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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Brandenburg | Mario Brandenburg (born 3 October 1983) is a German computer scientist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2017.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Brandenburg has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary to Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger since June 2022. In this capacity, he was also the Commissioner for Translational Research.
Early life and career
Brandenburg studied business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen and graduated with a master's degree (M.Sc.). Since then he has been employed at the software company SAP, where he first worked in software development, then in consulting and finally in international product sales.
Political career
Brandenburg has been a member of the FDP since 2010.
Brandenburg first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. In parliament, he joined the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (2017–2022) and also the Committee on Digital Affairs (2017–2021). He served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on technology policy.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Brandenburg was part of his party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.
Other activities
Fraunhofer Society, Ex-Officio Member of the Senate (since 2022)
German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board (since 2022)
Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIN-D), Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2022)
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Members of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Boyce | Raymond Boyce may refer to:
Raymond Boyce (cricketer) (1891–1941), Australian cricketer
Raymond F. Boyce (1947–1974), American computer scientist
Raymond Boyce (theatre designer) (1928–2019), New Zealand stage designer, costume designer and puppeteer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt%20and%20Catch%20Fire | Halt and Catch Fire may refer to:
Halt and Catch Fire (computing), idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction
Halt and Catch Fire (TV series), American television series
"Halt & Catch Fire", an episode in season 10 of American television series Supernatural |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrical%20Calculations | Calendrical Calculations is a book on calendar systems and algorithms for computers to convert between them. It was written by computer scientists Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold and published in 1997 by the Cambridge University Press. A second "millennium" edition with a CD-ROM of software was published in 2001, a third edition in 2008, and a fourth "ultimate" edition in 2018.
Topics
There have been many different calendars in different societies, and there is much difficulty in converting between them, largely because of the impossibility of reconciling the irrational ratios of the daily, monthly, and yearly astronomical cycle lengths using integers. The 14 calendars discussed in the first edition of the book included the Gregorian calendar, ISO week date, Julian calendar, Coptic calendar, Ethiopian calendar, Islamic calendar, modern Iranian calendar, Baháʼí calendar, French Republican calendar, old and modern Hindu calendars, Maya calendar, and modern Chinese calendar. Later editions expanded it to many more calendars. They are divided into two groups: "arithmetical" calendars, whose calculations can be performed purely mathematically, independently from the positions of the moon and sun, and "astronomical" calendars, based in part on those positions.
The authors design individual calendrical calculation algorithms for converting each of these calendars to and from a common format, the Rata Die system of days numbered from January 1 of the (fictional) Gregorian year 1. Combining these methods allows the conversion between any two of the calendars. One of the innovations of the book is the use of clever coding to replace tables of values of mildly-irregular sequences, such as the numbers of days in a month. The authors also discuss the history of the calendars they describe, analyze their accuracy with respect to the astronomical events that they were designed to model, and point out important days in the year of each calendar. An appendix includes full documentation of the software.
One purpose of the book is to provide usable and efficient open software in an area where previous solutions were largely proprietary, incomplete, and buggy. Author Edward Reingold originally programmed these methods in Emacs Lisp, as part of the text editor GNU Emacs, and the authors expanded an earlier journal publication on this implementation into the book. This code has been converted to Common Lisp for the book, and distributed under an open license, and included within the book as a precise and unambiguous way of describing each algorithm.
Audience and reception
This is primarily a reference book, but can also be read for pleasure by readers interested in this topic. Reviewer Victor J. Katz recommends this book to anyone who is "at all interested in how we deal with time". However, reviewer John D. Cook points out that, to understand the details of the algorithms described in the book, readers must be familiar with Lisp coding, and that it is diffi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEGAlink | MEGAlink is a file transfer protocol for modem-equipped microcomputers written by Paul Meiners in 1987. Like many protocols of the era, MEGAlink is an expanded version of the seminal XMODEM. While it was a relatively simple and high-performance system, it remains relatively obscure because it was overshadowed by ZMODEM, which had been released a year earlier and saw rapid uptake.
History
XMODEM was introduced in 1977 as what its author described as a "quick hack". It had a number of rather obvious problems, which became more annoying as modem speeds increased during the early 1980s. Through this period, a number of new file transfer protocols for BBS users appeared in order to address issues in the original XMODEM. Many of these had minor problems of their own, or were limited to certain applications, which limited their use. XMODEM remained extremely popular throughout this period, as it was one of the few protocols that was universally supported.
In 1986, Chuck Forsberg released ZMODEM, a radically improved file transfer protocol that offered many new features, high performance, and ran on services that corrupted XMODEM transfers. The only downside to ZMODEM was that it was very complex, which made it difficult or impossible to implement on some machines, especially the large installed base of systems like the Commodore 64.
MEGAlink was introduced as part of Meiners' GT PowerComm terminal emulator to address this issue. It offered high performance, similar to that of ZMODEM, while being much simpler to implement. In spite of this attractive combination of features, MEGAlink never became popular, and few other terminal emulators appear to have added support - a review article in 1988 shows only PowerComm and one other program supporting it.
The move from 8-bit to 16-bit computers was taking place at the same time that MEGAlink was being introduced, and by the late 1980s any benefits in terms of simplicity had been mooted. ZMODEM went on to be almost universal.
Description
XMODEM
XMODEM is a simple protocol, and that is the primary reason for its popularity.
The file to be sent is broken up into 128-byte chunks that form the payload data of its packets. A 3-byte header consisting of the SOH character and two 8-bit integers is added in front of the data and a 1-byte checksum at the end, making the overall packet 132 bytes long. The protocol is triggered by the receiver, who sends a NAK character to start the transfer, waits for a packet in response, and then sends ACK if the packet was received correctly, or NAK if it wasn't.
Because the phone system has a certain amount of latency, it takes some time for the ACK or NAK to travel back through the lines and trigger the sending of the next packet. At 300 bit/s this represents a short time compared to the time needed to send the packet of data, so this can be ignored. At 2400 bit/s, common latencies mean as much as 50% of the available time is being wasted waiting for replies.
A wide variety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computer%20Assisted%20Tomography | The Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, abbreviated JCAT, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering medical imaging, with a particular focus on CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging. It was established in 1977 and is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. It is the official journal of SABI, the Society for Advanced Body Imaging.
The editor-in-chief is Eric P. Tamm, MD (University of Texas and MD Anderson Cancer Center). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.826.
The journal's title has often been mistakenly represented (in mentions and citations) as "Journal of Computed Assisted Tomography".
References
External links
Wolters Kluwer academic journals
Academic journals established in 1977
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Radiology and medical imaging journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Di%20Chiro | Giovanni Di Chiro (October 17, 1926 – August 27, 1997) was an Italian-American neuroradiologist known for his work in the use of medical imaging techniques, such as computer-assisted tomography, to study the central nervous system.
Early life and education
Di Chiro was born in Vinchiaturo, Italy, on October 17, 1926. He was the second of four children of Umberto di Chiro, a professor of Greek and Latin in Campobasso, and his wife, Antonietta. Giovanni began attending school in Campobasso when he was four years old, and he and his family moved to Naples when he was thirteen. During World War II, he studied medicine at the University of Naples, and received his medical degree from there in 1949.
Career
After graduating from the University of Naples, Di Chiro originally intended to travel to Switzerland to work as a cardiologist, but he soon changed his mind and traveled to Sweden instead. While on the train to Stockholm, he met a radiologist who convinced him to pursue a career in radiology. He went on to serve as a radiology resident in multiple Swedish hospitals affiliated with Karolinska University from 1949 to 1953. He then traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where he began working at the Boston City Hospital on a Fulbright Fellowship in July 1953. In October 1957, he began working at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness as a visiting scientist, and in January 1958, he established what became known as its Neuroimaging Branch. He served as head of this branch from its founding until his death in 1997. He served as the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, and he was also a member of the editorial boards of nine other peer-reviewed journals.
Personal life and death
Di Chiro met Barbara Phillips shortly after he first came to Boston in 1953; they were married on October 9, 1954. They had three children: a daughter, Giovanna, and twin sons, Patrick and Marco. Di Chiro died on August 27, 1997, of cancer at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. On September 12, a memorial service was held in Bethesda, attended by many of his associates, colleagues, family, and friends.
References
1926 births
1997 deaths
Italian emigrants to the United States
American radiologists
Neuroimaging researchers
People from Campobasso
University of Naples Federico II alumni
National Institutes of Health faculty
Medical journal editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltony%20Williams | Eltony Williams is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Randall Holmes in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, If Loving You Is Wrong.
Life and career
Williams was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He began acting appearing in two Steppenwolf Theatre Company productions: A Lesson Before Dying in 2003, and Tennessee Williams' One Arm (2004). He later began appearing on television shows, include guest starring roles in Criminal Minds, ER, House, Castle, and NCIS.
In 2014, Williams was cast as Dr. Randall Holmes in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, If Loving You Is Wrong. He later had a recurring roles in the ABC prime time soap opera Revenge (2014–15) and the Netflix political drama Designated Survivor (2019).
References
External links
Male actors from Chicago
African-American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male television actors
American male soap opera actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan-Liu%20Ma | Kwan-Liu Ma is an American computer scientist. He was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and came to the United States pursuing advanced study in 1983. He is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics, human computer interaction, and high-performance computing.
Biography
Ma received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in computer science from the University of Utah in 1986, 1988, and 1993, respectively. During 1993-1999, Ma was a staff scientist at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center, where he conducted research in scientific visualization and high-performance computing. Ma joined UC Davis faculty in July 1999 and funded the Visualization and Interface Design Innovation (VIDI) research group and UC Davis Center of Excellence for Visualization.
Ma is a leading researcher in Big Data visualization. He organized the NSF/DOE Workshop on Large Scientific and Engineering Data Visualization (with C. Johnson) in 1999 as well as the Panel on Visualizing Large Datasets: Challenges and Opportunities at ACM SIGGRAPH 1999. He participated in the NSF LSSDSV, ITR, and BigData programs, and led the DOE SciDAC Institute for Ultrascale Visualization, a five-year, multi-institution project. He and his students has convincingly demonstrated several advanced concepts for data visualization, such as in situ visualization (1995, 2006), visualization provenance (1999), hardware accelerated volume visualization (2001), machine learning assisted volume visualization (2004), explorable images (2010), machine learning assisted graph visualization (2017), etc. Ma has published over 350 articles and given over 250 invited talks.
Ma has been actively serving the research community by playing leading roles in several professional activities including VizSec, Ultravis, EGPGV, IEEE VIS, IEEE PacificVis, and IEEE LDAV. He has served as a papers co-chair for SciVis, InfoVis, EuroVis, PacificVis, and Graph Drawing. Professor Ma was associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2007-2011), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2007-2019), and the Journal of Computational Science and Discovery (2009-2014). He presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Visualization, the Journal of Visual Informatics, and the Journal Computational Visual Media.
Ma is a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).
Awards
1999 NSF CAREER Award
2000 NSF Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE)
2001 Schlumberger Foundation Technical Award
2007 UC Davis College of Engineering's Outstanding Mid-Career Research Faculty Award
2008, 2009, 2012 HP Labs Research Innovation Award
2012 IEEE Fellow
2013 IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award
2018 Distinguished Professor, UC Davis
2019 Inductee of the IEEE Visualization Academy
Selecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%2037%20%28Iceland%29 | Laugarvatnsvegur () or Route 37 is a primary road in southern Iceland. It is a spur route of Route 35 that connects Laugarvatn to the main road network.
References
Roads in Iceland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45-bit%20computing |
Examples
Computers designed with 45-bit words are quite rare. One 45-bit computer was the Soviet Almaz ("") computer.
See also
60-bit computing
References
Data unit
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prof%3A%20Alan%20Turing%20Decoded | Prof: Alan Turing Decoded is a 2015 biography of Alan Turing, a 20th-century mathematician and computer scientist, authored by his nephew Dermot Turing. Written in a non-academic style, it begins with Turing's family history and early childhood, continuing with his contributions to Britain's cryptanalysis and encryption efforts in World War II and culminating in Turing's conviction for homosexuality and his later suicide.
It also discusses Turing's contributions to computer science both before and after the war, omitting technical details. It contains previously unpublished material such as photographs and letters, in particular describing the nature of Turing's work in World War II between 1942 and 1945, much of which was not public knowledge beforehand. Reviews of it are mostly positive.
History
Alan Turing (1912–1954) was a 20th-century mathematician and a significant early contributor to the fields of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He is well known for his work on cryptanalysis of the Enigma during World War II, to help decode German military intelligence. Sir Dermot Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing and the twelfth of the Turing baronets. His father John Turing was Alan's elder brother. Whilst writing the book, Dermot Turing served as director of the Bletchley Park Trust, allowing him access to previously unpublished works.
Andrew Hodges' 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma (new edition in 2012) is considered the standard reference work for Turing's life and works. Prof: Alan Turing Decoded is considerably shorter, not written in an academic style and does not cover technical details of Turing's work. Dermot Turing used The Enigma as a reference work. Other literature includes Alan M. Turing (1959, new edition in 2012), by his mother Ethel Sara Turing, and Turing: The Pioneer of the Information Age (2012) by Jack Copeland. In 2014, a movie about Turing entitled The Imitation Game had been released.
Prior to the book's release, little was known of Turing's war efforts between 1942 and 1945, after his work on code-breaking had ended. The book contains information on Turing's work on encryption of telegraph, radio and voice communication—including efforts to prevent eavesdropping on communications between UK prime minister Winston Churchill and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. This information came from documents held by the UK government's intelligence organisation, GCHQ, which they were in the process of releasing publicly.
The book contains novel information which undermines suggestions that Turing's suicide was subject to an official cover-up. Dermot Turing found correspondence from his father indicating that Turing was having relationship issues with a man named Roy near to his death. He also published excerpts from letters Turing wrote to his friend Nick Furbank, relating to Turing's chemical castration and relationship with his mother after he was convicted for homosexuality. The book also contain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied%20Broadcasting%20Center | Allied Broadcasting Center is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at Unit 1703, Cityland 10, Tower 1, H.V. De la Costa St., Makati. It is a subsidiary of Apollo Broadcast Investors.
ABC Stations
Source:
AM Stations
FM Stations
Former Stations
References
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keysmash | A keysmash (alternatively key smash or keyboard smash) is internet slang for the typing out of a random sequence of letters on a computer keyboard or touchscreen, often to express intense emotion. Gaining popularity since 2019, the term is often used to convey intense or indescribable emotions (such as frustration or excitement), and it can also be used as an expression of laughter.
History and usage
Dictionary.com lists keysmash as both a noun ("I typed a keysmash") and a verb ("I keysmashed a response"), dating the term to sometime between 1995 and 2000.
The first commonly used variation of "keysmashing" appeared and possibly first majorly originated from the Turkish internet sphere, where the so-called "random laugh", or "random" (as said in Turkish) has been in use since at least the mid-2000s in online forums, e.g ekşisözlük, to convey and portray a more genuine laughter—implying a user "laughed so hard that they fell on (rolled over) their keyboard".
The term is often associated with Stan Twitter users, VSCO culture, and members of the LGBT community, but is not restricted to these groups. Keysmashing has occasionally been referred to as "gay keysmashing" due to this association.
Variations
Keysmashes of any kind can usually be seen in either all lower case, or all upper case letters. Despite how random many keysmashes may appear to be, there are societal patterns and norms to what a keysmash is supposed to look like. Keysmashes that fail to visually appeal to the ones typing them have a chance of being completely rewritten or having a few minor adjustments made (i.e. removing or adding new characters). The overall format of a keysmash is one that is usually dependent on the type of device or keyboard that is being used and therefore makes different keyboard layouts more acceptable for keysmashing than others.
QWERTY
Keysmashes typed on QWERTY keyboards are not as randomized as the action of keysmashing tends to imply. QWERTY keysmashes consistently begin with the letter "a", which are often followed by the letters "sdf" which can combine to form a strand of letters commonly associated with keysmashing. The letters "asdf" appear as their own slang term in several online dictionaries such as dictionary.com. The typical keysmash tends to be much longer than "asdf"; because of this, it rarely appears as a keysmash on its own. QWERTY keysmashes tend to be made up of letters and characters from what is referred to as the keyboard's home row, which includes the letters a,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,s as well as two special characters, the semicolon (;) and apostrophe ('). When keysmashing, these letters do not usually appear in this exact order and are more often seen alternating and repeating to form a randomized pattern. Keysmashes can include letters and characters from both the top and bottom row as the keyboard as well, though more commonly from the top row (qwe...) than the bottom (zxc...), but rarely include numbers.
Smartphone keyboards
Whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%284th%20generation%29 | The fourth-generation iPad Pro is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Two models, with a 12.9 inch or 11 inch screen, were both announced on March 18, 2020, and released on March 25.
The iPad Pro features a similar design, and the same screen sizes, as the previous generation, but has an upgraded camera module with lidar capabilities and an upgraded A12Z processor.
Features
Hardware
The 2020 model features an Apple A12Z processor, with an octa-core CPU and GPU, support for Wi-Fi 6, and an upgraded camera setup with a 12MP wide camera, a 10MP ultra-wide camera, and a lidar scanner for augmented reality. From the 2018 to 2020 models, the RAM was increased from 4 to 6 GB (4-6 GiB) on the 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB models. The 4th Generation 1 TB models have the same 6 GB of RAM as the 2018 models. The base storage option was doubled from 64 GB to 128 GB.
Accessories
A new Magic Keyboard was released on April 22, 2020, which includes a trackpad, backlit keys, USB-C port for pass-through charging, and a cantilever design, allowing the iPad Pro to "float" above the keys. The Magic Keyboard is compatible with the 3rd and 4th generation iPad Pro. Support for trackpads, mice, and pointing devices was announced as a feature of version 13.4 of iPadOS, which was released on March 24, 2020.
Like its predecessor, this version of iPad Pro supports the Apple Pencil, a variety of cases, and USB-C accessories.
Reception
The 2020 model of the iPad Pro was seen as a minor spec bump amongst tech reviewers. Although the addition in RAM and change in storage options were welcomed, the lidar sensor that Apple added for increased AR capability was touted as a feature only a few customers would use. Dieter Bohn from The Verge welcomed the new camera setup. However, he considered the device lacking as a tool for video conferencing. Bohn noted that even though most iPad users now use the device primarily in landscape mode in a keyboard case, Apple continues to place the front-facing camera on the device's short edge, a positioning more compatible with use in portrait mode. He added, "in iPadOS, Apple doesn't allow apps to use the camera unless they're active in the foreground. That's nice from a peace-of-mind perspective but absolutely terrible for video conferencing." Despite receiving an update to iPadOS, the 2020 model was planned to not receive one of the leading features, Stage Manager. This caused controversy as Apple provided inconclusive reasons as to why Stage Manager could not be supported. Due to criticism, a single-screen version of Stage Manager was added on 2018 and 2020 iPad Pros in iPadOS 16.1 Beta.
Timeline
See also
Pen computing
Graphics tablet
Notes
References
External links
Pro
iPad Pro
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2020
Foxconn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrosmart | Electrosmart is an Android application which measures the radio-frequency electromagnetic waves emitting from various sources like mobile phones (cellular networks i.e., 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G), WiFi access points, Bluetooth devices, etc.
The app uses the antenna of mobile phones to calculate the pollution of waves and order them according to the power of that particular source. The app also provides recommendations to moderate the exposure. The data collected is administered in France and maintained by Inria Ethics Committee.
History
Arnaud Legout, a research scientist in INRIA at French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation launched the Free EMF Detector, EMF Meter - ElectroSmart app on August 23, 2016 to the android users via Google Play. The app was developed by a research team DIANA (Design, Implementation and Analysis of Networking Architectures) led by Arnaud Legout in partnership with Electronics, Antennas and Telecommunications Laboratory (CNRS and Sophia Antipolis University). The team researched for 2 years before launching the final product into the market. According to IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) and WHO (World Health Organization), the electromagnetic fields generated by mobile phones may be carcinogenic to humans.
Features
The app measures and records the data after every five seconds and execute in order to provide real time measurement on a scale of 0 to 100. The exposure index from 0 to 42 is considered to be 'Low' and an ideal exposure for electrosensitive people to sleep and take rest, index from 42 to 70 is considered to be 'Moderate' and denotes well connectivity to RF radiation emitting devices but not an over-exposure, and index from 70 to 100 is known to be 'High' and recommends action to be taken in order to moderate the exposure. It also captures the geolocation of the phone and its orientation in the space. The app keeps the data record of the exposure to which user was exposed during past days and provides an option to view summary in 'Statistics' section of the app. The app alerts its users in case of high exposure and provides them solutions to create insulation from electromagnetic sources.
User statistics
In first 6 months, app gained more than 2,000 downloads.
By June 2018, app became more popular among the audience and received more than 64,000 downloads and 30,000 active users in addition to 850 million measurements. At present, app is downloaded more than 1,000,000 times in 150 countries and established a rating of 4.5 out of 5 on Google Play.
Current executives
Arnaud Legout, Co-founder and CEO
David Migliacci, Co-founder and CMO
References
External links
Official website
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica%20Page | Erica Page is an American actress and model. She is known for her role as Bella Tru in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, Ambitions.
Life and career
Page is the oldest of nine children and comes from Mexican/American heritage. She began her career with a recurring role in the BET comedy series The Game in 2012, and later played secondary roles in Sleepy Hollow, The Vampire Diaries, Saints & Sinners, and Nashville. Her film credits including Mr. Right (2015), Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016) and Office Christmas Party (2016).
In 2018, Page had a recurring role in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera If Loving You Is Wrong and guest-starred in the CW prime time soap opera Dynasty. In 2019, Page was cast in two series regular roles. First, on the Bounce TV comedy series Last Call opposite Charles Malik Whitfield and Brely Evans. Later that year, she began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, Ambitions playing the role of fashion designer Bella Tru, the mistress of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian J. White).
References
External links
21st-century American actresses
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
Living people
1986 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldometer | Worldometer, formerly Worldometers, is a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics. It is owned and operated by a data company Dadax which generates revenue through online advertising. It is available in 31 languages and covers subjects such as government, world population, economics, society, media, environment, food and water, energy, and health.
In early 2020, the website attained greater popularity due to hosting statistics relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
The website was founded by Andrey Alimetov, a Russian immigrant to the United States, in 2004. In 2011, it was voted as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association.
This site changed its name from "Worldometers" to "Worldometer" in January 2020 and announced that it would migrate to the singular domain name.
COVID-19 pandemic
In early 2020, the website gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. It came under cyber attack in March 2020. The site was hit with a DDoS attack, and was then hacked a few days later, resulting in incorrect information being shown on its COVID-19 statistics page for approximately 20 minutes. The hacked site showed a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in Vatican City, which caused panic among some users of social media. The Spanish government used its figures to claim that it had carried out more tests than all but four other countries. Worldometers' COVID-19 figures have also been cited by Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and Rede Globo.
Worldometer has faced some criticism over transparency of ownership, lack of citations to data sources, and unreliability of its COVID-19 statistics and live rankings.
In April 2020, editors of the English Wikipedia decided that Worldometer's COVID-19 figures are often unreliable and should not be cited in any pages related to the pandemic.
Reception
Edouard Mathieu, the data manager of Our World in Data, stated that "Their main focus seems to be having the latest number [of COVID-19 cases] wherever it comes from, whether it's reliable or not, whether it's well-sourced or not."
Virginia Pitzer, a Yale University epidemiologist, said that the site is "legitimate", but flawed, inconsistent, and containing errors.
According to Axios, at the peak of user interest, the website was the #28 most visited website in the world in April 2020. A plurality (25.8%) of visitors came from the United States, followed by Japan (17.9%), India (8.67%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), South Korea (5.8%), Canada (5.18%), Germany (3.13%), Australia (2.49%), Poland (2.18%), France (1.73%), Turkey (1.66%), Brazil (1.65%) and Argentina (1.52%).
By March 2023, according to traffic data from Similarweb, Worldometer had dropped to the 5,963rd global place.
References
External links
American websites
Internet properties established in 2008
Reference websites
Web analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Freevee | Amazon Freevee is an American ad-supported video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service owned by Amazon, with original and licensed programming.
Functionality
Freevee content is presented to Amazon Prime Video users within Prime's smart TV app interface; aside from the commercial breaks an absence of Prime's "X-ray" cast list information, the interface, features, and navigation are identical to the Prime user experience. Freevee also functions as a standalone app for use by non-Prime users.
History
Amazon Freevee launched as a free, ad-supported video channel by the Amazon-owned online database IMDb in January 2019, under the name IMDb Freedive, before becoming IMDb TV five months later; it was rebranded to its current name on April 28, 2022.
The service is available in the United States, as well as the UK and Germany through Amazon and IMDb's websites as well as on all Amazon Fire devices.
On June 17, 2019, IMDb Freedive announced its rebranding to IMDb TV. Signing new deals with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM Studios (which parent company Amazon later acquired on March 17, 2022), the streaming service began offering new content. Amazon announced that it would be moving IMDb TV's content team to within Amazon Studios on February 20, 2020, with the goal of developing original programming under new IMDb TV co-heads.
In September 2021, Amazon announced the launch of IMDb TV in the United Kingdom; before then, it was available only in the United States.
On April 13, 2022, it was announced that the service would be rebranded as Amazon Freevee beginning on April 27. It was also announced that it would launch in Germany later that year, and would expand its original programming by 70% in 2022. The rebrand occurred on April 28, 2022. Its first announced moves post-rebrand included renewing Bosch: Legacy pre-premiere as well as Top Class, ordering America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation and a new series adaptation of Black Beauty and expanding Play-Doh: Squished beyond its holiday special.
On August 3, 2022, Amazon Freevee was launched in Germany.
Content
Original programming
A revival of the 2008 crime drama series Leverage was ordered by IMDb TV, making it the first major original series for the streaming service.
On October 3, 2019, IMDb TV announced it licensed the Canadian animated series Corner Gas Animated as a branded original series, joining the live-action comedy franchise Corner Gas and the feature film Corner Gas: The Movie, which were both on the streaming platform.
IMDb TV acquired the rights to Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television's young-adult espionage series Alex Rider, premiering a series adaptation on November 13, 2020.
On October 29, 2020, Amazon Studios announced it would produce for the service the successor program to Judge Judy, entitled Judy Justice and still starring former Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. Production on Judy Justice began as CBS's long-running Judge Jud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude%20-%20Water%20Winner | Lokh - Water Winner () is a 1991 Soviet crime film directed by Arkadiy Tigay.
Plot
The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.
Cast
Sergey Kuryokhin as Pavel Gorelikov
Larisa Borodina as Valentina
Andrey Ponomaryov as Kostya
Vladimir Eryomin as Mobster
Aleksandr Glazun as Mobster
Valentin Zhilyayev as Mafia boss
Andrey Krasko as Mobster
Viktor Tregubovich as Co-operator
Gabriel Vorobyov as Lover of mafia boss
Igor Yakovlev as «Popik», mobster
References
External links
1991 films
1990s Russian-language films
Soviet crime films
1990s crime films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Asner | Gregory P. Asner is an American ecologist whose global work has focused on ecosystems, conservation, and climate sciences. He has developed technology to access and analyze large amounts of data about ecosystems, including assessing carbon emissions, coral reef resilience, and biodiversity. He is the founder of the Global Airborne Observatory (GAO, formerly the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, or CAO) and the creator of Carnegie Landsat Analysis System (CLAS) and CLASlite. Since 2019, he has been the Director of Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. He is also managing director of the Allen Coral Atlas, an online map of all the coral reefs in the world used as a reference for reef conservation.
Asner's work mapping forests and coral reefs using airplanes and satellites influenced environmental policy decisions in several countries. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a 2017 Heinz Award recipient.
Early career
Asner grew up in Maryland, then earned an undergraduate degree in engineering and moved to Hawaii. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was a deep-sea diver in the United States Navy, an experience that initiated his career in ecology. He worked for the nonprofit The Nature Conservancy in Hawaii in the early 1990s. As a result of his work there, he published his first scientific paper, assessing damage done to forests in Kaua'i after Hurricane Iniki in 1992. After his early experiences collecting ecological data in Hawaii, he began working on ways to measure human impacts on ecosystems around the world.
In 1996, NASA selected Asner, then a student at University of Colorado Boulder, as a recipient of one of its Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowships. He earned his Ph.D. in biology in 1997. Subsequently, he turned his focus to creating better ways to gather data about the status of natural resources. In 1999, Asner began working on CLAS, a new system to map the effects of logging on rainforests. , Asner's team had provided CLASlite, the successor to CLAS, to 5,000 scientists in 137 countries for free in order to assist in collecting data about forest health and inform conservation decisions.
Asner moved his laboratory and research program from the University of Colorado to the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in 2001. In addition to the airborne CAO – which officially launched in 2006 – the team collected ecological data using satellite sensors and computer modeling.
In 2005, after nearly a decade of research, Asner published a study of logging in the Amazon rainforest demonstrating that "selective logging" is often as harmful to ecosystems as clear-cutting. That same year, he and Peter Vitousek published research showing early indicators of an invasive species of tree growing in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Popular Science named Asner to its annual "Brilliant Ten" list in 2007.
Work mapping forests and coral reefs
Asner led the team that deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20by%20algorithm | Government by algorithm (also known as algorithmic regulation, regulation by algorithms, algorithmic governance, algocratic governance, algorithmic legal order or algocracy) is an alternative form of government or social ordering where the usage of computer algorithms is applied to regulations, law enforcement, and generally any aspect of everyday life such as transportation or land registration. The term "government by algorithm" has appeared in academic literature as an alternative for "algorithmic governance" in 2013. A related term, algorithmic regulation, is defined as setting the standard, monitoring and modifying behaviour by means of computational algorithmsautomation of judiciary is in its scope. In the context of blockchain, it is also known as blockchain governance.
Government by algorithm raises new challenges that are not captured in the e-government literature and the practice of public administration. Some sources equate cyberocracy, which is a hypothetical form of government that rules by the effective use of information, with algorithmic governance, although algorithms are not the only means of processing information. Nello Cristianini and Teresa Scantamburlo argued that the combination of a human society and certain regulation algorithms (such as reputation-based scoring) forms a social machine.
History
In 1962, the director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (later Kharkevich Institute), Alexander Kharkevich, published an article in the journal "Communist" about a computer network for processing information and control of the economy. In fact, he proposed to make a network like the modern Internet for the needs of algorithmic governance. This created a serious concern among CIA analysts. In particular, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. warned that "by 1970 the USSR may have a radically new production technology, involving total enterprises or complexes of industries, managed by closed-loop, feedback control employing self-teaching computers".
Between 1971 and 1973, the Chilean government carried out Project Cybersyn during the presidency of Salvador Allende. This project was aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to improve the management of the national economy. Elements of the project were used in 1972 to successfully overcome the traffic collapse caused by a CIA-sponsored strike of forty thousand truck drivers.
Also in the 1960s and 1970s, Herbert A. Simon championed expert systems as tools for rationalization and evaluation of administrative behavior. The automation of rule-based processes was an ambition of tax agencies over many decades resulting in varying success. Early work from this period includes Thorne McCarty's influential TAXMAN project in the US and Ronald Stamper's LEGOL project in the UK. In 1993, the computer scientist Paul Cockshott from the University of Glasgow and the economist Allin Cottrell from the Wake Forest University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Bronstein | Michael Bronstein (b. 1980) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the University of Oxford.
Biography
Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion in 2007. Since 2010, he has been a professor at University of Lugano, Switzerland, affiliated with the Institute of Computational Science and IDSIA. Between 2018 and 2021, he held the Chair in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. In 2022, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as the DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence.
Bronstein has held visiting appointments at Stanford University between 2009 and 2010, and at Harvard University and MIT between 2017 and 2018. He has been affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (as a Radcliffe fellow, 2017-2018), the Institute for Advanced Study at Technical University of Munich (as Rudolf Diesel industrial fellow, 2017-2019) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as visitor, 2020).
Bronstein was a co-founder of the Israeli startup Invision, developing a coded-light 3D range sensor. The company was acquired by Intel in 2012 and has become the foundation of Intel RealSense technology. Bronstein served as Principal Engineer at Intel between 2012 and 2019, playing a leading role in the development of RealSense.
In 2018, Bronstein founded Fabula AI, a London-based startup aiming to solve the problem of online disinformation by looking at how it spreads on social networks. The company was acquired by Twitter in 2019. He served as Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter between 2019 and 2023.
Work
Bronstein's research interests are broadly in theoretical and computational geometric methods for data analysis. His research encompasses a spectrum of applications ranging from machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition to geometry processing, computer graphics, and imaging. He is mainly known for his research on deformable 3D shape analysis and "geometric deep learning" (a term he coined), generalizing neural network architectures to manifolds and graphs. These methods have been applied to molecular design.
Public appearances
ICLR 2021 keynote talk
TEDx Lugano 2019 (with Kirill Veselkov)
World Economic Forum 2015.
Awards
Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2020
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Member of the Academia Europaea, 2020
IEEE Fellow, 2019
Prix de la Fondation Dalle Molle, 2018
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2018
IAPR Fellow, 2018
ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2015
World Economic Forum Young Scientist, 2014
Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award, 2003
Bronstein is also the recipient of five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research grants.
Personal life
Bronstein is married with two children and currently resides in London. He is the identical t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20GameBreaker%202001 | NCAA GameBreaker 2001 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in 2000.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Dan Egger of NextGen said of the PlayStation 2 version, "Football fans would be best served by waiting until next year." (Ironically, the next PlayStation 2 game was not NCAA GameBreaker 2002 but NCAA GameBreaker 2003, which was released two years after this game.)
Notes
References
External links
2000 video games
College football video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation (console) games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Brand%20%28film%29 | For the podcast Vince Russo's The Brand for The RELM Network see Vince Russo
The Brand is a silent film released in the U.S. in 1914. Jere F. Looney wrote the story for the film and Kenean Buel directed. It was a Kalem film in two parts. The story features a girl sent to a reformatory by her step-mother and a girl from the slums.
Cast
Alice Joyce as Mary
Tom Moore
Henry Hallam
Helen Lindroth
John E. Mackin
Alice Hollister
Mary Ross
Doris Hollister
Reception
The film received reviews from publications including New York Dramatic Mirror and Moving Picture World.
References
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1914 films
1910s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20femme%20qui%20ne%20supportait%20pas%20les%20ordinateurs | La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs (The woman who could not stand computers) is a 1986 interactive fiction video game developed by French company Froggy Software. The game was designed by Chine Lanzmann and programmed by Jean-Louis Le Breton for Apple II computers. The player character is a woman who faces several seducers, one of them being a computer named Ordine, who ruthlessly usurps the right to be the only woman's love.
The game takes place on the Calvados network, the network used by the two authors of the game at the time. It imitates its interface and services (for example, messages between users, global chat room, AFP dispatches), as if the player's computer were connected to it. One also meets, in a general chat room, the pseudonyms of the network's users at the time (for example, "Lumbroglio" for Lionel Lumbroso, "Chine" for Chine Lanzmann, "Pepe Louis" for the founder of Froggy Software Jean-Louis Le Breton, "Benv" for François Benveniste).
Legacy
The game received a negative review from Tilt on its release.
La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs is regarded as one of the first video games about cyber harassment and female experience online, and one of the first games with an overtly feminist message.
References
External links
1980s interactive fiction
1986 video games
Apple II-only games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in France
Video games featuring female protagonists
Works about sexism
Women and video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%40ntNet | Pl@ntNet is a citizen science project for automatic plant identification through photographs and based on machine learning.
History
This project launched in 2009 has been developed by scientists (computer engineers and botanists) from a consortium gathering French research institutes (Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) and the network Tela Botanica, with the support of Agropolis Fondation
).
Platforms
An app for smartphones (and a web version) was launched in 2013, which allows to identify thousands of plant species from photographs taken by the user. It is available in several languages.
As of 2019 it had been downloaded over 10 million times, in more than 180 countries worldwide.
Projects
In 2019, Pl@ntNet has 22 projects:
References
Botany
Citizen science
Biology websites
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haoyuan%20Li | Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems, big data, and cloud computing. He is best known for proposing Virtual Distributed File System (VDFS), and creating an open-source data orchestration system, Alluxio. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Alluxio, Inc, a company commercializing the Alluxio Data Orchestration Technology. He is also an adjunct professor at Peking University. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Open Source at conferences.
Biography
Li was born and raised in China. He attended Peking University, where he received a BS in Computer Science. While at university, he participated in programming contests representing Peking University, and placed 11th worldwide (bronze medal) in ACM ICPC 2005 and 13rd place worldwide in 2006. He then studied at Cornell University, where he received a MS in Computer Science.
He received his Computer Science PhD from the UC Berkeley AMPLab, under the supervision of Prof. Ion Stoica and Prof. Scott Shenker. During his PhD, he co-created the Alluxio (a.k.a. Tachyon) open source project, which was commercialized by San Francisco Bay Area venture-backed company Alluxio, Inc. He was a co-founder of Alluxio, Inc.
During his PhD, he also co-created the Apache Spark Streaming project and became an Apache Spark committer.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Chinese technology company founders
Chinese computer scientists
Open source advocates
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Peking University alumni
Academic staff of Peking University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predict%20%28disambiguation%29 | Predict may refer to:
to predict, the act of prediction
Predict (USAID), a US government program to identify new viruses.
PREDICT (U.S. DHS), a U.S. cybersecurity government database of the United States Department of Homeland Security
FT Predict, a market prediction contest established by the Financial Times
See also
I Predict (1982 song) new wave song by Sparks off the album Angst in My Pants
I Predict 1990 (1987 album), album by Steve Taylor
Predictor (disambiguation)
Predictable (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20MACRO-80 | Microsoft MACRO-80 (often shortened to M80) is a relocatable macro assembler for Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 microcomputer systems.
The complete MACRO-80 package includes the MACRO-80 Assembler, the LINK-80 Linking Loader, and the CREF-80 Cross Reference Facility. The LIB-80 Library Manager is included in CP/M versions only.
The list price at the time was $200.
Overview
A MACRO-80 source program consists of a series of statements. Each statement must follow a predefined format. Source lines up to 132 characters in length are supported. M80 accepts source files almost identical to files for Intel-compatible assemblers. It also supports several switches in the command string. Some can be used to control the format of the source file. A switch can be set to allow support for Z80 mnemonics.
MACRO-80 runs on Digital Research CP/M, Intel ISIS-II, Tandy TRSDOS, Tektronix TEKDOS, and Microsoft MSX-DOS.
See also
Microsoft Macro Assembler
Assembly language
High-level assembler
Comparison of assemblers
References
External links
CP/M-80 Information and Download Page
Assemblers
MACRO-80
MSX-DOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation%20of%20algorithms | Regulation of algorithms, or algorithmic regulation, is the creation of laws, rules and public sector policies for promotion and regulation of algorithms, particularly in artificial intelligence and machine learning. For the subset of AI algorithms, the term regulation of artificial intelligence is used. The regulatory and policy landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging issue in jurisdictions globally, including in the European Union. Regulation of AI is considered necessary to both encourage AI and manage associated risks, but challenging. Another emerging topic is the regulation of blockchain algorithms (Use of the smart contracts must be regulated) and is mentioned along with regulation of AI algorithms. Many countries have enacted regulations of high frequency trades, which is shifting due to technological progress into the realm of AI algorithms.
The motivation for regulation of algorithms is the apprehension of losing control over the algorithms, whose impact on human life increases. Multiple countries have already introduced regulations in case of automated credit score calculation—right to explanation is mandatory for those algorithms. For example, The IEEE has begun developing a new standard to explicitly address ethical issues and the values of potential future users. Bias, transparency, and ethics concerns have emerged with respect to the use of algorithms in diverse domains ranging from criminal justice to healthcare—many fear that artificial intelligence could replicate existing social inequalities along race, class, gender, and sexuality lines.
Regulation of artificial intelligence
Public discussion
In 2016, Joy Buolamwini founded Algorithmic Justice League after a personal experience with biased facial detection software in order to raise awareness of the social implications of artificial intelligence through art and research.
In 2017 Elon Musk advocated regulation of algorithms in the context of the existential risk from artificial general intelligence. According to NPR, the Tesla CEO was "clearly not thrilled" to be advocating for government scrutiny that could impact his own industry, but believed the risks of going completely without oversight are too high: "Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there's a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry. It takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilisation."
In response, some politicians expressed skepticism about the wisdom of regulating a technology that is still in development. Responding both to Musk and to February 2017 proposals by European Union lawmakers to regulate AI and robotics, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has argued that artificial intelligence is in its infancy and that it is too early to regulate the technology. Instead of trying to regulate the technology itself, some scholars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvinson%20Rojas | Darvinson Rojas is a Venezuelan journalist. Rojas has worked for the Monitor de Víctimas project collecting data about violent attacks, and covered information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela.
Detention
At 8:32 p.m. local time on the night of 21 March 2020, Rojas started live-tweeting on social media about the special forces arriving at his house in Caracas, when they requested "collaboration" and asked that he follow them to their command, giving him the assurance that they had received an anonymous call reporting a case of COVID-19 and would tell him more if he opened the door. For at least half an hour, the special forces insisted that Rojas go with them before, at 9:04 p.m., they broke down his door and then at 9:10 p.m. Rojas' social media link was lost. He had been denouncing that the agents were trying to break the door without any warrant.
Rojas was arrested by officers of the Venezuelan National Police (PNB) and around fifteen armed agents of the special forces. His parents, Jesús Rojas and Mirian Sánchez, were also detained; all their computers and mobile phones were seized. Rojas' parents were later released.
According to the Venezuelan press association (SNTP), the detention was in relation to Rojas' recent publications about the spread of the coronavirus disease in Venezuela. The SNTP also said that the detention had been criticized by the director for the Americas of the Human Rights Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, and the Americas director for Amnesty International, Érika Guevara-Rosas, who added that Rojas had investigated Venezuela's pandemic coverage and was reporting on the existence of more cases than the government would admit to.
On 24 March, the SNTP denounced that Darvinson was presented in the tribunals "illegally" and "clandestinely".
After 12 days incarcerated, Darvinson Rojas was set free on 3 April 2020 under precautionary measures.
References
Venezuelan journalists
Venezuelan prisoners and detainees
1994 births
Living people
Prisoners and detainees of Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toony%20Tube | Toony Tube is a Spanish television series created for Cartoon Network by Santiago Castillo Linares and Aitor Villadóniga. Toony Tube is presented by a puppet that resembles a young boy with blond hair with thick black rimmed glasses which wears a gaming headset and it is just like a typical Let's Player on YouTube.
The show premiered originally in Spain on Boing on July 21, 2018. An English version of the show premiered in August 2018 on Cartoon Network UK, starring Andy Davies, a former Cartoon Network UK announcer from 15 December 2013 to 24 July 2016, as the voice of Toony.
Episodes
The episodes are listed in order of production.
Season 1 (2018–19)
References
British children's animated comedy television series
Cartoon Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FU%20Tauri | FU Tauri is a brown dwarf binary system in the constellation of Taurus about away. The secondary is very close to the lower limit for brown dwarfs and several databases list it as a distant massive exoplanet.
System
The two stars of the FU Tauri system are separated by , equivalent to at the distance of FU Tauri. The primary is a brown dwarf with a mass of , while the secondary has a mass of . The secondary mass of is close to the dividing line between brown dwarfs and exoplanets, and it is often treated as an exoplanet.
Properties
Both members of the binary are low-mass objects still contracting towards the main sequence. Comparison with theoretical evolutionary tracks gives them ages of one Myr or less. However, the primary is more luminous than expected even for this age and it may be younger than the secondary. The primary has a temperature of , a radius of , and a bolometric luminosity of . The secondary has a temperature of and a bolometric luminosity of .
Variability
FU Tauri varies in brightness. The primary star is a T Tauri variable, a type of irregular pre-main-sequence star. Its brightness has been observed to vary from a photovisual magnitude of 16.0 to fainter than 17.0. Its photographic magnitude has been measured to vary between magnitude 15.1 and below magnitude 17.6.
References
Brown dwarfs
T Tauri stars
Taurus (constellation)
J04233539+2503026
Tauri, FU |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Computing%3A%20A%20Gentle%20Introduction | Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction is a textbook on quantum computing. It was written by Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak, and published in 2011 by the MIT Press.
Topics
Although the book approaches quantum computing through the model of quantum circuits, it is focused more on quantum algorithms than on the construction of quantum computers. It has 13 chapters, divided into three parts: "Quantum building blocks" (chapters 1–6), "Quantum algorithms" (chapters 7–9), and "Entangled subsystems and robust quantum computation" (chapters 10–13).
After an introductory chapter overviewing related topics including quantum cryptography, quantum information theory, and quantum game theory, chapter 2 introduces quantum mechanics and quantum superposition using polarized light as an example, also discussing qubits, the Bloch sphere representation of the state of a qubit, and quantum key distribution. Chapter 3 introduces direct sums, tensor products, and quantum entanglement, and chapter 4 includes the EPR paradox, Bell's theorem on the impossibility of local hidden variable theories, as quantified by Bell's inequality. Chapter 5 discusses unitary operators, quantum logic gates, quantum circuits, and functional completeness for systems of quantum gates. Chapter 6, the final chapter of the building block section, discusses (classical) reversible computing, and the conversion of arbitrary computations to reversible computations, a necessary step to performing them on quantum devices.
In the section of the book on quantum algorithms, chapter 7 includes material on quantum complexity theory and the Deutch algorithm, Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm, Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm, and Simon's algorithm, algorithms devised to prove separations in quantum complexity by solving certain artificial problems faster than could be done classically. It also covers the quantum Fourier transform. Chapter 8 covers Shor's algorithm for integer factorization, and introduces the hidden subgroup problem. Chapter 9 covers Grover's algorithm and the quantum counting algorithm for speeding up certain kinds of brute-force search. The remaining chapters return to the topic of quantum entanglement and discuss quantum decoherence, quantum error correction, and its use in designing robust quantum computing devices, with the final chapter providing an overview of the subject and connections to additional topics. Appendices provide a graphical approach to tensor products of probability spaces, and extend Shor's algorithm to the abelian hidden subgroup problem.
Audience and reception
The book is suitable as an introduction to quantum computing for computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists, requiring of them only a background in linear algebra and the theory of complex numbers, although reviewer Donald L. Vestal suggests that additional background in the theory of computation, abstract algebra, and information theory would also be helpful. Prior knowledge of quantum mechanics is n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratex | Stratex or variation, may refer to:
StratEX, an HR/payroll software company, a subsidiary of Toast, Inc.
Harris Stratex Networks, formerly Stratex Networks, a microwave networking company
StratEx, a record-setting high altitude skydive at 136 kfeet / 41.4 km up made by Alan Eustace
Stratex Institute, a marketing consultancy and training firm located in Barcelona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20data%20processing | Distributed data processing (DDP) was the term that IBM used for the IBM 3790 (1975) and its successor, the IBM 8100 (1979). Datamation described the 3790 in March 1979 as "less than successful."
Distributed data processing was used by IBM to refer to two environments:
IMS DB/DC
CICS/DL/I
Each pair included a Telecommunications Monitor and a Database system. The layering involved a message, containing information to form a transaction, which was then processed by an application program. Development tools such as program validation services were released by IBM to facilitate expansion.
Use of "a number of small computers linked to a central computer" permitted local and central processing, each optimized at what it could best do. Terminals, including those described as intelligent, typically were attached locally, to a "satellite processor." Central systems, sometimes multi-processors, grew to handle the load. Some of this extra capacity, of necessity, is used to enhance data security. Years before open systems made its presence felt, the goal of some hardware suppliers was "to replace the big, central mainframe computer with an array of smaller computers that are tied together."
Lower case distributed data processing
Hadoop adds another term to the mix: File System. Tools added for this use of distributed data processing include new programming languages.
TSI/DPF Flexicom
In 1976 Turnkey Systems Inc (TSI)/DPF Inc. introduced a hardware/software telecommunications front-end to off-load some processing that handled distributed data processing. Named Flexicom, The CPU was IBM-manufactured, and it ran (mainframe) DOS Rel. 26, with Flexicom's additions. Of four models available, the smallest had the CPU of
a 360/30.
See also
HPCC
References
History of computing hardware
Computer-related introductions in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation%20of%20artificial%20intelligence | The regulation of artificial intelligence is the development of public sector policies and laws for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence (AI); it is therefore related to the broader regulation of algorithms. The regulatory and policy landscape for AI is an emerging issue in jurisdictions globally, including in the European Union (which has governmental regulatory power) and in supra-national bodies like the IEEE, OECD (which do not) and others. Since 2016, a wave of AI ethics guidelines have been published in order to maintain social control over the technology. Regulation is considered necessary to both encourage AI and manage associated risks. In addition to regulation, AI-deploying organizations need to play a central role in creating and deploying trustworthy AI in line with the principles of trustworthy AI, and take accountability to mitigate the risks. Regulation of AI through mechanisms such as review boards can also be seen as social means to approach the AI control problem.
According to AI Index at Stanford, the annual number of AI-related laws passed in the 127 survey countries jumped from one passed in 2016 to 37 passed in 2022 alone.
Background
Experts and advocates in responsible AI, AI ethics, consumer protection, and cybersecurity have vocalized the need for guardrails around AI development since at least the 1960s. In 2017 Elon Musk called for regulation of AI development. According to NPR, the Tesla CEO was "clearly not thrilled" to be advocating for government scrutiny that could impact his own industry, but believed the risks of going completely without oversight are too high: "Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there's a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry. It takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization." In response, some politicians expressed skepticism about the wisdom of regulating a technology that is still in development. Responding both to Musk and to February 2017 proposals by European Union lawmakers to regulate AI and robotics, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has argued that AI is in its infancy and that it is too early to regulate the technology. Instead of trying to regulate the technology itself, some scholars suggested developing common norms including requirements for the testing and transparency of algorithms, possibly in combination with some form of warranty.
In a 2022 Ipsos survey, attitudes towards AI varied greatly by country; 78% of Chinese citizens, but only 35% of Americans, agreed that "products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks". A 2023 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 61% of Americans agree, and 22% disagree, that AI poses risks to humanity. In a 2023 Fox News poll, 35% of Americans thought it "very important", and an additional 41% thought it "somewhat important", for the federal gover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Peng | Roger D. Peng is an author and professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Peng originally received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Yale University in 1999, before going on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed a Master of Science in Statistics in 2001 and a PhD in Statistics in 2003. The focus of his research has been on environmental health, specifically focusing on air pollution and climate change in his research. Peng is also a software engineer who has authored numerous R packages focused on applying statistical methods necessary for a variety of topics. He has also created numerous resources including books, online courses, podcasts, blogs, and other articles to aid those learning data analysis.
Career
Peng has written or contributed to ten different books, including R Programming for Data Science, which lays the foundation for using the R programming language. He, along with Jeff Leek and Rafa Irizarry, actively contribute to Simply Statistics, a website containing courses, articles, interviews, blog posts, and other materials for statisticians and those interested in data focused on various biostatistics topics. Peng and Leek join Brian Caffo as co-creators of the Data Science Specialization massive open online course (MOOC) offered through Johns Hopkins University, which is a collection of courses geared towards individuals seeking to develop skills in data science and data analysis.
Peng is the co-host with Hilary Parker of the data science podcast Not So Standard Deviations. Parker and Peng also have co-authored Conversations on Data Science, which compiles many of the topics covered on their podcast, as well as other discussions related to data science. Peng actively contributes journal articles to several publications, most commonly related to providing evidence to the prevalence of air pollution. He has written on the importance of creating reproducible research and the practice of using various statistical methods.
Awards
Peng's work in biostatistics, especially related to environmental health, has led to numerous awards. In 2016, Peng received the American Public Health Association Mortimer Spiegelman Award to honor his contributions to public health statistics, given to a member under the age of 40. Additionally, Peng has received several awards for his publications, including multiple honors for NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month. In 2017, Peng was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Biostatisticians
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Yale University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A260%20highway%20%28Russia%29 | The A260 is a Russian federal highway. It runs from Volgograd to the Ukrainian border, where it continues as the M30 to Dnipro.
As M21, it was part of the Soviet trunk road network and started from Chișinău via Dnipro to Volgograd. In 2010 the section in Russia received the number A260, but the M21 designation was used until the end of 2017, when the A260 designation became official. The entire route is part of E40 and AH70.
References
Roads in Russia
Transport in Volgograd Oblast
European route E40 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CG-1 | CG-1 (Carretera General 1) is a road of the Andorra Road Network that connects the capital, Andorra la Vella with La Seu d'Urgell to Alt Urgell. The workers of FHASA contributed to its construction. It is also called Carretera d'Espanya.
References
Roads in Andorra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens%20Connect | Torrens Connect is a public transport operator in Adelaide, Australia that began operating bus and tram services as part of the Adelaide Metro network under contract to the Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure in July 2020. It is owned by a consortium of Torrens Transit, John Holland and UGL Rail.
, Torrens Connect has a fleet of 24 tram sets and over 200 buses.
History
In July 2019, the Government of South Australia announced its intention to privatise the Adelaide Metro tram services operated by the Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure. In March 2020, the Torrens Connect consortium of Torrens Transit, John Holland and UGL Rail were awarded the North-South contract.
The contract began in July 2020 and will run for eight years with a two-year optional extension. As well as tram services, the contract includes bus services, Torrens Transit already operated as an established Adelaide Metro contractor.
References
External links
Torrens Connect
Bus companies of South Australia
Companies based in Adelaide
Tram transport in South Australia
Transport companies established in 2020
Transport in Adelaide
Australian companies established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth%20Room%20case | The "Nth Room" case () is a criminal case involving blackmail, cybersex trafficking, and the spread of sexually exploitative videos via the Telegram app between 2018 and 2020 in South Korea. A man nicknamed god god (later identified as Moon Hyung-wook, ) sold sexual exploitation videos on Telegram channels and groups.
A copycat crime, known as the "Doctor's Room", () was operated by a man using the screen name Doctor (, later revealed to be Cho Ju-bin), who is accused of blackmailing dozens of women, forcing them to take sexually exploitative videos, with some involving rape.
The number of confirmed victims is at least 103, including 26 minors. It was revealed that the victims' pictures were shared and sold to over 260,000 IDs (narrowed down to about 60,000 users, taking into consideration overlapping profiles) and were anonymously paid for in cryptocurrency.
Cases
"Nth Room"
A user nicknamed "God God," who was later identified as Moon Hyung-Wook, created eight groups simply named after their ordinal numeral (hence the name "Nth Room"), and uploaded sexually exploitative pornography. Another user nicknamed "Watchman" advertised the link to these groups in another Telegram group named "Gotham room".
Professor's Room
A user nicknamed "Doctor" posted part-time job offerings on Twitter, seeking to gather personal information from girls who applied. In the "Doctor's Room", the sexually exploitative pornography was distributed via a Telegram chatroom and was only accessible via a cryptocurrency payment. "Doctor", who appeared in July 2019, threatened women and took pictures and videos of them by figuring out their personal information, and then uploading the pictures and videos. When reports first emerged, the person even figured out the personal information of the reporter and released it. In addition, a high school student in Incheon was running various Telegram chatting rooms that distributed child pornography and links for buying drugs and shared tricks for dealing with police investigations.
Reports and investigation
Reports of such illegal content being shared on Telegram were appearing throughout 2019. For instance, the Seoul Shinmun, through undercover journalism, found a secret Telegram room distributing child pornography in January. In the same manner, Sisa Journal in April that year reported that Telegram was being used as a platform for sharing illegal pictures and videos.
In the beginning, when the case became known on male-dominated online communities, a man reported the "Nth Room" case by contacting 112. Police, however, did not consider the report credible and ignored it. The first known people to investigate the Nth room case were two female university students in July 2019, going by the team name of Team Flame. On August 12, the Electronic Times was the first media outlet to report on the case. The case went on to have a huge social impact and ignite public fury.
The lead operator Baksa was arrested, but his accomplice and Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Universitario%20Ram%C3%B3n%20y%20Cajal | The Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal is a public general hospital located in the Valverde neighborhood, in Madrid, Spain, part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud.
It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the University of Alcalá for the purpose of clinical internship.
History
Named after Santiago Ramón y Cajal, it was opened on 18 October 1977, receiving the nickname of (el) piramidón. It was criticised back then because of its location, cost and size.
It developed the first service in Spain for pediatric cardiology (1977) and the first unit of cardiac rehabilitation (1979). Aside from the teaching and medical attention features, it is noted by its research prowess (the first in the region in scientific research production), particularly in the scope of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. As of 2017 it has 901 beds. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemia in Madrid, in March and April 2020, the hospital had 994 beds occupied by patients of COVID-19.
References
Buildings and structures in Fuencarral-El Pardo District, Madrid
Ramon y Cajal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Big%20Ten%20women%27s%20basketball%20tournament | </noinclude>
The 2013 Big Ten women's basketball tournament was held March 7 through March 12 at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The Big Ten Network carried all games except the championship game which was aired by ESPN2. Purdue won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA tournament.
Seeds
All 12 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2012–13 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season record. The top four teams received a first round bye.
Schedule
Bracket
All times are Eastern.
References
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Big Ten
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Women's sports in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Universitario%2012%20de%20Octubre | The Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre is a public general hospital in the neighborhood of Orcasur, in Madrid, Spain. It is part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).
It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) for the purpose of clinical internship.
History
The architectural project was led by , who had Fernando Flórez Plaza and Miguel Tapia-Ruano Rodrigáñez as collaborators, Federico Mestre Rossi and José Martí Barceló were the leading structural engineers. The floor plan followed the X-shaped structure characteristic of buildings such as the Memorial Unit's Grace-New Haven Community Hospital or the Wesley Foundation Memorial Unit in Chicago. For the lower floors a sui generis hexagonal-based outline was also employed. Built in 18 months, it was inaugurated by Francisco Franco on 2 October 1973 under the name of Ciudad Sanitaria 1º de octubre ("October 1st Health City"), a nod to his appointment as Head of State on 1 October 1936. Years after the death of the dictator, on 12 October 1988, the name was changed to "12 de Octubre".
As of 2017, it has 1,256 beds.
References
Citations
Bibliography
12 de octubre
Usera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CG-2 | CG-2 (Carretera General 2) is a road of the Andorra Road Network that connects Escaldes-Engordany to the border with France.
This road starts at the Encamp roundabout, CG-1 and ends at the Dos Valires Tunnel in the French border (N22). It is also called Carretera de França.
References
Roads in Andorra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20General%20Universitario%20Gregorio%20Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n | The Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón is a public general hospital located at the neighborhood of Ibiza in Madrid, Spain, part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).
It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) for the purpose of clinical internship.
History
A project of Martín José Marcide, it was built on the landplot delimited by the streets of Doctor Esquerdo, Doctor Castelo, Ibiza and Máiquez formerly occupied by the Hospital de San Juan de Dios. It was an enterprise of the provincial diputación; the Provincial Hospital of Madrid/General Hospital of Madrid (an institution with more than four centuries of history) moved to the new facilities. It was inaugurated by Francisco Franco on 18 July 1968 under the name Ciudad Sanitaria Provincial Francisco Franco. Years after the death of the dictator it was renamed, making a reference to Gregorio Marañón, renowned physician. The hospital complex comprises more than 20 buildings.
It is a reference center in the fields of cardiology and oncology. It particularly stands out at heart transplantation in children. As of 2017, it has 1,671 beds and 45 operating rooms.
Bibliography
See also
List of hospitals in Spain
References
Gregorio Maranzzon
Buildings and structures in Ibiza neighborhood, Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidge%20Data%20Systems | Davidge Data Systems Corporation was "a privately held software company that specializes in middleware for trade ordering, execution and back-office connectivity for Wall Street firms," including Smart order routing.
The company's DavNet includes the ability to efficiently handle large volumes of small orders.
History
Davidge, founded 1982, was acquired by S1 Corporation, a holding company, in April, 2000, for about $20 million, at a time when it seemed that "banks in the U.S. were going to control much of the retail brokerage" industry, especially as related to online trading. S1 sold Davidge to Paris-based GL-trade in October, 2003.
At that time, Davidge software was used for "40% of US listed options volume and served "40 New York Stock Exchange members ... and several of the 10 largest brokerage firms."
Their international order routing includes Canada and Britain.
References
External links
Dan Hollings Plan Review
Electronic trading systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Universitario%20del%20Henares | The Hospital Universitario del Henares is a hospital in Coslada, Spain, part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS). The non-medical services are managed by Sacyr.
History
Featuring 194 beds and 7 operating rooms, with a built surface of 58,149 m2 on a plot of 80,000 m2, it was opened on 11 February 2008. It provides medical attention to the municipalities of Coslada, San Fernando de Henares, Mejorada del Campo, Loeches and Velilla de San Antonio.
The regional Health minister of the Community of Madrid Javier Fernández-Lasquetty planned to fully externalise the management of the hospital by 2013 (along other 5 hospitals in the region), yet the process was suspended by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid.
The construction company Sacyr was awarded with the 100% of the services of the hospital (excluding the medical attention) until 2041. Sacyr sold in 2014 nearly the half of its licensees to an investment fund linked to Lloyds Bank.
According to the Audiencia Nacional, the People's Party committed an embezzlement for the value of 258,297 euros when allocating the contracts of the hospital, setting 1% kickbacks.
References
Coslada
Hospitals in the Community of Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul%20gurdwara%20attack | On 25 March 2020, ISIS-Haqqani network gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib (a Sikh shrine) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
About 200 worshipers were reported to have been in the building, in which 25 Sikh worshippers were killed and leaving at least 8 wounded after an hour-long siege which ended in all assailants being killed by responding security forces. At least one child was said to have been among people who were killed, according to the ministry of interior's statement.
The Islamic extremist and militant organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility. The gunmen were identified as Abu Khalid al-Hind and Murshid Mohammed T.K.J both Indian citizens from the state of Kerala. Abu Khalid al-Hindi whose real name is Mohammed Sajid Kuthirummal and Murshid Mohammed T.K.J hail from Kasargod in Kerala, India and had joined ISIS like many others from his state. Owing to the large number of youth joining ISIS from Kerala, ISIS reportedly opened a Hind division to accumulate the Malayalam speaking fighters who had difficulty in communicating with other fighters.
Attack
The attacks started in the gurdwara's sanctuary area where 200 worshipers were praying at about 7:45 am interrupting worship that started an hour earlier. The attackers threw grenades and broke into the shrine then started opening fire on people. Afterwards, the attackers took hostages inside of the building, exchanging fire with security forces till all three attackers were killed and at least 80 hostages freed after a shootout that lasted for 6 hours.
After the attack, Afghan and NATO soldiers helped with the clearance operation.
On Thursday, as families of the deceased and members of the community were conveying the bodies to the burial grounds in the Qalacha area in the afternoon, another blast was reported to have gone off remotely, near the crowd. There were no casualties from the blast.
This was not the first such attack on Sikhs; a similar Islamic State attack on Sikhs killed many in Jalalabad in 2018. Gurdwaras have also been damaged previously, such as during the Battle of Jalalabad (1989) and the Afghan Civil War of the 1990s.
Perpetrator
Initial government reports suggested that Ashraf Ghani's government blamed Haqqani network for the attack, but Taliban denied its role. Shortly after, the SITE Intelligence Group announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility right after the attack through various social media accounts. The gunman was identified as Abu Khalid al-Hindi, an Indian citizen from Padne in the Kasargod district of Kerala state. An Indian source revealed al-Hindi was wanted in a 2016 NIA case, and had previously worked as a shopkeeper in his native town. The Afghan NDS said the perpetrator left India in 2018 to join ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan. Indian intelligence agencies identified him as Mohammed Sajid Kuthirummal.
In a communique, the ISIS said the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvisi | Alvisi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alessandro Alvisi (1887–1951), Italian horse rider
(born 1977), Italian bicycle racer
Lorenzo Alvisi, Italian computer scientist
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBQ%20Brawl | BBQ Brawl (titled BBQ Brawl: Flay v. Symon during the first season) is an American cooking competition television series that airs on Food Network.
Production
The first three seasons were filmed at the Star Hill Ranch in Austin, Texas, while the fourth season was filmed at Long Branch Saloon & Farms Half Moon Bay, California.
The first season aired from August 1 to August 22, 2019; and it was presented by chefs Bobby Flay and Michael Symon. Chefs Moe Cason, Chris Lilly and Amy Mills served as judges. It began with eight barbecue chefs in the pilot episode, who were then divided into two teams that were each headed by Flay and Symon. At the end of each episode, one chef from each team was eliminated. The winner in the season finale was awarded the title "Master of 'Cue", which was in turn the name of their subsequent series on FoodNetwork.com.
The second season added chef and former football player Eddie Jackson as a host alongside Flay and Symon. Chefs Rodney Scott and Brooke Williamson were added in as the new judges along with television personality Carson Kressley. It aired from June 14 to August 9, 2021.
The third season consisting of eight episodes brought in chefs Jet Tila and Anne Burrell as new hosts, serving as mentors alongside Flay. It aired from May 9 to June 27, 2022.
In April 2023 Symon revealed that the show was filming a fourth season, but he would not be returning. In June 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it would premiere on July 10, 2023 with a 90-minute special episode and Sunny Anderson would serve as a mentor alongside Flay and Burrell.
In September 2023, Food Network renewed the show for a fifth season which was scheduled to air in summer 2024.
Contestants
Season 1
Source:
Winner
Lee Ann Whippen – Tampa, Florida
Runner-up
Susie Bulloch – Lehi, Utah
Eliminated
Joe Pearce – Kansas City, Missouri
Kevin Bludso – Compton, California
Carey Bringle – Nashville, Tennessee
George "Tuffy" Stone – Richmond, Virginia
Phil Johnson – Phoenix, Arizona
Lynnae Oxley-Loupe – Battle Ground, Washington
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Contestant progress
Season 1
(WINNER) This contestant won the competition and was crowned "Master of 'Cue".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up in the finals of the competition.
(BTM) The contestant was selected as one of the bottom entries on their team, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2021)
Season 3 (2022)
Season 4 (2023)
References
External links
Rock Shrimp Productions The Full-Service Production Team
2010s American cooking television series
2019 American television series debuts
2020s American cooking television series
Cooking competitions in the United States
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
Television series by Rock Shrimp Prod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Universitario%20de%20la%20Princesa | The Hospital Universitario de la Princesa is a hospital located in the Lista neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).
It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) for the purpose of clinical internship.
History
Lying on the block delimited by the streets of Diego de León, Conde de Peñalver, Maldonado and General Díaz Porlier, it was a project of Manuel Martínez Chumillas, who had been involved with the GATEPAC group during the Second Republic. Intending to replace the old Hospital de la Princesa built in the Paseo de Areneros (calle de Alberto Aguilera), it was inaugurated on 3 November 1955 under the name of Gran Hospital de la Beneficencia General del Estado. The building works lasted however until 1956. The hospital forms a 14-floor building complex. Starting from 100 at the time of its opening, the effective bed usage steadily grew, reaching 761 beds in 1959.
It was transferred from the State Administration to the regional administration of the Community of Madrid in 1985. It was finally renamed as Hospital Universitario de la Princesa in 1994. As of 2020 it has a capacity of 564 beds.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Buildings and structures in Salamanca District, Madrid
Princesa
1955 establishments in Spain
Hospital buildings completed in 1955 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Daza | {{Infobox officeholder
| name = Eugenio Daza
| data1 = Roman Catholicism
| title = Member of the Philippine Assembly from Samar's 3rd district
| successor = Eladio Cinco
| termend = 1909
| termstart = 1907
| predecessor = Position established
| serviceyears = 1896–1902
| profession = Educator Military Leader Politician
| rank = Comandante (Major)
| branch = Philippine Revolutionary Army
| blank1 = Religion
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| honorific_prefix = Don
| allegiance = Katipunan
| children = 7
| spouse = Carolina Cinco
| party = Nacionalista
| nationality = Filipino
| death_place = Calamba, Laguna, Philippines
| death_date =
| birth_place = Borongan, Samar, Spanish Empire
| birth_date =
| birth_name = Eugenio Daza y Salazar
| commands = Southeastern Samar
| nickname = Utak (Brain)
| alma_mater = Escuela Normal de Maestros, Manila
| image = Don Eugenio Daza.png
| caption = First Philippine Assembly Portrait circa 1907
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Don Eugenio Daza y Salazar (November 15, 1870 – December 16, 1954) is a Filipino principale (nobleman) recognized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) as the first maestro (teacher) in the Samar province. He was both an infantry major and procurement officer in the Philippine Republican Army during the Philippine-American War. He was area commander of General Lukbán's forces for Southeastern Samar and overall commander and tactician of the Battle of Balangiga.
After the war, he helped establish peace and order in Samar, in the transition to American governance. He was the congressman and Representative of Samar's 3rd District to the First Philippine Legislature. Daza was a leader in the Pulahan Campaign and his success is credited to having led to the overall victory of the campaign. Daza was one of the earliest advocates for the return of the Balangiga Bells. His 1935 memoir on the Balangiga Encounter aided in their eventual return.
Early life and Education
Daza was born November 15, 1870, in Borongan, Eastern Samar, to businessman Juan Cinco Daza and his wife, Doña Magdalena Campomanes Salazar. Daza had one younger brother named Inigo. Through Doña Magdalena's family, the Salazar's, Daza was a member of the Principalía (nobility) of Samar, giving him the title of Don. Daza earned a degree in education in 1888, at the Jesuit Escuela Normal de Maestros in Manila. He married Carolina Cinco, of Catbalogan, Samar, and later fathered seven children with her. In 1895, he established his school under Spanish administration in Borongan, becoming the first maestro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Cl%C3%ADnico%20San%20Carlos | The Hospital Clínico San Carlos is a hospital located at the Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, part of hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).
It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) for the purpose of clinical internship.
History
It is the successor of the namesake Hospital de San Carlos located near the calle de Atocha and inaugurated on 1 October 1787. The idea for the new building dates back to 1927, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Following a project by Manuel Sánchez Arcas (with Eduardo Torroja as structural engineer), the building works started in 1932, during the Second Republic. The project stood out by the beamless slabs of the cantilevered balconies and by the cover of the operating rooms (both elements unseen in Spain up to that date). The hospital was still unfinished by the time of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the Ciudad Universitaria became part of the frontline. Reconstruction works were resumed in 1941. Despite the hospital started operations on 20 January 1951, as the chair of General Pathology was transferred then from Atocha, building works lasted until 1967, when the last services provided at the old hospital were finally transferred to the new building.
As of 2019 it has 861 beds.
References
Citations
Bibliography
San Carlos
Buildings and structures in Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood, Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Molinas | María Marta Molinas Cabrera (born 1968) is a Paraguayan electrical engineer, educated in Japan, who works in Norway as a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Research
Molinas has performed research on the control theory and stability of power electronics, and harmonics in electrical power.
She is also interested in signal processing for electroencephalography (EEG). Her research in this area has led to the development of systems for controlling drones or other objects using brain signals, and she hopes to use her work on brain signals not only to read information from brains but to provide therapies for attention deficit disorders, sleep disorders, and pain management.
Education and career
Molinas grew up in Argentina and Paraguay, and completed a diploma in electromechanical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción in 1992. She earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of the Ryukyus in 1997, with a master's thesis on Enhancement of Power System Stability based on the Application of Series Capacitors. She completed a doctorate (Dr. Eng.) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. Her dissertation was Power System Stability Control based on Phase Angle Regulation.
After working as a guest researcher at the University of Padova and a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU, she joined the NTNU faculty in 2008.
Recognition
Molinas is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to modeling and stability of power electronics".
References
External links
Living people
Paraguayan women engineers
Paraguayan electrical engineers
Universidad Nacional de Asunción alumni
Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century women engineers
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinumerik | Sinumerik were a series of Siemens CNC (computer numerical control) control systems.
Sinumerik System 8
During the early to late 1980s the Sinumerik "System 8" used G-code to control industrial systems. The models included:
SINUMERIK 8M/8ME
SINUMERIK 8T/8TE
SINUMERIK Sprint 8T/8TE
SINUMERIK Sprint 8M/8ME
SINUMERIK Sprint 8MC/MCE
Sinumerik System 3
In the late 1980s the models included:
SINUMERIK 3T/3TT
See also
History of numerical control
External links
SINUMERIK System 8: Operating Manual, Operating Instructions
Sinumerik System 3 Manuals
References
Siemens software products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed | Pixelfed is a free and open-source image sharing social network service. It is decentralized, therefore user data is not stored on a central server, unlike other platforms. Pixelfed uses the ActivityPub protocol which allows users to interact with other social networks within the protocol, such as Mastodon, PeerTube, and Friendica. Using this protocol makes Pixelfed a part of the Fediverse. The network is made up of several independent sites that communicate with one another, which is roughly comparable to e-mail providers. The parties involved do not all have to be registered with the same provider, but can still communicate with each other. Thus, users are able to sign up on any server and follow others on the other instances.
Much like Mastodon, Pixelfed implements chronological timelines without content manipulation algorithms. It also aims to be privacy-focused with no third party analytics or tracking. Pixelfed optionally organizes its media by hashtags, geo-tagging and likes based on each server. It also allows audiences to be distinguished in three ways and on a post-by-post basis: followers-only, public, and unlisted. Like several other social platforms, Pixelfed allows accounts to be locked, when followers must be pre-approved by the owner.
The server maintained by the main developer of Pixelfed requires users to be over 16 years old. Restrictions are different on different instances.
Features
Pixelfed has photo sharing features similar to the Meta Platforms owned Instagram service. Users can post photos, stories (beta version) and collections (beta version) via an independent, distributed and federating photo community in the form of connected Pixelfed instances. Any posts from the users of same Pixelfed instance will appear on Local Feed while posts from other Fediverse instances will be available on Global Feed. Home Feed will show posts of followed users. Discover displays images that may be of interest to users.
Each post allows for a maximum of 10 photos or videos. Pixelfed has some of Mastodon's features, including an emphasis on content discovery and content warnings.
Users can post up to 6 gigabytes depending on the instances currently. The development of official apps for both Android and iOS is still in progress.
The most popular Pixelfed server is pixelfed.social with 54,200 users. The next popular English-language server, shared.graphics, has a community of 1,250 users.
Security
Pixelfed supports two-factor authentication via TOTP mobile apps, such as 1Password, Authy Authenticator, LastPass Authenticator, Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator.
Comparison with Instagram
NLnet argued in 2020 that the tools and features of Pixelfed make it a "more attractive (and ethical) alternative" to Instagram.
In December 2022, John Voorhees wrote a detailed review of using Pixelfed on iOS, and said "Pixelfed is sort of like a decentralized version of Instagram that has adopted the ActivityPub protocol."
Receptio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20Final%20Four%202001 | NCAA Final Four 2001 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in 2000.
Reception
The PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, while the PlayStation 2 version received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Rob Smolka of Next Generation said of the latter console version, "Oh well, there's always next year (or the year after that, or the year after that...)."
References
External links
2000 video games
Basketball video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2001
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Franchise%20Association | The International Franchise Association (IFA) is a trade group focused on government and public relations efforts for the franchise industry. The association publishes data on franchise activity through a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau and has litigated on behalf of its members in cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
History
IFA was originally founded in Chicago in 1961 by Dunkin' Donuts founder Bill Rosenberg and other business owners.
Lobbying activities
IFA lobbies in local, state and federal workforce issues such as minimum wage increases, employee classifications and health care legislation. In 2015, the IFA filed suit against the city of Seattle to combat the city's planned minimum wage increase. The case proceeded to the US Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of Seattle.
The Center for Media and Democracy consider IFA to be a source of pro-business lobbying activity on behalf of other groups such as ALEC and the Koch Brothers.
Membership
IFA claims a membership of 1,400 brands, and states that its members represent 2.5% of the U.S. GDP
References
501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations
Lobbying firms based in Washington, D.C.
1961 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hoskinson | Charles Hoskinson (born 1987 or 1988) is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc. (formerly IOHK), and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform.
Early life and education
Hoskinson attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder "to study analytic number theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure".
Hoskinson has claimed that he had entered a PhD program but had dropped out. However, Denver did not have a graduate program in mathematics. Colorado Boulder verified that he had attended as a half-time undergraduate math major, but did not earn a degree. He also claimed repeatedly to have worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), though DARPA confirmed he had not.
Career
In 2013, Hoskinson quit a consulting job to begin a project called the Bitcoin Education Project. According to Hoskinson, the limited supply makes Bitcoin like a digital form of gold.
He joined the Ethereum team as one of five original founders with Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and held the position of chief executive. Buterin and the Ethereum team removed Hoskinson in 2014 after a dispute over whether the project should be commercial (Hoskinson's view) or a nonprofit (Buterin's view).
In late 2014, Hoskinson and former Ethereum colleague Jeremy Wood formed IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong), an engineering and research company, to build cryptocurrencies and blockchains. IOHK's key project is Cardano, a public blockchain and smart contract platform that hosts the ADA cryptocurrency. Hoskinson did not pursue venture capital for Cardano, saying that it ran counter to the blockchain's principles. Hoskinson has also said that venture capital involvement might lead to an outsized control of a project.
IOHK has sponsored research focused on blockchain technology at the University of Edinburgh, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Wyoming.
Forbes estimated Hoskinson's wealth as $500m–$600m in 2018.
In 2020, Hoskinson spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that blockchain may eventually cause social change. In 2022, he appeared as a witness before the commodity exchanges, energy, and credit subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture.
Philanthropy
In September 2021, Hoskinson donated $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University to establish and run the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics as part of the university's philosophy department.
In late 2022 Hoskinson and his family assisted in creating the Hoskinson Health and Wellness Clinic in Gilette, Wyoming.
Hoskinson contributed $1.5 million to fund a 2023 Galileo Project expedition led by astronomer and "alien hunter" Avi Loeb to explore debris from the meteorite CNEOS 2014-01-08 (also called IM1) that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014, and was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2027018 | ISO/IEC 27018 is a security standard part of the ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards. It was the first international standard about the privacy in cloud computing services which was promoted by the industry. It was created in 2014 as an addendum to ISO/IEC 27001, the first international code of practice for cloud privacy. It helps cloud service providers who process personally identifiable information (PII) to assess risk and implement controls for protecting PII. It was published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under the joint ISO and IEC subcommittee, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27.
Standard Versions
That standard has two versions:
ISO/IEC 27018:2014
ISO/IEC 27018:2019
Structure of the standard
The official title of the standard is "Information technology — Security techniques — Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors".
ISO/IEC 27018:2019 has eighteen sections, plus a long annex, which cover:
1. Scope
2. Normative References
3. Terms and definitions
4. Overview
5. Information security policies
6. Organization of information security
7. Human resource security
8. Asset management
9. Access control
10. Cryptography
11. Physical and environmental security
12. Operations security
13. Communications security
14. System acquisition, development and maintenance
15. Supplier relationships
16. Information security incident management
17. Information security aspects of business continuity management
18. Compliance
Objectives
The objective of this document, when used in conjunction with the information security objectives and controls in ISO/IEC 27002, is to create a common set of security categories and controls that can be implemented by a public cloud computing service provider acting as a PII processor. It has the following objectives:
Help the public cloud service provider to comply with applicable obligations when acting as a PII processor, whether such obligations fall on the PII processor directly or through contract.
Enable the public cloud PII processor to be transparent in relevant matters so that cloud service customers can select well-governed cloud-based PII processing services.
Assist the cloud service customer and the public cloud PII processor in entering into a contractual agreement.
Provide cloud service customers with a mechanism for exercising audit and compliance rights and responsibilities in cases where individual cloud service customer audits of data hosted in a multiparty, virtualized server (cloud) environment can be impractical technically and can increase risks to those physical and logical network security controls in place.
Advantages
Using this standard has the following advantages:
It provides a higher security to customer data and information.
It makes the platform more reliable to the customer, achieving a higher level than the competition.
Faster enablemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrix%20Corporation | Vectrix Corporation was a manufacturer of high-resolution color computer graphics products. Formed in 1980 by Richard Katz, the company's first products were the VX family of graphics terminals, followed by the Pepe graphics cards for the IBM XT and AT.
VX series
The VX Graphics Processor series of terminals, launched in 1983, were available in two models, the VX128 and VX384. Both produced a display of 672×480 pixels. The primary difference between the two was the size of the framebuffer; the VX128 contained 128 kB of RAM which held 3 bitplanes to allow a total of 8 colors in a single image, selected from a fixed palette, while the VX384's 384 kB held 9 bitplanes for a total of 512 colors per image selected from a user-defined palette selected from 24-bit values for 16.8 million possible colors.
The VX machines were driven by an Intel 8086, making it more powerful than most of the computers it would connect to. Connections to the host were made over a Centronics port, or alternately a RS-232 port with a maximum speed of 19,200 bit/s. The terminal connected to a color monitor using two sets of BNC connectors, one each for Red, Green and Blue, and then one each for horizontal sync, vertical sync and a combined sync. Another Centronix port was provided for printer output. The terminals could be equipped with two sets of ROM systems; one contained 2D drawing routines, while the second provided 3D.
Images were displayed by sending the system short text commands, typically one or two letters followed by numeric values. For instance, D 250 350 would draw a single pixel ('D'ot) at location (250,350). Typical drawing commands included Dot, Line, Arc, and so forth. For 3D diagrams, there were commands to S the drawing (zoom), R it, and set the V parameters. Text could be output using the $ command.
The current drawing color was set with the Color command, followed by a 16-bit value. In the case of the VX128, the color palette was fixed, with eight pre-defined colors. In the VX384 the color values were held in registers that could be changed by the user by writing RBG values to them using the Q command. This meant that programs could not run on both; blue on the VX128 was value 4, while on the VX384 it was 448.
Although designed for general CAD and other 3D graphics use, the VX series was mostly used in weather forecasting to produce output graphics that were used for television broadcasting. About 50 or 60 systems were used in this fashion. Similar systems using S-100 bus computers and MicroAngelo boards, or the Datamax UV-1, found similar use for weather graphics in the 1980s. After that time the typical IBM PC began to offer comparable output.
Pepe
In the early 1980s, IBM began their MIDAS project to develop a higher resolution graphics system for the PC compared to the 320×240 Color Graphics Adapter. Vectrix entered a system known as Pepe, but lost out to another development that was taken on by IBM as the Professional Graphics Controller.
Pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz%20Rai | Jasvinder "Jaz" Rai OBE (Punjabi:: ਜਸਵਿੰਦਰ ਰਾਏ, born in Derby) is a British Aerospace engineer, community leader and chairperson of the Sikh Recovery Network which supports people with alcohol and drug addictions. He regularly talks about addiction and other issues of importance to the Sikh community in the media and in 2020, was recognised by 10 Downing Street for his work supporting people with drug and alcohol addiction. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours.
Career and work
Jaz Rai is founder and chairperson of the Sikh Recovery Network. He setup the network after his own addiction challenges with alcohol which included drinking up to 1 litre of vodka a day. He now supports people with addictions in a number of cities including Leicester and Derby.
In 2011, his relative Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa, designed the first Sikh poppy khanda holder in honour of the 80000 Sikhs that gave their lives in the world wars and raised thousands of pounds for the Royal British Legion. As a result, they were both invited to attend the remembrance festival at London's Royal Albert Hall.
In 2015, Jaz Rai hosted the first Alcohol and Beyond TV show on Sikh Channel and due to the success of the show it is currently in its 9th season.
In 2016, he was invited to New York to address the UN's General Assembly over 3 days regarding the global challenges of the world drug problem.
Awards and recognition
In 2019, his charity was given official recognition with the charity commission.
In 2020, he was recognised as a ‘Points of Light’ winner by 10 Downing Street for his work supporting people with drug and alcohol addiction.
In the 2021 Birthday Honours, Jaz Singh was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Sikh community during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is one of a handful of Sikhs in the world to hold this distinction.
Views
Jaz Rai regularly talks about addiction and other issues of importance to the Sikh community in the media.
See also
List of British Sikhs
References
Living people
People from Derby
British Sikhs
Founders of charities
Rolls-Royce people
British mechanical engineers
British activists
British people of Punjabi descent
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Nate%20%28TV%20series%29 | Big Nate is an American computer-animated streaming television series developed by Mitch Watson and based on the comic strip and book series of the same name by Lincoln Peirce. It follows the adventures of the titular protagonist, alongside his friends, in sixth grade. The executive producers are Mitch Watson and John Cohen. Peirce is also collaborating with the producers for the show. The show premiered on Paramount+ on February 17, 2022. In March 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered in July 2023.
Premise
Big Nate follows the adventures and misadventures of Nate Wright, a semi-incompetent, spirited, and rebellious sixth-grader. His friend group includes Francis, Teddy, Chad, and Dee Dee. Nate hates social studies teacher Mrs. Godfrey, whom he considers his nemesis and calls her names like "the school's Godzilla", and tends to run afoul of her, the firm Principal Nichols, and the aging science teacher Mr. Galvin. At home, Nate lives with his single father Martin and older sister Ellen.
Characters
Nate Wright (voiced by Ben Giroux), a semi-incompetent, spirited, rebellious 11-year old sixth-grader, who loves to pull pranks and draw cartoons.
Ellen Wright (voiced by Dove Cameron), Nate's girly antagonistic older sister who is responsible and mature.
Martin Wright (voiced by Rob Delaney), the clueless single father of Nate and Ellen.
Teddy Ortiz (voiced by Arnie Pantoja), one of Nate's friends in his friend group who is comedic and loves to tell jokes and annoy Nate. He is half-Mexican-American, and half-Puerto-Rican.
Chad Applewhite (voiced by Charlie Schlatter), one of Nate's friends in his friend group, who is a red-headed chubby kid who loves food.
Principal Nichols (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), the African-American principal at P.S. 38.
Mrs. Godfrey (voiced by Carolyn Hennesy), Nate's social-studies teacher and arch-nemesis.
Francis Pope (voiced by Daniel MK Cohen), one of Nate's friends in his friend group, who is smart and intelligent.
Dee Dee Holloway (voiced by Bryce Charles), one of Nate's friends in his friend group, who is African-American, and the president of the school's drama club. She is also the only girl in his friend group.
Release
The series was originally planned to premiere on Nickelodeon in September 2021. However, in December 2021, with the casting, it was announced that it would premiere on Paramount+ in early 2022, later specified as February 17. On August 3, 2022, it was announced that nine new episodes would release on Paramount+ on August 19, 2022. The series began airing on Nickelodeon on September 5, 2022.
Production
In 1991, the first year the Big Nate comic was published, Peanuts executive producer Lee Mendelson purchased the option from Lincoln Peirce to make an animated Big Nate television series for Saturday-morning cartoons at NBC; Peirce "was paid $5,000 to write a quote-on-quote bible describing the characters and outlining a few story ideas". However, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9Rush | 9Rush is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, launched by the Nine Network on 5 April 2020. The channel is a joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific (which also supplies its programming) and is broadcast on Channel 96 across Nine's metropolitan markets. The target audience are males between the ages of 25 and 54.
In March 2022, Discovery, Inc. launched the similarly-named Rush channel in New Zealand, which shares some programming and common ownership with 9Rush.
Programming
9Rush majorly broadcasts adventure and high adrenaline reality programming. Programming shows come from Warner Bros. Discovery, including shows from United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
Original programming
Acquired programming
Current programming
Alaska: The Last Frontier
Bear Grylls: Face the Wild
Bering Sea Gold
Cops UK
Diesel Brothers
Dirty Jobs Down Under
Garage Squad
Gold Rush
Homestead Rescue
How It's Made
How the Universe Works
Kindig Customs
The Last Alaskans
Live PD
Man vs. Wild
Million Dollar Car Hunters
Million Dollar Garage
Misfit Garage
Naked and Afraid
Overhaulin'
Railroad Alaska
Resto my Ride Australia
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Tanked
Top Gear
Traffic Cops
Treasure Quest: Snake Island
Treehouse Masters
Shifting Gears
Street Outlaws
Wheeler Dealers
See also
Nine Network
9HD
9Gem
9Go!
9Life
Extra
Warner Bros. Discovery
Rush (New Zealand)
References
External links
Nine Network
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Men's mass media
Men's interest channels
Television channels and networks about cars
Television channels and stations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Australia
Joint ventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD%20version%20history | AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application by Autodesk. The first release of the software started with version 1.0 in December 1982. The software has been continuously updated since its initial release.
AutoCAD opens documents with DWG compatibility as a "DWG file format version code" where the specific version code can be found by opening the .dwg file in Windows Notepad or any text editor program. The file format version code is dependent on the AutoCAD version.
History
The following table summarizes the version history of the AutoCAD software application.
References
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket%20Stakeout | Supermarket Stakeout is an American cooking competition television series that airs on Food Network. It is presented by Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli.
Each episode begins with four chefs who have to create dishes from groceries they purchase from customers at a nearby supermarket with a budget of $500 each; with the final chef originally winning a prize of $10,000; this has recently been changed to a year's worth of groceries in the latest episodes.
Supermarket Stakeout premiered on August 13, 2019.
On November 20, 2020, it was announced that the third season will premiere on December 29, 2020.
Format
The competition consists of three rounds and is adjudicated by a panel of two judges. It takes place in a supermarket parking lot, with separate stations for each chef to prepare and cook food. They are each given $500 at the outset, which they must use to buy groceries from customers as they depart the market. A limited stock of additional ingredients is available for the chefs' use.
In each round, Guarnaschelli assigns a general type of dish for the chefs to create. They have 45 minutes to buy ingredients and prepare, cook, and plate three servings (one for each judge and a third "beauty plate"). The judges evaluate the dishes on taste, presentation, and how closely they adhere to the theme of the round. The chef whose dish is judged the least satisfactory is eliminated from the competition and must forfeit his/her remaining money. After the third round, the last remaining chef has his/her cash total increased to $10,000.
Each round features different restrictions on shopping. In the first round, chefs must buy groceries sight unseen, but may purchase from as many customers as they wish. In the second round, chefs may only buy one customer's groceries, but may look in the bags before making an offer. In the final round, chefs may only buy five items, but may buy from multiple customers and inspect their bags. During the final minutes, they may enter the market and purchase one additional item of their choice, if they have the money and time to do so.
"What Would Alex Make?" episodes feature footage of Guarnaschelli cooking in her own backyard, intercut with footage of the chefs' competition. During each of the first two rounds, she attempts to use the set of items judged by the producers to be the most difficult, while in the third, she is given a blind choice of grocery bags that each contain the ingredients purchased by one chef. For every round, she combines the given ingredients with additional ones similar to those available for all chefs' use.
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2020–21)
Season 4 (2022)
This is the current season now airing.
Notes
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2019 American television series debuts
Cooking competitions in the United States
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXUA | 98.3 Energy FM (DXUA 98.3 MHz) is an FM station owned by Ultrasonic Broadcasting System and operated by Mindanao Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located along Ariosa St., Brgy. Balangasan, Pagadian.
References
External links
Energy FM Pagadian FB Page
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Sur
Radio stations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Question%20Hub | Google Question Hub (GQH) is a knowledge market platform developed and offered by Google. As part of reducing non-existent digital media backlog, it uses various but not-known search algorithms to collect unanswered web search queries for content creators, including journalists. GQH is accessible via a registered Google search console account with a verified web property as contradict to Google Questions and Answers. However, searchers do not need to be registered with search console except a google account.
As of September 2021, it is a beta product and is limited to the United States, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. Google search users ask a question in specified languages such as English, Hindi and Indonesian language, and after collecting the unanswered questions, Google lists them in GQH where publishers can then use them as the basis for new publishing articles.
History
In 2019, Google Question Hub was initially released in beta version and available in India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. , it was first reported by the news media in late 2019. The actual launch date is not known.
References
Question Hub
Internet properties established in 2019
Knowledge markets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20legal%20order | Algorithmic legal order may refer to:
Government by algorithm
Distributed ledger technology law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Small%20Back%20Room%20%28novel%29 | The Small Back Room is a 1943 British thriller novel by Nigel Balchin, a pioneer of the use of computers, who later became Deputy Science Adviser (Army). It makes fun of 'the lesser back-room boy'.
In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. Perhaps confusingly, this used the term Boffin to refer to back-room 'boys' rather than to those more like Nigel himself.
References
Bibliography
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
James, Clive. At the Pillars of Hercules. Pan Macmillan, 2013.
1943 British novels
Novels by Nigel Balchin
British thriller novels
British novels adapted into films
William Collins, Sons books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Hurst | Rachel Mary Rosalind Hurst CBE is a British activist and former director of Disability Awareness in Action (DAA), an international network working on disability and human rights.
Early training and employment
Born in 1939, Hurst trained as an actress, dancer and teacher at Rose Bruford College, using the qualification gained to work in an inner London primary school as a dance and drama teacher from 1970 to 1975.
Disability activism
From the late 1960s onwards, Hurst started exhibiting symptoms of a congenital condition. She became a wheelchair-user in 1976 and subsequently lost her teaching job. She decided that she needed to meet other disabled people, so she contacted what was then the Greenwich Association for Disabled People. Hurst quickly became a trustee and, from 1983 to 1990 the chair, and altered the organisation to become the Greenwich Association of Disabled People and Centre for Independent Living (GADCIL), run by and for disabled people. The organisation took over the running of the local Dial-a-Ride service and were the driving force behind Forum@Greenwich, a community initiative for full accessibility and equality of opportunity. GADCIL was a member organisation of the British Council of Disabled People (BCODP), and Hurst was an officer of BCODP between 1983 and 1998, and its chair from 1985 to 1987.
Hurst became a member of the Impact Foundation UK, an international initiative against avoidable disability. She, Sir John Wilson (the Chair of Impact), and Henry Enns the Chair of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI), created a charitable organisation to support the United Nations Decade of Disabled People, known as the Global Project in support of Disabled People, with Hurst as the Project Director, and the others on the board of Trustees, along with representatives from Inclusion International, the World Federation of the Deaf, the World Blind Union and others. In 1992 Hurst persuaded Nicholas Scott, then Minister for Disabled People, to support the organisation; it was thereafter renamed Disability Awareness in Action (DAA) and housed in various Government buildings.
DAA was an international information network on disability and human rights, promoting, supporting and co-ordinating local action globally in support of the rights of disabled people. They did this by publishing, in three languages, large print and braille, monthly newsletters with stories and experiences from disabled individuals or their organisations all over the world, and also a series of Resource Kits, designed to help fledgling organisations get off the ground and give them the tools they needed to campaign and change the situation for disabled people in their locality. Hurst was the Director of DAA from its creation in 1992 until her retirement in 2011. She was also actively involved in DPI, being on the World Council between 1987 and 2003. She also served as the Chair of the DPI European Union Committee (1992–1995) and of the DPI European Region ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeeWeb | KeeWeb is a free and open-source password manager compatible with KeePass, available as a web version and desktop apps. The underlying file format is KDBX (KeePass database file).
Technology
KeeWeb is written in JavaScript and uses WebCrypto and WebAssembly to process password files in the browser, without uploading them to a server. It can synchronize files with popular file hosting services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
KeeWeb is also available as an Electron bundle which resembles a desktop app. The desktop version adds some features not available on web:
auto-typing passwords
ability to open and save local files
sync to WebDAV without CORS enabled
KeeWeb can also be deployed as a standalone server, or installed as a Nextcloud app.
Reception
KeeWeb was praised by Ghacks Technology News in 2016 as "brand-new" fixing the "shortcoming of a web-based version" of KeePass, and by Tech Advisor in 2020 as "well-designed cross-platform password manager".
See also
List of password managers
Password manager
Cryptography
References
External links
Cryptographic software
Free password managers
Password managers
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Cross-platform free software (Linux; macOS; Windows) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie%20Wars | Cookie Wars is an American cooking competition television pilot that aired on Food Network on December 22, 2019. It was presented by television personality Jonathan Bennett; with cake artist Shinmin Li and cookie artist Andi Kirkegaard serving as judges.
The pilot featured three competing four-member teams of cookie bakers and sugar artists, with the final team winning $10,000.
Contestants
References
External links
Home – Super Delicious Television Production Company in Hollywood
2019 in American television
2019 television specials
Reality cooking competition television series
Cooking competitions in the United States
Food Network television specials
Television pilots not picked up as a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrault%20%28surname%29 | Perrault is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
C. Raymond Perrault, artificial intelligence researcher
Charles Perrault, (1628–1703) French writer
Charles-Hubert Perrault (1922-2019) Canadian businessman
Claude Perrault (1613-1688), French architect and scientist, brother of Charles
Dominique Perrault (born 1953), French architect
Gilles Perrault, (born 1931) French writer and journalist
Jacques-Nicolas Perrault (1750–1812), seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
Joël Perrault (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1874–1948), French Canadian politician
Joseph-Stanislas Perrault (1846-1907), politician, father of Joseph-Édouard
Joseph-François Perrault (1753–1844), businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
Joseph-Xavier Perrault (1836–1905), Quebec educator and political figure
Léon Bazille Perrault (1832–1908), French painter
Maurice Perrault (1857–1909), Canadian architect, civil engineer, and politician
Olivier Perrault (1773–1827), seigneur, lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada
Pascal Perrault (born 1959), French poker player
Pierre Perrault (1927–1999), film director
Pierre Perrault (author) (1608–1680), French hydrologist and author
Ray Perrault (1926–2008), Canadian senator
Serge Perrault (1920–2014), French ballet dancer and teacher
Fictional characters
Celeste Perrault, a character in the soap opera Days of our Lives
See also
Perrault (disambiguation)
Perreault (disambiguation)
Perraud (disambiguation)
Perreau (disambiguation)
Perrot (disambiguation)
Perot (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20network%20Gaussian%20process | A Neural Network Gaussian Process (NNGP) is a Gaussian process obtained as the limit (in the sense of convergence in distribution) of a sequence of neural networks, and provide a closed form way to evaluate many kinds of neural networks.
Mathematically, an NNGP is just a gaussian process. It is distinguished only by how it is obtained (it is an intensional definition): a NNGP is a GP obtained as the limit of a sequence of neural networks, with limit taken in the sense of convergence in distribution.
A wide variety of neural network architectures converges in distribution to a gaussian process at the infinitely wide limit. This is proven for: single hidden layer Bayesian neural networks; deep fully connected networks as the number of units per layer is taken to infinity; convolutional neural networks as the number of channels is taken to infinity; transformer networks as the number of attention heads is taken to infinity; recurrent networks as the number of units is taken to infinity.
In fact, this NNGP correspondence holds for almost any architecture: Generally, if an architecture can be expressed solely via matrix multiplication and coordinatewise nonlinearities (i.e. a tensor program), then it has an infinite-width GP.
This in particular includes all feedforward or recurrent neural networks composed of multilayer perceptron, recurrent neural networks (e.g. LSTMs, GRUs), (nD or graph) convolution, pooling, skip connection, attention, batch normalization, and/or layer normalization.
Motivation
Computation in artificial neural networks is usually organized into sequential layers of artificial neurons. The number of neurons in a layer is called the layer width. When we consider a sequence of Bayesian neural networks with increasingly wide layers (see figure), they converge in distribution to a NNGP. This large width limit is of practical interest, since neural networks often improve as layers get wider.
Bayesian networks are a modeling tool for assigning probabilities to events, and thereby characterizing the uncertainty in a model's predictions. Deep learning and artificial neural networks are approaches used in machine learning to build computational models which learn from training examples. Bayesian neural networks merge these fields. They are a type of artificial neural network whose parameters and predictions are both probabilistic. While standard artificial neural networks often assign high confidence even to incorrect predictions, Bayesian neural networks can more accurately evaluate how likely their predictions are to be correct.
The NNGP also appears in several other contexts: it describes the distribution over predictions made by wide non-Bayesian artificial neural networks after random initialization of their parameters, but before training; it appears as a term in neural tangent kernel prediction equations; it is used in deep information propagation to characterize whether hyperparameters and architectures will be trainable.
It |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20repair | The problem of database repair is a question about relational databases which has been studied in database theory, and which is a particular kind of data cleansing. The problem asks about how we can "repair" an input relational database in order to make it satisfy integrity constraints. The goal of the problem is to be able to work with data that is "dirty", i.e., does not satisfy the right integrity constraints, by reasoning about all possible repairs of the data, i.e., all possible ways to change the data to make it satisfy the integrity constraints, without committing to a specific choice.
Several variations of the problem exist, depending on:
what we intend to figure out about the dirty data: figuring out if some database tuple is certain (i.e., is in every repaired database), figuring out if some query answer is certain (i.e., the answer is returned when evaluating the query on every repaired database)
which kinds of ways are allowed to repair the database: can we insert new facts, remove facts (so-called subset repairs), and so on
which repaired databases do we study: those where we only change a minimal subset of the database tuples (e.g., minimal subset repairs), those where we only change a minimal number of database tuples (e.g., minimal cardinality repairs)
The problem of database repair has been studied to understand what is the complexity of these different problem variants, i.e., can we efficiently determine information about the state of the repairs, without explicitly materializing all of these repairs.
References
See also
Probabilistic database
Database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20L.%20Prince | Jerry L. Prince is the William B. Kouwenhoven Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He has over 41,000 citations, and an h-index of 80.
Prince received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut, and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research involves 3-D medical image reconstruction, registration, segmentation, and shape and motion analysis. He is noted for developing the Harmonic phase (HARP) algorithm for extracting and processing motion information from tagged magnetic resonance image (MRI) sequences for cardiac motion. He also holds appointments in the departments of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, as well as in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As such, he has been involved in "developing digital head models for faster, more precise diagnoses" of head injuries, such as those seen in sport.
Prince received a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1993. He was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and as of 2020 was a member of the editorial board of Medical Image Analysis. In 2011, he become a Fellow of the MICCAI Society.
Selected research
Bian, Junguo, et al. "Evaluation of sparse-view reconstruction from flat-panel-detector cone-beam CT," Physics in Medicine & Biology 55(22):6575, 2010.
Han, Xiao, Chenyang Xu, and Jerry L. Prince. "A topology preserving level set method for geometric deformable models," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 25(6):755-768, 2003.
Pham, Dzung L., Chenyang Xu, and Jerry L. Prince. "Current methods in medical image segmentation," Annual review of biomedical engineering 2(1):315-337, 2000.
Xu, Chenyang, and Jerry L. Prince. "Gradient vector flow: A new external force for snakes," Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE, 1997.
External links
Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
References
Johns Hopkins University faculty
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Connecticut alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20A.%20Myers | Ross Allen Myers (born 1959) is an American naval aviator and a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy, who served as deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command from May 2019 to September 2020. He was nominated in March 2020 to be the commander of the United States Tenth Fleet/U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, replacing retiring Vice Admiral Timothy J. White. As a naval aviator, he has commanded several warships and military units, including fleet replacement squadron, Carrier air wing, and air group.
As part of Sailors' Union of the Pacific, he served twice at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, as a commander for Carrier Air Wing Five military unit stationed at Japan.
Education
Myers was raised in Garden City, Kansas. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Accounting at Kansas State University and, later, went to the University of Kansas where he graduated with a Master of Business Administration. After completing his master's degree, he then attended the National War College where he read for a Master of Science in National Security Strategy.
Naval career
In shore and staff tours, Myers has serving as a flag aide for the commander in chief Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe in Italy and for the commander in chief United States Naval Forces Europe in England. He also served as joint assessments analyst and executive assistant for assessments, resources, and warfare requirements to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, and as deputy executive assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. He was later appointed to assistant deputy director for global operations to the Joint Staff, and executive assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As a flag officer, he served on the Joint Staff as vice deputy director for Nuclear, Homeland Defense and Current Operations, and director of Plans and Policy at headquarters U.S. Cyber Command. In May 2019, Myers was promoted to vice admiral and appointed deputy commander of United States Cyber Command. He assumed command of United States Tenth Fleet/U.S. Fleet Cyber Command in September 2020.
Awards and decorations
References
Date of birth missing (living people)
1959 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Garden City, Kansas
Kansas State University alumni
Military personnel from Kansas
United States Naval Aviators
University of Kansas alumni
National War College alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Navy vice admirals
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrellus%20aladdin | Pipistrellus aladdin, the Turkestan pipistrelle, is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Central Asia and Afghanistan. It is assessed as data-deficient by the IUCN.
Taxonomy
The bat was previously considered a subspecies of P. pipistrellus. It is now considered a distinct species.
Biology
The bat feeds on small moths and flies.
Habitat and distribution
The bat is found in Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
It inhabits open woodland, semi-desert, farmland, rural gardens and urban areas, and roosts mainly in buildings, trees, cracks in cliffs and caves.
References
Pipistrellus
Bats of Asia
Mammals described in 1905
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%20for%20the%20Holidays | Homicide for the Holidays is an American television series which airs during the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season each year on the Oxygen Network. The program details crimes committed during the holidays.
Production
Homicide for the Holidays first aired on December 3, 2016 with the episode, "A Deadly Thanksgiving". It was not renewed for the 2020 holiday season. However, it will return on December 6, 2021, with the episode "The Last Thanksgiving," about the brutal murders of Joel and Lisa Guy. The new episodes will air for a limited run from December 6-Ongoing. Episode Listing On June 17, 2023, there will be new episodes about homicides that take place on or close to the Fourth Of July, beginning with the episode "Red, White, And Blood." On October 13, 2023, the show aired the episode "The Big Bad Wolf," about Michael Dennis' murder of Doreen Erbert. The series returns on November 10, 2023, with the episode "Recipe For Murder."
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017 - 2018)
Season 3 (2019)
Season 4 (2021-2022)
Season 5 (TBD)
References
External links
2016 American television series debuts
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Squire | Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University. A researcher and Anti-Defamation League fellow with a focus on right-wing political extremism online, her work has been described as operating as an intermediary between non-profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center and militant groups on the far-left.
Education and early career
Squire grew up in a conservative Christian household near Virginia Beach, Virginia. She attended the College of William & Mary, where she earned a double major in art history and public policy. She took a secretarial job at an antivirus software company after becoming interested in computers. After receiving her PhD from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, she worked at a startup in North Carolina and then began teaching at Elon University.
Research
Squire's research focuses on how online extremism is mediated by social media networks, including Telegram, Facebook, and other platforms.
Squire performed research in 2018 on anti-Muslim Facebook groups, using Facebook's Graph API to create a dataset of 700,000 members from 1,870 open and closed groups with ideologies including anti-Muslim, white nationalist, neo-Confederate, and more. The data was gathered over ten months. She found that membership in one such group correlated highly with the chance of being in another group, indicating that anti-Muslim sentiment acted as a "common denominator" for membership in related groups. Her research has been cited in lawsuits against Facebook for failing to remove such groups.
She has also explored how the younger generation of far right extremists, including Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey, use video livestreaming and gaming platforms to earn money. A study in November 2020 showed that a handful of leaders of the global white nationalist movement are raising significant sums of money. As of November 2020, Squires' research indicated that Fuentes was earning about $326 per day off of DLive, or about $119,000 per year. "Most donations are small amounts of money, but some donors give very, very large amounts...Some users are giving $10,000 to $20,000 a month to streamers on Dlive." Her research using trace data from Venmo showed that the Proud Boys were taking dues despite claims to the contrary.
Activism
Squire first engaged in activism at age 15, when she joined her school environmental club to protest pollution at an industrial cattle farm. While teaching at Elon, she protested the war in Iraq. In 2008, Squire campaigned for the future US President Obama; however, following Obama's handling of the Great Recession, Squire became disillusioned with electoral politics and began engaging with the Occupy movement.
Though she doesn't consider herself to be part of the Antifa movement, they have been said to be among her "strongest allies" and she is "unwilling" to condemn the use of political violence.
Amid a rise in fascist and neo-Nazi pamphleting of college campuses, Squire put together an interactive m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds%20of%20Paradise%20%282010%20film%29 | Birds of Paradise is the English dub of Plumíferos a 2010 Argentine computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Daniel De Felippo and Gustavo Giannini and featuring the voices of Drake Bell, Ashley Tisdale, Jon Lovitz, Ken Jeong, Jane Lynch and Keith David.
English voice cast
Drake Bell as Jack
Keith David as Old Buzzard
Ken Jeong as Vinnie
Jon Lovitz as Skeeter
Jane Lynch as Rosie
Ashley Tisdale as Aurora
Reception
Barbara Schultz of Common Sense Media awarded the film three stars out of five.
References
External links
2010 computer-animated films
2010 films
Argentine animated films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s Argentine films
Mockbuster films
Animated films about birds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%20Christiansen | Jen Christiansen is an American author, data illustrator, and a senior graphics editor for Scientific American. She has published many books on her work which include her insight on collaboration and the visualization spectrum.
Education
Christiansen earned an undergraduate degree in Geology and Studio Art at Smith College. Afterwards, she continued her education at a one-year natural science illustration graduate program at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Work
Ed Bell (director of the Scientific American) met Christiansen on a visit he took to the University of California, Santa Cruz's program.
In 1996, Christiansen took an internship at the Scientific American in which she learned about publishing for about 8 months.
Directly after her internship, Christiansen was placed as the assistant art director for about 2 years.
Afterwards, Christiansen moved to Washington DC to become the assistant art director at National Geographic in 1998 for a few years.
For the following 4 years, Christiansen then took on freelancing as a science communicator where she often took on work for the Scientific American.
She returned to the Scientific American in 2007 where she now focuses on print and large features as the senior graphics editor. She also reviews the magazines text and determines how to translate it into visuals while also critiquing the text from time to time.
Bibliography
Plenary "Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond" at GNSI 2018.
Covering Art in Scientific American
Visualizing Uncertain Weather
Flooding Up Close
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century births
American women journalists
American women writers
National Geographic people
Scientific American people
Smith College alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID%20Tracking%20Project | The COVID Tracking Project was a collaborative volunteer-run effort to track the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It maintained a daily-updated dataset of state-level information related to the outbreak, including counts of the number of cases, tests, hospitalizations, and deaths, the racial and ethnic demographic breakdowns of cases and deaths, and cases and deaths in long-term care facilities.
Data was updated by hand from state health department webpages, press conferences, and outreach to state health officials. The project reported data from all states, the District of Columbia, and five US territories.
History
In early March 2020, two journalists, Robinson Meyer and Alexis Madrigal, started constructing a COVID-19 tracking spreadsheet for their investigation in The Atlantic, after not finding a unified official source for testing data in the United States. Around the same time, data scientist Jeff Hammerbacher was independently working on a similar tracking spreadsheet, and the COVID Tracking Project was formed when these two projects merged on March 7, 2020, and the public was invited to contribute. Madrigal leads the project, and Erin Kissane joined as its managing editor; Hammerbacher remains an advisor and volunteer.
The project eventually grew to about 30 paid staffers and 250-300 active volunteers. Data continued to be entered using a spreadsheet, with an API developed for easier public sharing. It expanded the range of data points it was gathering as they were reported by a majority of states.
In May 2020, the CDC released their first dashboard with state-by-state breakdowns of cases and tests. The project published a comparison of the data compiled by the CDC with the data reported by the states.
On February 1, 2021, the organization announced that it would cease its data compilation activities and release its final daily update on March 7, 2021, citing the improvement of government COVID-19 data. On July 29, 2021, the University of California, San Francisco and The Atlantic announced that the COVID Tracking Project's archives would become part of the university library's permanent collection.
Impact
The COVID Tracking Project's data and analysis became a definitive source of COVID-19 data for the United States. The data was used in over 80,000 news reports and 1,000 academic articles. Many federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have cited data from the COVID Tracking Project, as have both the Trump administration and the Biden administration. In June 2020, the CDC released a report stating that The COVID Tracking Project's race and ethnicity data may be more complete than the agency's dataset. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices used the project's long-term care data to inform its phased vaccine allocation recommendations.
The COVID Tracking Project received multiple awards for its work, including a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Specialized Journalism Site, a Sig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Morgan | Tony Morgan may refer to:
Tony Morgan (sailor) (born 1931), British sailor
Tony Morgan (weightlifter) (born 1969), British weightlifter
Tony Morgan (computer scientist) (born c. 1944), British computer scientist
See also
Anthony Morgan (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwordless%20authentication | Passwordless authentication is an authentication method in which a user can log in to a computer system without the entering (and having to remember) a password or any other knowledge-based secret. In most common implementations users are asked to enter their public identifier (username, phone number, email address etc.) and then complete the authentication process by providing a secure proof of identity through a registered device or token.
Passwordless authentication methods typically rely on public-key cryptography infrastructure where the public key is provided during registration to the authenticating service (remote server, application or website) while the private key is kept on a user’s device (PC, smartphone or an external security token) and can be accessed only by providing a biometric signature or another authentication factor which is not knowledge-based.
These factors classically fall into two categories:
Ownership factors (“Something the user has”) such as a cellular phone, OTP token, smart card or a hardware token.
Inherence factors (“Something the user is”) like fingerprints, retinal scans, face or voice recognition and other biometric identifiers.
Some designs might also accept a combination of other factors such as geo-location, network address, behavioral patterns and gestures, as long as no memorized passwords are involved.
Passwordless authentication is sometimes confused with multi-factor authentication (MFA), since both use a wide variety of authentication factors, but while MFA is often used as an added layer of security on top of password-based authentication, passwordless authentication does not require a memorized secret and usually uses just one highly secure factor to authenticate identity, making it faster and simpler for users.
"Passwordless MFA" is the term used when both approaches are employed, and the authentication flow is both passwordless and uses multiple factors, providing the highest security level when implemented correctly.
History
The notion that passwords should become obsolete has been circling in computer science since at least 2004. Bill Gates, speaking at the 2004 RSA Conference predicted the demise of passwords saying "they just don't meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure." In 2011 IBM predicted that, within five years, "You will never need a password again." Matt Honan, a journalist at Wired, who was the victim of a hacking incident, in 2012 wrote "The age of the password has come to an end." Heather Adkins, manager of Information Security at Google, in 2013 said that "passwords are done at Google." Eric Grosse, VP of security engineering at Google, states that "passwords and simple bearer tokens, such as cookies, are no longer sufficient to keep users safe." Christopher Mims, writing in The Wall Street Journal said the password "is finally dying" and predicted their replacement by device-based authentication, however, purposefully revealing his Twitter password re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes%20Plains | The Mamberamo Lakes Plains (Dutch Meervlakte, Malay dataran danau-danau) are a large, flat low-lying area of the Mamberamo River basin in the Indonesian province Papua on the island of New Guinea. The plain is defined by the meandering tributaries of the Mamberamo, and includes hundreds of oxbow lakes. It is 300 kilometers long and about 50 kilometers wide, and is entirely enclosed by mountains apart from the outlet of the Mameramo.
It is inhabited in the west, but the eastern lobe is largely uninhabited.
Biology
Biologically, the plains are covered by tropical lowland jungle. Much of that is Adina and Barringtonia spicata (see Barringtonia) swamp forest, large areas of sago palm, and marsh vegetation with Echinochloa stagnina. During the rainy season, large parts of the remaining forest is flooded for months at a time. These areas are populated with Timonius, Dillenia or Nauclea.
Hydrology
South of the Lakes Plains lies the Central Dividing Range, the highest part of the western New Guinea Highlands, which drains into the basin. The basin is bisected by two major rivers, the Tariku, which originates in the Jayawijaya Mountains to the west and flows eastwards, and the Taritatu, which rises in the east, not far from the PNG border, and flows westwards. The major tributary of the Taritatu to the south, the Sobger River, originating in the Maoke Mountains, while to the north the Songgolo and Pauwasi Rivers join to form its other major tributary. In the middle of the Lakes Plains, the two rivers meet and merge to form the Mamberamo, one of the largest rivers of New Guinea. The Mamberamo flows out through a gorge between the Van Rees Mountains to its west and the Foja Mountains to its east.
See also
Lakes Plains languages
References
Valleys of Indonesia
Geography of New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Bolander | Thomas Bolander is a Danish professor at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, where he studies logic and artificial intelligence. Most of his studies focus on the social aspect of artificial intelligence, and how we can make future AI able to navigate in social interactions. Thomas Bolander also sits in different commissions, expert panels and boards, among these he is a member of the Siri Commission, the TeckDK Commission, a member of the editorial board of the journal Studia Logica and co-organizer of Science and Cocktails.
Bolander is known for his dissemination of science. In 2019 he was awarded the H. C. Ørsted Medal. Which he was the first to achieve after a break of three years.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artificial intelligence
Academic staff of the Technical University of Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20Canadian%20television%20broadcasts%20of%201985 | The following is a list of most watched Canadian television broadcasts of 1985 (single-network only) according to Nielsen.
Most watched by week
References
Canadian television-related lists
1985 in Canadian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20Canadian%20television%20broadcasts%20of%201986 | The following is a list of most watched Canadian television broadcasts of 1986 (single-network only) according to Nielsen.
Most watched by week
References
Canadian television-related lists
1986 in Canadian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMES%20Type%2084 | The AMES Type 84, also known as the Microwave Early Warning or MEW, was a 23 cm wavelength early warning radar used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of the Linesman/Mediator radar network. Operating in the L-band gave it improved performance in rain and hail, where the primary AMES Type 85 radar's performance dropped off. It operated beside the Type 85 and RX12874 in Linesman, and moved to the UKADGE system in the 1980s before being replaced during UKADGE upgrades in the early 1990s.
The Type 84 had a decade-long development period that saw the system being repeatedly redesigned. It was first conceived in 1951 during the ROTOR program as a megawatt-powered S-band system that would replace the WWII-era Chain Home radars for early warning. But an experimental system developed at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) offered similar performance and would be available long before the MEW's 1957 target date. Put into operation as the AMES Type 80 in 1953, the immediate need for MEW was eliminated. MEW was then assigned a lower priority and handed off to Marconi for further development.
A new concept emerged as an L-band counterpart to the Type 80, adding an advanced moving target indication (MTI) system. In this form, the system was ordered into production as the Type 84 in July 1957. That same month, concerns about the new carcinotron jammer grew. MEW was repositioned as an anti-jamming radar using a powerful 10 MW klystron, but this system failed to work. A 5 MW wide-band magnetron replaced the klystron, but this required a new MTI and antenna system as well. By the time these were ready the magnetron was not, and it finally settled on a 2.5 MW version, compromising its capability as an anti-jamming system.
During development, MEW was the primary radar of the Stage 2 ROTOR plans and was intended to hand-off targets to the Blue Envoy long-range missile. But the RRE once again trumped the Type 84 with their new Blue Yeoman design, which was much more powerful and offered frequency agility. Deployment of Type 84 went ahead anyway, largely because it was complete and offered a number of complimentary features. The first operational Type 84 was handed over to the RAF at RAF Bawdsey in October 1962. Three additional units came online during the 1960s, and the fifth from the original order was instead sent to Cyprus and placed on Mount Olympus. The last unit shut down in 1994.
History
Origins in ROTOR
In the early 1950s the threat of nuclear attack by the Soviet Union led the UK to design an extensive radar network known as ROTOR. ROTOR initially envisioned two stages, the first using upgraded World War II radars like Chain Home, and then, from 1957, these would be replaced by a dramatically more powerful radar known as the Microwave Early Warning set, or MEW. The goal for the MEW was to detect a bomber at .
In 1951 the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) began experimenting with new low-noise crystal detectors that improved reception b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20FaceOff%202001 | NHL FaceOff 2001 is an ice hockey video game developed by SolWorks for PlayStation and by 989 Sports for PlayStation 2, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for both games in 2000–2001. On the cover is then-Toronto Maple Leafs player Curtis Joseph.
Reception
The PlayStation version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 2 version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Tom Russo of Next Generation said that the latter console version was "Not terrible hockey, but it's a farm-league, rookie effort to the polished package and graphical splendor of EA's NHL 2001."
References
External links
2000 video games
NHL FaceOff
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireplay | Wireplay was an online multiplayer gaming network available as a dial-up service that allowed players to match up and play PC games with each other remotely. Compatible games had Wireplay capability built into the game itself, with the online service being launched from the game's menu. The service was created by BT Group and was released to the public in the UK in June 1996. 18 months later, BT licensed the technology to telephone companies in Australia and the US. At its peak, there were more than 100,000 registered users and 50,000 active monthly users in the UK. It was sold to Gameplay plc. for £5.5 million in 2000, but following the sale, the service began to make losses and in August 2001 it was reduced to a shell company and was looking to sell off Wireplay. Arena Technik then bought the service on 31 August 2001. The service endured for a time but was finally shut down in 2014.
Features
Wireplay was built in to various PC games to allow players to engage in multiplayer online play via a closed dial-up network/service. A lag of 105 milliseconds was achieved assuming players met the minimum requirements of a BT landline, a PC with an Intel Pentium 486 processor and a 9600bit/s modem.
A registration process allowed for players to choose a nickname, password etc. which would then grant them access to the "notice board". The notice board was essentially a manual matchmaking hub where players could post or accept "game offers". These offers would include information such as the game's name, the selected difficulty, the time they would to play, and even specific people they would like to play against. For any game offers that were over-subscribed, the person that created the offer could select which users would join the game. Before a game began, there was the opportunity for players to chat with each other in a lobby.
Leagues, ladders and knockout tournaments were all possible within Wireplay to allow for a more competitive, rather than casual experience.
Clubs could be created for up to 30 players and could be restricted by passwords. There was also a news section containing editorials and advertisements.
Service evolution
Version 1 of Wireplay could support 500 concurrent players and 50,000 registered players.
Version 2 initially increased support for up to 1,000 concurrent players, later rising to 3,000.
Version 3 was released after Wireplay was acquired by Gameplay plc. and added numerous improvements such as allowing games such as Half-Life to have matches separated by which mods were active, improvements for Peer 2 Peer and server based games, and a new GUI.
History
BT publicly announced Wireplay at the Live 95 Consumer Electronics at Earl's Court in London in September 1995 where visitors were able to test out a prototype of the service. The prototype featured the games virtual pool and Descent and allowed players to run through the set-up and play with other players via a phone line and server located in York.
In January 199 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arins | Arins or Ārinš is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Tony Arins (born 1958), English footballer
Eižens Ārinš (1911–1987), Soviet KGB secret agent, mathematician, and computer scientist
See also
Arinsal
Ariss (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand%20By%20All%20Networks | Stand by All Networks is a 1942 American thriller film directed by Lew Landers and starring Florence Rice, John Beal and Margaret Hayes. The films sets were designed by Lionel Banks.
Synopsis
Before Pearl Harbor, a radio reporter is fired by his station for his "alarmist" broadcasts. He investigates a suspected ring of Nazi saboteurs on his own.
Cast
Florence Rice as Frances Prescott
John Beal as Ben Fallon
Margaret Hayes as Lela Cramer
Alan Baxter as Victor
Mary Treen as Nora Cassidy
Pierre Watkin as Grant Neeley
Tim Ryan as Police Inspector Ryan
Boyd Davis as Colonel Stanton
Kenneth MacDonald as Captain Banion
Patrick McVey as Monty Johnson
Ernie Adams as Sockeye Schaefer
Sven Hugo Borg as Sailor
Lloyd Bridges as Slim Terry
Eddie Laughton as Joe
Peter Brocco as Cab Driver
Lee Shumway as Cop
John Tyrrell as Watchman
Lester Dorr as Bartender
Rick Vallin as Sound Control Room Engineer
References
Bibliography
Michael S. Shull. Hollywood War Films, 1937–1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II. McFarland, 2006.
External links
1942 films
1940s thriller films
American thriller films
Columbia Pictures films
World War II spy films
World War II films made in wartime
Films directed by Lew Landers
1940s English-language films
1940s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered%20coding | Layered coding is a type of data compression for digital video or digital audio where the result of compressing the source video data is not just one compressed data stream, as in other types of compression, but multiple streams, called layers, allowing decompression even if some layers are missing.
Overview
With layered coding, multiple data streams or layers are created when compressing the original video stream. This is in contrast to other types of compression, where the result is typically a single data stream.
During decompression, all layers can be combined to recreate the original video stream. Additionally, the stream can be decoded even if some layers are missing (though usually a layer hierarchy has to be respected, with a base layer that must available). If layers are missing, the resulting stream will have reduced visual quality, but will still be usable.
Use cases
Layered coding is helpful when the same video stream needs to be available in different qualities, for example for adaptive bitrate streaming. Without layered coding, the source video stream must be encoded multiple times to obtain compressed streams with different qualities and bitrates. Layered coding allows only encoding a single time, because streams with different qualities can be obtained by discarding layers.
Related technologies
Layered coding is similar to multiple description coding in that both produce multiple compressed streams that can be combined.
However, with multiple description coding the different streams are independent of each other, so any subset can be decoded, providing additional flexibility.
Scalable Video Coding is a video compression standard that makes use of layered coding.
See also
MPEG-5 Part 2 / Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding / LC EVC - technique of similar approach
Scalable Video Coding - MPEG-4 specific technique of similar approach
Bitrate peeling
Hierarchical modulation
AV1 Scalable video coding
HEVC Scalability Extensions
References
Data compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Network%20Virtualization%20Encapsulation | Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) is a network encapsulation protocol created by the IETF in order to unify the efforts made by other initiatives like VXLAN and NVGRE, with the intent to eliminate the wild growth of encapsulation protocols.
Open vSwitch is an example of a software-based virtual network switch that supports Geneve overlay networks. It is also supported by AWS Gateway Load Balancers.
References
Telecommunications engineering
Network architecture
Telecommunications infrastructure |
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