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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Mark%20Gold | E. Mark Gold (often written "E Mark Gold" without a dot, born 1936 in Los Angeles) is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist.
He became well known for his article Language identification in the limit which pioneered a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers.
Since 1999, an award of the conference on Algorithmic learning theory is named after him.
Academic education
In 1956, he got a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology,
in 1958, he got a M.S. in physics from Princeton University.
In Jan 1965, got his Ph.D. from UCLA, supervised by Abraham Robinson.
Scientific career
In 1962 and 1963, he worked at Unified Science Associates, Pasadena, on physics problems.
About in 1963, he turned to mathematics, working for
Lear Siegler,
the RAND Corporation,
Stanford University,
the Institute for Formal Studies, Los Angeles,
and
the Oregon Research Institute.
About in 1973, he moved to
Montreal University
and about 1977 to
Rochester University.
In 1991, he published from Oakland.
References
External links
E. Mark Gold at DBLP
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American physicists
American computer scientists
People from Los Angeles
California Institute of Technology alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
University of Rochester faculty
1936 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20Series%2070 | The Univac Series 70 is an obsolete family of mainframe class computer systems from UNIVAC first introduced in 1973.
In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA’s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with the IBM System/360 series at the application level, and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370.
In January 1972, Sperry took over the RCA customer base, offering the Spectra 70 and RCA Series computers as the UNIVAC Series 70.
A number of the RCA customers continued with Sperry, and the UNIVAC Series 90 90/60 and 90/70 systems would provide an upgrade path for the customers with 70/45, 70/46, RCA 2 and 3 systems. In 1976, Sperry added the 90/80 at the top end of the Series 90 Family, based on an RCA design, providing an upgrade path for the 70/60, 70/61, RCA 6 and 7 systems.
The RCA base was very profitable for Sperry and Sperry was able to put together a string of 40 quarters of profit.
References
70
Computer-related introductions in 1972 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Brohi | Karim Hassan Brohi (born 28 August 1968) is a British surgeon who is currently the clinical director of the London Major Trauma Network, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital.
Early life
Brohi was born on 28 August 1968 in London to Ali Hassan Brohi and Philomena Brohi. He attended the Forest School in London and received a dual degree from University College London, obtaining both a BSc in Computer Science and an MB BS Medicine.
Professor Brohi trained in general surgery and anaesthesia, and holds Fellowships of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. He completed specialist training in general and vascular surgery in London, and gained additional experience in trauma surgery in Cape Town and San Francisco, where he completed a trauma and critical care surgery fellowship. He has extensive prehospital experience as both a Doctor on London’s Air Ambulance and subsequently as the Clinical Director
Career
Karim Brohi is a Professor of Trauma Sciences and founding director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences, and Director of the pan-faculty Crisis Prevention, Management and Recovery Network.
He is a consultant trauma and vascular surgeon at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre, part of Barts Health NHS Trust; and director of the London Major Trauma System for NHS England. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
Professor Brohi founded the MSc in Trauma Sciences programme at the Centre for Trauma Sciences. Beginning in 2011, the programme now has hundreds of alumni around the world. Professor Brohi continues to deliver trauma education through online media as well as being invited keynote speaker at many events worldwide.
Medical Research and Advancement
Professor Brohi’s own research has focused on the human biological response to being injury, and especially critical bleeding and its consequences.
His work on failure of blood clotting after injury has led to a dramatic change in the management of bleeding over the past decade, reducing mortality by over 40%, and has been incorporated into national and international guidelines worldwide.
Professor Brohi coined the term 'acute traumatic coagulopathy' to describe how coagulopathy caused by traumatic injury results in more severe bleeding and organ failure.
Professor Brohi was instrumental in the development of the London Major Trauma System in 2010, and has been its clinical director since 2016. The London Major Trauma System is recognised around the world as being one of the most effective, equitable and advanced systems in the world delivering population-based injury care to over 15 million people across 35 trauma units, 4 major trauma centres and several regional prehospital care services. Systems restructuring, research and innovation across the syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC3 | LC3 or LC-3 may refer to:
LC3 (classification), a para-cycling classification
Little Computer 3, a type of computer educational programming language
Limestone Calcined Clay Cement, a low-carbon cement
Fauteuil Grand Confort, a club chair designed by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand
MAP1LC3B, a protein involved in autophagy
MAP1LC3A, a protein
LC3 (codec), a Bluetooth audio codec
Rocket launch sites :
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3, a deactivated US Air Force launch site
Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3, a NASA launch site that has been used by a variety of rocket systems
Xichang Launch Complex 3, an active rocket launch site in the People's Republic of China
See also
Launch Complex 3 (disambiguation)
LCIII (disambiguation)
LCCC (disambiguation)
L3C (disambiguation)
IC3 (disambiguation)
LC (disambiguation)
Technology and engineering disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR%20476 | CCIR 476 is a character encoding used in radio data protocols such as SITOR, AMTOR and Navtex. It is a recasting of the ITA2 character encoding, known as Baudot code, from a five-bit code to a seven-bit code. In each character, exactly four of the seven bits are mark bits, and the other three are space bits. This allows for the detection of single-bit errors.
Technical details
The number of possible valid binary code values in CCIR 476 is the number of ways to choose 4 marks for 7 bit positions, and the number can be calculated using the binomial coefficient: Thus CCIR 476 has 3 additional code points available over ITA2's 32 code points.
The SITOR protocol uses the additional three code points (denoted as SIA, SIB and RPT below) for idle, phasing, and repeat requests. In addition, some of the ordinary characters are reused as control signals.
Character set
In these tables, the hexadecimal code values are converted from a binary representation, with 1 being mark, 0 being space, and the most significant bit given first. The international version of ITA2 is used here; note also the added non-ITA2 codes SIA, SIB and RPT, used by SITOR.
References
Character encoding
Character sets
Telegraphy
Amateur radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20%28TV%20network%29 | Circle, also known on-air as Circle Network, is an American digital multicast television network owned by Circle Media, LLC, a joint venture of Gray Television and Ryman Hospitality Properties subsidiary Opry Entertainment Group. The network's programming consists of country music oriented shows, and rural/blue collar themed material, featuring a mix of original and off-network shows.
The network is available primarily through the digital subchannels of broadcast television stations, as well as an ad-supported video-on-demand channel on Peacock and Stirr, along with national carriage on Dish Network and Sling TV. Cable television and IPTV providers may offer either the network's local affiliate, or the network's national feed on their systems.
Circle Media is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with offices at Ryman's E.W. Wendell Building and production facilities inside the Grand Ole Opry House. The network's flagship station is Gray's WSMV-DT5, a station which had been owned by a forerunner company of RHP until its sale in 1981 and separation from WSM and WSM-FM (Gray acquired the station from Meredith Corporation in 2021). The network is master controlled out of Gray's Atlanta hub.
Background
Circle is Ryman Hospitality Properties' fourth entry into television network ownership. From its founding in 1983 until 1997, the company—known then as the Gaylord Entertainment Company—was owner of The Nashville Network (TNN). Gaylord later bought a second country music-oriented cable network, Country Music Television (CMT), in 1991. Gaylord Entertainment sold both networks to the CBS Cable unit of CBS Corporation in 1997 for $1.55 billion feeling that the two then-country networks could grow faster as part of a larger media company. Gaylord, however, retained CMT International. Gaylord Cable Networks took its stakes in TV Argentina and CMT International to launch the MusicCountry channel in Mexico and Argentine in 2000. Then on September 1, 2000, the company launched the MusicCountry service in Europe. Gaylord would subsequently rebrand CMT channels in Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Asia-Pacific region's areas to the MusicCountry brand.
History
Towards the end of the 2010s, Ryman Hospitality Properties was looking to venture back into television, with its Opry Entertainment unit already having co-produced the dramatic series Nashville, along with the end of its partnerships to carry the Opry with CMT, then Great American Country, as their managements both shifted away from music programming and towards a more generic and broad-based focus on Southern culture. In 2018, Ryman had settled on a broadcast television network and began pursuing starting one as they felt country music fans are underserved. Ryman tested nine potential shows via a sizzle reel with excellent responses from focus group sessions.
Ryman and Gray Television announced a joint venture between Gray and Ryman's subsidiary, Opry Entertainment Group on April 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Doctor%20Doctor | Doctor Doctor is an Australian drama series that premiered on Nine Network on 16 September 2016. It is known internationally as The Heart Guy.
The series, including its cast, have been nominated for several awards including the AACTA Awards, the Casting Guild of Australia, the Screen Producers Australia, and multiple nominations at the Logie Awards. As of 2022, it has not been the recipient of any awards.
AACTA Awards
Casting Guild of Australia
Logie Awards
Screen Producers Australia
TV Tonight Awards
Notes
References
Lists of awards by television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20River%20of%20Stars%20%28novel%29 | The River of Stars is a 1913 novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was part of a series of stories in which the character of Commissioner Sanders appears, set in British West Africa.
Adataption
In 1921 it was turned into a silent British film of the same title directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring Teddy Arundell. It was produced by Stoll Pictures, Britain's leading film company at the time.
References
Bibliography
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
1913 British novels
Novels by Edgar Wallace
Films set in Africa
British novels adapted into films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVTV%20Network | Strong Voices TV (SVTV) Network is a subscription-based television network that represents the LGBTQ community, its allies and advocates. It features videos, movies, films, podcasts, music, and video games, from members of the LGBT community. It offers a digital library that includes the licensing and production of diverse genres including series, movies, documentaries, podcasts, music, reality series, short films, news, sports, live streaming events, and is soon to include LGBT animation. Along with featuring media products produced by a diverse community, SVTV Network produces its own original series and content. The subscription-based network was started by Sheri Johnson, a full-time seventh-grade teacher and creator of the web series “StudvilleTV”.
History
SVTV's founder Sheri Johnson is also the creator of the web series “StudvilleTV” that had 100,000 subscribers in 39 countries and got 5 million views. Johnson and other creators allege a shift in policies and regulations at YouTube discriminated against LGBTQ indie filmmakers resulting in declining ad revenue for their content. In response to partnered advertisers believing themselves to be an unsuitable match for LGBTQ content creators, Johnson decided to create a platform for herself and for the LGBTQ community.
Establishment
The SVTV Network officially launched its 'On Demand' network in the Fall of 2016 as a website and app combination.
Flagship Shows
StudvilleTV
Created by Sheri Johnson in 2013, the series StudvilleTV ran for four seasons on Youtube. "Based on the lives of Johnson and her three best friends — was relatable, fun, serious, and true. The series explored their lives as lesbians — dating, juggling careers and maneuvering through life together."
Stud Model Project
In the same vein as the America's Next Top Model, “Stud Model Project: The Series” is a new reality competition searching for America’s sexiest LGBTQ Stud model. The show "disrupts the labels and gender norms within the LGBTQ community." The mission of the series is to break barriers, and deconstruct the labels placed on the dominants within the LGBTQ community. The show also aims to normalize non-binary gender.
References
External links
Strong Voices TV Network
Television networks in the United States
LGBT-related mass media in the United States
LGBT-related television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2016
2016 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20It%20Like%20Disick | Flip It Like Disick is an American reality television series that aired on the E! cable network. The series debuted on August 4, 2019, and consisted of eight episodes. It followed Scott Disick and his team as they renovated luxury homes in the greater Los Angeles area. Disick's team is made up of his best friend and business partner Benny Luciano, realtor Kozet Luciano (Benny's wife), Disick's assistant Lindsay Diamond, contractor Miki Mor, and pop-singer and interior designer Willa Ford. The first season had numerous guest stars, including Steve Aoki, Kris Jenner, and Sofia Richie.
The series featured Disick and his team attempting to purchase and renovate the Jed Smith House. The completely renovated house was initially listed for more than double the price for which they purchased it. As of April 2020, the house had not sold. Purchased for $3.235 million in April 2018 by Disick and his team, the house finally sold for $5.6 million in November 2020.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2019 American television series debuts
2019 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series by Ryan Seacrest Productions
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
American television spin-offs
Reality television spin-offs
E! original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Vuillemin | Jean Vuillemin is a French computer scientist known for his work in data structures and parallel computing. He is a professor of computer science at the École normale supérieure (Paris).
Contributions
Vuillemin invented the binomial heap and Cartesian tree data structures. With Ron Rivest, he proved the Aanderaa–Rosenberg conjecture, according to which any deterministic algorithm that tests a nontrivial monotone property of graphs, using queries that test whether pairs of vertices are adjacent, must perform a quadratic number of adjacency queries.
In the 1980s, Vuillemin was the director of a project to develop a workstation using VLSI technology, under which the Le Lisp programming language was developed. With Franco P. Preparata, he also introduced the cube-connected cycles as a network topology in parallel computing.
Education and career
Vuillemin earned an engineering degree at the École Polytechnique in 1968, a doctorate (troisième cycle) at the University of Paris in 1969, a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1972 under the supervision of Zohar Manna, and a state doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1974.
He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974, but then returned to France in 1975 for a position at the University of Paris-Sud. He moved to the École Polytechnique in 1982, to the Ecole de Management Léonard De Vinci in 1994, and to the École normale supérieure in 1997.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC80 | The educational computer LC80 was a single-board computer manufactured in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and intended for teaching purposes. It was the first computer that retail customers could buy in the GDR.
History and development
The development of the LC 80 started in 1983. At the Leipzig Trade Fair in the spring of 1984 it was presented to the public. Early in 1985 the LC80 was on the market, making it the first computer available to retail customers in the GDR. The computers Z 9001 and HC 900 that had been shown at the same spring fair, could not be manufactured in sufficient quantity and were thus available only to educational institutions.
The production probably ended around 1986/87.
Technical details
The LC80 was programmed by entering hexadecimal machine codes via a built-in 25-key calculator keyboard (16 hexadecimal keys, 7 function keys, NMI, Reset). Programs could be saved and loaded via cassette tape or EPROM. Beside the CPU the board contained two PIO and one CTC integrated circuits as well as 1 KB of RAM and 2 KB of ROM.
Interfaces:
cassette tape interface
12 programmable input / output lines, 4 Handshake lines, and 7 CTC lines
CPU-bus (unbuffered)
Export version
Based on a request from the United Kingdom, an export variant was developed. This version differed from the conventional LC80 in the following details:
wooden cabinet
12 KB ROM
4 KB RAM
keyboard template for chess program SC-80 (similar to the East German chess computer SC2)
As the order from abroad did not come through in the end, only samples were manufactured of this version.
Software and applications
Except for the operating system, no software was included. The manufacturer published a series of three booklets that contained software as hexadecimal machine code listings.
Software and applications were published in journals such as Funkamateur (Morse code trainer) and Radio Fernsehen Elektronik (EPROM programmer, robot model control). Given the limited availability of computers in East Germany, the LC80 was even used to control scales underground in a potash mine.
See also
Other microprocessor development systems with a hexadecimal display and hexadecimal program entry: MEK6800D2 (1976), KIM-1 (1976), TK-80 (1976), MK14 (1977), Acorn System 1 (1979), Micro-Professor MPF-I (1981), PMI-80 (1982), TEC-1 (1983)
References
External links
Homepage of Volker Pohlers with LC80 section (in German)
LC80 at robotrontechnik.de (in German)
LC80 at homecomputermuseum.de (in German)
Online LC 80 emulator
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Z80-based home computers
Computers designed in Germany
Home computers
Goods manufactured in East Germany
Science and technology in East Germany
Early microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPX-LD | WIPX-LD (channel 51) is a low-power religious television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located on Walnut Drive in Indianapolis' northwest side. It is operated separately from full-power sister station WDTI (channel 69) in the city.
History
The station signed on on October 30, 1990, as W51BU. It was originally silent, then affiliated with ValueVision sometime.
In August 1998, W51BU was acquired DP Media and was converted into a translator of WIIB (channel 63) and were affiliates of Pax TV (now Ion Television). The low-power translator also changed its callsign to WIPX-LP to reflect its new affiliation. When DP merged with Paxson Communications in 2000, WIPX-TV/LP were Pax TV owned-and-operated stations (Paxson had earlier attempted to purchase WB affiliate WNDY-TV [channel 23, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate] for $28.4 million in 1997, before it was outbid by a $35 million offer from the Paramount Stations Group that October).
As a former translator of WIPX-TV
WIPX-LP formerly relayed WIPX-TV's signal to the northern portions of Indianapolis that received a Grade B to a non-existent signal of WIPX-TV (including Kokomo, Marion and Muncie), although there was significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WIPX-LP was a straight simulcast of WIPX-TV; on-air references to WIPX-LP were limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming.
Sale of WIPX-LP to Daystar
On December 15, 2014, Ion Media Networks reached a deal to donate WIPX-LP to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar network.
On October 8, 2015, the station returned to the air as digital-only WIPX-LD.
References
Television stations in Indiana
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Low-power television stations in Indiana
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CY8ER | CY8ER (pronounced as "cyber") was a Japanese alternative idol girl group. Formed by Ichigo Rinahamu and Nicamoq as BPM15Q in 2015, the group expanded and had five members by the time of their dissolution in January 2021. Their music was characterized by its peculiar EDM style with an added kawaii element.
History
The group was founded as BPM15Q in 2015 by , a former member of idol groups BiS and Akishibu Project, and Nicamoq, a DJ. The name BPM15Q was chosen as a reference to the two members: 15 for Ichigo Rinahamu (One is pronounced ichi and five is pronounced go, putting them together made ichigo) and Q for Nicamoq. The duo began releasing a series of songs, out of which peaked at 3rd on iTunes' J-pop charts. In November 2016, BPM15Q released their first album titled BPM15Q All Songs via Ichigo Rinahamu's own label, Icigo Style. The album contained all of the songs the duo has released so far. In December 2016, the group announced the additions of two members: , a former DJ, and , former member of idol group DEEP GIRL. December also saw the departure of Nicamoq. With the changes, the group renamed itself to "CY8ER".
The group released two singles before the additions of three more members in April 2017: , former member of Ice Cream Suicide and Bellring Shōjo Heart; ; and . The six-person group soon made headlines for an event inviting fans to hug a member, but each member was wearing full chemical protective clothing. Naatan Koromushi left the group in March 2018. As of April 2014, four additional singles and one album were released.
The group disbanded on January 10, 2021, following their last live show at Nippon Budokan.
In April 2022, the original duo officially announced they will resuming their activities as BPM15Q under Victor Entertainment’s label.
Members
Final lineup
Ichigo Rinahamu (苺りなはむ)
Koinumaru Pochi (小犬丸ぽち)
Suzukawa Mashiro (涼川ましろ)
Fujishiro Anna (藤城アンナ)
Yamiyume Yammy (病夢やみい)
Former members
Nicamoq (にかもきゅ)
Naatan Koromushi (なぁたんコロ虫)
Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Singles
References
Japanese idol groups
Japanese girl groups
Musical groups established in 2015
Musical groups disestablished in 2021
2015 establishments in Japan
2021 disestablishments in Japan
Japanese pop music groups
Japanese electronic musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds%20of%20a%20Feather%20%282019%20film%29 | Birds of a Feather, also known as Manou the Swift or Swift, is a 2019 German 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Christian Haas and Andrea Block. The film features the voices of Kate Winslet, Willem Dafoe, Josh Keaton, Cassandra Steen and David Shaughnessy.
Cast
Kate Winslet as Blanche, Yves' wife who is the first to discover Manou and take him in
Willem Dafoe as Yves, the strong-willed but stubborn leader of the seagull colony
Josh Keaton as Manou, an orphaned Swift who was adopted and raised by seagulls
Cassandra Steen as Kalifa, a female Swift and Manou's love interest who looks like an alien
Mikey Kelley as Luc, Manou's adoptive brother with whom he shares a strong bond
David Shaughnessy as Percival, a flightless bird who lives in a cemetery, and frequently hangs around with the Swifts
Arif S. Kinchen as Poncho, a short, fat Swift and one of Kalifa's brothers
Nolan North as Yusuf, a slim, taller Swift and one of Kalifa's brothers
Julie Nathanson as Francoise, a student at the sailing school and a rival of Manou
Rob Paulsen as Sandpipers
The Rats, who are really scary
Plot
The film follows the adventures of Manou, a swift who was raised by seagulls and struggles to fit in with them, as well as his journey to accepting his identity as a swift and earning the respect of seagulls and swifts alike.
References
External links
2019 films
2019 3D films
2019 comedy films
2019 computer-animated films
2010s German animated films
2010s children's adventure films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s English-language films
German 3D films
German computer-animated films
German children's adventure films
German children's comedy films
German adventure comedy films
Jungle adventure films
Animated adventure films
3D animated films
English-language German films
Animated films about birds
Anthropomorphic birds
Animated films set in Germany
Animated films set on beaches
Animated films set in jungles
Animated films set on islands
Films set in 2019
2010s German films
German animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrie%20Karahalios | Kyratso (Karrie) G. Karahalios is an American computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is noted for her work on the impact of computer science on people and society, analyses of social media, and algorithm auditing. She is co-founder of the Center for People and Infrastructures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education
She received her bachelor's degree at MIT in EECS in 1994, ME in EECS in 1995, S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences in 1997, and a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences in 2004.
Career and research
Karahalios joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 as an assistant professor and received tenure in 2010. In 2017 she was promoted to full professor. Her research focuses on social media and the impact of computing on society, including algorithmic bias and methods to detect and analyze such bias, a field termed "algorithm auditing". Her 2014 paper on auditing algorithms provided research methods for detecting discrimination on internet platforms has been cited more than 200 times.
Her most cited paper provides a model for predicting "tie strength" in social media, and has been cited more than 1500 times according to Google Scholar.
ACLU suit
In 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit on behalf of Karahalios and several other plaintiffs against Loretta Lynch, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, challenging "the constitutionality of a provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq., a federal statute that prohibits and chills academics, researchers, and journalists from testing for discrimination on the internet". The federal government argued against the suit, but in April 2018, a federal judge ruled that it should be permitted to continue.
Awards and honors
Karahalios was one of the recipients of the National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in 2007, of the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award in 2008, and of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships in 2010. She was named a University Scholar at the University of Illinois in 2019. She has received Best Paper awards for publications in the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2008, 2009, 2015, and 2017
References
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Sloan Fellows
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Greek emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Sukhomlin | Vladimir Sukhomlin () is a Russian computer scientist, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
Biography
Born in the family of a documentary filmmaker Yuri Ozerov. He graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1969).
He defended the thesis «An integrated approach to the creation of technological software for the automation of scientific research in the field of real-time radio-electronic systems and their functional software» for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences (1989). Academic title Professor (1992).
Honorary Professor at Moscow State University (2013). Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997).
Head of the subcommittee of the Russian Committee for the Standardization of Information Technology. An expert RFBR, takes part in the work of the Open Systems Committee RAS.
Works at Moscow State University (since 1973). Head of the Laboratory of Open Information Technologies, Faculty CMC MSU (since 1998).
Main scientific publications
Published more than 80 research papers and 13 monographs.
References
External links
Vladimir Sukhomlin on the website of the CMC MSU
Chronicle of Moscow University
Vladimir Sukhomlin's scientific works on the website ISTINA MSU
Russian computer scientists
1945 births
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Clare%20Adams | Jeanne Clare Adams (June 15, 1921 – April 21, 2007) was an American computer scientist. She was Chairman of the ANSI X3J3 Fortran Standards Committee that "developed the controversial Fortran 8X proposal".
She graduated with a BS in economics from the University of Michigan in 1943, and an MS in telecommunications and electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1979. Her longest held position was at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, from 1960 to 1981, serving from 1984 to 1997 as deputy head of the Computing Division. Adams was also chair of the International Standards Organization Committee on Programming Languages (TC97/SC5), now ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 and the ANSI Fortran Standards Committee (X3J3). Adams wrote reference manuals for computer equipment such as the CYBER 205.
Selected publications
Adams, Jeanne C., Walter S. Brainerd, and Charles H. Coldberg, Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990.
Adams, Jeanne C., Walter S. Brainerd, J. Martin, B. Smith, and J. Wagener, Fortran 90 Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992.
References
American women computer scientists
Fortran
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
1921 births
2007 deaths
American computer scientists
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20McEwen%20Kildall | Dorothy McEwen Kildall, often known as Dorothy McEwen, (1943–2005) was an American microcomputer industry pioneer. In 1974, she co-founded Digital Research, the company that developed the first computer language, the first compiler and the first mainstream operating system for microcomputers.
Early years and education
Dorothy McEwen was born on 3 March 1943 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was the daughter of Marion Strout and Gene McEwen.
After high school she attended the University of Washington. After a few years, she abandoned studies and for the next several years, she worked to support her husband as he went to the same university.
Professional career
McEwen Kildall cofounded Digital Research, managing the company's marketing and daily operations. In 1980, she was involved in IBM's unsuccessful attempt to license CP/M for the IBM Personal Computer. In 1983, the company's revenue was $44.6 million and CP/M had become the standard operating system on most microcomputers. In 1991, Gary Kildall sold the company to Novell for $120 million.
Personal life
McEwen married her high school mate Gary Kildall. In 1969, the couple moved to the Monterey Peninsula and she gave birth to her son Scott Kildall in 1969 and her daughter Kristin Kildall in 1971. The couple separated in 1983, and was later divorced.
She cofounded the Carmel Valley Angel Project and the Community Thanksgiving.
She served on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Grove Heritage Society and the Intersea Foundation, the Carmel Red Cross, Carmel Valley Recreation and Park District, Carmel Valley Chamber of Commerce and Animal Welfare Information and Assistance.
She volunteered in many organizations, including:
Carmel Valley Village Improvement Committee
Carmel Valley Women's Club
Pacific Grove Art Center
The Suicide Prevention Center
The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The Pacific Grove Unified School District
In 1989, she bought the Holman Ranch, a 400-acre plot of land in Carmel Valley. She rebuilt its Spanish-style architecture transforming it into a winery and a site for weddings, corporate parties, photo shoots and charity events, and she built an equestrian center.
Death
McEwen died in Carmel Valley on January 31, 2005, from brain cancer.
See also
Gary Kildall
Scott Kildall
Digital Research
CP/M
Carmel Valley Village, California
References
1943 births
2005 deaths
Digital Research employees
CP/M people
Deaths from cancer
20th-century American women
20th-century American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20vector%20flow | Gradient vector flow (GVF), a computer vision framework introduced by Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince, is the vector field that is produced by a process that smooths and diffuses an input vector field. It is usually used to create a vector field from images that points to object edges from a distance. It is widely used in image analysis and computer vision applications for object tracking, shape recognition, segmentation, and edge detection. In particular, it is commonly used in conjunction with active contour model.
Background
Finding objects or homogeneous regions in images is a process known as image segmentation. In many applications, the locations of object edges can be estimated using local operators that yield a new image called an edge map. The edge map can then be used to guide a deformable model, sometimes called an
active contour or a snake, so that it passes through the edge map in a smooth way, therefore defining the object itself.
A common way to encourage a deformable model to move toward the edge map is to take the spatial gradient of the edge map, yielding a vector field. Since the edge map has its highest intensities directly on the edge and drops to zero away from the edge, these gradient vectors provide directions for the active contour to move. When the gradient vectors are zero, the active contour will not move, and this is the correct behavior when the contour rests on the peak of the edge map itself. However, because the edge itself is defined by local operators, these gradient vectors will also be zero far away from the edge and therefore the active contour will not move toward the edge when initialized far away from the edge.
Gradient vector flow (GVF) is the process that spatially extends the edge map gradient vectors, yielding a new vector field that contains
information about the location of object edges throughout the entire image domain. GVF is defined as a diffusion process operating on the
components of the input vector field. It is designed to balance the fidelity of the original vector field, so it is not changed too much,
with a regularization that is intended to produce a smooth field on its output.
Although GVF was designed originally for the purpose of segmenting objects using active contours attracted to edges, it has been since
adapted and used for many alternative purposes. Some newer purposes including defining a continuous medial axis representation, regularizing image anisotropic diffusion algorithms, finding the centers of ribbon-like objects, constructing graphs for optimal surface segmentations, creating a shape prior, and much more.
Theory
The theory of GVF was originally described by Xu and Prince. Let be an edge map defined on the image domain. For uniformity of results, it is important to restrict the edge map intensities to lie between 0 and 1, and by convention takes on larger values (close to 1) on the object edges. The gradient vector flow (GVF) field is given by the vector f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Frome | Andrea Frome is an American computer scientist who works in computer vision and machine learning.
Education
Frome attended the University of Mary Washington for her undergraduate work, receiving a BS in environmental science in 1996. After a few years working in environmental consulting, she changed fields to computer science. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in 2007 under the supervision of Jitendra Malik.
Career
After her Ph.D., she worked at Google for seven years, where she was involved in developing the AI used to blur out faces and license plates in Google Street View.
After leaving Google in 2015, she worked for a short time at Nuna Inc., before joining the technology team of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. At the end of the Clinton campaign, she joined Clarifai as director of research. In 2018, she returned to Google to become one of the founding members of a new research laboratory in Ghana.
Frome has over 4,000 citations in the fields of computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning.
Activism
In 2019, she co-signed a letter addressed to Amazon regarding its facial analysis software and alleged biases in its implementation and interpretation by police departments, etc.
References
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Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Crowe | Malcolm Kenneth Crowe is an Irish computer scientist and mathematician who retired to become professor emeritus at the University of West of Scotland after 46 years of service.
Biography
Crowe was born in Dublin on 13 January 1948. Studies in the final year of school encouraged an interest in philosophy. He gained a 1st class honours degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1969.
Crowe gained employment as a lecturer at Paisley College of Technology in Scotland in 1972, remaining with the institution through its transition to Paisley University in 1992 and finally to the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in 2007.
His D. Phil in Mathematics was awarded from Oxford University in 1979.
Although trained as a mathematician Crowe's interest turned increasingly towards computing. He became Head of Computing in Paisley in 1985, introducing an degree in information systems, resulting in a "culture clash".
Crowe was involved in the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology (ESPIRIT) in the 1980s and 1990s.
2006 saw him develop the Pyrrho lightweight database management system. UWS set up licensing so it could be commercially exploited but in practice has been utilised in an educational role, with the European sponsored DBTechNET initiative and as an addendum to the 5th edition of UWS's Connolly and Begg book "Database Systems, A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management".
Crowe retired from UWS in 2018 after a working life of 46 years at the same institution. He has continued his participation in computer science with 2019 seeing a version 7 of his PyrrhoDB having an alpha release, development of a new Database Management System, StrongDBMS.
Pyrrho DBMS
Crowe developed the Pyrrho Database Management System (DBMS) in the 2000s to explore optimistic concurrency control and other features applicable to relational databases.
Bibliography
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1948 births
Living people
Academics of the University of the West of Scotland
Scientists from Dublin (city)
Irish computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoAI | Automated Artificial Intelligence (AutoAI) is a variation of the automated machine learning or AutoML technology, which extends the automation of model building towards automation of the full life cycle of a machine learning model. It applies intelligent automation to the task of building predictive machine learning models by preparing data for training and identifying the best type of model for the given data. then choosing the features or columns of data that best support the problem the model is solving. Finally, automation evaluates a variety of tuning options to reach the best result as it generates, then ranks, model-candidate pipelines. The best performing pipelines can be put into production to process new data, and deliver predictions based on the model training. Automated artificial intelligence can also be applied to making sure the model doesn't have inherent bias and automating the tasks for continuous improvement of the model. Managing an AutoAI model requires frequent monitoring and updating, managed by a process known as model operations or ModelOps.
The Automated Machine Learning and Data Science (AMLDS) is a small team within IBM Research, which was formed to apply techniques from artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data management to accelerate and optimize the creation of machine learning and data science workflows. AMLDS gets credit of driving the development of AutoAI.
Use case
A typical use case for AutoAI would be training a model to predict how customers might respond to a sales incentive. The model first gets training with actual data on how customers responded to the promotion. When the trained model presented with new data, can provide a prediction of how a new customer might respond, with a confidence score for the prediction. Prior to AutoML, data scientists had to build these predictive models by hand, testing various combinations of algorithms, then testing to see how predictions compared to actual results, whereas AutoML automated the processes of preparing the data for training, applying algorithms to process the data, and then further optimizing the results. Hence, AutoAI provides greater intelligent automation that allows for testing significantly more combinations of factors to generate model candidate pipelines that reflect and address the problem more accurately. Once built, the model evaluated for bias and updated to improve performance.
The AutoAI process
The user initiates the process by providing a set of training data and identifying the prediction column, which sets up the problem to solve. For example, the prediction column might contain values of yes or no in response to an offered incentive. In the data pre-processing stage, AutoAI applies various algorithms, or estimators, to analyze, clean (for example, remove redundant information or impute missing data), and prepare structured raw data for machine learning (ML).
The next is automated model selection that matches the d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nada%20Golmie | Nada Taleb Golmie is an American computer scientist and engineer. She is chief of the wireless networks division in the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Career and education
Golmie joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1993 as a research engineer. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at University of Maryland, College Park. Her 2002 thesis was titled Coexistence of Bluetooth and 802.11 networks. Golmie's doctoral advisor was A. Udaya Shankar. Golmie is the chief of the wireless networks division in the NIST Communications Technology Laboratory. Her research in media access control and protocols for wireless networks led to over 200 technical papers presented at professional conferences, journals, and contributed to international standard organizations and industry led consortia. Golmie is a member of the NIST Public Safety Communication Research program and leads the efforts on the simulation modeling and evaluation of LTE in support of public safety communications. She leads several projects related to the modeling and evaluation of future generation wireless systems and protocols and serves as a co-chair for the 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance.
Recognition
Golmie was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to wireless technologies and standards".
Selected works
References
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Living people
20th-century American engineers
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21st-century American engineers
21st-century women engineers
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American computer scientists
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21st-century American women
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Pinkall | Ulrich Pinkall (born 1955) is a German mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and computer graphics.
Pinkall studied mathematics at the University of Freiburg with a Diplom in 1979 and a doctorate in 1982 with thesis Dupin'sche Hyperflächen (Dupin's hypersurfaces) under the supervision of Martin Barner. Pinkall was then a research assistant in Freiburg until 1984 and from 1984 to 1986 at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with thesis Totale Absolutkrümmung immersierter Flächen (Total absolute curvature of immersed surfaces). Since 1986 he is professor at TU Berlin.
In 1985 he received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. In 1986 he received a Heisenberg-Stipendium from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). From 1992 to 2003 he was a speaker of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 288 (differential geometry and quantum physics).
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Quaternionic analysis of Riemann surfaces and differential geometry at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
Selected publications
1988
arXiv preprint
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Differential geometers
University of Freiburg alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20Boarders | Cool Boarders is a series of snowboarding video games published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Games
Main series
Cool Boarders (1996)
Cool Boarders 2 (1997)
Cool Boarders Arcade Jam (1998)
Cool Boarders 3 (1998)
Cool Boarders 4 (1999)
Spin-offs
Rippin' Riders Snowboarding (1999)
Cool Boarders Pocket (2000)
Cool Boarders 2001 (2000)
Cool Boarders: Code Alien (2000)
Notes
References
External links
Sony Interactive Entertainment franchises
Video game franchises
Video game franchises introduced in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic%20Broadcasting%20Center | Hypersonic Broadcasting Center is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at HBC Bldg., Penaranda St., Brgy. Iraya, Legazpi, Albay.
HBC Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
Former Stations
References
Philippine radio networks
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Mass media companies established in 1969
Philippine companies established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDNZ-LD | WDNZ-LD (channel 11), branded on air as WDNZ-TV 11, is a low-power digital primary MyNetworkTV and secondary BizTV/Antenna TV-affiliated television station serving Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States that is licensed to Glasgow. The station is owned by Marquee Broadcasting of Salisbury, Maryland, as part of a triopoly with NBC/CBS/MeTV dual affiliate WNKY (channel 40) and WNKY-LD (channel 35).
The television and radio stations share studios located at the Daily News building on College Street in downtown Bowling Green alongside radio stations WDNS and WKCT. WDNZ's transmitter is located behind the studio.
History
Under Frank Digital ownership
Under original ownership by Frank Digital Broadcasting, the station's first construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission on February 22, 2011 under the callsign W11DJ-D. The station has been silent, but the station could be the market's third low-power television station after WCZU-LD and W14DG-D, the latter of which was initially only on the air for a month in 2016. The station would also be the first television station of any kind to be licensed in Glasgow since 2010, when former Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) owned-and-operated translators WKUT-LP and WKUW-LP went off the air due to lack of viewer support; both of them relocated to serve the Louisville and Nashville markets, respectively. The licenses of both WKUT and WKUW were first sold to Budd Broadcasting in 2010, and then to DTV America Corporation in the mid-2010s, and as of 2017, they, along with WCZU, are now owned by INNOVATE Corp..
Ownership by The Daily News
In 2018, the FCC issued a Special temporary authority license to the then-W11DJ-D's new licensee, News Publishing, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Daily News Broadcasting Company of Bowling Green. The Daily News also owns two radio stations: news/talk AM station WKCT, along with its associated translator W281BV, and classic rock-formatted FM sister station WDNS. The special temporary authority license would allow it to conduct test broadcasts from a former AT&T long-lines microwave tower near Brownsville, with the directional antenna orienting the signal to the south to not only cover the city of Bowling Green proper, but also to protect the full-power signal of Louisville's ABC affiliate WHAS-TV, which also broadcasts on channel 11, from co-channel interference. However, the station also has a construction permit to instead transmit from the WDNS radio transmission tower located in southeastern Warren County on Iron Bridge Road just off Kentucky Route 1402 (KY 1402) west of Threeforks. If it begins broadcasting at that location, the projected signal coverage would cover almost all of the Bowling Green media market area, plus central and southern portions of Grayson County (part of the Louisville market), and nearby portions of northern Allen County (part of the Nashville market) located within a few miles from that county's northern bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transformers%3A%20Cyberverse%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes from the series Transformers: Cyberverse.
Series overview
Episodes
Chapter One (2018)
Chapter Two: Power of the Spark (2019–20)
Chapter Three: Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures (2020)
Chapter Four: Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures (2021)
Notes
References
Cyberverse
Transformers Cyberverse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composable%20disaggregated%20infrastructure | Composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI), sometimes stylized as composable/disaggregated infrastructure, is a technology that allows enterprise data center operators to achieve the cost and availability benefits of cloud computing using on-premises networking equipment. It is considered a class of converged infrastructure, and uses management software to combine compute, storage and network elements. It is similar to public cloud, except the equipment sits on premises in an enterprise data center.
Overview
American market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC) describes CDI as "an emerging category of infrastructure systems that make use of high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects to aggregate compute, storage, and networking fabric resources into shared resource pools that can be available for on-demand allocation."
These systems use what is sometimes called rack-scale architecture, which allows network operators to replace components on a rack while the entire data center behaves as a virtualized server. This allows operators to allocate compute, memory, and storage resources inside each server node on-demand, over a high speed, low latency computing fabric. The individual components can be managed as a resource pool, allowing dynamic provisioning and deprovisioning with a common application programming interface (API). No hardware configuration is required.
Technology
Composability refers to the composer, which is another term for the software that allows the server resources, which include compute, storage, and RAM, to be placed into a pool to become available for applications and workloads. Disaggregation is the process of aggregating server resources with the resources of other servers in the data center. These aggregated or pooled resources can be shared by applications or workloads. The composer software controls how much of each disaggregated resource is needed from each server.
The use of software APIs to provisioning the resources without having to directly program any individual hardware device is known as programmatic control. Operators can use open APIs in composable infrastructure in order to integrate third-party software and hardware with proprietary solutions.
References
Computing terminology
Emerging technologies
Network architecture
Data centers
IT infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Nikolov%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Aleksandar Nikolov is a Bulgarian and Canadian theoretical computer scientist working on differential privacy, discrepancy theory, and high-dimensional geometry. He is a professor at the University of Toronto.
Nikolov obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2014 under the supervision of S. Muthukrishnan (Thesis: New computational aspects of discrepancy theory).
Nikolov is the Canada Research Chair in Algorithms and Private Data Analysis.
References
Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelbook%20Go | The Pixelbook Go (codenamed Atlas during development) is a portable touchscreen laptop computer developed by Google which runs ChromeOS. It was announced on October 15, 2019 as the successor to the Pixelbook, and shipments began on October 27 for the United States and Canada. The Pixelbook Go was later made available for the United Kingdom in January 2020. Unlike preceding Google-branded Chromebook devices, the Pixelbook Go is not considerably more expensive compared to Chromebooks with similar functionality and specifications.
History
An anonymous Google spokesperson told Computerworld it was "very likely" that a Pixelbook 2 would launch in 2019, when Google announced that it was discontinuing tablet hardware development in June 2019, following the disappointing reception to the Pixel Slate detachable tablet/laptop. A laptop codenamed "Atlas" during development had previously leaked as early as March 2019, and other details were gleaned by examining ChromiumOS source code. Final details, including the name and specifications, were published in September 2019, several weeks prior to the official announcement.
Internally, the new Pixelbook Go used many of the same components as the preceding Pixel Slate. The two devices were developed closely together in 2018; 'Atlas' (the eventual Pixelbook Go laptop) was to be accompanied by 'Meowth' (a convertible tablet), but due to supply chain issues, development of 'Meowth' was discontinued in favor of 'Nocturne' (which eventually became the Pixel Slate).
Preorders were opened the same day as the announcement, October 15, 2019, and shipments for the Pixelbook Go began on October 27. The top-end version with a Core i7 processor was not available to order until December 2019. The Pixelbook Go was made available for the United Kingdom on January 15, 2020.
Design
The Pixelbook Go features a touchscreen design with an aspect ratio of 16:9; however, with a conventional clamshell hinge, the device cannot be used like a tablet, unlike its predecessor, the Pixelbook. The device also features Google Assistant with a dedicated button. It runs ChromeOS and can launch Android applications natively. The laptop uses a magnesium chassis with an exterior finished in one of two colors, which Google calls "Just Black" and "Not Pink". The bottom chassis has a ribbed structure to aid grip. There is a front-facing camera capable of recording video at 1080p, 60 frames per second.
Either of the computer's two USB-C ports may be used for charging; using the provided charger, charging for twenty minutes provides up to two hours of use. The battery has a claimed life of 12 hours; the UHD model comes with a larger battery. The Pixelbook drops support for the active stylus Pixelbook Pen.
Response
The Pixelbook Go had generally favorable reviews; although the pricing was closer to competing computers than prior Google-branded Chromebooks, some reviewers pointed out that equivalent features and specifications could be purchased |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Dyson | Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson is a character in the sci-fi franchise Terminator. He is the original inventor of the microprocessor which would lead to the development of Skynet, an intelligent computer system intended to control the United States military, but which would later achieve sentience and launch a global war of extermination against humanity.
Dyson is portrayed by Joe Morton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (T2), by Phil Morris in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and by Courtney B. Vance in Terminator Genisys.
Fictional biography
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Miles Dyson is an expert in cybernetics at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation as the Director of Special Projects. He has a wife named Tarissa and a son named Danny. Dyson is creating a microprocessor inspired by two pieces of highly advanced technology recovered from a Terminator in the first film. Dyson is the man most directly responsible for Skynet's creation, which would lead to Judgment Day. One night at his home, Dyson is suddenly attacked by Sarah Connor, who believed that Judgment Day could be averted by killing Dyson, thereby stopping development of the microprocessor. When Sarah realizes that Dyson is effectively innocent and cannot bring herself to kill him in front of his family, Dyson is saved by Sarah's son, John, and the Model 101 Terminator. To convince Dyson that it is a Terminator, the machine removes skin to reveal its mechanical arm, identical to another arm held at Cyberdyne's laboratory. The group explain to Dyson the nature of Skynet and what his work would lead to. Dyson initially states that he will quit working at Cyberdyne and destroy all of his research, only for the Model 101 to explain that as long as the technology remains at Cyberdyne, Judgment Day remains inevitable. Dyson agrees to accompany Sarah, John and the Terminator to Cyberdyne to destroy his research. After unwillingly forcing their way into Cyberdyne at gunpoint, Dyson assists John to gather the technology from his laboratory. Dyson also begins preparing to decimate the lab with a bomb. Just as the bomb is ready for detonation, SWAT team officers arrive and open fire, severely wounding Dyson. Dyson holds onto the trigger and signals for the Connors, the Terminator, and the SWAT team to leave. Dyson succumbs to his injuries and detonates the bomb, killing himself and destroying the building.
Terminator Genisys
Dyson returns in Terminator Genisys, which takes place in an alternate timeline where Judgment Day was delayed to the year 2017. In this timeline, Dyson is Cyberdyne's CEO, and though he did not create Skynet directly, he is funding a project called "Genisys", created by his son. Danny and John Connor (now psychopathic due to being turned into a cyborg designated the T-3000 Terminator), both replace him as Skynet's creators.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Miles's wife, son and home appear in the pilot episode of this series, and although he appears in only the form of a fami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoid | Algoid may refer to:
things relating to algae
Algoid (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
Algoid (programming language), 2012 educational programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediahub | Mediahub, formerly known as MullenLowe Mediahub, is a global media planning and buying agency. It is part of the IPG Mediabrands advertising network, itself a component of multinational advertising and marketing company Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). Launched in 2005 as part of MullenLowe Group's predecessor Mullen, Mediahub has offices in 15 cities worldwide as of 2021.
John Moore is Mediahub's Global CEO.
History
Mediahub launched in May 2005 in Wenham, Massachusetts as a media buying spinoff of IPG-owned Mullen, an advertising agency. Its first standalone media accounts included Match.com, Timberland, and Ask.com.
One of its first notable campaigns was developing a single-sponsor campaign for Match.com with the 2006 debut season of the TBS television program My Boys.
In June 2006, Mediahub was selected as the media planning and buying agency for insurance company MassMutual.
In March 2012, National Geographic Channels consolidated its media and digital business at Mediahub.
In November 2013, Mediahub won the advertising business of Viacom-owned network VH1. In December, Mediahub partnered with Boston-based data management firm OwnerIQ to develop programmatic advertising capabilities for more effective media buying.
In August 2014, Mediahub became the agency of record for a second Viacom network, TV Land.
In May 2015, IPG merged Mediahub parent Mullen with the Lowe and Partners agency, forming MullenLowe Group. Mediahub became known as MullenLowe Mediahub. In June, Mediahub added Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and Royal Caribbean as clients.
In 2017, the agency took several of its creative thinkers and formed a new independent group called Radical & Disruptive Lab (R+D Lab). In January 2017, the company won the Chipotle account. In December, Mediahub expanded into Mumbai, India as Lintas Mediahub. Also in December, Mediahub became the agency of record for a third Viacom channel, MTV.
In June 2018, the company was named agency of record by shoe company New Balance. In September, advertising industry publication Adweek named MullenLowe Mediahub's campaign for streaming company Netflix's series Altered Carbon as campaign of the year. The campaign, designed by R+D Lab, featured life-size human figures encased in plastic at bus stops. In October, the company announced it had won the advertising business for cloud storage and software company Dropbox.
In April 2019, the company was named agency of record for Fox Sports and Fox Entertainment Group.
In 2020, the company was named agency of record for prepaid wireless provider TracFone and the National Basketball Association. In September, Minneapolis-based media buying agency CompassPoint was merged with Mediahub to become Mediahub’s Minneapolis office.
In 2023, the company announced it was becoming part of IPG Mediabrands.
Operations
Headquartered in New York, Mediahub has offices in 15 cities worldwide as of 2021, including Los Angeles, New York, London, Sydney, Singapore and Tok |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFDS%20%28TV%20series%29 | RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service is an Australian drama television series which centres around the lives of workers for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Commissioned by the Seven Network and produced by Endemol Shine Australia, it began airing on 11 August 2021. The series was renewed for a second season in June 2022 to commence screening on 15 August 2023. The series was renewed for a third season during the 2023 Channel 7 Upfronts.
Production
Production on RFDS commenced in 2020. The series is written by Ian Meadows and produced by Imogen Banks for Endemol Shine, executive produced by Mark and Carl Fennessy for Endemol Shine Australia and Julie McGauran for Seven.
The series was due to begin production in Broken Hill in March 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the series was temporarily suspended. Production resumed in August 2020 along with announcement of more cast members including Emma Hamilton, Ash Ricardo, Kate Mulvany, Rodney Afif, Jack Scott and Sofia Nolan, with newcomers Thomas Weatherall and Ash Hodgkinson. The first promotional trailer for the series was released in July 2021.
In June 2022, David Knox of TV Tonight reported the series had been renewed for a second season, which will be broadcast in 2023.
In October 2023 the series was renewed for a third season.
Cast
Justine Clarke as Leonie Smith
Rob Collins as Dr. Wayne Yates
Stephen Peacocke as Nurse Pete Emerson
Emma Hamilton as Dr. Eliza Harrod
Ash Ricardo as Mira Ortez
Rodney Afif as Graham Rodney
Jack Scott as Nurse Matty Harris
Thomas Weatherall as Darren Yates
Sofia Nolan as Taylor Emerson
Ash Hodgkinson as Henry Harrod
Kate Mulvany as Rhiannon Emerson
Trevor Ashley as Dolly Hardon
James Fels as Bull Rider
Will Bell as Stripper
Cody Peppin as Cross Dresser 1
Latham Hill as Cross Dresser's Boyfriend
Episodes
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2023)
Reception
Ratings
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2023)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
2020s Australian drama television series
2021 Australian television series debuts
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20Is%20Impossible%20%28Planetshakers%20Kids%20album%29 | Nothing Is Impossible is the first album of praise and worship for children from the Planetshakers Church. Planetshakers through their social networks announced the release of their first children's album on November 19, 2013.
Nothing Is Impossible was released by Planetshakers Ministries International, Crossroad and Integrity Music.
Artwork
Paul Orton, Cover Designer, Creative Artist and Children's Pastor of Planetshakers Church in Melbourne, shared the Planetshakers Kids album artwork on his social media. The final cover of the album is a photo of a boy standing on top of the ice looking up at the clear sky next to a purple flag. Orton also shared the artwork from the album Nothing Is Impossible on his blog.
Critical reception
Marc Daniel Rivera, awarding the album gave it a 4.6 stars rating from Kristiya Know, says, "Overall, this record, with its songs, scripture readings plus prayers, gives the children a unique opportunity to worship God while impressing in their hearts the hunger for worship and for more of Jesus in spite of their age." A staff editor at Amazon.com gave the album a relatively positive review, writing, "The music from Planetshakers Kids provides Christ-centered, positive and uplifting music for the whole family. It is music any Christian kid would want to give their friends, because it is just as cool as what they might hear on the radio or TV."
Awards and accolades
In the 2014, the album Nothing Is Impossible was nominated for a Dove Award in the category: "Children's Music Album of the Year" at the 45th Annual GMA Dove Awards.
Track listing
Personnel
Vocals
Jonathan Hunt
Chelsi Nikkerud
Aimee Evans
Kids Choir Vocalists
Beverly Carter
Taylor Carter
Savannah Schrieber
Emily Eisa
Marissa Eisa
Matthew Daniel
Kenneth Eakins
David Anleu
Chris Beadle
Gerald Hornbuckle
Celia Kate Mellett
Preston Beard
María Flores
Katie Allin
Hannah Johnson
Jonathan Brown
Neema Andrews
Joel Mangosteen
Kayla Culbreath
Jude Beard
Gabriella Quintanilla
Makayla Tubbs
Celeste Chapa
Julián Chapa
Haler Bringham
Jonathan Martínez
Mahely Martínez
Lia Doherty
Seattle Nilsson
Victoria Marin
Aiden Mellett
Gracie Mellett
Abel George
Aída George
Abigail Savage
Caleb Savage
Sela Thiessen
Colin Mellet
Addison Hurst
Aubrey Hurst
Christian Thiessen
Gracen Beard
Emily Martiniez
Seanie B Mellett
Prayers
Jenibelle Font
Nemue Hernández
Sole Lugo Carrillo
Grace Estefanía Gutarra
Avril Marie Mejía
Estefanía Fernández Acosta
Gabriel Emilo Figueroa
Lyangie Fontanet Zayas
Raquel Méndez
Jesús David Gil
Paola Burgos
Sole Lugo
Prayers & Bible Readings
Thaddeus Owl
Emilie Hughes
Evans Hughes
Amy Ferguson
Jodeci Tofete
Rachel Kunnumpurath
Eliah Chekole
A&R
Joshua Brown
Steve Merkel
Artist development
Craig Dunnagan
Mixing
Ainslie Grosser at Experientia Studio, Franklin, Tennessee
Joth Hunt, mixed the song (We Cry Out) at Planetshakers Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Mastering
Dan Snike at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Mescall | Greg Mescall (born December 20, 1981) is a sports broadcaster and host covering a variety of sports for different networks. 2018 marked Mescall's second Olympic Games for Westwood One Sports/NBC Radio where he covered freestyle ski and snowboard including Shaun White's return to the podium. Currently calling Manhattan College men's basketball, Mescall has also worked for ESPN, Pac-12 Network, Olympic Channel, Big Ten Network, ESPNU Fox Sports West, and USA Water Polo, and has done play-by-play for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, IVY League on ESPN+ and Monmouth University's ESPN digital broadcasts.
Personal
A native of Leonardo, New Jersey, Mescall earned his B.A. in communication, Radio and Television from Monmouth University, and an M.S. in education from Wagner College.
References
Living people
1981 births
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
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Wagner College alumni
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthful%20cake-cutting | Truthful cake-cutting is the study of algorithms for fair cake-cutting that are also truthful mechanisms, i.e., they incentivize the participants to reveal their true valuations to the various parts of the cake.
The classic divide and choose procedure for cake-cutting is not truthful: if the cutter knows the chooser's preferences, he can get much more than 1/2 by acting strategically. For example, suppose the cutter values a piece by its size while the chooser values a piece by the amount of chocolate in it. So the cutter can cut the cake into two pieces with almost the same amount of chocolate, such that the smaller piece has slightly more chocolate. Then, the chooser will take the smaller piece and the cutter will win the larger piece, which may be worth much more than 1/2 (depending on how the chocolate is distributed).
Randomized mechanisms
There is a trivial randomized truthful mechanism for fair cake-cutting: select a single agent uniformly at random, and give him/her the entire cake. This mechanism is trivially truthful because it asks no questions. Moreover, it is fair in expectation: the expected value of each partner is exactly 1/n. However, the resulting allocation is not fair. The challenge is to develop truthful mechanisms that are fair ex-post and not just ex-ante. Several such mechanisms have been developed.
Exact division mechanism
An exact division (aka consensus division) is a partition of the cake into n pieces such that each agent values each piece at exactly 1/n. The existence of such a division is a corollary of the Dubins–Spanier convexity theorem. Moreover, there exists such a division with at most cuts; this is a corollary of the Stromquist–Woodall theorem and the necklace splitting theorem.
In general, an exact division cannot be found by a finite algorithm. However, it can be found in some special cases, for example when all agents have piecewise-linear valuations. Suppose we have a non-truthful algorithm (or oracle) for finding an exact division. It can be used to construct a randomized mechanism that is truthful in expectation. The randomized mechanism is a direct-revelation mechanism - it starts by asking all agents to reveal their entire value-measures:
Ask the agents to report their value measures.
Use the existing algorithm/oracle to generate an exact division.
Perform a random permutation on the consensus partition and give each partner one of the pieces.
Here, the expected value of each agent is always 1/n regardless of the reported value function. Hence, the mechanism is truthful – no agent can gain anything from lying. Moreover, a truthful partner is guaranteed a value of exactly 1/n with probability 1 (not only in expectation). Hence the partners have an incentive to reveal their true value functions.
Super-proportional mechanism
A super-proportional division is a cake-division in which each agent receives strictly more than 1/n by their own value measures. Such a division is known to exist if |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta%20ur%20Rehman%20Khan | Atta ur Rehman Khan (Urdu: عطا الرحمن خان) is a computer scientist and academician who has contributed to multiple domains of the field. According to a Stanford University report, he is among World's Top 2% Scientists. He is the founder of National Cyber Crime Forensics Lab Pakistan, which operates in partnership with NR3C. He has published numerous research articles and books. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Education
Khan was a Bright Sparks scholar and received his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Malaya. He received his master's degree and bachelor's degree (with honors) in Computer Science from COMSATS University under COMSATS scholarship. He has also attended a summer camp on Advance Wireless Networks at Technische Universität Ilmenau under DAAD scholarship.
Experience
As of 2010, Khan is working as an associate professor at the College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates. He has experience of teaching and research at different positions and has served at seven universities, namely Sohar University, Air University, King Saud University, COMSATS University, University of Malaya and Qurtuba University.
He was the founding director of National Cyber Crime Forensics Lab Pakistan and the Head of Air University Cybersecurity Center. He also developed Pakistan's first BS cybersecurity program approved by HEC.
Editorial boards
Atta ur Rehman Khan is an editor of the following journals:
Associate technical editor, IEEE Communications Magazine.
Editor, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
Associate editor, IEEE Access.
Associate editor, Springer Journal of Cluster Computing.
Editor, SpringerPlus.
Editor, Ad hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks.
Editor, Oxford Computer Journal.
Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.
Associate editor, Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.
Gallery
Honors & Awards
Atta ur Rehman Khan has received numerous honors and awards, such as:
Long-Term Research Achievement Award, 2023.
World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, USA, 2022.
World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, USA, 2020.
Best Paper Award, SPECTS, 2018.
Research Productivity Award, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2016.
GoT Award, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 2014.
Research Productivity Award, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2012.
Best Research Poster Award, Vision ICT, Pakistan, 2010.
Best Project Award, Vision ICT, Pakistan, 2009.
Best Project Award, Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) Conference, Pakistan, 2008.
Books
Following is the list of books authored/co-authored/edited by Atta ur Rehman Khan:
"Internet of Things: Challenges, Advances, and Applications" by Chapman and Hall/CRC, , 2018.
Research publications
Following is the list of selected research papers authored/co-authored by Atta ur Rehman Khan:
"Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) Localization Techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Summer%20Camp%20Island%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes from the Cartoon Network animated series Summer Camp Island. On May 9, 2020, it was announced that the series is moving to HBO Max. The show was removed from HBO Max in August 2022 due to the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but episodes from season 2 onward made their TV premieres on Cartoon Network beginning June 19, 2023.
Series overview
Episodes
Precursors (2011–12)
The main Summer Camp Island characters, Oscar, Hedgehog and Max, make their first appearances as incarnations in two of Julia Pott's independent shorts: the first is her multi-awarded student film from Royal College of Art (called Belly), while the second is her Sundance Film Festival 2013-nominated short The Event.
Pilot (2016)
Season 1 (2018–19)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2020)
Season 4 (2021)
Season 5 (2021)
Season 6 (2023)
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJ%20Acosta | Marjorie Acosta-Ruiz, known professionally as MJ Acosta-Ruiz, is a Dominican-American sports reporter for NFL Network.
Early life and education
Acosta grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan in New York City before moving to Miami, Florida, where she attended Miami Sunset Senior High School and her father is a former professional basketball player from the Dominican Republic. Acosta attended Barry University where she graduated in 2011 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications.
Career
Acosta was an NFL cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Prior to joining Telemundo 20, Acosta was a sports reporter at WPLG-TV, the ABC's affiliate in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Acosta was covering the NFL's San Diego Chargers as a reporter at Telemundo 20 in San Diego since joining the station in 2016. In August 2018, Acosta announced that she would be leaving San Diego's Telemundo 20 for NFL Network as their Bay Area-based reporter for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
References
External links
NFL Network/On Air Talent Profile
American television reporters and correspondents
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
NFL Network people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theurer | Theurer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dave Theurer, American game designer and computer programmer
Elisabeth Theurer (born 1956), Austrian equestrian
Michael Theurer (born 1967), German politician
Peter Theurer (born 1969), Swiss sailor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Research%20Board | The Research Board was described in 1984 by The New York Times as "a low-profile New York group composed of chief data processing executives of 50 of the nation's largest corporations." A decade later The Times described it as
"a high-tech consulting firm."
Although by late 2017 a Wall Street Journal writer spoke of "The Research Board" in the past tense, this was just a technicality. Having been acquired by Gartner in 1998, it is sometimes referred to as The Gartner Research Board or The Research Board Gartner.
History
The Research Board was established in 1973.
Leadership
Peter Sole became CEO in 1998. Others with leadership positions were/are:
Naomi O. Seligman
Patricia L. Higgins, former Alcoa CIO.
References
Business organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glauber%20dynamics | In statistical physics, Glauber dynamics is a way to simulate the Ising model (a model of magnetism) on a computer. It is a type of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm.
The algorithm
In the Ising model, we have say N particles that can spin up (+1) or down (-1). Say the particles are on a 2D grid. We label each with an x and y coordinate. Glauber's algorithm becomes:
Choose a particle at random.
Sum its four neighboring spins. .
Compute the change in energy if the spin x, y were to flip. This is (see the Hamiltonian for the Ising model).
Flip the spin with probability where T is the temperature .
Display the new grid. Repeat the above N times.
In Glauber algorithm, if the energy change in flipping a spin is zero, , then the spin would flip with probability .
Glauber V.S. Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm gives identical results as Glauber algorithm does, but it is faster. In the Metropolis algorithm, selecting a spin is deterministic. Usually, one may select the spins one by one following some order, for example “typewriter order”. In the Glauber dynamic, however, every spin has an equal chance of being chosen at each time step, regardless of being chosen before. The Metropolis acceptance criterion also includes the Boltzmann weight, , but it always flips a spin in favor of lowering the energy, such that the spin-flip probability is:
.Although both of the acceptance probabilities approximate a step curve and they are almost indistinguishable at very low temperatures, they differ when temperature gets high. For an Ising model on a 2d lattice, the critical temperature is .
In practice, the main difference between the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm and with Glauber algorithm is in choosing the spins and how to flip them (step 4). However, at thermal equilibrium, these two algorithms should give identical results. In general, at equilibrium, any MCMC algorithm should produce the same distribution, as long as the algorithm satisfies ergodicity and detailed balance. In both algorithms, for any change in energy, , meaning that transition between the states of the system is always possible despite being very unlikely at some temperatures. So, the condition for ergodicity is satisfied for both of the algorithms. Detailed balance, which is a requirement of reversibility, states that if you observe the system for a long enough time, the system goes from state to with the same frequency as going from to . In equilibrium, the probability of observing the system at state A is given by the Boltzmann weight, . So, the amount of time the system spends in low energy states is larger than in high energy states and there is more chance that the system is observed in states where it spends more time. Meaning that when the transition from to is energetically unfavorable, the system happens to be at more frequently, counterbalancing the lower intrinsic probability of transition. Therefore, both, Glauber and Metropolis–Hasti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Communications%20Code%20Directive%202018 | The Electronic Communications Code Directive (Directive (EU) 2018/1972) is a directive in EU law, which regulates electronic communications networks and services.
Background
The ECC was adopted in December 2018 and consolidated and reformed the existing regulation framework. By 2020 member states had to adapt their telecommunications regulations in accordance with the ECC.
The laws in the Code were previously found in the Telecoms Package and Universal Service Directive, and then the Electronic Communications Directive 2009, and Universal Service Directive 2009.
Contents
The Electronic Communications Code Directive contains the following norms.
Part I, on regulators
Title I
Article 2 covers definitions
Article 3 covers general objectives, such as promoting connectivity, competition, the internal market, the interests of citizens.
Title II, on regulators
Articles 5 requires a "competent authority" is in charge of regulating communication markets, including access and interconnection obligations, dispute resolution, allocating the radio spectrum, protecting end-user rights, monitoring the market and "competition issues regarding open internet access", providing universal service, and enabling number portability.
Article 6 requires that member state regulators are independent.
Article 7 requires that regulator heads are appointed for at least three years, and dismissed only for failing to perform their duties by law, with public reasons.
Article 8 requires political independence.
Article 10 requires participation in the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
Article 11 requires cooperation with other authorities.
Article 12 requires that use of electronic communication networks is authorised.
Article 13 requires that conditions are non-discriminatory, proportionate and transparent
Article 17 requires separate accounting and financial reports for the running of an electronic communication network from other activities.
Part II, on networks
Market entry, authorisation
Article 46, member states should set out conditions for use of a wireless telegraphy station or using apparatus, unless exempt.
Access for others to networks
Article 61-62, member states should encourage access and interconnection to promote competition and maximum benefit to end-users. Special duties for undertakings with significant market power.
Articles 68-73 require various standards for setting conditions
Article 71 and 77-79 on accounting and functional separation.
Article 74 says a regulator can have obligations for cost recovery and price controls
Service provision
Article 84 says member states shall "ensure that all consumers in their territories have access at an affordable price, in light of specific national conditions, to an available adequate broadband internet access service and to voice communications services at the quality specified in their territories, including the underlying connection, at a fixed location."
Implementation
The Europea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna%20Mkrtchyan | Susanna Mkrtchyan () (born August 26, 1949) is an Armenian Wikimedian and a professor of database and system research. She founded and leads the Wikimedia Armenia chapter, which organizes outreach and workshops to improve the Armenian Wikipedia, including an annual conference.
In 2015, she received an Honourable mention in the context of the annual award Wikimedian of the Year attributed by Jimmy Wales.
Life and work
Mkrtchyan was born in Yerevan. She studied at Avetik Isahakyan School in Yerevan, and later attended the Manuk Abeghyan school with a focus on physics, graduating with honors. In 1966-1971 she studied computing at the mathematics faculty of Yerevan State University. In 1984 she joined the System Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, helping to develop the "INES" database management system.
Since 2010, she has worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems.
References
1949 births
Living people
20th-century Armenian people
21st-century Armenian people
20th-century Armenian women
21st-century Armenian women
Yerevan State University alumni
Wikimedians
Wikipedia people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%202019 | This is a list of films produced in Brazil in 2019:
References
External links
Brazilian films of 2019 at the Internet Movie Database
2019
Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Palermo | The Palermo tramway network () is part of the public transport network of Palermo, Italy. It consists of four operational light rail lines; three more lines were under planning as of 2015
Service launched on 30 December 2015.
The current network operator is AMAT.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Italy
History of rail transport in Italy
Rail transport in Italy
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
External links
Transport in Palermo
Palermo
1887 establishments in Italy
Palermo
Railway lines in Sicily
2015 establishments in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina%20Wagner | Ina Wagner (born 1946) is an Austrian physicist, computer scientist and social scientist. She is an emeritus professor of computer science at TU Wien (Vienna), where she was active from 1987 until 2011.
Wagner completed a doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Vienna in 1972. In 1979 she received her habilitation in education sciences from the University of Klagenfurt, and in 1998 completed a second habilitation in "multidisciplinary design and computer-supported cooperative work" in Vienna. In 1987 she became the TU Wien's second ever female professor and the first to be appointed from outside the university, and led the Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology until her retirement in 2011.
In 2011 Wagner received the Gabriele Possanner State Prize, an award given by the Austrian science ministry for gender studies, and the city of Vienna's Women's Award. She is a current member of the Austrian Chancellery's bioethics commission and a former member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies.
References
External links
Ina Wagner's personal website
Austrian women scientists
Academic staff of TU Wien
1946 births
Living people
University of Klagenfurt alumni
University of Vienna alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%202%20%28computer%20game%29 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 action video game developed by Dementia and published by Ocean Software. It is based on the 1991 film of the same name, and was released in Europe for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, and ZX Spectrum. It is a sequel to The Terminator, itself based on the 1984 film of the same name. The game features several gameplay styles such as driving, fighting, and puzzle-solving.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was well received for its graphics, gameplay variety, and sound. However, critics also considered the game to be average or disappointing, with some criticizing it for a lack of originality and its difficult gameplay.
Gameplay
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is based on the film of the same name, in which two Terminator machine models, the T-800 and the T-1000, are sent back from the future. The T-800 is tasked with protecting a boy named John Connor, who will eventually become the leader of the human resistance in a war against machines. The T-1000 has been sent back with an order to kill young John, ensuring the rise of the machines. In the game, the player largely takes the role of the T-800. John's mother, Sarah Connor, is also playable in certain levels.
The levels are based on prominent scenes from the film, including one in which the T-1000 drives a truck through a flood control channel, in pursuit of the T-800 and John, who are riding on a motorcycle. Other scenes recreated in the game include Sarah's escape from a mental hospital, a sabotage of Cyberdyne Systems' headquarters, and a showdown between the Terminators in a steel mill. Digitized images from the film appear in between levels to advance the story.
Each level features one of several gameplay styles, such as beat 'em up fighting between the two Terminators, or vertically scrolling driving sequences in which characters flee from the T-1000. Sarah's hospital escape is played as a side-scrolling level. Other levels are played as a sliding puzzle game in which the player must perform repairs on the T-800; successfully completing these levels will increase the player's health for the next level, but winning the puzzle game is not necessary to progress forward.
The ZX Spectrum version has seven levels, while the Amiga and Atari ST versions have eight. The C64 version has nine levels. The ZX Spectrum version does not include the digitized film images.
Development and release
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was developed by Dementia, a game development group based in Wolverhampton, England. The game was published by Ocean Software. Ocean secured the rights to a video game adaptation of the film while it was in the post-production phase. Kevin Bulmer and Richard Costello, the heads of Dementia, had met with Ocean to seek funding for a potential role-playing video game. Ocean manager Gary Bracey was impressed with their proposal but wanted them to develop a Terminator 2 video game first. Ocean had been impressed by Dementia's previous game, titled C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasl | Vasl or VASL may refer to:
Vasl (television series), 2010 Pakistani drama serial
Miha Vašl (born 1992), Slovenian basketball player
Virtual Advanced Squad Leader, computerized interface for playing board game Advanced Squad Leader
Solapur Airport, ICAO code VASL, airport in Solapur, Maharashtra, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu%20Li%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Xu Li is a Chinese computer scientist and co-founder and current CEO of SenseTime, an artificial intelligence (AI) company. Xu has led SenseTime since the company’s incorporation and helped it independently develop its proprietary deep learning platform.
Education and research
Xu obtained both his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his doctorate in computer science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Xu has published more than 50 papers at international conferences and in journals in the field of computer vision and won the Best Paper Award at the international conference on Non-Photorealistic Rendering and Animation (NPAR) 2012 and the Best Reviewer Award at the international conferences Asian Conference on Computer Vision ACCV 2012 and International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015. He has three algorithms that have been included into the visual open-source platform OpenCV, and his “L0 Smoothing” algorithm garnered the most citations in research papers over a span of five years (2011–2015) within the ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), a scientific journal that Thomson Reuters InCites has placed first among software engineering journals.
Career
Previously, Xu worked at Lenovo Corporate Research & Development. He was also a visiting researcher at Motorola China R&D Institute, Omron Research Institute, and Microsoft Research.
Selected publications
Jimmy Ren, Xiaohao Chen, Jianbo Liu, Wenxiu Sun, Li Xu, Jiahao Pang, Qiong Yan, Yu-wing Tai, “Accurate Single Stage Detector Using Recurrent Rolling Convolution”, (CVPR), 2017.
Jimmy SJ. Ren, Yongtao Hu, Yu-Wing Tai, Chuan Wang, Li Xu, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, "Look, Listen and Learn – A Multimodal LSTM for Speaker Identification", The 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016
Jimmy SJ. Ren, Li Xu, Qiong Yan, Wenxiu Sun, "Shepard Convolutional Neural Networks" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.
Xiaoyong Shen, Chao Zhou, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Mutual-Structure for Joint Filtering" International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), (oral presentation), 2015.
Jianping Shi, Qiong Yan, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Hierarchical Image Saliency Detection on Extended CSSD" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2015.
Jianping Shi, Xin Tao, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Break Ames Room Illusion: Depth from General Single Images" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA2015).
Yongtao Hu, Jimmy SJ. Ren, Jingwen Dai, Chang Yuan, Li Xu, Wenping Wang, "Deep Multimodal Speaker Naming" ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2015.
Li Xu, Jimmy SJ. Ren, Qiong Yan, Renjie Liao, Jiaya Jia "Deep Edge-Aware Filters" International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
Jianping Shi, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia "Just Noticeable Defocus Blur Detection and Estimation" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.
Ziyang Ma, Renjie Liao, X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%20East%20Broadcasting%20Company | Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an international Christian radio network. From 1960 to 1994, FEBC owned and operated shortwave radio station KGEI in San Francisco, California.
Philippines
The Philippines is where FEBC began its initial public broadcasting. FEBC tranferred to Karuhatan Road, Karuhatan in 1948-2011 from Shanghai and finallly to 46/F One Corporate Centre.
The 2022 FEBC Pioneers' Wall (Bantayog ng Kasaysayan) was unveiled at the former Christian Radio City Manila (CRCM) or FEBC compound in Valenzuela. The First Filipino leaders include Rev. Proceso Marcelo, Rev. Ferico Magbanua and Rev. Maximo Atienza.
AM/FM stations
Shortwave
FEBC operates its shortwave broadcasts in different languages, transmitting from its facilities in Bocaue, Bulacan and Iba, Zambales.
South Korea
FEBC owns a number of stations in South Korea, one of them being known as HLAZ.
Indonesia
YASKI is the name for FEBC in Indonesia. It runs a number of stations under the Heartline FM brand.
Russia
FEBC Russia runs a number of stations under the Radio Teos brand.
United Kingdom
FEBA Radio was established in 1959 in the United Kingdom.
Northern Mariana Islands
The FEBC international broadcast station on Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was established about 1981 and closed in 2011. The local radio station, KSAI 936 AM, was on air for 24 years until shutting down on April 30, 2002. KSAI was initially established in Saipan by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) in June 1945.
Ryukyu Islands (Japan)
There was an FEBC station in Okinawa starting in 1958. After the reversion agreement, the station became a commercial operation (Kyokuto Hoso Radio) as religious broadcasters were forbidden under the Law on Special Measures for the Reversion of Okinawa. Per a decision taken by the Diet of Japan in 1983, the station shut down in 1984.
External links
References
Christian mass media companies
Philippine radio networks
Christian radio
International radio networks
La Mirada, California
Mass media companies established in 1945
Pasig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Basketball%20Association%20broadcasters | In early-1970s, the CBS television network aired American Basketball Association (ABA) games, specifically league's annual All-Star Game/selected playoff games. Pat Summerall served as the CBS analyst on some ABA games alongside Don Criqui on play-by-play. Game 5 of the 1970 ABA Finals (Indiana vs. Los Angeles) was nationally televised by CBS on Saturday, May 23 at 3 p.m Eastern Time. The broadcast was however, blacked out in Indiana. After that league's 1972-73 season, CBS lost its TV airing rights as they started airing National Basketball Association (NBA) games in its 1973-74 season onward.
Had there been a seventh game of the 1975-76 season's championship playoff series it would've been televised by NBC, because that network signed contract to a potential seventh game on Sunday, May 16, 1976. Since the ABA Finals ultimately ended in six games, with the New York Nets triumphing over the Denver Nuggets in what would become the ABA's final game of its nine year existence, NBC's contract was void.
1960s
1967–68
1968–69
1969–70
During the New York Nets ABA years, announcers included Marty Glickman, Marv Albert's brothers Al Albert and Steve Albert, baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson, Bob Goldsholl, as well as John Sterling and Mike DiTomasso. The latter two joined the club's move into the NBA.
1970s
1970-71
1971–72
1972–73
1974–75
1975-76
During the mid-1970s, HBO aired several basketball games from the National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association (notably, the last ABA Finals game in 1976, prior to the latter league's merger with the NBA, between the New York Nets and the Denver Nuggets).
In 1976, CBS sought to establish a postseason playoff between the ABA and NBA, and to win the rights to broadcast those games.
During the 1976–77 season, the NBA's first after the ABA–NBA merger brought the American Basketball Association into the league, CBS held a slam dunk contest that ran during halftime of the Game of the Week telecasts. Don Criqui was the host of this particular competition. The final, which pitted Larry McNeill of the Golden State Warriors against eventual winner Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman of the Indiana Pacers, took place during Game 6 of the 1977 NBA Finals. At the time of the final, Hillman's rights had been traded to the New York Nets, but he had not yet signed a contract. Since he was not officially a member of any NBA team, instead of wearing a jersey, he competed in a plain white tank top. Then for the post-competition interview, Hillman donned a shirt with the words "Bottle Shoppe" – the name of an Indianapolis liquor store, which is still in existence, and was the sponsor of a city parks softball league team for which Hillman played left field (and the only team he was a member of at the time). Other players to compete in the slam dunk tournament included Julius Erving, George Gervin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone. CBS, anxious for star power, also gave David Thompson the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Novosibirsk | The Novosibirsk trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of Novosibirsk, Russia. The system opened on 6 November 1957.
History
A test drive took place on November 6, 1957. Regular passenger service began the next day.
In 1957, 10 trolleybuses operated in the city. By the end of 1957, 17 trolleybuses operated. By 1958, the number of trolleybuses increased to 45.
Current status
The system consists of 14 routes (№№ 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 36).
The trolleybus fleet is represented by such "classic'" trolleybuses as Soviet ZiU-9, and ZiU-10, Russian VMZ-184, VMZ-201, VMZ-263, VMZ-375, BTZ-5276-01, Trolza-5265.00, Trolza-5275.05, and Trolza-5275.06, Belarusian AKSM-101A, and AKSM-101M. In 2011-2012, trolleybuses ST-6217M with battery packs, manufactured by Novosibirsk factory Liotech, were tested. Experiment had ended when Liotech was declared insolvent. In 2022, municipal authorities decided to repeat the experiment with new trolleybuses with battery packs - UTTZ-6241.01.
Gallery
References
External links
Новосибирскому троллейбусу – 55! Библиотека сибирского краеведения.
С днём рождения, рогатый! Новосибирские новости.
The register of the routes of Novosibirsk city public transport (in Russian)
Transport in Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Masked%20Singer%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Masked Singer Australia is an Australian reality television singing competition show hosted that premiered on Network 10 on 23 September 2019. Hosted by Osher Günsberg, the show is based on the international music game show franchise Masked Singer which originated from the South Korean television program King of Mask Singer. The show is filmed at Disney Studios Australia, formerly called Fox Studios Australia. In February 2023, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a fifth season, which premiered in September 2023. During the 2023 upfronts the series had been renewed for a sixth season.
Production
In March 2019, TV Blackbox shared leaked news that Network 10 would be producing a local series of the franchise. The news was officially announced in May 2019 at the network's upfronts. In June 2019, it was revealed that Osher Gunsberg would be the host of the series. On 15 July 2019, it was revealed that American actress Lindsay Lohan would join the show as a panellist. Australian singer Dannii Minogue, comedian Dave Hughes and radio presenter Jackie O were also announced alongside Lohan.
At the network's upfronts in October 2019, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. In April 2020, it was reported that the COVID-19 pandemic would force pre-production of the second season to be delayed so filming was postponed from late July to early August 2020. Lindsay Lohan was also unable to fly to Melbourne to take part in the program and was replaced by new panellist, comedian Urzila Carlson.
In October 2020, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a third season, which premiered on 13 September 2021.
On 20 October 2021, it was announced that the series would return with a new season that aired in 2022, with Jackie O, Minogue, and Carlson all not returning. Mel B, Abbie Chatfield, and Chrissie Swan joined the panel as their replacements.
In February 2023, Swan announced that the show would be returning for a fifth season, and aired later in 2023.
The show was renewed for a sixth season during Channel 10's Upfronts Event.
Security
The show has an 'extreme security protocol' in effect both during and after filming to protect the celebrity's identities from leaking, with host Günsberg stating that the show "was beyond any kind of security I've been exposed to." Everyone involved in the show signed a non-disclosure agreement which prevented anyone from revealing any information about the shooting dates, costumes or identities of the masks episode until its broadcast. The celebrities who appear on the show are only allowed to inform their spouse about their participation, who must also sign one.
In order to keep the identities of the masks secret, audience members and the majority of the production staff were not allowed to watch the unmasking and were removed from the studio moments before the celebrities are revealed, with Günsberg revealing that there were "only 8 people in the room when i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%202019%20Ethiopian%20clashes | A October 2019 Ethiopian clashes was a civil unrest that broke out in Addis Ababa, on 23 October 2019 and swiftly spread to entire Oromia Region after activist and Director of Oromia Media Network, Jawar Mohammed reported on his Facebook page around midnight, on Tuesday. In his post, Jawar has said that his house was surrounded by police officers and that they tried to withdraw his security guards from their posts. His VIP security detail was assigned to him by the government once he arrived from the US. According to official reports, 86 people were killed, 76 were killed by Communal violence, while 10 were security forces of Ethiopia.
Background
In October 2019, Ethiopian activist and media owner Jawar Mohammed claimed that members of the police had attempted to force his security detail to vacate the grounds of his home in Addis Ababa in order to detain him the night of 23 October, intimating that they had done so at the behest of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The previous day, Abiy had given a speech in Parliament in which he had accused "media owners who don't have Ethiopian passports" of "playing it both ways", a thinly veiled reference to Jawar, adding that "if this is going to undermine the peace and existence of Ethiopia... we will take measures."
Events
The reports sparked nationwide protests. The morning after the report, Jawar supporters congregated around his house in Addis Ababa to protest, denouncing Prime Minister Abiy and his government. Protesters began blockading roads in Oromia. In the late afternoon, protests turned to violence as police clear blockade and counter-protests began, leaving at least 67 people dead, including five police officers. After the protests spread to the Karakore neighborhood, local residents counter-protested, resulting in police intervention to separate the two groups. Protesters blocked key highways, in particular roads leading to Addis Ababa. There were however scenes of kindness; residents in Welkite and Butajira provided food and shelter for those stuck on the road. An eyewitness told Reuters that he had seen the bodies of at least seven people who had been "beaten to death using sticks, metal rods and machetes".
On 23 October, clashes occurred in Ambo, Adama, and Haramaya, killing at least 6 and injuring 40. Road blockages were reported in Shashamane and riots occurred in Addis Ababa and surrounding towns, including the neighborhoods of Bole Bulbula, Kotebe, and Karakore. In Dodola woreda, the violence targeted the Orthodox community, with shops and houses attacked. Members of the community took shelter in the local church, but there were "dozens injured" after a grenade was thrown into the church yard. Later, police took some of the injured for medical treatment, but "a mob stopped the vehicle and brutally killed three of the injured" before they could reach the hospital. Victims told Agence France-Presse that in Adama rioters attacked those who could not speak Oromo. A group in Adama attacked |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20Mind%20%28video%20game%29 | State of Mind is a 2018 graphic adventure game developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment. A cyberpunk story set in the near future, the game explores transhumanist themes. The game was released for Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in August 2018. It received mixed reviews upon release.
Gameplay
The game is played through a third-person perspective. There is no combat involved in the game, instead gameplay mostly revolves around interacting with other characters, solving puzzles and doing mini games. Many things in the world can be scanned and interacted with, which gives the player information about items in the world. Players can, for example, interact with photos of the main character Richard's family. The game also focuses on exploring a wide variety of locations.
Plot
State of Mind unfolds in Berlin in 2048 and revolves around Richard Nolan, a journalist waking up in a hospital after an explosion, finding out that his family is nowhere to be found. Nolan soon realizes that the world has changed and that technology is taking over. The game focuses on the impact that AI and technology have on humans, as well as coming to terms with in what manner super AI- can adapt to human behavior. The main character in the game, Richard Nolan, is voiced by Doug Cockle, most notable for being the voice actor of Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher video game series.
Development
Development of State of Mind was led by Martin Ganteföhr, creator of the 2004 adventure game The Moment of Silence. Production began in 2015. The game was developed with Unreal Engine 4. State of Mind features a low-poly art style inspired in part by the visuals of That Dragon, Cancer. According to Daedalic's Kai Fiebig, the art style was Ganteföhr's idea, as the fragmented look reflected the game's themes in its portrayal of "a shattered person, a shattered society on the edge of change." The game was released on Nintendo Switch on August 15, 2018, in the west and on November 8, 2018, in Japan.
Reception
State of Mind received mixed reviews from video game critics on Metacritic.
Writing for Adventure Gamers, Pascal Takaia praised the transhumanist themes and voice acting, while criticizing the game's narrative, puzzles and characters. Conversely, Jeuxvideo.com gave the game a positive review, particularly praising the game's visuals, story and themes. Roy Woodhouse of Gamereactor praised the game for its gripping sci-fi world, and he said the game is "thought-provoking and provides emotional and engaging narrative", though he called the puzzles "a little weak". Writing for GameStar, Robin Rüther praised the graphics but criticised the lack of challenge and the mini games. Paula Sprödefeld of PC Games liked the story and graphics but had complaints regarding the controls.
Conversely, Dom Reseigh-Lincoln of Nintendo Life, said "State of Mind has its moments to shine", including the endgame plot and visuals, but he criticized what he felt were overd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Digital%20Accessible%20Information%20System%20software | Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) books can be heard on standalone DAISY players, computers using DAISY playback software, mobile phones, and MP3 players (with limited navigation). DAISY books can be distributed on a CD/DVD, memory card or through the Internet.
A computerized text DAISY book can be read using refreshable Braille display or screen-reading software, printed as Braille book on paper, converted to a talking book using synthesised voice or a human narration, and also printed on paper as large print book. In addition, it can be read as large print text on computer screen.
Software players
Software-based players include, in alphabetical order:
AMIS - Adaptive Multimedia Information System: an open-source self-voicing player for Windows that works with several screen readers; available many languages; developed by the DAISY Consortium "(Accouding to the DAISY Consortium website, AMIS is now archived and is no longer being developed or supported)"
Android Daisy ePub Reader: an opensource project for the Android platform
AnyDaisy Firefox Extension, by Benetech
ButtercupReader: a web-based silverlight application for DAISY 3 books
CUCAT Olearia, an open-source DAISY reader for Mac OS X (2008)
DAISY Book Reader, open-source player for the GNOME desktop (GTK)
Daisy Delight: open-source player for DAISY 2.02, for Mac OS X and Unix-based systems (2008)
daisy-player, an open source, multilingual, ncurses-based program for Linux to play DAISY books from the command line
DaisyDuck: a free player for Daisy 2.02 audio books
DAISYPlayer: free player for Microsoft Windows; only available in Spanish
DaisyWorm: player for DAISY 2.02 (2002) and DAISY 3 (2005), for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad; iOS 4 or higher
Darwin Reader for Android reads DAISY 2.02 and 3.0 text and audio books
Dolphin EasyReader and EasyReader Express, commercial e-book reader with support for DAISY, unprotected ePub and other formats, for Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS
Dorina DAISY Reader (DDReader+): an open source, free software for Windows, reads only DAISY 3.0, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
emerson-reader, an open-source and cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) Epub and DAISY player (2010). Requires Java
FSReaderDAISY Player Software for PAC Mate and Desktop; supports DAISY 2 and DAISY 3
Go Read: an open source DAISY reader for Android devices
GoDaisy: online DAISY player, in Swedish
InDaisy Reader, a player for iPhone and iPod, accessible with VoiceOver; supports Daisy 2.02 and Daisy 3
Kolibre Vadelma, an open source DAISY 2.02-player supporting DAISY Online. Downloads and build instructions available for the Raspberry Pi-platform, compile instructions available for Debian Linux.
MAX DaisyPlayer, a free player for Microsoft Windows.
Mobile DAISY Player, a commercial player for Symbian phones
Pratsam Reader Web, an online DAISY 2.02-player app for web browsers, supporting Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Micros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Girl%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Final Girl" is the ninth and final episode of the ninth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 13, 2019, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Crystal Liu, and directed by John J. Gray.
Plot
In 2019, Richter's now-adult son Bobby returns to a decrepit Camp Redwood looking for answers, having been sent checks from an unknown benefactor since childhood. He is met by Montana and Trevor, who explain that Richter disappeared after being dragged into the lake and never returned. They reveal what happened in 1989: to prevent further deaths, Trevor blocks traffic to the Camp Redwood entrance. Margaret shoots him off camp property and leaves him to die, but Brooke appears and helps him onto the grounds so he can return as a ghost. Trevor's ghost then attacks Bruce and kicks him off the grounds to die. The dead counselors determine that the only way to stop Ramirez is to kill him over and over, which they do for thirty years. Back in 2019, Ramirez awakens once again and attacks Bobby; Montana ushers Bobby off the grounds and directs him to the asylum. There he meets Donna, now the director of the asylum, who further elaborates that in 1989, the ghosts brutally murdered Margaret, but not before Brooke seemingly died in a struggle with her. Donna and Bobby trace Bobby's money to a still-alive Brooke, who survived and escaped Camp Redwood with Ray's help. Bobby again returns to Camp Redwood where Margaret's ghost repeatedly attempts to kill him, but he is saved by Richter, Lavinia, and the counselors. Bobby shares a tearful farewell with his family and departs.
Reception
"Final Girl" was watched by 1.08 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.5 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. This episode had the fewest viewers of any finale in the entire series.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, with some considering it to be the series' best finale in years. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Final Girl" holds an 88% approval rating, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 8.33/10.
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4/5, saying, "Moments of sweetness aside, 1984 is a dark comedy at its heart, and like the best '80s slashers, there's no shortage of dramatic practical gore effects and dismemberments. Witness the first time the ghosts fall on Richard Ramirez to hack him to death, or when the ghosts catch up to Margaret and dismember her before throwing her pieces into a wood chipper. [...] All the ghosts wanted, and all anyone wants, is a reason to keep on going, to not sink into malaise and longing. Keeping the devil's personal blade man trapped, watching over Bobby, working to undo the mistakes of the past and build towards a better future? [...] A bloody, nihilistic show about a bloody, nihilistic decade still ends with a little positivity and love." He praised the director of the episode, commenting that "John J. Gray has a little fun wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Agapov | Boris Nikolayevich Agapov (, Tbilisi – 6 October 1973, Moscow) was a Soviet poet, journalist and screenwriter. He is best known for a 1950 article on cybernetics which proved influential for the early reception of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.
Biography
Agapov was born on and spent his childhood in Tbilisi, where he graduated from the Department of Philology at Tbilisi State University in 1922. Having been secretary of the Caucaus Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency from 1921–22, Agapov moved to Moscow in 1922 to continue his career as a journalist. Agapov began his career here as the member of the group of constructivist poets, the , but soon moved on to less radical grounds. From the 1930s, the subjects of his works were mostly recent advances in Soviet science and Soviet construction works, though he also published articles on education and a travel journal. In 1950 he was the editor of the Soviet newspaper, Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1967, Agapov summarised his view of art as "primarily a tool of communication".
One event in Agapov's career that has gathered much attention was the publication of an article on cybernetics in 1950. In the wake of the formation of NATO, Agitprop against American culture was ordered to be intensified, giving rise to a scramble among Soviet journalists to find more original ways to present anti-American views. On 4 May 1950, Agapov published "Mark III, a Calculator" in Literaturnaia gazeta. This article ridiculed the interest in computers and cybernetics in post-war America, mocking American capitalists who "love information as American patients love patented pills" singling out Norbert Wiener (the founding thinker of cybernetics) for his support of American capitalists' "sweet dream" of replacing workers with robots. He commented on a recent issue of Time (23 January 1950), depicting the Mark III dressed in American military clothing on its cover, as making it "immediately clear in whose service [it] is employed". This issue of Time was Agapov's only source in writing the article, having never read any of Wiener's actual work.
According to historian of science Slava Gerovitch, though it never mentioned cybernetics by name, this "article had a profound impact on the reception of cybernetics in the Soviet Union" and was "evidently taken as a 'signal' of the official negative attitude toward cybernetics", beginning a Soviet ideological campaign against cybernetics. It was not until the death of Stalin that the role of cybernetics would be reevaluated by Soviet scientists. Its significance has been questioned by scholar Valery Shilov, instead proposing 1952 article as the beginning of the campaign against Soviet cybernetics.
Agapov was also a writer of several Soviet documentaries. In 1946, Agapov feared disapproval from Stalin over his role (though minor) as one of the writers of the prohibited film, Great Life; this fear dissipated, as Valery Shilov mentions he became, evidently, a "man who could be trust |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet%20Diaries | Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of "tales from the dark side of the Internet".
Launched in October 2017, episodes average around 30 minutes to an hour, each meticulously dissecting a singular topic through original interviews, audio footage, and Rhysider's narration. The show's journalistic style has received widespread acclaim for its ability to "speak to your inner detective" and "productively substitute the thriller novel you intend to carry".
Production
Each episode begins with an introduction from Rhysider, followed by the theme music consisting of stringed instruments and a crunchy synthesizer, and then a structured narrative layered with interviews and suspenseful scoring.
For the first 40 episodes, Rhysider was responsible for all of the research, writing, narrating, editing, sound design, publishing, marketing, and logistics. Later on, due to a passionate cult following, Rhysider was able to enlist the help of additional writers, researchers, editors, and graphic designers.
By December 31, 2018, Darknet Diaries had amassed more than 1.2 million downloads. In 2019 only, there were more than 8.2 million downloads.
Impact and real-life influences
Some notable episodes have been praised for their deep-diving insights, such as episode 17 "Finn", where Rhysider explores a curious child's evolution into becoming a hacker, illuminating Finn's loneliness and outsider-mentality, which, when coupled with his Asperger's, ADHD, and affinity for computers, inspired Finn to hack his high school's network. "Finn" was also adapted and featured on the WNYC Studios podcast Snap Judgment.
More details emerged regarding the case details for Roman Seleznev's 27-year prison sentence, thanks to a Seattle computer crimes prosecutor, court documents, and reporting by Rhysider on episode 32 "The Carder", which covered the Secret Service's tracking of Seleznev's online movements in the 2000s.
Rhysider has been quoted as saying "a lot of hacks go unsolved"; however, at least in Seleznev's case, selling cards was his specialty while his hacking abilities were mediocre.
Episode 27 "Chartbreakers" was highlighted for its investigation into the manipulation of the Apple Podcasts Top Charts through a vast industry termed as "dark podcast marketing", the catalysts for this industry originating from Bangladesh. Rhysider received and then subsequently released photos of the promoters themselves.
Crossovers and appearances
Rhysider has made appearances on a variety of other programs, the most notable being Snap Judgment and the Lit Hub/Podglomerate Storybound, where he is accompanied by an original score from singer-songwriter Shane Brown.
Other podcast appearances include Smashing Security, The Many Hats Club, Brakeing Down Security, The Word From Mouth, InfoSec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noga%20Levy-Rapoport | Noga Levy-Rapoport (born 25 November 2001) is an Israeli-born British climate activist, speaker, and volunteer within British climate strikes at the UK Student Climate Network.
Early life
Noga Levy-Rapoport was born on 25 November 2001 in Tel Aviv. They moved to the UK as a toddler. Levy-Rapoport is non-binary.
Activism
On 15 February 2019, they participated in London's first climate strike march, before joining the UK Student Climate Network as a volunteer for school outreach and organising around the Green New Deal with GND UK. They helped to organise London climate strikes for global strike dates on 15 March 2019 and 24 May 2019, as well as hosting and publicly announcing UKSCN's support of a Green New Deal for the UK at the London climate strike on 12 April 2019. Since February, the 17-year-old has spoken at numerous panels, events, strikes and protests around the UK.
On 7 May 2019, Noga spoke at the International Maritime Organization in London to call for a limit on shipping speeds in order to reduce emissions alongside the Campaign Against Climate Change group and other activists. The speech was described as 'Greta Thunberg treatment' for the IMO, who, as a UN body, had previously come under fire for not being committed enough to reducing their emissions.
In July 2019, Levy-Rapoport opened the keynote at the annual Children's Media Conference, arguing that the political balance the media had so far tried to place on children's media when producing content that covered climate change was ineffective and potentially paralysing for young people willing to take action on climate change. Described as an "outstanding address", the activist, named as one of CMC's 'Changemakers' of the year, pointedly noted that there was a "global call for the children to become the leaders of today", and this ought to start with their media.
On 20 September 2019, they hosted London's global climate strike, the largest climate mobilisation in UK history, with 100,000 protesters in the capital and 350,000 attending strikes across the country. In the same month, their joint design for a climate strike placard along with ILOVEYOU agency was entered for Beazley's 'Design of the Year' competition at the Design Museum, which Levy-Rapoport and their fellow activists chose not to boycott, a decision she later explained in an article for It's Nice That.
In October 2019, they were selected by the London Evening Standard as one of London's most influential people of 2019 as part of their annual Progress 1000 list. In the same month they discussed the climate crisis and politicians with Clive Lewis for Huck Magazine.
The campaigner has taken on a spokesperson role for the youth climate movement in the UK and has been interviewed for several media outlets, local to national, as well as writing for The Guardian, It's Nice That, and the Fabian Society. Levy-Rapoport is also a spokesperson for Labour for a Green New Deal.
Key media
Interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoch%20Senderowitz | Hanoch Senderowitz (born 1963) () is an Israeli chemist specializing in the fields of Computational Chemistry, Molecular modelling, Computer-Aided Drug Design, and Chemoinformatics.
Biography
Hanoch Senderowitz received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Benzion Fuchs. He then spent four years as a Post Doctorate Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, working with Prof. W. Clark Still. After returning to Israel in 1997, he joined the pharmaceutical industry, working first at Peptor Ltd. for six years and then at Epix Pharmaceuticals until 2008. In 2009, he joined Bar Ilan University as an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry leading the molecular modeling, computer-aided drug design and chemoinformatics lab.
Scientific interests and publications
Senderowitz's research focuses on the developing and application of new computational methods to design compounds (i.e., drugs, materials) with improved properties. This design strategy is multi-disciplinary in nature and consists of various levels of theory, different computational techniques, and different machine learning algorithms. Senderowitz is known for the following areas of research: (1) Research on CFTR (Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), the main protein implicated in the genetic disease Cystic fibrosis, both at the level of the full-length protein and of its domains. His basic research focuses on understanding the dynamics of the protein and on the mechanism of action of deleterious, rescuing and stabilizing perturbations to its domains, while his translation research focuses on CFTR as a target for drug discovery. (2) Research on chemoinformatics and materials informatics, focusing on the development of new machine learning algorithms as well as on their application in various areas, for example, for the analysis and development of solar cells with improved photovoltaic properties. (3) Research on computational agriculture including plant disease biocontrol studying anti-bacterial peptides expressed on virus nanoparticles, design of new pesticides in the form of small molecules that inhibits the bacterial quorum sensing machinery, and the design of new sustainable pesticides in the form of peptide aptamers and small molecules that would interfere with cell building enzymes of bacteria. (4) Research on different drug discovery projects, in particular in the field of neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer, familial dysautonomia and the vanishing white material disease as well as diabetes, and calcification-related diseases and autoimmune disease.
He has over 90 peer-reviewed articles, and has contributed to various book chapters.
References
Living people
Israeli chemists
Jewish chemists
1963 births
Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
Tel Aviv University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalu%20Waller | Annalu Waller is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dundee and leads the Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) Research Group at the university.
Career
Waller was appointed an OBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to people with Complex Communication Needs. In September 2017 she was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists for her work on AAC. She received the honour from the RCSLT's patron, the Countess of Wessex. She is a trustee of Capability Scotland.
Waller is an ordained priest and is the honorary Anglican Chaplain of the Dundee University Chaplaincy.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Members of the Order of the British Empire
British chaplains
Academics of the University of Dundee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Podcasts | Apple Podcasts (known as simply Podcasts in Apple operating systems) is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows. Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, Microsoft Windows operating systems, and on Amazon Alexa devices.
History
Apple was an early promoter of podcasts (the term is a portmanteau of Apple's iPod music player and "broadcast"), and added playback functionality to iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and built a directory of shows in its iTunes Music Store, starting with 3,000 entries. In April 2020, Apple Podcasts surpassed one million shows. In June 2021, Apple launched the option for podcast creators to implement paid subscriptions through podcast channels.
Market share
Apple Podcasts had an estimated 28 million U.S. monthly listeners and 23.8% market share in March 2021, the first month it fell behind Spotify Podcasts as the top podcasting platform in the U.S. This was a decrease from Apple's 34% market share in 2018.
Application platforms
iOS, tvOS, and watchOS versions
A standalone Apple Podcasts app was announced at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of iOS 6. Apple released the app early on the App Store on June 26, 2012. It adds a new "stations" feature for discovering new podcasts. It is a standard app on CarPlay.
A standalone Apple Podcasts app was brought to 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs on September 24, 2012, with the Software 6.0 update. The tvOS-based 4th generation Apple TV launched in October 2015 without the ability to play podcasts. This was despite a Podcasts icon appearing on the home screen in commercials, in-store demo loops, and developer documentation. Apple Podcasts was added with tvOS 9.1.1 released on January 26, 2016.
Apple Podcasts was added to the Apple Watch with watchOS 5 on September 17, 2018.
macOS and Windows versions
Apple Podcasts for macOS and Microsoft Windows was initially available as part of the iTunes app, which added support for podcasts in version 4.9 in June 2005.
Apple announced at WWDC 2019 that iTunes for macOS would be split and replaced by the Music, TV and Podcasts apps with the release of macOS Catalina. Apple Podcasts remains available through iTunes on Microsoft Windows.
Smart speakers
Apple's HomePod family supports Podcasts using a voice user interface. Support for Apple Podcasts was added to the Amazon Echo line in December 2019.
Apple Podcasts Award
Reception
Critical reviews of the Apple Podcasts app have generally been mixed. In 2012, Engadget stated it "offers an opportunity to break through the clutter of iTunes". In 2017, Slate criticized it for glitches and low-quality audio. In 2019, Vulture ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Dorr | Bonnie Jean Dorr is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine translation, automatic summarization, social computing, and explainable artificial intelligence. She is a professor and director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida She is professor emerita of computer science and linguistics and former dean at the University of Maryland, College Park, former associate director at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition,, and former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Education
Dorr is a graduate of Boston University, and earned both a Master's (1986) and a Ph.D. (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Lexical Conceptual Structure and Machine Translation, was supervised by Robert C. Berwick.
Academic career
Dorr joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1992. At Maryland, she became the founding co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, and associate dean of the university's College of Computer, Math, and Natural Sciences (formerly College of Computer, Math, and Physical Sciences). She has also worked as a program director at DARPA beginning in 2011 while on leave from Maryland.
She joined the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in 2014. In January 2022, she joined the University of Florida as a professor, where she founded and now serves as director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory.
Book
Dorr is the author of Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon (MIT Press, 1993), a revision of her doctoral dissertation. It describes an approach to interlingual machine translation in which, rather than directly translating text from one language to another, it goes through an intermediate form represented using conceptual semantics. The translations between the syntax of each natural language handled by the system and this form are made using government and binding theory, in contrast to the more typical approach from that time which performed this sort of translation using phrase structure grammars and the unification of feature structures. Her system was embodied in the UNITRAN system, and translated between English, Spanish, and German. However, her work was criticized for its lack of completeness (inability to handle certain common grammatical structures in these languages).
Subsequently to Dorr's work, rule-based machine translation systems such as hers have largely been supplanted by statistical machine translation and neural machine translation, and some of Dorr's own later work instead focuses on data-driven approaches to machine translation and prioritization of explainability in the face of the recent push for large language models (e.g., ChatGPT).
Recognition
Dorr was president of the Association for Computational Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Cansfield | Joyce Cansfield (née Patrick; 1929 – 12 October 2019) was a British crossword compiler (compiling under the name Machiavelli for The Listener), who set more than 1,000 puzzles for The Times. She was also the 1980 UK national Scrabble champion, 1982 Countdown winner and 1983 Brain of Mensa. She studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at Westfield College, University of London and her early career involved the running of an early mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne. Later on she worked at the University of Leeds as a statistician.
Cansfield died in 2019.
References
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1929 births
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Alumni of Westfield College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique%20Cortier | Véronique Cortier is a French mathematician and computer scientist specializing in cryptography. Her research has applied mathematical logic in the formal verification of cryptographic protocols, and has included the development of secure electronic voting systems. She has also contributed to the public dissemination of knowledge about cryptography through a sequence of posts on the binaire blog of Le Monde. She is a director of research with CNRS, associated with the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) at the University of Lorraine in Nancy.
Education and career
Cortier studied mathematics and computer science at the École normale supérieure de Cachan from 1997 until 2001, earning a master's degree and completing her agrégation. She remained at Cachan for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 2003 with the dissertation Automatic Verification of Cryptographic Protocols supervised by Hubert Comon. She joined the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2003, completed a habilitation in 2009, and became a director of research with CNRS in 2010.
Recognition
Cortier was the 2003 winner of the of the for the best French dissertation in computer science. She also won a second dissertation prize, from Le Monde. In 2015 she became the second woman to win the INRIA and French Academy of Sciences Young Researcher Award for her work on Belenios, a secure electronic voting system. In 2022 she won the CNRS Silver Medal.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French women computer scientists
French cryptographers
21st-century French mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Women cryptographers
French women mathematicians
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Oliger | Joseph E. Oliger (September 3, 1941 – August 28, 2005) was an American computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. Oliger was the co-founder of the Science in Computational and Mathematical Engineering degree program at Stanford, and served as the director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science.
Early life and education
Oliger was born in Indiana in 1941, the son of salesman Emmert Oliger and homemaker Catherine Oliger, and grew up on a farm in Greensburg, Indiana. Oliger graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.S. in mathematics in 1966, and later continued on to complete an M.S. in applied math in 1971.
From 1965 to 1973, Oliger worked as a computer programmer and analyst at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. There, Oliger met Heinz-Otto Kreiss, who was a professor at Uppsala University at the time, and they began working together. Kreiss became Oliger's PhD advisor, and Oliger completed his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1973.
Research focus
Oliger is known for his work on numerical methods to approximate solutions of partial differential equations, with applications to weather forecasting. For example, in his early work with Heinz in 1972, for a model problem on wave propagation Oliger determined to what order of Fourier analysis was required to guarantee a desired level of accuracy. Along with Marsha Berger and Philip Colella, Oliger developed the technique of adaptive mesh refinement. One adaptive mesh refinement algorithm first developed by Berger and Oliger, and later refined by Berger and Colella, is taught today and referred to as the Berger-Oliger or Berger-Oliger-Colella method.
Stanford University
In 1974, Oliger joined the Computer Science department at Stanford University as an assistant professor. In 1987, Oliger co-founded the Science in Computational and Mathematical Engineering degree program at Stanford with three colleagues. As a professor at Stanford, Oliger graduated over 20 PhD students and currently has over 100 academic descendants.
Oliger was the author of the widely used textbook, Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, with Bertil Gustafsson and Heinz-Otto Kreiss.
Oliger served as the director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science in the 1990s.
In 2001, Oliger retired from Stanford.
References
American computer scientists
Stanford University faculty
American expatriates in Sweden
1941 births
2005 deaths
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Uppsala University alumni
University of Colorado alumni
Scientists from Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian%20Kersting | Kristian Kersting (born November 28, 1973 in Cuxhaven, Germany) is a German computer scientist. He is Professor of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab (AIML) and Co-Director of hessian.AI, the Hessian Center of Artificial Intelligence.
He is known for his research on statistical relational artificial intelligence, probabilistic programming, and deep probabilistic learning.
Life
Kersting studied computer science at the University of Freiburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. At the university he attended a course on artificial intelligence given by Bernhard Nebel and became interested in the topic. He was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His advisor at MIT was Leslie Pack Kaelbling. From 2008 to 2012, he led a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS. He then became a Juniorprofessor at the University of Bonn and associate Professor at the computer science department of the Technical University of Dortmund. From 2017 to 2019, he was professor of machine Learning and since 2019 professor of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
He is also a researcher at ATHENE, the largest research institute for IT security in Europe.
Awards
In 2006, he received the AI Dissertation Award of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 2008, he received the Fraunhofer Attract research grant with a budget of 2.5 million euros over five years. He was appointed Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) in 2019. In 2019 he received the "Deutscher KI-Preis" ("German AI Award"), endowed with 100,000 euros, for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of artificial intelligence.
Publications
De Raedt L., Kersting K. (2008) Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming. In: De Raedt L., Frasconi P., Kersting K., Muggleton S. (eds) Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Luc De Raedt, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan and David Poole, "Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence: Logic, Probability, and Computation", Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" Morgan & Claypool, March 2016 .
References
External links
His website at the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab
1973 births
Living people
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of Freiburg alumni
German computer scientists
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20V | Super V is an Indian animated television series loosely based on Virat Kohli and was created by Harman Baweja for Star India. It was launched on multiple Star Network and Disney India's channels from 5 November 2019.
Plot
Super V is the story of Virat. A teenager at the cusp of childhood and adulthood. An impulsive boy, who is trying to find his identity between his aspirations, his father's expectations and other pressures. What happens when a boy like this, becomes a superhero?
15 year old Virat lives with his parents and Sister in New Delhi. His father, Ashok is a lawyer, someone infamous for his strict honesty, and his mother, Gogi is a homemaker, a supermom, who always manages to ground the situation no matter how volatile it gets. The reason? Well the same reason that disturbs the situation in every house, the relationship between Virat and Ashok. Ashok wants Virat to be more responsible and Virat wants to be himself. Ashok wants Virat to be more disciplined and Virat wants to be left alone. Ashok wants Virat to be more mature and well, Virat wants to stay a teenager for a few more years.
There are a few more things Virat wants, one to become the best batsman in the whole world. He idolizes Sachit Wadekar and wants to be as good as him. The boy is a prodigy. His coach, teacher, even his father, knows that Virat is meant to shine in the field of cricket and the only thing that stops him from shining is his anger.
The other thing that causes problems in his dream to become a great cricketer, is the school baddie, the school bully, Sooraj, who is the reigning captain of the under 19 Indian team. Virat nemesis, Sooraj is a very good bowler. He tries his level best to create problems for Virat while playing cricket. What makes it easy for him is that he comes from a rich, influential background.
Virat is the kind of a guy who doesn't talk to everyone, but with the few that he talks to, he talks non-stop. And three such people are. Jo, Bunny, and Amara. His best friends. They stick with him through thick and thin. And of course, there is also Shazia, Virat's crush. Virat is tongue-tied whenever she is around.
His journey to become a superhero starts when his grandfather comes in his dream on his 15th birthday and tells him that his family has a secret. They are a family of superheroes! As he inherits his family's heirloom, he realizes that he can use these powers of the kada (the bracelet) for good. But the rule of the universe is that if there is good then there must be evil. As the Superhero rises, so does a Supervillain. Navar, the supervillain of the story has a plan to take over the world.
An intertwining story of how Virat must balance his life at home, with his friends, his love interest, saving the world from Navar's evil plans and must still find it within himself to make India win the world cup!
Cast
Upen Chauhan as Virat / Super V
Samay Raj Thakkar as Nawaal
Anil Dutt as Virat's Grandfather
Rishabh Arora as Bunny
Mallika Si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore%20processor | Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division. It has 53 qubits.
In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google ran portions of the quantum circuit simulation on the Summit, the most powerful classical computer in the world. Later, IBM made a counter-argument, claiming that the task would only take 2.5 days on a classical system like Summit. If Google's claims are upheld, then it would represent an exponential leap in computing power.
In August 2020, quantum engineers working for Google reported the largest chemical simulation on a quantum computer – a Hartree–Fock approximation with Sycamore paired with a classical computer that analyzed results to provide new parameters for the 12-qubit system.
In April 2021, researchers working with Sycamore reported that they were able to realize the ground state of the toric code, a topologically ordered state, with 31 qubits. They showed long-range entanglement properties of the state by measuring non-zero topological entropy, simulating anyon interferometry and their braiding statistics, and preparing a topological quantum error correcting code with one logical qubit.
In July 2021, a collaboration consisting of Google and multiple universities reported the observation of a discrete time crystal on the Sycamore processor. The chip of 20 qubits was used to obtain a many-body localization configuration of up and down spins. The configuration was stimulated with a laser to achieve a periodically driven "Floquet" system where all up spins are flipped for down and vice versa in periodic cycles which are multiples of the laser's cycles. No energy was absorbed from the laser so the system remained in a protected eigenstate order.
In 2022, the Sycamore processor was used to simulate traversable wormhole dynamics.
See also
Jiuzhang
References
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Quantum computing
Google hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokens%20%28web%20series%29 | Tokens is a Canadian comedy web series created by Winnifred Jong and produced along with Trinni Franke. The series premiered on Facebook and YouTube on May 6, 2019. It also stayed on Binge Networks for the first season and was later sold to Urbanflix TV.
Tokens follows the lives of the actors of an "on call" casting agency who are dispatched to productions in order to fulfill diversity quotas. The series stars Connie Wang, Ryan Allen and Shelley Thompson. As of October 2019, Tokens has amassed more than 500,000 combined views across Facebook and YouTube.
Plot
The series follows the actors of On Call Casting, a fictional agency designed to help busy production companies meet their mandated diversity quotas. Dispatcher Betty sends out whoever is on call, with the actors often finding themselves cast in the roles they least expect.
Cast and characters
Main
Connie Wang as Sammie Pang, an aspiring actress who joins On Call Casting in the hopes that she will find acting work beyond stereotypical token roles, despite the growing disapproval of her traditional parents.
Ryan Allen as DeMar Lowry, a stunt coordinator-turned-actor who befriends Sammie after joining On Call Casting.
Shelley Thompson as Betty, the eccentric, entrepreneurial dispatcher of On Call Casting.
Recurring
Jessica Greco as Jessica AD
Daniel Maslany as Dennis AD
Chelsea Clark as Roxy
Krystal Kiran as Priya
Christina Song as Vivian, Sammie's Mom
Russell Yuen as Bob, Sammie's Dad
Jonathan Cherry as Director #1
Sharron Matthews as Director #2
Amy Matysio as the Producer
Ted Stokes as the Cinematographer
Samora Smallwood as Jenn the Costumer
Sedina Fiati as Ese the Makeup Artist
Tyssen Smith as the College Brat
Guest
Fuad Ahmed (credited as Gabe Grey) as Vasant
Andrew James McMichael as the Production Assistant
Abigail Nadeau as the Bored Ballet Dancer
Ehren Kassam as Kruger the Driver
Ella Jonas Farlinger as Teen Betty
Stephanie Morgenstern as the Casting Assistant
Leigh Cameron as Captain Anjelika
Sergey Volkov as Traktor
Tom Melissis as Director #3
Julia Huang as Sammie's Niece
Daniela Saioni as Director #4
Jeananne Goossen as Casting Director Voice
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Production
The first season of Tokens was funded through the Telefilm Talent-To-Watch program and the Bell Fund. The series received additional funding through sponsorships from William F. White International and Grandé Camera (formerly Dazmo Camera).
Principal photography took place in November 2018 in Toronto.
In February 2019, Tokens creator Winnifred Jong and producer Trinni Franke participated in the Prime Time Throwdown pitch competition at the 2019 Prime Time in Ottawa conference, where they were awarded in-kind marketing services to support the release of the first season. The series premiered to a sold-out audience at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on May 6, 2019, the same day the first season was released worldwide on Facebook and YouTube.
Reception
Tokens has received praise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUCB-FM%20%28Iowa%29 | KUCB-FM was a radio station broadcasting on 89.3 FM in Des Moines, Iowa. The station aired programming aimed at the African American community in central Iowa. The station was on air from 1981 until 1998; its license renewal was successfully challenged in a seven-year legal battle that dragged on for most of the 1990s over an unauthorized two-year silence period and the illegal presence of a convicted felon as an officer of the station's licensee. A new minority station, KJMC, went on the air in 1999 as a result of a competing application to the license renewal.
History
Early years and tower site fight
In 1976, a Human Rights Commission task force determined that Des Moines media was not adequately meeting the needs of the city's minority residents; according to one study, its existing radio stations presented fewer than 10 hours a week of minority-oriented programming. The effort to build a minority radio station was spearheaded by Charles Knox, a former head of the local Black Panther Party, and Joeanna Cheatom, who would be described as the founder of KUCB. Also involved in founding the station was Edna Griffin, who in 1948 had protested the refusal of the Katz Drug Store lunch counter downtown to serve Black customers.
On December 30, 1977, the Center for the Study of Black Theology applied to build a new noncommercial educational radio station at 89.3 in Des Moines. The center's application was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 26, 1979. However, that same year, the station's first efforts to get on air were frustrated by internal strife, which prompted the group to return much of a grant it had received for staff. The center, also known as Urban Community Broadcasting, received a $25,000 grant from the city of Des Moines in 1980 to help put the station on the air. At the time, the only Black media in Des Moines was a tabloid newspaper known as the Iowa Bystander.
Before even going on air with a permanent facility, KUCB-FM attracted controversy in Des Moines. It had proposed initially to place its tower atop the Financial Center downtown. However, the station eventually filed to build a tower in a residential area at the Gateway Center, a community center located at 801 Forest Avenue. (It went on the air August 1, 1981, from a temporary facility attached to a chimney.) This prompted local residents to oppose the project because it took away an outdoor basketball court and they feared electrical interference. The case reached the Des Moines Zoning Board of Adjustment on August 18; after the board denied Urban Community Broadcasting's request for a variance to build KUCB-FM by a 3–2 vote, station advisory board chair Kalonji Saadiq hurled a wastebasket toward the chairman of the board, narrowly missing him; Saadiq, angry at what he perceived as the denial of 20,000 Black citizens, called the board "trash". (Saadiq, another former Black Panther who later hosted a talk show on KUCB and rose to the post of s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20A.%20Feldman | Jerome A. Feldman is professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2005 and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence since 1990.
Selected publications
From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language. Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
References
External links
Jerry Feldman's Personal Home Page at ICSI
Living people
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%20Schiele | Bernt Schiele (born November 3, 1968, in Neustadt) is a German computer scientist. He is Max Planck Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at Saarland University. He is known for his work in the field of computer vision and perceptual computing.
Life
Schiele studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and at the École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (Ensimag). He received his diploma in computer science from Ensimag in 1993 and from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1994, he was visiting researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. under the supervision of James L. Crowley from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP). From 1999 to 2004 he was assistant professor at ETH Zurich. From 1997 to 2000, he was postdoctoral associate and visiting assistant professor in the group of Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2004 to 2010 he was professor at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2010 Schiele has been Max Planck Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at Saarland University.
Awards
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Fellow of the IEEE
Publications
P. Dollar, C. Wojek, B. Schiele and P. Perona, "Pedestrian Detection: An Evaluation of the State of the Art," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 743–761, April 2012.
Leibe, B., Leonardis, A. & Schiele, B. Int J Comput Vis (2008) 77: 259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-007-0095-3
External links
Website of Bernt Schiele at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
References
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Max Planck Society
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Grenoble Institute of Technology alumni
German computer scientists
1968 births
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Academic staff of Saarland University
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madjigu%C3%A8ne%20Ciss%C3%A9 | Madjiguène Cissé (26 September 1951 – 15 May 2023) was a Senegalese activist who was the spokeswoman of the undocumented immigrants movement and founder of the Women's Network for Sustainable Development in Africa.
Biography
Cissé was born in Dakar. Her parents were illiterate when they moved from the countryside to Dakar. Her ambitious and progressive father learned to read and got his driving license. At his request, Cissé started attending school in 1958. In 1968, she took part in demonstrations. After she obtained the Baccalauréat, she started her German studies. In 1974, she was granted a two-year scholarship to study in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Cissé subsequently went back to Dakar and worked as a German teacher in a high school. In 1993, as a mother of three, she stayed in Paris for her daughter's studies. Although she had a legal residence permit, she discovered and joined the undocumented workers movement in March 1996 and became one of its spokespeople.
In 2000, she went back to Dakar where she co-founded the Women's Network for Sustainable Development in Africa (, REFDAF) and became its director. The network aims at improving women's living standards through education, support actions to develop employment, and granting microcredits.
Cissé died on 15 May 2023, at the age of 71.
Published works
Parole de sans-papiers, 1999.
Papiere für alle. Die Bewegung der Sans Papiers in Frankreich, A Verlag, Hamburg, 2002, .
Awards
1998: International League for Human Rights's Carl von Ossietzky Medal, alongside Les Collectifs de sans-papiers
2011: Markgräfin-Wilhelmine, Bayreuth city prize
References
External links
REFDAF official website
1951 births
2023 deaths
Senegalese activists
Senegalese women activists
Senegalese educators
Senegalese women educators
Germanists
Women linguists
20th-century educators
21st-century educators
People from Dakar
20th-century women educators
21st-century women educators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Waidner | Michael Waidner (born on December 20, 1961 in Mühlacker) is a German computer scientist. He is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and ATHENE, the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. He is also professor of security in information technology at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
He is known for his work in IT security, privacy, cryptography and dependability.
Life
Waidner studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in computer science in 1991. The title of his dissertation was "Byzantine distribution without cryptographic assumptions despite any number of errors". From 1994 to 2006, he headed research in IT security and data protection at IBM Research - Zurich and was one of the initiators of the Zurich Information Security Center at ETH Zurich. He then moved to IBM in New York, where he was IBM Chief Technology Officer for Security and chairman of the IBM Security Architecture Board until September 2010.
Since 2010, Waidner is professor at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt. Waidner is also director of ATHENE, the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. He is a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Since 2017, Waidner has also been chief digital officer of Darmstadt.
Publications
Steiner, Michael & Tsudik, Gene & Waidner, Michael. (1999). Diffie-Hellman Key Distribution Extended to Group Communication. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. DOI: 10.1145/238168.238182.
Steiner, Michael & Tsudik, Gene & Waidner, Michael. (2000). Key Agreement in Dynamic Peer Groups. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. DOI: 11.10.1109/71.877936.
Asokan, N. & Schunter, Matthias & Waidner, Michael. (1997). Optimistic protocols for fair exchange. Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '97). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7-17. DOI: 10.1145/266420.266426.
Asokan, N. & Shoup, Victor & Waidner, Michael. (1998). Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures. DOI: 10.1007/BFb0054156.
Awards
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM Distinguished Scientist.
References
1961 births
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
German computer scientists
Living people
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
German cryptographers
People from Mühlacker
Chief technology officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation%20Jackson | Cooperation Jackson is a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It aims to develop a series of independent but connected democratic institutions to empower workers and residents of Jackson, particularly to address the needs of poor, unemployed, Black and Latino residents. The development of Cooperation Jackson has been heavily inspired by the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, which is also a federation of cooperatives, and by historical cooperative movements as described in works by W. E. B. Du Bois and in the book Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
History
Cooperation Jackson, formed in 2014, enacts a vision of a radically democratic city of interconnected cooperatives and supporting institutions. Although the city of Jackson was already home to the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, before Cooperation Jackson, there were not many existing cooperative businesses. Kali Akuno, a Cooperation co-founder and co-director, describes a goal of bringing a strong focus of cooperative economics to an urban American context, as opposed to the currently more common rural context of agricultural and utility co-ops.
The organization has attempted to work within and outside of the government to achieve its goals. It has had to fight off anti-democratic measures by the Mississippi state legislators including austerity measures, an attempted takeover of Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport, and an attempt to pass a bill to hand control of the city government over to the governor. The organizers also struggle with working in an economically depressed city in the poorest state in the United States.
Jackson-Kush Plan
Akuno has described the network as a key part of enacting the Jackson-Kush Plan. The plan, which was developed by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Jackson People's Assembly, involves building a strong base of community wealth, stability, racial equity, and economic democracy in Jackson. It has three planks, which are the "building of a broad-based solidarity economy, the building of people's assemblies, and the building of an independent black political party."
Organizers behind Cooperation Jackson believe that a solidarity economy rooted in democratic principles is a core requirement of developing the community's capacity and vision in making meaningful change. The Jackson-Kush Plan describes the role of this economy as a "transitional strategy and praxis to build 21st century socialism and advance the abolition of capitalism and the poverty and oppressive social relations that it fosters". The direct democracy of people's assemblies and local government electoral strategy are designed to both benefit and benefit from a strong cooperative system.
Projects
Mutual aid
Cooperation Jackson has long focused on facilitating mutual aid projects. This has included creating and distributing personal protective equipment and providing an eviction support hotline in the wake of the COVI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20Extended%20BASIC | Data General Extended BASIC, also widely known as Nova Extended BASIC, was a BASIC programming language interpreter for the Data General Nova series minicomputers. It was based on the seminal Dartmouth BASIC, including the Fifth Edition's string variables and powerful commands for matrix manipulation. In contrast to the compile-and-go Dartmouth BASIC, Extended BASIC was an interpreter.
To this, Extended BASIC added substring manipulation using array slicing, which was common on BASICs of the era, found on HP Time-Shared BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, Atari BASIC and others. This contrasts with the Microsoft BASIC style which uses string functions like , and thus makes porting string code somewhat difficult.
Data General later purchased rights to a much-expanded BASIC which was released as Data General Business Basic. This added powerful database functionality and largely replaced Extended BASIC on DG platforms.
Description
Mathematics
The internal floating point number format normally used two 16-bit words for a total of 32-bits, stored least significant bit first. Bit 0 was the sign, 1 through 7 was the exponent stored in excess-64 format, and 8 through 31 the mantissa stored as hexadecimal digits. Numbers could alternately use a double-precision format that extended the mantissa only, adding another 32-bits. That meant the double-precision format did not extend the range of numbers that could be stored, only the accuracy of those numbers. Possible numbers ranged from 5.4 to −7.2. Numbers with less than six digits were displayed as decimals, while those with more were displayed in exponent format.
Variable names could consist of a single letter, or a letter and a single digit. Two-letter names were not allowed. Arrays could be med in 1 (array) or 2 (matrix) dimensions, and the lower bound was always 1. As was common at the time, variables with no defaulted to a 1-D array of 10 elements. Confusingly, if a variable was ed, it was not the same as a variable with the same name that had not been ed; and might be the same or different variables depending on how they were created.
Mathematics operators were the standard set, with the addition of a unary plus. Relational operators for comparisons were also the standard set, there was no for not-equals as found in some contemporary BASICs.
Matrix math
Extended BASIC added the suite of matrix math operations from Dartmouth BASIC's Fifth Edition. These were, in essence, macros that performed operations that would otherwise be accomplished with loops.
The system included a number of pre-rolled matrixes, like for a zero-matrix, for a matrix of all 1's, and for the identity matrix. Most mathematical operations were supported, for instance, multiplies every element in A by 2. takes the determinant, and inverts it.
Strings
String literals (constants) were entered between double-quotes. Characters within strings could be escaped by placing their ASCII value between angle-brackets, for instance, Str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QC%20Ware | QC Ware is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in Palo Alto, California.
History
QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at NASA Ames interested in quantum computing.
In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of Google's Cirq framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator.
Services
In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors. As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines.
Q2B conference
QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.
References
Software companies based in California
Cloud computing providers
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies of the United States
American companies established in 2014
Software companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Top%20Wing%20episodes | Top Wing is a Canadian computer-animated television series created by Matthew Fernandes of Industrial Brothers and produced by Industrial Brothers and 9 Story Media Group. It premiered on Nickelodeon in the United States on November 6, 2017, and debuted on Treehouse in Canada on January 6, 2018.
The following is a list of episodes from the series Top Wing.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2017–18)
Season 2 (2019–20)
Notes
References
Top Wing
Top Wing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhand%27s%20Street%20Weapons%202020 | Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020 is a supplement published by R. Talsorian Games in 1994 for the dystopian near-future role-playing game Cyberpunk.
Contents
Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020 is a compilation of over 250 weapons for Cyberpunk 2020.
Reception
In the August 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue #232), Rick Swan commented that "trigger-happy Cyberpunk-ers should find this a useful resource, if only for the comprehensive statistics and ammunition rules."
References
Cyberpunk (role-playing game) supplements
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Watson | Vera Watson (1932 – October 17, 1978) was an American computer programmer, mountaineer and rock climber who made the first woman's solo climb of Acongagua, the highest mountain in the Americas. She also made several first ascents in the Kenai Mountains in Alaska. She was a member of the successful first all-women team to climb Annapurna, but was killed along with her partner Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz while preparing to attempt the unclimbed central summit of the mountain.
Watson worked at IBM Research in San Jose, California, from 1973 onwards. She was initially active in machine translation, before moving into database management system design. She worked on System R, which was the first implementation of SQL, a standardised database query language which has since become a dominant standard. She took a leave without pay to make the solo attempt on Aconcagua, and then again for the expedition to Annapurna. She was married to John McCarthy, a pioneer in the discipline of artificial intelligence and creator of the Lisp programming language.
See also
American Women's Himalayan Expedition
References
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Picture and obituary.
American female climbers
Mountaineering deaths
1932 births
1978 deaths
20th-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti-Tree | Ti-Tree may refer to:
Ti-Tree, Northern Territory, a town and locality in Australia
Ti-Tree Airfield
Ti-Tree School
See also
T-tree, in computer science
Tea tree (disambiguation)
Tiptree (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20OS%20emulation%20or%20virtualization%20apps%20on%20Android | There are many apps in Android that can run or emulate other operating systems, via utilizing hardware support for platform virtualization technologies, or via terminal emulation. Some of these apps support having more than one emulation/virtual file system for different OS profiles, thus the ability to have or run multiple OS's. Some even have support to run the emulation via a localhost SSH connection (letting remote ssh terminal apps on device access the OS emulation/VM, VNC, and XSDL. If more than one of these apps that support these protocols or technologies are available on the android device, via androids ability to do background tasking the main emulator/VM app on android can be used to launch multiple emulation/vm OS, which the other apps can connect to, thus multiple emulated/VM OS's can run at the same time. However, there are a few emulator or VM apps that require that the android device to be rooted for the app to work, and there are others that do not require such. Some remote terminal access apps also have the ability to access Android's internally implemented Toybox, via device loopback support. Some VM/emulator apps have a fixed set of OS's or applications that can be supported.
Since Android 8 (Oreo) and latter versions of Android, some of these apps have been reporting issues as Google has heightened the security of file-access permissions on newer versions of Android. Some apps have difficulties or have lost access to SD card. It is also been reported that some of the apps have trouble utilizing packages like udisks2, Open vSwitch, Snort (software), and Mininet, due to new hardware or Android API restrictions on apps that have been put into place in the recent years. Due to this, many of these app developers and their community members are stating that the emulation/VM app can run itself and an OS without being rooted, however not all packages will be able to run unless the device is rooted.
OS emulators or VM Android apps
The following is a list of OS emulators and OS virtualization Android apps.
Terminal emulation apps utilizing internal OS
See also
Comparison of platform virtualization software
List of computer system emulators
OS virtualization and emulation on Android
Mobile virtualization
References
Software comparisons
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIPP%20Texas%20Public%20Schools | KIPP Texas Public Schools, is the branch of the KIPP charter school network in the U.S. state of Texas.
It consists of four regional offices each in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
History
Circa 2003 KIPP had four separate charter school networks in the state for each of the regions it operated in: Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
Mark Larson, a graduate of Trinity University, established the San Antonio branch in 2003. He eventually became the chief external officer of KIPP Texas, as well as the KIPP San Antonio superintendent.
Larson resigned in 2019. he is the head of City Education Partners (CEP). Allen Smith became the head of the KIPP San Antonio schools.
In 2018 KIPP announced that its four Texas divisions would merge into a single statewide network.
Schools
Houston area
KIPP Houston had 12,100 students.
High schools(9-12)
KIPP: East End High School (2020)
KIPP: Connect High School (2018) serving Gulfton and Sharpstown
KIPP Generations Collegiate (KGC) (2011) (north Houston)
KIPP Houston High School (2004)
KIPP Northeast College Preparatory (2013)
KIPP: Sunnyside High School - Opened in 2010. KIPP Sunnyside HS serves students from the Sunnyside, Third Ward, and Hiram Clarke areas.
Middle schools(5-8)
KIPP Voyage Academy for Girls (2009)
KIPP Mosiac Academy (2020)
KIPP 3D Academy(2001)
KIPP Academy (1994) (west Houston)
KIPP Academy West (2015) (far west Houston)
KIPP CONNECT Middle School (2014)
KIPP Courage College Prep at Landrum Middle School(2012) (Spring Branch), at Landrum Middle School of the Spring Branch Independent School District
KIPP Intrepid (2008)
KIPP Journey (2019) (west Houston)
KIPP Liberation(2006) (Third Ward)
KIPP Nexus (2017) (northwest Houston)
KIPP Polaris Academy for Boys (2007) (northeast Houston)
KIPP Prime College Prep (2016) (East End)
KIPP Sharpstown College Prep(2007)
KIPP Spirit College Prep (2006)(Sunnyside area)
In 2015 Children at Risk ranked this school as "F".
Elementary schools(K-4)
KIPP Mosiac Primary(2020)
KIPP Climb Academy (2016)
KIPP CONNECT Primary school (2014)
KIPP Dream Prep(2006) (north Houston)
KIPP Explore Academy(2009) (southeast Houston)
KIPP Journey (2019) (west Houston)
KIPP Legacy Preparatory School (northeast Houston)
KIPP NEXUS Primary School (2017) (northwest Houston)
KIPP PEACE Elementary School(2011)
KIPP SHARP Prep(2008)
KIPP SHINE Prep(2004) (west Houston)
KIPP Unity Primary (2015)
KIPP: Zenith Academy (Sunnyside area) - KIPP Zenith opened as part of a wave of KIPP elementary schools opening in 2010. In 2015 Children at Risk ranked this school as "F".
Closed schools
KIPP North Forest Lower School and Lower Girls School
San Antonio area
The San Antonio branch was known as KIPP San Antonio Public Schools
High schools
grades 9-12
KIPP: University Prep
grade 9
KIPP: Somos Collegiate ("somos" means "we are" in Spanish)
Middle schools
Grades 5-8
KIPP: Aspire Academy
KIPP: Camino Academy
Grades 5-7
KIPP: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20City | Bug City is a supplement published by FASA in 1994 for the dystopian cyberpunk science fantasy role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Bug City is a 160-page softcover book that was designed by Robert Cruz, Tom Dowd, Mike Nystul, Diane Piron-Gelman, and Christopher Kubasik, with interior art by Jim Nelson, Tom Baxa, Peter Bergting, Joel Biske, Earl Geier, Jeff Laubenstein, Larry MacDougall, and Jeff Miracola, and cover art by Rick Berry and Mike Nielsen.
Using the Shadowrun rules system, this adventure is one of three supplements that describes the story arc of the 2057 United American and Canadian States presidential election. Bug City is set in Chicago, where giant insects have magically appeared. Government authorities have isolated the city within a "Containment Zone", trapping a million people along with the ravenous insects. Players control characters that are in the Containment Zone.
The election
FASA allowed Shadowrun players to vote on which of the six unusual candidates would win the presidential election of 2057. In the 2014 book Designers & Dragons, author Shannon Appelcline wrote "By the mid-'90s FASA was innovating its storyline. The game's metaplot had always been important, but now players were given the chance to influence the United Canadian and American States Election of 2057 by voting for the new president. This plot ran through Bug City (1994), Super Tuesday (1996), and Dunkelzahn's Secrets (1996). Some felt the intended outcome was pushed by FASA, but nonetheless the dragon Dunkelzahn was elected based on player votes — then promptly assassinated."
Reception
In the November 1995 edition of Dragon (Issue #223), Rick Swan thought the premise of the book was "highly amusing." Swan did find the introduction section boring, although "once past the introduction, the book comes alive, presenting a riveting look at a besieged community that’s half ant farm, half leper colony." Although he found the illustrations "first-rate", he thought the maps "leave a lot to be desired." He found the game mastering section "provides excellent staging tips and a terrific set of optional rules." Swan thought elements of the book needed more development, specifically the insects — "Each insect species receives just a page or so of description, far too little to adequately cover their life cycles, social structures, and personalities" — and a lot of intriguing but under-explored concepts. He also noted that referees had a lot of homework reading to do, since Bug City references nearly a dozen other Shadowrun sourcebooks. However, Swan concluded by giving the book an above average rating of 5 out of 6, saying, "a cast of characters this engaging makes Bug City hard to resist."
Awards
Bug City won the Origins Awards for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1995.
Reviews
White Wolf Inphobia #56 (June, 1995)
Rollespilsmagasinet Fønix (Danish) (Issue 8 - May/June 1995)
References
Origins Award winners
Role-pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Wachter | Sandra Wachter is a professor and senior researcher in data ethics, artificial intelligence, robotics, algorithms and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is a former Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute.
Early life and education
Wachter grew up in Austria and studied law at the University of Vienna. Wachter has said that she was inspired to work in technology because of her grandmother, who was one of the first women admitted to Vienna's Technical University.
She completed her LL.M. in 2009, before starting as a legal counsel in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health. It was during this time that she joined the faculty at the University of Vienna, pursuing a doctoral degree in technology, intellectual property and democracy. She completed her PhD degree in 2015, and simultaneously earned a master's degree in social sciences at the University of Oxford. After earning her doctorate, Wachter joined the Royal Academy of Engineering, where she worked in public policy. She returned to the University of Vienna where she worked on various ethical aspects of innovation.
Research
Her work covers legal and ethical issues associated with big data, artificial intelligence, algorithms and data protection. She believes that there needs to be a balance between technical innovation and personal control of information. Wachter was made a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in 2016. In this capacity she has evaluated the ethical and legal aspects of data science. She has argued that artificial intelligence should be more transparent and accountable, and that people have a "right to reasonable inferences". She has highlighted cases where opaque algorithms have become racist and sexist; such as discrimination in applications to St George's Hospital and Medical School in the 1970s and overestimations of black defendants reoffending when using the program COMPAS. Whilst Wachter appreciates that it is difficult to eliminate bias from training data sets, she believes that is possible to develop tools to identify and eliminate them. She has looked at ways to audit artificial intelligence to tackle discrimination and promote fairness. In this capacity she has argued that Facebook should continue to use human moderators.
She has argued that General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in need of reform, as despite attention being paid to the input stage, less time is spent on how the data is assessed. She believes that privacy must mean more than data protection, focussing on data evaluation and ways for people to control how information about them is stored and shared.
Working with Brent Mittelstadt and Chris Russell, Wachter suggested counterfactual explanations – statements of how different the world would be to result in a different outcome. When decisions are made by an algorithm it can be difficult for people to understand why they are being made, especially without revealing trade secrets about an algorithm. Counterfactual explanations wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20R.%20Cox%20Jr. | Jerome Rockhold Cox Jr. (May 24, 1925 – January 17, 2023) was an American computer pioneer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Cox contributed significantly to the areas of biomedical computing, multimedia communications, and computer networking. Cox was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis and senior professor emeritus of Computer Science at Washington University (1999-2023), as well as Founder and President of Blendics, Inc., (2007 - 2023) and Q-Net Security Inc. (2015 - 2023). In 1998, Cox collaborated with colleagues Jonathan S. Turner and Guru Parulkar in founding Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000).
Cox was responsible for bringing the Laboratory INstrument Computer, known as LINC – along with its development team including Wesley A. Clark, Severo Ornstein, and Charles Molnar – to Washington University in 1964. LINC, which was developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in 1962, is a contender for the title of the first personal computer because it can be managed by a single individual.
Early life and education
Cox was born in Washington, D.C. in May 1925. Six years later, his parents, Jerome R. Cox, Sr., and Jane Mills Cox moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he grew up and learned to love mathematics. When he was 11 years old, he secretly took apart his radio to see how it worked.
After serving in the U.S. Army from 1943–1944, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned bachelor's (1947), master's (1949), and doctoral degrees (1954) in electrical engineering, with an emphasis in acoustics.
Career
Liberty Mutual Research Institute
Cox began his career in 1952 as the director of the now-shuttered Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His research centered on industrial noise exposure and the potential impact on worker hearing loss. This work included the first longitudinal study of audiometric histories of employees in industrial noise.
Central Institute for the Deaf
In 1955, Cox was recruited by Hallowell Davis to leave Boston and come to Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis. Davis, Director of Research at CID, challenged Cox to implement an idea for measuring hearing in infants. In 1961, Cox and his graduate student, A. M Engrebretson, designed and built a special-purpose digital computer used by Davis to pioneer the field of early detection of deafness. This research has since led to mandated screening tests for newborn infants throughout the United States.
Biomedical Computer Laboratory/Computer Systems Laboratory at Washington University Medical School
In 1964, Cox founded the Biomedical Computer Laboratory, an organization dedicated to the introduction of small computers to biomedical research. His pioneering work in radiation treatment planning paved the way for systems in worldwide operation. His research team developed computer methods for reconstructing i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Greenberg | Saul Greenberg (born 1954) is a computer scientist, a Faculty Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. He was awarded ACM Fellowship in 2012 for contributions to computer supported cooperative work and ubiquitous computing.
Education
Greenberg was educated at the University of Calgary where he received a PhD in 1988 for research on command-driven interfaces supervised by Ian Witten.
Career and research
Greenberg's research interests are in Human–computer interaction (HCI), Ubiquitous computing and Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Publications
His most cited publications include:
Real time groupware as a distributed system
Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time)
A descriptive framework of workspace awareness for real-time groupware
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets
Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: toward the year 2000
References
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1954 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey%20of%20Scottish%20Witchcraft | The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft is an online database of witch trials in early modern Scotland, containing details of 3,837 accused gathered from contemporary court documents covering the period from 1563 until the repeal of the Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1736. The survey was made available online in 2003 after two years of work at the University of Edinburgh by Julian Goodare, now a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, and Louise Yeoman, ex-curator at the National Library of Scotland, now a producer/presenter at BBC Radio Scotland, with assistance from researchers Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller, and Computing Services at the University of Edinburgh. The database is available for download from the website.
Media attention in October 2019
The project received media attention in October 2019 for two reasons. Firstly, an interactive map showing where the accused witches resided was made public after work at the University of Edinburgh by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, and Emma Carroll, a geology and physical geography undergraduate. As part of this project some of the data was also shared openly on Wikidata. Secondly, the Wikipedia biography of accused witch Lilias Adie was featured on the Wikipedia home page on Halloween after researchers at University of Dundee reconstructed her face based on photographs of her skull. They have placed a call for the return of her remains, which are now missing. Julian Goodare was called on to give comment on both these developments, which received attention in the national and international press.
Previous surveys of Scottish Witchcraft
The survey built on the work of three previous surveys:
Calendar of Cases of Witchcraft – George Fraser Black 1938 publication of Calendar of Cases of Witchcraft in Scotland, 1510-1727.
Source-Book of Scottish Witchcraft – 1977 publication funded by Social Science Research Council.
Scottish Witch Hunt Data Base – 1990s CD-Rom building on Source-Book.
See also
Witch trials in early modern Scotland
Scotland in the early modern period
European witchcraft
Lilias Adie
Digital history
Digital humanities
References
2003 establishments in Scotland
Computer-related introductions in 2003
Databases in the United Kingdom
Historiography of Scotland
Witchcraft in Scotland
Witch trials in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Network | Civic Network (Rete Civica, RC) is a left-wing political party active in Aosta Valley, Italy.
The party was formed in January 2019 upon the break-up of Civic Commitment (IC), an alike grouping which had obtained 7.5% of the vote and three regional councillors. Two of them, Alberto Bertin (a former member of Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology) and Chiara Minelli, departed from IC and launched RC.
In June 2019, when the regional government led by Antonio Fosson of For Our Valley was in crisis, RC became part of the governing majority.
In the 2020 regional election the RC was part of a centre-left joint list, named Progressive Civic Project (PCP), comprising the Democratic Party (PD) and Green Europe (EV). The list obtained 15.7% of the vote and 7 seats, two of which for RC. After the election, a regionalist/centre-left government, composed of the Valdostan Union, the Valdostan Alliance, Edelweiss, Mouv', the PD and RC. Bertin was elected President of the Regional Council, while Minelli was appointed regional minister of the environment, transports and sustainable mobility.
Within a year, the RC-led PCP broke with the government and the PD: five councillors, including Bertin, sided with the PD and formed a new group named also "Progressive Federalists" in October 2021, while the remaining two, Erika Guichardaz and Minelli, who had resigned from regional minister in May, re-organised the PCP as the union of three groups — RC, EV and Democratic Area–Autonomist Left (AD–GA) —, and re-branded it as a left-wing opposition to the regionalist/centre-left government. Guichardaz was affiliated with AD–GA.
In the general election RC and PCP supported Guichardaz to the Chamber and Daria Pulz to the Senate, along with the Five Star Movement, AD–GA, Environment Rights Equality (ADU) and Italian Left, the latter two already united by a federative pact. Guichardaz and Pulz obtained 10.9% and 10.0% of the vote, respectively.
References
External links
Official website
2019 establishments in Italy
Political parties established in 2019
Political parties in Aosta Valley
Social democratic parties in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20of%20Military%20Things | The Internet of Military Things (IoMT) is a class of Internet of things for combat operations and warfare. It is a complex network of interconnected entities, or "things", in the military domain that continually communicate with each other to coordinate, learn, and interact with the physical environment to accomplish a broad range of activities in a more efficient and informed manner. The concept of IoMT is largely driven by the idea that future military battles will be dominated by machine intelligence and cyber warfare and will likely take place in urban environments. By creating a miniature ecosystem of smart technology capable of distilling sensory information and autonomously governing multiple tasks at once, the IoMT is conceptually designed to offload much of the physical and mental burden that warfighters encounter in a combat setting.
Over time, several different terms have been introduced to describe the use of IoT technology for reconnaissance, environment surveillance, unmanned warfare and other combat purposes. These terms include the Military Internet of Things (MIoT), the Internet of Battle Things, and the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT).
Overview
The Internet of Military Things encompasses a large range of devices that possess intelligent physical sensing, learning, and actuation capabilities through virtual or cyber interfaces that are integrated into systems. These devices include items such as sensors, vehicles, robots, UAVs, human-wearable devices, biometrics, munitions, armor, weapons, and other smart technology. In general, IoMT devices can generally be classified into one of four categories (but the devices are meant to be ubiquitous enough to form a data fabric):
Data-carrying device: A device attached to a physical thing that indirectly connects it to the larger communication network.
Data-capturing device: A reader/writer device capable of interacting with physical things.
Sensing and actuating device: A device that can detect or measure information related to the surrounding environment and converts it into a digital electronic signal or a physical operation.
General device: A device embedded with processing and communication capabilities that can exchange information with the larger network.
In addition to connecting different electronic devices to a unified network, researchers have also suggested the possibility of incorporating inanimate and innocuous objects like plants and rocks into the system by fitting them with sensors that will turn them into information gathering points. Such efforts fall in line with projects related to the development of electronic plants, or e-Plants.
Proposed examples of IoMT applications include tactical reconnaissance, smart management of resources, logistics support (i.e. equipment and supply tracking), smart city monitoring, and data warfare. Several nations, as well as NATO officials, have expressed Interest in the potential military benefits of IoT technology.
His |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Buchmann | Johannes Alfred Buchmann (born November 20, 1953, in Cologne) is a German computer scientist, mathematician and professor emeritus at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
He is known for his research in algorithmic number theory, algebra, post-quantum cryptography and IT security. In 1993, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize together with Claus-Peter Schnorr for his work in algorithmic number theory and cryptography. Buchmann also developed the stateful hash-based signature scheme XMSS, the first future-proof secure and practical signature scheme with minimal security requirements, which was declared the first international standard for post-quantum signature schemes in 2018. In addition, he further developed IT security research in Germany. His efforts led to the creation of ATHENE, the largest research center for IT security in Europe. For this he received the Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) in 2017.
Life
Johannes Buchmann studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1974 to 1979 after graduating from high school in 1972 and completing his military service. After passing the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1979, he taught mathematics at a Cologne secondary school from 1980 to 1983 while at the same time working as a research assistant at the university. In 1982 he did his doctorate at the university under the supervision of Hans-Joachim Stender. In 1984 he passed the second state examination. In 1985/86 he was with Hans Zassenhaus at Ohio State University on a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 1986 to 1988 he was research assistant of Michael Pohst at the University of Düsseldorf, where he habilitated in 1988. Then he worked as professor of computer science at Saarland University. In 1996, he then was professor of computer science and mathematics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He retired in 2019.
From 2001 to 2007, he was vice president for Research at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2004, he has been chairman of the Board of the Competence Center for Applied Security (CAST), the largest network for cyber security in German-speaking countries. From 2011 to 2013, Buchmann headed the project Internet Privacy - A Culture of Privacy and Trust on the Internet of the German Academy of Science and Engineering. He was founding director of the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) and held this position from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2016, he was a member of the board of directors of the European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE). From 2016 to 2018, Buchmann was Vice Director of the Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP), the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. From 2014 to 2019, he was spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING and from 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IoBT-CRA | The Internet of Battlefield Things Collaborative Research Alliance (IoBT-CRA), also known as the Internet of Battlefield Things Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven Networks (IoBT REIGN), is a collaborative research alliance between government, industry, and university researchers for the purposes of developing a fundamental understanding of a dynamic, goal-driven Internet of Military Things (IoMT) known as the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT). It was first established by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to investigate the use of machine intelligence and smart technology on the battlefield, as well as strengthen the collaboration between autonomous agents and human soldiers in combat. An initial grant of $25 million was provided by ARL in October 2017 to fund the first five years of this potential 10-year research program.
The research effort is a collaboration between ARL and Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Southern California, Georgetown University, and SRI International with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) acting as the consortium lead.
Goals
The IoBT-CRA was created as part of the U.S. Army’s long-term plans to keep up with technological advances in commercial industry and better prepare for future electronic warfare against more technologically sophisticated adversaries. In light of this objective, the IoBT-CRA focuses on exploring the capabilities of intelligent battlefield systems and large-scale heterogeneous sensor networks that dynamically evolve in real-time in order to adapt to Army mission needs. Part of the CRA research is dedicated to enhancing modern intelligent sensor and actuator capacity, allowing them to be compatible with secure military-owned networks, less trustworthy civilian networks, and adversarial networks.
ARL identified six areas of research that the IoBT-CRA should strive to develop as part of its program:
Agile Synthesis: Theoretical models and methods of autonomic complex systems that provide the capacity to enable fast and effective command over military, adversary, and civilian networks.
Reflexes: Theoretical models and methods for structuring dynamic IoBTs that perform adaptive, autonomic, and self-aware behavior at varying ranges of scale, distribution, resource constraints, and heterogeneity.
Intelligent Battlefield Services: Scientific theories that will help improve the fundamental run-time capabilities of IoBTs with tasks such as information collection, predictive processing, and data anomaly detection.
Security: Methods of increasing the defenses of IoBTs such that the system is resilient to attacks and tampering from adversaries and is able to continue operating under less-than-ideal situations.
Dependability: Fundamental models related to asset composition, system adaptation, and intelligent services that are all aimed to in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiversa | Tiversa is an American cybersecurity firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by a retired chiropractor and real estate entrepreneur named Robert Boback in 2004. The company specialized in trawling the deep web, investigating peer-to-peer networks, and helping businesses counteract data breaches and other cybersecurity risks. Its main product was EagleVision X1, a piece of software that monitored the deep web -- the parts of the Internet that are not easily accessible to general browsers, such as peer-to-peer networks -- for sensitive data.
History
Before entering the cybersecurity field, Boback was a chiropractor and real estate entrepreneur. He started Tiversa in 2004 as a two-person shop. Tiversa quickly obtained a high-profile board of advisers, including Maynard Webb (former eBay executive and chairman of Yahoo), Howard Schmidt (Obama-era cybersecurity chief), and Wesley Clark (former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO).
Marine One hack
In 2009, Tiversa claimed to have discovered a major security breach involving then-President Barack Obama's helicopter, Marine One. The breach involved the leak to Iran of sensitive procurement information about the helicopter as well as the helicopter's blueprints. According to Tiversa's CEO, the breach was caused by a defense contractor employee whose daughter downloaded a peer-to-peer file-sharing client onto a disused laptop which contained the sensitive materials. This discovery made national news, but a whistleblower later claimed that the Iranian hack was actually fabricated by Tiversa employees. Boback, the CEO of Tiversa, denied the allegation.
LabMD scandal
In May 2008, a Tiversa executive contacted LabMD (a urology testing laboratory) claiming to have discovered evidence of a major data breach and offered to sell LabMD monitoring services to counteract the breach. When the head of LabMD declined to purchase the monitoring services, Tiversa allegedly leaked information about the breach to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which pursues cybersecurity issues. The FTC launched a probe into LabMD's practices under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act in 2010, which evolved into a formal administrative complaint in 2013. LabMD's revenues fell and the business itself collapsed in 2014 as clients declined renewal contracts and partners ended their agreements. However, in November 2014, an administrative law judge threw out the complaint against LabMD, citing a lack of reliability in the evidence provided by Tiversa to the FTC. This stemmed from a whistleblower complaint by a former Tiversa employee, Richard Wallace, who claimed that he was the one who breached LabMD's systems and that LabMD's data was never leaked outside of its network. He also alleged that Tiversa was responsible for the FTC complaint against LabMD, which was made in retaliation for LabMD's refusal to purchase Tiversa's monitoring services. In sworn testimony, Wallace admitted to fabricating data to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel%20Lemieux | Jean-Michel Lemieux is the former chief technology officer of Shopify.
Education and career
Lemieux received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.
Prior to becoming chief technology officer at Shopify, Lemieux was the Senior Vice President of Engineering after joining the company in 2015. Before working at Shopify, Lemieux was Vice President of Engineering at Atlassian and Chief Architect for Rational Team Concert. Lemieux holds two patents in the field of software configuration management and is the co-author of the book Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
In October 2019, Lemieux donated $100,100 to the fundraiser Team Trees, a collaborative initiative with the goal of raising $20 million by 2020 to plant 20 million trees.
In 2020, Lemieux created a COVID response fund in his home town of Ottawa to help local non-profits during the pandemic.
Lemieux is the owner and sole investor in Arlo, a Ottawa restaurant specializing in natural wine and refined food in a quirky and casual setting.
Eclipse Rich Client Platform
Eclipse Rich Client Platform is a book about the rich client platform of the software Eclipse. The first edition of the book was published in 2005 and the second edition was published in 2010, both by Addison-Wesley Professional. The first edition was written by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux, with the second edition being written by Jeff McAffer, Jean-Michel Lemieux, and Chris Aniszczyk. The book has received reviews from Today Software Magazine and Wayne Beaton, among others.
Patents
: "Software change management extension for uniformly handling artifacts with relaxed contraints"
: "Automated stream-based change flows within a software configuration management system"
References
Further reading
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chief technology officers
University of Ottawa alumni
Atlassian people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
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