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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20bin%20Zayed%20University%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence | Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is a graduate-level, research-based academic institution located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The current president, Professor Eric Xing, joined in January 2021. Sir J. Michael Brady served as the founding, interim president. Professor Ling Shao was the initiator and the founding provost and executive vice president.
The establishment of MBZUAI is part of the United Arab Emirates strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031, for which came the appointment of the world's first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.
As of June 2022, MBZUAI ranks 127th globally among institutions that conduct research in computer science according to CSRankings. In artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing specifically the university ranks 30th globally.
The university provides admitted students with a full scholarship, including benefits such as a monthly allowance, health insurance, and accommodation. The university also secures internships by working with local and global companies. The initial class of graduate students were slated to start coursework in September 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic coursework began in January 2021.
Academics
The university offers graduate-level students a range of postgraduate degrees, focusing on core components of the AI industry: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. MBZUAI offers graduate-level degrees that are research-intensive and focused on practical AI. The university has the following programs:
Professional services
In October 2021, the university launched an Executive Program aimed at supporting decision makers to implement AI in their organizations.
The MBZUAI Executive Program includes:
Pieter Abbeel – the University of California, Berkeley
Sir J. Michael Brady – the University of Oxford
Justine Cassell – Paris AI Research Institute (PRAIRIE)
Michael I. Jordan – the University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Mitchell – Carnegie Mellon University
David Parkes – Harvard University
Daniela Rus – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In March 2022, the university graduated the first class of Executive Program participants. A second class was announced in March 2022 by President Eric Xing.
Research
The university serves as a hub for AI research and education.
See also
List of universities in the United Arab Emirates
Education in the United Arab Emirates
References
2019 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Universities and colleges established in 2019
Universities and colleges in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Scientific organisations based in the United Arab Emirates
Artificial intelligence associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seq2seq | Seq2seq is a family of machine learning approaches used for natural language processing. Applications include language translation, image captioning, conversational models, and text summarization.
Seq2seq uses sequence transformation: it turns one sequence into another sequence.
History
The algorithm was developed by Google for use in machine translation.
Similar earlier work includes Tomáš Mikolov's 2012 PhD thesis.
In 2019, Facebook announced its use in symbolic integration and resolution of differential equations. The company claimed that it could solve complex equations more rapidly and with greater accuracy than commercial solutions such as Mathematica, MATLAB and Maple. First, the equation is parsed into a tree structure to avoid notational idiosyncrasies. An LSTM neural network then applies its standard pattern recognition facilities to process the tree.
In 2020, Google released Meena, a 2.6 billion parameter seq2seq-based chatbot trained on a 341 GB data set. Google claimed that the chatbot has 1.7 times greater model capacity than OpenAI's GPT-2, whose May 2020 successor, the 175 billion parameter GPT-3, trained on a "45TB dataset of plaintext words (45,000 GB) that was ... filtered down to 570 GB."
In 2022, Amazon introduced AlexaTM 20B, a moderate-sized (20 billion parameter) seq2seq language model. It uses an encoder-decoder to accomplish few-shot learning. The encoder outputs a representation of the input that the decoder uses as input to perform a specific task, such as translating the input into another language. The model outperforms the much larger GPT-3 in language translation and summarization. Training mixes denoising (appropriately inserting missing text in strings) and causal-language-modeling (meaningfully extending an input text). It allows adding features across different languages without massive training workflows. AlexaTM 20B achieved state-of-the-art performance in few-shot-learning tasks across all Flores-101 language pairs, outperforming GPT-3 on several tasks.
Related software
Software adopting similar approaches includes OpenNMT (Torch), Neural Monkey (TensorFlow) and NEMATUS (Theano).
See also
Artificial neural network
References
External links
Artificial neural networks
Natural language processing
Google software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Genesereth | Michael Genesereth (born 1948) is an American logician and computer scientist, who is most known for his work on computational logic and applications of that work in enterprise management, computational law, and general game playing. Genesereth is professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and a professor by courtesy in the Stanford Law School. His 1987 textbook on Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence remains one of the key references on symbolic artificial intelligence. He is the author of the influential Game Description Language (GDL) and Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF), the latter of which led to the ISO Common Logic standard.
Education
Genesereth received a B.S. in Physics (1972) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both an M.S. (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. As a graduate student, he worked on the Macsyma computer algebra system and wrote his dissertation on an automated advisor for Macsyma users.
Career
Genesereth has been a faculty member in the computer science department at Stanford University since 1979. He is the director of the Logic Group at Stanford and a founder and the research director of the Stanford CodeX Center for Legal Informatics. He is one of the founders of the companies Teknowledge, CommerceNet, Mergent Systems, SIPX and Symbium. Symbium is the most recent spinoff from the computational law research undertaken by CodeX and is a winner of the Ivory Innovation Prize for Policy and Regulatory Reform.
Research
Genesereth's research is broadly based on the use of computational logic for such applications as integrating knowledge from heterogeneous sources, as a common format for exchanging knowledge, as a foundation for agent-based knowledge representation and software engineering, as an enhancement to spreadsheets known as a Logical spreadsheet, and for optimizing queries in a deductive database system. He invented the notion of Model-based Diagnosis as a contrast with the symptom-based approach then current in systems like Mycin, and this was recognized by its inclusion in a retrospective on fifty volumes of Artificial Intelligence (journal). His work on data integration won the best paper prize at the 1997 Symposium on Principles of Database Systems. His work on deals among rational agents won the influential paper award by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in 2007.
Logic education
In 2016, Genesereth launched an effort to bring logic education to high schools across America citing Herbrand semantics as the foundation of the pedagogical approach. The program includes summer camps for high school students offered on the Stanford campus, and teacher professional development offered across different studies in the USA. The high school offerings utilize the same course material as a MOOC on the same topic.
Society
Genesereth served as the program chair of the Third National Conference of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla | Sharla is an English feminine given name that is a feminine form of Charles. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Sharla Boehm (1929-2023), American computer scientist
Sharla Cheung (born 1967), Hong Kong actress and film producer
Sharla Hinskens (born 1986), also known as Sharmeleon and Sharla in Japan, Canadian YouTuber based in Japan
Sharla Martiza (born 2003), Indonesian singer
Sharla Passariello (born 1992), Welsh footballer
Sharla Thomas (born 2010), One of the oldest rabbits in the UK
See also
Charla (name)
Kharla Chávez
Sharly Mabussi
Shabla (disambiguation)
Shala (surname)
Shapla (disambiguation)
Shara (name)
Sharda (disambiguation)
Sharga (disambiguation)
Sharma (disambiguation)
Shayla (disambiguation)
Notes
English feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicParanoid | SonicParanoid is an algorithm for the de-novo prediction of orthologous genes among multiple species. It borrows the main idea from InParanoid with substantial changes to the algorithm that drastically reduce the time required for the analysis. Additionally, SonicParanoid generates groups of orthologous genes shared among the input proteomes using single-linkage hierarchical clustering or markov clustering.
References
External links
SonicParanoid WebPage
Python Package
Source code on GitLab
Genetics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Horsfield | Kate Horsfield (born 1944), is an American artist who focused her work on video art and video documentation. She is also an author and teacher. She is best known for co-founding the Video Data Bank in 1976, an international video art distribution organization with Lyn Blumenthal.
Life and career
Horsfield was born in Topeka, Kansas. In 1960 she moved to Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976.
Horsfield and Blumenthal began a project that included the making of in-depth video interviews with visual and performance artists, critics, and photographers. The first interview was with art historian and curator Marcia Tucker at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago in 1974. Together they also produced more than 90 interviews with artists such as Agnes Martin, Alice Neel, Lee Krasner, Romare Bearden, Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci and Buckminster Fuller. The video interviews were made between 1974 and 1988.
As an educator Horsfield periodically taught courses between the years of 1977 to 2007 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin. After the death of Lyn Blumenthal in 1988, Horsfield was executive director of the Video Data Bank until September 2006. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Selected works
As co-producer with Lyn Blumenthal
Marcia Tucker: An Interview (1974)
Alice Neel: An Interview (1975)
Jennifer Bartlett: An Interview (1976)
Meredith Monk: An Interview (1977)
Chuck Close: An Interview (1980)
Joseph Beuys: An Interview (1980)
Yvonne Jacquette: An Interview (1981)
Vito Acconci: An Interview (1983)
Craig Owens: An Interview (1984)
Phyllis Bramson: An Interview (1984)
As producer
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. (1968–1980)
Ana Mendieta : fuego de tierra (1987)
Video Against AIDS (1989)
The Video Drive In (1991)
References
External links
Living people
American video artists
1944 births
American women video artists
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AusCERT | AusCERT is a non-profit organisation founded in 1993, that provides advice and solutions to cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The organisation covers their costs through member subscriptions, attendees to the annual AusCERT conference and service contracts.
History
In the early 1990s, Australian university student Nahshon Even-Chai hacked into the NASA computer system during his spare time. This triggered a chain reaction, causing businesses and government bodies to develop awareness for the need of improved information security. As a result, three Australian universities (Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University, and the University of Queensland) came together to form AusCERT. They aimed to create a central source for information security and protection.
AusCERT is one of Australia’s only Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), and is one of the oldest CERT in the world. As a Member of FIRST, AusCERT is part of a worldwide network of computer security incident response and security teams. These teams work together to voluntarily deal with computer security problems and formulating prevention methods.
Their office is located on The University of Queensland campus.
Services
AusCERT covers their costs by selling member subscriptions and service contracts to individuals and businesses. The organisation boasts its 24/7 support and incident management against cyber threats. Other services include phishing take-down, security bulletins, incident notifications, sensitive information alerts, early warning SMS, and malicious URL feeds.
Engaged and active within the incident response teams at a global level; AusCERT is a charter member of APCERT as well as a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).
AusCERT Annual Conference
AusCERT has been hosting cybersecurity conferences in Australia since 2002. The conference takes place every year with presentations and hands-on tutorials for industry professionals. The AusCERT Conference is the oldest information security conference in Australia and was once the biggest conference in the country.
Over the last few years, the conference has attracted approximately 800 participants, 50 sponsors and more than 50 speakers. The four-day program generally includes tutorials, keynote speakers, a gala dinner and Australian Information Security Awards, and a speed debate.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AusCERT hosted their first virtual conference with over a 1000 delegates registering. The conference MC was Adam Spencer and featured speakers Julie Inman (eSafety Commission), Kana Shinoda (Code Blue), and Lukasz Gogolkiewicz (Seek).
Additional Activities
The organisation currently supports and shares cybersecurity techniques openly with the following groups:
The Australian Access Federation,
Cyber Security threat annual surveys with BDO,
International Training with APNIC,
Training and support with KrCERT, and
Council of Australian University D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agimat%20ng%20Agila | (International title: The Eagle's Quest; ) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rico Gutierrez, it stars Bong Revilla. It premiered on May 1, 2021 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Catch Me Out Philippines. The series concluded on May 7, 2022 with a total of 2 seasons and 27 episodes. It was replaced by Jose & Maria's Bonggang Villa in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube and iQIYI.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bong Revilla as Gabriel Labrador
Supporting cast
Sanya Lopez as Maya Lagman (season 1, guest season 2)
Elizabeth Oropesa as Roberta "Berta" Lagman
Roi Vinzon as Alejandro Dominguez (season 1)
Benjie Paras as Wesley Dimanahan
Allen Dizon as Gerry Flores (season 1, guest season 2)
Michelle Dee as Serpenta
Edgar Allan Guzman as Julian (season 1)
Miggs Cuaderno as Bidoy (season 1)
Ian Ignacio as Malvar (season 1)
Rabiya Mateo as Agent Natasha "Asha" Raj (season 2)
Gardo Versoza as Zeus Limjoco (season 2)
Betong Sumaya as Sergeant Arthuro "Art" de Mesa (season 2)
Allan Paule as Mang Simo (season 2)
Kim de Leon as Jumong (season 2)
Lia Salvador as Sharmaine (season 2)
Shermaine Santiago as Carol Llamanzares (season 2)
Rafael Rosell as Valerio Mariano (season 2)
MJ Lastimosa as Rosebud / Garote (season 2)
Guest cast
Sheryl Cruz as Myrna Labrador
Yuan Francisco as Wacky Labrador
Production
Principal photography commenced in February 2020. It was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming was continued on December 5, 2020 in Tanay and Antipolo, Rizal.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 16.3% rating. While the season one finale scored a 14.7% rating. The series finale gathered an 11.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television productions postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Cloud%20Guru | A Cloud Guru is an online learning platform that specializes in teaching cloud computing and related technologies. Most of the courses offered prepare students to take certification exams for the three major cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services).
History
In , Ant Stanley and Ryan Kroonenburg established the company in London, United Kingdom. They built the online training provider in four weeks from Ryan's bedroom, with Ryan's brother Sam Kroonenburg joining soon after.
In July 2016, Ant Stanley left A Cloud Guru, leaving Melbourne brothers Sam and Ryan to run the business.
A Cloud Guru raised $7 million in funding in July 2017, and an additional $33 million in April 2019.
On December 16, 2019, it was announced that the company would acquire Linux Academy. The company asserted that the acquisition would make it "the largest cloud computing training library in the world".
On June 2, 2021, A Cloud Guru was acquired by Vista Equity Partners and combined with Pluralsight in a deal that valued the company at more than $2 billion. Vista Equity Partners had previously acquired Pluralsight in April 2021. The acquisition of both Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru by the private equity firm is known as a rollup acquisition strategy.
See also
Pluralsight
Vista Equity Partners
References
External links
Website
Internet properties established in 2015
Educational technology companies of Australia
Virtual learning environments
Learning management systems
Australian educational websites
Companies based in Melbourne
Australian companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leimkuhler%E2%80%93Matthews%20method | In mathematics, the Leimkuhler-Matthews method (or LM method in its original paper ) is an algorithm for finding discretized solutions to the Brownian dynamics
where is a constant, is an energy function and is a Wiener process. This stochastic differential equation has solutions (denoted at time ) distributed according to in the limit of large-time, making solving these dynamics relevant in sampling-focused applications such as classical molecular dynamics and machine learning.
Given a time step , the Leimkuhler-Matthews update scheme is compactly written as
with initial condition , and where . The vector is a vector of independent normal random numbers redrawn at each step so (where denotes expectation). Despite being of equal cost to the Euler-Maruyama scheme (in terms of the number of evaluations of the function per update), given some assumptions on and solutions have been shown to have a superconvergence property
for constants not depending on . This means that as gets large we obtain an effective second order with error in computed expectations. For small time step this can give significant improvements over the Euler-Maruyama scheme, at no extra cost.
Discussion
Comparison to other schemes
The obvious method for comparison is the Euler-Maruyama scheme as it has the same cost, requiring one evaluation of per step. Its update is of the form
with error (given some assumptions ) as with constant independent of . Compared to the above definition, the only difference between the schemes is the one-step averaged noise term, making it simple to implement.
For sufficiently small time step and large enough time it is clear that the LM scheme gives a smaller error than Euler-Maruyama. While there are many algorithms that can give reduced error compared to the Euler scheme (see e.g. Milstein, Runge-Kutta or Heun's method) these almost always come at an efficiency cost, requiring more computation in exchange for reducing the error. However the Leimkuhler-Matthews scheme can give significantly reduced error with minimal change to the standard Euler scheme. The trade-off comes from the (relatively) limited scope of the stochastic differential equation it solves: must be a scalar constant and the drift function must be of the form . The LM scheme also is not Markovian, as updates require more than just the state at time . However, we can recast the scheme as a Markov process by extending the space.
Markovian Form
We can rewrite the algorithm in a Markovian form by extending the state space with a momentum vector so that the overall state is at time . Initializing the momentum to be a vector of standard normal random numbers, we have
where the middle step completely redraws the momentum so that each component is an independent normal random number. This scheme is Markovian, and has the same properties as the original LM scheme.
Applications
The algorithm has application in any area where the weak (i.e. average) prop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Heatherington | Dale Heatherington (born 1948) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known for helping Dennis C. Hayes in the development of Hayes Microcomputer Products, the company that pioneered the Hayes modem and the Hayes command set.
Although a southern newspaper described him as "just a multimillionaire who likes tracking his cat with a homemade radio transmitter,"
Heatherington's career went beyond the modem company, including work in the area of game robots. Funding for his robotics can be traced to "had his name on all the important patents."
History
Hayes and Heatherington, having met as fellow employees of National Data Corporation, formed a company to facilitate automating the process of dialing a modem. Their offering "happened to be the first modem created for a personal computer." The company is also noted as "the first to integrate its own command set" (known as the Hayes command set).
This automated hardware and software combination contrasted with the work they had performed at National Data, where they handled electronic money transfers and credit card authorizations (manually dialing, using acoustic coupler modems).
A 1981 look at the Hayes firm's internal operation described Heatherington as "technical guru .. provide technical solutions."
Heatherington retired from Hayes Microcomputer in 1985; his share of the firm resulted in receiving $20 million.
The Hayes company's products were superseded by higher speed Modems, and Hayes Microcomputer Products went bankrupt in 1998.
Education
Heatherington majored in electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University.
References
1948 births
American computer scientists
American software engineers
American telecommunications engineers
Living people
Hayes Microcomputer Products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Base%20%28hate%20group%29 | The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary group and training network, formed in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro. It is active in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Europe.
History
The group was founded in June 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, who uses the pseudonyms Norman Spear and Roman Wolf. Nazzaro was reported to have bought several blocks of off-the-grid land in Washington state, United States, in 2018 for use as a survivalist training camp.
Nazzaro, who used to work for the FBI and the Pentagon, moved to Russia around the time he created The Base, and directs the group's activities from there. In November 2020, a feature-length interview with Nazzaro was broadcast on Russian state television.
Ideology and status
The Base is a white nationalist accelerationist paramilitary group and training network. It advocates the formation of white ethnostates, a goal which it believes it can achieve via terrorism and the violent overthrow of existing governments. The group's vetting process serves to connect committed extremists with terroristic skills to produce real-world violence. It organizes "race war preppers" and operates "hate camps", or training camps. The group has links to the Atomwaffen Division and the Feuerkrieg Division, which are far-right extremist groups.
Nazzaro has characterized The Base as a "survivalism and self-defense network ... sharing knowledge and training to prepare for crisis situations", but he denies its connections to neo-Nazism. Nazzaro has stated that his goal is to "build a cadre of trainers across the country."
The Base has been designated as a terrorist entity by the following countries:
Canada (February 3, 2021)
United Kingdom (July 12, 2021)
Australia (November 24, 2021)
New Zealand (June, 2022)
Recruitment strategies
The group is active across the United States, and it is also active in Canada. Before his identity was revealed in January 2020, Nazzaro, known online as "Roman Wolf" and "Norman Spear", was personally involved in active recruitment, with the aim of forming cells in Europe, South Africa and Australia.
The Base has recruited members by using iFunny, a meme social media website. In secure chat forums, VICE noted members designing memes to spread as propaganda.
Propaganda from a The Base training camp near Spokane, Washington was posted in August 2019.
In late 2019 and early 2020, secret recordings were made of some of The Base's recruitment activities. The tapes include its attempts to recruit several Australians, including a 17-year-old teenager and a Western Australian man, Dean Smith, who ran for parliament for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Another Australian who went by the name of Volkskrieger was a key person in the recruitment drive, which focused on finding people with legal access to firearms and security licences.
Activities
Anti-Semitic activities
Richard Tobin and The Base were linked to synagogue vandalism in Racine, Wisconsin, and Hancock, Michigan, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.64 | X.64 may refer to:
x86-64, a computer instruction set
ANSI X3.64, a standard for escape sequences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hagger | Peter Hagger (17 April 1944 – 26 February 1995) was a British trade unionist.
Born in London, Hagger became a computer engineer, but in 1969 instead became a taxi driver. He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), becoming prominent in its Cab Section. By the end of the 1970s, he was Chair of the Region 1 Cab Trade Committee, and in 1980 he was elected to the union's General Executive Council. In this role, he devised an index which was later adopted by the Department of Transport to calculate annual increases in taxi fares. During his time at the he also wrote a document called a National Framework for Taxis, which was referred to in the parliamentary debate around the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998.
Hagger was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, then of the Communist Campaign Group, and its successor, the Communist Party of Britain.
Hagger won election to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and in 1989 was elected as chair of the Trades Union Councils Joint Consultative Committee. He was also elected as vice-chair of the TGWU, and was expected to become the union's next chair. However, he became ill, and died in 1995. In his obituary, Barry Camfield described Hagger as "the most influential lay trade-union activist in Britain".
References
1944 births
1995 deaths
Communist Party of Britain members
Communist Party of Great Britain members
Trade unionists from London
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Timpone | Brian Timpone is an American conservative businessman and former journalist who operates a network of nearly 1,300 conservative local news websites. In 2012, Timpone stated that articles on his websites are partially written by freelancers outside of the United States, although he described the writing as "domestic" in a separate interview. According to The New York Times, Timpone's "operation is rooted in deception, eschewing hallmarks of news reporting like fairness and transparency." His sites publish articles for pay from outside groups, and do not disclose it.
Education and early career
Timpone graduated from Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri; while attending, he covered sports and news for the University-owned KOMU-TV. After school, he took a job at KDLH in Duluth, Minnesota, which he worked for less than a year before taking another TV job in Champaign, Illinois.
Timpone was hired as the personal spokesman to Illinois House Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels in 1997.
News publishing
Timpone is involved with a number of interconnected media companies that post press releases and lightly copied content as news articles, at one point publishing under false bylines. The process has been described as "pay for play", compared to the content farming of Demand Media, and called pink slime' journalism". The companies include Local Government Information Services (LGIS), of which he is president, Metric Media, Franklin Archer, Locality Labs (formerly known as Journatic and LocalLabs), DirecTech LLC, Interactive Content Services, Newsinator, Blockshopper, and The Record Inc. The companies have received funding from Liberty Principles PAC (substantially funded by Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein) and have provided services to the Illinois Opportunity Project, politician Jeanne Ives and hotelier Monty Bennett as customers.
The Record network
The Record network was started by Timpone in September 2004 with The Madison County Record, a legal journal for Madison County, Illinois. It was silently funded by the United States Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform to oppose lawsuits against businesses and to support tort reform. The Chamber later funded a site run by The Record called Legal Newsline.
, The Record's network included: Cook County Record, Florida Record, Legal Newsline, Louisiana Record, Madison - St. Clair Record, Northern California Record, Pennsylvania Record, SE Texas Record, Southern California Record, St. Louis Record, and West Virginia Record. The mobile apps for the eleven websites at App Store (iOS/iPadOS) shows the seller to be The Record, Inc. and the copyright holder is Newsinator, LLC.
Journatic and BlockShopper
Journatic (a portmanteau of "journalism" and "automatic") was founded by Timpone in 2006. According to Timpone, Journatic used news data processed by workers in the Philippines, but he states that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Thomas%20%28academic%29 | Rachel Thomas is an American computer scientist and founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco. Together with Jeremy Howard, she is co-founder of fast.ai. Thomas was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the 20 most incredible women in artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
Thomas grew up in Galveston, Texas. In high school she began programming in C++. Thomas earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Swarthmore College in 2005. At Swarthmore she was elected to the Phi Beta Delta honor society. She moved to Duke University for her graduate studies and finished her PhD in mathematics in 2010. Her doctoral research involved a mathematical analysis of biochemical networks. During her doctorate she completed an internship at RTI International where she developed Markov models to evaluate HIV treatment protocols. Thomas joined Exelon as a quantitative analyst, where she scraped internet data and built models to provide information to energy traders.
In 2013 Thomas joined Uber where she developed the driver interface and surge algorithms using machine learning. She then became a teacher at Hackbright Academy, a school for women software engineers.
Research and career
Thomas joined the University of San Francisco in 2016 where she founded the Center for Applied Data Ethics. Here she has studied the rise of deepfakes, bias in machine learning and deep learning.
When Thomas started to develop neural networks, only a few academics were doing so, and she was concerned that there was a lack of sharing of practical advice. Whilst there is a considerable recruitment demand for artificial intelligence researchers, Thomas has argued that even though these careers have traditionally required a PhD, access to supercomputers and large data sets, these are not essential prerequisites. To overcome this apparent skills gap, Thomas established Practical Deep Learning For Coders, the first university accredited open access certificate in deep learning, as well as creating the first open access machine learning programming library. Thomas and Jeremy Howard co-founded fast.ai, a research laboratory that looks to make deep learning more accessible. Her students have included a Canadian dairy farmer, African doctors and a French mathematics teacher.
Thomas has studied unconscious bias in machine learning, and emphasised that even when race and gender are nor explicit input variables in a particular data set, algorithms can become racist and sexist when that information becomes latently encoded on other variables. Alongside her academic career, Thomas has called for more diverse workforces to prevent bias in systems using artificial intelligence. She believes that there should be more people from historically underrepresented groups working in tech to mitigate some of the harms that certain technologies may cause as well as to ensure that the systems created benefit all of society. In particular, she is c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Werner | Alain Werner (born 19 November 1972) is a Swiss human rights lawyer, specialized in the defence of victims of armed conflicts, founder and director of Civitas Maxima (CM), an international network of lawyers and investigators based in Geneva that since 2012 represents victims of mass crimes in their attempts to obtain justice.
Education and affiliation
He received his degree in law from Geneva University in 1996, and was admitted to the Bar of Geneva (Switzerland) in 1999.
He received his masters (LL.M) at Columbia University in 2003.
Career
Werner worked in Freetown and in the Hague for five years (2003–2008) for the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), prosecuting rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and former Liberian President Charles Taylor. He was also a lawyer for the civil parties (victims) at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh on the "Kaing Guek Eav" a.k.a. "Duch" case from 2009 to 2010. Since 1998, he has also worked for Chadian victims of the former Chadian President Hissène Habré, and was the one of civil parties lawyers representing them in Habré's trial in Dakar from 2015 to 2017 at the Extraordinary African Chambers. In 2012, he founded Civitas Maxima in Geneva, Switzerland.
Werner began studying law in Geneva under Professor Robert Roth (later Presiding Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon) from 1993 to 1996 just as the discipline of international criminal law was emerging. He went on to complete his master's degree at Columbia University, after which he was accepted on a Swiss government program to work on international projects. The program took him to the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he became a Trial Attorney for the OTP of the SCSL in the team prosecuting three RUF commanders following the end of the conflict in 2002. He continued in the program for three years, being then hired directly by the SCSL-OTP as Trial Attorney.
Charles Taylor
In 2006, former Liberian president Charles Taylor was arrested while in exile in Nigeria and handed over to the SCSL, which had previously indicted him. Werner joined the SCSL prosecution team led by Brenda Hollis and Nicholas Koumjian, gathering witness statements and other evidence, and appearing in Court. Taylor was eventually convicted and, following an unsuccessful appeal, was imprisoned in the UK for a term of 50 years.
Hissène Habré
Between 2008 and 2017, alongside other projects, Werner worked for Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch on the case of the former President of Chad, Hissène Habré, and represented some of the victims for the two-year trial before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Dakar from 2015 to 2017.
"Kaing Guek Eav" a.k.a. "Duch"
In 2009, he was invited by Karim Khan QC to join a team working for the victims on the "Kaing Guek Eav" or "Duch" case, the first case heard at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pern%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pern is a fictional planet, the setting for the Dragonriders of Pern novel series.
Pern or PERN may also refer to:
Organisations
PERN, the Pakistan Educational Research Network, a network that connects universities and research institutes via high-speed Internet
PERN Przyjaźń SA, a Polish oil transportation and storage company
Places
Pern, Lot, Occitania, France
Pernem railway station, Goa, India
Other uses
European honey buzzard, a bird of prey also known as the pern
The title character of The Life of Rock with Brian Pern, a British spoof-documentary series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Brown%20%28scientist%29 | Anthony Brown (born 8 March 1961) is a Dutch astronomer currently working at the University of Leiden most noted for leading the Gaia project's Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. He was listed in the 2018 Nature's 10 as one of the Ten people who mattered this year by the scientific journal Nature.
Biography
Anthony Brown obtained his Master of Science degree cum laude in Astronomy from the University of Leiden in 1991, where he also obtained his PhD in 1996 on the topic of the stellar content and evolution of OB associations. After postdoc positions at the University of Leiden, the National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico), and the European Southern Observatory (Germany), he rejoined the University of Leiden first as a research associate from 2001 to 2006, and then as faculty member.
His involvement with the Gaia mission started in 1997 with contributions to the science case for the mission. As a member of the photometric and classification working groups he contributed to the optimization of the photometric filter system, and has been a member of the Gaia science team since 2006. He was appointed Chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) Executive in 2012, and is the corresponding author of Gaia Data Release 1 and 2.
He delivered the prestigious Spitzer Lectures at Princeton University in 2019.
Selected papers
Brown, Anthony GA, et al. "Gaia Data Release 1-Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties." Astronomy & Astrophysics 595 (2016): A2.
References
1961 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch astronomers
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Leiden University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20VPN | Ethernet VPN (EVPN) is a technology for carrying layer 2 Ethernet traffic as a virtual private network using wide area network protocols. EVPN technologies include Ethernet over MPLS and Ethernet over VXLAN.
EVPNs are covered by a number of Internet RFCs, including:
"Requirements for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)",
"BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN",
"A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)",
"Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)".
"Operational Aspects of Proxy ARP/ND in Ethernet Virtual Private Networks".
References
See also
Virtual Private LAN Service
Ethernet
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Taler | GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system. Unlike most other decentralized payment systems, GNU Taler does not use a blockchain. A blind signature is used to protect the privacy of users as it prevents the exchange from knowing which coin it signed for which customer.
The project is led by Florian Dold and Christian Grothoff of Taler Systems SA. Taler is short for the "Taxable Anonymous Libre Economic Reserves" and alludes to the Taler coins in Germany during the Early Modern period. It has vocal support from GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. Stallman has described the program as "designed to be anonymous for the payer, but payees are always identified." In a paper published in Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, GNU Taler is described as meeting ethical considerations – the paying customer is anonymous while the merchant is identified and taxable. An implementation is provided by Taler Systems SA.
See also
DigiCash
Cryptocurrency
Open source
References
External links
Taler
Software using the GPL license
Payment systems
Online payments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20to%20Medicine%3A%20Los%20Angeles | Married to Medicine: Los Angeles is an American reality television on Bravo cable network, the second spin-off of the Married to Medicine franchise. The show premiered as an extra episode of the parent series of Married to Medicine, on March 6, 2019, with the show scheduled on Sundays afterward beginning March 10, 2019. The series chronicles the lives of six women in the Los Angeles area who are either female doctors or doctors' wives. The first season's cast consisted of Dr. Britten Cole, Dr. Imani Walker, Dr. Noelle Reid, Asha Kamali-Blankinship, and Shanique Drummond, with Jazmin Johnson in the supporting role of friend.
In December 2019, Bravo announced that Married to Medicine: Los Angeles would return for a second season. Season 2 premiered on May 3, 2020, with Dr. Kendra Segura and Lia Dias joining the cast, replacing Dr. Reid and Kamali-Blankinship, and Johnson having been promoted to main cast.
Cast
Dr. Britten Cole
Shanique Drummond
Asha Kamali-Blankinship (season 1)
Dr. Noelle Reid (season 1)
Dr. Imani Walker
Lia Dias (season 2)
Jazmin Johnson (season 2; recurring season 1)
Dr. Kendra Segura (season 2)
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2019 American television series debuts
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Los Angeles
2020s American reality television series
American television spin-offs
Reality television spin-offs
Women in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisie%20Renault | Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944.
Biography
Born May Renault in Vannes on 13 December 1907 she was better known as Maisie. Her father was Léon Renault, professor of philosophy and English and inspector general of an insurance company and her mother Marie Decker was daughter of composer Théodore Decker. Maisie Renault came from a family of ten. Her brother was Gilbert Renault, Colonel Rémy. The family was strongly resistance oriented. Her other siblings included Isabelle, born on 26 August 1923 and Philippe, born 29 March 1915, killed in Lübeck-Neustadt Bay, 3 May 1945, both members of the Confrérie Notre Dame-Castille network and both also deported.
In 1925 when her father died Renault gave up school to help her mother. She took a job at the Banque de France in Vannes. She spent a short time with her brother Gilbert in Gabon before returning home as the accountant for an agricultural cooperative. Gilbert founded an intelligence network in France called the Confrérie Notre-Dame. It was "considered to be the most important intelligence network in Free France". Renault joined in December 1940 and by the same time the following year she joined their Paris headquarters on rue Madame. Renault was responsible for sorting the information to go to London, prioritising it and transcribing the coded language and ensuring the radio operators had the details needed. The network was infiltrated and the first arrests began in June 1942. Renault was arrested on 13 June 1942 with her sister Madeleine Cestari. They managed to ensure their brothers escape. Renault gave away no information during her interrogation.
Deportation
Initially Renault was isolated and kept incommunicado in La Santé prison, then in Fresnes Prison until March 1943 before she was moved to Romainville and Compiègne. It was there she met Germaine Tillion's mother. In February 1944 she returned to Romainville. 15 August 1944, Renault was sent by train to the Ravensbrück camp. She arrived 21 August. Renault was one of only seventeen survivors of her group of 550 people. The camp was liberated on 22 April 1945. Renault and her sister were taken to Copenhagen and then on to Sweden. They were cared for by the Red Cross. They left Sweden in July 1945 and were brought back to Paris. They were reunited with their brother Gilbert there.
Memoirs
As soon as Renault's health was stable and she had received all the necessary medical care, she began to write down her memories of the deportation. She asked her brother to edit it and rearrange it into chapters but he decided to leave it as she had written it. She completed it in August 1947 in Arradon and in 1948 it was published as La Grande Misère. The book became famous and received the Grand prix Vérité. Renault then returned home to Vannes in 1959, and went back to work in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine%20Cestari | Madeleine Cestari (7 October 1921 – 12 August 2016) was a French Resistance fighter from France. A member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944.
Biography
Born Madeleine Alice Renault on 7 October 1921 in Vannes to Léon Renault, professor of philosophy and English and inspector general of an insurance company and her Marie Decker, daughter of composer Théodore Decker. Madeleine Renault came from a family of ten. Her brother was Gilbert Renault, Colonel Rémy and her sister was Maisie Renault. Her other siblings included Isabelle, born on 26 August 1923 and also deported, and Philippe, born 29 March 1915, deported and later killed in Lübeck-Neustadt Bay, 3 May 1945, both members of the Confrérie Notre Dame-Castille network. With her sister, Cestari was arrested in 1942 by the Gestapo. She was imprisoned in Vannes, in the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp and in Romainville, before being deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She remained there, with her sister, until the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in April 1945. She died on 12 August 2016 in Vannes.
Honors
Knight of the Legion of Honor
Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
Resistance Medal
References and sources
1921 births
2016 deaths
People from Vannes
French Resistance members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya%20Chakrabarti | Jaya Chakrabarti (born April 1973) MBE is a data scientist, academic and business owner.
Biography
Chakrabarti is originally from Watford before moving to Bristol. Chakrabarti runs the digital agency Nameless, President of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, board member of Home Office Transparency in Supply Chains MSSIG (Modern Slavery Strategy & Implementation Group), and ran the successful campaign to appoint a Mayor of Bristol in 2012.
Chakrabarti chaired a local democracy organisation, Bristol Manifesto. She is also a Research Fellow with the University of Northampton Business School. Her digital agency, Nameless, campaigns against modern slavery. As CEO of Transparency in the Supply Chains (TISC), a public database of company compliance with anti-slavery laws, Chakrabarti has called for companies to evidence their actions to combat modern slavery.
Chakrabarti served on the Board of Bristol's Watershed Media Centre from 2003 to 2015, was a member of OFCOM's Consumer Panel from 2012 to 2018, and is a Business Fellow with the University of the West of England.
Chakrabarti was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours, for "services to creative digital industries and the community in Bristol".
In 2017 she and her husband Stuart Gallemore helped to save the life of a man who fell into Bristol Harbour while drunk by alerting others who came to his aid.
In 2021 she became President of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce.
References
1973 births
Living people
Members of the Order of the British Empire
People from Watford
Businesspeople from Bristol
Data scientists
Women data scientists
People associated with the University of Northampton
British chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20analytics | Geographic analytics is an analytical approach to strategic management and data analytics to make geographic decisions efficiently. Examples of such decisions are choosing the location for a warehouse or planning the regions for a marketing campaign. Data, information and framing conditions are visualized on maps to derive recommendations for action.
In comparison to geographic information systems (GIS), which primarily aim at the representation of information on maps (descriptive analytics), Geographic analytics additionally focuses on making business decisions based on the data visualization on the map (prescriptive analytics).
Background
Purely mathematically based approaches that are used in data analytics in order to support management decisions often have the disadvantage that they require a large amount of data. This often results in considerable efforts for gathering, cleaning and understanding the data. Furthermore, there can be “intangible” framing conditions that are disruptive to any purely data-driven optimization solution.
Example logistics: For the task to find the optimal location for a warehouse in a logistics network, so-called Center of Gravity models are being used. To minimize the cost, these models use transport volume data, customer locations, cost data, etc., in order to determine the optimal location. However, there are often framing conditions – for example, traffic infrastructure, borders, regulatory and even physical hurdles – which are difficult to be mathematically described and modelled.
In practice, such framing conditions are often only recognized at the end of the data-driven analysis. The framing conditions then have to be included into the model, and the model then has to be recalculated. As a worst case, the approach to the problem has to be done from scratch. This results in delays of the decision-making process and often goes along with significant additional efforts.
Application and objective
Geographic analytics starts with the visualization of basic data on a map. By involving experts from the field, the visualization is then being used in order to determine framing conditions and focal points of the business problem.
As a result, the solution space, i.e. the number of possible solutions of the data analysis, is being reduced. In addition, framing conditions as well as data errors are being recognized in this early stage of the analysis. Only then, traditional data analytics methods are coming into play to find the optimal solution to the problem.
With this approach, lesser data is required for the overall analysis and time and effort for the analysis is being significantly reduced. Impracticable and flawed solutions are being identified and excluded upfront.
Areas of application
Geographic analytics is being used in connection with data analyses in order to support management decisions that contain a geographical component, such as location decisions, marketing campaigns, service center placement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Sunyaev | Ali Sunyaev (, Ali Rashidowitsch Sjunjajew; born June 11, 1981, in Moscow, USSR) is a professor for computer science and director of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Life
His father is Rashid Sunyaev (reputable cosmologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics). His mother Gyuzal Sunyaeva is a physician. His brother Shamil Sunyaev is Distinguished Chair Professor for genetics at the Harvard Medical School at the Harvard University. Due to the work of his father, his family moved from the Russian Federation to Germany in 1996.
Ali Sunyaev studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from 2000 to 2005. In 2005, he joined the graduate school of the Institute of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich to do his PhD in computer science and information systems on the topic 'Design and Application of a Security Analysis Method for Healthcare Telematics in Germany'. From 2010 to 2016, he was assistant professor for information systems and information systems quality at the University of Cologne in Germany. From 2016 to December 2017, he was full professor for information systems and systems development and director of the Research Center for Information Systems Design at the University of Kassel in Germany. Since January 2018, Ali Sunyaev is full professor for computer science and director of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
In 2009 and 2012, Ali Sunyaev was a guest researcher at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Intelligent Health Lab, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In 2011, he was a guest lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.
Research
Ali Sunyaev conducts research on the design, use, and societal interactions of internet technologies. His main research interests include development of innovative health IT, cloud computing, distributed ledger technologies, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and information security management.
Ali Sunyaev leads multiple research projects funded by funding bodies such as the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the Russian Science Foundation, or the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
His work has been published in leading international scientific outlets in computer science, information systems, medical informatics, and economics and is featured in a variety of media outlets.
References
Information systems researchers
1981 births
Living people
Russian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20African%20provinces%20by%20fertility%20rate | This article lists the provinces of South Africa by their average total fertility rate per woman according to data by Statistics South Africa.
References
Fertility rate
South African provinces by fertility rate
Fertility |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy%21%20The%20Greatest%20of%20All%20Time | Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time was a special tournament limited-run series of the game show Jeopardy! that took place in January 2020. The tournament was produced for ABC and aired on the network in prime time. This was the second time a Jeopardy! competition aired on network television; the first occurred in 1990 when the special tournament series Super Jeopardy! was carried by ABC.
The tournament featured former champions Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer competing for a $1 million top prize and the recognition of being the show’s greatest champion of all time.
Jennings won the tournament on January 14, 2020, with Holzhauer finishing second and Rutter third. With the $1 million prize added to his previous winnings across several game show appearances, Jennings surpassed Rutter as the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, a record he had previously held twice.
Format
The tournament began on January 7, 2020, and each match consisted of two games. Each game was played as normal with the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds followed by Final Jeopardy!. Just like in Super Jeopardy!, the first two seasons of Rock & Roll Jeopardy!, Sports Jeopardy! and the future Jeopardy! Masters, dollar amounts are replaced with point amounts. The contestant with the highest combined score from the two games would win the match, and the first one to three match wins won the tournament.
Contestants
Ken Jennings:Jennings first appeared on the program in 2004 and set two Jeopardy! records that he still holds. He won 74 consecutive matches, and his total of $2,522,700 is a record for non-tournament winnings. Entering the tournament, his total Jeopardy! winnings totaled $3,372,700, which was second-highest behind fellow competitor Rutter. Jennings said he took part in the competition reluctantly, fearing that because of his age and repeated tournament losses to Rutter (Rutter having won every head-to-head matchup between the two except the IBM Challenge), he was past his peak as a Jeopardy! contestant. He agreed to compete largely out of respect for Alex Trebek and because it would "almost certainly [be Jennings'] last time" as a contestant.
Brad Rutter:Rutter was the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time entering the tournament. He first appeared on Jeopardy! in October 2000, during the era of the program where contestants were retired after winning five consecutive matches and before the show doubled its question values. After winning $55,102 in his initial run, Rutter qualified for and won the 2001 Tournament of Champions, which at the time was played for $100,000. He was invited back in 2002 for the special Million Dollar Masters Tournament with several past champions, and emerged victorious again to become the first Jeopardy! contestant to win over $1 million. Shortly after Jennings’s run as champion ended, Rutter was one of the many former champions invited back for the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dainik%20Purbokone | The Dainik Purbokone () is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, and one of the leading newspaper published in Chittagong. The newspaper was founded in 1986. According to the data published by the Department of Films and Publications, under the Ministry of Information, on 28 August 2019, its circulation of 62,100 copies was the largest of the national dailies published from Chittagong. In the assessment of the Bangladesh Press Institute in 1994, Purbokone was mentioned as the best daily.
History
Purbokone was founded by Mohammad Yusuf Chowdhury in 1986. During its first publish on first published on 10 February 1986, K G Mustafa, an acclaimed country baroness and recipient of Ekushey Padak, served as editor. In 1989, Taslim Uddin Chowdhury, son of Yusuf Chowdhury, took charge of the daily as the editor. In 2007, Taslim became the chairman of Purbokone Group and serves the daily as chief editor till his death in 2017. The print version has been published daily from the beginning. In 2015 it also made its online edition.
Editors
The current editor of the daily is M Ramiz Uddin Chowdhury.
See also
List of newspapers in Bangladesh
References
External links
Newspapers established in 1986
1986 establishments in Bangladesh
Bengali-language newspapers published in Bangladesh
Daily newspapers published in Bangladesh
Newspapers published in Chittagong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloroformo | Cloroformo: Los peores golpes se dan abajo del ring, or simply Cloroformo is a Mexican sports boxing drama television series created by Gustavo Loza, and produced by Adicta Films for Televisa Networks. The series consists of 13 episodes of one hour and is stars Álex Perea, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Zuria Vega, Osvaldo Benavides, and Tenoch Huerta. It premiered on 12 March 2012 on Televisa Deportes Network, and on 22 March 2012 on Golden Latin America. Although Televisa Deportes Network authorized the series for a second season, the production of the second season of the series was never done.
Cast
Tenoch Huerta as El Búfalo
Zuria Vega as Valerie
Gustavo Sánchez Parra as Gomorra
Osvaldo Benavides as Joe
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez as Don Roque
Vanessa Bauche as Mirella
María Rojo as Doña Consuelo
Ilithya Manzanilla as Paula
Álex Perea as Asís
Episodes
References
External links
Mexican television series
Televisa original programming
2012 Mexican television series debuts
2012 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtectedSeas | ProtectedSeas is a marine conservation organization associated with the Anthropocene Institute. The group is working to develop a visual database, in map form, of every marine protected area (MPA) in the world as well as deploy new radar systems to protect vulnerable areas from illegal activity. The project is headquartered in California.
Mission
ProtectedSeas’ mission is to raise awareness and protection of critical marine areas. The organization assists MPA managers in protecting vulnerable ecosystems and works to improve information and transparency around ocean conservation measures. The project's team comprises expertise within the fields of law, geography, and hardware/software design with various backgrounds. ProtectedSeas partners with many NGOs to leverage specific talents and experience.
ProtectedSeas has two sub-projects: the Marine Managed Area Map, and the Marine Monitor (M2) system.
Marine Managed Area Map
ProtectedSeas developed the Marine Managed Area Map as an evolving online tool that boaters can use to track their location on the water with respect to nearby protected areas and other legally restricted zones. The map is free and designed for easy, one-click use by the public as well as those in the marine industry. Its database is also free to download. Information on each area includes which specific activities are allowed and restricted (such as diving or fishing by use of bottom trawl), as well as the protected area's boundaries.
The project began in 2015 and, as of December 2019, ProtectedSeas has mapped 50% of global MPAs and over 2/3 of the ocean by area. Completed regions include the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Baltic and the high seas, with Central and South America coming soon. They have also included many areas across the globe that are species- or gear-restricted but not technically MPAs. For U.S. waters, NOAA and Anthropocene Institute collaborate in a private-public partnership.
ProtectedSeas is one of the first organizations to map marine managed areas in international waters known as the high seas, and release the data at the United Nations Ocean Conference in 2017. Their data is currently included in Navionics charting software. The data was the subject of an academic article, published in 2020, about assessing ocean protection based on marine regulations.
Marine Monitor System (M2)
ProtectedSeas developed a radar surveillance system designed to track vessel movement in sensitive marine areas and successfully demonstrated their first deployment at Moss Landing Marine Labs in 2015. Rangers and other authorities can use this system--called Marine Monitor (M2)--to watch for poachers 24/7, enforce local laws against illegal fishing and potential damage to reefs. The system involves radar, a support structure, power source and internet, making it relatively low cost and a potential solution for hard-to-manage remote areas. There are currently six M2 stations operating in California. They have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Schleuss | Jon Schleuss is an American data journalist and trade union leader who currently serves as the president of the NewsGuild-CWA. He was first elected on December 10, 2019 in a rerun election by a vote of 1,979 to 1,514. The original election, which Schleuss lost by 271 votes, was set aside by union officials in August 2019 after more than 1,000 members failed to receive ballots.
Prior to his election, Schleuss worked as a data and graphics journalist in the Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics Department. During his time in Los Angeles, Schleuss participated in the campaign to bring union representation to The Times.
Before joining The Times in 2013, Schleuss was the online editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and worked as a host for an NPR member station based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Notes
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American trade union leaders
University of Arkansas alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Lepetit | Vincent Lepetit is a French computer scientist, professor at the University of Bordeaux. He received his PhD degree in computer vision in 2001 from the University of Nancy.
Lepetit leads a research group in computer vision for augmented reality at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, TU Graz. He was formerly professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the same institution from February 2014 to December 2016. He is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Lepetit's research interests include machine learning and 3D computer vision.
Selected research
Calonder, Michael, et al. "Brief: Binary robust independent elementary features." European conference on computer vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.
Lepetit, Vincent, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, and Pascal Fua. "Epnp: An accurate o (n) solution to the pnp problem." International journal of computer vision 81.2 (2009): 155.
Tola, Engin, Vincent Lepetit, and Pascal Fua. "Daisy: An efficient dense descriptor applied to wide-baseline stereo." IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 32.5 (2009): 815–830.
Lepetit, Vincent, and Pascal Fua. "Keypoint recognition using randomized trees." IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 28.9 (2006): 1465–1479.
References
French computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20computing | Spatial computing was defined in 2003 by Simon Greenwold, as "human interaction with a machine in which the machine retains and manipulates referents to real objects and spaces". [Yale, June 1995.]
With the advent of consumer virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, companies such as Microsoft and Magic Leap use "spatial computing" in reference to the practice of using physical actions (head and body movements, gestures, speech) as inputs for interactive digital media systems, with perceived 3D physical space as the canvas for video, audio, and haptic outputs. It is also tied to the concept of 'digital twins'. The Infinite Retina, a book written by Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble and published by Packt Publishing in 2020, has spatial computing as its main topic and was widely well received, exemplifying the current importance and relevance of spatial computing.
Apple announced a spatial computing platform with the Vision Pro on 5 June 2023. It features several features such as Spatial Audio, two micro-OLED displays, the Apple R1 chip and eye tracking. It is planned to be released in 2024 in the United States.
References
Subfields of computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Insecurity | Project Insecurity was a computer security organization founded in 2018 by Matthew Telfer focusing on educational resources, vulnerability identification and remediation, and exploit development.
Project Insecurity have responsibly disclosed and released a number of security flaws since their formation in 2018.
History
In April 2018, Project Insecurity released two exploits affecting live chat systems used by various Internet Service Providers and Financial corporations around the world. Nuance Communications and LiveChat were the affected software vendors, both of which appeared to be vulnerable to bugs of a similar nature. These bugs could have allowed a malicious actor to glean information on employees relating to the affected companies, such as the name, email, and employee ID of the chat agent, alongside other information such as the backend systems in use, allowing a malicious hacker to potentially gain a foothold within these networks.
One of the founders of this exploit was Kane Gamble, who was convicted and given a two-year prison sentence shortly after these exploits were disclosed. Kane's sentencing was unrelated to any activities involving Project Insecurity and was instead due to his involvement with Crackas With Attitude, a group responsible for purportedly hacking the CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Prior to his sentencing, Kane Gamble had been attempting to show that he had reformed his character, not only working alongside Project Insecurity to help secure the above affected systems, but also by reporting vulnerabilities to companies such as T-Mobile USA of his own accord.
In August 2018, Project Insecurity released a series of critical exploits for OpenEMR, an electronic medical system. There was over 25 vulnerabilities released in total, some of which would allow a malicious hacker to obtain full access to any machine running OpenEMR. This meant that such a flaw could be leveraged to expose the personal information of more than 100 million people worldwide, including 30-million US Citizens.
References
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%20Weang%20Kee | Ho Weang Kee is a Malaysian statistician whose research focuses on the application of statistical methods to genetic data analysis. She is an associate professor of statistics at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in the Department of Applied Mathematics. In 2018, Ho received the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talent Award in recognition of her work toward developing a predictive model estimating the risk of breast cancer for Southeast Asian women.
Education
Ho attended Northumbria University from 2002 to 2005 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)) degree in Mathematics. In 2005, she began her graduate studies in mathematics at Newcastle University. Ho's early interest in mathematics eventually inspired her to study statistics. Her doctoral advisor, biostatistician Robin Henderson, introduced her to the potential applications of mathematics and statistics in answering scientific questions. Ho conducted research on how to approach and account for incomplete data in longitudinal and survival studies. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2009.
Career and research
Ho's first postdoctoral research experience was at the National Institute for Health Research, where she applied advanced mathematic methodology to child speech and development studies and trained health professionals in the use of statistical methods. In 2010, Ho returned to Newcastle University to conduct postdoctoral research in its School of Mathematics and Statistics. From January 2011 to April 2013, Ho worked as a medical and genetic statistician at the University of Cambridge Department of Public Health and Primary Care.
Predicting breast cancer risk
In May 2013, Ho left the United Kingdom and returned to Malaysia. A month later, in June 2013, she joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and was promoted to associate professor in 2017. Rather than the rare mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2, the relatively common and more subtle variations associated with breast cancer are of greater interest to Ho. While having only one of these variations typically results in little to no effect on an individual's health, inheriting a combination of these variations could be detrimental for breast cancer risk. Thus, the goal of Ho's current research is to determine which combination of variations associated with breast cancer risk will result in the greatest predicted breast cancer risk. Ho's research utilizes research led by her friend and colleague Teo Soo Hwang, the CEO of Cancer Research Malaysia, the largest breast cancer study in Malaysia. The motivation behind Ho's research is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of breast cancer screening in Malaysia, where the number of breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 50% in the next decade. By identifying women with a greater risk of developing breast cancer, Ho hopes to establish a more personali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witcher%20of%20Grand%20Kiev | The Witcher of Grand Kiev () is a series of short stories of the genre of technofantasy (cyberpunk fantasy), written by Vladimir Vasilyev, a Russian author of Ukrainian origin. It is a parody of The Witcher Saga of Andrzej Sapkowski, which has the approval of the saga's author.
In 2003, the literary series was awarded the Golden Caduceus (1st place) by the international fiction festival "Star Bridge" in the nomination "Cycles, series and novels with a sequel". Also, the titular story "Witcher of Grand Kiev" got in 2000 both prizes of the Urania festival: the Greater Urania from readers and the Lasser Urania from writers.
Stories
The Technician of Grand Kiev («Техник Большого Киева», 1997)
The Witcher of Grand Kiev («Ведьмак из Большого Киева», 1999)
Duty, Honor and Taimas («Долг, честь и taimas», 2000)
Price Issue («Вопрос цены», 2001)
Motherland of Indifference («Родина безразличия», 2002)
Nanny («Нянька», 2003)
Artificial Selection («Искусственный отбор», 2003)
No Past (2006)
Matador («Матадор», 2007)
Unscheduled Train («Поезд вне расписания», 2009)
Witcher's Word («Ведьмачье слово», 2009)
Colors of the Truce («Цвета перемирия», 2013)
Very Big Moscow («Очень Большая Москва», 2017)
Night Sky Herald («Вестник ночного неба», 2022)
World of Grand Kiev
In the universe of stories, the planet Earth, inhabited not only by homo sapiens, collided with a large celestial body.
After the catastrophe, the world is divided into large cities and independent closed autonomous territories between them. Humans, elves, orcs, and other intelligent races coexist relatively peacefully. Magic and science intertwined, living machines appeared, and the leading role in society was taken by "technicians" who have knowledge and skills to handle these machines.
One of megacities under leadership of technicians is Kyiv, which spreads over the entire area of continental Ukraine, bypassing only the Crimea.
Over time, useful living technology began to go out of control: intelligent machines unattended turned into bloodthirsty monsters, elsewhere began to reproduce spontaneously in abandoned factories. The problem became so great that Arzamas-6, a school of witchers, was created. Trained witchers exterminate mechanical beasts for a fee, half of which is given to their training center.
See also
The Witcher
Vedmak
Shadowrun
References
Russian short stories
Russian fantasy
Cyberpunk literature
1997 in literature
1997 in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer-related%20awards | This list of computer-related awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for computer-related work. It excludes computer science awards and competitions, video game awards and web awards, which are covered by separate lists.
Hardware
Open source / freeware / shareware
Security
Programming
Applications
Scholarship
Other
See also
Lists of awards
List of computer science awards
Lists of science and technology awards
List of engineering awards
References
Computer-related |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ESPN%20on%20ABC | Sports programming on the American Broadcasting Company is provided on occasion, primarily on weekend afternoons; since 2006, the ABC Sports division has been defunct, with all sports telecasts on ABC being produced in association with sister cable network ESPN under the branding ESPN on ABC. While ABC has, in the past, aired notable sporting events such as the NFL's Monday Night Football, and various college football bowl games (including, most prominently for a period, the Bowl Championship Series), general industry trends and changes in rights have prompted reductions in sports broadcasts on broadcast television (the BCS's successor, the College Football Playoff and national championship, air exclusively on ESPN).
ABC is the broadcast television rightsholder of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with its package (under the NBA on ESPN branding) traditionally beginning with its Christmas Day games, followed by a series of Sunday afternoon games through the remainder of the season, weekend playoff games, and all games of the NBA Finals. ABC is the broadcast television rightsholder of the National Hockey League (NHL), with its package (under the NHL on ESPN branding). In this deal, ABC broadcasts up to 10 regular season games (mostly afternoon), the NHL All-Star Game and four Stanley Cup Finals. During college football season, ABC typically carries an afternoon doubleheader on Saturdays, along with the primetime Saturday Night Football. ABC also airs coverage of selected bowl games. The Saturday afternoon lineup outside of football season typically features airings of ESPN Films documentaries or other studio programs under the banner ESPN Sports Saturday, while Sunday afternoons usually feature either brokered programming, or encore and burn-off airings of ABC programs.
1950s
Early beginnings as Sports Programs, Inc.
Widely credited as a pioneer in network sports broadcasting, Edgar Scherick created the television program ABC's Wide World of Sports at his company Sports Programs, Inc. which he started in 1956 with $600.00. Scherick had formed this company after leaving CBS when the network would not make him the head of sports programming, choosing instead Bill MacPhail, a former baseball public-relations agent. Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving the most popular American sporting events.
While Scherick wasn't interested in "For Men Only," he recognized the talent Roone Arledge had. Arledge realized ABC was the organization he was looking to join. The lack of a formal organization would offer him the opportunity to claim real power when the network matured. So, he signed on with Scherick as an assistant producer.
Several months before ABC began broadcasting NCAA college football games, Arledge sent Scherick a remarkable memo, filled with youthful exuberance, and television production concepts which sports broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202020 | This is a list of the Canadian Hot 100 number-one singles of 2020. The Canadian Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Canada. 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.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one albums of 2020 (Canada)
References
Canada Hot 100
2020
2020 in Canadian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Albums%20from%20the%202020s | The Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, published by Billboard magazine, is a record chart that ranks the performance of Latin music albums in the United States. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States. The multi-metric methodology to compile the Top Latin Albums chart also includes track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
The first number-one album of the decade was X 100pre by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny.
Number one albums
References
General
Specific
United States Latin Albums
2010 Latin
2020s in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20science%20awards | This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, other computer science and information science awards, and a list of computer science competitions.
The top computer science award is the ACM Turing Award, generally regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for Computer Science. Other highly regarded top computer science awards include IEEE John von Neumann Medal awarded by the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Japan Kyoto Prize for Information Science.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) gives out many computer science awards, often run by one of their Special Interest Groups.
IEEE
A number of awards are given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Computer Society or the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Other computer science awards
Information science awards
Competitions
See also
Competitive programming
Lists of awards
Lists of science and technology awards
List of computer-related awards
List of engineering awards
References
Computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20and%20Interpretation%20of%20Computer%20Programs%2C%20JavaScript%20Edition | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Edition (SICP JS) is an adaptation of the computer science textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation. While the original version of SICP uses the programming language Scheme, this edition uses the programming language JavaScript.
This edition features a foreword by Guy L. Steele Jr. and was published by MIT Press in April 2022.
Content
Like its original, SICP JS focuses on discovering general patterns for solving specific problems, and building software systems that make use of those patterns. The book describes computer science concepts using JavaScript. It also uses a virtual register machine and assembler to implement JavaScript interpreters and compilers.
License
The book is published by MIT Press under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 License. The text and figures are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 License. The JavaScript programs are licensed under the GNU Public License 3.0. The original image of MIT founder William Barton Rogers in section 2.2.4 is courtesy MIT Museum.
Differences to the original textbook
While the book focuses on principles, models and abstractions for programming rather than specific programming languages, all examples in the original SICP are written in the programming language Scheme. SICP JS uses the language JavaScript instead of Scheme. Since JavaScript shares its functional core with Scheme, the adaptation is straightforward and mostly literal in the first three chapters. Chapter four offers new material, in particular an introduction to the notion of program parsing. The evaluator and compiler in chapter five introduce a subtle stack discipline to support return statements (a prominent feature of statement-oriented languages) without sacrificing tail recursion.
Source
Source is a series of sublanguages of JavaScript, originally inspired by , Douglas Crockford. It comprises the languages Source §1, Source §2, Source §3 and Source §4, corresponding to the respective chapters of SICP JS. Each language is a sublanguage of the next, and designed to contain only features needed by the respective chapter. These languages are implemented by the Source Academy, a web-based programming environment that features various tools to support the readers of SICP JS.
See also
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
References
External links
2012 non-fiction books
2019 non-fiction books
Computer science books
Computer programming books
Creative Commons-licensed books
National University of Singapore
JavaScript programming language family
Scheme (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20of%20Diamond%20%28season%202%29 | Ace of Diamond is an anime series based on the manga by Yuji Terajima serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The second season started airing soon after on April 6, 2015, on TX Network stations and later on AT-X. Like its predecessor, the episodes were simulcast in the aforementioned countries by Crunchyroll with English and German subtitles.
Six pieces of theme musics are used for the episodes: two opening and four ending themes. From episodes 76–88, the opening theme is "HEROES" by GLAY, while the ending themes are "KIMERO!!" by OxT and "BLUE WINDING ROAD" by Ryōta Ōsaka, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Natsuki Hanae, Shouta Aoi and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. From episodes 89–126, the opening theme is by GLAY, while the ending themes are "BLOOM OF YOUTH" by OxT and "BRAND NEW BLUE" by Ryōta Ōsaka featuring Masayoshi Ōishi of OxT.
Episodes
References
Ace of Diamond episode lists
2015 Japanese television seasons
2016 Japanese television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn%20Katz | Bronwyn Katz (born 1993) is a South African sculptor and visual artist. She is a founding member of iQhiya Collective, a network of young black female artists based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Early years and education
Katz was born in 1993 in Kimberley, South Africa. She attended the University of Cape Town, South Africa and graduated in 2015 with a BFA. She was awarded with the Simon Gerson Prize at the University of Cape Town.
Career
Katz's works incorporates sculpture, installation, video and performance. Using the concept of land as a repository of memory, Her works reflect the notion of place or space as lived experience and hence the ability of the land to remember and communicate the memory of its occupation. In 2016, her solo exhibition titled Groenpunt was held at Blank Projects in Cape Town.
Exhibitions
Katz has held five solo exhibitions and participated in several group exhibitions including;
The 12th Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal (2016)
Le jour qui vient - Galerie des Galeries in Paris (2017)
Tell Freedom - Kunsthal KAdE in Amersvoort (2018)
Sculpture - Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis in Mauritius (2018)
A Silent Line, Lives Here at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2018)
Salvaged Letter at Peres Projects in Berlin (2019)
Blank Projects in Cape Town (2019)
Là où les eaux se mêlent (Where the water mingles) (Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, 2019)
The Empathy Lab (Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2019)
Material Insanity - Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech (2019)
Road to the Unconscious - Peres Projects in Berlin (2019)
Residencies
2018 - SAM Art Projects residency, Paris
2018 - CBK Zuidoost residency, Amersfoort
2018 NIROX Sculpture Park residency
Awards
2015 - She received the Simon Gershwin Prize at University of Cape Town
2019 - She won the FNB Art Prize
Personal life
Katz lives and works in Johannesburg.
References
1993 births
Living people
University of Cape Town alumni
South African sculptors
People from Kimberley, Northern Cape
21st-century South African women artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202020%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks in Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20%28programming%20language%29 | Source is a family of sublanguages of JavaScript, developed for the textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Edition (SICP JS). The JavaScript sublanguages Source §1, Source §2, Source §3 and Source §4 are designed to be just expressive enough to support all examples of the respective chapter of the textbook.
Purpose and design principle
During the development of SICP JS, starting in 2008, it became clear that purpose-designed sublanguages of JavaScript would contribute to the learning experience. Initially called "JediScript" and inspired by the book "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford, the Source sublanguages follow the chapters of SICP JS; each language Source §x is a sublanguage of the next language Source §(x+1). Following the minimalistic approach of SICP JS, implementations of Source are expected to remove any JavaScript language features that are not included in the language specification.
Features
Source §1 is a very small purely functional sublanguage of JavaScript, designed for Chapter 1 of SICP JS. Source §2 adds pairs and a list library, following the data structures theme of Chapter 2. Source §3 adds stateful constructs, and Source §4 adds support for meta-circular evaluation. Chapter 5 of SICP JS does not require language support beyond Source §4. All Source languages are properly tail recursive, as required by Chapter 1 of SICP and as specified by ECMAScript 2015.
Source Academy
Since the Safari browser is ECMAScript-2015-compliant, including proper tail calls, it can serve as an implementation of all Source languages, provided that the SICP package is loaded. The Source Academy is a web-based programming environment that implements all Source languages, regardless of browser support for proper tail calls, and features various tools for the readers of SICP JS. The language implementation in the Source Academy, js-slang, is also available as a stand-alone environment based on Node.js.
References
External links
Programming languages
Scripting languages
Cross-platform free software
Cross-platform software
Dynamic programming languages
Dynamically typed programming languages
Free compilers and interpreters
Free computer libraries
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20web%20awards | This list of web awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to the internet.
List
See also
Lists of awards
List of computer-related awards
List of webcomic awards
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/2%20Model%20L40%20SX | The IBM Personal System/2 Model L40 SX (stylized as PS/2 Model L40 SX) is a portable computer made by IBM as part of the IBM PS/2 series. It was the successor to the IBM PC Convertible. The "SX" in the name refers to its CPU, the Intel 80386SX.
Development
The L40 SX was designed and manufactured over the course of thirteen months between 1990 and 1991. By 1990, IBM were already late to the market of 386SX-powered laptops. Faced with releasing an obsolete product, should they have followed their normal two-year lead time, IBM hastened development of the L40 SX.
The L40 SX's case and keyboard assemblies took roughly five months to produce and involved novel methods to achieve this time frame. IBM hired their former subsidiary Lexmark of Lexington, Kentucky, and Leap Technologies of Otsego, Michigan, to achieve this production. Both companies used IBM's own Catia CAD–CAM system
to design the models of the parts for the aforementioned assemblies. Lexmark were responsible for drafting these models, sending them electronically to Leap for revisions. Once revised, Leap used these models to machine the injection molds for each part. The two companies' electronic exchange of models was novel for the time and accelerated production by eliminating the need for mocking up and prototyping. It also posed a risk, however, as any design flaws realized after manufacturing would set production back up to a year and compel IBM to cancel the laptop. Because of this, both Leap and Lexmark used specialized software to predict how the parts would result from Leap's molds.
Before designing began, however, Leap and Lexmark had to source suitable plastic. They settled on a polycarbonate–ABS polyblend by Dow Chemical that was durable, colorable, and plateable. The latter quality was necessary for compliance with the FCC's regulations on electromagnetic interference. Integrated circuits, such as microprocessors, cause such interference; most companies at the time compensated by spraying a thick layer of metallic paint on their cases' interiors. Because the 386SX's power overrode such shielding, however, IBM turned to electroless plating—a method that was novel for laptops. This provided the case with stronger shielding and not much more weight but also considerable expense for IBM. Research on the method was also costly: as electroless plating had seldom been used on their polyblends, Dow had to perform rigorous laboratory tests. After designing ended and the molds were machined, Leap performed injection only on the molds for the case assembly parts, shipping the molds for the keyboard assembly parts to Lexmark. Leap performed ultrasonic welding on their parts where necessary and handed the responsibility of plating to a company in Michigan. Leap then sent the completed case assemblies to Lexmark.
Toshiba of Japan provided IBM with the L40 SX's liquid-crystal display, which was a 10-inch, sidelit, passive-matrix panel. Final assembly of these panels were performed in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20G.%20Bond | Susan Bond (born 1942), was a scientific officer and computer programmer for the Mathematics Division of the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in the United Kingdom. She worked extensively on the programming language ALGOL 68 and the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC), an early solid-state electronics, ICL 1907F computer.
Early life
Bond was born in 1942 and grew up in Dagenham, Essex, in the United Kingdom (UK). Both her parents were teachers, and she was an only child. She studied at Bristol University from 1962 to 1965, where she studied mathematics and science and received first-class honours.
Career and research
After graduating from Bristol, Bond was interested in working in applied mathematics, although she didn't have computer training before then. She applied to and joined the Mathematics Division of the RRE in 1965; she was hired by British mathematician and engineer Philip Woodward. Her work mostly consisted of writing operating systems and compilers, not "numerical" computing. At the start of her career, Bond was the only female scientific officer with a graduate education at RRE. Bond later learned that her supervisor Woodward had been, as historian Janet Abbate describes, "'actively recruiting women' as an affordable source of high-quality researchers".
One of her first projects was reimplementing Syntax Improving Device (SID), a compiler-compiler tool developed by fellow RRE employee Michael Foster, to generate compilers for high-level programming languages. Afterward, she worked with Ian Currie on CORAL 64, a high-level language for embedded system computers.
Implementing ALGOL 68
The RRE had originally used ALGOL 60 for the RREAC from its initial development in 1963. After the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) published the specifications for the more powerful ALGOL 68 in 1968, RRE attempted to adapt it for use on the RREAC. Bond worked with John Morison and Ian Currie on ALGOL 68-R, the first compiler implementation of ALGOL 68, and they announced its creation at the 20–24 July 1970 IFIP Working Conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation in Munich. Their ALGOL 68-R was an adaptation of the ALGOL 60 compiler they had built for RREAC. The team that worked on ALGOL 68-R intended for the language to become the RRE's primary programming language, which could be used for scientific programming as well as business administration tasks like payroll and taking inventory.
After the publication of the ALGOL 68-R specifications, Bond and Woodward published a narrative guide to ALGOL 68, titled "ALGOL 68-R User’s Guide" through HM Stationery Office. The initial 17,000 copy run sold out. Bond effectively provided ongoing support for the compiler: readers would contact her whenever they had trouble implementing it. Bond and Woodward continued to update and publish new versions of their guide for the RRE's later implementations of ALGOL, such as ALGOL 68RS. One reviewer, Richard Shreeve, contested th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Dependable%20and%20Secure%20Computing | The IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of dependability and security. It is published by the IEEE Computer Society and was established in 2004. The current editor-in-chief is Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 6.404.
References
External links
IEEE academic journals
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 2004
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways%20of%20Vietnam | The Expressway network of Vietnam is a recent addition to the transport network of Vietnam. The first expressways were opened in the early-2000s, by 2020, the expressway network is expected to stretch and plans are for over of expressway by 2030.
Development
Expressways are a rather recent addition to the Vietnamese road network, and standardization has not been fully implemented. Ownership varies by expressway, they are financed, developed, owned and operated by either state-owned or private companies on behalf of the Ministry of Transport. For example, state-owned Vietnam Expressway Corporation owns and operates four expressways, but toll collection is done by subcontracted companies. The companies operating the expressways have to report traffic numbers and toll revenue to the Ministry of Transport and the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam. This construction has been subject of fraud investigations several times, as toll revenue was falsified by the collecting companies in order to take advantage of the difference. The government has also threatened operating companies to revoke their toll collection licence after lack of maintenance caused dangerous situations on several expressways. In 2019 it was reported that the Vietnam Expressway Corporation was $3.7 billion USD in debt, and earning $137 million in revenue each year.
The total cost of the planned expressway network is estimated at $47.9 billion. Lack of funding has been an issue throughout the development of the expressway network, with both the government and private investors having difficulty in raising the required investment costs.
In 2019, the Ministry of Transport decided to exclude foreign investors from bidding on the North-South expressway, mainly to prevent Chinese companies from participating. Public backslash – due to strong anti-Chinese sentiment in the country – was feared if Chinese companies would collect toll fees, as well national security concerns playing a role in this decision. However, lack of bidders has led to low competition between the bids, and two out of five sections had not attracted any bids.
In 2020, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng petitioned to the National Assembly to switch development of the remaining sections of the North–South expressway to state funding instead of build-operate-transfer contracts, in order to avoid delays in raising capital and to reduce interest amount. He noted that Chinese provinces Yunnan and Guangxi built of expressways in three years, whereas of planned expressway in Vietnam should have been completed decades ago. If public funding would be approved, construction on the sections Vĩnh Hảo (vi)–Phan Thiết, Mai Son (Ninh Bình)–Highway 45 (Thanh Hóa) and Phan Thiết–Dầu Giây (connection to Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thanh–Dau Giay Expressway) would start in 2021.
A new draft plan is for of new expressways to be completed before 2025 and an additional for before 2030.
Expressway use
Generally all cars, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoming%20Fu | Xiaoming Fu (born in Jiangxi, China) is a Chinese German computer scientist. He is a Full Professor of Computer Science with focus on Internet technologies at Universität Göttingen. His research interests include architecture, protocols and applications of networked systems including mobile and cloud computing, network security, social computing and big data.
Life
Fu studied at Northeastern University (China), where he received his bachelor and master degrees. He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2000. After working at Technische Universität Berlin as member of scientific staff, he joined Universität Göttingen where he was appointed as assistant professor (2002) and professor (2007) and head of computer networks group.
Awards
2009 Fulbright Scholar at UCLA Department of Computer Science
2014-2015 appointed IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
2017 elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
2018 elected member of Academia Europaea
2021 elected Fellow of IEEE
2021 elected ACM Distinguished Member
References
Chinese expatriates in Germany
Chinese computer scientists
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20fur | Digital fur is the rendering of fur using computer generated imagery techniques. The rendering of fur is technically complex, because of the geometric complexity of modelling the hair strands, the complex interplay of light within the fur volume and the effects of subsurface scattering within the skin.
Digital fur plays a substantial part in the creation of pseudo-photorealistic films such as Cats and The Lion King.
References
Visual effects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202020%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales of albums and EPs. In 2020, 39 albums claimed the top spot; Harry Styles' Fine Line returned to number one on the first chart of the year after spending one week atop the chart in December 2019. Eleven acts, Selena Gomez, Lil Uzi Vert, Dua Lipa, The Smith Street Band, The Teskey Brothers, Vika and Linda, Pop Smoke, Lime Cordiale, Juice Wrld, Joji and Adam Lambert, achieved their first number-one album.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2020 in music
List of number-one singles of 2020 (Australia)
List of top 10 albums in 2020 (Australia)
References
2020
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202020%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of singles. In 2020, eleven songs reached number one, with "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I returning to the top on the first chart of the year after spending 21 weeks atop the chart in 2019. Nine artists, The Weeknd, Saint Jhn, DaBaby, Roddy Ricch, Jawsh 685, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, 24kGoldn and Iann Dior, reached the top for the first time.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2020 in music
List of number-one albums of 2020 (Australia)
List of top 10 singles in 2020 (Australia)
References
Australia singles
Number-one singles
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in South Korea. Managed by the domestic Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), its data is compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published by the Gaon Music Chart. The ranking is based collectively on each single's download sales, stream count, and background music use. In mid-2008, the Recording Industry Association of Korea ceased publishing music sales data. The MCST established a process to collect music sales in 2009, and began publishing its data with the introduction of the Gaon Music Chart the following February. With the creation of the Gaon Digital Chart, digital data for individual songs was provided in the country for the first time. Gaon provides weekly (listed from Sunday to Saturday), monthly and yearly charts. Below is a list of singles that topped the weekly and monthly charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Digital Chart
2020 singles
Korea, South singles
2020 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The Gaon Album Chart is a South Korean record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart, which launched in February 2010. The data is compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association based upon weekly/monthly physical album sales by six major South Korean distributors: Kakao M, SM Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Stone Music Entertainment.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Album Chart
2020
Korea, South albums
2020 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages%20%28Google%29 | Messages (formerly known as Android Messages) is an SMS, RCS, and instant messaging application developed by Google for its Android and Wear OS mobile operating systems, while it's also available via the Web. Messages is Google's official universal messaging platform for the Android ecosystem, similar to the implementation of iMessage on Apple devices.
History
The original code for Android SMS messaging was released in 2009 integrated into the Operating System. It was released as a standalone application independent of Android with the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop in 2014, replacing Google Hangouts as the default SMS app on Google's Nexus line of phones.
In 2018, Messages adopted RCS messages and was evolved to send larger data files, sync with other apps, and even create mass messages. This was in preparation for when Google launched messages for web.
In December 2019, Google began to introduce support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging via an RCS service hosted by Google, referred to in the user interface as "chat features". This was followed by a wider global rollout throughout 2020.
The app surpassed 1 billion installs in April 2020, doubling its number of installs in less than a year.
Initially, RCS did not support end-to-end encryption. In June 2021, Google introduced end-to-end encryption in Messages by default using the Signal Protocol, for all one-to-one RCS-based conversations, for all group chats in December 2022 for beta users, and for all users by August 2023.
Beginning with the Samsung Galaxy S21, Messages replaces Samsung's in-house Messages app as the default messaging app for One UI for some regions and carriers. In April 2021, the app began to receive UI modifications on Samsung devices to follow aspects of One UI, including pushing the top of the message list towards the middle of the screen to improve ergonomics.
In February 2023, Google began to replace references to "chat features" in the Messages user interface with "RCS". In August 2023, Google announced that Messages will use RCS by default for all users unless they opt out, in order to allow them to benefit from secure messaging.
Features
Some of the most important features in Google Messages are:
Send instant text and voice messages in 1:1 or group chat conversations over mobile data and Wi-Fi, via Android, WearOS or the web.
End-to-end encryption for RCS chats.
Typing, sent, delivered and read status
Reply and react to specific messages
Share files and high-resolution photos
Voice message transcriptions
Schedule messages
In-app reminders for birthdays and messages you didn't respond to after some time with Nudges
Tight integration with the Google ecosystem, e.g. Google Calendar, Meet, Maps, YouTube, Photos, Contacts, Assistant, Search, Safe Browsing etc.
Web interface: The messages app can be used in a different device browser tab. To activate this feature, the user has to visit the webpage https://messages.google.com/web and scan the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Bolychevsky | Irina Bolychevsky (born 1986) is a British activist and data specialist, focused on Open Data, decentralized technologies, and technical standards. She is currently director of standards and interoperability at the NHSX of the United Kingdom Government. She has been part of large organizations in those fields, including the Open Knowledge Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the Open Data Institute, and worked for the UK, Dubai and UAE government administrations. She co-founded Redecentralize.org, an advocacy group promoting decentralized technologies.
Work
She was the product owner of the open-source open data portal CKAN from 2011 to 2014, the period in which it was redesigned in a 2.0 version and where she piloted the transition from a mostly national use in 2011, to international adoption. In this period, she managed its adoption by and relaunch of data.gov. Her work with CKAN allowed her to win the Open Data Individual Champion Award by the Open Data Institute.
Bolychevsky was W3C staff from July 2015 till December 2016. During this period, she was part of the W3C Social Web working group. She actively participated in EU-funded research projects in which the W3C was part of, working on open standards for decentralized technologies developed within the D-Cent project, and on the challenges around open standards within the Big Data Europe project.
Since then, according to her profile by the British Computer Society, she "developed the personal data infrastructure programme within the UK’s Government Digital Service", "developed Smart Dubai’s and UAE federal policy, regulatory, commercial and technical frameworks for data exchange" and "ran one of the first UK data trust pilots and researched digital identity for the Open Data Institute".
Activism
The group Redecentralize.org, which she co-founded, claims to be "a movement of people pioneering technologies and governance models to redecentralize the web". According to The New Yorker, it is an "advocacy group that provides support for projects that aim to make the Web less centralized". It has also been defined as a "research policy institute".
The group maintains a directory of decentralized web projects which seems to be recognized as the reference list in the field by bloggers and several sites in the field. The group has organized two conferences on the topic, with Bolychevsky as main organizer: in 2015 hosted by ThoughtWorks, and in 2019. These two events hosted speakers such as Open Rights Group's Kevin Marks, Mozilla's Tantek Çelik, Ethereum's Gavin Wood, OAuth's Blaine Cook, Francis Irving, and representatives from Matrix.org, IPFS, Solid and Secure Scuttlebutt. The group has also hosted smaller meetups, one featuring BBC's Bill Thompson, and virtual public meetings, one within the frame of W3C.
She was fellow of the London college for political technologists Newspeak House and co-founder of the Coffee House Club. She is currently co-organizor of the Citizen Beta civic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Survivor%3A%20All%20Stars | Australian Survivor: All Stars is the seventh season of Network 10's Australian Survivor. For the first time, the season features 24 returning contestants from the four previous seasons that have aired on Network 10. The season premiered on 3 February 2020, and concluded on 30 March 2020, where David Genat was named the winner over Sharn Coombes, winning the grand prize of A$500,000 and title of Sole Survivor.
Jonathan LaPaglia returned as host. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LaPaglia could not travel from Los Angeles, where he resides, in time for the recording of the season finale and reunion without facing immediate self-isolation for 14 days. The reunion special was hosted by Osher Günsberg, with LaPaglia contributing from Los Angeles via Satellite link.
Contestants
This season consisted of twenty-four contestants returning from previous seasons. The cast included no previous contestants from the first two seasons.
Notes
Future appearances
Shonee Bowtell (formally Fairfax) competed as a villain in Australian Survivor: Heroes V Villains.
After this season, Locky Gilbert appeared on the eighth season of The Bachelor Australia as the titular bachelor in 2020. David Genat competed on the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. Michelle Dougan competed in the tenth episode of The Cube in 2021 with her sister Sam. In 2022, Brooke Jowett and John Eastoe competed on The Challenge: Australia.
Season summary
24 All Stars from the previous four seasons were divided into two tribes, Mokuta and Vakama. Immediately, returning winners Shane and Jericho were picked off as they were major threats to the other contestants, leaving power players Henry and Mat on the back foot in Mokuta and Vakama with a clue for the same idol. Henry got it first. On Vakama, two groups formed spearheaded by David and Mat respectively, but David approached Mat to blindside his own alliance and to take revenge on Daisy for her blindside of him in their previous season. Henry gave Mat the idol, which got Daisy out. Mokuta struggled in challenges with the athletic players taking control to eliminate the more social players.
After a tribe swap, the new Vakama saw the majority alliance lose David and Phoebe, but utilized a scorned Shonee to take out the athletic alliance (Abbey, Lydia, and John) and the original minority leader, Mat. Meanwhile, the new Mokuta tribe managed to keep intact for a while, except when Phoebe didn't vote with David, and he and Moana chose to blindside Phoebe. Meanwhile, David found an immunity idol in a tree, and then got another one by stealing Phoebe's clue which led him to find it in a termite mound. Closer to the merge, a shrinking Vakama saw Brooke enact her revenge on Flick as payback for their first season, and Harry finding a Halting advantage which allowed him to halt any of the last two pre-merge tribal councils before the votes are read; he never exercised his advantage, sacrificing Nick.
At the merge, the new Mokuta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui%20Xiong | Hui Xiong () is a data scientist. He is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University and a distinguished guest professor (Grand Master Chair Professor) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Education
Xiong received his B.E. degree in automation from the University of Science and Technology of China and his M.S. degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in computer science with a minor in statistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2005 under Vipin Kumar.
Career
Xiong became an assistant professor in the management science and information systems department of Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick in 2005. He became an associate professor in the same place in 2009. In 2014, he became a full professor in the same place in 2014. He became a Rutgers Business School Dean's Research Professor in 2016. Now he is a distinguished professor in the same place starting from 2021.
Xiong served as deputy dean of Baidu Research Institute and the founding head of business intelligence lab as well as the founding head of talent intelligence center of Baidu Inc. while on leave from Rutgers University.
Professional service
Xiong serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of GIS. In addition, he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). In 2018, Xiong served as a PC chair of the research track for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). In 2013 and 2015, he as a general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). He also served as an industry and government track co-chair of the 18th ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) in 2012
Books
"Encyclopedia of GIS"
"Hyperclique pattern discovery: Algorithms and applications"
"Clustering and Information Retrieval"
Media highlights
"The Economist, Crime prevention Cutpurse capers"
"The Ethics Of Big Data"
"Dr Hui Xiong – Harnessing Big Data to Identify Ideal Locations for Warehouses and Bike Share Stations"
Selected honors and distinctions
Distinguished professor with tenure, Rutgers University, 2021.
AAAI 2021 Best Paper Award, 2021
AAAS Fellow, 2020
IEEE Fellow, 2020
The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review, 2018
RBS Dean’s Research Professor, 2016
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2017.
ACM Distinguished Member, 2014
Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award for the paper ”Personalized Travel Package Recommendation”, published at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (one out of 786 submissions), 2011.
Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN, 2011.
Rutgers University Board of Trus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by MRC Data, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets.
During 2020, twenty singles reached number-one on the Hot 100, making 2020 the year with the most number-one hits on the Hot 100 since 1991, which had twenty-seven. In addition, two other number-one singles in 2020, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Circles" by Post Malone, had each previously hit number one in 2019. Twenty-five artists reached the top of the Hot 100 in 2020, with thirteen—Roddy Ricch, Kid Cudi, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, 6ix9ine, Harry Styles, BTS, M.I.A., Jawsh 685, 24kGoldn, and Iann Dior—achieving their first number-one single. Ariana Grande and BTS scored three number ones each. Ricch's "The Box" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for eleven weeks, whereas the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" was the year's best performing song on the chart, topping the Billboard Year-End Hot 100.
For the first time since 1990, six different songs topped the Hot 100 in six consecutive weeks, namely "The Scotts" by The Scotts (Travis Scott and Kid Cudi), "Say So" by Doja Cat featuring Minaj, "Stuck with U" by Grande and Justin Bieber, "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé, "Rain on Me" by Lady Gaga and Grande, and "Rockstar" by DaBaby featuring Ricch. Billboard highlighted this unusual amount of turnover for the number-one spot on the chart, and cited many reasons to this phenomenon—song remixes, organized fan buying/streaming activities and the release of numerous collectible physical copies (CDs and vinyls) and bundles by artists to encourage their fans to purchase multiple copies of a song. This made the Hot 100 chart "more of a first-week factor than usual", explaining the drop in sales units of a song after it peaked at the number-one spot.
In July 2020, Billboard announced that the Hot 100 chart would "no longer allow" the sales of physical/digital bundles (physical singles that are clubbed with digital downloads) to be reported as digital sales, which is a "widespread" industry practice of not manufacturing and shipping the vinyls, CDs and other physical copies to consumers for weeks or months, but making the bundled digital download instantly redeemable, a tactic generally used by artists like Grande, Bieber and 6ix9ine to boost their chart positions; Billboard asserted that those physical singles would only be counted when they are shipped to the consumer, making the tactic "ineffectual".
The year 2020 broke the record for the calendar year that spawned the most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, with twelve songs debuting atop the chart: Drake's "Toosie Slide", "The Scotts" by Scott and Cudi, "Stuck With U" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassila%20network | The Wassila network () or l'Association contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux enfants or Avife (Association against violence done to women and children) is a network of Algerian citizens' groups and institutions that defend women's rights, established in October 2000.
Creation and structure
The Wassila network was created in October 2000, near the end of the Algerian Civil War, a context within which women's rights were under attack both practically and legally. The network is named after a girl called Wassila who was adopted and abandoned and became a single mother.
In 2011, the network included 28 citizens' associations and institutions. Member groups in 2013 included SOS Children's Villages, Atustep, Tharwa Fadhma n’Soumer, the Association pour l'émancipation des femmes, Sarp, Amusnaw, Djazaïrouna, medical and mental health professionals, lawyers and human rights activists.
Aims
The Wassila network aims to obtain equal rights for women both in the legal system and in fighting against rape and other violence against women, including "massive marital violence". The network also handles sexual abuse of children. According to the Wassila network, 80% of its documented cases concern violence within the home.
Actions
The Wassila network published a "White paper of testimonies" of women victims of violence. According to the network, immolation, torture and murder became commonplace against Algerian women.
The network has three branches of action: developing practical help for victims (including a telephone support helpline and legal aid), training of medical, legal and media personnel, and legal approaches (include criminal law against sexual violence).
The network received between 800 and 2000 calls for help on its telephone helpline during 2011–2013.
The Wassila network published a statement following the "punitive expedition" attacks on women workers in Hassi Messaoud, known for the 2001 Hassi Messaoud mob attacks against women. The network stated that neither local nor national authorities protected the women from a systematic pattern of violence.
Hirak
On 16 March 2019, during the "Hirak" 2019 Algerian protests, Saadia Gacem and Faïka Medjahed, members of the Wassila network, together with other women, signed a declaration establishing Femmes algériennes pour un changement vers l'égalité (Algerian women for a shift towards equality), calling for "full and complete equality between female and male citizens, without distinction of gender, class, regional origin of beliefs", announcing the creation of a "feminist square which will be located each Friday in front of the main gate of the Algiers 1 University starting from 13:00" and calling for "taking into account equal representation of women in any citizens' initiative aiming to solve" the issues of the Hirak protests.
Later during the Hirak protests, an alliance of trade unions, citizens' groups and individuals, the Dynamiques de la société civile, was created in a meeting on 15 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterprogramming | Counterprogramming can refer to two similar activities in the media industry:
Counterprogramming (film distribution), a studio's marketing strategy to appeal to audiences not targeted by other films
Counterprogramming (television), offering programs to attract an audience from another station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couples%20Therapy%20%282019%20TV%20series%29 | Couples Therapy is an American television series on the Showtime network. The series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on April 18, 2021. An extended third season premiered on May 13, 2022. It was shown on BBC Two in the UK and is available to watch for free in the UK on the BBC's iPlayer service. The show filmed new couples for the second half of season three which finished filming towards the end of 2022 and premiered on April 28, 2023. The entire back half of the season was put up for streaming and on-demand viewing on this date; linear airings will be two episodes per week.
Overview
Couples Therapy shows parts of the therapy sessions of three to four couples per season. The producers and therapist of the series wanted to show what a therapeutic process actually looks like. They didn't want to show drama to the audiences, but the deep work that real therapy entails.
Orna Guralnik, the couples' therapist, meets her patients for the first time when they enter her practice. Her practice features many cameras hidden behind a one-way mirror that surrounds the room. The couples participate in a 20-week therapy program. The one-hour-sessions are recorded, cut for television and edited into nine episodes. The television series is filmed in New York.
There are some rules about the therapy sessions. The couples are not allowed to have any more in-depth discussions about their children, because the children cannot give their consent to the therapy treatment and their life being discussed on television. The couples have no contact with the crew members. They only meet the couples' therapist, Guralnik. Guralnik has a counselor, Virginia Goldner, with whom she discusses the therapy process. In the Covid Special she has another counselor, Kirkland Vaughans.
In June 2021, it was announced that there would be a third season of Couples Therapy. It started on May 13, 2022.
Idea and realization
Director Josh Kriegman came up with the idea for the series. His parents are both psychotherapists. From an early age he had heard a lot about this work. He was fascinated by the therapy processes and what can be achieved by it. He hoped that he would be able to show the therapy process on television. He thought a long time about how this would work in an authentic way.
Along with the directors Eli B. Despres and Elyse Steinberg, Kriegman planned a reality TV series for Showtime.
At first they wanted to find the right therapist. So the production team interviewed a few therapists in New York. They contacted Guralnik through her Psychoanalytic Institute. At first Guralnik only wanted to be the counselor for the therapist, but after a few discussions with the directors, she decided to be the therapist and not the counselor. It was important to her that the TV series is very close to real therapy instead of relying on dramatization.
The couples of the series were chosen from thousands in a selection process. The selection processes for each couple t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202020%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish PROMUSICAE sales and airplay charts in 2020. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors.
Chart history
References
Spain Singles
Number-one singles
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Leymann | Frank Leymann (25 September 1957 in Bochum) is a German computer scientist and mathematician. He is professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and director and founder of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS).
Biography
Leymann studied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and received a Master of Science degree in Mathematics (i.e. Dipl.-Math.) in 1982 from University of Bochum, Germany. He worked as research staff member in the Faculty of Mathematics at University of Bochum, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics (i.e. Dr. rer. nat.) in 1984. In his PhD thesis he studied foliations on spaces with singularities. After his PhD he went to IBM Research and Development contributing to software products like DB2, Websphere, or MQSeries. Leymann was main co-inventor and chief software architect of IBM's business process management and workflow products, and was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer for this work. In 2004, he was appointed full professor of computer science at University of Stuttgart where he founded the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems. He holds many granted patents in the area of software.
Work
Frank Leymann's main contributions are from the domains of workflow systems, service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, pattern languages and quantum computing.
Database management
His initial focus was on database technology:
In order to simplify queries on relational databases with many tables, Leymann co-developed a universal relation system
on top of existing relational database systems. Contributions to architectural aspects of stored procedures and user defined functions followed. The latter resulted in investigating the use of object databases, especially ObjectStore, as the underpinning of other middleware. At this time, developers were quite unfamiliar with object databases, thus, Leymann helped to create tooling to ensure proper performance of corresponding applications.
Business process management & workflow systems
Workflow systems support companies in modeling, optimizing, and executing their business processes in computing environments. Several languages have been proposed for modeling business processes, out which two languages are widely supported in industry: one of which is the OASIS (organization) standard Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) that Leymann co-invented and which in turn is based on Web Services Flow Language (WSFL), a language that Leymann authored for IBM; the other language is Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN), which Leymann co-author too. Such modeling languages support "programming in the large " and allow splitting high-level logic of control- and data flow within an overall application from its low-level logic implementing elementary business functions; this way, workflow-based applications can be created, that allow changing business processes without having to change the programs implementing individual s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Human-Compatible%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is a research center at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) safety methods. The center was founded in 2016 by a group of academics led by Berkeley computer science professor and AI expert Stuart J. Russell. Russell is known for co-authoring the widely used AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
CHAI's faculty membership includes Russell, Pieter Abbeel and Anca Dragan from Berkeley, Bart Selman and Joseph Halpern from Cornell, Michael Wellman and Satinder Singh Baveja from the University of Michigan, and Tom Griffiths and Tania Lombrozo from Princeton. In 2016, the Open Philanthropy Project (OpenPhil) recommended that Good Ventures provide CHAI support of $5,555,550 over five years. CHAI has since received additional grants from OpenPhil and Good Ventures of over $12,000,000, including for collaborations with the World Economic Forum and Global AI Council.
Research
CHAI's approach to AI safety research focuses on value alignment strategies, particularly inverse reinforcement learning, in which the AI infers human values from observing human behavior. It has also worked on modeling human-machine interaction in scenarios where intelligent machines have an "off-switch" that they are capable of overriding.
See also
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Future of Humanity Institute
Future of Life Institute
Human Compatible
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
References
External links
Artificial intelligence associations
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Existential risk organizations
Organizations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacomputer | The Datacomputer was an ARPANET-connected database system supported by the Computer Corporation of America in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was intended as a computing utility sharing resources among multiple ARPA projects, in particular in seismology and climatology. It operated from August 1973 until 1980.
It was hosted on a DEC PDP-10 running the TENEX operating system (ARPANET host CCA-TENEX, address 31) and was designed to support 3 trillion bits of storage (375 GB). Besides storage, the Datacomputer also offered data conversion utilities which supported the multiple data formats used at the time.
The largest user of the Datacomputer was ARPA's Seismic Data Analysis Center (SDAC) (Alexandria, Virginia), which monitored underground nuclear tests.
The Datacomputer manipulated data using a custom Datalanguage. A sample retrieval request:
OPEN RESULTLIST ;
OPEN WEATHER ;
FOR WEATHER.STATION WITH REGION EQ 'MASSACHUSETTS'
FOR RESULTLIST.RESULT, OBSERVATION WITH TEMPERATURE.MAX GT '300' /* DEGREES KELVIN */
RESULT.CITY = STATION.CITY ;
RESULT.DATE = OBSERVATION.DATE ;
RESULT.TEMPERATURE = OBSERVATION.TEMPERATURE ;
END ;
END;
The Datacomputer hardware had a three-level store: primary core, secondary hard disk, and tertiary mass storage. At the time, disk cost about $20/megabit, while mass stores, typically robotic magnetic tape systems, cost about $1/megabit. The service started in 1973 with disk storage only; tertiary storage using Ampex's Terabit Memory System (TMS) hardware, based on videotape technology, was to come on line in 1975. In 1979, TMS's capacity was 175 billion bits (22 GB), and the total data stored was over 500 billion bits (62 GB)
Notes
External links
Email thread at Stanford AI Lab about the Datacomputer, 1976-1978
Data storage
ARPANET |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%3A%20The%20City%20of%20Shadows | Denver: The City of Shadows is a supplement published by FASA in 1994 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Denver: The City of Shadows is a campaign setting boxed set for the second edition rules of Shadowrun. It was designed by Nigel D. Findley, Bill Lenox, Tom Wong, and Tom Dowd, with interior art by Joel Biske, Steve Bryant, Paul Daly, Earl Geier, Rick Harris, Jeff Laubenstein, Dan Smith, and Karl Waller, and cover art by Dave McCoy and Jim Nelson.
The set contains:
a 168-page players' book
a 64-page gamemaster's book
a 22" x 34" map sheet
two laminated travel passes
The books detail Denver in the game of Shadowrun, including its six political sectors (each of which has its own laws, culture, and black market trade.)
Reception
In the April 1995 edition of Dragon (Issue #216), Rick Swan was cool to the boxed set, stating that "Despite its ambition, Denver is basically a water-treader, a look at a familiar setting from a different angle [...] It's a good read, but it's not much of a reference." Swan concluded by giving Denver: The City of Shadows an average rating of 4 out of 6, saying, "Experienced players should find Denver irresistable — providing, of course, they're willing to navigate all the silly lingo."
Reviews
White Wolf #46 (Aug., 1994)
Casus Belli #84 (Dec 1994)
Rollespilsmagasinet Fønix (Danish) (Issue 6 - January/February 1995)
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus%20Network | Zeus Network (colloquially Zeus) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. It was founded by social media personalities DeStorm Power, Amanda Cerny, King Bach, and television producer Lemuel Plummer, who serves as president and CEO. The service features original scripted and unscripted influencer-driven programming.
Content
Original unscripted content
Blueface & Chrisean: Crazy In Love (2022-)
Bobby I Love You, Purrr (2022)
Bad Boys (2022-)
Doses of Draya (2021)
Baddies (2021-)
One Mo’ Chance (2020-2022)
The Conversation (2020-2021)
Joseline's Cabaret (2020-)
Tokyo Toni's Finding Love ASAP! (2019)
The Real Blac Chyna (2019)
B. Simone's You're My Boooyfriend (2019)
The Real Dumbass World (2019)
TiTi Do You Love Me (2018)
Life with Lil Tay (2018)
Shirtless Cheffin' with Don Benjamin
A Taste of Dance with Amanda Cerny
Pretty Girls Lit
Ultimate Fitness Challenge with Candice and Omar
Your Best Life
Original scripted content
Adam's World
Bad Escorts
Dr. Blackson
Caught
The Cheap Negotiator
The Cheat Seat
Ditsy
Ice Cream
The Lab Rats
Liquid Jay
Malena ICON
Reedo Brown Presents: Comedy Roulette
Reedo Brown Presents: You Said That?
Rent a Power
The Scholarship
Sober Coach
Ronaldinho's Shadowplayers
You Decide
References
External links
2018 establishments in the United States
2018 in television
2018 introductions
African-American television networks
Android (operating system) software
Internet properties established in 2018
Internet television streaming services
IOS software
Subscription video on demand services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales and digital downloads.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2020
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2020 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20from%20the%202020s%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | This is the Recorded Music NZ list of number-one singles in New Zealand during the 2020s decade, starting from Monday 6 January 2020. The chart also includes data from on-demand audio streaming services.
Justin Bieber has achieved five number-one singles this decade, the most of any artist thus far.
From the 2020s, L.A.B.'s "In the Air" was the top song of 2020; The Glass Animals track "Heat Waves" was the top song of 2021 (although only peaking at number two); and Elton John and Dua Lipa's "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" was the top song of 2022.
Chart
Key
– Number-one single of the year
– Song of New Zealand origin
– Number-one single of the year, of New Zealand origin
Notes
References
Number-one singles
New Zealand Singles
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin%20III%3A%20The%20First | is a 2019 Japanese computer-animated heist comedy film based on the Lupin the Third franchise created by Monkey Punch, to whom the film is dedicated. Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, it was animated by Marza Animation Planet and TMS Entertainment, and is the first 3DCG installment in the franchise. The film stars Kanichi Kurita as Lupin III, Kiyoshi Kobayashi as gunman Daisuke Jigen, Daisuke Namikawa as samurai Goemon Ishikawa XIII, Miyuki Sawashiro as Fujiko Mine, and Kōichi Yamadera as Interpol detective Zenigata. The film's plot structure is loosely modelled after Hayao Miyazaki's classic Lupin III anime film Castle of Cagliostro (1979).
Set during the late 1960s of the Shōwa era, the film follows gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III and his crew to Paris and Brazil to find the whereabouts of the Bresson Diary, a treasure even Lupin's grandfather Arsène Lupin failed to catch. A battle for the mechanical diary is unleashed as a Nazi treasure-hunter group led by Lambert and Geralt are also in a race to steal it, with the prize that whoever deciphers its mystery will be the owners of an enormous fortune.
Lupin III: The First was released to the theaters in Japan on December 6, 2019, distributed by Toho, with a later worldwide release planned for 2020. released the film in France on October 7, 2020. GKIDS released the film in North America on October 18, 2020. The film was one of the selections for Annecy as well as the 43rd Japanese Academy Awards.
The film earned critical acclaim, with praise directed towards its plot, vocal performances, faithfulness towards the source material, and, in particular, the animation. Many felt the series transitioned well into CGI, praising the level of detail and fluidity.
Plot
In German-occupied France, archaeologist Professor Bresson entrusts his heavily trapped diary and an amulet containing the key to the book to his family. The diary is purported to be the guide to an immense treasure called the "Eclipse," which a group of Nazis working for Ahnenerbe is seeking. Bresson is killed by the arriving Germans; his family escapes, but is chased down by Ahnenerbe professor Lambert, and ends up in a car crash which only the infant daughter survives. Lambert steals the amulet, but is unable to find the diary, which was lost during the chase.
In the 1960s, the diary resurfaces during a memorial exhibition in Bresson's honor. Lupin III tries to steal the book, as his grandfather had unsuccessfully attempted before him, only to be foiled first by a young woman disguised as a security guard, then by Fujiko; he is then arrested by Inspector Zenigata. On his way to prison, Lupin is sprung by his friends Jigen and Goemon and sneaks into the home of the fake security guard, a prospective archeology student named Laetitia Lambert. He presents a medal identical to the one stolen by Lambert, which his grandfather had left him. Laetitia contacts Lambert, her adoptive grandfather who ordered her to steal the book in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20Voit | Samuel Voit (born ) is an American actor and television personality. He began his career on Masterchef Junior, Chopped Junior and Food Network Star Kids as himself. In 2018, he appeared in the film To Dust which won the Grand Jury Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated in 2020 for Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. He currently stars as young Kevin Jonas in the Happiness Begins Tour and the film Happiness Continues.
Personal life
Voit is from the Bronx, New York. He has an older sister and a younger brother. He is Jewish.
Philanthropy
Voit is an activist for youth homelessness. He fundraises for LA and NYC-based non-profit organizations that support homeless youth. In 2017, Voit started documenting homelessness throughout NY and LA in a film called The Bus Stop. In June 2018, Voit fundraised by catering and donating his Bar Mitzvah gifts to several homeless communities.
In the media
In 2018, Voit was listed by Variety in the Hollywood Youth Impact Report.
Filmography
Film
Television
New Media
Commercial
Music videos
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2000s births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male stage actors
Jewish American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Entertainers from the Bronx
Homelessness activists
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Fairness in machine learning refers to the various attempts at correcting algorithmic bias in automated decision processes based on machine learning models. Decisions made by computers after a machine-learning process may be considered unfair if they were based on variables considered sensitive. Examples of these kinds of variable include gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and more. As it is the case with many ethical concepts, definitions of fairness and bias are always controversial. In general, fairness and bias are considered relevant when the decision process impacts people's lives. In machine learning, the problem of algorithmic bias is well known and well studied. Outcomes may be skewed by a range of factors and thus might be considered unfair with respect to certain groups or individuals. An example would be the way social media sites deliver personalized news to consumers.
Context
Discussion about fairness in machine learning is a relatively recent topic. Since 2016 there has been a sharp increase in research into the topic. This increase could be partly accounted to an influential report by ProPublica that claimed that the COMPAS software, widely used in US courts to predict recidivism, was racially biased. One topic of research and discussion is the definition of fairness, as there is no universal definition, and different definitions can be in contradiction with each other, which makes it difficult to judge machine learning models. Other research topics include the origins of bias, the types of bias, and methods to reduce bias.
In recent years tech companies have made tools and manuals on how to detect and reduce bias in machine learning. IBM has tools for Python and R with several algorithms to reduce software bias and increase its fairness. Google has published guidlines and tools to study and combat bias in machine learning. Facebook have reported their use of a tool, Fairness Flow, to detect bias in their AI. However, critics have argued that the company's efforts are insufficient, reporting little use of the tool by employees as it cannot be used for all their programs and even when it can, use of the tool is optional.
Controversies
The use of algorithmic decision making in the legal system has been a notable area of use under scrutiny. In 2014, then U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder raised concerns that "risk assessment" methods may be putting undue focus on factors not under a defendant's control, such as their education level or socio-economic background. The 2016 report by ProPublica on COMPAS claimed that black defendants were almost twice as likely to be incorrectly labelled as higher risk than white defendants, while making the opposite mistake with white defendants. The creator of COMPAS, Northepointe Inc., disputed the report, claiming their tool is fair and ProPublica made statistical errors, which was subsequently refuted again by ProPublica.
Racial and gender bias has also been noted in image reco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Howell%20%28journalist%29 | George Howell is an American journalist. He is the former anchor of CNN International's CNN Newsroom. He also reported for the network's weekday morning television show New Day.
Background
Howell's family moved to Austin when he was a child. After finishing secondary education at Stephen F. Austin High School, he then attended the University of Texas at Austin where he completed a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1999. During this period he was selected as a finalist in a national competition for excellence in journalism by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
Career
In 1999, he started working as a news reporter for KREM-TV2, a CBS affiliate in Spokane, Washington. He later joined KXAN-TV 36, KCTS Television, and the Seattle-based KOMO-TV 4, KIRO-TV 7. He later joined the Atlanta-based WSB-TV 2, an ABC affiliate.
In 2013, Howell was hired by CNN as a news reporter along with Alina Machado, who also came from WSB, and Pamela Brown. He was first assigned as a national correspondent in CNN's Chicago bureau
The New York Association of Black Journalists and the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists have recognized Howell for his work as a journalist. In 2015, he was awarded the Native Star Award by the Greater Austin Black Chamber. Howell also earned several Emmy nominations.
On February 29, 2020, Howell announced he was leaving CNN.
References
American male journalists
CNN people
Moody College of Communication alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneMatcher | GeneMatcher is an online service and database that aims to match clinicians studying patients with a rare disease presentation based on genes of interest. When two or more clinicians submit the same gene to the database, the service matches them together to allow them to compare cases. It also allows matching genes from animal models to human cases. The service aims to establish novel relationships between genes and genetic diseases of unknown cause.
The website was launched in September 2013 by a team from a government-funded collaborative project between Johns Hopkins Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in the United States.
, the site contained 11,855 genes from 7,724 submitters from 88 countries, and 6,609 matches had been made. The service has aided geneticists in making several discoveries, including establishing the genetic causes of a form of autism spectrum disorder, syndromes of microcephaly with hearing loss, a mitochondrial disease, SPONASTRIME dysplasia and Au–Kline syndrome.
History
The website was launched in September 2013 by Nara Sobreira, François Schiettecatte, Ada Hamosh and others. The team are part of a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, United States called the Baylor–Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics (BHCMG), one of three such Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMGs) established and funded by the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2011.
Features
The service allows researchers to submit candidate genes to a database and match based on a shared gene of interest. Researchers, healthcare providers or patients can create an account using their email, name and address. Upon doing this, they can post a gene by gene symbol, Entrez ID or Ensembl gene ID. They can also specify genes by OMIM number or genomic location. If an identical gene has already been posted by another user, the match is made immediately and both users receive an email with the contact details of the other user. Otherwise, the gene remains in the database until another user submits the same gene. The database of genes is not explorable, and no user contact details are accessible until a match has been made. Users may retract their submitted gene or delete their account at any time.
Optionally, users are also able to query the database by genetic disorder or physical symptom. The service also encourages those working with animal models to submit their gene candidates and provides an option to specify the submission by model organism.
Usage
, the site contained 11,855 genes from 7,724 submitters from 88 countries, and 6,609 matches had been made. , roughly 14% of the genes were related to animal models, and the BHCMG itself had submitted at least 180 of the genes and generated 69 matches, 16 of which were also a phenotype match. Three of those phenotype–gene matches, involving SPATA5, HNRNPK and T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20News%20Network | Student News Network (SNN) is an Iranian official news agency known for publishing university and student news. All of SNN's content is free content and Creative Commons licensed.
History
Student News Agency was founded on 2002 by Hadi Ghasemi. Ghasemi is the current CEO of SNN. SNN's name in early years of its activity was "Student News Network"; after receiving its official news agency license from Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, it was renamed to "Student News Agency".
Services
Besides university and students news, SNN also produces and publishes content related to a variety of subjects, including:
Science and Technology
Provinces
Politics
Economics
Culture
Social
Sports
Photo
Multimedia
Graphic and Caricature
Controversial works
Student News Agency has been one of the most active and marginalized media in the field of news and has caused controversial events in each of the governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Doctor Salam
The most marginal product of SNN is the political satire series "Doctor Salam", which deals with the current affairs of the society, criticizes the actions of government officials and has always been criticized by them. Every year, the anniversary of the launch of this product is held by Student News Agency, and thousands of enthusiasts and fans of this comic collection participate in places such as the 7th of Tir Martyrs' Stadium and other places.
The celebration has always been accompanied by various fringes. Among them is Dr. Salam's five-year birthday party, which was scheduled to take place at Azadi Indoor Stadium. However, with several sabotages by the officials of the Ministry of Ershad, the license to hold the program at Azadi Stadium was revoked and it was held at the Imam Ali Stadium of the Islamic Azad University.
So far, more than 180 episodes of this collection of socio-political satire have been produced and presented through the Student News Agency website.
Press Exhibition
Every year, Student News Agency participates in press and news agency exhibitions, and its presence in this exhibition has always been accompanied by various news and margins.
For example, the presence of this news agency in the 2015 Press Exhibition was accompanied by various controversies. In this exhibition, the booth of Student News Agency had become one of the most newsworthy topics. To protest the policies of the exhibition, the agency's officials closed the exhibition by pulling purple ribbons around the booth and refusing to attend the exhibition.
Key people
CEO: Hadi Ghasemi
Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Amin Salimi
See also
List of Iranian news agencies
Media of Iran
References
External links
Student News Agency - Official website
SNN page on Instgram
SNN page on Twitter
SNN channel on Telegram
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Iranian news websites
Mass media in Iran
News agencies based in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Count%20Data%20Book | The Kids Count Data Book is an annual publication of the Annie E. Casey Foundation—at times in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Social Policy—reporting comparative statistics on child welfare in each of the 50 states of the United States of America.
Form and content
Annual editions are prefaced with the year of publication—hence the 2019 edition is commonly titled 2019 Kids Count Data Book. The book's first annual edition was published in 1990.
Separate editions, for each individual state—with detailed information on that state, plus comparisons to national data—are available.
An interactive, online edition is available, as well.
Topics covered, in past annual issues, have included U.S. children's economic status, health, education, family and community, child protection, foster care, juvenile justice and incarceration—with current and historical data, and comparative rankings of states.
Use
The book is widely quoted as a leading reference on the subject of child welfare in the United States. In 1992, it was reportedly featured in about 1,400 of America's 1,600 daily newspapers.
KIDS COUNT Network
In each of the 50 states, AECF originally selected a single local child-issues organization to partially fund with an AECF grant, and to partner with to develop a customized version of the Data Book for each state. However, AECF later modified its plan, treating the grantees as its "KIDS COUNT Network," and began to use them as outlets for its media and influence efforts—including distribution and promotion of the KIDS COUNT Data Book—although AECF accepts that the grantees' individual goals and priorities may differ somewhat from AECF's.
Criticism
Critics have suggested that the KIDS COUNT Data Book and other media efforts by AECF (and copycat efforts by other organizations) may be an attempt to promote government spending on social programs, generally—and particularly for the poor—using public sympathy for "kids" to generate public support for social programs that serve adults as well. Others have suggested that it sometimes paints a picture that is more gloomy than realistic.
References
External links
Interactive Kids Count Data Book
2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, official free PDF download
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Child welfare in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282020%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that will appear in 2020, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 33rd season of Home and Away began airing from 27 January 2020. Gemma Parata was introduced on the same day, followed by her son Nikau Parata. Tane Parata made his debut in February, while Marco Astoni arrived in March. Evan Slater made his first appearance in May, while Amber Simmons was introduced in July. Evan's brother Owen Davidson made his first appearance in August. September marked the arrivals of Taylor Rosetta and Christian Green. Kieran Baldivis and Lewis Hayes arrived in November.
Gemma Parata
Gemma Parata, played by Bree Peters, made her first appearance on 27 January 2020. Peters' casting was confirmed in November 2019, and her character details were revealed in 25–31 January 2020 issue of TV Week. Peters said she had some initial nerves about joining the show, but had felt welcomed by the other cast members. She continued, "Being a new family on a show like Home and Away is great. New people to play and act with comes with a lot of excitement." Gemma is the mother of Nikau Parata (Kawakawa Fox-Reo) and Ari Parata (Rob Kipa-Williams) and Tane Parata's (Ethan Browne) sister-in-law. Peters took inspiration from her friends for Gemma's personality. She described her character as a matriarch, who is surrounded by boys, and said "She's the kind of mum on the sidelines of a rugby game, but also the one who will look after the girls." Peters also said that family means everything to Gemma, and an Inside Soap writer added that while "misfortune" has befallen the Paratas, Gemma dares to dream of a better life. The character made an unannounced departure on 8 July 2020, as she returned to New Zealand to scatter the ashes of her husband Mikaere. The serial's UK broadcaster Channel 5 later confirmed that the episode was Gemma's last, while Peters also confirmed the news on her social media and paid tribute to the producers for introducing Māori characters to the show. Stephanie McKenna of The West Australian thought the New Zealand trip would end badly, writing "it's the happiest Gem has been in a long time and she has a beaming grin. But of course, it wouldn't be Home and Away if nothing bad happened."
After learning that her brother-in-law Ari Parata has been involved in a hostage situation at the Northern Districts Hospital, Gemma makes her way there to see him. Ari later tells Gemma that Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons) has invited them and Gemma's son Nikau to dinner. Nikau is rude to Marilyn when she defends Ari, and Gemma makes him apologise to Marilyn the following day. Nikau blames Ari for their situation, as the family are struggling financially and are living in a motel. Gemma believes that he will come around eventually. Gemma is offered a jo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Media%20Database | Swiss Media Database (SMD) is a Swiss newspaper-article and television-program database accessible at no charge to media professionals. The public can access its contents for a fee.
Organization and contents
The Swiss Media Database, founded in Zurich in May 1966 is a joint venture of publishing houses Ringier of Zofingen, Tamedia of Zurich, and Swiss Radio and Television. Each holds one-third of the shares.
The offerings of the participating publishers are in full text, and reproductions of the original newspaper pages are available. Full texts of most Swiss daily and weekly newspapers, print and online, are archived.
Since June 2019, broadcasts of the German-speaking Swiss television (SRF) and the Swiss television in French (RTS) have been indexed. Swiss Media Database (SMD) contains more than 33 million documents (as of 2019). About two million are added each year.
Since 2002, SMD has been providing paid access to its archives through the website swissdox.ch. The SMD, in cooperation with the Association of Swiss Professional Journalists, has also offered access for free lance journalists.
Deletion of articles
The deletion of articles in the database is sometimes ordered by courts or by publishers on their own. These deletions have led to controversial discussions — for example on the coverage of Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin, a politician in the canton of Zug who quit the Alternative Green Party a year after a scandal in which she claimed to have been sexually abused by a fellow member of the cantonal parliament.
References
External links
Schweizer Mediendatenbank
swissdox.ch
Online archives
Mass media companies established in 1966
Internet properties established in 2002
Archives in Switzerland
Companies based in Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20van%20der%20Hoek | André van der Hoek is a Dutch and American professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and department chair of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS).
Education
Van der Hoek grew up in the Netherlands and graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam with BS and MS degrees in Business-Oriented Computer Science in 1994. He continued his studies as a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder in computer science where he researched mainly technical aspects of configuration management. Van der Hoek completed his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2000. His thesis was titled A reusable, distributed repository for configuration management policy programming, and was directed by Alexander L. Wolf.
Career and research
In 2000, van der Hoek moved to the University of California, Irvine where his research interest shifted to understanding the role of design in software engineering. He also leads the Software Design and Collaboration Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where his research group focuses (amongst others) on how software design can be supported in meetings over time. His approach to research is deeply linked to actual tool creation, rather than focusing purely on theoretical perspectives of a matter.
With Marian Petre, he is coauthor of the 2016 book Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways How Experts Think (MIT Press).
References
External links
University of California, Irvine faculty
Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Living people
Dutch emigrants to the United States
Dutch computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century Dutch scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorin%20Co%C8%9Bofan%C4%83 | Sorin Coțofană is a Quantum & Computer engineering Professor at Delft University of Technology. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2017 for contributions to nanocomputing architectures and paradigms.
Education and career
Coțofană earned his M.Sc. degree in computer science from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania in 1984. He then moved to the Netherlands where he studied electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1998. Currently he serves on the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands.
From 2009 to 2011, Coțofană served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and from 2008 to 2014 held the same position at the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. Between those appointments, he also was a chair of the Giga-Nano IEEE CASS Technical Committee from 2013 to 2015 and the IEEE Nano Council CASS representative from 2013 to 2014. From 2016 to 2017, he was a member of the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems and from 2014 to 2018 served on the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems.
References
External links
20th-century births
Living people
Romanian computer scientists
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Operations%20Command | Space Operations Command (SpOC) is the United States Space Force's space operations, cyber operations, and intelligence field command. It is headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado and serves as the U.S. Space Force's service component to United States Space Command. Space Operations Command consists of Space Operations Command West, its mission deltas, and garrison commands.
Space Operations Command was established on 1 September 1982 as Space Command (SPACECOM), which was the first dedicated space command in the United States Armed Forces. On 15 November 1985, Space Command was renamed Air Force Space Command (AFSPC or AFSPACECOM) to distinguish it from U.S. Space Command, Naval Space Command, and Army Space Command. On 20 December 2019, following the establishment of the United States Space Force as an independent service, Air Force Space Command was also redesignated as United States Space Force (USSF) and served as the transitional headquarters of the new service, but remained a component of the U.S. Air Force. On 21 October 2020, United States Space Force was redesignated as Space Operations Command and officially transitioned from a U.S. Air Force major command to a U.S. Space Force field command.
History
Establishing Space Command
The Air Force's space program began in 1954 with the establishment of the Western Development Division under Brigadier General Bernard Schriever. However, its space operations were fragmented across several different Air Force major commands. Aerospace Defense Command was responsible for space surveillance and missile warning, Strategic Air Command operated weather satellites, and Air Force Systems Command, primarily responsible for research and development, also had operational responsibilities for operating communication satellites and space launch.
As Air Force space programs began to mature in the 1970s and early 1980s, their disjointed nature presented operational issues. The impending deployment of the Space Shuttle in partnership with NASA prompted major internal competition between the Air Force's major commands for internal control and to transform itself into an operational major command. Air Force Systems Command's Space and Missile Systems Organization had responsibility for military development of the shuttle, but it also sought operational responsibility as it was responsible for space launches. Aerospace Defense Command argued that its responsibility for the space surveillance system gave it the requisite experience required for shuttle operations. Traditional air defense had also lost its importance, and Aerospace Defense Command saw space operations as a means to preserve its existence. Strategic Air Command and Military Airlift Command, which served as the Air Force's lead on transportation, also argued they should have responsibility. In 1980, Aerospace Defense Command was inactivated as an Air Force major command (although preserved as a specified command within NORAD), wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20data%20portal | An open data portal is any online platform which supports users in accessing collections of open data. Typical open data portals present the data of the organization which hosts the portal.
Government organizations sometimes host open data portals as a way of meeting their regional freedom of information legal requirements. Another common use case is open data portals for sharing data in some field of research for the benefit of other researchers.
Characteristics
The simplest open data portal is list of datasets with instructions for how anyone can access and use that data.
Characteristics of good open data portals include the use of open standards, access to data without human intervention, and analytics about what data people use.
Open data portals contain information of interest to citizens, business owners, nonprofit administrators, researchers, and journalists.
Uses
Government
A 2012 paper reported that government organizations which set up open data portals often find it challenging to predict what sorts of users will want the data and how they will use it.
In the European Union there is a central open data portal which connects anyone to the regional and subject specific data portals for various matters of government.
In the United States all the states and many cities offer open data portals.
A report on the open data portal emphasized the need to develop the culture of appreciation of open data.
A review of open data portals in Australia found variation in what the portals offered and how they operated.
Science
There is a cancer genomics open data portal.
There is a portal for systems chemistry biology.
See also
UK Power Networks Open Data Portal
References
External links
Open government
Archive networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Chan%20Wolf | Helen Chan Wolf is an artificial intelligence pioneer who worked on facial recognition technology and Shakey the robot, the world's first autonomous robot, at SRI International.
Career
In the early 1960s, Wolf worked with Charles Bisson and Woody Bledsoe at Panoramic Research to train computers in recognising human faces (so-called automated facial recognition). Early computer programs used humans to coordinate a set of features from images of faces and then a computer for the recognition. These features included things such as the positions the inside and outside corners of eyes and mouth. Operators such as these could process around forty pictures an hour.
Wolf joined the Artificial Intelligence group at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) in 1966. At the SRI Chan was part of the Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance project. Here she worked on Shakey the robot, the world's first mobile autonomous robot, which was honoured by an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Milestone in 2017. Shakey used artificial intelligence, making its own plans, navigating between places and improving through learning. Wolf developed the algorithms that extracted coordinates from images. Before Shakey, there were no efforts to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics into a single moving vehicle.
Selected publications
Her publications include:
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American roboticists
Women roboticists
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Adult%20Contemporary%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, "Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers returned to the top spot, displacing another of the group's songs, "Like It's Christmas", which was the final chart-topper of 2019. "Sucker" had spent 11 weeks atop the chart in the fall of 2019 and added a further six weeks to its total in 2020 before being displaced by "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi. The Scottish singer's track spent five weeks in the top spot to add to the single week it spent at number one in the previous year.
In late March, pop-rock band Maroon 5's song "Memories" reached number one, a position which it went on to hold for 20 weeks before it was replaced by "Circles" by rapper Post Malone in early August. In the issue of Billboard dated August 22, British singer Harry Styles gained his first AC number one with "Adore You", and two weeks later Maren Morris topped the chart for the first time in her own right with "The Bones"; she had previously reached number one as a featured vocalist on "The Middle" in collaboration with Zedd and Grey. In the issue of Billboard dated November 7, Canadian singer The Weeknd achieved his first Adult Contemporary number one with "Blinding Lights", which remained atop the chart for five consecutive weeks. The final AC number one of the year was a new version of the 1940s Christmas song "White Christmas" by Meghan Trainor featuring Seth MacFarlane; it was the first chart-topper for actor/singer MacFarlane. The song continued a trend of Christmas-themed tracks topping the AC chart in December, reflecting the fact that adult contemporary radio stations usually switch to playing exclusively festive songs in the period leading up to the holiday.
Chart history
See also
2020 in American music
References
2020
Number-one adult contemporary singles
United States Adult Contemporary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%20the%202020s | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, airplay, and, since 2012, streaming.
A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public every Tuesday in Billboard magazine and on its website. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the Saturday four days later.
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" began the 2020s in the number-one position on the Hot 100, and made her the first artist to rank at number one on charts from four different decades. The song was in its third week at number one on January 4, 2020, reaching the top for the first time on December 21, 2019. The following week, on January 11, 2020, Post Malone's "Circles" returned to the number-one spot, another carry-over from the 2010s; it originally reached number one on November 30, 2019.
Number-one singles
Key
* – The current number one
– Number-one single of the year
Note: The best-performing single on the Billboard Hot 100 of 2021 was Dua Lipa's "Levitating", which peaked at number two, and thus is excluded here.
Note
Across four separate holiday season runs (2019–2022), "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has accumulated 12 total weeks at number one. It is also the first song in the history of the Hot 100 to reach number one in at least three separate chart runs.
Statistics
Artists by total number-one singles
The following artists achieved two or more number-one singles during the 2020s. A number of artists had number-one singles on their own as well as part of a collaboration. An asterisk (*) denotes that an artist is currently at number one.
Artists by total cumulative weeks at number one
The following artists were featured at the top of the Hot 100 for the highest cumulative number of weeks during the 2020s. Some totals include in part or in whole weeks spent at number one as part of a collaboration. An asterisk (*) denotes that an artist is currently at number one.
Songs by total number of weeks at number one
The following songs were featured at the top of the Hot 100 for the highest number of weeks during the 2020s. An asterisk (*) denotes that a song is currently at number one.
See also
List of Billboard number-one singles
2020s in music
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2020s
References
2020s
United States Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Digital%20Song%20Sales%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The list of number-one digital songs of 2020 in the United States is based upon the highest-selling downloaded songs ranked in the Digital Song Sales chart published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2020 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2020
List of number-one Billboard Streaming Songs of 2020
References
External links
Current Digital Song Sales chart
United States Digital Songs
2020
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Exposure%20%28Shadowrun%29 | Double Exposure is an adventure published by FASA in 1994 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Description
Double Exposure is a 64-page softcover book designed by Fraser Cane and Nigel Findley, with illustrations by Tom Baxa, Steve Bryant, Paul Daly, and Mike Jackson. It contains a Shadowrun adventure set in Seattle in which the players' characters are hired to investigate the relationship between a megacorporation and a charity.
Reception
In the November 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #211), Rick Swan calls this adventure "a tight little chiller worthy of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu game." Swan noted the many "stomach-churning" scenes, saying "the cartoonish excesses [...] make this one of the most outrageous scenarios in Shadowrun history." Although he liked the many "evocative touches", Swan thought that "the designers were better at dreaming up ideas than developing them. Too often, for example, the story is driven by coincidence." Swan also disagreed with the finale, which encourages the party to flee rather than fight. He concluded by giving the adventure an average rating of 4 out of 6, saying, "Flaws aside, Double Exposure remains [an] accessible, fast-paced adventure, and a great way to spend a weekend."
In the next edition of Dragon (Issue #212, December 1994), Allen Varney also reviewed Double Exposure, and called it "suspenseful." He commented that "Some scenes don’t make a lot of sense, but they sure are creepy!", and concluded that Double Exposure was "an inventive and off-beat Shadowrun adventure in its own right."
Reviews
Rollespilsmagasinet Fønix (Danish) (Issue 5 - November/December 1994)
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamchipper | Dreamchipper is an adventure published by FASA in 1989 for the cyberpunk near-future role-playing game Shadowrun.
Publication history
Dreamchipper is an 80-page book written by James D. Long, with a cover by Dave Dorman, and published by FASA in 1989.
Plot summary
Several prototype military grade personality chips programmed with the recorded personalities of Jack the Ripper, Cleopatra, and Genghis Khan have been stolen. The shadowrunners (the player characters) are hired to retrieve the chips.
Reception
In the April 1990 edition of Dragon (Issue #156), Ken Rolston called this "good, gritty cyberpunk, well organized and entertaining, with a solid action-adventure story line." Rolston complimented the adventure for being broken into short and manageable episodes, and also for allowing enough leeway to allow for the players' "characterization and divergent problem solving." Rolston concluded with a thumbs up, saying, "The Shadowrun game is one of the hottest role-playing settings at present, and this is a good example of how that setting can translate into dramatic action-adventure role-playing."
Stephan Wieck reviewed Dreamchipper for White Wolf #20, rating it 4 out of 5 overall, and stated that "I found Dreamchipper to be a very good adventure. plot centers around cyberpunk technology and involves some of the psychological strangeness prevalent in cyberpunk literature."
In the May 1990 edition of Games International, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood admired the production quality of the book, which he called "up to the usual excellent standard." He also liked the "street atmosphere" of the scenario, and complimented it because "the annoying fantasy element doesn't intrude." Brimmicombe-Wood concluded by giving this adventure an average rating of 7 out of 10, saying, "Dreamchipper runs at a slower pace than its predecessor Mercurial, but there's much more scope for character interaction and there are enough lead-ons to make it an excellent kick-off for any campaign."
Other reviews
Games Review (Volume 2, Issue 5 - Feb 1990)
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20Binky%3A%20Pets%20of%20the%20Universe | Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe is a computer-animated television series by Nelvana. Based on the Kids Can Press graphic novel series by Ashley Spires, the series premiered on Treehouse TV in Canada on September 7, 2019.
The series follows the adventures of Binky, a space cat who is on a mission to protect his human family (Big Human and Small Human) from any interstellar threats, with assistance from four pets in the P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) agency.
Characters
Binky (voiced by Jesse Camacho) is a black and white cat and the leader of the P.U.R.S.T. agents. He has a purple toy mouse named "Ted" and has a purple sweater called "Fuzzy Wuzzy".
Gordon (voiced by Paul Braunstein in Season 1 and David Menkin in Season 2-3) is a dog who lives with Binky and his family. He likes inventing things.
Captain Gracie (voiced by Aurora Browne) is a brown-greyish cat who lives next door to her teammates.
Nola (voiced by Melody Johnson) is a turtle who loves seashells.
Loo (voiced by Boyd Banks) is a goldfish who is quite a bit grumpy.
Sergeant Fluffy Vandermere (voiced by Dan Chameroy) is a Persian cat who is the boss and leader of P.U.R.S.T.
Big Human (voiced by Katie Griffin) is the mother of Small Human.
Small Human (voiced by Tyler James Nathan in Season 1, and Jacob Soley in Season 2) is the son of Big Human.
Chirpy McChirp is an evil villainous budgie who was rescued by Small Human in "Who's the WURST" and is shown unable making/getting it into integrating the ranks of the protectors and traps the team outside the station in order to take possession of all of Gordon's gadgets.
Amelia (voiced by Julie Lemieux) is a bat who first appeared in The Room of Many Boxes.
Mini Human (voiced by Isabella Leo) is the daughter of Tall Human.
Tall Human (voiced by Jonathan Tan) is the father of Mini Human.
Darrell (voiced by Zachary Bennett) is a hamster who is Fluffy's son.
New Backup Human is the agents' babysitter who substituted for Backup Human in "Adventures in Pet-Sitting".
Gobble (voiced by Richard Binsley) is a robot Gordon invented in "Gobble's Gotta Go".
Additional voices - Taylor Abrahamse, David Berni, Neil Crone, Stacey DePass, Dwayne Hill, Rebecca Husain, Nissae Isen, Tajja Isen, Bryn McAuley, Scott McCord, Terry McGurrin (also a story supervisor), Annick Obonsawin, Grant Palmer, Dan Petronijevic, Cara Pifko, Jacqueline Pillon, Joe Pingue, Erin Pitt, Andrew Sabiston, Robert Tinkler, Breanna Yde and Drew Adkins.
Production
On September 19, 2018, it was announced that Nelvana would adapt the Kids Can Press graphic novel series "Binky the Space Cat" by Ashley Spires into an animated television series titled "P.U.R.S.T. Agent Binky". Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe was picked up for 52 11-minute episodes (often broadcast as 26 22-minutes) and was set to be released in 2019. The following February, it was revealed that the series was retitled to Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe, making it one of the first produc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundra%2C%20Budaun | Kundra is a village in Dataganj block, Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its village code is 128297. Budaun railway station is 32 KM away from the village. According to 2011 Census of India population of the village is 2,054, in which 1,126 are males and 928 are females.
Notable persons born in Kundra:
Shri Rajpal Yadav, the renowned actor of India was born here.
References
Villages in Budaun district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasra | A Sahasra (Sanskrit: सहस्र) is a Vedic measure of Count data, which was chiefly used in ancient as well as medieval India. A Sahasra means 1k, i.e. 1000 count data
See also
Hindu cosmology
History of measurement systems in India
Hindu units of time
Palya
Rajju
Sayana
List of numbers in Hindu scriptures
References
Customary units in India
Hindu astronomy
Obsolete units of measurement
Units of length |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablo | Ablo was a social networking service for instant communications. It enabled users to communicate with people from anywhere in the world by having live one-to-one text and video conversations, using an automated translation feature.
Ablo was owned by Massive Media, a Belgium-based company founded in 2011. Massive Media was acquired by Meetic, a subsidiary of Match Group, in 2012. Ablo was discontinued on 30 September 2022.
History
The app was launched in January 2019 simultaneously on Android, iOS and web. It was available in more than 180 markets, and was especially popular with people aged 18–26 years old.
In December 2019, it announced 6.5 million downloads globally and was selected as the Best App of 2019 by Google in the Google Play Store. Ablo was selected as one of the best Android apps of 2019 by CNET, alongside TikTok, Google Maps and Disney Plus. Ablo was discontinued on 30 September 2022.
Features
Ablo's main feature was the ability to connect live with another person from anywhere in the world using automatically translated text and subtitled video calling.
References
External links
Defunct social networking services
Social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka%20Subway | Dhaka Subway is an underground urban rail network being planned in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, by the Bangladesh Bridge Authority. Dhaka Subway was conceived as a separate transport system to the proposed Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit network, commonly known as Dhaka Metro Rail.
History
In August 2018, the BBA appointed a Spanish consulting company to conduct the feasibility study and preliminary design of Dhaka Subway. Initial plan was to construct a subway network of 90km, consisting of four lines, with stations spaced at an average distance of approximately one kilometer. After some feasibility studies, the project was expanded to cover the entire Dhaka with a total length of 238 kilometers. The new routes are yet to be finalized.
A number of geotechnical and geophysical surveys and investigations are to be carried out at a total of 250 locations, with boreholes being drilled at 180 of these. Boreholes are to be drilled at proposed station locations, with seismic CPTu tests to be carried out at intermediate locations between stations. Traffic and transportation surveys, including household interviews, traffic counts, roadside origin/destination surveys, travel time and delay studies, and public transport surveys are also being carried out.
A plan reported in March 2021 said the project is proceeding and will have 11 lines with a total length of . The first subway expected to be built is a route long between Tongi and Jhilmil at a cost of $8 billion. Three more routes are likely to be built by 2030, with the entire network completed by 2041. Questions were raised about the suitability of the subway due to monsoonal flooding and the lack of urban planning.
Routes
Under Construction/planned
See also
List of megaprojects in Bangladesh
Dhaka Metro Rail
References
External links
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA)
Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA)
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd. (DMTCL)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Bangladesh Railway
Public transport in Bangladesh
Rail transport in Dhaka
Proposed public transport in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffer%20%28research%20study%29 | Puffer is a free and open-source live TV research study operated by Stanford University to improve video streaming algorithms. The study allows users across the United States to watch seven over-the-air television stations broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area media market for free.
History
Puffer was launched on October 6, 2017. It was initially led by Francis Yan, a Stanford computer science doctoral student, with Hudson Ayers and Sadjad Fouladi from Stanford, and Chenzhi Zhu from Tsinghua University. The project's facility advisors are professors Keith Winstein and Philip Levis. The research study uses machine learning to improve video-streaming algorithms, such as those commonly used by services like YouTube, Netflix, and Twitch. The goal is to teach a computer to design new algorithms that reduce glitches and stalls in streaming video (especially over wireless networks and those with limited capacities, such as in rural areas), improve picture quality, and predict how the capacity of an Internet connection will change over time.
The service is limited. Only those in the U.S. can sign up, and only up to 500 users can watch Puffer at a time. In addition, the service only re-transmits free over-the-air television channels in the San Francisco Bay Area media market, specifically the following ones picked up by an antenna located on the Stanford campus: KTVU 2 (Fox), KPIX 5 (CBS), KGO 7 (ABC), KQED 9 (PBS), KNTV 11 (NBC), KQED+ 54 (PBS) (July 21, 2023 – August 1, 2023), KPYX 44 (Independent) (returned August 4, 2023), and KDTV 14 (Univision).
Supported apps & devices
Browsers
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Opera
Dolphin
Devices
Mac/Windows/Linux computers
Android phones and tablets
Android TV devices using Dolphin Browser
References
External links
Streaming television in the United States
Internet television streaming services
Internet properties established in 2019
2019 establishments in California
Mass media in the San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford University |
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