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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFA%20minimization | In automata theory (a branch of theoretical computer science), NFA minimization is the task of transforming a given nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) into an equivalent NFA that has a minimum number of states, transitions, or both. While efficient algorithms exist for DFA minimization, NFA minimization is PSPACE-complete. No efficient (polynomial time) algorithms are known, and under the standard assumption P ≠ PSPACE, none exist. The most efficient known algorithm is the Kameda‒Weiner algorithm.
Non-uniqueness of minimal NFA
Unlike deterministic finite automata, minimal NFAs may not be unique. There may be multiple NFAs of the same size which accept the same regular language, but for which there is no equivalent NFA or DFA with fewer states.
References
External links
A modified C# implementation of Kameda-Weiner (1970)
PSPACE-complete problems
Finite automata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rubbles | Los Mármol (The Rubbles in English, Os Rubbles in Portuguese) is a series of 6 animated shorts spun-off from The Flintstones that aired during commercial breaks on the Latin American Cartoon Network in 2002. It is a parody of The Osbournes, a reality show that aired on MTV. The titles have been changed to Spanish and Portuguese but all the episodes are in English.
Overview
The series parodies the format of reality shows including the constant moving of the camera and swearing. It is focused on the Rubble family and their everyday life.
Characters
Main
Barney Rubble, the main character who mostly seems annoyed and constantly uses swear words.
Betty Rubble, Barney's wife, she is always there to help her husband, however seen in many occasions fighting with him.
Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Barney and Betty's teenage son, he is an unemployed slacker and his father wants him to look for a job and move out. He has a crush on Pebbles which is not well-received by his mother saying that they are family.
Hoppy, the Rubbles' pet hopparoo, he is shown to be playful and mischievous.
Recurring
Fred Flintstone, Barney's best friend and next-door neighbor, they are seen bowling together and having a BBQ with their families.
Wilma Flintstone, Fred's wife and Betty's best friend, when Betty's not with Barney, she is mostly with Wilma.
Pebbles Flintstone, Fred and Wilma's teenage daughter, she doesn't seem to share the feelings of Bamm-Bamm.
Episodes
Theme song
The music of the theme song is based on "Rise and Shine", the original opening and closing theme during the first two seasons of The Flintstones, albeit with new song lyrics added.
Production
The series was produced by Cartoon Network, with creative direction by Fernando Semenzato, screenplays by Manoela Muraro, producer in the channel's creative department, and directed in two countries, Brazil and Argentina.
The acclaimed Brazilian production company Lobo Filmes animated the opening and closing sequences of the vignettes, and Hook Up Animation was responsible for animation of the episodes.
References
The Flintstones
The Flintstones spin-offs
Television series set in the Stone Age
2000s satirical television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinando | Cinando is an online database of film projects and professional networking and streaming service for film industry personnel and companies run by the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival. Attendees of the Marché and some other film markets are granted one-year access to the service.
History
Cinando was launched by the Marché du Film in 2003 as cannesmarket.com, based on the Marché's Guide, a directory of attendees created in 1996. It was renamed Cinando in 2007.
Since 2012, Cinando runs a business-to-business video-on-demand service. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the streaming service was utilized to hold screenings in a virtual version of the Cannes Marché in 2020.
Since 2017, Cinando allows its users to upload, search for, and buy subtitles for films with no additional fee.
References
External links
Online film databases
French film websites
French social networking websites
Professional networks
Internet properties established in 2003
Video on demand services
Subscription services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA%20World%20Cup%20on%20NBC | FIFA World Cup on NBC is the branding used for presentations of the FIFA World Cup produced by the NBC television network in the United States. NBC was the official American network television broadcaster for the international association football competition in 1966 and 1986.
Coverage history
1966
The first American coverage of the World Cup consisted only of a previously filmed telecast of the 1966 Final on NBC. The Final was aired before their coverage of the Saturday Major League Baseball Game of the Week. NBC used the black & white BBC feed and aired it on a two-hour film delay. This was the first time soccer had been shown in the United States as a stand-alone broadcast. Previously, ABC's Wide World of Sports had shown England's Football Association Cup on as long as a two-week delay.
1986
On October 6, 1984. NBC's anthology series, SportsWorld provided World Cup soccer qualifying coverage featuring the United States and the Netherlands Antilles.
1986 marked the first time that the World Cup had extensive live cable and network television coverage in the United States. ESPN carried most of the weekday matches while NBC did weekend games. NBC aired seven matches, including the "Hand of God" quarterfinal, with broadcasters on-site. NBC's theme music for their 1986 coverage was Herb Alpert's "1980", from his 1979 album Rise. It was originally a cue meant for the ill-fated 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics broadcasts. Meanwhile, ESPN aired about 25 matches that year, all with broadcasters in studio.
NBC's producers were forced to run the games' audio feed through telephone lines rather than through satellites. This was because the International Broadcast Center in Mexico City crossed up many communication lines. Consequently, various countries received commentary from others (or no sound or video at all). NBC in this case, received commentary from somewhere in Southeast Asia and so were forced to have Charlie Jones call collect and broadcast the Italy-Bulgaria opener via a handset telephone receiver. NBC lost the sound but still had video so Charlie Jones dialed collect again.
Commentators
Don Criqui (studio host)
Rick Davis (color commentary)
Charlie Jones (play-by-play)
Seamus Malin (studio analyst)
Paul Gardner (color commentary)
Telemundo Deportes' coverage
On October 22, 2011, Deportes Telemundo acquired the Spanish language rights to broadcast the FIFA Men's and Women's World Cup for around $600 million, replacing Univision as the tournament's Spanish language broadcaster, which began carrying the World Cup tournaments in 1970 (Fox acquired the English language U.S. broadcast rights through a separate agreement). The deal, which began with the 2015 Women's World Cup and runs through 2026, includes rights to associated FIFA-sanctioned tournaments (including the Men's Under 20 and Under 17 World Cups, and the Men's Beach Soccer World Cup), which will be telecast on Telemundo and NBC Universo; the deal was extended on February 12, 2015, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E5%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | The European route E5 in the United Kingdom is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network, running from western Scotland to southern England. It crosses afterwards the English Channel to France and ends in Spain eventually. The route is not signposted in the United Kingdom.
Route
The E5 starts in the town of Greenock in western Scotland where it follows the A8 road until Bishopton. There it transforms into the M8 motorway, the busiest motorway in Scotland, and later the M74 motorway, where it passes the largest Scottish city Glasgow. The M74 motorway goes southeast through Scotland and changes into an A-class road at Abington. At the border with England, the M6 motorway starts and continues south passing major cities like Carlisle, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and ends in Birmingham. Around Birmingham, the E5 shortly uses the M42 before connecting on the M40 towards London. After passing Warwick the E5 ends at exit 9 just north of Oxford. Here the E5 leaves the highway and follows the A34 road passing Oxford and Newbury, ending in Winchester. Here it connects on the last part: the M3 motorway, ending in Southampton. Afterwards it uses a non-existing ferry to cross the English Channel to Le Havre, France. The E5 covers a distance of 721 km (448 mi) in the United Kingdom.
Detailed route
References
European routes in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bere%20Mill%20Meadows | Bere Mill Meadows is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Whitchurch in Hampshire.
These damp meadows in the flood plain of the River Test have a network of ditches with plants such as floating sweet-grass and lesser water-parsnip. The meadows have a rich variety of wet grassland herbs, including bogbean, ragged-robin, water avens, marsh valerian and southern marsh orchid.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsector | Starsector (formerly Starfarer) is an upcoming top-down single-player indie role-playing game developed and published by Fractal Softworks for computers in 2011. Set in the year 3126, the player commands a fleet of spaceships and engages in combat, trade, and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
Reviewers praised the game on release and have continued to do so on every update, calling it a sort of "Mount & Blade: Warband in space". Fractal Softworks have continued to regularly update the game with new ships, weapons, missions and gameplay features.
Gameplay
Starsector is an open world single-player space combat role playing and exploration game, with a procedurally generated map. The player is able to interact with and join one of 7 factions, remain as an independent, or become a mercenary. At the start of the game, the player is given the option to choose their portrait and spawns in the world with a small fleet of ships. After an extremely short series of tutorial missions, the player is given complete freedom to do whatever they desire. Movement of the player's fleet in the game is controlled by the mouse, or can be set on autopilot. The player can either travel freely through space or select a destination to travel to on the map. There are various faction-owned colonies where the player can purchase materials, such as supplies for maintenance and fuel for interstellar travel. The player can also hire new crew members, purchase ships, and conduct trade at colonies. As of the 0.9 patch, the player is able to establish their own colonies and manage their own faction.
Missions are offered as the player flies through space or goes to colonies, and will disappear soon after, as transmissions travel in real time. Completing these missions rewards you with credits, the universal currency in the sector for conducting business. The game sports a real-time simulated economy on every colony, with an open market (subject to a tariff of 30 percent) as well as a black market, where one can purchase and sell illegal goods without a tariff. Which goods are illegal vary between factions; for instance, "The Hegemony" bans the purchase and sale of recreational drugs, human organs, AI cores, and heavy weaponry.
All ships in the game are customizable through the "refit" feature, and the player can equip different weapons, perks, and special abilities to every ship. These perks/abilities ("hullmods") have a wide range of different effects, such as improving the ship's travel speed, improving the armor/swivel speed of the ship's weapon mounts, or making the survey of planets cheaper.
Combat
Combat occurs when one fleet intercepts another in space. The game interface then changes and the player is able to take control of a ship directly. The player is also able to control all other ships with commands such as "avoid", "escort", "move to position", "attack" or "full retreat". Different weapons do more damage against different types of targets (shields, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucopogon%20malayanus | Leucopogon malayanus is a plant in the family Ericaceae native to Cambodia, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. However occurrence data from GBIF, shows it occurring in Queensland (Australia), Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and India. It was first described by William Jack in 1820, who "found (it) abundantly at Singapore".
There are two subspecies:
Leucopogon malayanus subsp. novoguineensis (Sleumer) Pedley
Leucopogon malayanus subsp. malayanus
Description
Leucopogon malayanus subsp. novoguineensis
This plant is usually found as a small multistemmed windswept tree but also occurs as a shrub. The leaves may be stalked or without stalks and vary considerably in size (40-120 mm by 8-20 mm). There are about 8-12 parallel leaf veins but no obvious midrib. The flowers occur in spikes and the calyx lobes are about 2 by 1.9 mm and have hairy margins. The stamen filaments are about 1.5 mm long with anthers about 0.6 by 0.2 mm. The ovary has 8-10 locules. The fruits are squashed globules (about 5-6 by 7-9 mm diameter), and the calyx persists at the base. This subspecies is found only in north-east Queensland and New Guinea.
Leucopogon malayanus subsp. malayanus
This subspecies is called Styphelia malayana var. malayana by Hermann Sleumer.
It differs from L. malayanus subsp. novoguineensis in that it does not have the long hairs at the top of the ovary and at the base of the style of L. malayanus subsp. novoguineensis. Additionally, the ranges of the two subspecies do not overlap.
References
malayanus
Ericales of Australia
Flora of New Guinea
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
Plants described in 1820 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiostar | Altiostar is a company that provides open virtual radio access network (vRAN) technology. The company is headquartered just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Japan, Italy, the U.K., Mexico and India. The company is a subsidiary of Rakuten. Founded in 2011 by President and CEO, Ashraf Dahod, Altiostar is focused on open, virtual RAN software that they claim can integrate operation of equipment from multiple vendors.
History
Altiostar was started by the founders of Starent Networks, a startup bought by Cisco in 2009. Altiostar came out of stealth mode in late 2014 after raising $70 million in funding starting in 2012. The company's initial offering was a virtualized Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) solution that connected radios with controllers with Ethernet, instead of dark fiber. In 2015, the company introduced a virtual radio access network (vRAN) product. In 2017, Altiostar released an Open vRAN Development Platform, allowing independent radio equipment manufacturers to develop a vRAN solution utilizing Altiostar technology. Since its debut, the company has raised $357.5 million from Cisco, Rakuten Mobile, Qualcomm Ventures, Telefonica and Tech Mahindra among others.
Rakuten
In 2019, Rakuten Mobile invested in Altiostar. In 2020, Rakuten commercially launched its 4G network in Japan, using Altiostar as a software contributor for its 4G RAN, with plans to also use the software for its 5G network. In August 2021, Rakuten acquired Altiostar.
Partners
Altiostar has collaborated with a wide variety of partners to enable 4G and 5G network transformation through its open vRAN solution, including:
2011 – Cisco
2015 – Texas Instruments, Qwilt and Wind River
2016 – TIM
2017 – Corning and Dali Wireless and SK Telecom
2018 – Amdocs, Deutsche Telekom, GCI, Sercomm, Telefónica and Vodafone
2019 – Qualcomm, Rakuten, Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Ubicquia
2020 – Airspan, Bharti Airtel, NEC Corporation (NEC) and World Wide Technology
Awards
2015 – Fierce Innovation Awards (Telecom Edition) - Next-Gen Deployment for NFV C-RAN Solution
2016 – GLOTEL Global Telecoms Awards “Highly Recommended” for Innovative Use of Spectrum
2017 – GSMA GLOMO Award - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough and Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTO's choice for vRAN Solution
2019 – GSMA 100
2019 – Intel Network Builders Winners’ Circle 2019-2020 Leaders Board
References
External links
Companies based in Massachusetts
2011 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Lavigne | Sam Lavigne (born 1981) is an artist and educator based in New York. His work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language processing, and automation.
Education
Born in San Francisco, Lavigne studied Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has a Master in Professional Studies at Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Lavigne has since taught at ITP/NYU, The New School, and the School for Poetic Computation, and was formerly Magic Grant fellow at the Brown Institute at Columbia University, and Special Projects editor at the New Inquiry Magazine.
He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at University of Texas in Austin.
Projects
Lavigne describes his work as "online interventions that surface the frequently opaque political and economic conditions that shape computational technologies".
He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum, the Shed, Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, the New Museum.
Selected works include Smell Dating with artist Tega Brain, White Collar Crime Risk Zones, The Good Life and The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon.
He has been named an Honoree at the Webby Awards twice.
ICE controversy
In 2018, Lavigne published a database of the names of nearly 1600 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees sourced from LinkedIn in response to the Trump administration's family separation policy. The project was removed by GitHub who claimed it violated community guidelines and information about the project removed from Twitter and Medium. This prompted WikiLeaks to post a mirror. Experts stated the project was not illegal as all information was already publicly available.
References
External links
Official website
Living people
21st-century American artists
University of Chicago alumni
New York University alumni
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory%20Edim | Glory Edim is an American writer and entrepreneur. She is best known as the founder of the reading network Well-Read Black Girl. Edim received the 2017 Innovator's Award at the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for her work.
Early life and education
Edim was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, to Nigerian immigrant parents who had survived the Biafra war. Edim's father moved back to Nigeria in the early 90s; when she was in kindergarten, she and her mother joined him. The two soon returned to the States after Edim fell ill. Her mother, previously a historian, pursued a nursing degree. They frequently visited her father in Nigeria.
Edim attended Trinity College on a full scholarship before transferring to Howard University, her father's alma mater, where she studied journalism.
Career
Edim launched Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) on Instagram after moving to New York City in 2015. An avid reader, the Well-Read Black Girl moniker came from a nickname that her boyfriend gave her and printed on a t-shirt for her as a gift. Edim was frequently asked about the shirt by strangers on the subway, which often turned into conversations about what she was reading at the time.
Each Instagram post featured an archival photo of an African American woman writer with a caption that featured a quotation by that writer. Eden stated that her goal for WRBG was to develop a community for Black women to discuss their interest in literature by Black women writers. The commenters (mostly Black women) began conversations in the comments, which prompted Edim to launch a Brooklyn-based book club for WRBG. Authors such as Naomi Jackson and LaShonda Katrice Barnett attended the meetings upon her invitation.
Edim developed the idea for an annual literary festival of the same name with the help of writer Tayari Jones. In June 2017 Edim used Kickstarter, where she worked full-time, to raise $40,000 for the event. The inaugural festival took place in September 2017 in Brooklyn and sold out.
Books
She published an anthology called Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Ballantine Books) on October 30, 2018. Edim studied anthologies by Toni Cade Bambara to inform the style of the anthology. The book includes authors at various stages in their careers, such as Morgan Jerkins, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jesmyn Ward. Edim wrote the foreword. Of putting together the anthology, Edim stated "I was trying to replicate the intimacy you have in a book club within the community, where it feels like someone is sitting next to you and telling you a very personal and loving story." The anthology received positive critical reception. Utibe Gautt Ate wrote in a review for LA Review of Books, "The anthology’s premise, “When did you first see yourself in literature?” is a seemingly simple question each author is asked to illuminate, yet for the black women here it opens a glorious Pandora’s box and sparks a telling journey of how black girl readers become black woman writ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck%20Secrets | Shipwreck Secrets is a television series on the American network Science Channel.
See also
List of 2020 American television debuts
List of programs broadcast by Science Channel
References
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lost-ship-rediscovered-after-disappearing-near-bermuda-triangle-95-years-ago-180974109/
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a30730244/ss-cotopaxi-bermuda-triangle-shipwreck/
External links
Shipwreck Secrets at Science Channel
2020 American television series debuts
Science Channel original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20Scout%20Cookie%20Championship | Girl Scout Cookie Championship is a television series on the Food Network. The series debuted in 2020. The series is hosted by Alyson Hannigan, while Katie Lee and Nacho Aguirre are permanent judges.
See also
List of 2020 American television debuts
References
2020 American television series debuts
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo%20Rey%20Fort%20Worth%20College%20Prep | Cristo Rey Fort Worth College Prep is a Roman Catholic high school in Fort Worth, Texas. It is a part of the Cristo Rey Network of 38 schools throughout the United States and is under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth. The first Cristo Rey School was established in 1996 in Chicago, Illinois. In conjunction with local businesses, the students' education is subsidized through the work-study model used by schools in the Cristo Rey Network, of which it is a member.
The first campus was located at Terrell Heights Historic District in the former Our Mother of Mercy Catholic School. Students attending work jobs part-time to pay for tuition. Currently, Cristo Rey Fort Worth is located on a 4.47 acres at 2633 Altamesa Boulevard in Fort Worth, Texas 76133. The first graduating class from Cristo Rey Fort Worth will be in late May 2022. The school now enrolls all four grades 9 to 12, and admits students to grades 9 and 10 only.
It opened in 2018.
History
Cristo Rey Fort Worth began with a feasibility study required by the Cristo Rey Network. This required that at least 35 corporate partners be found for the work component of the student experience. The founders raised $3 million for initial support. For the first two years of operation, 300 potential students were identified. Students are to be from low-income families which are asked to pay whatever they can, typically about 10% of the tuition. The school is not a part of the diocesan system but rather an independent Catholic school accredited by the Texas Catholic Conference.
The school formerly occupied the buildings of the former "Our Mother of Mercy" school. The school is currently on the new, larger campus on Altamesa Boulevard as of Fall of 2019.
References
External links
Cristo Rey Network
Further reading
Kearney, G. R. More Than a Dream: The Cristo Rey Story: How One School's Vision Is Changing the World. Chicago, Ill: Loyola Press, 2008.
2018 establishments in Texas
Educational institutions established in 2018
High schools in Fort Worth, Texas
Catholic secondary schools in Texas
Cristo Rey Network
Poverty-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamrafj%C3%A4llet%20Nature%20Reserve | Hamrafjället Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve encompassing parts of the fell Hamrafjället in Jämtland County in western Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
Description and history
The nature reserve consists of three main areas: the highest part is bare mountain, a lower part is dominated by the treeline, formed by arctic downy birch, and old pastures and meadows, and thirdly a wetland area. Parts of the mountain slope are very steep and form important nesting grounds for some species of birds; the access to these areas is restricted during the summer. The flora in parts of the nature reserve is exceptionally rich for this part of the country, partially because it is a location where northern species overlap with the habitat of more southern species. Over 400 species of vascular plants grow here. Typical plants include fragrant orchid, Lapland marsh-orchid and alpine sow-thistle. Red-listed or unusual species found in the reserve include the small white orchid, the moss Bryum blindii, and the fungus Bovista paludosa. The fauna is also diverse, and golden eagle, great snipe, Eurasian lynx and wolverine have all been observed in the nature reserve.
The area has been influenced by human interaction for a long time. It contains seven grave sites from 800–1050 CE. Its traditional use as pasture may go back as far as a thousand years. Although it ceased to be used as grazing ground in 1971, the old pastures were restored in 2003–2008 within the framework of the EU-funded LIFE Programme.
References
External links
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1974
1974 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplr | Hoplr is a private social network for neighbourhoods in Belgium and the Netherlands. The company's registered office is located in Lokeren. The platform has been active since 2014 and focuses on social interaction between neighbours and engagement in the neighbourhood. Neighbours can exchange things or services, find babysitters, launch initiatives, make reports and post activities in the neighbourhood calendar.
Background
Hoplr was started in Belgium by software developer Jennick Scheerlinck and product designer Jonas Heirwegh as a social enterprise to connect people with each other and their neighbourhood. The name 'Hoplr' is derived from 'city hopping'.
In 2016 Hoplr received a financial investment from Quaeroq to grow in Belgium and the Netherlands. In a second capital increase in 2018, Belfius also took a minority stake in Hoplr. In December 2019, 500.000 households in 1,800 different neighbourhoods use the network.
Functionalities
Neighbours can access their neighbourhood based on their home address and a neighbourhood code. They must register under their real name. Registered users can send messages to their neighbours in a closed neighbourhood group via the website or smartphones with iOS or Android. As a Belgian company, Hoplr conforms to European GDPR legislation.
Local governments
Since April 2017, users have also been able to receive messages from local governments and services. About 100 Belgian and Dutch local authorities are affiliated.
Business model
Hoplr provides licenses to parties such as local governments, utilities and organisations active in the public sector. These authorities can communicate in a neighbourhood-oriented manner via a paid service dashboard. Residents are informed of relevant events such as road works or waste collection. The dashboard is also used for citizen participation. For example, governments can launch surveys in the neighbourhoods or Hoplr users can also conversely share messages with their government. It is important that external parties do not have access to the neighbourhood conversations between residents. Hoplr does not allow ads on the platform.
References
External links
Hoplr website
Hoplr website for local governments and services
Social networks
Belgian websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors%20TV | Colors TV is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel owned by Viacom18. It was launched on 21 July 2008. Its programming consists of family dramas, comedies, fantasy shows, youth-oriented reality shows, shows on crime, and television films.
History
It was launched on 21 July 2008 by Viacom18 under then Chief Executive Officer, Rajesh Kamat.
Reception
Over the years, series like Sasural Simar Ka, Balika Vadhu, Uttaran, Bigg Boss, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi, Udaariyaan and Naagin helped the channel to pass the decade-old market-leader StarPlus in weekly Gross Rating Points (GRPs).
Programming
International
On 21 January 2010, Colors became available on Dish Network in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, where it is called Aapka Colors (Your Colors) that gives English subtitles on every show and to avoid confusion with now-defunct Colours TV. Amitabh Bachchan served as brand ambassador for the UK and USA launches.
Colors launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky on 25 January 2010. On 9 December 2009, INX Media confirmed that Colors had bought 9XM's Sky EPG slot on channel 829 and on 5 January 2010, Colors secured a deal to join the ViewAsia subscription package. Initially the channel was available free-to-air and then subsequently was added to the ViewAsia package on 19 April 2010. Colors was added to Virgin Media on 1 April 2011, as a part of the Asian Mela pack. On 2 September 2013, Colors left the ViewAsia package and became free-to-air on satellite again, as well as moving to Virgin's basic package. On 18 August 2017, this decision was later reversed, and Colors left Freeview and became a pay channel again.
Golden Petal Awards
Golden Petal Awards is an award function to honour personalities and reward them for contributing to Colors TV. It was also broadcast on the channel itself.
References
External links
Viacom 18
Hindi-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television stations in Mumbai
Hindi-language television channels in India
Network18 Group
2008 establishments in Maharashtra
Hindi-language YouTube channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Canteaut | Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes.
Education and career
Canteaut earned a diploma in engineering from ENSTA Paris in 1993. She completed her doctorate at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1996, with the dissertation Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes supervised by .
She is currently the chair of the INRIA Evaluation Committee, and of the FSE steering committee. She was the scientific leader of the INRIA team SECRET between 2007 and 2019.
Cryptographic primitives
Canteaut has contributed to the design of several new cryptographic primitives:
DECIM, a stream cipher submitted to the eSTREAM project
SOSEMANUK, a stream cipher selected in the eSTREAM portfolio
Shabal, a hash function submitted to the SHA-3 competition
Prince, a lightweight block cipher
Recognition
Canteaut was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2019.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Modern cryptographers
French cryptographers
French computer scientists
Knights of the Legion of Honour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldtree%20Engine | Goldtree Engine is a computer program published by Goldtree Enterprises in 1993 as a play aid for role-playing gamemasters. The second edition of the game was renamed The Goldtree Engine: Kingspoint.
Description
Goldtree Engine is a software program for the IBM PC designed to assist a gamemaster to run tabletop role-playing game adventures in a fantasy urban environment. Using the pre-programmed city Kingspoint, a medieval fantasy city of 150,000, the gamemaster can access the locations and descriptions of random encounters, magic items, buildings, businesses, and neighborhoods. The program can also track game time, create random events, generate changing weather conditions in game time, and provide random dice rolls.
Alternatively, the gamemaster can create their own city and store an index of locations, items and encounters.
Publication history
Computer programmer Luke Ahearn coded Goldtree Engine for IBM PC and compatible computers, and the program was subsequently published in 1993 by Goldtree Enterprises, based in Metairie, Louisiana. The following year, Goldtree released a second edition of the program retitled The Goldtree Engine: Kingspoint.
Reception
In the September 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #209), Lester W. Smith was enthusiastic about Goldtree Engine, commenting "The things this program can do are amazing" in a lengthy review about its capabilities. He did point out a number of minor issues: he found the user's guide "less than perfect", he wanted faster access to non-player characters, and he found Kingspoint, the city included with the program, to be an overly dark place. He concluded by giving this program an excellent rating of 5 out of 6, saying, "It does all the dirty work, leaving the GM free to role-play. For city campaigning, there simply is no better GM aid."
In the October 1994 edition of Pyramid (Issue #9), Loyd Blankenship reviewed The Goldtree Engine: Kingspoint under the banner "Pyramid Pick: The Best in Gaming." He noted three different types of gamemasters who could use this game: those that lack the time to design their own city; those that need the gamemaster aids offered by the program; and those that would use the city information to add to their own campaigns when needed. He concluded with a strong recommendation, saying, "Overall, the Kingspoint software is a complete fantasy city ready for your characters, bug-free and fun to use."
Other reviews
Shadis #21 (Oct. 1995)
References
Role-playing game software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwar | Greenwar is an adventure published under license by Atlas Games in 1994 for R. Talsorian Games's near-future dystopian role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.
Plot summary
Greenwar is an adventure in which the player characters are operatives working for the Browning Investment Group, and are tasked with attempting to perform a hostile takeover of Liverpool Shipping. The players are not allowed to use violence; instead, they have been provided with a fixed amount of cash to buy at least 50% of the shares in Liverpool, and must seek out potential sellers, using negotiation, strategy or intimidation. A game mechanic calculates the effect the players' actions have on the share prices of Liverpool, which may make their task easier or more difficult.
Publication history
R. Talsorian Games first published the role-playing game Cyberpunk in 1988, re-releasing a revised version, Cyberpunk 2020 in 1990. Thomas Kane of Atlas Games designed a Cyberpunk 2020 adventure titled Greenwar, with illustrations by Doug Schuler and C. Brent Ferguson, and cover art by Ferguson. Atlas published it under license in 1994.
Reviews
In the November 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #211), Rick Swan complimented the lack of combat in this adventure, commenting that "Players more interested in muscles than minds should keep their distance; this is high IQ territory." Although he noted that the lack of combat might sound a bit boring, "[designer] Kane's flair for the dramatic keeps it as tense as a castle siege." Swan concluded by giving Greenwar an excellent rating of 5 out of 6, saying, "Greenwar will put hack-n-slashers to sleep. [It extends] the parameters of cyberpunk with off-beat premises [...] [It downplays] high tech mumbo-jumbo in favour of imaginative casts and encounters."
References
Cyberpunk (role-playing game)
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994
Science fiction role-playing game adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%20Joshi | Indra Joshi is a British physician who is Director of Artificial Intelligence for NHSX and a founding ambassador of One HealthTech. She supports NHSx with digital health initiatives in the National Health Service in England. During the COVID-19 pandemic Joshi was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
Early life and education
Joshi studied medicine at University College London. She started but did not complete specialist training in emergency medicine and spent ten years working in a range of clinical and non-clinical roles in the NHS.
Research and career
Joshi was appointed clinical advisor to Digital Urgent and Emergency Care in the National Health Service (NHS) in England in 2016. As part of the creation of NHSX her role moved into NHSX in 2019, first as clinical lead in Empower the Person and then as Head of Digital Health and then as Director of Artificial Intelligence. Joshi is leading the formation of the NHS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab.
She worked for the CDO on the NHS England Empower the Person programme, which looks to provide digital tools and information that will empower patients. The portfolio of programmes delivered the NHS App amongst other products and services. NHS Digital worked to ensure that people on NHS sites have access to free Wi-Fi, as well as improving the NHS website, Joshi worked in the wider team. Throughout her time at the NHS, Joshi emphasised that whilst access to patient data can improve their care, patients must be involved at every stage of the data collection and sharing process. She has spoken about the ways that racial and gender bias can be built into computer programmes, and has worked to ensure that the NHS will “tackle this with its code of conduct for ‘data-driven technology’”. Joshi and a wider team from across all the Arms Length Bodies worked with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Public Health England (PHE) and MedCity to develop transparent and fair technologies related to healthcare. She publishes updates on the NHS digital activity on gov.uk.
In 2018 she was selected as one of the top 30 Women Leaders in Healthcare by PM Live. She published Artificial Intelligence: How to get it right. Putting policy into practice for safe data-driven innovation in health and care in 2018, which addresses how AI will be used ethically to benefit patients in the NHS. The report outlined how any advances in technology should be used to reduce the burdens on clinical staff, improve patient safety, improve NHS productivity and improve clinician access to medical records.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshi was tasked by the government to create a responsive platform that could provide hospitals with up-to-date, secure and reliable data. In early May 2020 she was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), who advised the government on best practice throughout the pandemic.
Professional service
In 2016 Joshi joined OneHealth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombenzielanlage | The Bombenzielanlage ("Bomb Target System"), sometimes referred to as the Bomb Ziel Automat (BZA), was a German World War II bombsight analog computer designed to calculate the precise release of bombs during dive-bombing. It was fitted to a number of aircraft types, including the Junkers Ju 88 and the Arado Ar 234. The unit controlled an aiming mark on sight in front of the pilot. The computer assessed the angle of dive, aircraft track, and altitude. The operator set other variables, such as barometric pressure, target altitude, airspeed and wind speed. During operation, the bomb(s) were released when an aiming mark coincided with the target.
Further reading
Photographs of BZA equipment: Images 18 to 23 in image gallery in Hollway, Don, 'The Battle of Graveney Marsh'. History Magazine. Feb/March 2019. http://www.donhollway.com/graveneymarsh/index.html Accessed 2020-04-20.
References
German bomber aircraft
Optical bombsights
World War II military equipment of Germany
Analog computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer%20on%20CBS%20Sports | Soccer on CBS Sports is a number of television programs that have aired soccer matches in the United States on CBS, CBS Sports Network, Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) and CBS Sports Golazo Network. These matches are from International, European, and American competitions.
Current programming
UEFA club competitions
In November 2019, CBS acquired rights to UEFA club competitions, including the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, for three seasons beginning in the 2021–22 season, replacing Turner Sports. The package would center around the CBS All Access (now Paramount+) subscription service, which carries all matches live, with selected matches to be carried by the main CBS network. CBS Sports Network largely carries The Golazo Show on matchdays, a "whiparound" show that airs goals and important moments from all matches in a broadcast window. Its name is a reference to "CBS Sports Golazo", the branding used by the network on social media to promote their men's soccer programming. CBS's studio coverage for the Champions League is produced from IMG's studio in Stockley Park, London in association with network-owned Channel 5.
During the suspension of the 2019–20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, Turner Sports dropped out of its contract with UEFA. CBS would pick up the remainder of the contract and begin its coverage early, beginning from the remaining round of 16 matches in August 2020.
National Women's Soccer League
On March 11, 2020, the NWSL announced that it has entered into a three-year media agreement with CBS Sports and the video game-oriented streaming service Twitch. For the 2020 NWSL season, CBS Sports will broadcast 87 matches (including the playoffs) split between CBS, CBS Sports Network, and CBS All Access in Canada and the United States, with the exact distribution among the channels subject to change, while Twitch will stream an additional 24 matches for free. Twitch will also become the NWSL's international media rights holder and stream all matches outside Canada and the United States for free.
CONCACAF
Paramount+ will offer more than 200 matches from the CONCACAF region, airing English-language rights of Nations League Finals in June 2021 including United States matches, and CONCACAF Men's and Women's World Cup qualifiers, except USA and Mexico home matches.
Brasileirāo and Argentine Primera División
CBS will stream more than 360 matches a year from Brazil's top-tier Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and more than 300 matches a year from Argentina's Primera División Argentina in English-language on Paramount+.
AFC
CBS reached an agreement with Asian Football Confederation to acquire the exclusive U.S. rights for several competitions, including Men's World Cup qualifying, Men's Champions League, Men's Asian Cup, Women's Club Championship and Women's Asian Cup (which is also becoming their Women's World Cup qualification). These coverage are expected to begin in the fall of 2021 on Paramount+.
Serie A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfin | Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container, and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, streaming media player, game console or in a web browser. Jellyfin also can serve media to DLNA and Chromecast-enabled devices. It is a fork of Emby.
Features
Jellyfin follows a client–server model that allows for multiple users and clients to connect, even simultaneously, and stream digital media remotely. Because Jellyfin runs as a fully self-contained server, there is no subscription-based consumption model that exists, and Jellyfin does not utilize an external connection nor third-party authentication for any of its functionality. This enables Jellyfin to work on an isolated intranet in much the same fashion as it does over the Internet. Because it shares a heritage with Emby, some clients for that platform are unofficially compatible with Jellyfin; however, as Jellyfin's codebase diverges from Emby, this becomes less possible. Jellyfin does not support a direct migration path from Emby.
Jellyfin is extensible, and optional third-party plugins exist to provide additional feature functionality. The project hosts an official repository, however plugins need not be hosted in the official repository to be installable.
One of the main advantages of Jellyfin is in the way it handles Live TV and TV tuners. While other media servers such as Plex has a hard limit on channel number (480 max), Jellyfin has no such limit.
Version 10.6.0 of the server software introduced a feature known as "SyncPlay", which provides functionality for multiple users to consume media content together in a synchronized fashion. Support to read epub ebooks with Jellyfin was also added. Also introduced is multiple plugin repositories. Anyone can now create unofficial plugins for Jellyfin and do not need to wait for them to be added to the official plugin repository. The web front end has been split off in a separate system in anticipation of the move towards a SQL backend and High Availability with multiple servers.
Development
The project began on December 8, 2018, when co-founders Andrew Rabert and Joshua Boniface, among other users, agreed to fork Emby as a direct reaction to closing of open-source development on that project. A reference to streaming, Jellyfin's name was conceived of by Rabert the following day. An initial release was made available on December 30, 2018.
Version history
Jellyfin's unique version numbering began with version 10.0.0 in January of 2019.
See also
Plex (company)
Kodi (software)
Emby
Self-hosting (web services)
Home theater PC
References
External links
Official website
2018 software
Android (operating system) software
Audio player software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA%20World%20Cup%20on%20ABC | FIFA World Cup on ABC is the branding used for presentations of the FIFA World Cup produced by the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. ABC first broadcast World Cup matches in 1970, when they aired week-old filmed highlights shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports. ABC next broadcast the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final. Beginning in 1994, ABC was the official American network broadcaster of the World Cup up through 2014. ABC also broadcast the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999 and 2003; Fox took over the American World Cup TV broadcasts in 2011, which took effect in 2015.
Coverage history
1970
The first American telecast of a World Cup match was when NBC aired the final between England and West Germany from four years prior. NBC there, aired the contest on a same-day tape delay using the BBC’s black-and-white feed.
In 1970, it was ABC's turn to broadcast the World Cup final. While ABC aired the contest between Italy and Brazil in color unlike what NBC did in 1966, ABC decided to wait until Christmas, six months after Brazil won, to show it as part of an episode of Wide World of Sports.
1982
In 1982, PBS and ESPN provided the first thorough American television coverage of the FIFA World Cup. ABC aired the first live telecast of the final. ABC aired commercials during the live action. Meanwhile, PBS aired same day highlights of the top game of the day.
Commentators
Giorgio Chinaglia (studio analyst)
Paul Gardner (color commentary)
Mario Machado (color commentary)
Jim McKay (play-by-play)
Jack Whitaker (studio host)
1990s
1994
The 1994 FIFA World Cup marked the return of the World Cup on ESPN and ABC and the first time they used their own commentary teams for all matches. Roger Twibell and Seamus Malin were the lead broadcast team. Al Trautwig and Rick Davis were the secondary broadcast team. Other play-by-play announcers were: Bob Carpenter Bob Ley, Ian Darke, Randy Hahn, and Jim Donovan. Other color commentators were: Clive Charles, Ty Keough, Peter Vermes, Ron Newman, and Bill McDermott. Jim McKay was the studio host alongside studio analyst Desmond Armstrong only for games on ABC.
The 1994 American coverage had many firsts: The first with all of the matches televised, the first with no commercial interruptions during live action, and the first to feature an on-screen score & time box.
1998
In 1998, all 64 matches were televised in the United States live for the first time. Bob Ley and Seamus Malin was the lead broadcast team with other broadcast teams include: Roger Twibell and Mike Hill, JP Dellacamera and Bill McDermott, Derek Rae and Ty Keough, and Phil Schoen and Tommy Smyth. Brent Musburger and Eric Wynalda worked in the studio.
2000s
2002
Unlike in 1998, when ESPN and ABC paid $20 million for the broadcast rights to the World Cup, the English-language rights for the 2002 and 2006 editions were sold instead to Major League Soccer for $40-50 million. Through an agreement with the Walt Disney Company, ES |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20National%20Highway%20341 | China National Highway 341 will run from Jiaonan in Shandong to Haiyan in Qinghai. It is one of the new trunk highways proposed in the China National Highway Network Planning (2013 - 2030).
Status
Shandong
Complete between Jiaonan and Zhucheng. The section is mainly upgraded former provincial highways S324 and S710.
Henan
Completed around Nanle and Anyang.
Shanxi
The Shanxi section is under planning.
Shaanxi
Completed around Yan'an.
Gansu (eastern section)
There are no plans yet to start construction in Huachi County (Shaanxi border-Huan County). Construction is in progress between Huan County urban area and the border with Ningxia. This section will be a 2x2 lane limited-access road.
Ningxia
Construction has started. The route enters Ningxia at Zhaike township, through Sanhe (Heicheng) town, where it crosses G344. The total length in Ningxia is .
Gansu (western section)
Construction of the 61 km section between Baiyin and Lanzhou New Area started in 2017 and was completed in 2021.
Qinghai
Construction has started from Jiading at the border with Gansu to the terminus in Haiyan. Completed within Huzhu County.
Route table
References
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Transport in Shaanxi
Transport in Gansu
Transport in Qinghai
National Highways in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN%20franchise%20renewal%20controversy | The renewal of the congressional franchise of the Philippine media network ABS-CBN to continue broadcasting is a dispute between the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and the media conglomerate arising on the terms and conditions of the franchise renewal agreement. Amid the controversy, the Congress of the Philippines, country's legislature, was unable to renew the franchise before its expiration date. The congressional franchise expired on May 4, 2020, as the Philippines was dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. The next day, exercising constitutional powers, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) then issued a cease-and-desist order demanding ABS-CBN to cease all of its free TV and radio broadcasting immediately. ABS-CBN complied with the government order and shut down all of its radio stations and free television channels later that day. On June 30, 2020, the NTC released two alias cease-and-desist orders against ABS-CBN TV Plus and Sky Direct.
Beginning in 2014 (during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III), the network had repeatedly applied for the renewal of their broadcast franchise through private bills that had been pending in the House of Representatives but had not been addressed by the 16th, 17th, and 18th congresses of the Philippines. Prominent figures in ABS-CBN Corporation, the political opposition in the Philippines, media advocacy groups, and the international press have labeled the refusal of Congress to renew the franchise as a result of Duterte's pressure for ABS-CBN to cease broadcasting and a direct attack on the country's democracy and press freedoms, although sources from the previous administration reported that there was lack of support for renewal because "Mr. Aquino’s allies felt the criticisms against the President were too personal and offensive and went to the point of nitpicking." Duterte's ruling coalition maintains a supermajority in both chambers of Congress, and Duterte criticized the ABS-CBN Network for their allegedly biased and unfavorable news coverage against Duterte beginning with his presidential campaign in the 2016 Philippine presidential election, repeatedly voicing his opposition against the renewal of the network's congressional franchise. ABS-CBN subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines to nullify as unconstitutional the cease-and-desist order.
The resulting franchise expiration and withdrawal of its broadcast rights marked the first time ABS-CBN, considered a historical and cultural icon in the Philippines, had been off the air since the 1986 revolution, having been seized and liquidated by the authoritarian government of the Martial Law dictatorship from 1972 until the regime's collapse in 1986. Critics of the Duterte government consider the NTC's cease-and-desist order and the denial of the franchise application as contributing to a growing democratic backsliding in the Philippines under the D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone%20Press | Persephone Press was a publishing company and communications network run by a lesbian-feminist collective in Watertown, Massachusetts. The company published fourteen books between 1976 and 1983, when the organization was sold to Beacon Press.
History
The company was established as Pomegranate Productions in 1976 in Watertown, Massachusetts, by a group of lesbian feminists. Pomegranate Productions later changed their name to Persephone Press. Pat McGloin, Gloria Z. Greenfield, and Marianne Rubenstein were the founding members of the collective. After publishing A Feminist Tarot by Sally Gearhart and Susan Rennie in 1976, Pomegranate Productions was able to subsidize a conference called "Through the Looking Glass: A Gynergenetic Experience." This conference on women's spirituality was held in Boston in April 1976. Rubenstein departed from the venture in 1977, and Deborah Snow joined in 1978. The collective was reorganized in 1980 to form Persephone Press when Greenfield and McGloin incorporated the group as a partnership. The work of the press was divided with Greenfield serving as financial administrator and McGloin working as the director of marketing. Greenfield and McGloin would later describe Persephone Press as "a means to actualize women's visions." Many of the works published by the Press focused on the Jewish lesbian-feminist perspective.
After just eight years of operation, Persephone Press folded in May of 1983. The organization's financial difficulties included rejected loan renewals, back withholding taxes and penalties owed to the IRS, and the royalties owed authors, substantially higher than most offered in the publishing industry. Because Persephone Press titles sold rapidly, reprinting their backlist rapidly depleted the organization's liquid funds before they could accrue revenue in sales of titles. Controversy arose as the operation folded when author Audre Lorde criticized Persephone press for leaving women of color "holding the bag." Forthcoming titles from the Press, which they no longer has the capacity to publish, were authored by Black women, including Abeng by Michelle Cliff and Home Girls, an anthology edited by Barbara Smith. McGloin and Greenfield indicated they offered to help authors relocate their work to new publishers, but were instead in many cases asked only to revert the rights to the creator. McGloin and Greenfield also claim that when they sought support from the feminist community, including their own authors, their requests were "met not with concern, but with hostility that made our situation even more difficult." They describe the fundamental conflict in their work, that Persephone Press was founded on feminist ideals, but "it used a business structure to achieve impact."
Persephone Press was sold to Beacon Press in 1983. Though Beacon began negotiations to establish a joint imprint with the Press, this ultimately failed.
Publications
List of publications:
A Feminist Tarot by Sally Gearhart and Sus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra%20Edwards | Allegra Rose Edwards is an American television actress known for playing Cindy McCabe in the USA Network anthology series Briarpatch and Ingrid Kannerman in the Amazon Prime Video comedy Upload.
Early life
Edwards is originally from Denver, Colorado. She began modeling when she was 18 months old and continued to model, dance, and act throughout her childhood.
Career
Edwards studied theatre and television at Pepperdine University in Malibu. During her time at Pepperdine, she wrote scenes for Pepperdine's annual Songfest, performed with Pepperdine's Improv Troupe, and appeared in Tutor, a 2009 comedy short written and directed by Jeff Loveness.
After graduating from Pepperdine with her bachelor's degree in 2010, Edwards moved to San Francisco to attend the American Conservatory Theater's three-year Master of Fine Arts program, which she completed in 2013. After earning her MFA, she spent time in Los Angeles and New York City. In 2015, she performed in an off-Broadway production of "Everything You Touch."
In 2019, Edwards played Cindy McCabe in the USA Network anthology series Briarpatch. She stars as Ingrid Kannerman on the Amazon Prime Video comedy Upload that first aired in 2020.
Edwards has also appeared in episodes of Modern Family, New Girl, Friends from College, The Mindy Project, and Orange Is the New Black.
Personal life
Edwards lives in Los Angeles. She is married to actor Clayton Snyder.
Edwards and Snyder welcomed a son on July 12, 2022.
Filmography
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Denver
American Conservatory Theater alumni
American television actresses
Pepperdine University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20Hua%20Li | Leaf Hua Li is founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Futu Holdings Ltd. Li is also on the board of Futu Securities (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd., Futu Network Technology Ltd., Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Ltd. and Futu, Inc.
Li joined Tencent in 2000 and was an early and key research and development participant in Tencent QQ and the founder of Tencent Video.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese company founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pili%20Montilla | Pili Montilla is a Puerto Rican TV host and producer.
Career
She works as a TV host for several networks in both the Hispanic and general audience, as a live host for different events and brands, and has worked for Walmart, Lexus and Starbucks.
She created, produced and hosted the Emmy-award-winning show "Té Para Tres con Pili Montilla" on Mega TV, where she spends a day in the life of Latin musicians. The show has been nominated for a number of Emmy awards and in 2015 won in the Magazine Show category.
In her native Puerto Rico, Montilla was an MTV video journalist for over three years, interviewing stars including Gwen Stefani, Shakira and Ricky Martin. She then joined the national, bilingual network LATV in Los Angeles, hosting shows including "En Concierto" and "En la Zona".
After LATV, Montilla became the entertainment reporter the Univision show Primer Impacto.
She was also the entertainment reporter and producer for various outlets including the award-winning national shows American Latino and LatiNation. Other hosting credits include MTV, LATV, MundoFox and E! Latino. She was featured in the 2013 comedy 200 Cartas alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jamie Camil and Dayanara Torres.
In 2014 she appeared in the horror film Unknowns (Desconocidos) with Gabriel Porras, Sonya Smith and Francisco Gattorno, and has also featured in television series Decisiones, Don Amor and Dueña Y Señora.
In 2017 and 2018 Montilla hosted the Latin Grammy's event for AT&T and has hosted BMI's Los Producers charity event during the Latin Grammy's for three years in a row. In 2019 she co-hosted the 2019 Billboard Latin Music Awards Red Carpet Pre-Show with Carlos Adyan. She's been the red carpet host for New York Magazine's Vulture Festival, in both New York and Los Angeles, for Direct TV for the past two years.
She has been invited to speak at conferences including SXSW, NALIP, Voto Latino, LAMC and Hispanicize where she also hosted the TECLA Awards.
Montilla's latest project is "Pili, Raúl & La Música" an uncensored, bilingual Latin music podcast she created, hosts and produces alongside DJ Raúl Campos. She has also acted as a social media influencer for the American Heart Association.
References
External links
5 Latinos Forging New Ground and Breaking Barriers, NBC News
Burning Man 2017 in pictures, The Telegraph
Puerto Rican producers
21st-century Puerto Rican actresses
Living people
1978 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting | Bitsquatting is a form of cybersquatting which relies on bit-flip errors that occur during the process of making a DNS request. These bit-flips may occur due to factors such as faulty hardware or cosmic rays. When such an error occurs, the user requesting the domain may be directed to a website registered under a domain name similar to a legitimate domain, except with one bit flipped in their respective binary representations.
A 2011 Black Hat paper detailed an analysis where eight legitimate domains were targeted with thirty one bitsquat domains. Over the course of about seven months, 52,317 requests were made to the bitsquat domains.
References
Domain Name System
Types of cyberattacks
Network addressing
URL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20Final%20Four%202002 | NCAA Final Four 2002 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 2 in 2001.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2001 video games
Basketball video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2002
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systime%20Computers | Systime Computers Ltd was a British computer manufacturer and systems integrator of the 1970s and 1980s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Systime become the second largest British manufacturer of computers, specializing in the minicomputer market.
The company was based in Leeds, England, and founded in 1973. Its success was based on selling systems built around OEM components from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and it grew to have over 1,300 employees with turnover peaking around £60 million.
Systime was unusual among systems integrators in that it actually manufactured the hardware it sold to customers.
A portion of Systime was purchased in 1983 by Control Data Corporation and the company's founder departed. Systime Computers then went through a period of sharp decline, in part due to lawsuits from DEC for intellectual property infringement, and even more so due to charges of violating Cold War-era U.S. export restrictions regarding indirect sales to Eastern Bloc countries.
In 1985, what was left of Systime was fully acquired by Control Data Corporation, and a year later the DEC-related services part of that subsidiary was bought by DEC. Systime then focused on selling products built by its own engineers. The Systime–Control Data arrangement did not prosper, and in 1989 Control Data split Systime into four companies, each sold to a management buyout.
Origins of company
John Gow was a mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Leeds who had gone into computer programming and then became a software support manager at a Lancashire office of the British subsidiary of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). He also did some hardware sales work and realised that few of the customers to whom he was selling actually understood the capabilities of the computers they were buying. In 1972, Gow, then 27 years old, and three others set up a partnership on their own, labouring in Gow's bungalow workshop.
Systime Computers Ltd was created the following year, being incorporated in October 1973. Gow and the three others moved their work into the canteen of an abandoned mill in Leeds.
Due to inadequate capitalisation – £2,800, in a field in which the minicomputers they would be selling cost £60,000 each – the new company had a shaky start and came close to going under right away. The key turning point was engaging with Leeds-based jukebox firm Musichire, which had purchased a computer from DEC but were struggling with it. Systime came in on a consulting basis and sold Musichire both software and new hardware. John Parkinson, financial director of Musichire, was sufficiently impressed with Gow's sales abilities that, in 1974, Musichire took a financial stake in Systime. Parkinson subsequently became chair of the board of directors of Systime.
Period of rapidly increasing growth
Gow emphasized that Systime would provide not just hardware but also software applications, systems engineering, and support. By 1975, Systime had £ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20Wetzel | Gudrun Susanne Wetzel is a German computer scientist known for her work in computer security, including the use of information channels such as voice or keystroke dynamics to strengthen password-based security, and the security of wireless communications standards including Bluetooth and GSM. She is a professor of computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Wetzel earned a diploma from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 1993, and completed her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at Saarland University in 1998. Her dissertation, Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithms and their Applications, concerned lattice reduction; her doctoral advisor was Johannes Buchmann.
She joined the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2002.
In 2017, she served a one-year term as a program director at the National Science Foundation.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Saarland University alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuang%20Yin-ching | Kenneth Chuang Yin-ching () is a Taiwanese epidemiologist. As of January 2020, he leads the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) Communicable Disease Control Medical Network.
Career
Chuang earned a degree in medicine at Kaohsiung Medical University, and completed his residency at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. He specialized in epidemiology and infectious diseases while teaching at National Cheng Kung University. Chuang was the superintendent of , Liouying branch.
COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
Chuang rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. Chuang and two colleagues issued on 16 January a level-2 travel alert for Wuhan, China because of his and his colleague's three-day long on-the-ground experience in that city from 13 January to 15 January 2020. They told a news conference in Taipei one day later that 30 percent of the Wuhan patients had no direct exposure to the Huanan Seafood City market (HSCM), which the Chinese authorities indicate as the epicenter of the outbreak. The Chinese had closed down the HSCM on 1 January.
Chuang's revelation on 16 January predates by three days the Chinese confirmation of human-to-human transmission. On 20–21 January the World Health Organization then sent to Wuhan a delegation, which reported on 22 January that human-to-human transmission was indeed occurring.
The Chinese government allowed a total of ten foreign medical officials to visit, including two from Taiwan, one of whom was Chuang. The eight others were from Hong Kong and Macau.
At the 16 January conference, Chuang remarked on the case of "a married couple infected in Wuhan. The husband worked at the market, but the wife, who had not recently been to the market due to limited mobility, might have contracted the illness from her husband." Chuang also was among the first to report that the SARS-CoV-2 infections were occurring in clusters.
Chuang stated later, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph that:
Chuang "received no response to his questions about why 13 infections could not be traced to the (HSCM) seafood market."
The WHO declared a PHEIC on 30 January.
References
Taiwanese epidemiologists
Kaohsiung Medical University alumni
Academic staff of the National Cheng Kung University
Taiwanese hospital administrators
COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
Taiwanese civil servants
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Human-Induced%20Earthquake%20Database | The Human-Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake) is an online database that documents all reported cases of induced seismicity proposed on scientific grounds. It is the most complete compilation of its kind and is freely available to download via the associated website. The database is periodically updated to correct errors, revise existing entries, and add new entries reported in new scientific papers and reports. Suggestions for revisions and new entries can be made via the associated website.
History
In 2016, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij funded a team of researchers from Durham University and Newcastle University to conduct a full review of induced seismicity. This review formed part of a scientific workshop aimed at estimating the maximum possible magnitude earthquake that might be induced by conventional gas production in the Groningen gas field.
The resulting database from the review was publicly released online on the 26 January 2017. The database was accompanied by the publication of two scientific papers, the more detailed of which is freely available online.
References
External links
The Human-Induced Earthquake Database
Physics websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamLab | DreamLab is a volunteer computing Android and iOS app launched in 2015 by Imperial College London and the Vodafone Foundation.
Description
The app currently helps to research cancer, COVID-19, new drugs and tropical cyclones. To do this, DreamLab accesses part of the device's processing power, with the user's consent, while the owner is charging their smartphone, to speed up the calculations of the algorithms from Imperial College London.
The aim of the tropical cyclone project is to prepare for climate change risks. Other projects aim to find existing drugs and food molecules that could help people with COVID-19 and other diseases. The performance of 100,000 smartphones would reach the annual output of all research computers at Imperial College in just three months with a nightly runtime of six hours.
The app was developed in 2015 by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and the Vodafone Foundation. As of May 2020, the project had over 490,000 registered users.
See also
Volunteer computing
Folding@home
BOINC
References
External links
DreamLab App at Google Playstore
DreamLab App at Apple Appstore
Network machine learning maps phytochemically rich “Hyperfoods” to fight COVID-19
Volunteer computing projects
Application software
Medical research
Medical research organizations
Protein structure
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20Maturity%20Model%20Certification | The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is an assessment framework and assessor certification program designed to increase the trust in measures of compliance to a variety of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The CMMC framework and model was developed by Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) of the United States Department of Defense through existing contracts with Carnegie Mellon University, The Johns Hopkins University Applied, Physics Laboratory LLC, and Futures, Inc. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body oversees the program under a no cost contract. The program is currently overseen by the DOD CIO office.
CMMC, which often requires third party assessment if a contractor handles Controlled Unclassified Information, will impact the $768bn Defense industry – 3.2% of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States of America.
The purpose of the CMMC is to verify that the information systems used by the contractors of the United States Department of Defense to process, transmit or store sensitive data is in compliant with the mandatory information security requirements. The goal is to ensure appropriate protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) and federal contract information (FCI) that is stored and processed by partner or vendor.
Model
The framework provides a model for contractors in the Defense Industrial Base to meet the security requirements from NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations. Some contracts will also include a subset of requirements from NIST SP 800–172, Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication.
800–171.
CMMC organizes these practices into a set of domains, which map directly to the NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 and NIST SP 800-172 families. There are three levels within CMMC—Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3
CMMC will not be enforced on federal contracts until the final rulemaking has completed and incorporated into the 32 & 48 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). .
Upcoming guidance has been promised from the CMMC office to help set expectations for companies in the Defense Industrial Base as to what level accreditation should be sought, depending on their role as a prime or sub on various contracts.
History
In 2002 the Federal Information Security Management Act required each federal agency in the United States to develop, document, and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security for the information and information systems.
In 2002 Cybersecurity Research and Development Act authorized appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish new programs, and to increase funding for certain current programs, for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Computers%2C%20Inc. | Parallel Computers, Inc. was an American computer manufacturing company, based in Santa Cruz, California, that made fault-tolerant computer systems based around the Unix operating system and various processors in the Motorola 68000 series.
History
The company was founded in 1983 and was premised on the idea of providing a less expensive alternative to existing fault-tolerant solutions, one that would be attractive to smaller businesses. Over time it received some $21 million of venture capital funding. Parallel Computers was part of a wave of technology companies that were based in that area during the 1980s, the Santa Cruz Operation being the most well-known of them. Parallel Computers was also one of a number of new companies focusing on fault-tolerant solutions that were inspired by the success of Tandem Computers. Other such companies included Encore Computer, Stratus Computer, Tolerant Systems, Sequoia Systems, Synapse Computer, Auragen Systems, No Halt Computers, Corinthian Systems, Enmasse, and Computer Consoles Inc.
Parallel Computers made systems that featured redundant hardware elements from processors and storage to power supplies, and that self-detected error situations. Their systems fit into the supermicrocomputer to minicomputer ranges in size. The difficulties of building fault-tolerant systems were considerable, however, including the unsuitability of Unix in that era for that purpose, and Parallel Systems like the other new companies in the space severely underestimated the engineering tasks involved. Significant product delays resulted as a consequence, as did layoffs, and Parallel Computers changed its chief executive during 1984.
By 1986 Parallel had some $6 million in annual sales and employed 40 people. However it had made fewer than a hundred sales, and one industry analyst surmised that the small business marketplace Parallel was targeting was often not sophisticated enough to recognize the value of fault-tolerant solutions. Moreover, the company's sales force was too small to scale up and its manufacturing capabilities were limited. Parallel had OEM agreements with the likes of Scientific Games Corporation, and used resellers in the United Kingdom such as Systime Computers Ltd, but sales were few through these channels as well.
Accordingly, Parallel's management decided the company was not viable on its own, and Parallel Computers was sold to General Automation in 1987, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. It was then sold again in 1988, to the British computer manufacturing firm Integrated Micro Products (IMP), following disappointing sales of the Parallel product. Following that, the Parallel Computers production facility in Los Gatos, California was shut down and all manufacturing was moved to the north of England. IMP, by then focusing on telecommunications equipment, was eventually acquired by Sun Microsystems in March 1996 for $96 million.
References
Defunct computer companies based in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20military%20network%20in%20Iran | The British military network in Iran, an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Armed Forces, dates back to the World War II years and is distinguishable from the long-standing local civilian network run by the British in Iran.
Activities
1940s
In early January 1942, the British Defence Security Organization in Tehran (DSO) was established. The main objective of the British network at the time, was to thwart the efforts of German Abwehr network in Iran.
1950s
MI6 compiled an "impressive military Who's Who" –detailed personal profiles about Iranian military personnel that included trivial information– with the help of this network, that proved useful in plotting the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. A major function of the network was promotion of its own members while keeping others, especially leftists out of important positions.
Known assets
The following military personnel are known to act as assets for the network, as of early 1950s:
Gen. Hassan Arfa, former chief-of-staff
Col. Teymour Bakhtiyar, later director of SAVAK
Col. Hedayat Gilanshah, personal adjutant to the shah and later Air Force commander
Col. Hussein-Ghuli Ashrafi, a brigade commander in the Tehran garrison
Col. Hassan Akhavi, former commander of Second Bureau
1960s
Known assets
The following military personnel were closely associated with the British, as of 1960s:
Gen. Teymour Bakhtiyar, director of SAVAK
Gen. Mehdi Qoli Alavi-Moqadam, chief of police
Gen. Haj-Ali Kia, commander of Second Bureau
See also
Bushire Under British Occupation
References
Spy rings
MI6 operatives in Iran
British military intelligence informants
Iran–United Kingdom relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20Final%20Four%202003 | NCAA Final Four 2003 is a video game developed by Killer Game and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 2 in 2002.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
2002 video games
Basketball video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2003
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20UPN | In 1995, Viacom and Chris-Craft Industries' United Television launched United Paramount Network (UPN) with Star Trek: Voyager as its flagship series, fulfilling Barry Diller's plan for a Paramount network from 25 years earlier. In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well. During this period the studio acquired some 30 television stations to support the UPN network as well acquiring and merging in the assets of Republic Pictures, Spelling Television and Viacom Television, almost doubling the size of the studio's television library.
Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in 2006, UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country (as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation were).
1990s
The original incarnation of Viacom purchased Paramount in 1993, with the deal closing in March 1994; Viacom then merged its own group of five CBS- and NBC-affiliated stations to the PSG fold. Shortly afterward Viacom entered into a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries, which owned several television stations as part of its United Television subsidiary, to launch the United Paramount Network (UPN). Five of PSG's original six stations, along with several acquisitions such as WSBK-TV in Boston, became charter affiliates of the network when UPN launched in January 1995. PSG sold off two of its original six stations as well; KRRT and WTXF were sold to other companies, with the latter becoming a Fox-owned station. To make up for the loss of its Philadelphia-owned station, PSG bought Philadelphia independent station WGBS-TV and renamed it to WPSG-TV, and moved the UPN affiliation there. The company eventually divested itself of the CBS and NBC stations it held and purchased more UPN affiliates as the 1990s continued.
1995
This was the first season to feature the United Paramount Network and The WB Television Network, as both launched in January 1995. Both networks would ultimately shutdown and form The CW in September 2006. In January 1995, BHC Communications affiliated all of its stations, except the Salt Lake City and San Antonio outlets, with the newly launched United Paramount Network, which it fully owned and financed but ran with Paramount/Viacom, the network's producer. In December 1996, Paramount exercised its option to buy half of the Network by paying half of the losses ($160 million). Included in the deal was to continue selling UPN Star Trek: Voyager instead of placing it in syndication.
When |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Anne%27s%20High%20School%2C%20Fort%2C%20Mumbai | St. Anne’s High School, Fort, Mumbai, popularly known as St. Anne's, Fort is a private girls school in Mumbai, India. Established in 1929, the school is part of the global network of Convent of Jesus and Mary schools and is considered one of South Mumbai’s legacy schools.
The school is housed at Grosvenor House on Madame Cama Road in the heart of the historical Fort neighbourhood of South Mumbai. The school is across the street from the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum and is about ten minutes walking distance from the Gateway of India, Oval Maidan and Cooperage Ground, all historical landmarks of the city. The locality is home to several reputed schools of Mumbai like Campion School and Fort Convent School.
History
The school was established on 11 June 1929 by the pioneering team of Mother Beatrice Marti, Sr. Pauline Coelho and Sr. Ida Mendes of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, a Roman Catholic order founded by Claudine Thévenet (Mary of St. Ignatius) in Lyon, France in 1818. The work of the Congregation started in India in November 1842 with the arrival of five French nuns at Agra. On 18 December 1850, nuns from the Congregation arrived in the Mazagaon neighbourhood of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency (now included in the mega-city of Mumbai), not far from the present St. Anne Church. The nuns of the Congregation went on to establish many educational institutions in Mumbai including the St. Anne's High School in Fort.
Foundation and early years (1929 to 1942)
1929 - The school started operating from a large rented room in Derby Hotel at Colaba Causeway in June 1929. On the first day, 59 students were admitted to the school.
1930 - As the number of students began to swell, the school moved to the second floor of Ormsby House on Ormiston road at Wellington Pier, Colaba. At this time, 120 students were enrolled in the school. In the period that followed, the school began operating toddlers' classes from the ground floor of the building. In this year, the school was placed under the patronage of St. Anne’s and was given its name.
1931 - This was a significant year in the school's history as the first batch appeared for the Bombay matriculation examination. The school operated from Jer Villa (Steafan Hall) on Wodehouse Road in Colaba during this period.
1934 - For the next 8 years, the school was housed at The Grange (Archbishop’s house) on Wodehouse Road.
1942 - The school came to be housed in the building that has been its abode ever since. The nuns of Religious of Jesus and Mary purchased Grosvenor House opposite the Cowasji Jehangir Hall, Colaba in this year.
21st Century
St. Anne's, Fort is a Christian Minority Institution claiming rights and privileges under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution of India. While, the school retains its unique Catholic identity, it is open to students from all castes and creeds. Today, the school has 930 students and 34 st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Badin | Dmitri Sergeyevich Badin (born 15 November 1990 in Kursk) is a Russian intelligence officer and hacker. He is said to have penetrated computer systems of several governments and international organizations on behalf of the Russian state military intelligence service GRU. Badin is wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the German federal prosecutor Generalbundesanwalt. He is suspected of being a member of the Sofacy Group.
Biography
The FBI has been seeking Badin since 2018 by an international arrest warrant based on a suspicion that he is responsible for manipulating the 2016 US presidential election and attacking the servers of the international anti-doping agency WADA.
The German federal prosecutor obtained an international arrest warrant against him in early May 2020. He is said to be responsible for a hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015. At least 16 gigabytes of data were captured, including from one of the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Sofacy Group ("Fancy Bear"), of which Badin is believed to be a member, is responsible for this attack. The allegations against Badin are based on secret service activities and the spying on data.
The international investigation platform Bellingcat confirmed Badin's birth dates and his work for unit 26165 of the GRU, which specializes in cryptography. His car was also registered at the Moscow address of GRU. The accounts he used on Skype, vk.com and his email address and telephone number also confirmed these assumptions. According to this, Badin is probably the author of malware that was used for the hacks of the MH-17 investigative team, the email server of the Democratic Party, the German Bundestag and Bellingcat itself.
References
1990 births
Living people
GRU officers
Hackers
Military personnel from Kursk
Russian individuals subject to European Union sanctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Go%202 | The Surface Go 2 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft. It is the second generation of Surface Go and was announced alongside the Surface Book 3 on May 6, 2020 online. It was available for purchase starting May 12, 2020. In October 2021, this has been superseded by the Surface Go 3.
Surface Go 2 keeps the same thin, lightweight design, but with a larger 10.5-inch display, an improved battery life and an improved performance, one particular model performs 64% faster than the original. It is the first time that an Intel Core m processor is offered in this small device.
The device runs Windows 10 Home in S Mode by default, but can be switched to the full version of Windows 10 Home for free (but not vice versa). It features the same 5 MP front-facing camera, 8 MP rear camera and an infrared camera, same as the previous model. A NFC chip and a kickstand supporting an angle of up to 165° are also present.
With a bigger display also comes with a bigger 1920 x 1280 resolution at 220 ppi, while still maintaining the 3:2 aspect ratio.
The Surface Go 2 starts at $399.99 and goes up to $729.99. Its detachable keyboard with touchpad and stylus pen are sold separately.
Configuration
Features
Windows Hello with IR camera for facial recognition logging in.
Faster processor with a 64% increase in performance for the top model.
An Intel Pentium Gold and an Intel Core m3 CPU options with an Intel UHD Graphics 615 GPU.
Memory options are 4 GB and 8 GB
Storage options are 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB.
A headphone jack, a USB-C port, microSD card slot and a nano SIM card tray for the LTE model.
All configurations can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for an additional $50.
The 8.3 mm thick tablet weighs 544 grams (1.2 pounds).
Up to 10 hours of typical device usage.
Hardware
The Surface Go 2 is the 5th addition to small Surface lineup. The Surface Go 2 is aimed toward children and students, it is also aimed for schools and the enterprise.
The Surface Go 2 features a bigger screen than its predecessor. It features a full-body magnesium alloy construction. The device features a new and fanless powerful processor, an Intel Core m3 8th gen processor inside. The cheaper models will have an Intel Pentium Gold processor inside.
The device contains USB C port with power delivery and a Surface Connect port. The front-facing camera contains an infrared sensor that supports login using Windows Hello.
The device's Type Cover uses an 8-pin connection which is compatible with the previous model. The keyboard is sold separately at $99.
Software
Surface Go 2 models ship with a pre-installed 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home in S Mode and a 30-day trial of Microsoft 365. Users may only install software from Windows Store. Users can opt out of the S Mode of the OS and upgrade to Home for free or Pro for a fee and be able to install apps from outside the Windows Store.
Windows 10 comes pre-installed with Mail, Calendar, People, Xbox, Photos, M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Woolfenden%20Williamson | John Woolfenden Williamson (1869–1950) was a British writer about industrial networks in the first half of the 20th century.
Williamson was unable to complete a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh due to financial difficulties and became a teacher. He later obtained a B.Sc. degree from the Royal College of Science, and was called to the bar as a member of Gray's Inn in 1922. He wrote a number of papers on the interrelationship between law and science.
In 1920 he married the research botanist Helen Lee (née Chambers), who died in 1934.
From 1919 until his retirement in 1936 he was first secretary to the Scientific Instruments Research Association. He also sat on the governing board of the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
In 1929 he contested the general election as Liberal Party candidate for Dartford, coming third polling 18%.
In 1927 Lord Cadman, Chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, invited him to visit the Abadan Refinery to study the industrial development underway there. The resulting book led to an invitation from Lord Stamp to study the workings of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which provided the basis for a further book.
Books
In a Persian Oil Field: A Study in Scientific and Industrial Development (E. Benn, 1927; 2nd edition 1930)
A British Railway Behind the Scenes: A Study in the Science of Industry (E. Benn, 1933)
Railways To-day (Oxford University Press, 1946)
References
1869 births
1950 deaths
Alumni of the Royal College of Science
British science writers
People associated with Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels%20of%20Stringology | Jewels of Stringology: Text Algorithms is a book on algorithms for pattern matching in strings and related problems. It was written by Maxime Crochemore and Wojciech Rytter, and published by World Scientific in 2003.
Topics
The first topics of the book are two basic string-searching algorithms for finding exactly-matching substrings, the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm and the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm. It then describes the suffix tree, an index for quickly looking up matching substrings, and two algorithms for constructing it. Other topics in the book include the construction of deterministic finite automata for pattern recognition, the discovery of repeated patterns in strings, constant-space string matching algorithms, and the lossless compression of strings. Approximate string matching is covered in several variations including edit distance and the longest common subsequence problem. The book concludes with advanced topics including two-dimensional pattern matching, parallel algorithms for pattern matching, the shortest common superstring problem, parameterized pattern matching and duplicate code detection, and the Rabin–Karp algorithm.
Audience and reception
The book is written for an audience familiar with algorithm design and analysis, but not necessarily familiar with string algorithms. Reviewer Rolf Klein suggests that this target audience may be narrow, as he evaluates the book as being too difficult for many students, but not supplying as much depth for experts as the same authors' earlier book Text Algorithms (1994).
Reviewer Shoshana Marcus writes that the algorithms chosen for inclusion in the book are "elegant yet fundamental" but have often been overlooked by more general algorithms textbooks. She writes that the book itself should become a valuable reference for researchers in this area, and that it could also be used to supplement undergraduate or graduate course material in algorithms. Reviewer Ricardo Baeza-Yates suggests that the book's omission of bit-level parallel programming techniques reflects its bias towards theoretical rather than practical methods, but nevertheless agrees with its suitability for graduate courses.
References
Algorithms on strings
Computer science books
2003 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya%20Baloo | Jaya Baloo is a cybersecurity expert who is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Avast Software. Baloo was named as one of the top 100 CISO's in 2017, and one of Forbes 100 Women Founders in Europe To Follow in 2018.
Career
Baloo studied at Tufts University between 1991 and 1995. She was inspired to study computers after receiving one for Christmas at the age of nine. Baloo's first job was working at a bank dealing with export cryptography problems. She was surprised how cryptography was treated as a "weapon", with the USA hiding their security advances from the rest of the world. She had an interest in understanding the difference between mistakes in programming and malicious activity. After moving to The Netherlands Baloo became a network services engineer and consultant at KPN International Consultancy before specialising in fraud and revenue assurance for France Telecom between 2005 and 2009. Baloo then worked at Verizon for nearly 4 years. Baloo believes that the goal of telecommunication attackers is not to bring down services but to shape and intercept traffic without discovery, notably different than attacks on other critical infrastructure like energy or water.
In 2012 Baloo became the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at KPN Telecom, a Dutch internet service provider, in the same year that KPN was hacked. During this time Baloo was chairman of the Dutch Continuity Board, which is a collaboration tackling denial-of-service (DDos) cyberthreats through exchanging live attack information between competitors. In an interview with the podcast Cyber Security Dispatch, it was highlighted that Baloo's length of tenure at KPN was considerably longer than the 18-month to 2 year average. She was named as one of the top 100 CISO's in 2017, with only 9 other women named. In 2018, Forbes named Baloo as one of 100 Women Founders in Europe To Follow.
In October 2019 Baloo took on her current role as CISO for Avast. One reason why she joined Avast is her love of their mission to ensure "that cybersecurity is a fundamental right. It’s not just for people who can afford to pay for a product – it's for everyone".
Baloo holds a faculty position at the Singularity University. She is also a quantum ambassador of KPN Telecom and Vice Chair of the Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Commission. She considers quantum computers as inevitable tools that will disrupt current computing architectures, recommending that businesses and organisations prepare themselves for the impact of new quantum protocols. Among her recommendations are to increase key length of current algorithms, use quantum key distribution in niche part of the network, and look at post quantum cryptographic algorithms. Baloo projects that the most exciting development in quantum communication will be beyond the current point-to-point into many-to-many, on demand, instantly. This requires quantum repeaters and other architecture in a managed service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersex%20trafficking | Cybersex trafficking, live streaming sexual abuse, webcam sex tourism/abuse or ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies)-facilitated sexual exploitation is a cybercrime involving sex trafficking and the live streaming of coerced sexual acts and/or rape on webcam.
Cybersex trafficking is distinct from other sex crimes. Victims are transported by traffickers to 'cybersex dens', which are locations with webcams and internet-connected devices with live streaming software. There, victims are forced to perform sexual acts on themselves or other people in sexual slavery or raped by the traffickers or assisting assaulters in live videos. Victims are frequently ordered to watch the paying live distant consumers or purchasers on shared screens and follow their commands. It is often a commercialized, cyber form of forced prostitution. Women, children, and people in poverty are particularly vulnerable to coerced internet sex. The computer-mediated communication images produced during the crime are a type of rape pornography or child pornography that is filmed and broadcast in real time and can be recorded.
There is no data about the magnitude of cybersex trafficking in the world. The technology to detect all incidents of the live streaming crime has not been developed yet. Millions of reports of cybersex trafficking are sent to authorities annually. It is a billion-dollar, illicit industry that was brought on with the Digital Age and is connected to globalization. It has surged from the world-wide expansion of telecommunications and global proliferation of the internet and smartphones, particularly in developing countries. It has also been facilitated by the use of software, encrypted communication systems, and network technologies that are constantly evolving, as well as the growth of international online payment systems with wire transfer services and cryptocurrencies that hide the transactor's identities.
The transnational nature and global scale of cybersex trafficking necessitate a united response by the nations, corporations, and organizations of the world to reduce incidents of the crime; protect, rescue, and rehabilitate victims; and arrest and prosecute the perpetrators. Some governments have initiated advocacy and media campaigns that focus on awareness of the crime. They have also implemented training seminars held to teach law enforcement, prosecutors, and other authorities, as well as NGO workers, to combat the crime and provide trauma-informed aftercare service. New legislation combating cybersex trafficking is needed in the twenty-first century.
Terminology
Cyber-, as a combining form, is defined as 'connected with electronic communication networks, especially the internet.' Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, including sexual slavery. Victims of cybersex trafficking are trafficked or transported to 'cybersex dens,' which are rooms or locations with a webcam. The cybercrime also involves the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lublin | The Lublin trolleybus is a trolleybus network serving Lublin metropolitan area in Poland. It is one of the four Polish cities that currently have such a network, along with Gdynia, Sopot and Tychy.
Main lines
Fleet
Museum fleet
References
External links
Lublin
Lublin
Lublin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonella%20Buccianti | Antonella Buccianti (born 1960) is an Italian statistician and earth scientist, known for her work on the statistics of compositional data and its applications in geochemistry and geostatistics. She is an associate professor in the department of earth sciences at the University of Florence.
Education and career
Buccianti was born on 7 August 1960 in Florence. She earned a master's degree in stratigraphy from the University of Florence in 1988, including work done as a student with Agip, and completed a PhD at the University of Florence in 1994. She obtained a permanent research position at the university in 2001.
Books
Buccianti is the co-author, with Fabio Rosso, Fabio Vlacci, of the three-volume Italian book Metodi matematici e statistici nelle scienze della terra (2000). She is co-editor of Compositional Data Analysis in the Geosciences: From Theory to Practice (Geological Society, 2006) and Compositional Data Analysis: Theory and Applications (Wiley, 2011).
Recognition
Buccianti was the 2003 winner of the Felix Chayes Prize of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
Italian earth scientists
Italian statisticians
Women earth scientists
Women statisticians
Geochemists
Women geochemists
Academic staff of the University of Florence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20Final%20Four%202004 | NCAA Final Four 2004 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 2 in 2003. On the cover is then-Kansas Jayhawks player Nick Collison.
Reception
The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
2003 video games
Basketball video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2004
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20The%20WB | With the success with Fox, several other companies started to enter the broadcasting world in the 1990s to become the fifth commercial broadcast network that would allow a station to brand itself better and to stand out amongst the increasing number of channels particularly cable. Chris-Craft Industries and Warner Bros. Television Distribution (syndication arm) jointly launched the Prime Time Entertainment Network in September 1993, a consortium created in attempt at creating a new "fifth network." PTEN, Spelling Premiere Network, Family Network and the proposed WB Network & Paramount Network were being shopped in January 1994 against syndicated blocks Disney Afternoon and Universal's "Action Pack." Spelling Premiere Network had launched in August 1994. All American Television considered launching a first-run movie network with 22 movies as of November 1994. Chris-Craft subsidiary United Television then partnered with Paramount (by then recently merged with Viacom) to create the United Paramount Network (UPN), which launched in January 1995. Warner Bros. parent Time Warner then formed a partnership with the Tribune Company to create The WB, which also launched less than a week after UPN made its debut. Concurrently, United left PTEN's parent, the Prime Time Consortium, to focus on UPN, leaving PTEN as primarily a syndicator of its remaining programs; the service shared affiliations with its respective parents' own network ventures (in some cases, resulting in PTEN's programming airing in off-peak time slots) until it finally folded in September 1997.
1990s
Controversial from the very beginning, the fin-syn rule was relaxed slightly during the 1980s. Following the severe changes in the television landscape, such as the rise of the Fox network and cable television, the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules were abolished completely in 1993.
It was the repeal of fin-syn that ultimately made newer broadcast networks such as UPN and The WB financially interesting for their highly vertically integrated parent media conglomerates Paramount Pictures (Viacom) and Time Warner, respectively.
On November 2, 1993, Time Warner announced the formation of The WB Television Network, a venture developed in partnership with the Tribune Company (which, prior to acquiring an 11% interest in August 1995, was a non-equity partner in the new network) and former Fox network executive Jamie Kellner (who would serve as the original president of and would hold a minority ownership stake in The WB). Tribune committed six of the seven independent stations it owned at the time to serve as charter affiliates of the network, though it initially exempted the WGN-TV Chicago signal from the agreement, as station management had expressed concerns about how the network's plans to expand its prime time and daytime program offerings would affect WGN's sports broadcast rights and the impact that the potential of having to phase them out to fulfill network commitments would have o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Dinarica | The Via Dinarica is a network of long-distance hiking trails in the Dinaric Alps, and consists of the White Trail, Blue Trail and Green Trail. Via Dinarica connects the countries Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania.
The Via Dinarica project was launched in 2010 with the aim of promoting and developing tourism in the Western Balkans. The Green and Blue trails are still under development (2020).
White Trail
The White Trail (1,260.8 km) is the main route in Via Dinarica, and follows the main ridge of the Dinaric Alps. Along this route are the highest mountain peaks in each of the countries (except for Slovenia). The route starts in Razdrto at the foot of the Nanos plateau in Slovenia, and roughly follows the Croatian mountains of Velika Kapela, Velebit and Dinara. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the trail passes through the Hercegovina region, and then through the mountains of Central Montenegro. The route ends in the Valbona valley in the Albanian Alps in Northern Albania.
Blue Trail
The Blue Trail focuses on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, the islands, peninsulas and the somewhat lower mountains here.
Green Trail
The Green Trail runs through the green and lush inland (for example the Lika region in Croatia and the central Bosnian regions) on the eastern slopes of the Dinaric Alps. The last part of the route also goes to western and south parts of Serbia.
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Hiking trails in Europe
Hiking trails in Croatia
Hiking trails in Slovenia
Hiking trails in Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20for%20IT%20Operations | Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is a term coined by Gartner in 2016 as an industry category for machine learning analytics technology that enhances IT operations analytics. AIOps is the acronym of "Artificial Intelligence Operations". Such operation tasks include automation, performance monitoring and event correlations among others.
There are two main aspects of an AIOps platform: machine learning and big data. In order to collect observational data and engagement data that can be found inside a big data platform and requires a shift away from sectionally segregated IT data, a holistic machine learning and analytics strategy is implemented against the combined IT data.
The goal is to enable IT transformation, receive continuous insights which provide continuous fixes and improvements via automation. This is why AIOps can be viewed as CI/CD for core IT functions.
Given the inherent nature of IT operations, which is closely tied to cloud deployment and the management of distributed applications, AIOps has increasingly led to the coalescence of machine learning and cloud research.
Process
The normalized data is suitable to be processed through machine learning algorithms to automatically reduce noise and identify the probable root cause of incidents. The main output of such stage is the detection of any abnormal behavior from users, devices or applications.
Noise reduction can be done by various methods, but most of the research in the field points to the following actions:
Analysis of all incoming alerts;
Remove duplicates;
Identify the false positives;
Early anomaly, fault and failure (AFF) detection and analysis.
Anomaly detection - another step in any AIOps process is based on the analysis of past behavior of users, equipment and applications. Anything that strays from that behavior baseline is considered unusual and flagged as abnormal.
Root cause determination is usually done by passing incoming alerts through algorithms that take into consideration correlated events as well as topology dependencies. The algorithms on which AI are basing their functioning can be influenced directly, essentially by "training" them.
Use
A very important use of AIOps platforms is related to the analysis of large and unconnected datasets, such as the Johns Hopkins Covid-19's data published through GitHub. The data in this example is pulled from a large number of un-normalized databases - aggregated data (10 sources), US regional data (113 sources) and Non-US data (37 sources), which are unuseable considering the needed emergency response time by the traditional analysis models.
Generally, the main areas of use for AIOps platforms and principles are
Automation of tasks (DevOps)
Machine learning platforms
Augmented reality
Agent-based simulations
Internet of things (IoT)
AI Optimized Hardware
Natural language generation
Streaming data platforms
Conversational BI and analytics
Deployment and integration testing
System con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyro | Zyro is a privately held software company, providing website building, eCommerce, and artificial intelligence solutions to consumers.
It is a drag-and-drop platform that allows users to build a website with no prior coding knowledge.
It was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Kaunas, with an office in Vilnius.
Zyro AI Technology
A pivotal part of the Zyro website builder is artificial intelligence (AI). While there are seven AI tools that visitors can use for free, the two flagship ones are AI Writer and AI Heatmap.
AI Writer is an AI texter that's publicly available and which uses the language modeling technology of GPT-2, the precursor of GPT-3. It can generate text about a variety of pre-defined categories, such as food or small business.
The AI Writer tool generated lyrics of three Glastonbury 2020 headline acts. Fans could create AI-driven lyrics written in the style of Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, and Paul McCartney.
The AI Writer tool also generated Shakespeare-inspired sonnets for the National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom.
AI Heatmap predicts website visitor behavior by generating heatmaps, thus allowing website owners to optimize their websites for conversions.
References
Web development software
Software companies established in 2019
Software companies of Lithuania
2019 establishments in Lithuania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KnetMiner | Knowledge Network Miner (KnetMiner) is a system of tools used to integrate, search and visualize biological Knowledge Graphs (KGs). It assists scientists in searching across large biological databases and literature to find links between genes, traits, diseases, and other information types.
Current KnetMiners (non-exhaustive list)
KnetMiner KGs are built using the company’s data integration platform KnetBuilder and provided in OXL, Neo4j and RDF graph formats. It makes use of FAIR data principles and supports the use of a range of biological data formats. The KnetMiner API provides web endpoints to search the KG with genes and keywords, returning the knowledge in graph format. KnetMiner was initially created by a collaboration of researchers at Rothamsted Research and has since expanded and initiated a spin-out process. KnetMiner filed for the KnetMiner trademark on November 25, 2021 and was entered into the register on May 06, 2022.
KnetMiner hosts a range of different species, including a knowledge graph dedicated to SARS-CoV-2 in response to the 2020 global pandemic, on Rothamsted Research HPC machines, which include the following:
Triticum aestivum
Arabidopsis thaliana
Oryza sativa japonica
SARS-CoV-2
Fusarium graminearum
Fusarium culmorum
Zymoseptoria tritici
KnetMiner has been involved in a number of studies, including studies for wheat, willow, and SARS-CoV-2. It is also being used for exploring pathogen-host interactions in collaboration with PHI-base, soybean loopers, and other species.
API access
KnetMiner uses REST API access to obtain either JSON outputs of each view type, or to obtain network views for certain searches.
Funding
KnetMiner is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, a UK research council.
References
Data analysis software
Genetics articles needing attention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Harvey%20%28artist%29 | Adam Harvey is an American artist and researcher based in Berlin whose work focuses on computer vision, digital imaging technologies, and counter surveillance. His work includes projects combining art and technology as well as speaking and hosting talks on topics relating to data and computer vision.
Education
Harvey attended Pennsylvania State University for his Bachelor's Degree and to study mechanical engineering. Whilst attending, Harvey worked at the school’s newspaper, The Daily Collegian, as a photojournalist. He also had an interest in digital media and photography during his time. After working for four years, Harvey attended New York University for his Master's Degree in the school's Interactive Telecommunications Program where he studied computational photography and technology.
Career
Harvey's projects and works focus mainly on the connection of photography and technology, and span multiple concepts such as facial recognition, surveillance, and art design. Currently, he is a designer and independent researcher based in Berlin. Harvey is a self-proclaimed creative technologist and focuses on incorporating art with the technological world with concepts such as anti-surveillance. He became interested in the impacts of technology through working as a photographer, with his first job being working as freelance photographer in New York City. Harvey is against the use of surveillance and believes that people need to be exposed to and understand the technology behind it. In an interview with ArtBlog, Harvey stated that he has staged activist events against surveillance and was always interested in protesting the state of surveillance.
He is the creator of the notable project/concept, CV Dazzle, aimed at camouflaging against facial detection systems, which turn images of faces into mathematical formulas that can be analyzed by algorithms. CV Dazzle – CV meaning computer vision – uses cubist-inspired designs to thwart the computer and fool the facial recognition software to minimize surveillance. This process uses multiple factors such as makeup, obscuring the eyes, and using objects to mask the facial structure of a person. Harvey's current work continues to explore variants of low-cost methods for averting high-tech surveillance. Think Privacy, is a worldwide advertising campaign asking individuals to consider what they are doing with their data. This included posters with phrases such as "Data Never Dies" and "Today's Selfie is Tomorrow's Biometric Profile".
Harvey is also an avid speaker and presenter, and has spoken at multiple conferences and meetings such as TED, notably at TEDxVilnius in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Harvey's work has been featured widely in media publication including the BBC, Spiegel, Washington Post, New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, and the Financial Times; and shown at internationally acclaimed institutions, museums, and events.
Adam Harvey has also had multiple other endeavors such as teaching at New York Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20E.%20Dodd | Lori Elizabeth Dodd is an American mathematical statistician specializing in clinical trials methodology, statistical analysis of genomic data, design of clinical trials using biomarkers and imaging modalities, and statistical methods for analyzing biomarkers. She is a statistician in the biostatistics research branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Education
In 1995, Dodd completed a bachelor's degree in the department of anthropology at the University of Utah Honors College. Her undergraduate thesis was titled, The old people know different: Navajo aging and the aged in the context of change. Dodd's undergraduate academic advisor was Per Hage, and Charles C. Hughes served as her thesis supervisor. In 2001, she earned a Ph.D. in the department of biostatistics at the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled Regression methods for areas and partial areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curve. Dodd's doctoral advisor was Margaret Sullivan Pepe.
Career
Dodd worked at the National Cancer Institute in the biometric research branch to evaluate imaging in oncology trials.
Dodd is a mathematical statistician in the division of clinical research's biostatistics research branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She specializes in clinical trials methodology, statistical analysis of genomic data, design of clinical trials using biomarkers and imaging modalities, and statistical methods for analyzing biomarkers. At NIAID, she researches the statistical assessment of medical diagnostic tests and clinical trial design.
In 2016, Dodd conceived of and edited a special issue on Ebola for the journal Clinical Trials, which highlighted different approaches to trial design and various viewpoints from the individuals and organizations who contributed to research efforts.
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External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
National Institutes of Health people
21st-century American women scientists
American medical researchers
Women medical researchers
University of Utah alumni
University of Washington alumni
American statisticians
Women statisticians
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Biostatisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Computers | Atlantic Computers plc (also Atlantic Computer Systems plc) was a British computer lessor and technology services firm, set up in 1975, that collapsed in 1990. Its fall also brought down its parent company British and Commonwealth Holdings, a financial services firm which had acquired it for £434 million in 1988.
The company leased computers systems using complex 'Flexlease' agreements, which allowed a lessee to update to a new lease after a three years or to cancel the lease after five years. These terms made Atlantic vulnerable to large liabilities incurred if invoked which were often not covered by the value of the equipment itself.
During acquisition talks, Atlantic misrepresented its contingent liabilities and by the time of its collapse, had more than £550m in debt. While its American arm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 5 July 1990, the British firm had been placed in administration with PricewaterhouseCoopers on 18 April. The group employed around 1,400 people at the time.
A report into the failure of British and Commonwealth was set up by the Department of Trade and Industry and headed by Eben Hamilton QC and James Alexander Scott, an accountant. It found that Atlantic had never made a profit from its founding in 1975. After the report's release, three former directors of Atlantic (David Austin McCormick, Nicholas Scott and Sien Yen Cheng Kai On) faced disqualification at the behest of Michael Heseltine, then President of the Board of Trade. McCormick later appealed his disqualification but it was upheld.
Many creditors had to wait for almost a decade to recoup their money after the collapses caused a string of insolvency lawsuits.
See also
Re Atlantic Computer Systems plc (No 1) - an important insolvency case regarding the administration process when a company is unable to pay its debts, resulting from Atlantic's collapse
Soden v British and Commonwealth Holdings plc - a 1998 case regarding the collapse of Atlantic's parent company
References
Computer companies disestablished in 1990
1990 disestablishments in England
Computer companies established in 1975
1975 establishments in England
British companies established in 1975
American companies disestablished in 1990
British companies disestablished in 1990
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNDP%20South%20Africa | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in South Africa is one of the 177 offices of the UNDP’s global networks located in the country's capital, Pretoria. Its vision is to empower people's lives and help nations to become stronger and more resilient. As a part of the wider UNDP's development efforts, the local office is responsible for supporting the government to develop and implement policies to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in South Africa. UNDP interventions in South Africa focus on promoting actions that contribute to address the triple challenge of inequality, poverty and unemployment that the county faces. In that regard, the interventions include the promotion of youth employment; building resilience to climate change impacts; biodiversity conservation; water management; promotion of access to sustainable, clean and affordable energy; and promotion of citizens participation in democratic processes. Leaving no-one behind, gender mainstreaming and innovation are in the center of all UNDP cooperation.
History
The republic of South Africa formally accepted membership of the UNDP in 1994 and was admitted to the UNDP executive board in January 1998. South Africa through the Department of Foreign Affairs, coordinates the activities of the UNDP. The UNDP is involved in numerous projects in South Africa dealing with a variety of central and provincial government departments.
Country Office Programmes
Inclusive growth
The inclusive growth programme on women, youth and other marginalized groups aim to increase productivity in primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, and to enhance value chain development in South Africa. As economies continue to slow down and unemployment soars in the face of COVID-19, keeping the commitment of the SDGs to leaving no one behind will require going beyond income and building multi-dimensional poverty indices to improve social inclusion. Some of the projects under inclusive growth include:
Supporting SMME's to bridge the digital divide
Automotive Training and Re-Skilling in the Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Vulnerable Youth and Women in South Africa
Support to the Development of Value Chain for a Circular Economy in the Food Waste Sub-Sector for Sustainable Jobs and Inclusive Growth
Youth Employment and Enterprise Development Programme, and
Empowering Women in Agriculture Through Capacity Development
Service delivery and democratic governance
Strengthening Democratic Governance aims to assist the South African Government to reposition the public sector to enhance the quality-of-service delivery through innovation, with an emphasis on providing services to historically disadvantaged communities. The outcome would be women and marginalized groups that are able to participate meaningfully in decision-making and access justice, state institutions that deliver effective public services to all, and oversight bodies that are strengthened. Some of the projects u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred%20Hackett | Winifred Hackett (2 October 1906 – 3 June 1994) was an electrical and aeronautical engineer who worked on guided weapon systems and the DEUCE computer.
Early life and education
Hackett was born in Kings Norton, an area of Birmingham on 2 October 1906.
She attended King Edward's Girls’ High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Hackett was an exceptional student and won a scholarship whilst at the school. She originally planned to study architecture and for a time attended UCL with this purpose, but decided to change academic direction, returning to Birmingham to study engineering instead.
In 1929 Hackett was the first woman to graduate from the University of Birmingham with an engineering degree, and won the prize for the 'Best Engineer in the University of Birmingham' in 1930. Hackett's academic success resulted in the award of the Bowen Scholarship for Electrical Engineering, which enabled her to stay on to earn an MSc. A further grant from the Institution of Electrical Engineers' War Thanksgiving Education and Research Fund in 1930 supported her a to earn a PhD on selenium cells, again at the University of Birmingham.
She then became an aeronautical engineer.
Career
Hackett's first job was at the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association at Perivale and then Leatherhead, where she worked as a Junior Technical Assistant. During this time she was researching dielectrics and published a number of papers on dielectrics, capacitors and DC design. She encouraged colleagues, including Miriam Violet Griffith, to join the Women's Engineering Society.
By the 1950s Hackett was head of the Guided Weapons Division at aerospace and defence company English Electric, working on Mathematical Physics, and based first in Luton and later in Stevenage. She was in charge of the DEUCE computer and its programming on punched cards and paper tape. The Deuce was a commercialised version of Alan Turing’s ACE computer. of which 33 were sold and which had a library of over 1,000 programmes. The period when Hackett ran the guided weapons division also saw the development of the Thunderbird surface to air missile and other ballistic missiles.
In the early 1960s Hackett joined the Manchester Business School as a Senior Research Fellow where she undertook statistical analysis. It was here that the future software designer Judy Butland became her mathematical assistant and computer.
Memberships and personal life
Having been involved with the Women's Engineering Society since 1929, particularly the Manchester branch, in 1943 Hackett was elected to the governing council. In August that year she chaired a meeting which set up a branch in Birmingham, and shortly afterwards was elected vice president of the main organisation.
She became the President of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) in 1946, succeeding Margaret Partridge in the role. Hackett's successor as president was Frances Heywood.
In 1950, she and fellow senior WES members, Ira Rischowski |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perimeter%2081 | Perimeter 81 is an Israeli cloud and network security company that develops secure remote networks, based on the zero trust architecture, for organizations. Its technology replaces legacy security appliances like VPNs and firewalls.
Since 2023, Perimeter 81 has been owned by the American-Israeli multinational cybersecurity company Check Point.
History
The company was founded in 2018 by Sagi Gidali and Amit Bareket, founders of SaferVPN which was acquired by J2 Global. The SaferVPN network infrastructure, which was developed over six years, served as the basis for Perimeter 81's initial product development.
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, it raised 19.5 million dollars in three funding rounds during 2019–2020, including investments from USA's SonicWall (Francisco Partners), Toba Capital and Israel's Spring Ventures. In August 2020, two months after raising funds at 100 million dollars valuation, it completed a $40 million Series B financing round at a company valuation of $160 million.
In June 2022 it completed a Series C financing round led by the USA's B Capital fund, with the participation of Insight Partners, Entree Capital, Toba Capital and ION Crossover Ventures. It has raised $100 million, at a $1b valuation, becoming a unicorn. The company has over 2,500 clients, among them Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.
In August 2023, it was reported that the company would be acquired for $490 million by Check Point. The following month, the American-Israeli cybersecurity company announced that it had completed the purchase of Perimeter 81.
Technology
The company develops a converged networking and security cloud edge delivered in a software as a service model. It offers global gateway deployment and multi-tenant management, allowing the distributed workforce to securely access company resources, whether these are located in the cloud or on-premises.
The platform intends to replace the traditional vpn service with a firewall as a service (FWaaS) solution. It is a user-centric security bearing, dedicated to preventing password theft attacks. It protects online users by using a secure web gateway, replacing multiprotocol label switching and enabling connection between offices via SD-WAN.
Perimeter 81 offers its service through the Ingram cloud marketplace and has partnered with SentinelOne to deliver unified network and endpoint security. The company also partnered with SonicWall to incorporate cyber security and firewall features in its secure access service edge (SASE) platform. Perimeter 81 was chosen by Gartner as a “cool vendor in network and cyber-physical systems security”, selected by Frost & Sullivan as technology leadership award winner, recognized as one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies by Deloitte and chosen as a finalist in the Ingram micro comet competition. The company also won the cybersecurity vendor achievement of the year, a cybersecurity breakthrough award and was the finalist in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20crustulus | The Manus bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus crustulus) is a species of gecko endemic to Manus Island of Papua New Guinea.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=crustulus
Reptiles of Papua New Guinea
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2020
Taxa named by Paul M. Oliver
Taxa named by Ryan Hartman (herpetologist)
Taxa named by Cameron D. Turner
Taxa named by Taylor A. Wilde
Taxa named by Christopher C. Austin
Taxa named by Stephen J. Richards
Geckos of New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20dattkyaikensis | The Datt Kyaik Hill bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus dattkyaikensis) is a species of gecko endemic to Myanmar.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=dattkyaikensis
Reptiles of Myanmar
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2020
Taxa named by Larry Lee Grismer
Taxa named by Perry L. Wood
Taxa named by Evan Quah
Taxa named by Marta S. Grismer
Taxa named by Myint Kyaw Thura
Taxa named by Jamie R. Oaks
Taxa named by Aung Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20taungwineensis | The Taung Wine Hill bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus dattkyaikensis) is a species of gecko endemic to Myanmar.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=taungwineensis
Reptiles of Myanmar
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2020
Taxa named by Larry Lee Grismer
Taxa named by Perry L. Wood
Taxa named by Evan Quah
Taxa named by Marta S. Grismer
Taxa named by Myint Kyaw Thura
Taxa named by Jamie R. Oaks
Taxa named by Aung Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20urbanus | The urban bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus urbanus) is a species of gecko endemic to India.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=urbanus
Reptiles of India
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2020
Taxa named by Jayaditya Purkayastha
Taxa named by Madhurima Das
Taxa named by Sanath Chandra Bohra
Taxa named by Aaron M. Bauer
Taxa named by Ishan Agarwal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha%20Builders | Mecha Builders (also known as Sesame Street Mecha Builders) is a computer-animated children's television series and a spin-off of Sesame Street, that began production in May 2020. The series is produced by Sesame Workshop and Guru Studio.
The project was announced in October 2019. Visual development was started remotely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series intended to add 80 staff as it entered production.
The first episode premiered as a sneak peek on April 30, 2022 on Cartoon Network within its Cartoonito pre-school block, before officially premiering on May 9, 2022. The series is also available on the streaming service Max. A sneak peek of the first episode was released on April 26, 2022.
Plot
The series focuses on “mecha” versions of three legacy characters: Mecha Abby Cadabby, Mecha Elmo, and Mecha Cookie Monster, all reimagined as mechanical beings with the power to enlarge to giant size in addition to unique built-in tools and gadgets. The trio usually solve a problem using a three-step formula: plan, test, and solve. Later episodes would add a fourth main cast member in the form of Elmo's puppy Tango.
Much like the Muppet Babies reboot, the animated nature of the show's visual style allows more expression in the characters besides body language and opening mouths.
Characters
Main
Mecha Abby Cadabby (voiced by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph) is one of the three Mecha Builders. Mecha Abby is the sole female of the main trio, and acts as the group's leader. Her gadgets include jet boosters in her wings, a flying hologram generator used to outline their plans, and she has the ability to stretch her arms to great lengths in order to reach faraway objects. She represents the planning aspect of the show's problem-solving formula.
Mecha Elmo (voiced by Ryan Dillon) is one of the three Mecha Builders. Mecha Elmo has high technical powers and is able to assemble many of the devices the team needs (often with some help). His gadgets include wheels in his feet, a safety helmet and visor, and his forearms have the ability to morph his hands into any tool needed for the job, though he typically has to try more than once to get the correct tool. He represents the testing aspect of the show's problem-solving formula.
Mecha Cookie Monster (voiced by David Rudman) is one of the three Mecha Builders. Mecha Cookie Monster is typically excited when it comes to food and while good-hearted tends to be both dimwitted and skeptical. His gadgets include springs in his feet, the ability to see things to identify, search, or scope out a situation (dubbed the "Goggly Vision"), and his right hand can morph into a large hammerhead (dubbed the "Handy Hammer Hand"), though both hands can also merge into a large rolling drum. He represents the solving aspect of the show's problem-solving formula. After a Mecha Builder shrinks (going "Mecha Tiny") or enlarges (going "Mecha Giant"), Mecha Cookie Monster's chest badge also displays the Cookie Clock, a timer that shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-Katan%20Kryze | Bo-Katan Kryze (pronounced ) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. She was introduced in the computer-animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in which she was voiced by Katee Sackhoff. Sackhoff subsequently reprised her role in the sequel series Star Wars Rebels, and made her live-action debut as the character in the second season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.
In The Clone Wars, Bo-Katan is a member of the Death Watch, a terrorist faction of Mandalorians who wish to restore the ancient warrior ways of their planet, Mandalore. She is also the sister of Duchess Satine Kryze, the pacifist ruler of Mandalore, from whom she is estranged due to differences in their politics. She later allies herself with former Jedi Ahsoka Tano and the Galactic Republic in liberating Mandalore from Darth Maul. In Rebels, Bo-Katan is declared the new ruler of Mandalore. In The Mandalorian, after the Great Purge of Mandalore, she seeks to recover the Darksaber from Moff Gideon and retake her homeworld.
Concept and creation
On January 13, 2012, Bo-Katan Kryze first appeared in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars fourth season episode "A Friend in Need," voiced by Katee Sackhoff. Although not originally included in the script for the episode, director Dave Filoni added the character to set up a greater role in the series' fifth season. Due to the series' initial cancellation, and renewal years later, Bo-Katan would not reappear in The Clone Wars until the series' seventh and final season in 2020. During the hiatus between the sixth and seventh seasons of The Clone Wars, Bo-Katan appeared in several episodes of Star Wars Rebels, in episodes set fifteen years after the events of The Clone Wars.
Bo-Katan's name is a mnemonic riff on the words "boogie-cat-Anne" pronounced together, referring to the name of the cat belonging to Filoni's wife, herself named Anne. Bo-Katan is a warrior at her core, and left the politics of leadership to the diplomats like her sister Duchess Satine Kryze. She has her faults, and a strong sense of her own self importance, but she understands the Mandalorian warrior culture and over time grows into her role as a leader.
On November 16, 2019, Sackhoff confirmed that she would portray Bo-Katan in live-action in the then-upcoming second season of The Mandalorian, appearing in "Chapter 11: The Heiress", released on November 13, 2020. Costume designer Shawna Trpcic commissioned sculptor Jose Fernandez and his Ironhead Studios to build Mandalorian armor for Bo-Katan. Sackhoff had hoped to play the character in live action but expected that it would be recast with someone more famous such as Scarlett Johansson. When she finally wore the armor for the first time she was overwhelmed and cried with joy.
Appearances
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Season Four
Bo-Katan Kryze (voiced by Katee Sackhoff) first appeared in the fourth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in the episode "A Friend in Need" as the lieutenant of Death W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComplyAdvantage | ComplyAdvantage, founded in 2014, is a RegTech company that provides software to help detect and manage risks associated with AML and Fraud. The company uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing to help regulated organisations manage risk obligations and counteract financial crime.
History
ComplyAdvantage was founded in London, United Kingdom, in 2014 by Charles Delingpole. The company was initially set up as a RegTech solutions provider for businesses to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements. Prior to this, in 2002, Delingpole founded The Student Room, an online community for students based in the United Kingdom. He sold the company in 2006 and then founded MarketFinance, a FinTech company, alongside Anil Stocker and Ilya Kondrashov, in 2011.
The company has acquired a total of $88.2 million through three series of venture capital funding. In October 2016, the company raised $8.2 million Series A funding. It then raised $30 million in Series B and $50 million in Series C in January 2019 and July 2020, respectively. The funding rounds were led by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan board.
In 2019, ComplyAdvantage received the Best RegTech Solution award at Finovate. The company was named a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum in 2020. It was ranked 87th on Financial Times list of Europe's 1000 fastest growing companies.
ComplyAdvantage was one of six British FinTech companies chosen by the Department of International Trade (DIT) for its third mission to Finnosummit, an international financial technology conference that takes place in Latin America.
In 2022, Vatsa Narasimha was promoted to the position of CEO with Charles Delingpole moving to the role of Executive Chairman.
Services
The funding was used by ComplyAdvantage to introduce new services and set up offices in the United States, Singapore, and Romania. As of 2020, the company offers AML onboarding and monitoring, AML transaction monitoring, payment screening, and politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media screening. ComplyAdvantage also offers real-time sanctions and watch list screening using global lists maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and other governmental, law enforcement, and regulatory databases.
Partnerships
In 2020, sync., an open banking platform, partnered with ComplyAdvantage to integrate its AML and anti-fraud features in their mobile application. Kompli-Global also entered into a strategic partnership with ComplyAdvantage in 2020 to include its real-time sanctions and PEP screening features in its remote corporate onboarding platform, Kompli-QED.
See also
Anti-money laundering software
Money laundering Control Act
References
Software companies of the United States
Companies based in the City of London
Bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20Alternatives%20with%20Women%20for%20a%20New%20Era | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a transnational feminist network of scholars, researchers and activists from the global South. DAWN works under the gender, ecology and economic justice (GEEJ) framework, which highlights the linkages between these three advocacy areas. The network offers a forum for feminist advocacy, research, and analysis on global social, political, and economic issues affecting women, with a focus on poor and marginalized women of the global South. This was a shift from the association of feminism with white, middle-class women of the global North common at the time of DAWN’s formation and into the present-day. Rafia Zakaria, author of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, argues that DAWN and its empowerment approach to development offer a successful example of a bottom-up, antiracist alternative to political mobilization that decentres the whiteness prominent in dominant feminist development projects.
History
DAWN, which today has its Secretariat based in Fiji, was founded in Bangalore, in 1984. The founding committee members were Neuma Aguiar (Brazil), Zubeida Ahmad (Pakistan), Peggy Antrobus (Barbados), Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico), Nirmala Banerjee (India), Carmen Barroso (Brazil), Ela Bhatt (India), Tone Bleie (Norway), Noeleen Heyzer (Malaysia), Hameeda Hossain (Bangladesh), Devaki Jain (India), Kumari Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), Isabel Larguia (Cuba), Ragnhild Lund (Norway), Geertje Lycklama (Netherlands), Lucille Mair (Jamaica), Katharine McKee (United States), Fatima Mernissi (Morocco), Achola Pala Okeyo (Kenya), Marie-Angelique Savane (Senegal), Gita Sen (India), and Claire Slatter (Fiji). Peggy Antrobus served as general coordinator of DAWN from 1991 to 1996.
DAWN economists Gita Sen and Caren Grown presented a platform for a feminist economics at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi. The ideas which circulated there were later published as a book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions, Third World Women's Perspectives, considered to be DAWN’s manifesto.
Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions
Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions critiqued mainstream development programs and envisioned an alternative feminist “paradigm” focusing on women’s empowerment.
The groundbreaking work included both broad, political analysis and practical advice for women’s organizations, connecting the more familiar, grassroots work that many women engaged in with macroeconomic analysis and critique of the neoliberal development practices responsible for women’s unfavourable circumstances globally. For instance, a food crisis in Africa, a crisis of poverty in South Asia, militarism in the Pacific Islands, and the Latin American debt crisis. It criticized the “integrationist” approach of the current “Women in Development” perspective for its assumption that “women’s main problem in the Third World is insufficient participation in an otherwise benevolent process of growth and develo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Intelligence | Daisy Intelligence is a Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that provides data analysis services to help retailers, mainly grocers and supermarkets, to determine optimal pricing and promotional mix. The company also helps insurance companies detect fraudulent claims. The company uses a subset of AI known as reinforcement learning.
In October 2019, the company moved from the suburban Vaughan, Ontario, to downtown Toronto, joining other AI and technology startups concentrated in the King Street East area.
In 2019, the company was ranked No. 39 on The Globe and Mail's annual list of Canada's "top growing companies by three-year revenue growth."
References
External links
Insurance fraud
Applied data mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20LaRochelle | Sophie LaRochelle is a Canada Research Chair and professor of engineering at Université Laval. She specializes in developing fiber optic components for signal-processing and data transmission in telecommunication networks.
Education
LaRochelle earned a Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences in 1992. Her thesis, "Origin and applications of photosensitivity in germanium‐doped silica optical fibers", was supervised by George I. Stegeman. She obtained her M.Sc. in Physics and B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Université Laval.
Research and career
LaRochelle was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Université Laval in 1996. Prior to her appointment at Université Laval, she was a Defense Scientist at DRDC Valcartier. She was appointed by Canada's Minister of Science to the Governing Council for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2015. Currently, LaRochelle is the Director of the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL), a multi-institutional research network in the Province of Quebec.
LaRochelle's research activities focus on optical fiber components, fiber laser systems, integrated photonics, and optical networking. She has made significant contributions to the development of passive and active fiber devices and their application to optical signal processing. She is known for inventing fiber optic components including super-structured fiber Bragg gratings for chromatic dispersion equalizers, multi-wavelength fiber lasers and optical code division multiplexing. Her work has been published in more than 150 scientific articles and she has directed the research work of over 70 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Awards and honors
LaRochelle was Holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Optical Fiber Communications and Components from 2000–2010. Since 2012, she has been Holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Advanced Photonics Technologies for Communications. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Optical Society in 2015, and as an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to fiber devices and data transmission technologies". LaRochelle was elected to the Board of Directors of The Optical Society in 2019 and will serve through 2021.
References
Canada Research Chairs
Fellows of Optica (society)
University of Arizona alumni
Women in optics
Université Laval alumni
Academic staff of Université Laval
Fiber optics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Optical engineers
Telecommunications engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Song%20Contest | The AI Song Contest () is an international music competition for songs that have been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). The inaugural edition took place on 12 May 2020 and was organised by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, in collaboration with NPO 3FM and NPO Innovation. Since 2021, the contest has been held as part of an annual conference organised by the Belgian technology hub Wallifornia MusicTech.
Format
The format of the competition was created by the Dutch programme creator Karen van Dijk (VPRO) and was inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest. Participating teams are tasked with the composition of a song using artificial intelligence. Each submission is then evaluated by a jury, which assesses the use of AI in the songwriting process, and by the public, which assesses the quality of the song through online ratings. The winner of the contest is the entry with the highest overall score.
Unlike the Eurovision Song Contest, countries can be represented by multiple teams. While the 2020 edition only allowed teams from "Eurovision countries" to compete, this rule was dropped in 2021 to allow teams from outside Europe and Australia to enter as well. In addition, entries would no longer be judged for their suitability for the Eurovision Song Contest, and the maximum song length was extended from three to four minutes. In 2022, a semi-final was introduced in which the jury selected fifteen entries to advance to the final.
Past editions
Awards and nominations
See also
Algorithmic composition
Computer music
Music and artificial intelligence
Pop music automation
References
External links
Official website
2020 establishments in the Netherlands
Artificial intelligence art
Computer music
Recurring events established in 2020
Song contests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Keahey | Katarzyna Keahey is a Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE) of the University of Chicago. She is a Principal Investigator (PI) of the Chameleon project, which provides an innovative experimentation platform for computer science systems experiments. She created Nimbus, one of the first open source implementations of infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and co-founded the SoftwareX journal, publishing software as a scientific instrument.
Education
Keahey attended the Gdańsk University of Technology where she obtained her magister inżynier in informatics in 1992. She received her M.S. in computer science at Indiana University in 1994, and later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at Indiana University in 1998. Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled, An Architecture for Application-Level Parallel Distributed Computation, and was supervised by Dennis Gannon.
Research
Her research interests include cloud computing, resource management, in particular the exploration of how cloud and high-performance/scientific resources can co-exist and complement each other, infrastructure operation, and Internet of Things (IoT)/cloud continuum. She is currently developing methods that support capturing, replicating, and publishing experiments digitally.
References
Indiana University alumni
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Gdańsk University of Technology alumni
Polish women computer scientists
Polish computer scientists
University of Chicago faculty
Polish emigrants to the United States
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%20Osonuga | Freeman Osonuga is a Nigerian medical doctor, entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer of Adloyalty Business Network (AdloyaltyBN), and founder of PropTech Hub Africa Inc. He gained recognition when he volunteered as part of the African Union response team during the Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014. He also founded the Dr. Freeman Osonuga Foundation (DFO), a charitable organization to support orphans and people with disabilities in Nigeria.
Background and recognition
Freeman was born the youngest of six children in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. He studied Medicine and Surgery at Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is a Tech investor and a skydiver. In 2013, he was named a One Young World Ambassador. A year later, he received the Sierra Leone Government's Presidential Meritorious Service Award for his role in the containment of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
In June 2015, he was named a Wired UK Innovation Fellow, and in October that year, he was among three finalists shortlisted to travel to space.
In 2016, he established Adloyalty Business Networks, a real estate network marketing firm. The firm was reported to have hit 20,000 realtors in February 2020 and was described as "Nigeria's first and biggest independent real estate network marketing firm" by The Guardian.
In 2017, he was listed as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians and was selected as one of Nigeria's Top 10 Real Estate Disruptors of 2020. In September 2020, Freeman was appointed as a Senator representing Nigeria by the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).
Books
Freeman has published two books, including the following:
Print Money With Zero Capital
The Business Game
Personal life
Freeman is married to Damilola Osonuga, and they live together in Lagos with their daughter.
References
Living people
1984 births
21st-century Nigerian medical doctors
Nigerian social entrepreneurs
Olabisi Onabanjo University alumni
Medical doctors from Ogun State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lale%20Akarun | Lale Akarun (born 10 March 1962) is a Turkish electrical engineer and computer scientist researching sign language and gesture recognition, human–computer interaction, and biometrics. She is a professor in the computer engineering department and ex-vice rector at Boğaziçi University.
Early life and education
Lale Akarun was born on 10 March 1962 in Ankara. She completed a B.S. (1984) and M.S. (1986) in electrical engineering at Boğaziçi University. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in 1992. Her dissertation was titled Decimated Rank Order Filtering.
Career and research
Akarun joined the faculty at Boğaziçi University in 1992 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to the rank of professor in the computer engineering department in 2002. She served as departmental chair from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, she became vice rector of the university.
Akarun researches sign language and gesture recognition, human–computer interaction, and biometrics.
References
External links
1962 births
People from Ankara
Boğaziçi University alumni
Academic staff of Boğaziçi University
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Turkish electrical engineers
Turkish computer scientists
Turkish women scientists
Turkish women computer scientists
20th-century women engineers
21st-century women engineers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia%20Berdichevsky | Cecilia Berdichevsky or Berdichevski (née Tuwjasz) (1925 – 2010) was a pioneering Argentinian computer scientist and began her work in 1961 using the first Ferranti Mercury computer in that country.
Biography
She was born Mirjam Tuwjasz on 30 March 1925 in Vidzy, at that time part of Poland, now Belarus.
Because of growing hostilities toward the Jewish community, first her father and then her mother Hoda and her emigrated to Argentina when she was four years old, where she adopted the name Cecilia, and she spent her childhood years in Avellaneda, south of the Buenos Aires suburbs. Her father died within a few years of arriving in their new home and her mother remarried a rich man.
Cecilia married Mario Berdichevsky, a physician from Avellaneda, in 1951.
Despite having a good job as a practicing accountant for ten years, she was not happy there having experienced many frustrations. A friend, computer scientist Rebeca Guber, convinced her to go back to school, which changed her life.
Clementina
At the age of 31, Berdichevsky began her studies of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires with Manuel Sadosky. There she had her first experience programming the new Ferranti Mercury computer, which became known by the nickname "Clementina" after someone programmed it to play the American song, "My darling Clementine." In 1961, when it arrived in Buenos Aires from England, Clementina was the most powerful computer in the country, cost $300,000 and measured in length. It was the first large computer used for scientific purposes in the country (in that same year, an IBM 1401 was installed in Buenos Aires for business uses).
The newly graduated Berdichevsky studied computing from the visiting English software engineer Cicely Popplewell (famous for having worked with Alan Turing in Manchester) and with the Spanish mathematician Ernesto García Camarero. Popplewell herself motivated Berdichevsky to write and run the first program for the new computer, which required multiple arithmetic calculations. A photoelectric device read a punched paper ribbon that was used to submit the data and Clementina produced the desired result in only seconds.
Based on Berdichevsky's progress in Argentina, in 1962 she was one of two people awarded scholarships to continue studies at the University of London's Computer Unit for five months, followed by the same length of time at a French institution. She returned home the following year as an expert on the workings of Clementina. According to Berdichevsky, "Work with Mercury was defined by its resources and its characteristics, structure and operational capabilities, as well as by the languages, routines, stored libraries and facilities that it offered... Mercury could not perform more than one operation at the same time, and they were the three basic arithmetical operations: addition, subtraction, and multiplication." The computer's resources included: machine language, an assembler named Pig2; a high-level prog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu%20Quantum%20Technologies | Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company develops cloud accessible photonic quantum computers and develops open-source software for quantum machine learning and simulating quantum photonic devices.
History
Xanadu was founded in 2016 by Christian Weedbrook and was a participant in the Creative Destruction Lab's accelerator program. Since then, Xanadu has raised a total of US$245M in funding with venture capital financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, In-Q-Tel, Business Development Bank of Canada, OMERS Ventures, Georgian, Real Ventures, Golden Ventures and Radical Ventures and innovation grants from Sustainable Development Technology Canada and DARPA.
Technology
Xanadu's hardware efforts have been focused on developing programmable Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) devices. GBS is a generalization of boson sampling, which traditionally uses single photons as an input; GBS uses squeezed states of light. In 2020, Xanadu published a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using photonic technology.
In June 2022 Xanadu reported on a boson sampling experiment summing up to those of Google and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Their setup used loops of optical fiber and multiplexing to replace the network of beam splitters by a single one which made it also more easily reconfigurable. They detected a mean of 125 to 219 photons from 216 squeezed modes (squeezed light follows a photon number distribution so they can contain more than one photon per mode) and claimed to have obtained a speedup 50 million times bigger than previous experiments.
References
External links
Official website
2016 establishments in Ontario
Quantum computing
Photonics
Photonics companies
Quantum information science
Companies involved in quantum computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20supply%20and%20sanitation%20in%20Macau | Water supply and sanitation in Macau refers to the water supply network in Macau, China.
Regulator
Water supply-related affairs is managed by Macao Water.
Production
As of 2016, the total installed design daily water supply capacity in Macau was 390,000 m3 with peak daily demand of 297,600 m3.
Infrastructure
Water supply infrastructures in Macau consist of reservoirs, raw water pumping stations, water treatment plants and treated water pumping stations.
Reservoirs
Main Storage Reservoir
Seac Pai Van Reservoir
Ka Ho Reservoir
Guia 50m Elevated Treated Water Tank
Guia 70m Elevated Treated Water Tank
Taipa 50m Elevated Treated Water Tank
Taipa 70m Elevated Treated Water Tank
Water treatment plants
Ilha Verde Water Treatment Plant
Main Storage Reservoir Water Treatment Plant
Coloane Water Treatment Plant
Pumping stations
Raw water pumping stations
Jai Alai Raw Water Pumping Station
Main Storage Reservoir Raw Water Pumping Station
Seac Pai Van Raw Water Pumping Station
Ka Ho Raw Water Pumping Station
Treated water pumping stations
Ilha Verde Water Pumping Station
Main Storage Reservoir Pumping Station
Guia 50m Pumping Station
Taipa 50m Pumping Station
Sai Van Pumping Station
Seac Pai Van Booster Pumping Station
Floral Garden Pumping Station
References
Water in Macau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitaOS | DigitaOS was a short lived digital camera operating system created by Flashpoint Technology and used on various Kodak, Pentax, and HP cameras in the late 1990s. DigitaOS debuted with the Kodak DC220 on 20 May 1998, and was released on a total of 11 camera models before it was abandoned in 2001. DigitaOS was notable for its ability to run third party software, a concept that was not again realized until the release of various Android based digital cameras in the early 2010s.
DigitaOS applications were programmed either as JIT compiled scripts using "Digita Script", or AOT compiled programs written in C using an official SDK. The operating system abstracted away most camera functionality and hardware platform differences, allowing software to be compatible with most DigitaOS cameras. Additionally, DigitaOS handled the GUI presented to the user and basic camera functionality.
Because of its ability to run third party software, several games were ported to it. The most notable of these being DOOM and MAME.
Cameras using DigitaOS
Kodak DC220
Kodak DC260
Kodak DC265
Kodak DC290
Minolta Dimage 1500 EX
Minolta 1500 3D
HP C500 Photosmart
HP C618 Photosmart
HP C912 Photosmart
PENTAX EI-200
PENTAX EI-2000
References
1998 software
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCO%20Certified | The TCO Certified certification was initially created by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO) to guarantee that computer products purchased by employers maintain ecological standards and were sufficiently ergonomic to prevent long term health issues for users. It became known during the 1990s as a certification for computer displays. Dating back to 1992, TCO is one of the oldest certifications for end user electronics.
History
In the early 1980s, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO), a worker's union, foresaw that computers would become an important work utility and sought to establish ergonomic and radiation standards for computer displays to protect their members from health issues by daily use. Back then, the increasing use of computers and monitors in white collar work environments caused widespread complaints from employees experiencing visual fatigue and visual stress during after-work hours (also called "VDU sickness") due to extensive use of visual display units. In fact, early generations of computer displays were frequently related to eye strains and headache due to flickering, jitter and radiation. In 1986, TCO published a basic list of requirements and test protocols to verify if a display was fit for continuous daily use as a help for employers to choose the right hardware for work places.
The test became an early success and was translated into multiple languages and used also by unions in other countries to push for a more ergonomic work environment. The success of the display checklist resulted in the foundation of TCO Certified, a spin-off by the TCO Union headed by Per Erik Boivie and Peter Magnusson, among others, with the goal of creating an international certification and standards to be implemented directly by manufacturers. Starting with TCO'92 in 1992, the TCO certification minimum standards for emissions, jittering and electronic safety for computer monitors. Later on, the standards into other product categories such as peripherals and the computer itself.
TCO Certified requirements
TCO publishes new guidelines every 3 to 4 years. The standards expanded from covering only computer monitors in 1992 to a wide array of devices today.
Product categories
TCO Certified is available for the following products: displays, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, desktops, all-in-one PCs, projectors, headsets, and data center products: network equipment, data storage products and servers.
References
Further reading
External links
Official website
Labour movement in Sweden
Standards by organization
Computers and the environment
Accreditation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20resource | In linguistics and language technology, a language resource is a "[composition] of linguistic material used in the construction, improvement and/or evaluation of language processing applications, (...) in language and language-mediated research studies and applications."
According to Bird & Simons (2003), this includes
data, i.e. "any information that documents or describes a language, such as a published monograph, a computer data file, or even a shoebox full of handwritten index cards. The information could range in content from unanalyzed sound recordings to fully transcribed and annotated texts to a complete descriptive grammar",
tools, i.e., "computational resources that facilitate creating, viewing, querying, or otherwise using language data", and
advice, i.e., "any information about what data sources are reliable, what tools are appropriate in a given situation, what practices to follow when creating new data". The latter aspect is usually referred to as "best practices" or "(community) standards".
In a narrower sense, language resource is specifically applied to resources that are available in digital form, and then, "encompassing (a) data sets (textual, multimodal/multimedia and lexical data, grammars, language models, etc.) in machine readable form, and (b) tools/technologies/services used for their processing and management".
Typology
As of May 2020, no widely used standard typology of language resources has been established (current proposals include the LREMap, METASHARE, and, for data, the LLOD classification). Important classes of language resources include
data
lexical resources, e.g., machine-readable dictionaries,
linguistic corpora, i.e., digital collections of natural language data,
linguistic data bases such as the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data collection,
tools
linguistic annotations and tools for creating such annotations in a manual or semiautomated fashion (e.g., tools for annotating interlinear glossed text such as Toolbox and FLEx, or other language documentation tools),
applications for search and retrieval over such data (corpus management systems), for automated annotation (part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, semantic parsing, etc.),
metadata and vocabularies
vocabularies, repositories of linguistic terminology and language metadata, e.g., MetaShare (for language resource metadata), the ISO 12620 data category registry (for linguistic features, data structures and annotations within a language resource), or the Glottolog database (identifiers for language varieties and bibliographical database).
Language resource publication, dissemination and creation
A major concern of the language resource community has been to develop infrastructures and platforms to present, discuss and disseminate language resources. Selected contributions in this regard include:
a series of International Conferences on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC),
the European Language Resources Association (ELRA, EU-ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahabi%20%28surname%29 | Shahabi (, literally "meteoric") is a Persian language surname. Notable people with the name include:
Cyrus Shahabi (fl. 1989–2014), Iranian-American computer scientist
Hossein Shahabi (born 1967), Iranian film director, screenwriter and film producer
Katayoon Shahabi (born 1968), Iranian film producer
Mohammad Shahabi (1922–1973), Ahwazi musician and dulcimer player
Reza Shahabi (fl. 2010–2012), Iranian trade unionist
Saeeid Shahabi (born 1954) Bahraini political activist and journalist
Mustafa Shahabi (born 1893), Syrian agronomist, politician, writer, and director of the Arab Academy of Damascus
See also
Shahabi (disambiguation)
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUDAS | The ASUDAS (Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System) is a reference system for collecting data on human tooth morphology and variation created by Christy G. Turner II, Christian R. Nichol, and G. Richard Scott. The ASUDAS gives detailed descriptions for common crown and root shape variants and their different degrees of expression. It also comprises a set of reference plaques illustrating dental variants as well as showing their expression levels in 3D. The ASUDAS was designed to ensure a standardized scoring procedure with minimum error in order to warrant comparability between data collected by different observers.
The ASUDAS currently comprises a set of 42 dental variants that can be observed in the permanent adult dentition. The majority are crown and root shape variants, although the system also includes some skeletal variants of the maxilla and mandible. Most of the variants occur at different frequencies in human populations around the world. Examples of dental variants listed in the ASUDAS are shovel-shaped incisors, Carabelli cusps, or hypocones.
Genetics
It is hypothesized that most of the dental variants listed in the ASUDAS are heritable and selectively neutral and that the worldwide dental diversity was generated by random evolutionary processes consisting of founder effects and genetic drift. Several studies have also demonstrated that genetic distances across modern human populations derived from neutrally evolving SNPs or microsatellites are highly correlated with distances derived from dental variants listed in the ASUDAS. Additionally, dental variation within populations decreases with increasing geographical distance from Africa, a signature also found in neutral genetic datasets as a result of a serial founder effect originating in Africa.
Some dental variants listed in the ASUDAS are also likely to be associated with non-neutral evolutionary processes, such as natural selection. For example, shoveling and double-shoveling of upper first incisors and the presence of hypoconulids of lower second molars have been found to be linked to the ectodysplasin A receptor gene (EDAR). EDAR is a functional genomic region and has a range of pleiotropic effects on ectodermally derived structures, such as hair, mammary glands, and teeth, and is most likely under positive selection in Asian populations. It is possible that dental variants linked to EDAR are not direct targets of positive selection but rather 'hitchhiking' when selection acts on another phenotype.
Applications
The enamel which covers a tooth crown is the hardest tissue in the human body and generally well preserved in taphonomic contexts, even when associated skeletal and DNA preservation is relatively poor. Therefore, dental morphological data collected with the ASUDAS are commonly used for inferring the biogeographical origin of deceased humans when no other biological markers are available. For example, ASUDAS data are typically used for identifying unknow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Howle | Victoria E. Howle is an American applied mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and known as one of the developers of the Trilinos open-source software library for scientific computing. She is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
Texas Tech University.
Education and career
Howle graduated from Rutgers University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in English literature. She earned her Ph.D. in 2001 from Cornell University. Her dissertation, Efficient Iterative Methods for Ill-Conditioned Linear and Nonlinear Network Problems, was supervised by Stephen Vavasis.
After working as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2000 to 2007, she took a faculty position at Texas Tech in 2007.
Service and recognition
Howle was one of the inaugural winners of the AWM Service Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics, in 2013. The award honored her service to the association, including founding its annual essay contest in which students write biographies of women mathematicians.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Rutgers University alumni
Cornell University alumni
Sandia National Laboratories people
Texas Tech University faculty
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20GameBreaker%202003 | NCAA GameBreaker 2003 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 2 in 2002.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
2002 video games
College football video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20of%20network%20programming | In radio or television broadcasting, a director of network programming, program director, director of programming, president of TV entertainment, senior vice president for TV programming or vice president of program scheduling is an executive who typically plans the broadcast programming schedule, deciding what radio programs or TV shows will air and when.
A program director's selections are based upon expertise in the media as well as knowledge of the target demographic. In some countries, the program director in commercial broadcasting is of even greater importance, since he makes a decisive decision about the economic success of the broadcasters. In so-called "private television", the most important program directors were or are often the managing directors of the station, such as Les Moonves for CBS in the United States or Anke Schäferkordt for RTL in Germany.
In a broadcasting network, there might be a separation between the news department and the programming department, in which case there is a news director overseeing the news department, and the director of programming has no say.
See also
Dayparting
Full-service radio
References
Broadcasting occupations
de:Programmdirektor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Ridler | Anna Ridler (born 1985) is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She works with collections of information or data, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums.
Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, The Photographers' Gallery, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and Ars Electronica.
Biography
Born in London in 1985, Ridler spent her childhood raised between Atlanta, Georgia and the United Kingdom. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language from Oxford University in 2007 and a Master of Arts in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in 2017.
Art
A core element of Ridler's work lies in the creation of handmade data sets through a laborious process of selecting and classifying images and text. By creating her own data sets, Ridler is able to uncover and expose underlying themes and concepts while also inverting the usual process of scraping pre-classified images found in large databases on the internet. Her interests are in drawing, machine learning, data collection, storytelling, and technology.
Selected works
Some of Anna Ridler's most notable works to date fall within her ‘tulip series’ which explores the hysteria around tulip mania and compares it to the speculation and bubbles surrounding cryptocurrencies. The series is expressed in three forms: a photographic dataset in Myriad (Tulips), 2018; two iterations of machine generated videos in Mosaic Virus (2018) and Mosaic Virus (2019); and a website with an accompanied functioning decentralized application in Bloemenveiling (2019).
Myriad (Tulips) (2018)
Myriad (Tulips) (2018) is an installation of ten thousand hand-labeled photographs forming a dataset of unique tulips. The ten thousand, or myriad of, photographs were taken by Ridler over the course of three months, roughly the length of a tulip season, spent in Utrecht. Each photograph is carefully affixed one by one with magnets to a specially painted black wall in a laborious process to form a seemingly precise grid.
Myriad (Tulips) (2018) has been exhibited in AI: More than Human, Barbican Centre, London, UK (May 16 - August 26, 2019); Error—The Art of Imperfection, Ars Electronica Export, Berlin, Germany (November 17, 2018 – March 3, 2019); Peer to Peer, Shanghai Centre of Photography, Shanghai, China (December 8 - February 9, 2020).
The work was featured in Bloomberg, It’s Nice That, and Hyperallergic.
For Myriad (Tulips), Ridler was nominated for a Beazley Design of the Year award for her presentation of an alternative perspective on how to engage with artificial intelligence; demonstrating a departure from ownership and control of major corporations to a more personalized process of constructing and conceptualizing from the ground-up.
Mosaic Virus (2018, 2019)
Mosaic Virus (2018) is a single scr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOFT-LD | WOFT-LD (channel 8) is a low-power television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, affiliated with Retro TV and owned by Bridge Media Networks. The station's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida.
History
The station's construction permit was initially a digital companion channel issued on March 9, 2005 under the calls of W08EA. On February 29, 2008, it was reassigned the callsign WOFT-LP. On June 6, 2011, it moved to the current callsign WOFT-LD.
Sale to Bridge Media Networks
On October 24, 2022, Bridge Media Networks, the parent company of 24/7 headline news service NewsNet (backed by Eric Wotila and 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava) announced it would acquire WOFT-LD from Budd Broadcasting for $1.1 million. At this time, there are no plans for NEWSnet to move its subchannel affiliation from WSWF-LD (channel 10) to WOFT-LD upon closing of the said transaction. The sale was consummated on January 4, 2023.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
OFT
OFT-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Florida
Retro TV affiliates
Heartland (TV network) affiliates
Rev'n affiliates
NOST affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20GameBreaker%202004 | NCAA GameBreaker 2004 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for PlayStation 2 in 2003. It is the last game in the NCAA GameBreaker series.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews, albeit less so than NCAA GameBreaker 2003, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2003 video games
College football video games
NCAA video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20usage%20in%20County%20Durham | This is a list of railway stations in County Durham, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As of July 2020, there are 17 stations located within County Durham, from which around 6.47 million passenger journeys were made during 2018–19. Note that Horden station opened in 2020 so received no entries and exits in the period covered by the data.
Gallery
References
See also
List of railway stations in County Durham
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Busiest railway stations in County Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca%20Guber | Rebeca Cherep de Guber (2 July 1926 – 25 August 2020) was an Argentine mathematician, university professor, textbook author and 1960s pioneer in the development of computer science in Argentina.
Guber died in 2020 from COVID-19.
Biography
Rebeca Cherep was born in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed her undergraduate studies at the National University of La Plata, earned her PhD in mathematics, and taught at the Faculties of Exact and Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires.
She married José Guber, an engineer, and they had at least one child, Rosana Guber.
In 1960 she was part of the group of scientists and teachers who created the Argentine Calculation Society, under the direction of Manuel Sadosky, with whom, years before, she had written the textbook, Elements of Differential and Integral Calculus. In the years since its first publication, the text has been widely disseminated among advanced students of science and engineering, and republished many times.
Calculation Institute
The Calculation Institute (IC) of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences was created around 1959. Rebeca Guber took over as Technical Secretary on June 6, 1960. A few months later, the computer named Clementina (which was installed in 18 metal cabinets stretching long) became known as the first computer installed for scientific research in Argentina and began its operations at the IC. About her work there, Guber has recalled:"After 1955, Manuel [Sadosky] became a professor of the Analysis I course and I was his head of practical work. When the Calculation Institute was created, Manuel called me to be his chief of operations. It was a very busy and rewarding time. Manuel outlined the policies and I made sure that everything went as planned. He had to handle a group of seventy people."Guber's work proved to be fundamental in the entire process of installation and development of the famous Clementina.
Rebeca Guber, along with her colleague and friend Cecilia Berdichevsky, are only two of the female mathematicians who were fundamental to the success of the early development of information science in Argentina.
University closure
In 1966, with Argentina's coup d'état that removed the president from power and culminated in the Night of the Long Batons, scientists and researchers massively resigned from institutes and universities. The Calculation Institute of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences was "practically dismantled." After Rebeca Guber, Juan Ángel Chamero and David Jacovkis resigned their positions there and under the leadership of Manuel Sadosky, they founded a consultancy firm called Scientific Technical Advisors (ACT), in part to prevent the institute's lines of research and work from being totally abandoned.
Secretariat of Science and Technology
After the return of Argentinian democracy and the election of president Raúl Alfonsín at the end of 1983, Guber continued to work with Sadosky whe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Island%3A%20Uncharted%20Discovery | Crystal Island: Uncharted Discovery is an educational video game created by a team of educators and computer scientists at the Center for Educational Informatics aimed at teaching students upper elementary science education, focusing on landforms, navigation, and modeling. In the game, students play as shipwrecked adventurers on a volcanic island. To escape the island, they must complete a series of quests that test their critical thinking skills and teach them content-related information. Upon completion of the quests, the players gain access to a new area of the island which contains a multi-skill quest that requires students to use the knowledge and skills they learned during the previous quests. Once the final quest is completed, the players gain access to a communication device which allows them to call the outside world for rescue. The game was made with the Unity game engine. It was made by the same creators of the game Crystal Island: Lost Investigation.
Setup
Teachers are given access to a Crystal Island wiki, which provides them with a suggested schedule and lesson plan, supplemental lessons, and a video tutorial.
Gameplay
Crystal Island includes a virtual tablet in-game that contains applications to help students with quests. The apps include: an "IslandPedia" containing presentations of scientific concepts, a Problem-solving app which helps players understand the scientific problem-solving method, a Text Message app which presents scripted text messages from in-game characters that remind them of the learning resources provided to help them with the quests and to stay on task, a Camera app which allows students to take pictures of in-game landforms, a Note-taking app which allows students to take both text and image notes, a Quest app which shows the current progress that a student has made during a quest, and a Map app which includes a map scale, compass, and a grid that shows students their current location.
Plot
Crystal Island begins with an introductory scene which shows the characters of the video game struggling at sea. The characters eventually reach land, and find that they are stranded on a volcanic island. They begin the start of a new life in a village.
References
Educational video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20usage%20in%20Tyne%20and%20Wear | This is a list of railway stations in Tyne and Wear, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As of May 2020, there are seven National Rail stations located within the county of Tyne and Wear, from which around 9.73 million passenger journeys were made during 2018–19. There are also 60 Tyne and Wear Metro stations in the county, with around 36.4 million journeys made across the network during 2018–19.
Gallery
References
See also
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations
Busiest railway stations in Tyne and Wear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20%27Elizabeth%27 | Magnolia 'Elizabeth' is a hybrid Magnolia that is the offspring of a cross between Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree) and Magnolia denudata (Yulan magnolia). It is the result of a breeding program to create yellow-flowered varieties conducted at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden beginning in 1953. The cream to pale yellow flowered Magnolia 'Elizabeth' gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in 1993. It is named for Elizabeth Van Brunt, who donated funds to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
References
Interspecific plant hybrids
Ornamental plant cultivars
Ornamental trees
Elizabeth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Leong | Melissa Leong (born 1982) is an Australian freelance food writer, food critic, television host, radio broadcaster, cookbook editor and marketer. She was a judge on Network 10's MasterChef Australia from 2020 to 2023, alongside Andy Allen and Jock Zonfrillo.
Early life
Leong was born in 1982 in Sydney. Her parents emigrated to Australia from Singapore.
Career
She co-hosted The Chefs' Line with chefs Dan Hong and Mark Olive for two seasons in 2017, and 2018.
In October 2019, it was announced that Leong would be joining Network 10's cooking competition show MasterChef Australia, as a new judge alongside Jock Zonfrillo and Andy Allen, after former judges Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris left the series after Ten refused to meet the trio's pay rise demands. Leong, Zonfrillo and Allen joined debuted on episode one of the show's twelfth season, which premiered on 13 April 2020. Later that year, Network 10 announced that a third season of MasterChef spin-off Junior MasterChef Australia, was set to air in October 2020, with Leong appearing as a judge alongside Allen and Zonfrillo.
In November 2020, Leong was named Who's Sexiest Person of 2020 by Who magazine.
In May 2021, it was announced that Leong would appear as a judge in another MasterChef spinoff, the second season of Celebrity MasterChef Australia alongside Allen and Zonfrillo.
In late 2022, Leong was announced as a judge on the all new MasterChef spinoff series, titled Dessert Masters. She will judge and co-host the show alongside international pastry chef Amaury Guichon. Network 10 announced in their 2023 upfronts that the series will air in the second half of 2023, after the fifteenth season of MasterChef Australia finishes.
In October 2023, it was announced that Leong had been dumped from MasterChef Australia.
Personal life
Leong has had depression and anxiety throughout her life and has an autoimmune condition which has caused chronic insomnia and loss of hair.
Leong married Joe Jones in 2017. In December 2020, she announced the two have separated.
References
Living people
MasterChef Australia
1982 births
Australian people of Chinese descent
People from Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20%282020%20film%29 | Out is a 2020 American computer-animated short film directed and written by Steven Hunter, produced by Max Sachar, and distributed by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The plot features a young gay man who has not yet come out to his parents, who unexpectedly has his mind magically swapped with his dog's. The seventh short film in the SparkShorts series, it is both Disney's and Pixar's first short to feature a gay main character and storyline, including an on-screen same-sex kiss. The short was released on Disney+ on May 22, 2020. The short was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Plot
A magical cat and dog appear outside Greg's townhouse, as he and his boyfriend Manuel are packing his belongings to move. The cat imbues the collar of Greg's dog Jim with magic. Inside, reminiscing about a photo of them together, Manuel encourages Greg to come out to his parents, who unexpectedly show up to help. Greg hastily hides the photo and Manuel quietly exits by the back door. Holding Jim's collar, Greg casually wishes aloud that he would become
a dog, and the minds of Greg and Jim magically switch bodies. "Greg" runs outside to play in the yard, where his stoic father is lighting the grill. "Jim" tries to get to him, while also frantically trying to prevent his eagerly helpful mother from finding the photo.
Frustrated by the dog's misbehavior, she sits and talks aloud of her sadness about her son moving away, as "Jim" listens. Imagining a conversation with Greg, she hopes that he finds someone who loves him, and "that he makes you happy". "Jim" suddenly realizes that she not only already knows that he is gay, but she also accepts it. He briefly comforts her, then chases down "Greg", and successfully switches their minds back. That evening, Greg introduces Manuel to his parents; Greg's father spontaneously hugs Manuel. The magical cat and dog see their mission accomplished, and leap away on a rainbow.
Cast
Caleb Cabrera as Manuel
Matthew Martin as Gigi the Cat
Kyle McDaniel as Greg
Bernadette Sullivan as Mom
Production
Out is the seventh film in Pixar's "SparkShorts" program. It was directed and written by Steven Clay Hunter, known for animation work on Finding Nemo and WALL-E, and produced by Max Sachar, known for his work on Coco and Toy Story 3.
Music
Jake Monaco composed the music for Out. The score was released on July 3, 2020.
Track listing
Release
Out was released on Disney+ on May 22, 2020, and on YouTube in June 2021 as part of the year's Pride Month celebrations.
Reception
Critical response
Kshitij Rawat of The Indian Express stated Out explores the apprehensions felt by members of the LGBTQ community during the coming out, found the story emotional across its running time, and called the animation unique and fresh through its style. Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media rated the short film 5 out of 5 stars, praised the educational value, stating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) was a French painter.
Ingres may also refer to:
Ingres (database)
Rémi Ingres (b. 1969), French speed skater
Ingres paper, a type of drawing paper
See also
Musée Ingres |
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