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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch%20effect | In molecular biology, a batch effect occurs when non-biological factors in an experiment cause changes in the data produced by the experiment. Such effects can lead to inaccurate conclusions when their causes are correlated with one or more outcomes of interest in an experiment. They are common in many types of high-throughput sequencing experiments, including those using microarrays, mass spectrometers, and single-cell RNA-sequencing data. They are most commonly discussed in the context of genomics and high-throughput sequencing research, but they exist in other fields of science as well.
Definitions
Multiple definitions of the term "batch effect" have been proposed in the literature. Lazar et al. (2013) noted, "Providing a complete and unambiguous definition of the so-called batch effect is a challenging task, especially because its origins and the way it manifests in the data are not completely known or not recorded." Focusing on microarray experiments, they propose a new definition based on several previous ones: "[T]he batch effect represents the systematic technical differences when samples are processed and measured in different batches and which are unrelated to any biological variation recorded during the MAGE [microarray gene expression] experiment."
Causes
Many potentially variable factors have been identified as potential causes of batch effects, including the following:
Laboratory conditions
Choice of reagent lot or batch
Personnel differences
Time of day when the experiment was conducted
Atmospheric ozone levels
Instruments used to conduct the experiment
Correction
Various statistical techniques have been developed to attempt to correct for batch effects in high-throughput experiments. These techniques are intended for use during the stages of experimental design and data analysis. They have historically mostly focused on genomics experiments, and have only recently begun to expand into other scientific fields such as proteomics. One problem associated with such techniques is that they may unintentionally remove actual biological variation. Some techniques that have been used to detect and/or correct for batch effects include the following:
For microarray data, linear mixed models have been used, with confounding factors included as random intercepts.
In 2007, Johnson et al. proposed an empirical Bayesian technique for correcting for batch effects. This approach represented an improvement over previous methods in that it could be effectively used with small batch sizes.
In 2012, the sva software package was introduced. It includes multiple functions to adjust for batch effects, including the use of surrogate variable estimation, which had previously been shown to improve reproducibility and reduce dependence in high-throughput experiments.
Haghverdi et al. (2018) proposed a technique designed for single-cell RNA-seq data, based on the detection of mutual nearest neighbors in the data.
Papiez et al. (2019) proposed a dynamic p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Universe%20Future | Steven Universe Future is an American animated limited series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It serves as both an epilogue and the de facto sixth and final season of the 2013–2019 original series Steven Universe and its follow-up 2019 animated film Steven Universe: The Movie. It premiered on December 7, 2019, and concluded on March 27, 2020.
The series focuses on the aftermath of the events of Steven Universe, where humans and Gems coexist in harmony after the end of the war between the Crystal Gems and Gem Homeworld. Without the threats of the Diamonds or corrupted Gems, Steven must deal with the everyday challenges that still come with his now relatively peaceful life, and question his new life objectives.
Like the original series, Steven Universe Future has been critically acclaimed, with the design, music, voice acting, characterization, and prominence of LGBT themes being similarly praised; Future has been singled out for addressing issues some had with the original series, for its unique choice of focusing on the aftermath of the main story's climax, and for promoting mental health awareness through its treatment of Steven's experience with psychological trauma. The show was nominated for the 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Short Form Animated Program.
Premise and synopsis
The series is set after the events of Steven Universe: The Movie, which itself takes place two years after the Steven Universe series finale "Change Your Mind". In "Change Your Mind", teenage protagonist Steven persuaded the Diamonds, the rulers of the intergalactic Gem empire, to cease their abusive, imperialist ways, and to heal the monstrous corrupted Gems that had been menacing the planet Earth. Now, Steven and his friends and family, the Crystal Gems, have constructed Little Homeworld, a community on Earth where humans and Gems can live in harmony. Steven now dedicates his time to inviting Gems to come to "Little Homeschool," and educating those who do not know how to find their new place in the galaxy.
Steven Universe Future follows Steven's everyday life trying to help Gems find new purpose; it also depicts the disappointments he faces with his new life, including the realization that there are things he cannot fix, and his own feelings of aimlessness after successfully liberating the Gem empire. He confronts old foes who are looking for revenge, tries to master a new power that he doesn't fully understand, and is challenged to decide what he wants for his own future.
Voice cast and characters
Main
Zach Callison as Steven Universe/Monster Steven, Onion, Cactus Steven, and Jingle Singer
Estelle Swaray as Garnet
Michaela Dietz as Amethyst, and other Quartz Gems
Deedee Magno Hall as Pearl, Pink Pearl/Volleyball, Shell, Brandish, Mega Pearl and Aubergine Pearl
Shelby Rabara as Peridot
Recurring
Tom Scharpling as Greg Universe
Grace Rolek as Connie Maheswaran
Charlyne Yi as Ruby, Eyeball, and other Rubies
Erica Luttrell as Sapphire
Jennife |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJ%20Lee | Min Jung "MJ" Lee (born March 5, 1987) is a South Korean-born American political correspondent for CNN and is currently a White House correspondent for the network.
She has previously worked for Politico.
Early life and education
Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Hong Kong, where she and her brother attended Hong Kong International School (an American-system style school). In her junior year of high school, she moved to the United States to attend a boarding school and has never returned to South Korea. In 2009, she graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in government and Chinese. During college, she interned for The Washington Post and South China Morning Post. Lee was offered an entry level journalism position, but was then rejected due to being on a visa.
Career
Months after graduation, Lee began working at Politico as a web producer. By 2012, she was a finance reporter after a year on the breaking news desk. In 2014, she started working at CNN. Since working at CNN, she has covered the 2016 United States presidential election (both Trump and Clinton campaigns); as well as how the Me Too movement has affected Capitol Hill, covering the allegations against ousted U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN), former White House aide and Staff Secretary Rob Porter, and former U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold (R-TX) (all of whom resigned from their positions as a result of abuse or sexual misconduct allegations). She has also covered the Republicans' contemporary attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Lee covered the 2020 Democratic presidential primary with a focus on the Elizabeth Warren campaign, and the 2020 United States presidential election with a focus on the Joe Biden campaign.
In January 2021, Lee was promoted to White House correspondent under the Biden administration.
Personal life
Lee became an American citizen on September 17, 2016, on Ellis Island, coinciding with her coverage of the 2016 US presidential election campaign. She is married to fellow journalist Alex Burns. In February 2021, she gave birth to their first child.
References
1987 births
Living people
South Korean journalists
South Korean women journalists
South Korean expatriates in Hong Kong
CNN people
Georgetown University alumni
Politico people
People with acquired American citizenship
Mass media people from Seoul
American women journalists
21st-century American journalists
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
South Korean emigrants to the United States
Journalists from New York City
21st-century American women
American people of Korean descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20CLI%C3%89%20TJ%20Series | The Sony Clie TJ series were mid-range personal digital assistants produced by Sony, running the Palm operating system (version 5).
PEG-TJ35 & PEG-TJ25
The Sony CLIÉ PEG-TJ35 and PEG-TJ25 were released by Sony in 2003. These models are identical, except the TJ-35 also offers MP3 and ATRAC playback capabilities with a headphone jack. Powered by an ARM iMX-1 processor at 200 MHz, these devices ran the Palm OS 5 platform, featuring 32MB of internal storage (23M available for user data), as well as a Memory Stick PRO slot for additional storage expansion. Synchronization via USB and Infrared is also possible. The case of these devices appears to be aluminium, but is actually a painted plastic enclosure, with an internal steel plate providing structural rigidity. At the time or release, these devices competed with the PalmOne Zire 71. While navigation on these devices could be performed using the touchscreen, as was common for many Clie models, these devices also featured a scrolling wheel offering easy one-handed vertical navigation, which could be pressed in to select items.
Included Software
The device comes with a few applications:
In ROM
Address Book
AeroPlayer (Version 1.0S) - A MP3 player.
Calculator
Calendar
CLIÉ Files
CLIÉ Image Viewer (Version 1.2)
CLIÉ Launcher
CLIÉ Memo
Data Export (Version 1.0)
Date Book
Decuma handwriting recognition
Graffiti 2 handwriting system
HotSync
Memo Pad
Note Pad
Pixel Viewer. An application to view Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, or PDF and HTML files.
Preferences
To Do List
A bundle of trial software versions are also available on Installation CD-ROM.
Installation CD-ROM
PC
Palm Desktop v.4.1
Adobe Acrobat
Image Converter
Intellisync Lite for syncing to Outlook.
QuickTime
Palm
Agendus (Trial)
BDicty (Trial)
London Tube Guide (Trial)
Paris Metro Guide (Trial)
Kickoo's Breakout (Trial)
Kickoo's TakTik (Trial)
Bump Attack Pinball (Trial)
ViaMichelin (Trial)
Multimedia
Music
MP3s can be played from Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO using the skinable AeroPlayer. Files must be stored in /PALM/Programs/MSAUDIO directory on the Memory Stick. MP3s with bit rates from 96 kbit/s - 320 kbit/s will be played.
Additional codecs to support Speex or Vorbis were available for free.
Video
TCPMP could be used to watch Videos on this device. The files can only be played from Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO.
PEG-TJ37 & PEG-TJ27
The Sony CLIÉ PEG-TJ37 and PEG-TJ27 were released in early 2004, and improved upon the previous models with the addition of an integrated digital camera, complete with dedicated shutter button, and a manual sliding lens cover. The camera featured VGA (640x480, 0.31MP) resolution, and was only capable of taking still photographs. Like the previous models, the higher-end TJ37 also included MP3 playback capabilities, but now also added Wi-Fi for mobile internet access. Most other features and specifications remained the same as per the previous ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Data%20Relay%20Satellite%20System | Indian Data Relay Satellite System or IDRSS is a planned Indian constellation of Inter-satellite communications satellites. It is planned to initially comprise two satellites, CMS-04 (formerly IDRSS-1) & IDRSS-2 in geostationary orbit. It will facilitate relay of information between various Indian spacecraft, in-flight launch vehicle monitoring and assist the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.
Objectives
A Data Relay Satellite System (DRSS) facilitates continuous real-time communication between Low Earth orbit bound spacecraft to the ground station as well as inter-satellite communication. Such a satellite in geostationary orbit can track a low altitude spacecraft up to almost half of its orbit.
India operates one of world's largest remote sensing satellites systems. Visibility of these satellites is not more than 10–15 minutes in a day and sometimes even lower. The IDRSS satellites, one opposite to each half of earth in GEO, can see about 80 per cent of the area where Indian remote sensing satellites are orbiting, hence enhancing visibility range and data transfer rates of satellites. IDRSS can also monitor a launch vehicle from the time it lifts off from the launch pad. Satellites will hereby also reduce dependency on ground stations. Implementation of the system will be essential for tracking Gaganyaan, India's future crewed spacecraft.
The main objectives of IDRSS are:
TTC, Data, Audio and Video links to Gaganyaan
TTC links to LEO satellite
Data transfer from Antarctica Ground Stations
Design
IDRSS satellites would be based on 2,000 kg class, I-2K extended bus and will be compatible for launch onboard GSLV Mk-II Launch Vehicle.
Payload
Data relay payloads operating in S, Ka and Ku bands.
2.5 m deployable Cassegrain antenna System operating in dual frequency bands (S and Ka bands)
1.5 m fixed Cassegrain Antenna System operating in Ku and Ka frequency bands.
The deployable antenna system will interface with the satellite by means of a deployable, pointing and tracking mechanism along with a S band rotary joint. Satellites might carry optical communication payload for increased data security and high transfer rates.
Satellites
Launch
IDRSS was approved by the Government of India and had funds allocated in budget of 2019-20. CMS-04 would be the first spacecraft in the IDRSS constellation, and its launch is currently scheduled for 2023.
See also
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
Luch (satellite)
European Data Relay System
Tianlian I
References
Laser communication in space
Communications satellite constellations
Proposed spacecraft
2023 in spaceflight
Inter-satellite communications satellites
2023 in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDI | 106.3 DABIG C Radio (DXDI 106.3 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Prime Broadcasting Network. It serves as the flagship station of DABIG C Radio network, formerly known as Prime FM. Its studios and transmitter are located at Estrada Subd., Brgy. Zone 2, Digos.
References
External links
DABIG C Radio FB Page
Radio stations in Davao del Sur
Radio stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadySoft | ReadySoft was a video game developer and publisher and distributor founded in 1987 by David Foster, based in Ontario, Canada. Products include various emulators as well as home computer ports of Sullivan Bluth's Laser disc game series Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and their sequels. As a publisher, they frequently handled North American release of games by French developer Silmarils.
Emulators
ReadySoft's first product was a Commodore 64 emulator for the Amiga. In 1992, ReadySoft published the A-Max II and A-Max II Plus Macintosh emulators for the Amiga which were software emulators augmented by add-on hardware.
Games
Developed or ported by ReadySoft
Brain Dead 13 (1995)
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp (1996) Rerelease
Space Ace (1995) Rerelease
Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread (1992)
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon (1992)
Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge (1991)
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp (1990)
Space Ace (1989)
Published or distributed by ReadySoft
Deus (1996) US release
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity (1995) Canadian release of DOS version
Robinson's Requiem (1994) US release of 3DO and DOS versions
The Patrician (1993) US release of DOS version
Arctic Baron (1993) US release of DOS version
Sleeping Gods Lie (1991) North American release of DOS version
Volfied (1991) DOS port
Wrath of the Demon (1990)
Bomb Busters (1988)
Rock Challenge (1988)
Cosmic Bouncer (1988)
References
External links
ReadySoft at MobyGames
Video game companies established in 1987
Defunct video game companies of Canada
Entertainment One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20B%C3%BCrgisser | Peter Bürgisser (born 1962) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who deals with algorithmic algebra and algebraic complexity theory.
Education and career
Bürgisser received in 1990 his doctorate from the University of Konstanz with thesis Degenerationsordnung und Trägerfunktional bilinearer Abbildungen under the supervision of Volker Strassen. Bürgisser was a postdoc at the University of Bonn from 1991 to 1993 and then at the University of Zürich. He was a professor at the University of Paderborn and since 2013 a professor at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin).
His research deals with efficient algorithms for the solution of algebraic problems and lower bounds in the complexity of algebraic problems, as well as with symbolic and numerical algorithms and the probabilistic analysis of numerical algorithms.
With Felipe Cucker in 2011 he contributed to the solution of Smale's Problem No. 17.
Bürgisser was a visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley. He was also a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich.
In 2010, he was an invited speaker with talk Smoothed Analysis of Condition Numbers at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad. He was a plenary speaker at the 2008 conference of the organization Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) in Hong Kong and organized workshops on complexity theory at the 2005, 2008 and 2011 workshops and in the 2009 and 2012 Oberwolfach workshops. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
He is a member of the editorial staff of Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
In 2018 he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant.
Further Activities
In Bürgisser`s youth, he acted in four short-films by his school-mate Roger Steinmann as lead-actor. 'Die Flutkatastrophe' and 'Die Türe` were aired in the Swiss national TV DRS, the latter accompanied with an interview with Bürgisser.
Selected publications
with
with Michael Clausen and Amin Shokrollahi: Algebraic Complexity Theory, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 315, Springer 1997
References
External links
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Swiss computer scientists
University of Konstanz alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Academic staff of Paderborn University
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
1962 births
Living people
European Research Council grantees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone | The PinePhone is a smartphone developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64, intended to allow the user to have full control over the device. Measures to ensure this are: running mainline Linux-based mobile operating systems, assembling the phone with screws, and simplifying the disassembly for repairs and upgrades. LTE, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and both cameras can be physically switched off. The PinePhone ships with the Manjaro Linux-based operating system using the Plasma Mobile graphic interface, although other distributions can be installed by users.
History
Pine64 sold limited editions of the PinePhone, marketed towards developers and early adopters. The phone shipped worldwide with few geographical restrictions. The "Braveheart" edition, shipped in January 2020, was the first publicly available version of the phone, providing only a test firmware, so the user could test their phone before installing their operating system of choice.
In 2019, Pine64 partnered with existing and well established Linux-on-phone projects to launch a "Community Edition" campaign to incentivize software development for the device. Through this partnership, Pine64 donated $10 for each unit sold to the project maintainers. The community edition PinePhones featured a branding on the back cover and shipped with a custom box designed by the partnered artists. The "Mobian" community edition in February 2021 was the last to be offered.
Initially, the PinePhone was only available in one hardware configuration. The enhanced "Convergence Package" was introduced with the postmarketOS community edition announcement, featuring increased RAM, additional eMMC storage, and a USB-C dock known as a "docking bar". The docking bar is capable of delivering power to the phone via USB-C power-in (3A 5V), outputting digital video via HDMI, and has 10/100Mbps Ethernet connectivity and two USB 2.0 ports (for example, external storage, mouse and keyboard).
In February 2021, Pine64 announced the end of community edition devices, and that the default operating system for the production-ready PinePhone would be Manjaro using the KDE Plasma Mobile graphical environment. The company then introduced the PinePhone Beta Edition several weeks later. The Beta Edition's hardware and pricing was confirmed to be the same as the previous three community edition production runs, and the "Beta" was a reference to the software only. Pine64 began pre-orders on March 24, 2021, and began shipping Beta Edition devices in late April.
In October 2021, Pine64 announced the PinePhone Pro. In January 2022, Pine64 started accepting pre-orders of PinePhone Pro for deliveries by February 2022.
Features and comparisons
The PinePhone is often compared to other phones shipping with non-Android Linux distributions, especially the Librem 5, which released around the same time, and the WiFi-VoIP phone Necuno, which does not employ a cellular modem.
Pine64 promises five years of production. The long productio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brely%20Evans | Brely Evans is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, author and comedian. She co-starred in a number of films, and in 2019 starred in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, Ambitions.
Life and career
Evans was born and raised in Oakland, California. She was briefly in the early 1990's R&B group Emage. Her first notable film role was in the 2010 romantic comedy Just Wright starring Queen Latifah. In 2012, she appeared in musical film Sparkle. Her other film credits include He's Mine Not Yours (2011), David E. Talbert's Suddenly Single (2012), Black Coffee (2014), The Man in 3B (2015), and the leading role in You Can't Fight Christmas (2017).
On television, Evans had a recurring roles on BET drama series Being Mary Jane and TV One comedy series Born Again Virgin. In 2019, Evans was cast in two series regular roles. First, a female lead on the Bounce TV comedy series Last Call opposite Charles Malik Whitfield. Later that year, she began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, Ambitions playing Rondell Lancaster, the sister of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian J. White). The series was canceled after one season.
In 2020, she appeared in the second season of BET crime drama The Family Business, and starred in the Urban Movie Channel comedy-drama series For the Love of Jason and Terror Lake Drive.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music Videos
References
External links
Living people
21st-century American actresses
African-American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-global%20matching | Semi-global matching (SGM) is a computer vision algorithm for the estimation of a dense disparity map from a rectified stereo image pair, introduced in 2005 by Heiko Hirschmüller while working at the German Aerospace Center. Given its predictable run time, its favourable trade-off between quality of the results and computing time, and its suitability for fast parallel implementation in ASIC or FPGA, it has encountered wide adoption in real-time stereo vision applications such as robotics and advanced driver assistance systems.
Problem
Pixelwise stereo matching allows to perform real-time calculation of disparity maps by measuring the similarity of each pixel in one stereo image to each pixel within a subset in the other stereo image. Given a rectified stereo image pair, for a pixel with coordinates the set of pixels in the other image is usually selected as , where is a maximum allowed disparity shift.
A simple search for the best matching pixel produces many spurious matches, and this problem can be mitigated with the addition of a regularisation term that penalises jumps in disparity between adjacent pixels, with a cost function in the form
where is the pixel-wise dissimilarity cost at pixel with disparity , and is the regularisation cost between pixels and with disparities and respectively, for all pairs of neighbouring pixels . Such constraint can be efficiently enforced on a per-scanline basis by using dynamic programming (e.g. the Viterbi algorithm), but such limitation can still introduce streaking artefacts in the depth map, because little or no regularisation is performed across scanlines.
A possible solution is to perform global optimisation in 2D, which is however an NP-complete problem in the general case. For some families of cost functions (e.g. submodular functions) a solution with strong optimality properties can be found in polynomial time using graph cut optimization, however such global methods are generally too expensive for real-time processing.
Algorithm
The idea behind SGM is to perform line optimisation along multiple directions and computing an aggregated cost by summing the costs to reach pixel with disparity from each direction. The number of directions affects the run time of the algorithm, and while 16 directions usually ensure good quality, a lower number can be used to achieve faster execution. A typical 8-direction implementation of the algorithm can compute the cost in two passes, a forward pass accumulating the cost from the left, top-left, top, and top-right, and a backward pass accumulating the cost from right, bottom-right, bottom, and bottom-left. A single-pass algorithm can be implemented with only five directions.
The cost is composed by a matching term and a binary regularisation term . The former can be in principle any local image dissimilarity measure, and commonly used functions are absolute or squared intensity difference (usually summed over a window around the pixel, and after |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Chicken%20%28season%2010%29 | The tenth season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken began airing in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on September 30, 2019, containing 20 episodes.
Episodes
Notes
References
2019 American television seasons
2020 American television seasons
Robot Chicken seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20state%20distillation | Magic state distillation is a method for creating more accurate quantum states from multiple noisy ones, which is important for building fault tolerant quantum computers. It has also been linked to quantum contextuality, a concept thought to contribute to quantum computers' power.
The technique was first proposed by Emanuel Knill in 2004,
and further analyzed by Sergey Bravyi and Alexei Kitaev the same year.
Thanks to the Gottesman–Knill theorem, it is known that some quantum operations (operations in the Clifford algebra) can be perfectly simulated in polynomial time on a probabilistic classical computer. In order to achieve universal quantum computation, a quantum computer must be able to perform operations outside this set. Magic state distillation achieves this, in principle, by concentrating the usefulness of imperfect resources, represented by mixed states, into states that are conducive for performing operations that are difficult to simulate classically.
A variety of qubit magic state distillation routines and distillation routines for qubits with various advantages have been proposed.
Stabilizer formalism
The Clifford group consists of a set of -qubit operations generated by the gates (where H is Hadamard and S is ) called Clifford gates. The Clifford group generates stabilizer states which can be efficiently simulated classically, as shown by the Gottesman–Knill theorem. This set of gates with a non-Clifford operation is universal for quantum computation.
Magic states
Magic states are purified from copies of a mixed state . These states are typically provided via an ancilla to the circuit. A magic state for the gate is where . By combining (copies of) magic states with Clifford gates, can be used to make a non-Clifford gate. Since Clifford gates combined with a non-Clifford gate are universal for quantum computation, magic states combined with Clifford gates are also universal.
Purification algorithm for distilling |M〉
The first magic state distillation algorithm, invented by Sergey Bravyi and Alexei Kitaev, is a follows.
Input: Prepare 5 imperfect states.
Output: An almost pure state having a small error probability.
repeat
Apply the decoding operation of the five-qubit error correcting code and measure the syndrome.
If the measured syndrome is , the distillation attempt is successful.
else Get rid of the resulting state and restart the algorithm.
until The states have been distilled to the desired purity.
References
Quantum computing
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama%20Akkiraju | Rama Akkiraju is an Indian-born American computer scientist. She is vice president of AI for IT at Nvidia and performs research in the field of artificial intelligence.
Akkiraju started her career at the T. J. Watson Research Center in New York and later moved to IBM Almaden Research Center. She served as the Distinguished Engineer and Director of Engineering at IBM's Watson Division from 2015 to 2019.
Akkiraju was named an IBM Fellow in 2019. She has been an IBM Master Inventor since 2014.
Education
Akkiraju received her MBA at New York University, Stern School of Business in 2004, where she earned a gold metal for highest academic excellence. She received her M.S. in Computer Science from Utah State University in 1995 and her B.Tech. in Electronics engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, in Andhra Pradesh, India in 1993.
Professional contributions
Akkiraju served as the President for ISSIP, a Service Science professional society for 2018, and actively drives AI projects through ISSIP. Akkiraju is the co-chair for the AI Council at CompTIA industry forum. Akkiraju has served as program committee chair, and program committee member for various academic conferences & journals including those organized by IEEE, and ACM.
While at IBM, Akkiraju led the "People Insights" on the IBM Watson team, developing technologies to infer personalities, emotions, tone, attitudes, and intentions from social media data.
Akkiraju has co-authored over 100 technical papers. Akkiraju has 45+ issued patents and 25+ pending. She is the recipient of 4 best paper awards in AI and Operations Research areas from AAAI and INFORMs.
Akkiraju has delivered many keynote addresses, podcasts and blog posts on artificial intelligence, bias, AI for IT operations etc.
Awards and honors
May 2017: Top 20 Women in AI Research, Forbes
July 2018: A-Team in AI, Fortune
December 2019: Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning, Enterprise Management 360
2020: Athena Award for Executive Leadership, University of California
2019, 2020: Excellence in Service Innovation Award, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals
2021: Nominee, women in AI Award, VentureBeat
Selected publications
Akkiraju, Rama, Joel Farrell, John A. Miller, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, and Kunal Verma. "Web service semantics-wsdl-s." (2005).
Doshi, Prashant, Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, and Kunal Verma. "Dynamic workflow composition: Using markov decision processes." International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) 2, no. 1 (2005): 1–17.
Akkiraju, Rama, Richard Goodwin, Prashant Doshi, and Sascha Roeder. "A Method for Semantically Enhancing the Service Discovery Capabilities of UDDI." In IIWeb, pp. 87–92. 2003.
Elmeleegy, Hazem, Anca Ivan, Rama Akkiraju, and Richard Goodwin. "Mashup advisor: A recommendation tool for mashup development." In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pp. 337–344. IEEE, 2008.
References
External links
Rama Akki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Kelber | Ulrich Wolfgang Kelber (born 29 March 1968) is a German former politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since 7 January 2019. From 2000 to 2019, he was the member of the Bundestag for Bonn.
Life
Ulrich Kelber was born in Bamberg and grew up in Bonn. From 1987 to 1993 he studied computer science and biology at the University of Bonn. He worked in IT until 2002.
Political career
Career in local politics
Kelber became a member of the SPD in 1985 and was the local party chairman in Bonn from 2001 to 2008, and a member of the SPD executive board 2009 to 2011.
Member of the German Parliament, 2000–2019
Kelber became a member of the Bundestag on 1 September 2000, replacing Rudolf Dreßler who left. He won re-election as directly elected member for the constituency of Bonn in each of the elections from 2002 to 2017.
In parliament, Kelber was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 2000 until 2005, where he served as the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). From 2005 until 2013, he served as the group's deputy chairman under the leadership of successive chairmen Peter Struck (2005-2009) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2009-2013). In this capacity, he coordinated the group's policy initiatives on the environment, energy, sustainability, agriculture and consumer protection.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 elections, Kelber was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on the environment and agriculture, led by Katherina Reiche and Ute Vogt. In the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, he subsequently served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection under the leadership of minister Heiko Maas from 2014 until 2018.
In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Kelber was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas.
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, 2019–present
Kelber was elected to become Federal Commissioner for Data Protection in 2018 and took up the office on 7 January 2019 after giving up his Bundestag seat.
Other activities
Eurosolar, Member
German Cyclist's Association (ADFC), Member
Bonn International Award for Democracy, Member of the Board of Trustees
German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Member
German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member
Greenpeace, Member
Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Member of the Board of Trustees (2018- 2019)
Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Member of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20CLI%C3%89%20PEG-TG50 | The Clié PEG-TG50 is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) which was manufactured by Sony, released in March 2003. Running the Palm operating system (version 5.0), the TG50 was notable as it featured a built-in backlit mini qwerty keyboard, in lieu of a dedicated handwriting recognition area as was the trend on most other PDAs.
This handheld featured a 320x320 colour LCD, bluetooth, and additional multimedia features, including MP3 and ATRAC3 audio playback, a voice-recorder, and a slot for MemoryStick PRO memory cards. The TG50 was powered by a 200 MHz Intel XScale PXA250 processor, with 16MB of RAM, 11MB of which was available for user data storage. The TG50 also featured the "Jog Dial" scroll wheel on the side of the device, as was common on Sony Clie models, and came with a flip cover to protect the front face of the device when not in use.
Specifications
Palm OS: 5.0
CPU: Intel XScale PXA250 200 MHz
Audio codec: AK4534VN
PMIC: Panasonic AN32502A
Touch controller: Analog Devices AD7873
Gate array / IO expander: NEC 65943-L63
Memory: 16MB RAM (11MB avail.), 16MB ROM
Display: 320x 320 transflective back-lit TFT-LCD, 16bit Colour (65k colours)
Sound: Internal audio amplifier, Rear speaker, Mono Mic, Stereo Headphone out.
External Connectors: USB
Expansion: Memory Stick Pro, MSIO
Wireless: Infrared IrDA, Bluetooth
Battery: Rechargeable Li-Ion Polymer (900mAh)
Size & Weight: 5.0" x 2.8" x 0.63"; 6.2 oz.
Color: Silver
See also
Sony CLIÉ TH Series - The successor to the TG series.
External links
TG50 Review at Palm Info Center
TG50 Review at CNet
TG50 Review at BrightHand
TG50 review at PCMag
References
Sony CLIÉ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolabeops%20nyongensis | Prolabeops nyongensis is a cyprinid fish in the genus Prolabeops. It inhabits Cameroon and has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List.
References
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Cyprinid fish of Africa
Fish of Cameroon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Parks%20Autonomous%20Agency | The National Parks Autonomous Agency (OAPN) is an autonomous agency of the Spanish central government that manages the National Parks Network and the Spanish Biosphere Reserves Network, as well as mountains, farms and other patrimonial assets of its property. The agency was created on June 23, 1995 by the Agriculture Minister Luis María Atienza by merging two other agencies, the Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICONA) and the National Institute for Agrarian Reform and Development (IRYDA).
The OAPN is an agency of the Spanish Ecological Transition Department. The Minister, the Secretary of State for Environment and the Director-General for Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification act as President, First Vice President and Second Vice President of the agency, respectively, although the chief executive of the agency is the Director. The current director is Juan José Areces Maqueda, appointed on July 29, 2018.
Powers
The National Parks Autonomous Agency is responsible for:
The formulation of the national policy regarding national parks.
The dissemination and promotion of the image, values, and conservation model of national parks abroad.
The planning and management of the natural spaces of state competence.
The management of the mountains, farms and other assets assigned or their ownership.
The coordination and promotion of the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO, as well as the promotion, coordination and support of the Biosphere Reserve Network.
The support to the Ecological Transition Department's policies regarding biodiversity, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, conservation of fauna, flora, habitat and natural ecosystems in the terrestrial and marine environment. In this sense, it has the same responsibilities in the Department's policies on education, information, awareness, training and public participation on environmental issues through the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM).
The provision to the public of information and documentation services specialized in protected areas, nature conservation, dissemination, communication and environmental education.
The cooperation with public and private entities, both national (state, regional and local) and international, for the development of the previous functions.
History
The first National Parks Act was passed on December 8, 1916. This law was one of the first in Europe dedicated to the protection of nature and it consisted in just three articles. The law, defined the national parks as "those exceptionally picturesque, forested or rugged sites or places of the national territory, which the State consecrates, declaring them such, with the sole purpose of favoring their access through adequate means of communication, and respecting and to ensure that the natural beauty of its landscapes, the richness of its fauna and its flora and the geological and hydrological participles that they enclose are respected, thus avoiding with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20distribution%20system | A water distribution system is a part of water supply network with components that carry potable water from a centralized treatment plant or wells to consumers to satisfy residential, commercial, industrial and fire fighting requirements.
Definitions
Water distribution network is the term for the portion of a water distribution system up to the service points of bulk water consumers or demand nodes where many consumers are lumped together. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the term water transmission system for a network of pipes, generally in a tree-like structure, that is used to convey water from water treatment plants to service reservoirs, and uses the term water distribution system for a network of pipes that generally has a loop structure to supply water from the service reservoirs and balancing reservoirs to consumers.
Components
A water distribution system consists of pipelines, storage facilities, pumps, and other accessories.
Pipelines laid within public right of way called water mains are used to transport water within a distribution system. Large diameter water mains called primary feeders are used to connect between water treatment plants and service areas. Secondary feeders are connected between primary feeders and distributors. Distributors are water mains that are located near the water users, which also supply water to individual fire hydrants. A service line is a small diameter pipe used to connect from a water main through a small tap to a water meter at user's location. There is a service valve (also known as curb stop) on the service line located near street curb to shut off water to the user's location.
Storage facilities, or distribution reservoirs, provide clean drinking water storage (after required water treatment process) to ensure the system has enough water to service in response to fluctuating demands (service reservoirs), or to equalize the operating pressure (balancing reservoirs). They can also be temporarily used to serve fire fighting demands during a power outage. The following are types of distribution reservoirs:
Underground storage reservoir or covered finished water reservoir: An underground storage facility or large ground-excavated reservoir that is fully covered. The walls and the bottom of these reservoirs may be lined with impermeable materials to prevent ground water intrusion.
Uncovered finished water reservoir: A large ground-excavated reservoir that has adequate measures or lining to prevent surface water runoff and ground water intrusion but does not have a top cover. This type of reservoir is less desirable as the water will not be further treated before distribution and is susceptible to contaminants such as bird waste, animal and human activities, algal bloom, and airborne deposition.
Surface reservoir (also known as ground storage tank and ground storage reservoir): A storage facility built on the ground with the wall lined with concrete, shotcrete, asphalt, or membrane. A surf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavita%20Bala | Kavita Bala (born 1971; in Bombay, India) is an Indian computer scientist, academic and entrepreneur. She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. After serving as department chair from 2018–2020, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty for Computing and Information Science, now known as the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Bala’s research expertise is in computer vision and graphics. Her work was recognized in 2020 by the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technique - ACM SIGGRAPH - for “fundamental contributions to physically-based and scalable rendering, material modeling, perception for graphics, and visual recognition.” Her early research focused on realistic, physically-based rendering and includes seminal work on scalable rendering, notably the development of Lightcuts and other approximate illumination algorithms, as well as contributions to volumetric and procedural modeling of textiles. Currently, Bala is studying recognition of materials, styles, and other object attributes in images.
Her work on 3D Mandalas was featured at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York.
Education
Bala received a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Bombay) in 1992, and a Masters of Science (S.M.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.
Career
At Cornell University, Bala became a postdoctoral researcher in the program of computer graphics led by Donald P. Greenberg in 1999, and joined the Cornell Computer Science faculty in 2002.
Bala co-founded GrokStyle with Sean Bell, currently a research scientist at Facebook. GrokStyle, a visual recognition AI company, began as a vision search and shopping tool integrated with IKEA’s Augmented Reality application, and was subsequently acquired by Facebook in 2019. Facebook’s GrokNet - which allows users to buy, sell and discover items seamlessly across all of its Facebook platforms, builds on the fundamental technology originally developed at GrokStyle.
Bala is on the Board of Directors of ColorStack, Board of Trustees of Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), the Advisory Board for ACM Transactions on Graphics, and the Papers Advisory Group for SIGGRAPH.
Bala served the research community in numerous important roles including Technical Papers Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2015 to 2018.
Research
Bala’s early research focused on realistic, physically-based rendering and scalable rendering, notably the development of Lightcuts and other approximate illumination algorithms. The Lightcuts algorithm became the core production engine in Autodesk’s cloud renderer. She co-authored the book Advanced Global Illumination, which has become a classic text in the field. She has also contributed to volumetric and proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank-Olaf%20Schreyer | Frank-Olaf Schreyer is a German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and algorithmic algebraic geometry.
Schreyer received in 1983 his PhD from Brandeis University with thesis Syzgies of Curves with Special Pencils under the supervision of David Eisenbud. Schreyer was a professor at University of Bayreuth and is since 2002 a professor at Saarland University.
He is involved in the development of (algorithmic) algebraic geometry advanced by David Eisenbud. Much of Schreyer's research deals with syzygy theory and the development of algorithms for the calculation of syzygies.
In 2010 he was an invited speaker (jointly with David Eisenbud) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
with D. Eisenbud, H. Lange, G. Martens: The Clifford dimension of a projective curve, Compositio Math., vol. 72, 1989, pp., 173–204
A standard basis approach to syzygies of canonical curves, J. reine angew. Math., vol. 421, 1991, pp. 83–123
as editor with Klaus Hulek, Thomas Peternell, Michael Schneider: Complex Algebraic Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1992 (Konferenz Bayreuth 1990)
with W. Decker, L. Ein: Construction of surfaces in , J. Alg. Geom., vol. 2, 1993, pp. 185–237
with K. Ranestad: Varieties of sums of power, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 2000, pp. 147–181
with David Eisenbud: Sheaf Cohomology and Free Resolutions over Exterior Algebras, Arxiv 2000
with W. Decker: Computational Algebraic Geometry Today, in: C. Ciliberto et al. (eds.), Application of Algebraic Geometry to Coding Theory, Physics and Computation, Kluwer 2001, pp. 65–119
with D. Eisenbud, J. Weyman: Resultants and Chow forms via exterior syzygies, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 16, 2003, pp. 537–579
with D. Eisenbud, G. Fløystad: Sheaf cohomology and free resolutions over exterior algebras, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 355, 2003, pp. 4397–4426, Arxiv
as editor with Alicia Dickenstein, Andrew J. Sommese: Algorithms in Algebraic Geometry, Springer 2008
with D. Eisenbud: Betti numbers of graded modules and cohomology of vector bundles, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 22, 2009, pp. 859–888
with David Eisenbud: Betti Numbers of Syzygies and Cohomology of Coherent Sheaves, ICM 2010, Hyderabad, Arxiv
with Burcin Erocal et al.: Refined Algorithms to Compute Syzygies, J. Symb. Comput., vol. 74, 2016, pp. 308–327, Arxiv
References
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Brandeis University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bayreuth
Academic staff of Saarland University
Algebraic geometers
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico%20Ayos | Federico Ayos (born May 22, 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actor, best known for his role Santiago in Televisa's telenovela Corazón que miente (2016), and Emiliano in La candidata (2016). Subsequently, he got a recurring role in the first season of the telenovela Mi marido tiene familia. Federico is the son of actress Mónica Ayos, and stepson of actor Diego Olivera. He studied acting at the Televisa Arts Education Center, together with Ela Velden, whom he had dated from 2016-2018.
Filmography
References
External links
Living people
Argentine male film actors
Argentine male stage actors
Argentine male telenovela actors
Argentine male television actors
Male actors from Buenos Aires
People educated at Centro de Estudios y Formación Actoral
1992 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20T.%20Chong | Frederic (Fred) T. Chong is an American computer scientist known for research in computer architecture, quantum computing, and computer security.
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Chong received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1990 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1996, with Prof. Anant Agarwal as his thesis adviser.
Chong served in faculty positions at University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 2015 as the Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Architecture. He is the lead PI of EPiQC, an NSF Expeditions in Computing program on Quantum Computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
In 2020, Chong co-founded Super.tech and served as Chief Scientist for the quantum software company. In 2022, Super.tech was acquired by Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta), where Chong now serves as Chief Scientist for Quantum Software.
Awards
2019: Intel Outstanding Researcher Award.
2002: University of California, Davis Chancellor's Fellow.
2013: Named an ACM Distinguished Member.
2023: Elevated to Fellow Member of the IEEE "for contributions to the field of quantum computer architecture, compilation and optimization".
References
External links
University of Chicago: Frederic T. Chong, Department of Computer Science
Living people
American computer scientists
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from New Brunswick, New Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliomys%20ossitenuis | Juliomys ossitenuis is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae native to South America.
Taxonomy
This rodent is in the Kingdom Animalia. They are found in the Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, and Order Rodentia. Its specific epithet is named Juliomys ossitenuis. They belong to the Family Cricetidae and Subfamily Sigmodontinae.
Habitat
They can survive in habitats that accumulate heavy amounts of rain.
Biology
Three types of hair are present in the dorsal region of this species' fur: aristiform, setiform and villiform. The ventral coat is maize yellow, paws in dorsal view are light orange (apricot yellow and dark orange), tail is smooth and intensely bi-colored dorsoventrally, presence and absence of tufts of hair at the tip of the tail, and ventral coat banding pattern, with a gray base corresponding to approximately half and one third of the coat length.
Karyotype
The karyotypes of this rodent is 2n = 20 and NA = 36.
References
Juliomys
Rodents of South America
Taxa named by Leonora Pires Costa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa%20Teague | Vanessa Joy Teague is an Australian cryptographer, known for her work on secret sharing, cryptographic protocols, and the security of electronic voting. She was an associate professor of computing and information systems at the University of Melbourne, until resigning in February 2020 and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Verified Voting Foundation.
Education
Teague did her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne. In 2005 she completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University. Her dissertation, Combining Cryptography and Game Theory in Distributed Algorithms, was supervised by John C. Mitchell. Her time as a graduate student in the US overlapped with the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, and the controversy over the vote recount sparked her interest in the integrity of elections.
Contributions
In 2017, Teague showed that historical data from the Australian Medicare Benefits Scheme that had supposedly been stripped of identifying details could be re-associated with the names of individual patients.
In 2018, she and Chris Culnane found a security flaw in the New Zealand census, in which the personal data of New Zealanders, supposedly confidential to the New Zealand government, were actually routed through and visible to a company in New York.
In 2019, Teague was part of a team that discovered a flaw in the Swiss national internet voting system that would allow undetected alteration of vote outcomes. The same flaw was later discovered to be present in voting systems in New South Wales, whose electoral commission nevertheless declared them to be safe to use.
Teague also became an outspoken critic of Australia's 2019 anti-encryption laws, at the same time that a change in Australian defence policy severely limited her ability to discuss matters related to cryptography with researchers in other countries.
Recognition
In 2016 the Election Verification Network recognized Teague as the winner of their Election Integrity Research Excellence Award.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian cryptographers
University of Melbourne alumni
Stanford University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Australian women computer scientists
Women cryptographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Joseph%20McGuigan | Frank Joseph McGuigan (December 7, 1924 – April 8, 1998) was an American psychologist. His research spanned multiple areas, including cybernetics, electrophysiology, and psychophysiology.
References
1924 births
1998 deaths
People from Oklahoma City
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
20th-century American psychologists
Pepperdine University faculty
George Washington University faculty
Hollins University faculty
University of Hawaiʻi faculty
North Carolina State University faculty
University of Louisville faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz%20Barak | Boaz Barak (בועז ברק, born 1974) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Harvard University.
Early life and education
He graduated in 1999 with a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science with thesis Non-Black-Box Techniques in Cryptography under the supervision of Oded Goldreich. Barak was at the Institute for Advanced Study for two years from 2003 to 2005. He was an assistant professor in the computer science department of Princeton University from 2005 to 2010 and an associate professor from 2010 to 2011. From 2010 to 2016, he was a researcher at Microsoft's New England research laboratory. Since 2016, he is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a citizen of both Israel and the United States.
Career
He co-authored, with Sanjeev Arora, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Barak also wrote extensive notes with David Steurer on the sum of squares algorithm and occasionally blogs on the Windows on Theory blog. In 2013, he, Robert J. Goldston, and Alexander Glaser worked to design a "zero-knowledge" system to verify that warheads designated for disarmament are actually what they purport to be. By directing high-energy neutrons into the warhead under investigation, and comparing the distribution passing through to the distribution that passed through a known warhead, inspectors can determine whether a warhead being disarmed is genuine or a ruse designed to evade treaty requirements, without leaking nuclear secrets. For this work, he was selected for Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers issue for 2014.
In 2014 Barak was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics at Seoul. With Mark Braverman, Xi Chen, and Anup Rao, he won the 2016 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize for the paper “How to Compress Interactive Communication”. He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to theoretical computer science, in particular cryptography and computational complexity, and service to the theory community".
Patents
U.S. Patent 7,003,677, “Method for operating proactively secured applications on an insecure system” with Amir Herzberg, Dalit Naor and Eldad Shai of IBM Haifa Research Lab. Filed November 1999, granted February 2006.
References
External links
Israeli computer scientists
American computer scientists
1974 births
Living people
Tel Aviv University alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Princeton University faculty
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
21st-century Israeli mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore%20Corporation | Semaphore Corporation was a company notable for being the first to provide public access to selected U.S. Postal Service databases, and for its early computer publications in the 1980s.
Founded in January 1982, the company operated for 35 years through September 2017. The firm's initial products were for Pick operating system programmers and users, followed by offerings for Lisa and Macintosh users, then finally concentrating solely on the Windows market.
Software, services, and periodicals by Semaphore
ADOsort was a Windows program for sorting and printing postal mail to allow qualifying for first and third class mail postage discounts. Originally bundled with a $19 companion database for ZP4 in 2005, ADOsort became a free downloadable program along with a number of other tools in 2016. Complete source code was released in 2017, and is still downloadable with the MAF installer. ADOsort includes editable data tables and a postal form editor, making it notable as a program that allowed adjusting for Postal Service pricing and form layout changes from year to year without making any source code changes.
B-TREE-P was a $395 collection of subroutines for using B-trees with the Pick operating system. First distributed in April 1986 and last updated in December 1989, source code is still available online. Selections of new customers were listed in advertisements in each edition of Pragma's Product Profiles. Three dozen copies were sold during the first four months of distribution ("That's actually quite spectacular for a $395 off-the-shelf Pick software product" ).
CARGO (Column And Row GeneratOr) was a $880 spreadsheet generator similar to the T/Maker product by Lifeboat Associates, but ran on the version of the Pick operating system found on Microdata computers, and was first released in August 1982. About 50 copies were sold, after originally being developed as a consulting project for a Pick user who had created a huge VisiCalc marketing model on their Apple II that required 23 floppy disks.
COMICS (COMputerized Inmate Cash System) was software for maintaining California county jail inmate welfare funds and commissaries, bundled with General Automation computers running the Pick operating system. Pricing started at $14,990. Installations were made at various facilities in Monterey and San Mateo counties.
FreeCCS was software to do credit card processing for merchants, created in-house in 1997 as a replacement for MacAuthorize due to a bug found in that product. Subsequently offered as a free public download, FreeCCS source code was also available for $299, using Think Pascal 4.0.2 for Macintosh and Delphi 2.0 for Windows.
MAF (Master Address File) was a free online address correction and validation service, replacing ZP4 and ZP4net in December 2017, when the final databases licensed by Semaphore from the Postal Service expired. Unlike the Postal Service ZIP+4 database of address ranges used by ZP4, MAF used a proprietary database of individ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soha%20Hassoun | Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor (since 2015) and Past Chair (2013–2016) of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology.
Biography
Hassoun earned her BSEE degree from the South Dakota State University (1986), MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), and PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington (1997).
In 1988–1991 Hassoun was an integrated circuit designer with the Microprocessor Design Group, Digital Equipment Corporation. She worked as consultant for IKOS Systems (later part of Mentor Graphics) (1999–2001) and some other EDA companies. Since 1998 she has been with Tufts University.
Awards and recognition
2016: Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award
2015: IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation) Distinguished Service Award for chairing the Design Automation Conference
2000, 2007: ACM/SIGDA Distinguished Service Award
2002: ACM/SIGDA Technical Leadership Award
Senior member of IEEE (2007) and ACM
2001–2006: NSF CAREER Award
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Tufts University faculty
South Dakota State University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Washington College of Engineering alumni
Electronic engineering award winners
American women computer scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrony | chrony is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is an alternative to ntpd, a reference implementation of NTP. It runs on Unix-like operating systems (including Linux and macOS) and is released under the GNU GPL v2. It is the default NTP client and server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, and available in many Linux distributions.
Support for Network Time Security (NTS) was added in version 4.0.
Comparison with the reference implementation
In contrast to NTPsec, which is a security-focused fork of , chrony was implemented from scratch. It was designed to synchronize time even in difficult conditions such as intermittent network connections (such as laptops) and congested networks. Some improvements in this regard (compared to reference ntpd) include that it never steps (abruptly adjusts) time outside of startup, can correct for asymmetric network jitters, and can use larger clock rate adjustments on Linux to deal with a broken clock. It typically synchronizes faster and more accurately.
Unlike , it supports synchronizing the system clock via hardware timestamping (i.e. packet times on the network adapter), improving accuracy of time synchronization between machines on a LAN – to the order of 70 nanoseconds (from asymmetry), comparable to Precision Time Protocol. It also supports synchronization by manual input, so as to perform time correction within an isolated network.
does not implement broadcast, multicast, and anycast modes of operation. It also does not implement the insecure "autokey" authentication. It uses external programs to drive hardware time sources (e.g. for GNSS), unlike , which has many built-in drivers.
See also
OpenNTPD
References
External links
Network time-related software
Free software programmed in C
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano%20Security%20Suite | Volcano Security Suite is a piece of harmful security software that disguises itself as an antispyware program. It issues a false messages and alerts, and false system scan results on the computer to scare people to pay for the full version of the rogue software. It is a part of FakeVimes family.
Symptoms of infection
It attempts to disable some legitimate antivirus programs.
It can also hijack the Internet Explorer.
It also displays false alerts stating that the computer is infected with malware.
Removal
Volcano Security Suite can be detected and removed by certain antivirus and antispyware like SpyHunter malware suite, as well as Malwarebytes antimalware.
See also
Rogue security software
References
Rogue software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birchfield%E2%80%93Tomasi%20dissimilarity | In computer vision, the Birchfield–Tomasi dissimilarity is a pixelwise image dissimilarity measure that is robust with respect to sampling effects. In the comparison of two image elements, it fits the intensity of one pixel to the linearly interpolated intensity around a corresponding pixel on the other image. It is used as a dissimilarity measure in stereo matching, where one-dimensional search for correspondences is performed to recover a dense disparity map from a stereo image pair.
Description
When performing pixelwise image matching, the measure of dissimilarity between pairs of pixels from different images is affected by differences in image acquisition such as illumination bias and noise. Even when assuming no difference in these aspects between an image pair, additional inconsistencies are introduced by the pixel sampling process, because each pixel is a sample obtained integrating the continuous light signal over a finite region of space, and two pixels matching the same feature of the image content may correspond to slightly different regions of the real object that can reflect light differently and can be subject to partial occlusion, depth discontinuity, or different lens defocus, thus generating different intensity signals.
The Birchfield–Tomasi measure compensates for the sampling effect by considering the linear interpolation of the samples. Pixel similarity is then determined by finding the best match between the intensity of a pixel sample in one image and the interpolated function in an interval around a location in the other image.
Considering the stereo matching problem for a rectified stereo pair, where the search for correspondences is performed in one dimension, given two columns and along the same scanline for the left and right image respectively, it is possible to define two symmetric functions
where and are the linear interpolation functions of the left and right image intensity and along the scanline. The Birchfield–Tomasi dissimilarity can then be defined as
In practice the measure can be computed with only a small and constant overhead with respect to the calculation of the simple intensity difference, because it is not necessary to reconstruct the interpolant function. Given that the interpolant is linear within each unit interval centred around a pixel, its minimum is located in one of its extremities. Therefore, can be written as
where
denoting with and the values of the interpolated intensities at the rightmost and leftmost extremities of a one-pixel interval centred around
The other function can be similarly rewritten, completing the expression for .
References
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCLR%20%28Arlington%20Heights%2C%20Illinois%29 | WCLR was a radio station that broadcast on 88.3 FM in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It was owned by the Educational Media Foundation and broadcast its Air1 Contemporary Christian network. Throughout its existence, WCLR shared the 88.3 frequency with Palatine-based WHCM at William Rainey Harper College, broadcasting on weekends and when the college was not in session. Pursuant to an agreement with the college, the WCLR license was canceled in 2017 to allow WHCM to broadcast full-time on 88.3.
History
On April 14, 1993, the Church of Christian Liberty filed an application for a construction permit for a new FM radio station on 88.3 FM. The application was granted November 6, 2000, and the WCLR call letters were assigned in 2001. (The call letters were historic in Chicago radio at 850 AM and 101.9 FM, but had been used in Ohio throughout the 1990s.) The time-share agreement would put WCLR on the air on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and during Harper College breaks from December 16 to January 15, March 25–31, and May 21 to August 14.
In 2002, pastor Paul D. Lindstrom, who founded CCL, died. While Lindstrom had envisioned WCLR as an extension of the church and its affiliated Christian Liberty Academy, the church opted to sell the permit to an experienced Christian radio operator. On June 17, 2003, the Church of Christian Liberty assigned the construction permit to the Educational Media Foundation for $25,000. EMF applied for program test authority in November 2003 and was granted it in April 2004. It joined EMF's Christian rock network Air1.
On May 17, 2017, EMF and Harper College reached an agreement in 2017 by which EMF would surrender the license for WCLR to allow WHCM to go full-time on 88.3 MHz. Harper College paid $13,600, representing EMF's outstanding obligation on the WCLR tower lease, and up to $5,000 in EMF's legal fees. The call letters on the WCLR license were changed to WHCD in advance of the closure, with the WCLR call letters being placed on the K-Love transmitter in Butler, Alabama before returning to Illinois on EMF's 92.5 DeKalb. WHCM went full-time on June 29, 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathaleen%20Land | Bonnie Kathaleen Land (21 November 1918 - 7 October 2012) was a computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley facility. The 2016 movie Hidden Figures, which brought awareness to this early success within the NASA space program, was written by Land's former Sunday school student, and Land served as one of the first interviewees during research for the novel. Land was called the "inspiration behind, catalyst for, and gateway to" the creation of Hidden Figures.
She was married to Stanley Land and had three daughters. She died on 7 October 2012.
Biography
Bonnie Kathaleen Pleasants was born on 21 November 1918 in Bridgewater, Virginia. She married Stanley Land on 1 December 1941 in Newport News, Virginia, and they had three daughters.
She worked as a human computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center facility. When Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, was a child, Land taught her in Sunday school following Land's retirement from NASA. Land was one of the first people Shetterly interviewed when she began researching for the Hidden Figures book, and Land provided several of the names of the human computers who were featured in the book and film. She is described as "the inspiration behind, catalyst for, and gateway to Hidden Figures".
Land died on 7 October 2012 in Hampton, Virginia.
See also
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM7 | FM7 may refer to:
FM-7, a home computer by Fujitsu
Farm to Market Road 7
Minor seventh chord in the key of F
Volvo FM7, a heavy truck
Forza Motorsport 7, a video game
The virtual instrument plug-in by Native Instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesadelo%20na%20Cozinha | Pesadelo na Cozinha () is a Brazilian reality television show broadcast on Band network based on the British reality Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
The TV show, commanded by French-Brazilian chef Érick Jacquin, has the objective to help restaurants which are going bankrupt. On 27 July 2017, a second season was confirmed to premiere in 2018, which was later delayed to 2019. In October 2019, a third season was confirmed to 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the production was suspended for undetermined time, but Band confirmed that the first 4 episodes would be released on 30 March 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2019)
Season 3 (2021)
Criticism
Before its premiere, the choice of Érick Jacquin to present the TV show was criticized by Danielle Dahoui, chef and presenter of the fourth season of Hell's Kitchen: Cozinha sob Pressão. In an interview to UOL, she criticized Jacquin's attitude and what he represents: "But how does a person [...] who has millions of labour lawsuits, will present a show like this?"
Writing to Observatório da Televisão, Endrigo Annyston said that the "main problem of Pesadelo na Cozinha is being fake in excess [...] it doesn't show the truth. If the TV shows Casos de Família and João Kléber Show raise doubts about the veracity of the cases presented, the reality show appears to be extremely rehearsed. [...] This is common in televisive attractions, not everything is improvised. The problem is to make the acting so obvious."
Two years after the airing of Hero's Burger episode, chef Marco Ungaro stated in an interview that his participation was rigged. According to him, Band didn't know, but the purpose of his participation was to boost the image of the burger shop and, to do that, the restaurant team made a deal to show a negative side of Marco, so his participation wouldn't affect the show.
Awards
See also
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, British version presented by Gordon Ramsay
Kitchen Nightmares, American version also presented by Gordon Ramsay
References
External links
Rede Bandeirantes original programming
2017 in Brazilian television
2017 Brazilian television series debuts
Television series by Banijay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest%20in%20Pieces%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Rest in Pieces" is the eighth episode of the ninth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 6, 2019, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Adam Penn, and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.
Plot
Shortly before Halloween, Bruce recovers and drives to Camp Redwood, interrupting a fight between Ramirez and Richter's ghost in the process. Ramirez enlists him to help eliminate Richter, eventually learning Richter is a ghost. Donna and Brooke are approached by Stacy, a tabloid writer who knows their identities, and they take her with them to Camp Redwood. Brooke promises to reveal the true story to Stacy, secretly planning to kill her, but Donna stops her and convinces her to focus on Margaret. Stacy flees, only to be killed by Bruce, Ramirez, and Margaret. Margaret reveals to Bruce and Ramirez her plan: inspired by places like Jim Morrison's grave, the Dakota and Graceland, she plans to murder the rest of the bands (except Billy Idol at Ramirez's insistence) at her festival, turning Camp Redwood into a memorial shrine for the deceased musicians and rake in a fortune from the people flocking to pay their respects. Trevor declares his love to Montana's ghost and plans to kill himself to join her, but she pushes him away, guilty and distraught about her relationship with Ramirez, having learned of what he had done from Richter. The dead counselors, enraged at Richter's past murder spree, tie him up and refuse to allow him to escape to kill Ramirez, intending to kill him over and over for the rest of his afterlife. Bobby's ghost appears and drags Richter into the lake; he awakens next to Bobby and Lavinia (the latter of whom has had a change of heart) and who convince him to stay with them.
Reception
"Rest in Pieces" was watched by 1.05 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.5 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode had the fewest viewers of any episode in the entire series.
The episode received mostly positive reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Rest in Pieces" holds a 62% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 7/10.
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4/5, saying, "That's a big milestone; the change-over from one decade to another always seems like a big deal to people, and in a lot of ways to the characters on American Horror Story: 1984, the end of the Reagan era is also the end of their era of relevance. It's been a common retrain in the later portions of the season. Their time is ending, and they'll all soon be forgotten, but never is it more explicitly stated than in this week's episode, with multiple people eulogizing the good and ill of Reagan's America in long rhapsodies." He also praised the directing of the episode, commenting that "In the hands of director Gwyneth Horder-Payton, it's easy to see how afterlife in Redwood could be as beautiful as spending the afterlife anywhere else." Finally, he concl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgorzata%20Marek-Sadowska | Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska is a Polish-American electronics engineer known for her research in VLSI circuit design. She is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the university's Institute for Energy Efficiency, and the director of the VLSI CAD Lab at the university.
Marek-Sadowska was an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology from 1976 until 1982. In 1979, she began a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley, continued at Berkeley as a researcher, and moved to Santa Barbara in 1990. She was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems from 1993 to 1997, and in 1997, she was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE. She retired in 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20original%20programs%20distributed%20by%20MySpaceTV | This is list of original programs distributed by MySpaceTV.
Original programming
Drama
Reality Shows
Documentary
Syndications
International
UK
References
Myspace
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superplan | Superplan was a high-level programming language developed between 1949 and 1951 by Heinz Rutishauser, the name being a reference to "" (i.e. computation plan), in Konrad Zuse's terminology designating a single program.
The language was described in Rutishauser's 1951 publication (i.e. Automatically created Computation Plans for Program-Controlled Computing Machines).
Superplan introduced the keyword as for loop, which had the following form ( being an array item):
Für i=base(increment)limit: + addend =
See also
Compiler
Translator
References
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(77 pages)
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Procedural programming languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Hardt-English | Pamela Hardt-English is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created Resource One, a "people's computing center" in 1972 at Project One, a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California.
Education
Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. She left the computer science program in 1970 in protest against the American incursion into Cambodia. As she noted, "I dropped out of school because I decided that I spent too much time preparing to do stuff and not enough time actually doing anything."
Resource One
Hardt-English joined Project One, a live-work community (sometimes referred to as a "technological commune"), conceptualized around Symbas School — an alternative high school — and housed in a multistory former factory building in San Francisco, in 1970. In 1972, she arranged for the delivery of a decommissioned SDS 940, a mainframe computer, to the commune, establishing Resource One. Resource One's goal was to link together the centers of counterculture across the Bay Area with a computer network.
Career
After leaving Project One, Hardt-English received master's degrees in agricultural engineering and food science from the University of California, Davis. She is currently the president of PhF Specialists, Inc. in San Jose, California.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediet%20Abebe | Rediet Abebe (Amharic: ረድኤት አበበ) is an Ethiopian computer scientist working in algorithms and artificial intelligence. She is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Abebe's research develops mathematical and computational frameworks for examining questions related to inequality and distributive justice. She co-founded the multi-institutional interdisciplinary research initiatives MD4SG and Black in AI.
Early life and education
Abebe was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was educated in the Ethiopian National Curriculum at Nazareth School before winning a competitive merit-based scholarship to attend the International Community School of Addis Ababa for high school.
Abebe attended Harvard University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and later a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics. As an undergraduate, she co-authored research papers in mathematics, physics, and public health. While at Harvard, Abebe contributed to The Harvard Crimson as a staff writer, where she focused on the Cambridge public school system (2009-2011).
After college, she attended the University of Cambridge as the Governor William Shirley Scholar at Pembroke College. She completed Part III of the Mathematics Tripos and earned a Master of Advanced Studies in pure mathematics under the supervision of Imre Leader.
Abebe completed her doctoral degree in computer science at Cornell University, where she was advised by Jon Kleinberg. Her dissertation made notable contributions across multiple fields in computer science, receiving the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award. She is the first Black woman to complete a Ph.D. in computer science in the university's history.
Research and career
Abebe's research develops techniques in AI and algorithms, with a focus on inequality and distributive justice. Her work has introduced new algorithmic frameworks for examining questions related to discrimination and inequality.
Throughout 2019 Abebe served on the National Institutes of Health Working Group on AI along AI experts including Kate Crawford, Dina Katabi, Daphne Koller, and Eric Lander. The working group was tasked with developing a comprehensive report and recommendations, which were unanimously approved by the advisory committee to the director and NIH General Director Francis Collins.
In 2019, Abebe was inducted into the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the second Junior Fellow with a CS Ph.D., the first female computer scientist, and the first Black computer scientist in the Society's history.
Abebe joined the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor, focused in the research areas of artificial intelligence; information, data, network, and communication sciences; an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHPNAS-FM | XHPNAS-FM is a radio station on 94.1 FM serving Navolato and Culiacán, Sinaloa. The station is owned by Luz Network and is known as Stereo Uno.
History
XHPNAS-FM was one of two stations won by Luz Network, along with El Fuerte's XHPFRT-FM, in the IFT-4 radio station auction of 2017. It came to air in September 2019, carrying the same Stereo Uno brand and format heard on the company's flagship XHMSL-FM in Los Mochis. It is the first Luz Network station in central Sinaloa.
References
External links
Official Website
Radio stations in Sinaloa
Radio stations established in 2019
Contemporary hit radio stations in Mexico
2019 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%20%28video%20game%29 | This Is Football is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment only in Europe exclusively for PlayStation. The game carries a licence from FIFPro allowing the inclusion of 30,000 real-life players and features English-language commentary from Clive Tyldesley.
Gameplay
The player takes control of a football coach for a team of either the English Football League, or the French football team.
The player then takes control of the entire football team, kicking the ball between the players in attempt to score points by kicking the ball into the goal. The player can complete this task by using the game’s system of interceptions and kickings. The game plays like a game of football.
Development
The game was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe subsidiary studio Team Soho. Motion capture was carried out at the facilities of Aston Villa FC using an Oxford Metrics 370E system. Commentary comes from ITV's Clive Tyldesley.
Reception
Steve Owen gave a mixed review of the game for Official UK PlayStation Magazine, criticising the control system and some of the AI behaviour while praising the overall presentation of the game and the quality of the animation, awarding it a score of 7 out of 10 but noting "with FIFA and ISS Pro on offer, TIF only scrapes into third place".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2012%29 | The twelfth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia, also known as MasterChef Australia: Back To Win and MasterChef: Back to Win, premiered on 13 April 2020 on both Network 10 and WIN Television. It is the first series to feature series four winner Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo serving as judges, after the departure of Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston in the previous season. This series involves former high-achieving contestants from the past eleven series of MasterChef Australia, returning for another chance at the title of 'MasterChef' and a prize of A$250,000.
Applications for contestants for the twelfth series of MasterChef Australia opened in May 2019. However, plans were changed when contestants from previous seasons were brought onboard instead of new contestants.
The competition was won by Emelia Jackson in the grand finale against Laura Sharrad, broadcast on 20 July 2020.
Changes
Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston departed the show in 2019 and were replaced with new judges Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo.
In this series, the typical MasterChef weekly format was slightly changed from prior series. Mondays now feature a Team Challenge with the losing team facing Tuesday's Pressure Test elimination. Wednesdays feature a Mystery Box with the best cooks competing in the Immunity Challenge on Thursday, in which one contestant will be granted immunity from the upcoming elimination. All the other contestants then head into the All-In Elimination Challenge on Sunday. In addition, only one Immunity Pin was up for grabs this season; it was awarded to Dani Venn in the first episode of the series. A new format schedule was debuted on 14 June, with the show beginning to air only three nights a week. Mondays featured the Mystery Box, Tuesdays featured the Immunity Challenge, and Sundays featured the All-In Elimination Challenge.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the show continued while following government regulations. This includes the observance of social distancing, having individual plates for each judge during tasting, and the use of gloves when handling ingredients. In addition, the number of crew on set has been reduced by half, and outside challenges and guests have been dialled back. The new measures debuted on 25 May 2020.
Unlike previous seasons, there was no mid-way "second chance" return challenge for eliminated contestants; all eliminated contestants had no chance to return to the season.
Contestants
The 24 returning contestants were announced on 19 February 2020. Other past contestants such as Derek Lau, Sarah Todd, and Alvin Quah were later confirmed to have been invited to compete in the series, but refused for various reasons.
In March 2020, Ben Ungermann suddenly left the series after being arrested in a matter unrelated to the show. His departure was announced on 17 May 2020. Most charges were dropped when Ungermann pleaded guilty to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Tour%20Soccer%202 | World Tour Soccer 2, known as World Tour Soccer 06 in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation Portable.
Reception
World Tour Soccer 2 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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Association football video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%202 | This Is Football 2 is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation and released only in Europe. Clive Tyldesley was replaced as the English-language commentator by his fellow ITV colleague, Peter Drury. It is the successor to This is Football.
Gameplay
The player takes control of a football coach, who controls a football team. The game plays as technological variation of the sport, similar to a FIFA game.
Reception
Absolute PlayStation gave the game 87% and said: "Compared to last years [sic] title This Is Football 2 is a much improved game."
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2000 video games
Association football video games
Europe-exclusive video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
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This Is Football
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Team Soho games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%20Management | This Is Football Management is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita via PlayStation Network.
Reception
The PSP version received 5 out of 10 from PlayStation Official Magazine – UK.
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Association football management video games
Europe-exclusive video games
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This Is Football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGDB | The Internet Game Database (IGDB) is an online database about video games launched in 2014. It was acquired by Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon.com,Inc, in 2019.
Overview
The IGDB lists details about video games and their companies, crew and cast. Similar to Amazon's Internet Movie Database, IGDB's content is user focused, letting registered users rate, list and review games. Users can also edit and create pages, which are published after being validated by IGDB's employees.
History
IGDB was founded by Christian Frithiof after he first got the idea in 2010 and was able to gather a team of like-minded people. The first beta version containing around 200 game titles was first launched in 2014. In August, 2015 IGDB launched their developer API free for non-commercial & commercial usage.
In 2016, IGDB secured their first investment which allowed its employees to work full time and relocate to Gothenburg, Sweden. As of 2020 IGDB has their own office, with a branch in USA and 11 employees working remote from various countries.
On September 17, 2019, IGDB was acquired by Twitch, a livestreaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Twitch use IGDB's database to feed its search and discovery functions.
As of March 2023, IGDB has 99,000 members and encompasses 428,000 games (of which 196,500 are DLCs and re-releases), 44,300 companies and 217,000 people as well as over 1.1 million reviews, screenshots and videos.
References
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Internet properties established in 2014
2019 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Crosley | John Crosley (1762–1817) was an English astronomer and mathematician who was an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a computer of the Nautical Almanac, an observer on maritime voyages of scientific exploration and a member and President of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society.
Life
John Crosley was born in Yorkshire, but little is known of his life before his employment as an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich to the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. He was the Observatory's assistant in 1789–1792 and again in 1798. He was an observer appointed by the Board of Longitude between 1793 and 1798 to George Vancouver's expedition to the north-west coast of America, replacing William Gooch, who was murdered in Hawaii. During this voyage his ship, , was wrecked on a reef near Okinawa, and he returned to England on another sloop. His salary was £400 per annum, but he spent some years seeking compensation from the Board of Longitude for the loss of his books and instruments, ultimately receiving another £400 reward. As a Board-appointed observer he was required to use and care for the instruments with which he was issued. These included three timekeepers made by Thomas Earnshaw and one by John Arnold. He recorded all his observations and the problems encountered, including giving an account of the ship's wreck.
Crosley returned to the Royal Observatory for a few months in the summer of 1798. He was later appointed as observer to Matthew Flinders's circumnavigation of Australia (1801–1803), although ill health forced him to return in 1802, having only got as far as the Cape of Good Hope. On this voyage he made observations of position, particularly longitude, using both the astronomical lunar-distance method and timekeepers.
As well as acting as assistant to the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, Nevil Maskelyne, Crosley was appointed by him as a computer of the Nautical Almanac, an important source of income from 1799 and for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society for 31 years and became its president from about 1800 until his death in 1817. He was recorded on a Society membership list as living at 54 North Street, City Road and, in a subsequent entry, as at 84 Leonard Street. An engraving of him that was included in a 1813 Mathematical Society Scrapbook records that he was then "13 Years President of the Mathematical Society".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAindex | AAindex is a database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials. The data represent various physicochemical and biochemical properties of amino acids and pairs of amino acids.
See also
Proteinogenic amino acid
References
External links
Official AAindex website
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaturu%20Rural%20LLG | Higaturu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.
Wards
01. New Warisota
02. Hohorita
03. Igora Oil Palm Blks
04. Koipa
05. Kiorota
06. Barevoturu
07. Kendata
08. Duve
09. Kongohambou
10. Binduta
11. Handarituru
12. Awala
13. Sui
14. Boru
15. Mumuni
16. Koropata
17. Sirembi
18. Hungiri
19. Sakita
20. Papoga
21. Ongoho
22. Ehu
23. Ahora & Beuru
24. West Ambogo (Sangara)
25. Sangara 1
26. Sangara 2
27. Isivini
28. Horau
References
Local-level governments of Oro Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20105 | Nokia 105 is the name of a series of different mobile phones manufactured or marketed by Nokia. Models earlier than the 2021 4G version communicate on second-generation cellular (2G) networks only, rather than later standards such as 4G, and will no longer work when 2G networks are phased out, as has been happening since 2016 in different regions.
These include:
Nokia 105 (2013), released in 2013 and aimed at markets in developing nations.
Nokia 105 (2015), developed by Microsoft Mobile and released on 3 June 2015. Later produced by HMD Global. (Model: RM-1134)
Nokia 105 (2017), developed by HMD Global and released on 17 July 2017.
Nokia 105 (2019), made by HMD Global, was unveiled on 24 July 2019, and released in September 2019.
Nokia 105 4G (2021), made by HMD Global, was unveiled on 15 June 2021.
Nokia 105 (2022), made by HMD Global
Nokia 105 4G (2023), made by HMD Global
Nokia 105 (2023), made by HMD Global
References
105 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Marker%20Database | The Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) is an online database that documents locations of numerous historical markers in the United States as well as other countries. The database was launched in 2006 by computer programmer J. J. Prats.
The HMdb served as the basis for the database for the online augmented reality game Ingress, which was then later repurposed for Pokémon Go.
The HMdb was launched in 2006 with 179 markers that Prats had personally documented. By 2015 the site listed more than 74,000 markers.
In addition to listing markers in the United States, the site also lists some markers from more than 40 other countries.
By the start of 2018, the site documented more than 100,000 markers.
The HMdb has been described as "crowdsourced", and according to the site's self-description, "Anyone can add new markers to the database and update existing marker pages with new photographs, links, information and commentary."
The HMdb displays historical event locations using Google Maps.
Artist Paul Druecke described the HMdb as "a different sort of catalogue", one that "allows geeks like me to explore historical plaques throughout the United States."
Druecke did a series of charcoal drawings depicting official state-sponsored plaques.
In 2011, Silvio Lacetti argued that the HMdb "offers a wonderful opportunity" for history teachers to instill interest in students by being "a Columbus leading his or her young crew on journeys of local historical discovery", enabling them "to search, discover and learn" through historical markers.
Bibliography (additional)
References
External links
HMdb.org (About page)
Database providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Go%20First%20destinations | In March 2020, Go First operated to a network of 39 destinations – 29 domestic and 10 international to Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket), Muscat, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Kuwait City, Singapore , Colombo and Malé. As of now, Go First operates international flights from Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kannur and Kolkata. The airline has a total of 325 daily flights and more than 2200 weekly flights. The airline maintains bases at Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Kannur and Mumbai airports.
The airline commenced its first international operations on 11 October 2018 from Delhi to Phuket, then from Mumbai to Phuket on 12 October, from Mumbai and Delhi to Malé on 14 and 17 October respectively.
As of 3 May 2023 (last day of trading), Go First has served a total of 37 destinations including 27 domestic and 10 international destinations with more than 325 flights daily.
List
See also
Air India Express destinations
Alliance Air destinations
List of Vistara destinations
List of SpiceJet destinations
List of IndiGo destinations
References
Lists of airline destinations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Keutzer | Kurt Keutzer (born November 9, 1955) is an American computer scientist.
Early life and education
Kurt Keutzer grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Maharishi University of Management (formerly Mararishi International University) in 1978, and a PhD in computer science from Indiana University in 1984.
Career
Keutzer joined Bell Labs in 1984, where he worked on logic synthesis. In 1991, he joined the electronic design automation company Synopsys, where he was promoted to chief technology officer. He subsequently joined the University of California, Berkeley as a professor in 1998.
His research at Berkeley has focused on the intersection of high performance computing and machine learning. Working with a number of graduate students at Berkeley, Keutzer developed FireCaffe, which scaled the training of deep neural networks to over 100 GPUs. Later, with LARS and LAMB optimizers, they scaled it to over 1000 servers. Keutzer and his students also developed deep neural networks such as SqueezeNet, SqueezeDet, and SqueezeSeg, which can run efficiently on mobile devices.
Keutzer co-founded DeepScale with his PhD student Forrest Iandola in 2015, and Keutzer served as the company's chief strategy officer. The firm was focused on developing deep neural networks for advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars.
On October 1, 2019, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, Inc. purchased DeepScale to augment and accelerate its self-driving vehicle work.
Honors and awards
Keutzer was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996.
Recipient of DAC Most Influential Paper (MIP) award (24th DAC, 1987) for his "Dagon: technology binding and local optimization by DAG matching” publication.
Books by Keutzer
1988. Dwight Hill, Don Shugard, John Fishburn, and Kurt Keutzer. Algorithms and Techniques for VLSI Layout Synthesis. Springer.
1994. Srinivas Devadas, Abhijit Ghosh, and Kurt Keutzer. Logic Synthesis. McGraw-Hill.
2002. David Chinnery and Kurt Keutzer. Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design. Springer. (2nd edition appeared in 2007.)
2004. Pinhong Chen, Desmond A. Kirkpatrick, and Kurt Keutzer. Static Crosstalk-Noise Analysis: For Deep Sub-Micron Digital Designs. Springer.
2005. Matthias Gries and Kurt Keutzer. Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology. Springer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosley%20%28film%29 | Mosley is a 2019 computer-animated fantasy adventure drama film produced by Huhu Studios. It was written and directed by Kirby Atkins who stars in the title role along with his young daughter Leah, playing the character of Rue. The film also stars Lucy Lawless, John Rhys-Davies, Temuera Morrison and Rhys Darby. The film was released in New Zealand on 10 October 2019 by Rialto Distribution. It is the first official New Zealand–Chinese co-production.
Plot summary
In ancient times, the thoriphants were creatures that migrated north in response to human encroachment. Those that stayed behind were enslaved by humanity, who used them as beasts of burden. Gradually, their backs became bent and they lost the use of their hands. Some thoriphants believe that their cousins known as the Uprights will return to free them one day.
A young thoriphant named Mosley is auctioned off and sold to a farmer named Simon, who uses him to plough his fields. Twenty five years later, Mosley and his mate Bera have produced a son named Rue. Mosley and his family are also acquainted with Turpin, who serves as a beast of burden to traveling salesman Bemus and his associates Shank and Ollie. Later, Bemus tries to swindle Simon into purchasing a nearby rocky field. Simon agrees to sell Rue after Bera has given birth to her child, much to the dismay of Mosley and Bera.
Later that night Rue, guided by several fireflies, leads Mosley to a cave lined with drawings showing Upright Thoriphants. A dispirited Mosley dismisses them as fairy tales. Mosley and Bera later overhear Simon agreeing to sell Rue to Bemus following the birth of her second child. To save their son, Bera convinces Mosley to escape the following day and return to the caves in order to seek clues on how to find the "Uprights."
Despite being pursued by Simon, Bemus, Shank and Ollie, Mosley manages to escape into the forest. In response, Bemus convinces Simon to hire the services of the ruthless, tattooed bounty hunter Warfield to bring back Mosley alive. Inside the cave, Mosley stumbles into a sinkhole trap planted by Warfield. However, he manages to escape when Shank and Ollie interfere. Following a pursuit, Mosley manages to hide behind a waterfall with the help of several fireflies.
Behind the waterfall, Mosley encounters three "Upright" travelers named Warnie, Deaver, and the elderly Gailin and realizes that the legends of the Uprights were real. Warnie and his companions agree to bring Mosley back to their city Kineserath, under the pretense that the Uprights are a species of great warriors. During their travels, Mosley and the Uprights learns more about his people's history. They also have several adventures including avoiding death at the cursed "Great Orchard" and escaping Warfield with the help of the fireflies, who can communicate with Mosley and Gailin. Warnie realizes that the fireflies are not ordinary creatures but something mystical.
Back at Simon's farm, Rue tries to fill his father's shoes by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Mickens | James W. Mickens is an American computer scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on distributed systems, such as large-scale services and ways to make them more secure. He is critical of machine learning as a boilerplate solution to most outstanding computational problems.
Early life and education
James Mickens was raised in Atlanta. His father is physicist and mathematician Ronald E. Mickens.
Mickens earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 2008.
Career
Mickens worked as a member of the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research from 2009 through 2015. He spent one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through the MLK Visiting Professors program becoming a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2015, where he was awarded tenure in 2019. In 2016, he was one of the researchers working on Polaris, a new system designed at MIT to decrease the loading time for webpages.
In 2020, Mickens was appointed to the board of directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In 2021, he and Jonathan Zittrain began the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, a three-year-long BKC project to research and create new ideas to improve social media.
Publications
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Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Krebs | Christopher Cox Krebs (born 1977) is an American attorney who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 until November 17, 2020, when President Donald Trump fired Krebs for contradicting Trump's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Early life and education
Krebs was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1977. He received a Bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the George Mason University School of Law in 2007.
Career
Krebs's professional work has focused on cybersecurity and risk management issues. He served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, and later worked in the private sector as Director for Cybersecurity Policy for Microsoft.
In March 2017, he became Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In August 2017, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, and performed the duties of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs until he was confirmed to that position on a permanent basis on June 15, 2018. In November 2018, the National Protection and Programs Directorate was replaced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Krebs remained as director of the agency.
It was reported that Krebs was being considered to serve as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security after the departure of Kevin McAleenan, although he was reported to be uninterested in the position.
2020 dismissal
On November 12, 2020, it was reported that Krebs expected to be fired from his position; in part, this expectation was due to Krebs's role in creating a CISA website to debunk election-related disinformation, much of which was being promoted by President Donald Trump and his allies. As CISA's director, Krebs was the "administration's most senior cybersecurity official responsible for securing the presidential election". Sidney Powell, an attorney for Trump and Michael Flynn, asserted on the Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo Fox News programs that a secret government supercomputer program had switched votes from Trump to Biden in the election, a claim Krebs dismissed as "nonsense" and a "hoax."
On November 17, 2020, Krebs said in a tweet that "59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of which we are aware, these claims (of fraud) either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.'" Trump fired Krebs via Twitter the same day, because the "recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud". Trump provided no evidence of this fraud.
Later that month, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, Joseph diGenova, called for Krebs to be "drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot". DiGenova's specific criticism was that Kre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowbrick%20Data | Yellowbrick Data is a US-based database company delivering massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse and SQL analytics products. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
History
Yellowbrick Data was founded in 2014 by Neil Carson, Jim Dawson, and Mark Brinicombe to bring to market Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, a flash storage data warehouse product.
Yellowbrick’s first product used hardware consisting of analytic blades with both NVMe flash storage and CPUs, with the blades connected by an internal network. The system includes a purpose built execution engine with a primary column store, built in compression, as well as erasure encoding for reliability. The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse supports ANSI SQL and ACID reliability by using a Postgres based front-end, supporting any database driver or external connector. The all-flash architecture claims performance and predictability benefits compared to other data warehouses.
In 2019, Yellowbrick announced two products – the Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, and Yellowbrick Cloud DR. The Cloud Data Warehouse is a service offering, using its own hardware available to applications running in AWS, Azure, and GCP public clouds through dedicated network links. This product allows the same speed and reliability advantages as the Data Warehouse, and complements the on-premises product. Cloud DR allows replication of on-premises datasets to the cloud service, or between cloud services at multiple physical locations.
In 2022 Yellowbrick announced a fully cloud native version of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, based on Kubernetes, available across all public clouds including AWS Marketplace, Azure and GCP. The cloud native product retains many of the same architectural principles as the hardware product, such as Massively Parallel Processing, column storage, NVMe flash storage, compatibility with PostgreSQL front-end interfaces and the SQL query language. Following the cloud native approach enables Yellowbrick to be deployed in any public cloud and delivers on cloud benefits such as elasticity and separation of storage and compute. The storage architecture in the cloud adds the use of cloud object storage, such as AWS S3, for persistent storage. In a departure from other similar services in the public cloud, Yellowbrick Data Warehouse does not operate a managed services layer, instead the service is deployed entirely in the target cloud account without requiring data or system metadata to be shared with the cloud operator or vendor.
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Company Website
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Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Global%20Online%20School | Dwight Global Online School is an online independent school for students in sixth through twelfth grade. It is part of the Dwight Global Schools Network.
The original Dwight School was founded in Manhattan in 1872. In 2013, it was chosen to pilot an online IB education program that became Dwight Global Online School.
Academics
Classes are a mix of synchronous and asynchronous elements, designed to suit a student body, including young athletes and actors, who want a rigorous education that is time-flexible.
Dwight Global is an IB World School and offers AP classes. Students choose to either focus on IB, AP, or a personalized course of study, meeting the same graduation standards as the students in the other Dwight schools. They graduate with a Dwight Global diploma and can pursue an IB diploma. They may come to the school's traditional campuses in New York City, Shanghai, Seoul, London, and Dubai for residential programs.
In 2021, Niche ranked Dwight Global the second-best online high school in the United States.
Notable alumni
Rowan Blanchard, '19, actress
Lilla Crawford, '19, actress
Gregory Diaz IV, actor and singer
Jaden Michael, actor
Yara Shahidi, '17, actress
External links
School website
References
Educational institutions established in 2014
Online schools in the United States
2014 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Rudin | Leonid Rudin is an American computer scientist known as the co-founder and CEO of Cognitech. He is one of the leaders in the Forensic Video Image processing field.
Education
Rudin holds an MSci. and PhD., degrees in Computer Science and Computational Imaging Science from California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Career
Rudin has worked in the computer software industry for decades. He pioneered Total Variation Minimization approach in Image Processing and Analysis.
Rudin is the first author of a highly cited original paper in image processing. He is the co-founder of Forensic Video Processing and 360 Forensic Photogrammetry fields. Between 1989 and 2008, he served as "Principal R&D Investigator" for Defense Advanced Project Agency (DARPA). In 1992, he co-authored and co-designed the first commercial Forensic Video software known as "Video Investigator".
In 1988, Rudin co-founded Cognitech, a company that develops forensic video enhancement software & hardware. Between 2000 and 2008, he served as "Prncipal R&D Investigator" for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Rudin has several USPTO Patents. He is a member of professional associations such Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS), and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
Awards and honors
Rudin is the winner of 2010 American Technology Award for PiX2GPS and the winner of DePrima Mathematics Applications Award.
See also
Stanley Osher
Total variation denoising
References
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American chief executives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectoris%20luxiensis | Rectoris luxiensis is a species of cyprinid of the genus Rectoris. It inhabits inland wetlands in China, and has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List. It has a maximum length of and is considered harmless to humans. It is used for food locally.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of China
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sohu%20original%20programming | Sohu is a Chinese streaming website. Sohu started its own programs in 2011. Its first show was a short form comedy called Qian Duoduo Gets Married, which led to huge success and to the production of several other successful short form comedy shows, including Diors Man and Wonder Lady.
Original programmings
Drama
Number of original drama shows: 39
Comedy
Number of original comedy shows: 12
Reality
Co-productions
Exclusive distributions
National content distributions
International content distributions
References
Sohu
Sohu
Sohu original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Amuzu | Anne Amuzu is a Ghanaian computer scientist and the co-founder of the technology company, Nandimobile Limited.
Education
Amuzu had her secondary level education at the St. Louis Senior High School. She then furthered at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where she acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. She proceeded to Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology where she was training in Entrepreneurship and Software Engineering.
Career
In 2010, Amuzu co-founded Nandimobile Limited with Michael Dakwa and Edward Amartey-Tagoe, a company that develops software that enables companies to deliver customer support and information services through SMS. She has been the Lead Technical developer of Nandimobile Limited since 2010.
Since its founding, Nandimobile Limited has received several awards, including Best business at the 2011 LAUNCH conference in USA, 2012 Top up award for the best SMS App in Ghana and 2013 WORLD summit awards in e-commerce and creativity.
Awards and achievements
2014 - Selected for Eighth Annual Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership Program
2014 - Won The Future Africa Awards & Summit Class Prize in Technology
2015 - Listed in Newaccra Achievers List
Amusu's company Nandimobile Limited has received several awards, including best business at the 2011 LAUNCH Conference in USA, 2012 Top up award for the best SMS App in Ghana and 2013 World Summit Awards in e-commerce and creativity .
Philanthropy
She is mostly found volunteering her service to teach young girls how to code.
References
Living people
Ghanaian computer scientists
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21st-century Ghanaian businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20iQIYI%20original%20programming | iQIYI is a Chinese video hosting website created in 2010, it started producing original content in 2011.
Original programing
Drama
Number of original drama shows:
International Co-productions & Regional original programming
Anime/Children
Variety/Reality
Music
Exclusive distribution
Movie
Original iQIYI web film
Exclusive web film distribution (from independent studio)
Notes
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYUM | DYUM (89.7 FM), on-air as 89.7 JU FM Radyo Bandera, is a radio station owned and operated by the Municipal Government of Mabinay. It is an affiliate station of the Radyo Bandera Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at Brgy. Poblacion, Mabinay, Negros Oriental.
Programming
JU FM's weekday line-up is composed of locally produced news, commentary and public affairs programming in the morning, lunchtime, afternoon and early-evening timeslots. Blocktimers, music and entertainment programs fill the remainder of the schedule. Simulcasts of programming from Radyo Bandera Sweet FM (RBSFM) Dumaguete are also aired, primarily in the mid-morning and early-afternoon timeslots.
Saturdays feature a mix of news/talk and music programs throughout the broadcast day, most of which are presented by the station's on-air personalities. On Sundays, music and entertainment shows fill the majority of the schedule, including a few blocktime programs.
References
External links
Facebook page
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Red%20Jacket%20Jamboree | The Red Jacket Jamboree is a throw back radio variety show which is offered to American public radio networks through PRX Radio Exchange. Hosted by Lena Dorey and Martin Achatz, two-time Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, the show shares stories, music, history and comedy that revolves around life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, especially that of the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. The show is recorded in front of a live audience at venues within the Keweenaw Peninsula for later radio broadcast. The show is named after Red Jacket, the original name for the village of Calumet, Michigan, where the show is headquartered.
The show is produced by Real People Media, Inc., a nonprofit organization which helps to share people's stories through the literary, visual, performing and media arts. Real People Media is headquartered in and the show is administered from, the Keweenaw Storytelling Center, which is located in a historic Woolworth's building in downtown Calumet. The Red Jacket Jamboree has received support from the Keweenaw National Historical Park, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Michigan Humanities Council as well as from individual and corporate donors.
Two hour-long radio episodes are recorded during each theatrical performance. Each episode has its own distinct theme and stories, history and musical selections are chosen to help interpret themes.
Show format
The Red Jacket Jamboree is an old-time radio variety show which is reminiscent of A Prairie Home Companion and old-time shows such as Fibber McGee and Molly. The show, which is composed of approximately 16 segments, shares history and culture from Michigan's Upper Peninsula and that of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Principle characters
Lena Dorey, Host
Lena Dorey has hosted the show since October 2017. In addition to introducing the show, Dorey takes place in sketches, conducts interviews with guests and sings on occasion.
Martin Achatz, Two-Time Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Achatz first appeared as a guest on the show in December 2017. He appeared again as a guest in February 2018 and then assumed a "co-host" position in March 2018. In addition to hosting and sharing his original poetry, Achatz occasionally ends the show by performing, "Radio, I Miss You So" with the Copper Cats.
The Red Jacket Actors
The Red Jacket Actors change from show to show and include both Dorey and Achatz and Ralph Horvath. Guest performers may also be asked to take on acting roles and occasionally even pianist Bill Carrothers has contributed his acting talent.
The Copper Cats, stage band
Under the direction of guitarist Jerry Younce, the band includes Bill Carrothers on piano, Harry South on bass. Percussionists have included: Travis Aukerman, Carrie Biolo, Zach Ott, Jonathan Taylor and Devin Drobka. The band performs a variety of musical styles.
Singer songwriters/musicians
Episodes of The Red Jacket Jamboree include g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Neuberger | Anne Neuberger (born 1976) is an American national security official who serves as the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology in the Biden administration. Prior to this role, she served for over a decade at the NSA, as director of cybersecurity, as assistant deputy director of operations, and as the agency's first chief risk officer. She joined the federal government as a White House fellow, working at the Pentagon, and subsequently served as deputy chief management officer of the Navy, before joining NSA. Before entering government service, Neuberger was senior vice president of operations at American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.
Early life and education
Neuberger grew up in the Hasidic community of Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York. In 1997, she received a BA from Lander College for Women of Touro College. In 2005, she graduated from Columbia University with an MBA and master of international affairs (MIA) in operations management, international affairs, security policy, Persian Gulf. She was also selected as a White House fellow.
Career
Anne Neuberger worked in the private sector in various technology roles, where she was responsible for directing and automating financial sector operations, and overseeing the acquisition and integration of Wachovia's custody and trust operations. She entered government as a White House fellow in 2007, working for the secretary of defense and then serving as deputy chief management officer of the Navy.
Neuberger joined the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2009 where she has held key leadership positions such as leading NSA's cybersecurity mission, including emerging technology areas like quantum-resistant cryptography. Previously, she co-led NSA and USCC's election security effort and led NSA's intelligence operations, leading an organization of over 20,000 people globally. Neuberger also served as Director of NSA's Commercial Solutions Center and served as NSA's first Chief Risk Officer, building NSA's enterprise risk management program.
In 2017, she was awarded a Presidential Rank Award.
In 2019, General Nakasone formed the NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate and named Neuberger as the first Director of Cybersecurity. The directorate focuses on "preventing and eradicating" cyber threats from countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
In 2020, she was awarded the DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award and NSA's Distinguished Service Medal, DOD's and NSA's highest civilian awards.
Neuberger left her role as NSA's Director of Cybersecurity in April 2021 after becoming President Joe Biden's Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology and joining the National Security Council.
Personal life
Neuberger's grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and her parents were among the passengers on the hijacked Air France flight in 1976, rescued by Israeli commandos in Operation Thunderbolt from Uganda's Entebbe Airport. Neuberger is also the founder of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsham%2C%20Dorking%20and%20Leatherhead%20Railway | The Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway (HD&LR) was an early railway company in southern England. It planned to fill in a gap in the network of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, shortening the route from London to coastal towns from Littlehampton to Portsmouth. It only obtained Parliamentary authorisation to build from Horsham to Dorking, and it sold its company to the LBSCR, which completed the construction, and itself built the remaining section from Dorking to Leatherhead.
It opened in 1867, and the LBSCR transferred through trains to this shorter route, relieving the congested main line. It was electrified from Leatherhead to Dorking in 1925 as part of the Southern Railway's outer suburban electrification scheme, and in 1938 the rest of the line was electrified, completing the route to the coast. A new regular interval service of fast trains was commercially successful.
The through fast trains were diverted to the Three Bridges route from 1978, and the line now carries only local passenger trains.
History
Horsham branch from Three Bridges
The London and Brighton Railway was authorised to build a direct line through Three Bridges, and it opened in 1841. Its trains used the London and Croydon Railway at the north end of the route. During the planning stage, one possible route would have run through Horsham, but the route selected ran through Three Bridges instead. A branch line was later constructed to Horsham from Three Bridges, opening on 14 February 1848. The London and Brighton Railway merged with other companies to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 27 July 1846.
Epsom and Leatherhead Railway
The Epsom and Leatherhead Railway was built independently; it opened on 1 February 1859. Although at first it was isolated from other lines, it was soon connected to the LBSCR route from London Bridge via Croydon, and the LSWR line from Waterloo via Wimbledon.
Horsham to Petworth, and on to Arundel
The LBSCR sponsored a local company, the Mid-Sussex Railway, to build a new line from Horsham through Billingshurst and Pulborough to Petworth; the area was agricultural. The line opened on 15 October 1859
The LBSCR realised that the gap from the Petworth line to its own coastal line near Arundel could easily be closed, and a new line about ten miles long was built; it ran from Hardham Junction just south of Pulborough to the Arundel station, now named Ford. It saved ten miles on the journey from London to Chichester, Littlehampton and Portsmouth. The new line was described as the Mid-Sussex Junction Railway.
Horsham, Leatherhead and Dorking Railway
The completion of the route from Three Bridges through Horsham and Pulborough to Arundel and beyond was a considerable boost to the LBSCR’s traffic, shortening the route. Independent promoters observed that the route from London to Horsham was rather roundabout, and subject to congestion on the double track main line. If the gap between Leatherhead and Horsham were cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER%20BASIC | SUPER BASIC, sometimes SBASIC for short, is an advanced dialect of the BASIC programming language offered on Tymshare's SDS 940 systems starting in 1968 and available well into the 1970s.
Like the Dartmouth BASIC it was based on, SUPER BASIC was a compile and go language, as opposed to an interpreter. In addition to offering most of the commands and functions from Dartmouth BASIC Version 4, in including matrix math commands, SUPER BASIC also included a number of features from the seminal JOSS language developed at Rand Corporation, via Tymshare's version, CAL, and added a variety of new functions, complex numbers as a built-in type, and double precision support.
SUPER BASIC also greatly improved string handling over the rudimentary system in Dartmouth, introducing the , and string functions, simple string concatenation and other features. These were later used in DEC's BASIC-PLUS, which was later used as the basis for the original Microsoft BASIC that saw widespread use in the 1980s.
History
The original Dartmouth BASIC was released in 1964 but was largely experimental at the time. It went through several revisions before becoming truly useful with the Fourth Edition when it was ported to the GE 635 machine and was published in 1968. Dartmouth specifically placed the underlying design in the public domain, so that anyone could port it to their platforms and call it BASIC. Its spread was further helped by the tireless efforts of its authors to promote it. However, as the code was designed to run on the DTSS operating system, some porting was required to run it on production systems. This led to a proliferation of versions with minor differences.
Tymshare was formed within the University of California, Berkeley, initially renting out time on the University's computers on off-hours. Tymshare's original BASIC, simply Tymshare BASIC, was based on source code "from elsewhere" in the University, that Dan Lewis began enhancing. Frank Bracher added the routines for file input/output (I/O), which made it far more practical than the original Dartmouth code that relied purely on statements embedded in the program. Dartmouth's workflow was tape based so loading and saving individual files was not practical and direct I/O was not addressed until later versions. Bracher's I/O code had originally been developed for Tymshare's SUPER FORTRAN offering.
One oft-noted feature of the system was the documentation, written by Caroline Diehl. The manuals were written in a conversational style.
Tymshare maintained SUPER BASIC through the 1970s, but as the market for rented timeshare programming services dwindled the system went into maintenance and Lewis and Bracher left to do SUPER BASIC consulting for those companies still using it. Maintenance within Tymshare passed primarily to Walter Main.
Tymshare filed for a trademark on SUPER BASIC on 7 January 1970, and refreshed it on 17 October 1977, which became the property of McDonnell Douglas in 1984 when the comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Network%20Security%20Agency | The Information Network Security Administration or INSA () is the national signals intelligence and cybersecurity agency of Ethiopia, founded by Abiy Ahmed when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was the ruling party of Ethiopia.
Creation
The Information Network Security Administration was founded by Abiy Ahmed (who later would become the Prime Minister of Ethiopia) during the EPRDF's period in power. The legal basis of creating INSA in 2006 was the Council of Ministers Regulation No.130/2006, with goals including defence of Ethiopian information infrastructure. Among the initial activities of INSA was spying on dissidents among the Ethiopian diaspora using "sophisticated intrusion and surveillance software", and to lay legal charges against journalists and opposition activists and politicians of "treason" and "terrorism".
Legal changes
The Council of Ministers Regulation No.250/2011 and Proclamation No.808/2013 updated the initial legal definitions of INSA.
Leadership and structure
On 20 April 2018, Temesgen Tiruneh was appointed Director-General of INSA. Who later become director of NISS. As of Februarys 2021 the head of INSA was Shumete Gizaw.
In October 2018, responsibility for INSA was given to the Ministry of Peace. It was reverted back to the office of the prime minister in October 2021.
Password incident
In 2019, INSA was the subject of notoriety when a crack revealed that more than half of a sample of 300 agents were using extremely simple passwords.
References
Government agencies of Ethiopia
Signals intelligence agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphiodonichthys%20macracanthus | Scaphiodonichthys macracanthus is a species of cyprinid fish of the genus Scaphiodonichthys. It inhabits inland wetlands in Yunnan, China and Vietnam. It has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List. It has a maximum length of around . It is considered harmless to humans.
References
Cyprinidae
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of China
Fish of Vietnam
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion%20MC%20series | The Psion MC (Mobile Computer) series is a line of laptop computers made by Psion PLC and launched in 1989.
History
Developed by Psion towards the end of the 1980s, informed by market research about the mobile computing needs of potential customers in the 1990s, the MC 400 was introduced in late 1989: an approximately A4-sized laptop or notebook computer featuring a full-size keyboard, monochrome liquid-crystal display and a multitasking, multi-window graphical user interface, providing a number of built-in applications in ROM. Instead of a mouse, the computer provided a touchpad to interact with the user interface. This was uncommon in 1989: the Gavilan SC was the only widely known model with a touchpad, and they were not used again until years later.
Alongside the MC 400, the lower-specification MC 200 and MS-DOS-compatible MC 600 were announced in late 1989, with the latter scheduled for a March or April 1990 launch. The MC 200 had a "half-size screen" with a resolution, thus maintaining the same pixel density as that on the MC 400, merely reducing its height, and halved the internal RAM from 256 KB to 128 KB. Such reductions in the specification led to a lower price of £545 plus VAT. Meanwhile, the MC 600 offered 768 KB of RAM (of which only 640 KB was accessible) and a 1 MB RAM drive (acting as "drive C") in order to offer a viable DOS experience and thus raising the price to £1,495 plus VAT, with the display on this model providing CGA-compatible graphics support at a resolution, albeit in monochrome. Unlike the other models, the touchpad was dropped from the MC 600, with a function key bar introduced in its place.
EPROM storage was used to hold the built-in applications, and data storage involved "matchbook-size" solid-state modules employing flash memory fitting into the four available slots present on the sides of the machine. Such modules were initially available in 128 KB, 256 KB and 512 KB capacities, with 1 MB modules anticipated in 1990, 2 MB in 1991, and as much as 8 MB envisaged by Psion. ROM-based modules were intended to provide additional software. An external 1.44 MB floppy disk drive was also announced, along with a fast serial link specifically for the MC 600 - Laplink - that permitted the MC to communicate with a personal computer and access its storage (and for the PC to access the MC's storage in a similar fashion). An external solid-state drive for up to four modules was also announced as a PC peripheral.
An optional "voice processor" was announced for the MC series, plugging into the expansion slot of the machine and offering voice recording and playback support, with the audio being compressed and stored on disk, achieving the storage of a claimed eight minutes of speech in only 64 KB. The quality of the recorded speech was described euphemistically as "not brilliant", but "perfectly intelligible" and "quite adequate for note taking and interviewing".
The MC 400 was of the same generation as the Psion Series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleator | Sleator is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Daniel Sleator (born 1953), American computer scientist
James Sleator (1886–1950), Irish artist
William Sleator (1945–2011), American science fiction author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A1%20Ko%20Sa%20%27Yo%20episodes | A1 Ko Sa 'Yo is a 2016 Philippine situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series premiered on the network's Telebabad evening block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV every Thursday from June 2, 2016 to November 24, 2016, replacing the Thursday slot of Love Me, Heal Me.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARG%20database | The SARG database also known as Structured Antibiotic Resistance Gene database is a collection of antimicrobial resistance genes. The hierarchical structure of the database is clear to be 1) Type: antibiotic type 2) Subtype: genotype 3) Sequence: reference sequence. The SARG database helps in quick survey of antimicrobial resistance genes from environmental samples. The database was initially integrated from ARDB and Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database, followed by hand curation including removing non-ARG sequences, removing redundant sequences and SNP sequences. Other sources include NCBI nr database and published papers.
Online-analysis pipeline
See also
Antimicrobial Resistance databases
References
Antimicrobial resistance organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oggy%20Oggy | Oggy Oggy is a French preschool computer-animated streaming television series created by Jean Cayrol and Cédric Guarneri and is produced by Xilam Animation, with the participation of Netflix and France Televisions. It is a spin-off and prequel to Oggy and the Cockroaches, based on the character by Jean-Yves Raimbaud and billed as the first French Netflix Original, in terms of animated series. It was released on August 24, 2021.
Plot
The series follows Oggy as a kitten, who goes on cockroach-free adventures with his friends (Mallow and Sporty) in a world where everything's made out of kids' toys.
Characters
Unlike the original series, Oggy Oggy takes place in a town where cats happily reside (though mischievous cats can show up at times). Peculiarly enough, Jack and Olivia (who are both cats) are absent in Oggy Oggy, but are seen (with the show's 2D art style) on a framed photo in "Santa's Christmas".
Oggy - The titular character, he is an optimistic and fun-loving kitten. Oggy is the only character who communicates with sound effects of a cat, rather than being voiced. He is a kitten with a light blue body, black dotted eyes, red nose, white stomach and feet.
Mallow - Oggy's best friend. He is a kitten with yellow glasses, light green polo, black overalls, and white shoes with grey laces.
Sporty - Oggy's other best friend. She is a kitten with white sports visor, dark green polo, white shorts and shoes with two stripes on each side.
Other characters in Oggy's hometown include:
Grandma - Implied to be Oggy's grandma, as seen in "Eyes on the Prize". Unlike the original (where she resembled Oggy), she is a cat with a peach body, gray hair and always wears opaque glasses.
Wild Cat - The odd one out, who's moreso inline with nature.
Santa Paws - A cat who shows up in the series' Christmas specials, based on Santa Claus (although his stature is small, like the rest of the cats). He has Santa's red and white outfit and light yellow fur.
The Farmer
The Shepherd
Flocks of sheep - Kept in small pens. They have the same cat faces as the rest of the townsfolk.
Police Cat
Episode list
Series overview
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2023)
Season 3 (2023)
International Broadcast
The series globally premiered on Netflix on August 24, 2021.
On January 29, 2021, Xilam announced that France Télévisions (for France 5), Discovery Italy (for Frisbee) and Super RTL had acquired French, Italian and German TV broadcast rights to the series. The series will premiere on the respective networks in 2022.
On July 6, 2022, Channel 5 acquired the UK television broadcast rights to the series for their Milkshake! strand.
In India, the show premiered on June 12, 2023, via Sony YAY!, as part of their Sony YAY! Jr. block.
Merchandise
On October 25, 2021, Xilam named Simba Dickie Group as the global toy partner for the series. The toy range will consist of plush toys, figures, playsets, vehicles, and collectables.
References
External links
2020s French ani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme%20on%20Ecosystem%20Change%20and%20Society | Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) is a core project of Future Earth. PECS is an international research network that aims to connect and integrate research on the stewardship of social–ecological systems, how these systems support human wellbeing.
PECS was established in 2011. It is hosted by Stellenbosch University, from 2011-2019 it was hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Since the beginning of 2014 PECS has been part of Future Earth, the global sustainability research platform. A number of research projects have been affiliated with PECS, and it has created a number of regional nodes and thematic projects to integrate social-ecological research. For example, one large active regional group is SAPECS, which brings together social-ecological researchers in South Africa. It has also organised and hosted two open science conferences, the first in 2015 in South Africa, and the second in 2017 in Mexico.
External links
Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society website
Earth System Science Partnership website
References
International sustainability organizations
Social sciences organizations
Earth system sciences
International environmental organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullim | Ullim (울림) is a family of Android-based tablet computers sold in North Korea by Pyongyang Informatics Company since 2014.
History
The Ullim-tablets were first made available in 2014, running a modified version of Android without Google Play services. Among the apps on it, were a few games, e-books, dictionaries, and a cooking app. The tablet PC can access intranet through Wi-Fi. It is based on the Z100-tablet, manufactured by Chinese Hoozo.
References
See also
Samjiyon tablet computer
Tablet computers introduced in 2014
Information technology in North Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Culturistas | Las Culturistas is a pop-culture and comedy podcast co-hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, produced by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players podcast network and iHeartRadio. Started in March 2016, it was previously part of the Forever Dog podcast network.
Format
Each week, hosts Rogers and Yang discuss popular culture, current events, and their personal lives.
Many episodes feature guests, whom the hosts invite to discuss their formative cultural experiences with the question, "What was the culture that made you say 'Culture is for me'?"
Throughout the episodes, the hosts will declare certain statements to be "Rules of Culture" by reciting them together in unison and assigning them numbers, such as, "Rule of Culture #1: If you don't love Gaga, you don't love yourself."
Toward the end of every episode, there is a segment called I Don't Think So, Honey, during which the hosts and any guests are each given sixty seconds to rant about an element of culture they find frustrating. Every episode then ends with the hosts briefly singing a song, usually one that has been discussed at some point during the episode.
The hosts refer to their listeners as Readers and have expanded to refer to them also as Kayteighs, Publicists, and Finalists.
Las Culturistas host occasional I Don't Think So, Honey Live shows featuring up to fifty local comedians performing their own versions of the segment.
In June 2022 and June 2023, Yang and Rogers hosted an annual live parody award show at Lincoln Center in New York City called the Las Culturistas Culture Awards, which featured live musical performances by Yang, Rogers, and others; guest appearances by fellow actors, comedians, podcasters, and musicians; and video acceptance speeches from minor and major celebrities including Taylor Swift, Andy Cohen, Ariana Grande, Alan Cumming, Vanderpump Rules' Ariana Madix, Tony Award-winning star of Kimberly Akimbo Bonnie Milligan, Cate Blanchett, and more.
Reception
The podcast has received critical acclaim "boots." Vulture has praised it for being original and avoiding guests that might rehash stories told elsewhere. Time rated it one of the 50 best podcasts in its 2018 list. It received a Best Podcast nomination for the 11th Shorty Awards in 2019. In 2023, it won the Podcast of the Year award at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The podcast has been cited in academic work for the hosts' insight into the entertainment industry.
Hiatus
On their December 18, 2019 show, "Nasal & Ridiculous," Las Culturistas announced they would be taking a hiatus and that the show would not continue on with the Forever Dog network. In March 2020, Las Culturistas returned with new episodes on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players podcast network with iHeart Radio.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official Website
Audio podcasts
Comedy podcasts
2016 podcast debuts
LGBT-related podcasts
LGBT-related mass media in the United States
American podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Yokuts | Delta Yokuts also termed Far Northern Valley Yokuts is an extinct dialect network of Valley Yokuts, an indigenous Yokutsan language of California. Delta Yokuts dialects were spoken from directly northeast of modern Stockton to the confluence of the Merced and San Joaquin rivers near modern Hills Ferry.
Among the attested and named dialects of Delta Yokuts were Yachikumne (Chulamni), Pasasamne, Tamukamne (also known as Tamcan), Cholovomne, Lakisamne, Atsnil, Coconoon (also spelled Huocon and Cucunun).
References
Yokutsan languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Le%20original%20programming | le.com, formerly known as LeTV, is Chinese video hosting website started in 2004.In 2012, LeTV produced the first web series, Once Upon a Time in Northwest：20 Years in Gangs，which later is banned by the country due to its violent content. Go Princess Go is one of the most popular shows produced by Le.
Original programmings
Drama
References
Lists of television series by network
Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXPD | 89.7 Prime FM (DXPD 89.7 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Prime Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Door #2, Villanueva Bldg., Allah Valley Dr., Surallah.
References
External links
Prime FM Surallah FB Page
Radio stations in South Cotabato
Radio stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDV-AM | DXDV (945 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by Vismin Radio and Television Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter were located in Butuan.
References
Radio stations established in 1959
Radio stations disestablished in 2007
Radio stations in Butuan
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewHope | In post-quantum cryptography, NewHope is a key-agreement protocol by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann, and Peter Schwabe that is designed to resist quantum computer attacks.
NewHope is based on a mathematical problem ring learning with errors (RLWE) that is believed to be difficult to solve. NewHope has been selected as a round-two contestant in the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition, and was used in Google's CECPQ1 experiment as a quantum-secure algorithm, alongside the classical X25519 algorithm.
Design choices
The designers of NewHope made several choices in developing the algorithm:
Binomial Sampling: Although sampling to high-quality discrete Gaussian distribution is important in post-quantum lattice-based compact signature scheme such as Falcon (GPV-style Hash-and-Sign paradigm) and BLISS (GLP-style Fiat–Shamir paradigm) to prevent signature from leaking information about the private key, it's otherwise not so essential to key exchange schemes. The author chose to sample error vectors from binomial distribution.
Error Reconciliation: What distinguishes NewHope from its predecessors is its method for error reconciliation. Previous ring learning with error key exchange schemes correct errors one coefficient at a time, whereas NewHope corrects errors 2 or 4 coefficients at a time based on high-dimension geometry. This allows for lower decryption failure rate and higher security.
Base Vector Generation: The authors of NewHope proposed deriving the base "generator" vector (commonly denoted as A or ) from the output of the XOF function SHAKE-128 in order to prevent "back-doored" values from being used, as may happen with traditional Diffie–Hellman through Logjam attack.
Security Levels: In the early versions of the papers describing NewHope, authors proposed using 1024-degree polynomial for 128-bit "post-quantum" security level, and a 512-degree polynomial as "toy" instance for cryptanalysis challenge. In the version submitted to NIST, the 512-degree version is codified to provide 128-bit "classical" security level.
See also
CECPQ2
Cryptography
Lattice-based cryptography
Quantum cryptography
References
External links
Reference implementation
Cryptographic protocols
Application layer protocols
Transport Layer Security
Post-quantum cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashan%20Dias | Ashan Dias (Sinhala: අෂාන් ඩයස්; born 31 May 1981) is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema. Started as a newscaster in MBC Networks, Dias turned to be a character actor with several critically acclaimed roles in films such as Alimankada, Sarigama and Vijayaba Kollaya.
He hosted two seasons of television reality program Thathvika telecast on TV Derana.
Personal life
He was born on 31 May 1981 to a Roman Catholic family. He studied at Maris Stella College, Negombo. He completed A/L education from mathematics stream. He has two brothers.
Career
After A/Ls, he worked with an architect friend for six months. While studying at the Institute of Architecture, he started to work part time as a reporter in MTV/MBC network. He started as a reporter for MTV, doing coverage, news writing and editing. After five months as a news reporter, Dias got into news reading for Yes FM and then later for MTV. He worked in News reading for Yes FM on Tuesday evenings and for MTV on Monday and Friday nights.
During the time as a TV presenter, Dias started backstage in a couple of Workshop Players' plays. He also acted as a "hyena" in theater play Lion King. His maiden cinematic experience came through 2008 film Alimankada directed by Chandran Rutnam. His role as "Captain Wasantha Ratnayake" was highly praised by the critics. In 2016, he acted in the film Siri Parakum. For his role as "Pathiraja Senevi", he won the Hiru Golden Film award for the Best Supporting actor.
In 2019, he co-hosted the Derana Lux Film Festival with fellow actor Jagath Manuwarna. In 2020, he hosted the adventure cookery program Cookout on TV Derana. In 2020, he acted in the Sci-Fi horror film Vikaari directed by Sandun Seneviratne and British Filmmaker Charlie Bray.
Filmography
References
External links
The Road from Elephant Pass
විජයබා කොල්ලයට දින 75 ක්
Sri Lankan male film actors
Living people
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Youku%20original%20programming | Youku is a leading Chinese video hosting service since 2006.
Original programmings
Numbers of Youku original programs:
Co-productions
References
Youku original programming
Lists of television series by network
Youku |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Tuesday%21 | Super Tuesday! is a 1996 role-playing game adventure published by FASA in 1996 for the dystopian near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Super Tuesday! is a 112-page softcover book designed by Stephen Kenson and Tom Dowd, with interior art by Tom Baxa, Peter Bergting, Kevin Long and Karl Waller, and cover art by Jim Nelson. The book is an anthology of five Shadowrun adventures set during the 2057 United Canadian and American States presidential campaign, presenting background information regarding the election and detailing the six unusual candidates.
Reception
In the June 1996 edition of Arcane (Issue 7), Andy Butcher commented that "five good adventures (if a little on the short side) and valuable background information on the 2057 election (the storyline of which is scheduled to run through several forthcoming Shadowrun releases) isn't a bad deal." He concluded by giving the anthology an above average rating of 7 out of 10.
In the October 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue #234), Rick Swan called the anthology "another first-rate FASA production." Swan thought the writing had "an appealingly light touch." He really liked two of the adventures, and thought another two "failed to engage." He concluded by calling this "a must for Shadowrunners with a sense of humor", and gave the book an average rating of 4 out of 6.
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1996
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RETRIEVE | RETRIEVE is a database management system (DBMS) offered on Tymshare's systems starting in August 1971. It was written in Tymshare's own SUPER FORTRAN on the SDS 940. It offered basic single-file, non-relational database functionality using an interactive programming language. It is one of the earliest examples of software as a service (SaaS).
RETRIEVE was highly influential and spawned a number of relatively direct clones. Wang Laboratories's RECALL on the Wang 2200 minicomputer was almost identical to RETRIEVE, to the point the differences were detailed in a single page. JPL made a version known as JPLDIS for the UNIVAC 1108 in 1973 that was also very similar.
Wayne Ratliff, a contractor at JPL for many years, was inspired by JPLDIS to port it to the IMSAI 8080 to manage his football pool, later releasing it commercially as Vulcan for CP/M in 1979. Ashton-Tate licensed Vulcan and re-released it as dBASE II in 1980, which sparked the microcomputer database market. Most of RETRIEVE's original syntax remains unchanged in dBASE and the many xBASE clones that survive into the 21st century.
History
In 1969, Jim Ryan of Tymshare designed an expanded version of IBM System/360 H-level (258 kB) FORTRAN, adding strings and other features that took advantage of their SDS 940 systems. Ryan hired Richard Moore and Franck Bracher to develop it as SUPER FORTRAN, and it went live on their systems in 1970. Soon after SUPER FORTRAN was released, Arden Scott asked Moore to use SUPER FORTRAN to develop his vision of a database management system (DBMS). The first version was ready in a few weeks, and immediately proved very popular with Tymshare customers.
During the 1970s, Tymshare began moving their systems from SDS to the PDP-10 platform, eventually running TOPS-10. This led to an effort to build an entirely new database engine for this platform, known as MAGNUM. MAGNUM was a complete relational database engine, and in many references it is claimed to be the first such system offered commercially when it went live in October 1975. Although most Tymshare customers, and internal users, switched to MAGNUM, by this time RETRIEVE had been ported to a number of platforms and these versions remained very popular outside the company.
In 1970, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) installed three UNIVAC 1108 machines. Fred Thompson had been using RETRIEVE to manage a database of mechanical calculators at JPL, and decided to bring the system in-house when the 1108's arrived. In 1971, he collaborated with JPL programmer Jack Hatfield to produce JPLDIS. Hatfield left JPL in 1974, and the project was assigned to another JPL programmer, Jeb Long, who added a number of features.
In 1973 the Wang 2200 was released, a desktop minicomputer with cassette tape storage. RETRIEVE was ported to this platform under the name RECALL. A report for the US Army detailed the differences in a single page and concluded "Differences between the two implementations are very minor."
While work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris%20van%20der%20Hoeven | Joris van der Hoeven (born 1971) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, specializing in algebraic analysis and computer algebra. He is the primary developer of GNU TeXmacs.
Education and career
Joris van der Hoeven received in 1997 his doctorate from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) with thesis Asymptotique automatique. He is a Directeur de recherche at the CNRS and head of the team Max Modélisation algébrique at the Laboratoire d'informatique of the École Polytechnique.
Research
His research deals with transseries (i.e. generalizations of formal power series) with applications to algebraic analysis and asymptotic solutions of nonlinear differential equations. In addition to transseries' properties as part of differential algebra and model theory, he also examines their algorithmic aspects as well as those of classical complex function theory.
He is the main developer of GNU TeXmacs (a free scientific editing platform) and Mathemagix (free software, a computer algebra and analysis system).
In 2019, van der Hoeven and his coauthor David Harvey announced their discovery of the fastest known multiplication algorithm, allowing the multiplication of -bit binary numbers in time . Their paper was peer reviewed and published in the Annals of Mathematics in 2021.
Recognition
In 2018, he was an Invited Speaker (with Matthias Aschenbrenner and Lou van den Dries) with the talk On numbers, germs, and transseries at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. In 2018, the three received the Karp Prize.
Selected publications
Articles
2001
2002
2016
2016
2017
Books
References
20th-century Dutch mathematicians
21st-century Dutch mathematicians
Dutch computer scientists
Paris Diderot University alumni
1971 births
Living people
Academic staff of École Polytechnique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hartley | Richard Hartley may refer to:
Richard Gordon Hartley (1939–2016), Australian civil engineer and historian
Richard I. Hartley, Australian computer scientist
Richard Neville Hartley (born 1944), English composer
Dick Hartley, college football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Weather%20Follow%20On-Lagrange%201 | Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) is a future spacecraft mission planned to monitor signs of solar storms, which may pose harm to Earth's telecommunication network. The spacecraft will be operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with launch scheduled for February 2025. It is planned to be placed at the Sun–Earth Lagrange point, a location between the Earth and the Sun. This will allow SWFO-L1 to continuously watch the solar wind and energetic particles heading for Earth. SWFO-L1 is an ESPA Class Spacecraft, sized for launch on an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) Grande ring in addition to the rocket's primary payload. The spacecraft's Solar Wind Instrument Suite (SWIS) which includes three instruments will monitor solar wind, and the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) will monitor the Sun's surroundings to image coronal mass ejection (CME). A CME is a large outburst of plasma sent from the Sun towards interplanetary space.
Together with space weather observation capabilities on the Earth-orbiting GOES-U satellite, SWFO-L1 constitutes the space segment of NOAA's Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program. The aim of the SWFO program is to ensure the robust continuity of space-based measurement of the critical space weather environment. All of the spacecraft located in which are currently monitoring CMEs and the solar wind have operated beyond their design lifetime. The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is expected to consume its remaining propellant around 2024. Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), NOAA's primary solar wind monitor, was launched in 2015 with a five year design lifetime. The European Space Agency-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) will cease operation before the mid-2020s. SWFO-L1 SWIS instruments will replace ACE's and DSCOVR's monitoring of solar wind, energetic particles and the interplanetary magnetic field while CCOR will replace SOHO's LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) imaging of CMEs.
Command and control system
NOAA has awarded, on 5 February 2021, the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Command and control contract to L3Harris in Melbourne, Florida. The contract has a total value of US$43.8 million, with a five-year performance period. The SWFO-L1 mission is planned to launch in 2025 as a rideshare with the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The contractor is responsible for up to two years of operations support of a Command and control of the SWFO-L1 observatory. This will be accomplished by adding the capability to existing Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series Core Ground System.
NOAA manages the contract. In addition to work at L3Harris' facility in Melbourne, the contractor will install equipment at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, Maryland; NOAA's Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS) in Wallops, Virginia; and at NOAA's Cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpoint%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Flashpoint is an Australian current affairs television program. It airs on the Seven Network in Perth, and is presented by Tim McMillan, with Peter Rowsthorn and Ben Harvey appearing as recurring co-presenters.
References
External links
2019 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Ester | Martin Ester (born November 5, 1958) is a Canadian-German Full Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on researcher data mining and machine learning.
Career
After earning his MS.c., Ester worked for Swissair before earning a position at the University of Munich as an Assistant Professor in 1993. Three years later, in 1996, Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander and Xiaowei Xu proposed a data clustering algorithm called "Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise" (DBSCAN). Their proposal won the 2014 KDD Test of Time Award for "outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community."
A few years later, Ester moved to Vancouver and accepted a position at Simon Fraser University. In 2009, Ester was selected to become an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Between 2010 and 2015, Ester served as the SFU School of Computing Science director, before being succeeded by Greg Mori. In 2016, Arnetminer listed Ester as the world's most influential scholar in data mining. At the time, Arnetminer recorded that Ester authored 169 papers, which gained more than 21,000 citations, and hitting 50 on the h-index. Besides working as a Full Professor at SFU, Ester is also heading research at British Columbia Children's Hospital regarding genetic influence in drug reception and reactions in patients. His research team received a $9.9 million grant from Genome Canada for their research through Genome Canada's 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics and Precision Health.
As a result of his research, Ester was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.
References
External links
Google scholar
Living people
1958 births
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Canadian computer scientists
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Technical University of Dortmund alumni
ETH Zurich alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZ64 | AZ64 or AZ64 Encoding is a data compression algorithm proprietary to Amazon Web Services.
Amazon claims better compression and better speed than raw, LZO or Zstandard, when used in Amazon's Redshift service.
References
Data compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20autoencoder | In machine learning, a variational autoencoder (VAE) is an artificial neural network architecture introduced by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling. It is part of the families of probabilistic graphical models and variational Bayesian methods.
Variational autoencoders are often associated with the autoencoder model because of its architectural affinity, but with significant differences in the goal and mathematical formulation. Variational autoencoders are probabilistic generative models that require neural networks as only a part of their overall structure. The neural network components are typically referred to as the encoder and decoder for the first and second component respectively. The first neural network maps the input variable to a latent space that corresponds to the parameters of a variational distribution. In this way, the encoder can produce multiple different samples that all come from the same distribution. The decoder has the opposite function, which is to map from the latent space to the input space, in order to produce or generate data points. Both networks are typically trained together with the usage of the reparameterization trick, although the variance of the noise model can be learned separately.
Although this type of model was initially designed for unsupervised learning, its effectiveness has been proven for semi-supervised learning and supervised learning.
Overview of architecture and operation
A variational autoencoder is a generative model with a prior and noise distribution respectively. Usually such models are trained using the expectation-maximization meta-algorithm (e.g. probabilistic PCA, (spike & slab) sparse coding). Such a scheme optimizes a lower bound of the data likelihood, which is usually intractable, and in doing so requires the discovery of q-distributions, or variational posteriors. These q-distributions are normally parameterized for each individual data point in a separate optimization process. However, variational autoencoders use a neural network as an amortized approach to jointly optimize across data points. This neural network takes as input the data points themselves, and outputs parameters for the variational distribution. As it maps from a known input space to the low-dimensional latent space, it is called the encoder.
The decoder is the second neural network of this model. It is a function that maps from the latent space to the input space, e.g. as the means of the noise distribution. It is possible to use another neural network that maps to the variance, however this can be omitted for simplicity. In such a case, the variance can be optimized with gradient descent.
To optimize this model, one needs to know two terms: the "reconstruction error", and the Kullback–Leibler divergence. Both terms are derived from the free energy expression of the probabilistic model, and therefore differ depending on the noise distribution and the assumed prior of the data. For example, a standard VAE task su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Masters%20%28Australian%20season%201%29 | The first season of Australian reality television series Lego Masters premiered on the Nine Network on 28 April 2019. Hamish Blake was announced as host and Ryan "The Brickman" McNaught was announced as Judge.
Production
Auditions for the series opened in June 2018, however no network had commissioned it at that time, filming would take place between October and December. The series was commissioned in July 2018 by the Nine Network, The series was officially confirmed at Nine's Upfronts in October 2018, also announcing the series will be hosted Hamish Blake.
The season was sponsored by Lego, Honda, Kmart and the a2 Milk Company.
Teams
Elimination history
Notes
* Matt and Lynn played the golden brick that they won in episode 1. Therefore, they were safe from elimination.
Series Details
Challenge 1
Airdate - 28 April 2019
Challenge: "Mega Cities" - Each of the eight teams had to create a city block (to connect to an already built city) in 15 hours, then they were tasked with an additional 3 hours to show their building under attack.
Advantage - The winner of the challenge received "The Golden Brick", which they can use to keep them safe from a future Elimination Challenge.
Notes
* As Jimmy & Maddy's design was already under attack, they were tasked to make the city's defence.
Challenge 2
Airdate - 29 April 2019
Challenge: "Blockbuster" - Each of the eight teams had 7 hours to create a space themed design, after which would be destroyed in 1 of 4 types of ways. The challenge winner received immunity.
Challenge 3
Airdate - 30 April 2019
Challenge: "Cut in Half" - Each of the teams had 10 hours to build a second half of an object that had been cut in half. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 4
Airdate - 5 May 2019
Advantage Challenge: "Break and Make" - Teams were given 4 hours to take a pre-constructed parrot apart and build something new with all 1,600 pieces. The winner of the challenge received an advantage of an extra hour for the elimination challenge.
Elimination Challenge: "Apartment" - The Teams were given 11 hours to create an apartment complex with three flights of floors. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 5
Airdate - 6 May 2019
Challenge: "Bridge" - Teams had 10 hours to build a 2 metre Lego bridge that could support itself and additional weights of 8 kg; tiebreaker winners would be determined by aesthetic. The winners won advantage of immunity from the next elimination challenge.
Challenge 6
Airdate - 7 May 2019
Challenge: "Evil Lair" - The teams had 13 hours to build an Evil Villain's Lair, complete with a getaway vehicle and a lair containing booby traps, an escape path and a "Mega Weapon". The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 7
Airdate - 12 May 2019
Advantage Challenge: "Delorean" - The teams had to build an exact replica of The DeLorean from Back to the Future, with the team who designed it the most accurately winning immunity from the Eliminat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20gates | In quantum computing and quantum information theory, the Clifford gates are the elements of the Clifford group, a set of mathematical transformations which normalize the n-qubit Pauli group, i.e., map tensor products of Pauli matrices to tensor products of Pauli matrices through conjugation. The notion was introduced by Daniel Gottesman and is named after the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford. Quantum circuits that consist of only Clifford gates can be efficiently simulated with a classical computer due to the Gottesman–Knill theorem.
The Clifford group is generated by three gates: Hadamard, phase gate S, and CNOT. This set of gates is minimal in the sense that discarding any one gate results in the inability to implement some Clifford operations; removing the Hadamard gate disallows powers of in the unitary matrix representation, removing the Phase gate disallows in the unitary matrix, and removing the CNOT gate reduces the set of implementable operations from to . Since all Pauli matrices can be constructed from the phase and Hadamard gates, each Pauli gate is also trivially an element of the Clifford group.
The gate is equal to the product of and gates. To show that a unitary is a member of the Clifford group, it suffices to show that for all that consist only of the tensor products of and , we have .
Common generating gates
Hadamard gate
The Hadamard gate
is a member of the Clifford group as and .
S gate
The Phase gate
is a Clifford gate as and .
CNOT gate
The CNOT gate applies to two qubits. It is a (C)ontrolled NOT gate, where a NOT gate is performed on qubit 2 if and only if qubit 1 is in the 1 state.
Between and there are four options:
CZ gate
The CZ gate acts over two qubits. It is a (C)ontrolled Z gate, where effectively a Z gate is performed on qubit 2 if and only if qubit 1 is in the 1 state.
SWAP gate
The SWAP gate swaps two qubits,
Building a universal set of quantum gates
The Clifford gates do not form a universal set of quantum gates as some gates outside the Clifford group cannot be arbitrarily approximated with a finite set of operations. An example is the phase shift gate (historically known as the gate):
.
The following shows that the gate does not map the Pauli- gate to another Pauli matrix:
However, the Clifford group, when augmented with the gate, forms a universal quantum gate set for quantum computation. Moreover, exact, optimal circuit implementations of the single-qubit -angle rotations are known.
See also
Magic state distillation
Clifford algebra
References
Quantum gates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Masinter | Larry Melvin Masinter is an early internet pioneer and ACM Fellow. After attending Stanford University, he became a Principal Scientist of Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems and author or coauthor of 26 of the Internet Engineering Task Force's Requests for Comments.
Masinter, who was raised in San Antonio, Texas, is now retired, with wife Carol Masinter, and working on projects for fellow Parkinsons patients.
Stanford
Masinter received his PhD from Stanford University in 1980, writing a dissertation on "Global Program Analysis in an Interactive Environment." His advisor was Terry Winograd.
Masinter then worked on the PDP-10 version of Lisp and worked with Bill van Melle on Common Lisp.
Xerox PARC
Masinter went to work for Xerox PARC in 1976. In 1981, Warren Teitelman and Masinter published a paper on Interlisp in IEEE Computer.
Masinter documented the failed attempt in 1982 to port Interlisp to the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix on the VAX. This led to the initial Interlisp IDEs, for which Masinter was initially known.
Masinter later helped develop the URL standard, along with Mark McCahill and Tim Berners-Lee.
While at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1980s, he began working on online document formats and accessibility options and helped define many of the standards used today. In 1992, an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System Award recognized the team of Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman for their work on Interlisp. Masinter became an ACM fellow in 1999 for his work on Interlisp and creation of World Wide Web standards.
Adobe
After Xerox, Masinter worked at AT&T Labs and Adobe for 18 years, doing pioneering work on document management and location technologies. He helped publish the PDF MIME type. At Adobe, Masinter was highly active in documenting a number of internet standards and contributed to a number of peer-reviewed journals. His work allowed tools such as Apache to integrate MIME seamlessly.
Masinter presented at the University of California, Irvine TWIST conference. He also collaborated with Nick Kew on the book The Apache Modules Book: Application Development with Apache and with Kim H. Veltman on her book, Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture.
Internet Engineering Task Force RFCs
Masinter was involved with the IETF, helping to set standards from 1994 to 2017 primarily in URIs and HTTP. His contributions include the following:
Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names (K. Sollins, L. Masinter)
Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill)
Form-based File Upload in HTML (E. Nebel, L. Masinter)
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (L. Masinter)
The mailto URL scheme (P. Hoffman, L. Masinter, J. Zawinski)
Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data (L. Masinter)
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (T. Berners-Lee |
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