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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyu%20Jian | Lyu Jian (also known as "Lu Jian") is currently President of Nanjing University, China, and is a professor in Computer Science.
Early life
Lyu Jian was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1960. He studied Computer Science at Nanjing University
and received his bachelor's degree in 1983, master's degree in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1988.
Career
After his Ph.D., he joined Nanjing University as an assistant professor. He went to Manchester University,
UK, as a visiting scholar from 1993 - 1994. In 2010, he became vice president of Nanjing University. In 2018,
he was appointed President of the university.
Research
Lyu Jian has performed research in computer software, software methodology, network software, agent technology, middleware, pervasive computing, software collaboration technology, and web security. He has given research seminars at various universities.
Awards
Lyu Jian received the Natural Science award and the Technological Invention award from the Ministry of Education, China. In 2013, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
References
1960 births
Living people
Nanjing University alumni
Chinese computer scientists
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonbet | Fonbet is a sports betting company operating in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is considered to be the largest of its kind in Russia by number of users and network outreach (more than 1000 offices in Russia) and the oldest by the foundation date (1994). In 1994 it was founded by Russian chess grandmaster .
Overview
The company offers a variety of bets for sports, esports and popular cultural events.
The company is the official sponsor of the Russia national football team, the Kontinental Hockey League, IIHF World Championships in ice hockey (from 2017), Champions League, Europa League, Spanish league La Liga, Match TV (Russia's leading sports TV channel), several hockey clubs in Russia and Kazakhstan and a number of other sporting entities.
The company has a dedicated system for combating match fixing, with partnerships with organizations such as EWS-FIFA (FIFA's Early Warning System), Tennis Integrity Unit and others. For these purposes, Fonbet holds a membership in European Sports Security Association (ESSA)
In 2020, the company came into the media spotlight when it figured on the Russian Federation's list of system-critical commercial companies that needed financial support from the state during the COVID-19 pandemic (in view of its being a large nation-wide taxpayer and employer). In the wake of the ensuing controversy, the Russian government reconsidered the criteria for such support. Fonbet publicly announced that it had optimized its own financials during the pandemic, did not need state support and had its own program for funding anti-COVID measures (as well as other charity programs).
References
Companies based in Moscow
Online gambling companies of Russia
Bookmakers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Byzantine%20Empire | The situation of women in the Byzantine Empire is a subject of scientific research that encompasses all available information about women, their environments, their networks, their legal status, etc., in the Byzantine Empire.
This field of study experiences debates within it on various important questions. For a long time, the attention of historians was attracted only by individual prominent Byzantine women, mainly the Empress, especially the wife of Emperor Justinian I Theodora, who had a significant influence on the events of the first half of the 6th century. Numerous sources (chronicles, legal texts, hagiographic literature) however paint a picture of the Byzantine patriarchal society in which women in general did not have independent significance and were imprisoned in a gynaeceum.
The scientific study of the legal and economic status of women in the Byzantine Empire began in the second half of the 19th century and is currently intensively ongoing. The subject of study is both women in general and related issues of family and property law. The scarcity of surviving sources leads to diverse assessments of the place of women in Byzantine society. With the development of gender studies in the 1970s, there is a tendency to revise early views, according to which this role was not significant. The historian Ioili Kalavrezou provides a more positive description of the lives of Byzantine women. Several authors today assume that Byzantine women enjoyed significantly more privileges in comparison to women in Western Europe and the Islamic world.
Education
The general view of women's education was that it was sufficient for a girl to learn domestic duties and to study the lives of the Christian saints and memorize psalms, and to learn to read so that she could study Bible scriptures – though literacy among women was sometimes discouraged because it was believed it could encourage vice. However, there were individual Byzantine women, who famed for their educational accomplishments, such as Kassia, Anna Komnene and Dobrodeia of Kiev.
Sexuality
Marriage
The Roman right to actual divorce was gradually erased after the introduction of Christianity and replaced with legal separation and annulation. In the Byzantine Empire marriage was regarded as the ideal state for a woman, and only convent life was seen as a legitimate alternative. Within marriage, sexual activity was regarded only as the means of reproduction. A woman had the right to appear before court, but her testimony was not regarded as equal to that of a man, and could be contradicted on the basis of her sex if put against that of a man. On the other hand, women were not entirely subordinated to the will of men. According to the Early Byzantine diplomat and political thinker Priscus of Pannion, '[a]mongst the Romans it was not right to betroth a woman to a man against her will'. Theodore of Sykeon in his Life 'depicts a household of strong women, with no male head, who converge to spoil an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Dean%20%28mathematician%29 | Nathaniel Dean (January 9, 1956 - January 2021) was an African-American mathematician and educator who made contributions to abstract and algorithmic graph theory, as well as data visualization and parallel computing.
Education
Dean received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Mississippi State University in 1978. He then received his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Northeastern University in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 1987, with a doctoral thesis titled "Contractible Edges and Conjectures and Path and Cycle Numbers".
Scientific career
For the next eleven years, he worked at the Software Production Research Department of Bell Labs, where he would author over thirty scientific publications on graph theory, graph algorithms, parallel computing, and data visualization. In 1995 he posed a conjecture which led to progress on the second neighborhood problem, which remains open as of 2020. His work on using graph theory for data mining was featured in the PBS series Life by the Numbers.
In 1997 Dean received the Bell Labs President's Silver Award, and shortly thereafter began a professorship at Rice University. While at Rice, he supervised four Ph.D. students with thesis topics ranging from algorithmic graph theory to biological computing. On January 11, 2001, Dean was elected Vice President of the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM). In 2003 he moved from Rice University to Texas Southern University, where he attained the rank of full professor and would serve as chair of the mathematics department.
Dean's departure from Texas Southern University to Texas State University was announced in a NAM newsletter in 2006. Dean focused on mathematics education and outreach throughout his time at Texas State, most notably by serving as President of NAM from 2005 to 2015. His research activities during this time include graph theory and an influential article on data visualization. He retired from Texas State in 2016.
Outreach
Dean was actively involved in mathematics education and outreach throughout his career. In addition to his involvement in the PBS series Life by the Numbers, he developed software to teach discrete mathematics at the K-12 level. Much of Dean's outreach was through the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), a nonprofit which aims to promote the mathematical development of underrepresented minorities; his involvement with NAM includes serving as Vice President (2001-2004) and President (2005-2015).
Separate from his involvement with NAM, Dean worked with the American Mathematical Society to publish two conference proceeding on African American mathematicians. Dean also served as an Associate Editor of the Notices of the AMS from 2001 to 2006.
Dean was quite involved with other professional societies in mathematics as well. He served on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America from 2005 to 2007, and served as chair of MSRI's Human Reso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMBGhost | SMBGhost (or SMBleedingGhost or CoronaBlue) is a type of security vulnerability, with wormlike features, that affects Windows 10 computers and was first reported publicly on 10 March 2020. A Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code was published 1 June 2020 on GitHub by a security researcher. The code could possibly spread to millions of unpatched computers, resulting in as much as tens of billions of dollars in losses.
Microsoft recommends all users of Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909 and Windows Server versions 1903 and 1909 to install patches, and states, "We recommend customers install updates as soon as possible as publicly disclosed vulnerabilities have the potential to be leveraged by bad actors ... An update for this vulnerability was released in March [2020], and customers who have installed the updates, or have automatic updates enabled, are already protected." Workarounds, according to Microsoft, such as disabling SMB compression and blocking port 445, may help but may not be sufficient.
According to the advisory division of Homeland Security, "Malicious cyber actors are targeting unpatched systems with the new [threat], ... [and] strongly recommends using a firewall to block server message block ports from the internet and to apply patches to critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities as soon as possible."
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alepochori%2C%20Evros | Alepochori is a village in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. The village is considered very old and its inhabitants are native Greeks.
Geographical data
The village is located right on the Greek–Bulgarian border (300 m from the last houses). The village was recognized as a community in 1929, coming from the community of Metaxades, while in 1956 the settlement of Polia was annexed to it. In 1997, the community was not recognized anymore and was annexed to the Municipality of Metaxades. Since 2010 and till today, it is a municipal district of the Municipality of Didymoteicho.
Name
Various legends are said that in the village there was a Turkish Aga who took the Brides on the first night of their marriage, in his own house. The villagers slyly managed to send someone to the Constantinople to protest to the sultan, who acquitted them and fired Aga. Leaving the village, the aga called the inhabitants "Foxes" and so the village got its name.
History
Alepochori is one of the first and oldest settlements of the Regional unit of Evros. Its first inhabitants numbered 300 and the houses 50. In short, it already existed in the Byzantine era but cholera caused the villagers to rebuild the village down the hill. A few years later, it was conquered by the Ottomans. In 1770 the village was set on fire and looted by the Turks because of a failed revolution attempt by the Greeks in Morea. However, the residents of the surrounding villages helped to rebuild the village. It was liberated in 1920.
The village during the Byzantine Empire
From the historical testimonies that exist as well as from the tradition in the village it seems that Alepochori is one of the oldest villages in the area of Didymoteicho. Tradition has it that the village was very large with about 800 houses.
At the edge of the village near "tsisme" lived a monk all alone. The inhabitants preserved him by offering him food. At that time there was a big bazaar in the place "Gialadarki". There was a big fountain there. The water came with "kiougia" from the area of today's chapel of Agia Paraskevi. The kiosks were found with recent excavations. One day a woman from the village did not get food to the monk. Then he cursed her and with her the whole village. After a couple of days, the residents were hit by cholera and many people died. Most are buried in the "Ampelia" where cemeteries are still preserved. Many residents left and only seven families remained. Gradually, however, the village grew again. Two cobbled streets survive to this day and led to the old church and to the "tsisme".
The village during the Ottoman Empire
During the Turkish occupation, the village was called: "Bas Kara Bunar" which means "Black Deep Well". According to the elders, the water of the wells that existed was black and bitter. Outside the Christian-inhabited village, which was very large because tiles, stones and kiosks for water (which testify to its size) were constantly being discover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Loman | Nicholas James Loman (born February 1979) was co-founder of the Gamer Network with his brother Rupert, which they started under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999. Nick left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine.
Loman studied medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He undertook an intercalated BSc degree in Pathology (Infection & Immunity) from Imperial College in 2001 and graduated in Medicine from Queen Mary University of London in 2004. He then spent some time as junior doctor, before working as a bioinformatician in Mark Pallen's research group at the University of Birmingham from 2007 to 2012, where gained a PhD in Comparative Bacterial Genomics. On completing his thesis, Loman developed an interest in emerging viral infections, using Nanopore sequencing to track the spread of Ebola in the Western African Ebola virus epidemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he played a key role in establishing bioinformatics workflows for genomic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
Since 2017, Loman has been professor of microbial genomics and bioinformatics at the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham. He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
References
External links
About · Loman Labs
British microbiologists
21st-century British medical doctors
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Alumni of Imperial College London
Living people
1979 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Association%20of%20Mindfulness-Based%20Approaches | The British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) is a UK-based network of mindfulness organizations and teachers, which has been described as "the lead organisation overseeing the quality of mindfulness-based training in the UK." Founded in 2005 as the UK Network of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations, BAMBA's original members were the mindfulness centers at the universities of Oxford, Bangor, and Exeter, as well as Breathworks CIC and NHS Scotland. The primary purpose of the organization is to support and develop good practice and integrity in the delivery of mindfulness-based approaches in the UK. It does this principally through the maintenance and dissemination of its Good Practice Guidelines, which provide a standards framework for its member organizations, and through the maintenance of a regulated list of accredited mindfulness teachers in the UK, who have been independently verified as having trained with a BAMBA member organization and as adhering to BAMBA Good Practice Guidelines. The independently verified teachers list has been called "an international first", and BAMBA has been described as "the closest thing that currently exists to a regulatory body for mindfulness training" in the UK. As of June 2020, BAMBA had 25 member organizations.
References
External links
https://bamba.org.uk/
Meditation
Mindfulness movement
Mindfulness (psychology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20636 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 636 is a Sustrans Route that runs from Harrogate to Knaresborough. The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions.
History
The first section of the route was opened in 1997 when it was dedicated to the memory of World Champion cyclist Beryl Burton OBE who had died the previous year. On becoming part of the National Cycle Network in 2013 it was extended along riverside paths through Knaresborough.
The section at the eastern end, was resurfaced in 2016. Funded by County and Borough Councils with a contribution form local residents who own this private road.
Route
Starting at Bilton on the northern side of Harrogate, the route follows Bilton Lane, a private road with limited access for residents and no through traffic. After the lane the Beryl Burton Cycleway continues along a tarmac path to Knaresborough. The route crosses the River Nidd on the A59 a then follows the waterside path around the edge of the town, finishing near the St James Retail Park.
At the eastern end the route meets the Nidderdale Greenway part of NCN Route 67. This traffic free section of the route can be used to reach central Harrogate or head north along the Greenway to Ripley.
Related NCN routes
Route 636 meets the following routes:
at Harrogate
References
External links
Route 636 on the Sustrans web site
Harrogate–Knaresborough cycle map
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20Bernoulli%20distribution | In probability theory, statistics, and machine learning, the continuous Bernoulli distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions parameterized by a single shape parameter , defined on the unit interval , by:
The continuous Bernoulli distribution arises in deep learning and computer vision, specifically in the context of variational autoencoders, for modeling the pixel intensities of natural images. As such, it defines a proper probabilistic counterpart for the commonly used binary cross entropy loss, which is often applied to continuous, -valued data. This practice amounts to ignoring the normalizing constant of the continuous Bernoulli distribution, since the binary cross entropy loss only defines a true log-likelihood for discrete, -valued data.
The continuous Bernoulli also defines an exponential family of distributions. Writing for the natural parameter, the density can be rewritten in canonical form:
.
Related distributions
Bernoulli distribution
The continuous Bernoulli can be thought of as a continuous relaxation of the Bernoulli distribution, which is defined on the discrete set by the probability mass function:
where is a scalar parameter between 0 and 1. Applying this same functional form on the continuous interval results in the continuous Bernoulli probability density function, up to a normalizing constant.
Beta distribution
The Beta distribution has the density function:
which can be re-written as:
where are positive scalar parameters, and represents an arbitrary point inside the 1-simplex, . Switching the role of the parameter and the argument in this density function, we obtain:
This family is only identifiable up to the linear constraint , whence we obtain:
corresponding exactly to the continuous Bernoulli density.
Exponential distribution
An exponential distribution restricted to the unit interval is equivalent to a continuous Bernoulli distribution with appropriate parameter.
Continuous categorical distribution
The multivariate generalization of the continuous Bernoulli is called the continuous-categorical.
References
Continuous distributions
Exponential family distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeout%20Detection%20and%20Recovery | Timeout Detection and Recovery or TDR is a feature of the Windows operating system (OS) introduced in Windows Vista. It detects response problems from a graphics card (GPU), and if a timeout occurs, the OS will attempt a card reset to recover a functional and responsive desktop environment. However, if the attempt was unsuccessful, it results in the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The recovery tries to mitigate the scenario where an end user superfluously reboots their device should it become unresponsive.
Timeline
When the GPU takes more than the allotted time to process a request, the system's GPU scheduler will pick up the anomaly. It then tries to preempt the particular task, this operation has the TDR timeout which is 2 seconds by default.
Once the timeout is up and the task is not completed or preempted, the kernel determines that the GPU is frozen and proceeds to inform the respective driver about the detected timeout. It is then the driver's responsibility to properly reset and reinitialize the underlying GPU.
The OS will then do a bunch of other recovery steps needed for the system to regain responsiveness. If the entire operation was successful, the end user might see some visual artefacts and a message will be shown on the screen describing what had happened ("Display driver stopped responding and has recovered."), else a BSOD might ensue.
Possible causes
There are multiple probable causes should a recovery fail, causing an inevitable BSOD:
Outdated drivers
GPU/Hardware issue
Overloading the GPU
Corrupted application/system files/driver
BSOD stop codes
Possible BSOD stop codes emitted if the attempted recovery failed:
VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (Bug check value: 0x116), recovery and resetting of display driver from a TDR timeout failed.
See also
Windows Display Driver Model
Display driver
DirectX
Vulkan
References
Further reading
Timeout Detection & Recovery (TDR) Nvidia
TDR in Windows 8 and later - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
Thread Synchronization and TDR - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdana%20University | Perdana University (PU), is an emerging private university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia focusing on health science and data science programmes at foundation (pre-university), undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Perdana University was officially incorporated in 2011. In 2017, Perdana University was awarded Tier 4: Very Good in the Rating System for Malaysian Higher Education 2017 (SETARA) from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE).
The University took in its very first students in 2011 with the opening of the PU-RCSI School of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine.
At present, the University consists of 6 Schools and 2 Centres. The School of Business is the latest school formed recently.
The main campus of PU located in MAEPS, Serdang, Selangor has been relocated to Wisma Chase Perdana, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur in 2020 when MAEPS was used a COVID-19 pandemic hospital.
Ownership
Perdana University is a wholly owned subsidiary of Academic Medical Centre Sdn Bhd (AMC).
History
The opening of Perdana University and the medical programme was officiated by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato' Seri Najib Razak while the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was appointed as its Founding Chancellor. Dato' Pahlawan Dr. R. Mohana Dass served as the founding Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the Perdana University.
The University previously operated from an interim campus in the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS). The University has since then been relocated to Wisma Chase Perdana, Damansara Heights in 2020.
See also
Perdana University-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Kuala Lumpur
Educational institutions established in 2011
Private universities and colleges in Malaysia
Medical schools in Malaysia
2011 establishments in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Center | The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) (pronounced "jake") was an American organization on exploring the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (particularly Edge computing), Network of Networks and AI-enhanced communication for use in actual combat. In February 2022, JAIC was integrated into the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).
A subdivision of the United States Armed Forces, it was created in June 2018. The organization's stated objective was to "transform the US Department of Defense by accelerating the delivery and adoption of AI to achieve mission impact at scale. The goal is to use AI to solve large and complex problem sets that span multiple combat systems; then, ensure the combat Systems and Components have real-time access to ever-improving libraries of data sets and tools."
History
JAIC was originally proposed to Congress on June 27, 2018; that same month, it was established under the Defense Department's Chief Information Officer (CIO), itself subordinate to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), to coordinate Department-wide AI efforts. Throughout 2020, JAIC started financially engaging with the AI industry for the development of specific applications.
Current proposals for JAIC include giving it the authority as a financial entity to acquire its own technology, and elevating its position to be under the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
On 24 June 2021 the Department of Defense gathered reporters for an AI symposium in which it announced the launch of an "AI and data accelerator (ADA) initiative" in which, over the month of July, data teams would work directly with military personnel to provide a proof of concept in data-driven warfare and to observe the possible obstacles for such implementation.
On 1 June 2022 JAIC, the Defense Digital Service, and the Office of Advancing Analytics were fully merged into a unified organization, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO). JAIC, DDS, and the other groups within CDAO will cease to be recognized as entities.
Successor
Note: as more information becomes available, this section may be split off
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) or Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer is Dr. Craig Martell. USAF secretary Frank Kendall has signalled that the CDAO will have an approach to solving the DoD-wide Joint All-domain command and control (JADC2) problem: "Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks has already asked Martell to take a leading role in the discussions about JADC2". Martell's approach is bottom-up starting with each agency, working one-by-one, preserving what is important for each agency. However connectivity between Nodes is currently the critical resource for JADC2.
On 30 January 2023 the CDAO announced a series of global information dominance experiments (GIDEs).
GIDE 5 is being held 30 January — 3 February 2023 (Monday—Thursday) at the Pentagon, and at multiple combatant commands (and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Limbo%20Line%20%28novel%29 | The Limbo Line is a 1963 spy thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning. A former British secret service agent Richard Manston is called out of retirement to tackle a Soviet spy network kidnapping recent defectors to be taken back to Moscow.
The book acts as a prequel to the four Rex Carver novels in that it introduces the Government agency that Carver is later unwillingly drawn into. Manston also appears as a character in some of the Rex Carver books.
Film adaptation
In 1968 the novel was turned into a film of the same title directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Craig Stevens and Kate O'Mara. The story was reissued by Pan Books as a tie-in with the film release.
References
Bibliography
Burton, Alan. Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960. Vernon Press, 2018.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
1963 British novels
British spy novels
British thriller novels
Novels set in London
British novels adapted into films
Novels by Victor Canning
Heinemann (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitFunnel | BitFunnel is the search engine indexing algorithm and a set of components used in the Bing search engine, which were made open source in 2016. BitFunnel uses bit-sliced signatures instead of an inverted index in an attempt to reduce operations cost.
History
Progress on the implementation of BitFunnel was made public in early 2016, with the expectation that there would be a usable implementation later that year. In September 2016, the source code was made available via GitHub. A paper discussing the BitFunnel algorithm and implementation was released as through the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2017 and won the Best Paper Award.
Components
BitFunnel consists of three major components:
BitFunnel – the text search/retrieval system itself
WorkBench – a tool for preparing text for use in BitFunnel
NativeJIT – a software component that takes expressions that use C data structures and transforms them into highly optimized assembly code
Algorithm
Initial problem and solution overview
The BitFunnel paper describes the "matching problem", which occurs when an algorithm must identify documents through the usage of keywords. The goal of the problem is to identify a set of matches given a corpus to search and a query of keyword terms to match against. This problem is commonly solved through inverted indexes, where each searchable item is maintained with a map of keywords.
In contrast, BitFunnel represents each searchable item through a signature. A signature is a sequence of bits which describe a Bloom filter of the searchable terms in a given searchable item. The bloom filter is constructed through hashing through several bit positions.
Theoretical implementation of bit-string signatures
The signature of a document (D) can be described as the logical-or of its term signatures:
Similarly, a query for a document (Q) can be defined as a union:
Additionally, a document D is a member of the set M''' when the following condition is satisfied:
This knowledge is then combined to produce a formula where M''' is identified by documents which match the query signature:
These steps and their proofs are discussed in the 2017 paper.
Pseudocode for bit-string signatures
This algorithm is described in the 2017 paper.
References
External links
BitFunnel · GitHub
BitFunnel · BitFunnel
Data management
Search algorithms
Database index techniques
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwards%20exposed%20uses | Upwards exposed uses or reachable uses, is a concept in compiler theory which occurs in the copy propagation stage of compilation.
Uses
During the copy propagation stage of program compilation, instances of a target are replaced with assignments to their values. During this process, it is necessary for the compiler to understand which instances of a target are being accessed so that appropriate substitution may occur, related to the concept of reaching definition in reaching analysis. This is done with the purpose of simplifying code before execution: if the number of upwards exposed uses of an assignment is zero, it does not contribute to the end result of the code and can be safely removed. This is also useful for improving code security during the compilation stages.
Example
Consider the following pseudocode:
x = 1
y = z
if False:
x = 0
else:
x = y + 2
It is safe to assume that line 5 will never occur, as demonstrated by the number of upwards exposed uses for this point being zero. This can therefore be simplified:
y = z
x = z + 2
This leads to an end result which is less complex to compile, and more efficient to run. This also meets the definition of reaching definition: In this context, upwards flow analysis was the technique used to demonstrate the needs for reaching definition. Additional techniques allow for more complex analysis of more deeply intertwined or complex control flow problems, such as those with various forms of loops.
See also
Dead code elimination
References
Compiler theory
Compiler optimizations
Data-flow analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20S%C5%82upsk | The Słupsk trolleybus system was a trolleybus network operated by MPK Słupsk in Słupsk, Poland, from 1985 to 1999. The system measured at the most 19.1 km on three lines.
History
The first trolleybus projects in Słupsk date back to the 1930s, when one trolleybus line was planned. It was to connect Kobylnica with Brusków Wielki. This plan was not implemented.
At the end of the 1970s, the voivodeship transport company WPKM Słupsk developed a project of Słupsk trolleybus system. The plan assumed the construction of five trolleybus lines, including one to Ustka, 18 km away from Słupsk. First construction works began in April 1985.
The opening of the first line, marked with A, took place on 21 July 1985. The line was served by ten ZiU-9 trolleybuses purchased from the USSR. The next two lines were launched on 11 November 1986 (B) and 27 June 1987 (C). Bad economic situation does not allowed the opening of lines D and E.
In the early 1990s, eleven functional trolleybuses were scrapped. This caused rolling stock problems and forced trolleybuses to be supported by buses. However, three buses were converted into trolleybuses.
In July 1997, MZK Słupsk exchanged seven operational trolleybuses for seven buses from Tychy. The remaining vehicles were not enough to fully serve the system. The network's profitability has dropped dramatically. Until 1999, only seven trolleybuses were able to operate. It started first voice opinions about the network closure. Pro-decommission arguments were as follows:
maintaining infrastructure for five vehicles is not cost-effective
cables supplying the rectifier station should be replaced
trolleybuses slow down the traffic
the network is old and exploited
rectifier stations produce too much electric energy
In May 1999 began dismantling of the overhead lines at Hubalczyków street, meaning the end of lines B and C. On 18 October 1999, the last A-line trolleybuses went into the streets.
Lines
Lines as of 1987:
References
Notes
External links
Trolleybus transport in Poland
Defunct trolleybus systems by city
Słupsk
1985 establishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Grigori | Laura Grigori is a French-Romanian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on numerical linear algebra and communication-avoiding algorithms. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris, and heads the "Alpines" scientific computing project jointly affiliated with INRIA and the of Sorbonne University.
Education and career
Grigori earned her Ph.D. from Henri Poincaré University in 2001. Her dissertation, Prédiction de structure et algorithmique parallèle pour la factorisation LU des matrices creuses, concerned parallel algorithms for LU decomposition of sparse matrices, and was supervised by .
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she became a researcher for INRIA in 2004, and became the head of the Alpines project in 2013. In 2021, she will join the SIAM Council as a Member-at-Large.
Recognition
A 2012 paper on communication-avoiding algorithms for parallel matrix decomposition by Grigori with James Demmel, Mark Hoemmen, and Julien Langou won the 2016 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize for the best paper on parallel scientific and engineering computing from the previous four years.
Grigori has been an invited plenary speaker at many international conferences on scientific computing. In 2020 Grigori was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to numerical linear algebra, including communication-avoiding algorithms".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20D%C4%99bica | The Dębica trolleybus system was a trolleybus network operated by agro-industrial works Igloopol in Dębica and Straszęcin, Poland between 12 November 1988 and October 1990.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in Poland, the Dębica system was a very small one, with only two routes, and a maximum fleet of just 10 trolleybuses.
History
The first construction stage assumed the construction of an overhead line, which was to connect the Dębica railway station with Igloopol plants in Dębica and Straszęcin. The second construction stage involved the expansion of the network in the city center and to Zawada and Latoszyn. On 25 August 1988, the Municipal National Council in Dębica did not agree to the expansion of the network in Dębica (this decision was criticized both by residents and the creator of Dębica trolleybuses, Edward Brzostowski). Currently, the overhead lines do not exist - they have been dismantled. Numerous overhead line poles remained as streetlamps.
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1988 establishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFNB | KFNB (channel 20) is a television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, which provides certain services to ABC affiliate KTWO-TV (channel 2, owned by Vision Alaska LLC) and CBS affiliate KGWC-TV (channel 14, owned by Big Horn Television LLC) under separate shared services agreements (SSAs). The stations share studios on Skyview Drive in Casper, while KFNB's transmitter is located atop Casper Mountain south of the city. Satellite stations at Rawlins and Riverton and a translator in Douglas extend KFNB's signal. Most of its programming is also rebroadcast on KLWY (channel 27) in Cheyenne, which airs separate station identifications and commercials.
Channel 20 began broadcasting as Casper's third TV station in 1984. Financial difficulties dominated the station's early history. Between 1986 and 1989, First National Broadcasting attempted to buy the station, a sale that languished and eventually fell apart, with the station leaving the air. After being sold at sheriff's auction, the station began broadcasting again in 1990. An ABC affiliate for most of its history, it switched to Fox as part of a three-station affiliation exchange in 2004. Coastal acquired KFNB in 2020.
History
Early years as KXWY-TV
Channel 20 began broadcasting October 31, 1984, as KXWY-TV; transmitter delays pushed back its planned launch. The station carried partial affiliations with both NBC and ABC. The primary carrier for ABC and some NBC shows was KTWO-TV, which held first-call rights to NBC programming but did not air all of it; the new channel 20 would carry The Today Show, soap operas and game shows from NBC, among others. KXWY-TV was owned by Channel 20 Casper, Inc., whose main investor was A. J. Stanton of Orlando, Florida. The new station immediately made plans to go regional, merging with affiliated Hi Ho Broadcasting, owners of KFWY-TV (channel 10, previously KTNW) in Riverton and Thermopolis, and planning to start up a new satellite station at Rawlins. KTNW had previously opened a channel 20 translator in Casper in August 1980, which launched the same day as KCWY-TV (channel 14, not to be confused with the current KCWY-DT); both were Casper's first UHF television services. The station offered little local news at the outset, producing and airing an insert into the Independent Network News.
The new station faced financial headwinds from the start. By June 1985, it had endured the disconnection of its telephones and was in the middle of a stock ownership dispute that left it undercapitalized. In September, less than a year after starting up, KXWY-TV announced that it would be sold, along with KFWY-TV and the under-construction station at Rawlins (KRWY-TV), to a new company, First National Broadcasting. First National was a subsidiary of First National Entertainment, a movie and television production company.
While the sale itself would languish for years, First Nationa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Matsuyama | , born in 1970 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese game designer. He is the CEO of the company CyberConnect2. He developed multiple games including the .hack franchise as well as adaptations of the anime series including Naruto and Dragon Ball. Besides developing games, Matsuyama has participated in directing two .hack films as well as voicing a character from the series.
Early life
As a child, Matsuyama was interested in anime and manga. He dreamed of becoming a mangaka for the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. When growing up, he graduated from a university in Fukuoka. Following his graduation, Matsuyama joined a manga club. He went to Kyushu Sangyo University but had not decided what would be his job. Believing he was naive, Matsuyama became an employee for a cement company. He later joined a friend who was working for Taito in Tokyo. Around this time, Matsuyama decided to work for a game company. They gathered in Fukuoka, and started the company called CyberConnect. By the time he became a developer, the manga Naruto was his favorite series but he stated that other series including Bleach, Beelzebub, and One Piece were among second best.
Career
He gathered with designers of action games from Taito including Psychic Force and RayStorm. Despite being originally an illustrator, Matsuyama became a game designer. CyberConnect, now composed of ten people, worked on Tail Concerto and Silent Bomber which brought him difficulties due to time demand. The team was disappointed with the low sales of these two games. In 2000 the CEO of CyberConnect left the team. This led to the company changing their name to CyberConnect2. Still composed of ten people, the company ought to create a new video game that would not be demanding within the company. Matsuyama commented on their audience, stating that the players will not look after the amount of designers behind a game, but instead the content produced.
.hack
Matsuyama played a key role in developing the concept for the .hack series. A number of core ideas, including "slaying dragons or being a thief in London" were explored, but these were rejected in favor of an "offline/online game". Matsuyama said that this would give young gamers an opportunity to experience online play without paying monthly fees or needing powerful Internet connections. The developers looked at a number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Phantasy Star Online, Ultima Online, and Final Fantasy XI for inspiration, and drew influences from the prior works of character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and scenario writer Kazunori Itō (Ghost in the Shell). Itō noted that casting the player into the role of a subscriber of The World creates a unique story-telling situation which draws the player deeper into the plot. Matsuyama theorized that the act of transferring saved data across the four volumes would help to create a sense of the human drama embodied by the games' story and invest the player into the narr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20Schwarzman%20College%20of%20Computing | The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is a college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Announced in 2018 to address the growing applications of computing technology, the college is an Institute-wide academic unit that works alongside MIT's five Schools of Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Science, and Management. The college emphasizes artificial intelligence research, interdisciplinary applications of computing, and social and ethical responsibilities of computing. It aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for work in artificial intelligence, computer science, data science, and related fields. Its creation was the first significant change to MIT's academic structure since the early 1950s.
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is named after The Blackstone Group chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman, who donated $350 million of the college's $1.1 billion funding commitment. The college's funding sources were met with criticism, with students and staff contrasting MIT's stated emphasis on ethics against Schwarzman's controversial business practices and support for Donald Trump.
Headquarters
The 2018 announcement of the college's creation included a new building to provide enough room on campus for 65 faculty members, plus graduate students and staff (most of which would be funded by the college). The new headquarters was designated as Building 45, reflecting the campus-wide number system and the chosen location on the site of Building 44. Building 44 had been home to MIT's cyclotron and a giant "J" sign celebrating the discovery of the J/psi meson. The Edgerton Student Shop, approximately six members of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and two physics classes were relocated to other buildings by summer 2019, and Building 44 was demolished starting in September 2019. The new building at 51 Vassar Street is being designed by the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and is expected to be complete in 2023. Plans were released in January, 2021.
History
On October 15, 2018, MIT president L. Rafael Reif announced the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. MIT described the initiative as its response to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing technology. The main part of the college's funding consisted of a $350 million gift from businessman Stephen A. Schwarzman, characterized by Forbes as one of the largest donations made to a single academic institution.
The college was shaped by a several-year-long conversation between Reif and Schwarzman prior to the donation, where the two raised questions on the potential of AI and its future impacts on society. Schwarzman emphasized the global effects of AI and believed that America needed to invest further into developing the technology, and Reif desired a university-wide initiative that funds and promotes collaboration between departments. The resulting college |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn%20Owens | Robyn Anne Owens is an Australian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computer vision and face recognition, and on the non-invasive imaging of lactation. Formerly a professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the deputy vice-chancellor for research at UWA, she retired in 2019, and remains affiliated with UWA as a professorial fellow.
Education and career
Owens earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics (with honours) at the University of Western Australia and a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Oxford. Her 1980 dissertation, Almost Periodic Hardy Spaces, was supervised by David Albert Edwards. She returned to the University of Western Australia after postdoctoral study at Paris-Sud University. Before becoming vice-chancellor for research, she headed the UWA School of Computer Science & Software Engineering.
Recognition
With her co-author Peter E. Hartmann, she was a winner of the 2010 Rank Prize in Nutrition, given at the Royal College of Physicians in London, for their work on the imaging of lactation.
Owens is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (elected 2012), and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (elected 2020).
In the 2023 King's Birthday Honours Owens was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to science in the fields of computer vision and mathematics".
References
External links
Audio interview with Owens, Women in Research
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists
Australian mathematicians
Australian women mathematicians
University of Western Australia alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
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Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTV%20%28Burmese%20TV%20network%29 | Y TV is a Burmese digital Free-to-Air TV channel that run under MRTV's Multiplex Playout System based in Yangon, Myanmar. Y TV is operated by MY Multimedia Co., Ltd that part of Young Investment Group Co., ltd. They have signed a cooperation agreement with MRTV to operate as content providers for digital free-to-air TV channels in a multi-playout system of MRTV. The trial was broadcast on 14 January 2019. On 14 February, they launched the channel officially. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day now.
History
The co-operation agreement between Union of Myanmar, was on 17 February 2018. They applied with Expression of Interest (EOI) through the official tender dated 22 September 2016 from Ministry of Information, Myanmar Radio & Television Department. 44 Organizations has applied Expression of Interest (EOI) and as first step in winners’ list was 42. 29 Organizations applied next to Request for Proposal (RFP) and on 11 April 2017 announced the achievement organizations including MY MULTIMEDIA Co., Ltd. which is Television Business Sector of Young Investment Group Co., Ltd. through 10 of initially list. They started the trial broadcasting with YTV News program at 7a.m on January 14, 2019.
Programming
Y Event
Y Info
Y Game
Y Music
Y Movie
Y Series
Y Promo
References
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Television channels and stations established in 2019
2019 establishments in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynn | Zynn was a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by Kuaishou, a Beijing-based internet technology company established in 2011 by Su Hua and Cheng Yixiao. It was used to create and share short videos, and it pays its users for using the app and referring others. Zynn was launched on May 7, 2020. It became the most-downloaded app in the App Store in the same month. It has also been criticized for being a "pyramid scheme", and it has faced accusations of plagiarism and stealing content. Aside from Zynn in North America, Kuaishou is available under the name Kwai in Russia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, America, India, and the Middle East. Kwai used to be available in Australia and the United States on the App Store, but was removed at an unknown date. Zynn was permanently shut down on the 20th of August, 2021.
History
In 2011, entrepreneur Su Hua co-founded Kuaishou with business partner Cheng Yixiao. Originally a GIF-making app, Kuaishou soon moved to short video content. Su Hua also serves as the current Kuaishou CEO.
In December 2019, Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent invested $2 billion in Kuaishou, reportedly to compete with rival ByteDance. In December 2019, Kuaishou acquired an app developer called Owlii, which is the developer of Zynn. Zynn was developed to be a North American Market edition of Kuaishou.
On May 7, 2020, the app was launched and it was downloaded over 2 million times in that month. On May 12, 2020, Kuaishou filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for "unfair competition", and accused Douyin, the sister app of TikTok, of "interfering" with search results on app stores.
Zynn shut down on the 20th of August, 2021
Features
Zynn allows its users to create, edit and share short videos of themselves. Its interface has been described as a "complete clone" of TikTok, its main competitor.
The Zynn app was unique in the way that they paid users for using the platform. Each user earned $1 for signing up, and they could earn money for referring users to the platform. Watching videos resulted in earning "points", which could be redeemed for gift cards or be cashed out via PayPal.
Criticisms and controversies
Multiple TikTok users had reported seeing their entire accounts plagiarized, with one account pretending to be Addison Rae. Despite being launched in May, many videos were posted in February. Zynn has employed "intermittent variable rewards" in its point system, which has been criticized as being the "same reinforcement strategy used to addict people to slot machines". Cash payouts for using the app have resulted in criticism and accusations of anti-competitive behavior.
The app was taken down from the Google Play store on June 10. Zynn blamed it on an "isolated incident". Six days later, it was taken down from the App Store as well.
US Senator Josh Hawley has criticized the platform, calling it "predatory" and "anti-competitive" in a letter to the Federal T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20%28television%20company%29 | Mir (), known formally as the International Television and Radio Company "Mir" () is a multinational public television broadcaster, broadcasting programs in Russian and featuring programming from all the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
History
The decision to establish an international broadcasting company was signed on 20 March 1992 in Kyiv by the presidents Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich, Leonid Kravchuk, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Askar Akayev, Rahmon Nabiyev, Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Mircea Snegur. The idea for Mir was conceived by President Nazarbayev. 9 October 1992 and is considered the starting point of the company's history, when an agreement was signed in Bishkek on the establishment of Mir. The co-founders of the television and radio company were ten former USSR countries, namely Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine were absent from the former union republics). On 24 December 1993 in Ashgabat, an Agreement was signed on international legal guarantees for the unhindered and independent implementation of the activities of Mir. In May 1997, the broadcasting of the Mir radio station in Belarus began. In August 2005, broadcasting began in the Kyrgyz Republic, and since August 2010 it has been conducted in Russia. The first president of Mir was Kazakh journalist Gadilbek Shalakhmetov, who performed his duties until 2002. The broadcasting company has changed 3 logos, the current one is the 4th in a row. The logo was modernized with minor changes in 2006, 2008 and 2012.
Programs
Mir Channel
The Mir TV channel introduces viewers to the modern life and history of the countries of the former Soviet Union, and forms cultural, social and economic ties. In October 2014, Mir television was excluded from Uzbekistan and the following month, stopped broadcasting in Turkmenistan. In March 2015, it switched to the 16:9 aspect ratio. On 9 September 2018, the broadcast of the Mir in high definition HD was launched. To date, it has facilitated interviews with the leaders of CIS nations (e.g. Ilham Aliyev, Alexander Lukashenko, and Vladimir Putin).
Mir Premium
Mir Premium was the high definition television channel. The channel had a large collection of films and TV shows, including Western and Russian cinema. It's official broadcasting began on New Year's Day in 2015. The channel ceased broadcasting on 1 January 2021.
Mir 24
Mir 24 is an informational, cultural and country studies television channel that began broadcasting on 1 January 2013. Live broadcasts of summits, press conferences and speeches by top officials of the state, as well as national and religious holidays and major sporting events appear on the channel. The draft of the 24-hour channel had already been approved by the prime ministers of the CIS countries during the meeting in Yalta on 28 September 2012.
On 28 February 2022, in response to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Sasse | Martina Angela Sasse is a German psychologist whose research spans the areas of human–computer interaction and computer security. She is Horst Görtz Endowed Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum. and has a part-time position as Professor of Human-Centred Technology at University College London.
Education and career
Sasse did her undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of Wuppertal, and has a master's degree in occupational psychology from the University of Sheffield and a doctorate from the University of Birmingham.
She joined University College London as a lecturer in 1990, and became Professor of Human-Centred Technology there in 2003. She founded the Research Institute in Science of Cyber Security (RISCS) in 2012. She moved to Ruhr University Bochum as Horst Görtz Endowed Professor of Human-Centred Security in 2018.
Recognition
Sasse was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2015, for "demonstrating the impact of human security behaviour, and developing a socio-technical approach for modelling and managing that behaviour effectively". She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2023.
References
External links
Home page at UCL
Home page at RUB
Interview with Sasse, Royal Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
University of Wuppertal alumni
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academics of University College London
Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitau | Gitau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Boniface Gitau(born 1999), Kenyan computer scientist and a businessman
Elizabeth Gitau (born 1988), Kenyan physician, businesswoman and corporate executive
Paul Gitau, Kenyan volleyball coach
Peter Njuguna Gitau (born 1962), Kenyan politician
Shikoh Gitau (c. 1981), Kenyan computer scientist
William Gitau (born 1961), Kenyan politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Caras | Joanne Caras is the star of the television cooking show "Miracles & Meals with Joanne Caras" which appeared on the JLTV Network. She is the author of two cookbooks, "The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook" and "Miracles & Meals.".
Early life and education
Joanne Elizabeth Schene was born on February 17, 1956, in Catonsville, Maryland to Joseph and Betty Lou (Droter) Schene. Joanne was raised in a Catholic family. In 1982 she married Harvey Caras, a Jewish man from Malden, Massachusetts. She later converted to Judaism. Joanne and Harvey have three children: Jonathan Caras, Rachel Loeb, and Michael Caras. Joanne is a graduate of Catonsville High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Hood College.
Career
Caras began her television career in 1983 as the star of "Fun Fitness", an exercise show that appeared on Howard Cable TV in Maryland. She then went on to star as "Miss Joanne" on the popular children's show "Kidstuff". Because of her popularity, Caras became a much sought-after entertainer for children's birthday parties and spent eighteen years teaching movement and drama at nursery schools.
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook project
In 2005 Caras visited Israel for the first time. Among the many places, she visited was Carmei Ha’ir, an open restaurant that fed over 500 people every day regardless of their ability or inability to pay for their meal. Carmei Ha’ir means "All who are hungry shall eat". Caras came home to America determined to do a project to raise money for Carmei Ha’ir. The project she chose was to gather stories of survival from Holocaust survivors and combine them with family recipes. She named it The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. All profits from the sale of the cookbook went to Carmei Ha’ir and to selected other charities. In 2011 Caras published a sequel called Miracles & Meals which contains additional stories and recipes. Caras is also an acclaimed public speaker who has appeared in over 400 cities around the world
JLTV
In 2012 Caras was asked to star in a cooking show for JLTV called Miracles & Meals with Joanne Caras. Forty-two episodes were produced over two seasons and the show still appears on JLTV today. In each episode, Caras prepares recipes from her cookbooks and then tells the story of the survivor from whom the recipe was received.
Philanthropy
Caras has raised over $1.2 million for various charities from the sale of her cookbooks. The largest beneficiary of her cookbooks has been Carmei Ha'ir.
References
1956 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20of%20the%20Philippines%20v.%20Santos%2C%20Ressa%20and%20Rappler | People of the Philippines v. Santos, Ressa and Rappler (R-MNL-19-01141-CR), also known as the Maria Ressa cyberlibel case, is a high-profile criminal case in the Philippines, lodged against Maria Ressa, co-owner and CEO of Rappler Inc.. Accused of cyberlibel, Ressa was found guilty by a Manila Regional Trial Court on June 15, 2020.
The case centered on an article published on Rappler by Reynaldo Santos Jr. which accused the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines of accepting favors from Filipino-Chinese businessman Wilfredo Keng. Santos, Ressa, and others were charged with cyberlibel retrospectively, as the article was originally published four months before the Cybercrime Prevention Act came into effect. Rappler Inc., as a corporation, was not found liable; Santos, however, as author, was. Ressa, in her capacity of Rappler's chief executive officer, was also found liable. By the time Santos was charged, he was no longer working as a journalist for Rappler.
The court ruled that Ressa "did not offer a scintilla of proof that they verified the imputations of various crimes in the disputed article... [Rappler] just simply published them as news in their online publication in reckless disregard of whether they are false or not." The judgement also argued that Ressa had deliberately called herself an executive editor, rather than the editor-in-chief, in an attempt to avoid liability. Ressa, along with Santos Jr., appealed to the Court of Appeals after the conviction. However, the court upheld the decision, noting that the article is "defamatory or libelous per se"; a motion for reconsideration was denied by the appellate court, prompting Ressa to elevate the case to the Supreme Court for a judicial review.
The ruling was criticized by several human rights groups and international organizations, with the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights describing the case as part of a "pattern of intimidation" against the Philippine press.
Background
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (R.A. 10175) was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III on September 12, 2012, becoming effective on October 3. Among the actions criminalized by this law is "cyberlibel". Six days after the law commenced, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order to stop its implementation. On February 18, 2014, the Court declared that the law is constitutional, upholding most of its provisions including cyberlibel.
Rappler is a Filipino news website that was co-founded in 2012 by journalist Maria Ressa. She served as the site's CEO and executive editor since its founding. On May 29, 2012, Rappler researcher and writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. published an article titled "CJ using SUVs of 'controversial' businessmen". Among those named in the article is businessman Wilfredo Keng. The article details Keng's involvement in a controversy surrounding Chief Justice Renato Corona, who was later impeached. , the article remains online.
Santos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Pact%20for%20the%20Environment | The Global Pact for the Environment project was launched in 2017 by a network of experts known as the "International Group of Experts for the Pact" (IGEP). The group is made up of more than a hundred legal experts in environmental law and is chaired by former COP21 President Laurent Fabius.
On 10 May 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by 142 votes in favor, 5 votes against (United States, Russia, Syria, Turkey, and the Philippines) and 7 abstentions (Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Iran, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Tajikistan), a resolution paving the way for the negotiation of a Global Pact for the Environment (Resolution A/72/L.51 of 10 May 2018, "Towards a Global Pact for the Environment").
On 8 May 2020, the United Nations Environment Programme nominated two co-facilitators to lead the process. Their mandate is to lead informal consultations to prepare a first draft of a "political declaration" that is to be debated at the UN Environmental Assembly's fifth session in February 2021. This text was adopted in March, 2022 during a special session of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly, called UNEP@50, that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Objectives
The Global Pact for the Environment seeks to recognize the rights and duties of citizens and governments towards the Planet. Its approach is to enshrine the fundamental principles of environmental law in a legally binding instrument, thereby remedying the shortcomings of international environmental law. While these principles are already contained in political declarations such as the 1972 Stockholm Declaration and the 1992 Rio Declaration, they currently lack legal force.
In contrast to these declarations, a Global Pact would be a multilateral treaty endowed with legal force that would enshrine fundamental environmental rights as well as the principles that guide environmental action. Building on the dynamic of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, a Global Pact would raise the threshold for environmental protection worldwide. It is intended for global adoption. It would complement existing sectoral conventions, such as the Paris Agreement or the Montreal Protocol by enshrining principles that would apply to the Environment as a whole. If adopted, it would be the first international treaty that takes a comprehensive and non-sectorial approach to the environment.
The Global Pact's methodology to enhance environmental standards is to recognize a "third generation of fundamental rights" – environmental rights. This approach mirrors that of the two international covenants of 1966: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which are generally seen as having enshrined the first two generations of human rights.
Origins
The Global Pact for the Environment was first proposed in 2017 by an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Grace%20%28Australia%29 | Common Grace is an Australian non-denominational movement of Christians concerned about issues of justice. The organisation started in 2014. As of May 2020, the network has over 45,000 members. The CEO since June 2022 is Gershon Nimbalker.
Common Grace focuses on justice for asylum seekers and Indigenous Australians, for ending domestic violence, and for climate justice and has run successful campaigns on these four issues. It has been called the "largest left-leaning and faith-based political movement in Australia."
History
Common Grace was founded in November 2014. Jarrod McKenna was seconded from World Vision Australia as National Director until the end of 2015. Scott Sanders, also formerly with World Vision, was appointed CEO in 2016.
Wakka Wakka woman Brooke Prentis was the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Spokesperson for Common Grace in a volunteer capacity from 2015, before being appointed CEO in February 2020. She was the first indigenous CEO of a Christian organisation in Australia. Prentis resigned for personal reasons in February 2022. In June 2022, former advocacy coordinator for Baptist World Aid Gershon Nimbalker was appointed as the new CEO.
Campaigns
Climate justice
In late 2014, Common Grace launched a crowdfunding campaign that raised money for solar panels to be given for the Prime Minister's Sydney residence, Kirribilli House. The Australian Solar Council offered to install the panels at no cost, however the Abbott government rejected the gift, citing the property's heritage listing and security concerns.
In 2016, Common Grace launched a campaign to persuade then Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce to stop the proposed Shenhua Watermark on the Liverpool Plains, arguing the mine risked Australia's food bowl. In 2019, the organisation supported the School strike for climate, with climate campaigner Jason John arguing students were acting on what they were learning in school.
Asylum seekers
Common Grace has been active in various campaigns to have refugees released from offshore detention. In 2015, the organisation's then national director, Jarrod McKenna, was one of eight people found guilty of trespassing in the office of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop after staging a peaceful sit-in protest against the detention of children on Nauru. In November 2017, Common Grace organised a day of support for the men held in detention on Manus Island. Alongside World Vision Australia, Common Grace was a driving force behind the #KidsOffNauru campaign which saw the last four children on Nauru resettled in the United States in February 2019.
Indigenous Australians
Common Grace advocates for justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In partnership with senior Aboriginal Christian leader Aunty Jean Phillips, the organisation has revived the idea of church services to mark Australia Day. "#Change The Heart" prayer services, seeking to promote acknowledgement and understanding of Australia's First Na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hits%20Radio%20UK | Hits Radio UK is a national digital radio station based in Manchester, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to the United Kingdom.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 1.8 million listeners according to RAJAR.
Overview
The national station launched on 1 April 2003 as The Hits. The station was rebranded on 4 June 2018 as Hits Radio UK. It relays Hits Radio Manchester programming but with UK wide news & information, traffic bulletins and advertising.
Hits Radio UK broadcasts on DAB in many parts of the UK, nationally on Freeview and Sky TV platforms and online.
Technical
The launch of Hits Radio UK in 2018 saw the station added to DAB multiplex transmissions in a number of local areas - mostly those served by Arqiva's NOWdigital multiplexes, as well as being made available on the CE Birmingham multiplex (replacing 'Magic Soul') and in stereo in London (replacing Kerrang! Radio and Absolute Radio 70s, which were removed on 23 May and replaced with a Hits Radio UK placeholder).
Hits Radio UK replaced The Hits on Bauer's DAB multiplexes and on the Arqiva-operated commercial Freeview multiplex. In addition, the new network was provided over the Sky satellite TV platform, on a channel previously occupied by Absolute Radio 70s.
Logo history
References
External links
Hits Radio
British radio networks
Bauer Radio
Bauer Group (UK)
Hits Radio
Radio stations in Manchester
Radio stations established in 2003
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeniy%20Nikulin | Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin (Евгений Александрович Никулин) is a Russian computer hacker. He was arrested in Prague in October 2016, and was charged with the hacking and data theft of several U.S. technology companies. In September 2020, he was sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Hacking career
In 2012, Nikulin was alleged to be part of a criminal clique involving a Ukrainian national, Oleksandr Ieremenko.
Arrest
Czech police arrested Nikulin in Prague on October 5, 2016, in connection with the 2012 hacking and data theft of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring.
According to a report by TV Rain, his arrest may have been the result of a cooperative effort between the U.S. and Sergei Mikhailov (FSB).
U.S. authorities had previously been tipped off about Nikulin in April 2014.
Detention
On November 23, 2016, Russia requested Nikulin's extradition, citing a 2009 case that involved theft from the online payment system WebMoney.
On February 7, 2017, a lawyer for Nikulin claimed that in mid-November 2016, as well as earlier that day, an FBI agent had visited Nikulin in Pankrác Prison and had offered him cash, an apartment, U.S. citizenship, as well as all cyber charges against him dropped, if he would agree to confess to participating in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak.
In late March 2018, Paul Ryan visited the Czech capital, where he urged authorities to grant Nikulin's extradition to the U.S.
Extradition
On March 30, 2018, Nikulin was extradited to the U.S., where he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
Conviction
On July 10, 2020, Nikulin was convicted by a jury in a United States District Court in San Francisco on all but one of the counts.
Sentencing
On September 29, 2020, Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Controversy
Bryan Paarmaan, who was the then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director in the International Operations Division, admitted to leaking details of Nikulin's indictment to Los Angeles Times reporter, Del Quentin Wilber, two days before Nikulin's indictment was unsealed.
References
Hacking in the 2010s
1987 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20TV%20%28Argentina%29 | Net TV is an Argentine commercial television network that is property of Grupo Perfil and operated by Kuarzo Entertainment Argentina. The network is headquartered in Barracas, Buenos Aires.
Net TV made its formal debut on October 1, 2018 with the cooking-themed talk show Como Todo, becoming the sixth "must carry" broadcast network of Argentina and the first in 54 years, after the 1964 launch of América TV.
History
Net TV was conceived by Grupo Perfil's founder Jorge Fontevecchia, with the idea to expand the publishing company into audiovisual media. In October 2015, Fontevecchia opened the company's new headquarters in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, which were equipped with radio and television studios, and presented to the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) a proposal to license new radio and television stations. The original plan included AM and FM radio stations and must carry digital television networks. On September 25, 2015, the proposal was rejected by the AFSCA due to "flaws" in the documentation that was presented.
In 2016, Perfil (together with its partner, local production company Kuarzo Entertainment Argentina) sought the licenses again, and finally obtained them for AM 1190 kHz, FM 101.9 MHz and two digital television channels in the Buenos Aires area through the National Communications Entity (ENACOM) resolutions 1107/16 and 1108/16 published on October 19, 2016, in the State Official Bulletin gazette, to cover the area of Greater Buenos Aires. This is how finally the Grupo Perfil obtained the license for Net TV on digital channel 27.2, Alfa TV on channel 21.1, and Bravo TV on channel 27.1 (these last two still continue with broadcast testing). Due to the nature of its must carry license, all cable television systems must include it on their lineups.
Programming
Net TV began airing original programming on weekdays from 12 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. since launch. The network's first broadcast was the cooking-themed talk show Como Todo, and other programs included talk shows Las Rubias + 1 (moving from KZO Entertainment and hosted by Marcela Tinayre), Chismoses (hosted by Luciana Salazar and Augusto Tartúfoli), Tenemos Wifi (hosted by Nicolás Occhiato and Stefanía Roitman), and Pampita Íntima (hosted by Pampita). Other shows also included reality shows Cuestión de Peso (Argentine adaptation of The Biggest Loser) and Todo por Amor (adapted from For Love or Money and previously known as Por Amor o por Dinero during its first year). During the late-night, overnight and early morning, the network aired a live feed of the inside of the house of the reality Por Amor o por Dinero. On November 26, 2018, the network premiered its first prime time scripted show, the telenovela Millennials. Later that year, dance-themed reality show Cualquiera Puede Bailar premiered as the first show to air original episodes on weekends.
Programming for 2019 included new shows such as talk show Gente Opinando (hosted by J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Interest%20Technology%20University%20Network | The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) is a consortium of universities and foundations that collaborate to develop the field of public interest technology. It was formed in March 2019.
The group currently has 59 member universities from across the U.S. and four international institutions.:
PIT-UN seeks to address challenges between industry and society. Member institutions are committed to bringing together students and educators from multiple disciplines together to solve the toughest challenges the U.S. and the world face, by building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists. Through the development of curricula, research agendas, and experiential learning programs in the public interest technology space, the member institutions are using innovative tactics with the aim to develop graduates with multiple fluencies at the intersection of technology and policy.
In October 2019 the organization awarded US$3 million in grants to 21 institutions. The organization has since awarded more rounds of funding through the PIT University Network Challenge. In 2020 28 institutions were awarded grants totaling $4.4 million, and in November 2021 $3.61 million was awarded to 24 institutions. In October 2022, $2.3 million was awarded to 18 institutions. Grants are exclusively available via application to members of PIT-UN.
Members
The full list of current PIT-UN members as of December 2022 is:
Arizona State University
Boston University
Cal Poly State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Center for Education and Research on Innovation (CEPI FGV São Paulo Law School), Brazil
Cleveland State University-Ohio
Columbia University
Cornell University
Florida International University
Fordham University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Harvard University
Howard University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana University
Lane College
LeMoyne-Owen College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Meharry Medical College
Miami Dade College
Nazareth College
New York University
Northeastern University
Olin College of Engineering
Pardee RAND Graduate School
Pennsylvania State University
Pepperdine University
Princeton University
Prairie View A & M University
Rochester Institute of Technology
San Jose State University
Stanford University
Stillman College
Temple University
The City University of New York
The George Washington University
The Ohio State University
The University of Texas, Austin
The University of the South (Sewanee)
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rijeka, Croatia
University of Szeged, Hungary
Unive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20sketch | In statistics, machine learning and algorithms, a tensor sketch is a type of dimensionality reduction that is particularly efficient when applied to vectors that have tensor structure. Such a sketch can be used to speed up explicit kernel methods, bilinear pooling in neural networks and is a cornerstone in many numerical linear algebra algorithms.
Mathematical definition
Mathematically, a dimensionality reduction or sketching matrix is a matrix , where , such that for any vector
with high probability.
In other words, preserves the norm of vectors up to a small error.
A tensor sketch has the extra property that if for some vectors such that , the transformation can be computed more efficiently. Here denotes the Kronecker product, rather than the outer product, though the two are related by a flattening.
The speedup is achieved by first rewriting , where denotes the elementwise (Hadamard) product.
Each of and can be computed in time and , respectively; including the Hadamard product gives overall time . In most use cases this method is significantly faster than the full requiring time.
For higher-order tensors, such as , the savings are even more impressive.
History
The term tensor sketch was coined in 2013 describing a technique by Rasmus Pagh from the same year.
Originally it was understood using the fast Fourier transform to do fast convolution of count sketches.
Later research works generalized it to a much larger class of dimensionality reductions via Tensor random embeddings.
Tensor random embeddings were introduced in 2010 in a paper on differential privacy and were first analyzed by Rudelson et al. in 2012 in the context of sparse recovery.
Avron et al.
were the first to study the subspace embedding properties of tensor sketches, particularly focused on applications to polynomial kernels.
In this context, the sketch is required not only to preserve the norm of each individual vector with a certain probability but to preserve the norm of all vectors in each individual linear subspace.
This is a much stronger property, and it requires larger sketch sizes, but it allows the kernel methods to be used very broadly as explored in the book by David Woodruff.
Tensor random projections
The face-splitting product is defined as the tensor products of the rows (was proposed by V. Slyusar in 1996 for radar and digital antenna array applications).
More directly, let and be two matrices.
Then the face-splitting product is
The reason this product is useful is the following identity:
where is the element-wise (Hadamard) product.
Since this operation can be computed in linear time, can be multiplied on vectors with tensor structure much faster than normal matrices.
Construction with fast Fourier transform
The tensor sketch of Pham and Pagh computes
, where and are independent count sketch matrices and is vector convolution.
They show that, amazingly, this equals – a count sketch of the tensor product!
It turns out that thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUROSCI%20Network | The EUROSCI Network is an international academic network that promotes university co-operation through educational technology. Following a series of seminars co-funded by Erasmus+ at the University of A Coruña in Spain starting in 2011, the network was formally established on 1 September 2016. It brings together individual academics and educational institutions such as universities and business schools. The major focus is on international co-operation, teacher training, online presence management, sponsorship brokerage, and quality assurance. Eurosci has organised conferences, teacher training courses, language courses, and several editions of an EU-funded open online course of European integration. It has also promoted outreach activities at other educational levels, such as secondary school.
Institutional partners
The Network is underpinned by institutional partners distributed across different countries of Europe, Africa and South America:
References
Educational websites
Higher education organisations based in Europe
International scientific organizations
International educational organizations
University associations and consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201006 | Code page 1006 (CCSID 1006), also known as ISO 8-bit Urdu, is used by IBM in its AIX operating system in Pakistan for Urdu.
Codepage layout
References
1006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201008 | Code page 1008 (CCSIDs 1008 and 5104), also known as ISO 8-bit Arabic, is used by IBM in its AIX operating system.
Codepage layout
References
1008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201040 | Code page 1040 (CCSID 1040), also known as Korean PC Data Extended, is a single byte character set (SBCS) used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system for Hangul. It is an extended version of the 8-bit form of the N-byte Hangul Code first specified by the 1974 edition of KS C 5601 (compare the relationship between Code page 1041 and JIS X 0201 for katakana).
Codepage layout
References
1040 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura%20Stokes | Maura Ellen Stokes is an American statistician and novelist. She is a senior director of research and development for the SAS Institute, the co-author of the statistics book Categorical Data Analysis using SAS, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She is also the author of the early-teen novel Fadeaway, published by Simon & Schuster in 2018.
Education and statistical career
Stokes earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina in 1978, 1979, and 1986 respectively. She also has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
After working for the Center for Survey Statistics in North Carolina from 1982 to 1985, she has been affiliated with the SAS Institute since 1986, and has held an adjunct faculty position at the University of North Carolina since 1987.
Books
Stokes is the author of:
Categorical Data Analysis Using the SAS system (with Charles S. Davis and Gary G. Koch, 1995; 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., Categorical Data Analysis Using SAS, 2012)
Fadeaway (2018)
Recognition
Stokes was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008. In 2016, the American Statistical Association gave her their Founders Award for distinguished service to the organization, "for sustained, thoughtful contributions to the expansion of professional development opportunities for practicing statisticians; for outstanding leadership in the development of the Applied Conference on Statistical Practice, which extends the reach of the ASA to nonstatisticians as well as statisticians; for commitment to enhancing the relevance of the ASA to applied statisticians as evidenced by her leadership in the creation of the ASA's Professional Development Guidelines; for insightful teaching of LearnStat and JSM short courses; and for continued mentoring at the local and national levels".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
American young adult novelists
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
21st-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20Opposing%20the%20Militarization%20of%20Youth | National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a network of peace organizations that stand up against the militarization of schools and young people in the USA.
Background
NNOMY was founded in 2004 in the aftermath of the national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia. It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members. NNOMY organizes actions and campaigns against militarism in order to raise awareness and to increase education on the topic.
The first steering committee included these organizations:
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors;
Committee for High School Options and Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement (CHOICES);
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft;
Human Rights Committee, UTLA;
Madison Area Peace Coalition;
National Youth & Militarism Program/AFSC;
Not in Our Name;
Project YANO;
Resource Center for Non Violence;
Teen Peace.
Other participating groups and organizations were Veterans for Peace, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Youth Activists/Youth Allies (NY City) and Los Angeles Coalition Opposed to Militarism in Our Schools. Alliance for Global Justice and War Resisters League sponsor actions of the network.
Campaigns
A National Call: Save Our Civilian Public Education
This campaign was started in opposition to conservative forces in the Pentagon and of corporate influence on the learning environments of the K-12 and public universities. As a result of the campaign, in 2009, JROTC firing ranges at 11 high schools were shut down by the efforts of students, their parents and teachers. Similar successes were achieved later in Hawaii and Maryland.
Divest “Your Body” from the War Machine
This project, organized in collaboration with CODEPINK, had the goal to remove invested assets from companies, which supplied and profited from militarization. The campaign wanted to provide broader opportunities to young people who look for community service alternatives to the military.
School Marksmanship Training
In collaboration with the project YANO, NNOMY promoted the removal of marksmanship programs and shooting ranges from schools. Some of the accomplishments of the campaign are:
end of placing students in JROTC involuntarily;
significant reduction of Marine Corps JROTC enrollment;
removal of shooting ranges from 11 schools in the San Diego.
Winning The Peace
This was a national leafletting campaign, directed to acquaint youth with the reality of military enlistment and alternative opportunities to the military service.
Veterans For Peace and Counter-recruiting
This project is for raising public concern about Pentagon's militarization efforts on youth by providing personal experience of veterans and other activists.
Women's March on the Pentagon
The March was held on 21 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elfkins%20%E2%80%93%20Baking%20a%20Difference | The Elfkins – Baking a Difference, also known as A Piece of Cake () is a 2019 German computer-animated film directed by Ute von Münchow-Pohl.
The film premiered at the 2019 SCHLINGEL International Film Festival.
Plot
Heinzelmännchen are helping a baker.
Synopsis:
For more than 200 years, the Elfkins have been living under ground, hiding from the upper world and avoiding any interaction with the “ungrateful and mean” human beings. But one day, the vivid Elfkin girl Helvi cannot bear the lack of space and individual fulfillment any longer. Together with two companions, the Elfkin boys Kipp and Butz, she climbs up to the earth's surface to find her fate. After hilarious adventures, Helvi's growing friendship with the initially grumpy pastry chef Theo will remind her and all the other Elfkins of their true purpose in life: helping others!
Festivals
Schlingel Chemnitz 2019, Cartoon Movie 2020, Golden Sparrow Gera/Erfurt 2020, Leeds Young Film Festival 2020, Kinderfilmtage im Ruhrgebiet 2020, Filem'On Brussels CFF 2020, Chicago CFF 2020 (awarded), Giffoni CFF Winter 2020 (awarded)
References
External links
2019 films
2019 computer-animated films
2010s children's animated films
German animated feature films
German children's films
2010s English-language films
2010s German-language films
Animated films about friendship
Anime-influenced Western animation
Films set in Cologne
2010s German films
Animated films set in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements%20of%20AI | Elements of AI is a massive open online course (MOOC) teaching the basics of artificial intelligence. The course, originally launched in 2018, is designed and organized by the University of Helsinki and learning technology company MinnaLearn. The course includes modules on machine learning, neural networks, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, and using artificial intelligence to solve problems. It consists of two parts: Introduction to AI and its sequel, Building AI, that was released in late 2020.
University of Helsinki's computer science department is known as the alma mater of Linus Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator of the Linux kernel, which is the kernel for Linux operating systems.
EU’s AI pledge
The government of Finland has pledged to offer the course for all EU citizens by the end of 2021, as the course is made available in all the official EU languages. The initiative was launched as part of Finland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2019, with the European Commission providing translations of the course materials.
In 2017, Finland launched an AI strategy to stay competitive in the field of AI amid growing competition between China and the United States. With the support of private companies and the government, Finland’s now-realized goal was to get 1 percent of its citizens to participate in Elements of AI.
Other governments have also given their support to the course. For instance, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmeier has encouraged citizens to take part in the course to help Germany gain a competitive advantage in AI. Sweden’s Minister for Energy and Minister for Digital Development Anders Ygeman has said that Sweden aims to teach 1 percent of its population the basics of AI like Finland has.
Participants
Elements of AI had enrolled more than 1 million students from more than 110 countries by May 2023. A quarter of the course’s participants are aged 45 and over, and some 40 percent are women. Among Nordic participants, the share of women is nearly 60 percent.
In September 2022, the course was available in Finnish, Swedish, Estonian, English, German, Latvian, Norwegian, French, Belgian, Czech, Greek, Slovakian, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Irish, Icelandic, Maltese, Croatian, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, and Danish.
References
Artificial intelligence
Education International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogalnite | Aerogalnite (Aero-Gallium Nitride, Aero-GaN, AGaN) is a synthetic material consisting of networks of GaN interconnected microtubes. Due to the fact that the microtubes walls thickness is just several nanometers, the material is ultra-lightweight with a density of around 10 mg/cm3, being among the lightest synthetic materials. It was developed by joint efforts of researchers from Technical University of Moldova, University of Kiel, University of Trento, University of New South Wales, and was first reported in a scientific journal in February 2019.
Structure and properties
Aerogalnite is a pale-yellow freestanding highly porous, mechanically flexible and stretchable inorganic nanomaterial that is both hydrophobic and hydrophilic at the same time. Rolling a water droplet onto a bed of GaN hollow tetrapods results in the formation of a liquid marble with the entire surface covered with GaN aerotetrapods.
Synthesis
The synthesis process includes the epitaxial growth of ultrathin layers of GaN on a sacrificial template consisting of an interpenetrated network of ZnO microtetrapods, followed by the gradual removal of the ZnO substrate. It results in a freestanding interpenetrated network of microtubular GaN with an ultrathin layer of ZnO on the inner surface of the walls. ZnO is a suitable substrate for GaN growth due to the fact that both materials have the same crystallographic wurtzite structure, close lattice parameters, and similar thermal expansion coefficients.
Potential applications
Aerogalnite efficiently blocks electromagnetic field in a wide range of frequencies from X-band to THz region. Since GaN is a piezoelectric and piezoresistive material, the ultra-lightweight aerogalnite is very promising for pressure sensor application. Microtubular structures of GaN have shown their potential as self-propelled micromotors under irradiation with UV light.
References
Gallium compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20Research | Change Research is a polling firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was first incorporated as a public benefit corporation in July 2017 by Mike Greenfield, a former data scientist at PayPal and LinkedIn, and Pat Reilly, a former Democratic Party campaign operative. Unlike many other pollsters, Change Research conducts all of its polls online. It claims to offer accurate and inexpensive online polling. Its clients have included Democratic political candidates such as Lauren Underwood, who won a race in Illinois's 14th congressional district in 2018, as well as organizations such as the NAACP and AFL–CIO. In 2021, FiveThirtyEight ranked Change Research a "B−" for its historical accuracy and polling methodology and noted that it called 75% of races correctly.
References
External links
Organizations established in 2017
Polling companies
2017 establishments in California
Organizations based in San Francisco
Public benefit corporations based in California
Left-wing organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20the%20Lion%20%282005%20film%29 | Leo the Lion (Italian: La Storia Di Leo) is a 2005 Italian computer-animated adventure musical film directed by Mario Cambi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Pierstefano Marangoni. It stars Neri Marcorè, Leo Gullotta and Carlo Conti. The film follows Leo, a lion who exhibits a vegetarian diet which causes him to be an outcast among his pride, so he sets off on a journey to find the "Heart of the Jungle", a place that Leo's deceased mother to him to go to, with his friend Uncle Lope and a couple of baby elephants tagging along with him.
Produced by Dujass Film, the film was originally released on June 17, 2005. Sometime around 2013, an English-dub of the film was released onto Netflix by The Weinstein Company.
Plot
In the African savannas, Leo struggles to fit in his pride. While hunting for zebras with the other lions, Leo's mother dies by falling over a waterfall on the day he goes for his first hunt. After that traumatic experience, he develops a fear of water. Being bullied by the other lions, he leaves them and starts living in a tree. One day he meets a female elephant, Savannah and helps her deliver her twin baby elephants. It is later mentioned that her husband, Eli Phant, was killed by humans. However, it is revealed that he was actually knocked out by Maximus Elefante and is taken to a zoo. After the delivery, the little calves consider him to be their father and follow him constantly. When Leo decides to find the "Heart of the Jungle", a place Leo's mother once told him about before she died, he is accompanied by the elephants and Uncle Lope, a gazelle. They meet many other young animals on their quest, such as a young zebra. After having lots of adventures, they eventually find the Heart of the Jungle, which is also the home of a chameleon. The latter allows to two orphans, a leopard, and a monkey, to stay in her place. On the way back, Maximus, who was following the company, finds the two baby elephants, kidnaps them and later claims he saved them from Leo, the "evil" lion. Maximus then tries to marry Savannah, but Leo turns up at the last moment and stops the wedding. Suddenly, a helicopter appears, shoots Maximus and he is sent to the Zoo. The movie finishes by showing Leo talking to his children, two elephant/lion hybrids.
Cast
Italian Version
Neri Marcorè as Leo
Carlo Conti as Zanco
Leo Gullotta as Uncle Lope
Simona Marchini as Avoria
Elio Pandolfi as Camea
English Version
Daniel Amerman as Leo the Lion
John Cygan as Uncle Lope
Matthew Mercer as Maximus Elefante
Amanda Allan as Savannah
Porter Hansen as Shaman
Debi Derryberry as Baby Elephants
Mari Devon as Leo's Mom
Eileen Galindo as Goo Roo / Beatrice
Michael Sorich as Eli Phant / Hyena #1
Cristina Pucelli as Nanou / Baby Monkey #2
Grant George as Crocodiles / Hyena #2
Fabiana Arrastia as Zebra Mom
Bailey Gambertoglio as Spots / Lion Cub
Cole Sand as Ebony
Terrence Stone as Snake / Hyena #3 / Vulture #1
Reception
Common Sense Media gave the movie one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201042 | Code page 1042 (CCSID 1042), also known as Simplified Chinese PC Data Extended, is a single byte character set (SBCS) used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system in China.
This code page is intended for use with code page 928 (Simplified Chinese double byte character set). It is an extension of Code page 903.
Code points 0x01 through 0x1F and x7F represent either graphic or control characters depending on the context.
Code points 0x81 through 0xFC are used as lead bytes for double byte characters.
Codepage layout
References
1042 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20Thrust | Mind Thrust is a 1981 video game published by Tandy Corporation.
Gameplay
Mind Thrust is a game in which the player defeats the computer by either removing all playing pieces of the opponent, or by creating a chain of pieces that covers the width of the board.
Reception
Barbour Stokes reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The rules and plays of Mind Thrust are easily and quickly learned making it an excellent home demonstration game to make believers out of those non-gamers and non-computerists that may drop in."
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
Review in Creative Computing
1981 video games
Digital tabletop games
Turn-based strategy video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal%20%28video%20game%29 | Reversal is a video game published by Hayden Software for the Apple II in 1981. Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 versions followed in 1983. Reversal is a computerized version of the board game Othello.
Reception
Bob Boyd reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Othello is a classic strategy game. This is an accurate adaptation for the computer with various features to enhance the game. Reversal plays quickly and easily, the graphics are good, and the computer can be hard to beat. It is excellent and I recommend it."
References
External links
in Interface Age
Review in Byte
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984
Review in Peelings II
1981 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Hayden Software games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201043 | Code page 1043 (CCSID 1043), also known as Traditional Chinese PC Data Extended, is a single byte character set (SBCS) used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system.
This code page is intended for use with code page 927 (Traditional Chinese double byte character set). It is an extension of Code page 904.
Codepage layout
References
1043 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verified | Verified is a United Nations project to improve access to accurate information. In the project the United Nations seeks to organize a network of millions of online volunteers to curate and fact check information online. Verified has held a social media campaigns using hashtags to raise awareness about misinformation, such as #PledgetoPause, #ItsPossible and #OnlyTogether.
The project is a response to misinformation online related to COVID-19. The project is especially concerned with online distribution of information.
India has expressed special interest in the project and is an organizer of it along with 12 other countries. wikiHow has also partnered with Verified.
References
Further reading
External links
Organizations established by the United Nations
Watchdog journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Guacamole | Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source, cross-platform, clientless remote desktop gateway maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. It allows users to control remote computers or virtual machines via a web browser, and allows administrators to dictate how and whether users can connect using an extensible authentication and authorization system. Destination machines can be kept isolated behind Guacamole and need not be reachable over the internet.
Remote access is performed via the guacd component, which uses the RDP, VNC or SSH remote protocols to access resources. Guacamole is clientless and doesn't require an agent to be installed on the resources being accessed. The fact that the client runs on web browsers allows users to connect to their remote desktops without installing a remote desktop client.
Components
Guacamole is made up of multiple components: a web application that is served to users, and a backend service ("guacd") that dynamically translates and optimizes native protocols into the Guacamole protocol. The part of Guacamole that a user interacts with is the web application.
Web Application
The web application provides the user interface, authentication, and authorization system. It does not implement any remote desktop protocol, but instead relies on guacd to translate remote desktop protocols into the Guacamole protocol. The server side of the web application is written in Java and runs beneath a servlet container like Apache Tomcat or Jetty. The client side of the web application is written in JavaScript and runs within the web browser.
guacd
guacd services requests to connect to remote desktops from the web application. It dynamically loads support for remote desktop protocols so that neither guacd nor the web application need to understand the specifics of any one remote desktop protocol. guacd and all client plugins use a shared library, libguac, to abstract away the Guacamole protocol and communication with the web application.
History
Guacamole was created in 2010 by Michael Jumper as an HTML5 VNC client leveraging components of a browser-based telnet client called "RealMint". The company Glyptodon LLC formed to support and develop the project, and donated the project to the Apache Software Foundation in 2016 where it entered incubation. In 2017, Guacamole completed incubation and became the Apache Guacamole top-level project.
As an Apache Software Foundation project, Guacamole is licensed under the Apache License and is developed by a community of contributors. Development discussions and support take place on the project's mailing lists, and contributions are made through opening pull requests against the project's GitHub repositories. The project follows responsible disclosure practices and provides a private list for reporting and addressing issues with security implications.
Timeline
Literature
Kalyan Ram, S. Arun Kumar, S. Prathap, B. Mahesh & B. Mallikarjuna Sarma: Remote Laboratories: For Real Ti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201115 | Code page 1115 (CCSID 1115), also known as Simplified Chinese PC Data, is a single byte character set (SBCS) used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system in China.
This code page is intended for use with code page 1380 (Simplified Chinese double byte character set). Together, code pages 1115 and 1380 make up 1381.
Code points 0x01 through 0x1F and x7F represent either graphic or control characters depending on the context.
Code points 0x8C through 0xFE are used as lead bytes for double byte characters.
Codepage layout
References
1115 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20O.%20Crawford%20Jr. | Perry Orson Crawford, Jr. (August 9, 1917 – December 13, 2006) was an American computer pioneer credited as being the first to fully realize and promote the value of digital, as opposed to analog, computers for real-time applications. This was in 1945 while advising Jay Forrester in developing flight simulators and anti-aircraft fire control devices during World War II, before practical digital computers had been produced. His similar foresight on related issues led to his heading twelve years later the design team for IBM's SABRE project, the ticketing system for American Airlines, the first large-scale commercial application of real-time computer systems, which became the model for on-line transaction processing.
Early life and education
Crawford was born in Medford, Oregon, where his father, Perry Crawford Sr., an engineering graduate of Stanford University, oversaw construction on the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project. His mother, Irma Zschokke Crawford, also a Stanford graduate, was an artist and a descendant of the Swiss writer and revolutionary figure, Heinrich Zschokke. When his father became president of American Utilities Service Corporation in Chicago, Crawford attended New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936 to study electrical engineering and came to work under Vannevar Bush with fellow student Claude Shannon on the differential analyzer. The theses for his two degrees are considered to be among the earliest modern computer design documents.
His B.Sc thesis, "Instrumental Analysis in Matrix Algebra" was completed in 1939. In summary:Sketches the design of "an automatically controlled calculating machine" capable of performing a variety of matrix calculations, and incorporating means for scanning digital data represented on punched tape, for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two numbers, and for storing and printing or punching the data. A punched tape was to be used for sequence control, which would specify the selection of the numbers to be operated on, the operation to be performed, and the disposal of the result.When Shannon completed his doctorate, Crawford succeeded him in the Center for Analysis as a postgraduate student. His M.Sc. thesis, "Automatic Control by Arithmetic Operations," (1942), continued the theme:It is the purpose of this thesis to describe the elements and operation of a calculating system for performing one of the operations in the control of anti-aircraft gunfire, which is, namely, the prediction of the future position of the target.
It is to be emphasized at the outset that little progress has been made toward the construction of automatic electronic calculating systems for any purpose. ... It can be proposed only that this thesis shows a possible approach to the design of a number of calculating system elements and to the structure of an arithmetical predictor. ... In this introduction, equipment for perf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bishop%27s%20College%20School%20alumni | Bishop's College School, a private secondary school founded in 1836 in the Borough of Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada owns an Old boy network. Former male students are referred to as BCS Old Boys and former King's Hall, Compton & BCS female students are referred to as Old Girls. BCS's sister school, King's Hall, Compton, was founded in 1872 in Compton, Québec and merged with BCS in 1972.
The official charter of the Bishop's College School BCS Alumni Association was granted in 1901. The Heneker-Williams Society was created by the Board of Directors of the BCS Association to honour individuals who by leadership and example, have set the standard for volunteer support of Bishop's College School and King's Hall, Compton.
This list is a collection of notable BCS/KHC Alumni. For a list of BCS/KHC faculty see List of Bishop's College School Faculty.
Bishop's College School and Bishop's University have been two separate independent institutions since 1922, after sharing space on Bishop's University campus for nearly 80 years. Please do not include BU alumni on this page.
Educators and thinkers
Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862–1941), lawyer, Chancellor of Bishop's University and President of the Montreal Victorias, Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal.
General Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966), as the electrical engineer who designed the Cathode Ray Direction Finder and the President of the National Research Board.
Charles Sandwith Campbell (1858–1923) A benefactor who gave the City of Montreal the Campbell Concerts and Campbell Parks. He was a Governor of McGill University.
George Hurst (1926–2012), Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Eric Herbert Molson OC (born 1937) C.M., former Chairman of Molson Coors and former Chancellor of Concordia University.
William Heneker (1867–1939), one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the full rank of General in the British Army, BCS alumnus and former teacher.
William Watson Ogilvie – was the president of the Montreal Board of Trade in 1893 and 1894, and a member of its council for six years. He was also a Director of the Bank of Montreal, the Montreal Transportation Company, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and a Founding Director of the Royal Trust Company.
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866–1932) professor at Purdue University and the Founder/Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sciences and engineering
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866–1932) Inventor of radio (AM broadcasting) and sonar "Fessenden oscillator", professor at the Purdue University and the founder/chair of the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Pittsburgh.
General Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966), the electrical engineer who designed the Cathode Ray Direction Finder and the President of the National Research Board.
Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862–1941), lawyer, Chancellor of Bishop's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sameer%20Maskey | Dr Sameer Maskey is a computer scientist, educator and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Fusemachines Inc and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University.
Biography
Maskey grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal. He attended undergraduate school at Bates College in Maine, USA with degrees in Math and Physics. After graduating from Bates he went on to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City. Maskey has more than 20 papers published in International Conferences and Journals along with 9 pending/granted patents. Maskey has served as a session chair, a program committee member, and a review committee member of many international conferences including ACL, HLT, ICASSP, Interspeech, NAACL and COLING.
Maskey founded the company, Fusemachines, in 2013. The company aims to make artificial intelligence technology accessible to underserved communities around the world by providing AI education programs AI job opportunities, and an AI platform that helps schools provide AI Assisted Learning.
References
Computer scientists
Chief executives in the technology industry
Columbia University faculty
Bates College alumni
Columbia University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Kathmandu
Nationality missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEA%20%28cipher%29 | The Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (also known as LEA) is a 128-bit block cipher developed by South Korea in 2013 to provide confidentiality in high-speed environments such as big data and cloud computing, as well as lightweight environments such as IoT devices and mobile devices. LEA has three different key lengths: 128, 192, and 256 bits. LEA encrypts data about 1.5 to 2 times faster than AES, the most widely used block cipher in various software environments.
LEA is one of the cryptographic algorithms approved by the Korean Cryptographic Module Validation Program (KCMVP) and is the national standard of Republic of Korea (KS X 3246). LEA is included in the ISO/IEC 29192-2:2019 standard (Information security - Lightweight cryptography - Part 2: Block ciphers).
Specification
The block cipher LEA consisting of ARX operations (modular Addition: , bitwise Rotation: , , and bitwise XOR ) for 32-bit words processes data blocks of 128 bits and has three different key lengths: 128, 192, and 256 bits.
LEA with a 128-bit key, LEA with a 192-bit key, and LEA with a 256-bit key are referred to as “LEA-128”, “LEA-192”, and “LEA-256”, respectively.
The number of rounds is 24 for LEA-128, 28 for LEA-192, and 32 for LEA-256.
Encryption
Let be a 128-bit block of plaintext and be a 128-bit block of ciphertext, where and () are 32-bit blocks.
Let () be 192-bit round keys, where () are 32-bit blocks.
Here is the number of rounds for the LEA algorithm.
The encryption operation is described as follows:
for to
Decryption
The decryption operation is as follows:
for down to
Key schedule
The key schedule of LEA supports 128, 192, and 256-bit keys and outputs 192-bit round keys () for the data processing part.
Key schedule for LEA-128
Let be a 128-bit key, where () are 32-bit blocks.
The key schedule for LEA-128 takes and four 32-bit constants () as inputs and outputs twenty-four 192-bit round keys ().
The key schedule operation for LEA-128 is as follows:
for to
Key schedule for LEA-192
Let be a 192-bit key, where () are 32-bit blocks.
The key schedule for LEA-192 takes and six 32-bit constants () as inputs and outputs twenty-eight 192-bit round keys ().
The key schedule operation for LEA-192 is as follows:
for to
Key schedule for LEA-256
Let be a 256-bit key, where () are 32-bit blocks.
The key schedule for LEA-192 takes and eight 32-bit constants () as inputs and outputs thirty-two 192-bit round keys ().
The key schedule operation for LEA-256 is as follows:
for to
Constant values
The eight 32-bit constant values () used in the key schedule are given in the following table.
Security
As of 2019, no successful attack on full-round LEA is known.
As is typical for iterated block ciphers, reduced-round variants have been attacked.
The best published attacks on LEA in the standard attack model (CPA/CCA with unknown key) are boomerang attacks and differential linear attacks.
The security margin to the whole r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ASEAN%20country%20subdivisions%20by%20GDP | This is a list of ASEAN country subdivisions by GDP using data from Indonesian provinces, Malaysia states, and Philippine and Thai regions. GDP and GDP per capita data are according to International Monetary Fund's October 2021 estimates. Badan Pusat Statistik Indonesia, Department of Statistics Malaysia, Philippine Statistics Authority, NESDC Thailand.
By metropolitan area
By city proper
By administrative division
Only above U$10 billion by 2021 data
See also
List of ASEAN countries by GDP
List of Indonesian provinces by GDP
List of Indonesian provinces by GRP per capita
List of Thai provinces by GPP
List of regions of the Philippines by GDP
List of Malaysian states by GDP
List of Vietnamese subdivisions by GDP
List of countries in Asia-Pacific by GDP (nominal)
List of countries by GDP (nominal)
List of countries by GDP (PPP)
References
External links
4 ASEAN infographics: population, market, economy
Lists of countries by GDP
GDP
ASEAN countries GDP
GDP ASEAN
Lists of administrative divisions
Ranked lists of country subdivisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25%20Wolf | 100% Wolf is a 2020 Australian computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy film directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Alexia Gates-Foale and Barbara Stephen. It is adapted from Jayne Lyons' 2009 novel of the same name.
Plot
Freddy Lupin is the young heir to a werewolf pack that has been protecting their local town for years. When he attempts to follow his family during their nightly patrol using a magical Moonstone, he loses the Moonstone to Foxwell Cripp, and Flashheart is apparently killed when he falls off a cliff. Freddy's uncle Hotspur becomes the new pack leader.
Six years later, the time comes for Freddy to experience his first wolf transformation, but despite the encouragement of long-term housekeeper Mrs. Mutton, he is humiliated when he turns into a poodle instead. Faced with the disdain of his pack, Freddy is challenged to prove his wolf status by moonrise the next day or risk being banished. Freddy decides to try and retrieve the Moonstone from Cripp.
While searching in town, Freddy befriends Batty, a stray dog also known as 'Houndini' for her ability to escape the dog catchers consistently. Batty leads him to Cripp, where they are both caught by dog catchers and placed in Coldfax Dog Pound. After an escape attempt goes wrong, Freddy is sent to a pit with 'the Beast', an unknown monster that supposedly eats dogs. Freddy learns that the 'Beast' is actually his father. The dog catchers captured Flasheart after he was injured by the fall, and Hotspur left him in Coldfax with a silver bracelet to keep him trapped in his wolf state. Batty and the other dogs escape into the vents and help Freddy free his father.
Freddy leads Flasheart and the dogs home to confront Hotspur. Cripp attacks the other wolves with a mass of silver concentrate, but Freddy stops Cripp's attack. Hotspur tries to attack while the other wolves are weakened by the silver, but the dogs are able to get the wolves to safety while Freddy lures his uncle to the mansion roof. Transforming back into a poodle in the moonlight and accepting his form, Freddy lets out a loud roar to affirm his status as an alpha wolf, sending Hotspur falling back into the mansion and affirming his failure as a leader.
Sometime later, Freddy's reflections reveal that not only have werewolves and dogs gotten on better terms, but the pack has also opened the mansion up to all dogs, with Hotspur and his children reduced to dog-walkers and picking up after the mutts, while Coldfax is shut down. Flasheart has returned to his old role as pack leader, but assures Freddy that he is proud of him and believes he will be a good leader when the time comes.
Cast
Sequel
A sequel titled 200% Wolf is expected to be released in 2024.
Reception
100% Wolf received positive reviews from critics and earned a total of $7.7 million worldwide.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 67% based on reviews from 15 critics.
TV series
A 26-episode TV series spin-off, 100% Wolf: Legend of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20%26%20Northern%20Footpaths%20Society | The Peak & Northern Footpaths Society (PNFS) is a UK registered charity which was formed in 1894. The purpose of PNFS is to monitor, protect, and improve the footpath network of the North Midlands and North West of England, including the Peak District National Park. The organisation is the oldest existing regional footpath society in the England.
The Peak District & Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society was established on 16 August 1894 in the Young Men's Christian Association Hall, Peter Street, Manchester (now St George's House). It had evolved from The Manchester Association for the Preservation of Ancient Public Footpaths, which was founded in 1826.
PNFS has over 150 volunteer footpath inspectors who are assigned to parishes across the counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. They walk along their parishes' footpaths periodically to check for any problems, which they report to the local authority responsible for the footpaths concerned. PNFS often helps the authorities to fix problems promptly. Local authorities in the region are legally obliged to notify PNFS of any proposals affecting rights of way, in order that PNFS can uphold the interests of walkers.
The charity has installed over 600 numbered signposts and built dozens of footbridges as part of its ongoing programme to improve walking routes in the region. The first cast iron signposts were erected in 1905 and 20 are still standing from before World War I.
PNFS publishes a quarterly magazine called Signpost.
The Irregulars group of the Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) organises a programme of weekly walks and in 2019 it became affiliated to PNFS.
In 1994, UK Parliament passed a motion congratulating PNFS on its centenary for its work over 100 years, improving access to the countryside.
References
Conservation in England
Peak District
1894 establishments in England
Rural society in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201988 | 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 1988.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1988 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantina%20Nikita | Konstantina "Nantia" Nikita is a Greek electrical and computer engineer and a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. She is director of the Mobile Radiocommunications Lab and founder and director of the Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Lab, NTUA. Since 2015, she has been an Irene McCulloch Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.
Education, career and research
Nikita received the diploma in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the NTUA, as well as the M.D. degree from the Medical School, University of Athens. From 1990 to 1996, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems. In 1996, she joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, as an assistant professor, and since 2005, she serves as a professor at the same school.
Trained as both a physician and engineer, she works to adapt technologies developed in the antennas and computer industry for healthcare innovation. Nikita leverages technologies at the intersection of (bio-)electromagnetics, sensors, and materials to yield next-generation wearables and implants characterized by extreme miniaturization and enhanced performance. She integrates data acquired from health monitoring systems with multiscale, multilevel modeling and intelligent decision-making techniques to diagnose, study and treat a variety of diseases including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, as well as neurological, mental and cognitive disorders.
Her work refers to both fundamental problems, which require the use of sophisticated methods of theoretical analysis, and to the design and construction of experimental prototypes and intelligent health monitoring systems based on theoretical results of her work.
She is credited with pioneering the modelling of complex human diseases, such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases, by developing personalized multiscale models providing enhanced understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms, facilitating self-disease management and assisting therapeutic interventions. She employed machine learning techniques exploiting medical, lifestyle, environmental, and genetic data and integrated them with existing pathophysiological knowledge and models in order to devise personalized markers for the early detection and assessment of an array of highly prevalent diseases. By multiscale modeling of carotid atherosclerosis, Nikita and her team introduced novel low-cost biomarkers for CVD/stroke risk assessment, bridging the gap between multifaceted phenotypes, incorporating image analysis-based indices, and pathophysiological mechanisms, underlying plaque vulnerability and rupture.
Nikita and her team developed smart systems, which incorporate sensing, computing and communication te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Light%20Cable%20Network | The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) is a proposed cable system in the Pacific Ocean. Partners in the project include Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook) and Google.
landing points
Its landing points are planned to be:
Baler, Philippines
Toucheng, Taiwan
El Segundo, California, in the United States
Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong
Inactive
Although cable had already been laid, it was announced that the US FCC would not authorize connecting the PLCN to Hong Kong, for national security reasons.
References
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan-Jin%20Chung | Chan-Jin Chung (정찬진), commonly known as CJ Chung, is a full professor of computer science at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Michigan, USA. He founded an international autonomous robotics competition called Robofest in the 1999–2000 academic year as well as numerous educational programs for youth by integrating STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), arts, autonomous robotics, and computer science. He also served as the founding USA National Organizer of World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in 2014 and 2015. He also started the WISER (World conference on Integrated STEaM Education through Robotics) conference in 2014. He is working on developing a computer science curriculum for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) with a support from National Science Foundation .
His research areas include evolutionary computation, cultural algorithms,
intelligent systems & autonomous mobile robotics,
software engineering,
machine learning & deep learning,
computer science education,
and educational robotics.
Early life, education, and research & development projects
Chung was born in Seoul, Korea and attended Hongik University in Seoul, where he earned a B.S. Computer Science degree in 1981.
His first professional job was teaching middle school math as a part-time instructor at YMCA Academy in Seoul in 1979. He worked for Korea Electric Power Corporation to develop an online customer information system with COBOL and IMS Databases using IBM 3031 mainframe computer in 1981–1982.
While he was working for Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a research scientist from 1982 to 1992, he was involved in developing TDX switching systems
that became later the base system for the first commercialized CDMA system in the world. Chung also worked as a visiting researcher to develop telecommunication software modules for L.M. Ericsson's AXE-10 in Stockholm, Sweden in 1983–1984. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Wayne State University in 1997. His doctoral research was the development of a self-adaptive artificial intelligence system motivated by cultural evolution processes, which was then applied to solve nonlinear function optimization problems including training artificial neural networks. Wei-Wen Chang, his Master's student and Chung won the 1st place award in 3D design optimization competition sponsored by HONDA R&D Europe GmbH as a part of the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence Conference in 2002.
He won a REU grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2022.
Achievements in STEaM, robotics, and computer science education fields
A worldwide autonomous robot competition called Robofest
was the brainchild of Prof. Chung.
As of August 2019, over 28,000 students from 15 US States and 22 countries have participated in the competition since 1999.
He launched numerous integrated educational programs in computer science and STEAM fields such as RoboParade a parade of autonomous ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201127 | Code page 1127 (CCSID 1127), also known as Arabic / French PC Data, is used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system.
Codepage layout
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References
1127 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawanna%20Dillahunt | Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that designs, builds, and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems. Her research has been cited over 2,700 times according to Google Scholar.
Education
Tawanna Dillahunt was born in North Carolina and received her B.S. in Computer Engineering Magna at North Carolina State University in 2000. She received her MS from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 2005. She received an MS from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and her PhD from there in 2012. She joined the School of Information faculty at the University of Michigan in 2013.
Career and research
Dillahunt has worked in the areas of human-computer interaction, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported collaborative work and social computing. She has received the Inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association. She is the recipient of he Fran Allen IBM PhD Fellowship, the Richard Tapia Scholarship, and the IBM PhD Fellowship. She is a Kavli Fellow with the National Academy of Sciences.
She is best known for her work designing and evaluating technologies related to unemployment, environmental sustainability, and technical literacy. She has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation to support her work. Most recently, she received a grant to study transportation barriers in underserved urban and rural communities in Michigan. She has created numerous technology tools that lead to strategies to better recruit marginalize populations to career opportunities. Additionally, she is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Selected works
Froehlich, J., Dillahunt, T., Klasnja, P., Mankoff, J., Consolvo, S., Harrison, B., & Landay, J. A. (2009, April). UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits. In Proceedings of the sigchi conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1043–1052). (Cited 726 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Dillahunt, T. R., & Malone, A. R. (2015, April). The promise of the sharing economy among disadvantaged communities. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2285–2294). (Cited 335 times, according to Google Scholar )
Dillahunt, T. R. (2014, April). Fostering social capital in economically distressed communities. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 531–540).
Dillahunt, T., Wang, Z., & Teasley, S. D. (2014). Democratizing higher education: Exploring MOOC use among those who cannot afford a formal education. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(5), 177–196.
References
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20process%20approximations | In statistics and machine learning, Gaussian process approximation is a computational method that accelerates inference tasks in the context of a Gaussian process model, most commonly likelihood evaluation and prediction. Like approximations of other models, they can often be expressed as additional assumptions imposed on the model, which do not correspond to any actual feature, but which retain its key properties while simplifying calculations. Many of these approximation methods can be expressed in purely linear algebraic or functional analytic terms as matrix or function approximations. Others are purely algorithmic and cannot easily be rephrased as a modification of a statistical model.
Basic ideas
In statistical modeling, it is often convenient to assume that , the phenomenon under investigation is a Gaussian process indexed by which has mean function and covariance function .
One can also assume that data are values of a particular realization of this process for indices .
Consequently, the joint distribution of the data can be expressed as
,
where and , i.e. respectively a matrix with the covariance function values and a vector with the mean function values at corresponding (pairs of) indices.
The negative log-likelihood of the data then takes the form
Similarly, the best predictor of , the values of for indices , given data has the form
In the context of Gaussian models, especially in geostatistics, prediction using the best predictor, i.e. mean conditional on the data, is also known as kriging.
The most computationally expensive component of the best predictor formula is inverting the covariance matrix , which has cubic complexity . Similarly, evaluating likelihood involves both calculating and the determinant which has the same cubic complexity.
Gaussian process approximations can often be expressed in terms of assumptions on under which and can be calculated with much lower complexity. Since these assumptions are generally not believed to reflect reality, the likelihood and the best predictor obtained in this way are not exact, but they are meant to be close to their original values.
Model-based methods
This class of approximations is expressed through a set of assumptions which are imposed on the original process and which, typically, imply some special structure of the covariance matrix. Although most of these methods were developed independently, most of them can be expressed as special cases of the sparse general Vecchia approximation.
Sparse covariance methods
These methods approximate the true model in a way the covariance matrix is sparse. Typically, each method proposes its own algorithm that takes the full advantage of the sparsity pattern in the covariance matrix. Two prominent members of this class of approaches are covariance tapering and domain partitioning. The first method generally requires a metric over and assumes that for we have only if for some radius . The second method assumes tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20Chase | Galactic Chase is a fixed shooter for the Atari 8-bit family published by Spectrum Computers in 1981. It is a clone of Namco's Galaxian programmed by Anthony Weber.
Gameplay
Galactic Chase is a game in which invaders attack earth, and formations can break off to attack directly.
Reception
John J. Anderson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that:
References
External links
Review in Softline magazine
Electronic Games #2
Review in Byte
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Joystik
1981 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Fixed shooters
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s%20Microcomputer%20Buyer%27s%20Guide | Webster's Microcomputer Buyer's Guide is a book written by Tony Webster and published in 1981.
Contents
Webster's Microcomputer Buyer's Guide is a book which contains over 300 pages of computer industry information.
Reception
Gene Allen reviewed the book for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "if you want or need a rapid education about the microcomputer industry, this book will help you at least know the right questions to ask. That in itself could be worth a great deal."
References
1981 non-fiction books
Computer books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20Street%20%28video%20game%29 | Wall Street is a 1981 video game published by CE Software.
Gameplay
Wall Street is a game in which the stock market is simulated.
Reception
Daniel Hockman reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that: "One of the best features of the game is the ability to list the day's stock quotes on a printer. This has two advantages over viewing the quotes on a CRT. First, you must flip through several "pages" of the daily report to see all the stocks on a CRT. Second, hard copy allows you to get a history on a stock."
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that: "I don't think this game is realistic -- IBM won't go bankrupt in 2 weeks and real tips are free and unreliable rather than expensive and 100% reliable -- but the player interaction makes Wall Street the most interesting stock market game yet."
References
External links
Softalk review
1981 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Business simulation games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20settings | Privacy settings are "the part of a social networking website, internet browser, piece of software, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you". With the growing prevalence of social networking services, opportunities for privacy exposures also grow. Privacy settings allow a person to control what information is shared on these platforms.
Many social networking services (SNS) such as Facebook, have default privacy settings that leave users more prone to sharing personal information. Privacy settings are contributed to by users, companies, and external forces. Contributing factors that influence user activity in privacy settings include the privacy paradox and the third person effect. The third person effect explains why privacy settings can remain unchanged throughout time. Companies can enforce a Principle of Reciprocity (PoR) where users have to decide what information they are willing to share in exchange for others’ information.
With the growing focus on internet privacy, there are technologies and programs designed to enhance and encourage more privacy setting activity. Applications such as the Personal Data Manager (PDM) are used to improve the efficiency of privacy setting management. Privacy by design can enhance privacy settings through incorporating privacy notifications or prompting users to occasionally manage their privacy settings.
Significance
SNS are designed to connect people together online. Users share information and build relationships online. Privacy leaks can still occur even with privacy settings intact. Users’ connections on SNS can reveal personal information such as having friends from the same university can lead to an inference that a person attends that university. Furthermore, even if a person has strict privacy settings enabled, their privacy can still be leaked through their connections who may not have as many privacy settings in place. This calls for enhanced privacy settings that can tolerate different privacy settings while allowing online connections.
The ability to control who views their content influences users’ decision to share or not share images on SNS such as WeChat or Qzone. Different communities call for different levels of privacy. For example, an individual is more likely to share a photo of themselves and a close friend with their close friend circle and family than strangers. This reveals a need for fine privacy settings that allow users more flexibility in their SNS sharing ability. Hu Xiaoxu et al. suggests privacy settings should encourage social networking on SNS while simultaneously protecting user privacy.
Default settings
Privacy settings for SNS have default settings that set up users to automatically share personal information the user has inputted. For example, Twitter users are automatically prone to a public profile when an account is first made. Furthermore, SNS privacy policies have shown to be too complex for consumers to fully understand, leading to p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Battle%20of%20Shiloh%20%28video%20game%29 | The Battle of Shiloh is a 1981 computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations. It is one of the first Civil War strategy computer games, and was the first Strategic Simulations game available on the TRS-80. Intended as an introductory war game (along with Tigers in the Snow), it was available on the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80 and IBM PC, and was originally developed by David Landry and Chuck Kroegel through their studio "Tactical Design Group".
Gameplay
The Battle of Shiloh is a game in which the player can reenact the Battle of Shiloh. Playing either against the computer or another player, players employ infantry and artilary units to compete for control of the Pittsburgh Landing. Although based on the historical battle, players can modify the strengths of the respective Confederate and Union armies, and the game takes into account the impact of terrain. Players can also modify the level of risk and strategy for both the defender and attacker, and as the original battle involved an element of surprise, the first four moves of the game are weighted towards the Confederates. The game can also be set for two computer players, allowing for some "valuable lessons for raw recruits to computer war gaming".
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "This is a very well designed product. Although it will take at least 2 hours to play the first day (and as much as 5 hours for both days), there are no periods of inactivity longer than 5 seconds or so. The game is absorbing; you are constantly making decisions and watching for weaknesses in the enemy." The magazine in 1987 wrote that "Shiloh could have gone either way and the same delicate balance exists in this game".
Robert Fox of Antic raised concerns regarding the lack of sound, the "murky" graphics, and the randomised outcomes of battles, but ROM Magazine found the graphics to be good, and commenting on the Apple II version of the game, reviewers Mike Shadick and Sallie Stephenson described the graphics on that platform as outstanding. In regard to the computer player, Proctor criticised choices made to improve the game balance, as the computer was given extra mobility to make up for shortcomings in the AI, and concluded that it was a game better played against another person – a concern also reflected in Laurance Miller's review for Micro Adventurer. Similarly, ROM magazine felt that the computer moves were too slow, even though they appreciated the game's flexibility and the clear theme. Reviewing the game for The Minneapolis Star, Dale Archibald found it easy to play and described it as a "thoughtful recreation of a battle that could have changed the course of this country's history".
Reviews
Antic (September 1985)
Computer Gaming World (October 1990)
Softalk
References
1981 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
TRS-80 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia%20komputerowego%20gracza | Biblia komputerowego gracza (lit. "The computer gamer's Bible") is a book devoted to the history of computer games, published in Poland in 1998 by the Iskry publishing house. It was written over a period of three and a half years by Aleksy "Alex" Uchański, Piotr "Gawron" Gawrysiak and Piotr "Micz" Mańkowski, who were prominent Polish video game journalists at the time. It had its premiere at the Gambleriada computer exposition, held in October 23–25, 1998. It is considered to be the first Polish book about the history of computer games.
Contents
Each chapter of the book is devoted to a different game genre and begins with its short definition. The bulk of each chapter consists of descriptions of individual games, considered by the authors to be the most important examples of the given genre, arranged in chronological order. In addition, the authors occasionally discuss at length a specific trend or sub-genre.
Each chapter also contains a list of the "top ten games of all time" of the genre, as judged by the authors. For example, the list of "top ten shooter games" is as follows: Commando, Defender, River Raid, Green Beret, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Super Zaxxon, Maggotmania (a clone of Centipede), Tapper, Gyruss and Star Wars: Rebel Assault.
The book includes the following genres: shooter games, platform games, arcade adventure games, fighting games (including beat 'em up games), sports games, racing games, vehicle simulators, adventure games, role-playing games, strategy games (divided into "wargames" and "economic games"), and three-dimensional shooters (including first- and third-person shooters).
According to Piotr Gawrysiak, most of the content was written by Piotr Mańkowski. Gawrysiak, invited to collaborate only towards the end of the work, wrote only the chapter on vehicle simulator games. Years later, Aleksy Uchański claimed that he had bad memories of working on the book and was not satisfied with the sections he had written.
Reception
At the time of publication, Biblia komputerowego gracza attracted attention as the first Polish publication that thoroughly discussed the history of computer games. The reviewer in the Gambler magazine recommended the book to every gamer eager to learn more about his hobby, and the reviewer in the Secret Service magazine admired the wealth of information contained in the book. Michał Zacharzewski, a reviewer at the website Imperium Gier (part of the Wirtualna Polska portal), considered the book "amazing" and rated it as follows: "for people who remember «those» times 9/10, for youngsters 7/10".
However, the book was criticized for having very few illustrations, and for the brief and vague game descriptions; according to the reviewers, these aspects made the book less useful for readers unfamiliar with the presented games. The book was also noted to contain erroneous and incomplete information (for example, many entries for older games include the note "developer unknown"). In addition, reviewers critic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRSD-TV | KRSD-TV (channel 7) was a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Its programming was relayed on satellite station KDSJ-TV (channel 5) in Lead. Owned by Heart of the Black Hills Stations, the two stations went on air in 1958 and 1960, respectively. Due to serial deficiencies in the stations' technical operations, the two stations were ordered off the air in 1971 after a decade of proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission. The stations' ownership was able to delay their closure for five more years before finally shutting down in 1976.
History
KRSD-TV began telecasting the evening of January 21, 1958. It was owned by John, Eli, and Henry Daniels and their company, Heart of the Black Hills Stations, along with KRSD (1340 AM) in Rapid City and KDSJ (980 AM) in Deadwood. Channel 7 operated from newly-built radio and television studios located on Mountain View Road in Rapid City. KRSD-TV was the second station on air in Rapid City and was a primary NBC affiliate. With the Rapid City station on the air, Heart of the Black Hills Stations began construction the next year on the satellite station at Lead, which went into service on January 6, 1960. By this time, KRSD-KDSJ was splitting ABC programming with its competitor, KOTA-TV (channel 3). Eli Daniels served as station manager and handled most of the engineering work, while Henry Daniels handled the finances.
Signal problems
In 1965, the Federal Communications Commission adopted new network non-duplication rules for cable systems. These new policies protected local stations from competition by out-of-town imported stations by requiring the local station to be shown over any other station carrying the same programming. The Black Hills Video Corporation cable system in Rapid City had dropped KRSD-TV and resumed carriage of KOA-TV in Denver; it then resumed carrying KRSD-TV in place of KOA-TV on December 31, 1965. Within hours, the system, which served Rapid City and Ellsworth Air Force Base, received 110 calls demanding it reverse the move, and 15 subscribers canceled their service, in what Broadcasting magazine termed an "uprising"; the FCC allowed the cable system to drop KRSD-TV again after an engineer was dispatched from the FCC's field office in Denver and agreed that KRSD-TV's incoming signal was inadequate. The FCC issued a waiver to the non-duplication rule that allowed area cable systems to pipe in out-of-town NBC affiliates until KRSD-TV was able to provide an acceptable signal.
Signal and regulatory problems continued. In September 1966 and October 1967, the FCC issued notices of violation to KRSD-TV and KDSJ-TV; Donald Wyatt, an FCC field engineer from Denver, later testified that of 40 stations he had inspected, they were "the poorest he had found in the entire district". The next year, the commission designated the two stations' license renewals for hearings, seeking to determine if the management was so "negligent, careless, or inept" that it could n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapit-Bisig%20Canada | Kapit-Bisig Canada is a Canadian mutual aid network, initiated by BAYAN Canada member organizations such as Migrante Canada and Anakbayan Canada. It is a cooperative among over one hundred emergency response agencies in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Winnipeg, Toronto, Kitchener, Ottawa and Montreal. Kapit-Bisig coordinates the distribution of vital resources such as food, PPE, and essentials (e.g. diapers, over-the-counter medication, etc.) in short timeframes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many recipients are migrant workers, undocumented, out-of-work or essential workers in low-wage jobs. Some have been left out of government assistance measures.
Kapit-Bisig Canada was formed in 2020 from its original name Kapit-Bisig Laban COVID Canada. Kapit-Bisig means "linking arms" in Tagalog.
References
External links
Kapit-Bisig Canada
Health charities in Canada
2020s establishments in Canada
Medical and health organizations based in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiliang%20Tang | Jiliang Tang is a Chinese-born computer scientist and associate professor at Michigan State University in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, where he is the director of the Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Lab. His research expertise is in data mining and machine learning.
Education and career
He received his BEng in software engineering (2008) and MSc in computer science (2010) from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His PhD is from Arizona State University (2015), under the direction of Huan Liu. After gaining his PhD, he worked as a research scientist at Yahoo Labs (2015–16) before joining Michigan State University as an assistant professor (2016). His research has mostly been published jointly with Huan Liu. It has received over thirteen thousand citations documented by Google Scholar, and has received coverage in the media.
Awards
He has received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award that "aims to celebrate the early accomplishments of the SIGKDD communities' brightest new minds", NSF Career Award, and Michigan State University's Distinguished Withrow Research Award.
Selected publications
Books
Jiliang Tang, Huan Liu. Trust in Social Media, (Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science; Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy, and trust, # 13) Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2015
Peer reviewed journal articles
Shu K, Sliva A, Wang S, Tang J, Liu H. Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective. ACM SIGKDD explorations newsletter. 2017 Sep 1;19(1):22-36. (Cited 1524 times, according to Google Scholar )
Tang J, Alelyani S, Liu H. Feature selection for classification: A review. Data classification: Algorithms and applications. 2014:37. (Cited 1112 times, according to Google Scholar )
Li J, Cheng K, Wang S, Morstatter F, Trevino RP, Tang J, Liu H. Feature selection: A data perspective. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2017 Dec 6;50(6):1-45. (Cited 1250 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Chang S, Han W, Tang J, Qi GJ, Aggarwal CC, Huang TS. Heterogeneous network embedding via deep architectures. InProceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining 2015 Aug 10 (pp. 119–128) (Cited 531 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Gao H, Tang J, Hu X, Liu H. Exploring temporal effects for location recommendation on location-based social networks. InProceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems 2013 Oct 12 (pp. 93–100). (Cited 512 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Hu X, Tang J, Gao H, Liu H. Unsupervised sentiment analysis with emotional signals. InProceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web 2013 May 13 (pp. 607–618). (Cited 417 times, according to Google Scholar.)
References
External links
Webpage at Michigan State
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Machine learning researchers
21st-century Chinese scientists
Arizona State University alumni
Beijing Institute of T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201989 | 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 1989.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1989 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurfalija | Kurfalija () is a village in the municipality of Karbinci, North Macedonia.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Kurfalija had 12 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 7
Turks 5
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 43 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Turks 38
Others 5
References
Villages in Karbinci Municipality
Turkish communities in North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscha%20Bach | Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, East Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.
Early life and education
Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family.
He received an MA (computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD (cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006.
Roles
Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research. Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group. He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council.
Achievements
Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval.
Bach is the author around 25 academic publications, and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence.
He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models.
Other
Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
References
External links
Lex Fridman Podcast #101 - Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast #212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Musser, George. The Wizard of Consciousness Psychology Today. Published September 4, 2018.
1973 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German cognitive scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Scientists from Weimar
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Osnabrück University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Guyon | Isabelle Guyon (; born August 15, 1961) is a French-born researcher in machine learning known for her work on support-vector machines, artificial neural networks and bioinformatics. She is a Chair Professor at the University of Paris-Saclay.
She is considered to be a pioneer in the field, with her contribution to the support-vector machines with Vladimir Vapnik and Bernhard Boser.
Biography
After graduating from the French engineering school ESPCI Paris in 1985, she joined the group of Gerard Dreyfus at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie to do a PhD on neural networks architectures and training.
Guyon defended her thesis in 1988 and was hired the year after at AT&T Bell Laboratories, first as a post-doc, then as a group leader. She worked at Bell Labs for six years, where she explored several research areas, from neural networks to pattern recognition and computational learning theory, with application to handwriting recognition. She collaborated with Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, Vladimir Vapnik, Corinna Cortes, Yoshua Bengio, Patrice Simard, and met her future husband, Bernhard Boser.
In 1996, Guyon left Bell Labs and raised her children at Berkeley, California. In Berkeley, she created her own machine learning consulting company, Clopinet. She became interested in medical applications, and used her previous work to classify the genes responsible for different types of cancers.
Since 2003, Guyon has organized many challenges in data science, in order to stimulate research in this field. She founded ChaLearn in 2011, a non-profit organization aimed at creating machine learning challenges open to everyone. She was Program Chair of NeurIPS 2016 et became General Chair of NeurIPS in 2017. She is also Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research and Series Editor for Series: Challenges in Machine Learning. She is a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.
In 2016, Guyon came back to France to take the Chair Professorship in Big data between the University of Paris-Saclay and INRIA. She works in the group TAU (TAckling the Underspecified) of the Laboratoire de recherche en informatique.
With Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik, she received in 2020 the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards for her work in machine learning.
Scientific work
Guyon has worked in many subfields of machine learning, including neural networks, support-vector machines, feature selection and applications of machine learning to biology.
Support-vector machines
Among her most notable contributions, Guyon co-invented support-vector machines (SVM) in 1992, with Bernhard Boser and Vladimir Vapnik. SVM is a supervised machine learning algorithm, comparable to neural networks or decision trees, which has quickly become a classical technique in machine learning. SVMs have especially contributed to the popularization of kernel methods.
Neural networks
During her years at Bell Labs, Guyon took part of numerous proj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coralogix | Coralogix is a SaaS platform that analyzes log, metric, and security data in real-time and uses machine learning to streamline delivery and maintenance processes for software providers. It was founded in 2014 by Guy Kroupp, Ariel Assaraf, and Lior Redlus and has its headquarters in California, United States.
History
Coralogix was founded in 2014 by Ariel Assaraf, Guy Kroupp, and Lior Redlus in Tel Aviv, Israel. Later, Kroupp exited the company and Yoni Farin joined as a co-founder in 2017. Matt Handler joined in 2018 as the president and chief operating officer (COO).
In 2016, Coralogix graduated from the Microsoft Accelerator in Tel Aviv.
In 2020, it released its Streama technology. The same year, it expanded in India to provide businesses with data storage capabilities using Amazon Web Services (AWS) regional support. It was also recognized as a 2020 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis by Gartner and grew to 10 million users by the end of the year.
By September 2021, Coralogix had raised $96.2 million in investment from over ten investors.
Investments
In 2014, Coralogix raised Pre-Seed funding from Nimrod Cohen, followed by a $1 million in a Seed funding round led by Janvest Capital Partners.
In 2016, it raised $5.2 million in an additional Seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures, with participation from Janvest Capital Partners and Moshe Litchtman.
In 2019, it raised $10 million in a Series A round from Aleph Venture Capital, 2B Angels, Janvest Capital Partners, and StageOne Ventures.
In 2020, it raised $25 million in a Series B round from Aleph Venture Capital, 2B Angels, O.G. Tech, StageOne Ventures, Red Dot Capital Partners, and Janvest Capital Partners.
In 2021, it raised $55 million in a Series C round from Greenfield Partners, StageOne Ventures, Janvest Capital Partners, Red Dot Capital Partners, Maor Ventures, O.G. Tech, and 2B Angels.
In 2022, it raised $142 million in a Series D funding round, led by private equity giant Advent International, alongside Brighton Park Capital.
References
2014 establishments in California
Software companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Dokuchaev | Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev () is a Russian convicted cyber criminal and a former intelligence officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the principal security agency of Russia. In April 2019, he was sentenced to six years in prison for treason.
Early career
From 2004 until at least 2011, Dokuchaev contributed to a Russian computer hacking magazine under the moniker "Forb."
FSB employment
At the end of 2006, Dokuchaev had begun working for the FSB in Yekaterinburg, reportedly in order to avoid prison time due to credit card and data theft offenses. The following year, he was transferred to Moscow.
In 2011, Dokuchaev had reportedly begun acting as an intermediary between his boss, Sergei Mikhailov (FSB), and Kaspersky Lab employee, Ruslan Stoyanov, ultimately causing operational information about ChronoPay CEO, Pavel Vrublevsky, to be passed outside of Russia.
Beginning in December 2014, Dokuchaev had allegedly begun directing criminal hackers to obtain access to and collect information from the email accounts of thousands of Yahoo! users.
In early 2016, Dokuchaev and Mikhailov had reportedly begun recruiting the services of Vladimir Anikeyev, the ringleader of Shaltai Boltai.
In the fall of 2016, Dokuchaev was reportedly part of an effort to lure Anikeyev back into Russia.
Arrest in Russia
Dokuchaev was arrested in December 2016.
His arrest was first announced on January 26, 2017.
U.S. indictment
In March 2017, Dokuchaev was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for his alleged role in the 2014 Yahoo! data breaches.
Conviction in Russia
In February 2019, Dokuchaev agreed to sign a plea bargain with Russian authorities. In April 2019, he was sentenced to six years in prison for treason.
References
1984 births
Living people
Russian computer criminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20transition%20to%20Apple%20silicon | The Mac transition to Apple silicon was the process of changing the central processing units (CPUs) of Apple Inc.'s line of Mac computers from Intel's x86-64 processors to Apple-designed systems on a chip that use the ARM64 architecture.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a "two-year transition plan" to Apple silicon on June 22, 2020. The first Macs with Apple-designed systems on a chip were released that November; the last, the Mac Pro, was released in June 2023, completing the transition in three years.
The transition was the third time Apple had switched the Macintosh to a new instruction set architecture. The first was from the Motorola 68000 series to PowerPC chips in 1994, and the second was from PowerPC to Intel processors using the x86 architecture in 2005–2006.
Background
The first Macintoshes, introduced in 1984, were based on the Motorola 68000 architecture. In the early 1990s, Apple evaluated several possibilities, then switched to the PowerPC family it co-developed with IBM and Motorola. It switched again, starting in 2005, to Intel 32-bit and 64-bit x86. In 2011, Mac OS X Lion dropped support for Macs with 32-bit processors; in 2019, macOS Catalina dropped support for 32-bit Intel apps. Supported 64-bit Intel systems can still boot the latest versions of macOS.
The genesis of the third switch began in 1985, when Acorn's ARM architecture was spotted by Apple's Advanced Technology Group, an internal research laboratory. The ATG thought it might replace the MOS 6502 of the Apple II range or the 68000 of the original Macintosh, or become the basis of a tablet device, under Paul Gavarini and Tom Pittard, in a project labelled Möbius. A partnership was established with Acorn Computers, and VLSI in 1990, and work began on a chip for small devices. The first Apple products with an ARM system on a chip were the 1993 Newton personal digital assistant, the 2001 iPod, and the 2007 iPhone. Apple has designed its own custom ARM chips since 2009, which it has since used in its iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, Beats, AirPort Time Capsule and HomePod products. Between October 2016 and August 2020, Intel-based Macs with Apple-designed ARM co-processors were released.
In the 2010s, media reports documented Apple's frustrations and challenges with the pace and quality of Intel's technology development. Apple reportedly had trouble with Intel modems for iPhones in 2017 due to technical issues and missed deadlines. Meanwhile, a 2018 report suggested that Intel chip issues prompted a redesign of the MacBook. In 2019, Apple blamed Intel processor shortages for a decline in Mac sales. In June 2020, former Intel principal engineer François Piednoël said Intel's "abnormally bad" quality assurance in its Skylake processors, making Apple "the number one filer of problems in the architecture", helped Apple decide to migrate. Intel CTO Mike Mayberry countered that quality assurance problems may arise at large scale from any CPU vendor.
His |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misaligned%20goals%20in%20artificial%20intelligence | Artificial intelligence agents sometimes misbehave due to faulty objective functions that fail to adequately encapsulate the programmers' intended goals. The misaligned objective function may look correct to the programmer, and may even perform well in a limited test environment, yet may still produce unanticipated and undesired results when deployed.
Background
In the AIMA paradigm, programmers provide an AI such as AlphaZero with an "objective function" that the programmers intend will encapsulate the goal or goals that the programmers wish the AI to accomplish. Such an AI later populates a (possibly implicit) internal "model" of its environment. This model encapsulates all the agent's beliefs about the world. The AI then creates and executes whatever plan is calculated to maximize the value of its objective function. For example, AlphaZero chess has a simple objective function of "+1 if AlphaZero wins, -1 if AlphaZero loses". During the game, AlphaZero attempts to execute whatever sequence of moves it judges most likely to give the maximum value of +1. Similarly, a reinforcement learning system can have a "reward function" that allows the programmers to shape the AI's desired behavior. An evolutionary algorithm's behavior is shaped by a "fitness function".
Overview
An artificial intelligence (AI) in a complex environment optimizes an objective function created, directly or indirectly, by the programmers. For example, the AI may create and execute a plan the AI believes will maximize the value of the objective function. The programmers intend for the objective function to represent the programmers' goals.
If the objective function misrepresents the programmers' actual goals, surprising failures can result, analogous to Goodhart's law or Campbell's law. In reinforcement learning, these failures may be a consequence of faulty reward functions. Since success or failure is judged relative to the programmers' actual goals, objective functions that fail to meet expectations are sometimes characterized as being "misaligned" with the actual goals of the given set of programmers. Some scholars divide alignment failures into failures caused by "negative side-effects" that were not reflected in the objective function, and failures due to "specification gaming", "reward hacking", or other failures where the AI appears to deploy qualitatively undesirable plans or strategic behavior in the course of optimizing its objective function.
Misalignment is distinct from "distributional shift" and other failures where the formal objective function was successfully optimized in a narrow training environment, but fails to be optimized when the system is deployed into the real world. A similar phenomenon is "evolutionary mismatch" in biological evolution, where preferences (such as a strong desire for fat and sugar) that were adaptive in the past evolutionary environment fail to be adaptive in later environments. Some scholars believe that a superintelligent a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20the%20Solomon%20Islands |
List of television stations in the Solomon Islands
This is a list of television stations in the Solomon Islands
Telekom Television Ltd
(TTV) is the Solomon Islands main television network. TTV is a free-to-air, commercial television network, located in Honiara. The company was founded in March 2008 with the first broadcast transmission occurring in July 1992.
TTV is a wholly owned subsidiary of Solomon Telekom Co. Ltd (STCL). STCL operates under the brand name - Our Telekom.
TTV broadcasts SD analogue and HD digital (DVB-T) channels in the VHF/UHF frequency bands. The HD channels, available in Honiara, are a mixture of overseas sport, news and entertainments channels.
The SD analogue channels are relayed to five other locations in four of the Solomons nine Provinces.
TTV conforms to the Australian television transmission standards.
TTV 1 is also streamed online (as Programme Rights allow) and is accessible via the Our Telekom mobile network throughout the Solomons. The service is Geoblocked to the Solomons.
History
The first free-to-air television (FTA) transmission was broadcast by Our Telekom in July 1992, when the Barcelona Olympic Games was transmitted from a low-powered VHF transmitter located in Honiara.
In June 1994 Our Telekom gained the FTA TV broadcast rights for the FIFA World Football World Cup. Our Telekom and TTV gain rights for all its broadcast content and has long since stood against any form of piracy of programming.
In 2006 One News Limited, a privately owned company was established to operate FTA TV to produce programmes in Pidgin and English including local news, sport, entertainment, educational programmes. Our Telekom supported One News (later known as One TV) by permitting it to broadcast on its VHF channel.
In March 2008 Our Telekom formed the wholly owned Telekom Television Ltd and gave the company a mandate to plan and develop FTA television across the Solomon Islands.
In 2016 the first Parliamentary broadcast was aired. Transmission of HD digital services also commenced in Honiara.
Over subsequent years, more services have been added to the network.
See also
Australasian television frequencies
References
Solomon Islands television-related lists
Mass media in the Solomon Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20O%27Shannacery | Karen O’Shannacery (born 1950) is a Canadian homeless advocate. She is the former executive director of the Lookout Emergency Aid Society in Vancouver and co-founder of the BC Shelter Network.
Early life
O’Shannacery was born in 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the age of 14, she ran away from her home in Richmond to escape her violent, alcoholic father and general poverty. After staying at various friends' houses in her hometown, she hitchhiked to numerous cities including Toronto and San Francisco. As a youth living on the street, she became involved in drugs and the sex trade industry to find suitable living accommodations.
When O’Shannacery returned to Vancouver, she lived in the Downtown Eastside due to their affordable housing and made money selling copies of The Georgia Straight. As she was a minor, O’Shannacery was determined to avoid detection by law enforcement and picked up tips for survival from other youth on the street. She earned enough money selling drugs and The Georgia Straight to buy her own apartment and have her brother move in with her.
Career
At the age of 18, O’Shannacery was offered a position working at a youth shelter from her friend Mike McKenzie. She accepted the offer under the guise she would be helping troubled youth, but the teenagers using the shelter were often not at-risk and were simply "traveling and having fun before going back to their parents". However, she noticed that older men on the street were not allowed into the shelter or provided with aid, in spite of their lack of options. This lack of access to adequate aid or shelter for homeless individuals promoted her to begin an outreach program. Using a six-month grant from the government, O’Shannacery and a co-worker hired six men and women to work with them and used the remaining money to rent a room every night at the Patricia Hotel. The room contained two beds, one rollaway cot, and various volunteers offering blankets and support. They named their outreach program Lookout Emergency Aid Society because their goal was to “look out” for the people on the street. Once the room was secured, she would then roam the streets looking for homeless individuals and persuade them to come back to the hotel overnight.
In 1973, O’Shannacery became a founding member of the Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers Association while continuing to grow the Lookout Emergency Aid Society. Her advocacy work allowed her to use grant money from the government to grow her outreach program out of the hotel. The society moved into various apartments and hotel rooms before earning a large government grant to build their own shelter on Alexander Street at the end of the era. During the 1980s, the British Columbia Social Credit Party began to cut funding for homeless shelters and outreach programs. This led to a 100-person protest at the Carnegie Centre on the last day of the $50 grant for welfare recipients. During the protest, O’Shannacery stated that the Lookout Emerg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20prefectures%20of%20the%20Central%20African%20Republic%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the 16 prefectures of the Central African Republic and the autonomous commune (capital city) of Bangui by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Ranked lists of country subdivisions
Human Development Index
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20base%20station | An Aerial base station (ABS), also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted base station (BS), is a flying antenna system that works as a hub between the backhaul network and the access network.
If more than one ABS is involved in such a relaying mechanism the so-called fly ad-hoc network (FANET) is established. FANETs are an aerial form of wireless ad hoc networks (WANET)s or mobile ad hoc networks (MANET)s.
To provide "connectivity from the sky" is one of the innovative aspects of the 5G network. A strategic difference of ABSs with respect to the static classical network architecture is their ability to deploy on-demand networks at specific locations, thanks to their in-built properties of mobility, flexibility in three-dimensional space, adaptive altitude, and symmetric rotation. These characteristics allow to offer to ground users premium services with high quality wireless links, poor degradation, high capacity and low interference.
From an industry point of view, different use cases have been planned for ABS network deployment in order to provide connectivity during temporary events and emergency situations, and in zones or rural areas without pre-existing solid network infrastructure.
Unmanned aerial vehicles in wireless communications
UAV were born only for military aims. Thanks to the evolution of the manufacturing technology, nowadays, it is one of the candidate solutions to provide on-demand connectivity in 5G network systems.
History
UAVs, more commonly identified as drones, are small aircraft or balloons than can be controlled in a remote manner by a radio control/RF module or using intelligent on-board systems that make the drone autonomous, simply cooperating with the network infrastructure and without human interaction.
Historically, UAVs were only considered as expensive toys, thus, they were mainly used for military purposes such as cargo delivery, remote surveillance, armed attacks, and to reduce the soldiers losses in harsh territory since only a remote human pilot with a radiofrequency control was involved. The primitive use of a UAV was recorded at Venice in 1849 when the Austrians attacked Italy using unmanned balloons furnished with explosives. Applications of UAVs were also present during the first and second world wars.
Thanks to the advancement of on-board sensors and manufacturing technologies, in the second half of the twentieth century, UAVs were also used for espionage and hostage search using wireless sensors.
In the early 2000s, both the costs and the size reduced, thus, UAVs civilian and commercial applications started to be predominant, allowing a myriad of uses in the wireless communications field with the support of the existing network architecture, such as package delivery and traffic control in smart city context, or precision agriculture and terrain inspection in Industry 4.0. It is worth noting that in all these scenarios UAVs work as aerial user equipments (UEs), in coexistence with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastix%20%28image%20registration%29 | Elastix is an image registration toolbox built upon the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). It is entirely open-source and provides a wide range of algorithms employed in image registration problems. Its components are designed to be modular to ease a fast and reliable creation of various registration pipelines tailored for case-specific applications. It was first developed by Stefan Klein and Marius Staring under the supervision of Josien P.W. Pluim at Image Sciences Institute (ISI). Its first version was command-line based, allowing the final user to employ scripts to automatically process big data-sets and deploy multiple registration pipelines with few lines of code. Nowadays, to further widen its audience, a version called SimpleElastix is also available, developed by Kasper Marstal, which allows the integration of elastix with high level languages, such as Python, Java, and R.
Image registration fundamentals
Image registration is a well-known technique in digital image processing that searches for the geometric transformation that, applied to a moving image, obtains a one-to-one map with a target image. Generally, the images acquired from different sensors (multimodal), time instants (multitemporal), and points of view (multiview) should be correctly aligned to proceed with further processing and feature extraction. Even though there are a plethora of different approaches to image registration, the majority is composed of the same macro building blocks, namely the transformation, the interpolator, the metric, and the optimizer. Registering two or more images can be framed as an optimization problem that requires multiple iterations to converge to the best solution. Starting from an initial transformation computed from the image moments the optimization process searches for the best transformation parameters based on the value of the selected similarity metric. The figure on the right shows the high-level representation of the registration of two images, where the reference remains constant during the entire process, while the moving one will be transformed according to the transformation parameters. In other words, the registration ends when the similarity metric, which is a mathematical function with a certain number of parameters to be optimized, reaches the optimal value which is highly dependent on the specific application.
Main building blocks
Following the structure of the image registration workflow, the elastix toolbox proposes a modular solution that implements for each of the building blocks different algorithms, highly employed in medical image registration, and helps the final users to build their specific pipeline by selecting the most suitable algorithm for each of the main building blocks. Each block is easily configurable both by selecting pre-defined initialization values or by trying multiple sets of parameters and then choosing the most performing one. The registration is performed on images, and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilthoven%20Meetings | The Bilthoven Meetings were a series of networking and capacity building meetings of pacifist activists after World War I in the town of Bilthoven in the Netherlands. The activists gathered under the name of Movement Towards a Christian International, which was later renamed to International Fellowship of Reconciliation. The meetings took place at the house of Kees Boeke, a Quaker missionary and pacifist.
The meetings were fundamental for the development of the international peace movement in the first half of the 20th century, as they resulted in the creation of three international peace organisations between 1919 and 1921:International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), Service Civil international (SCI) and War Resisters' International (WRI).
Three Meetings
October 1919
The invitation to the first of the three meetings was issued by Ernest and Eveline Fletcher, Kees Boeke and Henry Hodgkin for participants to attend an international peace conference to take place between 4-19 October 1919. Fifty participants attended this meeting, among them people from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Switzerland and the USA. Notable attendees included Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, J. B. Hugenholz, Mathilda Wrede, Lilian Stevenson, Leonhard Ragaz and Pierre Cérésole. Many of the participants were conscientious objectors who were detained during World War I. Cérésole was appointed as conference secretary due to his extensive language skills.
August 1920
The second Bilthoven meeting took place in July 1920. Here, Pierre Cérésole suggested to organise international workcamps as a means to foster reconciliation by rebuilding infrastructure destroyed during World War I. The work was to be organised in a way similar to the reconstruction efforts of the Quakers in Poland and France. This suggestion was positively received by those at the meeting, notably a German man whose brother had been involved in the destruction of Northern France as a soldier and now wished to be involved in the reconstruction.
The first reconstruction camp took place in November 1920 in the village of Esnes, which had been destroyed in 1916 during the Battle of Verdun. The village was chosen also in order to foster reconciliation between French and German citizens. For the project, Cérésole enlisted the help of English Quaker Hubert Parris for his experience in organizing relief work. The project eventually had to be cancelled due to resentment from local French towards the German volunteers as the scars of World War I were still fresh. Inspired by the efforts of the volunteers, Cérésole conceptualized a voluntary service as an alternative to countries' mandatory military service. This became known as Service Civil International (SCI).
March 1921
A short conference with representatives of European peace activists took place in Bilthoven from 22-25 March, 1921. Together with Helene Stöcker, they founded the "PACO" ("peace" in Esperanto) movement, which in 1923 change |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueLeaks | BlueLeaks, sometimes referred to by the Twitter hashtag #BlueLeaks, refers to 269.21 gibibytes of internal U.S. law enforcement data obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous and released on June 19, 2020, by the activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets, which called it the "largest published hack of American law enforcement agencies".
The data — internal intelligence, bulletins, emails, and reports — was produced between August 1996 and June 2020 by more than 200 law enforcement agencies, which provided it to fusion centers. It was obtained through a security breach of Netsential, a web developer that works with fusion centers and law enforcement.
The leaks were released at hunter.ddosecrets.com and announced on the @DDoSecrets Twitter account. The account was banned shortly after for "dissemination of hacked materials" and "information that could have put individuals at risk of real-world harm." Wired reported that Distributed Denial of Secrets attempted to remove sensitive information from the data before publication. National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) officials confirmed the authenticity of the data, according to documents obtained by security journalist Brian Krebs; the organization warned its members that hackers may use the leaked information to target them.
Background
The Blue Leaks data comes largely from the intelligence gathered by fusion centers. After the September 11 attacks, the United States government sought to improve communication between different levels of law enforcement to better discover and prevent terrorist attacks. They encouraged state and local governments to create fusion centers: physical locations where representatives of different law enforcement agencies share and collectively analyze intelligence before distributing reports back to their respective agencies. Fusion centers have since begun working with private data brokers with little public oversight.
Fusion centers have been criticized as privacy-invading, ineffective, and targeted at political groups. In 2012, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that over the 13 months of review, fusion centers did not contribute to the identification or prevention of a terrorist plot, and that of the 386 unclassified fusion center reports it reviewed, three-quarters had no connection to terrorism at all. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security identified a number of privacy-related concerns created by fusion centers. The department noted that the excessive secrecy of fusion centers led to comparisons with COINTELPRO, and that fusion center reports sometimes distribute inaccurate or incomplete information. The 2012 Senate report points to a report issued by an Illinois fusion center in 2011. The report wrongly claimed that Russian hackers were to blame for a broken water pump, and despite the Department of Homeland Security publicly stating the report was false, its Office of Intelligence and Analysis included the claims in its rep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara%20Norman | Dara J. Norman is an astronomer and the deputy director of the Community Science and Data Center at the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) in Tucson, Arizona. She is also the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Diversity Advocate at NOAO. Her research centers on the influence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the evolution of galaxies. In 2020, she was inducted into the inaugural cohort of American Astronomical Society Fellows in recognition of her leadership and achievements.
Education and early career
Norman grew up on the south side of Chicago, Illinois where she developed a love of astronomy, influenced by her mother, who was a fan of science fiction and the United States Space program. As a child, she wanted to grow up to be an astronomer before attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, she studied under the mentorship of James Elliott, who was known for his leadership of the team that discovered Uranus's rings. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1988 in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science.
After completing her undergraduate studies, Norman worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for three years. While presenting her research at the 1992 American Astronomical Society meeting, she met Bruce Margon, the chairman of the University of Washington's Astronomy department where she had recently applied to attend graduate school. The two had recently observed the same active galaxy using the Hubble Space Telescope, which they discussed during Norman's poster presentation. Norman was ultimately admitted to the university's graduate program and began in the Fall of 1992.Norman received her Doctorate degree in 1999, becoming the first African American woman to earn her Ph.D. in astronomy at the university. During her doctoral work, she specialized in gravitational lensing studied quasars. Following her doctoral work, Norman worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Stony Brook University. Subsequently, she became a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, working at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) with the Deep Lens Survey team. In that role, she worked to understand how observed galaxies are magnified by gravitational lensing and how this so-called "magnification bias" affects our view of the universe.
Career
Research
Norman is now an associate scientist and the deputy director of the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) at the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), which operates NOAO as of October 1, 2019. Her research interests have evolved to focus on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), which are compact regions at the center of galaxies that are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes. AGN, which can be more luminous than an entire galaxy of stars, form as stars and gases are accreted through the activity of a supermassive black hole. Norman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS%20Big%20Sur | macOS Big Sur (version 11) is the seventeenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s operating system for Macintosh computers. It was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 22, 2020, and was released to the public on November 12, 2020.
Big Sur is the successor to macOS Catalina, and was succeeded by macOS Monterey, which was released on October 25, 2021.
Most notably, macOS Big Sur features a user interface redesign that features new blurs to establish a visual hierarchy and also includes a revamp of the Time Machine backup mechanism, among other changes. It is also the first macOS version to support Macs with ARM-based processors. To mark the transition, the operating system's major version number was incremented, for the first time since 2001, from 10 to 11. The operating system is named after the coastal region of Big Sur in the Central Coast of California, continuing the naming trend of California locations that began with OS X Mavericks.
macOS Big Sur is the final version of macOS that supports Macs with Nvidia graphics cards, specifically the 15-inch dual graphics late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro models, as its successor, macOS Monterey, drops support for those models.
Development history
Providing some indication as to how the pre-release operating system may have been viewed internally at Apple during its development cycle, documentation accompanying the initial beta release of macOS Big Sur referred to its version as "10.16", and when upgrading from prior versions of macOS using the Software Update mechanism to early beta releases, the version referred to was "10.16". An exception to this was the Developer Transition Kit, which always reported the system version as "11.0". macOS Big Sur started reporting the system version as "11.0" on all Macs as of the third beta release.
To maintain backwards compatibility, macOS Big Sur identified itself as 10.16 to software and in the browser user agent.
System requirements
Unlike macOS Catalina, which supported every standard configuration Mac that Mojave supported, Big Sur drops support for various Macs released in 2012 and early 2013. Big Sur runs on the following Macs:
iMac (Mid 2014 or later)
iMac Pro (2017)
MacBook (Early 2015 or later)
MacBook Air (Mid 2013 or later)
MacBook Pro (Late 2013 or later)
Mac Mini (Late 2014 or later)
Mac Pro (Late 2013 or later)
Developer Transition Kit (only up to Big Sur 11.3 beta 2)
By using patch tools, macOS Big Sur can be installed on earlier computers that are officially unsupported, such as the 2012 iMac and the 2012 MacBook Pro. Using these methods, it is possible to install macOS Big Sur on computers as old as a 2008 MacBook Pro and iMac and 2009 Mac Mini.
Changes
Design
macOS Big Sur refreshes the design of the user interface, described by Apple as the biggest change since the introduction of Mac OS X. Its changes include translucency in various places, a new abstract wallpaper for the first time and a new color pal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Robinson | William Hugh Robinson is an American engineer who is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Academic at Vanderbilt University. His research considers sophisticated computer systems for consumer and industrial use. He is an advocate for improving access to engineering, and leads several investigations into programmes that better support people from marginalised groups.
Early life and education
Robinson studied electrical engineering at the Florida A&M University. He was a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, where he earned a master's degree and a doctorate. His doctoral research was in the portable image computation architecture group of D. Scott Wills. Robinson earned his PhD in 2003, where was made an Assistant Professor of Engineering.
Research and career
Robinson leads the Security And Fault Tolerance (SAF-T) Research group at Vanderbilt University. In particular, his work focuses on the design and implementation of computing systems for industrial and medical applications. In these systems, Robinson makes use of information leakage to bridge the fields of computer networking and architecture. In 2010 Robinson was the first African-American to earn tenure in the department of engineering, and in 2018 became the first African-American to achieve tenure. Robinson is a two-time winner of the Florida A&M University alumni awards, in both the Young and Outstanding categories.
Academic service
Robinson has worked on several projects to improve diversity within science and engineering. He serves as chair of the 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, an organisation that looks to In 2016 he was awarded the Vanderbilt University Chancellor's Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. That year he was made Associate Dean. Robinson contributed to the book Diversifying STEM, which studied the intersection of race, gender and participation in science and engineering. Robinson leads the Vanderbilt University Explorations in Diversifying Engineering Faculty Initiative, a multi-disciplinary research programme that looks to better understand the factors that impact recruitment and retention of engineers who have been marginalised because of their race or gender. He was elected Chair of the Vanderbilt University Diversity Council in 2019. In this capacity, he leads the Academic Pathways programme which offers postdoctoral positions to researchers from marginalised groups. In June 2020 he was made Executive Director of the Vanderbilt University Provost's Office for Inclusive Excellence.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American engineers
American computer scientists
American engineers
Florida A&M University alumni
Vanderbilt University faculty
Georgia Tech alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachinburi%20National%20Museum | Prachinburi National Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑสถานแห่งชาติ ปราจีนบุรี) is located in Prachinburi in the central province of Thailand. It is part of the network of National museums of Thailand operated by the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture which is responsible for the safeguarding of state-owned historical and cultural artefacts. In 1926, King Prajadhipok created the Royal Institute of Art, Literature and Archaeology which then opened the museum in Bangkok at the Wang Na palace. Since that time the network has expanded substantially and today there are total of forty three national museum branches across the country.
Collections
The collections at the museum come from the seven districts (amphoe) of Prachinburi Province and are especially notable for early Buddhist and Hindu sculptures of the Dvaravati period.
Virtual Museum
Highlights of the collection are available on the National Museums database.
References
Buildings and structures in Prachinburi province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athalia%20cordata | Athalia cordata is a Palearctic species of sawfly.
References
External links
The sawflies (Symphyta) of Britain and Ireland
Hymenoptera of Europe
Tenthredinidae
Insects described in 1823 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2020–21 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2020 through August 2021. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2019–20 television season, for Canadian, American and other series. CBC was first to announce its fall schedule on May 27, 2020, followed by Citytv on June 22, and CTV and Global on June 23. CTV was first to announce its winter schedule on December 1, followed by Global on December 16 and the CBC on December 17, 2020. As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after they have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. CTV 2 is not included on Saturday as it normally only schedules encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
Legend
Light blue indicates local programming.
Grey indicates encore programming.
Blue-grey indicates news programming.
Light green indicates sporting events/coverage.
Light purple indicates movies.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series to Canadian television are highlighted in bold.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time). Subtract one hour for Central time for most programs (excluding CBC). Airtimes may vary in the Atlantic and Mountain times and do not necessarily align with U.S. stations in the Mountain time zone. Add one half-hour to Atlantic Time schedule for Newfoundland time. (See also: Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
CBC
Returning series:
Baroness von Sketch Show
Battle of the Blades
Burden of Truth
Catastrophe
Coroner
Diggstown
Family Feud Canada
The Fifth Estate
Frankie Drake Mysteries
The Great Canadian Baking Show
The Great British Baking Show
Halifax Comedy Fest
Heartland
Just for Laughs: Galas
Kim's Convenience
Marketplace
Murdoch Mysteries
The National
The Nature of Things
Pure
Still Standing
TallBoyz
22 Minutes
Workin' Moms
You Can't Ask That
New series:
Anyone's Game
Arctic Vets
Enslaved
Pretty Hard Cases
The Sounds
Trickster
War of the Worlds
Not returning from 2019–20:
Anne
Back in Time for Winter
The Detectives
Endlings (moved to CBC Gem)
Find Me in Paris (moved to CBC Gem)
Fortunate Son
Fridge Wars
In the Making
Northern Rescue
The Oland Murder
Schitt's Creek
Wild Bill
Citytv
Returning series:
A Million Little Things
American Idol (moved from CTV)
America's Got Talent
The Bachelor
Bachelor in Paradise USA
The Bachelorette
Beat Shazam
Black-ish
Bless the Harts
Bob's Burgers
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Card Sharks
Celebrity Family Feud
Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Chicago P.D.
Dancing with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20Attack | Bug Attack is a fixed shooter video game written by Jim Nitchals for the Apple II and published by Cavalier Computer in 1981. An Atari 8-bit family version was released in 1982.
Gameplay
Bug Attack is a game in which the player uses beetles to fight other insects.
Reception
Dave Jones reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "the novel touches of Bug Attack, such as the variety of vegetations and patterns of color, and the intermissions which break up the action between insect waves, served to maintain my interest in the game hour after hour. The author of the game is to be complemented on his packing such a successful combination of imaginative flair and technical expertise into the confines of the Apple II."
Reviews
Softline
Softalk
Electronic Games
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Book of Atari Software 1983
Creative Computing
References
External links
Review in InCider
1981 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Fixed shooters
FM-7 games
NEC PC-8801 games
Video games about insects
Video games developed in the United States |
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