)
Eena Meena Deeka (2020–present) (season 3) (produced with Cosmos-Maya)
The Ellie Sparkles Show (2017)
Emojitown (2021–present) (produced with Emoji Company)
Hairdorables (2018–2020)
Hydro and Fluid (2018–present) (season 2) (produced with Alopra)
Johnny Test: The Lost Web Series (2020)
Kiddyzuzaa Land (2018–2019)
Kiwi & Strit (TBA) (season 3) (produced with Copenhagen Bombay)
Peanuts (2018–present)
Polly Pocket (2018–present)
Popeye's Island Adventures (2018–2019)
Slugisodes (2020) (produced with Epic Story Media)
Strawberry Shortcake (2018)
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City (2021–present) (produced by WildBrain Studios)
Super Binks (2020–2021) (produced with Park Star Media)
Through the Fairy Door (2019)
Tiddlytubbies (2018–present)
Teletubbies: Let's Go! (2022–present)
Tulipop (2017–2019)
Programs streaming on YouTube
Action Man (1995–1996)
The Adrenaline Project (2007-2009) (Thru Marblemedia's MarbleKids channel)
The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997–2000)
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993–1996)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Alva's World (2021-present)
Alienators: Evolution Continues (2001–2002)
Animal Mechanicals (2008–2011)
Archie's Weird Mysteries (1999–2000)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992–2000)
AstroLOLogy (2018–present)
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom (2008–2013)
Being Ian (2004-2008), (Thru Nelvana's Keep it Weird (Film) and Treehouse Direct (final season) channels)
Beyblade Burst (2015–present)
Billy Bricks (2016–present)
Bo on the Go! (2007–2011)
Bob the Builder (1999) (1999–2011)
Bob t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal%20Ensemble%20Learning | Extremal Ensemble Learning (EEL) is a machine learning algorithmic paradigm for graph partitioning. EEL creates an ensemble of partitions and then uses information contained in the ensemble to find new and improved partitions. The ensemble evolves and learns how to form improved partitions through extremal updating procedure. The final solution is found by achieving consensus among its member partitions about what the optimal partition is.
Reduced Network Extremal Ensemble Learning (RenEEL)
A particular implementation of the EEL paradigm is the Reduced Network Extremal Ensemble Learning (RenEEL) scheme for partitioning a graph. RenEEL uses consensus across many partitions in an ensemble to create a reduced network that can be efficiently analyzed to find more accurate partitions. These better quality partitions are subsequently used to update the ensemble. An algorithm that utilizes the RenEEL scheme is currently the best algorithm for finding the graph partition with maximum modularity, which is an NP-hard problem.
References
Machine learning algorithms
Graph algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carola%20Wenk | Carola Wenk (born 1973) is a German-American computer scientist known for her research on algorithms for finding similarities between geometric shapes, such as matching vehicle trajectories to road networks, comparing trajectories with each other using Fréchet distance, or testing similarity for gel electrophoresis data. Her work has also involved biomedical applications of geometric algorithms, including the use of virtual reality to diagnose glaucoma. She is a professor of computer science at Tulane University.
Education and career
Wenk is originally from Berlin. She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Algorithmen für das Crossdating in der Dendrochronologie (Algorithms for Crossdating in Dendrochronology) supervised by Helmut Alt. She continued to work with Alt at the Free University of Berlin and in 2002 completed a doctorate in computer science (Dr. rer. nat.) with the dissertation Shape Matching in Higher Dimensions.
After postdoctoral research with Alon Efrat at the University of Arizona, Wenk joined the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2004. She chaired the faculty senate of the university from 2010 to 2012. As faculty senate chair, she oversaw a change in the university grading system to allow plus and minus modifiers in letter grades, and a policy to reduce the use of paper by making all campus printers and copiers double-sided.
She moved to Tulane University in 2012, and was promoted to full professor in 2017. At Tulane, she also holds an adjunct position in the mathematics department.
Book
With Mahmuda Ahmed, Sophia Karagiorgou, and Dieter Pfoser, Wenk is the co-author of the book Map Construction Algorithms (Springer, 2015).
References
External links
Home page
Map Construction Algorithms book home page
1973 births
Living people
German computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Free University of Berlin alumni
University of Texas at San Antonio faculty
Tulane University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenk | Wenk is a surname. Notable people with this name include:
Alexandra Wenk (born 1995), German swimmer
Carola Wenk (born 1973), German-American computer scientist
Erich Wenk (1923–2012), German opera singer
Eduard Wenk (1907–2001), Swiss geologist, petrographer, and mineralogist
Friedrich Wenk, founder of 1920s German aircraft company Weltensegler
Hans-Rudolf Wenk (born 1941), Swiss mineraloger and geophysicist
Karl Wenk (born 1934), German sports shooter
János Wenk (1894–1962), Hungarian swimmer and water polo player
John Wenk (born 1938), British middle-distance runner
Martin Wenk, musician in Calexico (band)
Richard Wenk, American film screenwriter and director
Stefan Wenk (born 1981), German javelin thrower
See also
Wenck
WENK, a radio station in Tennessee
Surnames of German origin
German-language surnames
Surnames of Swiss origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal%20%28TV%20series%29 | Primal (also known as Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal) is an American adult animated action horror television series created and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network's night-time programming block, Adult Swim. It is the first combined action/sci-fi/horror animated series from Cartoon Network Studios and Williams Street.
Primal is set in an anachronistic vision of prehistory, portraying extinct dinosaurs, Ice Age mammals, and early hominids all coexisting with post-metallurgy Homo sapiens in a single time period, incorporating many elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, action, and adventure. The first 2 seasons revolve around the journey of Spear (Aaron LaPlante), a Neanderthal, and Fang, a uniquely intelligent female Tyrannosaurus, both of whom lose their families early-on and decide to join forces to survive their unforgiving environment together, eventually discovering developed civilizations that they end up in conflict with. The series has no dialogue throughout its first season, before incorporating minimal dialogue in the second season, in line with Tartakovsky's previous work.
The first 10-episode season of Primal was split into two 5-episode parts. The series premiered on Adult Swim on October 8, 2019, with the remaining episodes releasing daily that same week. The second half of the season premiered one episode April 1, 2020, with the remaining episodes premiering weekly for the five weeks following October 4, 2020. In August 2020, the series was renewed for a 10-episode second season, which premiered July 22 and concluded September 16, 2022. Following the second-season finale and conclusion of Spear and Fang's storyline, Tartakovsky confirmed that Primal would become an anthology series from its forthcoming third season onward. In June 2023, the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season.
Primal has received widespread critical acclaim, with much praise for its animation, storytelling, music, emotional depth, horror elements, and editing. The show has won three Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Juried Awards from the Emmy for Storyboard Artist (Genndy Tartakovsky), Art Director (Scott Wills), and Character Designer (Stephen DeStefano).
Premise
Set in an anachronistic and fantastical prehistoric world, the series’ plot surrounds the survival and bond between a Neanderthal male named Spear and a female Tyrannosaurus rex named Fang as they struggle day-to-day and battle against various carnivorous dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals and other dangerous animals, along with more advanced groups of Homo sapiens that also live in their world, including Viking-like Iron Age humans.
Characters
In comparison to Tartakovsky's other shows where there are multiple characters, Primal initially only features Spear and Fang in the show as they encounter different prehistoric or fantastical species and various tribes of hominins. Tartakovsky stated that although the show is a work of fantasy, the prehistoric animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20Broadcasting%20System | Beta Broadcasting System, Inc. is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at #8 Elane St., Brgy. New Asinan, Olongapo and at 003 Upper Market, Camp Allen, Baguio. BBSI operates a number of stations across Northern Luzon.
BBSI Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20function | A direct function (dfn, pronounced "dee fun") is an alternative way to define a function and operator (a higher-order function) in the programming language APL. A direct operator can also be called a dop (pronounced "dee op"). They were invented by John Scholes in 1996. They are a unique combination of array programming, higher-order function, and functional programming, and are a major distinguishing advance of early 21st century APL over prior versions.
A dfn is a sequence of possibly guarded expressions (or just a guard) between and , separated by or new-lines, wherein denotes the left argument and the right, and denotes recursion (function self-reference). For example, the function tests whether each row of is a Pythagorean triplet (by testing whether the sum of squares equals twice the square of the maximum).
PT← {(+/⍵*2)=2×(⌈/⍵)*2}
PT 3 4 5
1
x
4 5 3
3 11 6
5 13 12
17 16 8
11 12 4
17 15 8
PT x
1 0 1 0 0 1
The factorial function as a dfn:
fact← {0=⍵:1 ⋄ ⍵×∇ ⍵-1}
fact 5
120
fact¨ ⍳10 ⍝ fact applied to each element of 0 to 9
1 1 2 6 24 120 720 5040 40320 362880
Description
The rules for dfns are summarized by the following "reference card":
A dfn is a sequence of possibly guarded expressions (or just a guard) between and , separated by or new-lines.
expression
guard: expression
guard:
The expressions and/or guards are evaluated in sequence. A guard must evaluate to a 0 or 1; its associated expression is evaluated if the value is 1. A dfn terminates after the first unguarded expression which does not end in assignment, or after the first guarded expression whose guard evaluates to 1, or if there are no more expressions. The result of a dfn is that of the last evaluated expression. If that last evaluated expression ends in assignment, the result is "shy"—not automatically displayed in the session.
Names assigned in a dfn are local by default, with lexical scope.
denotes the left function argument and the right; denotes the left operand and the right. If occurs in the definition, then the dfn is a dyadic operator; if only occurs but not , then it is a monadic operator; if neither or occurs, then the dfn is a function.
The special syntax is used to give a default value to the left argument if a dfn is called monadically, that is, called with no left argument. The is not evaluated otherwise.
denotes recursion or self-reference by the function, and denotes self-reference by the operator. Such denotation permits anonymous recursion.
Error trapping is provided through error-guards, . When an error is generated, the system searches dynamically through the calling functions for an error-guard that matches the error. If one is found, the execution environment is unwound to its state immediately prior to the error-guard's execution and the associated expression of the error-guard is evaluated as the result of the dfn.
Additional descriptions, explanations, and tutorials on dfns are availa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BED%20%28file%20format%29 | The BED (Browser Extensible Data) format is a text file format used to store genomic regions as coordinates and associated annotations. The data are presented in the form of columns separated by spaces or tabs. This format was developed during the Human Genome Project and then adopted by other sequencing projects. As a result of this increasingly wide use, this format had already become a de facto standard in bioinformatics before a formal specification was written.
One of the advantages of this format is the manipulation of coordinates instead of nucleotide sequences, which optimizes the power and computation time when comparing all or part of genomes. In addition, its simplicity makes it easy to manipulate and read (or parsing) coordinates or annotations using word processing and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or Perl or more specialized tools such as BEDTools.
History
The end of the 20th century saw the emergence of the first projects to sequence complete genomes. Among these projects, the Human Genome Project was the most ambitious at the time, aiming to sequence for the first time a genome of several gigabases. This required the sequencing centres to carry out major methodological development in order to automate the processing of sequences and their analyses. Thus, many formats were created, such as FASTQ, GFF or BED. However, no official specifications were published at the time, which affected some formats such as FASTQ when sequencing projects multiplied at the beginning of the 21st century.
Its wide use within genome browsers has made it possible to define this format in a relatively stable way as this description is used by many tools.
Format
Initially the BED format did not have any official specification. Instead, the description provided by the UCSC Genome Browser has been widely used as a reference.
A formal BED specification was published in 2021 under the auspices of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.
Description
A BED file consists of a minimum of three columns to which nine optional columns can be added for a total of twelve columns. The first three columns contain the names of chromosomes or scaffolds, the start, and the end coordinates of the sequences considered. The next nine columns contain annotations related to these sequences. These columns must be separated by spaces or tabs, the latter being recommended for reasons of compatibility between programs. Each row of a file must have the same number of columns. The order of the columns must be respected: if columns of high numbers are used, the columns of intermediate numbers must be filled in.
Header
A BED file can optionally contain a header. However, there is no official description of the format of the header. It may contain one or more lines and be signified by different words or symbols, depending on its functional role or simply descriptive. Thus, a header line can begin with these words or symbol:
"browser": functional header used by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20for%20Nepal | Code for Nepal is an organization which aims to increase digital literacy and the use of open data in Nepal. It was co-founded by Ravi Kumar and Mia Mitchell.
Projects
#IWalkFreely
#Ko Nepali?
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in Arlington, Virginia
Information technology in Nepal
Nepal–United States relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Road%20Truckers%20%28season%207%29 | This is a list of Ice Road Truckers Season 7 episodes.
The focus of this season is the winter road network originating in Winnipeg.
Episodes
Returning drivers
Debogorski, Kelly, and Ward relocate to Winnipeg this season and begin driving for Polar Industries. Rowland and Pleskot return as well, leaving Polar to start their own trucking company, VP Express.
New drivers
Art Burke: Burke, a Yellowknife resident, has driven the diamond mine ice roads for 15 years. He originally signs on with VP Express to drive for Rowland but switches over to Polar, after being fired. He also brings the winning load for Polar by the end of the season.
Todd Dewey: Dewey, a logging trucker from Washington state, started his first year on the ice road to work for Rowland. He is also featured in Ax Men season 8, especially driving logs for Rygaard Logging into the saw mill during the warmer months. Dewey is the nephew of Craig Rygaard and cousin of Gabe, Jason, and Burt. Craig is the original owner of Rygaard Logging, and when he retired, Gabe took over.
Joey Barnes: Barnes, known as the "King of Obsolete", and his daughter Xena live in northern Manitoba, well past the end of the winter roads. He uses vintage trucks and modified tractors to travel over the rough terrain for equipment delivery/pickup runs.
Final load counts
Polar – 181
VP – 180
References
2013 American television seasons
Ice Road Truckers seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPSG%20Geodetic%20Parameter%20Dataset | EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations and related units of measurement, originated by a member of the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) in 1985. Each entity is assigned an EPSG code between 1024 and 32767, along with a standard machine-readable well-known text (WKT) representation. The dataset is maintained by the IOGP Geomatics Committee.
Most geographic information systems (GIS) and GIS libraries use EPSG codes as Spatial Reference System Identifiers (SRIDs) and EPSG definition data for identifying coordinate reference systems, projections, and performing transformations between these systems, while some also support SRIDs issued by other organizations (such as Esri).
Common EPSG codes
EPSG:4326 - WGS 84, latitude/longitude coordinate system based on the Earth's center of mass, used by the Global Positioning System among others.
EPSG:3857 - Web Mercator projection used for display by many web-based mapping tools, including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.
EPSG:7789 - International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2014 (ITRF2014), an Earth-fixed system that is independent of continental drift.
History
The dataset was created in 1985 by Jean-Patrick Girbig of Elf, to "standardize, improve and share spatial data between members of the European Petroleum Survey Group". It was made public in 1993.
In 2005, the EPSG organisation was merged into International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), and became the Geomatics Committee. However, the name of the EPSG registry was kept to avoid confusion. Since then, the acronym "EPSG" became increasingly synonymous with the dataset or registry itself.
See also
List of map projections
References
External links
Spatial databases
Spatial analysis
Geodesy
Catalogues
Geomatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20news%20program | A children's news program is a type of news program that is specifically aimed at children, usually 6–14 years olds, rather than an adult audience. The programme is usually made by the network's news and current affairs department, rather than the children's department.
As the programme is aimed at a much younger audience from ordinary adults focused news programme, there are significant differences in the style and make-up of the programme. These are for example: the programme has news stories that children would be interested in, usually avoiding deep political and business news and more dealing with popular cultures such as music and television. The programme is presented in with much lighter tone, with the language being much simpler and less complex and has graphics and sounds that are much more colourful.
Usually, the news presenters are much younger than regular news presenters and acting in a much more informal environment than regular newscasters, with casual clothing and either standing or sitting on a chair, rather than behind a desk. Some presenters use the programme in the past as a platform to later work as a formal newscaster or correspondent.
History
No one network is responsible for the creation of a news programme aimed at children. CBS first broadcast a series of news clips aimed at children in 1971 under the title of "In the News". However, in 1972, the first channel to broadcast a new segment for children was by the BBC with John Craven's Newsround. Accounts tended to avoid the political emphasis of adult news and instead sought to build an ‘‘interesting’’ agenda. In the same year, Sweden's SVT started broadcasting a weekly news roundup programme called Barnjournalen (Children's Journal). Later the Netherlands' NOS created a children's show Jeugdjournaal (Youth Journal) in 1981.
List of current and former children's news programs
Current shows
Former shows
References
Children's news shows
Television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Pro%20X | The Surface Pro X is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft. It was developed alongside and was announced on 2 October 2019 alongside the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3. Updated hardware was announced alongside Surface Laptop Go and Surface accessories on October 1, 2020 and September 22, 2021. The device starts at $899.99 USD / £849.99.
The Surface Pro X comes with a Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM processor, which the company claimed has three times the performance of an x86 MacBook Air, whilst also having a 13-hour battery life. This is due to the increased power efficiency of ARM processors compared to traditional x86 processors. Microsoft has previously used ARM processors in the discontinued Surface RT and Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft now offers a Wifi-only version of the device as announced at their Surface Event on September 22, 2021.
Configuration
The Surface Pro X starts at US$899.99 / £849.99 for the least expensive model with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage.
The device can be bought with either 8 GB or 16 GB RAM. Users can also choose between 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB of storage.
Hardware and design
The Surface Pro X is the 7th addition to Surface Pro lineup alongside the Surface Pro 7. Microsoft markets the tablet as a "go-anywhere, do-anything PC". Microsoft claims the Surface Pro X's battery can last up to 13 hours of use.
Compared to the Surface Pro 6, the Surface Pro X is slimmer and has rounder edges featuring a matte black finish construction in platinum and black finish. The device contains 2 USB-C ports, an eSIM and a SIM card slot for LTE, a removable SSD, and the Surface Connect port for charging. There are no microSD card slot and headphone jack on the tablet, requiring its users to use dongles and USB-C or Bluetooth enabled headphones.
The device's screen is a 13-inch touchscreen display, with smaller bezels compared to other Surface Pro devices.
The device uses Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM processors co-developed by Qualcomm, based on the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 1 and Gen 2 processors respectively. A Qualcomm X24 LTE modem is also featured in the device for both processors.
Software
The Surface Pro X comes pre-installed with an ARM-based version of Windows 10, which supports ARM32 and ARM64 UWP and desktop apps from the Microsoft Store or from other sources. x86 applications can be run through emulation, addressing a major issue of Windows RT. Emulation of x64 applications is an upcoming feature that is already available to Windows Insiders for testing. In addition, Hyper-V can be installed on ARM64 devices such as the Surface Pro X running the Pro or Enterprise editions of Windows 10.
Timeline
References
Microsoft Surface
2-in-1 PCs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forky%20Asks%20a%20Question | Forky Asks a Question is an American computer-animated television series of shorts produced by Pixar Animation Studios based on the Toy Story franchise, set after Toy Story 4. It is the third Pixar short series, following the Cars Toons and Toy Story Toons. The series focuses on the character of Forky (voiced by Tony Hale) as he asks his friends different questions about life.
The short series was announced in June 2019 during Disney+ Investor Day 2019, before the release of Toy Story 4. Bob Peterson wrote and directed the series, and was produced by Mark Nielsen. Jake Monaco provided the score for all ten episodes.
Forky Asks a Question aired from November 12, 2019 to January 10, 2020, on Disney+. The series received positive reviews who appreciated humor, animation, and script.
Premise
Set sometime after the events of Toy Story 4, handmade toy Forky asks his friends (the characters of the Toy Story franchise) different questions about life.
Cast and characters
Tony Hale as Forky, a homemade toy who, having been recently created, asks his friends questions about life.
John Ratzenberger as Hamm, a piggy bank.
Wallace Shawn as Rex, a toy tyrannosaurus rex.
Kristen Schaal as Trixie, a toy triceratops.
Carol Burnett as Chairol Burnett, a toy chair, whom Bonnie used to play with.
Mel Brooks as Melephant Brooks, a toy elephant, whom Bonnie used to play with.
Carl Reiner as Carl Reineroceros, a toy rhino, whom Bonnie used to play with. This was Reiner's last time reprising this role, before his death in June 2020.
Betty White as Bitey White, a toy tiger, whom Bonnie used to play with. This was White's last time reprising this role, as well as her final television role, before her death in December 2021.
Robin Atkin Downes as Mr. Pricklepants, a stuffed hedgehog toy, with a fascination with acting and theater. Downes replaces Timothy Dalton, who voiced the character in previous media of Toy Story.
Alan Oppenheimer as Old Timer, a toy alarm clock, with the face of an old man.
Aloma Wright as Rib Tickles, a toy dog Pet Patrol officer. A male version of the character was originally set to appear in Toy Story 4, though it was ultimately deleted.
Bonnie Hunt as Dolly, one of Bonnie’s most beloved toys, and the leader of them.
Jeff Garlin as Buttercup, a toy unicorn.
Addison Andrews, Mika Crespo and Imani Prior as Peas in a Pod, a toy version of actual peas in a pod.
Jeff Pidgeon as Mr. Spell, a toy with a built in keyboard, who speaks words that are typed in.
Episodes
All episodes were directed and written by Bob Peterson.
Production
Development
On Disney+ Investor Day 2019, Pixar's chief creative officer, Pete Docter, revealed that a new series of shorts, based on Toy Story 4s Forky, titled Forky Asks a Question, was in development for Disney+, with Tony Hale set to reprise his role from Toy Story 4. Hale said that the series is about "these questions that maybe people are embarrassed maybe to ask, but they really don't know". Bob Pet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraints%20%28journal%29 | Constraints is a quarterly peer-reviewed, scientific journal, focused on constraint programming, constraint satisfaction and optimization. It is published by Springer and was founded in 1996. Its 2018 impact factor is 1.106.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
References
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1996
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Quarterly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenka%20Zdeborov%C3%A1 | Lenka Zdeborová (born 24 November 1980) is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a professor of physics and computer science and communication systems at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Education and career
Zdeborová was born in Plzeň. She earned a master's degree in physics at Charles University in 2004, and 2008, completed an international dual doctorate ("en cotutelle") at both Charles University and University of Paris-Sud. Her doctoral advisors were Václav Janiš at Charles University, and Marc Mézard at Paris-Sud.
After postdoctoral research at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory, she became a researcher for the French Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2010, posted at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission's Institut de physique théorique - IPhT Saclay in Paris-Saclay. She also earned a habilitation in 2015 at the École normale supérieure (Paris). Since 2020, she has been working at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) as an Associate Professor of physics, and of computer science and communication systems in the Schools of Basic Sciences and of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), and is the head of Laboratory of Statistical Physics of Computation.
Recognition
Zdeborová won the CNRS Bronze medal in 2014. In 2016, the École Normale supérieure (Paris) gave her the Philippe Meyer Prize in theoretical physics. She is the 2018 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for young female scientists.
References
External links
Home page at Charles University
1980 births
Living people
Czech physicists
Czech women computer scientists
French physicists
French computer scientists
Women physicists
Charles University alumni
Paris-Sud University alumni
Network scientists
Statistical physicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday%20Night%20Wars | The Wednesday Night Wars were a period of mainstream televised American professional wrestling in which All Elite Wrestling (AEW)'s Dynamite debuted on TNT opposite WWE's NXT on the USA Network in a competition for Nielsen ratings each week. The ratings war lasted from October 2, 2019, to April 7, 2021.
This was the first direct competition between two major promotions since Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling), briefly moved their flagship series, Impact!, to Monday nights opposite WWE Raw in 2010, and over 20 years following the original Monday Night Wars that lasted from 1995 to 2001.
AEW would win the ratings battle almost every week in both total viewership and in the viewership from the key 18–49 age demographic, and on April 13, 2021, NXT moved to Tuesday nights, ending the Wednesday Night Wars.
History
Origins
2000s–2010s: Post-Monday Night Wars
After the "Monday Night Wars", with the bankruptcy and subsequent acquisitions of both World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), WWE became the dominant professional wrestling company in the United States. In 2008, WWE began to take a family-oriented approach, in which all of its programming received a rating of TV-PG.
In 2010, Impact Wrestling, then known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which targets an adult audience, would move their flagship, weekly series, Impact!, to Monday nights on Spike TV opposite Raw from January to May 2010. Impact suffered from low ratings and ultimately returned to their regular Thursday night timeslot on May 13, 2010.
The move itself was panned by critics and viewers. In the tenth anniversary reprint of R.D. Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez's Death of WCW, the authors compared the move to the original Monday Night Wars, writing that TNA did not have the audience that WCW did, pointing out that WCW Saturday Night typically did better than WWE shows did in the weekend timeslots. Reynolds and Alvarez also wrote that TNA did not have the financial resources that WCW did.
2012: NXT's revamp
In 2012, WWE NXT was revamped to focus exclusively on its developmental talent, with FCW (WWE's former developmental territory) being relaunched under the NXT brand. NXT became a webcast on WWE's official website, before later airing on Hulu
and the WWE Network.
During this period Triple H took charge of NXT.
In the years since the revamp, NXT garnered critical acclaim for its more grounded storylines and sports-based presentation compared to WWE's "main roster" programming, with fans and pundits eventually viewing the brand as its own distinct entity and its TakeOver specials to be superior in quality to WWE's monthly pay-per-views.
2018–2019: The formation of All Elite Wrestling
On January 10, 2018, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks, members of the stable known as The Elite, announced an independent event called All In, which was scheduled for September 1 of that year at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubecka | Kubecka is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chris Kubecka, American computer security researcher and cyberwarfare specialist
Robert Kubecka, American undercover informant murdered by mob related to Salvatore Avellino
See also
Kubeck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVINO | OpenVINO toolkit (Open Visual Inference and Neural network Optimization) is a free toolkit facilitating the optimization of a deep learning model from a framework and deployment using an inference engine onto Intel hardware. The toolkit has two versions: OpenVINO toolkit, which is supported by open source community and Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, which is supported by Intel. OpenVINO was developed by Intel. The toolkit is cross-platform and free for use under Apache License version 2.0. The toolkit enables a write-once, deploy-anywhere approach to deep learning deployments on Intel platforms, including CPU, integrated GPU, Intel Movidius VPU, and FPGAs.
Overview
The high level pipeline of OpenVINO consists of two parts: generate IR (Intermediate Representation) files via Model Optimizer using your trained model or public one and execute inference on Inference Engine on specified plugins (CPU, Intel Processor Graphics, VPU, GNA, Multi-Device plugin, Heterogeneous plugin)
The toolkit’s Model Optimizer is a cross-platform tool that transforms a trained model from the original framework to OpenVINO format (IR) and optimizes it for future inference on supported devices. As a result, Model Optimizer produces two files: *.bin and *.xml, which contain weights and model structures respectively.
The toolkit’s Inference Engine is a C++ library for inferring input on devices and getting results. To better understand OpenVINO API there are a lot of samples, that demonstrate how to work with OpenVINO.
OpenVINO has different sample types: classification, object detection, style transfer, speech recognition, etc. It is possible to try inference on public models. There are a variety of models for tasks, such as:
classification
segmentation
object detection
face recognition
human pose estimation
monocular depth estimation
image inpainting
style transfer
action recognition
colorization
All these models are available for learning purpose or for development deep learning software. Open Model Zoo is licensed under Apache License version 2.0.
Along with the primary components of model optimization and runtime within Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, the toolkit also includes a user-friendly web browser interface called the Deep Learning Workbench to aid in model analysis and experimentation; a tool called the Post-Training Optimization Tool to accelerate inference by converting models into low-precision and that do not require re-training (e.g., post-training quantization); and, additional add-ons, such as the Deep Learning Streamer to aid in streaming analytics pipeline interoperability, the OpenVINO Model Server to enable scalability via a serving microservice, Training Extensions like the Neural Network Compression Framework, and the Computer Vision Annotation Tool, an online interactive video and image annotation tool.
OpenVINO has two webpages: one for documentation another for downloads.
Supported framew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20S%C5%82owi%C5%84ski | Roman Słowiński (born 16 March 1952) is a Polish computer scientist and professor. Since 2019 he has been Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is a Professor and Founding Chair of the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology, Poland. Since 2003 he is also a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
His research focuses on the methodology and techniques of intelligent decision support, combining Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence.
He became a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004, and an Ordinary Member in 2013.
Education and employment
Roman Słowiński was born in Poznań, Poland, on 16 March 1952 into the family of Lech Słowiński, a professor of Polish philology, and Melania née Michalska. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Electric Faculty of the Poznań University of Technology in 1974, followed by his doctorate (PhD) in 1977, his higher doctorate (DSc) in 1981. He attained the rank of professor in 1989, and since 2003 he has held the post of Full Professor at the Poznań University of Technology.
He became a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004, and an Ordinary Member in 2013. He became a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004, and an Ordinary Member in 2013. Since 2013 he has been a member of Academia Europaea. In 2011-2018 he held the post of Chairman of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2015 he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In 2019 he was elected by the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the post of Vice President of the Academy for the 2019–22 term.
Other posts he has held include:
Deputy Director of the Institute of Automatics, Poznań University of Technology (1984–87),
Vice Dean of the Electric Faculty, Poznań University of Technology (1987–93),
head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology (since 1989),
professeur en chaire européenne at Paris Dauphine University (2003–09),
coordinator of the European Work Group for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, EURO – Association of European Operational Research Societies (since 2007);
president (2010-2012) and fellow (since 2015) of the International Rough Set Society;
fellow of IEEE (since 2009);
expert panel member of the European Research Council, PE6-Computer Science (2009–13).
Research activity
Roman Słowiński is a paradigm-creator in the field of intelligent decision support. He has authored or co-authored 14 books and more than 400 research articles, including more than 300 in major scientific journals listed by Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science h-index=45, Scopus h-index=56, Google Scholar h-index=82). He has been the advisor for 26 PhD studen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netdata | With Netdata Users can monitor their servers, containers, and applications,in high-resolution and in real-time. Netdata is an open source tool designed to collect real-time (per second) metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in low-latency dashboards. The tool is designed to visualize activity in the greatest possible detail, allowing the user to obtain an overview of what is happening and what has just happened in their system or application.
Overview
Netdata consists of a daemon that, when executed, is responsible for collecting and displaying information in real-time.
It is a lightweight tool, mostly written in C, Python, and JavaScript, which uses minimal resources. As a general rule, for modern hardware and VMs, the total CPU consumption of a standalone Netdata installation, including all its components, should be below 5 - 15% of a single core. It also scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers and given enough disk space, it can keep metrics for years.
It can be run in any Linux system to monitor any system or application, and is capable of running on PCs, servers, and embedded Linux devices.
Features
Netdata is designed to be installed on a system without interrupting any of the applications running on it. It operates according to the memory requirements specified by the user, using only idle CPU cycles. Once the application begins, it will not perform disk I/O beyond logging. The tool saves to disk at the end of its execution and reloads at startup.
By default it contains certain plugins that collect key system metrics, but its behavior is extensible by using its plugin API.
Netdata can be run on virtually anything utilizing a Linux kernel and its graphics can be embedded into web pages. It provides a powerful dashboard that can provide both a single node view or an infrastructure view. The dashboard groups similar charts together so, all disk drives, network interfaces, cgroups (containers and VMs), are in a single set of charts. It also can present multi-node and multi-instance charts where with the NIDL framework where you can filter, slice, and dice the data.
There are no dependencies, as it operates as its own web server, with static web files.
Starting with v1.12, Netdata collects anonymous usage information by default and sends it to Google Analytics, a feature which can be disabled via manual configuration.
Additional features:
Collects metrics from 800+ integrations
Netdata collects metrics from various sources, including operating systems, containers, virtual machines, hardware sensors, and more.
Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution
Metrics are collected per second and displayed instantly on intuitive dashboards.
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Utilizes machine learning to detect anomalies in given metrics, enabling proactive issue resolution.
Powerful Visualization
Users can easily understand and analyze their data wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITE | FITE (promoted as FITE by Triller; and formerly known as FITE TV), is an American digital video streaming service dedicated to combat sports-related programming (including boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling) that launched on May 20, 2012. The service distributes free-to-air content, pay-per-view events, and SVOD packages. As of December 2020, the service has over 4 million registered users worldwide.
Notable content available on FITE has included subscription packages from the National Wrestling Alliance (All Access); All Elite Wrestling (AEW Plus); and Impact Wrestling's own streaming service, Impact Plus, among others.
In April 2020, FITE launched the FITE+ monthly service, that includes access to live pay-per-view events and back catalogues of various combat sports promotions.
In October 2020, FITE began adding coverage of soccer events, acquiring rights to CONMEBOL qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. On April 14, 2021, TrillerNet acquired FITE for an undisclosed amount, ahead of the first Triller Fight Club event, featuring the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren boxing match.
In 2021, FITE began streaming professional grappling events after Third Coast Grappling moved to the platform from FloGrappling. In January 2023, it was announced that the North American-based professional grappling promotion Fight 2 Win was leaving FloGrappling and had signed an exclusive two-year deal with FITE.
In February 2023, FITE announced that all Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) events would be included in its FITE+ subscription service. Previous BKFC events had been offered as pay-per-view events on FITE.
On May 2, 2023, FITE announced a new partnership with Major League Wrestling (MLW) to air live events through its FITE+ subscription, with its first event being Never Say Never on July 8 of that year.
On 30 June 2023, Colosseum Tournament was relaunched on FITE after a four-year hiatus.
See also
List of professional wrestling streaming services
FightBox
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2012
Internet television channels
Subscription video streaming services
Professional wrestling streaming services
Streaming media systems |
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