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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine%20Bensaid | Amine Bensaid (Fes, 1968) is a Moroccan computer scientist and academic, president of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. His areas of specialization have included pattern recognition, machine learning, image processing, fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms, and their applications to magnetic resonance imaging, data mining, web mining, and Arabic IT, fields in which he is author of influential publications. He was also president of Université Mundiapolis in Casablanca between 2011 and 2019. Since 2017, he has also been chairman of the board of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE), which administers the Fulbright Program in Morocco.
Early life and education
Bensaid was born in Fes, Morocco in 1968, and graduated high school in this city in 1986. He studied at the University of South Florida between 1988 and 1994, from which he received a BS in information systems in 1990, an MS in computer engineering in 1992, and a PhD in computer science and engineering in 1994. He also became a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.
Academic career
Amine Bensaid started his academic career at Al Akhawayn University in 1994, where he became head of the department of computer science in 1998, dean of the school of science and engineering in 2001, and vice-president for academic affairs and research in 2007. In 1999 he was also a Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also president of Université Mundiapolis in Casablanca between 2011 and 2019, and a member of the academic council of Honoris United Universities, a private pan-African higher education network. In 2017, Bensaid was appointed chairman of the board of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE), succeeding Hassan Mekouar, former rector of Mohammed the First University in Oujda. In November 2019 he was appointed by the King of Morocco president of Al Akhawayn University, thus succeeding Driss Ouaouicha, who had been appointed minister-delegate for higher education and scientific research.
Selected publications
Bensaid, A., Hall, L.O., Bezdek, J.C., Clarke, L.P., Silbiger, M.L., Arrington, J.A., & Murtagh, F.R. (1996). Validity-guided (re)clustering with applications to image segmentation. IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, 4, 112-123.
Kourdi, M.E., Bensaid, A., & Rachidi, T. (2004). Automatic Arabic Document Categorization Based On The Naive Bayes Algorithm. Semitic '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, 51-58.
Bensaid, A., Hall, L.O., Bezdek, J.C., & Clarke, L.P. (1996). Partially supervised clustering for image segmentation. Pattern Recognition, 29, 859-871.
Hall, L.O., Bensaid, A., Clarke, L.P., Velthuizen, R.P., Silbiger, M.L., & Bezdek, J.C. (1992). A comparison of neural network and fuzzy clustering techniques in segmenting magnetic resonance images of the brain. IEEE transactions on neu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataman | Dataman was an educational toy calculator with mathematical games to aid in learning arithmetic. It had an 8-digit vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and a keypad. Dataman was manufactured by Texas Instruments and was launched on 5 June 1977.
Details
DataMan was designed to resemble a robot. It had an array of 24 keys of differing shape, including ten digit keys, four arithmetic function keys, an equals key, a memory bank key, an on key, an off-key, and keys for various games.
The following games, played against the clock, were designed to teach the four basic operations of arithmetic—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division:
"Electro Flash" – for practicing mathematical tables
"Wipe Out" – for competing at solving arithmetic problems rapidly
"Number Guesser" – for guessing a number selected by DataMan
"Force Out" – for subtracting numbers, to avoid being the one who arrives at zero
"[?]" – to enter unknowns in equations
Notably, the Dataman was powered by a single 9V battery, with no voltage stepping to the main IC. This meant that you could hear the inner workings of the main IC when listening closely to the unit. The Dataman is based on a chip similar to the Texas Instruments TMS1100.
References
Educational toys
Texas Instruments hardware
Texas Instruments calculators
Electronic toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Network%20Charismatic%20Christianity | Independent Network Charismatic (INC) Christianity is a movement within evangelical charismatic Christianity which is focused on the authority of charismatic apostles and seeks the wholesale transformation of society. The term was first used in 2017 by sociologists Brad Christerson and Richard Flory in their book The Rise of Network Christianity: How Independent Leaders are Changing the Religious Landscape to describe the rapid growth of a form of Protestant Christianity from 1970 to 2010, and has since been adopted by other commentators. The movement is distinguished from other forms of Christianity by its use of network governance, based on networks of charismatic apostles, rather than more traditional church structures and hierarchies. These networks are sustained by the use of new communications technologies such as social media, which both facilitates communication between leaders in the network and enables leaders to build a following which is not tied to a geographical area. It is characterised by belief in and encouragement of the use of the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, along with a focus on the transformation of society according to Christian values through prayer and by Christians reaching positions of leadership in the areas of business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, family, and religion. INC Christianity tends to be politically conservative and, in the US, associated with support for Republican politicians.
The movement has its roots in the 1960s and 1970s Calvary Chapel and Vineyard movements, with INC Christianity emerging as leaders in these movements sought to break free from organisational structures and formed informal affinity networks. According to Christerson and Flory, INC is the fastest growing Christian group in the US. As a movement, it has been particularly appealing to younger people, especially millennials.
Distinguishing features
Independent Network Christianity is not a denomination but rather a network of independent church and parachurch leaders. Whereas more traditional church movements (which, in this case, includes neo-Charismatic movements established in the 1970s such as Vineyard, Calvary Chapel, and Hope Chapel) have sought to build congregations and create franchises of affiliated churches, INC leaders prefer to try to directly influence the beliefs and practices of individuals, regardless of their personal and denominational affiliations. Individual salvation is regarded as more important than building church congregations; without any formal denomination or movement, individual leaders are connected by informal yet powerful co-operative networks. INC can thus be described as operating a kind of network governance.
Leaders in the INC network are referred to by insiders as apostles. Apostles tend to be charismatic in the Weberian sense of being seen to possess a supernatural authority which authenticates their ministry. An international network of apostles is facilitated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch%20Gu%C3%A9rin | Roch Guérin is a French computer scientist. He is the Harold B. & Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and chair of the Computer Science & Engineering department at that university. Prior to that he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks and professor of electrical and systems engineering and computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for 12 years at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Obtaining his BS from École nationale supérieure des telecommunications, he received his MS in 1984 and PhD in 1986 from the California Institute of Technology.
His research centers on computer networks, cloud computing, performance analysis, and network economics. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE for contributions to the theory and practice of quality-of-service guarantees in packet networks, and the development and application of the equivalent bandwidth concept.
Selected research
Yavatkar, Raj, Dimitrios Pendarakis, and Roch Guerin. "A framework for policy-based admission control." (2000).
Apostolopoulos, George, et al. QoS routing mechanisms and OSPF extensions. Vol. 999. RFC 2676, August, 1999.
Guerin, Roch A., and Ariel Orda. "QoS routing in networks with inaccurate information: theory and algorithms." IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking 7.3 (1999): 350-364.
Guerin, Roch, Hamid Ahmadi, and Mahmoud Naghshineh. "Equivalent capacity and its application to bandwidth allocation in high-speed networks." IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 9.7 (1991): 968-981.
References
Living people
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
French computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
ENSTA Paris alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Computer networking people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Illuminati is a computer-moderated play-by-mail game published by Flying Buffalo Inc. It is based on the Illuminati card game by Steve Jackson Games. It was originally owned by Adventure Systems but transitioned to Flying Buffalo Inc in 1986. The game's central focus is on conspiracy and intrigue and involved 24 players playing either by email or by mail in turns processed simultaneously by computer. Illuminati has won the Origins Award for Best Play-By-Mail Game seven times, once in 1985 and six times in the 1990s, and was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 1997.
Development
Draper Kauffman stated that "The strange thing about this game is that it didn't start out as Illuminati", but rather that he "began with the basic concept of a PBM game of world conflict carried out by spies and secret agents, saboteurs and assassins, propagandists and opinion makers, hot money and smuggled arms, popular movements and secret conspiracies."
Illuminati was computer moderated. It was originally owned by Adventure Systems and transitioned to Flying Buffalo Inc in 1986. Flying Buffalo initially ran the game so that turns were processed upon receipt, whereas play-by-mail games were normally processed on a specified date, simultaneously. This gave an advantage to play-by-email (PBEM) over play-by-mail (PBM) players, and after a break in game licensing, Flying Buffalo separated the player types into different games and processed turns simultaneously.
Adventure Systems published in the Jan–Feb 1985 issue of Paper Mayhem that there had been winners in the first five games, providing details of the games themselves. The publisher stated that the first four games were for playtesting and began in February 1985.
Gameplay
Illuminati was similar to the Steve Jackson card game of the same name in that players controlled one of various "Illuminated" groups and try to dominate the world. The game's central focus was conspiracy and intrigue.
24 players acted as secret organizations. The game had four phases. The first phase was the "grab" phase where players attempted to control game resources. Players began dropping from the game in this phase. The second phase was the consolidation phase where tensions escalated and diplomacy played a greater role. The third warfare phase was followed by the fourth endgame phase.
According to reviewer Jean Curley, the fundamentals were simple. Each Illuminated group can control up to 4 other groups, who can (in turn) control from 0 - 4 other groups. The number of groups each can control is determined by the power, influence, and personnel of the group. Each turn, the player is given income money for his group and may spend it as he decides: in attack, defense, or in building up a group. Attacks may be made in an attempt to add a group to your power structure, to remove it from another players structure, or to eliminate it from the game entirely.
Reception and legacy
Robert S. Cushman reviewed Illuminati PBM in Space Gamer No. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20Baseball%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | World Series Baseball is a computer and video game series published by Sega from 1994 to 2003. The series would be succeeded by 2004's ESPN Major League Baseball.
Early in 1998 Sega announced that there would not be a World Series Baseball '99 because it was diverting all development to games for the new Katana console (eventually released as the Dreamcast), and the baseball game it was working on for the Katana would not be ready until at least 1999. The series's two-year hiatus ended with the release of World Series Baseball 2K1 in 2000. Visual Concepts would take over development of the series with 2001's World Series Baseball 2K2, and go on to develop 2K Sports' MLB 2K series following its acquisition by Take-Two Interactive.
Games
The games in the series include:
World Series Baseball, the first game in this series
World Series Baseball, Saturn version
World Series Baseball '95
World Series Baseball '96
World Series Baseball II
World Series Baseball '98
World Series Baseball 2K1
World Series Baseball 2K2
World Series Baseball 2K3
Cover Athletes
References
World Series Baseball video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kingsville%20Reporter | The Kingsville Reporter was a weekly newspaper published in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Postmedia Network, it published papers every Tuesday.
History
The Kingsville Reporter origins are somewhat hazy, but most agree that the paper began in 1873 with S. A. King, son of the town's namesake Colonel James King. Born on January 23, 1844, Sydney Arthur King received his medical degree from Victoria College in 1866, marrying Esther Wigle, daughter of Member of Parliament Solomon Wigle, in the early 1870s. Some documents point to an A. C. McLellan having a senior position at the paper in 1876, as well as an 1880 issue listing R. A. Hughes as publisher. King would be involved with the paper until 1889, passing away in 1907. King had numerous business interests during his life, including the Wheeler Steamship Co., Manitoulin Lumber Co., numerous oil/gas companies and was the first president of the Detroit River Railroad in 1889. He was a Conservative politically, served as Reeve of Kingsville for eight years, and a prominent member of the Church of England.
S. T. Corpus would take over in 1889 as editor and publisher, a village clerk of Kingsville. Corpus would only be around until 1893, when he left to follow King into the lucrative natural gas business, stemming from discoveries made during King's overseeing of construction of Hiram Walker’s summer hotel, The Mettawas. Walker and King were also directors of the Lake Erie Navigation Co.
The paper historically served the communities of Kingsville, Barretville, Arner, Cottam, Ruthven, New California, 4th Concession, Leamington, Amherstburg, Zion, Leamington, Gosfield, North Ridge, Arner, Salem, Trinity, Tilbury, Harrow and Essex. A per annum subscription of $2 garnered an 8 page, 7 column sheet, with a circulation of 500 for the 1,700 person community of Kingsville in the 1920s.
William H. Hellems joined the paper in 1889, after working at the Brantford Expositor and then as the foreman of the Welland Printing and Publishing Company from 1878 to 1883. He then spent four years with the Ridgetown Plaindealer, and another five years with the Essex Liberal, both in the same capacity as with Welland. Hellems was born May 15th, 1856 in Kelvin, Norfolk County. On April 13th, 1881, he married Victoria Buchner, having three daughters. One of those daughters, Bertha, would work as a journalist for the paper and act as the paper’s representative in the delegation of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association's tour to England in 1924. A Methodist, Hellems would be a staunch proponent of Prohibition and the Local option, running the paper until 1938 and passing away January 23rd, 1943.
David P. Connery assumed Hellems' position in 1938, bringing investment to the paper with modern facilities and equipment. During Hellems’ tenure the paper had moved from the north side of Main Street, third street west of Division Street, onto Division Street North in 1921. Two years after Connery joined the paper, they w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink%20Master%20%28season%2013%29 | Ink Master: Turf War is the thirteenth season of the tattoo reality competition Ink Master that premiered on Paramount Network on January 7 and ended on April 14, 2020 with a total of fifteen episodes. The show is hosted and judged by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, with accomplished tattoo artists Chris Núñez and Oliver Peck serving as series regular judges. The winner was to receive $100,000, a feature in Inked magazine and the title of Ink Master. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the live finale was cancelled and no winner was announced for this season.
The premise of this season was having four teams based on their respective home region with each region being led by an Ink Master veteran.
This season saw the return of four veterans; season ten contestants Jason Elliott and Frank Ready, who originally finished the competition in 4th and 8th place respectively, and season eleven contestants Angel Rose and Jimmy Snaz, who originally finished the competition in 11th and 10th place respectively.
There was no winner for the thirteenth season of Ink Master, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The three finalists (Bob Jones, Angel Rose and Jimmy Snaz) were awarded an undisclosed value monetary prize instead. The master canvases were revealed on YouTube Live.
Judging and ranking
Judging Panel
The judging panel is a table of three or more primary judges in addition to the coaches. The judges make their final decision by voting to see who had best tattoo of the day, and who goes home.
Jury of Peers
The artist who wins best tattoo of the day gives his/her respective team and another team the power to put up one artist for elimination.
Pardon
Each of the three judges can give a pardon to any eliminated artist of their choosing so that they may return to the competition after being eliminated.
Contestants
Names, experience, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes
Regions
Returning veterans
Contestant progress
Indicates the contestant represented the East region.
Indicates the contestant represented the Midwest region.
Indicates the contestant represented the South region.
Indicates the contestant represented the West region.
The contestant advanced to the finale.
The contestant was exempt from the first elimination.
The contestant won Best Tattoo of the Day.
The contestant won their Head-to-Head challenge.
The contestant was among the top.
The contestant received positive critiques.
The contestant received mixed critiques.
The contestant received negative critiques.
The contestant was in the bottom.
The contestant was put in the bottom by the Jury of Peers
The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
The contestant was put in the bottom by the Jury of Peers and was eliminated from the competition.
The contestant was pardoned by a judge and re-entered the competition.
The contestant quit the competition.
Episodes
References
External links
2020 American television seasons
Ink Maste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20Meseguer | José Meseguer is a Spanish computer scientist, and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He leads the university's Formal Methods and Declarative Languages Laboratory.
Career
José Meseguer obtained his PhD in mathematics in 1975 with a thesis titled Primitive recursion in model categories under Michael Pfender at the University of Zaragoza, after which he did post-doctoral work at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980 he joined the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, eventually becoming a Principal Scientist and Head of the Logic and Declarative Languages Group. He joined the University of Illinois in 2001 and currently is Professor of Computer Science, where he leads their Formal Methods and Declarative Languages Laboratory.
He has worked particularly on the design and implementation of declarative languages, including OBJ and Maude, as well as rewriting logic.
He was awarded the 2019 Formal Methods Europe Fellowship. The award citation reads,
He was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2020 "for the development of logical methods for design and verification of computational systems".
Selected research
Clavel, Manuel, et al. All about Maude — a high-performance logical framework: how to specify, program and verify systems in rewriting logic. Springer-Verlag, 2007.
Goguen, Joseph A., et al. "Introducing obj." Software Engineering with OBJ. Springer, Boston, MA, 2000. 3–167.
Meseguer, José. "Conditional rewriting logic as a unified model of concurrency." Theoretical computer science 96.1 (1992): 73–155.
Goguen, Joseph A., and José Meseguer. "Security policies and security models." 1982 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE, 1982.
References
Living people
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Spanish computer scientists
University of Zaragoza alumni
SRI International people
1950 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20access%20service%20edge | A secure access service edge (SASE) is technology used to deliver wide area network (WAN) and security controls as a cloud computing service directly to the source of connection (user, device, Internet of things (IoT) device, or edge computing location) rather than a data center. It uses cloud and edge computing technologies to reduce the latency that results from backhauling all WAN traffic over long distances to one or a few corporate data centers, due to the increased movement off-premises of dispersed users and their applications. This also helps organizations support dispersed users and their devices with digital transformation and application modernization initiatives.
Security is based on digital identity, real-time context, and company and regulatory compliance policies, rather than a security appliance like a firewall. A digital identity may be attached to anything from a person to a device, cloud service, application software, IoT system, or any computing system.
The term was coined in 2019 by market analyst, Neil MacDonald of Gartner.
Overview
SASE combines SD-WAN with network security functions, including cloud access security brokers (CASB), Secure Web Gateways (SWG), antivirus/malware inspection, virtual private networking (VPN), firewall as a service (FWaaS), and data loss prevention (DLP), all delivered by a single cloud service at the network edge.
SASE SD-WAN functions may include traffic prioritization, WAN optimization, converged backbones and self-healing using artificial intelligence platforms AIOps to improve reliability and performance.
WAN and security functions are typically delivered as a single service at dispersed SASE points of presence (PoPs) located as close as possible to dispersed users, branch offices and cloud services. To access SASE services, edge locations or users connect to the closest available PoP. SASE vendors may contract with several backbone providers and peering partners to offer customers fast, low-latency WAN performance for long-distance PoP-to-PoP connections.
History
The term SASE was coined by Gartner analysts Neil McDonald and Joe Skorupa and described in a July 29, 2019 networking hype cycle and market trends report, and an August 30, 2019 Gartner report.
In 2021, Gartner defined a subset of SASE capabilities, called Secure services edge (SSE). SSE is a collection of SASE security services that can be implemented together with network services, like SD-WAN, to provide a complete solution.
Drivers
SASE is driven by the rise of mobile, edge and cloud computing in the enterprise at the expense of the LAN and corporate data center. As users, applications and data move out of the enterprise data center to the cloud and network edge, moving security and the WAN to the edge as well is necessary to minimize latency and performance issues.
The cloud computing model is meant to delegate and simplify delivery of SD-WAN and security functions to multiple edge computing devices and locati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Bye | Kent Bye (born 1976) is an American podcaster and experiential journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He is most known for his work in virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.
Bye is the founder and host of the Voices of VR podcast, and a keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator at international industry conferences including Games for Change, Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR), SXSW, and VR NOW.
Voices of VR Podcast
Kent Bye launched Voices of VR in May 2014. The podcast features game developers, technologists, academics, creatives, and enthusiasts in the fields of VR and AR, and currently has hundreds of episodes including: Jaroslav Beck, Jessica Brillhart, Nancy Baker Cahill, Jesse Damiani, Tom Furness, Palmer Luckey, Kevin Mack, Danny O’Brien, Tony Parisi, Nonny de la Peña, Philip Rosedale, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz.
In 2015, a virtual reality blog called Road to VR started to syndicate all future episodes of the Voices of VR podcast on their website.
As of January 2021, the Voices of VR podcast has released over 973 episodes.
Ethics of XR
Bye is an advocate for discourse around the ethics and moral dilemmas presented by VR and AR.
In March 2019 at Laval Virtual, Bye took part in a think tank called, "Future Dreaming: Designing for New Realities." On May 31, 2019, Bye presented a keynote at Augmented World Expo which summarized the ethical implications explored during Laval Virtual and through his interviews with subject experts for Voices of VR. This presentation formed the foundation of what would ultimately become the "XR Ethics Manifesto" that Bye presented on October 18, 2019, at xRS Week from Greenlight Insights.
References
1976 births
21st-century American journalists
Living people
Journalists from Portland, Oregon
American podcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duocentric%20social%20network | A duocentric social network is a type of social network composed of the combined network members of a dyad. The network consists of mutual, overlapping ties between members of the dyad as well as non-mutual ties. While an explicit conceptualization of duocentric social networks appeared for the first time in an academic publication in 2008, the history of the analysis dates back to at least the 1950s and has spanned the fields of psychology, sociology, and health.
History
Original conception
Coromina et al. coined the term duocentered networks to describe the analytical technique of combining two individuals’ (or egos) social networks to examine both the shared network members (or alters) between a dyad and those that are connected to only one individual. In this original conceptualization, Coromina et al. did not consider the relationships between the alters (i.e., the ties between alters) to be a necessary component of duocentric network analysis.
The impetus for this original conceptualization was a compromise between the two most commonly used social network analytical methods: egocentric and sociocentric network analyses. In an egocentric network analysis, a singular individual, his or her network members, and (occasionally), the ties between those alters are the focal point of the analysis. Egocentric analyses have been used in a wide range of fields, including physical health, psychopathology, family studies, and intimate relationships. On the other hand, the sociocentric network approach utilizes a bounded group as the unit of analyses, examining all ties between actors in the group. This has been utilized to study health in retirement communities and entire cities (e.g., the Framingham Heart Study), as well as in the workplace and classroom settings. Sociocentric networks could be used to answer research questions focused on dyads, but the time, cost, and difficulty of collecting network data from all members in a bounded group is often prohibitive. Coromina et al. also state that duocentered networks relieve issues of data collection in sociocentric networks. First, it reduces “respondent inaccuracy” in reporting network contacts, which will be more prevalent in less well socially connected individuals. Because the dyad is selected for a specific network research question, they are more likely to be central members of their networks and better positioned to accurately report on their network contacts. Second, the technique reduces “unit non-response," which is the failure of an eligible study participant to respond or provide enough information to deem the response statistically usable. Because the focus of a duocentered network is only two individuals rather than a larger group, it will ostensibly be easier to gather usable information.
Kennedy et al. (2015) expansion
Kennedy et al. maintained this basic framework, but redefined the concept as duocentric networks, and suggested that information on the relatedness of ties in the n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20bot | A software bot is a type of software agent in the service of software project management and software engineering. A software bot has an identity and potentially personified aspects in order to serve their stakeholders. Software bots often compose software services and provide an alternative user interface, which is sometimes, but not necessarily conversational.
Software bots are typically used to execute tasks, suggest actions, engage in dialogue, and promote social and cultural aspects of a software project.
The term bot is derived from robot. However, robots act in the physical world and software bots act only in digital spaces. Some software bots are designed and behave as chatbots, but not all chatbots are software bots. Erlenhov et al. discuss the past and future of software bots and show that software bots have been adopted for many years.
Usage
Software bots are used to support development activities, such as communication among software developers and automation of repetitive tasks. Software bots have been adopted by several communities related to software development, such as open-source communities on GitHub and Stack Overflow.
GitHub bots have user accounts and can open, close, or comment on pull requests and issues. GitHub bots have been used to assign reviewers, ask contributors to sign the Contributor License Agreement, report continuous integration failures, review code and pull requests, welcome newcomers, run automated tests, merge pull requests, fix bugs and vulnerabilities, etc.
The Slack tool includes an API for developing software bots. There are slack bots for keeping track of todo lists, coordinating standup meetings, and managing support tickets. The
Chatbot company products further simplify the process of creating a custom Slack bot.
On Wikipedia, Wikipedia bots automate a variety of tasks, such as creating stub articles, consistently updating the format of multiple articles, and so on. Bots like ClueBot NG are capable of recognizing vandalism and automatically remove disruptive content.
Taxonomies and Classification Frameworks
Lebeuf et al. provide a faceted taxonomy to characterize bots based on a literature review. It is composed of 3 main facets: (i) properties of the environment that the bot was created in; (ii) intrinsic properties of the bot itself; and (iii) the bot's interactions within its environment. They further detail the facets into sets of sub-facets under each of the main facets.
Paikari and van der Hoek defined a set of dimensions to enable comparison of software bots, applied specifically to chatbots. It resulted in six dimensions:
Type: the main purpose of the bot (information, collaboration, or automation)
Direction of the "conversation" (input, output, or bi-directional)
Guidance (human-mediated, or autonomous)
Predictability (deterministic, or evolving)
Interaction style (dull, alternate vocabulary, relationship-builder, human-like)
Communication channel (text, voice, or bot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%208 | Mach 8 or variation, may refer to:
Mach number for eight times the speed of sound
Hypersonic speed of 8 times the speed of sound
ATI Mach8, a 2D graphics chip for computer displays from ATI Technologies
See also
Mach (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20Control%20%28event%29 | Command Control (also called CMD CTRL) is an annual, multi-day summit organized by Messe München that focuses primarily on cybersecurity topics. The event was organized for the first time in 2018. The next summit was supposed to take place in Munich from March 3 to March 4, 2020. However, the corona crisis led to the cancellation of Command Control in 2020. In addition, Messe München has decided to discontinue Command Control as an independent event.
History
A survey was commissioned by the organisers before the event took place. This survey showed that every second company in Germany became the target of cyberattacks in 2017. In addition, according to this study, many companies pay too little attention to their employees when defending themselves against cyber threats. The first summit took place from September 20 to September 22, 2018 in Munich (Germany).
An index (Command Control Cybersecurity-Index 2020) was created in 2019 based on surveys. According to the index, 78 percent consider a change of strategy in their company to be necessary when it comes to cyber security. The next Summit will take place from March 3 to March 4, 2020.
Speakers (selection)
See also
Cyberattack
Cybercrime
Computer security (Cybersecurity)
Hacker
References
External links
Official Website
Computer security conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | The 2019–20 network late night television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2019 to August 2020. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2018–19 television season.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary, Ion Television is not included since the network schedules feature syndicated reruns, also not included are MyNetworkTV and The CW (as the programming services do not offer late night programs of any kind).
Fox is not included on the weekday schedule as Fox airs late night network programming only on Saturdays.
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by (R).
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
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Sunday–Friday overnights
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Early morning newscasts air Sunday–Thursday overnights; late night talk shows air Monday–Friday overnights.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anak%20ni%20Waray%20vs.%20Anak%20ni%20Biday | (International title: Hidden Lies / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1984 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Barbie Forteza and Kate Valdez. It premiered on January 27, 2020 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Beautiful Justice. The series concluded on March 12, 2021, with a total of 62 episodes. It was replaced by First Yaya in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Ginalyn Agpangan Escoto
Kate Valdez as Caitlyn Malatamban Escoto/Maria Cristina Escoto
Supporting cast
Snooky Serna as Amelia "Amy" Malatamban
Dina Bonnevie as Susanna "Sussie" Agpangan
Migo Adecer as Francisco "Cocoy" Tolentino
Jay Manalo as Joaquin Escoto
Jean Saburit as Vanessa Tolentino
Teresa Loyzaga as Dorcas Escoto-Ñedo
Faith Da Silva as Agatha Escoto Ñedo
Tanya Montenegro as Glenda Odon
Benedict Cua as Benedict "Benny" Vargas
Guest cast
Lovi Poe as young Sussie
Max Collins as young Amy
Jason Abalos as young Joaquin
Pinky Amador as young Zenaida
Yana Asistio as young Glenda
Pekto as Randy
Franco Gray Nerona as Joni
Elle Ramirez as young Leng
Karenina Haniel as Beverly
Ashley Ortega as Alison
Cai Cortez as Ezra
Mark Malana as Tony
Ralph Noriega as Lander
Jay Arcilla as Luis
Shermaine Santiago as Lucy
Celia Rodriguez as Zenaida
Gladys Guevarra as Leng
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming was continued in September 2020. The series resumed its programming on February 8, 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the final episode of scored a 19.6% rating.
Episodes
References
External links
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcast | Parcast is a digital media firm and podcast network, that specialized in producing both scripted podcasts as well as audio dramas. It was founded in 2016 by podcaster Max Cutler and his father Ron Cutler in Los Angeles California.
In 2019, it was acquired by Sweden-based media firm and streaming service provider Spotify. Spotify spent over $56 million to acquire Parcast, however the total compensation has been reported to be over $100 million. This makes the Parcast acquisition one of the largest podcasting platform mergers in US history and largest single acquisition deal of Spotify's $400 million acquisition program. On June 5, 2023, Spotify sent a memo to staff announcing that Parcast will be merged with Gimlet Media into a single Spotify Studios division, as part of a restructuring that also included the elimination of 200 jobs.
History
Cutler, a 27-year old graduate of the University of Arizona, launched Parcast in 2016. He was inspired by the hit podcast Serial, itself a spinoff of This American Life. He believed that his network could produce podcasts of comparable quality while saving money on the production of individual episodes.
Parcast's original focus was on producing scripted true crime series, but their scope expanded into the mystery, science fiction, and history genres as well as fictional audiodramas.
Parcast produced over 40 daily and weekly shows, supported by a team of more than 75 voice actors, producers, and scriptwriters. Following a decline in demand for the shows and the anticipated merger of Gimlet Media and Parcast into a single Spotify Studios subsidiary, the firm is expected to be disbanded sometime in 2023.
Audience
According to due diligence performed by Spotify, over 75% of Parcast's audience is female.
Series produced
See also
List of podcasting companies
Citations used
External links
Parcast website
2019 mergers and acquisitions
Podcasting companies
American companies established in 2016
Mass media companies established in 2016
2016 podcast debuts
2016 establishments in California
Spotify
Companies based in Los Angeles
American subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilangin%20ang%20Bituin%20sa%20Langit%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Stars of Hope / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1989 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Laurice Guillen, it stars Nora Aunor, Mylene Dizon and Kyline Alcantara. It premiered on February 24, 2020 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Madrasta. The series concluded on March 26, 2021 with a total of 80 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Nora Aunor as Mercedes "Cedes" Ignacio-Dela Cruz
Mylene Dizon as Magnolia "Nolie" Ignacio Dela Cruz
Kyline Alcantara as Margarita "Maggie" D. Santos
Supporting cast
Zoren Legaspi as Anselmo "Ansel" Santos
Gabby Eigenmann as Arturo Zulueta
Ina Feleo as Margaux Salcedo-Santos
Candy Pangilinan as Connie Herrera
Yasser Marta as Anselmo "Jun" Santos Jr.
Isabel Rivas as Martina Santos
Guest cast
Dante Rivero as Ramon Santos
Ricky Davao as Damian Dela Cruz
Divina Valencia as Editha Sinclair
Aifha Medina as Violet
Julia Lee as Lourdes
Frank Garcia as Pocholo
Carlos Agassi as Ringo
Joel Palencia as Oslec
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming was continued in October 2020. The series resumed its programming on January 5, 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the pilot episode of earned a 5.1% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%20of%20TU%20Darmstadt | The Department of Computer Science is a department of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. With a total of 36 professorships and about 3,700 students in 12 study courses, the Department of Computer Science is the largest department of the university. The department shapes the two research profile areas "Cybersecurity (CYSEC)" and "Internet and Digitization (InDi)" of the university.
Like the history of the university, the history of the department is shaped by pioneers. The beginnings of computer science, artificial intelligence and business informatics in Germany go back to the department.
History
Beginnings of computer science in Germany
In 1928, Alwin Walther was appointed professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. Walther established the Institute for Practical Mathematics (IPM) there, which was part of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In Germany, the beginnings of computer science go back to this institute. The institute was concerned with automating computing using mechanical and electromechanical devices and developing machines that could be used to solve mathematical problems. One of the earliest results was the System Darmstadt slide rule, which was widely used in mechanical engineering. Another development was an electromechanical integration system. After the Second World War, the institute concentrated increasingly on the development of electronic computer systems. Due to the reputation that TH Darmstadt had at that time in automatic computation research, the first congress on the subject of computer science (electronic calculators and information processing) held in German-speaking countries with international participation took place at TH Darmstadt in October 1955. The Darmstadt Electronic Calculator (DERA), which was completed in 1959, was created with the help of the German Research Foundation (DFG). At that time, the computer capacity was unique in Europe. Two decades before the invention of programming languages, algorithms were tested on the computing station and successfully used to process problems from industry. In 1956, the first students at DERA were able to deal with the problems of automatic calculating machines. At the same time, the first programming lectures and practical courses were offered at TH Darmstadt. In 1957, Walther made sure that TH Darmstadt got an IBM 650, which was the most powerful computer at that time. Thus TH Darmstadt was also the first university in Germany with a mainframe computer. In 1961, in response to Walther's efforts, the German Computer Center (DRZ) was founded in Darmstadt, the first mainframe computer center in Germany with which TH Darmstadt entered into a cooperation to train mathematical-technical assistants.
Electrical engineering also had a major influence on computer science at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (TH Darmstadt). In 1964, Robert Piloty was appointed to the chair of data technology at TH Darmstadt. In the 1960s, German |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Podcast%20Network | WWE Podcast Network is a series of podcasts produced and distributed by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, a division of TKO Group Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings.
In August 2019, WWE and Endeavor announced an expansion of their current arrangement for the WWE Network, to expand it to the production of podcasts.
In October 2019, the first podcast, After The Bell hosted by Corey Graves, was announced. The following month, the second podcast, The New Day: Feel The Power hosted by The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods), was announced.
In April 2020, WWE added their third podcast, WWE's The Bump. The podcast was an audio version of their web series, featuring highlights and interviews from the show. The audio version of The Bump ran for 24 episodes before concluding in July 2020.
In June 2020, it was announced that WWE would add a fourth podcast. In an interview with Fox Sports, Alexa Bliss confirmed she would be hosting the podcast. The podcast, titled Uncool with Alexa Bliss, debuted in September 2020. The podcast featured various WWE wrestlers and celebrities discussing uncool things they did when they were younger. The show ran for 12 episodes between September and December 2020.
References
WWE Network
2019 introductions
Podcasting companies
Professional wrestling podcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20Shadowfiles | Corporate Shadowfiles is a supplement published by FASA in 1993 for the dystopian cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Corporate Shadowfiles is a 140-page softcover book by Nigel Findley that details the operations of future 21st-century megacorporations, how large corporations are structured, and some basic economics.
Reception
In the December 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue #200), Rick Swan was not a fan of the book, which he said examined its subject matter "in lengthy, often excruciating detail." Swan found the tone to be stuffy and professorial, and concluded by advising gamers to give it a pass: "Business majors may enjoy sifting through 140-plus pages of this, but others probably will find it excessive."
Reviews
White Wolf #41 (March, 1994)
Casus Belli #78
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1993
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Morin | Patrick Ryan Morin is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and data structures. He is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University.
Education and career
Morin was educated at Carleton University, earning a bachelor's degree with highest honours in 1996, a master's degree in 1998, and a Ph.D. in 2001. His dissertation, Online Routing in Geometric Graphs, was jointly supervised by Jit Bose and Jörg-Rüdiger Sack. After postdoctoral research at McGill University, he returned to Carleton University as a faculty member in 2002.
Contributions
Morin has published highly-cited work on geographic routing in geometric graphs, including unit disk graphs and triangulations, with coauthors including Jit Bose, Erik Demaine, Stefan Langerman, and Jorge Urrutia. With Joachim Gudmundsson, he co-founded the Journal of Computational Geometry, and continues as its managing editor. He is the author of an open textbook on data structures, Open Data Structures.
References
External links
Home page
Open Data Structures
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Carleton University alumni
Academic staff of Carleton University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Jewish%20population%20by%20country | This article lists Jewish population estimates by scope, by year, by country and by geographical area.
Population
All data below, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Jewish DataBank figures are primarily based on national censuses combined with trend analysis.
Core Jewish population refers to those who consider themselves Jews to the exclusion of all else.
Connected Jewish population includes the core Jewish population and additionally those who say they are partly Jewish or that have Jewish background from at least one Jewish parent.
Enlarged Jewish population includes the Jewish connected population and those who say they have Jewish background but not a Jewish parent, and all non-Jews living in households with Jews.
Eligible Jewish population includes all those eligible for immigration to Israel under its Law of Return.
Core
Connected
Enlarged
Eligible
See also
Jewish population by country
Historical Jewish population comparisons
References
Jews by country
Lists of countries
Religious demographics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesolindsaea | Nesolindsaea is a genus of ferns in the family Lindsaeaceae with two species. Nesolindsaea caudata is native to southeast tropical Asia, from Sri Lanka to Borneo. Nesolindsaea kirkii is found only in the Seychelles.
Species
, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World and Plants of the World Online recognized the following species:
Nesolindsaea caudata (Hook.) Lehtonen & Christenh.
Nesolindsaea kirkii (Hook.) Lehtonen & Christenh.
References
Lindsaeaceae
Fern genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai-Da | Ai-Da is "the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot". Completed in 2019, Ai-Da is an android incorporating computer graphics and artificial intelligence algorithms that makes drawings, paintings, and sculptures. She is named after Ada Lovelace.
She can also talk, display expressive head and body movements, and track faces with cameras in her eyes.
History
In 2019, Ai-Da was conceived by gallerist Aidan Meller as an AI art generator embodied as a life-like humanoid robot. The hardware was built in collaboration with Engineered Arts, a Cornish robotics company. The graphics algorithms allowing her to draw were developed by computer AI researchers at the University of Oxford, and her drawing arm was developed by Salaheldin Al Abd and Ziad Abass, students from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. In April 2022, Ai-Da was equipped with a new arm that enabled it to paint using a palette, first shown at the British Library in London.
Features
Ai-Da can be displayed in either a standing or seated position; although she has legs, she cannot walk. A pair of cameras in the robot's eyes allow the robot to both make eye contact and, in conjunction with a computer vision algorithm and a modified robotic arm, create sketches of the robot's surroundings. One of Ai-Da's developers described the resultant sketches as "fragmented" and "abstracted, unsettling and splintered in style."
Paintings attributed to Ai-Da were previously created by human artists based off the robot's sketches, however she has since been equipped with hardware and software capable of creating paintings autonomously.
Ai-Da has been exhibited alongside sculptures, however the robot's involvement in sculpture creation is minimal: pencil sketches created by Ai-Da are turned into sculptures by an uncredited artist, then 3D printed and cast in bronze.
In addition to art generation, Ai-Da can use "speech pattern analysis, plus an internal data bank of words" to generate poetry, as well as respond to questions (when submitted to her developers in advance) using a language model.
Technology first
Using Professor Margaret Boden's definition of creativity, namely making art that was new, surprising and of value, Ai-Da was able to "creatively" devise drawings using AI and computer graphics algorithms for drawing and painting. Algorithms for collaborative sculpture were subsequently added.
Aidan Meller presented outputs from Ai-Da at a solo show called Ai-Da: Portrait of a Robot at the Design Museum in London, including "self-portraits", an apparent paradox given a robot has no "self". This raised questions about identity in the digital age, and the effects artificial intelligence may have on art in the future. She was also the first humanoid to devise a font, displayed at the Design Museum.
In October 2022, Ai-Da became the first humanoid robot to give evidence at The House of Lords, Palace of Westminster, as part of its A Creative Future inqu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Academy | Oracle Academy (OA) is Oracle’s philanthropic educational program available in more than 120 countries. Oracle Academy offers a variety of computer science education resources to secondary schools, vocational colleges and universities. In addition, OA also offers training courses to students and faculty of member institutions. All institution members are granted the right to use Oracle’s software in classrooms for teaching, academic and research.
See also
Oracle Certification Program
Google University
Oracle Thinkquest
References
External links
http://education.oracle.com/
Oracle Corporation
Sun Microsystems
Information technology organizations
Computer science education
American educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Himalayan%20Multi-dimensional%20Connectivity%20Network | The Trans-Himalayan Multi-dimensional Connectivity Network (abbreviated as THMCN and sometimes referred to as the Trans-Himalayan network) is an economic corridor between Nepal and China and part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, a global development initiative that develops connectivity especially across Eurasia. During a state visit to Nepal in 2019, the corridor was hailed by Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping as changing Nepal "from a landlocked to a land-linked country."
Infrastructure
The corridor consists of several transportation infrastructure projects. The flagship infrastructure project is the China–Nepal railway, which currently at the stage of feasibility study. A number of highway projects are to be implemented including the construction of a tunnel road and upgrading of the Araniko Highway, which was shutdown after the Gorkha earthquake. The Araniko Highway ends at the border of the village of Kodari and the Chinese border crossing of Zhangmu. The border port is set for restoration under the initiative.
The projects also consist of internal improvements to Nepalese transport infrastructure including serving three north–south corridors of the country (Koshi Economic Corridor, Gandaki Economic Corridor and Karnali Economic Corridor). The intended projects include the Kathmandu-Pokhara-Lumbini extension of the China-Nepal railways and various highway projects in the Himalayan Valley.
References
Belt and Road Initiative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float%20%282019%20film%29 | Float is a 2019 American computer-animated short film directed and written by Bobby Rubio, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourth film in Pixar's SparkShorts program, and focuses on a son's ability to fly and the choice his father must make. The short was released on Disney+ on November 12, 2019.
Plot
A father is playing with his infant son, Alex, in the front yard of their house. When the father picks a dandelion and blows off the seeds, Alex starts to floats in mid-air. The father is amazed at first, but after the neighbors notice Alex, he hurriedly takes his son back inside the house. Time passes and Alex grows into a toddler, still floating around the darkened house. When Alex and his father go for a walk, the father keeps him on a lead and places rocks in his backpack with rocks to weigh him down.
When they pass a playground, Alex escapes from his bondage and begins floating again. The father tries to drag Alex away from the park, but Alex has a tantrum, and the father reacts in frustration by deeming Alex abnormal (the only moment of dialogue in film). Alex grounds himself and begins to cry. Realizing his mistake, the father holds Alex in his arms and sits on the swing set, swinging back and forth to reinvigorate his son, and launches him into the air. Alex continues to float as his father happily runs underneath him.
Cast
Eli Fucile as baby Alex
Luna Watson as four-year-old Alex
Bobby Rubio as Alex's father
Mika Kubo as additional voices
Production
Float is a short film that was directed and written by Bobby Rubio, and produced by Krissy Cababa and Pixar Animation Studios; it was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourth film of Pixar's "SparkShorts" program, and it lasts approximately seven minutes. In January 2019, Rubio described the program as "different films from the kinds of films" developed at Pixar, while executive producer Lindsey Collins said that the shorts are referred to as "SparkShorts" because Pixar "[wants] to discover that creative spark" in its employees. Rubio viewed the program as "a wonderful opportunity to tell [his] story". He stated that Float is inspired by his son, who is autistic, and that he identified with the father from the short. Rubio said that the boy from the short is "different from other children" since he can float. He commented that while "the father loves his son wholeheartedly without restriction" at first, this begins to be altered by what the other people say; as a result, he has to choose between deciding they are right and ignoring their thoughts.
Since his son was growing up, Rubio decided he had "to tell this story" and "started storyboarding it". The initial storyboards contained Caucasian characters, but one of Rubio's co-workers told him that he should depict Filipino-American characters instead. While he was initially unsure of this idea, he decided to make this change to "empower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20%282019%20film%29 | Wind is a 2019 American computer-animated short film directed and written by Edwin Chang, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The fifth film in Pixar's SparkShorts program, it focuses on a grandmother and grandson longing to escape an endless chasm. The short was released on Disney+ on December 13, 2019.
Plot
Ellis (portrayed by Emilio Fuentes) and his Grandmother (portrayed by Sonoko Konishi) live in a mysterious sink-hole full of floating rocks and strange debris of disused items and machines. They manage to make a small home for themselves out of the garbage and feast on potatoes, the only food they are able to grow. Every day, Grandma has Ellis attach a cord to himself to float out and collect items that they can use for their benefit. In particular, the two are building a rocket so that they can escape from the hole and into the bright light at the top. One day, Ellis discovers an abandoned plane in the wreckage, but is dismayed when he realizes that it can only sit one person. Grandma suggests that he pilot the plane out of the hole and simply pull her up with the cord, to which he agrees.
With the final touches added to their rocket. Ellis gets in and flies upward; avoiding the rocks and debris that he passes by. Despite some turbulence, Ellis makes it out through the top and lands on the outside where he ends up in a lush field and sees birds flying overhead. He then grabs the cord and pulls it up which takes almost the entire day. To his surprise, it is not Grandma at the end of the cord - but a box of potatoes. He hugs the box in tearful gratitude for her sacrifice.
Cast
Sonoko Konishi as Grandma
Emilio Fuentes as Ellis
Production
Development
At Pixar, Edwin Chang started his career as a simulation technical director. After submitting his idea for Wind, he was selected for the program and took a sabbatical from his long-time job, to craft an animated ode to his family history with help from producer Jesus Martinez and a team of animators. In December 2019, Edwin Chang, writer/director of Wind, described the short as "The story itself at its core is an immigration story". Chang felt that "There were all these stories in the news about child immigrants, and while my story wasn't directly related to those, there were a lot of parallels that made those so much more meaningful to us.” His grandmother and father fled from North to South Korea during the Korean War. His father then immigrated to the United States and had to leave his grandmother behind. Eventually she rejoined them, but the separation left an impression on Chang. His family history served as the main inspiration for Wind, and the current political climate made the themes even more relevant.
Music
Andrew Jimenez, who composed the music for the Pixar short film Kitbull, composed the music for Wind. The score was released on February 28, 2020.
Track listing
Release
Wind was released on Disney+ on December 13, 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20%282020%20film%29 | Loop is a 2020 American computer-animated drama short film directed and written by Erica Milsom with the story being written by Adam Burke, Matthias De Clercq and Milsom, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sixth short film in Pixar's SparkShorts program and focuses on a non-verbal autistic girl and a chatty boy, learning to understand each other. The short was released on Disney+ on January 10, 2020.
Plot
Renee, a 13-year-old non-verbal autistic girl, sits in a canoe and plays with a sound app on her phone. Marcus arrives late and the camp counselor partners him with Renee, much to his annoyance. When Marcus attempts to show off his paddling skills, Renee is unimpressed and starts rocking the boat. Marcus asks her what she wants and she has him paddle to land so she can touch the reeds.
When Renee goes back to her phone, Marcus has an idea. He paddles them to a tunnel and has Renee play her phone so that the sound can reverberate. Renee enjoys at first, but then a speedboat races by and the noise overwhelms her. She frantically paddles out of the tunnel and they crash onto the waterside. Renee has a meltdown, throwing her phone into the lake and hiding under the canoe, while Marcus watches in bewilderment.
Later, Marcus pulls up a reed and places it next to the canoe where Renee can see it. He sits nearby until Renee calms down. She sits up, takes the reed, and begins to giggle. The two repeat the sound that the phone made together. The two of them get back into the canoe and paddle back to the camp.
In a post-credits scene, Renee's recovered phone is resting in a bowl of rice and it receives a message from Marcus asking if she wants to go canoeing again.
Cast
Madison Bandy as Renee
Christiano (Chachi) Delgado as Marcus
Louis Gonzales as Camp Counselor
Additional voice cast
Asher Brodkey
Erica Milsom
Production
Loop was directed and written by Erica Milsom, with a story created by Adam Burke, Erica Milsom and Matthias De Clercq. Michael Warch, and Krissy Cababa produced the short.
The team brought in consultants from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network to ensure that Renee's portrayal would be authentic.
Loop features Madison Bandy in the role of Renee, who herself is non-speaking and autistic. The audio recording for her voice performance was done by Vince Caro, on location in her home, as part of an effort to make the recording process as comfortable as possible.
The director and animators on Loop spoke with the consultants to gain a sense of the way that a non-speaking person might communicate their feelings differently. They then developed a gestural language for Renee, equating specific behaviors, like holding her ears, or poking her cell phone, with specific emotional states.
It was Adam Burke's last animation work, as he died from a heart failure caused by his lung cancer positive diagnosis on October 9, 2018.
Music
Mark Orton composed the music for Loo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicopus | Dicopus is a wasp genus in the family Mymaridae. About 15 species have been described in the genus.
References
External links
NHM database
Mymaridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20Cyberquad | The Tesla Cyberquad is an upcoming electric quad bike all-terrain vehicle (ATV) concept presented by Tesla, Inc., at the Tesla Cybertruck's November 2019 unveiling. Concluding the presentation at the company's design studio in Hawthorne, California, CEO Elon Musk announced "one more thing", at which point the ATV was shown being loaded onto the back of the Cybertruck. Observers have pointed to elements seen at the unveiling indicating that the Cyberquad prototype had been built by swapping the powerplant and plastics on a Yamaha Raptor. Certain images from the rear suggest the vehicle also appears to have a powertrain borrowed from Zero Motorcycles.
The ATV was mentioned in the specifications for the Cybertruck; the Cybertruck was described as having "space for your toolbox, tire and Cyberquad, with room to spare". One day later, Musk tweeted, "Tesla 2 person electric ATV will come at first as an option for Cybertruck." The ATV can charge in the bed of the Tesla Cybertruck from its 120 or 240 volt charging system. There was no mention of pricing.
The trademark "Cyberquad" was registered in November 2019. During Tesla's 2020 Battery Day Event, Musk brought a prototype of the Cyberquad for investors. He announced that the Cyberquad would be available as an optional accessory for the Cybertruck in late 2021. Musk mentioned the Cyberquad again at the 2021 shareholder meeting in October, but he did not provide any further details on the production start. The ATV will most likely not enter production before the Cybertruck RWD starts production in late 2023.
Cyberquad for Kids
During Cyber week at the start of December 2021 Tesla released a scaled-down Cyberquad for Kids mini-ATV designed for children. The smaller ATV was announced as limited to a top speed of , with a passenger weight limit of , and a price of $1,900. Product purchase was only available to those with an existing Tesla purchase or reservation and initial production sold out on the first day, before being opened up again. Cyberquad for Kids was the third Tesla product produced by Radio Flyer for Tesla. The battery operates at , with of electrical capacity giving a range of up to or approximately one hour of use per charge. There are two speed settings, one for 5 mph (8 km/h) and one for 10 mph (16 km/h). On October 27, 2022, the Cybertruck for Kids was recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for failing to comply with safety requirements for youth ATVs, including mechanical suspension and maximum tire pressure.
See also
Nikola Zero, all-electric battery-powered off-road sport UTV
References
External links
ATVs
Battery electric vehicles
Cyberquad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20von%20Stryk | Oskar von Stryk is professor of simulation, system optimization and robotics at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is known for his research on robotics.
Life
From 1984 to 1989 Stryk studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich. In 1994 he received his doctorate in mathematics and then habilitated at the university. He was then postdoctoral researcher at TU Munich. Since 2000 he is professor of simulation, system optimization and robotics at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From April 2011 to March 2013 he was dean of the department. He was visiting professor and lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. Stryk is vice president of Robocup. Since 2018 he has been building the German Rescue Robotics Centre.
Roboter
He competed in two different teams Hector and ViGIR in the final of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Team Hector competed with the robot Johnny 05 and ViGIR with Florian.
The search and rescue robot Hector (Heterogeneous Cooperating Team Of Robots) of the Technische Universität Darmstadt competed in 2014 in Rescue Robot League of RoboCup, the oldest and world's largest competition for intelligent robots in various application scenarios, and took first place there. The robot Hector took 1st place in the category Best in Class Autonomy, the most intelligent robot, in the Rescue Robot League in the years from 2012 to 2015 and 2018 to 2019.
In 2017, the Argonaut robot, developed by a team led by Stryk, won the ARGOS Challenge for intelligent inspection robots on oil and gas platforms, which the company Total S.A. had launched. The prize was half a million euros. Argonaut is a variant of Taurob tracker and the first fully autonomous, mobile inspection robot for oil and gas plants.
In 2018, Hector competed at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo in the category Plant Disaster Prevention Challenge and won 1st place.
Publications
von Stryk, O. & Bulirsch, R. Ann Oper Res (1992) 37: 357. DOI: 10.1007/BF02071065
von Stryk O. (1993) Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems by Direct Collocation. In: Bulirsch R., Miele A., Stoer J., Well K. (eds) Optimal Control. ISNM International Series of Numerical Mathematics, vol 111. Birkhäuser Basel.
S. Kohlbrecher, O. von Stryk, J. Meyer and U. Klingauf, "A flexible and scalable SLAM system with full 3D motion estimation," 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Kyoto, 2011, pp. 155–160. DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2011.6106777
References
German computer scientists
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidoc | Aidoc Medical is an Israeli technology company that develops computer-aided simple triage and notification systems. Aidoc has obtained FDA and CE mark approval for its stroke, pulmonary embolism, cervical fracture, intracranial hemorrhage, intra-abdominal free gas, and incidental pulmonary embolism algorithms.
Their algorithms are in use in more than 900 hospitals and imaging centers, including Montefiore Nyack Hospital, LifeBridge Health, LucidHealth, Yale New Haven Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, and Sheba Medical Center.
History
Aidoc was founded in 2016 by Elad Walach (CEO), Michael Braginsky (CTO) and Guy Reiner (VP R&D).
In April 2017, the company raised $7M, led by TLV Partners.
In April 2019, the company raised $27M, led by Square Peg capital.
In August 2018, Aidoc gained FDA clearance for its intracranial hemorrhage system, and in May 2019 it received clearance for the pulmonary embolism system.
In January 2020, the system for detecting large-vessel occlusions (LVOs) in head CTA examinations obtained FDA clearance.
Products and market
Aidoc has developed a suite of artificial intelligence products that flag both time-sensitive and time-consuming (for the radiologist) abnormalities across the body. The algorithms are developed with large quantities of data to provide diagnostic aid for a broad set of pathologies. The company offers an array of algorithms that span across the body, including for intracranial hemorrhage, spine fractures (C, T & L), free air in the abdomen, pulmonary embolism, and more. It developed "Always-on AI", a term coined by Elad Walach that refers to a type of artificial intelligence that is "Always-on—constantly running in the background and automatically analyzing medical imaging data, identifying urgent findings, and sparing radiologists from "drowning" in vast amounts of irrelevant data.
Aidoc's solutions cover medical conditions prevalent in all settings (ED/inpatient/outpatient), including level 1 trauma centers, outpatient imaging centers, teleradiology groups and, are set up in over 200 medical centers worldwide. Notable customers include the University of Rochester Medical Center, Global Diagnostics Australia, Antwerp University Hospital, and AZ Maria Middelares Hospital. According to the company, Aidoc has deep integrations with numerous PACS and workflow software providers (GE, Agfa, Nuance).
Clinical Research
A clinical study on Aidoc’ accuracy of deep convolutional neural networks for the detection of pulmonary embolism (PE) on CT pulmonary angiograms (CTPAs) was performed by the University Hospital of Basel and presented at the European Congress of Radiology, showing that the Aidoc algorithm reached 93% sensitivity and 95% specificity. Clinical research has also been performed to test the diagnostic performance of Aidoc's deep learning-based triage system for the flagging of acute findings in abdominal computed tomography (CT) examinations. Overall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sord | Sord or SORD may refer to:
Swords, Dublin (Irish: Sord), a town in Ireland
Sord Computer Corporation, a Japanese electronics company
SORD, a gene
See also
Sword (disambiguation)
Sorde (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20Szulczewski | Piotr Szulczewski (; born 1981) is a Polish businessman and computer engineer who is the founder and former CEO of the mobile-first ecommerce platform focused on low-cost goods, Wish.com. He is the youngest billionaire from Canada according to Forbes.
Early life and background
Szulczewski grew up in the Warsaw neighborhood of Tarchomin. Upon the collapse of the communism in Poland, his parents immigrated to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, about west of Toronto. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo, where he met Danny Zhang.
Just before graduating from the University of Waterloo in 2004 at the age of 23, Szulczewski relocated to Palo Alto, California and commenced a four-month internship coding for Google. He then became a full-time employee for Google, where he wrote the prototype algorithms for keyword expansion, a feature which aids in searching for products from advertisers.
Career
In June 2007, Szulczewski moved to South Korea to work in the new Google office. The Korean market demanded more detailed search portals than the minimalist ones used by Google in the West, and effectively trained Szulczewski in how to cater for the public.
In 2009, he saved enough money to leave Google and spent six months at home writing code for an ads recommendation platform that analyzed at a person's browsing behaviors to predict their interests. He set up a software company, ContextLogic, that in September 2010 received $1.7 million in investments and involved Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo! and an investor in Wish through his angel fund, AME Cloud Ventures, recalls that Szulczewski was highly ambitious. In May 2011, Szulczewski invited his old friend Danny Zhang, then at Yellowpages.com to join the new business as a cofounder and they relaunched the company as Wishwall.me. Facebook learned of the new technology and offered $20 million for ContextLogic but Szulczewski refused the offer. Szulczewski states that with Wish.com his primary aim is to create "the largest, most convenient and most affordable shopping mall in the world" and to target low-income households. By 2016 Wish.com had over 5 million daily visitors.
In 2016, Szulczewski was listed at #21 on America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 list and in 2019, #1605 on Forbes's list of Billionaires. In 2019 he was cited as the 34th wealthiest person and youngest billionaire from Canada, and the 5th wealthiest Polish billionaire. Despite his success, he stays out of the spotlight and rarely gives interviews. He was interviewed for the first time by the Polish media in November 2017.
In November 2021, it was announced that Szulczewski would be stepping down as Chief Executive Officer. On January 31, 2022, Vijay Talwar was named as Chief Executive Officer and a member of Wish’s Board of Directors, effective February 1, 2022. Szulczewski remained on the board.
References
Polish computer programmers
Polish billionaires
Canadian compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make-Up%20Artists%20and%20Hair%20Stylists%20Guild%20Award%20for%20Best%20Makeup%20in%20Children%20and%20Teen%20Programming | The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Award for Best Makeup in Children and Teen Programming is one of the awards given annually to people working in the television industry by the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS). It is presented to makeup artists who work in television, whose work has been deemed "best" in a given year. It was first given in 2015.
Winners and nominees
2010s
2020s
References
Makeup in Children and Teen Programming
Children's television awards
Awards established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way%20string-matching%20algorithm | In computer science, the two-way string-matching algorithm is a string-searching algorithm, discovered by Maxime Crochemore and Dominique Perrin in 1991. It takes a pattern of size m, called a “needle”, preprocesses it in linear time O(m), producing information that can then be used to search for the needle in any “haystack” string, taking only linear time O(n) with n being the haystack's length.
The two-way algorithm can be viewed as a combination of the forward-going Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm (KMP) and the backward-running Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm (BM).
Like those two, the 2-way algorithm preprocesses the pattern to find partially repeating periods and computes “shifts” based on them, indicating what offset to “jump” to in the haystack when a given character is encountered.
Unlike BM and KMP, it uses only O(log m) additional space to store information about those partial repeats: the search pattern is split into two parts (its critical factorization), represented only by the position of that split. Being a number less than m, it can be represented in ⌈log₂ m⌉ bits. This is sometimes treated as "close enough to O(1) in practice", as the needle's size is limited by the size of addressable memory; the overhead is a number that can be stored in a single register, and treating it as O(1) is like treating the size of a loop counter as O(1) rather than log of the number of iterations.
The actual matching operation performs at most 2n − m comparisons.
Breslauer later published two improved variants performing fewer comparisons, at the cost of storing additional data about the preprocessed needle:
The first one performs at most n + ⌊(n − m)/2⌋ comparisons, ⌈(n − m)/2⌉ fewer than the original. It must however store ⌈log m⌉ additional offsets in the needle, using O(log2 m) space.
The second adapts it to only store a constant number of such offsets, denoted c, but must perform n + ⌊( + ε) * (n − m)⌋ comparisons, with ε = (Fc+2 − 1)−1 = O(−c) going to zero exponentially quickly as c increases.
The algorithm is considered fairly efficient in practice, being cache-friendly and using several operations that can be implemented in well-optimized subroutines. It is used by the C standard libraries glibc, newlib, and musl, to implement the memmem and strstr family of substring functions. As with most advanced string-search algorithms, the naïve implementation may be more efficient on small-enough instances; this is especially so if the needle isn't searched in multiple haystacks, which would amortize the preprocessing cost.
Critical factorization
Before we define critical factorization, we should define:
Factorization: a string is considered factorized when it is split into two parts. Suppose a string is split into two parts , then is called a factorization of .
Period: a period for a string is defined as a value such that for any integer , . In other words, " is a period of if two letters of at distance always coincide". The minimu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere%20Computing | Ampere Computing LLC is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops processes for servers operating in large scale environments. Ampere also has offices in: Portland, Oregon; Taipei, Taiwan; Raleigh, North Carolina; Bangalore, India; Warsaw, Poland; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
History
Ampere Computing was founded in the Fall of 2017 by Renée James, Ex-President of Intel with funding from The Carlyle Group. James acquired a team from MACOM Technology Solutions (formerly AppliedMicro) in addition to several industry hires to start the company. Ampere Computing is an ARM architecture licensee and develops its own server microprocessors. Ampere fabricates its products at TSMC.
In April 2019, Ampere announced its second major investment round, including investment from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation. In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). In November 2019, Nvidia announced a reference design platform for graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere.
In the first half of 2020, Ampere announced Ampere Altra an 80-core and Ampere Altra Max a 128-core processor without the use of hyper-threading.
In March 2020, the company announced a partnership with Oracle. In September of that year, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and virtual machine instances in early 2021 based on Ampere Altra.
In November 2020, Ampere was named one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups by CRN.
In May 2021, the company announced a partnership with Microsoft. In July of that year, Ampere acquired OnSpecta, an AI technology startup. After the acquisition, the companies were able to demonstrate four times faster acceleration on Ampere-based instances running AI-inference workloads.
In April 2022, Ampere said that it had filed a confidential prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling its intent to go public.
In June 2022, HPE announced their Gen11 ProLiant system would use Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max Cloud Native Processors.
In July 2022, Google announced T2A instances using Ampere Altra in the Google cloud and in August 2022 Microsoft announced their instances of Ampere running in Azure.
Products
Ampere develops ARM-based computer processors and CPU cores under their Altra brands. These are used in databases, media encoding, web services, network acceleration, mobile gaming, AI inference processing, and other applications and programs that need to scale.
On February 5, 2018, Ampere announced the eMAG 8180 featuring 32x Skylark cores fabricated on TSMC’s 16FF+ process. It supports a turbo of up to 3.3 GHz with a TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit DDR4, up to 1 TB DDR4 per socket, and 42x PCIe 3.0 Lanes. The Skylark cores were based on AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3. Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking. On September |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Student%20Chapter | ACM Student Chapter is the international Association for Computing Machinery's student society which provides opportunities to students for networking, learn together and share their knowledge. Its main focus is on building and developing members' passion for computer science.
History
The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ACM is currently organized into over hundreds of local chapters over 800 colleges and universities throughout the world.
Membership
The members of chapters are eligible for various benefits such as coding competitions, technical talks and mentoring sessions by experienced professionals.
Notable chapters
ACM student chapter of University of California, Los Angeles
ACM student chapter of University of Washington
ACM student chapter of University of Louisiana at Lafayette
ACM student chapter of University of Pittsburgh
ACM student chapter of Nazarbayev University - is the first and only ACM chapter in Kazakhstan
References
External links
Homepage
Association for Computing Machinery
Student organizations established in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20Aotearoa | Magdalena Aotearoa is a network of women in performing arts based in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori).
Founded in 1997 to encourage and promote women's ability to express their political and cultural realities through performing arts, it is a registered charitable trust. Soon after its founding, Magdalena Aotearoa organised a large international festival in 1999. Other activity is to host workshops, forums and international guests throughout New Zealand. Many participants from Magdalena Aotearoa events have gone on to attend related festivals and conferences in other countries that are all part of the original Magdalena Project, based in Wales.
Background
Founding members Sally Rodwell and Madeline McNamara contacted the authors of Magdalena: International Women's Experimental Theatre, a book about a group of women in a creative theatre. This led to Rodwell and McNamara presenting their show Crow Station at the second Magdalena Project festival in 1994 in Cardiff, Wales. This began an enduring creative relationship between New Zealand theatre makers with many in this international network. In 1997, three years after attending the festival in Cardiff, Magdalena Project founder Jill Greenhalgh toured New Zealand and ran a series of workshops. Rodwell and McNamara formed the Magdalena Aotearoa charitable trust in the same year, with the intention of organising a Magdalena festival in New Zealand.
Rodwell and McNamara had a producing and creative partnership: in the 1990s they produced, along with Sue Dunlop and Gloria Hildred, three women's performance festivals called Not Broadcast Quality at Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington (1990, 1992, 1997). Many people from these performances became involved in Magdalena Aotearoa. A foundation principle in the network was to have a partnership between Māori and non-Māori embedded into the working practice.
The founding aims of the Magdalena Aotearoa Charitable Trust are:
To encourage and promote the work on women in the performing arts;
To create artistic, training and economic structures to enable women in theatre and related art forms to practise their craft;
To encourage innovative individual and collaborative projects in the performing arts;
To encourage the use of, respect for and knowledge of diverse theatrical forms and performance events expressing the political and cultural realities of the many different groups of women in Aotearoa;
To set up a programme of workshops and performance events enabling more women to acquire the confidence and skills required for them to take the initiative and create work situations for themselves;
To establish a network of artistic women both nationally and internationally;
To be guided by the principals of the Treaty of Waitangi in promoting an active working partnership between Māori and tauiwi women in all of the Trust's work (the word 'tauiwi' denotes all those, other than Māori, who have settled in New Zealand)
To host festivals that promote the above a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf%20Steinmetz | Ralf Steinmetz (born 31 July 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) is a German computer scientist and electrical engineer. He is professor of multimedia communication at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
In the eighties Steinmetz coined and sharpened the term multimedia. He did fundamental work in the field of the perception of synchronicity in multimedia flows. At TU Darmstadt Steinmetz is working on realizing truly seamless multimedia communication. His research interests include communication services, IT architectures, knowledge media, mobile networking, networked gaming, network mechanisms & quality of service, peer-to-peer networking, network security & trust and ubiquitous computing.
Life
Steinmetz studied electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), where he received his doctorate in 1986 on the subject of modularized Petri nets for the description and analysis of telecommunication systems with meshed information-processing structures. After further activities in research and management at Philips and IBM from 1987 to 1996, Steinmetz habilitated in 1994 at the department of computer science of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on the subject of multimedia technology and their fundamentals, components and systems. In 1996 he was appointed as professor for industrial process and system communication at TU Darmstadt. It was an endowed professorship of the Volkswagen Foundation.
Since 1996, Steinmetz is professor at the department of electrical engineering and information technology and the department of computer science of TU Darmstadt. Since October 2001 he has been head of the Multimedia Communications Lab.
In 1999, he founded the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center (httc e.V.), of which he is chairman of the board.
Steinmetz has contributed significantly to more than 900 publications and has written several textbooks on multimedia technologies, some of which are standard works in teaching.
Publications
Steinmetz R., Nahrstedt K. (2004) Multimedia Applications. In: Multimedia Applications. X.media.publishing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
R. Steinmetz, "Human perception of jitter and media synchronization," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 61-72, Jan. 1996. DOI:10.1109/49.481694
Norbert A. Streitz, Jörg Geißler, Torsten Holmer, Shin'ichi Konomi, Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Wolfgang Reischl, Petra Rexroth, Peter Seitz, and Ralf Steinmetz. 1999. i-LAND: an interactive landscape for creativity and innovation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '99). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 120-127. DOI:10.1145/302979.303010
Awards
1999 appointed IEEE Fellow
1999 Award for Excellence in Internet Research from IBM
2001 appointment as ACM Fellow
2004 National Leadership Award of the Economic Forum Germany
2014 Chair of Excellence of the Charles III University of Madrid
2018 appointment as GI-Fellow of the Gesel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make-Up%20Artists%20and%20Hair%20Stylists%20Guild%20Award%20for%20Best%20Hair%20Styling%20in%20Children%20and%20Teen%20Programming | The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Award for Best Hair Styling in Children and Teen Programming is one of the awards given annually to people working in the television industry by the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS). It is presented to hair stylists who work in television, whose work has been deemed "best" in a given year. It was first given in 2015.
Winners and nominees
2010s
2020s
References
Hair Styling in Children and Teen Programming
Awards established in 2015
Children's television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storybound | Storybound is a podcast created, produced, and hosted by Jude Brewer, with original music composed for each episode. The show is a collaboration between Lit Hub and The Podglomerate podcast network, featuring household names and Pulitzer Prize winning authors alongside relatively unknown bands, singer-songwriters, and composers. Season 1 debuted on December 3, 2019. Inspired from Brewer's Storytellers Telling Stories, Storybound surpassed a million downloads in its first year, following up with seasons 2 and 3, the latter of which has been recognized for experimental cross-genre music compositions with sampling created and arranged by Brewer.
Series overview
Regarding the crafting of each episode, Brewer likened the relationship between literature and music as the conceptual evolution of a live reading, also adding how "beats or time signatures or chord progressions" allow listeners to feel a story's forward progression: "There's something subtle in your mind telling you, 'I'm going to get past this moment.'"
Storybound is noted for pairing award-winning and bestselling writers with comparatively unknown musicians, an idea spun out of Brewer's initial conception for Storytellers Telling Stories. Brewer had alluded to an uncertain future for Storytellers Telling Stories in as early as February 2019. Storybound was announced later that year at a live performance for the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival pre-show, Lit Crawl, where they also announced their sponsorship with Powell's Books.
Season 1 included critically acclaimed and bestselling authors such as Mitch Albom, Lidia Yuknavitch, Matt Gallagher, Kim Barnes, Adelle Waldman, Diksha Basu, Nathan Hill, Caitlin Doughty, Mitchell S. Jackson as well as a story told by Jack Rhysider, creator of the popular podcast Darknet Diaries. Seasons 2 and 3 continued this trend, expanding outside of its primary literary/memoir focus, featuring science fiction author Charlie Jane Anders, essayist Soraya Nadia McDonald, comic book writer Mark Russell, fiction writer Junot Díaz, and Pulitzer Prize winning critic, Soraya Nadia McDonald.
Along with authors such as Chuck Klosterman, Morgan Jerkins, Omar El Akkad, Matt Haig, and Tamara Winfrey Harris. Season 4 features more prominent musicians such as Portico Quartet, Dustin O'Halloran, Ben Folds, Jaymay, Au Revoir Simone, Fake Shark, Zola Jesus, The Bright Light Social Hour, and Shook Twins. Season 4 also includes a unique episode officially funded by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. The episode is a radio drama adaptation of playwright and screenwriter Brianna Barrett's historical fiction television pilot based on the life of Frances Fuller Victor, an American historian and novelist living in Civil War era San Francisco.
Season 5 was announced for 2022, bringing on Debbie Millman, Danté Stewart, Stephanie Foo, Tommy Davidson, Dan Chaon, Imogen Binnie, Daniel Olivas and more.
Production
Each episode begins with an introduction from Brewer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxa%20Technologies | Moxa Technologies is a Taiwanese technology company specializing in edge connectivity, industrial computing, and network infrastructure solutions.
Overview
Moxa specializes in edge connectivity, industrial computing, and network infrastructure solutions. They are headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
History
In 2005 Moxa sponsored an international essay contest to discover novel applications of wireless device servers.
By 2005 Moxa was a $30 million dollar company, by 2008 they were a $100 million dollar company. In response to competition the company has been forced to climb the technology value chain and focus on high end products.
In November 2018 Moxa and Trend Micro announced the formation of a joint-venture corporation named TXOne Networks which will focus on the security needs of the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).
In 2019 Moxa teamed up with National Taiwan University to launch a research and development lab called the MOXA-NTU Networking Innovation Lab. The primary focus of the lab will be on Time-Sensitive Networking.
Moxa Americas Inc.
Moxa Americas Inc. is Moxa’s American subsidiary with headquarters in Brea, CA. Moxa Americas Inc. was founded in 1992 and employs approximately 800 people.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
Taiwanese companies established in 1987
Taiwanese brands
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Defence companies of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%20Bees%20%28TV%20series%29 | Berry Bees is an Italian-Australian animated television series developed for the Nine Network that premiered on 9Go! in Australia on 5 October 2019. The series is based on the Italian book series of the same name by Cat Le Blanc. The series is produced by Atlantyca Entertainment, SLR Productions, Telegael, and Cosmos-Maya Production.
The entire series is available to stream on Stan.
The show centers around three young girls who carry out spy missions.
Plot
Bobby, Lola, and Juliette are three extraordinary 10-year-old girls who live a seemingly normal life. However the trio work undercover as the "Berry Bees" for the Bee Intelligence Agency (B.I.A. for short), a secret agency that selected them to carry out special spy missions. The girls, all codenamed after a type of berry, are given gadgets each episode by the head of the agency, Ms. Berry.
Usually the girls have to foil the evil plans of recurring villains such as Tara Bytes, Mirage, and the Greenthumbs. At the end of each episode, the villain escapes the confusion to fight the girls another day while things return to normal.
Characters
Main
Bobby – An expert in technology and a nerd. Her codename is Raspberry.
Lola – A skilled contortionist and acrobat. Her codename is Strawberry.
Juliette – A talented actress and mentalist. Her codename is Blueberry.
Ms. Berry – The head of the B.I.A.
Villains
Tara Bytes – A corrupt tech mogul. Her plots usually focus on advanced technology.
Aaron Mirage – A thief who can assume the identity of anyone.
Cosmo and Fauna Greenthumb – A bickering old couple who wish to make the environment better for animals.
Production
On 16 October 2018, it was announced that an animated series based on the Berry Bees book series was being produced. The series is produced by Atlantyca Entertainment in Italy, SLR Productions in Australia, Telegael in Ireland, and Cosmos-Maya Production in India.
The show's visual team found their inspiration in Mission Impossible and James Bond movies. The director, Niccolò Sacchi also singled out The Incredibles for its character and action scenes. He looked at Kim Possible all the time, "because of the show’s fantastic direction and staging of the shots." The team's reference for design was Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. "[He] wanted to have the same feel for the characters with no outline and where shadows were used to give depth to the characters' skin and expressions."
Episodes
The first season consists of 52 11-minute episodes.
Broadcast
Berry Bees first premiered on 9Go! in Australia on 5 October 2019. By the 7th episode, premieres suddenly moved from Saturdays to Sundays starting 27 October. In Italy, the series premiered on Rai Gulp on December 16 with episodes 2 and 10. Since two segments are combined into one in the Australian broadcast of the series, the cold open in every second episode that airs is cut, but is retained in the Italian broadcast due to the segments being separately aired.
Awards
On 12 July 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schnell | Peter M. Schnell (* 10 June 1938 in Berlin) is a German computer scientist, founder of Software AG and long-time chairman of the Vorstand, executive board.
Life
He grew up in Alsbach-Hähnlein near Darmstadt. Schnell was impressed by the IBM 650, the first commercial mainframe computer that Alwin Walther had procured for Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). He then studied physics and mathematics at TU Darmstadt. In 1965 he graduated with a diplom in mathematics under Walther. Already as a student he gave courses in programming languages and worked as a freelance programmer for Euratom and at the German Computer Center in Darmstadt.
He was one of the best Go players in Europe.
Software AG
In 1969, together with five other colleagues from the Institute for Applied Information Processing (AIV), Schnell founded Software AG in Darmstadt out of a garage with a starting capital of 6.000 German Mark and several patents. Among the colleagues was Peter Pagé, who left the company in 1992 after differences with Schnell. In the company, Schnell designed and developed the Adabas (Adaptable Database System) database management system. The mathematician based his concept on the NF² database model (NF² stands for NFNF = non first normal form). In 1971, the high-performance system was put into operation for the first time at Westdeutsche Landesbank. Schnell was responsible for the maintenance and further development of Adabas for mainframe systems of IBM and Siemens AG. The system was later used by numerous customers on the operating system platforms VMS from DEC, various Unix systems, Linux and Windows. Adabas is the fastest commercially available database management system in the world.
In 1996, the sole shareholder retired from the Vorstand of Software AG and did not move to the supervisory board. At that time, Software AG had 28 subsidiaries in 80 countries, more than 3,300 employees were employed and sales revenues at that time amounted to approximately 800 million German Mark.
Schnell then became a founder of the Software AG Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in Germany with headquarters in Darmstadt. The foundation holds 29 percent of the shares of Software AG. Soon after leaving his company, he devoted himself entirely to the foundation's work. He is an anthroposophist, and the foundation supports projects in the field of youth, elderly and disabled work as well as in science, research, education and nature conservation, including the University of Witten-Herdecke and the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Bonn. Schnells work was strongly influenced by the teaching of Rudolf Steiner. One motive for Schnells social commitment was that he himself has two sons with intellectual disabilities.
Awards
In 2002 he was awarded the Medal for Services to the Foundation System of the Federal Association of German Foundations for his foundation work by the President of Germany Johannes Rau. On 7 May 2009, Schnell was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20Oil%20Storage%20and%20Transportation | Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Ltd (BOST) is a Ghanaian state agency under the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum responsible for the development of a network of storage tanks, pipelines and other bulk transportation infrastructure throughout the country and also to keep strategic reserve stocks of petroleum for Ghana. The company is now tasked with an additional responsibility as the Natural Gas Transmission Utility (NGTU) to develop the Natural Gas infrastructure throughout the country.
History
Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) was established in December 1993 as a private liability company with the sole shareholder being the Government of Ghana. BOST is the distributor of refined petroleum products from its strategic depots located throughout the country. On 9 December 2012 the company was granted Natural Gas Transmission Utility License (NGTU) by the Energy Commission (EC). The NGTU according to EC Act 541, 1997, provides transmission and interconnection services for natural gas throughout the country without discrimination.
Functions
BOST is responsible for developing pipelines and storage containers for the transportation of petroleum products and the storage of reserves. The company is also responsible for the transportation, distribution and storage of petroleum products in Ghana.
See also
Ministry of Energy and Petroleum
References
Government agencies of Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Piloty | Robert Piloty (6 June 1924, in Munich – 21 January 2013) was a German computer scientist and former Professor of Communications Processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He was one of the pioneers in the construction of program-controlled computer systems and the founding father of computer science courses in Germany. As a member of the advisory board and chairman of the commission for the introduction of computer science studies in Germany, he was significantly involved in the introduction and design of computer science studies throughout Germany. His efforts also led to the establishment of the first computer science course at TU Darmstadt.
Piloty was a founding member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. As a member of the general assembly and vice president of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Piloty had represented German computer science internationally for many years.
His research has covered a wide range of areas, from microwave technology, computer-aided circuit design and hardware description languages (HDLs) to design databases.
Life
Piloty was born on 6 June 1924 as the son of Hans Piloty. After studying electrical engineering, he received his doctorate in microwave technology from the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Hans Heinrich Meinke. Inspired by a study visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he visited the Whirlwind I, the Program-Controlled Electronic Calculator Munich (PERM) was created by his initiative and under his technical direction from 1949 at the TU Munich. The PERM project under the overall direction of his father Hans Piloty and his mathematician colleague Robert Sauer established the necessary hardware and software basis for many further research projects in the then emerging field of computer science. The PERM was used for many years in the computer center of the TU Munich and in the training of development engineers for the German computer industry. Today it can be seen in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
After the end of the PERM activities, Robert Piloty went to Zurich in 1955 as deputy head of the IBM research laboratory and in 1957 took over the management of system planning at the German company Standard Elektrik Lorenz in Stuttgart. In 1961, he became an associate professor at TU Munich and in 1964 was appointed Professor of Communications Processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). There he founded the Institute of Information Processing, which later became the Institute for Computer Engineering. There he developed a hardware description language (HWBS) for the training of engineers, with which computer designs could be simulated. The idea spread quickly and a large number of languages were developed, so that an exchange was very difficult in the end. That is why Piloty founded the international Consensus Language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Upshot | The Upshot is a website published by The New York Times which spreads articles combining data visualization with conventional journalistic analysis of news.
History
The Upshot was first announced in March 2014 and was officially launched on April 22, 2014. Steve Duenes, a graphics director at the New York Times, won a newsroom contest by coming up with the name "The Upshot". The site started with fifteen full-time staff, including founding editor David Leonhardt. Because The Upshot was launched soon after Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight left the Times, it was widely described as a planned replacement for FiveThirtyEight and Silver. However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview that The Upshot was not intended to replace Silver. In 2014, The Upshot produced two of the twenty most-read stories on the Times website, and it was responsible for 5% of the paper's web traffic in October of that year. Also in 2014, the site was a finalist for an Online Journalism Award in the category "Online Commentary, Large Newsroom", but it lost to NPRs Code Switch. In 2016, Amanda Cox, who had been a founding member of The Upshot, replaced Leonhardt as its editor.
References
External links
The New York Times
Internet properties established in 2014
American news websites
2014 establishments in New York City
Data journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Christmas%20Ever%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29 | Best Christmas Ever is a seasonal program block on AMC, an American cable and satellite network. The block, launched in 2018, airs Christmas-themed television specials and feature films from late November until the day after Christmas.
Its primary direct competition is the more established 25 Days of Christmas on Freeform, on which much of the same programming had previously aired prior to 2018. The two blocks continue to share rights to three films, with each network getting a window to air each film: the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs. Doubtfire and Love the Coopers. In contrast to 25 Days of Christmas, Best Christmas Ever airs no original programming, relying entirely on reruns.
History
AMC had typically aired a rotating lineup of five to six Christmas movies during the holiday season. In 2018, the channel introduced a more extensive holiday lineup branded as Best Christmas Ever, running from November 26 to December 25, featuring a mix of popular Christmas and family films, along with other acquired specials. The schedule included notable acquisitions from Warner Bros., including Elf, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Polar Express, and 12 Rankin/Bass specials. The films had been recent mainstays of the 25 Days of Christmas schedule, with Elf in particular having received extensive airplay and high viewership during the event. Other programs included specials from DreamWorks Animation. As expected, AMC saw ratings gains over the holiday season; primetime viewership for the first two weeks of the event was up 40% year-over-year, airings of Elf and Christmas Vacation both peaked at 1.5 million viewers, and average viewership of feature films on Freeform fell by 36% year-over-year in the same period.
In 2019, Freeform responded to the loss of most of the Rankin/Bass library by acquiring cable rights to the two remaining specials from that company that had never been aired on cable: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, sharing the rights with those two specials' longtime free-to-air rightsholder, CBS.
In 2020, AMC expanded the "Best Christmas Ever" brand to its streaming service AMC+, which carries more adult-oriented content from AMC and partner networks We TV, Sundance TV, IFC and BBC America.
For 2021, AMC added hosting segments from Beverly D'Angelo, the co-star of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and themed days throughout the block, some of which will include out-of-season films: movie marathons devoted to John Candy and Bill Murray, marathons devoted to holiday mischief ("Naughty List Marathon") and slapstick ("Holiday Hijinks"), and a Wonka Weekend featuring a rotation of both film adaptations of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Programming
As of 2022:
Specials
Donkey's Caroling Christmas-tacular
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
How Murray Saved Christmas
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Jack Fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Russakovsky | Olga Russakovsky is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her research investigates computer vision and machine learning. She was one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition challenge and has been recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's top young innovators.
Early life and education
Russakovsky studied mathematics at Stanford University and remained there for her doctoral studies. When she finished her undergraduate degree she had dismissed computer science and felt disconnected from research and the only woman in her laboratory. Then Fei-Fei Li arrived at Stanford. Russakovsky eventually completed her PhD in computer vision in 2015, during which she worked with Fei-Fei Li on image classification. She developed an algorithm that could separate selected objects from the background, which made her acutely aware of human bias. She worked on mechanisms to reduce the burden of image classification on human annotators, by asking fewer, and more generalised, questions about the images being inspected. Together with Fei-Fei Li, Russakovsky developed ImageNet, a database of millions of images that is now widely used in computer vision. Russakovsky is Ukrainian-American.
Research and career
After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Russakovsky works on computer vision and machine learning. She is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her research has investigated the historical and societal bias within visual recognition and the development of computational solutions that promote algorithmic fairness. For example, in 2015, a new photo identification application developed by Google labeled a black couple as "gorillas". At the time only 2% of their workforce were African American. Russakovsky has emphasised that whilst the workforces designing artificial intelligence systems are not diverse enough, only improving the diversity of computer scientists will not be sufficient for rectifying algorithmic bias. Instead, she has involved training deep learning models that de-correlate protected characteristics such as race or gender. In 2019 she was awarded a Schmidt DataX grant to study accuracy in image captioning systems.
Public engagement
Russakovsky has been involved in several initiatives to improve access to computer science and public understanding of artificial intelligence. She serves on the board of AI4ALL foundation, which looks to improve diversity in artificial intelligence. As part of AI4ALL Russakovsky led a summer camp for high school girls. She ran the first summer camp in 2015, named the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Outreach Summer Program (SAILORS). By 2018 it had expanded into six other US campuses. She has launched similar initiatives at Princeton University. The summer camp looks to keep bias out of artificial intelligence by educating people from diverse backgrounds about compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoz | Convoz is an American online social networking service based in Houston, Texas which focuses on creating public collaborative conversation through video. It was founded by Hakeem Seriki and Glen Allison, under the parent company X Empire Inc. and was seeded by Upfront Ventures. The video-centric platform allows users to send 15-second clips directly to celebrities and they can then watch and choose which ones they want to respond to, sometimes broadcasting a message for all to see as well as livestreaming to their followers.
The startup has a total of seven employees, and has cultivated an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Greycroft Ventures, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups, Precursor VC, Okapi Ventures, XG Ventures, and a roster of angels including Justin Kan, E-40 and Snoop Dogg.
Background
Convoz was announced to an investor and entrepreneur crowd at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles by founder Hakeem Seriki in January 2018, in an attempt to raise capital for the app. In the presentation, Seriki announced that the video-centric platform aims to be "the place where you go to talk to people." He wants Convoz to be an app where people converse face-to-face with celebrities. It was revealed that Seriki approach Snoop Dogg to invest in the app, who also supported Seriki's presentation as well as rapper E-40 who was known for being an early investor in Clubhouse. The beta version of the app was officially released on January 30, 2018.
The app was officially unveiled on June 6, 2018, and many celebrities including Snoop Dogg, E-40, Big Boi, Trey Songz as well as sports players were using the app to communicate with fans.
In May 2019, the app was noted for its format of having short video messages that other users can watch and respond to in a study which demonstrated that
viewers are more responsive to lightweight content such as snapshots and video clips.
In June 2019, Seriki, E-40, and portfolio company Republic to invest $25,000 into a startup founded and managed by a woman or person of color as a marketing campaign to get more users to use the Convoz app. The conditions meant the entrants had to pitch their business idea on the Convoz app. In November of the same year, both investors held another competition on the app but this time increasing their investment fund to $100,000. Republic again facilitated the competition and Shark Tank star Daymond John served as a judge for the contest. The winner of the competition was Pierre Laguerre and it was announced in January 2020. His startup idea was "Fleeting Pro", a company that links certified class A & B drivers to trucking companies for scheduled, on-demand transportation needs.
As of 2023, Convoz operates with an invite-only registration and has a waiting list for new users on the app.
See also
Cameo (website)
Patreon
References
Sources
Di Chen, Dustin Freeman, and Ravin Balakrishnan (2019). Integrating multimedia tools to enrich interactions in live streaming for language learnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Max | Nelson Max is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1967, advised by Herman Gluck. His research interests include scientific visualization, computer animation, photorealistic computer graphics rendering, multi-view stereo reconstruction, and augmented reality. In his visualization section, he worked on molecular graphics, and volume and flow visualization, particularly on irregular finite element meshes. He has rendered realistic lighting effects in clouds, trees, and water waves, and has produced numerous computer animations, shown at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH conferences, and in OMNIMAX stereo at the Fujitsu Pavilions at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba Japan, and at Expo ’90 in Osaka Japan. He received the prestigious Steven A. Coons Award in 2007, and is a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy.
His computer animation in the early 1970s for the Topology Films Project included the award winning animated films "Space Filling Curves," showing continuous fractal curves that pass through every point in a square, and "Turning a Sphere Inside Out," showing how to turn a sphere inside out without tearing or creasing the surface, but allowing the surface to cross itself. In photorealistic rendering, he was the first to render beams of light and shadow from atmospheric scattering, and developed horizon mapping to render bump shadows on bump-mapped surfaces. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1981, he produced the film "Carla's Island" showing reflections of the sunset on ocean waves, using vectorized ray tracing on the Cray 1 supercomputer.
References
Living people
Computer graphics professionals
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20of%20stable%20matchings | In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the lattice of stable matchings is a distributive lattice whose elements are stable matchings. For a given instance of the stable matching problem, this lattice provides an algebraic description of the family of all solutions to the problem. It was originally described in the 1970s by John Horton Conway and Donald Knuth.
By Birkhoff's representation theorem, this lattice can be represented as the lower sets of an underlying partially ordered set. The elements of this set can be given a concrete structure as rotations, with cycle graphs describing the changes between adjacent stable matchings in the lattice. The family of all rotations and their partial order can be constructed in polynomial time, leading to polynomial time solutions for other problems on stable matching including the minimum or maximum weight stable matching. The Gale–Shapley algorithm can be used to construct two special lattice elements, its top and bottom element.
Every finite distributive lattice can be represented as a lattice of stable matchings.
The number of elements in the lattice can vary from an average case of to a worst-case of exponential.
Computing the number of elements is #P-complete.
Background
In its simplest form, an instance of the stable matching problem consists of two sets of the same number of elements to be matched to each other, for instance doctors and positions at hospitals. Each element has a preference ordering on the elements of the other type: the doctors each have different preferences for which hospital they would like to work at (for instance based on which cities they would prefer to live in), and the hospitals each have preferences for which doctors they would like to work for them (for instance based on specialization or recommendations). The goal is to find a matching that is stable: no pair of a doctor and a hospital prefer each other to their assigned match. Versions of this problem are used, for instance, by the National Resident Matching Program to match American medical students to hospitals.
In general, there may be many different stable matchings. For example, suppose there are three doctors (A,B,C) and three hospitals (X,Y,Z) which have preferences of:
A: YXZ B: ZYX C: XZY
X: BAC Y: CBA Z: ACB
There are three stable solutions to this matching arrangement:
The doctors get their first choice and the hospitals get their third: AY, BZ, CX.
All participants get their second choice: AX, BY, CZ.
The hospitals get their first choice and the doctors their third: AZ, BX, CY.
The lattice of stable matchings organizes this collection of solutions, for any instance of stable matching, giving it the structure of a distributive lattice.
Structure
Partial order on matchings
The lattice of stable matchings is based on the following weaker structure, a partially ordered set whose elements are the stable matchings. Define a comparison operation on the stable matchings,
where if |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOL%20Champions%20%28season%201%29 | Champions is a Pakistani youth-based reality show that airs on BOL Network. The episodes are also available online. Season 1 of the series premiered on 4 November 2019 and ended on 16 December 2020. It was followed by Season 2, which premiered on 18 December 2021.
Filming of the show takes place at the BOL House in Korangi Creek Cantonment, Karachi, which partially serves as Bol Network's headquarters. In Season 1, contestants lived in the house for 30 days from 4 January to 4 February 2020 until four finalists emerged.
The show was banned by PEMRA on 10 April 2020 citing telecast of vulgar and indecent content. In regard to the ban and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was temporarily suspended without announcing a winner. After a hiatus of 6 months, the series continued airing the remaining episodes in November 2020 concluding with a two-part Grand Finale where Hammad Ali Khan from Karachi was crowned winner of the season.
Champions was the subject of viewer complaints and press attention regarding a variety of controversial issues, including vulgarity, the well-being of certain participants, and discrimination based on sexuality and color. Despite receiving criticism for its graphic nature throughout its run, the series became one of the most-watched television telecasts in Pakistan. The eighteenth episode of the series attracted 15 million viewers, making it Bol Network's most-watched broadcast. As the series entered March, viewership declined sharply amidst favoritism and clickbaiting complaints from audiences.
Format
The show is a Pakistani adaptation of the Indian reality show Bigg Boss. Hosted by Waqar Zaka, it used a mixed format which incorporated open auditions for contestant selection who were then later confined to a Big Brother-style surveillance house. The contestants would leave the house occasionally to perform tasks where performance outcomes along with nominations would result in elimination of one or more housemates. Waqar Zaka has stated on numerous occasions that the competition has no specific format.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Episodes
Progress history
This contestant(s) was eliminated
This contestant won the elimination challenge
This contestant won the elimination challenge and returned to the competition
This contestant was eliminated but returned to the competition as a Wild Card Challenger
This contestant was granted power to directly eliminate contestant(s)
This contestant returned to the competition
This contestant was fake evicted
Notes
Reception
Champions received a polarized response from television critics and gained widespread popularity with audiences. Based on 168 reviews collected by IMDb, the show has an average score of 7.6/10. Viewership peaked at a near 15 million live viewers on 17 February 2020 (Episode 18) which marked the episode as one of the most-watched television telecasts in Pakistan and Bol Network's highest viewing fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira%20Mezini | Mira Mezini (born 18 November 1966 in Albania) is a German computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She heads the software engineering group.
She is known for her research on programming languages, intelligent software development environments, modular software architectures, and software security.
Life
Mezini was born in Albania. From 1984 she studied computer science at the University of Tirana obtaining her diploma in computer science in 1989. She then worked as a research and teaching assistant at the university. From 1990 to 1992 she worked at the Computer Center of the University of Siegen and then again as research and teaching assistant at their College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1997, she received her PhD in computer science from the University of Siegen. The title of her PhD thesis was "Variational Object-Oriented Programming Beyond Classes and Inheritance". From 1999 she was assistant professor for three years at Northeastern University. In 2002, she became Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt. From 2014 to 2016 she was Vice President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer and then Vice President for Research at TU Darmstadt.
She is also a board member of ATHENE, the largest research center for IT security in Europe.
Mira Mezini is married and has one daughter.
Awards, honors and outstanding positions in the research community
In 1984, Mezini received the Gold Medal of Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth. In 2005 and 2006 she received the IBM Eclipse Innovation Award. In 2012, Mezini received an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.3 million euros, the European Union's highest endowed grant. In 2013, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tirana. In 2016, she became member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). In 2019, she received an ERC Proof of Concept-Grant for the project "Programming Abstractions for Applications in Cloud Environments (PACE)".
She is a member of various committees, including the Computer Science Review Board of the German Research Foundation DFG, the international START/Wittgenstein Jury of the Austrian Science Fund and the Executive Committee of SIGPLAN - Special Interest Group for Programming Languages - of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In addition, Mezini is one of the representatives in the Quadriga to the National Pact for Cybersecurity and in 2020 was appointed to the ERC Scientific Council Search Committee by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.
References
1966 births
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Living people
German computer scientists
European Research Council grantees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundata%20%28river%29 | The Fundata is a left tributary of the river Ialomița in Romania. It discharges into the Ialomița near Misleanu. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Ialomița County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundata%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fundata may refer to the following places in Romania:
Fundata, a commune in Brașov County
Fundata, a village in the commune Lopătari, Buzău County
Fundata, a village in the commune Perieți, Ialomița County
Fundáta, the Hungarian name for the village Valea in the commune Urmeniș, Bistrița-Năsăud County
Fundata (river), a tributary of the Ialomița in Ialomița County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Surgeon%20%28video%20game%29 | The Surgeon is a computer game published in 1985 by Information Systems for Medicine (ISM) for Amiga and Macintosh. The game has two sequels, The Surgeon II and The Surgeon III. In this game, the player is a surgeon. Dr. Myo Thant, The Surgeon's designer, would later go on to design Life & Death, a surgical game with similar elements, albeit with a wider release.
Gameplay
In The Surgeon, the player takes the role of a surgeon in a hospital. The game begins with the player meeting with a patient, and being provided with either an X-ray of the spine or an ultrasound examination of the abdomen, both of which may need to be requested by the player for further insight rather than being given to begin with. When meeting with a patient, the player may judge the patient's condition from a description of symptoms from the patient and the information they're given, and the player may choose to observe the patient (do nothing), prescribe painkillers, or operate. Inaction, such as prescribing painkillers or doing nothing if a patient's condition is serious and time-sensitive, may result in the patient's death. Patients may also die from failed surgery, or abrupt complications during surgery if the player fails to treat them in time. Patients may also die post-surgery from infection if the player neglects to sterilize the area with antiseptic solution before and after surgery, or by not washing their hands.
The death of a patient resets the player's progress, and The Surgeon lacks a save function. The Surgeon's manual details possible medical afflictions the player will need to diagnose and treat in-game, describing their symptoms and the treatment needed. The manual also offers detailed step-by-step instructions for the surgeries in The Surgeon.
Reception
Macworld reviewed the Macintosh version of The Surgeon; the reviewer is a licensed doctor of medicine. Macworld says that the beginning of the game becomes "boring" after playing it several times, a necessity due to the game's lack of a save function, and due to a patient's death resetting progress in-game, they express that "you find yourself going through the early steps again and again." Macworld praises the gameplay and graphics, stating that "The operation consists of a well-defined series of steps that begins with scrubbing yourself and preparing the patient's skin with antiseptic solution. During surgery, any of several potentially fatal complications may arise. If you fail to recognize or treat them properly, the patient will die", calling the gameplay a "reasonably accurate simulation" and "fast paced", but disputes a claim in the game's manual that the game may be valuable to medical students, instead suggesting that "it might prove educational and challenging to nonmedical personnel."
Frank Boosman reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "as a friend of mine has pointed out, Surgeon would excel in applications such as giving medical students their first taste of surgery, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXEI | 104.7 Prime FM (DXEI 104.7 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Prime Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Kidapawan.
References
External links
Prime FM Kidapawan FB Page
Radio stations in Cotabato
Radio stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Stork | David G. Stork is a scientist and author, who has made contributions to machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, image analysis of fine art, and related fields.
Education
Stork received his BS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis under the direction of Dr. Edwin H. Land, President and CEO of the Polaroid Corporation, and his MS and PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park with a thesis under the direction of David S. Falk.
Career
Stork has held full-time and visiting faculty positions in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Materials Science and Engineering, Informatics, Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Symbolic Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Art and Art History variously at Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges and Clark, Boston, and Stanford Universities, the University College London, and the Technical University of Vienna. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. He has held corporate positions as Chief Scientist at Ricoh Innovations and Fellow at Rambus, Inc. He has served on Advisory Boards of the startup companies, NeuralWare, Neural Applications Corporation, and Metalenz. He has published over 215 peer-reviewed publications, 64 US patents, and nine books/proceedings volumes.
Stork is widely considered a pioneer in the application of rigorous computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art paintings and drawings. He published several of the first scholarly works in the field, offered its first courses (at Stanford University), co-founded its first conference, now called Computer Vision and Analysis of Art (CVAA), and published the first textbook pertaining to the field, Pixels & paintings: Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship (Wiley).
Memberships and awards
Stork is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA)., International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and 2023 Leonardo@Djerassi Fellow, and has been Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was awarded the 2017 Industrial Distinguished Leader Award from the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
Selected works
Pattern classification (2nd ed.) by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, and D. G. Stork (Wiley, 2001)
Seeing the light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision and holography (2nd ed.) by D. S. Falk, D. R. Brill, and D. G. Stork (Echo Point |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Migration%20Report | The flagship publication series of the International Organization for Migration, the World Migration Report presents data and information on human migration together with analysis of complex and emerging migration issues.
Released biennially, the World Migration Report 2022 is the eleventh edition in the series.
History
The World Migration Report was first published by IOM in 2000 with the aim of promoting "a better understanding of the main migratory movements that are occurring across the globe". The first edition sought to achieve this aim by providing "an authoritative account of contemporary trends, issues, and problems in the field of international migration", presenting together a "review of trends in international migration in each major region of the world" with "a discussion of some of the main migration policy issues facing the international community".
The subsequent seven editions, published between 2003 and 2015, were published with specific thematic interests. The 2018 edition of the World Migration Report, the first published by IOM as the United Nations' Migration Agency, restructured the report into two parts. The first part provides "key information on migration and migrants" through an exploration of the statistical data available on migration. The second part features several chapters that each feature a "balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues".
Editions
World Migration Report 2022
The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the series, retains the same structure as its predecessors, and has the aim "to set out in clear and accurate terms the changes occurring in migration and mobility globally". The first part of the report consists of four chapters, which provide updated migration statistics at the global and regional levels, while the second part considers the following thematic migration issues different to those in previous reports:
COVID-19's impact on migration and mobility
Peace, security and migration
Migration as a stepladder for opportunity
Disinformation about migration
Migration and the slow-onset impacts of climate change
Human trafficking in migration pathways
Artificial intelligence, migration and mobility
Migrants' contributions to societies
World Migration Report 2020
The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the series, similarly has the aim of contributing to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. The first four chapters are the same as in the 2018 edition, which provide updated migration statistics at the global and regional levels, while the second part considers a range of different migration issues:
Migrants' contributions to societies
Migration, inclusion and social cohesion
Migration and health
Children and unsafe migration
Migration and adaptation to environmental change
Migrants caught in crises
Recent developments in global migration governance
World Migration Report 2018
Unlike the seven preceding reports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20strategy%20%28computing%29 | In computing, defense strategy is a concept and practice used by computer designers, users, and IT personnel to reduce computer security risks.
Common strategies
Boundary protection
Boundary protection employs security measures and devices to prevent unauthorized access to computer systems (referred to as controlling the system border). The approach is based on the assumption that the attacker did not penetrate the system. Examples of this strategy include using gateways, routers, firewalls, and password checks, deleting suspicious emails/messages, and limiting physical access.
Boundary protection is typically the main strategy for computing systems; if this type of defense is successful, no other strategies are required. This is a resource-consuming strategy with a known scope. External information system monitoring is part of boundary protection.
Information System Monitoring
Information System Monitoring employs security measures to find intruders or the damage done by them. This strategy is used when the system has been penetrated, but the intruder did not gain full control. Examples of this strategy include antivirus software, applying a patch, and network behavior anomaly detection.
This strategy's success is based on competition of offence and defence. This is a time and resource-consuming strategy, affecting performance. The scope is variable in time. It cannot be fully successful if not supported by other strategies.
Unavoidable actions
Unavoidable actions employ security measures that cannot be prevented or neutralized. This strategy is based on the assumption that the system has been penetrated, but an intruder cannot prevent the defensive mechanism from being employed. Examples of this strategy include rebooting, using physical unclonable functions, and using a security switch.
Secure enclave
Secure enclave is a strategy that employs security measures that prevent access to some parts of the system. This strategy is used when the system has been penetrated, but an intruder cannot access its special parts. Examples of this strategy include using the Access level, using a Trusted Platform Module, using a microkernel, using Diode (unidirectional network device), and using air gaps.
This is a supporting strategy for boundary protection, information system monitoring and unavoidable action strategies. This is a time and resource-consuming strategy with a known scope. Even if this strategy is fully successful, it does not guarantee the overall success of the larger defense strategy.
False target
False target is a strategy that deploys non-real targets for an intruder. It is used when the system has been penetrated, but the intruder does not know the system architecture. Examples of this strategy include honeypots, virtual computers, virtual security switches, fake files, and address/password copies.
This is a supporting strategy for information system monitoring. It is a time-consuming strategy, and the scope is determined by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant%20reading | Distant reading is an approach in literary studies that applies computational methods to literary data, usually derived from large digital libraries, for the purposes of literary history and theory.
While the term is collective, and is used to refer to a range of different computational methods of analysing literary data, similar approaches also include macroanalysis, cultural analytics, computational formalism, computational literary studies, quantitative literary studies, and algorithmic literary criticism.
History
The term "distant reading" is generally attributed to Franco Moretti and his 2000 article, Conjectures on World Literature. In the article, Moretti proposed a mode of reading which included works outside of established literary canons, which he variously termed "the great unread" and, elsewhere, "the Slaughterhouse of Literature". The innovation it proposed, as far as literary studies was concerned, was that the method employed samples, statistics, paratexts, and other features not often considered within the ambit of literary analysis. Moretti also established a direct opposition to the theory and methods of close reading: "One thing for sure: it cannot mean the very close reading of very few texts—secularized theology, really ('canon'!)—that has radiated from the cheerful town of New Haven over the whole field of literary studies".
However, Moretti initially conceived distant reading for analysis of secondary literature as a roundabout way of getting to know more about primary literature: "[literary history] will become 'second-hand': a patchwork of other people's research, without a single direct textual reading". Only later did the term distant reading (via Moretti and other scholars) come to become primarily identified with computational analysis of primary literary sources.
Despite the consensus about the origins of distant reading at the turn of the twenty-first century, Ted Underwood has traced a longer genealogy of the method, arguing for its elision in current discourse about distant reading. He writes that "distant reading has a largely distinct genealogy stretching back many decades before the advent of the internet—a genealogy that is not for the most part centrally concerned with computers". Underwood emphasises a social-scientific dimension in this prehistory of distant reading, referring to particular examples in the work of Raymond Williams (from the 1960s) and Janice Radway (from the 1980s). Moretti’s conception of literary evolution in Distant Reading is quite similar to the psychologist Colin Martindale’s (Clockwork Muse, 1990) "scientific", computational, neo-Darwinist project of literary evolution, and the role of reading is downplayed by both Martindale and Moretti. According to Martindale, the principles of the evolution of art are based on statistic regularities rather than meaning, data or observation. "So far as the engines of history are concerned, meaning does not matter. In principle, one could st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20dystopia | Digital dystopia, cyber dystopia or algorithmic dystopia refers to an alternate future or present in which digitized technologies or also algorithms have caused major societal disruption. It refers to narratives of technologies influencing social, economic, and political structures, and its diverse set of components includes virtual reality, artificial intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, ubiquitous surveillance, and social networks. In popular culture, technological dystopias often are about or depict mass loss of privacy due to technological innovation and/or social control. They feature heightened socio-political issues like social fragmentation, intensified consumerism, dehumanization, and mass human migrations.
Origins
In 1998, "digital dystopia" was used to describe negative effects of multichannel television on society. "Cyber-dystopia" was coined in 1998 in connection with cyber-punk literature.
One of the earliest mentions is on 2004 when an academic and blogger was expelled for commenting on how the Sims Online Computer game based in the city of Alphaville had become a digital dystopia controlled by "president" Donald Meacham and corrupt faction of robot nobles had become a digital dystopia with crime, cyber-sex prostitution and general civic chaos. Digital experimentation of the elements of cyberspace became extremely invasive and took on the appearance of anarchy in Alphaville.
In August 2007, David Nye presented the idea of cyber-dystopia, which envisions a world made worse by technological advancements. Cyber-dystopian principles focus on the individual losing control, becoming dependent and being unable to stop change.
Nancy Baym shows a cyber-dystopia negatively effect of a cyber-dystopia in social interactions as it says new media will take people away from their intimate relationships, as they substitute mediated relationships or even media use itself for face to face engagement".
The dystopian voices of Andrew Keen, Jaron Lanier, and Nicholas Carr tell society as a whole could sacrifice our humanity to the cult of cyber-utopianism. In particular, Lanier describes it as "an apocalypse of self-abdication" and that "consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence"; warning that by emphasising the majority or crowd, we are de-emphasising individuality. Similarly, Keen and Carr write that there is a dangerous mob mentality that dominates the internet; since, rather than creating more democracy, the internet is empowering the rule of the mob. Instead of achieving social equality or utopianism, the internet has created a "selfie-centered" culture of voyeurism and narcissism.
John Naughton, writing for The Guardian, described Aldous Huxley, The author of Brave New World, as the prophet of digital dystopia.
See also
Cyberpunk
Digital sublime
Further reading
References
Deviance (sociology)
Cyberspace
Social theories
Technophobia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20DNA%20Data%20Bank%20of%20Canada | The National DNA Data Bank of Canada (NDDB) is a national DNA Database that was set up in 2000. Managed by the RCMP, it provide matches to convicted offenders and offer a memory repository for cold cases. The database hold 642,758 DNA profiles as of December 31, 2022.
History
The first DNA analysis in Canada for investigative purposes was in April of 1989. The RCMP utilized the method to aid in the investigation of a sexual assault in Ottawa, Ontario. The suspect in the case denied allegations made by the victim. Subsequent use of DNA forensic analysis confirmed the suspect to be the perpetrator.
In 1995, Bill C-104 was unanimously passed by the parliament. This enabled provincial court judges to issue police warrants for obtaining biological samples from suspects in a criminal investigation.
In 1998, the DNA Identification Act was enacted by the parliament. The Act established a new law governing the creation and administration of a national DNA database. It updated the Criminal Code to allow a judge to authorize collection of bodily substances from a person found guilty of designated offences. Same year, after the Swissair Flight 111 disaster, a special DNA typing task force led by the RCMP used the technology to help identify human remains.
In 2000, National DNA Data Bank was officially launched. The legislation enabled this time, allowed military judges to make post-conviction DNA data bank orders.
National Missing Persons DNA Program
National Missing Persons DNA Program (NMPDP) is an initiative established by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2018 to support missing persons and unidentified remains investigations.
References
External links
National DNA Data Bank
National Missing Persons DNA Program
Biometrics
DNA
Law enforcement in Canada
National DNA databases
Forensic databases
Biological databases
Government databases in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Out%20Sundays | All-Out Sundays (also known as AOS or AyOS) is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Miggy Tanchanco, it is originally hosted by Alden Richards, Julie Anne San Jose, Rayver Cruz, Ken Chan, Rita Daniela, Christian Bautista, Aicelle Santos and Mark Bautista. It premiered on January 5, 2020, on the network's Sunday Grande sa Hapon line up replacing Sunday PinaSaya.
The show is originally titled as All-Out Sunday. It is streaming online on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
Overview
All-Out Sundays is under the direction of Miggy Tanchanco. The creative team is composed of creative directors, Caesar Cosme and Rommel Gacho. The latter is also the headwriter, along with Mcoy Fundales. Rem Zamora serves as the stage director.
The cast from variety shows Sunday PinaSaya and Studio 7, as well as the winners and graduates of the reality competition The Clash, were carried over to join the show.
In March 2020, the admission of a live audience in the studio and production were suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed through livestreaming on YouTube and Facebook as All-Out Sundays: The Stay Home Party. It returned to television on July 12, 2020. The show returned to studio filming on September 27, 2020.
Singer Lani Misalucha joined the show on January 31, 2021. On February 14, 2021, actress Barbie Forteza also joined the show.
On April 24, 2022, the live audiences were brought back into the show.
Cast
Julie Anne San Jose
Rayver Cruz
Ken Chan
Rita Daniela
Aicelle Santos
Christian Bautista
Mark Bautista
Gabbi Garcia
Derrick Monasterio
Glaiza de Castro
Miguel Tanfelix
Kyline Alcantara
Cassy Legaspi
Mavy Legaspi
Joaquin Domagoso
Lexi Gonzales
Kim de Leon
Shayne Sava
Golden Cañedo
Jeremiah Tiangco
Garrett Bolden
Thea Astley
Vince Crisostomo
Allen Ansay
Radson Flores
Abdul Raman
Paolo Contis
Kakai Bautista
Betong Sumaya
Power Impact Dancers
Dance Royalties
XOXO
Lyra Micolob
Riel Lomadilla
Mel Caluag
Dani Ozaraga
Jeniffer Maravilla
Nef Medina
Ruru Madrid
Zonia Mejia
Jamir Zabarte
Rodjun Cruz
Khalil Ramos
Jessica Villarubin
Jennie Gabriel
Althea Ablan
Barbie Forteza
Rhian Ramos
Kristoffer Martin
Tuesday Vargas
Ysabel Ortega
Hannah Precillas
Yasser Marta
Mitzi Josh
Pamela Prinster
Sheemee Buenaobra
Sandro Muhlach
Pokwang
EA Guzman
Buboy Villar
Pekto
Sofia Pablo
Bruce Roeland
Bianca Umali
Lala Vinzon
Crystal Paras
Matt Lozano
Manilyn Reynes
Anthony Rosaldo
Andrea Torres
Kitkat
Mariane Osabel
Vilmark Viray
Mauie Francisco
Eugene Domingo
Zephanie
Sparkada
Saviour Ramos
Roxie Smith
Anjay Anson
Vanessa Peña
Jeff Moses
Cheska Fausto
Michael Sager
Kirsten Gonzales
Kim Perez
Caitlyn Stave
Vince Maristela
Dilek Montemayor
Raheel Bhyria
Tanya Ramos
Larkin Castor
Lauren King
Sean Lucas
Rufa Mae Quinto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus%20%28poker%20bot%29 | Pluribus is a computer poker player using artificial intelligence built by Facebook's AI Lab and Carnegie Mellon University. Pluribus plays the poker variation no-limit Texas hold 'em and is "the first bot to beat humans in a complex multiplayer competition".
According to the Pluribus creators, "Developing a superhuman AI for multiplayer poker was the widely recognized main remaining milestone" in computer poker prior to Pluribus. Pluribus relies on offline self-play to build a base strategy, but then continues to learn in real-time during its online play. The base strategy was computed in eight days, and at market rates would cost about $144 to produce, much smaller than contemporary superhuman game-playing milestones such as AlphaZero. In AI, two-player zero-sum games (such as heads-up hold'em) are usually won by approximating a Nash equilibrium strategy; however, this approach does not work for games with three or more players. Pluribus instead uses an approach which lacks strong theoretical guarantees, but nevertheless appears to work well empirically at defeating human players. Across the competitions, Pluribus won an average of over 30 milli big blinds per game. Pluribus' self-learned play style avoids "limping" (calling the big blind), and engages in "donk betting" (ending a round with a call and starting the next round by betting) more often than human experts do.
Among expert poker players, Jason Les stated he felt "very hopeless. You don't feel like there’s anything you can do to win." Chris Ferguson stated "Pluribus is a very hard opponent to play against. It's really hard to pin him down on any kind of hand." Jimmy Chou stated "Whenever playing the bot, I feel like I pick up something new to incorporate into my game." In The Wall Street Journal, science editor Daniela Hernandez characterized Pluribus as "advanced at a key human skill — deception".
Playing No-Limit Hold'em against five professional poker players, Pluribus won an average of $5 per hand with winnings of $1,000 per hour, which Facebook described as a "decisive margin of victory."
Following the victory, the developers declined to release the source code, out of fear it would be misused to surreptitiously cheat against human poker players in online matches.
References
Computer poker players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Schmitt | Rob Schmitt (born August 13, 1983) is an American television personality who served as a co-host on Fox & Friends First. He stopped appearing on the network in August 2020 and currently hosts the nightly program Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax.
Biography
Schmitt was born on August 13, 1983, and raised in Carmel, Indiana, the son of Farzaneh and Robert Schmitt (German descent). His mother is an immigrant from Iran. In 2005, Schmitt graduated with a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University.
In 2008, he accepted a position as a weekend anchor at the ABC affiliate WPLG-TV in Miami, Florida. In 2011, he accepted a position as an anchor with CBS Los Angeles and in 2013, as an anchor at WNBC-TV in New York City. In 2016, he moved to Fox News where he served as co-host on Fox Nation with Carley Shimkus and worked as a co-anchor of Fox & Friends First with Jillian Mele. In August 2020, Schmitt ceased appearances on Fox and started appearing in Newsmax content. His nightly program, Rob Schmitt Tonight, premiered on Newsmax on December 21, 2020. Schmitt resides in the East Hamptons.
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1983 births
American television reporters and correspondents
Living people
People from Indiana
American television journalists
American people of Iranian descent
Fox News people
Newsmax TV people
Indiana University alumni
People from Carmel, Indiana
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melba%20Crawford | Melba M. Crawford is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and a professor of agronomy, Civil Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Purdue University. As the Nancy Uridil and Francis Bossu Professor in Civil Engineering, her specialty is Geomatics Engineering.
Crawford also serves as professor and chair of Excellence in Earth Observation.
Education
Ph.D., Ohio State University, systems engineering 1981
MSCE, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, civil engineering 1973
BSCE, University of Illinois, civil engineering 1970,
Career
As a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Crawford founded an "interdisciplinary research and applications development program in space-based and airborne remote sensing.” Besides being an Associate Dean at Purdue, Crawford holds the Purdue Chair of Excellence in Earth Observation and is the Director of the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing. Crawford has worked with NASA, the US Department of State, and was the 2013–2014 President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
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Women in optics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Edgecombe%20Robb | Roberta Edgecombe Robb is a Canadian economist, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brock University. She is co-founder and past president of the Canadian Women Economists Network (CWEN). Her research primarily focuses on women's status in the workplace and related government policy.
Education and career
Robb attended the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. She then completed a master's degree at UBC before taking a job with the Memorial University's department of economics. She later left this position to study for a PhD at the University of Essex (UK) and when she returned to Canada she took on a position at Brock University. Robb has served on the editorial board for the Canadian Journal of Economics from 1978 to 1981, as Chair of the Economics Department at Brock from 1986 to 1989, and as Director of the Women's Studies Program at Brock from 1999 to 2002. In 1990, Robb, with Lorraine Eden, co-founded the Canadian Women Economists Network. From 1997 to 1999, she served as president of CWEN.
CWEC/CFÉC Service Award
In 2019, Robb was recognized by the Canadian Women Economists Committee (CWEC/CFÉC)—successor organization to CWEN and part of the Canadian Economics Association—with the inaugural CWEC/CFÉC Service Award.
Select bibliography
References
External links
Robb on worldcat.org
CWEC Service Award announcement
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian economists
Canadian women economists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20Respondek | Jerzy Respondek (born 1977 in Ruda Śląska, Poland) is a Polish computer scientist and mathematician, professor at Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice.
His research interests cover numerical methods and mathematical control theory. Respondek is best known for his works on special matrices and their applications in control theory.
Life and career
In 2001 he graduated from Silesian University of Technology obtaining two MSc degrees: in computer science and mathematical control theory. In 2003 he obtained PhD in computer science on the basis of the dissertation “Numerical aspects of differential operators spectral theory” under supervision of Jerzy Klamka, a known Polish mathematician. In 2016 he obtained DSc from Poznan University of Technology, a widely recognized faculty, considered the most prestigious Polish department in computer science.
Respondek lectured in numerous universities, such as the mathematics department of the University of Pisa (Italy), computer departments of universities of Valencia (Spain), Nuremberg (Germany), Alcala (Spain) and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Manchester (UK), Alan Turing's domestic department.
Respondek serves as member of scientific committees of most prestigious conferences in mathematics and computer science. He also delivered plenary lectures at world known mathematics and computer science conferences, like International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (2015) and European Simulation and Modelling Conference (2014, 2020).
Other activities
In 2008-17 he participated in the editorial board of the journal "Mathematics and Computers in Simulation", the main journal of the IMACS organization, recognized by the numerical methods scientists community. Since 2020 he participates in the editorial board of the journal "International Journal of Systems Science".
In 2008 obtained prestigious stipend for researchers founded by world recognized Polish weekly "Polityka".
In 2012-13 Respondek belonged to one of the main advisory groups of the Polish Ministry of Science. Between 2014 and 2016 he worked in the science-popularization advisory group of that ministry.
As a delegate of these two groups he participated in the proceedings of the National Parliamentary Commission of Education, Science and Youth in Warsaw.
In 2007-08 he was a member of the Forecast Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. It is a specialized, national think tank cooperating with the Club of Rome. His works in that group pertained mainly to the social and economic aspects of computer science.
Respondek co-organized the meeting (18 April 2013, Warsaw) with the Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Robert Huber, German biochemist awarded in 1988 for Chemistry.
In 1996 he was the winner of the national edition of International Physics Olympiad at the voivodeship level.
Since 2018 he shares his time between Poland and Brussels where he works in the European Research Executive Agency ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Roth | Stefan Roth (born March 13, 1977, in Mainz, Germany) is a German computer scientist, professor of computer science and dean of the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He heads the Visual Inference Lab.
He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning techniques in computer vision. His research focuses on recognition and tracking of people and objects, scene understanding, statistical image modeling and processing and motion modeling and prediction.
Life
Roth studied computer science and engineering at the University of Mannheim, obtaining his diplom in 2001. The title of his thesis was "Analysis of a Deterministic Annealing Method for Graph Matching and Quadratic Assignment Problems in Computer Vision". He then studied computer science at Brown University, where he received his Master's degree. In 2007, he received his PhD in computer science under Michael Julian Black from the same institution. The title of his dissertation was "High-Order Markov Random Fields for Low-Level Vision". From 2007 to 2013 he was assistant professor and since 2013 professor at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he heads the Visual Inference Lab. He is also dean of the department.
He is principal investigator of the ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt.
Awards
In 2001, he received the Dean’s Fellowship of Brown University. In 2005, he became associate member of Sigma Xi and received honorable mention for the Marr Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). In 2010, Roth was awarded the Olympus Prize of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), the highest German award for researchers in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision. In 2012, he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, the highest award for young researchers in Germany. In 2013, he received an ERC Starting Grant, the highest award of the European Union for young researchers, with a grant of 1.5 million euros for the project "Visual Learning and Inference in Joint Scene Models (VISLIM)". In 2019, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant. Roth is a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Publications
References
Living people
German computer scientists
1977 births
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
University of Mannheim alumni
Brown University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20tangent%20kernel | In the study of artificial neural networks (ANNs), the neural tangent kernel (NTK) is a kernel that describes the evolution of deep artificial neural networks during their training by gradient descent. It allows ANNs to be studied using theoretical tools from kernel methods.
In general, a kernel is a positive-semidefinite symmetric function of two inputs which represents some notion of similarity between the two inputs. The NTK is a specific kernel derived from a given neural network; in general, when the neural network parameters change during training, the NTK evolves as well. However, in the limit of large layer width the NTK becomes constant, revealing a duality between training the wide neural network and kernel methods: gradient descent in the infinite-width limit is fully equivalent to kernel gradient descent with the NTK. As a result, using gradient descent to minimize least-square loss for neural networks yields the same mean estimator as ridgeless kernel regression with the NTK. This duality enables simple closed form equations describing the training dynamics, generalization, and predictions of wide neural networks.
The NTK was introduced in 2018 by Arthur Jacot, Franck Gabriel and Clément Hongler, who used it to study the convergence and generalization properties of fully connected neural networks. Later works extended the NTK results to other neural network architectures. In fact, the phenomenon behind NTK is not specific to neural networks and can be observed in generic nonlinear models, usually by a suitable scaling.
Main results (informal)
Let denote the scalar function computed by a given neural network with parameters on input . Then the neural tangent kernel is defined asSince it is written as a dot product between mapped inputs (with the gradient of the neural network function serving as the feature map), we are guaranteed that the NTK is symmetric and positive semi-definite. The NTK is thus a valid kernel function.
Consider a fully connected neural network whose parameters are chosen i.i.d. according to any mean-zero distribution. This random initialization of induces a distribution over whose statistics we will analyze, both at initialization and throughout training (gradient descent on a specified dataset). We can visualize this distribution via a neural network ensemble which is constructed by drawing many times from the initial distribution over and training each draw according to the same training procedure.
The number of neurons in each layer is called the layer’s width. Consider taking the width of every hidden layer to infinity and training the neural network with gradient descent (with a suitably small learning rate). In this infinite-width limit, several nice properties emerge:
At initialization (before training), the neural network ensemble is a zero-mean Gaussian process (GP). This means that distribution of functions is the maximum-entropy distribution with mean and covariance , where the GP covaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Mid-Counties | Capital Mid-Counties is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, south Staffordshire, the Cotswolds and north Oxfordshire.
The station launched on 2 December 2019 as a franchise owned by Quidem, following the merger of six stations, including Touch FM, Rugby FM and Banbury Sound.
The station transferred to Global ownership in August 2021.
History
Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, Capital Mid-Counties is permitted to share all programming between the six licences, all located within the approved area of the Midlands.
These licences previously broadcast as separate stations:
Radio Harmony began broadcasting to Coventry and Warwickshire in August 1990, later rebranding to 'Kix 96' in 1995.
FM102 The Bear began broadcasting to Warwickshire, Worcestershire and The Cotswolds from studios in Stratford-upon-Avon in May 1996.
Centre FM began broadcasting to south east Staffordshire and South Derbyshire from studios in Tamworth in June 1998.
107.1 Rugby FM began broadcasting to Rugby and surrounding areas in August 2002.
Banbury Sound began broadcasting to north Oxfordshire in February 2006 as Touch FM.
107.3 Touch Radio began broadcasting to the Warwick, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth areas of Warwickshire in April 2008.
By 2006, The Bear 102, Centre FM and Kix 96 were rebranded by then-owners CN Group as Touch FM - with similar branding adopted by the Warwick and Banbury stations upon their launch. In the same year, the CN Group acquired Rugby FM and transferred its operations to a regional broadcast centre in Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
In 2009, the CN Group sold off its radio interests in the Midlands. The Banbury station was sold to a private consortium in a staff buyout in April and subsequently rebranded as a wholly independent operation, Banbury Sound. In June, the four Touch FM stations and Rugby FM were sold for an undisclosed price to Quidem, a newly established company set up by former GCap Media directors Steve Orchard and Wendy Pallot.
The new owners introduced a new format identified on-air as Classic Hits and The Best Of Today with live breakfast shows and voicetracked Drivetime shows for each licence area. In October 2010, Quidem reacquired Banbury Sound, which co-located to Quidem's main studios at Honiley in Warwickshire and reintroduced networked output but retained its separate branding.
From 2012 until 2016, Touch FM's service for Burton, Lichfield & Tamworth was broadcast from studios in Coalville, Leicestershire, shared with Oak FM (sold off by Quidem in 2015) until shortly after that station's sudden closure, when it moved to the Honiley studios.
In September 2019, Quidem announced it had entered a brand licensing agreement with Global, citing financial losses. The agreement allows the group to carry the branding and programming from one of Global's radio networks while retaining o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostlop | is an unreleased 1996 puzzle arcade video game that was in development by Data East and planned to be published by SNK for the Neo Geo MVS (arcade), Neo Geo AES (home) and Neo Geo CD. In the game, players assume the role of ghosthunters Bruce and McCoy from the Data Ghost agency to evict mischievous ghosts across multiple locations. Its gameplay mainly consists of puzzle mixed with Breakout-style action elements using a main two-button configuration.
Headed by Nitro Ball director Koji Jinbo, Ghostlop was created by most of the same team that previously worked on several projects at Data East for the Neo Geo platforms and who would later go on to work at Kaneko on Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons before the former company declared bankruptcy in 2003. The game was first given a location test in 1996 and despite being previewed across few video game magazines, in addition of being showcased to attendees at trade shows, it was ultimately shelved by SNK for unknown reasons.
Despite Ghostlop never being officially released to the public by SNK, a ROM image of the complete game was leaked online by homebrew developer Neobitz, allowing for it to be played. As of 2009, the rights to the title are currently owned by G-Mode. Its characters and gameplay mechanics would later reappear in Magical Drop V.
Gameplay
Ghostlop is a falling block puzzle game reminiscent of Drop Off and Puzzle Bobble, where players take control of ghost hunters Bruce (P1) and McCoy (P2) with the main objective of evicting as many ghosts as possible from the playfield with a single ball by using the walls and/or their respective character to ricochet the ball back at the ghosts to eliminate them before the timer runs out and the current round ends. Failing in catching the ball from rebound after touching the floor results in a stack of random colored ghosts rapidly descending from the top and once all the ghosts reach the bottom, the game is over as a result unless players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. The game offers a single-player campaign mode where one player assume the role of either Bruce or McCoy to hunt and evict mischievous ghosts across multiple locations, as well as a versus mode where players compete for the highest score.
A unique feature of the game is how ghosts are evicted; Similar to Silhouette Mirage and Ikarugas polarity mechanism, players can switch their ball between red and blue colors in order to evict ghosts of the same respective color by pressing either A or B buttons. There are also three additional types of ghosts: bomb ghosts capable of detaching others caught within their blast radius, skull ghosts that take two hits to evict as well as electric ghosts, which act as dynamite that erases all the ghosts from the playfield. Similar to Puyo Puyo's chain mechanism, players are able to attack the rival playfield by performing a chain reaction with a disappearing ghost that cause a group of ghosts to fall off and spawn in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALLC%20%28disambiguation%29 | ALLC may refer to:
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, former name of the European Association for Digital Humanities
Atticus Limited Liability Company, an LLC formed to support the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird
ALLC (gene), from List of human protein-coding genes 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20M.%20Pinkston | Timothy M. Pinkston is an American computer engineer, researcher, educator and administrator whose work is focused in the area of computer architecture. He holds the George Pfleger Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California (USC). He also serves in an administrative role as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Pinkston's computer architecture research focuses on the design of interconnection networks for many-core and multiprocessor computer systems. His research contributions span formal theory, methods, and techniques for abating interconnection network routing inefficiencies and preventing deadlock. He has contributed to development of solutions to network deadlocking phenomena, including routing-induced, protocol (message)-induced, and reconfiguration-induced deadlocks. He has also developed energy-, resource-, and performance-efficient network-on-chip (NoC) designs.
In 2009, Pinkston became an IEEE Fellow (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) "for contributions to design and analysis of interconnection networks and routing algorithms." In 2019, Pinkston became an ACM Fellow (Association for Computing Machinery) "for contributions to interconnection network routing algorithms and architectures, and leadership in expanding computing research. Pinkston is the first African American to become a tenured faculty member with primary appointment in engineering and the first African American to hold a decanal administrative faculty position in engineering in USC's history.
Education
Pinkston earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from Ohio State University. He then went on to earn an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1993, both from Stanford University. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is The GLORI Strategy for Multiprocessors: Integrating Optics into the Interconnect Architecture.
Career
Prior to embarking on a professorial career in academia, Pinkston was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a Research Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratories, and a Hughes Doctoral Fellow and Research Staff at Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL). In 1993, Pinkston joined the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor and promoted to the ranks of Associate Professor in 1999 and full Professor in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Computer Engineering Division of Electrical Engineering-Systems at USC. In 2009, Pinkston was appointed as the Senior Associate Dean of Engineering of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and, in 2011, became the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Viterbi School. In 2017, Pinkston was named holder of the Louise L. Dunn Endowed Professorship in Engineering, and in 2019, he was named holder of the George Pfleger Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20matching%20polytope | In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable matching polytope or stable marriage polytope is a convex polytope derived from the solutions to an instance of the stable matching problem.
Description
The stable matching polytope is the convex hull of the indicator vectors of the stable matchings of the given problem. It has a dimension for each pair of elements that can be matched, and a vertex for each stable matchings. For each vertex, the Cartesian coordinates are one for pairs that are matched in the corresponding matching, and zero for pairs that are not matched.
The stable matching polytope has a polynomial number of facets. These include the conventional inequalities describing matchings without the requirement of stability (each coordinate must be between 0 and 1, and for each element to be matched the sum of coordinates for the pairs involving that element must be exactly one), together with inequalities constraining the resulting matching to be stable (for each potential matched pair elements, the sum of coordinates for matches that are at least as good for one of the two elements must be at least one). The points satisfying all of these constraints can be thought of as the fractional solutions of a linear programming relaxation of the stable matching problem.
Integrality
It is a theorem of that the polytope described by the facet constraints listed above has only the vertices described above. In particular it is an integral polytope. This can be seen as an analogue of the theorem of Garrett Birkhoff that an analogous polytope, the Birkhoff polytope describing the set of all fractional matchings between two sets, is integral.
An equivalent way of stating the same theorem is that every fractional matching can be expressed as a convex combination of integral matchings. prove this by constructing a probability distribution on integral matchings whose expected value can be set equal to any given fractional matching. To do so, they perform the following steps:
Consider for each element on one side of the stable matching problem (the doctors, say, in a problem matching doctors to hospitals) the fractional values assigned to pairings with the elements on the other side (the hospitals), and sort these values in decreasing order by that doctor's preferences.
Partition the unit interval into subintervals, of lengths equal to these fractional values, in the sorted order. Choosing a random number in the unit interval will give a random match for the selected doctor, with probability equal to the fractional weight of that match.
Symmetrically, consider for each element on the other side of the stable matching (the hospitals), sort the fractional values for pairings involving that element in increasing order by preference, and construct a partition of the unit interval whose subintervals have these fractional values in the sorted order.
It can be proven that, for each matched pair, the subintervals associated with that pair are the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20in%20film | 2021 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming.
Evaluation of the year
In his article highlighting the best movies of 2021, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "From an artistic perspective, 2021 has been an excellent cinematic vintage, yet the bounty is shadowed by an air of doom. The reopening of theatres has brought many great movies—some of which were postponed from last year—to the big screen, but fewer people to see them. The biggest successes, as usual, have been superhero and franchise films. The French Dispatch has done respectably in wide release, and Licorice Pizza is doing superbly on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, but few, if any, of the year’s best films are likely to reach high on the box-office charts. The shift toward streaming was already under way when the pandemic struck, and as the trend has accelerated it’s had a paradoxical effect on movies. On the one hand, a streaming release is a wide release, happily accessible to all (or to all subscribers). On the other, an online release usually registers as a nonevent, and many of the great movies hardly make a blip on the mediascape despite being more accessible than ever."
Highest-grossing films
2021 box office records
Worldwide, the global box office ended the year at $21.4 billion, a figure 78% higher than 2020.
China was the highest-grossing country of 2021 with $7.3 billion.
In the United States and Canada, theaters earned an estimated $4.55 billion throughout 2021, a statistic 100% higher than 2020's $2.28 billion and 60% lower than 2019's $11.4 billion.
Film records
The Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to gross $23 billion, $24 billion, and $25 billion with the releases of Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Additionally, the MCU became the first film franchise to have ten films gross over $1 billion with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Spider-Man: No Way Home became the 48th film to gross $1 billion worldwide (the first film to do so since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), surpassed Spider-Man: Far From Home as Sony's highest-grossing film of all time, and attained the distinction of being the highest-grossing film not to be released in China (one of the world's biggest box office markets).
Also, is the third film to surpass the $800 million mark in North America.
In Latin America, No Way Home became the all-time highest-grossing film in Mexico (), and the second all-time highest in Brazil (), Central America () and Ecuador ().
The Battle at Lake Changjin became the highest-grossing non-English film of all time as well as highest-grossing Chinese film of all time.
The Battle at Lake Changjin also became the second highest-grossing film in a single market, after Star Wars: The Force Awakens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXBN | DXBN is the callsign of the following radio stations located in Butuan:
DXBN-AM, an AM station of Philippine Broadcasting Service
DXBN-TV, a TV station of People's Television Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Word Broadcasting Corporation (also known as Filipinas Broadcasting Association, Inc.) is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at University of San Carlos, Downtown Campus, Corner. P. del Rosario St. Cebu City.
Originally founded by the local division of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, it is operated by the Society of the Divine Word's Philippine Southern Province division since 1979. It is currently an affiliate of Catholic Media Network.
Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
References
Philippine radio networks
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Yaya | First () is a 2021 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Sanya Lopez in the title role. It premiered on March 15, 2021 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Anak ni Waray vs. Anak ni Biday. The series concluded on July 2, 2021 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by The World Between Us in its timeslot.
A continuation of the series, First Lady aired in 2022. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sanya Lopez as Melody Reyes-Acosta
Supporting cast
Gabby Concepcion as Glenn Francisco Acosta
Pancho Magno as Conrad Enriquez
Cassy Legaspi as Nina Acosta
Joaquin Domagoso as Jonas Clarito
Sandy Andolong as Edna Reyes
Gardo Versoza as Luis Prado
Maxine Medina as Lorraine Prado
Boboy Garovillo as Florencio Reyes
Pilar Pilapil as Blessilda "Blessie" Acosta
Kakai Bautista as Pepita San Jose
Cai Cortez as Norma Robles
Analyn Barro as Gemmalyn Rose "Gemrose" Reyes
Thou Reyes as Yessey Reyes
Patricia Coma as Nicole Acosta
Clarence Delgado as Nathan Acosta
Thia Thomalla as Valerie "Val" Cañete
Jon Lucas as Titus de Villa
Glenda Garcia as Marni Tupaz
Anjo Damiles as Jasper Agcaoili
Kiel Rodriguez as Paul Librada
Jerick Dolormente as Lloyd Reyes
Hailey Mendes as Charlotte "Charlie" Barboa
Guest cast
Boots Anson-Roa as Diane Carlos
Jean Garcia as Christine Acosta
Andre Paras as Alexander Carlos
Tommy Abuel as Anthony Carlos
Allen Dizon as Subido
Mikoy Morales as Jaime
Jenzel Angeles as Paige
Lovely Rivero as Viola
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Rosales
Wilma Doesnt as Matilda
Issa Litton as Helena Buenaventura
Michael Roy Jornales as Danilo Garcia
Dennis Marasigan as Ezekiel Lopez
Muriel Lomadilla as Beverly "Bevs" Oliveros
Rollie Inocencio as Pedrito Conde
Nicki Morena as Aila
Julius Miguel as Osmond Buenaventura
Atak as Impak
Cecile Paz as Jess
Chinggay Datu as Kathy Baluyot
Lourdes Conde Serrano as Lourdes
Michael Flores as Allan Buenaventura
Marnie Lapus as Mercedeta "Mercy" L. Primavera
Luis Hontiveros as Jason
Teresa Loyzaga as Alessandra "Sandra" Robles
Polo Ravales
Production
In November 2019, Marian Rivera was hired to portray the role of First .
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rivera left the series in September 2020, due to the safety protocols of the series' filming. Sanya Lopez was later hired as the replacement in October 2020. Actor Kelvin Miranda was also initially hired for the role of Jonas Clarito. He was pulled out from the series to appear in the drama series The Lost Recipe. Joaquin Domagoso served as his replacement. Filming was continued in November 2020.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of First earned a 23% rating. The final episode scored a 19.2% rating.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20traffic | In computer networking, east-west traffic is network traffic among devices within a specific data center. The other direction of traffic flow is north-south traffic, data flowing from or to a system physically residing outside the data center.
Traffic
As a result of virtualization, private cloud, converged, and hyper-converged infrastructure adoption, east-west traffic volumes have increased.
Today many virtual functions including virtual firewalls, load balancers and other software-defined networking (SDN) perform various functions and services that previously ran on physical hardware.
As these components relay data to each other, they increase traffic on the network, which can increase latency and cause network congestion.
As disaggregated compute and storage becomes popular, east-west traffic volumes will increase.
Traditionally, many data centers today deploy their systems using a fat-tree or CLOS topology. In this network topology, servers and appliances that host applications are deployed within the racks. There is a top of the rack (ToR) switch (a leaf switch) that connects the systems within the rack as well as to other spine switches. The spine switches connect ToRs as well as provide connectivity to other spine switches through another layer of switch.
Applications communicate with other applications running on other systems for typical services, such as accessing an asset stored in another device, gathering results from a micro-service task(s) executed on other systems, or simply getting a status update from management software.
See also
Virtual private network
References
Data processing
Computer data
Electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Food%20Truck%20Race%20%28season%2011%29 | The eleventh season of the American reality television series The Great Food Truck Race entitled The Great Food Truck Race: Holiday Hustle hosted by Tyler Florence began airing on the Food Network on November 27, 2019. It concluded on December 18, 2019, after airing a four episode season, making it the shortest season in the series history. It was announced on October 16, 2019, to be a special holiday-based season of the series. Five truck teams competed against each other in food-based competitions to be the last remaining team with one team being eliminated each week.
Format
On the first day five new truck teams meet with host Tyler Florence. Each team receives a brand new food truck and seed money to buy necessities to operate their truck. Over the course of a weekend they must attempt to sell as much food as possible to make profit. Along with selling food teams must also participate in a variety of challenges which can either help or harm them by having positive or negative responses based on the challenge results. Oftentimes teams either receive immunity from elimination, money toward their total, or extra selling time. The team with the least amount of money at the end of each weekend is eliminated from the competition and is required to return the keys to their truck before leaving. The last team remaining is allowed to keep their food truck and receives .
Truck teams
Big Stuff – This team from Parker, Colorado is all about any food that can be stuffed. Operated by Brad Brutlag and Eddie Cumming, along with friend/"marketing genius" Mike O'Neill, these three chefs usually work in galley kitchens, so they're used to working in small stations; making a food truck operation a breeze.
Creole Queens – An all-female team composed of married couple Tryshell and Raven Robertson, with extra support from their friend Ariana Mitchell. The first team in the race's history to be operated by a same-sex couple, these girls bring both the party and the culture of The Big Easy with food, love, and the overall experience found in New Orleans.
Lia's LUMPIA – This team out of San Diego consists of head chef Spencer Hunter, friend Tania Garcia, and Spencer's sous chef/mother Benelia Santos-Hunter. Spencer comes from a long line of restaurateurs, with his maternal grandmother being the one to bring Filipino cuisine to San Diego County; and he wants to continue that legacy with his catering company and occasional pop-up restaurants. They specialize in Filipino cuisine, especially Filipino lumpia.
Magical Mystery Heroes – Out of Butler County, Ohio comes self-proclaimed eclectic cook Matt Williams, his sous chef Hannah Schulz, and his cousin/Hannah's husband/frontman Chris, who are the employees behind this food truck. Their menu, as Matt calls it, is a "little bit of a mystery", as they change the theme of their menu every day. As Matt says, "We may serve sandwiches one day, the next day tacos. We like to keep it fresh."
Slap Shot – Another all-female tea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille%20Messac | Achille Messac is the Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences at Howard University. He has previously served as Professor of Aerospace Engineering Mississippi State University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.
Early life and education
Messac grew up in Haiti. He lived in Port-au-Prince until he was fifteen years old. He was a member of the Hughes Aircraft Company High Achiever Student program, where he worked on the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar system. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1986. After earning his PhD Messac joined the Draper Laboratory where he worked on multibody dynamics and structural optimisation. He was a pioneer in control structure integrated design and computational visualisation. He joined the faculty at Northeastern University in 1994.
Research and career
Messac joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2000. In 2008 Messac was made Head of the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer. He moved to Syracuse University in 2010, where he was made Distinguished Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Alongside transforming diversity within the department, Messac helped to raise Syracuse twelve positions in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. In 2010 Messac returned to Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake where he met Nannette Canniff, founder of the St Boniface Haiti Foundation (SBHF).
In 2013 he joined Mississippi State University, where he held the Earnest W. and Mary Ann Deavenport, Jr., Chair and Dean of Engineering. He was the first African-American person to be made a Dean at Mississippi State in the university's history. In 2015 Messac was made Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he led nine technical committees. Messac moved to Howard University Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences at Howard University in 2016. During his time as Dean he led the re-accreditation of the architecture program and improving the national ranking of Howard University programs. In the three years since he was elected Dean, Howard University has risen 66 positions in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Rankings. He partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to create a dual-degree program for postgraduate students.
Awards and honours
His awards and honours include;
2008 Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2010 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Award
2019 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Selected publications
His publications includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3960X | 3960X may refer to:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X, computer processor released in 2019
Intel Core i7-3960X, computer processor released in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3970X | 3970X may refer to:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, computer processor released in 2019
Intel Core i7-3970X, computer processor released in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian%20Ma%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jian Ma (Chinese: 马坚) is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a faculty member in the Computational Biology Department. His lab develops machine learning algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome and cellular organization and their implications for evolution, health and disease. During his Ph.D. and postdoc training, he developed algorithms to reconstruct the ancestral mammalian genome. His research group has recently pioneered a series of new machine learning methods for 3D epigenomics, comparative genomics, spatial genomics, and single-cell analysis. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2011. In 2020, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Computer Science. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He leads an NIH 4D Nucleome Center to develop machine learning algorithms to better understand the cell nucleus. He is the Program Chair for RECOMB 2024.
Recent Publications
Zhang Y, Boninsegna L, Yang M, Misteli T, Alber F, and Ma J. Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization. Nature Reviews Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-023-00638-1, 2023.
Chidester B, Zhou T, Alam S, and Ma J. SPICEMIX enables integrative single-cell spatial modeling of cell identity. Nature Genetics, 55(1):78-88, 2023. [Cover Article]
Zhang R, Zhou T, and Ma J. Ultrafast and interpretable single-cell 3D genome analysis with Fast-Higashi. Cell Systems, 13(10):P798-807.E6, 2022. [Cover Article]
Zhu X, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Tian D, Belmont AS, Swedlow JR, and Ma J. Nucleome Browser: An integrative and multimodal data navigation platform for 4D Nucleome. Nature Methods, 19(8):911-913, 2022.
Zhang R, Zhou T, and Ma J. Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi. Nature Biotechnology, 40:254–261, 2022.
Zhang R and Ma J. MATCHA: Probing multi-way chromatin interaction with hypergraph representation learning. Cell Systems, 10(5):397-407.E5, 2020.
Tian D, Zhang R, Zhang Y, Zhu X, and Ma J. MOCHI enables discovery of heterogeneous interactome modules in 3D nucleome. Genome Research, 30(2):227-238, 2020. [Cover Article]
Yang Y, Zhang Y, Ren B, Dixon J, and Ma J. Comparing 3D genome organization in multiple species using Phylo-HMRF. Cell Systems, 8(6):494-505.e14, 2019.
Ma J and Duan Z. Replication timing becomes intertwined with 3D genome organization. Cell, 176(4):681-684, 2019
Yang Y, Gu Q, Zhang Y, Sasaki T, Crivello J, O'Neill R, Gilbert DM, and Ma J. Continuous-trait probabilistic model for comparing multi-species functional genomic data. Cell Systems, 7(2):208-218.e11, 2018.
References
External links
Jian Ma's publications indexed by Google Scholar
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
University of Illinois faculty
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Computational biologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Boys%20Network | The Old Boys Network was the first international Cyberfeminist alliance. It was founded in 1997 in Berlin and remained active until 2001.
The group was founded by Susanne Ackers, Julianne Pierce, Valentina Djordjevic, Ellen Nonnenmacher and Cornelia Sollfrank in the spring of 1997. They organised the First Cyberfeminist International in September of that year as part of the Documenta X art event. The twentieth anniversary of the First Cyberfeminist International was marked by the Institute of Contemporary Art, London with a five-day event called the Post-Cyber Feminist International.
References
Digital artists
International artist groups and collectives
Feminist art organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Cutler%20%28radio%20broadcaster%29 | Ron Cutler is a radio personality and entrepreneur best known for being the co-founder of the podcasting platform Parcast as well as the founder of Cutler Productions and the Cutler Comedy Networks (now a part of iHeartMedia).
Early life
Cutler (who is not related to the Anglican Canadian archbishop also named Ron Cutler) was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his early career hosting teenage dances in Pennsylvania starting in 1961. He eventually transitioned into radio broadcasting as "DJ Ron Diamond", becoming one of the first disc jockeys to play both contemporary music and oldies on FM radio. After moving to San Jose, California, Cutler and a partner, Mel Gollub, took over KUFX in 1970, renaming it to KOME in 1971.
Career
A veteran radio producer, Cutler worked extensively with a number of entertainment figures including Rick Dees, Tom Joyner, and Cousin Brucie throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1990s, he eventually opened his own radio station, KTUN-AM, which focused on playing movie and show tunes.
Cutler Comedy Networks
Cutler founded and ran Cutler Comedy Networks, a radio prep service. It was acquired by Premiere Radio Networks, itself a subsidiary of iHeartMedia.
Parcast
With his son Max Cutler, Cutler started Parcast, a podcasting network and distribution platform, in 2016. The network has launched over 18 podcasts.
References
American podcasters
Living people
Spotify
Spotify people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Rossman | Benjamin E. Rossman is an American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, specializing in computational complexity theory. He is currently an associate professor of computer science and mathematics at Duke University.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with B.A. in 2001 and M.A. in 2002. He received in 2011 his Ph.D. with advisor Madhu Sudan from MIT with thesis Average-Case Complexity of Detecting Cliques. From 2010 to 2013 Rossman was a postdoc at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2013 to 2016 he was an assistant professor in the Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project of the National Institute of Informatics. For the academic year 2014–2015 he was a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He was an assistant professor in the departments of mathematics and computer science of the University of Toronto until early 2019, before joining Duke University. In the fall of 2018 he was a visiting scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
Rossman was a Sloan Research Fellow for the academic year 2017–2018. He won the Aisenstadt Prize in 2018. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
Selected publications
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century Canadian mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Sloan Research Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni%20L.%20Evans | Jenni L. Evans is a Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the Institute for CyberScience and President of the American Meteorological Society. She was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2010 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.
Early life and education
Evans studied applied mathematics at Monash University and graduated with honours in 1984. Prior to her PhD, she worked on fluid dynamics and observations of the planetary boundary layer. During her PhD, Evans visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and the supercomputing group at NASA Ames in 1987 and 1988. She returned to Monash for her doctoral studies and earned her PhD in 1990, then joined CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere.
Research and career
In 1992 Evans joined Pennsylvania State University. She earned tenure in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2005. In 2017 she was appointed Director of the Institute of CyberScience. Her research considers the genesis and decay of tropical cyclones, including the extratropical transition and landfall. She has investigated the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones. She has developed statistical methodologies for forecasts of tropical cyclones and a metric to for cyclogenesis activity in climate change situations. Evans has looked at the relationships between tropical cyclone intensity and organised convection with sea surface temperature, and how these will change with global warming. She has considered how the tropical cyclone boundary layer structures impact the intensity and impacts of convection on the development of African easterly jets. Evans co-chaired the World Meteorological Organization International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones.
Evans has described hurricanes as one of the last remaining weather systems that cannot be predicted. Evans is a member of an interdisciplinary team charged with reviewing catastrophic risk models used for setting hurricane insurance rates in Florida. Alongside her observations, modeling and statistical analysis of meteorological phenomena, Evans develops new approaches to communicate the risk of natural disasters. She has worked with Mark Ballora on new ways to demonstrate the risks of hurricanes. Evans contributed her expertise in natural disasters and Ballora his background in music, and together they convert data that is typically in charts or graphs into music. Evans monitored the latitude, longitude, asymmetry and air pressure of several hurricanes and convert this into an audio file. Evans has served as Lead Meteorologist advising the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology.
In 2019 Evans participated in a National Science Foundation grant to establish the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.
Academic service
Whilst serving on the United States Army Science Team Evans was involved with the relocation of their tropical test facility to Panama. Evan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaggregated%20storage | Disaggregated storage is a type of data storage within computer data centers. It allows compute resources within a computer server to be separated from storage resources without modifying any physical connections.
A form of composable disaggregated infrastructure, disaggregated storage allows resources to be connected via a network fabric providing flexibility when upgrading, replacing, or adding individual resources. It also allows servers to be built for future growth, offering greater storage efficiency, scale and performance than traditional data storage without compromising throughput and latency.
Background
In the past, data center storage existed in two forms.
Direct-attached storage – disks or drives attached to a single server. Disk capacity and performance were available to that server, and only that server. Capacity expansion was limited to the number of drive bays in the server or the limits of expansion chassis. Capacity and performance can scale-up (adding drives to a server) or out (by adding servers).
Storage area networks – disks or drives in a storage array which could be provisioned to one or many servers on the network. Capacity expansion is limited to the number of supported expansion chassis.
Direct-attached storage has one critical advantage—it offers high-performance for any workloads running on that server. However, it comes with two critical disadvantages:
Overall performance across the network is low, as storage can't be shared over the network without performance impact.
Capacity utilization is low because disk capacity can't be directly used by other servers.
Storage area networks are used to allocate storage to dozens or possibly hundreds of servers, which increases capacity utilization, but storage area networks use specialized network hardware and/or protocols that can come with disadvantages.
Conventional storage networking does not provide sufficient throughput or latency minimization needed by many applications, and fails to provide enough bandwidth to utilize the full performance of new flash technologies.
Disaggregated storage overview
Disaggregated storage is a form of scale-out storage, built with some number of storage devices that function as a logical pool of storage that can be allocated to any server on the network over a very high performance network fabric. Disaggregated storage solves the limitations of storage area networks or direct-attached storage.
Disaggregated storage is dynamically reconfigurable and optimally reconfigures physical resources to maximize performance and limit latency.
Disaggregated storage provides the performance of local storage with the flexibility of storage area networks.
A number of technology improvements are combining to make storage disaggregation a reality. These include:
Modern server performance: due to the PCIe Gen 4 serial bus, many servers can deliver more than 8GB/sec of throughput, which far exceeds traditional storage networking performance capa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20classification%20of%20bony%20fishes | The phylogenetic classification of bony fishes is a phylogenetic classification of bony fishes and is based on phylogenies inferred using molecular and genomic data for nearly 2000 fishes. The first version was published in 2013 and resolved 66 orders. The latest version (version 4) was published in 2017 and recognised 72 orders and 79 suborders.
Phylogeny
The following cladograms show the phylogeny of the Osteichthyes down to order level, with the number of families in parentheses.
The 43 orders of spiny-rayed fishes are related as follows:
References
External links
www.deepfin.org - Phylogeny of all Fishes (redirects to https://sites.google.com/site/guilleorti/home)
Phylogenetics
Bony fish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan%20Hospital | Samaritan Hospital or variant, may refer to:
, WWII US Navy hospital ship
Samaritan Health Services, Corvallis, Oregon, US; a hospital network
Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Albany, Oregon, US
Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, Lebanon, Oregon, US
Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, Lincoln City, Oregon, US
Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, Newport, Oregon, US
Samaritan Health System, Phoenix, Arizona, US; a hospital network
Samaritan Hospital (Troy, New York), in upper New York (state)
Samaritan Hospital for Women, London, England, UK; former hospital and Grade II listed building
Royal Samaritan Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; former women's hospital
Samaritan Hospital Nottingham (aka Nottingham Samaritan Hospital or Samaritan Hospital), Nottingham, England, UK; former women's hospital
See also
Samaritan's Touch Care Center, Highlands County, Florida, US; an outpatient clinic network
Good Samaritan Hospital (disambiguation)
Samaritan (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Takahashi%20%28mathematician%29 | Daisuke Takahashi is a full professor of computer science at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in high-performance numerical computing.
Education and career
Takahashi received a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1993 and a master's degree in engineering in 1995, both from Toyohashi University of Technology. He completed a Ph.D. in information science from the University of Tokyo in 1999. After working as a researcher at the University of Tokyo and at Saitama University, he joined the University of Tsukuba in 2001.
Research
Takahashi's works include several records of the number of digits of the approximation of Pi. His work on the computation of Pi has inspired his former student Emma Haruka Iwao, who broke a new record on March 14, 2019.
In 2011, he was part of a team from the University of Tsukuba that won the Gordon Bell Prize of the Association for Computing Machinery for their work simulating the quantum states of a nanowire using the K computer.
He is also known for his research on the Fast Fourier transform, and is one of the developers of the HPC Challenge Benchmark.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValhallaDSP | ValhallaDSP is a company and brand name for multiple digital reverberator and delay plugins for Macintosh and Windows computers made by Sean Costello.
History
ValhallaDSP as a company was founded by Sean Costello, who handles coding. Kristin Costello handles graphics and marketing.
Sean Costello has always been interested in the interaction between musicians and the academic and professional worlds. He has co-written academic papers about reverberation, including a 2009 paper about using algorithmic reverberation with the Ambisonics system and a paper about implementing a digital simulation of a spring reverb.
ValhallaDSP was founded in 2009; Sean worked as an audio DSP designer and consultant for about a decade before founding his own company. Before Valhalla DSP, Sean Costello had his first plugin work made public when he provided four reverb algorithms for the Audio Damage EOS reverb plugin which was initially released in 2009; one of those four algorithms was not available until 2017, when Audio Damage released EOS 2.
Don Gunn has helped Sean Costello with R&D/preset design for ValhallaDSP's plugins.
Products
ValhallaDSP makes a combination of reverb, delay, and sound effect plugins.
Reverb-centered plugins
These plugins are designed primarily to provide reverberation effects.
Valhalla Room
Valhalla Room is a reverb plugin which mainly simulates the acoustics of realistic rooms and halls, although it can also be used for special effects. It has 12 different algorithms. ValhallaDSP says this reverb is best for "idealized room impressions".
One review felt that, while Valhalla Room sounds really good, it sounds more "hyper-real and lush" than "gritty and realistic". They also felt that its user interface could use some improvement.
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Valhalla Vintage Verb is a plugin with the sounds of various late 1970s and 1980s digital reverberators, including ones which sound like Lexicon and EMT reverbs. This plugin has been used song such as Hello and Water Under the Bridge by Adele, as well as on Lana Del Rey's album "Lust for Life".
It is possible to change the decay rate of different frequencies, and the early and late diffusion can have separate settings.
As of May 2023, the plugin has 20 different algorithms, including:
Concert Hall, emulating a "late 1970s and early 1980s" reverb in "hall" mode
Plate, emulating an "early 1980s" reverb in "plate" mode
Chamber, a "transparent" algorithm described as being "smooth yet dense"
Random Space and Smooth Room, which are inspired by or emulate "late 1980s" reverb hardware
Sanctuary, which emulates a "a classic German digital reverberator from the 1970s"
Nonlin, a modern representation of 1980s gated reverb algorithms
Chaotic Neutral, a "colorless" sounding reverberation
ValhallaDSP says this reverb is best for the sound of "old school digital hardware reverbs". One review feels that while it is excellent for getting the unreal larger than life sound of a classi |
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