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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princy%20Mangalika | Princy Mangalika is a Sri Lankan social activist and a HIV/AIDS victim who is also well known for her efforts in fighting AIDS infection in Sri Lanka. She is the founder of Positive Women's Network, a NGO which helps people who are infected by the AIDS virus. In March 2019, she was acknowledged as one of twelve female change-makers in Sri Lanka by the parliament, coinciding with International Women's Day.
Biography
Princy was born and raised up in Ragama, Western Province of Sri Lanka. In 2003, she was found to have diagnosed with HIV positive which she had contracted from her husband. She was discriminated in the society ever since becoming a victim to the disease and it inspired her to lay the foundation to the Positive Women's Network. Her husband was infected with the disease while he was working in a hotel in abroad. Her husband committed suicide due to the infection and her family was chased away by the villagers.
Career
Being ill-treated in the society, at the age of 53, she co-founded Positive Women's Network along with a HIV affected doctor Kamalika Abeyratne in 2009 with the aim of taking care of people who are affected by the AIDS. In 2012, her organization Positive Women's Network received the Red Ribbon Award from United Nations for the outstanding community services to the people who are diagnosed with AIDS. She was also honored with the Unsung Heroine award as a part of the Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year in 2016.
See also
List of HIV-positive people
References
Living people
Sri Lankan women activists
Sri Lankan people with disabilities
Sri Lankan feminists
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics
People from Western Province, Sri Lanka
People with HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS activists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACOM%20128 | The FACOM 128 was a relay-based electromechanical computer built by Fujitsu. Two models were made, namely the FACOM 128A, built in 1956, and the FACOM 128B, built in 1959. , a fully working FACOM 128B is still in working order, maintained by Fujitsu staff at a facility in Numazu in Shizuoka Prefecture.
The FACOM 128B processes numbers using a bi-quinary coded decimal representation.
See also
FACOM 100
FACOM
References
External links
Electro-mechanical computers
1950s computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3%20Theorem%20Prover | Z3, also known as the Z3 Theorem Prover, is a satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solver developed by Microsoft.
Overview
Z3 was developed in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research Redmond and is targeted at solving problems that arise in software verification and program analysis. Z3 supports arithmetic, fixed-size bit-vectors, extensional arrays, datatypes, uninterpreted functions, and quantifiers. Its main applications are extended static checking, test case generation, and predicate abstraction.
Z3 was open sourced in the beginning of 2015. The source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.
The solver can be built using Visual Studio, a makefile or using CMake and runs on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS.
The default input format for Z3 is SMTLIB2.
It also has officially supported bindings for several programming languages, including C, C++, Python, .NET, Java, and OCaml.
Examples
Propositional and predicate logic
In this example propositional logic assertions are checked using functions to represent the propositions a and b. The following Z3 script checks to see if :
(declare-fun a () Bool)
(declare-fun b () Bool)
(assert (not (= (not (and a b)) (or (not a)(not b)))))
(check-sat)
Result:
unsat
Note that the script asserts the negation of the proposition of interest. The unsat result means that the negated proposition is not satisfiable, thus proving the desired result (De Morgan's law).
Solving equations
The following script solves the two given equations, finding suitable values for the variables a and b:
(declare-const a Int)
(declare-const b Int)
(assert (= (+ a b) 20))
(assert (= (+ a (* 2 b)) 10))
(check-sat)
(get-model)
Result:
sat
(model
(define-fun b () Int
-10)
(define-fun a () Int
30)
)
Awards
In 2015, Z3 received the Programming Languages Software Award from ACM SIGPLAN. In 2018, Z3 received the Test of Time Award from the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). Microsoft researchers Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura received the 2019 Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning in recognition of their work in advancing theorem proving with Z3.
See also
Formal verification
References
Further reading
Dennis Yurichev - SAT/SMT by Example
The inner magic behind the Z3 theorem prover
External links
Z3 online playground
Free and open-source software
Free software programmed in C++
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
SMT solvers
Software using the MIT license
2012 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca%20da%20Rimini%20%28artist%29 | Francesca da Rimini (aka Doll Yoko, aka GashGirl) is an artist and cyberfeminist. With Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, and Virginia Barratt she co-founded VNS Matrix. She has been working in new media since 1984.
References
20th-century Australian artists
New media artists
Living people
20th-century Australian women artists
21st-century Australian artists
21st-century Australian women artists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Rogers%20%28journalist%29 | Simon Rogers is an English data journalist, data journalism advocate and author. He pioneered the use of a data blog for The Guardian in the early 2000s, and has been involved in data journalism since the mid-2000s.
Career
In the mid-2000s, Rogers was data editor at the Guardian, one of the first news organisations to use the term data journalism in its use of computing and data in storytelling. Previous iterations of using data in journalism have been referred to as computer-assisted reporting, precision journalism, power reporting and database reporting.
His work with the Guardian'''s The Datastore and the Datablog was honoured at the Knight Batten awards for innovation in journalism, 2011. In 2010, the Royal Statistical Society, a nonprofit based in England and Wales, awarded Rogers a special commendation for Statistical Excellence in Journalism, citing the Datablog. In 2012, Rogers predicted the future of data journalism: "Anyone can do it. Data journalism is the new punk." In 2013, Rogers published Facts are Sacred: the power of data (the Guardian published an extract of the book); he has also authored books on infographics for children.
After the Guardian, in 2013, Simon moved to Twitter, as its first data editor, before moving again, to Google in San Francisco where he works as the data editor for Google.
At Google, he has been a part of the 'Visualizing Data with Google' project, which received 'Information is Beautiful' Awards in 2017 and 2022. Rogers' work has been featured by Information is Beautiful multiple times. He is one of the instructors of an online course in data journalism made available by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. In 2017, Rogers spoke at the 12th Congress of Investigative Journalism about the importance of journalists learning to code.
In 2019, Rogers predicted that data journalism was becoming a global field; he was one of a selected group of journalists asked by the Nieman Lab out of Harvard University to make predictions for journalism for 2019. Rogers' work was also cited in a Columbia Journalism Report about the ethics of AI and journalism. In 2020, Rogers helped launch the Sigma Awards, a new data journalism competition. After the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Rogers tracked trends in Google related to the pandemic.
Rogers is one of the contributing authors to the Data Journalism Handbook'' and teaches data journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco and has taught at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
In 2021, Rogers set up a 'Data Journalism Podcast', with co-host Alberto Cairo. He is a regular speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
References
English journalists
Data journalists
Data journalism
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACOM%20100 | The FACOM 100 was an early electromechanical computer built by Fujitsu in 1954 which used binary-coded decimal arithmetic.
The design of the later FACOM 128 was influenced by experience gained from building the FACOM 100.
References
See also
FACOM
Electro-mechanical computers
1950s computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Internet%20in%20Russia | The Russian internet (also known as the runet) is a part of the Internet with its main content in Russian. According to data from August 2019 and studies conducted by W3Techs, 6.5% of the 10 million most popular Internet sites in the world use Russian. In 2013, according to these studies, the Russian language became the second most popular on the Internet after English.
Background
In the USSR, the first computer networks appeared in the 1950s in missile defense system at Sary Shagan (first they were tested in Moscow at Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering). In the 1960s, the massive computer network project called OGAS was proposed but failed to be implemented. Apollo–Soyuz USA–USSR joint space program (1972–1975) used digital data for spaceships transmitted between two countries.
Since the late 1970s, X.25 Soviet networks began to appear and Akademset emerged in Leningrad in 1978. By 1982 VNIIPAS institute was created in Moscow to serve as Akademset's central node, which established X.25 regular connection to IIASA in Austria (which allowed access to other worldwide networks). In 1983, VNIIPAS, together with the US government, Joel Schatz, Don Carlson, Michael Kleeman, and Chet Watson, created a Soviet X.25 service provider called SFMT ("San Francisco — Moscow Teleport") that later became Sovam Teleport ("Soviet-American Teleport"). VNIIPAS also provided X.25 services, including over satellite, to Eastern bloc countries together with Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam. At the time, Western users of Usenet were generally unaware of that, and considered such networking in USSR nonexistent, so one of them on April 1, 1984, made an April fools' hoax about "Kremvax" ("Kremlin VAX") that gained some popularity for subsequent years. The USSR nominally joined the private Fidonet network in October 1990 when the first node of Region 50 appeared in Novosibirsk.
Some of the early Soviet/Russian networks were also initiated as parts of BITNET.
Foundation of the Russian Internet
Sovam Teleport
Sovam Teleport is a Russian telecommunications company that was founded in 1990. The company was established as a joint venture of the San Francisco Moscow Teleport network and the All-Russian Research Institute of Automated Application Systems (ВНИИПАС). The name stands for "SOViet-AMerican Teleport".
San Francisco Moscow Teleport (SFMT) was launched in 1983 by financier George Soros and American Joel Schatz with the support of the US government. It was a non-profit project with a goal to expand the Internet to the USSR. In 1986, the project changed its status and became a commercial enterprise. The All-Russian Research Institute of Automated Application Systems provided a data transmission network with some countries in Eastern Europe, as well as Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam, almost all of the data traffic was scientific and technical information, and in 1983 organized a non-state email network. By the beginning of the 1990s, almost half o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is parallel to Ada Lovelace.
Named for computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper, the Hopper architecture was leaked in November 2019 and officially revealed in March 2022. It improves upon its predecessors, the Turing and Ampere microarchitectures, featuring a new streaming multiprocessor and a faster memory subsystem.
Architecture
The Nvidia Hopper H100 GPU is implemented using the TSMC 4N process with 80 billion transistors. It consists of up to 144 streaming multiprocessors. In SXM5, the Nvidia Hopper H100 offers better performance than PCIe.
Streaming multiprocessor
The streaming multiprocessors for Hopper improve upon the Turing and Ampere microarchitectures, although the maximum number of concurrent warps per SM remains the same between the Ampere and Hopper architectures, 64. The Hopper architecture provides a Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA), which supports bidirectional asynchronous memory transfer between shared memory and global memory. Under TMA, applications may transfer up to 5D tensors. When writing from shared memory to global memory, elementwise reduction and bitwise operators may be used, avoiding registers and SM instructions while enabling users to write warp specialized codes. TMA is exposed through cuda::memcpy_async
When parallelizing applications, developers can use thread block clusters. Thread blocks may perform atomics in the shared memory of other thread blocks within its cluster, otherwise known as distributed shared memory. Distributed shared memory may be used by an SM simultaneously with L2 cache; when used to communicate data between SMs, this can utilize the combined bandwidth of distributed shared memory and L2. The maximum portable cluster size is 8, although the Nvidia Hopper H100 can support a cluster size of 16 by using the cudaFuncAttributeNonPortableClusterSizeAllowed function, potentially at the cost of reduced number of active blocks. With L2 multicasting and distributed shared memory, the required bandwidth for dynamic random-access memory read and writes is reduced.
Hopper features improved single-precision floating-point format (FP32) throughput with twice as many FP32 operations per cycle per SM than its predecessor. Additionally, the Hopper architecture adds support for new instructions, including the Smith–Waterman algorithm. Like Ampere, TensorFloat-32 (TF-32) arithmetic is supported. The mapping pattern for both architectures is identical.
Memory
The Nvidia Hopper H100 supports HBM3 and HBM2e memory up to 80 GB; the HBM3 memory system supports 3 TB/s, an increase over the Nvidia Ampere A100. Across the architecture, the L2 cache capacity and bandwidth were increased.
Hopper allows CUDA compute kernels to utilize inline compression, including in individual memory allocation, although this feature does not reduce memory footprint. The compressor will |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar%20Eskin | Eleazar Eskin is a computer scientist and geneticist, professor and Chair of the Department of Computational Medicine, and professor of computer science and human genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on bioinformatics, genomics, and machine learning. A primary research focus is on developing statistical and computational techniques to probe the genetic basis of human disease.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2019 for "outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics".
Selected research
Kang, Hyun Min, et al. "Variance component model to account for sample structure in genome-wide association studies." Nature genetics 42.4 (2010): 348.
Kang, Hyun Min, et al. "Efficient control of population structure in model organism association mapping." Genetics 178.3 (2008): 1709–1723.
Tompa, Martin, et al. "Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites." Nature biotechnology 23.1 (2005): 137.
Leslie, Christina, Eleazar Eskin, and William Stafford Noble. "The spectrum kernel: A string kernel for SVM protein classification." Biocomputing 2002. 2001. 564–575.
References
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American bioinformaticians
American geneticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Append-only | Append-only is a property of computer data storage such that new data can be appended to the storage, but where existing data is immutable.
Access control
Many file systems' Access Control Lists implement an "append-only" permission:
chattr in Linux can be used to set the append-only flag to files and directories. This corresponds to the flag in .
NTFS ACL has a control for "Create Folders / Append Data", but it does not seem to keep data immutable.
Many cloud storage providers provide the ability to limit access as append-only. This feature is especially important to mitigate the risk of data loss for backup policies in the event that the computer being backed-up becomes infected with ransomware capable of deleting or encrypting the computer's backups.
Data structures
Many data structures and databases implement immutable objects, effectively making their data structures append-only. Implementing an append-only data structure has many benefits, such as ensuring data consistency, improving performance, and permitting rollbacks.
The prototypical append-only data structure is the log file. Log-structured data structures found in Log-structured file systems and databases work in a similar way: every change (transaction) that happens to the data is logged by the program, and on retrieval the program must combine the pieces of data found in this log file. Blockchains add cryptography to the logs so that every transaction is verifiable.
Append-only data structures may also be mandated by the hardware or software environment:
All objects are immutable in purely functional programming languages, where every function is pure and global states do not exist.
Flash storage cells can only be written to once before erasing. Erasing on a flash drive works on the level of pages which cover many cells at once, so each page is treated as an append-only set of cells until it fills up.
Hard drives that use shingled magnetic recording cannot be written to randomly because writing on a track would clobber a neighboring, usually later, track. As a result, each "zone" on the drive is append-only.
Append-only data structures grow over time, with more and more space dedicated to "stale" data found only in the history and more time wasted on parsing these data. A number of append-only systems implement rewriting (copying garbage collection), so that a new structure is created only containing the current version and optionally a few older ones.
See also
Access control list
Cloud storage
Comparison of file hosting services
Data structure
Purely-functional data structure
Log-structured merge-tree
Certificate Transparency
Write once read many
References
Computer data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC%20Claffy | Kimberly C. "KC" Claffy is director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the University of California, San Diego. In 2017 she was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award and inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019.
Early life and education
Claffy studied symbolic systems at Stanford University. She earned her doctoral degree under the supervision of George Polyzos at the University of California, San Diego in 1994. Claffy was a summer intern at AT&T, Harry Diamond Laboratories and the Federal Reserve. Her years in graduate school occurred during the period in which the federal government of the United States relaxed control over the Internet. The Internet became a more commercial entity interconnecting a rapidly-increasing number of networks, hosts and users, and as the World Wide Web expanded, the nature of the traffic on the Internet changed. This inspired Claffy to develop initiatives that share Internet data and support Internet data analysis.
Research and career
Claffy was promoted to associate research scientist in 1994 and research scientist in 2007. In 1996 Claffy founded the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) in the supercomputing centre at the University of California, San Diego. At the CAIDA Claffy works on internet cartography that characterises the changing nature of Internet topology and Internet traffic dynamics. This involves mapping and measuring internet data in an effort to make the internet safer for the general public. Claffy is part of the Named Data Networking project.
In 2015, Claffy shared the IEEE Internet Award with Vern Paxson for "seminal contributions to the field of Internet measurement, including security and network data analysis, and for distinguished leadership in and service to the Internet community by providing open-access data and tools". Her work established definitions for the concept of Internet "traffic flows", in which most packets flowing across the Internet are understood to be part of a connection with coherent characteristics, rather than isolated, unconnected messages.
In 2019, Claffy was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking work in the field of internet measurement and analysis. She was awarded an National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator planning grant to evaluate the feasibility of creating an open knowledge network on the properties of the Internet identifier system.
Awards and honors
2000 San Francisco Women on the Web Top 25 Women of the Web
2015 IEEE Internet Award
2016 N2Women 10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know
2017 Internet Society Jonathan B. Postel Service Award
2018 π Person of the Year
2019 Internet Hall of Fame
Selected publications
References
Internet pioneers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
Women Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRS-FM | DXRS (105.7 FM), broadcasting as 105.7 Radyo Natin, is a radio station owned by Manila Broadcasting Company and operated by Goodluck Radio Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at Radyo Natin Bldg., Gundaya Ext, Brgy. 19, Gingoog.
References
Radio stations established in 1997
Radio stations in Misamis Oriental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooch%20Perfect | Pooch Perfect is a dog grooming reality competition television program created by Seven Studios UK (now Beyond Productions UK) and first broadcast on the Seven Network in Australia. The program is hosted by Rebel Wilson, and began airing on 27 February 2020. The series features ten professional dog stylists competing in a series of themed challenges which sees the transformation of beloved pets, with a judging panel including international styling experts Amber Lewin and Colin Taylor determining the winner of $100,000 in prize money. The title is a play-on-words of the film Pitch Perfect, in which Wilson starred.
Despite the high profile of host Wilson and significant promotion by Seven prior to broadcast, the show struggled in the ratings, and the series was absent at Seven's upfronts for 2021. Despite this, local adaptations of the show aired in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2021, with Wilson reprising her role as host for the latter version.
Contestants
Davina Dewar
Natasha Fox
Brad Broadway
Prue Hammond
Monique Finch
Annie
Alicia
Sue Wright
Lee Wright
Episodes
International adaptations
The format was sold in February 2020 to the BBC. The UK series is hosted by Sheridan Smith and filmed at dock10 studios. Beyond Productions UK produced the series with Damon Pattison and Susanne Rock as executive producer. It was cancelled after one season.
ABC announced a US version of the series in January 2021 with Wilson as host and Lisa Vanderpump, Jorge Bendersky and Callie Harris as judges. An eight-episode run was ordered, which premiered on 30 March 2021. It ended on May 18, 2021, and was canceled on January 20, 2022.
See also
Celebrity Dog School
Notes
This episode aired on 7TWO in Victoria and South Australia due to coverage of the AFL.
References
External links
Official Website
2020 Australian television series debuts
2020 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming
Television series by Beyond Television Productions
English-language television shows
2020s Australian reality television series
Television shows about dogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Bill%2C%202019 | The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 (PDP Bill 2019) was a proposed legislation by the Parliament of India which was withdrawn. The bill covers mechanisms for protection of personal data and proposes the setting up of a Data Protection Authority of India for the same. Some key provisions the 2019 Bill provides for which the 2018 draft Bill did not, such as that the central government can exempt any government agency from the Bill and the Right to Be Forgotten, have been included.
Background and timeline
In July 2017, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology set up a committee to study issues related to data protection. The committee was chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice B. N. Srikrishna.
The committee submitted the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 in July 2018.
After further deliberations the Bill was approved by the cabinet ministry of India on 4 December 2019 as the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 and tabled in the Lok Sabha on 11 December 2019.
As of March 2020 the Bill was being analyzed by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in consultation with experts and stakeholders. The JPC, which was set up in December 2019, was headed by Meenakshi Lekhi, Member of Parliament. While the JPC was tasked with a short deadline to finalize the draft law before the Budget Session of 2020, it has sought more time to study the Bill and consult stakeholders.
The bill was withdrawn in August 2022.
Provisions
The Bill aims to:
It provided for extensive provisions around collection of consent, assessment of datasets, data flows and transfers of personal data, including to third countries and other aspects around anonymized and non-personal data.
Criticism
The revised 2019 Bill was criticized by Justice B. N. Srikrishna, the drafter of the original Bill, as having the ability to turn India into an “Orwellian State". In an interview with Economic Times, Srikrishna said that, "The government can at any time access private data or government agency data on grounds of sovereignty or public order. This has dangerous implications.” This view is shared by a think tank in their comment number 3.
Fresh criticism on the international level comes from an advisor to a group proposing an alternative text. A moderately critical summary is available from an India scholar working with an American co-author.
The role of social media intermediaries is being regulated more tightly on several fronts. The Wikimedia Foundation is hoping that the PDP bill will prove the lesser evil compared with the Draft Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018.
Forbes India reports that "there are concerns that the Bill [...] gives the government blanket powers to access citizens' data."
Jaiveer Shergill, a prominent Supreme Court Lawyer has shared the pitfalls and gaps of the current version of the draft bill. There are serious loopholes of how the bill is unable to identify the scope of governmental bodies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant%20Fighter%20%28arcade%20game%29 | , is a 1991 fighting game published and developed in-house by Data East for arcades. It was later ported to the FM Towns, Sharp X68000, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The SNES version was developed and published by I'Max. It is a sequel to Data East's 1989 arcade title Hippodrome.
Gameplay
Mutant Fighter's roster includes eight playable characters - three human characters and five monsters; the human characters are the Fighter, Amazoness, and Hercules. The monster playable characters are a Werewolf, Golem, Minotaur, Dragon, and the Beast. The SNES version instead has five playable characters, omitting the Werewolf, Golem and Dragon from the roster. Non-playable characters faced as opponents include the Hydra, the Doppleganger, the demon Pazuzu, and the Archmage. Different characters have different Power, Speed, and Defense stats. Mutant Fighter features one-player mode versus AI or a two-player cooperative mode, where the players compete against two AI opponents simultaneously. The player may choose which opponents they face in the first three matches, sans the unplayable characters; after these three matches the opponents are chosen by the computer. When successfully hitting their opponent, characters accumulate Energy, which can be used for special attacks. Each character has unique special moves. In addendum to each character's unique move, there are 19 different attacks which can be achieved through different combos. The arcade version's title screen demo mode serves as a tutorial for the player to learn these moves.
Plot
The king is dead, and a combat tournament is being held to determine a new ruler. The player faces twelve opponents sequentially in one-on-one combat, and upon defeating them all, is crowned ruler of the kingdom.
Development
Mutant Fighter underwent location testing in the UK in 1991, although under an alternate title: Heroes.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Mutant Fighter on their August 15, 1991 issue as being the second most-successful table arcade unit of the month. RePlay also reported the game to be the eighteen most-popular arcade game at the time.
The One reviewed the arcade version of Mutant Fighter in 1991 as it was undergoing location testing under the title Heroes, stating that "Wonderful graphics, animation and sound make Heroes an outstanding game" and furthermore praises its gameplay and number of different attacks.
Sinclair User reviewed the arcade version as it was also undergoing location testing, giving it 87 out of 100 and calling it "very classy", praising the game's "amazing" sound effects, and stating that "[Heroes has] great animation and action, particularly if you can find the combination that produces your 'special attack', which will cause serious damage to your opponent."
German gaming magazine Video Games reviewed the Japanese SNES version of Mutant Fighters under the name Death Brade, giving it an overall score of 22%. Video Games begins their review by criticising t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Yau | Nathan Yau is an American statistician and data visualization expert.
Early life
Nathan Chun-Yin Yau grew up in Fresno, California.
He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 2007 with a Master of Science and in 2013 with a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
His dissertation was titled "An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration" and focused on self-surveillance techniques. Yau's earlier self-surveillance work on the "Personal Environmental Impact Report" was featured in Yau's chapter of the book Beautiful Data, published in 2009.
Career
Yau is known for his blog FlowingData in which he publishes writing and tutorials on information design and analytics, as well as visualizations and data science-related projects created by other professionals.
He is the author of books "Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics" (2011) and "Data Points: Visualization That Means Something" (2013).
Since 2014, Yau has worked at the U.S. Census as a research mathematical statistician.
Selected publications
References
Living people
American digital artists
Information graphic designers
Data scientists
People from Fresno, California
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
United States Census Bureau people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuen%20Mun%20Community%20Network | Tuen Mun Community Network () was a local political group based in Tuen Mun founded in 2015. In a historic pro-democracy landslide in 2019 District Council election, the group won a total of four seats in the Tuen Mun District Council.
History
The group was formed in 2015 as a Tuen Mun-based community group by a group of young people in their 20s to early 30s. It was notable for their involvement in revealing the scandal of the high repairing cost of the elevators in Leung King Estate and a protest caused by hawkers issue in 2016.
It was part of the Community Network Union, a localist political alliance of six community groups led by pro-independence Ventus Lau. Due to its association with independence movement, its convenor Wong Tan-ching was deported from Macau in May 2017. The Tuen Mun Community Network later quit the Union in 2018.
Tuen Mun Community Network was also active in social activism. In 2017, it organised more than 13,000 people signing a petition demanding pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho who was a member Tuen Mun District Council to resign over his remarks on killing independence advocates. In the 2019 anti-extradition bill protests, the group also arranged coaches to drive residents to Hong Kong Island to join the June 9 protest.
Tuen Mun Community Network filled five candidates in the 2019 District Council election, with Poon Chi-kin in Tsui Hing, Wong Tan-ching in Shan King, Law Cheuk-yung in King Hing, Tsang Chun-hing in Hing Tsak and Wong Tak-yuen in Leung King. Four of the five candidates were elected in the pro-democracy historic landslide victory except for Law Cheuk-yung who lost in King Hing, which saw the pro-democrats gaining control of the Tuen Mun District Council and the group becoming the third largest grouping.
On 7 October 2021, Tuen Mun Community Network was officially dissolved, citing the belief that Hong Kong has lost the ability and space to continue to adhere to the original intention of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and announced its dissolution with all members resigning.
Electoral performance
Tuen Mun District Council elections
References
External links
Political organisations based in Hong Kong
Political parties established in 2015
Political parties disestablished in 2021
2015 establishments in Hong Kong
2021 disestablishments in Hong Kong
Liberal parties in Hong Kong
Localist parties in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes%20v.%20CNN | Nunes v. CNN (Devin G. Nunes v. Cable News Network, Inc.) is a defamation lawsuit filed by US Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) in Virginia against media corporation CNN on December 3, 2019, for $435 million.
The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under docket (3:19-cv-00889).
The suit alleges that CNN reported that Nunes traveled to Vienna in December 2018, and met with Viktor Shokin, the former Ukrainian prosecutor general, about investigating Joe Biden. The suit claims this is untrue and that Nunes was in Libya, followed by Malta.
Nunes had previously filed lawsuits against The McClatchy Company, Esquire Magazine and Twitter on news items and stories unrelated to the presidential impeachment proceedings.
On May 22, 2020, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne granted CNN's request to transfer the suit to the Southern District of New York, finding "no logical connection" between the lawsuit and the Virginia court where it was filed, and citing "significant concerns" that the lawsuit had been filed in Virginia for the purpose of forum shopping.
Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the suit on February 19, 2021.
References
CNN
United States defamation case law
Trump–Ukraine scandal
United States case law
Virginia state case law
Congressional controversies in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Brown%20Lee | Barbara Brown Lee is a museum educator known for her work with the Milwaukee Art Museum’s education department and programming.
Early life and education
Barbara Brown Lee was born to Betty and John Brown. Betty Brown had training as an art teacher and shared her love of art with her children. In March 1949, when her family temporary moved to Racine, Wisconsin, she would take art classes, and eventually volunteer, at the Wustum Museum at the age of 9.
After Barbara Brown Lee graduated from Milwaukee-Downer Seminary in 1958, she attended Pine Manor College for two years. She later graduated from the University of Arizona in 1962. During her time in Arizona, she worked at the school's museum, and decided to continue to pursue museum work as a career. During Summer 1962, Lee attended a graduate art history program at the University of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico. She also attended Attingham Summer School in 1973.
Career
In 1962, Barbara Brown Lee searched for museum positions in New York, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon returning to Milwaukee, she met with Tracey Atkinson, the director of the Milwaukee Art Center, which would later become the Milwaukee Art Museum. Barbara Brown Lee was offered the position of Curatorial Assistant and began her career at MAM during January 1963. Barbara began to learn the collection as a curatorial assistant, until February 15, 1967, when the Head of Adult Education at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Franny Lee, died. Barbara Brown Lee took her place as the Head of Adult Education, and later became Chief Educator until her retirement.
Barbara Brown Lee retired in February 2013, but continues to educate at the Milwaukee Art Museum as a volunteer.
Legacy programming
During her career, Barbara Brown Lee oversaw the development and implementation of educational programming that the Milwaukee Art Museum still facilitates today.
Barbara Brown Lee was involved with the Scholastic Art Awards, a student art competition in Wisconsin. The resulting juried show of student art has been exhibited in the Milwaukee Art Museum since 1976.
Barbara helped to start the Milwaukee Art Museum's Junior Docent School Program in 1977 in partnership with the Golda Meir School. In 2019, this program was offered to 52 schools from third to fifth grade, and involves multiple visits to the museum during that time to train students as if they were docents or curators. Students present a final project during the 10th and final visit in the program.
In the 1980s, Barbara Brown Lee implemented the Satellite Art Program in association with the art program for Milwaukee Public Schools. In this program, students interested in a career in art would come to the Milwaukee Museum of Art every weekday for a semester, which was sometimes extended to a year. Participants in the Satellite Art Program could utilize the Milwaukee Museum of Art's collection to learn skills necessary for a career in art. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneAPI%20%28compute%20acceleration%29 | one-API is an open standard, adopted by Intel, for a unified application programming interface (API) intended to be used across different computing accelerator (coprocessor) architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators and field-programmable gate arrays. It is an open, cross-industry, standards-based, unified, multi-architecture, multi-vendor programming model that delivers a common developer experience across accelerator architectures - for faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation. The one-API initiative encourages collaboration on the one-API specification and compatible one-API implementations across the ecosystem. It is intended to eliminate the need for developers to maintain separate code bases, multiple programming languages, tools, and workflows for each architecture.
The oneAPI specification
The oneAPI specification extends existing developer programming models to enable multiple hardware architectures through a data-parallel language, a set of library APIs, and a low-level hardware interface to support cross-architecture programming. It builds upon industry standards and provides an open, cross-platform developer stack.
Data Parallel C++
DPC++ is an open, cross-architecture language built upon the ISO C++ and Khronos Group SYCL standards. DPC++ is an implementation of SYCL with extensions that are proposed for inclusion in future revisions of the SYCL standard. An example of this is the contribution of unified shared memory, group algorithms, and sub-groups to SYCL 2020.
oneAPI libraries
The set of APIs spans several domains, including libraries for linear algebra, deep learning, machine learning, video processing, and others.
The source code of most implementations of the above libraries is available on GitHub.
The oneAPI documentation also lists the "Level Zero" API defining the low-level direct-to-metal interfaces and a set of ray tracing components with its own APIs.
Hardware abstraction layer
oneAPI Level Zero, the low-level hardware interface, defines a set of capabilities and services that a hardware accelerator needs to interface with compiler runtimes and other developer tools.
Implementations
Intel has released production quality oneAPI toolkits that implement the specification and add CUDA code migration, analysis, and debug tools. These include the Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, Intel VTune Profiler and multiple performance libraries.
Codeplay has released an open-source layer to allow oneAPI and SYCL/DPC++ to run atop Nvidia GPUs via CUDA.
University of Heidelberg has developed a SYCL/DPC++ implementation for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
Huawei released a DPC++ compiler for their Ascend AI Chipset
Fujitsu has created an open-source ARM version of the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) for their Fugaku CPU.
Applications
As of the end of 2022, the oneAPI was still new, with a dearth of academic papers on the application packages ported to use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneAPI | OneAPI may refer to:
OneAPI (compute acceleration), for different compute accelerator (coprocessor) architectures
OneAPI (GSM telecom), a set of application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAPL | TAPL may refer to:
ABCB9, a protein
The AWK Programming Language, a 1988 book by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger
Types and Programming Languages, a 2002 book by Benjamin C. Pierce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOOK%20%28AM%29 | WOOK was a radio station that operated on 1340 kHz in Washington, D.C. Owned by Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting, the station was known for its programming for the African-American community in the Washington metropolitan area; before that, in the 1940s, it was an independent station owned for several years by the Washington Post. WOOK, which spawned an FM station (WFAN) and a TV station (WOOK-TV channel 14, later WFAN-TV), had its license revoked by the Federal Communications Commission in 1975 for an illegal numbers racket. In 1976, with the station's fate nearly sealed, WOOK became Spanish-language WFAN, in a format swap that allowed the Black-formatted WOOK intellectual unit to stay alive. WFAN ceased operating on April 22, 1978; on August 15, WYCB began broadcasting on its frequency.
History
WINX
WINX went on the air in 1940 at 1310 kHz as Washington's fifth radio station. The Federal Communications Commission had previously granted a construction permit to attorney Lawrence J. Heller on February 13, including a 50-watt synchronous amplifier to give the station full metropolitan coverage. The amplifier was located at American University. The station relocated the next year to 1340 when NARBA came into effect. In 1942, Heller sold minority stakes in WINX to Richard K. Lyon and Herbert M. Bratter.
The Washington Post acquired WINX in 1944 for $500,000; it was the highest price ever paid for a "local" radio station like WINX that broadcast with 250 watts. The Post also got into the early days of FM radio when it acquired station W3XO, later WINX-FM, from Jansky and Bailey in 1945. The Post owned the station until 1948, when it contracted to buy a majority share in WTOP (1500 AM) from CBS; the deal would require the newspaper to sell WINX and its two boosters but allowed CBS to gain full ownership of an outlet in San Francisco. William Banks, owner of Philadelphia station WHAT, bought WINX AM for $130,000 in 1949; the Post retained WINX-FM.
From WINX to WOOK
In 1951, Richard Eaton, whose United Broadcasting Company owned radio station WOOK (1590 kHz) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and newly signed on Washington FM outlet WFAN (100.3 FM), bought WINX from the Banks Independent Broadcasting Company for $115,000. WOOK, established in 1947, was Eaton's first radio station; Eaton had previously been a commentator with WINX and then with the Mutual Broadcasting System. In order to retain both stations and meet multiple ownership rules, the Silver Spring station license was relocated to Rockville, Maryland—which under pre-1950 Census Bureau guidelines was not part of the Washington metropolitan area—on 1600 kHz. Additionally, Eaton switched the two stations' call letters, resulting in WOOK as the new 1340 in Washington, D.C., and WINX as the station at 1600 in Rockville. The local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers asked the FCC to reconsider approving the WINX-WOOK swap because United's non-union staff had replaced the former |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Persistence%20of%20Chaos | The Persistence of Chaos is a work of art consisting of a laptop that contains six computer viruses, worms, and pieces of malware that have caused major damage. The artwork was created in 2019 by artist Guo O Dong and the collective MSCHF, and sold at auction for $1,345,000 in May 2019. Guo O Dong described it as a bestiary for historical malware, and expressed concern about the high price for which it sold, stating that he would either spend the money on another project or burn it.
Background
The Persistence of Chaos was created in 2019 by artist Guo O Dong and MSCHF after they were commissioned by Deep Instinct, a computer security company. It cost more than $10,000 to create, with much of the money spent on ensuring that the malware it contained was effectively firewalled so that it could not spread to other computers.
Guo O Dong originally intended to title the work Antivaxxer in reference to vaccine hesitancy, but changed the name as the intent of the artwork shifted during its creation. He told The Verge that the work was intended to be a physical manifestation of digital threats that might otherwise seem abstract, describing it as "a kind of bestiary — a catalogue of historical threats".
Description
The technical basis for The Persistence of Chaos was a Samsung NC10, a netbook first released in 2008. The laptop computer equipped with Windows XP was deliberately infected with an assortment of viruses, worms, and malware which have caused $95 billion in financial damages: the ILOVEYOU virus, Mydoom worm, Sobig worm, WannaCry ransomware, DarkTequila malware, and BlackEnergy malware. The device was isolated and airgapped to prevent misuse of the malware it contained.
The artwork measures 10.3” () × 1.2” () × 7.3” (), and weighs . In addition to the malware-loaded laptop, it includes the power cord for the device and a restart script.
Auction
The Persistence of Chaos was sold in an online auction as a work of art. During the auction, a live stream showing the laptop was accessible through Twitch. A disclaimer on the auction webpage noted that selling malware for reuse "is illegal in the United States" and that bidders must "agree and acknowledge that you’re purchasing this work as a piece of art or for academic reasons, and have no intention of disseminating any malware." It additionally stated that the computer's ports and capacity for internet connection would be disabled before shipping.
The auction closed on May 28, 2019, with a winning bid of $1,345,000 by an unknown buyer. The money went to Guo O Dong, who told Artnet News that he would either spend it on creating another artwork or burn it. He noted that the amount of public interest in The Persistence of Chaos was thought-provoking for him, stating that "this piece could be considered an exhibit of historical weaponry" and questioning why someone wanted to spend so much money on acquiring it.
Reception
Infoblox executive Gary Cox told Verdict that The Persistence of Chaos wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Nuenen | Jan van Nuenen (born 1978) is a Dutch visual artist with a strong focus on media art, including video collages, computer animations and video installations. A recurring theme in his artworks is the relations between humans, technology and nature.
Education
Van Nuenen studied audio-visual design at the art academy St. Joost in Breda where he graduated in 2002. He graduated in 2002 with the 12-minute long animation film Optimizer Customizer, which shows the “eventual downfall of civilized society” caused by consumerism. Optimizer Customizer was nominated for the René Coulhoprijs in the same year but did not win.
Career
Van Nuenen has said to be fascinated by “trivial” imagery, which are images that were not made with an artistic purpose in mind. These images are often what jumpstarts his artworks; there is no scenario or narrative prior. Van Nuenen usually does not work with his own imagery but salvages the images that fascinate him and builds his computer animations with these. These animations are built and shown on Van Nuenen’s own hardware and software.
Even though Van Nuenen does not work with a preexisting narrative, the narration often unfolds itself in the same direction, though, which often focuses on society’s rigid and mechanic components that keep the gears of this machinal society turning. The perfect way to resist this rigid system is to make art, according to Van Nuenen.
Due to his skilful salvaging of images, he has been named the “master of recycling” by Dutch art journalist Sandra Smallenburg.
Works
Some of Van Nuenen's works include:
Optimizer Customizer (2002), a 12-minute long 2D animation video made with pre-existing images and sounds that are composed to show a feminine machine that runs on money. Inside her is a factory that endlessly repeats its tasks. When one task within this system malfunctions, a chain-reaction which rapidly destroys the system follows. This is Van Nuenen's first video animation.
Seeing Bush Through the Trees (2003), a 2-minute long video in which logos of multinational companies are collaged to create a distorted portrait of George W. Bush.
Lame Yard (2003), a 2-minute two-channel video installation. Each channel shows a 2D computer animation of symmetric landscapes that become more and more chaotic until an almost abstract world is all that remains.
SET-4 (2003), a 4-minute long video using footage from various sports competitions, including table tennis, volleyball and springboard diving. The footage and accompanying sounds are digitally manipulated by Van Nuenen to create a noisy composition.
Warning, Petroleum Pipeline (2004), a 4-minute long animated video in which a desert landscape slowly transforms into a futuristic industrialized world in which neither a landscape nor a machine can be recognized anymore.
Aux Raus - Rasthof Deutschland (2007), a 3-minute long music video for the Dutch gabber-punk band Aux Raus.
Battle of the Plants (2007), an 8-minute long video installation sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202019 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2019, the list was published on December 5, calculated with data from November 24, 2018 to November 16, 2019.
Post Malone ranked as Billboards top Hot 100 artist of 2019. Of his five songs on the list, "Sunflower" (with Swae Lee) ranked the highest, as the number-two song of the year.
Year-end list
See also
2019 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2019
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2019
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
2019 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%20Mad | Be Mad is a Spanish free television channel, belonging to Mediaset España and was launched on 21 April 2016. Its programming is cinema and film.
History
In October 2015, Mediaset España was announced as one of the winning companies of a high definition digital terrestrial television license. Initially, the owner company transmitted HD versions of the Boing and Energy channels on that signal. In March 2016, it was announced that this signal would be occupied by a new channel called Be Mad, which finally began broadcasting on 21 April 2016.
Programming
Between April 2016 and August 2022 channel's programming was based on topics related to sports, adventure and action. There were several programmatic blocks in which the different contents of the channel were categorized: Be Mad Travel, Be Mad Nature, Be Mad Mechanic, Be Mad Planet, Be Mad Investigation, Be Mad Extreme, Be Mad Food, Be Mad Live!, Be Mad History, Be Mad Movies, Be Mad Science, Be Mad Mystery and Be Mad Sports. Most of the channel's programming was based on content that had previously been broadcast on Telecinco or Cuatro, which met the thematic criteria related to the Be Mad idea.
As of September 2022, the programming of Be Mad was reformed, so it became a channel dedicated to cinema, taking advantage of the agreements that Mediaset España has with various production companies such as Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. or StudioCanal, in addition to the films made by Telecinco Cinema.
References
External links
Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación
Television stations in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Men's interest channels
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97.7%20Record%20FM | Record FM (sometimes called Record Radio or 97.7 Record FM) is an Urban Contemporary radio station in Kampala, Uganda. Under the Brazilian free-to-air commercial television network; Record Network was established on September 27, 1953. It is related to the Brazilian-based Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Record FM Uganda is at 97.7 MHz, formed in 2010 and covering central, western, and southern Uganda plus some of northern Uganda.
Their slogan is "Tusabula Hits All Day" (loosely translated as "We Play Hits All Day"). In 2019, 97.7 Record FM was named the Fastest Rising Youth Radio Station by EJazz Media. Bigeye.ug wrote that internally-conducted research showed that 97.7 Record FM was the most listened to station in the central region, that listeners liked the selection of music and programmes, and liked their online presence especially the audio-visual production on its digital platforms.
97.7 Record FM has shows like UG-Breakfast, Hitlab, Big Evening, Hot 7@7 Countdown, Love at Heart, and The Dance Floor by DJ Shiru.
References
External links
Radio stations in Uganda
Radio broadcasting companies of Uganda
Ugandan music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Pointcheval | David Pointcheval is a French cryptographer. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CNRS. He is head of the Computer Science Department and Cryptography Laboratory at the École normale supérieure.
He is mainly known for his contributions in the area of provable security, including the Forking lemma, the Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, and his contributions to Password-authenticated key agreement.
Biography
An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, David Pointcheval obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Caen Normandy.
In 1998, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research, working within the Computer Science department of École Normale Supérieure.
Since then, his research has focused mostly on asymmetric cryptography and Provable security, of which he was one of the pioneers.
He has authored more than 100 international publications, and co-invented a dozen patents.
He was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2015.
In 2021 he received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics.
References
External links
David Pointcheval's personal page
List of publications on Google Scholar
Modern cryptographers
French cryptographers
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
Living people
Public-key cryptographers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Data%20Explorer | Azure Data Explorer is a fully-managed big data analytics cloud platform and data-exploration service, developed by Microsoft, that ingests structured, semi-structured (like JSON) and unstructured data (like free-text). The service then stores this data and answers analytic ad hoc queries on it with seconds of latency. It is a full text indexing and retrieval database, including time series analysis capabilities and regular expression evaluation and text parsing.
It is offered as Platform as a Service (PaaS) as part of Microsoft Azure platform. The product was announced by Microsoft in 2018.
History
The development of the product began in 2014 as a grassroots incubation project in the Israeli R&D center of Microsoft, with the internal code name 'Kusto' (named after Jacques Cousteau, as a reference to "exploring the ocean of data"). The project aim was to address Azure services' needs for fast and scalable log and telemetry analytics.
In 2016 it became the backend big-data and analytics service for Application Insights Analytics.
The product was announced as a Public Preview product at the Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference, and was announced as a generally available at the Microsoft Ignite conference of February 2019.
In March 2021, "Kusto EngineV3", Azure Data Explorer's next generation storage and query engine, became generally available. It was designed to provide unparalleled performance for ingesting and querying telemetry, logs, and time series data.
Features
Azure Data Explorer offers an optimized query language and visualizing options of its data with a SQL-like language called KQL (Kusto Query Language.).
Azure Data Explorer can ingest 200 MB per second per node. Data Ingestion methods are pipelines and connectors to common services like Azure Event Grid or Azure Event Hub, or programmatic ingestion using SDKs.
Data visualization can be achieved using their native dashboard offering, or with tools like PowerBI or Grafana.
Design
Azure Data Explorer is a distributed database running on a cluster of compute nodes in Microsoft Azure. It is based on relational database management systems (RDBMS), supporting entities such as databases, tables, functions, and columns. It supports complex analytics query operators, such as calculated columns, searching and filtering on rows, group by-aggregates and joins.
The engine service exposes a relational data model: At the top level (cluster) there is a collection of databases, each database contains a collection of tables and stored functions. Each table defines a schema (ordered list of typed fields).
In Azure Data Explorer, unlike a typical relational database management systems (RDBMS), there are no constraints like key uniqueness, primary and foreign key. The necessary relationships are established at the query time. The data in Azure Data Explorer generally follows this pattern: Creating Database, Ingesting data, Query the database.
References
Database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimba%20Racer | Rimba Racer is a Malaysian computer-animated streaming television series created by Glue Studios. The series follows a young, aspiring racer named Tag who enters the prestigious auto racing league, the Rimba Grand Prix, to fulfill his dream of racing, but also discovers a conspiracy in its midst and collaborates with other racers to unravel the subversive forces behind the sport. Rimba Racer is Malaysia's first anthropomorphic themed cartoon. Its first episode premiered on 25 December 2014 on Nickelodeon India before its airing in its home country on TV3. This animation is currently airing on TV9.
The show is noted as one of the success stories of local Malaysian animation startups.
Premise
Setting
The series is set in a fictional modern-day world of anthropomorphic animals, and focuses on the Rimba Grand Prix (RGP), a professional racing competition involving drivers in high-tech vehicles. Each vehicle is equipped with a special ability that allows the driver to gain the advantage or inhibit opponents, but can only be used once per race. These special abilities are unique to each vehicle and the driver. For example, the Thunder Strike ability allows Tag's car to leap into the air over a small distance, and Axle's car, the Falcon Mach-1, uses hyperspeed for a brief burst of acceleration.
Most of the narrative takes place aboard an expansive RGP-branded airship The Ark, which ferries the racers and their cars, along with RGP officials and crews, to locations across the world. In addition to living quarters for the racers, the ship features servicing garages for each vehicle complete with a fuel pump, large computer monitors, and an elevator that transports the car directly to a launch hangar below deck. There are also TV broadcasting studios, a luxury lounge, an executive office, and a simulation room, among other onboard amenities. In the second season, the ship is retrofitted with a virtual racing facility lined with pods for each racer for competing on virtual tracks, but has been used at least once in the series.
Synopsis
Season 1
Season 1 opens with a 21-year-old street-racing prodigy named Tag who pilots the Ripper, a race car inherited from his father, legendary racer Riq the Ripper who died in a racing accident thirteen years prior. He lives in poverty with Miles, a mechanic and his personal guardian. Tag and Miles are soon recruited to the RGP by King, head of the organization. Tag eagerly joins the race, which consists of Sonny, Meika, Meelo, Tamira, Krom, Wrecks, Cuckoo, Ooaa, and repeat racing champion Axle. Tag initially struggles in the races and confronts difficulties of being accepted by the other racers, except for Sonny, Meika, and Meelo whom he quickly befriends. Eventually, however, his improving performance on the track makes him a public sensation, and the media dubs him the "Super Rookie."
Tag and Miles become suspicious when King offers them a personal financial backing in exchange for their loyalty. This is vindica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20speed%20%28disambiguation%29 | Processing speed may refer to
Cognitive processing speed
Instructions per second, a measure of a computer's processing speed
Clock speed, also known as processor speed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerminusDB | TerminusDB is an open source knowledge graph and document store. It is used to build versioned data products. It is a native revision control database that is architecturally similar to Git. It is listed on DB-Engines.
TerminusDB provides a document API for building via the JSON exchange format. It implements both GraphQL and a datalog variant called WOQL. TerminusCMS is a cloud self-serve content and data platform built on TerminusDB.
TerminusDB is available under the Apache 2.0 license. TerminusDB is implemented in Prolog and Rust.
History
TerminusDB, previously known as DataChemist, was founded in Dublin, Ireland. Starting in Trinity College Dublin, the development team behind TerminusDB ran the Horizon 2020 project ALIGNED that worked from February 2015 to January 2018. An open-access e-book entitled Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems was published on completion of the ALIGNED project. The results of some aspects of this research, focused on the relationship between complex societies and moralizing gods, appeared in Nature.
Version 1.0 was released in October 2019. TerminusDB was first released under the GPLv3 license with the client libraries released with the Apache 2 license. With v4.0, which was released in December 2020, TerminusDB switched to the Apache 2.0 license. The shift was discussed extensively.
Release history
Name
TerminusDB is named after the Roman God of Boundaries, Terminus. It is also named after the home planet of the Foundation in the series of science-fiction novel by Issac Asimov. TerminusDB uses a CowDuck mascot - the motif finds its origins in the examples used by core engineer Matthijs van Otterdijk when first demonstrating the append only immutable data store
Software design
TerminusDB is an in-memory graph database management system with a rich query language. The design of the underlying data structure, which is implemented in a Rust library, uses a succinct data structures and delta encoding approach drawing inspiration from software source control systems like Git. This allows all of the Git semantics to be used in TerminusDB.
Data model
TerminusDB is based on the RDF standard. This standard specifies finite labelled directed graphs which are parameterized in some universe of datatypes. The names for nodes and labels are drawn from a set of IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers). TerminusDB uses the XSD datatypes as its universe of concrete values. For schema design, TerminusDB used the OWL language until version 10.0. Since version 10 it uses a JSON schema interface allowing users to build schemas using a simple JSON format. This provides a rich modelling language which enables constraints on the allowable shapes in the graph.
TerminusDB has a promise based client for the browser and node.js it is available through the npm registry, or can be directly included in web-sites. It also has a Python client for the TerminusDB RESTful API and a python version of the web object query language, WO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20drum%20storage | In addition to the drums used as main memory by IBM, e.g., IBM 305, IBM 650, IBM offered drum devices as secondary storage for the 700/7000 series and System/360 series of computers.
IBM 731
The IBM 731 is a discontinued storage unit used on the IBM 701. It has a storage capacity of 2048 36-bit words (9,216 8-bit bytes).
IBM 732
The IBM 732 is a discontinued storage unit used on the IBM 702. It has a storage capacity of 60,000 6-bit characters (45,000 8-bit bytes).
IBM 733
The IBM 733 is a discontinued storage unit used on the IBM 704 and IBM 709. It has a storage capacity of 8192 36-bit words (36,864 8-bit bytes).
IBM 734
The IBM 734 is a discontinued storage unit used on the IBM 705 It has a storage capacity of 60,000 6-bit characters (45,000 8-bit bytes).
IBM 7320
The IBM 7320 is a discontinued storage unit manufactured by IBM announced on December 10, 1962 for the IBM 7090 and 7094 computer systems, was retained for the earliest System/360 systems as a count key data device, and was discontinued in 1965. The 7320 is a vertically mounted head-per-track device with 449 tracks, 400 data tracks, 40 alternate tracks, and 9 clock/format tracks. The rotational speed is 3490 rpm, so the average rotational delay is 8.6 milliseconds.
Attachment to a 709x system is through an IBM 7909 Data Channel and an IBM 7631 File Control unit, which can attach up to five random-access storage units, a mix of 7320 and 1301 DASD. One or two 7631 controllers can attach to a computer system, but the system can still attach only a total of five DASD. When used with a 709x, a track holds 2796 six-bit characters, and a 7320 unit holds 1,118,400 characters. Data transfer rate is 202,800 characters per second.
The 7320 attaches to a System/360 through a channel and an 2841 Storage Control unit. Each 2841 can attach up to eight 7320 devices. When used with System/360, a track holds 2081 eight-bit bytes, and a 7320 unit holds 878,000 bytes. Data transfer rate is 135,000 bytes per second.
The 7320 was superseded by the IBM 2301 in mid-1966.
IBM 2301
The IBM 2301 is a magnetic drum storage device introduced in the late 1960s to "provide large capacity, direct access storage for IBM System/360 Models 65, 67, 75, or 85." The vertically mounted drum rotates at around 3500 revolutions per minute, and has a head-per-track access mechanism and a capacity of 4 MB. The 2301 has 800 physical tracks; four physical tracks make up one logical track which is read or written as a unit. The 200 logical tracks have 20,483 bytes each. Average access time is 8.6 msec, and the data transfer rate is 1.2 million bytes per second. The 2301 attaches to a System/360 via a selector channel and an IBM 2820 Storage Control Unit, which can control up to four 2301 units.
IBM 2303
The IBM 2303 is a magnetic drum storage device with the same physical specifications as the IBM 2301. The difference is that the 2303 reads and writes one physical track at a time, rather than the four in the 2301, red |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OntoLex | OntoLex is the short name of a vocabulary for lexical resources in the web of data (OntoLex-Lemon) and the short name of the W3C community group that created it (W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group).
OntoLex-Lemon vocabulary
The OntoLex-Lemon vocabulary represents a vocabulary for publishing lexical data as a knowledge graph, in an RDF format and/or as Linguistic Linked Open Data. Since its publication as a W3C Community report in 2016, it serves as ``a de facto standard to represent ontology-lexica on the Web´´. OntoLex-Lemon is a revision of the Lemon vocabulary originally proposed by McCrae et al. (2011).
The core elements of OntoLex-Lemon, shown in Fig. 1, are:
lexical entry: unit of analysis of the lexicon, groups together one or more forms and one or more senses, resp. concepts. Can provide additional morphosyntactic information, e.g., one part of speech. Note that every lexical entry can have at most one part of speech, for representing groups of lexical entries with identical forms but different parts of speech, see the lexicography module.
lexical form: surface form of a particular lexical entry, e.g., its written representation
lexical sense: word sense of a particular lexical entry. Note that a OntoLex-Lemon senses are lexicalized, i.e., they belong to exactly one lexical entry. For elements of meaning that can be expressed by different lexemes, use lexical concept.
lexical concept: elements of meaning with different lexicalizations. A typical example are WordNet synsets, where multiple synonymous words are grouped together in a single set.
Aside from the core module (namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/ontolex#), other modules specify designated vocabulary for representing lexicon metadata (namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/lime#), lexical-semantic relations (e.g., translation and variation, namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/vartrans#), multi-word expressions (decomposition, namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/decomp#) and syntactic frames (namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/synsem#).
The data structures of OntoLex-Lemon are comparable with those of other dictionary formats (see related vocabularies below). The innovative element about OntoLex-Lemon is that it provides such a data model as an RDF vocabulary, as this enables novel use cases that are based on web technologies rather than stand-alone dictionaries (e.g., translation inference, see applications below). For the foreseeable future, OntoLex-Lemon will also remain unique in this role, as the (Linguistic) Linked Open Data community strongly encourages to reuse existing vocabularies and as of Dec 2019, OntoLex-Lemon is the only established (i.e., published by W3C or another standardization initiative) vocabulary for its purpose. This is also reflected in recent extensions to the original OntoLex-Lemon specification, where novel modules have been developed to extend the use of OntoLex-Lemon to novel areas of application:
OntoLex-Lemon Lexicography Module, pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-centric%20computing | Data-centric computing is an emerging concept that has relevance in information architecture and data center design. It describes an information system where data is stored independently of the applications, which can be upgraded without costly and complicated data migration. This is a radical shift in information systems that will be needed to address organizational needs for storing, retrieving, moving and processing exponentially growing data sets.
Background
Traditional information system architectures are based on an application-centric mindset. Traditionally, applications were installed, kept relatively static, updated infrequently, and utilized a fixed set of compute, storage, and networking elements to cope with a relatively small set of structured data.
This approach functioned well for decades, but over the past decade, data growth, particularly unstructured data growth, put new pressures on organizations, information architectures and data center infrastructure. 90% of new data is unstructured and, according to a 2018 report, 59% of organizations manage over 10 billion files and objects spread over large numbers of servers and storage nodes. Organizations are struggling to cope with exponential data growth while seeking better approaches to extracting insights from that data using services including Big Data analytics and machine learning. However, existing architectures aren't built to address service requirements at petabyte scale and beyond without significant performance limits.
Traditional architectures fail to fully store, retrieve, move and utilize that data because due to limitations of hardware infrastructure as well as application-centric systems design, development, and management.
Data-centric workloads
There are two problems data-centric computing aims to address.
Organizations need to utilize all available data but traditional applications aren't sufficiently agile or flexible. New shifts toward constant service innovation, supported by emerging approaches to service delivery (including microservices and containers) open new possibilities that step away from traditional application-centric mindsets.
Existing limits of data center hardware also restricts complete movement, management and utilization of unstructured data sets. Conventional CPUs are impeding performance because they do not include specialized capabilities needed for storage, networking, and analysis. Slow storage, including hard drives and SAS/SATA solid state drives over the network can reduce performance and limit data accessibility. New hardware capabilities are needed.
Data-centric computing
Data-centric computing is an approach that merges innovative hardware and software to treat data, not applications, as the permanent source of value. Data-centric computing aims to rethink both hardware and software to extract as much value as possible from existing and new data sources. It increases agility by prioritizing data transfer and data computat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Comedy (formerly FOX Comedy) is an Australian subscription television channel focused on airing popular Sitcom. The channel launched on 7 November 2019 as Fox Hits.
The network rebranded on 1 September 2020 after ten months, merging with sister network The Comedy Channel to become Fox Comedy. Though it shared a similar name to its former sister network Fox Funny (which carried more contemporary sitcoms), Fox Comedy's schedule originally featured sitcoms ranging from the 80s to around the mid-2000s.
On 1 March 2023, with the Fox Funny channel closing, its content moved over to sister channels Fox Comedy and Fox8. On that date, Fox Comedy moved to replaced Fox Funny’s slot
On 26 September 2023, the channel rebranded as Comedy.
Programming
As of 1 March 2023, the following titles air on Comedy:
Programming aired on the channel primarily consists of content from Warner Bros Television, Universal Television, ABC Signature, 20th Television, Sony Pictures Television, The Carsey-Werner Company, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CBS Studios alongside its sister companies such as Pop Media Group.
Current programming
Animal Control (Fox Entertainment Studios)
2 Broke Girls (Warner Bros Television)
3rd Rock from the Sun (The Carsey-Werner Company)
The Big Bang Theory (Warner Bros Television)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Universal Television)
Cheers (CBS Studios)
Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS Studios)
Frasier (CBS Studios)
Full House (Warner Bros Television)
Friends (Warner Bros Television)
The Golden Girls (ABC Signature)
The Good Place (Universal Television)
The King of Queens (CBS Studios / Sony Pictures Television)
Mike & Molly (Warner Bros Television)
Mom (Warner Bros Television)
Malcolm in the Middle (20th Television)
The Nanny (Sony Pictures Television)
Schitts Creek (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Pop Media Group)
Seinfeld (Sony Pictures Television)
Two And A Half Men (Warner Bros Television)
Will & Grace (Universal Television)
Former programming
How I Met Your Mother (20th Television)
Just Shoot Me (Sony Pictures Television)
The Middle (Warner Bros Television)
My Name is Earl (20th Television)
NewsRadio (Sony Pictures Television)
References
External links
Foxtel Website
2019 establishments in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television networks in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Foxtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202245 | IBM 2245 Kanji Printer () was the line printer of the IBM Kanji System, announced in 1971, that allowed printing of Japanese text on IBM System/360 and System/370 mainframe computers. Later, it would also support printing of Korean and Traditional Chinese text.
Functions
At the Osaka Expo 1970, a prototype of the IBM Kanji System was exhibited . Although the computers in Japan, up to that time, used only the alphanumeric characters like in other countries, this prototype allowed processing of more than ten thousand Kanji and other characters that are used in the Japanese language.
In 1971, IBM officially announced the IBM Kanji System that consisted of the following:
IBM 5924 Kanji keypunch
IBM 2245 Kanji Printer
IBM System/360-System/370 OS/VS & DOS/VSE programming support
The IBM 5924 Kanji Keypunch was an IBM 029 Keypunch (Model T00 with Katakana feature), attached with a specially designed 12-shift Kanji input keyboard. It allowed punching out IBM cards for more than ten thousand kinds of Japanese characters, using two columns (two punch positions) for each Japanese character, to be fed in the regular IBM card reader for being stored in the computer in two bytes for each Japanese character. This new technical approach gave the so-called Double-Byte Character Set languages of Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages the ability to be processed by the computer.
The IBM 2245 Kanji Printer was a line printer on the system side that connected to System/360 or System/370 via the multiplexer channel, block multiplexer channel or selector channel. The printer basically used the dot matrix impact printing mechanism, already employed in the IBM 2560 Multi-Function Card Machine that attached to IBM System/360 Model 20 and later to IBM System/3. Each Japanese double-byte character was printed on continuous paper with 18x22 dots for horizontal writing or with 18x18 for vertical writing. The paper feed mechanism was not a conventional paper tape, but new program control from the computer system was developed.
Development, manufacturing and marketing
The IBM 2245 was developed at IBM Endicott with participation of two or three engineers from IBM Fujisawa, and manufactured in Endicott. It was marketed as a standard product, whereas the IBM 5924 Kanji punch, developed and manufactured in Fujisawa was a special RPQ product. This printer would later support Korean and Traditional Chinese languages, with the effort of IBM Korea's and IBM Taiwan's laboratories, in coordination from IBM Fujisawa.
Application
Although the IBM 2245 Kanji Print could be used in a wide range of applications, it was mainly used to print the names and addresses in corporate correspondence, because the printing span (horizontal width) was relatively narrow. Until that time, the English alphabet and half-width Katakana had been used for computer processing of corporate correspondence, which was quite awkward.
Critique
The information of which wire dot to be hit at which point was pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Gastronomy | UNESCO's City of Gastronomy project is part of the wider Creative Cities Network. The Network was launched in 2004, and organizes member cities into seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts, and Music.
Criteria for Cities of Gastronomy
To be approved as a City of Gastronomy, cities need to meet a number of criteria set by UNESCO:
Well-developed gastronomy that is characteristic of the urban centre and/or region;
Vibrant gastronomy community with numerous traditional restaurants and/or chefs;
Indigenous ingredients used in traditional cooking;
Local know-how, traditional culinary practices and methods of cooking that have survived industrial/technological advancement;
Traditional food markets and traditional food industry;
Tradition of hosting gastronomic festivals, awards, contests and other broadly-targeted means of recognition;
Respect for the environment and promotion of sustainable local products;
Nurturing of public appreciation, promotion of nutrition in educational institutions and inclusion of biodiversity conservation programmes in cooking schools curricula.
Cities submit bids to UNESCO to be designated, which reviewed every four years.
About the cities
The first City of Gastronomy was Popayán, Colombia, designated in 2005. It hosts an annual National Gastronomic Congress of Popayán.
Chengdu, China, is the capital of Sichuan and Sichuanese cuisine, one of the most popular types of cuisine in China. The city is the birthplace of numerous dishes, including mapo doufu and dan dan noodles, and has a distinct and vibrant tea house culture.
Bergen, Norway, is a port city with a long history in seafood trade. Local gastronomy thrives on organic food. Bergen hosts the world’s largest conference on seafood, the North Atlantic Seafood Forum Conference, and is also home to the Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Seafood and the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research.
Rasht, Iran, represents Iranian cookery. The dominant foods are various types of fish. The region is famous for several distinctive dishes as well as the typical cooking method in Gamaj clay pots.
Tucson, Arizona, USA, has been selected because of "region's rich agricultural heritage, thriving food traditions, and culinary distinctiveness". Tucson is well known for its Sonoran-style Mexican food.
Alba, Italy, is famous for its white truffles and vineyards. The city is referred to as the White Truffle Capital and holds an annual Truffle Festival. Alba also played the key role in the creation and development of the Slow Food movement.
Bergamo, Italy, is famous for its history of cheese making, renowned for its award-winning and famous cheese products, as well as other forms of traditional food production. Bergamo has also advocated for greater sustainability in food production and support of its farmers and traditional methods of agriculture.
Macau, an autonomous region on the south coast of China, repr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odest%20Chadwicke%20Jenkins | Odest Chadwicke Jenkins (born 1975) is an American computer scientist who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Jenkins works on human–computer interaction and the design of robotic systems that learn from demonstration. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2006 and made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.
Early life and education
Jenkins enjoyed playing Atari as a child and wanted to become a videogame designer. He became aware of Alma College because his mother worked with former President Alan Stone. Jenkins studied computer science and mathematics at Alma College. In 1993, he was inducted onto the Alma College Dean's List, and in 1996 won the Senior Leadership Award. Together with his classmate, Jim Blum, Jenkins set up the first Alma College web server in 1997. He moved to Georgia Tech for his graduate studies, working with Jessica Hodgins on simulations of basketball shooting. Jenkins moved to the University of Southern California for his doctoral studies, where he worked with Maja Matarić on humanoid agents. He completed his doctorate in 2003 and was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher.
Research and career
In 2004 Jenkins joined Brown University as an assistant professor. In 2006 he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work on autonomous robot control and perception. Here he created a Robot Operating System (ROS) repository to improve reproducibility and interoperability of his robotic systems. He was promoted to associate professor in 2010. In 2013 Jenkins was made a National Geographic explorer. In 2015 Jenkins joined the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the University of Michigan where he was made a professor in Michigan's Robotics Institute.
Jenkins works on robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), which looks to automate the processes behind human decision making and movement. Robots that are trained using LfD learn from user demonstration (as opposed to learning explicitly from a computer program). For example, Jenkins taught a robot to do the Cabbage Patch by programming it to watch his dance moves and then attempt to replicate them. Jenkins uses manifold learning (nonlinear dimensionality reduction) to identify dynamic processes and the fundamental structures of time series data. Jenkins has demonstrated LfD for the control of humanoid robots, the control of prosthetics and vision-based human tracking. He looks to improve public access to high quality robotic systems. With Henry Evans, a gentleman paralysed by stroke, Jenkins delivered a TED Talk on how robotics can benefit humanity. Jenkins created a quadrotor drone that allowed Evans to see parts of the world that had previously been inaccessible to him.
Jenkins has called for more African Americans to get involved with robotics, and for people to be more aware of whether everyone is being given equal o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20M.%20Brazal | Agnes M. Brazal is a Filipina theologian, known for her work in feminist theology, a theology of migration, and cybertheology.
Biography
Brazal received her first degree in 1981, a BS in management engineering from Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. She later pursued studies in theology, first at Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, before completing a STL (1994) and a SThD (1998), both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
She taught at Maryhill School of Theology (1998–2012), St. Vincent School of Theology (2012–2015), and, since 2016, has been at De La Salle University, where she is presently a full professor in theology and religious education. She was a founding member and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines (DaKaTeo) and a founding member and past president of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia (EWA), an organization that encourages Catholic Asian female theologians to be heard as equal partners with male theologians.
Works
References
Living people
World Christianity scholars
Filipino Roman Catholic theologians
Christian feminist theologians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Glass%20Cannon | The Glass Cannon is a podcast featuring the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game by Paizo Publishing, and is the flagship podcast of The Glass Cannon Network (GCN). The first episode was released on June 16, 2015, and over 326 episodes were produced before the first campaign came to its conclusion in June of 2022. The initial adventure of the podcast followed the Giantslayer adventure path from Paizo supplemented by a significant amount of homebrew content to further flesh out the backstories of characters outside the purview of the main adventure path resources. Their irreverent, off-the-wall style complemented by their deep cinematic storytelling has made the Glass Cannon the bar against which most actual podcasts are measured. Listeners are encouraged to begin at Episode 1 “ Introducing Tom Exposition” for the full experience.
After receiving his MFA in Acting from Columbia University, Troy Lavallee spent the better part of two decades pounding the pavement as an actor and comedian in New York while bartending and holding odd jobs on the side. Troy came up with the idea for the Glass Cannon Podcast while gaming with his good friends Joe O'Brien and Skid Maher. At the time, there was a dearth of actual play podcasts and the ones that did exist were playing Dungeons & Dragons.The lack of Pathfinder RPG podcasts gave them a great opportunity to stand out in the crowd.
In 2017, the GCN signed a first of its kind licensing deal with Paizo, which was extended three years in 2018. This meant that they could monetize the show in an effort to grow beyond just one single podcast. Rather than muddy their flagship show with ads, they looked to a fairly new (at the time) crowdfunding platform called Patreon, where fans could subscribe at various tiers to unlock rewards and exclusive content. As subscriptions began to pour in, they were able to add a second weekly show, then a Patreon exclusive show, then suddenly the founders were leaving their jobs to work for this wild new start-up full-time and thus the Glass Cannon Network was born.
In 2018, they began a US Tour which to date has visited over 30 cities across the US. The tour follows Paizo's Strange Aeons Adventure Path which was converted to Pathfinder Second Edition in May of 2022.
In Spring of 2023, the second major campaign is set to launch on the Glass Cannon Podcast feed featuring the Pathfinder Second Edition Adventure Path Gatewalkers. Troy Lavallee will GM with fellow founders Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher and Matthew Capodicasa as players alongside GCN mainstays Sydney Amanuel and Kate Stamas.
Reviews
Geek & Sundry reviewed it as one of the best table top podcasts. Forbes describe it as engaging and bawdy but not for kids.
The podcast is considered to have a high production quality. Sound effects and music are made with Syrinscape.
References
External links
The Official Glass Cannon website
Nerd's Earth Interview
2015 podcast debuts
Actual play podcasts
Audio podcasts
Comedy podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fox%20%28Forsyth%20novel%29 | The Fox is a novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, published in 2018 by Bantam Press. The story concerns an SIS Cyber operation run by Spymaster Adrian Weston.
Plot
The British Prime Minister calls Sir Adrian Weston, former Deputy Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, and asks him to handle a sensitive case. The computers of the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked by a young British teenager, Luke Jennings, who was subsequently captured in an SAS raid in London. Weston, an ex-Parachute Regiment soldier-turned-MI6 officer, devises a plan to take advantage of Jennings' skills in order to cripple Iran's nuclear program, Russia's intensification programs, and North Korea's nuclear program. Weston is assisted by Special Air Service Captain Harry Williams, and Avigdor Hirsch, Mossad operative and former Special Forces soldier. Yevgeni Krilov, head of the SVR, recognizes Weston's fingerprints on the operation and tries to thwart the operation.
Reception
Reviews were good. The Washington Post called it "a classic thriller thats also eerily relevant". The Times similarly stated that this book proves that "Forsyth deserves his place among the thriller greats".
References
2018 British novels
American thriller novels
Novels by Frederick Forsyth
Bantam Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%202.3 | The Nokia 2.3 is a Nokia-branded low-end smartphone launched in December 2019 running the Android operating system
Design
The Nokia 2.3 is 183 g and 8.7 mm thin. It has a dewdrop notch and thin bezels with a chin at the bottom with the Nokia logo. It does not have a fingerprint sensor; however, it does have Nokia face unlock. The Nokia 2.3, like x.2 series of Nokia phones, has a dedicated Google Assistant button on the left of the phone which can be pressed to quickly activate the Google Assistant or held and released for the Google Assistant to start and stop listening. The phone can be bought in 3 colours, Cyan Green, Sand & Charcoal. It charges via a microUSB port on the bottom and it has a headphone jack located at the top.
Cameras
It has two cameras on the back of the phone, a 13 MP main sensor and a 2 MP depth sensor. On the front there is a single 5MP sensor. Its rear cameras have a dedicated night mode to take better pictures in low-light conditions. It films at 1080p 30 fps and supports auto HDR when taking photos which can also manually be turned on and off.
Reception
Android Police criticized the Nokia 2.3 for still using a microUSB port over USB C, however praised the extra camera on the back. They say "The 2.3 hones in on that streamlining, enlarges a couple of aspects, but mostly retains much of the kit from the last go around."
Trusted Reviews say the most impressive part of the 2.3 is its two-day battery life. They also say the phone being part of the Android One program is a stand-out feature.
References
Mobile phones introduced in 2019
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
2.3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Awards | The 25th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 12, 2020, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2019. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and Taye Diggs returned to host for the second consecutive time. The nominations were announced on December 8, 2019. HBO led with 33 nominations, followed by Netflix with 31.
Winners and nominees
Film
#SeeHer Award
Kristen Bell
Lifetime Achievement Award
Eddie Murphy
Television
Films with multiple nominations and wins
The following twenty-seven films received multiple nominations:
The following six films received multiple awards:
Television programs with multiple nominations and wins
The following programs received multiple nominations:
The following programs received multiple awards:
References
External links
25th Annual Critics Choice Awards – Winners
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
2019 film awards
2020 in Los Angeles County, California
January 2020 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Martin%20%28educator%29 | Mark Martin is a British Computer Science Teacher, educational technology evangelist and founder of UK Black Tech. He was awarded an MBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours. In 2018 Martin was awarded the Diversity Champion Award at the London Tech Week TechXLR8 Awards and in 2019 was honoured by the Mayor of London for his efforts to increase diversity in technological professions.
Early life and education
Martin attended Carshalton College and studied information technology. He moved to South Thames College for his General National Vocational Qualification in Information Technology and Computer Maintenance. Martin worked with young people in Dulwich and Peckham before joining the teaching profession in 2004. Alongside his teaching he worked toward a bachelor's degree at the University of Surrey where he earned a computer science degree in 2005. Martin was a trainee teacher at Harris Academy South Norwood. His experience at the Harris Academy inspired him to work toward a master's degree in education at London South Bank University. Shortly after he graduated Martin joined Phoenix High School, Shepherds Bush, where he introduced a virtual learning environment. To encourage young people to engage with the VLE Martin included games and video lessons.
Career
Martin is concerned about the rise of inequality in UK education. Martin founded Urban Teacher, a platform and social media handle (@Urban_Teacher) where he shares innovations in educational technology. In 2016 Martin co-founded UK Black Tech, a group of tech experts who are committed to increasing black and minority ethnic representation in UK technology, with David McQueen. In 2018 Martin partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers to inspire and train more young people from minority ethnic backgrounds in computer science.
Martin is a part-time teacher at South Bank Engineering UTC. As part of this he invites students from London South Bank University to mentor high school students. In 2019 Martin was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to education, technology and diversity.
Awards and honours
His awards and honours include;
2018 London Tech Week TechXLR8
2019 Tech Nation 50 Most Inspiring, Prominent and Influential Black Voices
2019 Mayor of London London Business Award
2019 Order of the British Empire
2022 UKtech50 2022: The most influential people in UK technology
2022 DIVERSITY POWER LIST HONOURS UK’S 50
References
Alumni of London South Bank University
Schoolteachers from London
21st-century British educators
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Battle | Sam Battle may refer to:
Samuel J. Battle - American police office, parole, commissioner and porter
Sam Battle - aka Look Mum No Computer, a youtuber, electronics wiz and musician. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events taking place in 2020 relating to radio in the United Kingdom.
Events
January
3 January – Smooth Radio announces that Jenni Falconer has joined the network to present the Breakfast Show in London, replacing Gary King. The show will also be available on Smooth Extra, while Falconer will also present a national Saturday morning show for Smooth.
5 January – John Humphrys begins to present a weekly Sunday afternoon programme on Classic FM, with Charlotte Hawkins moving to the Smooth Classics at Seven slot.
15 January –
The BBC announces a further switching off of MW transmitters. The switch-offs, being done as a cost-cutting measure, will see the end of MW transmissions of Radios Cornwall, Newcastle, Merseyside, Solent, Solent for Dorset, BBC Three Counties Radio and BBC Radio York. Also, BBC Radio Cumbria will stop broadcasting on MW in Whitehaven and BBC Radio Norfolk's Norwich MW transmitter will go silent. In addition, BBC Radio Scotland will stop broadcasting on MW in Aberdeen and BBC Radio Wales will lose some MW coverage in central Wales. A total of 18 MW transmitters are to go. The transmitters will broadcast a retune advice loop prior to full switch-off in early April.
In a speech at Cardiff, BBC Director-General Tony Hall confirms plans to make major changes to BBC Local Radio.
23 January – The BBC announced that Brexitcast will be renamed Newscast after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union on 31 January.
27 January – Ofcom says it will take no action over comments Jo Brand made about throwing battery acid on an edition of Radio 4's Heresy in June 2019, saying they were "unlikely to encourage or incite the commission of a crime".
29 January –
BBC News announces it will shed 450 posts, including roles from Newsnight and BBC Radio 5 Live, as part of £80m worth of savings being made by the BBC.
News Corp, owners of The Times, announce plans to launch talk radio station Times Radio later in the year.
30 January – Sarah Sands announces she is standing down as editor of BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme after three years in the post.
February
1 February – The final edition of Brexitcast, recorded as a podcast for radio and titled "Over and Out!", is released.
4 February – The BBC announces plans to launch twenty new radio shows on its BBC Sounds platform.
6 February –
Audience figures released by RAJAR indicate that Zoe Ball's breakfast show on Radio 2 was heard by 8.25 million listeners during the final quarter of 2019, an increase of 335,000 on the previous quarter, and reversing a six-month period of decline in the show's listeners.
Newscast makes its debut on BBC Radio 5 Live.
BBC Radio 5 Live confirms that Dotun Adebayo will take over from Rhod Sharp as its weekday overnight presenter from April. The changes are subsequently delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new programme beginning in July.
20 February – Absolute Radio announces the launch of Absolute Radio 20s, its latest decades-themed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Parnas | Michal Parnas () is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist known for her work on property testing and sublinear-time algorithms. She is a professor of computer science at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel, where she was a founding faculty member and was also the dean of the school of computer science from 2011 to 2016. Since October 2022 she is the vice president of academic affairs of the college.
Parnas is the daughter of neurobiologist (1935–2012). She was a master's student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working with Avi Wigderson on a 1990 master's thesis on Approximate Counting, Almost Uniform Generation and Random Walks. She completed her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in 1994. Her dissertation, Robust Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Retrieval, was jointly supervised by Danny Dolev and Noam Nisan. She is the co-author of a book in Hebrew on discrete mathematics, with Nati Linial.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli women computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuen%20Wan%20Community%20Network | Tsuen Wan Community Network () is a local political group based in Tsuen Wan founded in 2015. In a historic pro-democracy landslide in 2019 District Council election, the group won one seat in the Tsuen Wan District Council.
History
The group was formed in 2015 as a Tsuen Wan-based community group. Its leader Lam Sek-tim ran in the 2015 District Council election against Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) legislator Chan Han-pan in Yeung Uk Road but lost. It was part of the Community Network Union, a localist political alliance of six community groups led by pro-independence Ventus Lau. The Tsuen Wan Community Network later quit the Union in 2018.
Lam Sek-tim ran in Yeung Uk Road in the 2019 District Council election again and defeated Chan Han-pan's successor Ng Chun-yu with narrow margin of 174 votes in the pro-democracy historic landslide victory.
Electoral performance
Tsuen Wan District Council elections
References
External links
Political organisations based in Hong Kong
Political parties established in 2015
2015 establishments in Hong Kong
Liberal parties in Hong Kong
Localist parties in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart.js | Chart.js is a free, open-source JavaScript library for data visualization, which supports eight chart types: bar, line, area, pie (doughnut), bubble, radar, polar, and scatter. Created by London-based web developer Nick Downie in 2013, now it is maintained by the community and is the second most popular JavaScript charting library on GitHub by the number of stars after D3.js, considered significantly easier to use though less customizable than the latter. Chart.js renders in HTML5 canvas and is widely covered as one of the best data visualization libraries. It is available under the MIT license.
History
Chart.js has had four major version releases as detailed below.
See also
JavaScript framework
JavaScript library
References
External links
Usage Trends of Chart.js
Data visualization software
JavaScript libraries
JavaScript visualization toolkits
JavaScript
Visualization API
Charts
Infographics
Free software programmed in JavaScript
Software using the MIT license
Free data analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnyChart | AnyChart is a JavaScript library for cross-platform data visualization in the form of interactive charts and dashboards. It was initially available as a Flash chart component and integrated as such by Oracle in APEX.
History
AnyChart was first developed in 2003 as a Flash chart component to visualize XML data.
In 2007, Oracle licensed AnyChart to implement Flash charting in Oracle Application Express (APEX) used by 100,000 developers monthly as of March 2007.
With the APEX 4.2 release in 2012, AnyChart 6 was introduced with the support of HTML5 charts based on SVG rendering in addition to Flash charts. Version 7.x of AnyChart was already completely based on JavaScript and HTML5.
AnyChart 8.x first released in 2017 has a modular system and supports more than 90 chart types, including variations of basic charts, Gantt charts, meteorological and environmental data graphs (such as air temperature and precipitation, depth measures ), and maps, along with custom drawing and diverse options to work with data. In 2019, it also became available as visualization extensions for Qlik Sense.
License
AnyChart is free for non-profit use and requires a paid license for use in commercial software. Its source code is open on GitHub since release 7.13.0. The library's graphics rendering engine is available under the free BSD license; it was tweaked from AnyChart and open-sourced as a separate JavaScript API under the name of GraphicsJS in 2016.
Awards
AnyChart has industry awards. In 2016, ProgrammableWeb named it one of the most interesting big data and analytics APIs, and the CIOReview magazine included it in the top 20 data visualization tools.
In 2018, AnyChart won a DEVIES award at DeveloperWeek in California for the Best Innovation in JavaScript Technology.
References
External links
JavaScript libraries
JavaScript visualization toolkits
Proprietary software
Visualization API
Charts
Data visualization software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Infinity%20Train%20episodes | Infinity Train is an American animated anthology television series created by Owen Dennis, formerly a writer and storyboard artist on Regular Show, for Cartoon Network and HBO Max.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2016)
Book One: The Perennial Child (2019)
The Train Documentaries (2019)
Book Two: Cracked Reflection (2020)
Book Three: Cult of the Conductor (2020)
Book Four: Duet (2021)
Notes
References
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2020s television-related lists
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20distance | In discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, the rotation distance between two binary trees with the same number of nodes is the minimum number of tree rotations needed to reconfigure one tree into another. Because of a combinatorial equivalence between binary trees and triangulations of convex polygons, rotation distance is equivalent to the flip distance for triangulations of convex polygons.
Rotation distance was first defined by Karel Čulík II and Derick Wood in 1982. Every two -node binary trees have rotation distance at most , and some pairs of trees have exactly this distance. The computational complexity of computing the rotation distance is unknown.
Definition
A binary tree is a structure consisting of a set of nodes, one of which is designated as the root node, in which each remaining node is either the left child or right child of some other node, its parent, and in which following the parent links from any node eventually leads to the root node.
(In some sources, the nodes described here are called "internal nodes", there exists another set of nodes called "external nodes", each internal node is required to have exactly two children, and each external node is required to have zero children. The version described here can be obtained by removing all the external nodes from such a tree.)
For any node in the tree, there is a subtree of the same form, rooted at and consisting of all the nodes that can reach by following parent links. Each binary tree has a left-to-right ordering of its nodes, its inorder traversal, obtained by recursively traversing the left subtree (the subtree at the left child of the root, if such a child exists), then listing the root itself, and then recursively traversing the right subtree.
In a binary search tree, each node is associated with a search key, and the left-to-right ordering is required to be consistent with the order of the keys.
A tree rotation is an operation that changes the structure of a binary tree without changing its left-to-right ordering. Several self-balancing binary search tree data structures use these rotations as a primitive operation in their rebalancing algorithms. A rotation operates on two nodes and , where is the parent of , and restructures the tree by making be the parent of and taking the place of in the tree. To free up one of the child links of and make room to link as a child of , this operation may also need to move one of the children of to become a child of .
There are two variations of this operation, a right rotation in which begins as the left child of and ends as the right child of , and a left rotation in which begins as the right child of and ends as the left child of .
Any two trees that have the same left-to-right sequence of nodes may be transformed into each other by a sequence of rotations. The rotation distance between the two trees is the number of rotations in the shortest possible sequence of rotations that performs this tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXT%20TakeOver%3A%20Tampa%20Bay | NXT TakeOver: Tampa Bay was a scheduled professional wrestling show and WWE Network event that was to be produced by WWE. It would have been the 29th NXT TakeOver event held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division—TakeOver: In Your House in June in turn became the 29th. The event was originally scheduled to take place on April 4, 2020, from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was ultimately canceled, but matches scheduled and planned for the event were rescheduled to take place across multiple episodes of NXT, starting April 1.
Production
Background
TakeOver was a series of professional wrestling shows that began in May 2014, as WWE's NXT brand held their second WWE Network-exclusive event, billed as TakeOver. In subsequent months, the "TakeOver" moniker became the brand used by WWE for all of their NXT live specials. TakeOver: Tampa Bay would have been the 29th NXT TakeOver event (In Your House in June in turn became the 29th). It was titled Tampa Bay as it was to be held in the Tampa Bay area in Florida and it was scheduled to be a support event for WrestleMania 36.
The event was scheduled to take place on April 4, 2020, from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, however, like WWE's other WrestleMania week events, TakeOver: Tampa Bay was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 24, it was announced that TakeOver: Tampa Bay had been canceled, but matches scheduled and planned for the event were rescheduled to take place across multiple episodes of NXT beginning April 1.
Storylines
The card would have included matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters to build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, with storylines produced on their weekly television program.
Prior to the event's cancellation, only one match had been confirmed for TakeOver: Tampa Bay. On the February 26 episode of NXT, General Manager William Regal announced that there would be a ladder match at the event to determine the number one contender for the NXT Women's Championship. In addition, he revealed that the participants for the ladder match would be determined through a series of qualifying matches held over several weeks. Chelsea Green, Mia Yim, and Tegan Nox qualified for the match by defeating Shotzi Blackheart, Dakota Kai, and Deonna Purrazzo, respectively. Following the announcement of the event's cancellation, the remaining ladder match participants continued to qualify on NXT.
References
External links
2020 American television episodes
Tampa Bay
2020 in professional wrestling
2020 in professional wrestling in Florida
2020 television specials
2020s American television specials
April 2020 sports events in the United States
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Dinkins | Stephanie Dinkins (born 1964) is a transdisciplinary American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for creating art about artificial intelligence (AI) as it intersects race, gender, and history.
Her aim is to "create a unique culturally attuned AI entity in collaboration with coders, engineers and in close consultation with local communities of color that reflects and is empowered to work toward the goals of its community."
Dinkins is best known for her projects, Conversations with Bina48, a series of conversations between Dinkins and the first social, artificially intelligent humanoid robot BINA48 who looks like a black woman and Not the Only One, a multigenerational artificially intelligent memoir trained off of three generations of Dinkins's family.
Early life and education
Dinkins was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey to Black American parents who raised her in Staten Island, New York. She credits her grandmother with teaching her how to think about art as a social practice, saying "my grandmother . . . was a gardener and the garden was her art . . . that was a community practice."
Dinkins attended the International Center of Photography School in 1995, where she completed the general studies in photography certificate program. Dinkins received a MFA in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997 She completed the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1998.
Career
Dinkins is an associate professor in the art department at Stony Brook University.
Activism
Dinkins advocates for co-creation within a social practice art framework, so that vulnerable communities understand how to use technology to their advantage, instead of being subjected to their use. This is exemplified in her works such as Project al-Khwarzmi, a series of workshops entitled PAK POP-UP at the nonprofit community center Recess in Brooklyn, NY. The workshops involved collaborating with youth in the criminal justice system and uplifting the voices of vulnerable communities in determining how technologies are created and utilized. Dinkins warns of the dangers to members of minority groups that are absent from the creation of the computer algorithms that now affect their lives.
Art
Dinkins's practice employs technologies including, but not limited to, new media such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dinkins uses oral history techniques of interviewing to craft community-authored narratives and databases which inform the subjects of her work and serve as acts of social intervention or protest.
Conversations with Bina48 (2014-present)
Conversations with Bina48 is a series of recorded conversations with BINA48, a social robot that resembles a middle-aged black woman. Dinkins mirrors Bina48 while they discuss identity and technological singularity.
In 2010, Hanson Robotics, an engineering and robotics company known for its development of humanoid robots, developed and released BINA48. Bina48 is a rob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenoscape | Phenoscape is a project to develop a database of phenotype data for species across the Ostariophysi, a large group of teleost fish. The data is captured using annotations that combine terms from an anatomy ontology, an accompanying taxonomic ontology, and quality terms from the PATO ontology of phenotype qualities. Several other OBO ontologies are also used. The anatomy ontology was developed from the zebrafish anatomy ontology developed by the Zebrafish Information Network.
References
External links
https://phenoscape.org/
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Dungeon | AI Dungeon is a single-player/multiplayer text adventure game which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content and allows players to create and share adventures and custom prompts. The game's first version was made available in May 2019, and its second version (initially called AI Dungeon 2) was released on Google Colaboratory in December 2019. It was later ported that same month to its current cross-platform web application. The AI model was then reformed in July 2020.
Gameplay
AI Dungeon is a text adventure game that uses artificial intelligence to generate random storylines in response to player-submitted stimuli.
In the game, players are prompted to choose a setting for their adventure (e.g. fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, zombies), followed by other options relevant to the setting (such as character class for fantasy settings).
After beginning an adventure, four main interaction methods can be chosen for the player's text input:
Do: Must be followed by a verb, allowing the player to perform an action.
Say: Must be followed by dialogue sentences, allowing players to communicate with other characters.
Story: Can be followed by sentences describing something that happens to progress the story, or that players want the AI to know for future events.
See: Must be followed by a description, allowing the player to perceive events, objects, or characters.
The game adapts and responds to most actions the player enters. Providing blank inputs can be used to prompt the AI to generate further content, and the game also provides players with options to undo or redo or modify recent events to improve the game's narrative. Players can also tell the AI what elements to "remember" for reference in future parts of their playthrough.
User-generated content
In addition to AI Dungeon's pre-configured settings, players can create custom "adventures" from scratch by describing the setting in text format, which the AI will then generate a setting from.
These custom adventures can be published for others to play, with an interface for browsing published adventures and leaving comments under them.
Multiplayer
AI Dungeon includes a multiplayer mode in which different players each have their own character and take turns interacting with the AI within the same game session. Multiplayer supports both online play across multiple devices or local play using a shared device.
The game's hosts are able to supervise the AI and modify its output.
Unlike the single-player game, in which actions and stories use second person narration, multiplayer game stories are presented using third-person narration.
Worlds
AI Dungeon allows players to set their adventures within specific "Worlds" that give context to the broader environment where the adventure takes place. This feature was first released with two different worlds available for selection: Xaxas, a "world of peace and prosperity"; and Kedar, a "world of dragons, demons, and monsters".
De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20Tumble | Turing Tumble is a game and demonstration of logic gates via mechanical computing.
Description
Named after Alan Turing, the game itself could (abstractly) duplicate the processes of any computer whatsoever if the game field itself were sufficiently large. This follows because the game is P-complete by the circuit value problem and PSPACE-complete if an exponential number of marbles is allowed. The device has implications for nanotechnology.
The game is advertised as Turing complete: an extension of the game that allows an infinitely large board and infinitely many pieces has been shown to be Turing complete via simulations of both Rule 110 for cellular automata, as well as of Turing machines.
Although it resembles a pachinko machine in its aesthetic use of gravity-fed metal balls, it is primarily a teaching device in the fundamentals of logic-computer programming, and as such is an example of gamification. The framing device in the included comic book features an astronaut who must solve 60 increasingly difficult logic problems which illustrate the fundamentals of computer programming.
History
The impetus of the puzzles included with the device was the frustration of the programmer and chemistry professor Paul Boswell (along with his wife, Alyssa Boswell, a DIY maker), then at the University of Minnesota, at the lack of computing prowess of other scientists which was necessary for their own projects. Boswell was already well known for programming complex games for Texas Instruments computers. The inventors were also inspired by the Digi-Comp II, a precursor from the late 1960s.t
Components
A Turing Tumble machine has the following parts:
Ball drops – The standard version uses two ramps which store a given number of balls. A switch at the bottom of the board triggers the release of the initial ball (typically blue), from the top left of the panel. The second ramp, on the right, contains red balls.
Ramps and crossovers – The green ramp allows the balls to run down it one way and release it in only that direction, whereas the orange crossover lets balls traverse it to either side both ways, i.e. from right to left and vice versa.
Interceptors – This black piece stops a ball.
Bits – This is a one-bit storage: it changes direction when a ball rolls through, such that the next ball goes to the other side.
Gear and gear bits – Gear bits are exactly like regular bits, but they can be connected to gears. The gears allow for linking state changes, thus integrally adding extra (abstract) power.
Reception
Critically, the device has received high praise for its concept and execution, albeit with some caveats (the recommended age being 8+).
The computing game has won the Parents' Choice Gold Award, and won in the category "Best Toys of the Year 2018" under the aegis of the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association.
References
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Turing tumble simulator (JavaScript)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Z | HP Z is a series of professional workstation computers developed by HP. The first-generation desktop products were announced in March 2009, replacing HP's xw-series workstations. The product line expanded to mobile with the announcement of Z Book in September 2013, replacing HP's EliteBook W-series mobile workstations. The Z workstations mainly compete against Dell Precision workstations, Lenovo's ThinkStation or ThinkPad P-series workstations, as well as the Apple Mac Pro and MacBook Pro.
Desktop workstations
First generation
The HP Z800, HP Z600 and HP Z400 were announced in March 2009, offering Intel Nehalem Xeon processors and a new chassis design. An entry-level model, HP Z200, was announced in January 2010 at CES 2010. A small-form-factor version of the Z200, along with Intel Westmere Xeon processor refresh, were introduced to the lineup in March 2010. Z210, the successor of Z200, was announced in April 2011 with Intel Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 processors. An all-in-one workstation Z1 featuring Sandy Bridge E3 processors was introduced in February 2012.
Second generation
The second-generation workstations Z820, Z620 and Z420 were announced in March 2012, featuring Intel Sandy Bridge-E Xeon E5 processors. The entry-level Z220 was refreshed with Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 v2 processors in June 2012. Z230, successor to Z220, was introduced in July 2013 with Intel Haswell Xeon E3 v3 processors. Z820, Z620 and Z420 were updated to Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon E5 v2 processors in September 2013. The second-generation Z1 G2 all-in-one was announced at CES 2014.
Third generation
The third-generation workstations Z840, Z640 and Z440 were announced in September 2014, featuring Intel Haswell Xeon E5 v3 processors. The processors were later updated to Broadwell in April 2016. The entry-level Z240 was announced in September 2015 with Intel Skylake E3 v5 processors, and later updated to Kaby Lake Xeon E3 v6 processors. The third-generation all-in-one Z1 G3 was announced in April 2016 with Intel Skylake processors. A mini workstation, Z2 Mini G3, was announced in November 2016.
Fourth generation
The fourth-generation workstations Z8 G4, Z6 G4 and Z4 G4 were announced in September 2017, shipping with Intel Skylake Xeon Scalable or W-series processors. Cascade Lake processors were made available in April 2019. Entry-level Z2 G4 and Z2 Mini G4 were announced in July 2018, featuring Intel Coffee Lake Xeon E-series processors.
Fifth generation
HP made a major update to its Z Workstation portfolio by launching G5 editions of its HP Z4, Z6, Z8, and Z8 Fury workstation in April 2023. The HP Z4 G5 edition features a new workstation-specific Sapphire Rapids CPU family, the single-socket Intel Xeon W-2400 Series, available with 6 to 24 cores. The machine supports up to 512 GB of DDR5 RAM and can host up to two dual-slot graphics cards, up to the new ‘Ada Lovelace’ Nvidia RTX 6000 (48 GB), which will benefit multi-GPU aware viz and rendering applications. The HP Z6 G5 su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20Nickelodeon | The following is a list of presidents of the children's cable television network Nickelodeon.
Dr. Vivian Horner (1977–1979)
Dr. Vivian Horner was in charge of operations at Nickelodeon's predecessor, the "C-3" children's channel on QUBE. She created the first program on Nickelodeon, Pinwheel, and conceived the idea for the Nickelodeon channel itself. As the role of "Nickelodeon president" did not exist yet, Horner's official titles were "vice president for education and children's programming" and "head of program development" for Warner-Amex (Nickelodeon's original parent company). She worked at Nickelodeon until 1983.
Cyril Schneider (1980–1984)
In 1980, Warner-Amex hired Cyril M. Schneider to be the president of the Nickelodeon network, which made its national debut less than a year earlier. Despite introducing popular programs such as You Can't Do That on Television to the lineup in 1981, Nickelodeon operated at a loss of $10 million dollars, and at one point had the lowest number of viewers compared to other cable channels by 1984. In 1983, Bob Pittman was made head of MTV Networks and Schneider was not comfortable with his "idiotic" approach to "home-based" television. As a result, Schneider left the network in early 1984.
Geraldine Laybourne (1984–1996)
In 1980, Laybourne was hired as a program manager at Nickelodeon, a year-old network, where she initiated the focus-group approach to programming.
Laybourne was one of the first people to focus on television programming for kids. She spent 15 years at Nickelodeon, taking over the management of the network, and started accepting advertising for the network, in 1984.
Laybourne and her team were responsible for creating and building the Nickelodeon brand, launching Nick at Nite and expanding the network by establishing it in other countries, developing theme parks and creating Nickelodeon magazine, movie, toy and publishing divisions.
Under her leadership, Nickelodeon became the top-rated 24-hour cable programming service and won Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, CableACE Awards and Parents' Choice Awards. The network had a 40% profit margin and explosive growth every year.
Laybourne built Nickelodeon into the first global television network to profit from selling advertising targeted towards children. Her programming approach, which made a point of talking to children as equals, built the tiny cable network, which had only five employees in 1980, into an $8 billion business.
Herb Scannell (1996–2006)
In February 1996, Scannell was named President of Nickelodeon and TV Land, succeeding Geraldine Laybourne. Under his leadership, Nickelodeon (which, under his watch, included such animated series as SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, The Fairly OddParents, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Angry Beavers, Catscratch, and Hey Arnold!) and TV Land became the highest rated cable networks launched within the past seven years. Nickelodeon also expanded to other areas such as live theatrical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20Cartoon%20Network | The following is a list of presidents of American entertainment company The Cartoon Network, Inc.
Betty Cohen (1992–2001)
Betty Cohen became the first president of Cartoon Network in 1992, a position she held until her resignation in 2001. Cohen had previously worked as the manager of marketing for the Cable Health Network in 1982 and as the director of on-air promotion and interstitial programming for Nickelodeon from 1984 to 1988. Under Cohen's leadership, Cartoon Network became a global phenomenon with asset value of nearly $3 billion. Cohen stepped down from her post on June 18, 2001, stating "I was afraid I would die the queen of cartoons." She was succeeded by Jim Samples.
Under Cohen's watch, network brands such as Toonami, the Cartoon Cartoons, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, and Cartoon Orbit were introduced, as well as original series such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast, What a Cartoon!, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. Dexter's Laboratory, in particular, was one of her favorite animated shows.
Jim Samples (2001–2007)
On August 22, 2001, Jim Samples was promoted to Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network Worldwide, replacing founder and original president Betty Cohen. Under Samples's leadership, the network included successful original series such as Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Teen Titans, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Camp Lazlo, Ben 10, and Class of 3000. He is also credited with the rollout and launch of Adult Swim, the leading late-night network for young men in the United States, and joined forces with 20th Century Fox to put Family Guy back into production as the anchor for the Adult Swim line-up before leaving Adult Swim in 2021.
Under Samples's leadership, Cartoon Network also somewhat controversially began airing live-action "cartoon-inspired" movies in 2005, such as The Goonies and Who Framed Roger Rabbit; this move was made in response to CN's slumping ratings due to competing live-action shows on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. In 2006, the network produced their first live-action original movie, Re-Animated, a collaboration between live-action and animation. When asked about the project, Samples stated "We think when it's done the 'Cartoon Network' way, kids will enjoy seeing animation and the real world collide." While Cartoon Network intended to produce future shows that blend live-action with animation as well as "cartoony" live-action shows, Samples maintained "we're predominately an animated network and that's not changing anytime soon."
Samples resigned from his post on February 9, 2007, following a bomb scare in Boston caused by packages left around the city that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign promoting the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. On May 2, Stuart Snyder was named Samples' successor.
Stuart Snyder (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20Day | Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy is a 2019 non-fiction book by Eric O'Neill, published by Crown Books, about his mission to collect evidence against Robert Hanssen, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who spied for Russia.
The book's opening scene is O'Neill's December 2000 meeting with his supervisor about the mission to ensnare Hanssen. Paul Davis wrote in the Washington Times that the main focus of the book is the operation to capture Hanssen, and that it does not "dwell on his motivation other than wanting extra money" nor does it discuss in detail any of his sexual conduct.
References
Publishers Weekly wrote that Gray Day "largely succeeds in its efforts to create a tightly wound narrative around a remarkable investigation into a Russian asset." The publication stated that the author successfully increases the reader's feeling of suspense so that "foregone historical conclusions, [...] feel like white-knuckle cliffhangers." It also notes that the book "deglamorizes undercover work while conveying the uncertainty, stress, and excitement that accompany a successful investigation." It did note, on occasions, use of "potboiler territory" language.
Kirkus Reviews stated that the "exploration of the psychology" and the "motivations" of Hanssen as well as how it details why people who commit espionage "so often enjoy success for as long as they do until finally caught" give it its value. Kirkus did state that "familiar clichés of espionage" appear in the text. Kirkus identified possible audiences as people who read "true crime" and "spy fiction" works.
Davis concluded that the book is "a well-written and suspenseful story".
See also
Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America - Book about the Hanssen case by David Wise
References
Further reading
External links
Gray Day - Eric O'Neill official website
Gray Day at Penguin Random House
2019 non-fiction books
Books about espionage
American non-fiction books
Crown Publishing Group books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2092%20%28Poland%29 | National road 92 (Polish: droga krajowa nr 92) is a route belonging to Polish national roads network, which serves as an alternative route parallel to motorway A2. The road has one lane per direction on the majority of its length. Before the A2 motorway was constructed, it had served as the main connection between Warsaw, Poznań and the Polish-German border as DK 2; because of this, the route is sometimes referred to as "starą dwójką" (lit. "old two").
Before 2000, DK 92 ran from Gliwice–Mikołów–Tychy (Bielsko-Biała); this is now part of DK 44.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportion%20extend%20sort | Proportion extend sort (abbreviated as PESort) is an in-place, comparison-based sorting algorithm which attempts to improve on the performance, particularly the worst-case performance, of quicksort.
The basic partitioning operation in quicksort has a linear access pattern which is extremely efficient on modern memory hierarchies, but the performance of the algorithm is critically dependent on the choice of a pivot value. A good pivot will divide the data to be sorted into nearly equal halves. A poor choice will result in a grossly lopsided division, leaving one part almost as large as the original problem and causing performance.
Proportion extend sort begins with a sorted prefix of elements, then uses the median of that sample to partition the following elements. By bounding the size ratio between the sample and the data being partitioned (i.e. the proportion by which the sorted prefix is extended), the imbalance is limited. In this, it has some similarities to samplesort.
History
Proportion extend sort was published by Jing-Chao Chen in 2001 as an improvement on his earlier proportion split sort design. Its average-case performance, which was only experimentally measured in the original paper, was analyzed by Richard Cole and David C. Kandathil in 2004 and by Chen in 2006, and shown to require comparisons on average. A slightly refined variant, symmetry partition sort, was published in 2007.
Algorithm
The algorithm begins with an array divided into a sorted part adjacent to an unsorted part . (The original proportion extend sort always had the sorted part precede the unsorted part; the symmetric variant allows either order.) It is possible to begin with the first element as the sorted part (a single element is always sorted), or to sort a small number of elements using a simpler insertion sort. The initially sorted elements may also be taken from across the array to improve performance in the case of pre-sorted data.
Next, and most critically, the length of the unsorted part is bounded to a multiple of the length of the sorted part . Specifically, if , then recursively sort and the adjacent elements of , make the result ( times longer than the original) the new , and repeat until the condition is satisfied.
If there is no limit on the unsorted part (), then the algorithm is equivalent to quicksort. If the unsorted part is of length 1 (, almost), then the algorithm is equivalent to binary insertion sort. Values around give the best average-case performance, competitive with quicksort, while smaller values improve worst-case performance.
Eliezer Albacea published a similar algorithm in 1995 called Leapfrogging samplesort where the size is limited so , later generalized to .
The sorted part of the array is divided in half (at the median), and one half is moved (by exchanging it with unsorted elements) to the far end of the array, so we have an initial partially partitioned array of the form , where is the left hal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Laboratory%20for%20Learning%20and%20Intelligent%20Systems | ELLIS - the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems - is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact. Founded in 2018, ELLIS builds upon machine learning as the driver for modern AI and aims to secure Europe’s sovereignty in this competitive field by creating a multi-centric AI research laboratory. ELLIS wants to ensure that the highest level of AI research is performed in the open societies of Europe inclduing 39 research units, 14 research programs and a PhD & Postdoc Program.
History
The organization was inspired by the Learning in Machines and Brains program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. ELLIS was first proposed in an open letter to European governments in April 2018, which stated that Europe was not keeping up with the US and China. It urged that European governments act to provide opportunities and funding for world-class AI research in Europe.
It was founded on 6 December 2018 at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Board
The members of the board are:
Serge Belongie (University of Copenhagen & Cornell University)
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Florence d'Alché-Buc (Télécom Paris)
Nada Lavrac (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Neil D. Lawrence (University of Cambridge)
Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante Unit Foundation | Institute of Humanity-centric AI)
Bernhard Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Chairman
Josef Sivic (Czech Technical University, École Normale Supérieure & INRIA)
Sepp Hochreiter (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Board guest
ELLIS units
ELLIS is creating a network of research sites distributed across Europe and Israel. Currently, there are 39 ELLIS units in 14 countries. The long-term goal is to establish a set of world-class ELLIS institutes, each acting as the core of a local AI ecosystem.
Research programs
In addition to ELLIS units, a European network of top researchers working at locations throughout Europe is being established, organized into 14 ELLIS Programs. These Programs, directed by outstanding European researchers and including leading researchers as Program Fellows, focus on high-impact problem areas that have the potential to move the needle in modern AI.
The ELLIS Programs are inspired by the CIFAR Program model, and closely collaborate with the CIFAR LMB (Learning in Machines and Brains) Program. Each Program has a budget for 2-3 workshops/year to enable meetings of 10-15 Fellows plus guests for intensive scientific exchange. Workshops can be co-located with academic meetings (usually) held in Europe, or organised as stand-alone events, usually at (and with the support of) ELLIS unit sites.
PhD & Postdoc Program
The ELLIS PhD & Postdoc Program supports excellent young researchers by connecting them to leading researchers across Europe and offering a variety of networking and training activities, including summer scho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Habitable%20Exoplanet%20Hunting%20Project | The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project is an international network of both professional and amateur astronomers. As of December 2019, the network comprises 32 observatories located worldwide, including universities such as the University of South Africa, the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and the California Polytechnic State University.
The participants are searching for new potentially habitable exoplanets around non-flare G, K or M-type stars located within 100 light years. The initial list of targets consists of 10 stars that already have known transiting exoplanets outside the habitable zone.
The network is monitoring 24/7 each star at a time during several months. Despite G and K-type stars are the main targets of the project, the team is initially focusing on red dwarfs because it take less time to discard the existence of potentially habitable exoplanets around these type of stars.
Most of the observatories are able to detect transit depths as low as 0.1% and exoplanets with a radius of 0.7 Earth radii. To search for new exoplanets, the team is using two different methods: transit photometry and transit duration variation.
Overall, the project is a new approach to the quest for exoplanets in which a large network of astronomers located in the five continents have the time to continuously observe each star individually during long periods of time in the search for dips in brightness produced by transiting exoplanets.
As of December 2019, the network has already conducted observations on GJ 436 and GJ 1214, with a new campaign on GJ 3470 starting in January 2020. In July 2020, the group reported the discovery of GJ 3470 c.
See also
List of exoplanet search projects
References
Exoplanet search projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20McIlraith | Sheila McIlraith is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence), and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
Education and career
McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.
Research and career
McIlraith worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Xerox PARC and as a research scientist at Stanford University before returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2004.
McIlraith’s research is in the area of AI knowledge representation and reasoning, automated planning, and machine learning where she currently studies sequential decision-making, broadly construed, with a focus on human-compatible AI. Her research was seminal to the area of semantic web services and had made practical contributions to the development of emerging web standards such as DAML-S/OWL-S and computer-aided diagnosis systems.
McIlraith served as program co-chair for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference in 2018, as program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012), and as program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2004.
Awards and honors
McIlraith was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services". She was also elected an AAAI Fellow in 2011 “for significant contributions to knowledge representation, reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the semantic web and diagnostic problem solving”. She and co-authors have been recognized with two 10 year test of time awards from the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2011, and from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in 2022.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido%20Erev | Ido Erev holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina, 1990 in Cognitive/Quantitative Psychology.
Erev is a full professor at the Technion's Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences.
Academic contribution
Erev is widely regarded for his contributions to learning in behavioral economics and experimental economics.
His work with Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth has started a branch of behavioral economics focused on human learning in games and individual choice tasks.
He is also widely regarded for his distinction between decision from experience and decisions from description
Another line of research involves practical implications. and law enforcement.
References
External links
Ido Erev: "Big data without big brothers: the potential of gentle rule enforcement"
"The impact of experience on the phenomena summarized by prospect theory" was presented in The D-TEA (Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications) Zoom meeting on Prospect Theory, June 16-19, 2020
Ido Erev lecture in London Judgment and Decision Making seminars, 21st October 2020
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
University of North Carolina alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Frincke | Deborah A. Frincke is an American academic and computer scientist specializing in computer security who is the associate laboratories director of national security programs at Sandia National Laboratories.
Education
Frincke was educated at the University of California, Davis, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics in 1985, a Master of Science in computer science in 1989, and a PhD in computer science in 1992.
Career
Frincke began her career as a professor of computer science at the University of Idaho. She is the former chief scientist for cyber security at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories. From 2014 to 2020, she was director of research for the National Security Agency.
As Research Director, Frincke also served as the NSA Science Advisor and the NSA Innovation Champion. She also served as the NSA Science Advisor and the NSA Innovation Champion. Prior to becoming the director of research, Frincke led global education and training for the agency as Associate Director for Education and Training (ADET). While serving as ADET, Frincke also served as Commandant of National Cryptologic School, where she established the first NSA Cyber College and launched the GenCyber Program. In these roles, she led a worldwide multiservice military and civilian, corporate-level learning organization while also providing executive steering of four Service schools and 20 satellite campuses across the global enterprise. She is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Frincke is the first female head of the research directorate at the agency, and has spoken out about the importance of diverse perspectives in computer security.
Recognition
In 2017 Frincke won the Founders Award of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education.
She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions in education, the practice of research, and the leadership of cybersecurity".
Also in 2019, the UC Davis College of Engineering named her as a distinguished alumna.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of California, Davis alumni
University of Idaho faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20information%20society | Intelligent information society is a hypothetical social transformation based around communication technology infrastructure and artificial intelligence. In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the convergence of artificial intelligence, robot technology, big data and software disrupts fields such as labor, welfare, employment, education and defense. In the intelligent information society, data, knowledge and information will supplant traditional production factors (labor and capital) and spark revolutionary change across society. The economy will move from a material economy to a service economy and then to a shared economy, with decentralized, or horizontal power structures, and thus greater freedoms. These freedoms will depend on an invigorated civil society to prevent government and/or other concentrated power to dominate.
Examples
AI home appliances solve housework.
Autonomous vehicles increase mobility and safely .
AI healthcare predicts the onset of disease.
Soft Power
An intelligent information society is a society where humans and things are connected through intelligence. The economy moves from a material economy to a service economy and then to a shared economy. Governance changes from vertical hierarchical order.
Joseph Nye proposed the concept of soft power, which is the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce (contrast hard power). Soft power is more important than hard power in the intelligent information society. South Korea has been promoting hard power-oriented national strategies and economic growth. Nye argued that the proliferation of knowledge and networks in information shifted the center of power from hard to soft. Rather than coercion, restraint, and rewards, they dominate the other person's mind and persuade them. The intelligent information society forms the inflection point as the world shifts from hard power to soft power.
Economy
The economy of the intelligent information society relies on the digital economy. The Internet of Things (IoT), is a driving force for economic growth, discovering more creative, lower cost and innovative services. IoT creates value through collaboration between industries. It creates added value by applying IoT to fields such as automotive, medical, energy and power. Companies change from selling products to subscription services.
Social production is a way of producing a product or service through a voluntary, open and horizontal collaboration. It uses a mixture of the capitalist market and sharing economy. Goods such as cars, homes, furniture, and clothing are shared through social media, unions, and redistribution clubs. Transaction costs for sharing products, services, and the content decline, enabling efficient use.
Jeremy Rifkin claims that social capital is as important as financial capital, that access replaces ownership, and that cooperation replaces competition..
Platform society
The platform underlying the Industrial Revolution was factories. What can be see |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Cardie | Claire Cardie is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing. Since 2006, she has been a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University, and from 2010 to 2011 she was the first Charles and Barbara Weiss Chair of Information Science at Cornell. Her research interests include coreference resolution and sentiment analysis.
Education and career
Cardie is a 1982 graduate of Yale University, majoring in computer science. After working for several companies as a computer programmer, she returned to graduate study in the late 1980s and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1994. Her dissertation, Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition for Conceptual Sentence Analysis, was supervised by Wendy Lehnert.
She has been on the Cornell University faculty since 1994, initially in computer science and since 2005 also in information science. She was an assistant professor (1994–2000) and associate professor (2000–06), before being promoted to a full professorship in 2006. In 2007 she founded a start-up company, Appinions, and she was its chief scientist until 2015. Her doctoral students at Cornell have included Amit Singhal and Kiri Wagstaff.
Recognition
Cardie became a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2016. She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to natural language processing, including coreference resolution, information and opinion extraction". She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Yale College alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Natural language processing researchers
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Lehnert | Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Education and career
Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974. She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering, and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff. She retired in 2011.
Books
Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:
The Process of Question Answering: A Computer Simulation of Cognition (L. Erlbaum Associates, 1978)
Light on the Web: Essentials to Make the 'Net Work for You (Addison-Wesley, 1981)
Strategies for Natural Language Processing (with Martin Ringle, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1982)
The Web Wizard's Guide to Freeware and Shareware (Addison-Wesley, 1982)
Internet 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web (Addison-Wesley, 1998)
The Web Wizard's Guide to HTML (Addison-Wesley, 2001)
Web 101: Making the Net Work for You (with Richard Kopec, Addison-Wesley; 3rd ed., 2007)
Recognition
In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Portland State University alumni
Yeshiva University alumni
Yale University alumni
Yale University faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Natural language processing researchers
Machine learning researchers
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20Ba%C5%82azi%C5%84ska | Magdalena Bałazińska is a computer scientist whose research concerns databases and data streams. Born in Poland and educated in Algeria, Canada, and the US, she works at the University of Washington, where she directs the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
Education and career
Balazinska was born in Poland. Her family moved to Algeria, where she studied in a Polish and French speaking school, and then to Quebec, Canada, where she did her university studies in computer engineering at the Polytechnique Montréal. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Fault-Tolerance and Load Management in a Distributed Stream Processing System, was supervised by Hari Balakrishnan.
She joined the University of Washington faculty in 2006, and served the university as Director of the eScience Institute and Associate Vice Provost for Data Science before, in 2019, being appointed as director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
Recognition
Balazinska's work on fault-tolerant distributed stream processing and on reengineering software clones has won awards for its long-term impact.
She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to scalable distributed data systems".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Polish women computer scientists
Polish computer scientists
Université de Montréal alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
MIT School of Engineering alumni
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American scientists
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20American%20Baking%20Show%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of The Great American Baking Show premiered December 12, 2019 on the ABC network. It is the second season under the title The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition. Emma Bunton and Anthony "Spice" Adams return as hosts. Returning in the judging panel for their third and second seasons, respectively, are Paul Hollywood and Sherry Yard.
Bakers
Results summary
Color key:
Episodes
Episode 1: Cake
Color key:
For the signature challenge, the bakers had two hours to make a single-layer olive oil cake. For the technical challenge, Sherry assigned an angel food cake, which the bakers had two and a half hours to complete. For the showstopper, the bakers had three and a half hours to make a chocolate gateau with three layers and chocolate icing.
Episode 2: Bread
For the signature challenge, the bakers had an hour and 45 minutes to make one dozen savory breadsticks. For the technical challenge, set by Paul, the bakers had two and a half hours to make a traditional cob loaf. For the showstopper, the bakers had four and a half hours to make a bread sculpture inspired by "The Twelve Days of Christmas", with at least two flavors of bread.
Episode 3: Spice
The signature challenge was to bake a dozen cinnamon rolls in two and a half hours, including an icing or drizzle. The technical challenge was to bake a dozen Linzer cookies in an hour and a half. For the signature, bakers had five hours to build a holiday gingerbread scene.
Episode 4: Dessert
In the signature challenge, the bakers had an hour and 45 minutes to make madeleines. For the technical, the bakers had to make Queen of Puddings in one hour and 30 minutes. For the showstopper, the bakers had four and a half hours to make a cheesecake tower of at least three tiers, with two of the same flavor and one different.
Episode 5: Pastry
In the signature challenge, the bakers had an hour and 45 minutes to make a citrus tart. For the technical, the bakers had to make hand-raised pies in two hours and 15 minutes. For the showstopper, the bakers had four and a half hours to make Napoleons and palmiers.
Episode 6: Cookie
In the signature challenge, the bakers had two hours and 30 minutes to make winter sugar cookies. For the technical, the bakers had to make fortune cookies in one hour and 30 minutes. For the showstopper, the bakers had four and a half hours to make macaron tower.
Episode 7: Semi-Finals
In the signature challenge, the bakers had three hours to make two varieties of savory canapés. For the technical, the bakers had to make soufflés in 40 minutes. For the showstopper, the bakers had three and a half hours to make an Opera cake.
Episode 8: Finals
In the signature challenge, the bakers had two hours and 30 minutes to make choux buns. For the technical, the bakers had to make a Fraisier cake in two hours and 30 minutes. For the showstopper, the bakers had three and a half hours to make three different kinds of mini-desserts.
Ratings
References
The Great Am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Xuejun | Yang Xuejun (; born April 1963) is a Chinese educator and computer scientist currently serving as president of the PLA Academy of Military Science. Previously he served as president of the National University of Defense Technology. He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 2004, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in August 2013 and general (shangjiang) in December 2019.
Education
Yang was born in Wucheng County, Shandong in April 1963. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 1979. In July 1983 he graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology. In December 1984 he joined the Chinese Communist Party. He received his master's degree and doctor's degree in engineering from National University of Defense Technology in 1985 and 1991, respectively.
Career
After graduation, he taught there, where he was vice-president in 2009 and president in July 2011. In 1994, at the age of 31, he became chief designer of supercomputer YH-3 and later became chief designer of Tianhe-1. He has been president of the PLA Academy of Military Science since July 2017.
He was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress. He was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate member of the 18th CCP Central Committee. He is a member of the 19th CCP Central Committee.
Honours and awards
1998 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2011 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
2012 Chen Jiageng Science Award
December 2011 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
References
1963 births
Living people
People from Wucheng County
Chinese computer scientists
Scientists from Shandong
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Delegates to the 9th National People's Congress
Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
People's Liberation Army generals from Shandong
Presidents of the PLA Academy of Military Science
Presidents of the National University of Defense Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kolkata%20Metro%20depots%20and%20yards | The Kolkata Metro is a mass rapid transit urban railway network in Kolkata, India. It was the first underground railway to be built in India, with the first operations commencing in 24 October, 1984. As of January, 2023, there are 4 commercially operational depots Noapara, Tollygunge, New Garia and Central Park.
Depots
Operational
Under Construction
See also
Kolkata Metro
List of Kolkata Metro stations
List of proposed and under-construction Kolkata metro stations
References
List
Kolkata metro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20Calvanese | Diego Calvanese is an Italian computer scientist and professor at the faculty of computer science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In addition, since 2019, he is Wallenberg Visiting Professor at the department of computing science, Umeå University.
He is well known for his scientific contributions in knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, description logics, and database theory.
Education
Calvanese graduated in electronic engineering (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza University, Rome, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Awards (selection)
Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (2015)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2019)
Entrepreneurial Activities
Diego Calvanese is the initiator and co-founder of Ontopic, a spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
References
External links
Ontopic (ontopic.ai)
Google Scholar
1966 births
Living people
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Academic staff of Umeå University
Academic staff of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymers%20of%20intrinsic%20microporosity | Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) are a unique class of microporous material developed by research efforts led by Neil McKeown, Peter Budd, et al. PIMs contain a continuous network of interconnected intermolecular voids less than 2 nm in width. Classified as a porous organic polymer, PIMs generate porosity from their rigid and contorted macromolecular chains that do not efficiently pack in the solid state. PIMs are composed of a fused ring sequences interrupted by Spiro-centers or other sites of contortion along the backbone. Due to their fused ring structure PIMs cannot rotate freely along the polymer backbone, ensuring the macromolecular components conformation cannot rearrange and ensuring the highly contorted shape is fixed during synthesis.
Synthesis
PIMs require that the non-network macromolecular structure is rigid and non-linear. In order to maintain permanent microporosity the rotation along the polymer chain must be prohibited through the use of fused ring structure or strongly hindered by steric inhibition to avoid conformation changes that would allow the polymer to pack efficiently. This results in the use of a conformationally locked monomer and a polymerization reaction that provides a linkage about which rotation is prohibited. Three main types of polymerization reactions have been successfully used to prepare PIMs of sufficient mass to form self-standing films. These involve a polymerization reaction based on a double aromatic nucleophilic substitution mechanism to form the dibenzodioxin linkage, a polymerization using Troger's base formation, and amide linkages formation between monomeric units. It is also possible to modify the structure of PIMs by post-synthesis reactions. However, this can result in a reduction in intrinsic microporosity due to the additional interchain cohesive interactions.
Applications
Due to the presence of intrinsic microporosity these polymers have high-free volume, high internal surface area, and have a high affinity for gases. A novel property of PIMs is that they do not possess a network structure and are often freely soluble in organic solvents. This allows PIMs to be precipitated or cast from solution to give microporous powders or self-standing films that are useful for a variety of applications. For example the first commercial application of PIMs was in a sensor developed by 3M. Additionally, due to PIMs affinity for small gases and ability to form self-standing films they are actively being investigated as a membrane material and adsorbent for industrial separation processes such as gas separation and carbon dioxide capture. PIM membranes are also heavily investigated due to their contribution in the revision of the 2008 upper bounds of performance by Robeson, an important parameter in membrane gas separation stating that the permeability must be sacrificed for selectivity. Specifically active areas of PIM membrane research include, enhancing permeability, decreasing aging, and tailo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild%209440 | The Fairchild 9440 MICROFLAME, also known as the F9440 and μFLAME, was a 16-bit microprocessor introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1977. The 9440 implemented the Data General Nova 2's instruction set in a single-chip 40-pin DIP. The name "MICROFLAME" was part of a wider branding exercise called "FIRE", which was a development software system.
An updated version, the 9445, was announced in 1978 but did not reach market until late 1981. By this time the 16-bit designs were being surpassed by 32-bit designs and hybrids like the Motorola 68000, and Fairchild began turning their attention to their own 32-bit Fairchild Clipper design. The underlying core of the 9445 was also used to implement the 9450, which used new microcode to implement the MIL-STD-1750A instruction set.
The 9440 and 9445 were subject to constant lawsuits from Data General (DG) that dragged on both companies. DG finally settled all ongoing litigation in September 1986 by paying Fairchild over $52 million. Fairchild was purchased and sold several times during this period, ending up at National Semiconductor in 1987. National ended production of the 9445, leaving several users in the lurch. A final version, the IDC9445, was introduced to fill this need.
History
Nova
The Data General Nova was introduced in 1969, implemented using individual integrated circuits (ICs) mounted on a 15x15-inch printed circuit board. In order to lower design complexity, and thus board size and cost, the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) was only 4-bits wide, implemented using a single 74181 IC. This meant it required four machine cycles to complete a 16-bit instruction, but it also allowed the system to be much less expensive than competing minicomputers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Hewlett-Packard. The NOVA was very successful, propelling DG into the second-place position behind DEC in the minicomputer market during the 1970s.
In 1970, DG introduced the SuperNOVA, which featured a full 16-bit wide ALU using four 74181's in bit-slice fashion, and thus ran about four times as fast as the original NOVA. This was further boosted by other changes, including faster core memory and optional semiconductor memory, making the SuperNOVA the fastest mini for some time. This also meant there were two different central processing unit designs implementing the same underlying instruction set architecture (ISA). As the development of both designs continued, the two were modified so the faster version could be dropped into existing machines originally running the lower-speed hardware. This led to the NOVA 2, 3 and 4 series.
microNOVA
Improving semiconductor fabrication processes, especially through the 1970s, put increasing pressure on the individual-IC CPU designs like the NOVA. Initially, only 4-bit and then 8-bit CPUs could easily be manufactured on a single chip, but by the mid-1970s, 16-bit designs were appearing. In 1973, National Semiconductor introduced the IMP-16, which implemented a NOVA-like |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20Franz%20Schubert%20%28doubtful%20and%20spurious%29 | I (Anh. I; first Annex) of the 1978 edition of the Deutsch catalogue lists 32 compositions which are spuriously or doubtfully attributed to Franz Schubert.
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|-
| data-sort-value="040" | 40
| data-sort-value="999.10010" | Anh.I/1
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="String Quartet, D Anh. I/1" | String Quartet, D Anh. I/1
| data-sort-value="key E-flat major" | E major
| data-sort-value="1813-01-01" | 1813
| Doubtful: lost or identical to
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999102" |
| data-sort-value="999.102" | Anh.I/2
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="String Quartet, D Anh. I/2" | String Quartet, D Anh. I/2
| data-sort-value="key F major" | F major
| data-sort-value="1816-01-01" | 1816
| Doubtful: lost or identical to
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999103" |
| data-sort-value="999.103" | Anh.I/3
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="802,A2" | VIII, 2Anh. No. 2
| Fugue, D Anh. I/3
| data-sort-value="key C major" | C major
| data-sort-value="1812-01-01" | 1812?
| Spurious?; For string quartet?; Fragment: only viola part is extant
|-
| data-sort-value="002" | 2
| data-sort-value="999.104" | Anh.I/4
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Spurious: fragment of a string quartet movement in G major by
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999105" |
| data-sort-value="999.105" | Anh.I/5
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Spurious: sketch for the opening movement of a string quartet in E major
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999106" |
| data-sort-value="999.106" | Anh.I/6
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Spurious: Duet in D major for two violins
|- id="D Anh. I/6A"
| data-sort-value="999.09991061" |
| data-sort-value="999.1061" | Anh.I/6A
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Spurious: Symphony in E major "1825" by Gunter Elsholz (fake Gmunden-Gastein Symphony, )
|-
| 858
| data-sort-value="999.107" | Anh.I/7
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="714,13" | VII/1, 4
| March, D Anh. I/7
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="1825-11-01" | November1825
| Doubtful; Lost; For two pianos, eight hands
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999108" |
| data-sort-value="999.108" | Anh.I/8
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Piano Sonata, D Anh. I/8
| data-sort-value="key F major" | F major
| data-sort-value |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20Franz%20Schubert%20%28arrangements%29 | II (Anh. II; second Annex) of the 1978 edition of the Deutsch catalogue lists four arrangements by Franz Schubert, of compositions by other composers.
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| data-sort-value="999.0999201" |
| data-sort-value="999.201" | Anh.II/1
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="801,00" | VIII, 1
| data-sort-value="Arrangement of Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide, overture" | Arrangement of Gluck's overture to Iphigénie en Aulide
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="1810-01-01" | early 1810?
| Fragment for piano duet: last bars of the Primo part extant
|-
| data-sort-value="096" | 96
| data-sort-value="999.202" | Anh.II/2
| data-sort-value="XXX,1926" | (1926)
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="801,00" | VIII, 1
| Arrangement of Matiegka's Notturno (Trio), Op. 21, a.k.a. Quartet, D Anh. II/2
| data-sort-value="key G major" | G major
| data-sort-value="1814-02-26" | 26/2/1814
| For flute, viola, guitar, and a cello part added by Schubert; Movements 2 (Trio II) and 5 (Var. II) recomposed by Schubert
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999203" |
| data-sort-value="999.203" | Anh.II/3
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="801,00" | VIII, 1
| data-sort-value="Arrangement of Gluck's Echo et Narcisse, arias, 2, from" | Arrangement of two arias from Gluck's Echo et Narcisse
| data-sort-value="text Rien de la nature" | Rien de la nature – O combats, o désordre extrème!
| data-sort-value="1816-03-01" | March 1816
| data-sort-value="Text by Tschudi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de, Rien de la nature" | Text by Tschudi
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999204" |
| data-sort-value="999.204" | Anh.II/4
| data-sort-value="XXX,1960" | (1960)
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="801,00" | VIII, 1
| data-sort-value="Arrangement of Stadler's 8th Psalm" | Arrangement of M. Stadler's 8th Psalm (Zwölf Psalmen David's No. 1: "Unendlicher! Gott, unser Herr!")
| data-sort-value="text Dem Sangmeister auf Gittith, ein Psalm Davids" | Dem Sangmeister auf Gittith, ein Psalm Davids
| data-sort-value="1823-08-29" | 29/8/1823
| data-sort-value="Text by Mendelssohn, Moses Psalm 008" | Text by Mendelssohn, M., translating Psalm 8; For voice and orchestra; Schubert adapted and orchestrated the piano accompaniment, slightly modifying the vocal part
|}
Lists of compositions by Franz Schubert
Compositions by Franz Schubert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20Franz%20Schubert%20%28copies%29 | III (Anh. III; third Annex) of the 1978 edition of the Deutsch catalogue lists thirteen copies by Franz Schubert, of compositions by other composers.
Table
Legend
List
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999301" |
| data-sort-value="999.301" | Anh.III/1
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="Schubert's copy of canons, 9, by Michael Haydn" | Schubert's copy of nine canons by Michael Haydn and other composers: Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 6 by M. Haydn – No. 2 by M. or J. Haydn – No. 5 by – No. 9 by Mozart
| data-sort-value="text Es packe dich das Gluck beim Kragen" | 1. Es packe dich das Glück beim Kragen (F major) – 2. Vom Glück sei alles dir beschert (B major) – 3. Glück fehl dir vor allem (G major) – 4. Wohlsein und Freude (C major) – 5. Drum habe Dank, o Vater Hayden – 6. Adam hat siebn Söhn (F major) – 7. Cato, Plato, Cicero (F major) – 8. Was i beim Tag mit der Leiern gwinn (E minor) – 9. Alleluia (C major)
| data-sort-value="1810-06-21" | summer1810
| data-sort-value="For five voices" | No. 1: for five voices (MH 577, also K. Anh. C.10.14) – No. 2: for four voices (MH 619 or Hob. XXVIIb:Bb1) – No. 3: for four voices (MH 582) – No. 4: for five voices (MH 584) – No. 5: for nine voices – No. 6: for four voices (MH 699, also K. 562b) – No. 7: (MH 714) – No. 8: (MH 723) – No. 9: for four voices ()
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999302" |
| data-sort-value="999.302" | Anh.III/2
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="Schubert's copy of Roser's Teilung der Erde, Die" | Schubert's copy of 's
| data-sort-value="text Nehmt hin die Welt! rief Zeus aus seinen Hohen" | Nehmt hin die Welt! rief Zeus aus seinen Höhen
| data-sort-value="1810-01-01" |
| data-sort-value="Text by Schiller, Friedrich, Nehmt hin die Welt! rief Zeus aus seinen Hohen" | Text by Schiller; Also Hob. XXVIa:C1
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999303" |
| data-sort-value="999.303" | Anh.III/3
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Schubert's copy of part of Mozart's Symphony No. 41
| data-sort-value="key C major" | C major
| data-sort-value="1813-03-29" | after29/3/1813
| Start of Minuet (3rd movement)
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999304" |
| data-sort-value="999.304" | Anh.III/4
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="Schubert's copy of canon, 1, from Zumsteeg's Elbondocani" | Schubert's copy of a canon from Zumsteeg's Elbondocani
| data-sort-value="text Hoffnung Kind des Himmels" | Hoffnung Kind des Himmels
| data-sort-value="1813-09-20" | beforefall 1813?
| data-sort-value="Text by Haug, Friedrich, Hoffnung Kind des Himmels"| Text by Haug (transl. from French); For sstb and piano
|-
| data-sort-value="999.0999305" |
| data-sort-value="999.305" | Anh.III/5
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| data-sort-value="ZZZZ" |
| Schubert's copy of Zumsteeg's Chor der Derwische
| |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20W.%20Thatcher | James W. Thatcher (March 25, 1936 – December 7, 2019) was an American computer scientist, and the inventor of the first screen reader, a type of assistive technology that enables the use of a computer by people with visual impairments.
Thatcher was also important to the development of the accessibility consulting industry.
Among many other awards, Thatcher was awarded the first ACM SIG Access Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility for his contributions to digital accessibility in 2008.
Career
Thatcher earned one of the first PhDs in Computer Science in 1963 from the University of Michigan. His thesis advisor, Dr. Jesse Wright, was blind, and together they joined the Mathematical Sciences Department of IBM Research, to work on practical computing and the development of an audio-based computer access system for the IBM Personal Computer. The result of this work was the one of the first screen readers for DOS, originally called PC-SAID, or Personal Computer Synthetic Audio Interface Driver. This was renamed and released in 1984 as IBM Screen Reader, which became the proprietary eponym for that general class of assistive technology. Thatcher went on to lead the development of IBM Screen Reader/2, the first screen reader for a graphical user interface.
In 1996, Thatcher joined the IBM Accessibility Center in Austin, Texas, where he helped establish the internal IBM Accessibility Guidelines for software development. These guidelines helped inform the later development of the W3C standard WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
Thatcher retired from IBM in 2000, to become an independent accessibility consultant. He retired from accessibility consulting in 2016.
Awards
Distinguished Service Award (1994), from the National Federation of the Blind for the development of the GUI screen reader
Vice President's Hammer Award (1999), for work on the development of software accessibility standards with the U.S. Department of Education
ACM SIG Access Award (2008), for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility for his contributions to digital accessibility
Making A Difference Award (2009), from ACM Special Interest Group for Computers and Society, for his career in accessibility
External links
https://jimthatcher.com/
https://highlandscurrent.org/2019/12/12/jim-thatcher-1963-2019/
References
1936 births
2019 deaths
American disability rights activists
Web accessibility
American computer scientists
American inventors
SIGACCESS award winners
University of Michigan alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet | Flajolet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
André Flajolet (born 1946), French politician
Philippe Flajolet (1948–2011), French computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel%27s%20ABC%20television%20series | Marvel's ABC television series are a set of interconnected American television series created for the broadcast network ABC, based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. Produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios, they are set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledge the continuity of the franchise's films and other television series. When categorizing their wider television slate, Marvel considers the ABC series to be their "Marvel Heroes" series.
The first television series in the MCU was Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., developed by The Avengers (2012) writer/director Joss Whedon for Marvel Television and ABC. Starring Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, reprising his role from the films, the series debuted in September 2013 and ran for seven seasons until August 2020. Marvel Studios was involved in Agent Carter, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role of Peggy Carter from the films, which ran for two seasons from January 2015 to March 2016. Inhumans, a project intended as an MCU film that was redeveloped as a series with IMAX Corporation, was released in 2017. A version of the series' first two episodes were released in IMAX theaters before the series' ABC premiere. Inhumans starred Anson Mount and was canceled after a single season.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. debuted to strong ratings for ABC, but these steadily dropped and all three series ultimately became modest ratings performers. Reviews for S.H.I.E.L.D. compared it unfavorably to the MCU films at first, but these improved and the response to Agent Carter was more positive. Inhumans was not well received. Marvel and ABC attempted to develop several more series together, including a spin-off from S.H.I.E.L.D. called Marvel's Most Wanted and a comedy based on the Damage Control comics. Development on any future series was halted when Marvel Television was folded into Marvel Studios in December 2019, though ABC remained committed to featuring Marvel content and began discussions with Marvel Studios for a new series shortly after.
Development
By July 2012, Marvel Television had entered into discussions with ABC to create a show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In August, ABC ordered a pilot for a series called S.H.I.E.L.D., developed by Joss Whedon who wrote and directed the MCU film The Avengers (2012); the series was renamed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. when it was officially picked up by ABC. Another MCU-based series, Agent Carter, was announced in January 2014 as joining Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at ABC. In November 2016, Marvel and IMAX Corporation announced Inhumans, based on the species of the same name, after a planned film based on the characters had been removed from Marvel Studios' release slate. The first two episodes of the series were set to premiere in IMAX theaters in September 2017 for two weeks, before airing on ABC with the remainder of the series. The deal was initially suggested to Marvel by IMAX after they had held a successful IMAX event with Game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfiguration | In discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, reconfiguration problems are computational problems involving reachability or connectivity of state spaces.
Types of problems
Here, a state space is a discrete set of configurations of a system or solutions of a combinatorial problem, called states, together with a set of allowed moves linking one state to another. Reconfiguration problems may ask:
For a given class of problems, is the state space always connected? That is, can one transform every pair of states into each other with a sequence of moves? If not, what is the computational complexity of determining whether the state space for a particular problem is connected?
What is the diameter of the state space, the smallest number such that every two states can be transformed into each other with at most moves?
Given two states, what is the complexity of determining whether they can be transformed into each other, or of finding the shortest sequence of moves for transforming one into another?
If moves are chosen randomly with a carefully chosen probability distribution so that the resulting Markov chain converges to a discrete uniform distribution, how many moves are needed in a random walk in order to ensure that the state at the end up the walk is nearly uniformly distributed? That is, what is the Markov chain mixing time?
Examples
Examples of problems studied in reconfiguration include:
Games or puzzles such as the 15 puzzle or Rubik's cube. This type of puzzle can often be modeled mathematically using the theory of permutation groups, leading to fast algorithms for determining whether states are connected; however, finding the state space diameter or the shortest path between two states may be more difficult. For instance, for version's of the Rubik's cube, the state space diameter is , and the complexity of finding shortest solutions is unknown, but for a generalized version of the puzzle (in which some cube faces are unlabeled) it is NP-hard. Other reconfiguration puzzles such as Sokoban may be modeled as token reconfiguration but lack a group-theoretic structure. For such problems, the complexity can be higher; in particular, testing reachability for Sokoban is PSPACE-complete.
Rotation distance in binary trees and related problems of flip distance in flip graphs. A rotation is an operation that changes the structure of a binary tree without affecting the left-to-right ordering of its nodes, often used to rebalence binary search trees. Rotation distance is the minimum number of rotations needed to transform one tree into another. The same state space also models the triangulations of a convex polygon, and moves that "flip" one triangulation into another by removing one diagonal of the polygon and replacing it by another; similar problems have also been studied on other kinds of triangulation. The maximum possible rotation distance between two trees with a given number of nodes is known, but it remains an open problem whether |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand%20by%20Me%20Doraemon%202 | is a 2020 Japanese 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy film based on the Doraemon manga series and a sequel to the previous movie, the 2014 film Stand by Me Doraemon. Directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki, it is primarily inspired by Doraemon's 2000 short film Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections and Doraemon's 2002 short film The Day When I Was Born.
Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film outside Asia (despite it streaming in Asian Netflix as a non-Netflix Original) and was released on December 24, 2021, on the streaming platform. It is the sixth highest grossing animated film of 2020.
Plot
Nobita - following his previous movie adventure - has managed to change his future for the better, making Shizuka marry him. Taken by despair, however, he decides to return to the past to re-meet his beloved grandmother, who died when he was still in kindergarten and whom he was really fond of. The grandmother is happy that Nobita came back in time to be with her, and confides in him a great desire: to meet his future bride. Meanwhile, the Nobita of the future, who is about to marry Shizuka and crown his "dream of happiness", is seized by a panic attack and flees into the past to see Doraemon again, fearing that he is not the right person for Shizuka. However, the duo of Nobita and Doraemon is involved in a series of mishaps in the future, as well as the present, in order to fulfill Grandma’s wish of seeing Nobita's bride. What takes place, is a roller coaster of emotions, fun and suspense.
Voice cast
Release
It was originally scheduled to release in theaters on 7 August 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was temporarily removed from the release schedule, and was replaced by Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (which had been postponed from a previous March release). The film was then postponed to 20 November 2020 when it was given a theatrical release in Japan. The film was released in Indonesia on 19 February 2021, and in Malaysia on 5 March 2021 Netflix released an English dub in Japan on 6 November 2021 featuring role reprisals of the cast of Bang Zoom! Entertainment's English dub of the 2005 anime. Netflix also released both the English and Japanese dub (with subtitles for each) worldwide on December 24, 2021.
Soundtrack
The theme song is Niji (Rainbow) by Masaki Suda.
Box office
Debuting on 416 screens with limitations on seating capacity due to COVID-19 pandemic, Stand by Me Doraemon 2 earned $3.7million on 305,000 admissions in its first weekend and ranked number-two on Japanese box office.
Here is a table which shows the box office of this movie of all the weekends in Japan:
Accolades
References
External links
2020 films
2020 anime films
2020 computer-animated films
2020s children's animated films
2020s Japanese films
Animated films about time travel
Animated films set in the future
Animated films about friendship
Anime postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Doraemon films
Films about we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fungies%21 | The Fungies! is an American animated comedy television series created by Stephen P. Neary and produced by Cartoon Network Studios for HBO Max. The first part of the first season premiered on August 20, 2020, on HBO Max, followed by the second part of the season on October 8, 2020. The series made its linear premiere on Cartoon Network on June 4, 2021.
Premise
The Fungies! is set in a prehistoric and mythological metropolis of Fungietown in a strange prehistoric world inhabited by some fungi-looking creatures and occasional dinosaurs. The series follows the adventures of Seth, one of the town's young mushroom inhabitants, whose love for scientific adventures often ends with him stirring trouble with the local inhabitants and learning to understand others.
Cast
Harry Teitelman as Seth
Zaela Rae as Claudette
Justin Michael as Nevin
Niki Yang as Lil' Lemon
Grace Kaufman as Champsa, Holk
Sam Richardson as Cool James, Mr. Mayor
Stephen P. Neary as Pascal, Sir Tree
Edi Patterson as Mertha, Anna Nanna
Tama Brutsche as The Twins
Jennifer Coolidge as Dr. Nancy
Terry Gross as Pam
Mary Faber as Teacher Terry
June Squibb as Granny Grancie
Chris Diamantopoulos as Commander Beefy
Eric Edelstein as Coach Croach
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
Season 2 (2021)
Season 3 (2021)
Development
The show was originally developed as The Fancies as part of the Cartoon Network International Artists Program, and was greenlight for a series in July 2019. The first season premiered on August 20, 2020, on HBO Max.
International broadcast
In the United Kingdom, it premiered on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2020. In Canada, it premiered on Teletoon on January 10, 2021.
Cancellation
In August 2022, upon the announcement that HBO Max would be removing the series that month, it was reported that the series had concluded after its third season, which was released on December 16, 2021.
Reception
Common Sense Media rated the show at 4/5 stars, stating that "The silliness will draw kids in, but parents will appreciate all the great stuff secretly woven through each episode." Mashable also gave a favorable review, writing that it had "perfect balance between the soft, safe world of children's programming and the deadpan absurdism of emotional exhaustion — y'know, but with mushrooms. And dinosaurs. And, oh yeah, that talking stump."
References
External links
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's comedy television series
2020 American television series debuts
2021 American television series endings
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Cartoon Network Studios
HBO Max original programming
Cartoon Network original programming
Animated television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentric%21%20Chef%20Moon | Eccentric! Chef Moon () is a 2020 South Korean television series produced by Glovic Entertainment and Story Networks for Channel A, starring Eric Mun and Go Won-hee. The drama is a healing romantic comedy that follows the life and love of a star chef Moon Seung-mo and a reckless famous fashion designer Yoo Yoo-jin after they meet each other at Seoha Village. It aired on Channel A every Friday and Saturday at 10:50 (KST) from March 27 to May 16, 2020.
Synopsis
Moon Seung-mo (Eric Mun) is a popular star chef and the only son of the 80-year-old traditional Korean 'Pungcheonok’ pork soup restaurant. He is also responsible for creating the fine Korean cuisine dining boom through pop-up restaurants. He loves to cook with organic ingredients while the current culinary environment is filled with food made with MSG and problematic ingredients. After his parent died suddenly from a fire, he decides to move the quaint Seoha Village.
Meanwhile, Yoo Yoo-jin (Go Won-hee), also known as Yoo Bella, is a renowned fashion designer. She moves to Seoha Village after losing her memory from an accident which results in her acting completely different than her usual glamorous self. Due to her reckless behavior, she earns the nickname “Yoobyeolna”(unique, oddball) among the village locals.
Moon Seung-mo's peaceful daily life suddenly turns upside down with the sudden appearance of Yoo Yoo-jin at the village.
Cast
Main
Eric Mun as Moon Seung-mo, star chef and the only son of the 80-year-old traditional Korean 'Pungcheonok’ pork soup restaurant.
Go Won-hee as Yoo Yoo-jin, a world-renowned fashion designer who lost her memory after an accident.
Supporting
Choi Kwang-je as Bang Da-hoo, Moon Seung-mo's best friend.
Cha Jung-won as Im Hyun-ah. She plays a person who feels inferior and envious to designer Yoo Bella.
Go Do-yeon as Kim Sul-ah, 7-year-old girl who claims Moon Seung-mo is her father.
Ahn Nae-sang as Im Chul-young.
Lee Seung-yeon as Han Mi-young, the daughter of the president of a big corporation and wife of Im Chul-yong (Ahn Nae-sang).
Jang Jae-ho as Kang Jun-su, a representative of Donghan Food.
Lee Seo-hwan as Dr. Cho, a self-proclaimed doctor-turned-professor. He plays a grasshopper-like character who goes around the village and pretends to know farming.
Lee Seung-chul as chairman of Donghan Food.
Song Ji-woo as Gong Hyo-sook, a student and aspiring model.
Others
Jung Gyoo-soo as Moon Byung-hak, Seung Mo's father (Ep.1-3,9)
Special appearances
Kim Jung-hwa as Yoo Hyo-myung, a super model turned fashion designer. She is talented and beautiful. Yoo Hyo-myung is connected to a series of events that happen at the beginning of the drama.
Henny Savenije as Louis Belmont CEO of a big French fashion brand. Desperate to get a contract with Bella
Jang Gwang as Moon Byung-hak's friend (Ep.8)
Production
The first script reading took place on November 16, 2019.
As per the production website, the early working title of the series is Vacation in Your |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYOD | DYOD (106.3 FM), broadcasting as 106.3 DABIG C Radio, is a radio station owned and operated by Prime Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at the 3rd Floor, PDCI Bldg., Rizal St., Ormoc.
References
External links
Prime FM Ormoc FB Page
Radio stations in Leyte (province)
Radio stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Huaimin | Wang Huaimin (; born 1962) is a Chinese scientist specializing in distributed computing. He is the current vice-president of National University of Defense Technology and dean of its School of Computing.
Early life
Wang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1962.
Honours and awards
November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
References
1962 births
Living people
Educators from Nanjing
Scientists from Nanjing
Academic staff of the National University of Defense Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYKB-AM | DYKB (1404 AM) Radyo Ronda is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Philippines Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Purok KBS, Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod.
References
External links
Radyo Ronda Bacolod FB Page
Radyo Ronda Bacolod Website
Radio stations in Bacolod
Radio stations established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%20Hospital%20of%20Traditional%20Chinese%20Medicine | The Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a largest Chinese Medicine hospital is network headquartered in the region of Beijing, China. The hospital network has approximately 2,500 beds and has three institute and centers, the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhao Bingnan's Medical Center of Dermatosis, Beijing International Training Center for Acupuncture as well as an additional 26 clinical departments.
The hospital network is listed as one of the largest hospital networks in the world in terms of available beds. Its flagship location is the Capital Medical University Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine located on 23 Meishuguan Back St in Beijing.
History
The hospital network was founded in 1956 focusing on Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The hospital uses TCM to treat diseases "of the spleen and stomach, cough, asthma, insomnia, diabetes, enuresis, chronic fatigue syndrome, facial paralysis, protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disc, sciatica, dysmenorrhea, acne, and fatty liver".
Beijing International Acupuncture Training Center, a subsidiary of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been visited and studied by roughly 30,000 people from over 80 countries.
In 2017, president of the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liu Quanqing, warned against using "anti-smog" herbal teas to combat smog related illness stating it is ineffective and "may even cause additional health risks". Liu warned that "anti-smog" tea contained "ingredients that are medicines and can't be used as food, which may cause health problems if taken for a long time". He also "suggested remedies for cleaning the lungs, such as eating kelp, radish or wood-ear fungus" were not genuine.
A joint venture involving Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine set up Ming Yi Guan, the first "treatment facility outside China".
See also
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
References
External links
Hospitals in Beijing
Buildings and structures in Beijing
1956 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus%20Pagh | Rasmus Pagh is a Danish computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the University of Copenhagen. His main work is in algorithms and data structures, and he is particularly known for the cuckoo hashing algorithm and for co-founding the Basic Algorithms Research Center, BARC, in Copenhagen.
Early life and education
Rasmus Pagh was born in Copenhagen, but soon after his family moved to Esbjerg in western Denmark. He went to high school at Rødkilde Amtsgymnasium where he participated in the "JP Forsker" science competition, and in the "Georg Mohr" mathematics competition.
After graduating in 1994, he went to study mathematics and computer science at Aarhus University.
In 1998 he started his PhD with Peter Bro Miltersen and started writing articles about hashing and efficient dictionaries, culminating in his work on cuckoo hashing.
Soon after his thesis defence was in the fall of 2002 he became an assistant professor at the recently founded IT University of Copenhagen.
Career
In 2007, Rasmus founded the Scalable Query Evaluation for Reliable Databases (SQERD) project. The project aimed at applying modern algorithmic techniques to problems arising in database management systems in connection with the evaluation of queries.
From 2011-2015, he ran the MaDaMS project, which partnered with Demetra A/S, Aarhus University and Apptus AB at finding more efficient approaches to data mining.
Rasmus Pagh was made full professor at ITU with his Inaugural Lecture in 2013.
In 2014, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project on Scalable Similarity Search. The project resulted in many new algorithms, including a way to prevent false negatives in high dimensional search.
In 2017 Pagh co-founded the Basic Algorithms Research Center, BARC, in Copenhagen with Mikkel Thorup, Thore Husfeldt and Stephen Alstrup.
Soon thereafter he took a sabbatical to join the Simons Institute at University of California, Berkeley and become a Google visiting scholar.
In 2019, Rasmus Pagh became an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Computing.
In 2020, Rasmus Pagh received the European Symposium on Algorithms Test-of-Time award for his 2001 work on cuckoo hashing with Flemming Friche Rodler.
See also
Pagh's problem in dynamic algorithms.
References
Living people
Scientists from Copenhagen
Danish computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Aarhus University alumni
Academic staff of the IT University of Copenhagen
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20programming%20on%20Telemundo | Children's programming has played a part in Telemundo's programming since its initial roots in television. This article outlines the history of children's television programming on Telemundo including the various blocks and notable programs that have aired throughout the television network's history.
History
For much of its history, the bulk of NetSpan/Telemundo's children's programming has been derived of mainly live-action and animated programming from American and international producers, including Spanish-language dubs of programs produced in other languages, and Spanish-language programming acquired from other countries.
Telemuñequitos (1992–1998)
On June 1, 1992, the network's first foray into children's programming, Telemuñequitos, was in partnership with Warner Bros., and featured Spanish-language dubs of Warner Bros. Cartoons productions (including Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and Popeye the Sailor). The network converted its children’s programming every weekday mornings until 2000.
Telemundo Infantil (1995–1998)
In September 1995, Telemundo launched a Saturday morning block, Telemundo Infantil ("Telemundo Kids"), which was developed via input from viewers on what they wanted to be featured in a children's show. Which borrowed its the block originally in Puerto Rico aired on Telemundo Puerto Rico, included the weekdays afternoon and weekend morning line-up that consisted mainly of dubbed versions of American, Canadian, and European (including Animaniacs, Inspector Gadget, The Magic School Bus, Extreme Ghostbusters, Mona the Vampire, Tiny Toon Adventures and Bobby's World) as well as anime series (such as Dragon Ball Z, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Pokémon, Slam Dunk and Yu-Gi-Oh!).
Nickelodeon en Telemundo (1998–2001)
On September 15, 1998, Telemundo introduced Nickelodeon en Telemundo, a block featuring Spanish dubs of the joint agreement with Nickelodeon programming, which debuted on November 9, 1998 and was considered a sub-block of Telemundo Infantil, consisted of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon's animated series aimed at older children and preschool-oriented programs aired by the channel's Nick Jr. block (such as Rugrats, Doug, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life, Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer). The block ran on weekday mornings until September 5, 2000, when it was relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings in order to accommodate a time slot for Hoy En El Mundo (with Jose Diaz-Balart).
Telemundo Kids (2001–2006)
The Nickelodeon blocks were discontinued after September 30, 2001, ahead of the expiry of Telemundo's program supply deal with Nickelodeon. It was then replaced with Telemundo Kids debut on October 6, 2001, which featured a mix of acquired programming from various providers, including Sony Pictures Television (such as Men in Black: The Series, Dragon Tales, Jackie Chan Adventures and Max Steel) and later Nickelodeon (Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, Dora the Explorer and All Grown Up!).
Following the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20African%20provinces%20by%20life%20expectancy | This article lists the provinces of South Africa by their average life expectancy at birth according to data by Statistics South Africa.
Males
Females
See also
List of African countries by life expectancy
References
Health in South Africa
Life expectancy
South African provinces by life expectancy
South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20share%20of%20income%20of%20the%20richest%20one%20percent | This is a list of the world's countries measuring the income of the richest one percent each (before taxes and transfers). The source of the data is the United Nations Development Programme, and refers to the latest available date. Countries unlisted have no data available.
See also
List of countries by income equality
List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI
References
Global inequality
Income distribution
Inequality
Income |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang%20Ziya%20%28film%29 | Jiang Ziya (, sometimes spelt as Jiang Zi Ya) is a 2020 Chinese computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Cheng Teng and Li Wei. Featuring the mythological and fictional version of the popular Chinese figure Jiang Ziya, the plot is loosely based on the novel Investiture of the Gods by Xu Zhonglin. It is a follow-up to 2019's Ne Zha and the second installment of the Fengshen Cinematic Universe.
The film was initially scheduled for release in China on 25 January 2020, but following the COVID-19 pandemic all Chinese New Year releases were cancelled. The new release date was on 1 October 2020. The film's official English title in China is Legend of Deification, and it is released as Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Plot
After a Fox spirit causes the downfall of the Shang dynasty, A war is waged across the three realms. Eventually, the Fox spirit is captured. Jiang Ziya, a mortal who has gained renown via the war, is given the job of executing it. During the execution, the fox spirit shows Jiang Ziya that there is a young girl inside of her, and that going through with the execution would kill the girl as well. Jiang Ziya hesitates to continue the process but seemingly kills the fox spirit after it tries to escape. Unwilling to accept that the girl was supposedly an illusion created by the fox spirit, Jiang Ziya is stripped of his powers and banished to the North Sea until he can correct his mind.
Jiang spends ten years on earth despondent with his friend Shen Gongbao and his pet, Si Bu Xiang. Jiang encounters Xiao Jiu, an amnesiac young fox spirit who resembles the girl he saw during the fox spirit's execution. After a scuffle over a map, Jiang Ziya decides to accompany her to Youdu Mountain, where she believes her father is waiting for her, trailed by Shen Gongbao. During the journey, Jiang Ziya fights numerous dark demons- both evil fox spirits and the souls of the lost. At Youdu mountain, Xiao Jiu encounters the King of Zhou, who explains that she is tied to the original fox spirit and must be killed in order to fully defeat the former. Upon hearing this, Jiang Ziya attempts to kill her but inadvertently summons the fox spirit. She explains that the girl was Su Daji and was abandoned by her father to be given as a concubine.
Jiang Ziya along with Shen Gongbao manage to fight off the fox spirit together, at the cost of the death of Si Bu Xiang. Shen Gongbao decides to sacrifice some of his power to spirit Jiang to the heavens, so he may speak to the Master, Yuanshi Tianzun. The Master explains that Jiang Ziya wasn't denied Godhood because he didn't kill the fox clan leader but because he was willing to risk the fate of the world to save the girl. Jiang Ziya convinces the Master to let him guide the girl to reincarnation, which would kill the fox spirit.
Jiang Ziya takes Xiao Jiu to the Gate of Reincarnation, the fox spirit being held back by Shen Gongbao- however, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorochromatic%20map | A Chorochromatic map (), also known as an area-class, qualitative area, or mosaic map, is a type of thematic map that portray regions of categorical or nominal data using variations in color symbols. Chorochromatic maps are typically used to represent discrete fields, also known as categorical coverages. Chorochromatic maps differ from choropleth maps in that chorochromatic maps are mapped according to data-driven boundaries instead of trying to make the data fit within existing, sometimes arbitrary units such as political boundaries.
History
The chorochromatic map is one of the oldest types of thematic map, first appearing independently in several different fields. In 1741, Gottfried Hensel published Synopsis Universae Philologiae, a book about world languages that included a set of maps of language regions, each with boundaries and colors for broad language families as he understood them. Other maps of cultural regions began to appear in the 19th Century.
The first known geologic map of surficial rock types was published by Jean-Étienne Guettard and Philippe Buache in 1746, showing matching formations crossing the English Channel in bands of gray. In the early 19th Century, these kinds of maps proliferated, especially in the United Kingdom and France, including hand-painted color.
Perhaps the first master of this technique was Heinrich Berghaus. His 1837 Physikalischer Atlas, probably the first thematic atlas ever published, includes several color chorochromatic maps. These included a variety of topics from both physical and human geography: watersheds, geology, agriculture, biogeography, and ethnicity. Much of the data was apparently obtained from Alexander von Humboldt.
With the increasing availability of chromolithography in the second half of the 19th Century, chorochromatic maps proliferated to the point that the concept of filling areas with color became almost mundane. The origin of the term chorochromatic is unclear, as none of these early works mentioned it; Erwin Raisz uses the term in the 1938 textbook General Cartography.
As the rise of academic cartography focused attention on the design of thematic maps to represent statistical data, maps of qualitative information received little direct research. The chorochromatic form was acknowledged as a useful technique for portraying the results of geographical analysis. More research has been conducted in the era of geographic information science (starting in the 1990s) on the underlying concepts and data models of discrete fields, notably issues of vagueness that are inherent to the spatial manifestation of categories.
Conceptual and data model
A chorochromatic map is a visualization of regions, with a nominal (qualitative) difference between them. In many cases, these regions are distinct established entities; for example, a map of land administration in the United States would include features such as national and state parks.
The second type of phenomenon that is commonly rep |
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