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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Computer%20Federation | The China Computer Federation (CCF) is a professional body and learned society in the field of computer science in China. It was created under the name "Computer Professional Committee of China Electronics Society" () in June 1962. As of 2019, it has 36 specialized committees, 12 working committees and 32 local member activity centers.
History
The China Computer Federation was established in 1962 in China for the purpose of providing services for the academic and professional development of professionals in the field of computer science, promoting the application of academic progress and technological achievements, conducting academic evaluation and leading the academic direction, promoting the exchange and interaction of technology and industrial applications, and recognizing and commending individuals, enterprises and units with outstanding achievements in academic and technological fields. It was forced to close between 1966 and 1979 during the ten-year Cultural Revolution. In January 1979 it was renamed "Computer Society of Chinese Society of Electronics" (). In March 1985 its name was changed to "China Computer Federation".
Scientific publishing
Communication of China Computer Society
References
External links
Computer science institutes in China
Scientific organizations established in 1962
Organizations based in Beijing
1962 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACES%20Coders | ACES Coders is an algorithmic programming competition in Sri Lanka organized by the Association of Computer Engineering Students (ACES) of the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. ACES Coders commenced in 2011, as a training event for computer engineering students to improve their efficiency and accuracy to participate in similar online competitions such as IEEEXtreme and ACM ICPC. With the increase in popularity it is now organized on an annual basis and today it is one of the largest coding competitions that attracts participants from the universities and higher education institutions all over the country. The event usually lasts for 12 hours where the contestants are given a set of problems to solve using programming and problem-solving skills.
Past winners
Awards
ACES coders award cash prizes along with certificates to the winning teams. The cash prizes have grown in size with years and the 2019 event came with a 150,000 LKR total split between the top 3 teams. It is predicted that the 2020 event will award cash in excess of 200,000 LKR.
References
Programming contests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng%20Weimin | Zheng Weimin (; born March 1946) is a Chinese engineer specializing in computer architecture. He is a professor at Tsinghua University and formerly served as its director of High Performance Computing Institute between 2000 and 2008.
Biography
Zheng was born in the town of in Ningbo, Zhejiang, in March 1946, during the Republic of China. He attended Qianhu Middle School (now Dongqianhu Tourism Middle School). He secondary studied at Hengxi High School (now Zhengshi High School). In 1965 he was accepted to Tsinghua University, where he graduated in 1970. After university, he taught there. He was a researcher at Stony Brook University from 1985 to 1986 and then University of Southampton from 1989 to 1991. He once served as president of China Computer Federation (CCF).
Honours and awards
2002 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
2007 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2009 Science and Technology Progress Award by Ministry of Education (First Class)
December 2015 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
2016 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
References
External links
Zheng Weimin on Tsinghua University
1946 births
Living people
Educators from Ningbo
Engineers from Zhejiang
Tsinghua University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RxAll | RxAll Inc. is a health information technology/big data startup company. The company works with drug regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to reduce fake medicines and make sure that patients receive high quality verified drugs, and help pharma manufacturers gain more sales, and patients have better access to high quality drugs.
Founding history
RxAll Inc. was established on January 1, 2016 by Adebayo Alonge, Amy Kao and Wei Liu. They were graduate students of Yale University - Yale School of Management at the time. It is seen as an important weapon against illegal pharmaceutical outfits in Kenya. Alonge was nearly killed by fake salbutamol tablets in Nigeria in 2005.
Early challenges
Like many start-ups, RxAll Inc. came up against early challenges when it almost ran out of cash in the first quarter of 2017, the founding team persisted to raise funds in parallel to operating the business. Co-founders Adebayo Alonge and Amy Kao managed to raise about $1 million in grants and bootstrapped funds from the Nigerian government, the Yale start-up ecosystem, Merck, Villgro and other support networks.
Products
The company's products are:
RxScanner
RxScanner is an handheld drug authenticator device created for patients to verify their drugs and help drug regulators to reduce administrative burden, improve record keeping and also improved productivity and successful prosecution of bad actors. The device is in use by country FDAs, Hospitals, Pharmacies and Big Pharma across the world.
RxAll POS
RxAll POS is a Point of sale software created for Pharmacies in growth market that enables complete automation of the pharmacy management system.
RxAll Delivered
RxAll Delivered is a drug delivery platform that enable pharmacies and patients order verified drugs online for offline delivery at wholesale prices.
The company gained market entry into East Africa (Kenya and Uganda), West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana), Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Malaysia and Singapore), and the Americas (Canada, United States and Colombia).
Award
RxAll Inc. won the 2019 BNP Paribas group deep tech award otherwise known as Hello Tomorrow, a competition crafted for tech innovators and entrepreneurs, worth €100,000.
Also, the company was the recipient of 2018 CIO Review Most Promising PharmaTech Vendor Award and 2018 Katapult FutureFest's Glstart-up award in Oslo, Norway.
External links
RxAll Inc. Website
References
Privately held companies based in Connecticut
2016 establishments in Connecticut
Medical technology companies of the United States
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Biotechnology companies established in 2016
Software companies of the United States
Software companies based in Connecticut
Multinational companies headquartered in the United States
American companies established in 2016
Software companies established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Junliang | Chen Junliang (; born 10 October 1933) is a Chinese scientist specializing in switching technology and telecommunications network. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He is one of the founders of China's SPC switching system and pioneer of China's intelligent network (IN).
Biography
Chen was born in Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, on October 10, 1933, during the Republic of China. His father was a small merchant. When the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, his family moved to Shanghai. He elementary studied at a missionary school. In September 1951 he was accepted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majoring in the Telecommunication Department, where he graduated in July 1955. He worked briefly at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. After a year of studying at Beijing Russian Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University), he entered the Moscow Institute of Telecommunication Engineering, where he graduated in June 1961. He returned to China in 1961 and joined the faculty of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles between December 1978 and February 1981. He is one of the first 50 Chinese scholars to visit the United States after the Chinese economic reform. He was president of China Institute of Communications (CIC).
He was a delegate to the 8th and 9th National People's Congress. He was a member of the 10th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Contributions
At the beginning of 1967, he took part in the research and development of Dong Fang Hong I space satellite, heading the wireless data transportation system, which won him the National Science Congress Award in 1978. In the 1980s, he participated in the development of DS-2000 SPC digital switching system in the 6th Five-year Plan and the DS-30 SPC digital switching system in the 7th Five-year Plan. In the 1990s, he was engaged in the network intelligence research and developed China's first IN system.
Honours and awards
1978 National Science Congress Award
1988 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
November 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
November 1994 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
1999 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class)
2004 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2009 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Computer Federation (CCF)
References
1957 births
Living people
Educators from Ningbo
Engineers from Zhejiang
Scientists from Ningbo
Nanyang Model High School alumni
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Academic staff of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS%20Cyberpunk%20Adventures | GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures is a trio of near-future cyberpunk role-playing adventures published by Steve Jackson Games in 1992 for the third edition of GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System).
Contents
This book contains three role-playing adventures using the third edition GURPS rules. All three adventures evoke the cyberpunk genre:
"The Medusa Sanction": The characters are hired to recover a package, and soon find themselves involved in industrial espionage and biological warfare.
"Jericho Blackout": Acting as mercenaries, the characters confront a gang of cybernetic street gangs in Montana.
"Jigsaw Incomplete": The characters must deal with reality-altering technology that is not working in the way it was intended.
Publication history
GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures is a 128-page softcover book written by Loyd Blankenship, Tim Keating, Jak Koke, and David L. Pulver, with artwork by Carl Anderson, Michael Barrett, Guy Burchack, Dan Carroll, C. Bradford Gorby, Rick Harris, Darrell Midgette, Paul Mounts, Rob Prior, Dan Smith, Jeffrey K. Starling, Ruth Thompson, and Gary Washington. It was published by Steve Jackson Games in 1992.
Reception
In the December 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue #200), Rick Swan called the book "three solidly plotted scenarios drenched in high-tech grunge." While Swan thought that "All three boast smart premises and breakneck pacing", he criticized the authors for too many instances of deus ex machina, saying, "the designers struggle with methods for feeding information to the PCs, relying on such hokey devices as a fortuitous computer printout (some 700 words long) and a tape-recorded confession." He also was not impressed with the artwork, commenting that "The pedestrian illustrations and dull maps pale before those of, say, FASA's Shadowrun game supplements." Swan concluded with a swipe at the book's Origin Award, saying, "One of 1992's best? No question. The best? Nahh..."
Awards
At the 1993 Origins Awards, GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures won Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1992.
Other reviews
The Scroll #10 (Sept 1992, "Creative Justive - Game Reviews"
The Last Province #2 (Dec 1992, "Pandora's Box")
References
Cyberpunk Adventures
Origins Award winners
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1992
Science fiction role-playing game adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolunay%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dolunay (International title: Full Moon) is a Turkish drama series broadcast on Star TV. It premiered on the network from July 4 to December 31, 2017.
Cast
Lead cast
Özge Gürel as Nazmiye "Nazlı" Ferit Aslan. A young culinary student who aspires to own her own restaurant. She is often stressed due to being responsible for her younger troublemaker sister, Asuman. Ferit's wife
Can Yaman as Ferit Aslan. A wealthy, handsome businessman in the public eye. He has a deep distrust of people (women in particular) and cannot forgive them due to catching his mother cheating as a child. Nazli's husband
Supporting cast
Hakan Kurtaş as Deniz Kaya. Demet and Demir's Brother, Zeynep and (by extension) Ferit's brother-in-law and close friend. Unlike Ferit, he lives a carefree and unstructured life as a musician. He falls in love with Nazli upon meeting her, and his jealousy of Ferit begins to drive a wedge between them. He is very emotional and reckless.
Necip Memili as Hakan Önder. Demet's husband, who has a personal vendetta against Ferit. He wishes to adopt Bulut in order to obtain shares in Pusula holding (Aslan and Kaya family's company). He is involved in illegal trafficking and is later abusive towards his wife.
Öznur Serçeler as Fatoş Yalçın. Nazli's best friend and roommate. An aspiring but unemployed fashion designer, Fatoş pretends to be wealthy to ingratiate herself with Engin.
Türkü Turan as Alya. Deniz's ex-girlfriend, who is a singer. She is still in love with Deniz and tries to win him back, but is constantly saddened to see his affection for Nazli. She tries to make him see that Nazli is in love with Ferit and comforts him during his heartbreak.
İlayda Akdoğan as Asuman Pınar. Nazli's younger mischievous sister. She is a tourism student but often skips class to hang out with her friends. Aspiring to live like the rich, she accumulates debts and even resorts to shoplifting. Demet takes advantage of her need for money to sabotage Ferit.
Berk Yaygın as Tarık. Ferit's assistant and driver. He and Fatoş bond over their mutual love for food, and he eventually falls in love with her.
Balamir Emren as Engin. Ferit's best friend and business partner. He often is the one to point out things that Ferit refuses to admit to himself, such as his feelings for Nazli.
Alara Bozbey as Demet Kaya Önder. Demir and Deniz's sister, Ferit's sister-in-law (by extension) and former fiancée. She is estranged from her family because she married Hakan against their wishes and has not spoken to any of them for years. She wishes to adopt Bulut because he is the only thing she has left of her brother, but her husband uses this to his monetary advantage by gaining control of the business.
Alihan Türkdemir as Bulut Kaya, Demir and Zeynep's son. Ferit's nephew, whom he tries to adopt. He is very fond of Nazli and often tries to set her up with his uncle.
Yeşim Gül Aksar as Leman Aslan. Ferit's mother who is estranged from him because she had an affair when he was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Open%20Services%20Architecture | Windows Open Services Architecture (WOSA) is a set of proprietary Microsoft technologies intended to "...provide a single, open-ended interface to enterprise computing environments.". WOSA was announced by Microsoft in 1992. WOSA was pitched as a set of programming interfaces designed to provide application interoperability across the Windows environment.
The set of technologies that were part of he WOSA initiative include:
LSAPI (Software Licensing API)
MAPI (Mail Application Programming Interface)
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
OLE for Process Control
SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface)
TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface)
Windows SNA (IBM SNA Networks)
WOSA/XFS (WOSA for Financial Services)
WOSA/XRT (WOSA for Real-time Market Data)
See also
Component Object Model
Object Linking and Embedding
References
External links
Inter-process communication
Windows communication and services
Architectural pattern (computer science)
Enterprise application integration
Service-oriented (business computing)
Web services
Component-based software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20E-roads%20in%20Russia | This is a list of European routes, or E-roads, that run through Russia. The current network is signposted according to the 1992 system revision, and contains 21 class A routes and four class B routes within the country. Most routes also carry the federal M, R, and A motorway designations, but a few also carry regional road designations.
Class-A European routes
Class-B European routes
References
See also
Russia
European |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%207%20%28Punta%20del%20Este%2C%20Uruguay%29 | Channel 7 is a local television station in Punta del Este, Uruguay, owned by Grupo Clarín. The station primarily rebroadcasts programs from co-owned Argentine network El Trece and from domestic broadcaster Canal 10, as well as local programming.
History
The station began broadcasting on January 18, 1968. It was known as "Canal 9 del Este" and broadcast on channel 9. On July 7, 1991, after 23 years, the station moved to channel 7 in a swap with TeleRocha, which moved to channel 9. The station for years after the swap was known as "Canal 7 Cerro Pan de Azúcar", referring to its transmitter site and high-power facility.
References
Television stations in Uruguay
Television channels and stations established in 1968
1968 establishments in Uruguay
Punta del Este |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20start%20%28computing%29 | Cold start in computing refers to a problem where a system or its part was created or restarted and is not working at its normal operation. The problem can be related to initialising internal objects or populating cache or starting up subsystems.
In a typical web service system the problem occurs after restarting the server, and also when clearing the cache (e.g., after releasing new version). The first requests to the web service will cause significantly more load due to the server cache being populated, the browser cache being cleared, and new resources being requested. Other services like a caching proxy or web accelerator will also need time to gather new resources and operate normally.
Similar problem occurs when creating instances in a hosted environment and instances in cloud computing services.
Cold start (or cold boot) may also refer to a booting process of a single computer (or virtual machine). In this case services and other startup applications are executed after reboot. The system is typically made available to the user even though startup operations are still performed and slow down other operations.
Another type of problem is when the data model of a particular system requires connections between objects. In that case new objects will not operate normally until those connections are made. This is well known problem with recommender systems.
In some machine learning scenarios, with models where the training dataset is incrementally added to in time (e.g. in active learning), cold start refers to training the model on the so far obtained labeled pool with new data added de novo, instead of training the model on new data with all its knowledge from previous trainings (warm start). Unlike the previous mentioned instances, cold starting in these scenarios can yield better results of the model.
See also
Cold start (recommender systems)
References
Information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Country%20%28radio%20network%29 | Pure Country is a Canadian radio network, that airs on stations owned by Bell Media. Launched in 2019 as a unifying branding for all of the company's country-formatted stations across Canada, the network broadcasts on 16 stations nationwide, as well as on selected digital subchannels of radio stations in markets where the company offers digital radio service but does not have a country-formatted primary station.
Programming
Weekday programming on the network consists of local hosts at each station in morning and afternoon drive, a national midday program hosted by Roo Phelps, and the syndicated The Bobby Bones Show in the evening except on CIMX-FM in Windsor, which clears the program in its standard morning timeslot due to Windsor's proximity to the Detroit market in the United States. Sophie Moroz and Jeff Hopper, the morning hosts on the network's Ottawa station, also host a national country music chart show on weekends.
In January 2020, the network's station in Kingston committed to playing a 50/50 balance of male and female country artists for one week, to draw attention to continued gender inequity in the music business.
Stations
British Columbia
Dawson Creek - CJDC
Terrace/Prince Rupert - CJFW-FM
Vernon/Kelowna - CICF-FM
Manitoba
Brandon - CKXA-FM
New Brunswick
Fredericton - CKHJ
Woodstock - CJCJ-FM
Nova Scotia
Truro - CKTY-FM
Ontario
Kingston - CKLC-FM
London - CJBX-FM
Orillia/Barrie - CICX-FM
Ottawa - CKKL-FM
Pembroke - CHVR-FM
Peterborough - CKQM-FM
Sudbury - CICS-FM
Toronto - CKFM-FM HD4
Windsor - CIMX-FM
Saskatchewan
Regina - CHBD-FM
References
Canadian radio networks
Bell Media
2019 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Farmer%20Wilder | Frances Farmer Wilder was an American radio executive who was probably best known for her work with daytime programming on CBS.
Early years
The daughter of Harry W. Farmer, Wilder was born in California. She was a graduate of San Bernardino High School and a 1921 graduate of the University of California. She also studied sociology at Columbia University and took courses at the University of Chicago. She learned Chinese and French while living in the Orient with her husband for seven years.
Career
Before she worked in broadcasting, Wilder was society editor of the San Bernardino Evening Index. She later organized a courier service to help visitors to New York City, and in 1934 she created Rockefeller Guided Tours for Rockefeller Center. She moved to Hollywood in 1938 to become personnel director for CBS there.
In 1939, Wilder was named to the newly created position of educational director for the CBS Pacific Network with the responsibility of making the regional network's educational programming more effective. While she held that position, in 1941 she and a colleague began teaching classes in radio technique and writing at the University of Southern California.
During her six years in that position, Wilder created These Are Americans, a radio series "dedicated to bettering relationships of Mexican-Americans with their neighbors on our west coast." The program won the 1943 Peabody Award for Outstanding Community Service by a Regional Station for KNX, the originating station. A second series of These Are Americans in 1944 examined the situations of African-Americans on the West Coast and their contributions to agriculture, armed forces, arts, industry, and sciences. It was produced under the auspices of the Committee for Home Front Unity and Little Tokio Committee, Council of Social Agencies.
She also supervised What's it All About?, a program that sought to clarify issues in the news. Her work on that program was recognized when she was made a member of the Pacific Southwest Academy, the American Academy of Political & Social Science's Los Angeles affiliate. In 1943, scripts of Democracy's Workshop, which she originated, were given to the U. S. Office of Education for nationwide distribution.
As CBS's consultant for daytime programming, Wilder evaluated listeners' responses to programs and interpreted research. She was a liaison between the network's Program Department and advertising agencies and their clients, and she represented the network as a speaker before business, civic, educational, and social welfare groups. While doing so, she also sought those groups' input about daytime programming at CBS.
In 1947, Wilder was elected to a two-year term as president of the national Association of Women Broadcasters. She resigned her position at CBS later that year, and on September 1, 1947, she became director of the West Coast division of Social Research, Inc., a company that specialized in industrial and human relations. By late May 1949 she |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention%20inequality | Attention inequality is the inequality of distribution of attention across users on social networks, people in general, and for scientific papers. Yun Family Foundation introduced "Attention Inequality Coefficient" as a measure of inequality in attention and arguments it by the close interconnection with wealth inequality.
Relationship to economic inequality
Attention inequality is related to economic inequality since attention is an economically scarce good. Same measures and concepts as in classical economy can be applied for attention economy. The relationship develops also beyond the conceptual level—considering the AIDA process, attention is the prerequisite for real monetary income on the Internet. On data of 2018, a significant relationship between likes and comments on Facebook to donations is proven for non-profit organizations.
Extent
As data of 2008 shows, 50% of the attention is concentrated on approximately 0.2% of all hostnames, and 80% on 5% of hostnames. The Gini coefficient of attention distribution lay in 2008 at over 0.921 for such commercial domains names as ac.jp and at 0.985 for .org-domains.
The Gini coefficient was measured on Twitter in 2016 for the number of followers as 0.9412, for the number of mentions as 0.9133, and for the number of retweets as 0.9034. For comparison, the world's income Gini coefficient was 0.68 in 2005 and 0.904 in 2018. More than 96% of all followers, 93% of the retweets, and 93% of all mentions are owned by 20% of Twitter.
Causes
At least for scientific papers, today's consensus states that inequality is unexplainable by variations of quality and individual talent. Matthew effect plays a significant role in the emergence of attention inequality—those who already enjoy a lot of attention get even more attention and those who do not lose even more. Significant evidence could be found that ranking algorithm would alleviate the inequality of number of posts across topics.
Remedy
Government by algorithm is suggested to tackle the problem of attention inequality.
See also
Attention economy
Cumulative advantage
Cumulative inequality theory
Famous for being famous
Kardashian index
Knowledge gap hypothesis
Ortega hypothesis
Pareto distribution
References
External links
Attention inequality by Yun Family Foundation
Social media
Attention
Popularity
Social influence
Social inequality
Cognitive biases
Economic inequality
Information Age
Matthew effect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temora%20discaudata | Temora discaudata is a copepod in the family Temoridae. It was first described in 1849 by James Dwight Dana, being placed in the Calanus genus. It was described as a member of the Temora genus in 1889 by Prussian zoologist Wilhelm Giesbrecht. The female measures between 1.68 mm to 2.05 mm in length, while the male ranges between 1.65 and 1.85 mm. It is found in the Pacific, Indian, and (marginally) Atlantic Oceans.
References
Temoridae
Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean
Crustaceans of the Indian Ocean
Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean
Crustaceans described in 1889 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20SteelDrivers%20%28album%29 | The SteelDrivers is the eponymous debut album by The SteelDrivers. It was released by Rounder Records on January 15, 2008.
Critical reception
Cybergrass writes, "When originally released, the album peaked at #57 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, and garnered a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Blue Side of the Mountain.""
Robert Short of PopMatters gives the album 7 out of a possible 10 stars and says, "After road-testing the material in clubs and festivals, the band is finally ready to unveil their debut set of eleven originals. Amongst its other industry vets, fiddler Tammy Rogers, mandolin player Mike Henderson, bassist Mike Fleming, and banjo player Richard Bailey, these players have performed and recorded with everyone from Al Green to Waylon Jennings, Reba McEntire to Bo Diddley."
Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine gives the album 3½ out of a possible 5 stars and writes, "the self-titled debut for The SteelDrivers, a five-piece outfit veteran Nashville session musicians, is the kind of break from tradition that can bring some much needed new energy to a tired genre."
Track listing
Notes
Chris Stapleton recorded a solo version of "Midnight Train to Memphis" on his album From A Room: Volume 2 (2017).
Musicians
Richard Bailey – banjo
Mike Flemming – bass, vocals
Tammy Rogers – fiddle, vocals
Chris Stapleton – guitar, vocals
Mike Henderson – mandolin
Production
Mastered by Luke Wooten
Mixed by Luke Wooten
Produced by Luke Wooten, The SteelDrivers
Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.
References
External links
The SteelDrivers Official Site
Rounder Records Official Site
2008 debut albums
Rounder Records albums
The SteelDrivers albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202020 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is typically hosted by C-SPAN President and co-CEO Susan Swain. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2020
QandA
2020-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-open | Half-open may refer to:
Half-open file in chess
Half-open vowel, a class of vowel sound
Computing and mathematics
Half-open interval, an interval containing only one of its endpoints
Half-open line segment, a line segment containing only one of its endpoints
TCP half-open, a TCP connection out of synchronization
See also
Half-closed
Clopen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lowe%20Files | The Lowe Files is a series on the A&E Network that looks at unsolved mysteries within the United States. The show is hosted by Rob Lowe and his sons John Owen Lowe and Edward Matthew Lowe.
Episodes
The series currently has aired 9 episodes. The series was cancelled after one season.
Season 1
References
The Lowe Files review | The Hollywood Reporter
The Lowe Files | Rotten Tomatoes
The Lowe Files | History Channel
Rob Lowe and sons bond on A&E's The Lowe Files | Insider
Rob Lowe mystery reality series sets premiere date | Deadline
Rob Lowe's mysterious new show with his sons | USA Today
External links
Paranormal reality television series
A&E (TV network) original programming
Cryptozoology
Alien abduction
Fear
Space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UNESCO%20Global%20Geoparks%20in%20Europe | Europe is the cradle of the geoparks movement. The European Geoparks Network is a founding member of the Global Geoparks Network and it functions as a regional geopark network of it. As of November 2022, there are 94 UNESCO Global Geoparks in 28 European countries and there are several territories in an aspiring or planned phase, or in a national geopark status. Further elements of the geodiversity of the continent is represented on the World Heritage list, under criterion VIII or VII.
UNESCO Global Geoparks
Note *Kula Volcanic Geopark was enlarged and renamed as Kula Salihli Geopark in 2020. Though it is in the Asian part of Turkey, it is included here as the European Geopark Network extends across all of Turkey.
Recognition of Europe's geodiversity under different international frameworks
World Heritage sites
Twenty-eight sites are represented currently on the World Heritage list under criterion VIII, as an outstanding representative of Earth's history:
Pirin National Park (Bulgaria)
Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)
Ilulissat Icefjord (Greenland, Denmark)
Wadden Sea (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands)
Stevns Klint (Denmark)
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (Finland, Sweden)
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve (France)
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu (France, Spain)
Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena (France)
Messel Pit Fossil Site (Germany)
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst (Hungary, Slovakia)
Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice (Iceland)
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (Italy)
Monte San Giorgio (Italy, Switzerland)
The Dolomites (Italy)
Mount Etna (Italy)
Durmitor National Park (Montenegro)
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord (Norway)
Lake Baikal (Russia)
Volcanoes of Kamchatka (Russia)
Lena Pillars Nature Park (Russia)
Škocjan Caves (Slovenia)
Teide National Park (Spain)
Laponian Area (Sweden)
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Switzerland)
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Switzerland)
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (United Kingdom)
Dorset and East Devon Coast (United Kingdom)
Further sites are inscribed under criterion VII of superlative natural phenomena and aesthetic importance. Some of them, which have a special geoheritage importance are:
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (Albania, North Macedonia)
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (France)
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island (France)
French Austral Lands and Seas (France)
Meteora (Greece)
Mount Athos (Greece)
Danube Delta (Romania)
Putorana Plateau (Russia)
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (Turkey)
Hierapolis-Pamukkale (Turkey)
St Kilda (United Kingdom)
Gough and Inaccessible Islands (United Kingdom)
Notes
References
External links
European Geoparks Network (accessed 29 January 2020)
Geoparks in Europe
Lists of UNESCO Global Geoparks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin%20Gloria%20Ryan | Erin Gloria Ryan is an American writer, political opinion columnist, and podcaster. She is the host of Hysteria on the Crooked Media podcast network, and a contributor to The Daily Beast.
Early life and education
Ryan was born in Frederic, Wisconsin, a small town in western Wisconsin. She studied English at the University of Notre Dame.
After graduating from college in 2005, she moved to the South Side of Chicago, initially as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. In 2007, she began working for Merrill Lynch, where she remained until 2011.
Career
In 2011, Ryan moved to New York City and began writing for the website Jezebel, also becoming a contributor to The New York Times and Playboy. She then became the managing editor at Jezebel, until she moved to Vocativ in 2015 to be the senior editor there. In 2016, she was hired as a senior editor by The Daily Beast, where she continues to be a regular contributor of political and cultural opinion pieces. Ryan has described her focus at The Daily Beast as "the intersection of politics, gender, society", and areas where "politics, womanhood, and feminism" touch.
Ryan was invited by Rob McElhenney to spend two months of 2018 writing for the television show It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. She contributed writing to the thirteenth season of the series.
During 2017 and 2018, Ryan appeared frequently as a regular panelist on S. E. Cupp's CNN political panel show, S. E. Cupp Unfiltered. She has also appeared on other CNN news programs, including CNN Newsroom.
Ryan began podcasting in 2017, when she created a podcast called Girl Friday. Ryan later appeared as a guest on Chapo Trap House and the sixth episode of Pod Save America. Throughout 2017 and 2018, Ryan became a recurring guest on the Crooked Media podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It. In June 2018, Ryan launched a podcast with Crooked Media called Hysteria which is co-hosted with Alyssa Mastromonaco. Hysteria is a politics and comedy podcast that seeks to center the voices of women, and also covers developments in popular culture. The podcast premiered at the top of the iTunes records chart, and was downloaded more than a million times in its first two months.
References
External links
Erin Gloria Ryan on IMBb
Living people
People from Frederic, Wisconsin
University of Notre Dame alumni
21st-century American women writers
American podcasters
American women podcasters
Screenwriters from Wisconsin
American women screenwriters
21st-century American screenwriters
1983 births
American columnists
American women columnists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Mart | Hum Mart was a Pakistani online store operated by Hum Network. It became defunct in 2020.
It was founded in 2018 by Malik Faisal Qayyum and Duraid Qureshi. It first started operations as an online retail grocery store across Karachi and now it is also selling additional categories of consumer products like mobile phones, electronics, cosmetics, and toys across Pakistan.
History
Hum Mart was founded in 2018 as a subsidiary of the Hum Network based in Karachi, Pakistan.
See also
Airlift Technologies
References
External links
Official website
New Grocery Shopping site by previous team
Online retailers of Pakistan
2018 establishments in Pakistan
2020 disestablishments in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNR%20South%20Main%20Line | The PNR South Main Line (, also known as Southrail and formerly the Main Line South) is one of the two trunk lines that form the Philippine National Railways' network in the island of Luzon, Philippines. It was opened in stages between 1916 and 1938 by the Manila Railroad. Services peaked in the 1940s until the late 1960s, when the system started to decline. Since 1988, it was the only functioning inter-city rail after its counterpart to the north, the North Main Line, was closed. The intercity section of the line in Laguna, Quezon and the Bicol Region was then closed and reopened repeatedly between 2004 and 2014 due to a combination of declining ridership and was closed since then. Currently, only two short sections of the line survive; the PNR Metro Commuter Line between Tutuban station and Laguna, and the Bicol Commuter regional rail service between Sipocot and Naga, Camarines Sur.
Since its closure, there has been a planned overhaul of the line. The railway will consist of two standard-gauge lines which will overlap in southern Metro Manila and Laguna. One is the North–South Commuter Railway's South section between Tutuban and Solis stations in north-central Metro Manila to Calamba station in Calamba, Laguna. This route will be electrified with direct current power through overhead lines. The other is the PNR South Long Haul from Sucat station in Muntinlupa to Matnog station in Matnog, Sorsogon. This route will continue to be operated by diesel stock but will run at a maximum speed of , over twice higher than the existing narrow-gauge line.
History
Planning of the Luzon network started in 1875. To the south of Manila would be a line leading to Legazpi, Albay and a branch line leading to Bauan, Batangas.
Pre-PNR era
Some parts of what will become the South Main Line were first constructed in 1903 as part of the Antipolo Line to Rizal under the virtue of Insular Government Act No. 703. The formal construction of a main line to the south of Tutuban station began in 1909 by the virtue of Act No. 1905. By 1909, there was already a line between Tutuban and Naic, Cavite. This was known as the Naic line. Another line was also opened from Calamba, Laguna to Bauan via Batangas City. More lines were constructed into the 1910s including the lines from Nueva Cáceres, Ambos Camarines to Legazpi or Tabaco, Albay as the Legazpi Division, the Pagsanjan branch line and the extension of the Antipolo line to Montalban. Between 1916 and 1919, a new line to Tayabas province was opened and was named the Main Line South and had branch lines covering all provinces in the Southern Tagalog region.
The first intercity service on the new Main Line South was the first Bicol Express, which originally only stopped at Aloneros station in Guinayangan, Quezon between 1916 and 1919. The Main Line South was connected to the Legazpi Division by a fleet of train ferries between Quezon and Camarines Sur. This ferry service became increasingly redundant as the last rail connec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Garagnani | Massimiliano (Max) Garagnani is a University Professor at the University of London, and is primarily known for his work on bio-realistic neural network models that closely mimic the structure, connectivity, and physiology of the human cortex. Garagnani presently runs the Goldsmith Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postgraduate Programme at the University of London, and further serves as a visiting researcher at the Free University of Berlin.
His contributions to the field of computational neuroscience have earned him a number of awards and honors, including the CSREA International Conference on AI Achievement Award, an EU Marie Curie Fellowship, a Cambridge European Trust Scholarship, and membership into the Experimental Psychology Society, the Organization for Computational Neuroscience, and the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
Biography
Garagnani obtained his Bachelor of Science and his Master of Science degrees in 1994 through an accelerated program at the University of Bologna in Italy. He then went on to obtain his doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Durham in 1999, followed by a postdoctoral stint at The Open University.
During his time there, he sat as associate editor of the journal of Expert Systems, and served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, US, developing a neurally plausible connectionist model of language processing and reflexive reasoning based on temporal synchrony and dynamic binding alongside Dr. Lokendra Shastri. He left this post in 2005, opting for a second PhD, this one in computational cognitive neuroscience, at Cambridge University.
Upon its completion in 2008, Garagnani joined the university's Medical Research Council Unit as an Investigator Scientist. He departed from the MRC in 2012, becoming a visiting researcher at Cambridge University's Department of Experimental Psychology. He balanced this position with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Plymouth, which he held until 2016.
As of 2016, Garagnani is a professor and programme leader at the University of London, as well as a visiting researcher at the Brain & Language Laboratory at the Free University of Berlin.
Awards and honors
EPS Grindley Grant
EU Marie Curie Fellow
Gonda Brain Research Grant
CSREA AI Achievement Award
Experimental Psychology Society
Organization for Computational Neuroscience
Cambridge European Trust Scholar (Honorary)
Select publications
References
External links
Goldsmiths Profile page
Living people
Italian neuroscientists
Academics of the University of London
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Bologna alumni
21st-century Italian scientists
Alumni of Durham University Graduate Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeners | is an original Japanese anime television series produced by MAPPA, created by Jin, and directed by Hiroaki Ando. The series aired from April 3 to June 19, 2020 on the Animeism programming block.
Plot
The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where Humanity is defended from Earless attacks by the Players, the latter earning fame and fortune along the way. Echo Rec dreams of joining the Players and piloting a mecha of his own, but has no prospects of doing so, until he encounters μ - an enigmatic girl who's lost her memory and has an auxiliary port on her body. An auxiliary port signifies a Player; together, μ and Echo work together towards fame and fortune.
Characters
Production and release
On June 8, 2019, the original anime television series was announced by Jin, the creator of the Kagerou Project. The series is animated by MAPPA and directed by Hiroaki Ando, with Dai Satō as scriptwriter, Shinpei Kamada as character designer, and L!th!um as music composer. It premiered from April 3 to June 19, 2020 on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS. ACCAMER performs the series' opening theme "Into the blue's", and Rie Takahashi performs 11 of the series' ending theme songs.
Funimation has acquired the series for an English release, and streams the series on Funimation, AnimeLab and Wakanim.
Opening/Ending themes
Notes
References to real life media
Echorec is named after the Binson Echorec, an echo machine used by several bands, most notably Pink Floyd.
Mu is named after the symbol used to measure the voltage gain of vacuum tubes in guitar amplifiers, like the tube worn around Mu's neck.
AC30, Echo and Mu's Equipment, is a Vox AC30 guitar amplifier. Mu's special attack, Top Boost, is a reference to the AC30's signature top boost feature: an additional high gain ("brilliant") channel accessed by plugging the instrument cable into a secondary input jack.
Jimi Stonefree is named after Jimi Hendrix and his 1966 song "Stone Free".
McGee is named after Alan McGee, music industry executive who first spotted the band Oasis.
Liverchester is a portmanteau of Liverpool and Manchester, two centers of British rock.
Leo Marshall is named after Leo Fender and Jim Marshall, pioneers of musical instruments and electric amplifiers.
The Noise sisters (Ein, Stür & Zende Neubauten) are named after the band Einstürzende Neubauten.
Birin and Kevin Valentine are named after the band and bandmembers of My Bloody Valentine, Bilinda Butcher and Kevin Shields.
Nir is named after the band Nirvana, her appearance resembles Kurt Cobain, and her shirt reads "Polly", a song by Nirvana.
Likewise, Hole is named after the band Hole, and his appearance resembles Courtney Love.
Denka resembles the singer Prince. The Japanese name Denka (殿下) means highness, further linking the relation.
Wendy and Lisa are named after Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, who worked with Prince in his band The Revolution.
Lyde and Ritchie are named for Johnny Rotten (né John |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Compatible | Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control is a 2019 non-fiction book by computer scientist Stuart J. Russell. It asserts that the risk to humanity from advanced artificial intelligence (AI) is a serious concern despite the uncertainty surrounding future progress in AI. It also proposes an approach to the AI control problem.
Summary
Russell begins by asserting that the standard model of AI research, in which the primary definition of success is getting better and better at achieving rigid human-specified goals, is dangerously misguided. Such goals may not reflect what human designers intend, such as by failing to take into account any human values not included in the goals. If an AI developed according to the standard model were to become superintelligent, it would likely not fully reflect human values and could be catastrophic to humanity. Russell asserts that precisely because the timeline for developing human-level or superintelligent AI is highly uncertain, safety research should be begun as soon as possible, as it is also highly uncertain how long it would take to complete such research.
Russell argues that continuing progress in AI capability is inevitable because of economic pressures. Such pressures can already be seen in the development of existing AI technologies such as self-driving cars and personal assistant software. Moreover, human-level AI could be worth many trillions of dollars. Russell then examines the current debate surrounding AI risk. He offers refutations to a number of common arguments dismissing AI risk and attributes much of their persistence to tribalism—AI researchers may see AI risk concerns as an "attack" on their field. Russell reiterates that there are legitimate reasons to take AI risk concerns seriously and that economic pressures make continued innovation in AI inevitable.
Russell then proposes an approach to developing provably beneficial machines that focus on deference to humans. Unlike in the standard model of AI, where the objective is rigid and certain, this approach would have the AI's true objective remain uncertain, with the AI only approaching certainty about it as it gains more information about humans and the world. This uncertainty would, ideally, prevent catastrophic misunderstandings of human preferences and encourage cooperation and communication with humans. Russell concludes by calling for tighter governance of AI research and development as well as cultural introspection about the appropriate amount of autonomy to retain in an AI-dominated world.
Russell's three principles
Russell lists three principles to guide the development of beneficial machines. He emphasizes that these principles are not meant to be explicitly coded into the machines; rather, they are intended for human developers. The principles are as follows:
The "preferences" Russell refers to "are all-encompassing; they cover everything you might care about, arbitrarily far into the future." Simil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20Folding%20Algorithms | Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra is a monograph on the mathematics and computational geometry of mechanical linkages, paper folding, and polyhedral nets, by Erik Demaine and Joseph O'Rourke. It was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press ().
A Japanese-language translation by Ryuhei Uehara was published in 2009 by the Modern Science Company ().
Audience
Although aimed at computer science and mathematics students, much of the book is accessible to a broader audience of mathematically-sophisticated readers with some background in high-school level geometry.
Mathematical origami expert Tom Hull has called it "a must-read for anyone interested in the field of computational origami".
It is a monograph rather than a textbook, and in particular does not include sets of exercises.
The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has recommended this book for inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries.
Topics and organization
The book is organized into three sections, on linkages, origami, and polyhedra.
Topics in the section on linkages include
the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage for converting rotary motion into linear motion,
Kempe's universality theorem that any algebraic curve can be traced out by a linkage,
the existence of linkages for angle trisection,
and the carpenter's rule problem on straightening two-dimensional polygonal chains.
This part of the book also includes applications to motion planning for robotic arms, and to protein folding.
The second section of the book concerns the mathematics of paper folding, and mathematical origami. It includes the NP-completeness of testing flat foldability,
the problem of map folding (determining whether a pattern of mountain and valley folds forming a square grid can be folded flat),
the work of Robert J. Lang using tree structures and circle packing to automate the design of origami folding patterns,
the fold-and-cut theorem according to which any polygon can be constructed by folding a piece of paper and then making a single straight cut,
origami-based angle trisection,
rigid origami,
and the work of David A. Huffman on curved folds.
In the third section, on polyhedra, the topics include polyhedral nets and Dürer's conjecture on their existence for convex polyhedra, the sets of polyhedra that have a given polygon as their net, Steinitz's theorem characterizing the graphs of polyhedra, Cauchy's theorem that every polyhedron, considered as a linkage of flat polygons, is rigid, and Alexandrov's uniqueness theorem stating that the three-dimensional shape of a convex polyhedron is uniquely determined by the metric space of geodesics on its surface.
The book concludes with a more speculative chapter on higher-dimensional generalizations of the problems it discusses.
References
External links
Authors' web site for Geometric Folding Algorithms including contents, errata, and advances on open problems
Linkages (mechanical)
Paper folding
Po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melhania%20rotundata | Melhania rotundata is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
Description
Melhania rotundata grows as a herb or subshrub up to tall, rarely to . The round to ovate leaves are tomentose, coloured greyish-green. They measure up to long. Inflorescences may have a solitary flower or be two or three-flowered with a stalk up to long. The flowers have bright yellow petals.
Distribution and habitat
Melhania rotundata is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora bushland or woodland at altitudes of .
References
rotundata
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Tanzania
Plants described in 1868 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicMagpie | musicMagpie is a British owned online retailer buying and selling refurbished electronics and second-hand computer games, consoles, books, films and music.
History
musicMagpie was founded in Stockport in 2007 by Steve Oliver and Walter Gleeson, both with previous experience of the music industry. The company was originally based in Oliver's garage, buying only CDs.
Records show that from February 2017, the company employed 1000 people, and received 5 million ratings on eBay, becoming the most popular seller on that platform.
By 2018 the company had sold an estimated £125 million of used items, primarily through Amazon and eBay.
Business model
Prices are checked through an algorithm which determines an item's popularity on all competitors' websites. Due to its low prices for items such as CDs, the service is often used by individuals selling in bulk.
Customers can enter an items’ barcode or name into musicMagpie's website to receive an instant quotation. Customers can then send their goods to the company free of charge by various methods.
Once the goods are received, if they meet quality requirements, the seller is paid.
The principle behind its purchase and sale algorithm is to keep a minimum stock in the company's warehouse, and continuously buy and sell the same item while listing it on multiple platforms.
Depending on an artist's new release, advertisements and other relevant factors, the company tends to increase the stock if expecting to get bigger sales from a specific product.
DVDs are typically purchased for 1 penny and books for 20 pence, and then resold for an average of £1 or £2.
Customers can purchase used items through a separate part of the website.
Poundland deal
The company has a deal with UK budget retailer Poundland, where it supplies them with used CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, which are sold for one pound as part of Poundland's Replay range.
See also
World of Books
Better World Books
AbeBooks
Alibris
Momox
References
Companies based in Stockport
Retail companies established in 2007
Music retailers
English brands
Online retailers
Online retailers of the United Kingdom
Non-store retailing
Bookshops of the United Kingdom
Book selling websites
EBay stores |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRNG | CRNG may refer to:
Cryptographic random number generator, in computing
CRNG, the colour range chunk of the ILBM image file format |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20%28Israel%29 | Fox Sports was an Israeli television sports channel owned by Fox Networks Group and was launched on 11 August 2000.
Programming rights
American Football
National Football League
Australian Rules Football
Australian Football League
Baseball
Major League Baseball
Hockey
National Hockey League
Golf
PGA Championship
PGA EuroPro Tour
Women's PGA Championship
LPGA Tour
Rugby League
National Rugby League
See also
Fox Sports International
Fox Sports Netherlands
Fox Sports Turkey
References
External links
Fox Sports official website
Television channels in Israel
Israel
Sports television in Israel
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
Defunct television channels in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%20Meeyoung | Cha Meeyoung, sometimes known as Mia, is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling, analyzing complex information propagation processes, machine learning-based computational social science, and deep learning. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Education
The entirety of Meeyoung's higher education has taken place at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. Majoring in computer science, she graduated magna cum laude for her B.S. The adviser for her M.S. was Kim Taewhan, and her Ph.D. was supervised by Sue Moon.
Career
In 2008, Meeyoung worked as a postdoc in Max Planck Institute for Software Systems under adviser Krishna Gummadi. Leaving Max Planck, she returned to her alma mater and became an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology later becoming an associate professor joint faculty member in the School of Computing. Outside of KAIST, she worked as a scientific and technical consultant for both SK Telecom and the Korea Internet Self-Governance Organization in 2010 and 2014, respectively.
In 2015, Meeyoung went to Menlo Park to work as a visiting professor with Facebook's Data Science Team hosted by Lada Adamic. In 2019, she and Oum Sang-il were the founding chief investigators of the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). This and the Pioneer Research Center for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure are the first of two such centers at IBS. Headed by Meeyoung, the Data Science Group researches fake news, perception biases in relation to AI, deep learning of heterogeneous data for modeling human behavior, and prediction efforts through language processing and image analysis. Seeing the infodemic on COVID-19 information starting in China and spreading to Korea and the US, the Data Science Group and researchers from Ewha Womans University, started the multilingual Facts Before Rumors campaign to separate common claims seen online.
Awards and honors
2022: Commendation, 55th Science Day, Ministry of Science and ICT
2020: Test of Time Award, International Conference on Web and Social Media
2019: Young Information Scientist Award
2016: Lifetime member, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (ko)
2012: Best Paper, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2009: Best Data Workshop Paper, 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
2007: Best Paper, ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Editorial boards
2016–present PeerJ
2016–present ACM Transactions on Social Computing
Selected publications
References
External links
PRC for Mathematical and Computational Sciences - Data Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agiabampo | Agiabampo is a hamlet of Huatabampo Municipality, located in the south of Mexican state of Sonora. According to data from the census of Population and Housing conducted in 2010 by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Agiabampo has a total of 409 inhabitants.
References
Populated places in Sonora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Watch%20Active%202 | The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2) is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics, running the Tizen operating system. Announced on 5 August 2019, the Active 2 was scheduled for availability in the United States starting on 23 September 2019.
The Active 2 was released in two sizes, 40mm or 44mm, and two connectivity formats, either Bluetooth or LTE capability. The LTE version functions as a standalone phone and allows a user to call, text, pay, and stream music or video without a nearby smartphone. An Under Armour Edition of the Active 2 was released on October 11, 2019, containing a watch face and strap branded with the Under Armour logo.
Samsung announced as part of the move to move from Tizen OS to Wear OS by Google starting from August 2022. The Watch Active 2 will stop receiving software and security updates while the Watch 3 will stop receiving software updates in 2023.
Specifications
References
External links
Galaxy Watch Active 2 on S
Consumer electronics brands
Products introduced in 2019
Smartwatches
Samsung wearable devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDAC | MIDAC was the acronym for the Michigan Digital Automatic Computer, a pioneering digital computer at the University of Michigan, the university's first. Work commenced on it in 1951, under collaborative sponsorship of the Wright Air Development Center and the United States Air Force, and the Willow Run Research Center of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan. The intention was to produce a machine to assist with "the solution of certain complex military problems."
History
MIDAC was patterned after SEAC (Standards Electronic Automatic Computer), built in 1950 for the U.S. U.S. National Bureau of Standards.
The sixth such digital automatic computer at a research university, and the first computer of its kind in the Midwest, MIDAC was a massive installation. It featured 500,000 connections and vacuum tubes, which required 12 tons of refrigeration to cool. Its main memory was a rotating magnetic drum, capable of storing 6,000 "words" of encoded data.
The MIDAC went online on June 1, 1953, and was operated by Willow Run's Digital Computation Department under the leadership of John Carr III until 1958, when it was supplanted by the faster Michigan Digital Special Automatic Computer (MDSAC) – an IBM 650 – and the Air Force removed the equipment.
ENIAC
Although it was not created there, a piece of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) exists at the University of Michigan. It was developed at the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and was brought to Michigan in the mid-1960s by professor Arthur Burks, who had served as a principal designer of ENIAC. Burks came to the University of Michigan in 1946 as a professor of philosophy, but went on to study at the Moore School before being drawn into the ENIAC project.
See also
SEAC
ENIAC
ILLIAC
List of vacuum tube computers
References
Vacuum tube computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion%20Creativ | Percussion Creativ is a non-profit organization founded as a network for German-speaking drummers and percussionists, based in Freiburg im Breisgau. Their goal is to promote the music for percussion instruments and their interpreters through exchange, and networking, regardless of stylistic orientation. The association currently has around 1,000 members who come mostly from Germany. Percussion Creativ is the only association of its kind based in the German-speaking area and is similar to the Percussive Arts Society in the United States.
History
Hermann Schwander founded the "Association for the Promotion and Maintenance of Percussion" in Nuremberg in 1986 in order to create a forum for exchanging views and encounters and to have an official sponsor for funding, donations and grants. [1] The founding members were beside Hermann Schwander director of the Nuremberg Meistersinger Conservatory Wolfgang Graetschel, Hans-Günter Brodmann, Tilo Heider, Sandor, the marimbist Mari Honda, and Renate Schwander. During a conference on December 11, 1986 in the Bavarian Music Academy in Hammelburg, "Percussion Creativ" was chosen as the new name for the association. Werner Thärichen, a former first solo timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, was elected the club's first president.
Claus Hessler has been President since 2016. In addition, Jörg Fabig as second chairman, Stefan G. Schmid as treasurer, Florian Alexandru-Zorn for marketing and Cord Radke as secretary are currently on the board. The managing director is Michael Zöller. The association's advisory board currently consists of Domenico Russo, Johannes Fischer, Stefan Schwarzenberger, Ellen Meyer, Patrick Metzger, and Stefan Landes.
Percussion Creativ, under the direction of Claus Hessler, released a set of drum rudiments called the Rudimental Codex in order to challenge the Percussive Arts Society interpretation of many rudiments of European origin, as well as promote the cultural heritage of French, German, and Swiss rudimental drumming. The Codex consists of 42 rudimental patterns, some of which are present in the American rudimental vocabulary (but with a guide for ancient interpretation) and some of which are unique to French or Swiss drumming. The Codex has been submitted to UNESCO as a vital piece of Europe's musical cultural heritage.
References
Non-profit organisations based in Germany
Percussion organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bilangin%20ang%20Bituin%20sa%20Langit%20episodes | Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit is a 2020 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from February 24, 2020, to March 26, 2021, replacing Madrasta.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Scott%20Edell | Jeffrey Scott Edell is an American entrepreneur in the entertainment, media, and tech industries. He currently serves as the CEO and Chairman of MeWe, a global social media and social networking service.
Jeffrey Edell is best known as serving as a top executive at numerous entertainment and technology organizations such as: CEO and president of Soundelux Entertainment Group, Chairman of Intermix Media (former parent company of MySpace) and eLabor.com (formerly jeTECH Data Systems) CEO of Inferno Pictures, CFO of Cinedigm, president and COO of DIC Entertainment, as well as former president and CFO of WTG Entertainment Enterprises. Edell is also co-founder of IndieU and Ohana Chem Co. LLC along with his daughter Natalie Edell. In early 2021, Edell was named CEO of MeWe.
Edell also serves as a contributing member of the Rolling Stone’s Culture Council, where he has written regularly on the future of the internet and social media.
Education
Edell attended Lehigh University to pursue a Pre-Medicine path and later transferred to the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, where he graduated with a B.S. in Commerce with an emphasis in Accounting and Taxation. He served as Associate Professor at Florida State University and was Entrepreneur in Residence for the Motion Pictures Arts College from 2014 to 2016. During his time at KPMG, Edell obtained his Certified Public Accountant certification.
Career
Edell is also known for overseeing and managing the development of brands such as Inspector Gadget and Strawberry Shortcake during his tenure at DIC Entertainment, as well as partnering with Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment on a game titled Stan Lee's Superhero Ball Wars. Edell was interviewed by journalist Julia Angwin in her 2009 book Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America because of his role as Chairman of Intermix Media. Edell was also interviewed in 2022 by David Ryan Polgar on the All Tech Is Human podcast, which promotes the Responsible Tech field.
He was also featured in Start It, Sell It & Make a Mint: 20 Wealth-Creating Secrets for Business Owners by Joe John Duran. He also won the Master Award in Comic Collecting from the Certified Guaranty Company's Collectors Society, and served as goalie for the US Maccabi World Team at the Olympics in 2004. Edell is also Advisor, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Ohana Chem Co, LLC, a hemp extraction solvent supplier specializing in ethanol, hydrocarbons, and logistics.
As the CEO of the privacy-first social media platform MeWe, Edell has raised $27 million in a Series A round led by private company McCourt Global, which contributed $15 million. Previous investors contributed another $12 million—the round values MeWe at approximately $200 million. Axios also reported that under Edell's leadership, MeWe will migrate its platform over time to a Web3, blockchain-based web infrastructure, becoming the first major social network to migrate its tech over to a decentr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakhi%20%28film%29 | Pakhi (translation: bird) is a 2018 Indian crime drama directed and produced by the award-winning playwright and theatre director Sachin Gupta under Chilsag Entertainment Network in association with London Players. It is produced by Sachin Gupta, Sushma Gupta and Rashmi Bansal. The film stars Sumeet Kaul, Anamika Shukla, Anmol Goswami and Pihu Datta in the lead roles. The film is based on a true story of a 10 year old girl with focuses on child trafficking, flesh trade, child marriage, and rape.
Plot
The narrative begins with Suhani; a young girl conned into the flesh trade operated by a goon called Bali. Circumstances make the brutal Bali believe that Suhani brings him luck, so he gives her royal treatment compared to the other girls in his faction. Several months later, Pihu, her brother Maulik, and her elder sister are sold to Bali by their uncle. While the elder sister escapes the trauma by killing herself, Pihu catches the eye of a Hyderabad businessman who is keen to marry her. Later, Suhani helps Pihu and her brother escape from Bali's clutches, which forms the crux of the tale. Run time is 100 minutes.
Cast
Sumeet Kant Kaul as Bali
Anamika Shukla as Pakhi
Anmol Goswami as Maulik
Sikandar Khan
Tanmanya Bali
Vijyant Kohli
Komal Khanna
Gital Patel
Music
The music for the film was composed by Shivang Mathur. The background score was composed by Nikhil Koparde. The lyrics were written by Shayra Apoorva.
Track listing
Censorship
The movie faced hard criticism from the Central Board of Film Certification for their item song. The movie was considered too dark and serious as it tackled the concept of sex trafficking. The film received an 'A' certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification because it was said to be very intense. They were also asked to remove the item song, 'Khabare hot', to replace the word 'Kali' wherever 'Kali Puja' is used and to replace 'Ministerji' with 'Netaji' The director started a movement with the hashtag #JusticeforPakhi to get the movie approved by CBFC without any cuts. The movie was supposed to release on 10 August 2018 but was finally released in September 2018 after all the necessary cuts were made.
References
Indian crime drama films
2018 films
Works about sex trafficking
Films about prostitution in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo%20Ranking%20Intelligent%20Classification%20Algorithm | Embryo Ranking Intelligent Classification Algorithm (ERICA) is a deep learning AI software designed to assist embryologists and clinicians during the embryo selection process leading to embryo transfer, a critical step of in vitro fertilisation treatments (IVF).
This AI-based software relies on artificial vision to extract features not identifiable with the use of conventional microscopy. Following feature extraction, ERICA accurately ranks embryos according to their prognosis (defined as euploidy and implantation potential). In this way, ERICA removes the subjectivity inherent to previously existing classifications and, by efficiently assisting clinicians, increases the chances of selecting the one embryo with the best chances to become a baby.
ERICA's algorithms and the EmbryoRanking.com associated software are cloud-based and base their ranking system on predicting individual embryo's genetic status in a non-invasive fashion.
See also
Embryo selection
In vitro fertilisation and embryo selection
References
Applications of artificial intelligence
Assisted reproductive technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya%20Ganguli | Surya Ganguli (born Kolkata, India) is a university professor at Stanford University and a visiting research professor at Google. Ganguli is primarily known for his work on neural networks and deep learning, although he has also published papers on theoretical physics. He presently runs the Neural Dynamics and Computation Lab at Stanford, where he aims to reverse engineer how networks of neurons and synapses cooperate across multiple scales of space and time to facilitate sensory perception, motor control, memory, and other cognitive functions. He is also known for being a prolific public speaker and lecturer, having been invited to give over 200 talks at various universities, institutes, workshops, conferences, and symposiums since 2005.
Ganguli has received numerous awards for his work in the field including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Simons Investigator Award in MMLS, the McKnight Scholar Award, the James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Human Cognition, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Swartz Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, and the Terman Award. His publications have also won a number of conference awards, such as the NIPS 2014 Outstanding Paper award and the Cosyne 2014 award for the top ranked abstract. Finally, Ganguli has won a number of awards unrelated to his academic publications, such as the Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Instructor award and the National Council of Teachers of English Award in Writing.
Biography
In 1993, Surya Ganguli graduated from University High School in Irvine, California at the top of his class at the age of 16. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent five years completing bachelor's degrees in mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering and computer science, as well as a master's degree in the latter. During that time, Ganguli assumed research positions at the Information Mechanics Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, at the Center for Space Research and the Center for Theoretical Physics at the MIT Department of Physics, and the Information Systems and Technologies Laboratory and the Dynamics of Computation Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Ganguli then moved on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a master's degree in physics in 2000 and a master's degree in mathematics in 2004. He also completed a PhD in string theory under Dr. Petr Horava at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory later that year. While at Berkeley, he taught undergraduate courses on quantum mechanics, special relativity, statistical physics, electromagnetism, and analytical mechanics.
Following the completion of his doctorate, Ganguli became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, a position he held until 2012. He had authored and co-authored a number of papers on theoretical neuroscience prior to this in the late 2000s (collaborati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Farris | Frank A. Farris is an American mathematician. He is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University. He is also an editor, author, and artist whose work concerns mathematical topics. Farris is known primarily for mathematical exposition, his creation of visual mathematics through computer science, and advocacy for mathematical art as a discipline.
Education
Farris was born in Santa Monica, California. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Covina, a suburb of Los Angeles. He showed interest and proficiency in a large variety of subjects such as astronomy. At the age of 15, he enrolled in the NSF summer science training program, designed to enrich mathematical talent in America. It was this that solidified his dedication to mathematics.
Farris studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Pomona College and received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation Spiralling Chains in CR Manifolds was supervised by Richard Burt Melrose. His time at MIT led him to pursue pure mathematics with a focus on geometry.
Career
Farris taught at Brown University for three years, before becoming an assistant professor in Santa Clara University in 1984. He was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1988 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2017. He was awarded the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching by the Golden Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 2018.
Farris served as editor of Mathematics Magazine from 2001 to 2005, then again in 2009. He also writes expository articles; his article "The Edge of the Universe" for Math Horizons received the Trevor Adams Award from the MAA.
In 2015, his book Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, which conveys his artistic method, was published by the Princeton University Press. It was awarded the PROSE Award in Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers, Honorable Mention, in 2016, and the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in 2018. It is profiled in numerous periodicals including Quanta and Scientific American.
Work method
Farris generates organic mathematical art using symmetry, patterns, and wave functions. He commonly works with wallpaper patterns using photographs as source material. The wallpaper often exhibit translational symmetry across two independent axes. He has created work that gives the illusion of five-fold rotational symmetry in the Wallpaper group. His award-winning artwork has been profiled by the American Mathematical Society,
He promotes a visual and computational perspective of math through his art, seminars, writing, etc. typically aimed towards undergraduates and mathematicians.
LGBTQIA+ Community
Farris is an active member of the LGBTQIA+ community. In particular, he has worked for the advancement of LGBTQIA+ mathematicians, for instance, in the formation of Spectra (mathematical association). In 2014, he married his husband William O. Beeman, though they |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Networking%20Working%20Group | The International Networking Working Group (INWG) was a group of prominent computer science researchers in the 1970s who studied and developed standards and protocols for computer networking. Set up in 1972 as an informal group to consider the technical issues involved in connecting different networks, its charter was to develop international standard protocols for internetworking. INWG became a subcommittee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) two years later. Concepts developed by members of the group contributed to the original "Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" proposed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974 and the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) that emerged later.
History
The International Networking Working Group formed in October 1972 at the International Conference on Computer Communication held in Washington D.C. Its purpose was to study and develop "international standard protocols for internetworking". The group was modelled on the ARPANET "Networking Working Group" created by Steve Crocker.
Vint Cerf was the first Chair of the INWG. Other active members included Alex McKenzie, Donald Davies, Roger Scantlebury, Louis Pouzin and Hubert Zimmermann. These researchers represented the American ARPANET, the French CYCLADES project, and the British team working on the NPL network and European Informatics Network. In January 1974 Pouzin arranged affiliation with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). INWG became IFIP Working Group 1 under Technical Committee 6 (Data Communication) with the title "International Packet Switching for Computer Sharing" (WG6.1). This standing, although informal, enabled the group to provide technical input on packet networking to CCITT and ISO.
In September 1973, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (who was not a member of INWG) gave a paper at an INWG meeting at the University of Sussex in England. Their ideas were refined further in long discussions with Davies, Scantlebury, Pouzin and Zimmerman. Louis Pouzin introduced the term catenet, the original term for an interconnected network, in October 1973. Zimmerman published a paper "Standard host-host protocol for heterogeneous computer networks" in April 1974, and Pouzin published a May 1974 paper "A Proposal for Interconnecting Packet Switching Networks". Kahn and Vint Cerf also published their proposal in May 1974, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", which introduced the term internet as a shorthand for internetwork. The paper acknowledged several members of the INWG.Over three years, the group shared numerous numbered 'notes'. There were two competing proposals, INWG 37 based on the early Transmission Control Program proposed by Kahn and Cerf (updated in INWG 72), and INWG 61 based on the CYCLADES TS (transport station) protocol proposed by Pouzin and Zimmermann. There were two sticking points (how fragmentation should work; and whether the data flow was an un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maor%20Farid | Dr. Maor Farid (; born April 20, 1992) is an Israeli scientist, engineer and artificial intelligence researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, social activist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of Learn to Succeed () for empowering of youths from the Israeli socio-economic periphery and youths at risk, a regional manager of the Israeli center of ScienceAbroad at MIT, and an activist in the American Technion Society. He is an alumnus of Unit 8200, and a fellow of Fulbright Program and the . Dr. Farid was elected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of 2019, and won the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism.
Early life
Maor was born in Ness Ziona, a city in central Israel, as the eldest son for parents from immigrating families of Mizrahi Jews from Iraq and Libya Maor suffered from Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from a young age, and was classified as a problematic and violent student. His ADHD issues were diagnosed only after he began his university studies. However, inspired by his parents’ background, he aspired to excel at school for a better future for his family.
During elementary school, Maor attended local quizzes about Jewish history and Zionism, which significantly shaped his identity and national perspective. Farid graduated high school with the highest GPA in school. Later he was recruited to the Israel Defense Forces and drafted to the – an excellence program of the Israeli Intelligence Corps for training leading R&D officers for the Israeli military and defense industry. Maor graduated the program with honors and was elected by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and Unit 8200, where he served as an artificial intelligence researcher, officer, and commander. During his Military service, he received various honors and awards, such as the Excellent Scientist Award, given to the top three academics serving in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2019, Farid completed his military service in the rank of a Captain.
Education and academic career
As part of the (4 years) Brakim Program, Maor completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Technion in Mechanical Engineering with honors. Then, he initiated his Ph.D. research as a collaboration with the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) in parallel to his duty military service. The main goals of his Ph.D. research were predicting irreversible effects of major earthquakes on Israel's nuclear facilities, and improving their seismic resistance using energy absorption technologies. The mathematical models developed by Farid were able to forecast earthquake effects on facilities with major hazard potential, and predicted the failure of liquid storage tanks due to earthquakes took place in Italy (2012) and Mexico (2017). The energy absorption technologies used, increased in up to 90% the seismic resistance abilities of those sensitive facilities. The research results were published in multiple papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and presented in international academic c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20Wars | A long-running debate in computer science known as the Protocol Wars occurred from the 1970s to the 1990s when engineers, organizations and nations became polarized over the issue of which communication protocol would result in the best and most robust computer networks. This culminated in the Internet–OSI Standards War in the 1980s and early 1990s, which was ultimately "won" by the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) by the mid-1990s and has since resulted in most other protocols disappearing.
The pioneers of packet switching technology built computer networks to research and provide data communications in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As more networks emerged in the mid to late 1970s, the debate about interface standards was described as a "battle for access standards". An international collaboration between several national postal, telegraph and telephone (PTT) providers and commercial operators agreed to the X.25 standard in 1976, which was adopted on public data networks providing global coverage. Separately, proprietary data communication protocols also emerged, most notably IBM's Systems Network Architecture and Digital Equipment Corporation's DECnet.
The United States Department of Defense developed and tested TCP/IP during the 1970s in collaboration with universities and researchers in the United States, United Kingdom and France. IPv4 was released in 1981 and the DoD made it standard for all military computer networking. By 1984, an international reference model known as the OSI model had been agreed upon, with which TCP/IP was not compatible. Many governments in Europe – particularly France, West Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Community – and also the United States Department of Commerce mandated compliance with the OSI model and the US Department of Defense planned to transition away from TCP/IP to OSI.
Meanwhile, the development of a complete Internet protocol suite by 1989, and partnerships with the telecommunication and computer industry to incorporate TCP/IP software into various operating systems laid the foundation for the widespread adoption of TCP/IP as a comprehensive protocol suite. While OSI developed its networking standards in the late 1980s, TCP/IP came into widespread use on multi-vendor networks for internetworking and as the core component of the emerging Internet.
Early computer networking
Packet switching vs circuit switching
Computer science was an emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to consider time-sharing between computer users and, later, the possibility of achieving this over wide area networks. In the early 1960s, J. C. R. Licklider proposed the idea of a universal computer network while working at Bolt Beranek & Newman and, later, leading the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later, DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Independently, Paul Baran at RAND in the United States and Donald Da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjin | Ninjin is the second original animated series from Cartoon Network Brazil (after Jorel's Brother), co-produced by Pocket Trap and Birdo Studio, based on the 2018 game Ninjin: Clash of Carrots.
The series was created by Pocket Trap and Roger Keesse, premiering on September 4, 2019 on Cartoon Network.
The official trailer was published on the Twitter platform on Cartoon Network Brazil's official account on September 2, 2019.
The first season consists of 22 episodes.
The first-season episodes are divided into three formats: 10 episodes with 1 minute, 7 episodes with 3 minutes and finally, the five-episode miniseries with 7 minutes.
The series was not renewed for a second season and was scrubbed from Cartoon Network Latin America's YouTube channels and HBO Max Latin America.
Characters
Ninjin (voiced by Carol Valença) is a male rabbit who wants to be a great ninja learning from Sensei, like your ancient ancestors. Has a large wooden sword with a broken tip as a weapon.
Akai (voiced by Luiza Porto) is a female fox that befriended Ninjin the male rabbit and Flink, the male frog. She also wants to become a great kunoichi, meaning ninja girl, or the female version of the ninja, learning their arts with Sensei. Has purple bombs as the main weapon.
Flink (voiced by Vii Zedek) is a male frog that has skills of levitation, telekinesis and control over the elements. He's friends with Ninjin and Akai, he likes to eat carrot ramen
Sensei (voiced by Alfredo Rollo) is an elderly rabbit that trains Ninjin, Akai and Flink to be great ninjas, despite not willingly teaching them.
Shogun Troop
General Jam (voiced by Marco França) is an deer that commands the Shogun Moe's army
Synopsis
The series tells the story of a rabbit named Ninjin, a fox named Akai and a frog named Flink, go out in search of carrots stolen from their village by the evil mole Shogun Moe.
References
Cartoon Network original programming
Animated series based on video games
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
Brazilian flash animated television series
Fictional rabbits and hares
Fictional ninja
Animated television series about rabbits and hares |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20People%20for%20Peace | The Computer People for Peace (CPP) was an activist organization active in the technology industry from 1968 to 1974.
The CPP had its roots in the anti-war movement of the 60s. Its founders included Joan Greenbaum. Outside the anti-war movement, CPP was against “the use of computer information systems as a means of social control”, “corporate racism” and “the role of automation on rising unemployment.”, among other issues. They intermittently published a newsletter called "Interrupt" until at least March 1973.
In 1969 they posted bail for one of the Panther 21, Sundiata Acoli, in NYC.
In 1972 Computer People for Peace addressed Congress about the need to protect citizens from the potential misuse of computer technology.
References
Peace organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livraga%20derailment | The Livraga derailment is the only railway accident to date on the Italian high speed rail network. It took place on 6 February 2020 when a high-speed train derailed at Livraga, Lombardy, Italy. Two people died and 31 were injured.
Accident
Train 9595 was the first southbound service of any day in Italy's high speed railways, scheduled to start from Milan at 5:10 and to arrive in Salerno at 11:27. On 6 February 2020, the train, run by Frecciarossa 1000 trainset no. 21, entered the Milan-Bologna high-speed railway and reached its top speed as usual. Not long after departure it reached the "posto di movimento Livraga", a site equipped with passing loops where RFI maintenance vehicles are parked named after the nearby town of Livraga.
For reasons under investigation, on that morning point number 5 (which connects the main line to the passing loop) was unknowingly in diverted position. At 05:34 local time (04:34 UTC), upon passing on point number 5, the train was unexpectedly diverted to the passing loop; since the train was travelling at about , while the point was designed to be traversed in diverted position at no more than , the train suddenly derailed.
The coupling between coach 1 and 2 broke; the first coach spun round through 180 degrees, collided with some maintenance vehicles, and finally came to rest overturned near a railway building (one of whose walls was destroyed by the coach's bogie, which had detached). The remaining seven coaches, instead, remained upright and kept going straight with their wheels on the track ballast, until they stopped after a few hundred meters.
Of the 33 people on the train — 5 staff and 28 passengers — both drivers died, and all 31 survivors were injured.
Two people were seriously injured. Railway workers in Italy called a two-hour strike starting at midday, 7 February 2020.
Investigation
An investigation into the accident was opened. The Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza delle Ferrovie is responsible for investigating railway accidents in Italy.
Point number five had been replaced the day before the accident.
Investigators reported that the accident was caused by a set of junction points being in the reverse position but were reported to the signalling system as in the normal – i.e. straight – position. Maintenance works occurred that night, and as a consequence of the inspection, points were found faulty.
Unable to replace them overnight, maintenance workers followed a temporary override procedure, which is allowed to take place in these exceptional circumstances.
Maintenance workers claimed that they manually placed the faulty point to the straight position, but disconnected its network connection and its link to the safety signalling system (ETCS L2) because of their faulty status.
As normal part of such procedure, workers reported (according to evidence) that the point had been forcibly put in the straight position and taken offline. The signalling system used this information to report no anom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOCH-N | HOCH-N (sustainability at higher education institutions: develop – network – report) is a joint project funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) that promotes sustainable development in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at German higher education institutions. It conducts research in the fields of governance, sustainability reporting, teaching, research, transfer and operations (technical and non-technical administration). In October 2018, guidelines for action in the different fields of interest were launched that provide information on how to foster a sustainable development. HOCH-N is the largest network on the topic of sustainability at higher education institutions in Germany. The project was launched in November 2016 and got extended in 2018 for two more years. It received 2.5 million euros in public funding by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
Participating universities
Involved in the project's research are the higher education institutions Free University of Berlin, University of Bremen, Technical University Dresden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, University of Hamburg, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Tübingen, University of Vechta and Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz.
Origin
HOCHN was initiated by the BMBF as a result of the "LeNa" project. The "Guidelines for Sustainability Management in Non-University Research Organizations" were developed by the Fraunhofer, Helmholtz and Leibniz Associations. During its presentation at the 3rd symposium "Sustainability in Science" (SISI) 2016 in Berlin, the former Minister of Research Johanna Wanka announced the follow-up project HOCHN.
Research
The project aggregates research in the fields of governance, sustainability reporting, teaching, research, transfer and operation (technical and non-technical administration). The findings, good practice examples and case studies are included into guidelines for sustainable development at higher education institutions. Their intention is to serve as an orientation in the development of a landscape of sustainable higher education in Germany.
Project goals
In addition to the research, the project focuses on building a network for a sustainable higher education landscape. The first target was to include partners from 100 German higher education institutions. As of February 2020, around 250 people from 125 different institutions are involved.
Results
The project results can be viewed online. For example, in the field of sustainability reporting the university-specific German Sustainability Code (HS-DNK) was presented on 15 May 2018. In addition, the eleven participating universities published individual guidelines as interim results in October 2018 on the fields of governance, sustainability reporting, teaching, research, operation and transfer.
Since December 2018, the individual fields of actio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Dom%C3%ADnguez | Maria del Carmen Domínguez Álvarez, also Karmenka, (born 1969) is a Spanish glaciologist, polar explorer and mathematician. She is a co-founder of the Glackma Project which since 2001 has networked the measurement of glacier discharge in the polar regions. She has undertaken over 60 polar expeditions in Antarctica, Patagonia, Iceland, Svalbard and Siberia. Her work is considered to have contributed significantly to the understanding of global warming.
Biography
Born in Oviedo, Domínguez studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and the University of Salamanca where she now teaches. Keen to use mathematics for practical applications, in 1997 she became interested in glaciers after hearing the geologist Adolfo Eraso's talk about Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier. She joined him in investigating glaciers in the polar regions in 1997.
In 2001, together with Eraso, she founded the Glackma project which set out to study the discharge of glaciers as a component of global warming. For almost two decades, the hourly amount of glacier discharge (i.e. the amount of ice which has melted) has been measured in seven different polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. Domínguez has revealed that over the first 13 years the amount of water discharged doubled and over the next four years it doubled again.
References
External links
Glackma project (in Spanish)
1969 births
People from Oviedo
Spanish glaciologists
Spanish women scientists
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
Spanish women mathematicians
Spanish polar explorers
Academic staff of the University of Salamanca
University of Groningen alumni
Living people
Women glaciologists
21st-century Spanish mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWKE | Love FM 98.9 (DWKE 98.9 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Kaissar Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Brgy. Danlagan, Lopez, Quezon.
References
External links
Love FM FB Page
Love FM Website
Radio stations in Lucena, Philippines
Radio stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodot | Anodot is an American data analytics company that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence for business monitoring and anomaly detection.
History
Anodot was founded in 2014 by David Drai along with Ira Cohen, former Chief Data Scientist at HP. Prior to that, Drai was the CTO at Akamai. While working as CTO at GetTaxi, he realized that there is a need for real time data analytics. He started working on developing a software that can be paired for data analysis and visualization. Drai sought financing to start Anodot and received the seed round of funding of $1.5 million in 2014 from Disruptive Technologies Venture Capital. In the next three years, the company raised three rounds of funding for expansion, bringing the company's total venture capital backing to $27.5 million.
Anodot is one of the data analytics companies that competes with established firms to provide data analysis and visualization in a real time. The company claims that it started analyzing well over 5.2 billion data points per day within six months of its launch.
In 2018, Anodot announced Andy Fenselau as Chief Marketing Officer and Amit Levi as the VP Head of Product. Later in the year, Anodot partnered with Deloitte Australia, where Deloitte used its technology to process its client's data and gain insights. In 2020, the company announced partnership with Amazon AWS to monitor business metrics.
The company possesses two U.S. patents for algorithms of machine learning-based anomaly detection. Anodot has offices in Israel, UK and Australia and has majority of its client base in digital business and telecom industry.
Technology
Anodot launched a data analytics platform that analyzes real time structured metrics data and unstructured log data and it independently detects and correlates anomalies and forecasts business in real time. According to the company, the algorithms are designed specifically to quickly identify the source of anomalies in large data sets, and perform root-cause analysis.
Funding
The company raised $62.5 million in funding by April 2020 with most recent funding Series C round of $35 million led by Intel Capital and included SoftBank Ventures Asia, Samsung NEXT, Aleph and Redline Capital Management.
References
Data analysis software
2014 establishments in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
American companies established in 2014
Technology companies established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerstage | Centerstage is a Philippine television reality talent competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Alden Richards and Betong Sumaya, it premiered on February 16, 2020 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up. The show concluded on June 6, 2021 with a total of 21 episodes.
Hosts
Alden Richards
Betong Sumaya
Judges
Aicelle Santos
Mel Villena
Pops Fernandez
Production
In March 2020, the admission of a live audience in the studio and production were suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on February 28, 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the pilot episode of Centerstage earned a 9.5% rating.
References
External links
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Cross%20to%20Finsbury%20Market%20Cable%20Tunnel | The New Cross to Finsbury Market Cable Tunnel is a long, diameter tunnel beneath London which carries power distribution cables for UK Power Networks as part of the London power distribution network. It was built between 2009 and 2017 by J. Murphy & Sons.
The tunnel runs at a depth of , from New Cross substation in Lewisham to Finsbury Market substation in Hackney, close to the edge of the City of London. Along the route, it connects substations at Osborn Street in Whitechapel and Wellclose Square in Wapping, passing beneath the River Thames downstream of Tower Bridge.
The tunnel carries cables operating at a voltage of 132 kV with a capacity of 400 MW - enough to power 130,000 homes.
References
See also
Elstree to St. John's Wood Cable Tunnel
Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnels
London Power Tunnels
Tunnels in London
Electric power infrastructure in England
Electric power transmission in the United Kingdom
Tunnels underneath the River Thames
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Lewisham
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hackney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension%20of%20the%20Cybermen | "Ascension of the Cybermen" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 23 February 2020. It was written by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Jamie Magnus Stone. It is the first of a two-part story; the concluding episode "The Timeless Children", the finale of the twelfth series, aired on 1 March.
The episode features Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor as she deals with the aftermath of her actions in "The Haunting of Villa Diodati". When the Doctor becomes separated from her companions Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, portrayed by Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill respectively, the team must face the consequence of the deadly Cyber-Wars, banding together with the last humans as they defend themselves from the Cybermen and search for a way out.
The episode was watched by 4.99 million viewers, and received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
In rural Ireland during the early 20th century, a young couple find and adopt an abandoned baby, Brendan, who grows up to be a police officer. On an early assignment, he is shot and falls off a cliff during a confrontation with a criminal, but miraculously survives unscathed. Years later, he retires but is confronted by his adoptive father and mentor, both of whom haven't aged, and they wipe his memory.
In the far future, the last of humanity is hiding from the last of the Cybermen, who have hunted them almost to extinction. As a pair of Cybershuttles arrive overhead, the Doctor and her companions arrive and attempt but fail to protect them, and some of the humans are killed. The Doctor orders her companions to leave with the remaining humans on their ship, and get to safety, but Ryan and another human named Ethan are separated by the Cybermen's only partially cyberconverted leader, Ashad. Ryan and Ethan escape to assist the Doctor in hijacking one of the Cybershuttles, but the Cybermen pursue in another Cybershuttle.
In deep space, Yaz, Graham, and the other three humans Yedlarmi, Ravio and Bescot discover they are traveling through a battlefield surrounded by dead Cybermen. They board an abandoned Cybercarrier, a large Cyberman ship, which they believe can take them to "Ko Sharmus", a haven which is supposedly home to the Boundary, a portal that sends humans to the other side of the universe where they cannot be reliably followed by the Cybermen. Graham and Ravio investigate and discover the Cybercarrier holds thousands of fresh Cybermen warriors in stasis just as Ashad and his crew dock their shuttle.
The Doctor, Ryan, and Ethan arrive on the planet where Ko Sharmus is. They discover Ko Sharmus is a person who helped other humans through the Boundary but remained behind as a ferryman in case others had survived. He takes them to the Boundary, and a portal opens. Ashad and the Cybermen begin drilling into the warriors and resurrecting them, while Graham and Ravio retu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Furman | Alexander Furman is a mathematician at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Furman received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1983 to 1986, where he later earned his master's (1987–1989) and PhD (1991–1996) in mathematics.
Career
Furman started teaching mathematics in 1996 as an L. E. Dickson instructor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. A year later, in 1997, he got a position as a Post-Doctoral fellow at Penn State University. He has worked at the University of Illinois Chicago since 1997, serving as an assistant professor until 2007 and being upgraded to full professor.
Furman also runs the UIC Math Olympiad Project where he works with high school-age students, encouraging them to discuss and work out mathematical problems.
Honors and awards
Furman's work in the field of mathematics has earned him a total of fourteen awards. In 1998, he won the National Science Foundation grant, which he would go on to receive four more times. He was also awarded a grant by the Binational Science Foundation three times in his career. In 2014 the Simons Foundation made him a Fellow in mathematics and the National Science Foundation Career Award for exceptional work in teaching through research. In 2014 he was an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematics hosted in Seoul. For his work in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and Lie groups, he was one of the 50 individuals from across the world chosen for their contributions in mathematics to be an American Mathematical Society Fellow in 2016. His most recently received awards are the UIC's University Scholar Award and the LAS Distinguished Professor Award.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20and%20Real%20Computation | Complexity and Real Computation is a book on the computational complexity theory of real computation. It studies algorithms whose inputs and outputs are real numbers, using the Blum–Shub–Smale machine as its model of computation. For instance, this theory is capable of addressing a question posed in 1991 by Roger Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind: "is the Mandelbrot set computable?"
The book was written by Lenore Blum, Felipe Cucker, Michael Shub and Stephen Smale, with a foreword by Richard M. Karp, and published by Springer-Verlag in 1998 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0701-6, ).
Purpose
Stephen Vavasis observes that this book fills a significant gap in the literature: although theoretical computer scientists working on discrete algorithms had been studying models of computation and their implications for the complexity of algorithms since the 1970s, researchers in numerical algorithms had for the most part failed to define their model of computation, leaving their results on a shaky foundation. Beyond the goal of making this aspect of the topic more well-founded, the book also has the aims of presenting new results in the complexity theory of real-number computation, and of collecting previously-known results in this theory.
Topics
The introduction of the book reprints the paper "Complexity and real computation: a manifesto", previously published by the same authors. This manifesto explains why classical discrete models of computation such as the Turing machine are inadequate for the study of numerical problems in areas such as scientific computing and computational geometry, motivating the newer model studied in the book. Following this, the book is divided into three parts.
Part I of the book sets up models of computation over any ring, with unit cost per ring operation. It provides analogues of recursion theory and of the P versus NP problem in each case, and proves the existence of NP-complete problems analogously to the proof of the Cook–Levin theorem in the classical model, which can be seen as the special case of this theory for modulo-2 arithmetic. The ring of integers is studied as a particular example, as are the algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero, which are shown from the point of view of NP-completeness within their computational models to all be equivalent to the complex numbers. (Eric Bach points out that this equivalence can be seen as a form of the Lefschetz principle.)
Part II focuses on numerical approximation algorithms, on the use of Newton's method for these algorithms, and on author Stephen Smale's alpha theory for numerical certification of the accuracy of the results of these computations. Other topics considered in this section include finding the roots of polynomials and the intersection points of algebraic curves, the condition number of systems of equations, and the time complexity of linear programming with rational coefficients.
Part III provides analogues of structural complexity theory and descrip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agami%20%28disambiguation%29 | Agami is a city in Egypt.
Agami may also refer to:
Agami (film), a 1984 Bangladeshi film
Agami heron, a species of heron in Central America, Peru, and Brazil
Agami Systems, a network storage company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California
People with the surname
Al Agami, rapper who led Los Umbrellos
Moshe Agami, Israeli former football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unraid | Unraid is a proprietary Linux-based operating system designed to run on home media server setups that operates as a network-attached storage device, application server, and virtualization host. Unraid is proprietary software developed and maintained by Lime Technology, Inc. Users of the software are encouraged to write and use plugins and Docker applications to extend the functionality of their systems.
Features
Unraid's primary feature is the ability to easily create and manage RAID arrays in hardware-agnostic ways, allowing users to use nearly any combination of hard drives to create an array, regardless of model, capacity, or connection type. Since Unraid saves data to individual drives rather than spreading single files out over multiple drives, users can create shares, which are groups of files that can be written to multiple drives (as determined by the user or system) and allow easy access and management by users.
Unraid also allows users to create Docker containers or virtual machines to host applications on the system. For example, a user could use a pre-made Docker container to host applications such as Plex, Jellyfin, and others.
Unraid's user license is attached to a specific USB flash drive, which may be linked to a user's forum account.
Technical specifications
Unraid is based on Linux Slackware.
Supported filesystems: XFS, Btrfs, ZFS and ReiserFS. ReiserFS is only for legacy reasons and for backward compatibility, and as a main-rule, shouldn't be used on new implementations.
GPL compliance
Unraid uses the Linux kernel and its filesystems. It most notably contains a greatly modified version of Linux md facilities named . The source code is distributed as part of the USB system image and is visible in the Unraid OS in . can be used to extract the file from without booting.
References
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Proprietary operating systems
RAID |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Wiggins%20%28data%20scientist%29 | Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University. In 2010 he co-founded hackNY, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with startups in New York City. Since 2014, he has been the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times.
Career
In 2017, Chris Wiggins, along with Matthew Jones, introduced a new course to Columbia called "Data: Past, Present, Future". The course syllabus, lectures, labs, and resources are available online.
Notable works
"ARACNE: an algorithm for the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks in a mammalian cellular context"
Awards
In 2007, he received the Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award at Columbia University.
Bibliography
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | Intelligence is a British television sitcom created by Nick Mohammed and starring Mohammed and David Schwimmer. It began airing on Sky One on 21 February 2020. The network confirmed a series 2 pickup on 13 February 2020. Series 2 premiered on 8 June 2021 on Sky One and streaming service Now. An all-new hour TV film special was announced by Peacock in April 2023, titled Intelligence: Special Agent Special, that sees Jerry and Joseph fight off a rival operative (played by Jennifer Saunders) trying to take down their business and destroy them in order to get what she wants from them. The special was released in the US on 11 May 2023, after being released first in the UK on 8 April on Sky Comedy and NOW TV.
Plot
An NSA agent (David Schwimmer) is assigned to act as liaison to the cyber crimes unit in the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, quickly antagonising the unit's chief with his brash style and tendency to try to take over.
Cast
Main
David Schwimmer as Jerry Bernstein
Nick Mohammed as Joseph Harries
Jane Stanness as Mary
Sylvestra Le Touzel as Christine Cranfield
Gana Bayarsaikhan as Tuva Olsen
Eliot Salt as Evelyn
Oliver Birch as Quentin O'Higgins
Recurring
Colin Salmon as Rupert Fleming
Lucy Ware as Uma
Joey Slotnick as Clint, an FBI agent
Episodes
Series 1 (2020)
Series 2 (2021)
Series 3 Special (2023)
Release
The series aired in the United Kingdom on Sky One. It was also viewable through Sky's Now platform.
It was broadcast in Australia on ABC Comedy as well as the network's iView platform, and on Peacock in the United States.
In Canada, the series premiered on Showcase, on 13 September 2020. This was followed by Latin America through Warner on 4 November 2020. Spanish pay TV network Cosmo premiered the show on 15 January 2021.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JourneyPure | JourneyPure is an American health care private organization that treats people experiencing substance use disorders and operates a network of treatment centers throughout the United States. The organization is notable for development of opioid and addiction treatment rehabilitation programs during the ongoing Opioid epidemic in the United States.
The company has corporate offices in Nashville and Murfreesboro and it operates 5 residential rehabs and 14 outpatient clinics in Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida. JourneyPure was founded by Kevin Lee and Sam MacMaster in 2014.
History
JourneyPure was established in January, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee by Kevin D. Lee and Sam MacMaster. From 2015-2019, the company expanded through a number of acquisitions provided by a series of investments from Rolling Hills Ventures and the Post Road Group.
In 2016, the company launched JourneyPure Coaching App, a mobile application to engage and track patients after they complete addiction treatment program. As of March, 2020, JourneyPure operated 19 addiction treatment centers including 3 alcohol and drug rehabs and 6 outpatient clinics in Tennessee, 1 rehab and 5 outpatient clinics in Kentucky and 1 rehab and 3 outpatient clinics in Florida. JourneyPure is a member of National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP).
Rehabilitation methods
The addiction recovery methods address the neurobiology of addiction and co-occurring disorders (such as depression, anxiety or bi-polar disorder) after residents receive bio-psycho-social evaluation. Once identified, biological interventions to repair brain neural and neurotransmitter systems damaged by addiction are integrated into the individual's twelve step recovery program. The program also applies Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT).
The organization's model of rehabilitation is based on both traditional ways of treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy as well as relatively new methods including mobile application for tracking health progress of the discharged patients and virtual reality.
CARF accreditation
JourneyPure has accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International for the following programs: Detoxification/Withdrawal Management, Intensive Outpatient Treatment (BH), Outpatient Treatment (BH), Partial Hospitalization.
Controversy
In 2016, JourneyPure's facility in Panama City Beach, Florida ran into disgruntled locals who wanted to fence off their neighborhoods from the nearby rehab canter.
In December 2018, The New York Times published a critical article about Medication-Assisted Treatment applied by JourneyPure, which involves such drugs as buprenorphine (also known as Suboxone) or naltrexone (more commonly known as Vivitrol). The use of Medication-Assisted Treatment was acknowledged during the interview by Sam MacMaster, the co-founder of JourneyPure, who himself was skeptical of the efficacy of treatment alone at the expense of traditi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20%26%20Yoko%3A%20Above%20Us%20Only%20Sky | John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky is a documentary film that aired on Channel 4 in November 2018 and the A&E Network in March 2019. The focus of the documentary is John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's relationship up to that point and how it impacted the Imagine album recorded in 1971 at their Tittenhurst Park home in Ascot, England. Video footage not previously presented to the public is made available. Present day interviews with former bandmates and others involved in Lennon's and Ono's lives at the time are included in the film.
See also
Imagine: John Lennon (a 1988 British rockumentary film about English musician John Lennon)
Imagine (1972 film)
The Beatles in film
References
External links
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
2018 television films
2018 films
Films about John Lennon
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Documentary films about the Beatles
2010s British films
British musical documentary films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Erickson%20%28Australian%20Labor%20Party%20official%29 | Paul Erickson is the national secretary of the federal Australian Labor Party.
Political career
Erickson worked for the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in research and data. In 2014, he took up the position as assistant national secretary of the Australian Labor Party. Following the resignation of Noah Carroll in 2019, Erickson was appointed acting national secretary and was appointed to the role permanently on 16 August 2019. Erickson is a member of the left faction.
Personal life
Erickson grew up in the state of Victoria. He holds a bachelor's degree in arts and economics. It was there he became involved in student politics, and was elected president of the University of Melbourne in 2003. He is better known as the younger brother of famous three time Olympian and Commonwealth Games medalist, Chris Erickson.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles | recfiles is a file format for human-editable, plain text databases.
Databases using this file format can be edited using any text editor. recfiles allow for basic relational database operations, typing, auto-incrementing, as well as a simple join operation.
Recutils is a collection of tools, like recfmt, recsel, and rec2csv used to work with recfile databases.
Various software libraries support the format.
Syntax
Data are stored in text files with empty lines separating records. Fields within a record are lines starting with their name and a colon; it is possible to wrap long entries. Multiple record types can be maintained in a single text file.
Example
# This is a recfile document.
%rec: Texts
%type: Year int
Author: Doug McIlroy
Year: 1964
Note: The Origin of Unix Pipes
Title: Unix Text Processing
Author: Dale Dougherty
Author: Tim O'Reilly
Year: 1987
Publisher: Hayden Books
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Hamlet
Year: 1599
Year: 1600
Year: 1601
This example command would output the following three lines (of the two original entries, one having two authors):
$ recsel -e 'Year > "1900"' -p Author
Author: Doug McIlroy
Author: Dale Dougherty
Author: Tim O'Reilly
See also
asciidoc
TOML
org-mode
References
External links
Computer file formats
Computer-related introductions in 2010
Data serialization formats
GNU Project software
Lightweight markup languages
Open formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Research%20on%20Computation%20and%20Society | The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS, commonly pronounced "circus") is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on interdisciplinary research combining computer science with social sciences. It is based in Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It is currently directed by Milind Tambe.
History
The center was officially founded in 2005, although there are appearance of CRCS affiliation back in 1996. The center name mimics the name of the centers for Internet and Society such as Stanford's or Harvard's.The Privacy Tools Project was one of the most important efforts led by CRCS. It received funding from multiple sources from 2009 throughout 2020 in order to research and build tools to enhance privacy, in a common effort with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, Harvard's Data Privacy Lab, and MIT Libraries. The CRCS founding director was Stuart M. Shieber. After him, the center was directed by Greg Morrisett and later by Salil Vadhan until 2015, when Margo Seltzer was named new director. In 2018, after her departure to Columbia University, she was replaced as director by Jim Waldo. When Milind Tambe joined Harvard in September 2019 he became the new center director.
The center has a yearly fellowship program, and relevant past fellows include Simson Garfinkel or Ariel Procaccia. It also hosts regular public talks ("seminars") with distinguished invited speakers, which are usually video recorded. Some speakers include Susan Crawford, Bruce Schneier or Megan Price.
Research
The center has covered a broad spectrum of research lines within computer science, typically with social aspects. These include social computing, privacy-enhancing technologies, encryption and data security, misinformation, machine learning fairness, internet of things, or a citizen-science platform.
See also
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%20%26%20Music%20Production%20Bristol |
BBC Bristol Radio Network Production
Since 1934, Bristol has been the home of radio programs transmitted throughout the UK and the world via BBC World Service. The BBC Radio & Music Production unit ( Bristol Network Radio) operates separately from the BBC Radio Bristol (part of the BBC local radio network), which serves listeners in and around the city. The network production team makes programs for the UK and a global audience. The genre focus in Bristol includes a wide range of topics, such as food and farming, environmental journalism, natural history, investigative documentaries, human interest, Bristol R&M Production readings, drama, poetry, conversation, and political debates. In 2017, the team in Bristol began producing podcasts for the BBC. It has been located in Broadcasting House, Bristol since 1934, which is also home to the BBC Natural History Unit, BBC West, and BBC Radio Bristol, in addition to BBC Network Radio Bristol.
BBC Network Radio Bristol and the War Years
The Bristol BBC operations were important during World War II, when the London-based directors of the World Service chose to move the “morale boosting” parts of the operation away from London. This was because of their fear of attacks during the Blitz, which ultimately led the BBC Symphony Orchestra, all school and children's programmes, religion and variety teams – comprising 700 people in total – to the location in Bristol.
By 1940, six studios were operating at the BBC Broadcasting House, located in Whiteladies Road, however, the BBC also made use of other locations around the city for concerts, music recordings, and public performances. These included Redland Park Hall, All Saints Hall, College Road, the Chapter House, Clifton Parish Hall, and the Co-operative Hall. This was the start of a partnership between the BBC and Bristol's public bodies. The partnership was formalized in 2009, being the first Memorandum of Understanding between the BBC and a UK city.
With the fall of France, Bristol's location meant that it sat within bombing range of the Luftwaffe. Therefore, it was decided to not only extend the BBC broadcasting to Wales in the West, but also to set up emergency underground broadcast studios in the Clifton Rocks Railway caverns. A transmitter, a studio, and a radio control room (complete with an ozonator to combat the smell of the River Avon) were all concealed in the rock cliffs at Clifton Down inside a railway tunnel. As a result, the BBC HQ in London had the control to swiftly switch broadcasting to the Bristol center, sometimes mid-news bulletin when the capital was under air attack, therefore continuing a constant news programme.
Any Questions
Political debate programme Any Questions?, first broadcast in 1948, was developed by the BBC in Bristol in the post-war years. In this weekly programme, members of the public asked their political representatives questions on different matters important to them.
The programme was first transmitted on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology%20for%20Media%20Resources | Ontology for Media Resources is a W3C recommendation from 2012 that aims to define "a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats"
In addition to defining vocabulary terms to annotate multimedia objects, the document also provides a mapping to common multimedia metadata formats, including ID3, XMP, IPTC, Dublin core, OGG, Exif, Media RSS, and others, as well as mapping to several container formats, including 3GP, MP4, WebM, and others.
See also
Ontology for Media Resources 1.0
Multimedia Web Ontology Language
References
Bibliography
Van Deursen, D., Van Lancker, W., Mannens, E. et al. Multimed Tools Appl (2014) 70: 827. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1129-6
Eißing D., Scherp A., Saathoff C. (2011) Integration of Existing Multimedia Metadata Formats and Metadata Standards in the M3O. In: Declerck T., Granitzer M., Grzegorzek M., Romanelli M., Rüger S., Sintek M. (eds) Semantic Multimedia. SAMT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6725. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%20sampler | A Boltzmann sampler is an algorithm intended for random sampling of combinatorial structures. If the object size is viewed as its energy, and the argument of the corresponding generating function is interpreted in terms of the temperature of the physical system, then a Boltzmann sampler returns an object from a classical Boltzmann distribution.
The concept of Boltzmann sampler was proposed by Philippe Duchon, Philippe Flajolet, Guy Louchard and Gilles Schaeffer in 2004.
Description
The concept of Boltzmann sampling is closely related to the symbolic method in combinatorics.
Let be a combinatorial class with an ordinary generating function which has a nonzero radius of convergence , i.e. is complex analytic. Formally speaking, if each object
is equipped with a non-negative integer size , then the generating function is defined as
where denotes the number of objects of size . The size function is typically used to denote the number of vertices in a tree or in a graph, the number of letters in a word, etc.
A Boltzmann sampler for the class with a parameter such that , denoted as
returns an object with probability
Construction
Finite sets
If is finite, then an element is drawn with probability proportional to .
Disjoint union
If the target class is a disjoint union of two other classes, , and the generating functions and of and are known, then the Boltzmann sampler for can be obtained as
where stands for "if the random variable is 1, then execute , else execute ". More generally, if the disjoint union is taken over a finite set, the resulting Boltzmann sampler can be represented using a random choice with probabilities proportional to the values of the generating functions.
Cartesian product
If is a class constructed of ordered pairs where and , then the corresponding Boltzmann sampler can be obtained as
i.e. by forming a pair with and drawn independently from and .
Sequence
If is composed of all the finite sequences of elements of with size of a sequence additively inherited from sizes of components, then the generating function of is expressed as
, where is the generating function of . Alternatively, the class admits a recursive representation This gives two possibilities for .
where stands for "draw a random variable ; if the value is returned, then execute independently times and return the sequence obtained". Here, stands for the geometric distribution .
Recursive classes
As the first construction of the sequence operator suggests, Boltzmann samplers can be used recursively. If the target class is a part of the system
where each of the expressions involves only disjoint union, cartesian product and sequence operator, then the corresponding Boltzmann sampler is well defined. Given the argument value , the numerical values of the generating functions can be obtained by Newton iteration.
Labelled structures
Boltzmann sampling can be applied to labelled structures. For a labell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20dependency%20network | Relational dependency networks (RDNs) are graphical models which extend dependency networks to account for relational data. Relational data is data organized into one or more tables, which are cross-related through standard fields. A relational database is a canonical example of a system that serves to maintain relational data. A relational dependency network can be used to characterize the knowledge contained in a database.
Introduction
Relational Dependency Networks (or RDNs) aims to get the joint probability distribution over the variables of a dataset represented in the relational domain. They are based on Dependency Networks (or DNs) and extend them to the relational setting. RDNs have efficient learning methods where an RDN can learn the parameters independently, with the conditional probability distributions estimated separately. Since there may be some inconsistencies due to the independent learning method, RDNs use Gibbs sampling to recover joint distribution, like DNs.
Unlike Dependency Networks, RDNs need three graphs to fully represent them.
Data graph: The nodes of this graph represent objects from the data set, and edges represent the dependencies between these objects. Each object and edge receives a type, and each object has an attribute set.
Model graph: A higher-order graph representing types. The nodes of this graph represent the attributes of a given type, and the edges represent dependencies between attributes. The dependencies may be between attributes of the same type or different types.
Each node is associated with a probability distribution conditioned to its parent nodes. The model graph makes no assumptions about the data set, making it general enough to support different data represented by the data graph. Thus, it is possible to use a given data set to learn the model graph's structure and conditional probability distributions and then generate the inference graph from the model graph applied to a data graph representing another set of data.
Inference graph: A graph generated from the data graph and model graph in a process known as 'roll out'. Inference graphs are generally larger than both data graphs and model graphs as every single attribute of any individual object is an instance on the inference graph whose characteristics correspond to the attribute retrieved from the model graph.
In other words, the data graph guides how the model graph will be rolled out to generate the inference graph.
RDN Learning
The learning methods of an RDN are similar to that employed by a DNs. i.e., all conditional probability distributions can be learned for each of the variables independently. However, only conditional relational learners can be used during the parameter estimation process for RDNs. Therefore, the learners used by DNs, like decision trees or logistic regression, do not work for RDNs.
Neville, J., & Jensen, D. (2007) conducted some experiments comparing RDNs when learning with Relational Bayesian Classifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore%20Cowen | Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring, network routing, and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and (by courtesy) of mathematics at Tufts University.
Early life and education
Cowen is the daughter of Robert Cowen, a professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York, and Ilsa Cowen, a high school English teacher. She has been a classical violin player since the age of five,
and as a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, she edited the school poetry magazine. However, despite these other interests, she decided to aim for a mathematical career after attending a summer mathematics program for high school students, the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.
She started her studies at Yale University at age 16, and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, also winning the university's deForest Prize as the top graduate in mathematics that year. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study in applied mathematics, completing her Ph.D. in 1993 with a dissertation On Local Representations of Graphs and Networks supervised by Daniel Kleitman.
Career
After postdoctoral research at Rutgers University and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota, Cowen joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor of mathematical sciences. She moved to the computer science department of Tufts University in 2000, added a joint appointment in mathematics in 2004, and was promoted to full professor at Tufts in 2009.
In 2020 she became the principal investigator for the newly formed Tufts Center for Transdisciplinary Research in Principles Of Data Science (T-TRIPODS).
Recognition
In 2020, the Education Committee of the Computing Research Association gave Cowen their CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, for her work with undergraduates at Tufts on interdisciplinary methods in computational biology and data science. She was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.
References
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women mathematicians
Yale College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Tufts University faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20Lightning%20Detection%20%26%20Information%20System | ALDIS (Austrian Lightning Detection & Information System) is a sensor network in Austria for the detection and localization of lightning discharge occurring during thunderstorms. In addition to the location of the strike point, the associated peak current is also estimated. ALDIS is a member of the pan-European lightning detection project EUCLID (EUropean Cooperation for LIghtning Detection).
ALDIS was initiated in 1991. Project partners are the OVE (Austrian Electrotechnical Association) and APG (Austrian Power Grid).
The detection of lightning, either from cloud-to-ground or within the cloud is accomplished by eight sensors of type LS7002 (Vaisala), which are distributed across the Austrian territory. The performance of a lightning location system is best described by the main performance parameters detection efficiency (DE), location accuracy (LA), and classification accuracy (CA).
In a study by Schwalt et al. (2020) based on data from a high speed video camera and an electric field recording system, it is shown that the DE of flashes (any group of cloud-to-ground, CG, and intracloud, IC, discharges belonging to the same origin in the cloud) exceeds 96%. The LA of the detected cloud-to-ground discharges is about 100 m on average. The accuracy to classify correctly individual lightning events as cloud-to-ground (CG) or intracloud (IC) events is 80-90% (classification accuracy, CA) for the sensor system LS7002.
Since 1998 a radio tower located on top of the Gaisberg (a mountain near Salzburg, Austria) is equipped with instruments in order to record lighting current waveforms and allow to obtain parameters of the lightning strokes to the tower. Thereby obtained data are also applicable for the performance analyses and calibration of the lightning location system ALDIS and lightning research studies in general.
The main goals of the ALDIS project group are:
to provide lightning data to a number of lighting sensitive businesses and organizations in Austria (meteorological services, insurance companies, etc.)
to perform research about the origins and effects of lightning which has an impact on the development of lightning protection system
thunderstorm warning due to automatically monitoring of first indications of approaching thunderstorms. This can be used to send warning messages to critical industries (e.g. handling of explosives)
long-term archiving of located lightning for statistical evaluations in connection with the determination of the local lightning hazard or risk management according to the valid international lightning protection standards (IEC/EN 62305 series).
Some historical lightning data can be accessed via HORA (Natural Hazard Overview & Risk Assessment Austria, https://hora.gv.at). An overview of the actual lightning activity in Austria is shown on ALDIS mobile.
References
Lightning
Science and technology in Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Foundation | AI Foundation is an American artificial intelligence company. It is based in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
History
Lars Buttler and Rob Meadows founded the AI Foundation, which creates intelligent agents that can be trained. The company was created in 2017 and had been operating in stealth mode until September 2018, when it was unveiled to the public for the first time.
AI Foundation is funded by Founders Fund, You & Mr Jones, Endeavor and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
At the One Young World conference started by David Jones, founder of You & Mr. Jones, Biz Stone and AI Foundation unveiled several prototypes such as a digital clone of Richard Branson.
On the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Deepak Chopra showed off his digital AI version of himself, developed the AI Foundation, which took Jimmy Fallon and the audience through a guided meditation. Deepak's AI was aptly called Digital Deepak and "will offer you advice whenever you need it" according to CNBC.
The first product AI Foundation released was called Reality Defender.
See also
Mind uploading
Digital twin
Chatbot
Digital immortality
Distributed cognition
Transhumanism
References
Artificial intelligence laboratories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansukh%20Chaturvedi%20ki%20Atmakatha | Mansukh Chaturvedi ki Atmakatha (transi: Autobiography of Mansukh Chaturvedi) is a 2019 Indian Comedy film directed and produced by Sachin Gupta under Chilsag Entertainment Network. It is produced by Sachin Gupta and Sushma Gupta. The film stars Sandeep Singh, Sikander Khan and Monika in the lead roles.
Plot
Mansukh the protagonist is from Etawah. He rules the hearts of his neighbours and is a heartthrob of his city with his head in the clouds. He dreams of being a big superstar in Mumbai, despite his father's concerns and his girlfriend, Munia's constant attempts to bring his head out of the clouds. However, for Mansukh, dreaming about being the 'Raving Hollywood star-Mansukh' is not new to his unreal world. The story revolves around a small town boy's dreams to be the superstar of the silver screen and the star of all hearts and the struggle of Mansukh's father with the help of Munia's efforts to make Mansukh realise the reality of the path he is on. In this comic trail of events we see what path Mansukh chooses for himself.
The film is based on a play called 'Dear Madhav' and was released all India.
Cast
Sandeep Singh as Mansukh Chaturvedi
Anamika Shukla as Buaji
Monika as Muniya
Sikander Khan as Mansukh's father
Vishal as casting guy
Anushka as actor 1
Desiree as actor 2
Megha as Mansukh's mother
Subrato as Paanwala
Music
The music for the film was composed by Shivang Mathur along with lyricist Shayra Apoorva.
References
Hindi-language comedy films
2010s Hindi-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG%20Neovo | Associated Industries China, Inc. (, ), known as AG Neovo, is a Taiwan-based multinational computer hardware and electronics company, headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Taiwan. Its main products include computer monitors, digital signage, commercial display, large format display, surveillance display, and healthcare displays. The company was established on May 18, 1978. In 1999, it transitioned its business direction to the development of electronic technology. In October of the same year, the company launched its owned brand - AG Neovo, with branch offices for Europe, Asia, and North America. Its digital photo frames and desktop computer monitors were once awarded by IF Product Design Award and Taiwan Excellence Awards.
Brand Name
AG Neovo. AG is an abbreviation of Aktiengesellschaft, which is a German term for a public limited company. Neovo is said to be a portmanteau of two Greek words, Neo and Vo.
History
Associated Industries China, Inc. was founded in 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan, producing steel intermodal containers as the revenue source.
In 1992, it was first listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the ticker code 9912. In October 1999, it launched its own brand name AG Neovo.
In 2000, the company's business direction changed to the hi-tech industry. At the beginning, the business covered both computer monitors OEM and AG Neovo owned-branded product sales and marketing.
In 2003, it withdrew from the OEM business, focusing on brand owned business. The product line includes computer monitors, digital photo frames, large format displays, surveillance displays and digital signage display products.
In 2014, it set up the healthcare business unit. This product line includes dental handpieces and portable dental units.
In 2017, it set up the Solutions business unit. This product lines includes cloud-based digital signage, interactive flat panel displays and display management software.
Products
Monitor and Hardware Displays: Desktop monitors, security monitors, clinic monitors, transportation monitors.
Digital Signage Displays: Large format commercial displays, video wall displays.
Interactive Displays: Industrial multi-touch displays, interactive flat panel displays.
Hardware and Software: Digital signage cloud-based content management system, PID command and control software, interactive meeting software.
Accessories: Monitor mounts, stand mounts, on-desk mounts, display open frame, video signal extension.
Dentist Equipment: High speed and low speed handsets, portable dental units.
See also
List of glossy display branding manufacturers
List of computer system manufacturers
List of companies of Taiwan
References
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
Electronics companies established in 1978
Companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
Display technology companies
1978 establishments in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Aiken%20%28psychologist%29 | Cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken is a Professor of cyberpsychology. Her book The Cyber Effect investigates the relationship between technology and human behaviour.
Education
She received a Masters in Science in cyberpsychology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Forensic Cyberpsychology.
Career
She is an academic advisor to Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at the University of East London (UEL) and an adviser to hedge fund the Paladin Capital Group.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals, and a Global fellow at Wilson Center
Author
On 18 August 2016, Aiken published her book The Cyber Effect. This book investigates the relationship between technology and human behaviour. The book received the award of "Book of the Year" in the "Thought Category" by the Times, along with "Science pick" by Nature.
Popular culture
Aiken was the inspiration for the lead character, played by Patricia Arquette, in CSI: Cyber.
Achievements
She was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame. In 2022, she was awarded the freedom of Dublin city.
References
External links
maryaiken.com - personal website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of East London
Fellows of the Royal Society of Medicine
21st-century Irish non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxe%20Radio | Luxe Radio () is a privately owned francophone Moroccan radio network. It focuses on fashion and lifestyle topics, and presents news and social, economic, and political debates. It plays exclusively cover versions of songs, particularly in lounge and electronic dance styles. Luxe Radio is based in Casablanca, Morocco, and broadcasts in Casablanca, Rabat, Jadida, Marrakesh, Essaouira, Agadir, Settat, and Asfi.
History
In 2008, Abdessamad Aboulghali responded to an international call for projects put out by Morocco's High Commission for Audio-Visual Communication (), a regulatory commission established by King Muhammad VI. Among 4 stations selected, Luxe Radio got its license on February 23, 2009. On March 1, it began broadcasting with five programs: Les Matins Luxe with Seddik Khalfi, Diamant rose with Ikram El Ghinaoui, Avec ou sans parure with Youssef Ait Akdim, Superflu with Habib Hemch and Les Nuits magiques with Karim Allam Bouché. The station's general director was Ilham Alami.
7:30 am – 10:00 am: "Les Matins Luxe"
Noon - 1:00 pm: "Heure Essentielle"
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: "Avec ou sans Parure",
Afternoon features :
3:45 pm:
4:00 pm:
4:15 pm:
4:30 pm:
4:45 pm:
5:00 pm:
5:15 pm:
5:30 pm:
5:45 pm:
Frequencies
FM frequencies by city:
Casablanca : 99.2 MHz
Rabat : 105.4 MHz
Jadida : 98.0 MHz
Marrakesh : 101.2 MHz
Agadir : 102.4 MHz
Essaouira : 102.0 MHz
Settat : 102.4 MHz
Asfi : 100.4 MHz
References
External links
Radio stations established in 2010
Radio stations in Morocco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon%20Sky%20Studios | Lemon Sky Studios is a computer-generated imagery studio that produces art for animation and video game titles, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company is best known for outsourcing computer animation and art project for major video game titles such as Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil: Resistance, Warcraft III: Reforged, StarCraft: Remastered, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Marvel's Spider-Man, and Gears of War 5. The studio also involved in animation series such as TruckTown and Nickelodeon's Middle School Moguls.
Organization
Lemon Sky's production team is made up of over 450 artists and production staff.
The studio's headquarters is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with an additional branch located in the city of Penang.
The studio's founders, Cheng-Fei Wong and Ken Foong, currently act as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer of the studio respectively.
Video game projects
Animation projects
Controversies
In March 2021, game journalist Chris Bratt from People Make Games interviewed 19 current and former employee from Lemon Sky Studios and Indonesia-based animation studio Brandoville regarding working conditions. The testimonial from employees revealed that Lemon Sky Studios allegedly put its artists through unpaid overtime and had them work weekends to meet tight deadlines from triple-A clients. The higher-ups allegedly used passive-aggressive methods to pressure Lemon Sky artists to work overtime. Lemon Sky Studios denied the allegations as "factually and legally inaccurate" and "are surprised that such allegations are targeted at Lemon Sky", stating they abide all Malaysian employment laws. Lemon Sky Studios also stated they will "take appropriate measures in response", include "obtaining feedback from all of our employees regarding their individual concerns".
References
Malaysian animation studios
Video game development companies
Mass media companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UNESCO%20Global%20Geoparks%20in%20Asia | In this List of UNESCO Global Geoparks in Asia, the term "Asia" means the UNESCO regional network of "Asia Pacifica," which is not a distinction of continents. Anatolia, historically the first Greek "Asia," from Luwian aswiya, today is part of the European Geoparks Network, as is western Russia. As there are not yet any geoparks in Siberia, or eastern Russia, the question of what geopark region it is remains unsettled. Hence the "Asia" portion of Asia Pacifica means southern and central Asia from Iran to Japan with Southeast Asia, which merges into the undefined "Pacifica," presumably involving islands of the Pacific. They must include Australia and New Zealand, not generally considered Southeast Asian or part of Asia. Strictly speaking, distinctions of continent are not being embraced.
All UNESCO regions, however, distinguish the regions by their nations, as part of the bottom up structure of UNESCO geopark networks. A geopark must first apply for accreditation in a "National Geopark Network," if it exists, or its equivalent if it does not. "National Geopark" is a label affixed by UNESCO to noteworthy parks or park systems within a nation. Once accredited there, the geopark applies (through its managers) to the Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN). Only after its certification as a regional geopark can it apply for certification as a UNESCO Global Geopark, the international network, of which there is only one.
As of 2022, there are 65 geopark members in the APGN from 8 countries, of which 41 are situated in China.
Certified Global Geoparks in the APGN
A certified global geopark is necessarily a certified regional geopark, here the APGN, and a certified national geopark. If any of the three levels of certification are missing for a park, it cannot be a global geopark and does not appear in the list.
See also
National geoparks of China
References
External links
Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (accessed 10 February 2020)
Geoparks in Asia
Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Services%20Forum | The Video Services Form (VSF) is an industry association that provides a platform for cooperation and communication between organizations with a stake in media networking. VSF activities include standards development, interoperability testing and the ongoing VidTrans conferences.
VSF published the TR-03 and TR-04 technical recommendations for professional video which were further developed by SMPTE to become SMPTE 2110.
Awards
Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for "Standardization and Productization of JPEG2000 (J2K) Interoperability."
References
1998 establishments in the United States
Broadcast engineering
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated%20K%3A%20For%20Kids%20by%20Kids | Rated K: For Kids by Kids is an American movie review television program that ran on the cable network Nickelodeon from 1986–1988.
Format
Each week, the show would feature a rotating blend of three young teenagers giving their opinions on the latest feature films and sometimes, what was new on home video. Each review was capped by an otherwise inconsistent letter grade system (for example A for Amazing, C for Classic, Confusing, or Crazy, G for Go, S for See It or So-So, and T for Terrific) with Letter K being that show's equivalent to an ultimate, perfect 5- or 4-star scale.
The three hosts would sit together on at a small blue table on a curved pink couch with white printed stars. While the introductions that summarized the films were scripted, the on-air reviews themselves were completely improvised. This usually resulted in a lot of playful teasing and ribbing between the hosts. The original hosts were Matt Nespole, Lakmini Besbroda, Mark Shanahan, and Rebecca Schwager. Other first wave hosts included Jennifer Rosa, Kimani Bethea, and Eben David.
Because of the show's target demographic by nature of it airing on Nickelodeon and the ages and young perspective of the hosts themselves, very rarely did Rated K: For Kids by Kids feature R-rated movies. The show would usually only feature an R-rated movie if it was in some way deemed relevant to the young audience, such as 1986's Stand by Me, which was about four young boys who go on a days-long hike to find a dead body. Other times, the show would review movies that while weren't R-rated, would nonetheless, not immediately be considered desirable or appealing to the show's young demographic. For example, the 1986 Jack Lemmon-Julie Andrews middle-aged drama That's Life! was reviewed on Rated K: For Kids by Kids.
At times, if there were not enough age appropriate movies to review for the week, the hosts would resort to discussing older features that were already out on VHS. One episode featured a segment discussing the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Another featured an on-set interview with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.
The Big Ballot
For the next four weeks beginning on March 28, 1987, the Rated K cast presented the results of a nationwide poll conducted by Nickelodeon that asked kids what their favorites in film, television, popular music, and sports from the past year were. Thus, came "The Big Ballot", which was a pre-produced program where ballots for the show's awards were cast via mail, and then the winners would tape a thank you video that was shown during the program. These videos were introduced, and broken up by "link" segments, featuring the Rated K cast. The Big Ballot was sponsored by Bonkers fruit chews and Post Cereal.
One year later, Nickelodeon would take the basic concept of The Big Ballot, and reconfigure it into what is now known as the Kids' Choice Awards. Unlike The Big Ballot, which was a pre-produced program produced at the Rated K studio in New York City, the Kids' Choice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWT%20%28disambiguation%29 | LWT may refer to:
Louis William Tomlinson
London Weekend Television, ITV network franchise holder for Greater London
Lebensmittel-Wissenschaft & Technologie (Food Science and Technology) a Swiss academic journal
Lewotobi language (ISO 639 language code: lwt)
Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, for the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre
Light Weight Tank, a version of the Space Shuttle external tank
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Lewistown Municipal Airport (IATA airport code: LWT; ICAO airport code: KLWT), Montana, USA
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, or Last Week Tonight, an American late-night talk show
See also
IWT (disambiguation)
LTW (disambiguation)
TWL (disambiguation)
TLW (disambiguation)
WTL (disambiguation)
WLT (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudatario | In the Catholic Church, a from – plural , was a priest in charge of carrying the train (strascico in Romanesco) of the cassock or the cappa magna of a prelate (cardinals, archbishops and bishops) during solemn ceremonies.
History
The use of robes with trains, capes and hoods for cardinals was introduced by Pope Nicholas III (). Since this would hinder their movement, the need arose to have an assistant, first a layman, later a religious, to hold the train of the cardinal's cassock. During the Avignon Papacy, the use of a caudatario spread among the minor prelates, such as the archbishops and bishops.
In 1546, Pope Paul III transformed the association of the caudatari into a collegio.
Santa Maria della Purità
In 1538, Pope Paul III gave the custody of the small church of Santa Maria della Purità in the Roman rione of Borgo to the association of caudatari. They maintained the church until 1897, when it was abandoned.
Function
At the beginning chaplain and Caudatario of a cardinal were two distinct figures, but then they merged into one. During the cardinal and papal solemn masses the caudatario was sitting next to the cardinal, holding his cap and reminding him what he had to do. The cardinal's vestments and furnishings were to be prepared by the caudatario to celebrate Mass in his domestic chapel, and to celebrate Mass itself.
Dress
When the cardinals used the mitre, the caudatari wore a violet cape, and above it a white stole one palm wide, knee-length and ending in a golden fringe. For papal functions the crush was also purple, of woven fabric with wide and short sleeves and purple silk linings, and with a cape with a hood. One side of the hood had a pocket to hold the cardinal's breviary. Pope Paul V (r. 1605-21) added a purple skirt with black buttons and a sash with purple bows. On 30 November 1952, with the motu proprio Valde solliciti, pope Pius XII (r. 1939-58) shortened by half the train of the cardinals' cloaks (first 12 meters, today 6) and the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites of 4 December 1952, also shortened the bishops' cloaks by half (first 7 meters, today 3.5). John XXIII (r. 1958-63) restored the meters of the Cardinals' cloak to 12 meters and the bishop's cloak to 7 meters after the reform of Pius XII.
References
Sources
Religious terminology
Organisation of Catholic religious orders
Catholic ecclesiastical titles
Christian religious occupations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnosticPlayers | GnosticPlayers is a computer hacking group, which is believed to have been formed in 2019 and gained notability for hacking Zynga, Canva, and several other online services.
The Independent reported that GnosticPlayers had claimed responsibility for hacking other online businesses, and stealing hundreds of millions of credentials from web databases such as MyFitnessPal, Dubsmash, and fourteen others; and subsequently selling these credentials on the dark web.
Reported members
In 2020, cyber security author Vinny Troia published a report listing the following core group's members
Maxime Tallet, who went under the aliases DDB, Casper, RawData, Pumpkin was the seller of the group.
Nassim Benhaddou who went under the alias Prosox was a member of the group, and was known to be Gabriel's early associate. According to Troia, Benhaddou later went on to form the group Shiny Hunters ref></ref>.
In 2019, Nassim Benhaddou, Gabriel Kimiaie-Asadi Bildstein, as well as Maxime Tallet, were arrested after Gabriel confessed that they hacked Gatehub. The hack reportedly involved the theft of $9.5 million worth of cryptocurrency.
Companies affected
GnosticPlayers have taken public responsibility for the following data breaches:
500px • 8fit • 8tracks • Animoto • Armor Games • Artsy • Avito • BlankMediaGames • Bookmate • Bukalapak • Canva • Chegg • CoffeeMeetsBagel • Coinmama • Coubic • DailyBooth • DataCamp • DubSmash • Edmodo • Epic Games • Evite • EyeEm • Fotolog • GameSalad • Gatehub • Ge.tt • GfyCat • HauteLook • Houzz • iCracked • Ixigo • Legendas.tv • LifeBear • Live Journal • LovePlanet • mefeedia • MindJolt • MyFitnessPal • MyHeritage • MyVestigage • Netlog & Twoo • OMGPop • Onebip • Overblog • Petflow • PiZap • PromoFarma • RoadTrippers • Roll20 • ShareThis • Shein • Singlesnet • Storenvy • StoryBird • StreetEasy • Stronghold Kingdoms • Taringa • Wanelo • WhitePages • Wirecard • Yanolja • Yatra • YouNow • Youthmanual • Zomato • Zynga
A report published by security research firm Night Lion Security states that the core members of GnosticPlayers (who are also connected with groups The Dark Overlord and Shiny Hunters) have been involved in 25% of non-credit card related data breaches between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2020.
See also
ShinyHunters
The Dark Overlord
References
Hacker groups
Hacking in the 2020s
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotting%20algorithms%20for%20the%20Mandelbrot%20set | There are many programs and algorithms used to plot the Mandelbrot set and other fractals, some of which are described in fractal-generating software. These programs use a variety of algorithms to determine the color of individual pixels efficiently.
Escape time algorithm
The simplest algorithm for generating a representation of the Mandelbrot set is known as the "escape time" algorithm. A repeating calculation is performed for each x, y point in the plot area and based on the behavior of that calculation, a color is chosen for that pixel.
Unoptimized naïve escape time algorithm
In both the unoptimized and optimized escape time algorithms, the x and y locations of each point are used as starting values in a repeating, or iterating calculation (described in detail below). The result of each iteration is used as the starting values for the next. The values are checked during each iteration to see whether they have reached a critical "escape" condition, or "bailout". If that condition is reached, the calculation is stopped, the pixel is drawn, and the next x, y point is examined. For some starting values, escape occurs quickly, after only a small number of iterations. For starting values very close to but not in the set, it may take hundreds or thousands of iterations to escape. For values within the Mandelbrot set, escape will never occur. The programmer or user must choose how many iterations–or how much "depth"–they wish to examine. The higher the maximal number of iterations, the more detail and subtlety emerge in the final image, but the longer time it will take to calculate the fractal image.
Escape conditions can be simple or complex. Because no complex number with a real or imaginary part greater than 2 can be part of the set, a common bailout is to escape when either coefficient exceeds 2. A more computationally complex method that detects escapes sooner, is to compute distance from the origin using the Pythagorean theorem, i.e., to determine the absolute value, or modulus, of the complex number. If this value exceeds 2, or equivalently, when the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts exceed 4, the point has reached escape. More computationally intensive rendering variations include the Buddhabrot method, which finds escaping points and plots their iterated coordinates.
The color of each point represents how quickly the values reached the escape point. Often black is used to show values that fail to escape before the iteration limit, and gradually brighter colors are used for points that escape. This gives a visual representation of how many cycles were required before reaching the escape condition.
To render such an image, the region of the complex plane we are considering is subdivided into a certain number of pixels. To color any such pixel, let be the midpoint of that pixel. We now iterate the critical point 0 under , checking at each step whether the orbit point has modulus larger than 2. When this is the case, we k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20France | Robert Bertrand France (October 8, 1960 – February 15, 2015) was a Jamaica-born American computer scientist.
Robert B. France was born in Jamaica on October 8, 1960, the eldest son of Robert W. and Jeanette France. He attended high school in Guyana and studied for a BSc degree in Natural Sciences at the University of the West Indies in Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics and receiving a first class degree in 1984. He then attended Massey University in New Zealand funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship, where he achieved a PhD degree in computer science in 1990. During the same year, he married Sheriffa R. Soleyn in Saint Vincent. They emigrated to the United States together and in due course moved to Fort Collins, Colorado.
During 1990–92, France was a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland. From 1992 to 1997, he was an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), becoming tenured in 1997–98. France was then appointed an associate professor from 1998 until 2004 and then full professor at Colorado State University within the department of computer science. He undertook research on model-driven software development, especially concerning formal software modeling languages and associated analysis tools. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Software and Systems Modeling journal from 1999 until 2015.
In 2008, Robert France and his co-authors Andy Evans, Kevin Lano, and Bernhard Rumpe, were awarded the Ten Year Most Influential Paper Award at the MODELS 2008 Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems for the 1998 paper "The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation". In 2013, France was awarded a five-year International Chair at INRIA in France. He was awarded a senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his research by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) in 2014. In the same year, he was awarded a Colorado State University, College of Natural Sciences Professor Laureate and an Excellence in Science and Technology Award from the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
Robert France died on February 15, 2015. He had a son and daughter with his wife, Sheriffa.
Selected publications
References
External links
Robert France home page
Robert France on ResearchGate
Dr. Robert France, Professor, Computer Science, Colorado State University on Vimeo
Robert B. France on DBLP
1960 births
2015 deaths
University of the West Indies alumni
Massey University alumni
Jamaican expatriates in the United States
American computer scientists
Formal methods people
Software engineering researchers
Academic journal editors
Florida Atlantic University faculty
Colorado State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-based%20model | An energy-based model (EBM) is a form of generative model (GM) imported directly from statistical physics to learning. GMs learn an underlying data distribution by analyzing a sample dataset. Once trained, a GM can produce other datasets that also match the data distribution. EBMs provide a unified framework for many probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches to such learning, particularly for training graphical and other structured models.
An EBM learns the characteristics of a target dataset and generates a similar but larger dataset. EBMs detect the latent variables of a dataset and generate new datasets with a similar distribution.
Target applications include natural language processing, robotics and computer vision.
History
The term "energy-based models" was first coined in a JMLR paper where the authors defined a generalisation of independent components analysis to the overcomplete setting using EBMs.
Other early work on EBMs proposed models that represented energy as a composition of latent and observable variables. EBMs surfaced in 2003.
Approach
EBMs capture dependencies by associating an unnormalized probability scalar (energy) to each configuration of the combination of observed and latent variables. Inference consists of finding (values of) latent variables that minimize the energy given a set of (values of) the observed variables. Similarly, the model learns a function that associates low energies to correct values of the latent variables, and higher energies to incorrect values.
Traditional EBMs rely on stochastic gradient-descent (SGD) optimization methods that are typically hard to apply to high-dimension datasets. In 2019, OpenAI publicized a variant that instead used Langevin dynamics (LD). LD is an iterative optimization algorithm that introduces noise to the estimator as part of learning an objective function. It can be used for Bayesian learning scenarios by producing samples from a posterior distribution.
EBMs do not require that energies be normalized as probabilities. In other words, energies do not need to sum to 1. Since there is no need to estimate the normalization constant like probabilistic models do, certain forms of inference and learning with EBMs are more tractable and flexible.
Samples are generated implicitly via a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach. A replay buffer of past images is used with LD to initialize the optimization module.
Characteristics
EBMs demonstrate useful properties:
Simplicity and stability–The EBM is the only object that needs to be designed and trained. Separate networks need not be trained to ensure balance.
Adaptive computation time–An EBM can generate sharp, diverse samples or (more quickly) coarse, less diverse samples. Given infinite time, this procedure produces true samples.
Flexibility–In Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and flow-based models, the generator learns a map from a continuous space to a (possibly) discontinuous space containing different data modes. EBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Network%20Science%20and%20Engineering | IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Communications Society. It covers the theory and applications of network science and networked systems. The editor-in-chief is Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen).
It is one of the highest quality and most selective journals in the field of network science. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.033.
References
External links
Engineering journals
IEEE academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle-i | The eagle-i network (or just eagle-i) was a tool developed by a set of institutions from the United States that enables users to locate scientific resources around their country. It was retired November 4, 2021 after more than a decade in service. It used an ontology to map the resources (such as scientific equipment) to their location, facilitating reuse and collaboration. The eagle-i team has produced ontologies that take care of different kinds of resources, such as the Reagent Application Ontology.
External links
[https://open.catalyst.harvard.edu/products/eagle-i/ eagle-i info page
https://www.eagle-i.net/ - former web site
References
Science websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202020 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales and digital downloads . The first number one of the year was "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2020
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2020 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20rating | Security ratings are an objective, data-driven, quantifiable measurement of an organization's overall cybersecurity performance. Security ratings provide businesses and government agencies with a third-party, independent view into the security behaviors and practices of their own organization as well as that of their business partners. Security ratings are a useful tool in evaluating cyber risk and facilitating collaborative, risk-based conversations.
According to Gartner, cybersecurity ratings will become as important as credit ratings when assessing the risk of existing and new business relationships. Gartner predicts that these services will be a perquisite for business relationships
Security Rating Services
The adoption of security rating services platforms is on the rise. In fact, Forrester Consulting found that 87% of respondents find security ratings valuable (37%) or extremely valuable (50%). There are a number of companies that provide security ratings services, including ISS, SecurityScorecard, myCYPR, Panorays, BitSight, FortifyData, RiskRecon, Black Kite and UpGuard.
Security Rating Services in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a completely different environment for cyber-risk. According to S&P Global Ratings, rating services may become an exception to these changes in the world of cyber-risk. Given the COVID-19 pandemic that occurred in 2020, many brick and mortar shops that have mainly been exclusively accessible through in-person contact, have been forced to provide their goods and services through a website. This shift causes a larger need for these services given the increase in possible clients that want to know the safety of their business domain.
References
Risk management
Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiy%20Vilkomir | Sergiy A. Vilkomir (November 19, 1956 – February 9, 2020) was a Ukrainian-born computer scientist.
Sergiy Vilkomir was born in 1956 in present-day Ukraine. He finished Mathematical College at the Moscow State University National Mathematical Boarding High School no. 18 (Head-Academician A. Kolmogorov, 1972–74), studied for an MSc degree in Mathematics and Mathematics Education at Kharkov State University (1974–79), and for a PhD degree at Kharkov Polytechnic Institute (1985–90). In Kharkiv, Ukraine, he then worked at the Ukrainian Polytechnic Institute (1979–82), the Central Institute of Complex Automation (1985–91), the Institute of Safety and Reliability of Technological Systems (1992–93), the Ukrainian State Scientific and Technical Centre on Nuclear and Radiation Safety (part of the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority of Ukraine, 1993–2000). His role included licensing and audits of computer-based safety systems at nuclear power plants.
In 2000, Vilkomir moved to the Centre for Applied Formal Methods at London South Bank University, becoming a Research Fellow there. He then joined the University of Wollongong in Australia, also as a Research Fellow. He subsequently worked with David Parnas at the University of Limerick in Ireland, before moving to the United States, initially as Research Associate Professor and the University of Tennessee during 2007–8, then rising to be an associate professor position at East Carolina University, which he joined in 2008. There he achieved academic tenure in 2012 and was Head of the Software Testing Research Group (STRG).
Vilkomir's main research contributions have been in the formalization of software testing. In particular, he proposed reinforced condition/decision coverage (RC/DC), a stronger version of the modified condition/decision coverage (MC/DC) coverage criterion for software testing in safety-critical systems.
Vilkomir was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award for 2010–11, the East Carolina University Scholar-Teacher Award in 2015, and the UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award in 2017. He was a Senior Member of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, from 2013), and the IEEE.
Sergiy Vilkomir died on February 9, 2020. He was married to Tetyana Vilkomir.
Selected publications
References
External links
Sergiy Vilkomir home page
Sergiy Vilkomir personal page
Sergiy Vilkomir on ResearchGate
Sergiy A. Vilkomir on DBLP
1956 births
2020 deaths
People from Kramatorsk
20th-century Ukrainian scientists
21st-century Ukrainian scientists
Moscow State University alumni
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Ukrainian computer scientists
Ukrainian expatriates in the United States
American computer scientists
Formal methods people
Software engineering researchers
Academics of London South Bank University
Academic staff of the University of Wollongong
Academics of the University of Limerick
University of Tennessee faculty
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilkomir%20%28disambiguation%29 | Vilkomir may refer to:
Vilkomir (aka Ukmergė), a city in Vilnius County, Lithuania
Battle of Vilkomir (1435, aka Battle of Wilkomierz)
People
Sergiy Vilkomir (1957–2020), Ukrainian computer scientist
See also
Charles Frank (1865—1959, born in Vilkomir), Scottish optical and scientific instrument maker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestreamed%20news | Livestreamed news refers to live videos streams of television news which are provided via streaming television or via streaming media by various television networks and television news outlets, from various countries. The majority of live news streams are produced as world news broadcasts, by major television networks, or by major news channels; however, there are some live news streams which are produced by individual local television channels as well.
A live news stream is distinct from news broadcasts that are transmitted via conventional broadcast television; since it is not transmitted via cable television services, and not via over-the-air television. These are provided through Smart TV, or else through the networks' own websites, or also possibly via internet television, especially YouTube, or via video on demand services, subscription video on demand websites such as e.g. Hulu, mobile apps, or digital media players that are designed to play streaming television, such as e.g. the Roku media player.
For some twenty-four-hour news channels, the content being shown via its streaming news service, and via its broadcast television channels, may be identical; however, for regular commercial networks, the content of the streaming news may be quite different than what is being broadcast; i.e. the broadcast channels may regularly carry standard television entertainment, while the streaming service is devoted to news only. One example of this is the American broadcaster ABC Television Network, and its streaming online ABC News Live service.
News sources by region
North American news outlets
Various networks and news outlets in North America have provided official live video streams of news for most or all of the day, as described below.
The ABC Television Network has provided a live streaming service of world news, known as "ABC News Live," for eighteen hours per day, since 2018. This is available via ABC's official platform on Hulu, as well as the network's official YouTube channel.
In 2014, the CBS Television Network launched a live streaming news service, entitled "CBSN." This livestream is transmitted 15 hours per day. It is available via the CBS website, its official YouTube channel, various mobile apps, various TV services such as Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.
In May 2019, the NBC Television Network launched a livestream news service, "NBC News Now," with eight hours of news per day. It is available via the NBC website, mobile apps, and various TV services.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation streams its programs through several online platforms, including its website, its official YouTube channel, its official mobile app, and several streaming tv services.
Bloomberg Television provides a livestream through its website, its official YouTube channel, and various mobile apps and streaming television services. Bloomberg Television offers some off-air news updates via social media including Facebook, and Twitter. Rebroadcasts of news |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika%20Megler | Veronika Margaret Megler (born 14 October 1960) is an Australian computer scientist. Megler is currently principal data scientist at Amazon Web Services, and is well known as the co-developer of The Hobbit, a 1982 text adventure game adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Education
Megler was born in 1960, and educated in Melbourne at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, where she was school valedictorian in science. She began studying science at the University of Melbourne, intending to major in statistics but switching to a computer science major which she found more enjoyable.
Beam Software
At university, she saw a job notice for a position as a programmer at video game development studio Beam Software/Melbourne House, which she successfully applied for, becoming the company's first employee. She recruited her friend, Philip Mitchell, into Beam and the two began working on an illustrated interactive fiction game based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, with Megler concentrating on the game's physics system and a measure of autonomy for non-player characters.
Megler and Mitchell also developed another Beam game, Penetrator, also released in 1982.
Computer science career
Prior to her graduation from the University of Melbourne, Megler resigned from Beam to concentrate on her studies, and Mitchell remained to complete the ZX Spectrum version. Megler worked at IBM as an information technology architect, operating system expert and consultant. In 2009, she left IBM to study for a master's degree and PhD in computer science for scientific big data at Portland State University. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and is principal data scientist at Amazon Robotics.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Women data scientists
Data scientists
Australian video game designers
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Melbourne women
Portland State University alumni
Scientists from Melbourne
People educated at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofari | Christofari — are Christofari (2019), Christofari Neo (2021) supercomputers of Sberbank based on Nvidia corporation hardware Sberbank of Russia and Nvidia. Their main purpose is neural network learning. They are also used for scientific research and commercial calculations.
The supercomputers are named after , the first customer of Sberbank, holder of the Bank's first savings account passbook. The supercomputers are listed in the Top 500 ranking of most powerful commercially available computer systems.
Development
Sberbank presented the supercomputers together with its subsidiary SberCloud. In December 2019, Sberbank and SberCloud commercially launched the Christofari supercomputer. Within a year, the power of Christofari became the foundation of a cloud based ML Space platform. It was configured to work with machine learning models. Sberbank and SberCloud announced this platform in December 2020.
The more powerful Christofari Neo supercomputer was presented at the AI Journey international conference in November 2021 by David Rafalovsky, the CTO of Sberbank Group. Currently David Rafalovsky is not a member of Sberbank Group.
Usage
The supercomputers can be used by scientific, commercial and government organizations working in the various sectors of the economy. The machines were developed to work with artificial intelligence algorithms, neural network learning, and inference of various models.
Sber uses Christofari for internal tasks e.g. speech recognition and autoresponder voice generation in a call center (40% of customer inquiries are already answered automatically by bots). Also they use it for analysis of CT scan images of the lungs. The SberDevices and Sber AI teams were the first who received access to Christofari Neo. They developed the first service based on the DALL-E neural network that generates images from queries in Russian.
The power of supercomputers is also provided to other organizations when connecting the services of the cloud platform SberCloud ML Space.
Christofari
The first supercomputer was presented by Herman Gref, CEO of Sberbank, and David Rafalovsky, CTO of Sberbank Group, on 8 November 2019, at the AI Journey conference in Moscow.
As of March 2020, this is the only supercomputer in Russia designed specifically for working with artificial intelligence algorithms. It is capable of training software models based on complex neural networks in unprecedentedly short time, it's Russia's fastest supercomputer.
The Christofari machines are based on Nvidia DGX-2 nodes equipped with Tesla V100 graphics accelerators. The InfiniBand network based on Mellanox hardware is used for an interconnection. Effective performance is about 6.7 petaflops, which makes it the 40th most powerful system in the world (at the time of launch on 8 November 2019), the 7th in Europe, and the 1st in Russia (the results of the previous Russian leader — the Lomonosov-2 system — were exceeded by more than two times). This is the first superc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serafina%20Cuomo | Serafina Cuomo (born May 21, 1966) is an Italian historian and professor at Durham University. Cuomo specialises in the history of ancient mathematics, including the computing practices in ancient Rome and Pappos, and also with the history of technology.
Education
Cuomo achieved a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Naples and received a doctorate in History and Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Career
Cuomo formerly worked as a speaker at Imperial College London, Birkbeck University of London. Currently, Cuomo works at Durham University at the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
In 2019, Cuomo participated in the EHESS (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).
Books
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Ancient Mathematics (Sciences of Antiquity, Routledge, 2001)
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Articles and chapters
“Skills and virtues in Vitruvius’ book 10”, in M. Formisano (ed.), War in Words, Leiden: Brill 2011, 309-32
“All the proconsul’s men: Cicero, Verres and account-keeping”, Annali dell’Università degli studi di Napoli ‘L’ Orientale’. Sezione filologico-letteraria. Quaderni 15, Naples 2011, 165-85
“A Roman engineer’s tales”, Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011), 143-65
“Measures for an emperor: Volusius Maecianus’ monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius”, in J. König & T. Whitmarsh (eds.), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press 2007, 206-228
“The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica”, in C.J. Tuplin & T.E. Rihll (eds.), Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, 165-77
“Divide and rule: Frontinus and Roman land-surveying”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31 (2000), 189-202
“Shooting by the book: Notes on Tartaglia's ‘Scientia Nova’”, History of Science 35 (1997), 155-88
References
1966 births
Living people
Classical scholars of the University of Durham
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
21st-century Italian historians
University of Naples Federico II alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Introduction%20to%20Cybernetics | An Introduction to Cybernetics is a book by W. Ross Ashby, first published in 1956 in London by Chapman and Hall. An Introduction is considered the first textbook on cybernetics, where the basic principles of the new field were first rigorously laid out. It was intended to serve as an elementary introduction to cybernetic principles of homeostasis, primarily for an audience of physiologists, psychologists, and sociologists. Ashby addressed adjacent topics in addition to cybernetics such as information theory, communications theory, control theory, game theory and systems theory.
A second English edition was published in 1964 by Methuen & Co. with no changes to the original text, alongside the original preface.
An Introduction was translated into many languages. Editions were published in Russian and French in 1957, Spanish in 1958, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian in 1959, German in 1965, and Bulgarian and Italian in 1966.
Reception
Reviews of An Introduction to Cybernetics were mostly positive, alongside some mixed opinions. Positive reviews highlighted Ashby's clear explanations of complex concepts, as well as his inclusion of examples and exercises. Detractors were critical of Ashby's marked new vocabulary, replacing the usual terminology even when unnecessary ("components with independence" in lieu of "degrees of freedom", "decaying variety" as compared to "entropy", "transmission of variety" versus "transmission of information" etc). Additionally, some took issue with the philosophical nature of Ashby's claims in a largely mathematically rigorous text.
Table of contents
Part one: Mechanism
In this section, Ashby lays out a terminological grounding for his later discussions of variety and regulation. He begins with a discussion of the analysis of systems in discrete states, and how they may change and become different. Along with a set of terms to be used, Ashby introduces the mathematical notation that he will use for the rest of the book.
Part two: Variety
This part of the book introduces ideas of information and communication. Ashby discusses his concept of "variety", which he defines roughly as a set of possible states that a system may take.
Part three: Regulation and Control
Part Three deals with what Ashby notes is the "central theme" of cybernetics. It relates Ashby's concept of variety with regulation and control. Finally, it contains an explanation of Ashby's well known Law of Requisite Variety.
Key ideas
New terms
This work introduces a new set of terms for discussing properties of systems, both biological and mechanical. Donald M. MacKay, a pioneer of information theory and cybernetics himself, writes in a review in a 1957 issue of Nature: Ashby's treatment of the 'decay of variety' in a determinate system is particularly illuminating, and his discussions of the concepts of 'system', 'model', 'black box' and the like are excellent in the clarity with which they distinguish his usage from other people's.In An Introduct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian%20NGOs%20Network | The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO or PNGO Net) is an umbrella organization of Palestinian non-government organisations (NGOs) in the Palestinian territories formed to enhance coordination, consultation and cooperation between member NGOs and to strengthen Palestinian civil society and contribute to the establishment of a Palestinian state. PNGO was formed in September 1993, and as of January 2020, had 135 member NGOs operating in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
PNGO operates through committees of members working in five sectors: health, democracy and human rights, women and children, rehabilitation and agriculture. PNGO role is to establish general guidelines and coordinate the NGOs work but has no line authority on the NGOs.
PNGO is a member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Individual PNGO members, such as Defense for Children International – Palestine, also promote BDS and are active participants in lobbying the UN, EU, foreign governments, and other international bodies that promote this agenda.
Funding of NGOs
Each member NGO obtains separate funding for its activities and projects from donors, including foreign governments, international organisations, charities, etc., which all form part of the international aid to Palestinians.
In January 2020, the European Union (EU) inserted a clause in new EU’s grant contracts to prohibit recipients from working with and funding organizations and individuals designated on the EU’s terror lists, Article 1.5 of Annex II listed in the “General conditions applicable to European Union-financed grant contracts for external actions”. The PNGO vehemently opposed the new requirement. Media reports stated that the PNGO's position was that Palestinian terrorist organizations are in fact “political parties.” According to the PNGO, the EU sent a “clarification letter” on 30 March 2020, which specified that the EU provision only applies to persons explicitly named in its restrictive list and emphasized that no Palestinian persons are included in that list, and that the provision is limited to “financial procedures”, adding: “The EU does not ask any civil society organization to change its political position towards any Palestinian faction or to discriminate against any natural person based on his/her political affiliation”. The EU reaffirmed its position in April 2021, saying the EU must “thoroughly verify” that its funds are not “allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalization.” Any funds that did go to any person or organization with terrorist ties must be “proactively recovered, and recipients involved are excluded from future union funding.”
According to research by NGO Monitor, a pro-government Israeli monitoring group focused on the sources and uses of Palestinians civic society organizations’ funding, it is alleged that at least 70 NGO officials are affiliated with the PFLP and that between 2014 and 2021, numerous E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Danube%20Corridor | The Rhine–Danube Corridor (previously known as Seine–Danube Corridor and Strassburg–Danube Corridor) is the ninth of the ten priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network.
Description
The Strasbourg–Danube Corridor develops its network from the Seine to the Danube on the following three axes and through the following European cities (see route in cyano on the official TEN-T map published on the European Union website visible below in the note).
Strasbourg – Stuttgart – München – Wels/Linz
Strasbourg – Mannheim – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nürnberg – Regensburg – Passau – Wels/Linz
Wels/Linz – Wien – Budapest – Arad – Brașov – Bucharest – Constanța - Sulina
References
External links
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
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