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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20350 | The IBM Thinkpad 350 series was a notebook computer series introduced in 1993 by IBM as part of their Thinkpad laptop series. It was the successor to the IBM ThinkPad 300. With only 2 models ever made in the series, it was succeeded in 1994 by the IBM Thinkpad 360 series.
History
The 350 was announced in June 1993. The 125MB disk version started shipping in June 1993, the 250MB version started shipping in July.
The New York Times noted that IBM challenged Compaq with the development of the 350, who was the market leader in the lower priced notebook market.
Features
The 350 series shipped with IBM PC DOS 5.02 as the included operating system.
Both models in the series came with an Intel 486SL running at 25 MHz, and a CT-65530 video controller with 1 MB of video memory. Both models also had a standard 4 MB of RAM that was on a proprietary IC DRAM Card. If a user wanted to upgrade the ram, the 350 ThinkPads supported an IC DRAM Card size up to 20 MB.
Both in the series came with a 125 or 250 MB standard hard drive, and a non-removable 1.44 MB floppy drive. Both models also had a battery life up to 9 hours.
In March 1994, IBM cut the prices by 12%.
The 350 is identical to the PS/Note 425 and the 350C is identical to the PS/Note 400SL/25.
Models
IBM ThinkPad 350 — The first model in the series, it introduced a Intel 486SL running at 25 MHz, a monochrome 9.5" STN display with 640x480 resolution, 4 MB of ram on an IC DRAM Card, a non-removable 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive and a 250 MB hard disk drive. The 350 weighed 5.2lb in total, and started at $2,099. Other features included: Trackpoint II, Type II PCMIA slot.
IBM ThinkPad 350C — Basically the same as the first, and also the second and last in the series, it only had 1 notable change to a 9.2" STL LCD 640x480 256 color display. It also added the additional option of a 125 MB hard drive alongside the 250 MB option. It weighed 5.7lbs, a .5lb gain from the base 350 model. The 350C started at a price of $1,999 with the highest being $2,399.
Comparison
Reception
A review by the Los Angeles Times considered the ThinkPad 350 not an impressive machine due the fact it was bundling IBM DOS instead of MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. A review of the 350C by InfoWorld noted the good screen and the relatively short battery life.
References
ThinkPad 350
350 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20360 | The IBM ThinkPad 360 series was a notebook computer series introduced in 1994 by IBM as part of their ThinkPad laptop series. It was succeeded in late 1995 by the IBM ThinkPad 365 series.
History
On October 17, 1994, the ThinkPad 360 CE and CSE were released. Both had a Intel 486DX-2 50 MHz processor, 4 MB of memory, a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, and a 250, 340, 540, or 810 MB hard disk drive with PC DOS 6.0/Windows 3.1 and various included software. Both units came with a Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery pack that could last 2.9 hours in a CSE and 3.2 hours in a CE, while only taking 1.5 hours to charge. Both the CE and CSE were mainly the same in terms of specifications, with the only notable difference of a 9.5in 640x480 DSTN screen for the CSE and a 8.4in 640x480 TFT screen for the CE. It cost between $2,649 and $4,199 for a unit depending on the configuration.
Many of the models in the 360 series were discontinued by IBM on December 21, 1995. This included the CS, C, P, CSE, and CE.
Features
Most models in the 360 series shipped with IBM PC DOS 6.3 and Windows 3.11 as the included operating system, while some such as the 360P and PE shipped with DOS 6.21 and PenDOS 2.2.
All models in the series featured an Intel 486SX or DX2 processor running at 33 to 50 MHz, and a WD90C24A2 or WD90C24 video controller with 1 MB of video memory. A standard of 4 MB RAM was installed, which was soldered onto the motherboard. The ram could be upgraded to up to 20 MB in total if the user had a IC DRAM Card, which goes into a slot under the floppy disk drive.
The standard hard drive size was 170 or 340 MB, later adding the option to 540 MB. All models in the series had a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive in an ultrabay.
Two notable models in the series, the 360P and 360PE, featured a pen touch display, which could also fold back and down to close like a tablet.
Models
IBM ThinkPad 360 — One of the first models in the series, it introduced a Intel 486SX processor running at 33 MHz. It had 4 MB of ram, which could only be upgraded to a maximum of 20 MB with a IC DRAM Card. It featured a 9.5-inch monochrome screen, and could hold a battery charge up to 10 hours. Other features included: 170 or 340 MB hard drive options, a 3.5-inch 1.44 MB removable floppy drive, Trackpoint II pointing device, and 1 Type III or 2 Type II or 2 Type I PCMIA slots.
IBM ThinkPad 360C — Released the same time as the 360, the 360C model was basically identical to the 360 but with a 8.5-inch TFT color screen, and a decrease to 5 hours of battery life. It had a 0.5lb increase in weight, and it cost over $4,399 if it came with 8 MB of RAM and a 170 MB hard disk.
IBM ThinkPad 360CS — Also released the same time as the 360C and 360 base model, the 360CS model was also identical to the 360C and 360, with only a few differences. It had a 9.5-inch DSTN screen, a slight increase in battery life from 7 to 8 hours, and a slight weight increase of 0.1lb.IBM ThinkPad 360P — The 360P model introd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20700 | The IBM ThinkPad 700 (also named model 700 PS/2) is the first notebook computer for the ThinkPad brand that was released by IBM on October 5, 1992. Another series was released alongside it, the ThinkPad 300 series. The 300 series was meant to be a cheaper, lower performance model line over the 700. It was developed as a successor to the L40SX.
It was generally received positively by reviewers, although it had a high price and shorter battery life.
History
Because of design issues with the L40SX, the next iteration of IBM laptops were going to involve industrial designer Richard Sapper. Richard designed the ThinkPad 700, being inspired from a rectangular cigar box, and kept it simplistic.
Before the announcement of the 700 series, it has been speculated that the 700 and 700T would be manufactured by AST Research, Inc.
The first IBM ThinkPads, the 700 and 700C, were launched on October 5, 1992, alongside the 300 series.
The IBM 2521 (IBM 700T) was announced on April 17, 1992 and launched in July 1993. It was marketed as a data entry tablet for hospitals, health care providers, and field operation workers.
The ThinkPad 700C uses a color screen made by the joint venture Display Technologies, Inc. It was the largest active matrix display in a laptop when it was released.
President George H. W. Bush wanted to buy a ThinkPad 700C as a Christmas present for his wife Barbara Bush when it was released. It was sold out, so he called then IBM CEO John Akers. Akers reached out to the general manager of IBM's PC division Jim Cannavino, who took the next ThinkPad from the assembly line and shipped it to the White House.
Features and models
Both the 700 and 700C were based on the 25MHz IBM 486SLC processor with 4 MB of memory, and had a nickel metal hydride battery that was claimed by IBM to last almost 4 hours. The 700 had the option of a 80 or 120 MB hard disk size, and a 9.5in 640 x 480 monochrome screen. The 700C had a standard 120 MB hard disk size, and 4, 8 or 16 MB memory options. It also had a 10.4in 640 x 480 active-matrix color screen. Both the 700 and 700C came with PC DOS 5.02 and Prodigy, an internet service. Other features both included were a modem, serial, VGA, and parallel ports, port replicator, docking station connector, and built in 3 1/2" 1.44 MB floppy disk drive.
Both the 700 and 700C came in a standard black color, but a less-known "IBM-Beige" color was available. Additionally later on a 50MHz processor upgrade was offered by IBM for the 700 and 700C, giving it better performance.
The 700T was a portable pen-operated tablet that had a 20MHz Intel 386SX, 4 or 8 MB of memory, a 10 in 640 x 480 monochrome screen, and also very uncommon for its time, had a 20 MB solid state drive instead of a hard drive for storage. The 700T used an operating system created by Go Corporation known as PenPoint OS. Other features the 700T had was a built in 2.4kbit/s modem, a serial, parallel, external floppy drive, and keyboard connector.
The 70 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20750 | The IBM ThinkPad 750 is a series of notebook computers from the ThinkPad series manufactured by IBM.
Features
The 750 series included support for Cellular digital packet data. They also included the pop-up keyboard. The RAM could be expanded with an IC DRAM Card that contained ICs from Hitachi.
Models
750
750C
750Cs
750P
Comparison
Reception
A review of the 750C by the Los Angeles Times noted the excellent screen and the keyboard that be lifted up. It also noted the high price.
References
External links
Thinkwiki.de - 750
ThinkPad 750
750 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourly | Neighbourly is a neighbourhood-based social networking website operating in New Zealand.
The website was founded by Casey Eden. It was trialled in two Auckland suburbs, St Heliers and Kohimarama, in December 2013, then launched nationally in June 2015.
In December 2014, Fairfax Media New Zealand bought a 22.5 percent stake in the website. In 2017 it acquired the remaining shares. Following changes to Fairfax Media in 2018, the website is now owned by Stuff Ltd.
In 2015, the website was a finalist in the NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards in the Community Impact category.
References
External links
Neighbourly
New Zealand websites
2013 establishments in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czinger%2021C | The Czinger 21C is a hybrid sports car developed using artificial intelligence and 3D printed by the American car manufacturer Czinger Vehicles. Manufacturing began in 2021, with a planned production run of 80 units and deliveries starting Q1 2023.
Presentation
Designed, developed and built in Los Angeles, California, the Czinger 21C launches the new brand Czinger Vehicles named after its founder Kevin Czinger. The car was to be presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2020, but the show was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was instead presented on March 11, 2020, in London during a special event.
Czinger Vehicles will produce only 80 units in two configurations: a road variant and a track variant called "Lightweight Track".
Technical characteristics
The 21C has a driver's seat in the central position and an in-line passenger seat behind that of the driver, minimizing the width of the cockpit.
The brake calipers and suspension components are combined into a single unit called the BrakeNode.
Powertrain
The 21C has a hybrid gasoline engine consisting of a bespoke twin-turbo V8 of capacity in the rear central position associated with two electric motors located on the front and powered by a lithium titanate battery. The combination provides at 10,500 rpm transmitted to the rear wheels via a seven-speed sequential transaxle with hydraulic actuated multi-plate clutch. A horsepower option is also available.
See also
List of production cars by power output
Notes and references
External links
Official site of Czinger
Electric sports cars
Hybrid electric cars
First car made by manufacturer
Cars introduced in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%26L | R&L or R+L may refer to:
Relocation and linkage (R&L), an abbreviation in program development in computing
Rhaegar + Lyanna = Jon, a fan theory regarding the Jon Snow character in the "A Song of Ice and Fire"/"Game of Thrones" fantasy series
R+L Carriers, an American freight shipping company
RL circuit, an electrical circuit consisting of R and L components
R&L Education (Rowman & Littlefield), a publishing house
Rhett & Link, YouTube duo from Buies Creek, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Obaikol | Charles Bernard Obaikol Ebitu was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Soroti in Uganda.
External links
Uganda Radio Network
igihe
All Africa
References
21st-century Anglican bishops in Uganda
Anglican bishops of Soroti
Uganda Christian University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneanet | Geneanet (previously stylized as GeneaNet) is a genealogy website with 4 million members. The database consists of data added by participants and is intended for all genealogists. The website is collaborative and the data added by the members are available for free to any interested people. An optional annual subscription provides additional search options and additional records.
History
In 1996, Jacques Le Marois, Jérôme Abela, and Julien Cassaigne launched a website for "using the strength of the Internet to build a database indexing all the genealogical resources existing in the world, available or not online". The former name was "LPF" (List of surnames of France). Geneanet has officially launched on December 2, 1996.
The purpose of the site is, through the family trees shared by the members, to match hundreds of thousands of records and genealogical data, to maximize the opportunities of finding common ancestors and growing the family trees. A search in this index can tell if a surname has been investigated by a genealogist (mostly amateur) in a certain place and a certain period of time. Over the years, Geneanet has developed new tools: an internal mailbox, some charts and lists print tools, a digitized library... The number of unique visitors par month has increased from 330,000 in 2006 to more than 1 million in 2018. In 2019, Geneanet has more than 2 million unique visitors per month and is called "heavyweight of the sector".
In August 2012, the Geneanet database reached the milestone of 1 billion entries, then 2 billion in August 2015, and 6 billion in 2019.
In September 2014, Geneanet launched a project for indexing soldiers in the First World War. At that time, the site was hosting more than 530,000 family trees with 800 million individuals.
Since 2015, Geneanet participated in the genealogical exhibition which held in the town hall of the 15th arrondissement of Paris
In 2017, Geneanet signed a partnership with FamilySearch, allowing the LDS members to have a free Geneanet Premium subscription.
In 2018, Geneanet took part in the debate about DNA tests for genealogical purpose. Since then, the site conducts surveys with its members (20,000 en 2018).
On June 28, 2018, the CEO of Geneanet, Jacques Le Marois, was present at the Filae General Assembly, its main competitor, because the Trudaine Participations company (which more than 30% of the capital is held by Geneanet) has acquired 25% of the capital of Filae. Geneanet was acquired by Ancestry.com in August 2021.
Description
Geneanet has 3 million members, 800,000 family trees and 6 billion indexed individuals as of March 2019. The site proposes three levels of use (visitor, registered and Premium): the second level allows the user to create a family tree, and the third level is a paid service which allows the user access to collections added by genealogy societies among other things.
Geneanet is a contributive, collaborative and freemium website. The site allows users to cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Syverson | Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".
In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
References
American computer scientists
Privacy activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nationality missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20%26%20Things%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Kings & Things (also known as Kings & Things*) was a computer moderated fantasy play-by-mail game published by Andon Games that was active in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the game, up to twenty players took the role of leader of a kingdom and recruited "things" or creatures to assist them in becoming the next emperor. Combat, diplomacy, and magic played significant roles in this fantasy role-playing game. Reception was generally positive, although there were comments about cumbersome turn results during the late 1980s. The game enjoyed peak reviews and ratings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the Origins Award for best play-by-mail game in 1988.
Gameplay
On a 12 × 12 map, up to twenty players were leaders of different kingdoms in the land of Kadab, vying to become the next emperor. Each of the countries — with names such as Juju, Sulu, and Terrain Kings — had a unique power such as increased offense or additional income per turn. Twelve of the twenty kingdoms were unique. Seven received special terrain bonuses for fighting in home terrain type, two received magical bonuses, and two received spying/stealing bonuses.
Players tried to recruit various creatures for their armies, which could be ""a slime beast, killer turtle, swamp gas, flying buffalo … or bird of paradise". Players began the game with a basic army, and acquired more by exploring different territories, vanquished foes, or simply buying them.
Combat was a central part of the game and allowed the player to make choices about ranged weapons, melee, and acceptable losses. Like many fantasy games, magic also played a significant role, and kingdoms possessed and could train additional wizards to employ in combat, which could enable an otherwise outnumbered army to win the day on the field of battle. A more unusual tool available was the random event, which could be used against enemies, including in combat. These included events such as "nomadic Tribesman, Laziness, Vandals", and others. Players who added to their territory list from successful combat gained additional food and income per turn from the territory based on its type.
Game mechanics allowed players other actions as well, to include the ability to build several types of forts including towers, keeps, castles, and citadels, in increasing order of strength. Players could also conduct spying and stealing missions from other kingdoms.
Development
In 1983, Tom Wham designed and produced the artwork for a game titled King of the Tabletop, which was included as a pull-out game in Issue 77 of Dragon. Wham subsequently revised the game, and it was reimplemented as a boxed set titled Kings & Things, published in a bookcase box in 1986 by West End Games in North America and Games Workshop in the UK.
In 1987, Andon Games started to develop a computer-moderated play-by-mail (PBM) game. In the September–October 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem, Andon advised that game development was proceeding quickly with a developing rulebook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor%20%28functional%20programming%29 | In functional programming, a functor is a design pattern inspired by the definition from category theory that allows one to apply a function to values inside a generic type without changing the structure of the generic type. In Haskell this idea can be captured in a type class:
class Functor f where
fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
This declaration says that any type of Functor must support a method fmap, which maps a function over the element(s) of the Functor.
Functors in Haskell should also obey functor laws, which state that the mapping operation preserves the identity function and composition of functions:
fmap id = id
fmap (g . h) = (fmap g) . (fmap h)
(where . stands for function composition).
In Scala a trait can be used:
trait Functor[F[_]] {
def map[A,B](a: F[A])(f: A => B): F[B]
}
Functors form a base for more complex abstractions like Applicative Functor, Monad, and Comonad, all of which build atop a canonical functor structure. Functors are useful in modeling functional effects by values of parameterized data types. Modifiable computations are modeled by allowing a pure function to be applied to values of the "inner" type, thus creating the new overall value which represents the modified computation (which might yet to be run).
Examples
In Haskell, lists are a simple example of a functor. We may implement as
fmap f [] = []
fmap f (x:xs) = (f x) : fmap f xs
A binary tree may similarly be described as a functor:
data Tree a = Leaf | Node a (Tree a) (Tree a)
instance Functor Tree where
fmap f Leaf = Leaf
fmap f (Node x l r) = Node (f x) (fmap f l) (fmap f r)
If we have a binary tree and a function , the function will apply to every element of . For example, if is , adding 1 to each element of can be expressed as .
See also
Functor in category theory
Applicative functor, a special type of functor
References
External links
Section about Functor in Haskell Typeclassopedia
Chapter 11 Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids in Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Documentation for Functor in Cats library
Section about Functor in lemastero/scala_typeclassopedia
Functional programming
Software design patterns
Programming idioms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Documentaries | Sky Documentaries is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky, a division of Comcast, which launched on 27 May 2020. Sky Documentaries broadcasts imported programming from HBO alongside new original programming. The channel can also be watched via a live stream and box sets on Sky's streaming service, Now.
Programming
Sky Documentaries currently broadcast a variety of documentary series, both on the live TV feed and on demand:
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
Allen v. Farrow
Agnelli
Bitter Pill: Primodos
Exterminate All the Brutes
Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell
Framing Britney Spears
The Go-Go’s (also broadcast on Sky Arts in March 2021)
Hawking
Hillary
Janet Jackson
The Kingmaker
Lancaster
Look Away
McMillions
McQueen: The Lost Movie
The Plastic Nile
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Superswede (Ronnie Peterson)
Tiger Woods: The Comeback
Tina (Tina Turner)
The Vow
The Crime of the Century
Bruno v Tyson
The United Way
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
Branding
The logo consists of the Sky logo coloured red followed by the word "documentaries" on a red background. The logo was originally black, but was later changed to red.
As of May 2020, the channel is sponsored by UK car manufacturer Jaguar.
International version
On 1 July 2021, Sky Documentaries was launched in Italy, alongside Sky Nature, Sky Investigation (the local version of Sky Witness) and Sky Serie (the local version of Sky Max).
On 9 September 2021, Sky Documentaries was launched in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
See also
List of television stations in the United Kingdom
References
Sky television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2020
English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
Television channels in the United Kingdom
2020 establishments in the United Kingdom
Documentary television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuying%20Li | Yuying Li is a Chinese-Canadian professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research interests include mathematical optimization, scientific computing, data mining, and tail risk in computational finance.
Education and career
After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982 from Sichuan University, Li completed a PhD at the University of Waterloo, in 1988. Her dissertation, An Efficient Algorithm for Nonlinear Minimax Problems, was supervised by Andrew Conn.
She worked as a researcher at Cornell University before returning to Waterloo as a faculty member.
Recognition
Li was the 1993 winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Sichuan University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%21%20Teenieping | Catch! Teenieping () is a South Korean computer-animated television series produced by SAMG Entertainment. The first season of the series aired on KBS2 on March 19, 2020. The second season of the series aired since September 22, 2021 under the title Twinkle Catch! Teenieping () on JEI TV.
Plot
The series revolves around Romi, a pretty normal girl at first glance, who is actually the princess of a magic kingdom, the Emotion Kingdom. She came to Earth to catch all the Teeniepings: cute but very mischievous creatures that all have a unique power attached to an emotion or a concept they represent. They like to wreak havoc in all Harmony Town, and try everything to not be caught. To catch them, Romi has to transform into a magical princess with the help of some Teeniepings. However, she must be really careful to keep her identity secret, as the people of Harmony Village do not believe in magic.
Characters
Main
Romi () is the princess of the Emotion Kingdom, who became a normal girl of Harmony Town. When a freed Teenieping is around, she secretly transforms into a magical princess to catch them.
Ian () is a young man who desires to be a pastry chef, following his father's footsteps.
Kyle () is the son of a famous and wealthy conglomerate who wishes to become a pastry chef.
Jun () is a handsome young man who aims to own his own bakery one day.
Teeniepings
Heartsping () is the Teenieping of love, who always stays with Romi. She is nice, full of love and care for friends.
Dadaping () is the Teenieping of rightness. He is very serious and organized. He is always looking to learn new things.
Gogoping () is the Teenieping of courage. He is very sporty and likes challenges, as well as crazy activities.
Chachaping () is the Teenieping of hope. Calm and relaxed, she is very optimistic and never loses hope when there are difficulties.
Lalaping () is the Teenieping of joy. She is very cheerful and energetic, and likes to sing and dance with her friends.
Happying () is the Teenieping of happiness. The last Royal Teenieping, she appears to be nowhere to be found, until Romi discovers she was actually transformed into Giggleping, a villain Teenieping.
Joahping () is the Teenieping of kindness. Warm, gentle, and sensitive. She likes to help others.
Teeheeping () is the Teenieping of laugh. A real tomboy, she likes to have fun with her friends.
Trustping () is the Teenieping of truth. The youngest of all, he is faithful and innocent. They are cute.
Episodes
Catch! Teenieping (Season 1)
Twinkle Catch! Teenieping (Season 2)
Secret Catch! Teenieping (Season 3)
Season 1 (2020-2021)
Season 2: Twinkle Catch! Teenieping (2021-2022)
Season 3: Secret Catch! Teenieping (2022-2023)
Broadcast
Catch! Teenieping premiered on KBS2 in South Korea on March 19, 2020. The series is also released on VODs and video platforms. The first season aired on KBS2 every Thursday at 5:15 pm until April 1, 2021. The season 2 of the series was broadcast from September 22, 202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-Oriented%20Software%20Architecture | Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture is a series of software engineering books describing software design patterns.
POSA1
Architectural patterns
Layers
Pipes and filters
Blackboard
Broker
Model–View–Controller
Presentation–Abstraction–Control
Design patterns
Whole–Part
Master–Slave
Proxy
Command Processor
View Handler
Forwarder-Receiver
Client–Dispatcher–Server
Publisher–subscriber
POSA2
Service access and configuration patterns
Wrapper Facade
Component Configurator
Interceptor
Extension interface
Event handling patterns
Reactor
Proactor
Asynchronous Completion Token
Acceptor-Connector
Synchronization patterns
Scoped Locking
Strategized Locking
Thread-Safe Interface
Double-checked locking
Concurrency patterns
Active object
Monitor Object
Half-Sync/Half-Async
Leader/Followers
Thread-Specific Storage
POSA3
Resource acquisition
Lookup
Lazy acquisition
Eager acquisition
Resource lifecycle
Caching
Pooling
Coordinator
Resource Lifecycle Manager
Resource release
Leasing
Evictor
POSA4
Software architecture
Domain model
Layers
Model–View–Controller
Presentation–Abstraction–Control
Microkernel
Reflection
Pipes and filters
Shared repository
Blackboard
Domain object
Distribution Infrastructure
Message Channel
Message endpoint
Message translator
Message route
Publisher–subscriber
Broker
Client proxy
Requestor
Invoker
Client request handler
server request handler
Adaptation and execution
Bridge
Object Adapter
Chain of responsitiblity
Interpreter
Interceptor
Visitor
Decorator
Execute-Around Object
Template method
Strategy
Null Object
Wrapper Facade
Declarative component configuration
Resource management
Container
Component Configurator
Object manager
Lookup
Virtual Proxy
Lifecycle callback
Task coordinator
Resource pool
Resource cache
Lazy Acquisition
Eager Acquisition
Partial Acquisition
Activator
Evictor
Leasing
Automated Garbage Collection
Counting Handle
Abstract Factory
Builder
Factory method
Disposal Method
Database access
Database Access Layer
Data mapper
Row Data Gateway
Table Data Gateway
Active Record
POSA5
Patterns referenced in volume 5:
Abstract Factory
Acceptor-Connector
Active Object
Adapted Iterator
Adapter
Align Architecture and Organization (see Conway's Law)
Application Controller
Architect Also Implements
Architecture Follows Organization
Asynchronous Completion Token (ACT)
Automated Garbage Collection
Batch Iterator
Batch Method
Blackboard
Bridge
Broker
Build Prototypes
Builder
Bureaucracy
Business Delegate
Cantrip
Chain of Responsibility
Class Adapter
CLI Server
Client Proxy
Collections for States
Combined Method
Command
Command Processor
Command Sequence (see Composite Command)
Community of Trust
Compiler
Completion Headroom
Component Configurator
Composite
Composite Command
Composite-Strategy-Observer (see Model-View-Controller (MVC))
Context Object
Conway's Law
Cooperate, Don |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-kinetic%20attack | A cyber-kinetic attack targets cyber-physical systems and causes direct or indirect physical damage, injury or death, or environmental impact solely through the exploitation of vulnerable information systems and processes. Notable attacks in this category in the recent past have targeted critical infrastructure facilities such as water treatment plants, nuclear power plants, oil refineries, and medical facilities.
Crossing the cyber-physical divide
In the early days of computing, security threats were typically limited attacks that caused destruction of data, or degraded access to computing systems or hardware. However, the last several decades have seen technologies—ranging from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) to Internet of Things—which describe objects embedded with sensors and software and utilize the Internet to exchange data.
Such a system is termed as a Cyber-physical system. Such systems cross the traditional divide between purely in-computer systems (software) and real-life systems (physical systems), with algorithms being autonomously able to control physical systems.
One of the most notably cyber attacks that had a physical impact, causing significant degradation of a target system, were the Stuxnet and Aurora worms. The Stuxnet worm was first revealed in 2010 and specially targeted weaknesses in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), devices in the SCADA category of systems. Though it was never positivity attributed, it is widely believed that the malicious software was developed jointly by the United States and Israel to disrupt the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. It has also been reported that Stuxnet and associated variants have infected more than 30,000 systems and had a lasting presence which was extremely difficult to eradicate and purify. Both malicious programs exploited Zero-Day attacks on Windows-based operating systems.
As computing crosses the cyber-physical barrier, there is significant effort spent on 'smart' systems, for instance smart cities, smart homes, smart manufacturing and smart vehicles. In the context of cybersecurity, new threats are emerging that target these smart systems. The timeline of cyber-kinetic attacks attests incidents from as early as 1982. Such attacks on information systems that can have physical world impacts are a complete shift in paradigms within the cyber security community, though not unheard of. Many SCADA systems have been fielded up to 20 years ago have very little in the way of modern security protections that are instrumented.
These types of attacks have the potential to bring a new dynamic forward in the concept of cyber warfare and the potential impact on electrical systems, financial systems, critical infrastructure, and communication systems. Though, in reality, these types of attacks may have a closer relation to espionage or idealistically driven attacks, rather than overt warfare. Cyber-kinetic attacks should not be confused with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20P.%20Chen%20Award | Peter P. Chen Award is an annually presented award to honor one individual for their contributions to the field of conceptual modeling. Named after the computer scientist Peter Chen, the award was started in 2008 by the publisher Elsevier as a means of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal Data & Knowledge Engineering. It is presented at the Entity Relationship (ER) International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Winners are given a plaque, a cash prize, and are invited to give a keynote speech.
There are five criteria for selecting the winner; research, how the nominee has contributed to advance the field of conceptual modeling; service, organizational contributions for related meetings, conferences, and editorial boards; education, mentoring of doctoral students in the field; contribution to practice, contributions to technology transfer, commercialization, and industrial projects; and international reputation. The selection committee is composed of the Steering Committee chair, two Program Committee members that have been appointed by the Steering Committee chair, and recipients of the last two years.
Laureates
References
Awards established in 2008
Science and technology awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Christian%20Songs%20number%20ones%20of%20the%202020s | Christian Songs is a record chart compiled and published by Billboard that measures the top-performing contemporary Christian music songs in the United States. The data was compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on the weekly audience impressions of each song played on contemporary Christian radio stations until the end of November 2013. With the Billboard issue dated December 7, 2013, the Christian Songs chart began utilizing the same methodology used for the Hot 100 chart to compile its rankings by measuring the airplay of Christian songs across all radio formats, while incorporating data from digital sales and streaming activity. Christian Airplay, which began being published in 2013, is based solely on Christian radio airplay, a methodology that had previously been used from 2003 to 2013 for Hot Christian Songs.
Number-one songs
Hot Christian Songs
References
2020s
United States Christian Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Scannell | Brendan Scannell (born June 20, 1990) is an American actor and comedian known for playing the lead roles of Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018) and Pete Devon in the Netflix dark comedy series Bonding (2019–2021) for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor In A Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series.
Early life
Scannell was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana. He studied theatre at Northwestern University and started performing improv and stand-up in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 2013.
Career
In 2016, Scannell was cast as the genderqueer Heather Duke in the TV Land adaptation of Heathers. After the pilot was ordered to series, the project was moved to Paramount Network and released in October 2018. From 2019 to 2021, Scannell starred in the short-form Netflix series Bonding opposite Zoe Levin and appeared in the indie romantic comedy Straight Up. For his work in the second season of Bonding he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor In A Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series.
As a comic, Scannell was named by Vulture in 2018 as a "Comedian You Should and Will Know" and in 2019 was named a New Face of Comedy at Just For Laughs in Montreal.
Filmography
Film and television
Video game
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1990 births
21st-century American comedians
21st-century American male actors
American gay actors
Gay comedians
LGBT people from Illinois
LGBT people from Indiana
Living people
Male actors from Chicago
Male actors from Indiana
Northwestern University alumni
People from Valparaiso, Indiana
21st-century American LGBT people
American LGBT comedians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshikawa%20%28crater%29 | Yoshikawa is a crater on Mercury, near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2012 after the Japanese novelist Eiji Yoshikawa.
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Yoshikawa, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.
Yoshikawa is south of the slightly smaller Vonnegut crater.
References
Impact craters on Mercury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20the%20Sky | is a 2020 Japanese animated teen fantasy film written, co-produced, and directed by Yoshinobu Sena. Animated by Digital Network Animation, and distributed by Rabbit House and Elephant House, the film stars Honoka Matsumoto, Toshiki Seto, Anna Tsuchiya, Saori Hayami, Kōichi Yamadera, Ikue Ōtani, Takehiro Kimoto, Sena, Yui Ogura, Nobuko Sendō, Naoto Takenaka, and Mari Natsuki. Set in Ikebukuro, the film follows Mio Miyamasu (Matsumoto) trying to reconcile with her childhood friend Arata Kirishimo (Seto) following their argument when she gets involved in a traffic accident that transports her to a new world.
Toho announced an original anime film to be helmed by Sena in his film directorial debut in March 2020, with Matsumoto debuting in a leading role for an animated film and Seto taking a voice acting role for the first time. Additional cast of the film were announced in August and October 2020.
Over the Sky premiered in Ikebukuro on November 11, 2020, and was released in Japan on November 27. The film bombed at the box office on its opening day.
Plot
At school, Mio Miyamasu and her classmate and childhood friend Arata Kishimo discuss the boundary between sky and space, with Arata suggesting it is called "over the sky". After her markup exam, Mio is approached by her best friend Madoka and learns that she also likes Arata, causing uneasiness since she has trouble admitting her feelings. Arata begins to see several white orbs while visiting a fortune-telling shop with Mio. The two argue afterward, with Mio leaving Arata behind after questioning their relationship. Later night, a heartbroken Mio decides to tell her true feelings for Arata, but she gets involved in a traffic accident.
The next day, Mio tries to approach Arata but seems unnoticed by him. As they ride home, Mio is transported to a different world called "World Border" and meets her favorite character Gimon. As Gimon guides Mio to a new world where she will forget everything, they are stopped by a kimono-wearing girl who introduces herself as Kiku-chan. Kiku-chan explains that she accidentally arrived in World Border due to an out-of-body experience, and needs to be returned to the human realm using a train ticket and the "desire" to return. Mio contacts Arata, who mysteriously answers it while in a hospital to visit Mio's unconscious body. Mio, Gimon, and Kiku-chan arrive at Forgotten Things Counter, but Mio has trouble telling the lost-and-found officer her memories with Arata so they visit the goddess, Mrs. Mori, for help. Following the mysterious call from Mio, Arata returns to the fortune-teller for help, but his soul suddenly leaves his body to arrive at the World Border.
Despite successfully obtaining a ticket from the lost-and-found officer, the World Border's guardian Mogari prevents Mio from returning to the human realm. With the help of Gimon, Kiku-chan, and Arata, Mio arrives back to the human realm but is unable to reunite with her body. Arata brings Mio's unconscious b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTG | DYTG (103.1 FM), broadcasting as 103.1 Radyo Bandera Sweet FM, is a radio station owned by Tagbilaran Broadcasting System and operated by 5K Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its studios and transmitter are located at Zone 4, Brgy. Utap, Tacloban.
History
The frequency was formerly occupied by Dream Radio under Prime Media Services from 2016 to the end of 2022, when it swapped frequencies with sister station Kaboses Radio. On July 12, 2023, it went off the air and migrated its operations online.
5K Broadcasting Network took over the station's operations. On August 14, it was launched under the Radyo Bandera Sweet FM network.
References
Radio stations in Tacloban
Radio stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Ali%20Amoui | Mohammad-Ali Amoui () is an Iranian communist politician and former military officer.
Biography
He was a member of the Tudeh Military Network that was uncovered in 1954, for which he spent 25 years in prison until 1979. Following the Iranian Revolution, he was released and became a member of the central committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran, before unsuccessfully running for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency. He was imprisoned again in 1983.
References
Living people
Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran members
People from Kermanshah
Iranian prisoners and detainees
Imperial Iranian Army personnel
Iranian people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
Tudeh Party of Iran members
Tudeh Military Network members
1923 births
Iranian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudeh%20Military%20Network | The Officers' Organization () or the Military Organization () of the Tudeh Party, also known as Tudeh Military Network, was an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Armed Forces using clandestine cell system method.
Bibliography
References
External links
1944 establishments in Iran
Spy rings
Rebel groups in Iran
Cold War history of Iran
Affiliated organizations of the Tudeh Party of Iran
Soviet spies
Iran–Soviet Union relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrcpy | scrcpy, pronounced "screen copy", is a free and open-source screen mirroring application that allows control of an Android device from a Windows, macOS, or Linux desktop computer. The software is currently developed by Genymobile, which also developed Genymotion, an Android emulator.
Communication between the Android device and the computer is primarily performed via a USB connection and Android Debug Bridge (ADB). The software functions by executing a server on the Android device, then communicating with the server via a socket over an ADB tunnel. It does not require rooting or the installation or running of an app on the Android device. The screen content is streamed as H.264 video, which the software then decodes and displays on the computer. The software pushes keyboard and mouse input to the Android device over the server.
Setup involves enabling USB debugging on the Android device, connecting the device to the computer, and running the scrcpy application on the computer. Additional configuration options, such as changing the stream bit rate or enabling screen recording, may be accessed via command line arguments. The software also supports a wireless connection over Wi-Fi, but that requires more steps to set up. A few features were added to scrcpy in its version 1.9 release in 2019, including the ability to turn the screen off while mirroring and to copy clipboard content between the two devices.
Chris Hoffman of How-To Geek compared scrcpy to AirMirror and Vysor, two other applications with a similar function. Hoffman also pointed to Miracast as an alternative, while noting that it is no longer widely supported among new Android devices, and that it does not support remotely controlling the device.
History
The first commit to the GitHub repository is on 12 December 2017 by Romain Vimont. scrcpy v1.0 was released 3 months later which included the support for basic screen mirroring and Android remote control. The first release packaged a Windows Executable and the server. The community took packaging forward and made scrcpy available for numerous Linux distributions.
Version v2.0, released on 12 March 2023, also added audio support, enabling real-time audio forwarding on Android 11 and above.
On v2.1, unveiled on June 22, 2023, significant enhancements have been made to the audio capabilities. Users can now select their device's microphone as the audio input, adjust the audio output buffer size, and benefit from a range of other updates. These updates include support for OpenGL 3.0+ on macOS, dynamic device folding, and the option to terminate adb upon closing.
Features
The official documentation of scrcpy gives the features and ideology to which it was built
lightness (native, displays only the device screen)
performance (30~60fps)
quality (1920×1080 or above)
low latency (35~70ms)
low startup time (~1 second to display the first image)
non-intrusiveness (nothing is left installed on the device)
Graphical User Interface
Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing-Rebecca%20Li | Jing-Rebecca Li is an applied mathematician known for her work on magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations. She is a researcher with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), at their Saclay research center.
Education and career
Li graduated from the University of Michigan in 1995 with highest distinction and honors in mathematics, after starting out at Michigan as a mechanical engineering student. She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Her dissertation, Model reduction of large linear systems via low rank system Gramians, was supervised by Jacob K. White.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2000 to 2003, and earned a habilitation at Paris-Sud University in 2013. She has been a research scientist with INRIA since 2003.
Recognition
As an undergraduate, Li won the 1994 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Women, given by the Association for Women in Mathematics.
In 2001, Li was one of the second prize winners of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis. Li won the Alston S. Householder Prize, a triennial award for the best dissertation in numerical linear algebra, in 2002.
A 2002 paper of Li, "Low-rank solution of Lyapunov equations" (with Jacob White) was selected in 2004 by SIAM Review for their "SIGEST" collection of papers "chosen on the basis of exceptional interest to the entire SIAM community".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirka%20Miller | Mirka Miller (née Koutova, 9 May 1949 – 2 January 2016) was a Czech-Australian mathematician and computer scientist interested in graph theory and data security. She was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Newcastle.
Life
Miller was born on 9 May 1949 in Rumburk, then part of Czechoslovakia, as the oldest in a family of five children. After attempting to escape Czechoslovakia in 1968, stopped because of her companion's illness, she became a student at Charles University before successfully escaping in 1969 and becoming a refugee in Australia.
Miller earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney in 1976, both in mathematics and computer science,
and as a student also played volleyball for the New South Wales team and then the Australia women's national volleyball team.
She married ornithologist Ben Miller, became a computer programmer working with the Sydney Morning Herald and for NSW Parks and Wildlife on Lord Howe Island, and began raising a son with Miller.
She separated from her husband and returned to graduate study, earning two master's degrees from the University of New England in 1983 and 1986; her mentors in these degrees were Ernie Bowen and Ivan Friš. She completed a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 1990. Her dissertation, Security of Statistical Databases, was supervised by Jennifer Seberry.
She held academic positions at the University of New England from 1982 to 1991, but after marrying graph theorist
Joe Ryan they both moved to the University of Newcastle. She was a faculty member at the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 2004, when she temporarily moved to the University of Ballarat, and returned to Newcastle as a research professor from 2008 until her retirement. At Newcastle, she spent many years as the only woman in the Faculty of Engineering. She retired as a professor emeritus in 2014.
She also held a position at the University of West Bohemia as Conjoint Professor since 2001.
She died of gastroesophageal cancer on 2 January 2016. A special issue of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics was published in her honour in 2017, and special issues of the European Journal of Combinatorics and Journal of Discrete Algorithms followed in 2018.
Contributions
Miller was the author of two books on magic graphs, Super Edge-Antimagic Graphs: A Wealth of Problems and Some Solutions (with Martin Bača, BrownWalker Press, 2008), and (posthumously) Magic and Antimagic Graphs: Attributes, Observations and Challenges in Graph Labelings (with Bača, Joe Ryan, and Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková, Springer, 2019).
She wrote over 200 research publications, including a widely cited survey of the degree diameter problem, supervised 20 doctoral students before her death, was the supervisor of six more at the time of her death, and helped found four workshop series on algorithms, graph theory, and networks. She was also influential in the history of graph theory in Indonesia, whe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvette%20%28computer%29 | Corvette () was an 8-bit personal computer in the USSR, created for Soviet schools in 1980s. The first device was a homemade computer, created in 1985 by employees of the Moscow State University for their purposes (physics experiments). The first description was made in the magazine «Microprocessor tools and systems». The PC was named "ПК 8001" (21.08.1985).
Graphics
This computer had advanced graphic capabilities for its time. It has only one video mode which uses 4 planes: 3 graphic and 1 text. The graphic planes have 512x256 resolution. The text plane is capable to show 32x16 or 64x16 text using two sets of 256 ROM 8x16 characters for both modes. It possible to show 16 colors on screen. 8 colors are free and 8 additional colors can be used combining text symbols and pixels. Any logical color may be any physical color from 0 to 15 (RGBI). The graphic video RAM size is 192 KB (4 pages) or 48 KB (1 page). The text video RAM size is 1 KB which is 9-bit static RAM. The 9th bit is used as the reverse video attribute. There is no contention for access to video and processor RAM. The Corvette has a way to accelerate filling an area with a given color. It could be faster than the IBM PC AT with the EGA card for this task.
Sound
One channel of the Intel 8253 is used to generate sound.
Software
BASIC interpreter in ROM, fully compliant with the MSX standard, including all graphic commands (drawing points, lines, rectangles, filled rectangles, circles, ellipses, arcs, closed area filling, DRAW), working with integers, etc.
Operation systems MicroDOS (МикроДОС) and CP/M-80 (with floppy disk driver)
Text editor «Супертекст», «Микромир» (MIM), etc.
DBMS dBase II
Spreadsheet Microsoft Multiplan
Compilers for Fortran, Pascal, C, Ada, Forth, Lisp, PL/M, etc.
Software for education
Games («Berkut», PopCorn, Stalker, Dan Dare, Continental Circus, Deflector, «Treasure», «Winnie the Pooh», «Treasure Island», Super Tetris, Karate, etc.)
Educational computer technology complex
"НИИСчётмаш" created an educational computer technology complex based on "Corvette"
It includes a teacher's computer (ПК8020, with FDD , a printer port) and about 15 computers for students (ПК8010), connected to the local network (19,5 kbit/s).
Variants
It has been mass-produced since 1987 year at the plants of the Ministry of Radio Technology (Soviet Union):
thumb|right|Корвет — печатная плата экземпляра 1986 г.в.
Production
Even though this PC was created in a fairly short time, and the decision to produce a new computer was approved by the Council of Ministers, the start of the mass production was delayed. Although the computer consisted exclusively of components already mastered by Soviet industry, it was not possible to increase production volumes on time, and the supplied components were of very poor quality. In addition, there was a competition with another computer of the same purpose.: UKNC. As a result, deliveries of the new computer were far behind t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remzi%20Arpaci-Dusseau | Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the chair of the Computer Sciences department.
He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau.
He and Andrea have co-written a textbook on operating systems, "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (OSTEP), that is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide.
His research been cited over 15,000 times and is one of the leading experts in the area of data storage.
Education
Arpaci-Dusseau received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993, then proceeded to earn his Master's in 1996 at the University of California, Berkeley.
He later earned his Ph.D at the same institution, with a thesis titled Performance Availability for Networks of Workstations.
Honors and awards
Mark Weiser Award (2018)
ACM Fellow (2020)
AAAS Fellow (2022)
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor (2022)
UW-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (2016)
UC Berkeley Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award (2023)
SACM Student's Choice Professor of the Year Award (the COW award) (2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018)
USENIX FAST Test of Time Award (2022)
USENIX FAST Best Paper Award (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020)
SOSP Best Paper Award (2011)
References
External links
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau's Professional Website
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
American computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTF%202187 | CTF 2187 (also known as CTF2187) is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) game that was published by Advanced Gaming Enterprises in the 1980s. It involved teams of robots, of varying size and capabilities, battling on a hex-grid arena with the purpose of defeating the opposing team or their command post. Players assumed the role of a battle robot pilot. The game was tactically-focused, with combat action beginning on the first turn. Games lasted 5–10 turns, or about six months. Players began at the rank of cadet but could spend experience points earned from a completed game to increase in rank (or statistics) for future games, up to the rank of General.
Various authors wrote works of fiction about the game in the 1980s to the 2000s in publications such as Paper Mayhem and Sabledrake magazine. CTF 2187 received generally positive reviews in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In Best Play-by-Mail Game results published in the PBM magazine Paper Mayhem, the game placed No. 4 in 1989 and No. 2 in 1996. The game placed 10th in Flagship magazine's best Wargame category in its 2002 Flagship PBM Ratings list.
Play-by-mail history
Some games have long been played by mail between two players, such as chess and Go. PBM play of Diplomacy—a multiplayer game—began in 1963. The emergence of the professional PBM industry occurred less than a decade later. Rick Loomis, "generally recognized as the founder of the PBM industry", accomplished this by launching Flying Buffalo Inc. and his first PBM game, Nuclear Destruction, in 1970. Professional game moderation started in 1971 at Flying Buffalo. Chris Harvey started commercial PBM play afterward in the United Kingdom with a company called ICBM through an agreement with Loomis and Flying Buffalo. ICBM, followed by KJC games and Mitregames, led the UK PBM industry. For approximately five years, Flying Buffalo was the single dominant company in the US PBM industry until Schubel & Son entered the field in about 1976 with the human-moderated The Tribes of Crane. Superior Simulations was the next significant PBM company to enter the US market. They did so in 1978 with the game Empyrean Challenge which one observer stated was "the most complex game system on Earth".
The early 1980s saw additional growth for PBM. The player base grew and game moderators were plentiful. The most popular games in 1980 were Starweb and Tribes of Crane. The PBM industry in 1980 comprised two large companies and some small ones. In 1981, some PBM players started another company, Adventures by Mail, with the "immensely popular" Beyond the Stellar Empire.
The proliferation of PBM companies in the 1980s supported the publication of a number of newsletters from individual play-by-mail companies as well as independent publications which focused solely on the play-by-mail gaming industry such as the relatively short-lived The Nuts & Bolts of PBM and Gaming Universal. The PBM genre's two preeminent magazines of the period were Flagship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Sorkine-Hornung | Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.
Personal life and career
Sorkine-Hornung was born in 1981 in the Soviet Union to a mother who is a mathematician and a Jewish father who is a physicist. They emigrated to Israel when she was twelve. She learnt the QBasic programming language when she was 13. She then studied math and computer science at Tel Aviv University graduating at the age of 19. She did her master's degree in parallel to her two-year military service, and completed her doctorate degree in 2006. Subsequently, she worked in the Technical University of Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to ETH Zurich in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab.
She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.
Awards
2020: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by in research funds)
2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016
2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for libigl, a C++ geometry processing library
2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary
2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014
2013: Intel Early Career Faculty Award
2012: ERC Starting Grant
2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich
2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award
2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship
2003: Excellence award, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
1999-2000: Dean’s List of Excellence, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
References
Living people
1981 births
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academics from Moscow
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih-Chii%20Liu | Shih-Chii Liu is a professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests include developing brain-inspired sensors, algorithms, and networks; and their neural electronic equivalents.
Education and career
Liu pursued a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Department of Computation and Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology. A year later she joined the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. A year later, she joined the
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich as a group leader, and became a professor at the University of Zurich in 2020. She co-directs the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. She is also affiliated with the Neuroscience Center Zurich.
Recognition
Liu is a past chair of the IEEE CAS Neural Systems and Applications, and IEEE Sensory Systems Technical Committees. She is the current chair of the IEEE CAS/ED Swiss Chapter, and is an associate editor for the Neural Networks Journal, and past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, among others. Liu has been involved in the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop in various roles for most of the last two decades and most recently as the lead organizer.
Publications
Liu is the lead author of two textbooks on Neuromorphic engineering: Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles (MIT Press, 2002) and Event‐Based Neuromorphic Systems (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015).
References
External links
Academic staff of the University of Zurich
Swiss women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century women engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble%20%282019%20film%29 | Trouble, also known as Dog Gone Trouble, is a 2019 computer-animated comedy family film, directed by Kevin Johnson, and starring Sean "Big Sean" Anderson, Pamela Adlon, and Lucy Hale. It was the final film role of Betty White before her death in 2021.
The film was released on May 28, 2021 by Netflix.
Plot
Trouble is a pampered dog, living the good life in a mansion with his wealthy, elderly owner, Mrs. Sarah Vanderwhoozie, under the care of her loyal butler, James, and famed animal trainer Cesar Millan. One day, after his owner dies due to natural causes, he is left alone and unaware in her mansion. Claire and Norbert, Mrs. Vanderwhoozie's niece and nephew, arrive to claim their inheritance. While discarding of her belongings and planning to sell other items that are priceless, they accidentally and unknowingly get rid of Trouble, whom they show instant dislike and apathy towards. Nevertheless, in order to rightfully inherit their aunt's fortune, Claire and Norbert must first be willing and able to bond and take care of Trouble within three days, until they can sign the contract entrusted by their aunt's lawyer, Mr. Macbain, much to their reluctance. Realizing that Trouble is missing, they hire Thurman Sanchez, an expert animal tracker, to find him in time before the deadline.
Having made it out of the truck carrying away his owner's belongings, and after learning the truth about her death, Trouble accidentally messes up a group of red squirrels' nut storage in their tree. As payback, the squirrels steal his collar and run off, leaving Trouble lost, alone, and looking like a stray. In the city, Trouble meets a stray dog named Rousey while trying to get a meal from a meat truck, which results in a chase through a restaurant owned by famed chef Ludo Lefebvre; a wannabe-singer pizza delivery girl named Zoe Bell also loses one of her pizzas. After another encounter with the squirrels while spending the night with Rousey outdoors, Trouble enters a dog park where he meets domestic dogs Norm, Gizmo, Bella, and Tippy, who somewhat help him find a home by having him play in traffic, where he gets picked up by Zoe, and is taken to her apartment. Though only temporary until she can find where he belongs, and hoping to avoid her landlord finding out, Zoe and Trouble begin to bond. Zoe writes a song for a singing competition she plans to enter, and fashions a new collar for Trouble.
The next day, at the dog park, despite some rocky first impressions, Norm and the other dogs willingly help Trouble when they find out that the squirrels took his old collar while confronting him again. During the struggle, Thurman, having found Trouble at last, accidentally snatches the leader of the squirrels, with whom he offers to make a deal – a pile of nuts in exchange for their help in retrieving Trouble for him. After Zoe momentarily leaves Trouble at her apartment, the squirrels try to flush him out, causing a huge mess, which results in Zoe being evicted by her landl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturalima | Culturalima, also known as Network of Cultures of Lima or Network of Cultural Centres of Lima, was a geolocated cultural information system authored by architect Alvaro Pastor in 2012 for La Casa Ida Cultural Association in Lima.
History
Culturalima became operational in June 2013 and remained active until June 2017 bringing together 143 institutional partners. Its objective was to identify and promote Lima's cultural assets and resources by offering an online platform that combined user collaboration and automatic selection of relevant social network information. Another contribution of Culturalima was the notion of Cultural Ecosystem to acknowledge the relations between the material and non-material cultural elements and practices that assemble in a geographical region and extended this metaphor to include the cultural dynamics of cyberspace.
Culturalima's theoretical and technological framework along with its partial results were presented at the XIV Digital Cities Forum in April 2013 in Quito at V Iberoamerican Culture Congress in November 2013 in Zaragoza, and at the OAS HASTAC Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory in April 2014 in Lima.
Since 2015 part of Culturalima project was adopted by the Ministry of Culture (Peru) under the name Infoartes. With a nationwide reach, the number of its affiliates has increased to 215.
References
Organisations based in Lima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x88 | The 0x88 chess board representation is a square-centric method of representing the chess board in computer chess programs. The number 0x88 is a hexadecimal integer (136, 210, 10001000). The rank and file positions are each represented by a nibble (hexadecimal digit), and the bit gaps simplify a number of computations to bitwise operations.
Layout
In the 0x88 board representation, the layout is spread out to cover an 8-by-16 board, equal to the size of two adjacent chessboards. Each square of the 8-by-16 matrix is assigned a number as can be seen in the board layout table. In this scheme each nibble represents a rank or a file, so that the 8-bit integer 0x42 represents the square at (4,2) in zero-based numbering, i.e. c5 in standard algebraic notation.
Adding 16 to a number for a square results in the number for the square one row above, and subtracting 16 results in the number for the square one row below. To move from one column to another the number is increased or decreased by one. In hexadecimal notation, legal chess positions (A1-H8) are always below 0x88. This layout simplifies many computations that chess programs need to perform by allowing bitwise operations instead of comparisons.
Algebraic notation and conversion
The modern standard to identify the squares on a chessboard and moves in a game is algebraic notation, whereby each square of the board is identified by a unique coordinate pair — a letter between a and h for the horizontal coordinate, known as the file, and a number between 1 and 8 for the vertical coordinate, known as the rank.
In computer chess, file-rank coordinates are internally represented as integers ranging from 0 to 7, with file a mapping to 0 through to file h mapping to 7, while the rank coordinate is shifted down by one to the range 0 to 7.
An advantage of the 0x88 coding scheme is that values can be easily converted between 0x88 representation and file-rank coordinates using only bitwise operations, which are simple and efficient for computer processors to work with. To convert a zero-based file-rank coordinate to 0x88 value:
Thus, a1 corresponds to , with all 8 of the bits set to , b2 corresponds to , and h8 corresponds to .
To convert an 0x88 value to a file-rank coordinate pair:
Note: In the above formulas, << and >> represent left and right logical bit shift operations respectively while & represents bitwise and.
Applications
Off-the-board detection
Off-the-board detection is a feature of chess programs which determines whether a piece is on or off the legal chess board. In 0x88, the highest bit of each nibble represents whether a piece is on the board or not. Specifically, out of the 8 bits to represent a square, the fourth and the eighth must both be 0 for a piece to be located within the board. This allows off-the-board detection by bitwise operations. If $square AND 0x88 (or, in binary, 0b10001000) is non-zero, then the square is not on the board. This bitwise operation requires fe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M5%20Motorway%20%28Syria%29 | The M5 Motorway is the most important motorway in Syria due to its length and function as the country network's south-north backbone. It is known as the "International Road." It connects the border with Jordan in the south with Damascus, the country's political capital, and continues further north through Aleppo, the country's economic capital and second largest city, to the border with Turkey in the north.
Other cities connected by this motorway are Daraa, Al Nabk, Homs and Hama. Its length is . It intersects with the M4 Motorway near Saraqib, which is the main highway from Aleppo to the port of Latakia running parallel to the border with Turkey.
Syrian Civil War
Parts of the M5 have been in the control of various rebel groups in the Syrian Civil War since 2012.
In October 2019, the north of the highway became a warzone, as Turkish-backed Syrian rebel forces advanced into the Kurdish-controlled region of Rojava. Civilians had been killed near the motorway. Turkish media also reported that it was the goal of Turkey's Operation Peace Spring to reach the M4 junction with the M5 in the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
On 14 February 2020, the Syrian Army recaptured the M5 Motorway fully for the first time since 2012 before opposition factions and Turkish forces recaptured Saraqib by 26 February and cut the highway once again on 27 February. On 1 March, Saraqib was back under Syrian Army control and also regained control of the entire motorway by 3 March.
On 8 March 2020, the M5 highway was reopened for civilian use.
See also
Transport in Syria
Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019)
References
Roads in Syria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkfish%20%28technology%20company%29 | Hawkfish is a US political data and technology-based agency headquartered in New York City founded by Michael Bloomberg. The firm was founded in the spring of 2019 to support "Democratic candidates, good causes, and common sense solutions."
History
In December 2019, after the Bloomberg campaign for the 2020 presidential Democratic nominee was established, CNBC was the first to report on Hawkfish's existence. According to the Bloomberg campaign, Hawkfish was also founded prior to Bloomberg's decision to run, although an exact date was not specified.
The firm states it has worked on the 2019 state elections in Virginia and Kentucky, in addition to the Bloomberg campaign. Federal Election Commission fillings show Bloomberg invested at least $25.7 million in the firm, out of the over $409 million he spent on his own campaign. During the primaries, the firm was responsible for the unorthodox media strategies of Bloomberg's campaign that garnered social media attention by promoting memes, and parodies of Bloomberg using Instagram direct messages.
Following Bloomberg's withdrawal from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, the Washington Post reported Bloomberg would continue to fund the company while campaign operations were suspended in the proceeding weeks. Bloomberg's support of Hawkfish is in addition to the formation of his as yet unnamed independent expenditure campaign which will support the Democratic candidate in the 2020 US presidential election.
In 2021, Hawkfish announced it was closing down.
References
Michael Bloomberg
2020 United States Democratic presidential primaries
Digital marketing companies of the United States
Internet activism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistencia%20Libertaria | (initially known as the ) was an Argentine anarchist urban guerrilla group that emerged in 1974 via a network of workers and university militants from La Plata y Córdoba. The group worked during the last military dictatorship in Argentina and was the only anarchist guerrilla group during the period of state terrorism in the 1970s. At least eight members of the organization were kidnapped and went missing during the dictatorship.
History
During an interview by Chuck W. Morse with Fernando López on 13 October 2002 where he talked about the principles of the group, who joined it, and how the group despite several "insurgent cadres" never had a dissemination organ effective enough like other guerrilla groups, in addition to other armed actions and the influence that this group had on the next generations of anarchists. Between May 31 and June 8, 1978, the Argentine government kidnapped a score of RL militants, the most important being Rafael Tello, Pablo Tello, Elsa Martínez, Hernán Ramírez Achinelli, "Melena" Edison Oscar Cantero Freire and "el Pata" Fernando Díaz Cárdenas.
Fernando López Trujillo (former R.L. militant) gave an interview during a talk in Paraná on 22 March 2004, published in "Documents for debate Nº3", Libertarian Socialist Organization, where he spoke about the background of anarcho-syndicalism in Argentina and the theoretical support for the group. He also spoke about how some militants perceived Peronism and its impact on the social movements of the time (either from the right or left perspective), as well as the leftist militancy, reaching 1978, the final year of the organization, which had suffered several blows and disappearances of members before the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina.
References
Bibliography
Anarchist organisations in Argentina
Defunct anarchist militant groups
Dirty War
Guerrilla movements in Latin America
Operation Condor
Paramilitary organisations based in Argentina
Politics of Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Slate%2021 | The HP Slate 21 is a computer developed by Hewlett-Packard that runs the Android operating system. It was announced on June 24, 2013, via HP's blog The Next Bench with a price of $, and released in September that year. It is described as either an all-in-one desktop computer or a large tablet computer.
The device uses a 21.5-inch touchscreen and a Tegra 4 processor, but does not include a battery. It runs Android Jelly Bean as its operating system. It received mixed reviews from critics, with reviewers favoring the screen's wide viewing angles and Full HD resolution, while criticizing the lack of software optimization for the large display.
Features
Hardware and design
The Slate 21 uses an Nvidia Tegra 4 system-on-chip running at 1.66 GHz. It includes 1 GB of DDR3 memory and 8 GB of internal flash storage, which can be expanded via an SD card slot. Connectivity support includes three USB 2.0 ports, a 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet socket, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 3.0, and dual-band 802.11 n Wi-Fi.
The Slate 21 uses a 21.5-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 1920×1080. The device includes a 2.1 megapixel front-facing camera capable of recording 720p video. It does not include an accelerometer, which meant that any Android games which use accelerometer controls cannot be played. The screen has a glossy surface. It is an optical touchscreen supporting two-point multi-touch via three cameras, unlike other tablets which use a capacitive touchscreen. The device uses a white plastic chassis, with an easel-like stand on the rear which allows adjusting the angle of its tilt between 15 and 70 degrees. The device can be fixed to a wall using a VESA mount if the hinge is unscrewed.
A USB keyboard and mouse is bundled with the device. The keyboard includes shortcut keys for access to Android menus such as the home screen and music controls, replacing the usual function keys and Start/Escape keys. It does not contain an internal battery, requiring users to turn off the device when moving it between power sockets.
Software
The Slate 21 runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Software bundled with the device include Google Chrome, HP's own media playback app, and the mobile version of Kingsoft Office.
Reception
Cherlynn Low of Tom's Guide gave a mixed review, saying that the Slate 21 was an inexpensive all-in-one for users who do not require a powerful computer. She appreciated the "family-friendly" price and the screen's quality. However, she criticized the device for its low internal storage and software limitations, including its inability to run two apps on the screen at once and lack of parental controls. Sascha Segan and Joel Santo Domingo of PC Magazine gave a score of 1 out of 5, saying that "using the Slate 21 is a painful experience" which is only suitable for few tasks. They noted that the touch sensor for the screen was laggy. They also pointing out that the web browser defaulted to mobile versions of websites where text was too large, and that 8 G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagbilaran%20Broadcasting%20System | Tagbilaran Broadcasting System (also known as Community Media Network) is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at CAP Bldg., J. Borja St. cor. Carlos P. Garcia Ave., Tagbilaran.
TBS Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
TV Stations
References
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Gilbert | Eric Gilbert is an American computer scientist and the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information, with a courtesy appointment in CSE. He is known for his work designing and analyzing social media.
Education and early life
Gilbert received a B.S. with highest distinction in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. While in college, Gilbert worked as a software engineer on the influential social and learning computing system PLATO. After completing his undergraduate work, he served in Teach For America as a Math and Computer Science teacher at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago. Gilbert obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011.
Career and research
Gilbert joined the School of Interactive Computing within the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2011 as an Assistant Professor. There, he led the comp.social lab. After receiving tenure in 2017 at Georgia Tech, Gilbert moved to the School of Information at the University of Michigan as the John Derby Evans Endowed Professor of Information in 2018. He is also appointed within Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan.
Gilbert has made foundational contributions to the fields of social computing and HCI. His research focuses on studying existing—as well as designing new—social media systems. According to Google Scholar, Gilbert's work has been cited over 14,000 times, and he has an h-index of 44.
Media
Gilbert's research—for example on Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook—is frequently covered in the mainstream press.
Awards and honors
Gilbert was one of the recipients of the National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in 2016, the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2015, and the UIUC CS Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018. During his PhD work, Gilbert won the inaugural Google Ph.D. Fellowship. Gilbert has also won 5 best paper awards from ACM SIGCHI conferences, and received 6 best paper honorable mentions.
Selected works
Jhaver, Shagun, Amy Bruckman, and Eric Gilbert. "Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter? User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3. CSCW (2019): 1-27.
Chandrasekharan, Eshwar, et al. "The Internet's Hidden Rules: An Empirical Study of Reddit Norm Violations at Micro, Meso, and Macro Scales." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2. CSCW (2018): 1-25.
Chandrasekharan, Eshwar, et al. "You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1. CSCW (2017): 1-22.
Mitra, Tanushree, Graham Wright, and Eric Gilbert. "Credibility and the Dynamics of Collective Attention." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1. CSCW (2017): 1-17.
Hutto, Clayton J., and Eric Gilbert. "Vader: A parsimonious rule-based model for sentiment analy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas%20Hajari | Abbas Hajari () was an Iranian communist and military officer.
He was member of the Tudeh Military Network that was uncovered in 1954, as a result he spent 25 years in prison until 1978. After the Iranian Revolution, he ran for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency. He was Secretariat-in-charge of Tehran provincial committee.
In 1983, he was arrested by the Islamic Republic government and was put on trial. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, cites his name among the victims of 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.
References
1922 births
1988 deaths
20th-century executions by Iran
Tudeh Military Network members
Military personnel from Mashhad
Iranian prisoners and detainees
Imperial Iranian Army personnel
Iranian people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
Tudeh Party of Iran politicians
Executed communists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Wilson%20Bresee | Rebecca Bresee is a computer animator at Disney. Becky Bresee joined Disney in 1996 and has worked on movies such as Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero Six, Zootopia, Frozen and Frozen 2, and Moana. Bresee is most known for working on Disney's Frozen.
Work on Frozen
Rebecca Bresee worked as supervising animator for Frozen before moving on to become Head of Animation for Frozen II, but is said to have paid special attention to the character Anna in both of her roles working for the films. Frozen II was the first film Bresee was the Head of Animation for, and when asked about the film she responded, "I am nervously excited. Part of it speaks to me very personally. I hold tight to it, because I love it so much, and I hope other people love it, too." In "The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic," Bresee is noted as a supervising animator for Anna, and is said to have based the movements for Anna off of real-life videos she took of herself and her children. This was to give Anna a life-like quality that would appear in the animation. In doing so, the character of Anna was distinctly separate from other characters created for the same movie, creating an 'optimistic' and 'fearless' Anna. Later, for Frozen II, Bresee would become Head of Animation. This gave her additional responsibilities such as overseeing the animation for the movie, working on additional characters, and managing the rest of the animation team.
When asked about Frozen II, Bresee responded with, "It's an evolution and an expansion of the story of Frozen, and many of the questions raised in the first movie become the mysteries that our gang are trying to solve in this film." Bresee worked alongside Tony Smeed as Head of Animation to help recreate the iconic characters of Anna and Elsa. Given that Bresee had been involved heavily with Anna's character in the previous film, she was able to continue this work into the next.
Biography
Rebecca Bresee was born in Miami, Florida, alongside her twin sister. She grew up in Miami, Florida but moved to Oneonta when she was ten years old. She graduated from Oneonta High School, took animation classes at Sheridan College, and graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 1993 before moving on to work at Disney three years later.
She has two daughters and a husband.
Works
Dinosaur
Treasure Planet
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
Bolt
Tangled
Wreck-It Ralph
Big Hero 6
Zootopia
Frozen
Frozen II
Moana
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American animators
American women animators
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
State University of New York at Geneseo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Cremers | Daniel Cremers (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, Professor of Informatics and Mathematics and Chair of Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence at the Technische Universität München. His research foci are computer vision, mathematical image, partial differential equations, convex and combinatorial optimization, machine learning and statistical inference.
Career
Cremers received a bachelor's degree in mathematics (1994) and Physics (1994), and later a master's degree in Theoretical Physics (1997) from the University of Heidelberg. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim in 2002. He was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA. He was associate professor at the University of Bonn from 2005 until 2009.
He received a Starting Grant (2009), a Consolidator Grant (2015) and an Advanced Grant (2020) by the European Research Council. On March 1, 2016, Cremers received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for having "brought the field of image processing and pattern recognition an important step closer to its goal of reproducing the abilities of human vision with camera systems and computers."
Selected publications
References
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Living people
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiro%20Niessen | Wiro J. Niessen is a Dutch scientist in biomedical image analysis and machine learning. He is full professor at both Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam and Delft University of Technology. He is founder and scientific lead of Quantib, an AI company in medical imaging. In 2015 he received the Simon Stevin Meester Award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. From 2016 to 2019 he was president of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society. In 2017 he was elected to The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is director of the AI platform of the European Organization for Biomedical Imaging Research.
Career
Wiro Niessen was born in Geldrop, on November 15, 1969. He received a master's degree in physics in 1993, and later a PhD in medical imaging from Utrecht University in 1997. Part of his MSc was carried out at the University of Wisconsin, part of his PhD research at Yale University. He was a postdoctoral researcher, assistant professor and associate professor at the Image Science Institute of the University Medical Center Utrecht from 1997 to 2004.
He was appointed full professor of biomedical image processing in the departments of radiology and medical informatics at the Erasmus University Medical Center in 2005. His research foci include computer vision, biomedical image analysis, and computer assisted interventions. He was also appointed professor at Delft University of Technology at the faculty of Applied Sciences the same year.
In 2017 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected publications
Poels, Mariëlle MF, et al. "Cerebral microbleeds are associated with worse cognitive function: the Rotterdam Scan Study." Neurology 78.5 (2012): 326–333.
Vernooij, M. W., et al. "Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microbleeds: the Rotterdam Scan Study." Neurology 70.14 (2008): 1208–1214.
Frangi, Alejandro F., et al. "Automatic construction of multiple-object three-dimensional statistical shape models: Application to cardiac modeling." IEEE transactions on medical imaging 21.9 (2002): 1151–1166.
Frangi, Alejandro F., et al. "Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering." International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998.
References
Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
1969 births
Living people
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20A.%20Coello%20Coello | Carlos A. Coello Coello is a Mexican computer scientist, Professor at the UNSW School of Engineering and Information Technology, and researcher at the CINVESTAV. His paper "Evolutionary algorithms for solving multi-objective problems" has been cited over 7,800 times. He won the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2013.
Selected publications
Coello, CA Coello. "Evolutionary multi-objective optimization: a historical view of the field." IEEE computational intelligence magazine 1.1 (2006): 28–36.
Coello, Carlos A. Coello, Gary B. Lamont, and David A. Van Veldhuizen. Evolutionary algorithms for solving multi-objective problems. Vol. 5. New York: Springer, 2007.
Coello, Carlos A. Coello, Gregorio Toscano Pulido, and M. Salazar Lechuga. "Handling multiple objectives with particle swarm optimization." IEEE Transactions on evolutionary computation 8.3 (2004): 256–279.
Coello, CA Coello, and M. Salazar Lechuga. "MOPSO: A proposal for multiple objective particle swarm optimization." Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC'02 (Cat. No. 02TH8600). Vol. 2. IEEE, 2002.
References
Tulane University alumni
Mexican computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapkota%20%28crater%29 | Sapkota is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2015, after Nepalese poet Mahananda Sapkota.
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a lack of a radar-bright area within the interior of Sapkota, despite the fact that the floor of the crater is in permanent shadow. Many nearby craters do have radar-bright areas which likely indicate water ice deposits.
References
Impact craters on Mercury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/dataisbeautiful | r/dataisbeautiful, also known as Data Is Beautiful, is a subreddit dedicated to aesthetically pleasing works of data visualization. It was created in 2012; as of January 2022, it has 17.59 million members.
Rules
The r/dataisbeautiful subreddit requires users submitting visualizations to clearly credit both the individual who created the visualization and the source of the data on which it is based. If someone submits a visualization they created themselves, the rules require them to put "[OC]" in the title of the submission, and to identify the source of data and software tool they used to create it.
Media attention
A 2014 VentureBeat article noted that r/dataisbeautiful "...aims to collect the best of the Web in a daily rounded up of gorgeous data visualizations." The article also stated that the subreddit has been "unearthing the best ways to visualization thought-provoking and topical stories."
In November 2019, the decision of moderators at r/dataisbeautiful to temporarily ban animated bar chart graphs showing the relative position of entities on a list over time – so-called bar chart races – received attention from The Next Web.
In January 2020, Eleanor Peake noted that, because the subreddit had received so many submissions by Tinder users plotting their experiences on the app, one Reddit user set up a separate subreddit dedicated entirely to Tinder-related data visualizations.
Individual posts in the subreddit have also been reported on by the National Post and Vice.
References
External links
Dataisbeautiful
Data visualization
Internet properties established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael%20Moses | Yael Moses () is a professor in the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.
Education and career
Moses received her Ph.D. in computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Robotics group at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1994 and at the Weizmann Institute of Science from 1994 to 1997. Moses has been on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence since 2013.
Research
Her major research interests are in computer vision. In particular, her research focusses on multi-camera systems.
References
External links
Yael Moses' IEEE profile
Computer vision researchers
Israeli women academics
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Academic staff of Reichman University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Li%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Jennifer M. Li is a Systems Neuroscience & Neuroengineering researcher who is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the RoLi lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. She records and manipulates neural activity in larval zebra fish to research motivation and attention. and has been published in the journal Nature for her work on how the zebra fish brain switches between internal states when foraging for live prey. The RoLi lab has developed a revolutionary microscopy systems that enable whole-brain imaging of freely swimming larval zebra fish. With this technology, Li and Robson aim to investigate natural behaviors in the zebra fish, including spatial navigation, social behavior, feeding, and reward.
Background and education
Jennifer Li received her B.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, where she worked on host-parasite symbiosis and embryonic development in the Wieschaus lab. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she worked on operant learning and brain-wide neural imaging in the Schier and Engert labs. During her graduate education at Harvard University, Li was a Rowland Junior Fellow in the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. At the Rowland Institute, Li, along with Drew Robson, led their experiment on zebra fish before finishing the project at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
Career
Jennifer Li and Drew Robson combined brain tracking with a variant of HiLo microscopy to build Differential Illumination Focal Filtering (DIFF) microscopy
Publications
Her most cited publications are:
Misha B Ahrens, Michael B Orger, Drew N Robson, Jennifer M Li, Philipp J Keller, "Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy" Nature Methods 10 (5), 413-420 (2013)
MB Ahrens, JM Li, MB Orger, DN Robson, AF Schier, F Engert, ... "Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish" Nature 485 (7399), 471-477 (2012)
HM Frydman, JM Li, DN Robson, E Wieschaus, "Somatic stem cell niche tropism in Wolbachia" Nature 441 (7092), 509-512 (2006)
PM Ferree, HM Frydman, JM Li, J Cao, E Wieschaus, W Sullivan "Wolbachia utilizes host microtubules and Dynein for anterior localization in the Drosophila oocyte" PLOS Pathog 1 (2), e14 (2005)
Honors and awards
2009 Harvard University Derek Bok teaching award
2005 Excellent thesis award, Princeton University
References
Harvard University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxness%20%28crater%29 | Laxness is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2013, after Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness.
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Laxness, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.
Fuller crater is southeast of Laxness. Both lie in the northern part of the Goethe Basin.
References
Impact craters on Mercury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller%20%28crater%29 | Fuller is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2013, after American engineer and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Fuller, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.
Laxness crater is northwest of Fuller. Both lie in the northern part of the Goethe Basin.
References
Impact craters on Mercury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Irani | Michal Irani () is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Education
Irani received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subsequently, she was a member of the Vision Technologies Laboratory at the Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton).
Research
Irani's research is in the area of computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence. In particular, she has done work on understanding the internal statistics of natural images and videos, the space-time analysis of videos, and on visual inference by composition.
Selected awards
2020 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering
2017 Helmholtz Prize for the paper "Actions as space-time shapes"
2016 Maria Petrou Prize (awarded by the International Association in Pattern Recognition) for outstanding contributions to the fields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2003 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics
2000, 2002 ECCV Best Paper Awards
References
Computer vision researchers
Israeli women academics
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Beaman | Jeanne Hays Beaman (October 7, 1919 – February 12, 2020) was an American pioneer of computational choreography, creating the piece Random Dances in 1964 by using an IBM 7070 computer to select and order movement instructions from three lists.
Her 1965 article, "Computer Dance", was widely cited by later practitioners, as was a 1968 exhibition of her process at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
In her early career she studied with Martha Graham and danced with the San Francisco Ballet; she was also Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where she taught from 1961 to 1974.
References
1919 births
2020 deaths
American choreographers
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
University of Pittsburgh faculty
American centenarians
Women centenarians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes%20Agapito | Lourdes de Agapito Vicente is the Professor of 3D Vision in the department of computer science at University College London (UCL) where she leads a research
group with a focus on 3D dynamic scene understanding from video. Agapito is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the British Machine Vision Association. Furthermore, she is the co-founder of the software company Synthesia.
Education and career
Agapito received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain in 1996. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Active Vision Lab in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2000. She was awarded an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship between 1997 and 1999. In 2001, she became a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, in 2007 a Senior Lecturer, and in 2011 a Reader in Computer Vision. In 2008, she received an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant for the HUMANIS (Human Motion Analysis from Image Sequences) project. In 2013, Prof. Agapito joined the Computer Science Department at University College London. In 2017, she co-founded the software company Synthesia which offers content creation tools that include video synthesis.Agapito is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the British Machine Vision Association, a member of the Vision and Imaging Science group and the Centre for Inverse Problems.
Research
Her major research interests are in computer vision. In particular, her research focusses on inferring 3D information from videos recorded from a single moving camera. Agapito's early research focused on static scenes (structure from motion) but moved on to the challenging problem of estimating the 3D shape of moving non-rigid objects ("non-rigid structure from motion"). She has published numerous works on non-rigid structure from motion for deformable tracking, dense optical flow estimation, non-rigid video registration, 3D reconstruction of deformable and articulated structure, and dense 3D modelling of non-rigid dynamic scenes.
Selected awards
2020 Programme Chair for the British Machine Vision Conference
2016 Programme Chair for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2014 Area Chair for CVPR, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), and Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV). Workshops Chair for ECCV
2008-2014 European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant
1997-1999 EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
References
Computer vision researchers
British women academics
Academics of University College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence%20warrant | A geo-fence warrant (also known as a geofence warrant or a reverse location warrant) is a search warrant issued by a court to allow law enforcement to search a database to find all active mobile devices within a particular geo-fence area. Courts have granted law enforcement geo-fence warrants to obtain information from databases such as Google's Sensorvault, which collects users' historical geolocation data. Geo-fence warrants are a part of a category of warrants known as reverse search warrants.
History
Geo-fence warrants were first used in 2016. Google reported that it had received 982 such warrants in 2018, 8,396 in 2019, and 11,554 in 2020. A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. Google is the most common recipient of geo-fence warrants and the main provider of such data, although companies including Apple, Snapchat, Lyft, and Uber have also received such warrants.
Legality
United States
Some lawyers and privacy experts believe reverse search warrants are unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and requires any search warrants be specific to what and to whom they apply. The Fourth Amendment specifies that warrants may only be issued "upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Some lawyers, legal scholars, and privacy experts have likened reverse search warrants to general warrants, which were made illegal by the Fourth Amendment.
Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have opposed geofence warrants in amicus briefs filed in motions to quash such orders to disclose geofence data.
See also
Dragnet (policing)
References
Geographic position
Internet privacy
Google
Databases
Warrants
Law enforcement terminology
Searches and seizures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Talos | Cisco Talos Intelligence Group is a cybersecurity technology and information security company based in Fulton, MD that’s a part of Cisco Systems Inc. Talos’ threat intelligence powers Cisco Secure products and services, including malware detection and prevention systems. Talos provides Cisco customers and internet users with customizable defensive technologies and techniques through several of their own open-source products, including the Snort intrusion prevention system and ClamAV anti-virus engine.
The company is known for its involvement in several high-profile cybersecurity investigations, including the VPNFilter wireless router malware in 2018 and the widespread CCleaner supply chain attack in 2017.
History
Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by Martin Roesch, the creator of the Snort intrusion prevention system. Sourcefire created an original commercial version of Snort known as the “Sourcefire 3D System,” which eventually became the Firepower line of network security products. The company's headquarters was in Columbia, Maryland in the United States, with offices across the globe.
On July 23, 2013, Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion. After Cisco’s acquisition of Sourcefire, the company combined the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (Sourcefire VRT), Cisco’s Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team and the Security Applications (SecApps) to form Cisco Talos in August 2014. Today, Talos sits under the Cisco Secure umbrella and operates the Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) team.
In 2014, Cisco Talos helped co-found the Cyber Threat Alliance, a not-for-profit organization with the goal of improving cybersecurity "for the greater good" by encouraging collaboration between cybersecurity organizations by sharing cyber threat intelligence amongst members. As of 2022, the organization had more than 40 members, including Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.
In 2019, Cisco Security Incident Response Services group announced a new partnership with Talos, becoming Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR). Since the creation of Talos IR, the group was named as a leader by IDC in the 2021 MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Readiness Services (doc #US46741420, November 2021). Talos IR was also added to the approved vendor list on the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service providers list in May 2022.
Threat research
Talos regularly collects data on the latest cybersecurity threats, malware and threat actors through several avenues. That information then powers Cisco Secure’s products, including Cisco Secure Cloud and Cisco Secure Endpoint.
The FBI and U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has credited Talos with several major security research breakthroughs, including the VPNFilter malware that could take over home wireless routers, the BlackCat ransomware group, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Rush | Joel Rush (born August 26, 1981) is an American actor and model, best known for his role as Edward "Eddie" Willis in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, If Loving You Is Wrong.
Life and career
Rush was born in Logansport, Indiana. In 2009, he was the runner-up of the first season of ABC competition reality show True Beauty. He later began appearing on television, include a recurring role on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, and guest starring roles in Make It or Break It, Big Time Rush, Betty White's Off Their Rockers, and Femme Fatales. Rush also appeared in a number of gay romantic comedy films, including Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011), Eating Out: The Open Weekend (2011), and Love or Whatever (2012).
In 2014, Rush was cast as Edward 'Eddie' Willis in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, If Loving You Is Wrong. He later has appeared in films Bachelors (2015), Naked (2017), Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018), This Is Our Christmas (2018), A Madea Family Funeral (2019) and The Trap (2019). On television, he had a recurring role on Netflix series Lucifer as Zadkiel in 2021, and on HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones in 2022.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
21st-century American male actors
American male television actors
American male soap opera actors
Living people
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan%20Biodiversity%20Portal | Bhutan Biodiversity Portal (འབྲུག་སྐྱེ་ལྡན་རིགས་སྣ་འཆར་སྒོ།) is a consortium based citizen science website comprising key biodiversity data generating agencies and can be used by anyone. The portal is an official online repository of data on Bhutanese biodiversity.
History
Access to the updated and reliable information on the biodiversity of Bhutan for effective conservation was a major problem. The Bhutan Biodiversity Portal was created to address this issue.
In 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, a project agreement was initiated under the framework of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which was formalized in 1994. Bhutan Integated Biodiversity Information System(BIBIS) was created subsequently in 2002. The aim of the information system was to create a biodiversity platform which will be accessible to anyone interested in the biodiversity of Bhutan.
The BIBIS was later upgraded and developed into a web-based web portal in 2008. Since 2011 the portal have been upgraded and developed into the present form. This gave birth to the present Bhutan Biodiversity Portal. The Present portal was officially launched on 17 December 2013 coinciding with the National Day of Bhutan by the then Minister of Agriculture and Forests, Lyonpo Yeshi Dorji.
Features
Species pages
The species page feature of the Portal provides curated and updated information on various taxa found in the country. Editing and creation of the species pages is limited to approved curators and admins only.
Observations
The observations feature of the Portal provides platform to the users to record observation of various taxa from within the country. This section of the Portal promotes the participation from the users to document the biodiversity of Bhutan in the form of images, audios and videos. As on 08-03-2020 the portal has a total of 64585 observations. Users can add to the observations through the contribute link in the menu. Besides the image, sound and video observations, users can add checklist, documents and datasets.
Maps
The Maps module of the Portal provides various geo-spatial information through an interactive user interface. They are displayed in the form of layers. Currently the Portal provides the following map layers.
Documents
Discussions
Datasets
Groups
Contribution
Contributions to the portal can be made in the following
Adding/Editing a species page (needs special permission)
Add an observation can be done through multiple observations
Adding a list
Adding documents
Adding dataset
Add a trait/Value
Add a fact
Add a data package
Technology
The portal uses the opensource Biodiversity Informatics Platform codebase developed and maintained by Strand Life Sciences. The Strand Life Sciences and the India Biodiversity Portal provides all the technical backstoppings assisted by the Information and Communication Services Division under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests.
Platforms
Users of the portal can interact with the portal in vario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu%20A64FX | The A64FX is a 64-bit ARM architecture microprocessor designed by Fujitsu. The processor is replacing the SPARC64 V as Fujitsu's processor for supercomputer applications. It powers the Fugaku supercomputer, ranked in the TOP500 as the fastest supercomputer in the world from June of 2020, until falling to second place behind Frontier in June of 2022.
Design
Fujitsu collaborated with ARM to develop the processor; it is the first processor to use the ARMv8.2-A Scalable Vector Extension SIMD instruction set with 512-bit vector implementation.
It has "Four-operand FMA with Prefix Instruction", i.e. MOVPRFX instruction followed by 3-operand FMA operation (ARM, like RISC in general, is a 3-operand machine, with no space for four operands), which get packed into a single operation in the pipeline. For the processor the designer claim ">90% execution efficiency in (D|S|H)GEMM and INT16/8 dot product".
The processor uses 32 gigabytes of HBM2 memory with a bandwidth of 1 TB per second. The processor contains 16 PCI Express generation 3 lanes to connect to accelerators (hypothetical e.g. GPUs and FPGAs). The processor also integrates a TofuD fabric controller with 10 ports implemented as 20 lanes of high-speed 28Gbps to connect multiple nodes in a cluster. The reported transistor count is about 8.8 billion.
Each A64FX processor has four NUMA nodes, with each NUMA node having 12 compute cores, for a total of 48 cores per processor. Each NUMA node has its own level 2 cache, HBM2 memory, and assistant cores for non-computational purposes.
Fujitsu intends to produce lower specification machines with reduced assistant cores. Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities are claimed, i.e. ~128,400 error checkers in total.
In June 2020 the Fugaku supercomputer using this processor reached 442 petaFLOPS and became the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Implementations
Fujitsu designed the A64FX for the Fugaku. As of June and November 2020, the Fugaku is the fastest supercomputer in the world by TOP500 rankings. Fujitsu intends to sell smaller machines with A64FX processors. Anandtech reported in June 2020 that the cost of a PRIMEHPC FX700 server, with two A64FX nodes, was (c. ).
Cray is developing supercomputers using the A64FX. The supercomputer is being built for a consortium in the United Kingdom, led by the University of Bristol and also including the Met Office, using the Fujitsu processors. It is an upgrade to the Isambard supercomputer which was built with the Marvell ThunderX2, another ARM architecture microprocessor.
Ookami is an open testbed system supported by NSF run by Stony Brook University and the University at Buffalo providing researchers access to A64FX processors.
See also
Comparison of ARMv8-A cores
SPARC64 V
ThunderX2 another ARM architecture high performance computing microprocessor
Huawei Kunpeng 920 also an ARM high-performance microprocessor, but developed by the Huawei-owned HiSilicon. Only available in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihem%20Amer-Yahia | Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team. Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management, declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging internet and big data applications.
Early life and education
Amer-Yahia received her Ph.D. in CS from Paris-Orsay and INRIA in 1999, and her Diplôme d’Ingénieur from INI, Algeria.
Career
Before joining CNRS, Amer-Yahia served as a Principal Scientist at QCRI, Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Research and Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs.
Amer-Yahia served on several journal boards including the SIGMOD Executive Committee. She is one of the trustees emeriti of the VLDB Endowment.
Amer-Yahia also served on the EDBT (Extending Database Technology) Board, and was the program committee chair of the EDBT conference in 2014. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal for Europe and Africa.
She was an associate editor of ACM TODS, her term ending in 2017, and she has been an area editor for the Information Systems Journal.
Awards and honours
In 2020, Amer-Yahia received the CNRS Silver Medal.
In 2017, Amer-Yahia was recognised as an ACM distinguished member.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Algerian computer scientists
Algerian emigrants to France
Algerian women scientists
21st-century French women scientists
Yahoo! employees
AT&T people
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Women computer scientists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette%20Robertson | Antoinette Robertson is an American actress, known for her roles in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots (2014–18), and Netflix comedy-drama series Dear White People (2017–2021).
Life and career
Robertson began her acting career in William Esper Studio. Her first notable role was in the CW comedy-drama series Hart of Dixie (2013–14). In 2014, she was cast in a recurring role in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots playing the role of Melissa Wilson. She was promoted to series regular in season five, her final season on show.
In 2017, Robertson was cast as Colandrea 'Coco' Conners in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Dear White People. The series ended in 2021. In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Canadian drama series, Diggstown.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website
African-American actresses
American people of Jamaican descent
21st-century American actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from New York City
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people
1993 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn%20Richards | Marilyn Gray Richards (born 1944) is an Australian social scientist and writer who, with computer scientist Tom Richards, developed the software analysis packages NUD*IST and NVivo.
Early life and education
Richards was born as the second daughter to Tim Marshall – head of the Division of Soils at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – and Ann Nicholls, who lectured at the Geography Department at the University of Adelaide. Her older sister is Jenny Graves.
Richards studied political science and sociology at La Trobe University. Her early research considered the involvement of migrants in the Democratic Labor Party.
Research and career
Richards was appointed to the faculty at La Trobe University, where she worked on family sociology. She looked at the relationships between family life and home ownership in Australia. She identified that as families aspired to suburban living, they spent less times in the homes they worked so hard to finance.
Richards became aware that her academic research needed more sophisticated data analysis tools, and started to work with Tom Richards on the development of quantitative analysis software. She left La Trobe University and launched QSR International, a software development company.
At QSR International, Richards created the software packages NUD*IST and NVivo.
Selected publications
Personal life
Richards is married to computer scientist Tom Richards.
References
1944 births
Living people
Australian statisticians
Australian women academics
La Trobe University alumni
Academic staff of La Trobe University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20NXT | Sun NXT is an Indian over-the-top streaming service run by Sun TV Network. It was launched in June 2017 and has content in six languages - Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali & Marathi . Sun NXT app is available for Android and iOS devices, Smart TVs and other devices.
History
The service was launched in June 2017. Within four days of its launch, the app had obtained 1.1 million downloads. By November it was about seven million. In August 2019, Sun TV Network planned to invest in the platform over 18 months. In February 2020, the platform's subscriber base grew to about 15 million users and started making profit. However, it had expected 20 million subscribers by the end of 2019. It has more than 4000+ Movies and 30+ Live TV Channels. Sun NXT despite not having two mil subscribers, the platform is approximately earning most of its revenue on the contractual basis of content sharing with partnership of network companies.
Content
At the time of launch the platform had over 4000 movies, allowed live streaming of over 40 television channels and catch-up TV in four languages. Content available apart from TV and movies are news, comedy clips, originals and music. As of February 2020, it had 410+ shows and 4100+ movies.
There are three subscription plans offered for its users on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
See also
List of streaming media services
Over-the-top media service in India
Video on demand
Hotstar
Netflix
ZEE5
ManoramaMax
References
External links
Indian entertainment websites
Subscription video on demand services
Sun Group
Internet television streaming services
2017 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Video on demand services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain-based%20database | The blockchain-based database is a combination of traditional database and distributed database where data is transacted and recorded via Database Interface (also known as Compute Interface) supported by multiple-layers of blockchains. The database itself is shared in the form of an encrypted/immutable ledger which makes the information open for everyone.
Concept
In actual case, the blockchain essentially has no querying abilities when compared to traditional database and with a doubling of nodes, network traffic quadruples with no improvement in throughput, latency, or capacity. To overcome these shortcomings, taking a traditional database and adding blockchain features to it sounds more feasible. That's how the concept of blockchain-based database came into existence, which consists of multiple member clouds riding on two primary layers; the first one is Database Interface and the second one is the Blockchain Anchoring. The idea behind the blockchain based database concept is to complement the functionality and features of SQL and NoSQL databases with blockchain properties: data immutability, integrity assurance, decentralized control, Byzantine fault tolerance and transaction traceability.
Iterations
Blockchain relational database – a hybrid database model.
Graphchain Database – a standard RDF Graph database protected by a Blockchain.
References
Blockchains
Database models
Decentralization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Cyprus | The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Cyprus on 9 March 2020. Data released by the Cypriot government includes cases in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, but does not include cases in Northern Cyprus due to the long-running Cyprus dispute.
Background
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. In 2021, Cyprus was leading in investment for software and data, following adoption of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Timeline
2020
On 9 March, Cyprus confirmed its first two cases: a 25-year-old man from Limassol who had returned from Italy and a 64-year-old heart surgeon from Nicosia who had returned from a medical convention in England and had been treating patients while infected.
On 11 March, Cyprus confirmed four more cases: two people who returned from England the day before and one taxi driver from Paphos, whose grandson was also hospitalised. All three men were taken to Famagusta General Hospital. The fourth case was in self-isolation at home.
On 12 March, four new cases were confirmed: a person who had returned from the United Kingdom and contacted the authorities after developing symptoms, a person who had returned from Italy, a person with symptoms after returning from Greece, and a person returning from Germany with no symptoms.
On 21 March, the first death was confirmed.
On 22 April, one death, one recovery, and six new cases were confirmed.
On 23 April, one recovery and five new cases were confirmed. A total of 148 people had recovered at the time, according to the Ministry of Health.
On 30 April, seven new cases were confirmed. According to the Ministry of Health, a total of 296 people recovered.
In early May, Cypriot citizens and legal residents of Cyprus who were in the UK during the first lockdown were given the option of boarding government-arranged repatriation flights back to the island from various UK airports. Those re-entering the country were required to spend two weeks in quarantine at certain hotels which had been designated and funded by the government, primarily in Paphos and Ayia Napa.
On 16 May, a few days after some students had returned to school as part of the easing of restrictions, four new cases were confirmed in students and staff members.
On 21 May, the lockdown ended and repatriation flights continued, with a new rule stating that those coming back to the country no longer had to quarantine upon arrival. The government also announced that airports would fully reopen on 9 June, although some flights from countries heavily affected by the virus (such as the UK and Russia, the two biggest sources o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Cities%20EMC%20Network%20for%20Training | The Smart Cities EMC Network for Training (SCENT) is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812391. It is a Ph.D training network program in the field of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) especially in the smart cities application. Three universities (the University of Twente, the University of Nottingham, the University of Zielona Góra) and twelve industries collaborate in SCENT project. Supported by the IEEE EMC Society Technical Committee 7: ("Low-Frequency EMC") besides Ph.D training program, SCENT project also performs scientific training programs and social outreach programs.
History
The initiative began in 2018 with the aim of finding solutions to power quality (PQ) problems arising from conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) from integrated electrical power system equipment that are becoming smart (Smart Cities). The European Union started SCENT project at 1 September 2018 as part of the H2020-EU. 1.3.1 under ITN scheme. The H2020-EU.1.3.1 is an EU collaborative program to foster new skills by means of initial training of researchers. The CORDIS EU commission stated, as the part of Horizon 2020 program, the SCENT project is designated to support the optimization of power distribution networks inside buildings and industrial plants and transport networks with respect to compatibility (no interference) and efficiency. The SCENT project implement in 4 years and end on 31 August 2022.
Objectives
The SCENT project was established to carry out doctorate training, scientific training, and social activities in collaboration with universities, research institutions, and non-academic organisations.
In order to achieve this general objective, the SCENT project divides their work into several detailed projects called Work Packages.
Management
Objective: Efficient project execution, including finance, reporting and maintaining the relationship between the SCENT stakeholders.
Training
Objective: Create a European Doctoral/Graduate School for EMC, especially on conducted emissions, susceptibility and harmonics.
Dissemination and exploration
Objective: Disseminate the SCENT's findings to the European academic, educational, industrial, and public groups. Integrate the SCENT doctoral program into established graduate programs.
Outreach
Objective: Disseminate the SCENT's findings to the public.
Behavioral modelling and simulation of connected devices
Objective: Developed new models and simulated several load conditions connected to grids.
Statistical and probabilistic modelling and simulation
Objective: Develop validated models and simulations of power distribution grids for EMC and power quality assessment.
Measurement and monitoring, experimental evaluation of equipment and network
Objective: To characterize and evaluate the distribution network and its interconnected equipment with experiment or measurement.
System topology and interaction, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Seriki | Florence Seriki MFR (16 August 1963 – 3 March 2017) was the founder and CEO of Omatek Ventures Plc., the first Nigerian ICT company in Africa to assemble and manufacture computers and computer parts like computer cases, speakers, keyboards, mouse.
Early life and education
Seriki was born in Lagos but from Delta State. She had her secondary education at the Reagan Memorial Baptist Secondary School, Sabo, Yaba between 1975 and 1980 and then proceeded to the Federal School of Science, Lagos for her A levels. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife).
Omatek
In 1993, during the CTO exhibition (organized by the commercial section of the American Embassy in Nigeria), Seriki launched Omatek brand of Computers which was actually the first attempt of its kind in Nigeria. In 2003, she became the first African to produce Nigerian made computer cases, speakers, keyboards and computer mouse from completely knocked down (CKD) as the factory produced made in Nigeria Omatek computers, notebooks and servers with all its components made in Nigeria.
Awards and recognition
Awards won include:
Most Fascinating Nigerian (MFN)-Press Merit services
Most Outstanding/Innovative company of the decade – Africa Digital Awards 2010
Computer Hardware of the Year 2010 –National Information technology Merit Awards
Best Computer Company of the Year 2010 – West Africa ICT Development Awards
Professional Fellowship Award-Nigerian Computers Society
Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2009-Equisite Magazine/Eloy ’09 Awards.
Life Time Achievement Award for revolutionizing IT in Nigeria-3rd Lagos Enterprise Award 2009
Distinguished Alumni Award-Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Association(Lagos Branch)
Legend of Technology 2009 – Titans of Technology
Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneurship Award
Outstanding Female Entrepreneur of the year, 2003
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Excellence in Enterprise Award, 2005
Best IT Woman of the Year 2003
Distinguished O.A.U Alumni Award for outstanding Achievement in IT
Digital Peers International Award of Excellence, in recognition of immense contributions to ICT, 2005.
African leader par excellence Award 2008 by the international institute of comparative leadership for Africans and blacks in diaspora and the Accolade communication.
Personal life
She was married with three children, a boy and two girls.
Death
Seriki died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on Friday 3 March 2017 from cancer of the pancreas.
References
1963 births
2017 deaths
Nigerian women in business
Nigerian humanitarians
20th-century Nigerian women
21st-century Nigerian women
Nigerian women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Adaptation%20Network | The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Global Adaptation Network in 2010 to share and exchange climate change adaptation knowledge across the world. GAN's secretariat is based at UNEP's Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
GAN was formed as an umbrella organization to bring together regional networks across the world that are working on issues related to climate change adaptation. These regional networks include Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN), the Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action for Latin America and the Caribbean (REGATTA), and Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Food Security in Africa (EBAFOSA).
The Global Adaptation Network has four main areas of work:
Learning Exchanges – "Sharing adaptation solutions with those who most need them"
The Global Adaptation Network hosts adaptation Learning Exchanges in regions that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Adaptation specialists from different parts of the world come together to share their techniques and expertise in dealing with the challenges born from increasing weather extremes and the associated effects on livelihoods.
Face-to-face Adaptation Learning Exchanges have been held in Honduras, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, and India.
Using university resources to build resilience in cities – "Connecting university resources to real-world challenges"
The Global Adaptation Network works closely with the Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) Network, a US-based initiative that connects university resources to real-word challenges in their local cities. The Chronicle of Higher Education called the EPIC model "one of higher education’s most successful and comprehensive service-learning programs." GAN is working with the EPIC Network to extend its model to other parts of the world. Due to this collaboration, an EPIC-Africa network was launched in 2017.
Global Adaptation Forums – "Connecting adaptation experts and policymakers into a shared platform"
The Global Adaptation Network held its last major forum in Abu Dhabi in March 2018. The event explored various themes in adaptation, including how to measure and assess adaptation risks and actions, how to involve the private sector, and how to establish a climate risk insurance scheme in Africa.
Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative (LAKI) – "Identifying urgent gaps in knowledge and action"
Through the Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative, the Global Adaptation Network works closely with the UNFCCC to identify gaps in adaptation knowledge, as well as formulating guidance for the actions needed to close such gaps.
References
International climate change organizations
United Nations organizations based in Africa
United Nations Environment Programme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20neuroscience | Network neuroscience is an approach to understanding the structure and function of the human brain through an approach of network science, through the paradigm of graph theory. A network is a connection of many brain regions that interact with each other to give rise to a particular function. Network Neuroscience is a broad field that studies the brain in an integrative way by recording, analyzing, and mapping the brain in various ways. The field studies the brain at multiple scales of analysis to ultimately explain brain systems, behavior, and dysfunction of behavior in psychiatric and neurological diseases. Network neuroscience provides an important theoretical base for understanding neurobiological systems at multiple scales of analysis.
Multiple scales of analysis for the brain
Microscale
On the microscale (nanometer to micrometer), network analysis is performed on individual neurons and synapses. Due to the incredible number of neurons in a brain network, it is extremely difficult to construct a complete network at the microscale. Specifically, data collection is too slow to resolve all of the billions of neurons, machine vision tools to annotate the collected data are insufficient, and we lack the mathematical algorithms to properly analyze the resulting networks. Mapping the brain at the cellular level in vertebrates currently requires post-mortem (after death) microscopic analysis of limited portions of brain tissue. Non-optical techniques that rely on high-throughput DNA sequencing have been proposed recently by Anthony Zador (CSHL).
Mesoscale
On the mesoscopic scale (micrometer to millimeter), mesoscale analysis seeks to capture anatomically distinct populations of typically 80-120 neurons (e.g. cortical columns) across different brain regions. Mesoscale analysis allows integration of both microscale and macroscale studies, and thus allows multiscale and structural-functional integration. This scale still presents a very ambitious technical challenge at this time and can only be probed on a small scale with invasive techniques or very high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on a local scale.
Macroscale
On the macroscale (millimeter), large brain areas can be analyzed for anatomical distinctions, their structure and interactions. The macroscopic scale is best suited for mapping and annotating human connectomes, a comprehensive map of neural connections, with cognitive and behavioral associations since in vivo imaging of the human connectome is only available at the macroscale. Additionally, macroscale analysis permits more compact and comprehensive mapping. Magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) are the most popular tools for building macroscale data sets due to their availability and resolution, among fMRI's and dMRI's abilities to parce structural and functional connectivities, respectively.
Mapping brain networks
Brain networks c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Berg | Tamara Lee Berg is a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a research scientist manager at Facebook AML/FAIR.
Education
Berg obtained her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 as a member of the Berkeley Computer Vision Group. She was an assistant professor at Stony Brook University from 2008 to 2013 before joining University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2013.
Research
Berg's research interests are at the boundary of computer vision and natural language processing. In particular, she focuses on understanding the connections between vision and language, for example, to automatically identify people in news photographs, for generating natural language descriptions for images, or for recognising clothing and style.
Selected awards and honours
2019 Mark Everingham Prize
2013 Marr Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision
2011 National Science Foundation Career Award
Personal life
Berg is married to fellow computer vision researcher Alexander Berg.
References
American women academics
Computer vision researchers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Natural language processing researchers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeynep%20Akata | Zeynep Akata is a professor of computer science at the University of Tübingen where she leads the Explainable Machine Learning group. Akata is also a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen.
Education and career
Akata received her undergraduate degree in Trakya University in Turkey and Ph.D. in computer science at the INRIA Grenoble-Rhônes-Alpes. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with Bernt Schiele and at University of California, Berkeley with Trevor Darrell. Akata was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam from 2017 to 2019 before joining the University of Tübingen in 2019.
Research
Akata's research interests focus on explainable machine learning, multi-modal learning, and low-shot learning.
Selected awards and honours
2023 Alfried Krupp Prize
2022 ECVA Young Researcher Award
2021 German Pattern Recognition Award
2019 ERC Starting Grant
2019 Young Scientist Honour from the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation
2014 Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science from the Max Planck Society
References
Computer vision researchers
Living people
Turkish scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Cleveland | The transportation system of Cleveland is a network that includes several modes of transportation including sidewalks, roads, public transit, bicycle paths and regional and international airports.
Walkability
In 2011, Walk Score ranked Cleveland the seventeenth most walkable of the fifty largest cities in the United States. , Walk Score increased Cleveland's rank to being the sixteenth most walkable US city, with a Walk Score of 57, a Transit Score of 47, and a Bike Score of 51. Cleveland's most walkable and transient areas can be found in the Downtown, Ohio City, Detroit-Shoreway, University Circle, and Buckeye-Shaker Square neighborhoods.
Urban transit systems
Cleveland has a bus and rail mass transit system operated by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA). The rail portion is officially called the RTA Rapid Transit, but local residents refer to it as The Rapid. It consists of three light rail lines, known as the Blue, Green, and Waterfront Lines, and a heavy rail line, the Red Line. In 2008, RTA completed the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line, for which naming rights were purchased by the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. It runs along Euclid Avenue from downtown through University Circle, ending at the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland. In 1968, Cleveland became the first city in the nation to have a direct rail transit connection linking the city's downtown to its major airport. In 2007, the American Public Transportation Association named Cleveland's mass transit system the best in North America. Cleveland is the only metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere with its rail rapid transit system having only one center-city area rapid transit station (Tower City-Public Square).
Private automobiles
The city of Cleveland has a higher than average percentage of households without a car. In 2016, 23.7 percent of Cleveland households lacked a car, while the national average was 8.7 percent. Cleveland averaged 1.19 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8.
Roads
Cleveland's road system consists of numbered streets running roughly north–south, and named avenues, which run roughly east–west. The numbered streets are designated "east" or "west", depending where they lie in relation to Ontario Street, which bisects Public Square. The numbered street system extends beyond the city limits into some suburbs on both the West and East Sides. The named avenues that lie both on the east side of the Cuyahoga River and west of Ontario Street receive a "west" designation on street signage. The two downtown avenues which span the Cuyahoga change names on the west side of the river. Superior Avenue becomes Detroit Avenue on the West Side, and Carnegie Avenue becomes Lorain Avenue. The bridges that make these connections are often called the Detroit–Superior Bridge and the Lorain–Carnegie Bridge.
Freeways
Three two-digit Interstate Highways serve Cleveland directly. Interstate 71 (I-7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20for%20Legacy%20Computing | Symbols for Legacy Computing is a Unicode block containing graphic characters that were used for various home computers from the 1970s and 1980s and in Teletext broadcasting standards. It includes characters from the Amstrad CPC, MSX, Mattel Aquarius, RISC OS, MouseText, Atari ST, TRS-80 Color Computer, Oric, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets, as well as semigraphics characters.
Block
The image below is provided as quick reference for these symbols on systems that are unable to display them directly:
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block:
See also
Supplemental Arrows-C Unicode block characters and
Block Elements
References
Unicode blocks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Kingdon | Jason Kingdon is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was previously CEO of Blue Prism and co-founder of several AI companies. He was co-founder of UCL's Intelligent Systems Lab where he introduced the use of a neural network in live financial forecasting, and co-founder and CEO of Searchspace, a company that applied AI to detect money laundering and detect insider dealing at banks and stock exchanges. In 2008, he joined Blue Prism as executive chairman. The company has been credited with creating the Robotic Process Automation market.
Education
Kingdon completed his undergraduate degree in pure mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, masters in Mathematical Logic and Theory Computation at the University of Bristol and his PhD in Computer Science at University College London. His PhD thesis was on feed-forward Neural Networks (NN) and genetic algorithms for automated financial time series modelling.
Career
Kingdon was one of the earliest pioneers in applying AI for enterprise-scale problems starting in the mid-nineties.
While a PhD student at UCL, he co-founded Searchspace and also co-founded the Intelligent Systems Lab. Searchspace applied AI to detect money laundering, detect insider dealing detection at banks and stock exchanges. In 2005, he sold Searchspace to Warburg Pincus for $140 million.
Kingdon became an early investor in Blue Prism, a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) company, a category of enterprise software that it helped define. He led business strategy and the IPO in 2016. As of 2020, he is the CEO and chairman of the company. The company's software provides a 'digital workforce' to organisations that carry out tasks the same way existing users do. It has over 2000 customers in 70 commercial sectors, and in more than 170 countries.
In 2020 in an article for Computer Weekly, Kingdon introduced the notion of the Digital Singularity where he pointed out that a consequence of robotic process automation was that all digital technologies past, present, and future could now interoperate. He suggests this will usher a new phase of hyper-acceleration of digital technologies akin to the invention of a new Internet.
Awards
Kingdon received the 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and on behalf of Searchspace received Deloitte Fast 50 list of fastest growing technology companies in 2002 and 2005, and the Sunday Times’ Tech Track 100 in 2002 and 2005.
Publications
Kingdon has published books, patents and papers in the fields of neural networks, genetic algorithms, fraud detection, robotic process automation and the future of enterprise computing.
His patents include: "Method and system for combating robots and rogues" and "Value flow monitoring system".
References
Businesspeople in information technology
Living people
Alumni of University College London
British computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audible%20Magic | Audible Magic Corporation (commonly Audible Magic) is a Los Gatos, California-based company that provides content identification services to social networks, record labels, music publishers, television studios, and movie studios. The company also provides digital platform music management services for Internet radio, subscription music services, on-demand streaming, and fitness and gaming applications. The services help companies identify and protect copyrighted content, manage rights and monetize media.
History
1999-2002
Audible Magic was founded in 1999 by Vance Ikezoye and Jim Schrempp. Their original goal was to create a service where radio listeners could call a number to identify a song that was playing and purchase it. Instead of using metadata and other digital descriptors, the company found a way to use the digital signature of the song itself to track and identify it.
In October 2000, Audible Magic acquired MuscleFish LLC, a developer of sound similarity and audio classification technologies.
In 2001, the company partnered with streaming audience size and demographics tracking company MeasureCast to provide the first verification and demographic reporting service for online advertisements.
In October 2002, Audible Magic signed a deal with its first major label, British music conglomerate EMI Recorded Music to use Audible Magic's audio fingerprinting technology to track licensed and unlicensed usage of EMI's song catalog.
2003-2007
In February 2003, the company announced the deployment of a new automated radio ad monitoring system for AM and FM radio stations across the country by New York City-based media monitoring company Video Monitoring Services of America (VMS). In October, Audible Magic signed a deal with Sony Music for Audible Magic's CopySense application, to block pirated content and pornography from being traded on peer-to-peer networks.
In October 2004, the company launched RepliCheck, an anti-piracy information system that identifies the title, artist, releasing label and copyright date of individual songs to curb the mass production of pirated CDs. The company signed deals with five CD manufacturers, which in turn marketed the service to music labels and independent artists.
In February 2007, the social networking site Myspace launched a pilot program to block videos containing unauthorized copyrighted content from being posted in its community. The company licensed digital fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic and became the largest Internet video site to offer free video filtering to copyright holders.
2008-2017
In 2012, Audible Magic launched Audini, a browser plug-in for automatic content recognition (ACR) services.
In May 2014, Vimeo partnered with Audible Magic to launch Vimeo's Copyright Match feature to automatically flag uploaded videos that violates copyrights. In August, the company partnered with video game-streaming company Twitch to scan the site's videos-on-demand in order to identify and mut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revry | Revry (Revry.tv) is a global streaming network launched in 2016 that focuses on queer content and creators. It was founded by Damian Pelliccione, Alia J. Daniels, Christopher Rodriguez, Wadooah Wali and LaShawn McGhee. The website offers a curated selection of films, series, podcasts, music, and videos. Additionally, Revry releases original content, including the series Gayborhood, Before I Got Famous, and Drag Roast, as well as numerous podcasts. Its content is available online and via services including iOS, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV, Roku, Samsung TV Plus, and TiVo.
In addition to its LGBTQ themes, Revry promotes content inclusive of racial and ethnic diversity. In 2019, founder Rodriguez said, "I think a driving force behind our programming is reflecting the community as we are as opposed to what's trendy or what big-wig execs think is marketable."
Revry's company headquarters are in Los Angeles, California.
References
Transactional video on demand
American companies established in 2015
LGBT-related websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Ladies | R-Ladies is an organization that promotes gender diversity in the community of users of the R statistical programming language. It is made up of local chapters affiliated with the worldwide coordinating organization R-Ladies Global.
History
On October 1, 2012, Gabriela de Queiroz, a data scientist, founded R-Ladies in San Francisco (United States) after participating in similar free initiatives through Meetup. In the following four years, three other groups started: Taipei in 2014, Minneapolis (called “Twin Cities”) in 2015, and London in 2016. The chapters were independent until the 2016 useR! Conference, where it was agreed to create a central coordinating organization. In that year, Gabriela de Queiroz and Erin LeDell of R-Ladies San Francisco; Chiin-Rui Tan, Alice Daish, Hannah Frick, Rachel Kirkham and Claudia Vitolo of R-Ladies London; as well as Heather Turner joined to apply for a grant from the R Consortium, with which they asked for support for the global expansion of the organization.
In September 2016, with this scholarship, R-Ladies Global was founded and in 2018 it was declared as a high-level project by the R Consortium. As of 2019, the RLadies Global community consists of 178 groups in 48 countries.
Organization
R-Ladies meetings are organized around workshops and talks, led by people that identify as female or as gender minorities (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, pangender, two-spirt, gender-fluid, neutrois). The organization is coordinated, but decentralized, and new chapters can be founded by anyone using the publicly available “starter-kit”.
R-Ladies groups aim to promote a culture of inclusion within their events and community. In addition, they promote gender equality and diversity in conferences, in the workplace, collaboration among gender minorities, and analysis of data about women.
R-Ladies also collaborates with other projects, such as NASA Datanauts.
Gabriela de Queiroz
Gabriela de Queiroz is a chief data scientist at IBM, the founder of the global R-Ladies and AI Inclusive organizations. She was raised in Brazil and received her bachelor's degree in statistics from Rio de Janeiro State University. She has a master’s in epidemiology at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and another one in statistics at California State University, East Bay.
de Queiroz moved to the United States in 2012 to begin her master's degree in statistics at California State University, East Bay. Interested in creating an inclusive space for women learning the programming language R, she began a Meetup group in the San Francisco Bay area. Since then, the R-Ladies organization has grown to more than 178 groups in 48 countries.
In addition to her work with R-Ladies, de Queiroz is an expert in machine learning and leads IBM's AI Strategy and Innovations team. Her team contributes to projects such as TensorFlow.
Notable members
References
Women in computing
R (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ang%20sa%20Iyo%20ay%20Akin%20episodes | Ang sa Iyo ay Akin (International title: The Law of Revenge / ) is a Philippine television drama revenge series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. The series premiered on the network's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide via The Filipino Channel from August 17, 2020 to March 19, 2021, replacing Make It with You on its previous timeslot and The World of a Married Couple.
Series overview
iWantTFC shows two episodes first in advance before it broadcasts on TV.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQUIL2 | Equil 2 is a computer program used to estimate the risk of nephrolithiasis (renal stones). The input data includes excretion, concentration, and the saturation of trace elements or other substances, which are involved in the creation of kidney stones and the output will be provided in terms of PSF score (probability of stone formation) or other equivalent formats. In some studies SUPERSAT, another program, provided more accurate measurements in some of the parameters such as relative supersaturation (RSS).
References
Kidney diseases
Medical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realme%20X50%20Pro | The realme X50 Pro 5G is a smartphone from the Chinese company Realme, released in February 2020.
realme X50 Pro 5G comes with 5G networks on all spectrums from all over the world. The phone can be used in 5G enabled countries and experience high speeds. The smartphone has a 6.44-inch full-HD+ Super AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 90Hz, protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on top.
The smartphone runs Android 10-based Realme UI. It comes with 6.44-inch full-HD+ (1080x2400 pixels) display with a 90Hz refresh rate. The smartphone runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. The Realme X50 Pro 5G is equipped with a 4200mAh battery with 65W SuperDART (Realme's branded version of Oppo's SuperVOOC) charging technology.
Colours
Moss Green
Rust Red
References
External links
Official realme X50 Pro 5G website
Realme mobile phones
Smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2020
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Test%20of%20English | The Oxford Test of English (OTE) is an on demand computer-adaptive test of English proficiency for non-native speakers of English, reporting at A2, B1, and B2 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The test was developed by Oxford University Press (OUP) to provide learners of English with a quick, reliable way to prove their level of English proficiency for university entrance, employment and travel. The test is certified by the University of Oxford and is available worldwide.
History
The Oxford Test of English was developed over a number of years and launched in Spain in 2017, where it has gained wide recognition, including the Association of Language Centres in Higher Education (ACLES). The test was launched globally in April 2019 at the 53rd IATEFL conference at the Tate Liverpool. The test was shortlisted for 'best in summative assessment' in the 2020 e-Assessment Awards. In 2021, the test was independently evaluated by ECCTIS who reported the test as "A sound assessment of general English language proficiency".
Test specifications
Modules
The Oxford Test of English consists of four modules: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing. Modules can be taken individually or in any combination. Full test specifications are available.
Computer adaptive
The Listening and Reading modules of the Oxford Test of English use computer-adaptive testing (CATs). Computer adaptive tests can be more efficient and provide more precise measurement than traditional tests. The adaptive test works by selecting each successive question from a large bank of questions, based on the test taker's response to the previous question. The gains in efficiency make for shorter tests, and there is evidence that this may reduce the amount of stress a test taker feels during the test, though some research has suggested that there is no relation between CATs and test anxiety or that CATs may introduce other causes of stress
Human marking
The Speaking and Writing modules are marked by trained assessors. Test taker's responses are divided into 'scripts' for marking.
For the Writing module, Script 1 (the Part 1 email response) is marked by one assessor, and Script 2 (the Part 2 essay or magazine/article response) is marked by another assessor, each marking on four criteria: Task fulfillment, Organization, Grammar, and Lexis. The marks from the two assessors are combined and converted into a standardized score.
For the Speaking module, responses to Part 1 and 2 are sent to one assessor, and Parts 3 and 4 to a separate assessor, each marking on four criteria: Task fulfillment, Pronunciation and fluency, Grammar, and Lexis. The marks from the two assessors are combined and converted into a standardized score.
Marking quality assurance
Marking quality by assessors is manage through a system of training and certification prior to marking, and the use of 'seeds', pre-calibrated scripts which the assessor must mark within tolerance. Marking out of tolerance lead |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatwomen%27s%20training%20scheme | The boatwomen's training scheme was an initiative in the United Kingdom during the Second world war to attract women to work on Britain's canal network. Initiated by the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company (GUCCC) in 1942 the scheme was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport in 1944. The scheme closed after the end of hostilities in 1945. Nicknamed the Idle Women due to the Inland Waterways badge they wore in lieu of a uniform, it is estimated that approximately 100 women joined the scheme but only about 45 completed the training and only six are recorded as having participated throughout the length of the scheme.
Background
In the early part of the Second world war Britain's canals suffered from a labour shortage, caused mostly by military service (although until 1942 being a waterways boatmen was a reserved occupation) and the higher wages available in other employment. A recruiting drive in 1941 did attract some men to the waterways but the GUCCC noted that they also received 47 applications from women, offers they refused stating that unless the women were members of boating families already employed on the canal, their services could not be utilised.
Late in 1941 the Ministry of War Transport wrote to boaters Daphne March and Frances Traill who had been using March's own boat, Heather Bell, to transport cargo since 1940 to see if the pair would work with the GUCCC to train women to work the boats. March and Traill agreed and brought in Eily "Kit" Gayford to help. The GUCCC was one of two companies the ministry had approached and while the GUCCC has responded positively the other company, the Severn and Canal Carrying Company declined the opportunity stating that "to work canal boats by female labour entirely [was] not a practical proposition."
Training
Adverts were place in national newspapers in early 1942 and the first trainees started work in May 1942. Mostly middle class applicants, training consisted of two trainees working alongside Marsh, Traill or Gayford in charge of two canal boats, a powered or 'motor' narrowboat and an unpowered 'butty boat' which was towed by the motor boat. Two trips were made normally between London and Birmingham or Oxford carrying grain, coal or metal ingots. The first trip was for the trainees to see if they could adapt to the hard conditions and way of life and if they stuck with it, the second trip gave a more thorough grounding in the work before the women were assigned to their own boats. The training took about six weeks before the women were considered competent enough to work their own boats.
The training included how to work the boats, operating locks, loading and unloading cargo, and the geography of the canals.
Pay and conditions
During their training each woman was paid £2 per week rising to a minimum of £3 per week once qualified. The actual amount depended on the earnings of the boat based on tonnage carried split between the three women crew members. No uniform was provided, the GUC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Quibi%20original%20programming | Quibi was an over-the-top American short-form streaming platform that generated content for viewing on mobile devices. To capitalize on mobile viewing specifically, Quibi provided "quick bites" of content that can be viewed in under 10 minutes, and the content utilized "Turnstyle" technology in order to dynamically switch between portrait and landscape viewing formats. On October 21, 2020, Quibi announced that it was shutting down, leaving the fate of its original programming in question. It was shut down on December 1, 2020.
Quibi's content fell into three main categories:
Movies in Chapters: Longer features broken into chapters of 5–10 minutes
Unscripted and Docs: Shows that are episodic in nature and are 10 minutes or less
Daily Essentials: Daily curated quick bites of news, entertainment, and inspiration in the 5–6 minute range
On January 8, 2021, it was announced Roku had acquired Quibi's entire library of programming, including those that were not released yet, for The Roku Channel.
Original programming
New episodes were released every weekday unless stated otherwise.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Continuations
Daily Essentials
Lifestyle
News
Original films
Documentaries
Former upcoming original programming
All shows here will be moved to The Roku Channel unless stated otherwise.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Non-English language scripted
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Continuations
Daily Essentials
Lifestyle
News
Notes
References
Quibi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region%20Based%20Convolutional%20Neural%20Networks | Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) are a family of machine learning models for computer vision and specifically object detection.
History
The original goal of R-CNN was to take an input image and produce a set of bounding boxes as output, where each bounding box contains an object and also the category (e.g. car or pedestrian) of the object. More recently, R-CNN has been extended to perform other computer vision tasks. The following covers some of the versions of R-CNN that have been developed.
November 2013: R-CNN. Given an input image, R-CNN begins by applying a mechanism called Selective Search to extract regions of interest (ROI), where each ROI is a rectangle that may represent the boundary of an object in image. Depending on the scenario, there may be as many as two thousand ROIs. After that, each ROI is fed through a neural network to produce output features. For each ROI's output features, a collection of support-vector machine classifiers is used to determine what type of object (if any) is contained within the ROI.
April 2015: Fast R-CNN. While the original R-CNN independently computed the neural network features on each of as many as two thousand regions of interest, Fast R-CNN runs the neural network once on the whole image. At the end of the network is a novel method called ROIPooling, which slices out each ROI from the network's output tensor, reshapes it, and classifies it. As in the original R-CNN, the Fast R-CNN uses Selective Search to generate its region proposals.
June 2015: Faster R-CNN. While Fast R-CNN used Selective Search to generate ROIs, Faster R-CNN integrates the ROI generation into the neural network itself.
March 2017: Mask R-CNN. While previous versions of R-CNN focused on object detection, Mask R-CNN adds instance segmentation. Mask R-CNN also replaced ROIPooling with a new method called ROIAlign, which can represent fractions of a pixel.
June 2019: Mesh R-CNN adds the ability to generate a 3D mesh from a 2D image.
Applications
Region-based convolutional neural networks have been used for tracking objects from a drone-mounted camera, locating text in an image, and enabling object detection in Google Lens. Mask R-CNN serves as one of seven tasks in the MLPerf Training Benchmark, which is a competition to speed up the training of neural networks.
References
Object recognition and categorization
Deep learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akudama%20Drive | is a 2020 Japanese cyberpunk anime television series conceptualized by Kazutaka Kodaka and produced by Pierrot and Too Kyo Games. It was written by Norimitsu Kaihō and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi. Set in a dystopian future in Kansai, the story follows a young woman who accidentally becomes a criminal known as Akudama, who are pursued by the government, though she decides to take a fake identity, Swindler, in order to survive after meeting Courier. The series aired from October to December 2020. A total of six DVD and Blu-ray box sets collected the twelve-episode series in Japan.
Taguchi was inspired after seeing Kodaka's work in the Danganronpa series and both agreed to work together. Inspired by Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, Kodaka wrote the original draft of similar villains who acts as the protagonists. After showing his ideas to Too Kyo Games, the project was greenlighted and Pierrot was brought in to create appealing action scenes. A manga adaptation has also been serialized, while a character CD soundtrack was released in Japan.
Critical response to the series was positive based on the cyberpunk setting as well as the handling of the main cast, most notably the lead Swindler. It is widely considered to be one of the best anime of 2020. Reviewers noted that the series primarily centered around the ideals of justice.
Premise
In a dystopian future where Kansai became a vassal state of Kantō, multiple highly skilled criminals, called Akudama, are sent a message from an anonymous client to free a death row prisoner named Cutthroat before they are executed. Four Akudama respond to the challenge and descend into Kansai Police Headquarters to earn a big payday. However, once inside, they discover the job was part of a larger scheme by their client to make them work together on a bigger job: to infiltrate the Shinkansen and steal precious cargo from a vault at the front of the train. Roped into the job are an ordinary girl arrested on a minor charge but forced to keep up the appearance of a Swindler, and a low-level Hoodlum who was accidentally broken out of jail during the initial heist. The team must work together to finish the job and earn their large payday, all while keeping ahead of the Executioners from the Kansai Police on their tail.
Characters
Akudama
/
A young woman working at the Kansai Seal Office who accidentally becomes a criminal when meeting Courier. After saving what she thought was a black cat, the girl pretends to be a criminal named "Swindler" to avoid being killed by the other Akudama.
A terse man who is skilled at delivering any package to any recipient as long as he is paid. Courier can also fight with the use of his customized motorbike, which contains a small railgun built into the front.
An attractive master surgeon, chemist, and all-around medical doctor who can heal herself almost instantly from injuries that would normally prove fatal.
A chinpira who was serving a four year sentence in a K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20Geometry | Algorithmic Geometry is a textbook on computational geometry. It was originally written in the French language by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Mariette Yvinec, and published as Géometrie algorithmique by Edusciences in 1995. It was translated into English by Hervé Brönnimann, with improvements to some proofs and additional exercises, and published by the Cambridge University Press in 1998.
Topics
The book covers the theoretical background and analysis of algorithms in computational geometry, their implementation details, and their applications. It is grouped into five sections, the first of which covers background material on the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, including computational complexity theory, and techniques for designing randomized algorithms. Its subsequent sections each consist of a chapter on the mathematics of a subtopic in this area, presented at the level of detail needed to analyze the algorithms, followed by two or three chapters on algorithms for that subtopic.
The topics presented in these sections and chapters include convex hulls and convex hull algorithms, low-dimensional randomized linear programming, point set triangulation for two- and three-dimensional data, arrangements of hyperplanes, of line segments, and of triangles, Voronoi diagrams, and Delaunay triangulations.
Audience and reception
The book can be used as a graduate textbook, or as a reference for computational geometry research. Reviewer Peter McMullen calls it "a welcome addition to the shelves of anyone interested in algorithmic geometry".
References
Computational geometry
Mathematics textbooks
1995 non-fiction books
1998 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Rognes | Marie Elisabeth Rognes (born 7 October 1982) is a Norwegian applied mathematician specializing in scientific computing and numerical methods for partial differential equations. She works at the Simula Research Laboratory, as one of their chief research scientists.
Education and career
Rognes was a student in applied mathematics at the University of Oslo, earning a master's degree in 2005 and completing a Ph.D. in 2009. Her dissertation, Mixed finite element methods with applications to viscoelasticity and gels, was jointly supervised by Ragnar Winther and Hans Petter Langtangen.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota and the Simula Research Laboratory, she joined the University of Oslo as a lecturer in 2012, and in the same year became a senior researcher for Simula Research. She remained affiliated on a part-time basis with the University of Oslo until 2016, when she became a chief research scientist for Simula Research.
Recognition
Rognes became one of 20 founding members of the Young Academy of Norway in 2015. In the same year she was part of a team that won the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, given every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The award cited their work on dolfin-adjoint, a software package for adjoint and tangent linear equations.
In 2018 she was the winner of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Prize for Young Researchers in the Natural Sciences.
References
External links
Home page
1982 births
Living people
Norwegian mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
University of Oslo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid%20Kristine%20Glad | Ingrid Kristine Glad (born 1965) is a Norwegian statistician whose research topics have included nonparametric regression, DNA microarray data, and image processing. She is a professor of statistics and data science at the University of Oslo.
Education and career
Glad was born in Oslo. After rebelling against her family by preferring mathematics to language, Glad studied physics and statistics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. She is married to statistician Arnoldo Frigessi, and followed Frigessi to Italy for postdoctoral research before returning to Norway for her position at the University of Oslo.
As a teenager she worked a stint on a cargo ship, and her later research has also included using statistics to prevent shipping disasters.
In 2022 Glad and Frigessi obtained the founding for the center of excellence (SFF) Integreat.
Recognition
Glad is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.
She was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2019.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Norwegian statisticians
Women statisticians
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20ossification | Protocol ossification is the loss of flexibility, extensibility and evolvability of network protocols. This is largely due to middleboxes that are sensitive to the wire image of the protocol, and which can interrupt or interfere with messages that are valid but which the middlebox does not correctly recognise. This is a violation of the end-to-end principle. Secondary causes include inflexibility in endpoint implementations of protocols.
Ossification is a major issue in Internet protocol design and deployment, as it can prevent new protocols or extensions from being deployed on the Internet, or place strictures on the design of new protocols; new protocols may have to be encapsulated in an already-deployed protocol or mimic the wire image of another protocol. Because of ossification, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) are the only practical choices for transport protocols on the Internet, and TCP itself has significantly ossified, making extension or modification of the protocol difficult.
Recommended methods of preventing ossification include encrypting protocol metadata, and ensuring that extension points are exercised and wire image variability is exhibited as fully as possible; remedying existing ossification requires coordination across protocol participants. QUIC is the first IETF transport protocol to have been designed with deliberate anti-ossification properties.
History
Significant ossification had set in on the Internet by 2005, with analyses of the problem also being published in that year; suggests that ossification was a consequence of the Internet attaining global scale and becoming the primary communication network.
Multipath TCP was the first extension to a core Internet protocol to deeply confront protocol ossification during its design.
The IETF created the Transport Services (taps) working group in 2014. It has a mandate to mitigate ossification at the transport protocol layer.
QUIC is the first IETF transport protocol to deliberately minimise its wire image to avoid ossification.
The Internet Architecture Board identified design considerations around the exposure of protocol information to network elements as a "developing field" in 2023.
Causes
The primary cause of protocol ossification is middlebox interference, invalidating the end-to-end principle. Middleboxes may entirely block unknown protocols or unrecognised extensions to known protocols, interfere with extension or feature negotiation, or perform more invasive modification of protocol metadata. Not all middlebox modifications are necessarily ossifying; of those which are potentially harmful, they are disproportionately towards the network edge. Middleboxes are deployed by network operators unilaterally to solve specific problems, including performance optimisation, security requirements (e.g., firewalls), network address translation or enhancing control of networks. These middlebox deployments provide localised shor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fabulous%20Funnies | The Fabulous Funnies was a one-hour primetime network special that aired on NBC on February 11, 1968, hosted by Carl Reiner. The show was a salute to American comic strips, and featured interviews with cartoonists, including Rube Goldberg, Chester Gould, Chic Young, Milt Caniff, Al Capp and Charles Schulz.
In addition, the show included songs that have been written about comic strips, performed by the Doodletown Pipers, the Royal Guardsmen and Ken Berry. Ken Berry sang a song from the Li'l Abner musical, and the Royal Guardsmen performed their hit single "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron". Other songs featured in the program include "Barney Google (With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)" and "Little Chatterbox," inspired by Little Orphan Annie. The comedy team of Burns and Schreiber also performed a skit about people reading comic strips.
In one sequence, Reiner interacts with animated comic strip characters, leading production supervisor David Crommie to brag, "This is, perhaps, the most difficult show that has ever been done for television. Production began in January 1967, and continued until the end of the year. When you combine live action with animation, the impossible takes a lot longer!"
The show did very well in the ratings, reaching #7 for the week according to the Nielsen ratings, and garnered a follow-up a decade later. In an article about producer Lee Mendelson, comics historian Mark Evanier says, "The ratings were huge and the folks at CBS, for whom Lee was producing the Charlie Brown specials, said to him, "Why didn't you offer that special to us?" Lee replied, "I did. You didn't think it would do very well and passed so I sold it to NBC." The folks at CBS said, "Well... we want the next one." It was not until 1980 that Lee did the next one, which was called The Fantastic Funnies and yes, it was on CBS."
Cartoonists
The cartoonists featured in the special were:
Dik Browne (Hi and Lois)
Ernie Bushmiller (Nancy)
Al Capp (Li'l Abner)
Milt Caniff (Steve Canyon)
Bob Dunn (They'll Do It Every Time)
Hal Foster (Prince Valiant)
Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorganzola Butts)
Chester Gould (Dick Tracy)
Fred Lasswell (Barney Google and Snuffy Smith)
Jerry Robinson (Still Life)
Howie Schneider (Eek & Meek)
Charles Schulz (Peanuts)
Al Smith (Mutt and Jeff)
Otto Soglow (The Little King)
Leonard Starr (On Stage)
Reception
The next day's review in The New York Times was not kind, saying that the show "unfortunately turned out to be little more than a superficial look at one of the more interesting aspects of this country's kitsch culture. The producers were faced with an embarrassment of riches and did not know what to do with them. In attempting too much, the program did nothing well... Basically, the producers made the mistake of ignoring the strips themselves and leaving the viewer in the dark as to what, in fact, made them 'funnies.'"
Similarly, The Baltimore Sun said, "It was plain from the beginning that those who |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Robin%27s%20Nest%20episodes | Robin's Nest is a British sitcom made by Thames Television, which aired on the ITV network for 48 episodes over six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981. It saw Richard O'Sullivan reprise the role of Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom Man About the House. It also starred Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton and David Kelly.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1 (1977)
Series 2 (1978)
Series 3 (1978)
Series 4 (1979)
Series 5 (1979–80)
Series 6 (1980–81)
References
External links
Robin's Nest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Fitzpatrick | Geraldine Fitzpatrick (born 1958) is an Australian professor and academic researcher who serves as the head of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) since 2009. Her research is interdisciplinary at the intersection of social and computer sciences.
She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IFIP Fellow.
Education
Fitzpatrick started her degree in Computer Science in 1989, in University of Queensland. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
Fitzpatrick also holds a certificate in midwifery (1983).
Career
Fitzpatrick's research is on social interaction and spans a range of areas including collaboration, health and well-being, technology-enabled mental health and active engagement for older people.
Prior to her career in information technologies, Fitzpatrick worked as a midwife and a nurse. After completing her degree in computer science, she worked as a research fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre and Centre for Online Health in Australia. She was the Director of the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex.
Fitzpatrick is a member of the ACM Distinguished Member Committee, the ACM CHI Steering Committee. She is the Austrian representative on IFIP TC13. She was the former associate editor and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) journal.
She is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Awards
ACM Distinguished Scientist (2016)
IFIP Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) Pioneer Award recipient (2019)
IFIP fellow (2020)
References
1958 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian electrical engineers
Australian expatriates in Austria
Academic staff of TU Wien
University of Queensland alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Agresti | Alan Gilbert Agresti (born February 6, 1947) is an American statistician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. He has written several textbooks on categorical data analysis that are considered seminal in the field.
The Agresti–Coull confidence interval for a binomial proportion is named after him and his doctoral student Brent Coull.
Biography
Agresti earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1968. He earned his doctorate in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972. His doctoral advisor was Stephen Stigler and his thesis work was on stochastic processes.
He was a professor of statistics for many years at the University of Florida, from 1972 until his retirement in 2010 as a Distinguished Professor. He was also a visiting professor at the department of statistics at Harvard University for several years. Notable doctoral students include Ivy Liu and Brent Coull.
He wrote the textbook Categorical Data Analysis during a sabbatical year at Imperial College.
He has taught short courses about categorical data analysis for 30 years at universities around the world, including at several Italian universities, and in 2017 became a dual citizen of Italy and the United States.
Honors and awards
He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2008.
He received an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University in 1999.
He was named "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association in 2003.
The workshop "Categorical Data Analysis & Friends" was held in his honor in Florence, Italy in 2019.[5]
Personal life
His wife is Jacki Levine.
Selected works
Textbooks
Agresti has written several books on categorical data analysis, including An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis and Categorical Data Analysis.
Other textbooks include the following:
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, Second Edition
Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models
Foundations of Statistics for Data Scientists, with R and Python (with Maria Kateri)
Articles
"A Survey of Exact Inference for Contingency Tables", 1992
References
External links
Personal website
1947 births
American statisticians
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Rochester alumni
University of Florida faculty
Italian statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics%20%28disambiguation%29 | Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning in language.
Semantics may also refer to:
Semantics (computer science), the mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages
Semantics of logic, the study of the interpretations of formal and natural languages
Semantics (psychology), the study of meaning within psychology
Books
Semantics (Lyons book), book by Sir John Lyons
Semantics (Saeed book), book by John I. Saeed
Semantics: the Study of Meaning, book by Geoffrey Leech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20CPC%20character%20set | The Amstrad CPC character set (alternatively known as the BASIC graphics character set) is the character set used in the Amstrad CPC series of 8-bit personal computers when running BASIC (the default mode, until it boots into CP/M). This character set existed in the built-in "lower" ROM chip. It is based on ASCII-1967, with the exception of character 0x5E which is the up arrow instead of the circumflex, as it is in ASCII-1963, a feature shared with other character sets of the time. Apart from the standard printable ASCII range (0x20-0x7e), it is completely different from the Amstrad CP/M Plus character set. The BASIC character set had symbols of particular use in games and home computing, while the CP/M Plus character reflected the International and Business flavor of the CP/M Plus environment. This character set is represented in Unicode (excluding 0xEF, 0xFC, and 0xFD) as of the March 2020 release of Unicode 13.0, which added symbols for legacy computing.
Character set
Control characters
Each of the characters in the C0 character range (0x00-0x1F) had a special function.
References
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda%20Light%20Rail | The Luanda Light Rail is a proposed light rail line to be built in the Angolan capital city Luanda, at a projected cost of US $3 billion.
Background
In 2019, the proposal for a light rail network in Luanda was announced, with construction proposed to begin in 2020.
German transport company Siemens Mobility signed a memorandum of understanding with the Angolan government in early 2020 to begin building the network under a public private partnership.
Network
The network is proposed to serve the main axis of the city; from the Port of Luanda to Cacuaco, Avenida Fidel Castro Ruz-Benfica, Port of Luanda - Largo da Independência and Cidade do Kilamba - 1º de Maio.
The initial , named the Yellow Line, is proposed link Port of Luanda with Kilamba via Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Unidade Operativo de Luanda and Sapú. Construction could begin in 2021, however without the involvement of Siemens.
References
Municipalities in Luanda
Light rail in Africa
Rail transport in Angola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh%20Suntharalingam | Ganesh Suntharalingam (born March 1967) OBE FRCA FFICM is a British anaesthetist, the president of the Intensive Care Society and the former medical lead of North West London Critical Care Network. In 2006 he led the successful treatment of six volunteers who had become critically ill after being given a new drug at a private trials unit within the grounds of Northwick Park Hospital where he worked. The editor of New England Journal of Medicine later stated that “all six volunteers survived in part because of the extraordinary intensive care delivered during the critical stages of their illness”.
References
External links
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ganeshicm
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ganesh_Suntharalingam
Living people
1967 births
British anaesthetists
Fellows of the Royal College of Anaesthetists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim%20Francez | Nissim Francez (Hebrew: נסים פרנסיז; born: 19 January 1944) is an Israeli professor, emeritus in the computer science faculty at the Technion, and former head of computational linguistics laboratory in the faculty.
Early life and education
Nissim Francez was born in Bulgaria. His family emigrated to Israel in 1949. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics and philosophy from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1965. After his military service in the IDF, he studied at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, and received his M.sc. in 1971.
He continued his studies there and received his Ph.D. degree in 1976. Francez under the supervision of Prof. Amir Pnueli.
Career
Francez was a research associate at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1976. A year later he joined the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California (USC), as an assistant professor.
In 1978 He returned to Israel as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department in the Technion, Haifa. A year later he was promoted to senior lecturer, and in 1984 to associate professor. In 1991 he became a full professor at the Computer Science Faculty in the Technion, and in 1996-2006 he was the head of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the faculty.
Francez held the Bank Leumi chair in Computer Science in the faculty from 2000 until 2010, when he retired from the Technion as professor emeritus.
In his sabbaticals and summer leaves, Francez has been a research associate at Aiken Computation Lab. at Harvard University in the summers of 1981 and 1982. He was also a visiting scientist at Abo Academy, Turku, Finland (1988) and at the Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (1992). Francez was an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Department of CS, Manchester University (1996-1997), and a Senior Academic Visitor at HCRC, Department of Informatics, Edinburgh University (2002)
and at the School of Computer Science, St Andrews University (2007).
Professional work
Francez was working in IBM Scientific Center, Haifa in 1981 to 1982, and a year later at IBM-T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States as a visiting scientist.
In 1983-85 he was working on design and implementation of a Prolog programming environment at IBM Scientific Center, Haifa.
He was a visiting scientist at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, US in the summers of 1986 and 1987 and 1989-1990
In 1997 he was a visiting scientist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam.
Research
Francez's current research focuses on proof-theoretic semantics for logic and natural language.
He has also carried out work in formal semantics of natural language, type-logical grammar, computational linguistics, unification-based grammar formalisms (LFG, HPSG). In the past he was interested in semantics of programming languages, program verification, concurrent and distribute |
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