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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya%20Budaghyan | Lilya Budaghyan is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway, where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication and leads Boolean functions team.
Education and career
Lilya Budaghyan earned a diploma with honour in mathematics from Yerevan State University in 1998. After additional graduate research at Yerevan State University, she completed a Ph.D. at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany in 2005. Her PhD dissertation is The equivalence of almost bent and almost perfect nonlinear functions and their generalizations.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Trento, Italy, the University of Bergen, and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, she became a professor at the University of Bergen in 2019.
Works
Lilya Budaghyan is the author of the book Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions (Springer, 2014).
Recognition
Prof. Budaghyan won the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry and number theory in 2011 for a joint paper with Tor Helleseth titled “New commutative semifields defined by new PN multinomials”. In 2022 another paper co-authored by Lilya Budaghyan led to Emil Artin Junior Prize "Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions".
She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, elected in 2019.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
21st-century Armenian mathematicians
Armenian women scientists
Norwegian computer scientists
Norwegian women computer scientists
21st-century Norwegian mathematicians
Norwegian women mathematicians
Norwegian cryptographers
Modern cryptographers
Yerevan State University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20H | Language H is a proprietary, procedural programming language created by NCR based on COBOL. The first compiler was developed in August 1962 to run on the National-Elliott 405M and produce object code for the National-Elliott 803B. It is believed that the "H" stands for John C Harwell.
Syntax
Language H programs consist of a heading section followed by sets of statements called "chapters." Comments are introduced and terminated by asterisks. It has 84 reserved keywords. Some of them are:
READ, PRINT, PUNCH, NUMBER, MAX, BEING, FROM, CHANNEL, DIGIT, STERLING, CHARACTERS, UP, TO, RADICES, QUANTITY, DECIMAL, POINT, INADMISSIBLE, INPUT, CONTROL, ERROR, SEEN-CHARACTER, OPERAND, CALCULATE, HOLD, OFF, ON, SEE, AT, POSITION, PLACES, FILE, GET, AGAIN, WITH, FINISH, REEL-END, UNOBTAINABLE, END-OF-FILE, MARKER, BRANCH, OR, GET-AGAIN, ACCORDING, SEQUENTIAL, FILING, DUMP, DATA, PROCESSING, PROGRAM, FOR, CHAPTER, NOTE, IN, OBEY, AND, ARE, AT, BY, IN, IS
References
Procedural programming languages
Programming languages created in 1962 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity%20build | In software engineering, a unity build (also known as unified build or jumbo build) is a method used in C and C++ software development to speed up the compilation of projects by combining multiple translation units into a single one, usually achieved by using include directives to bundle multiple source files into one larger file.
Implementation
If two different translation units file_a.cc
#include "header.h"
// content of source file A ...
and file_b.cc
#include "header.h"
// content of source file B ...
in the same project both include the header header.h, that header will be processed twice by the compiler chain, once for each build task. If the two translation units are merged into a single source file jumbo_file.cc
#include "file_a.cc"
#include "file_b.cc"
then header.h will be processed only once (thanks to include guards) when compiling jumbo_file.cc.
Effects
The main benefit of unity builds is a reduction of duplicated effort in parsing and compiling the content of headers that are included in more than one source file. The content of headers usually accounts for the majority of code in a source file after preprocessing. Unity builds also mitigate the overhead due to having a large number of small source files by reducing the number of object files created and processed by the compilation chain, and allows interprocedural analysis and optimisation across the files that form the unity build task (similar to the effects of link-time optimisation). They make it also easier to detect violations of the One Definition Rule, because if a symbol is defined twice in different source files in the same unity build, the compiler will be able to identify the redefinition and emit a warning or error.
One of the drawbacks of unity builds is a larger memory footprint due to larger translation units. Larger translation units can also negatively affect parallel builds, since a small number of large compile jobs is generally harder or impossible to schedule to saturate all available parallel computing resources effectively. Unity builds can also deny part of the benefits of incremental builds, that rely on rebuilding as little code as possible, i.e. only the translation units affected by changes since the last build.
Unity builds have also potentially dangerous effects on the semantics of programs. Some valid C++ constructs that rely on internal linkage may fail under a unity build, for instance clashes of static symbols and symbols defined in anonymous namespaces with the same identifier in different files. If different C++ files define different functions with the same name, the compiler may unexpectedly resolve the overloading by selecting the wrong function, in a way that was not possible when designing the software with the files as different translation units. Another adverse effect is the possible leakage of macro definitions across different source files.
Build system support
Some build systems provide built-in support for automated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2014 | iOS 14 is the fourteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for their iPhone and iPod Touch lines. Announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 22, 2020 as the successor to iOS 13, it was released to the public on September 16, 2020. It was succeeded by iOS 15 on September 20, 2021.
System features
App Clips
App Clips are a new feature expanding on the functionality of the App Store. Intended as a dynamic feature rather than a permanently installed app, App Clips are extremely pared-back with very few OS permissions. At the time of the announcement, only the use of Apple Pay and Sign in with Apple were shown.
App Clips may be discovered in person via NFC tags (iPhone 7 or newer) or QR codes with App Clips branding. They may also be shared via Messages, or placed on websites or Maps.
CarPlay
CarPlay was updated to allow users to set a built-in wallpaper. Route management in Apple Maps was extended with features alerting the user to available stops, such as parking and food ordering. Additionally, route planning for electric vehicles now considers the location of charging stations.
Car keys
Car keys allow an iPhone to act as a virtual car key using NFC technology with compatible cars. The first compatible car showcased by Apple at the WWDC 2020 was the 2021 BMW 5 Series. Keys are accessible from the Wallet app. Keys may be shared; sharing may be temporary or given restrictions. In the event the iPhone is out of battery, car keys can still be accessed via the power reserve of the iPhone for about five hours. Car keys require an iPhone released in 2018 or later.
Home screen
Unlike previous versions, in which icons on the home screen were rearranged in order and corresponded directly to apps, users may add app icons and newly-introduced app widgets; pages may be added or deleted at will. This allows users to hide infrequently used apps and avoid clutter.
Widgets
To the left of the first page, the Today View is replaced by a scrollable widget UI. Widgets may be placed on the home screen to sit amongst app icons; they may be resized to two-by-two, horizontal two-by-four, or four-by-four icons. Widgets of the same size may be stacked over each other and swiped between for convenience; a Smart Stack may be placed which automatically shows the most relevant widget to the user based on the time of day.
App Library
To the right of the last page, the App Library lists and categorizes apps installed on the device. Apps within each category are arranged based on the frequency of their usage. In addition to a category for suggested apps, a "recent" category lists apps recently installed alongside App Clips recently accessed. Users can search for the app they want or browse them in alphabetical order.
Compact UI
A series of changes were made in iOS 14 to reduce the visual space taken by previously full-screen interfaces; such interfaces now appear and hover in front of an app, allowing for touc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Western%20Sahara | The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Western Sahara in April 2020. The released data from the Moroccan government includes cases in the disputed Western Sahara territory controlled by Morocco but not Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, due to an ongoing dispute.
Background
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.
Timeline
On 4 April, the first four cases were confirmed in Boujdour by the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
On 9 April, MINURSO reported that two new cases were confirmed in Dakhla, bringing the number of confirmed cases to six.
On 24 April, MINURSO reported four more cases, bringing the number of confirmed cases to ten.
By 19 June there had been 26 confirmed cases, the latest of which in Laayoune. One patient had died (in Tindouf, 24 May) while 23 had recovered and 2 were still active cases.
On 31 August there were 41 active cases in Laayoune.
On 30 April 2021, Morocco granted Carles Puigdemont asylum. According to a source from the Moroccan foreign ministry, the decision was made in due to "the principle of reciprocity to host the Catalan independence leader" after Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali was allowed to go to Spain to get treated for COVID-19.
Statistics
New cases per day
See also
COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
COVID-19 pandemic in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
References
Western Sahara
Western Sahara
Western Sahara
2020 in Western Sahara
2021 in Western Sahara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28South%20Korean%20TV%20channel%29 | The following is a list of current and former programming broadcast by the TV channel, Cartoon Network.
Current programming
Original series
The Amazing World of Gumball (October 17, 2011–present)
We Bare Bears (November 21, 2015–present)
The Powerpuff Girls (2016) (April 9, 2016–present)
Ben 10 (2016) (October 1, 2016–present)
Apple & Onion (2018–present)
Craig of the Creek (December 1, 2018–present)
Jellystone!
Summer Camp Island (July 18, 2019–present)
Victor and Valentino (September 5, 2019–present)
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (March 10, 2020–present)
Teen Titans Go! (November 1, 2014–present)
Thundercats Roar
Tom and Jerry in New York
Unikitty! (May 5, 2018–present)
Elliott from Earth
Steven Universe Future
We Baby Bears
Cartoonito programming
Dino Ranch
Lucas the Spider
Monchhichi Tribe
Mush-Mush and the Mushables
Acquired programming
Pokémon (2008–present)
Ninjago (June 15, 2012–present)
Chi-Ling-Ching: Secret Juju (2012–present)
Lego Friends (2014–present)
Hello Carbot (September 15, 2014–present)
Mysterious Joker (March 3, 2015–present)
Beyblade Burst (July 12, 2016–present)
Grizzy and the Lemmings (October 7, 2016–present), also airs on Boomerang (South Korea).
Sophie Ruby (October 30, 2016–present)
Running Man Animation (August 11, 2017–present)
Dino Mecard (February 19, 2018–present)
My Friend, Corey (August 20, 2018–present)
Tobot V (April 2, 2019–present)
Sgt. Frog (June 7, 2019–present)
Mighty Mike (July 4, 2019–present)
Go! Animal Rescue (July 6, 2019–present)
Bugsbot Ignition (July 25, 2019–present)
Butt Detective (August 12, 2019–present)
Bakugan: Battle Planet (August 22, 2019–present)
Lego City Adventures (August 24, 2019–present)
DC Super Hero Girls
Reruns
Adventure Time (April 8, 2011–present)
Ben 10: Omniverse (November 2, 2012–present)
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (October 10, 2010–present)
Common Siblings (May 9, 2019–present)
Turning Mecard (January 10, 2017–present)
Former programming
Original series
Courage the Cowardly Dog (November 2006 - 2008)
Dexter's Laboratory (November 2006 - 2008)
Codename: Kids Next Door (November 2006 - 2008)
The Powerpuff Girls (November 2006 - 2008)
Ben 10 (December 9, 2006 - 2008)
My Gym Partner's a Monkey (December 9, 2006 - 2009)
Robotboy (March 19, 2007 - 2008)
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (April 2007 - 2010)
Powerpuff Girls Z (2007-2008)
Camp Lazlo (July 16, 2007 - 2009)
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2008 - 2010)
Squirrel Boy (2008 - 2009)
Transformers: Animated (2008)
Chowder (May 1, 2009 - 2011)
Ben 10: Alien Force (July 20, 2009 - 2010)
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (July 31, 2009 - 2011)
Hero: 108 (2010–2012)
Generator Rex (March 6, 2011 - 2013)
Samurai Jack (2012)
The Secret Saturdays (2012)
Regular Show (March 4, 2013 - 2018)
Johnny Bravo (September 9, 2013 - September 20, 2013)
Ed, Edd n Eddy (December 13, 2013 - January 24, 2014)
Mixels (2014–2016)
Steven Universe (February 14, 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi-Quan%20Tom%20Luo | Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo () is Vice President (Academic) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Director of Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data and Director of CUHK(SZ)-Tencent AI Lab Joint Laboratory on Machine Intelligence.
Education and experience
Luo was born in November 1963 in Nanchang, China. He received his B.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Peking University, China, in 1984. He was then selected by a joint AMS-SIAM committee and the Ministry of Education of China for graduate study in the United States (S.S. Chern Program). After studying at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, China, for one year, he went to study at the MIT and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research in 1989, under the supervision of John Tsitsiklis.
From 1989 to 2003, he was on the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Canada where he eventually served as the department head and was awarded a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Information Processing. From 2003 to 2014, Luo served as a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota and held ADC Chair in digital technology. Currently, Luo serves as the Vice President (Academic) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and concurrently the Director of Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data and also the Director of CUHK(SZ)-Tencent AI Lab Joint Laboratory on Machine Intelligence.
Luo was elected as a Foreign Member (Canadian Citizenship) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2021.
Luo received the 2010 Farkas Prize from the INFORMS Optimization Society for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization. In 2018, he was awarded the prize of Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization. He also received three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004, 2009 and 2011 respectively, and a 2011 Best Paper Award from the EURASIP. Luo is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). In 2014, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honor a Canadian scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. In 2016, he was elected to the Leading Talent Program of Guangdong Province.
Luo’s research mainly addresses mathematical issues in information sciences, with particular focus on the design, analysis and applications of optimization algorithms. Luo consults regularly with industry on topics related to signal processing and digital communication. Luo was the semi-plenary speaker for the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in 2003 and IEEE CDC conference in 2011, the distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop in 2006, the plenary speaker for the IEEE Signal Processing Advance for Wireless Communications (SPAWC) Workshop in 2013, and IEEE Signal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai | 15.ai is a non-commercial freeware artificial intelligence web application that generates natural emotive high-fidelity text-to-speech voices from an assortment of fictional characters from a variety of media sources. Developed by a pseudonymous MIT researcher under the name 15, the project uses a combination of audio synthesis algorithms, speech synthesis deep neural networks, and sentiment analysis models to generate and serve emotive character voices faster than real-time, particularly those with a very small amount of trainable data.
Launched in early 2020, 15.ai began as a proof of concept of the democratization of voice acting and dubbing using technology. Its gratis and non-commercial nature (with the only stipulation being that the project be properly credited when used), ease of use, no user account registration requirement, and substantial improvements to current text-to-speech implementations have been lauded by users; however, some critics and voice actors have questioned the legality and ethicality of leaving such technology publicly available and readily accessible.
Credited as the impetus behind the popularization of AI voice cloning (also known as audio deepfakes) in content creation and as the first publicly available AI vocal synthesis project to involve the use of existing popular fictional characters, 15.ai has had a significant impact on multiple Internet fandoms, most notably the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Team Fortress 2, and SpongeBob SquarePants fandoms. Furthermore, 15.ai has inspired the use of 4chan's Pony Preservation Project in other generative artificial intelligence projects.
Several commercial alternatives have spawned with the rising popularity of 15.ai, leading to cases of misattribution and theft. In January 2022, it was discovered that Voiceverse NFT, a company that voice actor Troy Baker announced his partnership with, had plagiarized 15.ai's work as part of their platform.
On September 8, 2022, 15.ai was temporarily taken down in preparation for an upcoming update, a year after its last stable release (v24.2.1). As of November 2023, it is still temporarily offline.
Features
Available characters include GLaDOS and Wheatley from Portal, characters from Team Fortress 2, Twilight Sparkle and a number of main, secondary, and supporting characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants, Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane from Daria, the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Narrator from The Stanley Parable, the Wii U/3DS/Switch Super Smash Bros. Announcer (formerly), Carl Brutananadilewski from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Steven Universe from Steven Universe, Dan from Dan Vs., and Sans from Undertale.
The deep learning model used by the application is nondeterministic: each time that speech is generated from the same string of text, the intonation of the speech will be slightly different. The application also supports manually a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakola | Aakola is a village in Pathardi taluka, Ahmadnagar district of Maharashtra, India.
Geography
The village is located on an intersection of Pathardi.
Education
Computers
Coaching Classes- Success 100% Since 2007
Coaching Classes
Schools and colleges
Jilha Parishad Primary School
Highschool and Jr. college
References
Villages in Pathardi taluka
Villages in Ahmednagar district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher%20forcing | Teacher forcing is an algorithm for training the weights of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). It involves feeding observed sequence values (i.e. ground-truth samples) back into the RNN after each step, thus forcing the RNN to stay close to the ground-truth sequence.
The term "teacher forcing" can be motivated by comparing the RNN to a human student taking a multi-part exam where the answer to each part (for example a mathematical calculation) depends on the answer to the preceding part. In this analogy, rather than grading every answer in the end, with the risk that the student fails every single part even though they only made a mistake in the first one, a teacher records the score for each individual part and then tells the student the correct answer, to be used in the next part.
The use of an external teacher signal is in contrast to real-time recurrent learning (RTRL). Teacher signals are known from oscillator networks. The promise is, that teacher forcing helps to reduce the training time.
The term "teacher forcing" was introduced in 1989 by Ronald J. Williams and David Zipser, who reported that the technique was already being "frequently used in dynamical supervised learning tasks" around that time.
A NeurIPS 2016 paper introduced the related method of "professor forcing".
See also
Online machine learning
Reinforcement learning
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrable%20algorithm | Integrable algorithms are numerical algorithms that rely on basic ideas from the mathematical theory of integrable systems.
Background
The theory of integrable systems has advanced with the connection between numerical analysis. For example, the discovery of solitons came from the numerical experiments to the KdV equation by Norman Zabusky and Martin David Kruskal. Today, various relations between numerical analysis and integrable systems have been found (Toda lattice and numerical linear algebra, discrete soliton equations and series acceleration), and studies to apply integrable systems to numerical computation are rapidly advancing.
Integrable difference schemes
Generally, it is hard to accurately compute the solutions of nonlinear differential equations due to its non-linearity. In order to overcome this difficulty, R. Hirota has made discrete versions of integrable systems with the viewpoint of "Preserve mathematical structures of integrable systems in the discrete versions".
At the same time, Mark J. Ablowitz and others have not only made discrete soliton equations with discrete Lax pair but also compared numerical results between integrable difference schemes and ordinary methods. As a result of their experiments, they have found that the accuracy can be improved with integrable difference schemes at some cases.
References
See also
Soliton
Integrable system
Numerical analysis
Computational science
Applied mathematics
Partial differential equations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Bus%20Direct | Le Bus Direct (formerly Les Cars Air France) was a network of express bus routes operating between Paris and the two major airports in the region (Charles de Gaulle Airport and Orly Airport) and a bus route that connected the two airports. The service has its roots in similar bus routes that started in 1930. The service was terminated on 1 April 2020 as a result of the drop in passengers due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation.
History
The service traces its history to a service established by Lignes Aériennes Farman (English: Farman Air Lines) which offered travelers coaches between Paris and Paris–Le Bourget Airport. The service was continued by Farman's successor airlines, Société Générale des Transports Aériens (SGTA) and Air France, which renamed the service "Les Cars Air France" 'Air France Coaches'.
At the beginning of the service, all passengers were checked-in for their flight at a terminal in Paris and shuttled out to the airfield in coaches. In 1946, the Aérogare des Invalides air terminal opened in Paris along with the Orly Airport.
This continued until 1961, when check-in desks were centralized at the airport. After the 1960s, Air France retained its coach service from Paris to the airports and opened up the service to any passengers, even if they weren't flying Air France.
On 12 May 2016, Keolis began running the service and it was renamed "Le Bus Direct", and connected with the Paris Aéroport brand. At that time, the Invalides terminal was abandoned in favor of other stops around the Paris area.
The service was terminated on 1 April 2020 as a result of the drop in passengers due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation.
Routes
Before the termination of the service, four routes were operated by Le Bus Direct:
Route 1: Orly Airport – Paris (Étoile)
Routing: Orly Airport Terminal 4 – Orly Airport Terminals 1/2/3 – Gare Montparnasse – Trocadéro – Etoile/Champs-Elysées
Travel Time: 20 to 60 minutes
Frequency: every 20 minutes
Hours of operation: 04:50 to 23:35
Route 2: CDG Airport – Paris (Eiffel Tower)
Routing: CDG Airport Terminals 2E/2F – CDG Airport Terminals 2A/2C/2D – CDG Airport Terminal 1 – Porte Maillot/Palais des Congrès – Etoile/Champs-Elysées – Eiffel Tower
Travel Time: 45 to 60 minutes
Frequency: every 30 minutes
Hours of operation: 05:30 to 23:30
Route 3 CDG Airport – Orly Airport
Routing: Orly Airport Terminal 4 – Orly Airport Terminals 1/2/3 – CDG Airport Terminals 2A/2C/2D – CDG Airport Terminals 2E/2F
Travel Time: 70 to 80 minutes
Frequency: every 25 to 40 minutes
Hours of operation: 06:10 to 21:50
Route 4 CDG Airport – Paris (Gare Montparnasse)
Routing: CDG Airport Terminals 2E/2F – CDG Airport Terminals 2A/2C/2D – CDG Airport Terminal 1 – Gare de Lyon – Gare Montparnasse
Travel Time: 40 to 80 minutes
Frequency: every 30 minutes
Hours of operation: 05:45 to 20:45
External links
Official Site
References
Charles de Gaulle Airport
Transport in Paris
Transport in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20MICCAI%20Society | The MICCAI Society is a professional organization for scientists in the areas of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of these fields, the society brings together researchers from several scientific disciplines. including computer science, robotics, physics, and medicine. The society is best known for its annual flagship event, The MICCAI Conference, which facilitates the publication and presentation of original research on MICCAI-related topics. However, the society provides endorsements and sponsorships for several scientific events each year.
History
In 1998, three international conferences: Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC), Computer Vision and Virtual Reality in Robotics and Medicine (CVRMed), and Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) merged into a single conference entitled "The International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions" (abbreviated MICCAI) with its first edition in Boston. The MICCAI Society was founded in 2004 by several active members of this research community and former chairs of the MICCAI conference. In 2009, the society introduced the "MICCAI Fellow" award to recognize senior members who had made substantial contributions to the MICCAI community. 12 fellows were elected in 2009 and three additional fellows are elected each year. New MICCAI Fellows are announced each year at the Annual MICCAI Conference. Since 2012, the society is involved in several events each year outside of the annual conference through endorsements and/or sponsorships. These include a number of smaller international conferences, MICCAI-focused workshop sessions at related conferences, and educational programs such as "summer schools".
Research focus
Medical Image Computing
Medical Image Computing (the "MIC" in MICCAI) is the field of study involving the application of image processing and computer vision to medical imaging. The goals of medical image computing tasks are diverse, but some common examples are computer-aided diagnosis, image segmentation of anatomical structures and/or abnormalities, and the registration or "alignment" of medical images acquired through different means or at different points in time.
Computer Assisted Interventions
Computer Assisted Interventions (the "CAI" in MICCAI) is the field of study concerned with the use of computational tools in medical interventions. Prominent examples of computer aided interventions currently in widespread use include image guided biopsy and robot-assisted surgery. Integral to this research area is effective human-computer interaction and user interface design.
Subgroups
Within the MICCAI community, a number of organizations have emerged to represent and advocate for certain populations of MICCAI researchers. Among these are the MICCAI Student Board and the Women in MICCAI Committee.
MICCAI Student Board
The MICCAI Student Board began in 2010 when MICCAI in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyman%27s%20law | Twyman's law states that "Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong", following the principle that "the more unusual or interesting the data, the more likely they are to have been the result of an error of one kind or another". It is named after the media and market researcher Tony Twyman and has been described as one of the most important laws of data analysis.
The law is based on the fact that errors in data measurement and analysis can lead to observed quantities that are wildly different from typical values. These errors are usually more common than real changes of similar magnitude in the underlying process being measured. For example, if an analyst at a software company notices that the number of users has doubled overnight, the most likely explanation is a bug in logging, rather than a true increase in users.
The law can also be extended to situations where the underlying data is influenced by unexpected factors that differ from what was intended to be measured. For example, when schools show unusually large improvements in test scores, subsequent investigation often reveals that those scores were driven by fraud.
See also
Zebra (medicine)
References
Scientific method
Statistical laws
Razors (philosophy)
Data analysis
Principles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhat%20Mishra | Prabhat Mishra is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and a UF Research Foundation Professor at the University of Florida. Prof. Mishra's research interests are in hardware security, quantum computing, embedded systems, system-on-chip validation, formal verification, and machine learning.
Biography
Born and raised in India, Mishra received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine in 2004. He received a B.E. in Computer Science from the Jadavpur University, India in 1994, and M.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1995. In 2004, he joined University of Florida as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, he was promoted to an Associate Professor and by 2016 he became a Professor at the same institution. He currently lives in Gainesville, Florida with his family.
Academic Life
His research has been recognized by Best Paper Awards and Best Paper Award Nominations at several international conferences. Dr. Mishra currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. In 2015, he was selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2021 for contributions to system-on-chip validation and design automation of embedded systems. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2023 .
Awards
AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023.
IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021.
UF Research Foundation Professor, University of Florida, 2020.
IET Outstanding Editor Award, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019.
ISQED Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2016.
ACM Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery, 2015.
IBM Faculty Award, 2015.
VLSI Design Best Paper Award, International Conference on VLSI Design, 2011.
NSF CAREER Award, US National Science Foundation, 2008.
EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, European Design Automation Association, 2004.
CODES+ISSS Best Paper Award, International Conference on Codesign & System Synthesis, 2003.
Books
Network-on-Chip Security and Privacy, Springer, 2021.
System-on-Chip Security Validation and Verification, Springer, 2019.
Post-Silicon Validation and Debug, Springer, 2018.
Hardware IP Security and Trust, Springer, 2017.
System-Level Validation, Springer, 2012.
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems, Springer, 2012.
Processor Description Languages - Applications and Methodologies, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
Functional Verification of Programmable Embedded Architectures, Springer, 2005.
References
External links
Prabhat Mishra home page
Prabhat Mishra publications indexed by Google Scholar
American computer scientists
Living people
Computer hardware research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahta%20Moghaddam | Mahta Moghaddam is an Iranian-American electrical and computer engineer and William M. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Moghaddam is also the president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and is known for developing sensor systems and algorithms for high-resolution characterization of the environment to quantify the effects of climate change. She also has developed innovative tools using microwave technology to visualize biological structures and target them in real-time with high-power focused microwave ablation.
Early life and education
Moghaddam grew up in Iran with her sister, Bita Moghaddam, and her parents. Moghaddam then moved to the United States in 1982 to start her undergraduate education at the University of Kansas. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1986 with the Highest Distinction. Continuing on in engineering and academia, Moghaddam pursued an M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she worked under the mentorship of Weng Cho Chew. Her thesis work explored the response of an eccentric dipole in cylindrical layered media.
After completing her master's degree in 1989, Moghaddam continued on under the mentorship of Weng Cho Chew at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering. For her dissertation, Moghaddam designed a method to solve the 2 and ½ dimensional electromagnetic forward scattering problems in the time domain and used this method to develop a realistic model of the subsurface interface radar. Her thesis was titled “Forward and Inverse Scattering Problems in the Time Domain”.
Career and research
Work at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
After completing her PhD in 1991, Moghaddam began a position as a Senior Engineer in the Radar Science and Engineering Section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. As the Systems Engineer for the Cassini Radar, she helped develop new radar based measurement technologies for subcanopy and subsurface characterization. These technologies allowed her to characterize soil and canopy moisture as well as permafrost using airborne synthetic aperture radar (AIRSAR). She found that using a classification algorithm to identify the predominant scattering mechanism, focusing on the branch layer, and subsequently deriving moisture content from a parametric model, allowed her to retrieve model parameters from AIRSAR data. This estimation algorithm allowed her to observe canopy moisture of the BOREAS forest over a six-month period. In 2000, Moghaddam published a paper looking at the subcanopy soil moisture content from AIRSAR data using similar approaches where she first found the predominant scattering mechanism and then validated the results based on ground measurements of soil and trunk moistu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ambarella%20products | This list contains general information about computer system on chips (SOCs) developed by Ambarella.
System on chips
References
Ambarella |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202020 | A list of French-produced films scheduled for release in 2020.
Films
Notes
External links
French films of 2020 at the Internet Movie Database
French
2020
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Ma%27mal%20Foundation%20for%20Contemporary%20Art | Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1998 and based in the Old City (Jerusalem). Its programming includes Contemporary art exhibitions, live music, an artist residency program, and workshops.
History
Al Ma’mal is situated in the former Kassissieh Tile Factory; Ma’mal means “factory” in Arabic. In 1900, the Kassissieh family established a tile factory in the Old City. The factory produced patterned floor tiles commonly found in Palestinian homes. Eventually, the factory became one of the main tile factories in Palestine. It was active until the mid-1970s, when the Jerusalem Municipality withdrew licenses from all factories operating inside the Old City.
In 1992, Artist and Curator Jack Persekian founded the Gallery Anadiel in the Old City, as the first independent gallery in the Palestinian territories under Israeli occupation, with a focus on contemporary Palestinian artists. By the mid-1990s, a group of artists and activists decided to initiate a contemporary art foundation in Jerusalem. The planning began at Gallery Anadiel, where Issa Kassissieh proposed renovating the tile factory building and turning it into the headquarters for the new art foundation. After an agreement with the Kassisseh family was reached, the Al Ma’mal Foundation was officially founded in 1998. In 2013, the Foundation moved into the former tile factory.
Exhibitions
Al Ma’mal has been described as "the nucleus for the latest Palestinian art revival in East Jerusalem."
Al Ma’mal hosts exhibitions by both Palestinian and international artists, including Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Johny Andonia, Alice Creischer, Nicola Saig, Suzan Hijab, Noor Abuarafeh, Benji Boyadgian, Mohammad S. Khalil, Inas Halabi, Fazel Sheikh, Beatrice Catanzaro, Bruno Fret, Paul Devens, Tanya Habjouqa, Emily Jacir, and more.
Programs
Al Ma’mal hosts an artist residency program. For the Artist-in-residence program, local and international artists live in East Jerusalem and develop, produce and present new work, while participating in a cultural exchange with the city.
Al Ma’mal biannually presents The Jerusalem Show, an event consisting of exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, film screenings, and guided tours in the Old City. The Show is part of Qalandiya International, a biennial celebration of Palestinian art and culture organized in partnership with other Palestinian institutions.
References
External links
Organizations based in Jerusalem
1998 establishments in Israel
Contemporary art galleries in Israel
Non-profit organizations based in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idin | Idin or IDIN may refer to:
IDIN, the International Development Innovation Network
Idin, Iran, a village in Iran
See also
Yidin (disambiguation)
Edin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Dublin%20Area%20Cycle%20Network | The Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network is a proposed cycle network for the Greater Dublin Area. The plan was launched in 2013.
A target, endorsed by the Irish government, proposed that the number of people commuting into Dublin would reach "75,000 each morning by 2021", representing a "three-fold increase in cycling over 2011 levels". A significant part of the proposed plan, as published in 2013, expected that the Greater Dublin Area's cycle network would increase "five fold" from 500 km in length to over 2,800 km by 2020. The planned targets were not met.
In August 2018, 78 companies and third-level education institutions called on the government to build a network of segregated cycle routes in Dublin. This call was reiterated by the National Children's Hospital and St. James's Hospital in 2019.
The letter from St James's Hospital to the Minister for Transport cited worrying levels of air pollution, adding,
As of mid-2021, the National Transport Authority (NTA) website noted that "the NTA [..was then..] in the process of updating the GDA Cycle Network Plan" and that it planned to publish this update "later in 2021".
References
Cycling infrastructure
Cycling in Ireland
Transport infrastructure
Transport in Dublin (city)
Dublin
Transport in County Kildare
Transport in County Meath
Transport in County Wicklow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIoTy | mioty is a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) protocol. It is using telegram splitting, a standardized LPWAN technology in the license-free spectrum. This technology splits a data telegram into multiple sub packets and sends them after applying error correcting codes, in a partly predefined time and frequency pattern. This makes a transmission robust to interferences and packet collisions. It is standardised in the TS 103 357 ETSI. Its uplink operates at the 868 MHz band, license free in Europe, and 916MHz band in North America. It requires a bandwidth of 200 kHz for two channels (e.g. up- and downlink).
Technology attributes
Long range: The operating range of LPWAN technology varies from a few kilometers in urban areas to over 10 km in rural settings. It can also enable effective data communication in previously infeasible indoor and underground locations.
Low power: Optimized for power consumption, LPWAN transceivers can run on small, inexpensive batteries for up to 20 years.
Telegram splitting: (or TSMA, telegram splitting multiple access) Splits the packets of data under transport in small sub-packets at the sensor level. The small packets getting then transmitted over variable frequency and time.
More than a million packets a day.
Serving moving clients. It can serve data from clients moving at up to 120 km/h.
Applications
It is intended to be used for monitoring devices in large areas.
See also
Internet of Things
References
Wide area networks
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%20Wang%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Wei Wang is a Chinese-born American computer scientist. She is the Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi). Her research specializes in big data analytics and modeling, database systems, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and computational medicine.
Education
Wei Wang received her undergraduate training in computer science at the Nankai University from 1990 to 1993. She then went on to receive her MS in Systems Science from the Binghamton University in 1995 and PhD in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999. She was a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before returning to UCLA in 2012.
Awards and honors
Wang received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2000 and 2001. She was also the recipient of a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award in 2003 and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2005. She was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow in 2005 and honored with the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement at UNC. In addition, she was recognized with an IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2012, an Okawa Foundation Research Award in 2013, and an ACM SIGKDD Service Award in 2016. She is elected ACM Fellow in 2020.
Selected publications
Her works include:
RIN: Reformulation Inference Network for Context-Aware Query Suggestion, by Jyun-Yu Jiang and Wei Wang, Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 197–206, 2018.
NetWalk: A Flexible Deep Embedding Approach for Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Networks, by Wenchao Yu, Wei Cheng, Charu Aggarwal, Kai Zhang, Haifeng Chen, and Wei Wang, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(SIGKDD), pp. 2672–2681, 2018.
Learning Deep Network Representations with Adversarially Regularized Autoencoders, by Wenchao Yu, Cheng Zheng, Wei Cheng, Charu Aggarwal, Dongjin Song, Bo Zong, Haifeng Chen, and Wei Wang, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(SIGKDD), pp. 2663–2671, 2018.
Identifying Users behind Shared Accounts in Online Streaming Services, by Jyun-Yu Jiang, Cheng-Te Li, Yian Chen and Wei Wang, Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), pp. 65–74, 2018.
Modeling Co-Evolution Across Multiple Networks, Wenchao Yu, Charu Aggarwal, and Wei Wang, Proceedings of the 18th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pp. 675–683, 2018.
Translating literature into causal graphs: toward automated experiment selection, by Nicholas Matiasz, Justin Wood, Wei Wang, Alcino Silva, William Hsu, Proceedings of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2%20Marine%20Dr | The R2 Marine Dr is an express bus service with bus rapid transit elements in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Part of TransLink's RapidBus network, it travels along Marine Drive, 3rd Street, Cotton Road, and Main Street in North Vancouver and connects major North Shore transit points Park Royal Exchange, Lonsdale Quay, and Phibbs Exchange.
The route started service on April 6, 2020. It is operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company and funded by TransLink.
All articulated buses used on this route are hybrid and air-conditioned. Although articulated buses are mainly assigned, standard buses may be assigned instead.
History
According to phase one of the Mayors' Council 10-Year Vision, the plan was to have the route operate as a B-Line between Dundarave in West Vancouver and Phibbs Exchange via Park Royal. In March 2019, after opposition from West Vancouver residents, the city of West Vancouver decided that the western terminus of the route would be at Park Royal instead of Dundarave.
In July 2019, the proposed new B-Line routes in phase one of the Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision were re-branded to RapidBus.
Construction delays became prevalent in September 2019. As a result, the service did not make its debut in January 2020 along with the other RapidBus routes. Instead, the route started service in the second quarter of 2020.
The service began operations on April 6, 2020, as part of TransLink's Spring 2020 service changes. The route replaced route 239 between Phibbs Exchange and Park Royal, with local service being maintained through the use of other routes.
Route description
Departing from Phibbs Exchange, the R2 RapidBus travels west along Main Street towards 3rd Street, Lonsdale Avenue and into Lonsdale Quay. It then returns to 3rd Street and continues west to Park Royal Exchange along Marine Drive.
Stops
Phibbs Exchange – A major transfer point for other routes serving North Vancouver, Vancouver, and Burnaby
Brooksbank Avenue
Ridgeway Avenue
3rd Street–Lonsdale Avenue
Lonsdale Quay – connects to bus routes serving North Vancouver and the SeaBus ferry service into Downtown Vancouver and serves the Lonsdale Quay public market
Bewicke Avenue
Hamilton Avenue
Pemberton Avenue
Capilano Road
Park Royal Exchange – serves Park Royal Shopping Centre and is a major transfer point for other local and express bus services to Downtown Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Horseshoe Bay
See also
97 B-Line
98 B-Line
99 B-Line
List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver
References
External links
TransLink
Timetable
Route diagram
RapidBus (TransLink)
Transport in North Vancouver (city)
Transport in North Vancouver (district municipality)
Transport in West Vancouver
2020 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Fader | Peter S. Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research is about the analysis of behavioral data to forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities.
Career
Fader was introduced to marketing when he was a math major undergraduate in MIT by Professor Leigh McAlister. Later in an interview, Fader called McAlister his "fairy god mother" for his career in marketing. Fader works with firms from a plethora of industries, such as telecommunications, financial services, gaming/entertainment, retailing, and pharmaceuticals. Managerial applications focus on topics such as management of customer relationships, lifetime value of the customer, and sales predictions for new products. Much of his research highlights the consistent behavioral patterns that exist across these industries and other domains.
In addition to his various roles at Wharton, Professor Fader co-founded a predictive analytics firm named Zodiac in 2015, which was sold to Nike in 2018. He then co-founded and still works at Theta Equity Partners to commercialize his more recent work on “customer-based corporate valuation.”
He has been quoted or featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Washington Post, TEDx, among other media.
Works
Fader is the author of Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage and co-authored with Sarah E. Toms of the book The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value.
Awards
He is the current recipient of the Pei-Yuan Chia Professorship. He has held this award since 2003.
He was named one of the 25 Marketing Technology Trailblazers by Advertising Age.
References
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty
Marketing theorists
American marketing people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochlus%20mocquardi | Mochlus mocquardi, also known as Mocquard's writhing skink, is a species of skink. It is found in West Africa (Niger, and Nigeria) and Chad, and according to the Reptile Database, also in Sudan. It is semi-fossorial and inhabits dry savanna in microhabitats with high humidity, such as under stones and in leaf litter within the shade of large trees, in lowland areas close to water.
References
Mochlus
Skinks of Africa
Reptiles of West Africa
Reptiles of Nigeria
Vertebrates of Chad
Reptiles described in 1917
Taxa named by Paul Chabanaud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd%20Iris%20Awards%20%28Uruguay%29 | The 23rd Iris Awards ceremony, presented by the newspaper El País, honored the best of radio, television and social networks in Uruguay of 2017 and took place at the Enjoy Hotel & Casino, Punta del Este. It was held on September 1, 2018, and was broadcast by Teledoce, Canal 4 and Canal 10. The ceremony did not have a single host, but different presenters hosted it for a certain time, thus fulfilling a time for the channel that transmitted the event.
During the ceremony, El País presented Iris Awards to television in 14 categories, to radio in 6 and to internet and social networks in 2. It also presented the Golden Iris Award, the Iris for Career, the Special Iris and the Iris of the public.
Winners and nominees
Television
Radio
Internet and Social Networks
Other awards
Source:
References
External links
Iris Awards 2018 website
2018 in Uruguayan television
2018 television awards
2018 television specials
September 2018 events in South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%3A%20Shazam%21%3A%20Magic%20and%20Monsters | Lego DC Shazam!: Magic and Monsters is a 2020 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the DC Comics and Lego brands. The film is produced by DC Entertainment, The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It is the tenth Lego DC Comics film and was released on digital on April 28, and on Blu-ray and DVD on June 16, 2020. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the humor and action.
Plot
A hero known as Shazam has made his debut and is attracting media attention for his sudden arrival and polite mannerisms. Unbeknownst to the public, he is a young orphan boy named Billy Batson. Superman encounters the Monster Society of Evil, who are trying to steal food for their master, Mister Mind, and calls Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Green Lantern for help. Witnessing this, Shazam decides to aid the Justice League, demonstrating his powers to them and forcing the Society to retreat. Impressed by Shazam's capabilities, the League invite him to the Hall of Justice, where they offer Shazam membership. Shazam dismisses their offer, believing they will reject him if they discover his actual age.
Consulting The Wizard, who gave him his powers, for advice, Shazam is told that relationships are built on trust and that he should be more open to the League. Sensing a disturbance, the Wizard then tells Shazam to help the League when they follow the Society to their hideout, which Shazam agrees to do.
Unfortunately, Mister Mind captures the League and, using a chemical concocted by Doctor Sivana, transforms them into children, making them more susceptible to his mind control. Although de-aged, Batman avoids being mind-controlled and escapes to the Batcave with Shazam's help. Batman is reluctant to trust him, so Shazam reveals his secret identity while also recounting his origin: After aiding Batman in a duel with Two-Face, Billy Batson continued to go about his daily routine while also generously helping others in need. Billy is eventually led into a subway station, boarding a bizarre-looking train that takes him to the Rock of Eternity, where he meets the Wizard in person. The Wizard explains that he disguised himself as ordinary citizens to test Billy's purity of heart and see if he was worthy of becoming his new champion after the previous champion, Black Adam, became corrupted by his power and was sealed away. Accepting the Wizard's offer, Billy is gifted his new powers and proceeds to spend his days as Shazam while also enjoying the perks of being an adult. Billy then explains that despite everything, he still longs for a family of his own. Batman reveals his secret identity to Billy and explains that he is also an orphan, becoming more trusting of him.
Across the world, the mind-controlled Leaguers steal food for Mister Mind, but Batman and Shazam locate and free them from Mister Mind's control. Reunited, the League plan to infiltrate the Society's lair by pret |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Security%20Agency | Digital Security Agency () is a Bangladesh government security and intelligence agency responsible for monitoring online communication and countering cyber crimes. Md. Khairul Amin the former Director General of the agency.
History
Digital Security Agency was established under Information and Communication Technology Division Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Md. Rezaul Karim ndc is the former Director General of the agency, he was the Second Director General of this agency.
References
2019 establishments in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Government agencies of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi intelligence agencies
Government agencies established in 2019
Law enforcement in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Docs%20at%20Home | Hot Docs at Home is a Canadian television programming block, which premiered April 16, 2020 on CBC Television. Introduced as a special series during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the series aired several feature documentary films that had been scheduled to premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival before its postponement. The films aired on CBC Television at 8 p.m. EST on Thursdays and on the CBC's Documentary Channel later the same evening, and were made available for streaming on the CBC Gem platform.
During the same period, the Documentary Channel also aired a number of older documentary films which were screened at past editions of the Hot Docs festival.
Several of the films broadcast on the series received Canadian Screen Award nominations in television documentary categories at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, with 9/11 Kids winning the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political documentary.
Schedule
Films broadcast on the series were:
April 16: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art - Barry Avrich
April 23: 9/11 Kids - Elizabeth St. Phillip
April 30: Finding Sally - Tamara Mariam Dawit
May 7: Meat the Future - Liz Marshall
May 14: They Call Me Dr. Miami - Jean-Simon Chartier
May 21: Influence - Richard Poplak and Diana Neille
May 28: The Walrus and the Whistleblower - Nathalie Bibeau
References
2020 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian documentary television series
Canadian motion picture television series
CBC Television original programming
Television series impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television programming blocks in Canada
2020 Canadian television series endings
2020s Canadian anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Masters | Fire Masters is a Canadian cooking competition television series that began airing simultaneously on Food Network Canada in Canada and Cooking Channel in the United States on July 6, 2019. The show is presented by chef Dylan Benoit, and it features three barbecue chefs competing in three rounds, where the winner of the second round wins a Napoleon portable barbecue grill and then competes against one of the three judges in the final round for a prize of $10,000.
Fire Masters was initially supposed to air for only one season; but a second season began airing on December 21, 2019.
As of August 2020 there have been three seasons of the show.
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Notes
References
External links
2010s Canadian cooking television series
2019 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian cooking television series
Cooking Channel original programming
Cooking competitions in Canada
English-language television shows
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Reality cooking competition television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20Adolfo%20Infante | Gustavo Adolfo "El chichis" Infante Seañez (born April 14, 1965) is a Mexican TV host, best known for his collaborations in Grupo Imagen and the Spanish-language television network Univision. He was the host for De Primera Mano and previously hosted Sale el Sol's entertainment-segment Pajaros en el Alambre.
References
1965 births
Living people
Mexican television journalists
Mexican journalists
Television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positiv | Positiv is an American Christian television network owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It mainly consists of a lineup of Christian films, varying between smaller independent studio productions and major Hollywood studio productions, as well as some secular, family-friendly films from major film studios.
Positiv is carried over-the-air on digital subchannels of TBN owned-and-operated and affiliated stations nationwide, usually on that station's fifth subchannel. Positiv is also available on pay television providers as well as on select digital streaming platforms like Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV that offer TBN's six U.S. networks. Positiv is also available worldwide, like in Australia on FaithStream TV.
History
Positiv launched on January 26, 2020, replacing JUCE TV in its channel allotments.
References
External links
English-language television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strange%20Logic%20of%20Random%20Graphs | The Strange Logic of Random Graphs is a book on zero-one laws for random graphs. It was written by Joel Spencer and published in 2001 by Springer-Verlag as volume 22 of their book series Algorithms and Combinatorics.
Topics
The random graphs of the book are generated from the Erdős–Rényi–Gilbert model in which vertices are given and a random choice is made whether to connect each pair of vertices by an edge, independently for each pair, with probability of making a connection. A zero-one law is a theorem stating that, for certain properties of graphs, and for certain choices of ,
the probability of generating a graph with the property tends to zero or one in the limit as goes to infinity.
A fundamental result in this area, proved independently by Glebskiĭ et al. and by Ronald Fagin, is that there is a zero-one law for for every property that can be described in the first-order logic of graphs. Moreover, the limiting probability is one if and only if the infinite Rado graph has the property. For instance, a random graph in this model contains a triangle with probability tending to one; it contains a universal vertex with probability tending to zero. For other choices of , other outcomes can occur.
For instance, the limiting probability of containing a triangle is between 0 and 1 when for a constant ; it tends to 0 for smaller choices of and to 1 for larger choices. The function is said to be a threshold for the property of containing a triangle, meaning that it separates the values of with limiting probability 0 from the values with limiting probability 1.
The main result of the book (proved by Spencer with Saharon Shelah) is that irrational powers of are never threshold functions. That is, whenever is an irrational number, there is a zero-one law for the first-order properties of the random graphs . A key tool in the proof is the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game.
Audience and reception
Although it is essentially the proof of a single theorem, aimed at specialists in the area, the book is written in a readable style that introduces the reader to many important topics in finite model theory and the theory of random graphs. Reviewer Valentin Kolchin, himself the author of another book on random graphs, writes that the book is "self-contained, easily read, and is distinguished by elegant writing", recommending it to probability theorists and logicians. Reviewer Alessandro Berarducci calls the book "beautifully written" and its subject "fascinating".
References
Random graphs
Finite model theory
Mathematics books
2001 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scikit-multiflow | scikit-mutliflow (also known as skmultiflow) is a free and open source software machine learning library for multi-output/multi-label and stream data written in Python.
Overview
scikit-multiflow allows to easily design and run experiments and to extend existing stream learning algorithms. It features a collection of classification, regression, concept drift detection and anomaly detection algorithms. It also includes a set of data stream generators and evaluators. scikit-multiflow is designed to interoperate with Python's numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and SciPy and is compatible with Jupyter Notebooks.
Implementation
The scikit-multiflow library is implemented under the open research principles and is currently distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license. scikit-multiflow is mainly written in Python, and some core elements are written in Cython for performance. scikit-multiflow integrates with other Python libraries such as Matplotlib for plotting, scikit-learn for incremental learning methods compatible with the stream learning setting, Pandas for data manipulation, Numpy and SciPy.
Components
The scikit-multiflow is composed of the following sub-packages:
anomaly_detection: anomaly detection methods.
data: data stream methods including methods for batch-to-stream conversion and generators.
drift_detection: methods for concept drift detection.
evaluation: evaluation methods for stream learning.
lazy: methods in which generalisation of the training data is delayed until a query is received, i.e., neighbours-based methods such as kNN.
meta: meta learning (also known as ensemble) methods.
neural_networks: methods based on neural networks.
prototype: prototype-based learning methods.
rules: rule-based learning methods.
transform: perform data transformations.
trees: tree-based methods, e.g. Hoeffding Trees which are a type of Decision Tree for data streams.
History
scikit-multiflow started as a collaboration between researchers at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and École Polytechnique. Development is currently carried by the University of Waikato, Télécom Paris, École Polytechnique and the open research community.
See also
Massive Online Analysis (MOA)
MEKA
References
External links
GitHub repository
Free statistical software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Data mining and machine learning software
Free software programmed in Python |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Degree%20College%20Phool%20Nagar | Government Associate College Phool Nagar is located in Phool Nagar, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established on 1 September 1974 and offers courses in mathematics, sciences, computer science, languages and history. A library was established in the college on 1 September 1989. The college was nationalized during the government of Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Principal and vice principal
The current principal of the college is Rao Abdul Waheed Tabish (2017 to onwards). The vice principal is Abdul Ghani.
Departments
Following is the details of departments in Govt. Degree College Phool Nagar.
Department Of Mathematics
CTI
Department Of Statistics
Professor Mudassar Hussain (M.Phil Statistics)
Department Of Chemistry
Professor Usman Arshad (M.Phil Chemistry)
Department Of Biology
CTI
Department Of Physics
Professor Munir Ahmed (M.Phil Physics)
Department Of Psychology
Professor Abdul Waheed Tabish (M.Phil Psychology)
Department Of Islamiat
Professor Muhammad Zikriya M.Phil(Islamiat), PhD Scholar, MA(Education), MA(Arabic)
Dr.Muhammad Mansha Tayyab Ph.D Islamic Studies ,M.A (Arabic)
Department Of Urdu
Professor Rao Akbar Ali M.Phil(Urdu)
Department Of Education
CTI
Department Of English
Professor Habibullah
Naveed Ahmed
Department Of History
Professor Saleem Akhtar MA(Political Science)
Department Of Political Science
CTI
Department Of Sociology
CTI
Department Of Arabic
Professor Dr. Hafiz Abdul Ghani PhD(Islamiat)
Department Of Physical Education
Ali Yousaf
Department Of Economics
Professor Atif Javaid Rao M.Phil(Economics)
Professor Fahad Iqbal MA(Economics)
Department Of Library Science
Janaab Zahid Nawab MA(Library Science)
Teaching Subjects For Examination Of Intermediate
Compulsory Subjects:-
1- Urdu 2- English 3-Islamiat(Compulsory) 4- Pakistan Studies
Elective Subjects:-
Pre-Medical Group:-
1- Chemistry 2- Physics 3- Biology
Pre-Engineering Group
1- Chemistry 2- Physics 3- Mathematic
ICS
You have to select one of the following groups
G-1 Physics, Computer Science, Mathematic
G-2 Economics, Computer Science, Mathematic
G-3 Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematic
General Science Group:-
You have to select one of the following groups
G-1 Economica, Statistics, Mathematics
G-2 Physics, Statistics, Mathematics
I.Com:-
Accounting, Principle of Economics, Principle of Commerce, Business Math
Humanities Group:-
You have to select one of the following groups
G-1 Psychology, Sociology, Economics, History of Pakistan
G-2 Physical Education, Civics, Education
G-3 Library Science, Arabic, Islamiyat (Elective)
See also
Superior Group of Colleges
Punjab Group of Colleges
References
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Scho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCRT | MCRT may refer to:
Mass Central Rail Trail
The fictional Major Case Response Team on NCIS (TV series)
Monte Carlo ray tracing, a computer graphics rendering technique more commonly known as path tracing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20%28Iceland%29 | Nova, stylised as NOVA, is an Icelandic telecommunications company that began operations on December 1, 2007. Nova owns and operates its own 3G/4G/5G mobile network and offers FTTH fibre internet services through bit-stream access.
Nova ehf. was established in May 2006. At the end of March 2007, Nova received a 3G operating license and then officially opened on December 1, 2007. On April 4, 2013, Nova launched 4G/LTE service, the first for an Icelandic telephone company. On the 5th of May 2020 (05.05.2020), Nova launched its 5G network, again a first for Iceland. Nova's initial growth is attributed to its offer of free calls and SMS between its own subscribers, popular with younger consumers. Nova is the 2nd largest mobile phone company in Iceland with 32.9% market share in 2020 according to Electronic Communications Office of Iceland.
Nova was awarded the 'Marketing Company of the Year' in 2009 and 2014.
Distribution
Nova operates its own 3G, 4G and 5G mobile and network networks, which covers about 95% of the population. But Vodafone and Nova also have a contract for sharing each other's mobile networks. The agreement means that Vodafone will have access to Nova's new third-generation mobile network (3G) and Nova will have access to Vodafone's GSM mobile network. By the end of 2011, users had reached 100,000, reaching 156,000 in 2020.
Advertising campaigns
Nova has made several advertisements that have generated a lot of discussion. In 2020 an advertisement campaign with the slogan "Allir úr" ("Everyone out [of your clothes]") featured several naked people wearing smartwatches doing normal activities like walking, running, swimming and dancing. The message behind the advertisement was to by using a smartwatch you would be able to leave your phone behind, improving your mental health. They also wanted to talk about body positivity, saying "we are of all kinds of shapes and sizes" and that there's nothing to be ashamed of. The advertisement was shared on the social media platform Reddit where it got 30,000 upvotes and 3,000 comments, it was also shared on the video hosting platform Vimeo where it got 730 thousand views.
In 2023 an advertising campaign with the slogan "Elskum öll" ("Love everyone") premiered that showed multiple couples of many different sexualities, gender identities, ethnicities and abilities kissing, urging people to love everyone regardless of sexuality, gender identity or ethnicity. Playing in the background was the song Þú fullkomnar mig ("You complete me") by Sálin hans Jóns míns played by the band Björtum sveiflum.
See also
Síminn
Vodafone
Telecommunications in Iceland
Internet in Iceland
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Iceland
Internet service providers of Iceland
Companies based in Reykjavík
Telecommunications companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boys%20from%20Boise%20%28TV%20program%29 | The Boys from Boise was a television special that aired on the DuMont Network on September 28, 1944, on its New York City affiliate WABD. The special, a musical written and composed by Sam Medoff, was the first such production ever commissioned for television.
Synopsis
In Boise, Idaho, several showgirls get stranded on a ranch; willing to return home, they decide to raise money by becoming cowgirls. While doing so, they have to put up with its wicked owner, who manipulates mortgages and controls a posse of rustlers. While on the search for a boyfriend, the ranch's manager—a female undercover agent for the FBI—is investigating the owner's exploits.
Cast
Musical numbers
Though recordings and scores are scarce, the list of musical numbers is as follows:
Girls of the 8-to-the-Bar-X-Ranch
I’ll Take the Trail to You
Sunset Trail
That Certain Light in your Eyes
Chiki Chiquita
Thousand Mile Shirt
It’s a Mystery to Me
Broken Hearted Blues
Come Up and See Me Sometime
You’ll Put Your Brand on My Heart
Rodeo
Western Omelet
I’m Just a Homebody
Star-Spangled Serenade
Development and production
The DuMont Network (WABD) was a station based in New York and was one of the cardinal networks when it comes to establishing television into the monolith of arts and sciences it is today. It is often regarded by experts as the first original televised musical, though it is not often viewed as the start of the trend (usually people will point to the iconic performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella in 1957 as the beginning of the live television musical trend).
DuMont broadcast The Boys from Boise at a time when less than 1 percent of Americans had a television set in their households, preceding iconic pioneers such as the Ed Sullivan Show and I Love Lucy.
The program was produced by the Charles M. Storm Company, and sponsored by Esquire magazine on its original airing.<ref name="televiser">{{cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=Raymond E. |title=Story of Video's 2-hr Musical -- 'Boys from Boise |journal=Televiser |date=Winter 1945 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=24–25 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Televiser/Televiser-1945-Winter.pdf#page=26}}</ref> Charles M. Storm's representatives initially planned to use dancers from Broadway shows, but the need for closeups presented a problem. After 75 dancers failed to qualify through auditions because they lacked the right "combination of grace and beauty", the producers turned to Conover models. The models who were selected were taught the necessary dancing skills. The 45 women joined five men to compose the program's cast.
Reception
On October 7, 1944, Lou Frankel of Billboard deemed The Boys from Boise "a worthy experiment" and "an important and expensive first". The following day in The New York Times'', Jack Gould described the performance as "entirely praiseworthy because it patently represented an appreciable investment in time and money." He also said, "It did exemplify the diff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20National%20Seismic%20Network | The Irish National Seismic Network is a network of six permanent seismic sensors in Ireland, run by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Geological Survey Ireland.
Despite Ireland being one of the seismically quietest places on the planet, there is still a measurable amount of seismic activity. Given the size of the network, the smallest earthquakes that can be detected are about 1.0 on the Richter scale, which would not be felt by people. Donegal, Wexford and the Irish Sea are the most seismically active parts of Ireland, but the strongest seismic events are in the Atlantic.
DIAS hopes to add another sensor about 3 km below the Atlantic to measure seismic events to the west of Ireland.
Valentia Observatory is part of the network and is the oldest seismic recording station in Ireland, taking measurements since 1962.
References
External links
Irish National Seismic Network home page
Live Seismograms at INSN
Catalogue of Local Earthquakes at INSN
Recent Earthquakes at INSN
EI: Irish National Seismic Network at International Federation of Digital Seismic Networks
Geology of the Republic of Ireland
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects
Seismic networks
Environment of the Republic of Ireland
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%20Benoit | Dylan Benoit is a Canadian-born chef who currently hosts the Food Network Canada/Cooking Channel television series Fire Masters.
Early life and education
Benoit was born in Scarborough, Ontario; but his family relocated to Midhurst before eventually settling in Barrie. After attending St. Joseph's High School, he attended George Brown College and graduated with a degree in culinary arts.
Personal life
Benoit worked under chef Mark McEwan at ONE restaurant prior to becoming a private chef. He currently hosts the Food Network Canada/Cooking Channel television series Fire Masters. Since 2010, Benoit has resided in the Cayman Islands.
References
External links
1980s births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Canadian television chefs
Living people
People from Scarborough, Toronto
Canadian male chefs
Chefs from Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Go%20Go%20Squid%21%20characters | This is a list of characters from the 2019 Chinese television series Go Go Squid!.
Main cast
Tong Nian
Portrayed by Yang Zi a talented computer major who is also a popular online singer. She is optimistic, cheerful, soft, and cute. She is very obedient, attentive, and very sensible. She is attending the youth class at the university and has the same high IQ as the male lead Han Shangyan. After she fell in love with Han Shangyan at first sight, she chose to take the initiative to approach each other and bravely pursue love, but she did not do so blindly. Although Tong Nian loved Han Shangyan very much, she couldn't extricate herself without falling in love and have her own dreams and pursuits.
Han Shangyan/Gun
Portrayed by Li Xian a computer genius, a high-cold e-sports idol. Han is a legend in the e-sports world. He has climbed to the top, has fallen through the trough, and has experienced strong winds and waves. He was originally the only investor and main member of the Solo team. Has won more than ten international championships, including multiple personal world rankings, the most dominant player with two MVP. After exiting the team, he established the K & K club. His dream is to take the club's young players to attack the world champion of cybersecurity CTF competitions. Other than that, he has nothing else in his eyes. In the eyes of his teammates, he is "the boss who is not close to women".
He is persistent in his dreams and sticks to his beliefs, but he has some physical deficiencies in many of the outside world’s warmth and coldness. Maintaining a sense of vigilance and distance, this has a great relationship with his native family growing environment. Han Shangyan grew up with his grandfather and stepmother. His parents are deceased. His mother died giving birth to him. His father died a few years after remarriage, leaving his stepmother to bring him up (episode 13). Although he grew up with his grandfather, although he gained a lot of love, the relationship was ambivalent, fraught with misunderstanding. Parents' feelings are different. Father's words and lessons, and the company of his mother, can make a person's character grow fully, and Han Shangyan's childhood lacked these precious things. Like a prince of ice, he is very good at many things. Maintaining indifference and vigilance, he developed a meticulous and serious attitude towards life. And this is exactly what his family left him with. His “don’t care” about anything other than work is in stark contrast to his fanatical pursuit of career ideals; privately, he secretly covers the players’ quilts and cares about their lives. He has fascinated a lot of girls, but he has not been interested in dating.
Supporting cast
Wu Bai/DT, portrayed by Hu Yitian, is Han's cousin. He is the current top CTF player known as DT and part of the K&K team. Wu Bai is a very quiet guy who likes to be alone but highly dependable. He has a liking for Ai Qing since high school. He is the number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20Improved%20Numerical%20Differential%20Analyzer | The Systems Improved Numerical Differential Analyzer (acronym SINDA) is a commercially available software system developed by C&R Technologies that solves resistor-capacitor (R-C) network representations of physical problems governed by diffusion equations. The software was originally designed as a general thermal analyzer for the spacecraft and launch vehicle thermal community and is currently an integral part of the Thermal Desktop plugin for AutoCAD.
References
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Go%20Go%20Squid%21%20episodes | Go Go Squid! () is a 2019 Chinese television series starring Yang Zi and Li Xian The series is about how Tong Nian, a talented computer major who is also a popular online singer and Han Shangyan, a cybersecurity professional fall in love, support each other and strive to win prizes in international cybersecurity competitions.
Episodes
Notes
References
Lists of Chinese television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node2vec | node2vec is an algorithm to generate vector representations of nodes on a graph. The node2vec framework learns low-dimensional representations for nodes in a graph through the use of random walks through a graph starting at a target node. It is useful for a variety of machine learning applications. Besides reducing the engineering effort, representations learned by the algorithm lead to greater predictive power. node2vec follows the intuition that random walks through a graph can be treated like sentences in a corpus. Each node in a graph is treated like an individual word, and a random walk is treated as a sentence. By feeding these "sentences" into a skip-gram, or by using the continuous bag of words model paths found by random walks can be treated as sentences, and traditional data-mining techniques for documents can be used. The algorithm generalizes prior work which is based on rigid notions of network neighborhoods, and argues that the added flexibility in exploring neighborhoods is the key to learning richer representations of nodes in graphs.
The algorithm is considered one of the best graph classifiers.
See also
Struc2vec
Graph Neural Network
References
Unsupervised learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Dever | Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.
Education
Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville. Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics. She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant.
Book
With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).
Recognition
In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Louisville alumni
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkey%20mobile%20virtual%20network%20operators | Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Turkey lease wireless telephone and data spectrum from three major carriers Türk Telekom, Turkcell and Vodafone for resale.
Active operators
Defunct and merged operators
See also
Mobile virtual network operator
List of mobile network operators of Europe#Turkey
References
Mobile virtual network operators
Lists of mobile phone companies
Telecommunications lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20of%20Chefs | Wall of Chefs is a Canadian reality television series, which premiered February 3, 2020 on Food Network. Hosted by Noah Cappe, the series features four amateur home chefs per episode competing in culinary challenges, judged by a rotating panel featuring some of Canada's most prominent chefs and restaurateurs. After each round, one of the competitors is eliminated, and the winner of the episode is awarded $10,000.
The series features three rounds of challenges: "Crowd-Pleaser", where all four competitors are asked to prepare their own most popular dish; "Chef's Fridge", in which the three remaining competitors are challenged to create a dish using three ingredients revealed by one of the professional chefs as staple ingredients in their own fridges; and "Restaurant-Worthy", in which the two finalists are challenged to create a restaurant-calibre dish inspired by one of the judges' own signature dishes.
Twelve chefs appear as the "Wall of Chefs" on each episode, with four of them judging each round before all of the chefs vote on the final winner of the episode. A total of 33 chefs appeared overall throughout the first season of the series, including Hugh Acheson, Suzanne Barr, Massimo Capra, Alex Chen, Lynn Crawford, Christine Cushing, Rob Feenie, Rob Gentile, Susur Lee, Nick Liu, Dale MacKay, Mark McEwan and Todd Perrin.
The series is produced by Insight Productions. It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Reality/Competition Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.
Episodes
References
2020 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian cooking television series
2020s Canadian reality television series
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Cooking competitions in Canada
Television series by Insight Productions
Reality cooking competition television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambirajan%20Seshadri | Nambirajan Seshadri is a professor of practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
Education
Seshadri completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now called as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), India, in 1982. He obtained his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, in 1984 and 1986 respectively.
Career
After completing his PhD degree, Seshadri worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as Member of Technical Staff and as Head of Communications Research at AT&T Shannon Labs for more than 13 years. After that, he worked in Broadcom for 16 years. In Broadcom, he served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Mobile and Wireless Business from 1999 to 2014 and Senior Vice President and CTO of Broadband and Connectivity Group from 2015 to 2016.
Awards
He is a Fellow of IEEE, for contributions to theory and practice of reliable communications over wireless channels. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Distinguished alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli and holds about 200 patents. He is a co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory best paper Award. In 2018, he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
References
American people of Indian descent
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists at Bell Labs
Broadcom
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
University of California, San Diego faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses%20in%20Geneva | The Geneva bus network is a network of buses forming the core element of the public transport system in Geneva, Switzerland. It is operated by Transports Publics Genevois (TPG), and is supplemented by the Geneva trolleybus system and the Geneva trams.
Transport in Geneva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional-change%20intrinsic%20time | Directional-change intrinsic time is an event-based operator to dissect a data series into a sequence of alternating trends of defined size .
The directional-change intrinsic time operator was developed for the analysis of financial market data series. It is an alternative methodology to the concept of continuous time. Directional-change intrinsic time operator dissects a data series into a set of drawups and drawdowns or up and down trends that alternate with each other. An established trend comes to an end as soon as a trend reversal is observed. A price move that extends a trend is called overshoot and leads to new price extremes.
Figure 1 provides an example of a price curve dissected by the directional change intrinsic time operator.
The frequency of directional-change intrinsic events maps (1) the volatility of price changes conditional to (2) the selected threshold . The stochastic nature of the underlying process is mirrored in the non-equal number of intrinsic events observed over equal periods of physical time.
Directional-change intrinsic time operator is a noise filtering technique. It identifies regime shifts, when trend changes of a particular size occur and hides price fluctuations that are smaller than the threshold .
Application
The directional-change intrinsic time operator was used to analyze high frequency foreign exchange market data and has led to the discovery of a large set of scaling laws that have not been previously observed. The scaling laws identify properties of the underlying data series, such as the size of the expected price overshoot after an intrinsic time event or the number of expected directional-changes within a physical time interval or price threshold. For example, a scaling relating the expected number of directional-changes observed over the fixed period to the size of the threshold :
,
where and are the scaling law coefficients.
Other applications of the directional-change intrinsic time in finance include:
trading strategy characterised by the annual Sharpe ratio 3.04
tools designed to monitor liquidity at multiple trend scales.
The methodology can also be used for applications beyond economics and finance. It can be applied to other scientific domains and opens a new avenue of research in the area of BigData.
References
Text in this draft was copied from , which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Data analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCMC%20Health%20System | LCMC Health System (formerly known as Louisiana Children's Medical Center) is a nonprofit network of healthcare providers in Southern Louisiana, based out of New Orleans. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. LCMC Health's mission is to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. LCMC Health, along with Ochsner, dominate the Louisiana health and hospital space.
Along with their 6 hospitals and physicians offices, LCMC Health operates a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area.
History
Children's Hospital New Orleans and Touro Infirmary merged into one hospital system in 2009. Louisiana Children's Medical Center, the parent of Children's Hospital, became the parent to both hospitals. Louisiana Children's Medical Center was later renamed LCMC Health to help reflect that the network is not only for children.
In December 2012, it was announced that LSU Health Systems would transfer the management of ILH to Louisiana Children's Medical Center, a non-profit corporation that manages Children's Hospital and Touro Infirmary. The plan also called for LCMC Health to acquire University Medical Center Management Corporation (UMCMC), a non profit corporation originally established to manage and operate the University Medical Center, a $1.1 billion facility that opened on August 1, 2015. ILH's transition from public to private management took place in June 2013.
In November 2013, LCMC Health signed a letter of intent to operate under construction New Orleans East Hospital. The hospital was planned to cost about $130 million, and consist of 80-beds.
The State of Louisiana entered into a contract with LCMC Health to operate and run the newly constructed University Medical Center, New Orleans. The 1.1 billion dollar hospital opened on August 1, 2015 as a replacement for Charity Hospital and University Hospital. University Medical Center New Orleans is affiliated with the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and Tulane University School of Medicine. The hospital is managed by LCMC Health, a private not-for-profit hospital system.
On October 1, 2015 LCMC Health took over operations of West Jefferson Medical Center as part of a three-year lease from the government of Jefferson Parish. Lease papers were exchanged, and LCMC Health wired Jefferson Parish the lease's $200 million up-front payment.
In June 2019 financially unstable East Jefferson General Hospital's board of directors entered into a memorandum of understanding with LCMC Health aimed at exploring a possible partnership. In February 2020 EJGH officials were forced to sell the hospital to LCMC Health at a cost of $90 million to avoid going into bankruptcy. LCMC Health plans to pump over $100 million into the hospital in mainly infrastructure upgrades.
In early 2020 LCMC Health tightened visitor restrictions across all of their hospitals to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 within their hospitals. Restrictions in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20the%20Time | is the 13th single by Japanese rock band TM Network, released on March 5, 1988 under Epic Records. Written by Mitsuko Komuro and Tetsuya Komuro, the song was used as the ending theme of the 1988 mecha anime film Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
The single peaked at No. 4 on Oricon's singles chart. It was nominated for the Gold Award at the 30th Japan Record Awards.
In 2018, the song was ranked No. 4 on NHK's .
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Mitsuko Komuro; all music is composed and arranged by Tetsuya Komuro.
Chart position
Luna Sea version
Japanese rock band Luna Sea covered the song as the third opening theme of the 2019 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin: Advent of the Red Comet. Released digitally through Universal J on September 6, 2019, it peaked at number 79 on Billboard Japans Japan Hot 100, but reached number 15 on their Hot Animation chart, which tracks anime and video game music. The song was also later included in a limited edition of their album Cross.
Track listing
Chart position
Other cover versions
Chie Nakamura covered the song on the 2008 various artists album Hyakka Seiren: Josei Seiyū-hen - 2.
Starving Trancer feat. Hideki covered the song on the 2009 various artists album Exit Trance Presents Speed: Anime Trance Bitter.
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Aimer covered the song as a bonus track in the 2016 soundtrack album Mobile Suit Gundam RE:0096 Complete Best (Limited Edition).
Hiroko Moriguchi covered the song on her 2019 album Gundam Song Covers. She re-recorded the song with TM Network on her 2022 album Gundam Song Covers 3.
Nami Tamaki covered the song for the 2023 pachinko game P-Fever Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.
References
External links
1988 singles
1988 songs
2019 singles
Gundam songs
Japanese-language songs
Songs written by Tetsuya Komuro
Epic Records singles
Luna Sea songs
Universal Music Japan singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201986 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1986.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1986 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Hersom | Bobby Hersom (born 1929 in Cheshire, England) is a British mathematician and computer scientist known for her early work on computers at Elliott Brothers, Hatfield Polytechnic, and the Rothamstead Agricultural Research Station.
Life
Hersom was born Roberta Lewis in Cheshire, England, the oldest of three children. She earned a maths degree from the University of Cambridge in 1950. She then earned a teaching degree in 1951. She was a member of The Round, an English Country Dance Club while at Cambridge.
She married Ed Hersom, who she met through work, in 1954.
Her son Colin also attended Cambridge and was a mathematician and her daughter was a farmer. She regretted having to quit her work as a computer scientist after her first child was born, which meant she could only work freelance.
Her husband died in 2002.
Career
After earning her teaching degree, Hersom worked as a teacher, but realized she didn't enjoy that work.
She started working in the Theory Division at Elliott Brothers in Borehamwood, UK, in 1953. There she wrote software programs for Nicholas, a research computer. Some of the software she developed processed radar data. In 1954, she left that job to start her family.
Hersom then worked for Rothamstead for 11 years. She later worked as a consultant for Hatfield Polytechnic, along with her husband. She worked there until retirement.
References
1929 births
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
British women mathematicians
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Maria%20Hospital | The Regina Maria Hospital in Cluj-Napoca was opened in 2019.
It is owned and operated by the private Regina Maria Health Network and cost €18 million. The building is on seven levels. There are eight medical departments and six surgical specialties. The network has 35,000 health insurance subscribers in Cluj.
Medstor has provided 30 mobile module carts which are designed to help clinicians deliver treatment at the point of care.
The hospital has a self-check-in service, the first of its kind in Romania. The software also gives online access to test results.
References
Hospitals in Romania
Buildings and structures in Cluj-Napoca
2019 establishments in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Maria%20Health%20Network | The Regina Maria Health Network is a private healthcare service in Romania founded in 1995. It is owned by Mid Europa Partners who put it up for sale in 2019 valued at more than €300 million, with reported annual revenues of around €150 million and an operating profit of €25 million.
It owns the Regina Maria Hospital in Cluj-Napoca which opened in 2019.
It is the second largest network on the Romanian private healthcare market with more than 6,000 employees and collaborators in 64 medical centers in the country. It has an active programme of taking over clinics and laboratories.
Wargha Enayati, a cardiologist founded the business. He says he is focussed on elderly care, a neglected area in Romania.
References
Medical and health organizations based in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aude%20Billard | Aude G. Billard (born c. August 6, 1971) is a Swiss physicist in the fields of machine learning and human-robot interactions. As a full professor at the School of Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Billard’s research focuses on applying machine learning to support robot learning through human guidance. Billard’s work on human-robot interactions has been recognized numerous times by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and she currently holds a leadership position on the executive committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) as the vice president of publication activities.
Early life and education
Billard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on August 6, 1971. She stayed in Switzerland and pursued a Bachelor of Science in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL). After graduating in 1994, Billard stayed at EPFL for one more year to complete her Master of Science in physics. During her time at EPFL, she specialized in Particle Physics and conducted research at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN).
After completing her degrees at EPFL, Billard pursued further education at the University of Edinburgh in the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Billard first completed another Masters of Science in 1996, this time in Knowledge Based Systems, and then continued at the University of Edinburgh completing her PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Billard completed her PhD in 1998 and then moved back to Switzerland to pursue her postdoctoral studies at EPFL and The Swiss Artificial Intelligence Lab (IDSIA or Instituto Dalle Molle di Syudi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale) until 1999.
Imitative learning in social robots
During her master's degree at the University of Edinburgh, Billard focused on learning how to build Knowledge-Based Systems, essentially computer programs that are built on fundamental frames, concepts, and logical assertions from the real world but with the ability to perform inferences and derive new knowledge through reasoning systems. Billard’s Master’s thesis, titled “Allo Kazam, do You Follow Me? or Learning to Speak Through Imitation for Social Robots”, focused on the goal of building a system that could develop communication abilities. She developed a system that was capable of learning simple syntactical language and she used two mobile and autonomous robots, acting as teacher and student, to implement the architecture. With an emphasis on simplicity and generalizability, Billard was able to ensure that neither specificities about the environment nor the particular robotic agent were necessary for success of the architecture in practice.
During her graduate work, Billard continued to use the teacher-learner situation as an environment with which to develop robots with social communication abilities. Billard tested her novel learning architecture and found that learning through imitation can be achieved with simple comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N170%20highway | National Route 170 (N170) is a national secondary road of the Philippine highway network. It passes through the northern part of Metro Manila, traversing through the cities of Quezon City, Manila, and Pasay.
Route description
Most of the route in the northern part follows the alignment of Radial Road 7 (R-7) of Manila's arterial road network.
Based on the designation Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), N170 consists of the following segments, from north to south:
In Quezon City
N170 commences at its intersection with N127 in Novaliches, Quezon City as Commonwealth Avenue. It is a major highway with 6 to 12 lanes and consequently it is the widest segment of the Philippines highway network.
Due to the high incidence of road accidents, most especially those involving overspeeding, it has earned its notorious nickname the "Killer Highway." A speed limit of 60 km/h (37 mph) has been enforced on the said highway to reduce the rate of accidents.
The Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 7 (MRT-7) has been in construction since 2016, including the span of the elevated railway network at Regalado Highway. The said mass transit system, which will connect to the Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT) and the North Avenue Grand Central Station, is expected to ease the flow of traffic along the avenue. Due to a recent delay involving the proposed location of the system's depot in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (which has been moved to Barangay Lagro, Quezon City), the system's completion and operations will start, albeit partially, in 2021.
Commonwealth Avenue ends in Diliman, and N170 follows the route of Elliptical Road, an 8-lane roundabout that surrounds the Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC). Named after its elliptical shape, the Elliptical Road's traffic flow is by counterclockwise direction.
After leaving Elliptical Road, the route follows Quezon Avenue, a major intra-city highway of Quezon City named after Manuel L. Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines. Beginning at Elliptical Road and ending at the Welcome Rotonda near the Quezon City–Manila boundary, it has 6 to 14 lanes and is one of the city's most comfortable roads, lined with palm trees that serve as its median. Many government and commercial buildings line the road.
In northern Manila
After leaving the Welcome Rotonda, N170 enters the City of Manila, the nation's capital, as España Boulevard. It is a major highway in the district of Sampaloc that is named after Spain, which ruled the Philippines for 333 years, from 1565 up to 1898. It is an arterial road with eight lanes, four per direction, that commences at Welcome Rotonda and ends at the intersection of Nicanor Reyes Street (formerly Morayta) and Lerma Streets. The Nicanor B. Reyes Street leads to Recto Avenue, while Lerma Street leads to Quezon Boulevard. The University of Santo Tomas (UST) campus lies on this segment of N170.
N170 follows Lerma Street, which links España Boulevard and Quezon Boulevard. After leaving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hidden%20Room%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series geared mainly towards women, which aired on the Lifetime cable network for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in a hardship, but with a dark Twilight Zone-ish twist. Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role.
The first season was hosted by a mysterious woman (Mimi Kuzyk) who spoke cryptically. She was credited only as the woman in the hidden room. The second season had no host and in 1993, when Lifetime aired repeats of some first-season episodes, the scenes with the host were edited out.
Episodes
Season 1 (1991)
Season 2 (1993)
References
External links
1991 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
English-language television shows
1990s American anthology television series
1990s American horror television series
Lifetime (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCR%20Corporation | Human Computing Resources Corporation, later HCR Corporation, was a Canadian software company that worked on the Unix operating system and system software and business applications for it. Founded in 1976, it was based in Toronto.
By a description of one of its founders, HCR was a "UNIX contract R&D and technology development and marketing firm." The company was most known for its extensive knowledge of Unix, for porting Unix to new hardware platforms, for developing compilers as part of the porting work, and for consulting and product development work on Unix. It was a pioneer in the Unix industry and by one account was the second firm ever to commercially support Unix. By 1990 HCR was a prominent player in the Canadian Unix scene.
HCR was acquired by the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) in 1990. It became the subsidiary SCO Canada, Inc., which existed until 1996 when the Toronto offices were closed.
Origins at the University of Toronto
Human Computing Resources was founded in 1976 by several computer scientists at, and graduates of, the University of Toronto, with the aim of creating computer graphics and systems software. The company was privately held. Foremost among these co-founders was Ronald Baecker, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto and a significant figure and pioneer in the field of human–computer interaction. Baecker served as president of the new firm.
Another co-founder was Michael Tilson, who as a graduate student of Baecker's at the University of Toronto during the mid-1970s was one of the early pioneers of Unix adoption in Canada.
An additional co-founder was David Tilbrook, a student of Baecker's who had developed the interactive NewsWhole pagination system for The Globe and Mail, which became an early predecessor to desktop publishing.
Other Baecker students who later became well known in the Unix world included Rob Pike and Tom Duff, although neither worked at HCR.
Formative years
Consulting and contracting
The new company's offices were on St. Mary Street, in a mid-century modern building just off Yonge Street in the Bay Street Corridor section of Toronto.
Human Computing Resources initially focused on information technology consulting and contract programming jobs. An early customer for contract work was IBM.
But it also tried to establish a product business, with an effort underway by 1977 to try to market the NewsWhole newspaper layout product. Despite newspapers seeing demonstrations of the product and liking it, they were unwilling to commit their businesses to a product from an unproven, very small software business. In 1979 the NewsWhole product was dropped. As Tilson said in a 1986 interview, "The company quickly discovered that the software industry was not a bed of roses."
In 1978 Human Computing Resources began giving courses in the Toronto area on computers for personal use – the Commodore PET – and for business. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Focus is an Italian free television channel operated by Mediaset and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. Focusing on a mixture of factual and entertainment programming, the network deals with topics of natural sciences, pseudoscience and history, in partnership with the homonymous magazine.
History
Switchover Media management (2012–2013)
The channel appears at midnight on July 13, 2012 in the form of a promotional sign, replacing Doc-U: broadcasts officially begin at 8:00 on July 28.
The birth of this channel is a license agreement between Switchover Media and Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori, editors of the magazine Focus.
Discovery Italia management (2013–2018)
With the takeover of Switchover Media, on January 14, 2013 the channel goes to Discovery Italia as well as the other channels published by the same company. Among the effects of this passage are the more popular programs broadcast by other group channels such as Extreme Engineering and How It's Made.
From September 15, 2013 the channel will renew its logo and graphics, while from April 9, 2014 it will land on the platform Sky Italia on channel 418.
From January 29, 2015 the channel logo will pass to the top left, being surrounded by a red rectangle with the writing in white and the title of the program will be added to the top right only when it airs, from February 6 of same year, the Discovery logo is added, the same also applies to the other free channels.
From July 23 of the same year, he also joined the platform Tivùsat on channel 56.
Mediaset management (from 2018)
After the end of the agreement between Discovery Italia and Mondadori, on 29 April 2018, Focus ended under the Discovery management and it was replaced by Motor Trend on channel 56, a channel dedicated to engines. In addition, the programs of the old Discovery branded Focus move to DMAX.
On 14 May 2018, the channel was relaunched on channel 35 under the management of Mediaset, with the various promos and previews, instead of Italia 2 (which moved to number 120 and subsequently to 66) and the next day also returns to Tivùsat at number 60.
The new Mediaset Focus officially started on May 17 at 9.15 pm with the documentary Un anno nello spazio and from January 2, 2019 it became available again also within the platform Sky Italia to channel 414.
Programming
Aerei da combattimento
Exoplanets
Deadly 60
Deadly 60 on a mission
Un anno nello spazio
Undiscovered vistas
When Vacations Attack
A German Life
Master Engineering
Mayday
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Viaggiatori: Uno sguardo sul mondo
The State
References
External links
Mediaset television channels
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-based%20generative%20neural%20network | Energy-based generative neural networks is a class of generative models, which aim to learn explicit probability distributions of data in the form of energy-based models whose energy functions are parameterized by modern deep neural networks. Its name is due to the fact that this model can be derived from the discriminative neural networks. The parameter of the neural network in this model is trained in a generative manner by Markov chain Monte Carlo(MCMC)-based maximum likelihood estimation. The learning process follows an ''analysis by synthesis'' scheme, where within each learning iteration, the algorithm samples the synthesized examples from the current model by a gradient-based MCMC method, e.g., Langevin dynamics, and then updates the model parameters based on the difference between the training examples and the synthesized ones. This process can be interpreted as an alternating mode seeking and mode shifting process, and also has an adversarial interpretation. The first energy-based generative neural network is the generative ConvNet proposed in 2016 for image patterns, where the neural network is a convolutional neural network. The model has been generalized to various domains to learn distributions of videos, and 3D voxels. They are made more effective in their variants. They have proven useful for data generation (e.g., image synthesis, video synthesis, 3D shape synthesis, etc.), data recovery (e.g., recovering videos with missing pixels or image frames, 3D super-resolution, etc), data reconstruction (e.g., image reconstruction and linear interpolation ).
References
Neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Greif | Chen Greif is a professor and former department head of computer science at the University of British Columbia. In March 2022 he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for "contributions to scientific computing, especially in numerical linear algebra and its applications."
Education
Greif attended Tel Aviv University, earning a bachelor's degree 1991 and a master's degree in 1994 in mathematics. He continued his education at the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1998. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 1998 to 2000.
Research
His research is primarily concerning scientific computing and more specifically:
Matrix theory and analysis
Iterative solvers and preconditioning techniques for sparse linear systems
Saddle-point linear systems
Numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations
Linear algebra aspects of constrained optimization problems
Selected publication
Books
Ascher UM, Greif C, editors. A first course in numerical methods. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; 2011 June 22. Cited 166 times in Google Scholar
Articles
Golub GH, Greif C. On solving block-structured indefinite linear systems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 2003;24(6):2076-92. Cited 181 times in Google Scholar
Avron H, Sharf A, Greif C, Cohen-Or D. ℓ1-sparse reconstruction of sharp point set surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2010 Nov 5;29(5):1-2. Cited 145 times in Google Scholar
Golub GH, Greif C. An Arnoldi-type algorithm for computing page rank. BIT Numerical Mathematics. 2006 Dec 1;46(4):759-71. Cited 121 times in Google Scholar
Greif C, Schötzau D. Preconditioners for the discretized time‐harmonic Maxwell equations in mixed form. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 2007 May;14(4):281-97.Cited 114 times in Google Scholar
References
External links
Faculty website
Israeli expatriates in Canada
Living people
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Tel Aviv University alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
Israeli computer scientists
1965 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%20Notebook%20Air | The Mi Notebook Air is a portable computer introduced in 2016 by Xiaomi Corporation. There are two versions of the computer, which differ in screen size (12.5-inch and 13.5-inch) and some other hardware elements. The first 12.5-inch generation used an Intel Core M3-6Y30 microprocessor, which was later upgraded to an Intel Core m3-7Y30 microprocessor. Both models feature a 1080p screen with a back-lit keyboard.
Specifications
Operating system
The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air is configured with an OEM activated Windows 10 operating system. It supports the most recent Linux distributions, as demonstrated by the Deepin Linux Team.
Processor
The Mi Laptop Air 13.3" version comes pre-installed with the Intel® Core™ i5 processor and the 12.5" version comes with the Intel® Core™ M3 processor.
Motherboard
The motherboard installed in the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air is manufactured by Timi Personal Computing Co. Ltd.
Power management
The Mi Laptop Air uses a 7.4V/5000mAh 37Wh battery.
References
External links
Xiaomi Airdots
Netbooks
Xiaomi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Roslansky | Ryan Roslansky (born December 4, 1977 in South Lake Tahoe, California) is an American entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking website, since June 2020 stepping up from his previous position as Senior Vice President. He started with LinkedIn in 2009 and was instrumental in the $1.5 billion acquisition of Lynda.com in 2015, the largest acquisition in LinkedIn's history at that time. In 2021, he was named to Forbes CEO Next list.
Career
Roslansky left college in his sophomore year to focus full time on a company he and two roommates created. He became CEO of the company, Housing Media, and in 1999 it was acquired by USHousing.com. He went to Yahoo!, where he met and worked under Jeff Weiner for five years. After a short stint at Glam Media, Roslansky went to LinkedIn in 2009 as one of Weiner's first hires. Weiner named Roslansky his replacement as LinkedIn CEO on February 5, 2020.
LinkedIn
In June 2020, Roslansky was named CEO of LinkedIn, replacing predecessor Jeff Weiner. Ryan joined the company in May 2009 and held leadership roles in every part of LinkedIn’s business. He led the evolution of LinkedIn’s products into a global ecosystem of more than 756 million members, 57 million companies, 120 thousand schools, and 38 thousand skills. He launched several new initiatives for the company including the Influencer program (which includes Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bill Gates, among others,) and founded the editorial team which today boasts 75+ writers and editors. In 2015, Roslansky was a key part of the $1.5 billion (~$ in ) acquisition of Lynda.com, the largest acquisition in LinkedIn's history at that time.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft and Linkedin pledged to upskill 25 million workers and in 2021, has surpassed that number.
In 2021, Roslansky partnered with John Kerry on an effort to address Climate Change through a focus on job creation.
The Great Reshuffle
In 2021, Roslansky coined the term Great Reshuffle to describe talent shifts occurring through data on the LinkedIn platform.
The Path
In 2023, Roslansky launched The Path video series on LinkedIn where he interviews business leaders about their career paths.
Other interests
Roslansky is an investor and advisor to companies including Wealthfront, NerdWallet, UserTesting, Deal.com, Cricket Health, Darwin Homes, Fortella, ScoreBeyond, and more. He is also on the board of directors of Intuit, and the board of trustees of the Paley Center for Media.
References
Living people
1977 births
LinkedIn people
American technology chief executives
American company founders
21st-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople from California
Yahoo! people
People from South Lake Tahoe, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20C.%20Parkes | David C. Parkes (born 1973) is a British-American computer scientist. He is the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science and Co Faculty Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. From 2013–17, he was Area Dean for Computer Science. Parkes is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Education and academic career
Parkes was born in 1973 in Sidcup, Kent. He attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive, Cheshire, then Lincoln College, Oxford, for an M.Eng. degree in Engineering and Computer Science. Having gained the Thouron Award to the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in 2001.
Parkes worked as a research intern at the Xerox PARC, Palo Alto Research Center for summer 1997 and the IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center in the summer of 2000. In the spring of 2001 Parkes was lecturer of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He became an assistant professor of computer science at Harvard in 2001. He was awarded the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in 2005, with tenure as a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in 2008. He was later appointed the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science .
From September 2008 to January 2009 Parkes was a visiting professor of computer science at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. For Lent and Easter terms 2012 he was a distinguished visiting scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was appointed Harvard Area Dean for Computer Science (2013–17) which involved planning for the expansion of Engineering and Applied Sciences into Allston.
He is co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative 2017 and currently Co-Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Data Science Masters, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.
Research work
Parkes founded the EconCS research group within Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Known for his work on incentive engineering for computational systems, early research contributed to the design of combinatorial auctions, procedures for selling complex packages of goods. He has worked on decentralized mechanism design as well as mechanism design in dynamic environments, where resources, participants, and information local to participants vary over time to embrace the real-world uncertainty.
He served as technical advisor to CombineNet, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), 2001–2010, scientificaAdvisor to Nanigans, Inc. (Boston, MA), 2011–2017, and since 2014 has served as acting chief scientist at Nift Networks, Inc. (Boston, MA).
He a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 2019. Parkes is a council member for the Computing Community Consortium of the Computing Research Association since 2018. He chaired the ACM Special Interest Group on E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline%20Gouget | Aline Gouget Morin (born 1977) is a French mathematician and cryptographer whose works include contributions to the design of the SOSEMANUK stream cipher and Shabal hash algorithm, and methods for anonymized digital currency. She is a researcher for Gemalto, an international digital security company.
Education
Gouget completed a PhD in 2004 at the University of Caen Normandy. Her dissertation, Etude de propriétés cryptographiques des fonctions booléennes et algorithme de confusion pour le chiffrement symétrique, was advised by Claude Carlet.
Recognition
In 2017, Gouget was the winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the category for women in business and technology.
References
External links
Home page
1977 births
Living people
French cryptographers
21st-century French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
Modern cryptographers
21st-century women mathematicians
Women cryptographers
21st-century French women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Hooke | Adrian Hooke (died January 7, 2013) was an aerospace telecommunications engineer, and a cofounder of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems.
Biography
Adrian Hooke held a B.Sc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.
He worked on the Apollo program and other NASA programs as a young engineer. In 1982, he cofounded the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), an international consortium of space agencies, and remained active in the organization until 2012. Hooke helped develop standards published by the CCSDS, including the Space Communications Protocol Specifications (SCPS). He was involved in the Interplanetary Internet and Delay Tolerant Networking efforts to bring more computer networking into NASA telecommunications.
Awards
NASA Exceptional Service Medal (twice)
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
Special CCSDS Lifetime Leader Award, 2012
References
Astronautics
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
Telecommunications engineers
Electronics engineers
2013 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarParts.com | CarParts.com (formerly U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc.) is an American online provider of aftermarket auto parts, including collision parts, engine parts, and performance parts and accessories. The company is headquartered in Torrance, California and was founded in 1995 by Sol Khazani and Mehran Nia. It is traded on NASDAQ as PRTS. The company sells 1.2 million SKUs, including 58,000 private label SKUs.
History
Early Years
U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. was founded in 1995 by Sol Khazani and Mehran Nia. The company was first incorporated in California in 1995 and reincorporated in Delaware in March 2006. The flagship website, CarParts.com, was established in 1999 as an e-commerce site. Its online catalogue carries parts for different make models.
In addition to the corporate headquarters in Torrance, California, the company has distribution centers in LaSalle, Illinois, Chesapeake, Virginia (opened 2016), Grand Prairie, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The warehouse at 2821 Marion Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada was opened to cut shipping times for its customers in the West. The company planned to invest between $13 million and $15 million in the facility.
2019
CarParts.com had 335 employees in the United States. The company also had 500 employees in the Philippines handling a call center, website development, and back office. Online sales on eBay and Amazon each represented 42% of their sales, and private label collision parts were responsible for 62% of revenue. Their annual sales were $280 million at a gross margin of 30%.
In 2019, the company launched a scholarship program for students enrolled in college or any post-secondary institution located within the U.S.
Lev Peker replaced Aaron Coleman, the company CEO, in January 2019. Barry Phelps is chairman of the board.
2020
For the first quarter of 2020, CarParts.com reported record net sales, the highest quarterly sales in the history of the company. Gross profit of $29.8 million in the first quarter of 2020 was the highest quarterly gross profit in nearly a decade.
In February 2020, CarParts.com implemented an extensive rebranding initiative as part of its plans for growth. The company revamped its website design and logo, and introduced the new tagline, “Right Parts, Guaranteed.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, CarParts.com received $4.1 million in federally backed small business loans from J.P. Morgan as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The company was not among the intended beneficiaries of this loan program aimed at small businesses. CarParts.com reported their highest revenue in eight years just before the pandemic started and has access to a $30 million line of credit with JP Morgan, which had a zero balance on December 28, 2019. After new SBA guidance for public companies, CarParts.com returned the loan.
In May 2020, Auto Parts Warehouse was merged into the flagship website, CarParts.com. CarParts.com also announced a partnership with Front Row Motor Sports as a primary partne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNIIPAS | The All Union Scientific Research Institute for Applied Automated Systems (VNIIPAS/ВНИИПАС) was a Soviet research institute that provided a computer network service, including international digital connections. It was the central node of inner USSR scientific data network called Academset.
VNIIPAS derived from 1976-established VNIISI/ВНИИСИ which was a partner project of Austrian International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
History
The IIASA at Laxenburg, Austria was created in 1972 as a joint USSR-USA effort to establish global scientific communications through the Club of Rome.
VNIIPAS operated from 1982 until 1995.
In 1983 VNIIPAS, Joel Schatz, Don Carlson, Michael Kleeman, Chet Watson, and George Soros created the joint telecommunication venture San Francisco — Moscow Teleport (SFMT), later known as Sovam Teleport ("Soviet-American teleport") that operated digital connections between USSR and USA and later became the SWIFT provider for the Soviet banking system.
References
Books
The Status of Soviet Civil Science: Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 24–26, 1986
Russia Telecom Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Regulations, Contacts, 2008
Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-communist Nations, 2000
Internet in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Commando | Perfect Commando (also known as Californian Commando; ) is a Finnish television comedy series that premiered on Elisa Viihde network on 13 February 2020. It is directed by Jalmari Helander, and stars Kian Lawley and Katherine Hughes.
Synopsis
Perfect Commando tells the story of Vantaa "Van" Hamilton (Lawley), who travels from California to his mother's homeland Finland with his girlfriend Rachel (Hughes), but their paths differ in Helsinki Airport due to a system error related to Van's background, and Van suddenly finds himself in the Finnish Defence Forces training as a commando into the middle of nowhere, while Rachel ends up living in Helsinki with Van's Finnish cousin who maintains a rap band with friends.
Production
The series is partly spoken in English and partly in Finnish. The army scenes of the series are mainly filmed in the former garrison of Keuruu, Finland.
References
External links
Perfect Commando in Elisa Viihde (in Finnish)
Finnish comedy television series
Television shows set in Finland
Television shows set in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Rice | Jonathan Rice (1916 – July 22, 2001) was an American public television station and network executive, who, with James Day, co-founded the San Francisco public television station KQED.
Rice was born in St. Louis, graduated from Stanford University in 1938 with a degree in journalism, and started his career in San Francisco as a photographer and reporter. He covered World War Two from Honolulu as a Marine correspondent. After the war, he was picture book editor for Look Magazine in New York in 1947-48, and news and special events editor for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. In 1953 he returned to San Francisco, where he was recruited by James Day to create KQED.
Rice remained the program director of KQED until 1978 and served as a board member until 1996. KQED's legacy society is created in his name.
Rice was recognized as an innovator in the public television industry. He is credited with inventing the on-air fundraising auction format and the informal, in-depth approach to news coverage utilized by KQED's Newsroom. During his career he was recognized with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Ralph Lowell Medal and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences's Governor's Award.
References
1916 births
2001 deaths
American television journalists
PBS people
Stanford University alumni
American male journalists
Journalists from California
20th-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s%20dog%20leg%20method | Powell's dog leg method, also called Powell's hybrid method, is an iterative optimisation algorithm for the solution of non-linear least squares problems, introduced in 1970 by Michael J. D. Powell. Similarly to the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm, it combines the Gauss–Newton algorithm with gradient descent, but it uses an explicit trust region. At each iteration, if the step from the Gauss–Newton algorithm is within the trust region, it is used to update the current solution. If not, the algorithm searches for the minimum of the objective function along the steepest descent direction, known as Cauchy point. If the Cauchy point is outside of the trust region, it is truncated to the boundary of the latter and it is taken as the new solution. If the Cauchy point is inside the trust region, the new solution is taken at the intersection between the trust region boundary and the line joining the Cauchy point and the Gauss-Newton step (dog leg step).
The name of the method derives from the resemblance between the construction of the dog leg step and the shape of a dogleg hole in golf.
Formulation
Given a least squares problem in the form
with , Powell's dog leg method finds the optimal point by constructing a sequence that converges to . At a given iteration, the Gauss–Newton step is given by
where is the Jacobian matrix, while the steepest descent direction is given by
The objective function is linearised along the steepest descent direction
To compute the value of the parameter at the Cauchy point, the derivative of the last expression with respect to is imposed to be equal to zero, giving
Given a trust region of radius , Powell's dog leg method selects the update step as equal to:
, if the Gauss–Newton step is within the trust region ();
if both the Gauss–Newton and the steepest descent steps are outside the trust region ();
with such that , if the Gauss–Newton step is outside the trust region but the steepest descent step is inside (dog leg step).
References
Sources
External links
Least squares
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle%20variance%20optical%20coherence%20tomography | Speckle variance optical coherence tomography (SV-OCT) is an imaging algorithm for functional optical imaging. Optical coherence tomography is an imaging modality that uses low-coherence interferometry to obtain high resolution, depth-resolved volumetric images. OCT can be used to capture functional images of blood flow, a technique known as optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A). SV-OCT is one method for OCT-A that uses the variance of consecutively acquired images to detect flow at the micron scale. SV-OCT can be used to measure the microvasculature of tissue. In particular, it is useful in ophthalmology for visualizing blood flow in retinal and choroidal regions of the eye, which can provide information on the pathophysiology of diseases.
Introduction
Color fundus photography, fluorescein angiography (FA) and indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) are methods for imaging retinal microvasculature networks. However, these methods have drawbacks in that they require the use of exogenous contrast agents. In addition, the images acquired using these techniques are two dimensional in nature and therefore lack depth information. OCT has several advantages that make it appealing for volumetric imaging of vasculature structure. Namely, OCT is able to acquire depth-resolved localization at high spatial and temporal resolutions, does not require exogenous contrast agents, and is non-invasive and contactless.
OCT gave rise to a family of techniques to perform OCT-A including speckle variance OCT, phase variance OCT, optical microangiography, and split-spectrum microangiography.
Speckle variance OCT uses only the amplitude information of the complex OCT signal, whereas phase variance OCT uses only the phase information.
Optical microangiography computes flow using both components of the complex OCT signal.
Split-spectrum amplitude decorrelation angiography (SSADA) computes average decorrelation between consecutive B-scans to visualize blood flow.
Methods
Imaging system
SV-OCT can be done with spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT) and swept source OCT (SS-OCT).
SD-OCT and SS-OCT are both methods of Fourier domain OCT (FD-OCT), which has significantly faster image acquisition speed compared to time domain OCT. In general, OCT measures the echo time delay and intensity of reflected and backscattered light. A broad-bandwidth laser or superluminescent diode low-coherence light source travels to a beam splitter, which sends half of the light to the reference arm, which is at a known location, and half of the light to the sample, where it scatters and reflects off tissue. Light from the reference and sample arms recombine at the beam splitter, forming an interference pattern that is sensed by a photodetector. In SD-OCT, the interference pattern is split into its frequency components by a grating and are simultaneously detected by a charge-coupled device (CCD). Each frequency corresponds to a certain depth within the tissue.
In SS-OCT, a tunable swept las |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20%28Latin%20America%29 | ESPN Latin America (on-air as ESPN) is the Latin American division of ESPN Inc., and broadcasts sports-related programming for the region in Spanish. It was launched on 31 March 1989. Its programming is adapted to the likes of viewers, who tend to prefer football and Hispanic baseball players to the more locally produced programs.
ESPN Latin America, unlike its U.S. sister channels, has more programs related to football and tennis.
The Disney/Hearst Corporation joint venture has also added some secondary regional channels for the Latin American region in the last few years, like ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN Extra and ESPN Premium.
In 2011, ESPN launched a new channel, named ESPN3, which is divided in four segments: Live (broadcasts live coverage of sport events), Compact (resumed sport events), ESPN 3.0 (extreme sports) and ESPN Series (featuring "30 For 30").
In November 2021, Disney announced that a new channel named ESPN4 would be launched on December 1, 2021 (except in Argentina and Mexico) after Disney rebranded Fox Sports' main channel in Latin America.
Feeds
ESPN
ESPN (Mexico) – available in Mexico
ESPN (Central America) – available in Dominican Republic and Central America
ESPN (Argentina) – available in Argentina
ESPN (Chile) – available in Chile
ESPN (Colombia) – available in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela
ESPN (South) – available in Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
ESPN 2
ESPN 2 (Mexico) – available in Mexico
ESPN 2 (Central America) – available in Dominican Republic and Central America
ESPN 2 (Argentina) – available in Argentina
ESPN 2 (Chile) – available in Chile
ESPN 2 (Colombia) – available in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela
ESPN 2 (South) – available in Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
ESPN 3
ESPN 3 (Argentina) – available in Argentina
ESPN 3 (North) – available in Dominican Republic, Central America and Mexico
ESPN 3 (South) – available in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela
ESPN 4
ESPN 4 (Chile) – available in Chile
ESPN 4 (North) – available in Central America and Dominican Republic
ESPN 4 (South) – available in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela
ESPN Extra
ESPN Extra (Mexico) – available in Mexico
ESPN Extra (Central America) – available in Dominican Republic and Central America
ESPN Extra (South) – available in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela
ESPN Premium
ESPN Premium (Argentina) – available in Argentina
Sport events
List of events that can be viewed on ESPN Latin America Networks:
Football
UEFA Champions League (Except Mexico)
UEFA Europa League
UEFA Europa Conference League
UEFA Super Cup (Except Mexico)
UEFA Youth League (Except Mexico)
Copa Libertadores
Copa Sudamericana
Recopa Sudamericana
Premier League (Only for South America)
FA Women's Super League (Only for South America)
EFL Championship
La Liga (Only for South America)
Segunda División (Only fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek%20A.%20G%C4%85sieniec | Leszek A Gasieniec is a professor of computer science at the University of Liverpool, specialising in algorithms, distributed computing and communication, networks and search problems. He has been with the University of Liverpool since 1997, becoming a full professor in 2003.
He is the head of the Networks and Distributed Computing Group (part of the Algorithms Section) at the University of Liverpool's Department of Computer Science.
He completed his PhD and MSc in computer science from the University of Warsaw and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Université du Québec. He serves as an editor for the journal Theoretical Computer Science.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk%20%28service%29 | Funk is a German video-on-demand service, operated by the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. SWR, a regional ARD member, is responsible for the service. Funk describes itself as a "content network". The target group is people between the age of 14 and 29.
History
The director of SWR, , advocated for a public service offer for the target audience in 2011. On 27 November 2012, SWR expressed a wish to merge EinsPlus with ZDFkultur. The new station created by this merger would be produced jointly by ARD and ZDF and primarily target a young audience. ZDF expressed caution, pointing out that this would require a decision by politicians. However, ZDF had already made a similar statement in advance and did not rule out, for example, a discontinuation of ZDFkultur in favor of a joint youth channel.
About
Funk is aimed at people between the ages of 14 and 29, who rarely access the traditional media used for public broadcasting. Two thirds of the project's funding is provided by ARD and one third by ZDF.
Funk produces over 70 programs for social media platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, Snapchat, and the funk.net web app, as well as publishing browser games such as Bundesfighter II Turbo. These are distributed on their own channels or accounts. The programs focus on information and entertainment. In addition, some series are distributed under license, sometimes in their original English versions. Programs are produced by various private production companies, the company's own production companies or by the broadcasters themselves.
The funk network is subject to the Interstate Broadcasting Agreement. This includes a review of all broadcasts at least every six months.
References
External links
2016 establishments in Germany
ARD (broadcaster)
Companies based in Mainz
German companies established in 2016
German-language television stations
Television networks in Germany
Internet properties established in 2016
Internet television streaming services
Mass media companies established in 2016
Mass media in Mainz
Organisations based in Mainz
Publicly funded broadcasters
Subscription video on demand services
Südwestrundfunk
Television stations in Germany
ZDF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Queer%20Film%20Festival | The Toronto Queer Film Festival is an LGBT film festival held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Launched in 2016 by a collective of artists and activists who perceived the programming of the city's established Inside Out Film and Video Festival to be too mainstream and commercialized, the event stages a program of independent feature and short films and videos over several days in the fall of each year, focusing primarily on works created from an alternative or activist perspective.
The event is staged primarily on the campus of OCAD University, with some screenings also taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival launched the Queer Emergencies Fund to offer grants to LGBT filmmakers for the creation of new short works.
References
External links
Film festivals in Toronto
LGBT film festivals in Canada
Film festivals established in 2016
LGBT culture in Toronto
2016 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Medical%20City%20Ortigas | The Medical City Ortigas is a tertiary care hospital in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. Opened in 2004, it is the main hospital of The Medical City (TMC) which maintains a network of hospitals and clinics which are mostly based in the Philippines.
History
The original The Medical City hospital was opened as the ABM Sison Hospital in 1967 along San Miguel Avenue in Mandaluyong, The health facility was renamed as "The Medical City" or TMC in 1975.
In 2000, The Medical City began the construction of its new hospital complex on the former Meralco property along Ortigas Avenue in Pasig. The construction was worth and was completed in 2004.
The hospital was among several hospitals in Metro Manila which catered to COVID-19 patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines with the facility exceeding capacity at one point. By April 2020, the hospital is already among the COVID-19 testing centers in the country.
Facilities
The hospital's main facility is located on a property along Ortigas Avenue, almost within the business district of Ortigas Center in Pasig, Metro Manila. Composed of of floor space, it includes two Nursing Towers which can be fitted for up to 800 beds. The two towers are joined by a Podium, bridgeways, and a Medical Arts Tower. The 18 floors of the Medical Arts Tower house 280 doctors' clinics and select commercial spaces, while located within the six-floor Podium are diagnostic and intervention facilities, as well as support and administrative offices.
The hospital also has a three-level basement parking accommodation for over a thousand vehicles. The complex is also equipped with a broad range of security features, an advanced building management system, and biosafety features incorporated into sensitive patient areas.
References
External links
Hospitals in Metro Manila
Private hospitals in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Pasig
Ortigas Center
Hospital buildings completed in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Masters%20%28Australian%20season%202%29 | The second season of Australian reality television series Lego Masters premiered on the Nine Network on 19 April 2020. Hamish Blake returned as host along with Ryan "The Brickman" McNaught as Judge.
Production
Due to the success of the series, In May 2019 the series was renewed for a second season which will film later in 2019 set to air in 2020. On 16 October 2019, the second season was officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts.
The second season is sponsored by Lego, Honda, Kmart and Wonder Bread.
Teams
Notes
* Not all teams in the season have a relation (i.e. family or friend), some were paired together during the application process due to single applications.
Elimination history
Series Details
Challenge 1
Airdate - 19 April 2020
Challenge: "A Whole New World" - Each of the eight teams were tasked with creating a Lego world of their choice in 15 hours, they were then given an additional 2 hours to build a gift from their world to the world on their right, built on a barge.
Advantage - The winner of the challenge received "The Golden Brick", which they can use to keep them safe from a future Elimination Challenge. They also received "The Flash Jordan Brick", which allows a team to have Season 1 contestant Jordan be their Brick Pit runner for an entire future build.
Challenge 2
Airdate - 20 April 2020
Challenge: "Hero Shot" - Each of the eight teams had 10 hours with choosing a mini figure and making a design which would be exploded similar to what you would see in an action movie as the hero struts away as an explosion goes off in the background. The winner of the challenge received immunity from the next Elimination Challenge.
Challenge 3
Airdate - 21 April 2020
Challenge: "Fairytale" - Each team had 12 hours to create a design based on famous fairytales, each design is based on a certain part in the fairytale. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 4
Airdate - 26 April 2020
Advantage Challenge: "Tall Tower" - Team were given 2 hours to build the tallest structure they possibly can only using 2x4, 2x6 & 2x8 bricks, however they cannot use a stool for more height. The team with the tallest structure wins an advantage of an extra hour in the Elimination Challenge.
Elimination Challenge: "One Hanging Brick" - Teams were given 10 hours to create a design built off a technic beam hanging above their desks. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 5
Airdate - 27 April 2020
Challenge: "Make & Shake" - Teams were given 8 hours to build a 1.2m tall 32×32 tower, which will then be subjected to varying levels 1-10 of shaking on a shake plate. The team with best design won immunity for the next Elimination Challenge.
Challenge 6
Airdate - 3 May 2020
Challenge: "3D Art" - The teams are given 12 hours to create a 3D Art design inside a deep frame. The team with weakest design will be eliminated.
Challenge 7
Airdate - 4 May 2020
Challenge: "Above & Below" - Teams were given 12 hours to build a design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Fraser | Christophe Fraser is a professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Big Data Institute, part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
Fraser's PhD and initial postdoctoral research were in theoretical particle physics. He converted to infectious disease epidemiology in 1998, based first at the University of Oxford then at Imperial College London, where he became Chair of Theoretical Epidemiology and served as deputy director of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling under director Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist).
He returned to the University of Oxford in 2016 as Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics at the Big Data Institute.
In 2022 he was appointed Moh Family Foundation Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology as part of the University of Oxford's newly created Pandemic Sciences Institute.
Research on HIV
Fraser and colleagues were among the first to hypothesise that the large variability in virulence observed between individuals living with HIV could be partly due to genetic variation in the virus.
In other words they hypothesised that virulence, considered as a phenotype of the virus, has appreciable heritability.
They and others later provided evidence for this.
Fraser was principal investigator of the BEEHIVE project to investigate the mechanism of this heritability, which discovered the 'VB variant': a highly virulent strain within the B subtype of HIV found in 107 individuals living with HIV in the Netherlands. UNAIDS stated that the discovery "provides evidence of urgency to halt the pandemic and reach all with testing and treatment".
Research on the COVID-19 pandemic
In March 2020 Fraser and his research group published epidemiological modelling supporting 'digital contact tracing' using COVID-19 apps to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
Fraser provided advice to the British government and more broadly about implementing such apps.
Fraser's team developed the OpenABM-Covid-19 agent-based model, used by the NHS to model the pandemic, winning the 2021 Analysis in Government award for Innovative methods.
Research on other outbreaks
Fraser worked on
the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak,
the 2009 swine flu pandemic,
the 2012 MERS outbreak
and the Western African Ebola virus epidemic.
Methodological research
Fraser's publications include "Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable", 2004, which argued that in addition to the basic reproduction number a second key parameter of an infectious disease is the proportion of transmission that occurs before the onset of symptoms.
This proportion being large for SARS-CoV-2 was a key difficulty in infection control for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fraser's 2007 analysis "Estimating Individual and Household Reproduction Numbers in an Emerging Epidemic" first defined an estimator for the instantaneous (time-varying) reproduction number that was subsequently widely used. The definition was obtained by inverting the standard relationship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Data%20Institute | The Big Data Institute (BDI), part of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford. The institute brings together researchers from both the Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Nuffield Department of Medicine. The BDI building is on the Old Road Campus in Headington, east Oxford, England.
Academics from the BDI are advising the British government about a mobile phone app to track the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
BDI website
Big data
COVID-19 pandemic in England
Departments of the University of Oxford
Medical research institutes in the United Kingdom
Organizations with year of establishment missing
Population genetics organizations
Research institutes of the University of Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy%203000 | The Tandy 3000 is a personal computer introduced by Radio Shack in 1986 based on the 16-bit 8 MHz Intel 80286 microprocessor.
Description
The Tandy 3000 is functionally a clone of the IBM PC-AT, the first PC by a major manufacturer using the fully 16-bit Intel 286 processor. As such, it departed from Tandy's two previous PC workalikes (the Tandy 2000 in 1983 and the Tandy 1000 in 1985) in that it was built without proprietary technology. The motherboard contains no built-in circuitry for its disk controller or video display. Owners could outfit the computer, and upgrade it, with standard PC components sold by Tandy or available from third-party suppliers. Since the hardware is industry-standard throughout, there were no compatibility issues such as there were with the previous models 2000 and 1000. More accurately, any compatibility troubles that might arise were no fault of the computer, but rather, any third-party hardware installed or with the AT architecture upon which the computer was engineered.
The operating system was an extra-cost item; the purchaser could choose MS-DOS 3.2 or Xenix V. Xenix and the extra memory it demanded was expensive but permitted up to six remote terminals to run programs on a single Tandy 3000 simultaneously. Microsoft's BASIC interpreter, bundled with Tandy's Deskmate productivity suite, was offered at extra cost. Digital Research's CP/M-86 was an option available from other software vendors. Later, others available for generic AT clones such as the Tandy 3000 included IBM's PC DOS, Digital Research's DR-DOS and GEM, and 16-bit versions of Microsoft's Windows (up to version 3.x). Still later IBM's graphical multitasking OS/2 was an option for machines equipped with enough memory and capable graphics display hardware.
Base memory was 512 KB, expandable to 640 KB on the motherboard. RAM was expandable to a maximum of 12 MB using cards in the expansion slots.
The Tandy 3000 has ten expansion slots: seven 16-bit AT compatible, two 8-bit XT compatible, and one half-size XT slot dedicated to the included serial/parallel card. After the disk controller card and the video card are installed six slots are available for expansion, which is one more than the PC-AT offers. On the other hand, the Tandy computer lacks the AT's locking keyswitch for operational security.
There are three drive bays available; two are accessible through the front panel, so two may be floppy drives or other replaceable media like a PCMCIA card reader. A single 1.2 MB 5.25 inch floppy disk drive was included in the base configuration. This drive was first introduced by IBM for the PC-AT, and was unique to it. Like IBM's later PS/2 series and other newer computers in the industry, Tandy's follow-on computers would discontinue using this drive and switch to the 3.5 inch format.
From Tandy two sizes of hard drive were available: 20 MB and 35 MB. Being a generic AT clone wearing the Tandy badge, any third-party drives compatible with the AT could |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20European%20Song%20Contest%202020 | The Free European Song Contest 2020 was the first edition of the Free European Song Contest, organised by the German television network ProSieben and the production company Brainpool TV. It served as an alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was planned to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The show was broadcast on 16 May 2020 at 20:15 CEST on the television channel ProSieben. It was presented by Steven Gätjen and Conchita Wurst. The show was also broadcast on the Austrian private television broadcaster Puls 24 with commentary by Tamara Mascara, Dori Bauer and Patrick Fux. ProSieben Austria and ProSieben Schweiz also took the live feed.
Format
Presenters
The programme was hosted by two presenters: the German television host Steven Gätjen and the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.
Participants
Score sheet
12 points
Spokespersons
The spokespersons announced the scores of their respective country's national jury
– Tamara Mascara
– Friends of Oonagh
– Marino Mandekić (father of Vanessa Mai)
– Valeria (mother of Kate Hall)
– Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz
– Lion Rosenberg
– Angelo Kelly
– Michelle Hunziker
– Paul (father of Mike Singer)
The Moon – Michael Herbig as Mr. Spuck
– Duncan Laurence
– Lukas Podolski
– Clarissa Wellenbrink (sister of Nico Santos)
– Beatrice Egli
– Hakan Çalhanoğlu
– Melanie C
See also
Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light
Eurovision 2020 – das deutsche Finale
Der kleine Song Contest
Die Grand Prix Hitliste
Notes
References
2020 song contests
2020 in German television
2020 in Germany
2020 in music
May 2020 events in Europe
Events in Cologne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkspot | Thinkspot is an online social networking service started by Jordan Peterson following the banning of several content producers from the membership platform Patreon. Peterson and Dave Rubin conceived of the site together as a platform centered on free speech. Currently in public beta release, it has received mostly negative reviews from media critics.
History
In December 2018, Carl Benjamin—an anti-feminist YouTuber known as "Sargon of Akkad"—was suspended by the membership platform Patreon, a website on which internet creators can receive money from fans who subscribe to their feed for a regular fee. Benjamin was later banned from the service, which reported that he used "racial and homophobic slurs to degrade another individual". This led Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson and conservative political commentator Dave Rubin to announce the founding of Thinkspot. Shortly after Benjamin was banned, Peterson announced his intent to create what they called a "free speech platform", hoping it would be launched by Christmas. Prior to leaving Patreon, Peterson was receiving donations of $30,000 a month through the website.
By July 2019, an expected release date of August was announced. By the end of July, a beta test for the site was underway in which users and content creators could access the site. The first small collection of content creators included Dave Rubin, Carl Benjamin, James Altucher, retired U.S. Navy SEAL Jocko Willink and science writer Michael Shermer. On the user side, beta-testers were allowed on the platform in limited numbers, and a wait list was developed to allow additional users. An article by Gizmodo from December 2019, still during the beta phase, estimated that a few thousand users were allowed on the platform.
By May 2021, the platform had not developed a significant following, according to Karim Zidan of the SPLC.
Product details
Thinkspot is billed as a "free speech alternative" to Patreon with additional hosting functionality for leader- and user-generated content. Peterson said that the site would only remove content or ban users if required by court, in service of the free-speech goal. To counterbalance the possibility for abuse, he says that a minimum word count on posts should mean that simple trolling is rendered more difficult. In addition, voting on comments is used. Comments that fall below a 20% approval rating are submitted for review to the site's moderators, wherein confirmed "spam" comments are hidden behind a label noting the comment's spam status and "click to view comment" button.
The product allows a wide variety of interaction options, including feeds, forums, comments, a "discourse button", and reference annotations similar to those of the website Genius. Though emoji reactions are part of the website's functionality, an FAQ on the website reports that they "do not allow the use of emojis". Memes and profile pictures are prohibited.
Payments and funding
Access to Thinkspot is free, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam%20Regional%20Medical%20City | The Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) is a 136-bed privately run acute care hospital in Dededo, Guam. It is managed under the Philippines-based hospital network, The Medical City. It serves the US territory of Guam as well as neighboring Micronesia, the Northern Marianas, Palau and the Marshall Islands.
History
The project to construct the Guam Regional Medical City (GMRC) was first announced in 2010 with actual construction work for the hospital beginning in 2012. The GRMC was intended to open in January 2014, but the opening date was rescheduled at a later date due to various reasons including construction delays.
The GRMC opened in July 2015, becoming the first private hospital in Guam. It is also reportedly the first Philippine-owned hospital on United States territory.
In 2019, TMC opened a referral office to cater to patients seeking medical treatment outside Guam.
References
Hospitals in Guam
Buildings and structures in Guam
2015 establishments in Guam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EScholar | eScholar is a software company that provides software and services used by educators for student record management and career planning. eScholar manages data on more than 20 million students across the United States with its software.
History
eScholar was founded in 1997 by Shawn Bay. Prior to eScholar, Bay was a marketing analyst at Procter & Gamble. eScholar is based in White Plains, New York.
In 2000, Plainfield Public School District in New Jersey, U.S. began using a data warehouse and analysis solution provided by eScholar. Between 2000 and 2002, eScholar grew from 10 to more than 600 school districts as clients.
In 2004, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) published a report considering the implications of the collection and use of student data. This report explored the use of eScholar's data warehouse tool and other student data tooling.
In 2006, the Illinois State Board of Education selected eScholar as a subcontractor to author a feasibility study and functional requirements analysis for a data warehouse. As of this same year, the company had built data warehouses in at least 20 states.
In 2014, eScholar received media attention related to its data privacy practices.
Investors in eScholar include Education Growth Partners.
References
Educational software
Educational software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebeci%20railway%20station | Cebeci railway station () is a railway station in Ankara, Turkey, on the Başkentray commuter rail line, part of the Turkish State Railways network. Cebeci railway station was put into service in 1972 and became a stop of the Sincan-Kayaş commuter rail line. The station was closed in 2016 and then demolished, it started its reconstruction in 2017 and opened on April 12, 2018.
References
Railway stations in Ankara Province
Railway stations opened in 1972
Railway stations in Turkey opened in the 1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%3A%20The%20New%20Social%20Operating%20System | Networked: The New Social Operating System is a book by Lee Rainie and published in 2012.
References
2012 non-fiction books
MIT Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20governorates%20of%20Syria%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the 14 Governorates of Syria by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Syria
Syria
Human Development Index
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Libya%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the three historical regions of Libya by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Libya
Libya
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Yemen%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Yemen by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Yemen
Yemen
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucharita%20Tyagi | Sucharita Tyagi is an Indian film critic and former radio jockey. She began her career by hosting radio programming in New Delhi, and later gained wider recognition as a creator of web content and YouTube videos for film review platforms.
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Tyagi aspired to work in broadcast media from a young age. She found work as a radio jockey at the Delhi-based station Red FM, and later moved to Mumbai, where she gained wider recognition for her work on Radio City. Tyagi transitioned into web content in the year 2015 when she began recording YouTube videos for the film review platform, Film Companion. She expanded her career into writing and hosting with a segment entitled "Not a Movie Review", which became popular with the younger audiences of the channel.
Tyagi has since recorded weekly review videos for Film Companion, a select few of which were complied for a web series that was released on Disney+ Hotstar in 2020. In the same year, she started her own YouTube channel for publishing film reviews. Tyagi also writes film reviews for other online portals and was appointed as a member of Film Critics Guild in 2018.
Early life
Sucharita Tyagi was born in New Delhi, India. She spent her childhood in Rohini, a residential district in northwestern part of the Delhi. She was drawn to radio as a child, and would record mock radio programmes growing up. Tyagi attended Modern School, Barakhamba Road and graduate with a major in science. Tyagi's parents wanted her to enroll at a technical college after completing high school, but she instead chose to pursue a career in the performing arts.
Career
Career beginnings and work as radio jockey (2007–14)
After graduating with a degree in Communications Studies and Journalism from the Indraprastha University, Tyagi began working as a voice over artist in New Delhi. At the age of 19 she successfully auditioned for a job as a radio jockey at a Delhi-based FM channel. She worked at the Delhi stations of such channels as Red FM and Big FM, before moving to Mumbai, Maharashtra in 2010 to pursue post graduate education and further her career as a radio station host.
Tyagi enrolled in a filmmaking course at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and simultaneously began working as programme host for the Mumbai-based FM station Radio City. She hosted the popular programme Freedom Live, which was aimed at promoting Indian independent music and featured music from artists and bands performing songs in various regional languages. The show was noted for its emphasis on lesser known artists and music, which was a marked shift from the pop music and Bollywood songs that dominated the network's programming. Tyagi soon began working as a producer with Radio City, while continuing to work as a primetime host for the channel.
During her time with the channel, Tyagi was vocal about the struggles of promoting a niche channel on the medium of radio in India. Talking to Akhil Sood of the Sunday Guardian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASTER | MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots) is a Russian network of automated telescopes in five Russian cities, and in South Africa, Argentina and the Canary Islands. It is intended to react quickly to reports of transient astronomical events. It started its development in 2002 and it is in fully autonomous operations since 2011.
On 17 August 2017, an autonomous MASTER telescope in Argentina successfully recorded a collision of neutron stars some 130 million light-years away.
See also
List of astronomical observatories
List of astronomical societies
Lists of telescopes
Notes
External links
Official website
Astronomical observatories in Russia
Astronomical observatories in South Africa
Astronomical observatories in Argentina
Astronomical observatories in the Canary Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covid%20Act%20Now | Covid Act Now (CAN) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides local-level disease intelligence and data analysis on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, via a website and an API.
CAN assists partners ranging from local county health departments to multinational corporations in developing COVID response plans. Its API is used by many of the Fortune 500 to make data-driven reopening decisions.
The organization's first product was a traditional SEIR model for predicting the rate of COVID spread in the U.S. The model was based on open-source code by Alison Hill, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Computational Medicine. Rebecca Katz and her team have served as critical advisors.
CAN's modelling and data partners include Grand Rounds, a digital healthcare company, and USA Facts. Its university affiliates are Georgetown University Medical Center, Stanford Medicine, and Harvard Global Health Institute.
History
CAN began as a collaboration between four volunteers — Max Henderson (a former Google employee), Igor Kofman (a former Dropbox engineer), Zachary Rosen, and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins — publishing the first version of their model on March 20, 2020. The team was soon joined by public health experts, data scientists, and other professionals. The initial model raised awareness of the critical shortage of hospital capacity that the U.S. would face if the spread of COVID-19 was not mitigated.
Features
The platform provides a range of features, including:
A realtime map to rate the COVID-19 risk level of each U.S. state and county, incorporating both disease prevalence and the quality of local response.
Data on available intensive care unit beds.
Information on the rate of positive COVID-19 tests in different regions.
Metrics on the effectiveness of contact tracing efforts.
Vaccination eligibility and rates.
A 22-second animation depicting the initial spread of COVID-19 through the U.S.
Impact
CAN's models and data visualizations were used by officials in multiple states to aid in decision-making related to lockdowns, reopening, and resource allocation. The organization's work was cited in policy discussions and media reports throughout the pandemic. In mid-2021, Business Insider described CAN as a "leading US non-profit". As of October 2023, the organization claims to have served tens of millions of users and to have supported hundreds of federal, state, and county officials as well as numerous multinational corporations and NGOs.
Criticism
Like many models during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, CAN's initial projections faced scrutiny for assumptions made and data used. However, the team responded to feedback by refining their models and adding more sources of data over time.
References
External links
Covid Act Now (CAN)
Websites about the COVID-19 pandemic
Medical websites
Open data
Internet properties established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele%20Kotsis | Gabriele Kotsis (born 29 October 1967, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian computer scientist. She is full professor in computer science at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria, while leading the Department of Telecommunication and the division of Cooperative Information Systems. She was vice-rector for Research and the Advancement of Women, and longstanding chairwoman of Universities Austria's Policy Committee on Research. She is a distinguished member and elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Early life and education
Gabriele Kotsis received her master's degree in business informatics (1986–1991) at the University of Vienna and finished her doctoral studies in social- and economic sciences (1992–1995) at the University of Vienna, graduating two times with distinction. In 2000, she habilitated in Informatics at the University of Vienna. She received scientific recognition early on: her master's thesis Interconnection Topologies and Routing for Parallel Processing Systems at the University of Vienna was honored with a student sponsorship award of the Austrian Computer Society. Furthermore, her PhD dissertation Workload Modeling for Parallel Processing was honored with the prestigious Heinz Zemanek Award in 1996.
Career and research
Already during her doctoral studies, she took a job as a university assistant at the Department of Applied Informatics and Information Systems at the University of Vienna (1991–2001). She worked as a guest professor at the Department of Information Processing and Information Economy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2001–2002). In 2002, she was a guest professor at the Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the Department of Telecooperation at the JKU, before she was appointed as professor of informatics. In the same year, she was one of the co-founding chairs of the working group for professors in computer science within the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), of which she was the first female President from 2003 to 2007. In addition to her two-term presidency at OCG, Kotsis takes an active role in the Editorial board of the OCG Book Series, in the working group Fem-IT (Association of Female University Professors in IT) and in the OCG award committee.
From 2007 to 2015, she served as vice-rector for Research at JKU. Her responsibilities included the development of R&D strategies and policies in the university, coordination and interaction with national and international governmental organizations and funding bodies, and the establishment of collaborations with other research organizations and business partners.
Since 2016, Gabriele has been JKU's representative in the ASEA-UNINET academic research network, which promotes cooperation among European and south-East Asian public universities. Her active involvement in this network led to her nomination and election as president for the current period, February 2019 to July 2020.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factba.se | Factba.se is a website that hosts a publicly available, searchable database intended to document statements, speeches, Tweets, and press interviews from former US President Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden. It was founded in January 2017 by the Virginia-based husband-and-wife duo of Bill Frischling and Jennifer Canty. In June 2017, it incorporated as FactSquared and announced a round of funding led by Mark Walsh, the former CEO of VerticalNet. These events coincided with Frischling's intent to broaden the site's focus from Trump to the broader realms of politics and business. He also planned to structure the site so that anyone could search its archives of information for free, but there would also be a paid tier for users who wanted to use its proprietary data analysis tools. The site has also developed the $0.99 Trump Feed iPhone app, which compiles a digest of statements made by Trump administration officials. Frischling said in 2017 that almost half of all traffic to Factba.se came from newsrooms, and that CNN, the New York Times, and the Associated Press were "consistently in the top ten domains in terms of traffic" to the site.
In January 2021, DC-based publisher FiscalNote announced that it had acquired Factba.se parent company FactSquared.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%28TV%20series%29 | R is a Mexican black comedy television series produced and distributed by Viacom International Studios and Claro Video. The series it premiere on 27 April 2020 in Latin America on Paramount Network, and on 7 May 2020 via streaming on Claro Video. It stars Mauricio Ochmann as the title character.
A total of 10 one-hour episodes were confirmed for the first season.
Plot
The story revolves around Franco (Mauricio Ochmann), a man who lives a miserable life, since his wife does not respect him, and his children do not pay attention to him and only see him as a hindrance. As if that were not enough, after a medical examination Franco finds out that he has terminal cancer, and decides to live his life to the fullest without caring about anything. In his rampant madness, he murders a drug trafficker in self-defense and later learns that the medical certificate stating that he had cancer turned out to be false. So now Franco must flee from justice and from the partners of the drug trafficker he murdered.
Cast
Mauricio Ochmann as Francisco "Franco" Barrón
Paulina Dávila as Magali
Jesús Zavala as Juan Vallarta
Marco de la O as Fidel
Plutarco Haza as Eugenio Peralta
Guillermo Quintanilla as San Clemente
Gala Montes as Clara Langarica
Lourdes Gazza as Ivana
Pakey as Tristán
Darío T. Pie as Eliseo Vega
Luis Fernando Peña as El Conejo
Ari Brickman as Lorenzo Langarica
Renato Gutiérrez as Pablo Barrón
Axel Castro as Nacho Gallegos
Enrique Arreola as Carmona
Carolina Anzures as Brenda Barrón
Valeria Vera as Nastalia Romero
Yuriria del Valle as Erica
Andrés Almeida as Francisco Barón
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Spanish-language television shows
Paramount Network original programming
2020 Mexican television series debuts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Fung | Benjamin Fung is a Hong Kong-born Canadian computer scientist. Fung holds the positions of Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity and Full Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University. His research focuses on developing data mining and machine learning methods in the areas of cyber security, data privacy, malware analysis, and authorship analysis.
Biography
Fung was born in Hong Kong in the 1970s. He received his B.Sc. (1999), M.Sc. (2003), and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in computing science from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and his designation of Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario in 2009.
Fung joined the McGill University School of Information Studies as an associate professor in 2013, received the title of Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity in 2015, and promoted to Full Professor in 2020. He is a Senior Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a Co-curator of Cybersecurity in the World Economic Forum and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) and Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS). Before joining McGill, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering at Concordia University from 2007 to 2013. He worked in SAP BusinessObjects in Vancouver from 1999 to 2003.
Research
Fung's interdisciplinary research spans across the areas of data mining, machine learning, data privacy, building engineering, and smart cities. His Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS) developed a collection of privacy-preserving data publishing methods for sharing person-specific data without compromising individual privacy while preserving the information usefulness for data mining and machine learning. Supported by the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), his team developed an award-winning assembly code mining system called Kam1n0 for mining patterns and identifying code clones in software and malware binaries. His works in crime investigation and authorship analysis had been reported by CBC, BBC, New York Times and the Toronto Star.
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Academic staff of McGill University
Canada Research Chairs
1970s births
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