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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chopped%20episodes%20%28seasons%2021%E2%80%9340%29 | This is the list of episodes (Seasons 21–40) for the Food Network competition reality series Chopped.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 21 (2014–15)
Season 22 (2014–15)
Season 23 (2014–15)
Season 24 (2015)
Season 25 (2015)
Season 26 (2015)
Season 27 (2016)
Chopped regular Marc Murphy did not appear as a judge in any episode this season.
Season 28 (2016)
Season 29 (2016)
Season 30 (2016)
Season 31 (2016)
This is the first season where more than 13 episodes aired.
Season 32 (2017)
Season 33 (2017)
Season 34 (2017)
Season 35 (2017–18)
Season 36 (2017–18)
Season 37 (2018–19)
Season 38 (2018–19)
Season 39 (2018–19)
Season 40 (2018–19)
See also
List of Chopped: Canada episodes
References
External links
Chopped episode guide at FoodNetwork.com
Chopped Junior episode guide at FoodNetwork.com
Lists of food television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Edge%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Charles Edge is an American computer scientist and author. Edge is a contributing author for Inc.com and Huffington Post.
Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer of 318 Inc in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf Pro. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers and HandrailUX. Edge has spoken at Defcon, Blackhat, LinuxWorld, MacSysAdmin, and a number of other conferences.
Bibliography (author)
Mac Tiger Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, February 2006,
Web Scripting Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, April 2007,
Foundations of Mac OS X Security. Apress, March 2008,
Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide. Apress, October 2009,
Foundations of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security. Apress, February 2010,
Beginning Mac OS X Server. Apress, February 2010,
Mac OS X Lion Server. O'Reilley, January 2011,
Using Apple Configurator. Packt, January 2012,
Take Control of OS X Yosemite Server. TidBits, January 2013,
Take Control of OS X Mavericks Server. TidBits, January 2014,
Learning iOS Security. Packt, January 2015,
Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide.Apress, September 2015,
Fundamentals of Mac OS X 10.11 Security.Apress, September 2015,
Enterprise Mac Security. Apress,
Build, Run, and Sell Your Apple Consulting Practice. Apress, August 2018,
Apple Device Management. Apress, January 2020,
The ABCs of Computers (2022)
The Startup Field Guide (2022)
The History of Computers (2023)
Podcasts
Edge maintains the following podcasts:
MacAdmins Podcast https://podcast.macadmins.org
Jamf After Dark Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jamf-after-dark/id1434572611
The History Of Computing http://thehistoryofcomputing.net
Community work
Edge works on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter and serves on the board of directors of Tamarisk and on the corporate council of the Guthrie Theater.
Edge spoke at Black Hat 2007 and was scheduled to give a speech on a vulnerability of the Mac OS X FileVault at Black Hat 2008 but the talk was pulled after he cited a non-disclosure agreement the talk would violate. The talk was later disputed having ever existed.
Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple and IoT devices in large-scale environments.
Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January 2020.
Editor
Edge is on the Editorial team for the Apple Inc. platform, with Apress. Edge was also the technical editor for the following title(s):
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. O'Reilly, September 2008,
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201987 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1987.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1987 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay%20Malware | Ramsay, also referred to as Ramsay Malware, is a cyber espionage framework and toolkit that was discovered by ESET Research in 2020.
Ramsay is specifically tailored for Windows systems on networks that are not connected to the internet and that also isolated from intranets of companies, so called air-gapped networks, from which it steals sensitive documents like Word documents after first collecting them in a hidden storage folder.
ESET researchers found various versions of the malware, and believe that in May 2020 it was still under development. They numbered the versions Ramsay Version 1, Ramsay Version 2a and Ramsay Version 2b. The very first encounter with the malware was a sample that was uploaded from Japan to VirusTotal. The first version was compiled in September 2019. The last version that they found was most advanced.
The discovery of Ramsay was seen as significant as malware is rarely able to target physically isolated devices.
Authorship
While authorship has not been attributed, it has many common artefacts with Retro, a backdoor by hacking entity Darkhotel believed to operate in the interests of South Korea.
Workings of the malware
The three versions of Ramsay that ESET found have different workings.
Ramsay version 1 does not include a rootkit, whilst the later versions do.
Ramsay version 1 and 2.b exploit CVE-2017-0199, a "Microsoft Office/WordPad Remote Code Execution Vulnerability w/Windows API."
Version 2.b also uses exploit CVE-2017-11882 as an attack vector.
The way in which Ramsay can spread is via removable media like USB sticks and network shares. In this way, the malware can jump the air gap.
References
External links
WeLiveSecurity article on Ramsay as saved in the Internet Archive
ESET press release on Ramsay as saved in the Internet Archive
Rootkits
Windows trojans
Computer security exploits
Security breaches
Cybercrime
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20entertainment%20of%20The%20CW | The CW Television Network is a successor and rebrand of both the previous two operations of the network: The WB and UPN, both of which launched within one week of each other in 1995. Mark Pedowitz replaced Dawn Ostroff in 2011, who had been the Head of Entertainment since the network's inception in 2006. Pedowitz oversaw all aspects of The CW, including programming, sales, marketing, distribution, finance, research and publicity. On October 3, 2022, Pedowitz confirmed that he would be leaving the network after 11 years as president and CEO when Nexstar Media Group took over 75% interest ownership in the network, and would be replaced by Nexstar executive Dennis Miller as the new president.
UPN
Lucie Salhany (1995-1997)
She moved back to Paramount as they were about to launch the United Paramount Network, also known as the UPN—which later merged with The WB. Salhany was Chief Executive Officer of UPN from 1995 to 1997.
Dean Valentine (1997-2002)
Dawn Ostroff (2002-2006)
From 2002 to 2006, Ostroff served as president of the UPN Network, a subsidiary of CBS, where she developed the popular reality series America’s Next Top Model, along with other programs including Veronica Mars, Star Trek: Voyager, WWE SmackDown, Girlfriends, Moesha, Everybody Hates Chris and Dilbert. From 1996 to 2002, she served as executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Television and led the network to rise from sixth to become the #1-rated cable network in prime time.
Beginning in 2006, Ostroff was president of entertainment for The CW broadcast network - a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. Ostroff was in charge of programming, digital initiatives, branding, marketing, research and sales. As president, she developed several TV series, including Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries.
The WB
Garth Ancier (1995-1999)
In 1994, Ancier re-teamed with Fox colleague Jamie Kellner and Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer to launch The WB as its chief programmer from 1994 to 1999, where he helped put 7th Heaven, Dawson's Creek, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show on the air.
Susanne Daniels (1999-2003)
She developed TV shows such as Dawson's Creek, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Gilmore Girls
While at The WB, Daniels co-authored the book Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of The WB and UPN along with Cynthia Littleton.
David Janollari (2003-2006)
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudpunk | Cloudpunk is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by German developer Ion Lands and published by Maple Whispering Limited for Microsoft Windows on April 23, 2020. It was released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 15, 2020. A PlayStation 5 version published by Merge Games was
released on August 19, 2022. An Xbox Series X/S version also released on October 16, 2023.
Gameplay
The player takes control of Rania, a new driver for the "semi-legal" delivery company Cloudpunk. The player has to maneuver a HOVA (flying car), through a futuristic city, collecting and delivering packages as well as passengers. It is also possible to park the car on certain parking spaces and explore parts of the city on foot. During some missions, the player can make decisions that influence the outcome. Furthermore, the player can collect optional story items that are scattered throughout the city to unlock additional side quests. It is possible to upgrade the HOVA to increase the speed and durability, as well as buy items to decorate Rania's apartment.
Plot
Nivalis is a futuristic city above the sea, built on tall vertical structures. The primary means of transport are flying cars called HOVAs. Nivalis is ruled by corporations and suffers from extreme social stratification, with the upper classes literally living higher up. The richest people live above the clouds in the Spire district.
The player controls Rania, a recent immigrant to Nivalis from the "Eastern Peninsula". She fled her home to escape loan shark "debt corps". She is accompanied by her former robot dog Camus; Rania sold his body while moving to Nivalis and aims to buy him a new one. Rania gets a job as a delivery driver for Cloudpunk The story takes place during her first night on the job. Rania installs Camus's digital mind in her HOVA and meets her world-weary dispatcher, Control. Control informs her that HOVA crashes are common in Nivalis and the reason she was able to get the job is that it has a very high mortality rate.
Rania completes various jobs for Cloudpunk, and learns more about its residents. She is also presented with moral choices, such as deciding whether to allow an elderly street racer to continue his dangerous career. Rania is puzzled by encounters with the word "CORA", which Nivalis residents use to mean chance or fate. She befriends Control, and learns his real name, Ben.
Rania meets a private investigator android named Huxley, who enlists her help to save a young girl, Pashta. When Pashta's memory-boosting cybernetic implant recorded proof of illegal activity by Pashta's father, Reoh, he took her to get the implant removed. However, Reoh could not pay the surgeon, resulting in Pashta's capture by debt corps. Reoh finds the group and demands Pashta's return, but Pashta reveals she wrote down the proof and threatens to leak it if Reoh does not leave her alone. Rania is then contacted by crime boss Lomo, who demands she hand over Pashta. Rania refuses and Lomo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa.ai | Sherpa (also known as Sherpa.ai) is a Spanish artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive conversational digital assistants. It was founded by Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria in 2012 and is based in Erandio and Silicon Valley. In 2018, Fortune magazine included Sherpa in its ranking of the 100 best artificial intelligence companies.
Trajectory
The company was created in 2012 with the conviction to develop a predictive conversational digital assistant based on artificial intelligence algorithms for different companies and to provide consultancy in artificial intelligence. They are based in Erandio (Vizcaya, Spain) and Silicon Valley (California, United States), and are a ISO/IEC 27001 certified company.
In 2016, they obtained $6.5 million in a round of funding from Mundi Ventures and other private investors. In a second round in 2019, they obtained $8.5 million; and in 2021, they secured an additional $8.5 million in funding from Mundi Ventures, Ekarpen, Marcelo Gigliani of Apax Digital, and Alex Cruz of British Airways.
Products
Sherpa's first product was a mobile phone application of the same name. Their products are predictive conversational digital assistants that learn from the user's context to anticipate their needs. Sherpa uses 100,000 parameters from each user to answer requests. Additionally, they have developed a multi-purpose recommendation system for news, music, and filtering important emails.
Among their products are free applications for smartphones and tablets such as Sherpa Assistant and Sherpa News which have garnered over 3 million downloads. Sherpa also came pre-installed on Samsung smartphones as the default digital assistant, until Samsung Electronics launched Bixby.
Focused on business services, their AI assistants and operating systems are embedded in cars, smartphones, home speakers, and appliances. Sherpa also has agreements with companies such as Porsche and Samsung.
Work team
By 2018, Sherpa had 35 employees, most of whom were experts in artificial intelligence and many with PhDs in mathematics and other disciplines. According to the publication Innova Spain, Sherpa works with researchers and research centers at the University of Granada, Deusto, the University of the Basque Country and Mondragón. Some of their advisors include Alex Cruz, president and CEO of British Airways, and Chris Shipley, who was considered the most influential woman in Silicon Valley according to the San Jose Business Journal.
Tom Gruber, co-founder and former CTO of Siri, joined Sherpa's working group in 2019. One year later, Joanna Hoffman, Steve Jobs' right-hand woman, joined as an advisor.
See also
Artificial intelligence
References
External links
Official website
Spanish brands
AI accelerators
Virtual assistants
Technology companies established in 2012
Development software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Petri | Carl Petri may refer to:
Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), German mathematician and computer scientist
Carl Axel Petri (1929–2017), Swedish politician and judge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corentin%20Jallon | Corentin Jallon is an Algerian-French Kickboxer. He is the former World Kickboxing Network (WKN) Cruiserweight World Champion as well as the Muaythai & K-1 FFSCDA France -91kg Champion, King of the Ring -91kg Champion and he has competed in SUPERKOMBAT. Jallon became the WKN World Champion in 2013 after defeating Cristian Bosch in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Early life
Jallon was born in France and was introduced to kickboxing at a later age. He started training with his coach Badri Rouabhia at AJSR in Saint Raphaël and competed in his first match at the age 26 years old.
Career
Kickboxing
On Juin 30, 2012, Jallon faced Zinedine Hameur-Lain at the Pro fightKarate 4 in the heavyweight category and lost on points.
On May 24, 2014, Jallon fought Sebastian Ciobanu -95 kg to a draw with at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix II 2014 in Constanta, Romania.
On May 10, 2014, Jallon avenged his previous 2012 loss and rematched Zinedine Hameur-Lain at King of the Ring 3 in Longeville-lès-Metz, Metz, France, winning by TKO in the first round.
On September 23, 2017, Jallon faced Romain Falendry and lost by decision.
On December 2, 2017, Jallon faced the Spanish Ivan Valenzuela at La 13ème Nuit Du Muay Thai in France and won by decision.
On April 27, 2019, Jallon faced Gabriele Casella at Fighting Spirit 7 in Rome, Italy and lost by decision.
On December 14, 2019, Jallon faced Anthony Valerde under K-1 rules in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France and lost by decision.
WKN
On October 13, 2012, Jallon had his first shot at a World Kickboxing Network title, when he faced 2007 WAKO World Championship finalist and PFL fighter Sadibou Sy. The match was for the WKN European Cruiserweight title in Berns, Stockholm. Both athletes threw some hard strikes, but ultimately the fight went to the judges, declaring Sadibou Sy victorious by decision.
In 2013, during a noticeable winning streak, Jallon was offered to fight against the current WKN Cruiserweight Champion (-195 lbs/-88.5 kg), Argentinian Cristian Bosch. On August 4, 2013, Jallon faced Bosch in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first round started wrong for Jallon received some heavy damage from the champion, resulting in two standing 8 counts. In the third round, Jallon landed an elbow on Bosch's face, securing the knockout win and become the new WKN Cruiserweight Champion.
On May 15, 2015, Jallon defended his WKN cruiserweight title against the Czech Ondrej Srubek in Prague, winning on points.
On September 12, 2015, Jallon put his WKN title on the line when he faced the Slovak Adrian Valentin in Saint-Raphaël, France. Jallon shook Valentin early with some punches, but the Slovak recovered well and was able to land many shots from the outside in the following rounds. Adrian Valentin was declared winner by decision, capturing the WKN Cruiserweight title.
Lethwei
In 2017, Jallon challenged Dave Leduc, Openweight Lethwei World Champion under traditional Lethwei rules. The traditional challenge was accepted and on Decembe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinker | Klinker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eric Klinker, American technology executive
Gudrun J. Klinker (born 1958), German computer scientist
Lewis William Klinker (1867–1946), American businessman, author, lecturer and public figure
Orpha Klinker (1891–1964), American artist
Sheila Klinker (born 1938), American politician
Umberto Klinker, Surinamese football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20programming%20of%20MTV | MTV originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys" (VJs), but in the years since its inception, the network significantly toned down its focus on music in favor of original reality programming targeting teenagers and young adults.
List of presidents of programming
Robert Pittman - Pittman was the CEO of MTV Networks and the cofounder and programmer who led the team that created MTV. At MTV, he oversaw the creation and growth of MTV and the transition of Nickelodeon from a failing network geared to preschoolers to the highest rated channel aimed at older kids as well as overseeing the launches of VH-1 and Nick at Nite, and led the initial public offering for MTV Networks and its expansion into international markets. Under Pittman's leadership, MTV became the first profitable cable network; then-Time Warner Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer Steve Ross also noted that MTV became the most profitable basic cable network during Pittman's tenure there. For his development of the MTV brand, Advertising Age selected Pittman in 2010 as one of the ten most influential marketers who transformed American Culture.
Les Garland - After Atlantic Records, Garland moved back to the east coast becoming the programming head of MTV: Music Television, the world's first 24-hour music channel. While at MTV, Garland set celebrity profiles for ad guru Dale Pon's anthemic "I Want My MTV" marketing campaign. Along with founder, Robert Pittman, serving as MTV Network's Senior Executive Vice President, Garland was executive producer of the first six MTV Video Music Awards and oversaw all elements of programming. He was on the lead team that globalized the MTV brand with distribution into Europe, Asia and Australia. During his time at MTV he was asked to be the DJ voice embedded in the classic hit "We Built This City" by Starship. This impromptu stunt immortalized his voice as the things DJ dreams are made of, while Garland calls it his first number one song.
Sam Kaiser
Doug Herzog - As a senior manager at MTV, he was responsible for MTV News, Camp MTV, The Real World, Road Rules, Beavis and Butt-Head, The MTV Movie Awards, and The MTV Video Music Awards.
Andy Schuon
Brian Graden - In November 1997, Graden was promoted to executive vice president of programming at MTV following the abrupt resignation of Andy Schuon. Graden is the former President of Programming at MTV, VH1, CMT, and the LGBT channel, Logo, the launch of which he assisted in. He departed MTV Networks in late 2009.
Lois Curren
Tony DiSanto - From June 2009 through January 2010, DiSanto served as the President of Programming at MTV, supervising the development and production of all series, specials, and feature films for television. During his tenure as President, the network's ratings rose 30 percent with reality hits such as Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant and Jersey Shore, three of the highest rated shows in cable television in 2010. DiSanto also ushered in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox%20Educable%20Noughts%20and%20Crosses%20Engine | The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (sometimes called the Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine or MENACE) was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by returning a move for any given state of play and to refine its strategy through reinforcement learning.
Michie did not have a computer readily available, so he worked around this restriction by building it out of matchboxes. The matchboxes used by Michie each represented a single possible layout of a noughts and crosses grid. When the computer first played, it would randomly choose moves based on the current layout. As it played more games, through a reinforcement loop, it disqualified strategies that led to losing games, and supplemented strategies that led to winning games. Michie held a tournament against MENACE in 1961, wherein he experimented with different openings.
Following MENACE's maiden tournament against Michie, it demonstrated successful artificial intelligence in its strategy. Michie's essays on MENACE's weight initialisation and the BOXES algorithm used by MENACE became popular in the field of computer science research. Michie was honoured for his contribution to machine learning research, and was twice commissioned to program a MENACE simulation on an actual computer.
Origin
Donald Michie (1923–2007) had been on the team decrypting the German Tunny Code during World War II. Fifteen years later, he wanted to further display his mathematical and computational prowess with an early convolutional neural network. Since computer equipment was not obtainable for such uses, and Michie did not have a computer readily available, he decided to display and demonstrate artificial intelligence in a more esoteric format and constructed a functional mechanical computer out of matchboxes and beads.
MENACE was constructed as the result of a bet with a computer science colleague who postulated that such a machine was impossible. Michie undertook the task of collecting and defining each matchbox as a "fun project", later turned into a demonstration tool. Michie completed his essay on MENACE in 1963, "Experiments on the mechanization of game-learning", as well as his essay on the BOXES Algorithm, written with R. A. Chambers and had built up an AI research unit in Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.
MENACE learned by playing increasing matches of noughts and crosses. Each time, it would eliminate a losing strategy by the human player confiscating the beads that corresponded to each move. It reinforced winning strategies by making the moves more likely, by supplying extra beads. This was one of the earliest versions of the Reinforcement Loop, the schematic algorithm of looping the algorithm, dropping unsuccessful strategies until only the winning ones remain. This model starts as completely random, and g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro%20Astro | Distro Astro is a Linux based operating system targeted towards astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts. The project was started by Bamm Gabriana with contributions from other astronomy enthusiasts.
Features
Distro Astro is based upon the MATE desktop, bearing resemblance to the user interface of Windows based operating systems. It is bundled with some mainstream desktop such as Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice, as well as astronomy related software including Cartes du Ciel and KStars.
History
The first version of Distro Astro was released on 1 January 2013. The OS had two minor updates in April and August, primarily addressing software upgrades and tweaks.
In November 2013, the OS had its first major upgrade as Distro Astro 2.0, nicknamed Pallas. It included new features such as dual-boot support and touch screen capability, as well as new software bundled.
Distro Astro 3.0 was released a year later in November 2014.
See also
Fedora Astronomy KDE
References
External links
Facebook
Computer-related introductions in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KViSR%20Rocks%21 | KViSR Rocks! is an adventure published by Leading Edge Games in 1987 for Living Steel, a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk role-playing game.
Description
KViSR Rocks! is a scenario that describes Vissertown in detail, as well as the Vissers, people infected with a virus that renders them permanently incapable of existing in groups larger than a street gang without lashing out in mindless violence. The adventure also suggests options for diverging from the plot, and some suggestions of future uses for Vissertown in a longterm campaign are offered.
Plot summary
The manager of Vissertown radio station KViSR hires the player characters to investigate a series of murders. It soon becomes apparent that the murders are part of an arcane ritual that must be stopped in order to save Vissertown.
Publication history
Leading Edge Games released Living Steel in 1987, and as game historian Shannon Appelcline noted, "Leading Edge immediately supported Living Steel quite well with: the Operation Seven Swords sourcebook (1987), which gave even more depth to the history of the Seven Worlds; the KViSR Rocks! adventure (1987); and the High Tech Weapon Data Supplement (1987), all of which shared the high-tech Living Steel weaponry with Phoenix Command."
KViSR Rocks! is a 64-page saddle-stapled softcover book written by Barry Nakazono and David McKenzie, with interior artwork and graphic design by Jon Conrad, Toni Dennis, Nadir Elfarra, and Scott Miller, and cover art by Steve Huston.
Reception
In the May 1988 edition of Dragon (Issue 133), Ken Rolston reviewed two Living Steel supplements, KViSR Rocks! and the Operation Seven Swords sourcebook, and commented that "These dramatic adventures are stylishly presented, and the theme and tone feature an appealingly ambivalent mixture of honorable heroism and grim cynicism... This is good stuff."
In Issue 33 of Challenge, Julia Martin liked the breadth of information about Vissertown and its inhabitants, but thought that more adventures should have been included to take advantage of all of this source material. Martin concluded, "The module could have been even more useful if more starting points/ideas for adventures were included."
Other reviews
White Wolf #9 (1988, p.37)
Casus Belli #42 (Dec 1987,p. 16)
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1987
Science fiction role-playing game adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2019%29 | The nineteenth season of American Idol premiered on February 14, 2021, on the ABC television network. Ryan Seacrest returned as host, while Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie returned as judges, and Bobby Bones returned as in-house mentor.
Chayce Beckham won the season on May 23, 2021, while Willie Spence was the runner-up, and Grace Kinstler finished in third place.
Auditions
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, American Idol offered live virtual auditions to aspiring contestants through its Idol Across America program using custom-built Zoom technology to mirror the way the audition was done in previous season but in a home environment. The remote auditions took place from August 10 to October 28, 2020, in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these the producers selected the contestants who would then be invited to audition in front of the judges.
Due to the pandemic that limited travel for the judges, the judges' auditions were held in only three locations across California: Los Angeles, San Diego, and Ojai. The judges' auditions began on October 5, 2020, with a number of health and safety protocols in place, such as separate tables for the judges and regular COVID-19 testing for cast and crew.
Hollywood week
Hollywood week was filmed December 7–10, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The format remained similar to last season. In the first round, each contestant chose and performed a song from a selection of musical genres (indie folk, pop, rock, R&B, soul, or country). Those who impressed the judges and the producers were advanced to the next round. Instead of group performances as had been done in earlier seasons, the contestants were paired up by the judges and performed duets. They were given twenty-four hours to rehearse, which included advice from one of the judges. Judges could advance either, neither, or both of the contestants to the Showstopper round.
Showstopper round
The Showstopper round featured the top 64 contestants performing for the judges at the Dolby Theatre. This round was aired on March 28 and March 29, but only 37 contestants were aired. The following day, the judges narrowed the number of contestants down 24. The following is a list of the contestants who reached the top 24 and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 24 (April 4 & 5)
The top 24 contestants were split into two groups of twelve. The first group aired on April 4, and the second group on April 5. Each contestant performed one solo and then one duet with a celebrity singer. Four contestants from each group were eliminated based on the public vote, and the rest advanced to the top 16. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
The artists who performed duets with the top 24 were Jason Aldean, Jimmie Allen, Brandon Boyd, Jewel, Josh Groban, Tori Kelly, Brian McKnight, Katharine McPhee, PJ Morton, Ben Rector, Joss Stone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS%20%28disambiguation%29 | ZFS may refer to:
Computing
zFS (z/OS file system), by IBM
zFS (IBM file system project), an experimental decentralized file system
ZFS, a file system and logical volume manager
ZFS+, ZFS with proprietary data de-duplication technology extensions by GreenBytes
Oracle ZFS, a proprietary version of ZFS
OpenZFS, an open-source derivative of Oracle ZFS
Other uses
Zurich Financial Services
Zero field splitting, a spectroscopic concept |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsen%20Stringer | Carsen Stringer is an American computational neuroscientist and Group Leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus. Stringer uses machine learning and deep neural networks to visualize large scale neural recordings and then probe the neural computations that give rise to visual processing in mice. Stringer has also developed several novel software packages that enable cell segmentation and robust analyses of neural recordings and mouse behavior.
Early life and education
In 2009, Stringer pursued her undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. She worked under the mentorship of Jonathan Rubin to design prostheses based on passive dynamic walking. She also learned to apply mathematical principles to model biological equilibrium dynamics. Stringer then moved to the United Kingdom in 2013 to conduct her graduate studies at the University College London. At UCL, Stringer worked in the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit under the mentorship of Kenneth D. Harris. Stringer combined her experience in mathematical modelling with her skills and knowledge in neuroscience to explore how multi-neuron recordings can be used to understand the population dynamics that reflect internal state and representations of external stimuli in the brain. Her recordings were performed in the rodent visual cortex and she used a variety of machine learning and dimensionality reduction techniques to explore the network level mechanisms that give rise to neural dynamics. Stringer also helped to develop the Suite2p software which has revolutionized the ability to process videos and computationally analyze the video recordings from in vivo calcium imaging.
Career and research
Following her PhD in 2018, Stringer began her postdoctoral work at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus. She worked under the mentorship of Marius Pachitariu and Karel Svoboda to innovate novel ways to apply deep learning tools for object segmentation, image analyses, and extracting computational principles from large scale neural recordings. She married Pachitariu before he started his lab at Janelia research campus, after which Stringer was awarded her own lab at Janelia research campus.
Stringer is now a Group Leader at Janelia and leads the Stringer Lab. Her team develops machine learning tools for neuroscientists and Stringer educates fellow scientists, through frequent workshops, on how to apply these tools in their own labs. The Stringer Lab also aims to fit biologically inspired deep network models to neural activity data gathered from the visual cortex to gain a better understanding of stimulus encoding in the visual cortex. Through large scale neural recordings, they have found that the neural responses to visual stimuli are high dimensional, and they are constantly innovating new ways to extract structure and understanding from this data through improved visualization software. One goal of the Str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20%26%20Woody | Will & Woody is a syndicated Australian radio show hosted by Will McMahon and Woody Whitelaw across the KIIS Network and Super Radio Network. The show in its current form first aired on the KIIS Network on 18 January 2018.
History
Hit Network
McMahon and Whitelaw have hosted radio shows together since 2011, after being spotted by broadcaster Steve Vizard after performing at a law school revue in Melbourne. The pair were recruited as fill-in presenters for The Kyle & Jackie O Show, and were later heard nationally on the Today Network.
In October 2013, Southern Cross Austereo announced that McMahon and Whitelaw will host 92.9 Perth's breakfast radio program, alongside Heidi Anderson. In addition to their Perth shows, the pair were also heard on Fox FM Melbourne's Saturday breakfast program, between January and August 2017.
In August 2017, McMahon and Whitelaw departed Hit92.9 and its parent company, Southern Cross Austereo.
KIIS Network
In October 2017, Australian Radio Network announced the pair would move to Melbourne to succeed the Hughesy & Kate drive show on the KIIS Network, commencing 8 January 2018. In February 2020, Australian Radio Network announced it had extended McMahon and Whitelaw's contract for three years.
In May 2022, the duo appeared as contestants on the sixth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. The duo placed 10th in the season, however still raised $20,000 for their chosen charity.
In June 2022, it was announced that Ash London will fill in for Will McMahon whilst he's on paternity leave.
From June 2022, the duo are the sideline commentators for Australian Ninja Warrior’s sixth season.
In January 2023, ARN announced that the show will be syndicated on the Super Radio Network to 16 additional radio stations across regional New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
In April 2023, Brooke Boney filled in for Woody Whitelaw whilst he competed in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
References
External links
Australian comedy radio programs
2010s Australian radio programs
2020s Australian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safetipin | Safetipin is a social organisation working with a wide range of urban stakeholders including governments to make public spaces safer and more inclusive for women. Safetipin collects data using 3 mobile phone applications (My Safetipin, which is available on the app store and play store; Safetipin Nite and Safetipin Site) and present this to relevant stakeholders with recommendations. The apps also generate a safety score based on the data collected and provide it in the My Safetipin app for users to make safe and informed decisions about their mobility.
Organization and mission
Based in India, Safetipin aims to make cities safer by providing data collected through technology tools and apps to its users. The data is collected and analysed on parameters that impact safety and walkability. Its end goal is to achieve movement without fear for women. It was co-founded by gender rights' activist Kalpana Viswanath and Ashish Basu in 2013.
How it works
Using three apps, including My Safetipin, Safetipin Nite and Safetipin Site, it maps the entire street network as well as key public spaces such as transport hubs, parks, markets etc., in a city. The nine parameters used by Safetipin to calculate safety are lighting, openness, visibility, people, security guards, walk path, public transport, gender usage, feeling, all pertaining to a certain area. Bus stops and metro stations are also included to review the safety status around them.
App features
Safetipin enables the users with some key features such as, selecting a place to stay based on the safety score of the neighbourhood, driving or walking using the safest route, finding the nearest safe place and heading there, asking a friend to track them and get notifications if there is a problem, receiving notifications when in an unsafe place.
Recent initiatives
Safetipin, in Delhi, has mapped low income areas and areas adjacent to metro stations since 2013, in order to find localities with poor lighting conditions. Based on its data the Delhi government fixed the existing streetlights and installed additional street lights and an increase in police patrolling. In 2018, the government approached the organization to do a fresh mapping to measure change as well as point out other safety concerns in the city.
In 2016, Bogota city was mapped using the app on the 230 km of bike path. The resultant data was used by the local government to improve lighting along the street, identify the locations for CCTV cameras and bike stands so as to make women feel safer using the bike paths after dark. A symbolic event, ‘Women Taking the Night’ was also held in the city after the report by Safetipin, where women walkers were joined by top government officials to walk the reportedly unsafe areas together.
The focus of the project by Safetipin in Hanoi was on mapping urban transport for Hanoi Metro Line 3.
Awards
Lotus Leadership Award 2019
Womanity Award 2018
Dubai Award
Global Urban Innovator
Prixars
Avon Mos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20cyberattacks%20on%20Sri%20Lanka | The 2020 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of cyberattacks on at least 5 Sri Lankan national websites with the top-level domains of .gov and .com. The cyberattack is speculated to have been conducted on 17 and 18 May 2020. The cyber-attack was also launched on the leading news website of Sri Lanka. The website of the Chinese Embassy operating in Sri Lanka and the website of Cabinet Office in Sri Lanka were also affected by the cyberattack. The investigations are currently carried out by Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team along with the Information Technology Society of Sri Lanka (ITSSL). ITSSL believes that this cyber attack conducted by a group called 'Tamil Eelam Cyber Force'.
References
Hacking in the 2020s
2020 in computing
Sri Lanka
Cyberattacks
Terrorist incidents in Asia in 2020
Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODSC | Open Data Science Conference, or ODSC, is an annual event held in Boston, San Francisco, Brazil, London, and India. The purpose of ODSC events is to discuss data science and machine learning topics, as well as provide training sessions.
History
Open Data Science Conference was founded in 2015, with the first inaugural event held on May 30, 2015. Since then, the event has grown rapidly, from 2,000 participants in 2017 to 8,230 registered attendees in 2020.
References
Annual events
Technology conferences
Business conferences
Web-related conferences
Free-software conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Composers%20Festival | The International Composers Festival is a regular event comprising a series of concerts, lectures and networking opportunities created with the purpose to promote and showcase classical music that is tuneful, universally appealing and created solely by living composers attending the concerts.
The festival was founded in 2012 by composer, concert pianist and artistic director Polo Piatti and the festival patrons are composers Nigel Hess and Debbie Wiseman OBE.
The first festival took place on 24th-25th August 2012 and subsequent festivals took place in 2013, 2015 and 2018 always in Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK.
The repertoire encompasses works especially selected from submissions from all over the world and includes big orchestral compositions, film scores, computer gaming music, televisions themes, chamber and dance music usually performed in six concerts over a long weekend.
A strong element in the festival is the opportunity for composers from different parts of the world to come together and network with colleagues and organisations in the United Kingdom.
Principal festival conductors include Stephen Ellery (Wales), Derek Carden (UK), Irish Endo (Japan) and John Andrews (UK) and composers in residence include Simon Proctor, Nobuya Monta, Ash Madni. The current composer in residence is Paul Lewis and youth ambassador is Oliver Poole.
2018 Festival
In addition to the Composers in residence, the 2018 festival included;
Antonio D'Antò - Italy
Matthew Curtis - United Kingdom
Sergio Puccini
Carlos Salomon
Dominik Scherrer
References
External links
International Composers Festival website
Classical music festivals in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHuman%20%28film%29 | iHuman is a documentary about artificial intelligence, social control and power. The film shows how this technology is changing our lives, our society and our future. Such experts as Ilya Sutskever and Jürgen Schmidhuber give interviews about AI and how it is developed and implemented. It also features the leading minds in the field Max Tegmark, Kara Swisher, Michal Kosinski, Stuart Russel, Ben Wizner, Hao Li, Ben Goertzel and Philip Alston. The documentary features its own character representing AI that develops through the film. This character has an abstract VFX form done by Theodor Groeneboom. The constant surveillance through phones, internet, systems in society and through surveillance cameras is discussed as a topic crucial for development of AI. The question is posed, if we already are governed by algorithms that are created by big tech corporations, governments and the military industry. It mentions Palantir Technologies and Cambridge Analytica.
The film premiered at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 23 November.
See also
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Regulation of algorithms
Social Credit System
References
External links
2019 documentary films
2019 films
Norwegian documentary films
Films about artificial intelligence
Government by algorithm in fiction
Social reputation in fiction
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20European%20Song%20Contest | The Free European Song Contest is an international song competition, organised by the German television network ProSieben and the production company Brainpool TV, with participants representing primarily European countries. The contest is similar in format to the long-running Eurovision Song Contest: each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television, then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.
The overall winner of the contest is the entry that has received the most points after the scores from every country have been collected and totalled.
History
As the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 could not take place due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Europe, German TV station ProSieben and German entertainer Stefan Raab decided to organise Free European Song Contest as an alternative. After the success of the first edition, ProSieben has decided to plan the event also for 2021.
The first contest was held in the city of Cologne, Germany, on 16 May 2020. Sixteen countries participated: each participating country submitted an entry. The contest was won by Nico Santos, representing Spain, with the song "Like I Love You".
A third edition was announced for 2022 during the show. However, on 25 June 2022, it was announced that the show would be suspended for a year and would return in 2023 for a third edition. The 2023 contest was cancelled in May of that year.
Participation
The following countries have all participated in the Eurovision Song Contest, or are eligible to compete by the standards of the Free European Song Contest, but have not had either public or private broadcasters indicate interest in participating (as of yet):
Competition history
Medal table
The table below shows the top-three placings from each contest, along with the years that a country won the contest.
Presenters
See also
Bundesvision Song Contest, previous contest organised by ProSieben and held annually between the 16 states of Germany.
Eurovision Song Contest
Notes
References
External links
Production website at Brainpool TV
2020s German television series
2020 German television series debuts
German-language television shows
ProSieben original programming
Song contests
German music television series
Pop music festivals
2020 establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving%20Our%20Selves | Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort, or simply, Saving Our Selves, was a 2020 television special which aired on the American television network BET on April 22, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hosted by Anthony Anderson, Kelly Rowland, Terrence J, and Regina Hall, the two-hour special was made to raise funds for the BET COVID-19 Relief Effort Fund, established by BET in collaboration with United Way Worldwide, aimed to support African Americans who have been severely impacted by the pandemic.
The special was simulcast on sister channels BET Her and MTV2 (with an immediate encore broadcast on VH1), along with Bounce TV. It was also broadcast worldwide via BET International and streamed on BET's website and its social media platforms, along with BET+, Tidal and Pluto TV.
It was later reported that the special has raised $16 million in funds.
Performances
Appearances
Chance the Rapper
Deon Cole
Tina Lifford
Angela Rye
Lil Wayne
Fat Joe
Whoopi Goldberg
MC Lyte
Queen Latifah
DJ Premier
Sean Combs
Charlamagne tha God
Dr. Rheeda Walker
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Keisha Lance Bottoms
DJ Khaled
Halle Berry
Idris Elba
Symone Sanders
D-Nice
Tiffany Haddish
Ciara
Nomalanga Shozi
Flora Coquerel
Jourdan Riane
Young T & Bugsey
Sabrina Elba
Lizzo
Morris Chestnut
Al Sharpton
Don Cheadle
Kevin Hart
Cupid (Singer)
See also
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television in the United States
References
External links
2020 in American television
2020 television specials
BET original programming
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Television shows about the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20interaction%20network | Genetic interaction networks represent the functional interactions between pairs of genes in an organism and are useful for understanding the relation between genotype and phenotype. The majority of genes do not code for particular phenotypes. Instead, phenotypes often result from the interaction between several genes. In humans, "Each individual carries ~4 million genetic variants and polymorphisms, the overwhelming majority of which cannot be pinpointed as the single cause for a given phenotype. Instead, the effects of genetic variants may combine with one another both additively and synergistically, and each variant's contribution to a quantitative trait or disease risk could depend on the genotypes of dozens of other variants. Interactions between genetic variants, along with the environmental conditions, are likely to play a major role in determining the phenotype that arises from a given genotype." Genetic interaction networks help to understand genetic interactions by identifying such interactions between pairs of genes.
Because genetic interactions provide insight into how genotype connects to phenotype in an organism, improved knowledge of genetic interactions in humans could provide crucial insight into complex diseases. Unfortunately, due to the impossibility of isolating subjects with single genetic variants, it is not possible to directly map the genetic interaction networks in humans. Researchers hope that learning about the characteristics of genetic interaction networks in suitable organisms will provide tools for constructing the genetic interaction network of humans.
Overview
A genetic interaction occurs when the interactions between two or more genes results in a phenotype that differs from the phenotype expected if the genes were independent of each other. In the context of genetic interaction networks, a genetic interaction is defined as "the difference between an experimentally measured double-mutant phenotype and an expected double-mutant phenotype, the latter of which is predicted from the combination of the single-mutant effects, assuming the mutations act independently." In this context, a commonly studied phenotype is fitness which measures the relative reproduction rate of a mutant. A strong phenotype refers to a low level of fitness while a weak phenotype refers to a level of fitness close to that of the non-mutant strain.
A negative genetic interaction occurs when the phenotype of the double mutant is stronger than expected. A special case is a synthetic lethal interaction which occurs when the removal of individual genes does not significantly harm an organism but the removal of both genes results in an inviable organism. A positive genetic interaction occurs when the phenotype of the double mutant is weaker than expected. A special case is genetic suppression which occurs when the phenotype of the double mutant is weaker than that of the least-fit single mutant.
In order to measure the interaction between two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyule%20Homestead | Banyule Homestead is a heritage-listed house at 60 Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. It is listed in the Victorian Heritage Database and has local heritage protection.
History
The house was built in 1846 for Port Phillip pioneer Joseph Hawdon and designed in the Elizabethan style by the architect John Gill. Banyule Homestead is a rare pre-goldrush house that has survived into current times.
Former residents of the house have included prominent Victorian settlers such as James Graham, William Mitchell and Dr Robert Martin.
From 1975 to 1977, the house was altered to provide a gallery space for the National Gallery of Victoria's Heidelberg School Collection. The property was subsequently sold and returned into private hands in 1995.
Current use
A 2017 application to Banyule City Council to convert the property into a function centre was contested by the community, Banyule Estate Residents Group and the Heidelberg Historical Society. This application was rejected, as was a later appeal.
References
Houses in Melbourne
Heidelberg, Victoria
Homesteads in Victoria
Heritage sites in Melbourne
Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne
Buildings and structures in the City of Banyule
Houses completed in 1846
1846 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobram%20railway%20line | The Cobram railway line was a short branch of the Tocumwal line in the north-eastern region of the Victorian railway network.
Origins
A town began to develop near pastoralist Octavius Philpott's Cobram Station around 1868. The Great Central Railway League, formed to advocate for construction of a line from the main north-eastern corridor to Shepparton, included Cobram in its estimates of potential patronage. When the Shepparton line was extended further north towards Numurkah and the Murray River, however, and a line to Yarrawonga was constructed from Benalla on the north-eastern line, landholders in Cobram became concerned they would be "beyond a reasonable radius of any station."
When extension of the line from Numurkah to Tocumwal to meet the New South Wales Government Railways system was recommended in 1879, Cobram residents began lobbying local politicians for a diversion of the route to serve the east of the town. Ultimately when the infamous Octopus Act of the Victorian Parliament passed in 1884, authorising a vast program of government railway construction across the colony, it included a railway from Numurkah to Cobram and none to Tocumwal.
Building contractors for the Victorian Railways, Messrs. Shaw, Monie and Mixner, began work on the line in April 1887 with around 50 labourers. Construction was delayed by severe weather that winter, and although the Railway Commissioners' promise that the line would be complete by the summer harvest could not be fulfilled, local residents were told to expect the use of some of the line. The contractors were hauling small amounts of wheat to meet the main railway in May the following year when an inexperienced driver derailed his train returning to Numurkah. The line officially opened on 1 October 1888 simultaneously with eight other railway lines around the state.
The decision to construct a line to Cobram in lieu of Tocumwal was heavily criticised, and an article in The Age accused Premier of Victoria and Minister for Railways Duncan Gillies of "meddling" in the design. The article observed that the landholdings of a "prominent member of the Legislative Council" had appreciated significantly in value as a result of the decision, and asked "what occult influence induced the Minister to drag the line out of its natural course to Cobram?" When Victorian Railways Commissioner Richard Speight sued The Age for libel in the following years, on the basis on a series of such articles alleging widespread corruption in the operation of the Octopus Act, lawyers for the newspaper pointed out that the three daily trains on the Cobram branch brought an average revenue of fewer than 15 shillings each.
When, in 1904, a decision was taken to meet the New South Wales Government Railways system at Tocumwal with construction of a new line, Cobram residents vehemently protested the construction of a junction at Strathmerton, which would leave the Cobram line a branch instead of on the main route from the river to M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutor%20%28disambiguation%29 | A tutor is somebody who helps teach another.
Tutor or TUTOR may also refer to:
Aviation
Avro Tutor
Canadair CT-114 Tutor
Slingsby Kirby Tutor
Slingsby Motor Tutor
Timm N2T Tutor
Computing
TUTOR, a programming language
Tomy Tutor, a home computer
Literature
The Tutor, a play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
The Tutor (Brecht), an adaptation of that play by Bertolt Brecht
People
Gaius Vellaeus Tutor, ancient Roman senator
Glennray Tutor (born 1950), American painter
Ronald Tutor (born 1940/1941), American businessman
Tracy Tutor (born 1975), American real estate agent and reality television personality
Other uses
Tutor (education), an officer in the British university system
Tutor.com, an online tutoring company
Tutor Systems, an educational game
See also
Tudor (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply%20Local | Simply Local is a decentralized community social networking and neighborhood broadcasting service developed by Simply Local, based in New Delhi. The app is used as a tool by residents to bridge the information gap and know what is happening in the locality.
Simply Local creates private geo-fenced networks for people living in an area and provides social and community related services within that network. The user doesn’t post to a single person but broadcasts to a chosen community. One of its primary purposes is also to connect citizens to their elected representatives. Each community is independent of the other and information shared remains telescoped to that particular community. The app has been designed to maintain privacy and security of users and provides decentralized social networking in the sense that it forms an owner-independent, micro community, which is not connected with the world outside.
Simply Local is available on Android Play and iOS App Store. It is available in two languages - English and Hindi. Simply Local’s founder and CEO is Nikhil Bapna.
History
2020 May: Included as a Top 5 Useful App by Zee News.
2020: Used to connect candidates with local residents during the Delhi assembly elections.
2019: Renamed from Gadfly to its current name.
2018: Used for Karnataka State Elections to get detailed information on candidates.
2017: Launched under the name Gadfly as a tool to connect citizens with their elected representatives.
References
Social media
Social networking services
Location-based software
Mobile social software
Proprietary cross-platform software
Cross-platform software
Social networks for social change
Geosocial networking
Social networking mobile apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Glickman | Jeff Glickman is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He specializes in artificial intelligence, image processing and stochastic computation. He designed and built an AI driven investment advisor for the company J4 Capital which he founded in 2017. The AI is reportedly performing better than any other known AI-advised technology with a success rate of 60% i.e. for every trade it is correct 60% of the time.
In 2010, Glickman spotted an Amelia Earhart-related anomaly in a tiny 75 year-old black-and-white photo giving a possible clue to her fate. A 2019 search of the island suggests that the object in the photo resembles local rocks.
References
External links
"Squashing the Market with Bill Ullman", interview of Jeff Glickman, February 2020
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20Framework | Fluid is a free and open source computer platform for real-time collaboration across applications. Microsoft first demonstrated the software at its Build conference in May 2019 as a framework that would allow for real-time collaboration between users of its Office on the web online office suite. It replaces the concept of a "document" with a cloud address for real-time collaboration and sharing of content forms including text and tables. Microsoft expects to implement it in its Teams chat software, Outlook mail software, and other productivity software. It is designed for integration with other services, such as live translation and Cortana voice assistance. Public and private previews of the software began in November 2019. Microsoft open sourced the software in September 2020.
See also
Distributed computing
Document collaboration
References
External links
Microsoft free software
Software using the MIT license
2020 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Festival is a defunct American premium cable television network that was owned by Home Box Office, Inc., then a subsidiary of Time Inc., and operated from 1986 to 1988. The channel's programming consisted of uncut and re-edited versions of recent older theatrically released motion pictures, along original music, comedy and nature specials sourced from the parent HBO channel aimed at a family audience.
History
On April 1, 1986, HBO began test-marketing a tertiary premium service, Festival, to an estimated 850 subscribers over six cable systems owned by then-sister company American Television and Communications Corporation (eventually expanding to 25 systems by the Summer of 1986). The channel—which transmitted for 19 hours each day from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time daily—was targeted at older audiences who found programming containing violence and sexual situations on other premium services objectionable, television viewers without cable service, and basic cable subscribers that opted against retaining a subscription to a premium service. It's slogan, Quality Entertainment You Welcome Home reflected the target audience it was trying to attract.
Primarily to cater to the former demographic, Festival focused around family-friendly fare that included classic and recent hit movies (including collections of feature films starring a featured actor, known as "Star Salutes"), and documentaries, along with HBO original stand-up comedy, concert, nature and ice skating specials (which Festival branded under the "Centerstage" banner). Atypical for a premium service, Festival aired "airline-style" versions of R-rated movies re-edited to fit a PG rating on the channel's schedule.
As Festival was designed as a mini-pay premium service (similar to Take 2 before it), subscription pricing for the channel was set lower than that of HBO and Cinemax (between $2.99 and $6.99 per month—equivalent to between $ and $ in , adjusted for inflation—depending on the cable system). Festival also provided subscribers with a 20-page, color monthly program guide. Like HBO, Festival also ran occasional free preview periods, such as the October 30 to November 2, 1987 preview hosted by Tony Randall.
On July 14, 1988, Home Box Office, Inc. announced it would shut down Festival at the end of the year, citing headend channel capacity limitations that prevented Festival from expanding beyond the 102 systems that already carried the service. The channel had reoriented its marketing initiatives to aggressively target cable subscribers who subscribed to another pay service. At its peak, Festival had an estimated 30,000 subscribers by the Summer of 1988, putting it at a distant last place in total subscriber reach among the eight American premium cable services operating at the time. (By comparison, during the same timeframe, HBO had reached 15.9 million subscribers and fellow sister channel Cinemax reached 5.1 million, while Festival's most direct competitor, The Disney Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV7 | VTV7 is a national education and children television channel owned by Vietnam Television. It is a product of a cooperation between VTV Network's Center for Educational Productions with the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, and its partners EBS (Korea) and NHK (Japan). VTV7 began airing on a trial basis on November 20, 2015, and began regular programming on January 1, 2016. Its launching ceremony was broadcast on January 8, 2016.
The audience of VTV7 is mainly students. At the beginning of the broadcast, VTV7 is aimed at preschool and elementary children. The channel also has programs suitable for other audiences such as middle school students, high school students, adults, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities.
Although VTV7 spends most of its time on educational programs, it also has entertainment programming and programs of humanitarian significance. It also has purchased the copyright from foreign partners.
VTV7, along with VTV8 and VTV9 (new version), were 3 television channels which were launched in 2016.
Programmes
References
Television networks in Vietnam
Vietnam Television original programming
Vietnamese-language television
Vietnamese-language television networks
2016 establishments in Vietnam
Educational and instructional television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel%20Time | Travel Time is a Philippine television travel documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered in 1986. The show is the longest running travel documentary show in the Philippine television. The show concluded on ANC in 2015.
References
1986 Philippine television series debuts
1980s Philippine television series
2015 Philippine television series endings
ABS-CBN News Channel original programming
English-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Philippine documentary television series
Philippine travel television series
Studio 23 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyJet%20data%20breach | The EasyJet data breach was a cyberattack on the computer systems of British airline EasyJet.
Discovery
EasyJet first learned of the cyberattack at the end of January 2020. Approximately nine million people were affected with the credit card details of 2,208 also accessed. EasyJet notified the Information Commissioner's Office while they were investigating the breach.
Public admission
EasyJet publicly revealed the attack in May 2020. They told the BBC that they were only able to notify customers whose details (credit card or email addresses) were stolen in April 2020. EasyJet told BBC "This was a highly sophisticated attacker. It took time to understand the scope of the attack and to identify who had been impacted". They also said "We could only inform people once the investigation had progressed enough that we were able to identify whether any individuals have been affected, then who had been impacted and what information had been accessed".
The affected data covers flight bookings made from 17 October 2019 to 4 March 2020.
The stolen credit card details include the card security code.
EasyJet said they had gone public to notify the nine million customers whose email addresses had been accessed to beware of phishing attacks and that it would notify everybody by 26 May. Passengers whose credit card details were accessed were notified in April. They did not reveal details of the attack but said it seemed to be aimed at "company intellectual property" rather than information that could be used in identity theft.
EasyJet was not obliged to notify passengers whose basic booking details were compromised but they announced the details because of an increase in phishing attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Passport details were not accessed.
The Information Commissioner's Office said they were investigating. The ICO said "People have a right to expect that organisations will handle their personal information securely and responsibly. When that doesn't happen, we will investigate and take robust action where necessary".
GDPR requires companies to store personal details securely and EasyJet could face fines from the ICO of 4% of the airlines' turnover in 2019.
See also
2018 British Airways cyberattack
References
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
EasyGroup
Computer security
Cyberattacks on airlines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Center%20Orchestrator | Microsoft System Center Orchestrator is an automation software tool that allows a user to automate the monitoring and deployment of data center resources. For example, it is capable of automatically deploying new operating systems or can forward alerts previously generated by System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to an incident ticketing system like Microsoft System Center Service Manager.
Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, also known as Microsoft SCORCH, was first introduced as part of the Microsoft System Center 2012 suite on 12 December 2012. Microsoft bought in 2009 the software solution Opalis vNext and rebranded it into Orchestrator.
The latest stable version is Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2019, build number is 10.19.40.0, which was released 14 March 2019.
References
Microsoft server software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Airways%20data%20breach | In 2018, there was a data breach that affected 380,000 to 500,000 customers of British Airways.
Attack
The Information Commissioner's Office said that the attack had begun in June 2018.
The ICO claimed the incident took place after the British Airways website was diverted to a false site. According to computer security Alan Woodward the attack was most likely carried out through a supply chain attack on a third party payment utility used by the website. This script sent the submitted payment information to the attackers directly. The breach of CVV codes in the attacks support this theory, as by PCI DSS standards CVV codes are not stored, and are only processed during the time payments are made which makes access to a database unlikely.
British Airways said the attack affected bookings from 21 August 2018 to 5 September 2018 with credit card details of around 380,000 total customers being compromised. The attackers obtained names, street addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers, expiration dates and Card security codes - enough to allow thieves to steal from accounts. 77,000 customers had their name, address, email address and detailed payment information taken, while 108,000 people had personal details compromised which did not include CVV numbers.
One customer of the airline reported that his card had been used to buy items by phone at Harrods while he was in Malaysia. The attempt was rejected - the customer did not think his card was exposed except by this attack.
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Aftermath
British Airways urged customers to contact their banks or credit card issuer and to follow their advice. NatWest said that it received more calls than usual because of the breach. American Express said that customers would not need to take any action and that they would alert customers with unusual activity on their cards.
Consequences for British Airways
British Airways was issued with a £183 million fine by the Information Commissioner's Office, which was the biggest fine issued by the office up to that date. It was roughly 367 times the previous record, which was a £500,000 fine imposed on Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Facebook fine was the heaviest that could have been imposed at the time - a new law mirroring GDPR had been introduced between the Facebook and British Airways scandals. The fine was 1.5% of the airline's worldwide turnover in 2017. The maximum under the new laws would have been 4% of worldwide turnover, which would have approached £500 million.
CEO and chairman Álex Cruz said the airline was "surprised and disappointed" in the ICO's finding.
In October 2020 British Airways was fined £20 million by the Information Commissioner's Office, considerably smaller than the £183 million fine that the ICO originally intended.
References
See also
EasyJet hack
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Computer security
British Airways
Cyberattacks on airlines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settle%20%28surname%29 | Settle is a surname, and may refer to:
Alf Settle (1912–1988), British professional footballer
Alison Settle (1891–1980), British fashion journalist and editor
Amber Settle, American computer scientist and education academic
Benjamin Hale Settle (born 1947), American judge
Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator
Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), English poet and playwright
Evan E. Settle (1848–1899), American politician from Kentucky
Henry Settle (1847–1923), British Army officer
Jimmy Settle (1875–1954), English footballer
John Settle (born 1965), American football player and coach
Josiah T. Settle (1850–1915), American lawyer
Keala Settle (born 1975), American actress and singer
Martha Settle Putney (1916–2008), American educator and historian
Mary Lee Settle (1918–2005), American writer
Matthew Settle (b. 1969), American actor
Michaela Settle (born 1964), Australian politician
Mike Settle (born 1941), American musician and journalist
Thomas Settle (North Carolina, 15th–16th Congress) (1789–1857), American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1817–1821
Thomas Settle (judge) (1831–1888), American judge and politician in North Carolina
Thomas Settle (North Carolina, 53rd–54th Congress) (1865–1919), American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1893–1897
Thomas G. W. Settle (1895–1980), United States Navy officer
Tim Settle (born 1997), American football defensive tackle
Will Settle, English football manager
See also
Settles (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Coronavirus%20Assessment%20Network | The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) is a public health surveillance program established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. SCAN originated in March 2020 as a partnership between the Public Health department of Seattle and King County in Washington, USA and the Seattle Flu Study. SCAN's predecessor, the Seattle Flu Study, reported the first known case of community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
Origin and ties to the Seattle Flu Study
The greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network originated from the Seattle Flu Study, a public health surveillance program established in 2018. The Seattle Flu Study tracked the spread of bacterial and viral respiratory infections, including influenza, in the greater Seattle area by collecting nasal swabs from volunteers in the community. The public arm of the program allowed people to enroll online and request an at-home nasal swab sample collection kit, to be mailed back to the study team. Additional tests were performed at various locations throughout the community, including public transportation hubs, malls, hospitals and schools. During the 2018-2019 Flu season (October–May), the study collected 3,653 community samples, and 11,273 hospital samples. From January 1 through March 9, 2020, 3,524 samples were collected through online enrollment.
Following the first confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the COVID-19 outbreak in Washington state, the Seattle Flu Study team decided to test all received samples for SARS-CoV-2. A nasal swab collected by the Seattle Flu Study on February 24, 2020, became the first documented case of community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
Regulatory challenges
SCAN's predecessor, the Seattle Flu Study, faced significant delays in acquiring federal regulatory approval to test samples for SARS-CoV-2, and made the decision to proceed with testing in the interest of public health. As of May 13, 2020, SCAN was required to halt testing by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until receiving additional approval from the agency. SCAN responded by noting that they initiated the process to gain FDA approval on March 23, 2020, and have submitted all requested data.
Members and funding
SCAN began as a partnership between the Seattle Flu Study and Public Health - Seattle and King County. It is affiliated with the Brotman Baty Institute, a collaboration between the University of Washington School of Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children's. It has received technical support from the Institute for Disease Modeling, Amazon Care, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). SCAN is funded by Gates Ventures.
See also
COVID-19 testing
COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Helen Y. Chu, researcher; member of SCAN and Seattle Flu Study
References
Public health
Scientific an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERMETH | The ERMETH (Electronic Calculating Machine of the ETH) was one of the first computers in Europe and was developed and built by Eduard Stiefel and his team of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the ETH Zurich between 1948 and 1956. It was in use until 1963 and is now displayed at the Museum of Communication Bern (Switzerland).
Models
Eduard Stiefel and his two senior assistants Heinz Rutishauser and Ambros Speiser were inspired by models in the USA and United Kingdom when developing the ERMETH. In 1949 Rutishauser and Speiser undertook study trips to Howard Aiken (Harvard University), John von Neumann (Princeton University) and to the University of Cambridge, which operated the EDSAC. In 1950, Stiefel rented for five years the only existing digital computer in continental Europe at that time, the Zuse Z4, completed by Konrad Zuse in 1945, for the ETH in order to gain experience with a calculating machine during the construction of the ERMETH.
Technical concept
The ERMETH had (in contrast to the Z4) a classical von Neumann architecture, i.e. it was a calculating machine in which program and processed data were stored in the same main memory; thus, numbers, as well as program parts, could be processed automatically. The ERMETH was designed for numerical calculations and worked in true decimal (not dual or hexadecimal) and had instructions for all four basic arithmetic operations with floating-point and fixed-point numbers, but not for processing letters. At the start of operation (1956), it consisted of devices (hardware) and stored user programs (software), but had no operating system, so that each user had to first read in his program, which had already been prepared on punch cards in machine language and then start it by setting the program counter to the first command. Under program control, user data was then read in (from punch cards) and parameter values were requested (via the keyboard) from the user.
Already in 1952, Heinz Rutishauser had presented the concept of the compiler for the use of machine-independent computer languages in his habilitation thesis on "automatic computation plan production". Thanks to the development of the higher programming language Algol (Algol 58 and Algol 60), machine-independent programming later became possible; for the input of letters, the ERMETH 1958 had to be supplemented with a paper tape reader.
The ERMETH had an arithmetic unit with 1,500 electron tubes. A 1.5-ton magnetic drum with space for 10,000 words to 16 decimal places (14 digits, sign, check digit), which rotated at 100 revolutions per second, served as the main memory. This also determined the operating speed of the ERMETH per command step, because the average access time to the commands and numbers stored on the drum was 5 milliseconds; the much higher operating speed of the electron tubes did not change this. The use of the 10'000 words of the working memory was very flexible. For each word (with 16 decimal places), either a flo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20L.%20Childs | David L. Childs is a computer scientist noted for his work on his Extended Set Theoretic approach to data base management and cited by Edgar F. Codd in his key paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".
Biography
The late 1960s saw Childs working on the CONCOMP project for Research in Conversational Use of Computers under project director Franklin H. Westervelt.
Childs proposed the Extended Set Theoretic approach to database management in 1968 in his paper Feasibility of a Set-Theoretic Data Structure Based on a Reconstituted Definition of a Relation. The MICRO Relational Database Management System which was implemented in 1970 was based on Childs' Set-Theoretic Data Structure (STDS) work.
In 1970 Codd in his key paper on relational databases, A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, cited one of Childs' 1968 papers as part of the basis for the work.
In 1985 Childs formed Integrated Information Systems with object of focusing on the rapid integration and access of highly distributed disparate data and providing software and services to assist in handling this class of problem.
References
Bibliography
Database researchers
Possibly living people
Year of birth missing
American computer scientists
Scientists from Ann Arbor, Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inez%20Brown%20Burns | Inez Brown Burns (1886-1976) was an underground abortion provider and socialite in San Francisco. She created an extensive West Coast abortion network in the United States, which catered to a range of clients in the early 20th century. It is estimated that her clinic provided about 50,000 abortions in San Francisco and about 150,000 abortions total. In her lifetime, Burns was widely covered in the press, due to her socially unconventional lifestyle, legal troubles, and occupation as an abortion care provider in the pre-Roe v. Wade era.
Early life
On September 5, 1886, Inez Brown Burns (née Ingenthron) was born. The accounts of her birthplace vary, with some sources claiming that she was born in a two-bedroom cardboard shack in the outskirts of Philadelphia, while others say that she was born in San Francisco. According to her biographer, Burns was truly born in a tenement building in the South of Market district of San Francisco. The Philadelphia story was merely a legend told by Burns. At the time, the South of Market neighborhood was comparable to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, due to its gritty warehouses, street gangs, and cramped living spaces.
Her parents were Alice Bell Cross, an American, and Fredrick Ingenthron (b. 1853), a poor German immigrant. Her father, originally from Traunstein, was a cigar maker and an alcoholic. The couple had met in Indiana and lived in Chicago before moving to San Francisco. In 1894, Frederick died, leaving Alice to raise four children as a single parent. Burns had a difficult childhood, and she was forced to leave school at 5 years old in order to work at a pickle factory. Burns taught herself to read, due to her lack of formal schooling.
Early work
As a teenager, Burns found a job as a manicurist at the Palace Hotel. She was admired by many male guests of the hotel, who often sought her services, including Eugene West, a full-time abortion care provider. At the time, West was a "lady's man," according to historians, and three times the age of Burns. He and Burns became lovers, and he reportedly performed some abortions on her. He eventually offered her a job at his abortion clinic, and she worked by his side for years.
In early 20th century, there were strict birth control laws in the United States, resulting in many unintended pregnancies. Furthermore, abortion was illegal, and it was a felony to provide abortion services. In 1872, San Francisco had even adopted an anti-abortion statute. However, a large underground economy of abortion providers existed, which was primarily marketed through word-of-mouth. The doctors, midwives, and specialists who performed underground abortions were rarely arrested, unless the pregnant woman died during the procedure. As a result, underground abortion services were fairly common at the time.
At that time, many abortion providers were undertrained, under-equipped, or worked in unhygienic conditions. This led to many abortion-related injuries and deaths.Similarl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Ringel%20Morris | Meredith Ringel Morris is an American computer scientist who works in human-computer interaction and collaborative web search. She is a principal scientist at Google Brain and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington in The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in The Information School.
Early life and education
Morris earned her Sc.B. in computer science from Brown University (magna cum laude) and her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where she was advised by Terry Winograd.
Recognition
ACM Fellow
ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy
ACM Distinguished Members
TR35 Award
UIST Lasting Impact Award
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brown University alumni
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Human%20Algorithm | A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are is a 2019 non-fiction book by American international human rights attorney Flynn Coleman. It argues that, in order to manage the power shift from humans to increasingly advanced artificial intelligence, it will be necessary to instill human values into artificial intelligence, and to proactively develop oversight mechanisms.
Overview
Coleman argues that the algorithms underlying artificial intelligence could greatly improve the human condition, if the algorithms are carefully based on ethical human values. An ideal artificial intelligence would be "not a replicated model of our own brains, but an expansion of our lens and our vantage point as to what intelligence, life, meaning, and humanity are and can be." Failure in this regard might leave us "a species without a purpose", lacking "any sense of happiness, meaning, or satisfaction". She states that despite stirrings of an "algorithmic accountability movement", humanity is "alarmingly unready" for the arrival of more powerful forms of artificial intelligence.
Reception
A review in Library Journal strongly recommended the book to "both the cyber crowds and those interested in human psychology". Kirkus Reviews called the book "meaty" and "energetic". Publishers Weekly judged the book's optimism to be unconvincing.
See also
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Regulation of algorithms
References
External links
Publisher's page on book
Author's page on book
2019 non-fiction books
Futurology books
English non-fiction books
English-language books
Counterpoint (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Immorlica | Nicole Immorlica (born November 26, 1978) is a theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for her work on algorithmic game theory and locality-sensitive hashing.
Education and career
Immorlica completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of David Karger and Erik Demaine. Her dissertation was Computing with Strategic Agents.
After postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research and at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, Immorlica took a faculty position at Northwestern University in 2008, and moved to Microsoft Research in 2012.
Service
In 2019, Immorlica was elected chair of SIGecom, the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation.
References
External links
Home page
1978 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Microsoft Research people
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Thies | Bill Thies is an American computer scientist and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India and the recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.
Career
He started with Microsoft Research India in 2008 and is a senior principal researcher there. His research and analysis has appeared in many print publications including ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) and others.
As a computer scientist, his work at the Microsoft Research unit in Bangalore, India focuses on how to use technology to aid global development. He has helped to create the 99DOTS initiative, a model for delivering tuberculosis medicine to those in India. He also helped to create and implement CGNet Swara in collaboration with Indian journalists, to enable isolated tribal communities to have a way to communicate needs with government officials.
Education
Thies graduated from the State College Area High School in 1997 and moved to Massachusetts to continue his studies. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning two Bachelors degrees (in Computer Science and Maths) in 2001, a Master's degree in 2002, and a Ph.D. in 2009. His Ph.D. was in computer science and engineering.
Recognition
In 2009, Thies received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has received the CHI Best Paper Award and, In 2016, he was included as one of the MacArthur Fellowship Grant recipients.
References
American computer scientists
MacArthur Fellows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Wuhan%20Metro%20stations | Wuhan Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Wuhan, China. The network now includes 11 lines, 291 stations, and of route length.
The following is the lists of Wuhan Metro stations in operation sorted by lines.
System map
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Line 11
Line 16
Yangluo Line (also known as Line 21)
Notes
References
Wuhan Metro
Wuhan Metro stations
Wuhan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20Prosperity%20Network | The Economic Prosperity Network is an alliance of trusted partners with the United States formed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was seen to disrupt global supply chains. The United States government wants it to include Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Vietnam. Its discussions include trade, health initiatives, development and aid. Its regular discussions started in March 2020.
Tax incentives and re-shoring subsidies are among measures considered.
See also
Blue Dot Network (BDN)
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad)
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and then Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
References
Trade blocs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemaroo%20TV | Shemaroo TV is an Indian Hindi-GEC free-to-air television channel owned by Shemaroo Entertainment Media Network. The channel was launched on 1 May 2020 for the entertainment of Indian audience.
Current shows
Original shows
Waah Bhai Waah
Crime World
Tulsidham Ke Laddoo Gopal
Acquired shows
Shemaroo Bhakti
Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap
Vighnaharta Ganesh
Siya Ke Ram
Mata Ki Chowki
Shree Krishna
Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev
Ramayan
Upcoming shows
Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant
Hum Ne Li Hai...Shapath
Tumhari Paakhi
Dream Girl - Ek Ladki Deewani Si
Gustakh Dil
Naagarjuna - Ek Yoddha
Piya Rangrezz
Do Dil Ek Jaan
Ghulaam
Saam Daam Dand Bhed
Muskaan
Kya Haal, Mr. Paanchal?
Nimki Mukhiya
Nimki Vidhayak
Excuse Me Maadam
Sufiyana Pyaar Mera
Tera Mera Saath Rahe
Saath Nibhaana Saathiya
Jag Janani Maa Vaishno Devi - Kahani Mata Rani Ki
Mahabharat
Tu Mera Hero
Shaka Laka Boom Boom
Shararat
Son Pari
Miley Jab Hum Tum
Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani
Dill Mill Gayye
Shaadi Mubarak
Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2
Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat
Sapnon Se Bhare Naina
Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
Kasautii Zindagii Kay
Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan
Kaahin Kissii Roz
Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand
Tere Sheher Mein
Yeh Hai Mohabbatein
Suhani Si Ek Ladki
May I Come In Madam
Dil Se Di Dua... Saubhagyavati Bhava?
Former shows
Former original shows
Jurm Aur Jazbaat (Season 1 & Season 2)
Manohar Kahaniyan
Formerly acquired shows
Zabaan Sambhalke
The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
Ssshhhh...Phir Koi Hai
Haunted Nights
Bharti Ka Show
Geet - Hui Sabse Parayi
Ek Boond Ishq
Suhani Si Ek Ladki
Kalash - Ek Vishwaas
Jiji Maa
Ganesh Leela
Dil Se Di Dua... Saubhagyavati Bhava?
Siya Ke Ram
Naamkarann
Mata Ki Chowki
Doli Saja Ke
Veer Shivaji
Ghar....Ek Sapna
Parvarrish
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil
Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev
Sai Baba
Uttar Ramayan
Jai Jai Jai Bajrang Bali
Veer Shivaji
May I Come In Madam
Anamika
References
External links
www.shemaroome.com
Shemaroo TV on YouTube
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Maharashtra
Hindi-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kearns | Michael Kearns may refer to:
Michael Kearns (actor) (born 1950), American actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and activist
Michael Kearns (computer scientist), American computer scientist
Michael P. Kearns, American politician
Mike Kearns (1929-2009), American basketball player
Mick Kearns (footballer, born 1938), English footballer
Mick Kearns (footballer, born 1950), Irish footballer
See also
Mickey Kearins, Gaelic football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN%20%28disambiguation%29 | ABS-CBN is one of the largest television networks in the Philippines.
ABS-CBN may also refer to:
ABS-CBN Corporation, the parent company of the television network
List of assets owned by ABS-CBN Corporation, other subsidiaries and assets of ABS-CBN Corporation which may or have had carried "ABS-CBN" as part of their names
List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stations, television channels which carry "ABS-CBN" as part of their branding names
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Huang%20%28disambiguation%29 | Thomas Huang (1936–2020) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and computer scientist. The name may also refer to:
Huang Ta-chou (born 1936), Taiwanese politician, mayor of Taipei from 1990 to 1994
Huang Tien-mu, Taiwanese politician, chair of the Financial Supervisory Commission in 2016 and since 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Road%20Network%20of%20Costa%20Rica | National Road Network of Costa Rica (), are a series of numbered road routes that are managed through Costa Rica by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) and its subagency the National Road Council (Conavi).
According to the Inter-American Development Bank, in 2019 Costa Rica had the worst road network in Latin America, due to being under maintained, and having structural defects and deterioration in around 49% of the National Primary Routes network. Other countries in the area report an average of 20% in the same metric.
There are no high speed express routes but there are some two-lane trunk roads. Potholes are common in primary road routes. Many of the secondary or tertiary road routes are made of gravel or dirt.
Legal definitions
Primary roads (): Are those that connect the main roads in the Greater Metropolitan Area and provide a link between mainly the urban centers (head cities of main cantons), airports, and industrial, commercial or recreative zones of national importance.
Secondary roads (): Are those that link the main urban centers of the Greater Metropolitan Area, which are not linked by primary roads.
Tertiary roads (): Are those that collect traffic bound for primary or secondary routes, as well as a link between urban centers of second order (head cities of small cantons and big districts).
Traverse routes (): A group of national public roads that traverse the quadrant of an urban area, or streets that link two sections of a national road. They were created to expedite the traffic in city centers. (By Article 3, Law 5060).
Cantonal road network (): Is the network of public roads, streets, avenues, diagonals and transversals (, respectively in Spanish) that are not part of the National Road Network, their administration is responsibility of the local government (municipality) of each canton. They are not numbered at the national level, but are named either by given names or with numerical values, which might be used by another canton as well.
See also
Transport in Costa Rica
List of national routes of Costa Rica
References
Road transport in Costa Rica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos%20Trust%20Company | Paxos Trust Company is a New York–based financial institution and technology company specializing in blockchain. The company's product offerings include a cryptocurrency brokerage service, asset tokenization services, and settlement services. ItBit, a bitcoin exchange run by Paxos, was the first bitcoin exchange to be licensed by the New York State Department of Financial Services, granting the company the ability to be the custodian and exchange for customers in the United States.
Paxos was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City, with offices in London and Singapore. , the company has received $540 million in funding.
History
Charles Cascarilla and Rich Teo founded Paxos in 2012 as the itBit Bitcoin exchange. In 2015, the company changed its legal name from itBit to Paxos Trust Company. At the same time, the New York State Department of Financial Services granted Paxos a limited-purpose trust charter, making it the first company in the U.S. approved and regulated to offer crypto products and services.
The company received $65 million in a funding round in May 2018. In September 2018, Paxos launched the Paxos Standard stablecoin as one of the industry’s first regulated stablecoins. Paxos introduced PAX Gold, the first regulated gold-backed digital token, in September 2019.
In October 2019, Paxos received a no-action letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to test a new settlement service for U.S.-listed equities on a private blockchain. The service went live in February 2020. In July 2020, Paxos launched its crypto brokerage with Revolut as the first client.
In October 2020, PayPal announced that it would offer cryptocurrency buy, hold and sell services to its users through a partnership with Paxos.
In September 2022, Canada-based multi-asset retail financial trading services provider OANDA Global Corporation (OANDA) collaborated with Paxos to develop a crypto trading ecosystem. On 20 October 2022, OANDA launched crypto trading function to its forex trading platform in partnership with Paxos. The partnership will allow the U.S.-based clients of OANDA to trade cryptocurrencies on Paxos’ itBit exchange from the OANDA mobile app.
Products
Crypto brokerage
Paxos provides a crypto brokerage so clients can give their customers access to the cryptocurrency market. The company manages the regulatory and technology components of cryptocurrency trading on behalf of its clients.
Pax Dollar
Paxos Standard (PAX) that was renamed Pax Dollar(USDP), launched in September 2018, is one of the industry's first regulated stablecoins, tied to the U.S. dollar such that 1 PAX = 1 USD.
PAX Gold
PAX Gold (PAXG) is a digital asset backed by physical gold. Paxos Trust Company is the custodian for PAX Gold tokens and their associated physical gold bars.
itBit
ItBit is a digital asset exchange approved by the New York State Department of Finance to trade five digital assets: bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin (LTC), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elette%20Boyle | Elette Boyle is an American and Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her research on secret sharing, digital signatures, and obfuscation. She is a professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where she directs the Center for Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic Theory.
Education and career
Boyle is originally from Yamhill, Oregon. She studied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, competed for Caltech in the high jump, and was named Caltech's female scholar-athlete of the year for 2007–2008. After graduating in 2008, she completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman Kalai. Before joining the IDC Herzliya faculty, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at Cornell University.
Recognition
A paper by Boyle on secret sharing using homomorphic encryption was given the best paper award at the 2016 International Cryptology Conference (Crypto). She was an invited plenary speaker at Public Key Cryptography 2018.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Yamhill, Oregon
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
California Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Academic staff of Reichman University
Theoretical computer scientists
Modern cryptographers
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American cryptographers
Israeli cryptographers
Israeli women mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing%20Numbers%20of%20Graphs | Crossing Numbers of Graphs is a book in mathematics, on the minimum number of edge crossings needed in graph drawings. It was written by Marcus Schaefer, a professor of computer science at DePaul University, and published in 2018 by the CRC Press in their book series Discrete Mathematics and its Applications.
Topics
The main text of the book has two parts, on the crossing number as traditionally defined and on variations of the crossing number, followed by two appendices providing background material on topological graph theory and computational complexity theory.
After introducing the problem, the first chapter studies the crossing numbers of complete graphs (including Hill's conjectured formula for these numbers) and complete bipartite graphs (Turán's brick factory problem and the Zarankiewicz crossing number conjecture), again giving a conjectured formula). It also includes the crossing number inequality, and the Hanani–Tutte theorem on the parity of crossings. The second chapter concerns other special classes of graphs including graph products (especially products of cycle graphs) and hypercube graphs. After a third chapter relating the crossing number to graph parameters including skewness, bisection width, thickness, and (via the Albertson conjecture) the chromatic number, the final chapter of part I concerns the computational complexity of finding minimum-crossing graph drawings, including the results that the problem is both NP-complete and fixed-parameter tractable.
In the second part of the book, two chapters concern the rectilinear crossing number, describing graph drawings in which the edges must be represented as straight line segments rather than arbitrary curves, and Fáry's theorem that every planar graph can be drawn without crossings in this way. Another chapter concerns 1-planar graphs and the associated local crossing number, the smallest number such that the graph can be drawn with at most crossings per edge. Two chapters concern book embeddings and string graphs, and two more chapters concern variations of the crossing number that count crossings in different ways, for instance by the number of pairs of edges that cross or that cross an odd number of times. The final chapter of part II concerns thrackles and the problem of finding drawings with a maximum number of crossings.
Audience and reception
The book can be used as an advanced textbook, and has exercises provided for that use. However, it assumes that its readers are already familiar with both graph theory and the design and analysis of algorithms. Reviewing the book, L. W. Beineke calls it a "valuable contribution" for its presentation of the many results in this area.
References
Graph drawing
Topological graph theory
Geometric graph theory
Mathematics books
2018 non-fiction books
CRC Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh%20Fazilatunnesa%20Mujib%20University | Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University is the first and only private university of Mymensingh division is situated in Jamalpur district.
Faculty & Department
Science Faculty
Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE)
References
Private universities in Bangladesh
Jamalpur District
Educational institutions with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%3A%20A%20Guide%20for%20Thinking%20Humans | Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans is a 2019 nonfiction book by Santa Fe Institute professor Melanie Mitchell. The book provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and argues that people tend to overestimate the abilities of artificial intelligence.
Overview
Mitchell describes the fears her mentor, cognitive scientist and AI pioneer Douglas Hofstadter, has expressed that advances of artificial intelligence could turn human beings into "relics". Mitchell offers examples of AI systems like Watson that are trained to master specific tasks, and points out that such computers lack the general intelligence that humans have. Mitchell argues that achieving superintelligence would require that machines acquire commonsense reasoning abilities that are nowhere in sight: "Today's AI is far from general intelligence, and I don’t believe that machine 'superintelligence' is anywhere on the horizon." Mitchell addresses 13 pages to "Trustworthy and Ethical AI". Mitchell states artificial intelligence is vulnerable to errors, to racial bias, and to malicious hacking such as surprisingly easy adversarial attacks: "If there are statistical associations in the training data... the machine will happily learn those instead of what you wanted it to learn." Mitchell also includes lighthearted content, such as documenting the Star Trek computer's status as an aspirational lodestar within the AI community.
Reception
A review in Library Journal praised the book's historical overview as "a worthy and compelling narrative in itself". Kirkus Reviews judged that despite a minority of the book being "too abstruse", most of the book was "surprisingly lucid". Publishers Weekly called the book "accessible" and "worthy", and judged the book should "assuage lay readers' fears about AI". The New Yorker characterized it as reassuring, and also as "accessible" despite its technical nature.
In the Chicago Tribune, author John Warner states Mitchell is a "clear, cogent and interesting" writer who "knows what she's talking about". Warner notes "Mitchell is not particularly worried" about AI triggering a technological singularity, and that he trusts her expertise: "The book makes a case that we're much farther from self-driving cars than the popular hype would have us believe... (the book) has also enhanced my appreciation for the complexity and ineffability of human cognition." Mitchell finds the book empowering, stating that the things we may see as human flaws help to make us intelligent in ways computers can't match, and that Mitchell's insights help to validate Warner's own handpicked book recommendations despite the existence of automated Amazon recommendations. In Skeptic, computer programmer Peter Kassan compares the book favorably with "histrionic" works such as Life 3.0, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, and The Age of Spiritual Machines. Kassan calls the book "the most intelligent book on the subject" and praises Mitchell for being |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Bare%20Bears%3A%20The%20Movie | We Bare Bears: The Movie is a 2020 American animated adventure film based on the Cartoon Network television series of the same name. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, it was released on North American digital theater platforms by Warner Bros. Television Distribution on June 30, 2020. Directed by series creator Daniel Chong from a story by Mikey Heller and Kris Mukai, We Bare Bears: The Movie stars the voices of series regulars Eric Edelstein, Bobby Moynihan and Demetri Martin as the three titular bears Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear; joined by Marc Evan Jackson as Agent Trout and Keith Ferguson as Officer Murphy. This film serves as the series finale of We Bare Bears.
In their desire to be accepted into the community, the three bear brothers Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear unwittingly wreak havoc throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, igniting a mob of complaints from its residents. Seeking to remove them from society, wildlife control agent Trout relentlessly pursues to separate the brothers, who in turn escape from the Bay Area and seek refuge to Canada. Along the way, the Bears endure hardships while staying true to their promise of being "bros for life". The film, an allegory for what it feels like to be a minority in America, explores themes of acceptance, family separation, and racial discrimination, which were darker than the lighthearted but similar themes upon which Chong, a member of the Asian American minority, had explored within the television series.
The film had its television premiere on Cartoon Network on September 7, 2020. Upon its release, We Bare Bears: The Movie received a positive response from film critics, who praised the film's relevant presentation of its themes, sense of humour, and positive messages, with many calling it an excellent conclusion to the franchise. Following the conclusion of the series and the film, a spin-off television series titled We Baby Bears, which follows the bears as cubs, released on January 1, 2022.
Plot
Grizzly, a nomadic bear cub, meets fellow cub Panda for the first time along the train tracks. Stuck as a train rapidly approaches, they are saved by a polar bear cub and the three form a stack as they attempt to outrun it. Upon awakening from this nightmare, a now-adult Grizzly drags his brothers Panda and Ice Bear and the three rush out to be the first in line for the opening of a Canadian poutine food truck on the San Francisco Bay Area, unwittingly wreaking havoc along their way which incites a barrage of complaints from its residents. Envious of the admiration the newly arrived celebrity koala Nom Nom receives from the public and the hate the Bears receive from them, the three devise a plan to record the "ultimate viral video" using outdated memes and force stream it into every screen in the city, which causes a massive blackout.
The Bears are summoned to the City Hall to explain themselves. Despite the public's demands for their accountability, police officer Murphy refuses to endorse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20R.%20Torres | Manuel R. Torres is a Spanish researcher known for his work on political violence, jihadist terrorism, and cyber security.
Education
Torres has a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Granada. In 2008, he presented his PhD thesis focused on Jihadist terrorism, when there was still high tension after 9/11.
Works
He has participated in numerous national and international research works. He has written several books, and has numerous publications in magazines and chapter collaborations with other books.
In his book Disinformation, the effect of disinformation on different policy areas is analysed.
Torres is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Administration at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, and also directs several masters and specialisations.
He is a member of the European Counter-Terrorism Centre (Europol) and sits on the academic board of several organisations in the security field.
Publications
El Eco del Terror. Ideología y propaganda en el terrorismo yihadista. Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, 2009.
Al Andalus 2.0. La ciber-yihad contra España. Biblioteca GESI, Granada, 2014.
Desinformación. Poder y Manipulación en la Era Digital. Comares, Granada, 2019.
Awards
Primer Premio Nacional de Fin de Carrera en Ciencia Política (2002).
Award "Francisco Moreno" de la Armada Española (2005)
Award Defensa de Investigación (2008)
Award Research Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla – Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2010)
Bronze Medal to police merit with blue badge for the cuerpo de Mossos d'Esquadra-Policia de la Generalitat (2015)
Distinction by the Institute for Strategic Research of Armada de México (2018)
References
Living people
Investigative journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninne%20Pelladata | Ninne Pelladata may refer to:
Ninne Pelladata (1968 film), 1968 Indian comedy drama film
Ninne Pelladata (1996 film), 1996 Indian drama film
Ninne Pelladatha, 2022 Indian Telugu language film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Domestic%20Violence%20Court%20Assistance%20Scheme | The Women's Domestic Violence Court Assistance Scheme, commonly referred to by its initialism WDVCAS, comprises a network of organisations in New South Wales which information, advocacy and safety planning for women and their children who are escaping from or in danger of domestic violence. It is a key frontline support service. The Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service is the New South Wales Government organisation that provides funding and support for the WDVCASes, and ensures that they are operating according to their mandate. It was established in South Australia in July 2015.
History
The Women's Domestic Violence Court Assistance Scheme (WDVCAS) was originally established by Redfern Legal Centre in March 1990 to provide a range of specialist legal and support services to women at court seeking apprehended violence orders (AVOs). The principles and guidelines of the Scheme required that it be operated by paid staff, who were to be women wherever practicable, and would provide a holistic service including court advocacy to those who were otherwise unrepresented. The model was firmly based on a feminist philosophy.
The scheme initially operated once a week on summons day (Wednesdays) at Redfern Local Court and involved a solicitor and two support workers providing service exclusively to women seeking AVOs. In addition to legal representation, WDVCAS staff assisted women with a range of needs: financial, housing, emotional support and counselling and other legal problems. The scheme co-ordinated assistance from a variety of services to provide women with the holistic support needed for them to attempt change. The scheme had the support of the local magistrate, Lillian Horler, and the court provided exclusive use of a room to minimise the risk of threats or intimidation within the environs of the court. With the assistance of the Chamber Magistrate Service, the WDVCAS were able to assist women bring many successful applications for their protection in circumstances where police had failed to act.
A comprehensive evaluation was conducted and launched by Justice Elizabeth Evatt in August 1991 and recorded the considerable success of the scheme in increasing the numbers of orders secured for the protection of women. The model, including the concept of a safe room, was subsequently expanded and adapted to the conditions and resources available at other local courts, not only in NSW but in other parts of Australia. By 1993 there were 21 community-based organisations participating in the scheme and WDVCASs were spreading quickly. There was also an increase in the use of the Chamber Magistrate Service to assist in drafting private applications in relation to domestic or personal violence, accounting for 25% of their work. This level of service was subsequently discontinued. The original WDVCAS service at Redfern Local Court was also brought to an end in 2004 with the winding down and closure of that courthouse, despite widespread protest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled%20People%27s%20Direct%20Action%20Network | The Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) is a disability rights activist organisation in England and Wales that campaigned for civil rights with high-profile street demonstrations involving civil disobedience, rallies and protests.
Prior campaigns
In 1989 the Derbyshire Direct Action Now Network (DDANN) was formed by local disabled people to protest against the pedestrianisation of Chesterfield. These protests resulted in police arrests and court hearings, where disabled people refused to plead guilty, all reading out the same defence to the court. One of the DDANN protesters was Alan Holdsworth, employed by the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People (DCDP) as a community link worker, along with many DCDP members including Ken Davis.
Between 1990 and 1993 the London-based Campaign for Accessible Transport (CAT) held street demonstrations including Oxford Street. Its organisers included Kate Brown, Tracey Proudlock, Sue Elsegood, and Alan Sutherland as the press officer. [source: GMCDP archive, Manchester]
On 8 September 1991 in south Manchester there was a weekend workshop to learn from similar street protests in the USA. The workshop was led by visiting activists Mike Auberger and Babs Johnson from ADAPT, and it finished with the practical learning of going out and blocking three buses on the main road nearby. This was during the 10th annual general meeting of BCODP, held at Owens Park, on Wilmslow Road in Manchester. A photograph of this protest was used on the front cover of a book on images of disabled people.
On 22 November 1991 in Leeds a protest by 150 disabled people and allies outside the BBC studios picketed the Children in Need live broadcasting under the banner of Rights Not Charity Group. Eight people were arrested, four were disabled people.
On 18 July 1992 in London, over a thousand disabled people held a protest outside the ITV studios (London Weekend TV) picketing the Telethon live broadcasting under the banner of Block Telethon. ITV later abandoned the Telethon approach. The main organisers were Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, who had organised a smaller, similar protest against the Telethon broadcast in 1990 and had done further development work preparing for the 1992 protest.
Structure and Methods
DAN was a network of individual disabled people and allies. The network maintained coverage across the UK through a team of regional organisers.
A national committee of disabled people existed for most of DAN's active years, including many of the regional organisers. A newsletter was produced, especially in the build-up and winding-down from a major action.
Early years
In early 1993, Barbara Lisicki, Alan Holdsworth, and Sue Elsegood became founders of the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN).
The idea was to build on and sustain the campaigning energy from the Block Telethon protest organised by the Campaign to Stop Patronage, and in spring 1993 a weekend residential conference was held by about 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit%20technology | Audit technology is the use of computer technology to improve an audit. Audit technology is used by accounting firms to improve the efficiency of the external audit procedures they perform.
General background
Audit technology is a general term used for computer-aided audit techniques (CAATs) used by accounting firms to enhance an engagement. These techniques improve the efficiency and effectiveness of audit findings by allowing auditors to analyze much larger sets of data, sometimes using entire populations of data, rather than taking a sample. As information technology has grown and developed in recent years, so has audit technology. With more advanced programs, artificial intelligence, and stronger computing power, audit technology has allowed for more informed decision making and determinations during an engagement.
History
Audit technology has a relatively short history seeing as technological advancements have occurred rapidly. Information technology has largely begun to advance over the timeline of about the last twenty years. Prior to the development of modern day audit technology, audit opinions were determined with much less reliable evidence. Testing methods relied more heavily on manual calculations and were subject to a large possibility of human error. In addition to being less accurate, manual audits were also much more time consuming. Thanks to the recent advancements in information technology that are being applied to the field of auditing, audits are conducted more efficiently and the opinions are much more accurate. Firms that are continually expanding their use of audit technology over time in recent history are able to charge a higher rate and deliver a more quality service to their clients. Since computers were first used in accounting systems, technology’s involvement in an audit has grown continuously.
The 1940s
While World War II created a hiatus in the development of audit technologies, in 1947 to 1948, two specific commentaries were made which required audit technology to advance. The first stemmed from a new distinction between gaining an understanding of internal controls and providing reasonable assurance that internal controls are in effect and operating as planned. This meant that auditors could not only just understand internal controls, but would now have to test them as well. The second was a requirement for audits to be performed with regard for the risk of material misstatement, meaning there needed to be ways of gaining more reliable audit evidence.
The 1950s and onwards
The 1950s followed the prior decade directly as it saw the introduction of statistical sampling becoming more widely used among auditors. This new audit tool was the first of its kind, in that most other tools of the time came simply from the wisdom of experienced auditors, while this one came from another discipline entirely: mathematics. From here, more and more audit tools were created based on other fields of study.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humdinger%20%28computer%29 | The Humdinger Color Computer was an 8-bit home computer introduced in 1983 by Venture Micro, Inc., of Cupertino, California.
It had the following specifications:
Zilog Z80 microprocessor
4 KB of main memory (expandable to 64 KB)
58-key, chiclet-style keyboard with rubber keys
A 256×192 pixel, 8 color display with 12 modes
4 channel, 5 octaves sound
Centronics parallel printer interface
RS-232 serial port
Joystick port
Cartridge port
The original retail price was US$129.95. It made its first appearance at the eighth annual West Coast Computer Faire, held from March 18 to March 20, 1983. It was released to retailers in the United States in mid-May 1983. Intended as a ZX Spectrum killer, the Humdinger computer proved short-lived in the marketplace, as Venture Micro dissolved in 1984.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Shi | Elaine Runting Shi is a Chinese and American computer scientist and cryptographer, whose research has included work on blockchain and smart contracts, secure distributed systems, and the oblivious RAM model, and cryptographic techniques for encrypted computation. She is an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education and career
Shi is originally from Hangzhou, and did her undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University before completing her doctorate in 2008 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Evaluating Predicates over Encrypted Data, was supervised by Adrian Perrig.
She worked as a researcher at PARC and the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and as an associate professor at Cornell University before coming back to Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty in Fall 2020.
She is a recipient of a Packard Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an ONR YIP award, and various other best paper awards.
References
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Home page
DBLP page
Year of birth missing (living people)
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American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Cornell University faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20D1%20%28Moscow%20Central%20Diameters%29 | D1 () or Belorussko-Savyolovsky Diameter () is the first of the Moscow Central Diameters, a suburban network in Moscow which uses the existing infrastructure of Moscow Railway and provides a regular connection between Moscow and surrounding cities. MCD-1 runs from Lobnya via Dolgoprudny and Moscow to Odintsovo.
The line was opened on 21 November 2019, at the same day as D2. It uses the tracks and the stations of the Savyolovsky and the Belorussky suburban railway lines. The length of the line is , and the travel time between the termini is 80 minutes. These suburban directions have been connected earlier, and through suburban trains were running between them, therefore the initial investment to open the line was minimum.
Modified Ivolga trains have been serving the line since its opening with EP2D ( trains.
Stations
The stations between Mark and Setun are in Moscow, others are in Moscow Oblast.
References
Moscow Railway
Railway lines in Russia
Railway lines opened in 2019
2019 establishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gessert | Gessert is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Armin Gessert (1963–2009), German computer game developer
George Gessert, American artist
References
Surnames of German origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Nationally%20Significant%20Collections%20and%20Databases | The New Zealand Nationally Significant Collections and Databases (NSCDs) are government-funded biological and physical collections or databases that are considered important and significant to New Zealand.
They consist of living organisms (ICMP culture collection), preserved samples (the Marine Benthic Biology Collection), or data (the New Zealand Geomagnetic Database). Many of the physical collections also have associated databases.
The NSCDs were established in 1992 during the breakup of the DSIR and establishment of the Crown Research Institutes. They are currently funded at 19 million NZD per annum though the Strategic Science Investment Fund of MBIE.
References
External links
MBIE: New Zealand Nationally Significant Collections and Databases
Nationally Significant Databases & Collections Providers' Group
Research in New Zealand
Collections
Biological databases
Environmental science databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria-Florina%20Balcan | Maria-Florina (Nina) Balcan is a Romanian-American computer scientist whose research investigates machine learning, algorithmic game theory, theoretical computer science, including active learning, kernel methods, random-sampling mechanisms and envy-free pricing. She is an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
Balcan is originally from Romania, and earned a bachelor's degree in 2000 from the University of Bucharest, earning summa cum laude honors with a double major in mathematics and computer science. She continued at the University of Bucharest for a master's degree in computer science in 2002, and then earned a PhD in computer science in 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University where her research was supervised by Avrim Blum.
Career and research
After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England, she was appointed assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2009. She returned to Carnegie Mellon as a tenured faculty member in 2014.
Balcan served as program committee co-chair for three major machine learning conferences, including COLT 2014, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016, and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020. She is the general chair for ICML 2021.
Awards and honors
Balcan is a Microsoft Faculty Fellow (2011), a Sloan Research Fellow (2014) and a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2015). She was awarded the 2019 Grace Murray Hopper Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for her "foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning".
She is a 2021 Simons Investigator.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Romanian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Romanian women computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Romanian emigrants to the United States
University of Bucharest alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Sloan Research Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita%20Chli | Margarita Chli is an assistant professor and leader of the Vision for Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. Chli is a leader in the field of computer vision and robotics and was on the team of researchers to develop the first fully autonomous helicopter with onboard localization and mapping. Chli is also the Vice Director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Her research currently focuses on developing visual perception and intelligence in flying autonomous robotic systems.
Early life and education
Chli grew up in Cyprus and Greece. She pursued her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She conducted her studies in Information and Computer Engineering at Trinity College. After receiving her bachelor's degree, she continued at Trinity to conduct her Masters in engineering as well.
In 2006, Chli pursued her graduate work at Imperial College London under the mentorship of Andrew Davison. She worked in the Robot Vision Group where she worked towards developing novel ways to manipulate data to enable efficient autonomous navigation of mobile devices. Since vision-based methods are the key to enabling autonomous navigation, Chli tried to address the challenges that lie in preserving precision while achieving efficient information processing. She used the principles of Information Theory to guide the estimation based decisions made after gathering information from the environment and showed that these principals improved the efficiency and consistency of the algorithms used to estimate motion and form probabilistic maps of the environment. Her algorithms also enabled dense feature mapping even in the presence of ambiguity and inconsistencies in camera dynamics. Chli completed her graduate work in 2009 and worked for one year as a research associated in the Robot Vision Group.
Career and research
After completing her PhD, Chli joined the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich for her postdoctoral research, and soon became the Lab Deputy Director. While at ETH Zürich, she taught the Autonomous Mobile Robot Course, and this was later turned into an online course to train thousands of researchers worldwide for free. In 2013, Chli was awarded the Chancellor's Fellowship, and became an assistant professor at the Institute of Perception Action and Behavior at the University of Edinburgh. She held this prestigious fellowship for two years.
In 2015, Chli was promoted to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Assistant Professor in Vision for Robotics at ETH Zürich and relocated her lab from Edinburgh. She still holds an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. Her lab, the Vision for Robots Lab, or V4RL, focuses on developing intelligence robots to improve the quality and safety of human life. Chli has several lines of research going on in her lab to achieve these goals. With the SHERPA project, Chli aims to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RER%20Fribourg | RER Fribourg or RER Fribourg | Freiburg (, ) is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The network has two hubs, Bulle and Fribourg, and began operating in .
History
The RER Fribourg network began operation with the 11 December 2011 timetable change. At the outset, the network consisted of a half-hourly RegioExpress service between and , with rush-hour service between Fribourg and . On 9 December 2012, half-hourly operation was introduced between and , on the Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon railway line. As part of the new service, eight stations on the line closed. Also introduced was hourly service on the Bulle–Broc railway line, with through operation to and from . These improvements were known collectively as "RER Sud" (south). In addition, the frequency of the RegioExpress service between Fribourg and Bern became hourly.
With the December 2014 timetable change, S-Bahn-style "S" designations were applied for the first time:
S20: an existing hourly service between Fribourg and .
S21: an existing rush-hour service between Fribourg and .
S30: introduction of half-hourly service between and Fribourg on weekdays (hourly on weekends), improving on existing hourly service over the same route.
S40: introduction of half-hourly service on weekdays (hourly on weekends) between and Fribourg.
S50 / S51: the existing half-hourly RER Fribourg service between Palézieux and Châtel-St-Denis, with S50 trains continuing every hour to Bulle.
S52: an existing weekday rush-hour service between Châtel-St-Denis and Bulle.
S60: the existing hourly RER Fribourg service between Broc and Montbovon.
The 2017 timetable change saw the S21 extended from Kerzers to and increased to hourly service on weekdays. Thus paired with the S20, this created a half-hourly schedule between Fribourg and Ins. The RER Sud portion of the network was simplified: the S51 and S52 were eliminated, with the S50 running on an hourly schedule between Palézieux and Montbovon. The hourly S60 was extended from Bulle to Palézieux on peak periods, combining with the S50 for half-hourly service.
The 2017 changes to the southern part of the network were largely reversed in December 2019, with the S50 and S60 again terminating at Bulle. The S51 returned as an hourly service between Bulle and Montbovon. These changes paved the way for the suspension of the S60 on 6 April 2021 to allow the conversion of the Bulle–Broc line from to . Once complete, trains could run through from Fribourg to Broc via Bulle.
In December 2021, the S20 and S21 were extended south from Fribourg to Romont, replacing the S40. In addition, the hourly Bulle–Freibourg RegioExpress was extended from Freibourg to . In December 2022, the Bulle–Broc line reopened as far as , and the two RegioExpress lines, given the names RE2 and RE3, were extended there. Improved infrastructure around Bulle permitted the extension of the S50 from Bulle to Montbovon, while the S51 was relaunched as an hourly (on weekdays) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahyat%20Shafapour%20Tehrany | Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany (born July 29, 1985), is an Iranian geomatic engineer specializing in GIS, natural hazards and data analysis.
Life
Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany was born on July 29, 1985, in Tehran, Iran. In 2008, she completed a B.S. in environmental engineering, majoring in natural resources engineering and the environment at the Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University. In 2013, she earned a M.S. in remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She earned a Ph.D. in GIS and geomatic engineering at UPM in 2015.
She was a postdoctoral fellow at UPM from October 2015 to February 2016 where she researched natural hazards using multispectral imagery. From April 2016 to March 2017, Tehrany was a research assistant at the University of New England where she worked on GIS data analysis and spatial data. She was a postdoctoral fellow studied natural hazards in Australia at the RMIT School of Science from March 2017 to February 2019. From March 2019 to June 2019, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Kandilli Observatory at the Boğaziçi University.
Selected works
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Living people
1985 births
Scientists from Tehran
Iranian engineers
Iranian women engineers
21st-century women engineers
Geomatics
University of Putra Malaysia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Look%20Like%20a%20Thing%20and%20I%20Love%20You | You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place is a 2019 nonfiction book by optics research scientist Janelle Shane. The book documents experiences the author and others have had with machine learning programs, and discusses what "intelligence" means in the context of "artificial intelligence" (AI).
Overview
The main title of the book refers to a phrase generated as a pickup line by a neural net that Shane trained on pickup lines gathered from the Internet.
Shane discusses the dangers of "artificial stupidity" (not phrased as such), describing for example a 2016 crash at a city street intersection, which Shane attributes in part to Tesla Autopilot being trained for highway use and therefore failing to properly perceive a blocking flatbed truck from a side view. Shane provides "Five Principles of AI Weirdness", including "AIs don't understand the problems you want them to solve" and "AIs take the path of least resistance to their programmed goal". Shane gives many examples of AI "shortcuts", including the (possibly apocryphal) legend of an AI that appeared to reliably recognize tanks from photos, by noticing whether the photos were taken on a sunny or a cloudy day. Another of Shane's examples is a hypothetical scenario where a simulated AI evolved to keep people from entering a hazardous hallway during a fire emergency, learns the optimal strategy is to just kill everyone so they cannot enter the hallway. Because AI lacks general intelligence, Shane is skeptical of efforts to power self-driving cars or to detect online hate speech using artificial intelligence. Shane also pushes back against concerns artificial intelligence will replace people's jobs.
Reception
A reviewer in the Christian Science Monitor found the book "eye-opening" and "fun", as well as "comforting" in terms of Shane's arguments against jobs being at risk from AI. A review in ZDNet called the book "approachable" and "insightful". A capsule review in The Philadelphia Inquirer called Shane a "great guide", and a capsule review in Publishers Weekly called the book an "accessible primer" with "charming" and "often-hilarious" content. A reviewer in E&T judged the book "stands out for Shane's madcap sense of humour and affection for the subject". In The Verge, a December 2019 list of "the 11 best new sci-fi books" included Shane's book, stating "Science fact, rather than science fiction, (the book is) incredibly informative". A similar list in Ars Technica praised that "anybody, not just the engineer-minded or the tech-savvy, can understand the often abstract concepts she details." The book also made Scientific American's list of "Recommended Books" for November 2019.
See also
Commonsense reasoning
References
External links
Book excerpt in Slate
Podcast from Science Friday
Author page on book
Author presentation at Google
More of author's bot-generated pickup lines via Smithsonian Magazine
2019 non-fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20Expo | Unix Expo was a conference and trade show that focused on the Unix operating system, and software based on Unix, in the information technology sector. It ran from 1984 through 1996 and was held in New York City during the autumn season. The show was owned and managed by the Blenheim Group.
Origins
The first Unix Expo was held in October 1984 and was split between the Sheraton Centre Hotel and the Marina Expo complex in New York and had the formal title of Unix Operating System Exposition & Conference. It was organized by the Unigroup users' group for Unix, and some seventy Unix-related vendors signed up to display at it.
The shows
AT&T Corporation, owner of Bell Labs, the creator of Unix, was the company behind the early commercial push for Unix adoption; accordingly it had the anchor display position in early shows. By 1987, in its fourth year, the show had some 16,000 attendees, with commercial interest rising in Unix due to its portability and strengths in development tools and networking. Due to acquisitions of various promotions firms, the show was run under the names of several different companies, ending with the Blenheim Group.
The show grew in significance; in 1985 it was where AT&T unveiled Xenix System V, and in 1989 it was the site of AT&T's unveiling of the much-talked-about System V Release 4 version of Unix. Similarly, it was a site where discussions to end the divisive Unix wars could take place. Numerous other product announcements and company alliances were also announced during a Unix Expo.
In its peak years, the show was held within the Javits Center and had upwards of 35,000 attendees. Along with Uniforum in San Francisco in the spring, Unix Expo was considered one of the two big Unix-themed trade shows and conferences that one could attend during a year. The show featured keynote addresses by the likes of Oracle Corporation head Larry Ellison, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly, the Santa Cruz Operation CEO Alok Mohan, and Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander. It also featured panel discussions, technology- and business-oriented breakout sessions, and floor space for exhibiting vendors such as the aforementioned companies as well as DEC, HP, IBM, Novell, and numerous others.
Two well-known industry CEOs not normally associated with Unix gave keynotes at Unix Expo: Steve Jobs in 1991, when he was head of NeXT (whose innovative NeXTSTEP operating system was built on top of Unix) in between stints at Apple Computer, and Bill Gates in 1996, when he was running Microsoft.
The latter appearance was much anticipated, as Microsoft's Windows NT server operating system product was the major rival of Unix and Gates was often seen as an industry villain. As industry chronicle Computerworld headlined a story to portray it: "Gates to step into pro-Unix lion's den." while Computer Reseller News said that Gates was taking "the Windows NT battle right into the belly of the beast at Unix Expo". In a large presentation a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet%C3%BCl%20K%C4%B1rdar | Betül Kırdar is a Turkish molecular and systems biologist researching design strategies of microorganisms, metabolic engineering, and biological networks. She is a professor in the department of chemical engineering at Boğaziçi University.
Education
Betül Kırdar completed a B.S. (1970) and MS (1972) in chemical engineering at Istanbul University. From 1972 to 1973, she was a research fellow at the ÇNAEM. Kırdar earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Paris-VII, French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre Genetique Moleculaire) in 1977.
Career and research
In 1978, she joined the faculty at Boğaziçi University as an assistant professor in the department of biology. She became associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1988. She served as vice-dean of the faculty of engineering from 2001 to 2003.
Kırdar uses a systems biology approach to investigate design strategies of microorganisms, metabolic engineering, and biological networks.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Academic staff of Boğaziçi University
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20th-century women scientists
21st-century women scientists
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Paris Diderot University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Music%20Awards | The 3 Music Award is Ghanaian music awards ceremony held annually since 2018 to celebrate Ghanaian music. It was established by the 3Music Network with Media General TV3 as broadcasters. The Multimedia group became the media right holder in the second and subsequent edition. In 2020, the Fan fest which was scheduled to take place at the Accra Polo Grounds was cancelled and a Virtual award ceremony was held from the Fantasy Dome, Trade Fair La. This was because of the ban on public gathering due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Categories
Artiste of the Year
Song of the Year
Male Act of the Year
Female Act of the Year
Group of the Year
Breakout Act of the Year
Album of the Year
Viral Song of the Year
Music video of the Year
Reggae/Dancehall Act of the Year
Hiplife/Hop-Pop Act of the Year
Hilife Act of the Year
Gospel Act of the Year
Best Collaboration of the Year
Best KwitStar
DJ of the Year
Fan Army of the Year
African Act of the Year
Best Ghanaian International Act of the Year
Most Eventful Snapchat Channel
Facebook Star of the Year
Instagram Star of the Year
Best Performers of the Year
AfroBeat/AfroPop Song of the Year
Producer of the Year
Not all categories were used in each year and some categories have been merged.
Song of the Year
The Song of the year was the topmost award of the awards scheme from 2018 to 2020. It recognizes the vocal performer, the songwriter, producer, sound engineer and or mixer of the song. It is voted for by the 3Music board, academy and the general public.
Song of the Year Winners
In 2021, the Artiste of the Year category was added eclipsing the song of the year as the topmost award of the awards scheme. KiDi was the inaugural winner.
Ceremonies
The awards were launched in
The inaugural ceremony in 2018 was held at the Fantasy Dome, Trade fair Site, La. From 2018 to 2020, the Fantasy Dome, Trade fair Site, La hosted the awards. From 2021 to 2022, the ceremonies were held at the Grand Arena, Accra International Conference Center in Accra.
2018: 1st 3Music Awards
The first ceremony was held at the Fantasy Dome, Trade fair Site, La, on 24 March 2018. The ceremony was hosted Joselyn Dumas and D-Black.
2019: 2nd 3 Music Awards
The second annual 3 Music awards was hosted by Lexis Bill and Cookie. The event was held on 30 March 2019 at the Fantasy Dome, Trade fair Site, La.
2020: 3rd 3 Music Awards
The 3rd annual 3 Music Awards dubbed the "StayAtHome" edition was held on 2 May 2020 at the Fantasy Dome, Trade Fair site La. The event hosted by Jay Foley and Naa Ashorkor had no audience in attendance, this was in compliance with the National Directives on Public Gathering due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021: 4th 3 Music Awards
The fourth annual 3 Music Award show was held on 27 March 2021 at the Accra International Conference Center. The event was hosted by broadcasters Jay Foley and Naa Ashorkor.
List of Winners
2022: 5th 3 Music Awards
The 2023 edition of the awards was postponed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha%20Rhea%20Williams | Marsha Rhea Williams (born 1948) is an American educator and researcher, she is known for being the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. She held many academic positions and was most recently a tenured professor at Tennessee State University. Additionally, she advocates for greater minority representation in STEM fields.
Early life and education
Williams was born on August 4, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee, to parents James Edward Williams and Velma Lee Williams. In 1969, she earned her B.S. in physics from Beloit College. Afterwards, in 1971, she earned her M.S. in physics from the University of Michigan.
After spending time in instructing positions, Williams arrived at Vanderbilt University to begin her doctoral studies. In 1976, she earned her M.S. in systems and information science at Vanderbilt. Then, in 1982, she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. In accomplishing this, she became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. For her Ph.D., she wrote her dissertation, “The Design of the Computer Assisted Query Language (CAQL) System,” which “examined the emerging field of user experience in querying large databases.”
Career
Williams has held faculty positions at the University of Mississippi, Memphis State University, and Fisk University. She has also worked for IBM and was an NSF fellow. She most recently was a tenured professor of computer science at Tennessee State University. Williams was among the first African American professors to hold teaching positions in engineering and computer science at both the University of Mississippi and Tennessee State University. She has published several academic articles and presented at conferences.
Williams is a member of several professional organizations, including the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association of Information Technology Professionals, and the Tennessee Academy of Science. She served on the board of the AITP's Data Processing Management Association. In addition to her research and education roles, Williams advocates for diversity in computer science and engineering. Williams advised the National Society of Black Engineering Students and founded the Association for Excellence in Computer Science, Math, and Physics. She has also directed Tennessee State's Project MISET (Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology). Her biography appears in several Who's Who publications. In addition, popular publications list her alongside other notable computer scientists such as Dorothy Vaughan and Melba Roy Mouton.
Selected publications
Williams, Marsha R. “The design of the computer assisted query language (caql) system.” Ph.D. Dissertation. 1982. Vanderbilt University, US.
Williams, Marsha R. “Engineering Management and Technical Solutions to Human Problems: A Computer-Related Example.” Engineering Management International, vol. 1, no. 3, 1982, pp. 227–237., doi:10.1016/0167-5419(82)90022-9.
Williams, Marsha R. “In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriett%20B.%20Rigas | Harriett B. Rigas FIEEE (30 April 1934 – 26 July 1989) was a Canadian electrical engineer and innovative lecturer who was recognised worldwide for her hybrid computer and computer simulation research.
Early life and education
Rigas was born on 30 April 1934 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated from Queens University in 1956 with a bachelor's degree. She completed her master's in electrical engineering in 1959, the same year she got married. Rigas completed her doctorate in 1963 also from Kansas University as the first woman to do so.
Career
She worked in academia, as chair of the Washington State University Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering between 1966 and 1984 where she developed the computer engineering curriculum, she became a professor in 1976.
Rigas was instrumental in creating the concept of automatic software patches. She then went on to become the chair of the Michigan State University Department of Electrical Engineering. Rigas also spent time on the National Academy of Sciences committee for scientific programs in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Rigas was also professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Rigas was named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow in 1984 for contributions to programming of analog/hybrid computers and to the development of computer engineering curricula. In 1988 Rigas was on the IEEE Board of Directors. She was the IEEE Division V Director.
Rigas was known for her advocacy of women in engineering. She was locally and nationally involved with the Society of Women Engineers, winning the SWE Achievement Award in 1982.
She died in Michigan in 1989.
Award & Scholarship
Washington state set up the Harriet B. Rigas Memorial Scholarship Fund which is awarded to Computer Engineering students. Michigan State has named the graduate program the Harriett B. Rigas Graduate Engineering Program. The IEEE has an award was founded in her name, the Harriett B. Rigas Award to recognize the outstanding engineering faculty women who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate education.
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1989 deaths
People from Winnipeg
Canadian women engineers
Electrical engineering academics
Computer engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah%20Jones | Rebekah Jones (born July 25, 1989) is an American geographer, data scientist, and activist. She managed the team that created the Florida Department of Health's COVID-19 dashboard using ArcGIS software. She was fired from her position in May 2020 for repeated insubordination. In May 2021, she was granted whistleblower protections while the state investigated her allegations.
In May 2022, Florida's Office of Inspector General exonerated the state health officials, finding her claims against the DOH to be unsubstantiated or unfounded. In December 2022, she signed a deferred prosecution agreement admitting guilt to unauthorized use of the state's emergency alert system on November 10, 2020, which had resulted in her home being searched under warrant by state police in December 2020.
In the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Florida, Jones was the Democratic Party nominee against Matt Gaetz for Florida's 1st congressional district; she was defeated on November 8, 2022.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Windber, Pennsylvania, to blue-collar parents. At the age of nine, her family moved to Wiggins, Mississippi, where she spent most of her childhood. She grew up poor, often housing and food insecure. Jones graduated from Stone High School in 2007, after missing months of school due to the school's destruction during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She says her experiences in Katrina made her interested in natural disasters. In her junior year, Jones was removed from class for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and led other students to do the same after learning from civil liberties groups she was acting within her rights.
Jones graduated cum laude from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University with dual degrees in geography and journalism in 2012.
In 2014, she received a master's degree in geography and a minor in mass communication from Louisiana State University, where she won an award the same year from the Association of American Geographers. In 2015, her research titled Quantifying Extreme Weather Event Impacts on the Northern Gulf Coast Using Landsat Imagery was published in the Journal of Coastal Research.
Jones was a graduate student in the Department of Geography at Florida State University from 2016 through 2018, where she worked on a doctoral dissertation entitled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis.
Florida Department of Health
In September 2018, she became a geographic information system (GIS) analyst at Florida Department of Health (DOH) in Tallahassee and worked on the agency's emergency response team during Hurricane Michael and Hurricane Dorian. Jones performed analysis and modeling of mapping and surveillance data to provide information to the public and state officials used to coordinate disaster respons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Sala | Alessandra Sala is an Italian computer scientist specializing in distributed algorithms for graph theory, social network analysis, and data privacy. She works for Shutterstock in Ireland, as the director of AI and Data Science. Formerly, she worked for Bell Labs in Ireland, as head of Analytics Research. She is the global president of Women in AI, a non-profit organization working for gender inclusivity in artificial intelligence, and ambassador or Women in AI Ireland. She is a member of the advisory boards of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence (CeADAR) and of the World Ethical Data Forum.
She is the 2021 winner of the XV International Prize "Le Tecnovisionarie" in the AI - Industrial Research category. "Le Tecnovisionarie" are women who in their professional activities have demonstrated technological vision and foresight, with an emphasis towards social impact and ethical and transparent behaviors.
Sala is originally from Amalfi. She earned a laurea in computer science from the University of Salerno in 2004, and completed a doctorate there under the supervision of Alberto Negro and Vittorio Scarano. After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined Bell Labs in 2012.
References
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Interview with Alessandra Sala from ML Labs
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Italian women computer scientists
University of Salerno alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbose%20mode | In computing, Verbose mode is an option available in many computer operating systems and programming languages that provides additional details as to what the computer is doing and what drivers and software it is loading during startup or in programming it would produce detailed output for diagnostic purposes thus makes a program easier to debug.
When running programs in the command line, verbose output is typically outputted in standard output or standard error.
Many command line programs can be set to verbose mode by using a flag, such as or . Such a program is cURL.
References
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Debugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Thru%20the%20Out%20Door | In Thru the Out Door is a Canadian comedy special, which aired on CBC Television on June 22, 1998. Created by Andy Nulman and billed as "network television's first-ever all-queer, all-star sketch comedy show", the special was a sketch comedy program highlighting LGBT comedians who had performed in the Queer Comics program at the Just for Laughs festival.
Comedians appearing on the special included Maggie Cassella, Jaffe Cohen, Lea DeLaria, Craig Francis, Robin Greenspan, Elvira Kurt, Bob Smith, Suzanne Westenhoefer and Jonathan Wilson. Sketches included a game show where people with HIV/AIDS had to gamble their medications to get health coverage, a parody of The Honeymooners that recast the show's main characters as Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Pablo Picasso, a "House Straighteners" service that helped LGBT people "de-gay" their homes when their parents were about to visit, and a sports bar for people who were not good at sports.
The special received two Gemini Award nominations at the 14th Gemini Awards in 1999, for Best Direction in a Variety, or Performing Arts Program or Series (Michael McNamara) and Best Music in a Variety Program or Series (Carole Pope).
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Canadian LGBT-related television episodes
Canadian television specials
CBC Television original programming
1998 television specials
1998 in Canadian television
LGBT comedy and humour
LGBT-related television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunghoon%20Kwon | Sunghoon Kwon (born 23 December 1975) a biomedical engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in Republic of Korea and the CEO of Quantamatrix.
Education and early life
Sunghoon Kwon was born on 23 December 1975 in Seoul; he studied at Yeoksam Middle School and Sangmun High School; he studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University to become a programmer because he was interested in computer programming since he was a child. In the third year of college, he was admitted to the hospital due to a serious traffic accident, and his dream changed to biomedical engineering as he saw electronic and electrical technologies such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) play an important role in medicine.
Sunghoon Kwon studied medical devices mainly for doctors at the Department of Medical Engineering at Seoul National University and received a master's degree with the theme of developing a wireless mouse that moves according to eye movements for the disabled. Later, he entered the doctoral program at UC Berkeley, where he studied bio / optical MEMS and lab on a chip system for biomaterial analysis. In 2003, he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Luke Pyungse Lee. in three and a half years and studied nanomaterials and nanoprocessing at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Career
Ever since he was appointed professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, he always wanted to give tools or devices to life scientists and medical doctors that they needed in their cutting edges, to enable innovations. Therefore, for the last 14 years, he and his group have worked towards realization of personalized medicine under the motto: “helping life scientist with technology.” and have made technological breakthroughs in personalized medicine that resulted in 80 scientific literatures, 130 patents and 2 spun-off companies hiring more than 200 full-time employees. He focused on developing technologies for life scientists and medical doctors to improve personalized therapeutics to reduce the breakdown cost for disease treatment.
Kwon's research includes work on multiplex bio assay platform, single cell analysis and algorithm for immune profiling
Awards and honors
Sunghoon Kwon was invited to deliver a Plenary Talk in IEEE OMN (2020) and delivered invited lectures in prominent international conferences including TEDx talk in Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) (2018), Plenary Talk in IEEE MEMS (the first Korean Plenary Talk in 31 years history of IEEE MEMS conference) (2017) and more plenary talks and invited talks.
He was appointed as one of the eight SNU Creative Distinguished Professors (Similar to University Professorship, $660k) of the Seoul National University in 2012. He gained academic recognition of his excellence from both engineering and science by winni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Dorsey | Jenny Dorsey is a Chinese-born American chef, food writer and the founder of a nonprofit named Studio ATAO. Dorsey is also known for competing on Food Network's television shows Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay, and Cutthroat Kitchen. In 2016, Dorsey won "Beat Bobby Flay" on Food Network.
Early life
Dorsey was born in Shanghai, China and later attended Columbia Business School. Dorsey received her Diploma of Culinary Arts from the Institute of Culinary Education. Before Columbia, Dorsey attended the University of Washington through the Robinson Center for Young Scholars.
Career
In 2018, Dorsey founded the nonprofit Studio ATAO in Los Angeles, and debuted her Asian in America dinner series.
On March 6, 2020 Dorsey gave a TEDx Talk titled "How Food Can Be A Source of Intimacy, Identity, and Vulnerability".
Dorsey has been recognized by Les Dames D'Escoffier (2017 Legacy Awards) and The Art of Plating (2019 'On the Rise' Honoree). She has been a featured chef at the James Beard House and was a 2019 Finalist for the San Pellegrino Young Chefs Competition.
Reality television competitions
2015 - Contestant, Cutthroat Kitchen
2016 - Winner, Beat Bobby Flay
2017 - Contestant, Chopped
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Chefs from California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Hugh%20Barker | Ronald Hugh Barker FIEE (19152015 was an Irish physicist and the inventor of Barker code. A popular method for synchronising digital communication to avoid corruption of the data received. The method has been studied and researched worldwide and is commonly used in most data transmissions today. Examples of applications include radar, mobile phone technology, telemetry, digital speech, ultrasound imaging and testing, GPS, Wi-Fi, radio frequency identification, barcodes, tracking, stock control and vehicle guidance.
Early life
Ronald Hugh Barker was born in Dublin in 1915 to English parents. His early education years were disrupted by his father's frequent periods of unemployment and moves between Dublin and England to find work as an artist and stained glass window designer. He was apprenticed to Hy. Jas. Salisbury a well known stained glass artist. who can be found in Kelly’s directory for 1912 as an Artist in stained glass, 50 Alma Road, St Albans. In the 1911 census there is an entry for E W Barker as a stained glass designer living in Leyton Road, Harpenden which is not far from St. Albans.
His father and family often stayed in meagre lodgings because his father's work was poorly paid and difficult to find. For much of the time, Barker (known since his childhood as Roy) lived at 17, Thomas Street, Heath and Reach with his grandfather, John Taylor and mother Linda Taylor. At age 13 Barker was interviewed by Mr Fredrick Fairbrother, the headmaster of a new school, The Cedars (now known as Cedars Upper School) in Leighton Buzzard. After sitting for an entrance examination, he was admitted to the school. His father died soon after of pneumonia in Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland when Barker was aged 14. While at school Barker became interested in electronics. He built crystal radio sets and basic three vacuum tube radios using homemade components such as rectifiers, transformers and loudspeakers. His mother, a school teacher, assisted in his education and taught him to play the piano and church organ at the Wesleyan Chapel, Birds Hill, Heath. Barker passed his matriculation exam and won a scholarship to University College Hull and earned a 1st Class Honours degree in physics at the University of London in 1938. His first job coincided with the start of the World War 2. Scientists were declared to be a reserved occupation, which meant that he was not eligible for conscription, thereby allowing him to pursue electronic research in his career.
Early career
Barker joined Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) in 1938 and worked there until 1941. He worked in their thermionic valve department, designing dental X-ray tubes and equipment. After a bombing raid over Woolwich in 1941, Roy resigned from STC, as he felt that his work on X-ray tubes did not contribute to the war effort, and returned to Heath and Reach where he met his future wife to be Wendy Emily Hunt who was visiting one of her brothers billeted at Stockgrove Country Park near-by.
Barke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Influenza%20Surveillance%20and%20Response%20System | The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) is a global network of laboratories that has for purpose to monitor the spread of influenza with the aim to provide the World Health Organization with influenza control information. It was established in 1952 to conduct global influenza surveillance. GISRS is coordinated by WHO and endorsed by national governments. More than two million respiratory specimens are tested by GISRS annually to monitor the spread and evolution of influenza viruses through a network of about 150 laboratories in 114 countries representing 91% of the world's population. GISRS operates FluNet, an online tool used for virological surveillance of influenza.
History
In 1947, the WHO Interim Committee of the United Nations agreed to begin a Global Influenza Programme (GIP) for the study and control of influenza. A major outbreak of influenza in Europe was an immediate concern, as well as the identification of appropriate viruses for a vaccine against the virus strains which might be circulating. The establishment of regional influenza centers began in 1948. Five years after the creation of GIP, the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) was established in response to a need for an influenza surveillance system to inform the methods for disease prevention and control. GISN would later be renamed Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS), evolving as an integrated scientific and technical global collaboration to fulfil the objectives and activities of GIP. GISRS gained momentum between the 1957 and 1968 pandemics. The growing network of national influenza centers focused on understanding disease activity and characteristics of influenza viruses globally. Through these efforts, the realization that the viruses were not only present in tropical countries but might circulate for much of the year was confirmed.
Composition
As of 2015, GISRS comprised 142 national influenza centers in 115 countries, 6 collaborating centers, 4 essential regulatory laboratories, and 13 H5 reference laboratories.
Efficacy
GISRS is considered an "effective early warning system" for changes in influenza viruses circulating in the global population, which helps mitigate the consequences of a pandemic and maintain the efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccines.
See also
Global Influenza Programme
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework
References
Influenza
World Health Organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emteria.OS | Emteria.OS is an Android based operating system (OS). The application of the OS is mainly purposed for industrial applications such as internet of things, digital signage, vending machines, point of sale or smart city.
Introduction
The emteria.OS is a commercial operating system developed by German company emteria GmbH. It extends the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) platform with additional applications and services with the focus on industrial use cases.
Based on AOSP, emteria.OS is fully compatible with existing applications and components for Android. Also, as an advantage of Android, emteria.OS brings improvements in uniform UI and a rich framework for app development into different industrial devices.
The platform can be used for reliable industrial applications and products such as point-of-sales systems, smart homes, infotainment installations, as well as for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), and ticketing machines.
Market goals
Emteria.OS started with Android 7 for Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+, which is a popular maker board and used in industry for proof of concept (PoC) and prototyping. Later a version for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit, and Compute Module 4 was released to support custom RPi-based devices. The latest version of emteria.OS for the Raspberry Pi 4B is based on the Android 13 version Tiramisu recently released by Google. The list of supported platforms has been expanded to devices based on Qualcomm and NXP chipsets provides a reliable operating system for production.
Features
The product aims at increasing the adaptability of Android and simplifying its customization. It improves Android features in order to be hardware-independent OS and brings simplicity to the configuration and management of devices. Emteria.OS includes Board Support Packages (BSP) for different hardware platforms. For simplicity and efficiency BSP for the corresponding hardware platform is automatically downloaded and installed during the installation process along with the Android system image.
The emteria.OS adds new features to standard Android, in order to make the operation and management for product manufacturers easier:
App management: it provides an infrastructure for adding private application stores, which companies can use to bring their own apps onto custom hardware, like Google’s Play Store and Apple's App Store
Simplified customization and provisioning: system settings can be changed via provided web portal, while certain changes like resolution adaptation or driver inclusion in standard Android would require a recompilation of the whole OS. In addition, it allows users to preinstall their settings and applications on many devices instead of installing plain Android and configuring everything manually on each single device. Besides, as the Android image usually consists of several partitions (like BSP, data, system), a provided emteria installer simplifies the installation processes. While consumer d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche%20%28blockchain%20platform%29 | Avalanche is a decentralized, open-source proof of stake blockchain with smart contract functionality. AVAX is the native cryptocurrency of the platform.
History
Avalanche began as a protocol for solving for consensus in a network of unreliable machines, where failures may be crash-fault or Byzantine. The protocol's fundamentals were first shared on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) in May 2018 by a pseudonymous group of enthusiasts going by the name "Team Rocket".
Avalanche was later developed by researchers from Cornell University led by Emin Gün Sirer and doctoral students Maofan "Ted" Yin and Kevin Sekniqi. Following the research stage, a startup technology company was founded to develop a blockchain network that would meet finance industry requirements. In March, 2020, the AVA codebase (Developer Accelerator Program or AVA DAP) for the Avalanche consensus protocol was released as open-source and became available to the public.
In September, 2020, the company also issued its native token Avax.
In September 2021, the Ava labs foundation received a $230 million investment from a group consisting of Polychain and Three Arrows Capital, through the purchase of the AVAX cryptocurrency.
In November 2021, following an agreement with Deloitte to improve U.S. disaster-relief funding, the Avalanche blockchain moved into the top 10 cryptocurrencies in terms of capitalization.
In August 2022, whistleblower "Crypto Leaks" published a report accusing Ava Labs of secret deals with a law firm aimed at legally destabilizing Avalanche's competitors. Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer denied any sort of illegal or unethical deal with Roche Freedmen law firm.
In January 2023, a partnership was announced between Avalanche and Amazon to improve Avalanche's infrastructure and decentralized application ecosystem.
In February 2023, Indian game streaming platform Loco teamed up with the Avalanche blockchain.
Design
AVAX
Avalanche (AVAX) is the native token of Avalanche, traded on the X-Chain.
Protocol
The protocol has four basic interrelated mechanisms that compose structural support of the consensus tool. These four mechanisms are Slush, Snowflake, Snowball, and Avalanche. By using randomized sampling and metastability to ascertain and persist transactions, It represents a new protocol family. Although the original paper focused on a single protocol, namely Avalanche, it implicitly introduced a broad spectrum of voting-based, or quorum-based consensus protocols, called the Snow family. While Avalanche is a single instantiation, the Snow family seems to be able to generalize all quorum-based voting protocols for replica control. Unlike prior quorum-based work, the Snow family enables arbitrarily parametrizable failure probability at the quorum intersection level. Standard quorum-based protocols define this failure probability to be precisely zero, but by introducing errors in the quorum intersection, a larger set of consensus protocol design is available.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Mysore | This is a list of people from Mysore.
Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech and director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA
Mysore T. Chowdiah, Pioneer of the seven-string Violin, Sangeetha Kalanidhi
Sabu Dastagir, Hollywood Actor, inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Gita Gopinath, Chief economist, IMF
Vikas Gowda, Olympian, discus thrower and shot putter, Commonwealth Games Gold-Medallist
B. K. S. Iyengar, Yoga Expert, Padma Vibhushan
Mysore V. Doraiswamy Iyengar, Veena exponent, Padma Bhushan, Sangeetha Kalanidhi
R. K. Laxman, cartoonist, Padma Vibhushan, Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts
Pavitra Lokesh, actress, Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress
N. R. Narayana Murthy, industrialist, co-founder of Infosys, Padma Vibhushan
V. K. Murthy, cinematographer, Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner
Mysore brothers, Violin maestros and music composers, comprising Mysore Manjunath and Mysore Nagaraj
R. K. Narayan, writer, Padma Vibhushan
R. K. Srikantan, carnatic music vocalist, Padma Bhushan, Sangeetha Kalanidhi
Javagal Srinath, former cricketer and current ICC Match referee
Mysore Vasudevachar, musician and composer, Padma Bhushan
References
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Mysore
People from Mysore
Lists of people from Karnataka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiclass | Multiclass may refer to:
Multiclass classification, in machine learning
Having multiple character classes in a role-playing game
Character class (Dungeons & Dragons)#Multiclassing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Force%20%28TV%20pilot%29 | Space Force is a science fiction television pilot starring Fred Willard for the NBC television network. It aired as a one-off on April 28, 1978, but the series was not picked up. The pilot set up a scenario not unlike The Phil Silvers Show in which opportunistic Captain Thomas Woods (Willard) leads his starcraft crew in schemes under the nose of the overbearing Captain Leon Stoner and dotty station Commander Irving Hinkley (William Phipps). Actor Phipps stated the show was originally titled Fort Leo (after the name of the ship), and claimed it was passed over because of the short-lived series Buck Henry produced, Quark, which was cancelled even before Space Force was aired.
Plot synopsis
Aboard space station Fort Leo Captain Thomas Woods (Willard) arranges a carnival to raise money for a children's hospital on planet Triton by selling unauthorized military equipment to civilians and joyrides on their starcraft. Meanwhile, Captain Leon Stoner presses station Commander Irving Hinkley to go to war with the planet Algon over the capture of a spy.
Cast
William Phipps as Commander Irving Hinkley
Fred Willard as Captain Thomas Woods
Larry Block as Private Arnold Fleck
Jim Boyd as Captain Leon Stoner
Hilly Hicks as Captain Robert Milford
Maureen Mooney as Sergeant Eve Bailey
Joseph G. Medalis as Lieutenant Kabar
Richard Paul as D.O.R.C. (voice)
Billy Braver as Berkovitz
Deborah Harmon as Ship's Crier
Zitto Kazann as War Minister Dalan
Patricia Noble as Merivac (voice)
Legacy
Fred Willard reprised his role from the pilot in a comedy sketch for Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2018 and 2019. First, as interviewed by Kimmel after the announcement of the formation of the United States Space Force, and again in response to a media soundbite from Senator Ted Cruz about a need for the U.S. Space Force to battle "space pirates" in which Willard appears in a trailer for "Space Force 2 - Attack of the Space Pirates," a sequel to the failed 1978 series. Willard portrayed an unrelated character for the 2020 Netflix series Space Force.
References
External links
1978 films
1978 television films
1970s science fiction films
Television films as pilots
Television pilots not picked up as a series
American science fiction television films
Films directed by Peter Baldwin (director)
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious%20Miss%20Brown | Delicious Miss Brown is an American cooking television series that premiered on Food Network on July 28, 2019. The series is presented by chef Kardea Brown; and it features Brown showcasing how to cook her Southern-inspired recipes from her home in Charleston, South Carolina.
On August 3, 2020, it was announced that the third season would premiere on September 6, 2020.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2020)
References
External links
FRANK.
2010s American cooking television series
2019 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television shows filmed in South Carolina
Television shows set in Charleston, South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20%28Calgary%29 | MAX is a bus rapid transit network operated by Calgary Transit in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. MAX forms a part of Calgary Transit's rapid transit network, along with the CTrain light rail system.
The MAX system opened in November 2018 with three routes: MAX Orange, MAX Teal, and MAX Purple. The MAX Yellow line opened in December 2019. MAX routes are distinguished from Calgary's existing express bus network, branded as "BRT", by the use of dedicated transitway on three lines, heated shelters, real-time information, and elevated sidewalks.
Routes
BRT routes
In addition to the MAX network, Calgary Transit operates four separate routes branded as "BRT". They are not considered to be part of Calgary's rapid transit network, and do not use dedicated transitway, heated shelter, real-time information, or elevated sidewalks.
Fares
MAX services use the same fare structure as the rest of the Calgary Transit system. As of October 2023, a single adult fare is $3.60, or $2.45 for youth. Day, monthly, low-income, and university passes are also available.
Transitways
Southwest Transitway
The Southwest Transitway is a bus-only corridor along 14 Street SW, between 75 Avenue SW and Southland Drive. It has three stations along its length, used by MAX Yellow. MAX Teal also uses a portion of the Transitway. Both routes operate in mixed traffic and shoulder lanes for the rest of their routing.
17 Avenue SE Transitway
The 17 Avenue SE Transitway is a bus-only corridor along 17 Avenue SE, between 9 Avenue SE and Hubalta Road SE It has six stations along its length, used by MAX Purple.
See also
Calgary Transit
CTrain
References
2018 establishments in Alberta
Bus rapid transit in Canada
MAX (Calgary) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youyang%20Gu%20COVID%20model | The Youyang Gu COVID-19 model (sometimes abbreviated YYG) is a computer software disease model for COVID-19 produced by independent data scientist Youyang Gu.
The model is unique in applying machine learning to derive the basic reproduction number () from data published by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), and it seeks to minimize the error between its projections and CSSE data on the number of United States COVID-19 deaths.
Use and endorsements
Gu's model was one of seven featured in The New York Times survey of models and one of nine in FiveThirtyEights survey, was cited by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in its estimates for U.S. recovery, and was one of three listed by the State of Washington on its "COVID-19 risk assessment dashboard" used to determine the date the state would reopen its economy after the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. The model's author claims it is the only one cited by CDC that is not receiving public funding.
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist and professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, stated in May 2020 that Gu's model "is the most accurate to predict deaths from COVID-19", surpassing the accuracy of the well-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation COVID model. Its superior accuracy was also noted by Silicon Valley newspaper The Mercury News and by The Economist, which called it "more accurate than forecasts from many established outfits".
Youyang Gu biography
Gu is a 2015 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Shanghai in and grew up in Urbana, Illinois.
See also
List of COVID-19 simulation models
References
External links
(COVID-19-projections.com)
COVID-19 models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard%20Bell%20Statesman | The Packard Bell Statesman was an economy line of notebook computers introduced in 1993 by Packard Bell. They were slower in performance and lacked features compared to most competitor products, but they were lower in price. It was created in a collaboration between Packard Bell and Zenith Data Systems. The Statesman series was essentially a rebrand of Zenith Data Systems Z-Star 433 series, with the only notable difference of the logo in the middle and text on the front bezel.
History
In June 1993 Zenith Data Systems announced an alliance with Packard Bell. Zenith acquired about 20% of Packard Bell and they would both now work together to design and build PC's. Zenith would also provide Packard Bell with private-label versions of their portable PC's. The Packard Bell Statesman was a rebrand of the Zenith Z-Star notebook computer series. While the Statesman was being advertised by Packard Bell, the Z-Star series was also still being sold by Zenith.
The Statesman was first introduced on October 4, 1993. Prices started at $1,500 for a monochrome or color DSTN model with a 33 MHz Cyrix Cx486SLC, 4 MB of RAM, 200 MB hard disk drive, internal 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, and MS-DOS 6.0 with Windows 3.1 for the included software. A "J mouse" pointing device was included, similar to the TrackPoint. The Statesman was expected to begin shipping within the next few weeks.
Specifications
Hardware
CPU
The first two models, the 200M and 200C, used the Cyrix Cx486SLC. This was Cyrix's first processor, which was actually a 386SX with on-board L1 cache and 486 instructions, being known as a "hybrid chip". The processor was clocked at 33 MHz and had 1 KB of L1 cache. It was a 16-bit processor and was pin compatible with the Intel 80386SX. On the bottom of the unit, the motherboard had an empty socket for a Cyrix FasMath co-processor, which could improve floating-point math performance.
The 200M and 200C plus models had a Cyrix Cx486SLC2 clocked at 50 MHz, which was 50% faster than the original 486SLC. The SLC2 similarly had 1 KB of on-board cache and was pin compatible with the previous model.
Graphics & Display
For video all models used three versions of the Chips & Technologies 655xx, the CT65520, 65525, and 65530. The 65520 was first introduced in early 1992 as the first controller with Super VGA resolution. It supported resolutions up to 1024x768 in 16 colors or shades of gray. If in 800x600 resolution, it can display up to 256 colors. All 3 chips were basically the same, with the CT65525 identifying as a CT65530. The CT65530 had an ability of 5V and 3.3V mixed operation and linear video memory addressing.
All models used a 9.5in 800x600 resolution DSTN LCD display. The 200M and 200M Plus had a monochrome display, while the 200C and 200C Plus had a color display.
Audio
All models had only basic audio available, with just a piezo speaker soldered onto the motherboard and no sound controller.
Memory
Standard RAM included was 4-8 MB of EDO RAM. The R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arith | Arith may refer to:
Places
Arith, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Mount Arith, Albania
Other
ARITH Symposium on Computer Arithmetic), annual IEEE conference
ARITH-MATIC, programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Alexandre%20Aubert%20de%20La%20Chesnaye%20Des%20Bois | François Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois (17 June 1699 – 29 February 1783) was a French writer, genealogist and compiler.
Life
Chenaye-Desbois was born in Ernée and died in Paris.
Works
He is mainly known for his genealogical dictionaries of the French nobility. The first edition with the title Dictionnaire généalogique, héraldique, chronologique et historique was published by Duchesne in seven volumes (1757–1765). The second edition with the title Dictionnaire de la noblesse... ("Dictionary of Nobility...") was published by Duchesne in 15 volumes (1770–1786). The final three volumes were edited and continued by Jacques Badier. In the 19th century, a third edition was published by Schlesinger in 19 volumes (1863–1876). The third edition was reprinted in facsimile by Kraus in 1969.
The dictionary's full name is .
In English, this translates roughly to Dictionary of the nobles; containing the genealogies, history, and timeline of noble families of France; the explanation of their coats of arms, and the state of the domains; those having the titles of Prince, Duke, Marquis, Count, Viscount, Baron, etc., by creation, heritage, alliance, donation, substitution, transfer, sale, or other.
Notes
Bibliography
Estrée, Paul (1897). "Un autre abbé Prévost", pp. 395-404, 465-471, 512-524, in Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire.
External links
Dictionnaire généalogique, héraldique, chronologique et historique, first edition (1757–1765), 7 volumes
Catalog record (vol. 1, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) at HathiTrust
Catalog record (vol. 2, Universidad Complutense de Madrid at HathiTrust
Catalog record (vol. 3, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) at HathiTrust
Catalog record (vol. 5, New York Public Library) at HathiTrust
Dictionnaire de la noblesse, second edition (1770–1786), 15 volumes:
Catalog record (15 volumes) at HathiTrust
Catalog record (vols. 4, 6, 9, 11, 12; New York Public Library) at Hathitrust
Dictionnaire de la noblesse, third edition (1863-1877), 19 volumes
Catalog record (19 volumes) at HathiTrust
Vols. 1–9 at Gallica
18th-century French writers
French genealogists
1699 births
1784 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVRI%20Sport | TVRI Sport (also referred to as Kanal 4 TVRI Olahraga) is an Indonesian terrestrial television channel owned by public broadcaster TVRI, specialised in sports programming. Serves as complementary to TVRI main channel, the channel is available only in digital terrestrial, satellite, and TVRI Klik streaming service.
History
TVRI Sport was launched as one of two initial digital television channels set up by TVRI following the government plan to introduce digital television in Indonesia, as well as one of the Indonesian first digital television channels. TVRI 4, as it was called, was launched on 21 December 2010 as the first Indonesian digital broadcast is launched in Jakarta, Surabaya (East Java) and Batam (Riau Islands). Together with its sister channel TVRI 3 (currently TVRI World) as well as the digital broadcast of TVRI Nasional and local TVRI stations, the channel was officially launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring and TVRI President Director Imas Sunarya.
In 2018, TVRI 4 changed its name to TVRI Sport HD. Later in 2022, the channel changed its name again to simply TVRI Sport.
Current coverage
Indonesia
International
Shows
Monitor Olahraga
Netting
Olahraga Kampung
Otoscreen
Zona Bola
Globe Soccer Awards (2019–present)
Professional Bull Riders
MPL Indonesia
Former coverage
Indonesia
Football
Liga Indonesia (until ??)
2015 Liga Santri Nusantara final
Badminton
PBSI
Basketball
2017–18 Srikandi Cup (Indonesia Women's Basketball Championship)
Indonesian Basketball League (2013-2015, 2020, and 2021)
Volleyball
2015 Livoli
International
Winter Olympics (opening and closing ceremonies only in 2014 and 2018)
Football
FIFA World Cup (until 1998)
2021 FIFA Club World Cup
Brasil Global Tour (both matches in September 2019 only)
Premier League (2019–20 only (exclude Q4), originally until 2021–22)
Ligue 1 (2009–10 only)
Serie A (2012–13 and the first half of 2013–14, originally until 2014–15)
Dutch Eerste Divisie (2017–18 only)
Basketball
2019 FIBA World Cup
Badminton
BWF
Motorsport
Formula E (2019-20 and 2021)
Sepak takraw
2019 Sepak Takraw League (Champions Cup only)
Shows
Kick Off
Dibalik Sang Juara
Ring Tinju/Rock n Round
Varia Olahraga
See also
TVRI
TVRI World
References
External links
TVRI official website
Official Twitter account of TVRI Sport HD
Official YouTube channel "TVRI Sport"
Sports television in Indonesia
Television stations in Indonesia
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Indonesia |
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