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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Art%20of%20Murder | The Art of Murder is a 1999 American-Canadian thriller television film that first aired on the network television on December 14, 1999. It stars Michael Moriarty, Joanna Pacula, Boyd Kestner and Peter Onorati.
Plot
Elizabeth Sheridan (Joanna Pacula), a painter, is married to Cole (Michael Moriarty), who runs a yacht-building company. When Cole becomes abusive, Elizabeth begins an affair with Tony Blanchard (Boyd Kestner), the firm's top designer. When a blackmailer (Peter Onorati) produces incriminating pictures of her and Tony, she and Tony agree to pay, but when murder gets added to the mix, she becomes the obvious suspect.
Cast
Michael Moriarty as Cole Sheridan
Joanna Pacula as Elizabeth Sheridan
Boyd Kestner as Tony Blanchard
Peter Onorati as Willie Kassel
Nathaniel Deveaux as Sheriff Powers Crawford
Kathryn Anderson as Tina
Betty Linde as Ora Mae Howell
Mark Brandon as Ken Lothrop
Thomas Miller as Tommy Lothrop
Jaclynn Grad as Casey McHugh
John Nelson as Trooper
John Tierney as Burton Hiasen
Kim Stern as Waitress
Reception
In a review for Radio Times, David Parkinson said in regards of Joanna Pacula's appearance in the film, "Ever since she hit Hollywood in 1983's Gorky Park, Polish-born Joanna Pacula has been slowly sliding down the rankings. This is a pity, as she's an incredibly physical actress in every sense of the word. She certainly deserves better than this tepid thriller." Parkinson summarized the film's plot as "There's a couple of twists that just about pass muster. But whether you'll consider them worth waiting for, after an interminably slow opening, is debatable."
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1999 television films
1999 films
1999 thriller films
Adultery in films
American thriller television films
1990s English-language films
Canadian thriller television films
English-language Canadian films
Films about domestic violence
1990s American films
1990s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72nd%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2019, until May 31, 2020, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across five ceremonies; the first four were held on September 14 through 17, 2020, and were streamed online, while the fifth was held on September 19 and broadcast on FXX. They were presented in a virtual ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Nicole Byer hosted the event. A total of 106 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 100 categories. The ceremonies preceded the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 20.
The Mandalorian and Watchmen led all programs with seven wins each, followed by Saturday Night Live with six and RuPaul's Drag Race with five. Watchmen was also the most-nominated program with 15 nominations; The Mandalorian followed with 14, while The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Saturday Night Live each received 12. Overall program awards went to 22 shows, including The Apollo, Bad Education, The Cave, Cheer, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Last Dance, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, Live in Front of a Studio Audience, Queer Eye, Rick and Morty, Saturday Night Live, and We Are the Dream, among others. Netflix led all networks with 124 nominations; it also tied with HBO for the most wins, as each received 19 awards.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2019–2020 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
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Bad Education (HBO) American Son (Netflix)
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings: These Old Bones (Netflix)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Netflix)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend (Netflix)
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Saturday Night Live (NBC) A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO)
Drunk History (Comedy Central)
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (ABC) 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards (NBC)
The Oscars (ABC)
Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show Starring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira (Fox)
73rd Annual Tony Awards (CBS)
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Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones (Netflix) Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (PBS)
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix)
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (Netflix)
John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix)
Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah (Netflix)
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Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat%20Leader | Combat Leader is a 1983 video game published by Strategic Simulations.
Gameplay
Combat Leader is a game in which the player goes against the computer in a platoon level tactical wargame.
Reception
Floyd Mathews reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Twentieth century small unit tactics is a very complex subject, and this program realistically portrays the uncertainties and hazards faced by a modern mechanized company commander."
Reviews
Zzap! - May, 1985
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
References
External links
Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984
Review in Antic
Review in Commodore Power/Play
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Videogaming Illustrated
Review in Family Computing
Review in GAMES Magazine
Review in Micro Adventurer
Article in Commodore Horizons
1983 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
Tank simulation video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective%20classification | In network theory, collective classification is the simultaneous prediction of the labels for multiple objects, where each label is predicted using information about the object's observed features, the observed features and labels of its neighbors, and the unobserved labels of its neighbors. Collective classification problems are defined in terms of networks of random variables, where the network structure determines the relationship between the random variables. Inference is performed on multiple random variables simultaneously, typically by propagating information between nodes in the network to perform approximate inference. Approaches that use collective classification can make use of relational information when performing inference. Examples of collective classification include predicting attributes (ex. gender, age, political affiliation) of individuals in a social network, classifying webpages in the World Wide Web, and inferring the research area of a paper in a scientific publication dataset.
Motivation and background
Traditionally, a major focus of machine learning is to solve classification problems. (For example, given a collection of e-mails, we wish to determine which are spam, and which are not.) Many machine learning models for performing this task will try to categorize each item independently, and focus on predicting the class labels separately. However, the prediction accuracy for the labels whose values must be inferred can be improved with knowledge of the correct class labels for related items. For example, it is easier to predict the topic of a webpage if we know the topics of the webpages that link to it. Similarly, the chance of a particular word being a verb increases if we know that the previous word in the sentence is a noun; knowing the first few characters in a word can make it much easier to identify the remaining characters. Many researchers have proposed techniques that attempt to classify samples in a joint or collective manner, instead of treating each sample in isolation; these techniques have enabled significant gains in classification accuracy.
Example
Consider the task of inferring the political affiliation of users in a social network, where some portion of these affiliations are observed, and the remainder are unobserved. Each user has local features, such as their profile information, and links exist between users who are friends in this social network. An approach that does not collectively classify users will consider each user in the network independently and use their local features to infer party affiliations. An approach which performs collective classification might assume that users who are friends tend to have similar political views, and could then jointly infer all unobserved party affiliations while making use of the rich relational structure of the social network.
Definition
Consider the semi supervised learning problem of assigning labels to nodes in a network by using knowledge of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Flemming | William Flemming (born 1979) is an American sportscaster who broadcasts play-by-play of Boston Red Sox games with the WEEI Red Sox Radio Network alongside veteran announcer Joe Castiglione; Prior to joining WEEI in 2019, Flemming served as the play-by-play voice of the Pawtucket Red Sox, the team’s Triple A affiliate. Flemming also has experience calling a wide range of sports including college basketball and hockey for ESPN and CBS Sports.
In addition Flemming has worked for FOX Sports, Turner Broadcasting, the IUPUI men's basketball team, as well as the Indianapolis Indians, Potomac Nationals and Lancaster JetHawks baseball teams.
Flemming has a B.A. from Stanford University in Spanish literature. His brother Dave Flemming is a broadcaster for the San Francisco Giants and ESPN.
References
1980 births
Living people
American radio sports announcers
Boston Red Sox announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College hockey announcers in the United States
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minor League Baseball broadcasters
Sportspeople from Alexandria, Virginia
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerio%20Pascucci |
Overview
Valerio Pascucci (born May 13, 1967 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian computer scientist. He is the John R. Parks Inaugural Endowed Chair of the University of Utah, and the Founding Director of the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization (CEDMAV). Valerio is a faculty of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), a Professor of Computer Science of the School of Computing of the University of Utah, and was named Laboratory Fellow at PNNL. His research interests are in the areas of scientific visualization, High Performance Computing, large scale scientific data management, and Computational Topology.
Biography
Valerio received his MS in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from the Sapienza University of Rome, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000 from Purdue University.
From 2000-2008, Valerio was a Computer Scientist, Project Leader, and Data Analysis Group Leader of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From 2005-2008, Valerio was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Davis.
In 2008, Valerio joined the University of Utah, as an Associate Professor of Computer Science. In 2011 he was promoted to the rank of Professor of the University of Utah School of Computing and founded the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization.
In 2011, Valerio was named DOE Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
In 2020 Valerio was General Chair of the IEEE Conference on Visualization, the world premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics.
Outside of his academic activities, Valerio is the Founder and Chair of the Board of the Data Intensive Science Foundation, a non-profit established in 2019, devoted to promoting advanced technologies for science and engineering while providing outreach and training support for the betterment of society. Valerio is also the Founding President of ViSOAR L.L.C., a spinoff of the University of Utah established in 2011.
Selected publications
Selected publications
References
Italian computer scientists
1967 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAQ-FM | 95.9 Radyo Bisdak (DXAQ 95.9 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Times Broadcasting Network Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at 2nd Floor, JM Building, Bonifacio St., Brgy. Central, Dipolog.
References
External links
Radyo Bisdak Dipolog FB Page
Radio stations established in 2016
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Norte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome%20TV | Awesome TV is a free-to-air Malaysian television channel owned by Awesome Media Network Sdn Bhd. The channel features first-run local original production and foreign content. Awesome TV started its trial broadcast on 28 July 2020 and full operation started on 1 August 2020. Awesome TV can be viewed for free nationwide via myFreeview platform on Channel 112 and Astro on Channel 123.
Overview
Awesome TV is a digital television channel headquartered in Malaysia and being the first to officially commence broadcasting through the usage of digital encoding only via DVB-T2 set-top box for viewers in Malaysia. Viewers could watch this channel during trial broadcasting of this channel from 28 July 2020 at 12:00 pm to 3 August 2020 when it was finally launched. At this point of time, Awesome TV does not have any main news time slot either through standalone or from other broadcast television channel.
On 7 January 2021, Awesome TV announced on their official Facebook account that the channel would broadcast on Astro starting 18 January. The channel broadcasts on channel 123 that previously occupied by Astro Ria HD following the renumbering of Astro channels on 1 April 2020.
Starting February 1, 2022, Awesome TV broadcasts its own news, Berita 7:57, the same as Buletin Utama on TV3. The prime time news program is currently broadcasting live from 33, Jalan Rakyat, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
Programming
Original programmes (by Awesome TV)
2020
A! Ketawa
Anugerah Malam Ini
Awesome Minggu Ini
Chit Chat Ustaz
Debat Bukan Gaduh
Fans VS Fanatik
Glam Ke Tenggelam
Ha Ha Ha
Hentam Saja...Lah!
Ihsan Kita Jaman Tori Janda Kosmopolitan Jawapan Panas Keringat Selebriti Langit Bakal Cerah Macam-Macam Show Masaklah Kaw Masak Ni Senang! Mic On! Mummy Oja Ohsem!!! On X on One Two Hantu Oops Terkena Pop Yeah Yeah Ragam Riuh Family Rumah Rara Shuk Nak Tanya Shuk Nak Tanya 2 Tok Kata Transparensi Ujian Menantu Warung Wak You Kat...?2021
Alamak (8 June)
Awesome Mart (23 April)
Glam Ke Teng'glam 2 Lahar Net (6 March)
Layan Karok (9 January)
One Two Hantu 22022
Mic On! Season 2 (28 January)
Warung Wak 3News programme
Berita 7:57
Local and foreign programmes
2020
Baby Riki Cam and Leon Captain Biceps Chronokids Crafty Kids Club Drakers Go Explore Go Travel Kickers Kuali Terbalik Liver or Die Love in the Moonlight Makan Megaman Fully Charged Mr. Bean Animated Series (Moved To TV2 After Season 3)
My Love From Another Star (Original language)
Meow, the Secret Boy (11 November)
My Fellow Citizens Oggy and the Cockroaches Oh My Venus Orang Ketiga Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu Princess Hours Thailand Rindu Tanpa Cinta Senario Sissi: The Young Empress (Animated) Supper Heroes Tales of Nokdu The Eco Traveller The Halal Foodie2021
Adventurous Fins Hantu Van Sewa (8 January)
Rainbow Rangers Rat-A-Tat Temperature of Love The Good Witch The Last Empress (TV series) (29 April)
2022
Beyblade Burst Beyblade Burst Evolution Beyblade Burst Turbo Beyblade Burst Rise Shau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Vetter | Jeffrey S. Vetter is a Corporate Fellow of computer science and mathematics, and the founding group leader at the Future Technologies Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Education
Vetter attended Georgia Tech where he obtained his Ph.D. in computer science.
Research
His current research interests include scientific workflow systems, cloud computing, resource management, with particular emphasis on scientific workflow system management.
Honors
Vetter is a Fellow of the IEEE.
References
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Georgia Tech alumni
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Buena%20Familia%20episodes | Buena Familia is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from July 28, 2015, to March 4, 2016, replacing Yagit.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
July 2015
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//G.U.%2B | .hack//G.U.+ is a shōnen manga written by Tetsuya Hamazaki and illustrated by Yuzuka Morita. Based on CyberConnect2's role-playing game trilogy .hack//G.U. for the PlayStation 2, the series follows an online gamer called Haseo who is on a quest of revenge to defeat the player killer Tri-Edge who sent his friend Shino into a coma in real life. The series was published in Kadokawa Shoten's magazine .hack//G.U. The World between 2006 and 2009 and collected in a total of five tankobon volumes. TokyoPop licensed the series to be published in North America starting in February 2008.
Despite being an adaptation of the video games, Hamazaki addressed multiple changes in freedom given to work in the manga. This include Haseo's darker characterization to reflect a teenager's angst as well as a new character named Kazumi who stars as an antagonist in the manga's second half.
Critical reception to the manga expressed mixed thoughts on Haseo due to his portrayal of an anti-hero despite having noble goals while the plot was praised for being easy to understand despite being part of a large media. Morita's artwork was the subject positive response based on the character designs and fight scenes.
Plot
Set in 2017, .hack//G.U.+ chronicles the revenge quest of Haseo, a player from the online video game The World. Haseo is a player killer of player kills, defeating a group of them in the first chapter who were aiming to kill the young Atoli. Haseo seeks the pk Tri-Edge who used an unknown skill to send his friend Shino into a coma after defeating her in the game. With help from his former mentor, Ovan, Haseo learns of the current location of Tri-Edge, a cathedral. However, Tri-Edge, easily defeats Haseo, sending him into a coma for a short time where his PC is taken to the guild of the Serpent of Knowledge who have been investigating Tri-Edge actions as they work for The Worlds developers. When Haseo recovers, he learns that Azure Flame Kite is the true name of the Tri-Edge and that multiple people have been sent into a coma by Tri-Edge through a virus known as AIDA. Finding a chance to bring Shino back, Haseo joins G.U..
Once joining G.U. Haseo meets Khun who reveals that there are eight players called Epitaph Users who can use Kite's Data Drain skills provided by their Avatars in order to defeat the AIDA. Haseo and Shino are two of the eight Epitaph Users. Seeking to wake up his Avatar, Haseo is motivated by Ovan to face Endrance, a gamer famous in The World tournaments who possesses both AIDA and an Avatar. When facing Endrance, Haseo awakes his own Avatar, Skeith, and defeats Endrance, erasing his AIDA in the process. During his quest, Haseo, Khun and G.U.'s Pi face Azure Kite, but are unable to make him reveal information about the Lost Ones. After saving an AIDA infected Atoli, Ovan reveals himself to Haseo as the true Tri-Edge whose PC contains AIDA. Ovan had manipulated Haseo to awaken his Avatar and gather all other ones in order to unlock his own ski |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20impact%20of%20artificial%20intelligence | The impact of artificial intelligence on workers includes both applications to improve worker safety and health, and potential hazards that must be controlled.
One potential application is using AI to eliminate hazards by removing humans from hazardous situations that involve risk of stress, overwork, or musculoskeletal injuries. Predictive analytics may also be used to identify conditions that may lead to hazards such as fatigue, repetitive strain injuries, or toxic substance exposure, leading to earlier interventions. Another is to streamline workplace safety and health workflows through automating repetitive tasks, enhancing safety training programs through virtual reality, or detecting and reporting near misses.
When used in the workplace, AI also presents the possibility of new hazards. These may arise from machine learning techniques leading to unpredictable behavior and inscrutability in their decision-making, or from cybersecurity and information privacy issues. Many hazards of AI are psychosocial due to its potential to cause changes in work organization. These include changes in the skills required of workers, increased monitoring leading to micromanagement, algorithms unintentionally or intentionally mimicking undesirable human biases, and assigning blame for machine errors to the human operator instead. AI may also lead to physical hazards in the form of human–robot collisions, and ergonomic risks of control interfaces and human–machine interactions. Hazard controls include cybersecurity and information privacy measures, communication and transparency with workers about data usage, and limitations on collaborative robots.
From a workplace safety and health perspective, only "weak" or "narrow" AI that is tailored to a specific task is relevant, as there are many examples that are currently in use or expected to come into use in the near future. "Strong" or "general" AI is not expected to be feasible in the near future, and discussion of its risks is within the purview of futurists and philosophers rather than industrial hygienists.
Certain digital technologies are predicted to result in job losses. In recent years, the adoption of modern robotics has led to net employment growth. However, many businesses anticipate that automation, or employing robots would result in job losses in the future. This is especially true for companies in Central and Eastern Europe. Other digital technologies, such as platforms or big data, are projected to have a more neutral impact on employment.
Health and safety applications
In order for any potential AI health and safety application to be adopted, it requires acceptance by both managers and workers. For example, worker acceptance may be diminished by concerns about information privacy, or from a lack of trust and acceptance of the new technology, which may arise from inadequate transparency or training. Alternatively, managers may emphasize increases in economic productivity rather than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admetella%20longipedata | Admetella longipedata is a scale worm that occurs widely in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at depths of 400–6,000m.
Description
Admetella longipedata has 82 segments and 31 pairs of elytra. The lateral antennae are inserted terminally on anterior margin of prostomium, with auxiliary appendages at the base of the lateral antennae. Notochaetae are thinner than neurochaetae and bidentate neurochaetae are absent
References
Phyllodocida
Animals described in 1885 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw%20Mobile | Shaw Mobile was a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by Shaw Communications, providing services in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
Announced on July 30, 2020, it operated on the Freedom Mobile network, which had been acquired by Shaw in 2016. It was sold exclusively as a bundled add-on for Shaw's home internet services, offering up to six lines with unlimited talk and texting for free, and 25 gigabytes of mobile data for $45 per-month. The service was positioned primarily as a competitor to Telus; by contrast, Freedom is marketed as a competitor to the major carriers' flanker brands (such as Fido, Koodo, and Virgin).
In 2023, Rogers Communications acquired Shaw; although Freedom Mobile was sold to Quebecor as part of the merger, the divestiture excluded the 450,000 Shaw Mobile customers. On April 4, 2023, Shaw Mobile was discontinued for new subscribers; existing customers are being transitioned to comparable Rogers Wireless plans, and will be afforded a five-year price guarantee.
References
External links
Shaw Mobile website
Mobile phone companies of Canada
Rogers Communications
2020 establishments in Alberta
2023 disestablishments in Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS%20Apps%20Library | The NHS Apps Library was a collection of health-related online tools and apps for devices typically using the Android and iOS operating systems. It was created in April 2017 and run by the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Apps were not necessarily originated by the NHS, but were assessed against a range of NHS standards. Most, but not all, apps and services were available without charge; some required a referral from a healthcare practitioner.
It was discontinued in December 2021 with the website stating "We have decided to close the NHS Apps Library and instead we will link to recommended apps throughout the NHS website."
References
National Health Service
Medical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Gu | Steve Gu is an entrepreneur, computer vision scientist, author and the Co-founder and CEO of AiFi, an AI technology company providing autonomous store technology for retailers and brands, recognized as an Amazon Go rival by Fortune and CNBC. Gu has his PhD from Duke University in computer science, advised by Carlo Tomasi.
Career
Gu co-launched AiFi in 2016 with co-founder Ying Zheng. The name "AiFi" was chosen based on Gu's stated goal to make artificial intelligence or AI as available as WiFi. Gu and Zheng used AI in combination with off-the-shelf cameras. Gu said to create a platform that both retrofitted and newly-built stores could use to turn automated and provide checkout-free experience for customers. Gu's company launched autonomous stores in the US, UK, France, Dubai, Poland and China with brands including Carrefour, Majid al Futtaim, Morrisons, Verizon and Zabka.
Before founding AiFi, Gu worked on the Google Glass at Google X in Advanced R&D, Rapid Technology Evaluation, as well as a research scientist at Apple on Force Touch and haptic technology.
Gu is also an author of the book Black Technology published in 2017, in which Gu and other authors from Silicon Valley showcased 21 new technologies from deep learning and AI to human augmentation.
Awards
In 2020, Technology Innovators named Gu one of the Top 50 Artificial Intelligence CEOs. In 2018, Gu and AiFi won Nvidia Corporation’s Inception AI award for the best enterprise startup and shared a $1 million prize with two other winners.
References
Chief executives in the technology industry
Living people
American technology chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Parker | Hilary S. Parker is an American biostatistician and data scientist. She was formerly a senior data analyst at the fashion merchandising company Stitch Fix. Parker co-hosts the data analytics podcast Not So Standard Deviations with Roger Peng. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has formerly been employed by Etsy.
Life and education
Parker graduated from Pomona College in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and mathematics. After earning her MHS, she obtained her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013. Parker resides in San Francisco.
Parker's scientific research began during her PhD in the areas of genomics and personalized medicine. Her research looked at factors like batch effects and their impact on prediction. Working alongside Jeffrey T. Leek, Parker developed methods for the application of genomic technologies in personalized medicine. Batch effects confound data produced by genomic sequencing technologies, like microarrays. Parker's work aims at correcting predictions that are influenced by the batch effect. This helps mitigate the effects of confounded genomic data. This is of importance since the data is used for diagnosis. In her dissertation, "Practical statistical issues in translational genomics," Parker proposed frozen surrogate variable analysis (fSVA) to improve prediction accuracy in public genomic studies and simulations.
Career and research
After her PhD, Parker went on to work as a data scientist in industry. Her first job was as a data analyst (later, senior data analyst) at Etsy, where she worked for approximately three years. Parker self-described her position as an internal statistical consultant, eventually focused on developing A/B testing and other experiments run by the company, along with analyzing the resulting data. Opportunity sizing, experimentation and impact analysis all play a role in how she helped the company development.
In 2015, Parker began work on the podcast, Not So Standard Deviations, with co-host Roger Peng. The pair discuss data analytics, covering statistical computation, data cleaning, and R packages. The show is among the more popular data science and statistics podcasts, with over half a million downloads. The two also co-authored the book, Conversations on Data Science based on their conversations during the podcast. They recorded their 100th podcast episode live on stage as a keynote presentation at the RStudio-sponsored rstudio::conf 2020.
After leaving Etsy, Parker transitioned to a career as a data scientist at personal styling site Stitch Fix. The company employs a human-in-the-loop algorithmic process to generate a recommended box of clothing that is shipped to subscribers. Parker optimizes the algorithms the site uses to recommend clothes to people and helps determine what data is needed from clients to determine clothing matches. She has worked on new forms of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga | Luis Arturo Zúñiga Jory (born 1 December 1982) is a Chilean politician who served as Undersecretary of Assistance Networks. Zúñiga served as chief of staff for health minister Jaime Mañalich during the first term of president Sebastián Piñera and as health director for the commune of Panguipulli.
In 2021, he was elected as constituent.
Notes
References
Living people
1982 births
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Independent Democratic Union politicians
Members of the Chilean Constitutional Convention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20Cyber%20Alliance | The Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA, ukr. Український кіберальянс, УКА) is a community of Ukrainian cyber activists from various cities in Ukraine and around the world. The alliance emerged in the spring of 2016 from the merger of two cyber activists, and Trinity, and was later joined by the group and individual cyber activists from the CyberHunta group. The hacktivists united to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Participation in the Russian-Ukrainian cyber war
The hacktivists began to apply their knowledge to protect Ukraine in cyberspace in the spring of 2014. Over time, the hacktivists began to conduct joint operations. Gradually, some hacker groups united in the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA), in accordance with 17 of the Constitution of Ukraine to defend the independence of their country and its territorial integrity, as is the duty of every citizen. The Ukrainian Cyber Alliance exclusively transmits extracted data for analysis, reconnaissance and publication to the international intelligence community Inform Napalm, as well as to the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.
Notable operations
Operation #opDonbasLeaks
In the spring of 2016, the UCA conducted about one hundred successful hacks of websites and mailboxes of militants, propagandists, their curators, and terrorist organizations operating in the occupied territories. Among the targets was the mailbox of the Russian organization named "Union of Volunteers of Donbass". From this they obtained passport data and photo documents of citizens of Italy, Spain, India and Finland, fighting in the Prizrak Brigade, for which Russia grants, and, if necessary, extends visas. It was found that Russians who were wounded during the fighting in eastern Ukraine were being treated in military hospitals of the Ministry of Defense.
Hacking of the ANNA News site
On April 29, 2016, the Inform Napalm website, with a call to the UCA, reported on the hacking and interface of the Abkhazian Network News Agency (ANNA News) news agency. As a result of the hacking, the site did not work for more than 5 days. The hacktivists posted their first video message on the site's pages, in which they used the Lviv Metro meme. The message stated (translation):
Operation #OpMay9
On May 9, 2016, the UCA conducted operation #OpMay9. Nine sites of Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) terrorists, propagandists, and Russian private military companies (RPMCs) were hacked. The broken sites were left with the hashtags #OpMay9 and #oп9Травня and three short videos about World War II and Ukrainian contributions to the victory over Nazism – what UCA called the "serum of truth". The hacktivists also posted their new video message on the terrorist sites. The video stated:
Operation #opMay18
On May 18, 2016, on the day of remembrance of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the UCA conducted Operation #opMay18. It targeted the website of the so-called chairman of council of ministers of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVP-24 | The SVP-24 is a navigation system that acts as a computerized bomb sight manufactured by Russian company Gefest & T, that is claimed to provide similar accuracy to guided munitions. It uses the Continually Computed Release Point (CCRP) technology. It proved to be highly effective in the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and is being rolled out to all bombers in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and Russian Naval Aviation.
Design
The SVP-24 consists of a GLONASS-supported nav/attack system, a new mission computer, liquid crystal displays, a flight recorder, and a keyboard. It reduces the time needed to program the aircraft's systems before a mission, and it improves the precision of unguided ordnance. It also allows the mission computer to be pre-programmed for automatic weapons release: forward air controllers are able to transmit standardised target coordinates to SVP-24-equipped aircraft. These are automatically fed into the aircraft's nav/attack system, which then generates flight direction commands for the crew to follow. Bombs are then released automatically, without the necessity of acquiring the target with the help of other on-board systems. This system's precision relies entirely on that of the GLONASS signal. As of 2015, the standard-precision GLONASS signal was insufficient for such purposes. Hence, in the first months of the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war, Russian aircraft equipped with the SVP-24 usually missed their targets by around 100 metres. Starting in mid-October 2015, differential correction stations were installed to improve the signal's precision. This improved the average precision of the air strikes to 30-40 metres.
User aircraft
Sukhoi Su-24M
A modernization of the Su-24M was introduced in 2000 with the "Sukhoi" program and in 1999 with the "Gefest" program. It includes the SVP-24, a new HUD (ILS-31, like in Su-27SM or KAI-24) and expanded armament options (Kh-31, Kh-59MK, KAB-500S). The last batch of aircraft modernised in accordance to the Sukhoi program was delivered to the VVS in 2009. The modernization continues with the program "Gefest". All Su-24s in the Central Military District received the SVP-24 in 2013.
Sukhoi Su-25
The Su-25SM3 received the SVP-24 as a result of experience in Syria.
Sukhoi Su-33
In September 2016, it was announced the Su-33 would be outfitted with the SVP-24.
Tupolev Tu-22M3
The Tu-22M3 is being upgraded with the SVP-24-22 system, and digital processing for the aircraft's radar. A SVP-24-22-equipped Tu-22M underwent trials in 2009, and the program has been ordered into production, with deliveries starting in 2012.
Tupolev Tu-95
The Tu-95MS is to be upgraded with the SVP-24.
Tupolev Tu-142
The Russian Navy plans to upgrade the Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft with the installation of the SVP-24 bombing system.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Missile guidance
Military electronics of Russia
Targeting (warfare)
Aircraft weapons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire%20Grey | Berkshire Grey, Inc. is an American technology company based in Bedford Massachusetts that develops integrated artificial intelligence (“AI") and robotic solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. The company's systems automate pick, pack and sort operations.
Berkshire Grey was founded by a group of 20 PhD's in the fields of embedded systems to motion planning.
History
Berkshire Grey was founded in 2013 by Tom Wagner. He was previously chief technology officer of iRobot. Chief Scientist for Berkshire Grey is Matthew T. Mason, former Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and author of two highly cited textbooks on robotic manipulation. Mason was given the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award in 2018. The Berkshire Grey team is staffed with alumni from Uber, Kiva Systems, Tesla, and Carnegie Mellon University.
In December 2018, Berkshire Grey announced it has been selling AI-enabled robotics for retailers and logistics companies, automating tasks not previously performed by machines in commercial settings.
In August, 2019, SoftBank announced it had struck a deal with Berkshire Grey. The deal secured $263 million in series B funding, led by Softbank. The Financial Times reported at that time "Berkshire Grey emerged from five years of secretive development late last year."
ABB, a multinational corporation that operates mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipment, and automation technology areas, in 2019 announced they gave Berkshire Grey their "Most Innovative Solutions” Award.
As of April 2020, media reports indicated Berkshire Grey's robotic solutions had handled millions of items and containers in production facilities.
In February 2021, Berkshire Grey Inc. announced that it plans to go public through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp. (RAAC) bringing their valuation to $2.7 billion. Chief Executive of RAAC is John Delaney, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Berkshire Grey's customers include Walmart, Inc., Target Corp., and FedEx Corp.
The company says its technology will help its customers to compete with Amazon, which has invested billions into automation.
Offering different robotics that include picking, gripping and image sensing, Berkshire Grey has more than 300 patents in the area. Justia lists 59 patents as granted since 2018.
Berkshire Grey plans to use contract manufacturing partners for the robot, camera and conveyor belt parts. They will then assemble them into a finished product with their own employees on-site at the customer location.
In March 2021, Berkshire Grey collaborated with CEVA Logistics to implement robotic automation systems at CEVA's Vancouver eCommerce facility. CEVA used Berkshire Grey's Robotic Product Sortation and Identification system to autonomously identify and sort eCommerce packages.
References
External links
AI companies
American companies established in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Broadcast%20Media | Interactive Broadcast Media, Inc. (IBMI) is a Philippine radio network based in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines.
History
IBMI was established on October 31, 1996 by broadcast veteran Roberto Bacsal and businessman Rene Palma as a media outlet for the then-newly acquired DWWW. Back then, its offices were located at #23 E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave, Quezon City.
In 2010, Antonio "Tonyboy" Cojuangco Jr. acquired a non-controlling share of IBMI and transferred ownership of ABC Development Corporation's former radio stations, collectively known as Dream FM Network, into the former.
In November 2011, IBMI moved to its new home in Atlanta Center, San Juan, Metro Manila after Radio Mindanao Network took over DWWW's operations. In 2012, RMN's parent company, EDCanoy Prime Holdings, acquired 49% of IBMI.
On March 7, 2016, Philippine President Benigno C. Aquino III signed Republic Act No. 10753 which renewed IBMI's legislative franchise for another 25 years. The law granted IBMI a franchise to construct, install, operate, and maintain, for commercial purposes, radio broadcasting stations and television stations, including digital television system, with the corresponding facilities such as relay stations, throughout the Philippines. the law shall took effect on September 5, 2021.
Stations
Former stations
References
Philippine radio networks
Mass media companies established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWare | SmartWare is an office suite, originally developed for MS-DOS and Unix, and later Microsoft Windows, including a database, word processor, spreadsheet, and a (now obsolete) "communication" module for communication via a modem .
The user interface consists of a window in which documents, spreadsheets and database views are displayed and can be manipulated via a command line at the bottom of the window. Significantly the product includes a complete and powerful programming language enabling developers to build complex applications. The spreadsheet and word processor modules are proprietary, but the database is built on a FairCom database engine.
Started in 1983, it was developed for many years, with SmartWare 4.5 released in 2004 and VisualSmartWare being released in 2006. The later versions include features such as the capability to communicate with SQL servers, use Microsofts Dynamic-link library and ActiveX technologies, and optionally provide a less 'Dossy' looking user interface.
Smartware is still widely used and has an active online Smartware Users Group - Smug.
Similar and competitive packages included Lotus Symphony, Microsoft Works, Context MBA, Framework, Enable and Ability Office.
See also
Lotus Symphony (MS-DOS)
Microsoft Works
References
External links
SmartWare 4.5 website
VisualSmartWare website (Internet Archive copy from 2008)
Office suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20evaluation | In mathematics and computer science, polynomial evaluation refers to computation of the value of a polynomial when its indeterminates are substituted for some values. In other words, evaluating the polynomial at consists of computing See also
For evaluating the univariate polynomial the most naive method would use multiplications to compute , use multiplications to compute and so on for a total of multiplications and additions.
Using better methods, such as Horner's rule, this can be reduced to multiplications and additions. If some preprocessing is allowed, even more savings are possible.
Background
This problem arises frequently in practice. In computational geometry, polynomials are used to compute function approximations using Taylor polynomials. In cryptography and hash tables, polynomials are used to compute k-independent hashing.
In the former case, polynomials are evaluated using floating-point arithmetic, which is not exact. Thus different schemes for the evaluation will, in general, give slightly different answers. In the latter case, the polynomials are usually evaluated in a finite field, in which case the answers are always exact.
General methods
Horner's rule
Horner's method evaluates a polynomial using repeated bracketing:
This method reduces the number of multiplications and additions to just
Horner's method is so common that a computer instruction "multiply–accumulate operation" has been added to many computer processors, which allow doing the addition and multiplication operations in one combined step.
Multivariate
If the polynomial is multivariate, Horner's rule can be applied recursively over some ordering of the variables.
E.g.
can be written as
An efficient version of this approach was described by Carnicer and Gasca.
Estrin's scheme
While it's not possible to do less computation than Horner's rule (without preprocessing), on modern computers the order of evaluation can matter a lot for the computational efficiency.
A method known as Estrin's scheme computes a (single variate) polynomial in a tree like pattern:
Combined by Exponentiation by squaring, this allows parallelizing the computation.
Evaluation with preprocessing
Arbitrary polynomials can be evaluated with fewer
operations than Horner's rule requires if we first "preprocess"
the coefficients .
An example was first given by Motzkin who noted that
can be written as
where the values are computed in advanced, based on .
Motzkin's method uses just 3 multiplications compared to Horner's 4.
The values for each can be easily computed by expanding and equating the coefficients:
Example
To compute the Taylor expansion ,
we can upscale by a factor 24, apply the above steps, and scale back down.
That gives us the three multiplication computation
Improving over the equivalent Horner form (that is ) by 1 multiplication.
Some general methods include the Knuth–Eve algorithm and the Rabin–Winograd algorithm.
Multipoint evaluation
Ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anny%20Robert | Anietie "Anny" Robert (born 28 October 1990) is a Nigerian portrait photographer and creative director based in Niger State, Nigeria.
Education
Robert studied computer science at Covenant University.
Career
Robert started his career in graphic artistry before transitioning to photography in 2014. His portfolio includes photographs of notable individuals such as Folorunsho Alakija, Burna Boy, Davido, Donald Duke, Tony Elumelu, Ice Prince, and WizKid. He co-owns StudioX, a photography studio, in partnership with Ari Labadi.
Robert's work as a photographer has gained recognition, with his name appearing on lists of top photographers in Nigeria and Africa. His work is characterized by its exploration of ideas and human realities.
In 2020, Robert served as a judge for OPPO Mobile's Redefinition Photography Contest, where he documented the lives of young Lagosians through his photography.
Additionally, Robert is recognized for his role in discovering and promoting the model Amaka.
Social activism
Robert has employed his photography for social activism purposes, including a photo session with breast cancer survivor Omolara Cookey as part of breast cancer awareness activities in 2017. In the same year, Robert released a series of images exploring the identity of modern women.
In 2019, he collaborated with MAJU, a female fashion brand in Nigeria, for the "I am Woman" session in celebration of Women's History Month. The session featured fashion model Aduke Bey and stylist Angel Obasi.
In 2020, Robert launched the "Women for Women" campaign, highlighting women activists in Nigeria.
Exhibits
In August 2020, Robert was one of several photographers featured in the digital exhibition "A Moment in History," presented by House of ZETA.
In December 2022, Robert participated in "The Ascension," an art show in Lagos curated by Áwurè.
References
People from Lagos State
Covenant University alumni
Fashion photographers
Nigerian photographers
1990 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkhoff%20algorithm | Birkhoff's algorithm (also called Birkhoff-von-Neumann algorithm) is an algorithm for decomposing a bistochastic matrix into a convex combination of permutation matrices. It was published by Garrett Birkhoff in 1946. It has many applications. One such application is for the problem of fair random assignment: given a randomized allocation of items, Birkhoff's algorithm can decompose it into a lottery on deterministic allocations.
Terminology
A bistochastic matrix (also called: doubly-stochastic) is a matrix in which all elements are greater than or equal to 0 and the sum of the elements in each row and column equals 1. An example is the following 3-by-3 matrix:
A permutation matrix is a special case of a bistochastic matrix, in which each element is either 0 or 1 (so there is exactly one "1" in each row and each column). An example is the following 3-by-3 matrix:
A Birkhoff decomposition (also called: Birkhoff-von-Neumann decomposition) of a bistochastic matrix is a presentation of it as a sum of permutation matrices with non-negative weights. For example, the above matrix can be presented as the following sum:
Birkhoff's algorithm receives as input a bistochastic matrix and returns as output a Birkhoff decomposition.
Tools
A permutation set of an n-by-n matrix X is a set of n entries of X containing exactly one entry from each row and from each column. A theorem by Dénes Kőnig says that: Every bistochastic matrix has a permutation-set in which all entries are positive.The positivity graph of an n-by-n matrix X is a bipartite graph with 2n vertices, in which the vertices on one side are n rows and the vertices on the other side are the n columns, and there is an edge between a row and a column iff the entry at that row and column is positive. A permutation set with positive entries is equivalent to a perfect matching in the positivity graph. A perfect matching in a bipartite graph can be found in polynomial time, e.g. using any algorithm for maximum cardinality matching. Kőnig's theorem is equivalent to the following:The positivity graph of any bistochastic matrix admits a perfect matching.A matrix is called scaled-bistochastic if all elements are non-negative, and the sum of each row and column equals c, where c is some positive constant. In other words, it is c times a bistochastic matrix. Since the positivity graph is not affected by scaling:The positivity graph of any scaled-bistochastic matrix admits a perfect matching.
Algorithm
Birkhoff's algorithm is a greedy algorithm: it greedily finds perfect matchings and removes them from the fractional matching. It works as follows.
Let i = 1.
Construct the positivity graph GX of X.
Find a perfect matching in GX, corresponding to a positive permutation set in X.
Let z[i] > 0 be the smallest entry in the permutation set.
Let P[i] be a permutation matrix with 1 in the positive permutation set.
Let X := X − z[i] P[i].
If X contains nonzero elements, Let i = i + 1 and go back to step 2. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat1K | Bat1K is a project to sequence the genomes of all living bat species to the level of chromosomes and then make the data publicly available. The project began in 2017.
History
Bat1K was founded in 2017. Zoologist and geneticist Emma Teeling and neurogeneticist Sonja Vernes are co-founders. The Bat1K consortium includes researchers from institutions such as University College Dublin, University of Bristol, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Notable members include Eugene Myers, Liliana M. Dávalos, Nancy Simmons, and Erich Jarvis. As of November 2017, there were 148 members in total, consisting of bat biologists, genome technologists, conservationists, and computational scientists.
Applications
Several research areas could be furthered by documenting bat genomes. These include healthy ageing, disease resistance, ecosystem function and ecosystem services, sensory perception, communication, limb development, and mammal genome structure.
Results
In 2020, the genomes of six species were published: the greater horseshoe bat, Egyptian fruit bat, pale spear-nosed bat, greater mouse-eared bat, Kuhl's pipistrelle, and the velvety free-tailed bat. These genomes were called "comparable to the best reference-quality genomes that have so far been generated for any eukaryote with a gigabase-sized genome". In 2020, the project's stated goal was to sequence an additional 27 genomes, with a representative from each family of bats, within the next year.
See also
Genome project
References
Genome projects
Bats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a large language model released by OpenAI in 2020. Like its predecessor GPT-2, it is a decoder-only transformer model of deep neural network, which uses attention in place of previous recurrence- and convolution-based architectures. Attention mechanisms allow the model to selectively focus on segments of input text it predicts to be the most relevant. It uses a 2048-tokens-long context and then-unprecedented size of 175 billion parameters, requiring 800GB to store. The model demonstrated strong zero-shot and few-shot learning on many tasks.
Microsoft announced on September 22, 2020, that it had licensed "exclusive" use of GPT-3; others can still use the public API to receive output, but only Microsoft has access to GPT-3's underlying model.
Background
According to The Economist, improved algorithms, powerful computers, and an increase in digitized data have fueled a revolution in machine learning, with new techniques in the 2010s resulting in "rapid improvements in tasks" including manipulating language. Software models are trained to learn by using thousands or millions of examples in a "structure... loosely based on the neural architecture of the brain". One architecture used in natural language processing (NLP) is a neural network based on a deep learning model that was first introduced in 2017—the transformer architecture. There are a number of NLP systems capable of processing, mining, organizing, connecting and contrasting textual input, as well as correctly answering questions.
On June 11, 2018, OpenAI researchers and engineers posted their original paper introducing the first generative pre-trained transformer (GPT)a type of generative large language model that is pre-trained with an enormous and diverse corpus of text via datasets, followed by discriminative fine-tuning to focus on a specific task. GPT models are transformer-based deep learning neural network architectures. Up to that point, the best-performing neural NLP models commonly employed supervised learning from large amounts of manually-labeled data, which made it prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to train extremely large language models.
That first GPT model is known as "GPT-1," and it was then followed by "GPT-2" in February 2019. GPT-2 was created as a direct scale-up of GPT-1, with both its parameter count and dataset size increased by a factor of 10. It had 1.5 billion parameters, and was trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages.
In February 2020, Microsoft introduced its Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG), which was claimed to be the "largest language model ever published at 17 billion parameters." It performed better than any other language model at a variety of tasks which included summarizing texts and answering questions.
Training and capabilities
On May 28, 2020, an arXiv preprint by a group of 31 engineers and researchers at OpenAI described the achievement and development of GPT-3, a thir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20For%20The%20Ages | The Open For The Ages is a special made-for-television fictional edition of The Open Championship tournament of golf. Utilizing data analysis, a fan vote and 50 years of Open archive footage, it features 21 famous golfers including previous Open champions from various eras at the peak of their careers competing on the Old Course at St Andrews for the Claret Jug and the title of Champion Golfer. The event aired from 16-19 July 2020 – the same dates that the 2020 Open Championship was supposed to be held at Royal St George's Golf Club before being canceled by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which further led the tournament organizers to create the event.
Nick Dougherty, Ewen Murray and Iona Stephen provided commentary, with highlight videos being released for the first three rounds and the full final round being broadcast on Sunday, including on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and the Golf Channel on NBC in the United States.
Course
Entrants
The 21 players chosen were all major champions, with all but two having been named Champion Golfer of the Year at least once. Between them, they had won 107 major championships including 43 Open Championships in seven different decades. They represented nine countries between them and included the major championship victory record holder in Jack Nicklaus (18) and the last man to hold all four major championships at once in Tiger Woods (2000 U.S. Open, 2000 Open Championship, 2000 PGA Championship and 2001 Masters), as well as three career Grand Slam winners in Gary Player, Nicklaus and Woods.
In chronological order of first achieving best Open Championship result
Final leaderboard
The winner was determined by a fan vote registering more than 10,000 responses, and a data model developed in partnership with regular Open Championship sponsor NTT Data utilizing the fan vote along with player career statistics and historical data from The Open to calculate who would win the Claret Jug during this dream event. Added weight was given to performance at St Andrews.
Jack Nicklaus, who was judged the Champion Golfer over runner-up Tiger Woods by a single shot, said,
Asked about how such a clash of eras might be in real life with each player at his best, he said,
The final leaderboard ran thus:
References
External links
The Open For The Ages (Official site)
The Open For The Ages on YouTube
Full Final Round Broadcast (YouTube)
The Open Championship
Golf on television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaural | Transaural Stereo is a technology suite of analog circuits and digital signal processing algorithms related to the field of sound playback for audio communication and entertainment. It is based on the concept of crosstalk cancellation but in some versions can embody other processes such as binaural synthesis and equalization.
The technology was developed in the 1970's by Duane H. Cooper and Jerald L. Bauck.
Description
The central concept behind transaural stereo is that there are two loudspeakers and a single listener (two ears). The left-channel signal should only reach the left ear and the right-channel signal should only reach the right ear, each with appropriate timbral corrections.
To effect this, a circuit or computer algorithm is devised. It is based on the knowledge of the four frequency-dependent transfer functions, the so-called ipsilateral and contralateral paths.:
L-to-L
L-to-R
R-to-L
R-to-R
These four functions are examples of head-related transfer functions (HRTF).
A more general theory allows arbitrary numbers of loudspeakers and ears (listeners). The inputs to the process are sometimes recorded binaural signals from a recording mannequin ("dummy head") but this is not a requirement. Virtual loudspeakers can be formed by combining crosstalk cancellation with binaural image synthesis so that, for example, narrowly-spaced loudspeakers can be made to sound farther apart or a five-channel surround sound system can be made with only two actual loudspeakers, a virtual home theater.
History
transaural stereo was developed by Duane H. Cooper and Jerald L. Bauck. An early version was published as a Master's thesis at the University of Illinois in 1978 and later in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. The work was continued in the mid-1980s as an improvement on and practical implementation of the early work in comparative auditoria studies in the 1960s of Schroeder and Atal which was reported as obtaining unstable images under slight head movements.
Cooper and Bauck, using methods to stabilize images and reduce the filter count, made an analog crosstalk canceller, a two-speaker spreader, and an eight-position binaural image synthesizer which doubled as a binaural pan pot in 1987–1989 using biquadratic analog filters in shuffler configurations. Later implementations used highly efficient digital biquadratic filters.
The distributed source concept with both discrete and continuous source distributions was created in March 1997 and later refined and the refinement named Optimal Source Distribution.
References
External links
Transaural Stereo
Stereophonic sound
Music technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC%20interpreter | A BASIC interpreter is an interpreter that enables users to enter and run programs in the BASIC language and was, for the first part of the microcomputer era, the default application that computers would launch. Users were expected to use the BASIC interpreter to type in programs or to load programs from storage (initially cassette tapes then floppy disks).
BASIC interpreters are of historical importance. Microsoft's first product for sale was a BASIC interpreter (Altair BASIC), which paved the way for the company's success. Before Altair BASIC, microcomputers were sold as kits that needed to be programmed in machine code (for instance, the Apple I). During the Altair period, BASIC interpreters were sold separately, becoming the first software sold to individuals rather than to organizations; Apple BASIC was Apple's first software product. After the MITS Altair 8800, microcomputers were expected to ship bundled with BASIC interpreters of their own (e.g., the Apple II, which had multiple implementations of BASIC). A backlash against the price of Microsoft's Altair BASIC also led to early collaborative software development, for Tiny BASIC implementations in general and Palo Alto Tiny BASIC specifically.
BASIC interpreters fell from use as computers grew in power and their associated programs grew too long for typing them in to be a reasonable distribution format. Software increasingly came pre-compiled and transmitted on floppy disk or via bulletin board systems, making the need for source listings less important. Additionally, increasingly sophisticated command shells like MS-DOS and the Apple Macintosh GUI became the primary user interface, and the need for BASIC to act as the shell disappeared. The use of BASIC interpreters as the primary language and interface to systems had largely disappeared by the mid-1980s.
History
BASIC helped jumpstart the time-sharing era, became mainstream in the microcomputer era, then faded to become just another application in the DOS and GUI era, and today survives in a few niches related to game development, retrocomputing, and teaching.
Time-sharing era
First implemented as a compile-and-go system rather than an interpreter, BASIC emerged as part of a wider movement towards time-sharing systems. General Electric, having worked on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System and its associated Dartmouth BASIC, wrote their own underlying operating system and launched an online time-sharing system known as Mark I featuring a BASIC compiler (not an interpreter) as one of its primary selling points. Other companies in the emerging field quickly followed suit. By the early 1970s, BASIC was largely universal on general-purpose mainframe computers.
BASIC, as a streamlined language designed with integrated line editing in mind, was naturally suited to porting to the minicomputer market, which was emerging at the same time as the time-sharing services. These machines had very small main memory, perhaps as little as 4 KB in moder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Health%20Services%20Administration | The State Health Services Administration (ASSE) () is the state provider of health care in Uruguay. It has a network of services throughout the country.
It was created in 1987 and modified by law 18,161 of July 2007. This body is related to the Executive Power through the Ministry of Public Health. The administration is presided over and administered by a five-member board of directors, who are appointed by the President of the Republic in agreement with the Council of Ministers, with the prior consent of the Senate. Of the five members, one represents the workers of the organization and the other represents users.
Functions
Organize and manage services regarding health care at the level of prevention and treatment of patients.
Coordinate with the other state health service delivery agencies to maximize their quality.
Be part of the National Integrated Health System (SNIS).
Provide the services that prior to its creation, provided the decentralized ASSE service.
Contribute to changes in practices, attitudes and lifestyles that put the population's health at risk.
Source:
Health centers
Montevideo Department
Maciel Hospital
Pasteur Hospital
Saint Bois Hospital
Spanish Hospital
Pereira Rossell Hospital
Paulina Luisi Women's Hospital
National Blood Service
Centers of Mental Health and Vulnerable Population
Vilardebó Hospital
Psychiatric centers Dr. Bernardo Etchepare» and Santín Carlos Rossi.
Luis Piñeyro del Campo Geriatric Center
Jose Marti Eye Hospital
Institutes
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology
National Institute of Rheumatology
Canelones Department
Francisco Soca Hospital (Canelones)
Alfonso Espínola Hospital (Las Piedras)
Auxiliary Center (Pando)
Hospitals of the 2nd level of care
Artigas Departmental Hospital (Artigas)
Bella Union Hospital (Bella Unión)
Rivera Departmental Hospital (Rivera)
Dr. Ruben Curi Hospital (Paso de los Toros)
Ángel Maximiliano Cuervo Hospital (Fray Bentos)
Auxiliary Center of Young (Young)
Zoilo Chelle Hospital (Mercedes)
Alejandro Bardie Hospital Dolores)
Dr. Rogelio Sosa Hospital (Cardona)
Cerro Largo Departmental Hospital (Melo)
Auxiliary center of Río Branco (Río Branco)
Dr. Emilio Penza Hospital (Durazno)
José Percovich Hospital (Treinta y Tres)
Dr. Edison Camacho Hospital (Trinidad)
José Artigas Hospital (Carmelo)
Auxiliary Center of Rosario (Rosario)
Auxiliary Center of Juan Lacaze (Juan Lacaze)
San José Departmental Hospital (San José de Mayo)
San Carlos Hospital (San Carlos)
Rocha Departmental Hospital (Rocha)
Auxiliary Center of Chuy (Chuy)
Auxiliary Center of Castillos (Castillos)
Regional Hospitals
Alberto Barragué Hospital (Tacuarembó)
Salto Departmental Dospital (Salto)
Departmental Hospital «Escuela del Litoral Galán y Rocha» (Paysandú)
Dr. Elbio Rivero Moreno Hospital (Maldonado)
Dr. Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes Hospital (Minas)
Raúl Amorín Cal Hospital (Florida)
Colonia Departmental Hosp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiently%20updatable%20neural%20network | An efficiently updatable neural network (NNUE, a Japanese wordplay on Nue, sometimes stylised as ƎUИИ) is a neural network-based evaluation function whose inputs are piece-square tables, or variants thereof like the king-piece-square table. NNUE is used primarily for the leaf nodes of the alpha–beta tree. While being slower than handcrafted evaluation functions, NNUE does not suffer from the 'blindness beyond the current move' problem.
NNUE was invented by Yu Nasu and introduced to computer shogi in 2018. On 6 August 2020, NNUE was for the first time ported to a chess engine, Stockfish 12. Since 2021, all of the top rated classical chess engines such as Komodo Dragon have an NNUE implementation to remain competitive.
NNUE runs efficiently on central processing units without a requirement for a graphics processing unit (GPU).
The neural network used for the original 2018 computer shogi implementation consists of four weight layers: W1 (16-bit integers) and W2, W3 and W4 (8-bit). It has 4 fully-connected layers, ReLU activation functions, and outputs a single number, being the score of the board.
W1 encoded the king's position and therefore this layer needed only to be re-evaluated once the king moved. It used incremental computation and single instruction multiple data (SIMD) techniques along with appropriate intrinsic instructions.
See also
elmo (shogi engine)
Stockfish chess engine - The chapter about NNUE features a visualization of NNUE.
List of chess software
References
External links
NNUE on the Chess Programming Wiki.
NNUE evaluation functions for computer shogi on github.com
Evaluation methods
Neural networks
Japanese inventions
Computer shogi
Computer chess |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20%28film%29 | Host is a 2020 British screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage. Host takes place on a screencast of a video call on Zoom, and is presented as a computer screen film. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova and Caroline Ward, it features a group of friends who attempt to escape a deadly supernatural force inadvertently spawned during a séance.
After a short prank skit by Savage which featured a handful of the Host cast went viral across social media, he developed the concept into a feature-length film, which was shot over 12 weeks directly on the Zoom software during the COVID-19 pandemic. The cast and crew set up their own cameras, lighting, and stunts.
An independent film, Host was released exclusively through Shudder on July 30, 2020. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised its themes of social anxiety, its jump scares, and the chemistry of its acting ensemble. It was included on Time magazine's 2020 list of the "17 Great Movies You May Have Missed This Summer".
Plot
On July 30, 2020, while the United Kingdom is under COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, a group of friends (Haley, Jemma, Emma, Caroline, Radina & Teddy) have decided to hold weekly Zoom calls to stay in touch. For this week's call Haley has hired a medium, Seylan, to lead them in a virtual séance. Teddy is forced to leave the chat by his girlfriend, Jinny, who unintentionally disconnects him. During the séance, one of the members, Jemma, claims to feel intense tension around her neck. Overcome with fear, she says that somebody called "Jack" is with her, a friend who committed suicide in her school by hanging himself. Seylan's internet cuts out, disconnecting her from the chat. During this time, Jemma informs the group that she made "Jack" up because the silence was getting awkward, which angers Haley. The remaining members of the group begin to experience strange, terrifying phenomena: Haley's chair is pulled by an unseen force, a hanging corpse can be seen in Caroline's attic when she goes to investigate noises, and Emma's glass spontaneously breaks. Haley uses her Polaroid camera to snap a photo of her living room, where a ghostly hanging figure appears on the print.
As the girls panic, Haley manages to get back in touch with Seylan and informs her of everything that has happened; a spirit is indeed with them, but it isn't friendly. Seylan believes and explains that Jemma's prank may have allowed the spirit or demon access to our world, entering the circle during the séance. Seylan also informs the girls that the demonic spirit could be a tulpa which has taken on the guise of "Jack" in Jemma's made-up story, and begins to give them instructions on how to close the séance. The spirit interrupts this by causing more phenomena and Seylan's disconnects again before the girls attempt to close the circle using her advice. Believing the ordeal to be over, the members of the group begin to leave the Zoom call; Radina gets up a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20sketch | Count sketch is a type of dimensionality reduction that is particularly efficient in statistics, machine learning and algorithms.
It was invented by Moses Charikar, Kevin Chen and Martin Farach-Colton in an effort to speed up the AMS Sketch by Alon, Matias and Szegedy for approximating the frequency moments of streams (these calculations require counting of the number of occurrences for the distinct elements of the stream).
The sketch is nearly identical to the Feature hashing algorithm by John Moody, but differs in its use of hash functions with low dependence, which makes it more practical.
In order to still have a high probability of success, the median trick is used to aggregate multiple count sketches, rather than the mean.
These properties allow use for explicit kernel methods, bilinear pooling in neural networks and is a cornerstone in many numerical linear algebra algorithms.
Intuitive explanation
The inventors of this data structure offer the following iterative explanation of its operation:
at the simplest level, the output of a single hash function mapping stream elements into {+1, -1} is feeding a single up/down counter . After a single pass over the data, the frequency of a stream element can be approximated, although extremely poorly, by the expected value ;
a straightforward way to improve the variance of the previous estimate is to use an array of different hash functions , each connected to its own counter . For each element , the still holds, so averaging across the range will tighten the approximation;
the previous construct still has a major deficiency: if a lower-frequency-but-still-important output element exhibits a hash collision with a high-frequency element, estimate can be significantly affected. Avoiding this requires reducing the frequency of collision counter updates between any two distinct elements. This is achieved by replacing each in the previous construct with an array of counters (making the counter set into a two-dimensional matrix ), with index of a particular counter to be incremented/decremented selected via another set of hash functions that map element into the range {1..}. Since , averaging across all values of will work.
Mathematical definition
1. For constants and (to be defined later) independently choose random hash functions
and such that
and
.
It is necessary that the hash families from which and are chosen be pairwise independent.
2. For each item in the stream, add to the th bucket of the th hash.
At the end of this process, one has sums where
To estimate the count of s one computes the following value:
The values are unbiased estimates of how many times has appeared in the stream.
The estimate has variance , where
is the length of the stream and is .
Furthermore, is guaranteed to never be more than off from the true value, with probability .
Vector formulation
Alternatively Count-Sketch can be seen as a linear mapping with a non-linear reconstruct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boja%C5%84czyk | Bojańczyk is a Polish-language surname.
People with the surname include:
Mikołaj Bojańczyk (born 1977), Polish computer scientist and logician
Piotr Bojańczyk (born 1946), Polish ice dancer
See also
Jerzy Bojańczyk's Brewery in Włocławek
Polish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%20Cybersecurity%20Centre | The Basque Cybersecurity Centre (BCSC) is the organization appointed by the Basque Government to promote cybersecurity in the Basque Country. It is made up of departments of the Basque Government (Economic Development and Infrastructures, Safety, Public Governance, and Education) and technology centres (Tecnalia, Vicomtech, Ik4-Ikerlan, and Basque Center for Applied Mathematics).
BCSC is currently a member of FIRST, a global association devoted to offering coordinated responses in the event of computer attacks, and it has achieved CERT homologation. It also takes part in collaborations with other analogous centres on an international scale:
Member of the international cybersecurity consortium Global EPIC.
Member of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).
In partnership with Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (INCIBE) and INCIBE-CERT.
Entity acknowledged by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Scope and services
As CSIRT team, BCSC offers the following services:
Cybersecurity event management, offering advice on the phone and via email, both in Spanish and Basque.
Vulnerability handling, ensuring communication among the people or firms which discover them, and software or device developers.
Malware analysis, developing strategies for detection, protection and elimination.
Releasing warnings about safety vulnerabilities in IT systems, to lower their risk.
Early alert in case a risk becomes an actual threat.
Spreading information by publishing good practice guides in the scope of cybersecurity. Also, publishing situation reports.
Collaborating with other fast response teams, internet service providers, devices manufacturers and other entities, sharing information.
Training for professionals, through workshops and seminars to promote learning in the field of cybersecurity.
Awareness building for young people and companies and associations working in the industrial field, through seminars focusing on the need to implement the necessary cybersecurity measures.
Among other services, BCSC cooperates with the Basque police, monitoring public networks to mitigate cyber threats which put citizens and/or companies at risk. It also coordinates R&D&I initiatives, or the support to startups through initiative BIND 4.0.
References
External links
Official website
Basque Government
Internet security
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%20Pacific%20typhoon%20season | The 1938 Pacific typhoon season featured 31 storms. Data from this period was extremely sparse, so intensity is not available for these systems. The only agency that tracked these typhoons is the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBRrACS), which has compiled a database of all known tropical cyclones since 1851.
Systems
January–May
The first storm of the season formed on January 11, west of the Philippines. It moved northwestward, and made landfall on Luzon late on January 12 before dissipating the next day. It caused no known deaths or damage.
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from April 5 to April 12. It did not affect land.
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from April 29 to May 4. It affected the Philippines, and neared China.
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from May 9 to May 16. It affected the Philippines.
June and July
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from June 21 to July 3. It affected Japan.
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from July 7 to July 10. It affected China.
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity, from July 15 to July 19. It did not affect land.
Storm Eight
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in July. It did not affect land.
Storm Nine
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It affected Japan and China.
Storm Ten
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It did not affect land.
Storm Eleven
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It did not affect land.
Storm Twelve
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It affected Taiwan.
Storm Thirteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It did not affect land.
Storm Fourteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August. It affected China.
Storm Fifteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August and September. It affected Japan.
Storm Sixteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in August and September. It affected Japan.
Storm Seventeen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September. It did not affect land.
Storm Eighteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September. It did not affect land.
Storm Nineteen
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September. It neared Japan.
Storm Twenty
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September. It affected Taiwan and China.
Storm Twenty-One
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September. It affected Vietnam.
Storm Twenty-Two
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in September and October. It affected the Philippines.
Storm Twenty-Three
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in October. It affected the Philippines and China, and caused a shipwreck in Luzon, killing 33 people.
Storm Twenty-Four
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in October. It neared Japan.
Storm Twenty-Five
IBTRACS gives a storm of unknown intensity in October. It affected Japan.
Storm Twenty-Six
IBTRAC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20object | Fat object may refer to:
Fat object (geometry), a multi-dimensional geometrical object in mathematics
Fat object (binary), a fat binary type of file in computing
See also
Fat pointer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20nickel%20production | This is a list of countries by nickel production in 2022 based on data by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Countries
References
Nickel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity%20%28electrical%20networks%29 | Reciprocity in electrical networks is a property of a circuit that relates voltages and currents at two points. The reciprocity theorem states that the current at one point in a circuit due to a voltage at a second point is the same as the current at the second point due to the same voltage at the first. The reciprocity theorem is valid for almost all passive networks. The reciprocity theorem is a feature of a more general principle of reciprocity in electromagnetism.
Description
If a current, , injected into port A produces a voltage, , at port B and injected into port B produces at port A, then the network is said to be reciprocal. Equivalently, reciprocity can be defined by the dual situation; applying voltage, , at port A producing current at port B and at port B producing current at port A. In general, passive networks are reciprocal. Any network that consists entirely of ideal capacitances, inductances (including mutual inductances), and resistances, that is, elements that are linear and bilateral, will be reciprocal. However, passive components that are non-reciprocal do exist. Any component containing ferromagnetic material is likely to be non-reciprocal. Examples of passive components deliberately designed to be non-reciprocal include circulators and isolators.
The transfer function of a reciprocal network has the property that it is symmetrical about the main diagonal if expressed in terms of a z-parameter, y-parameter, or s-parameter matrix. A non-symmetrical matrix implies a non-reciprocal network. A symmetric matrix does not imply a symmetric network.
In some parametisations of networks, the representative matrix is not symmetrical for reciprocal networks. Common examples are h-parameters and ABCD-parameters, but they all have some other condition for reciprocity that can be calculated from the parameters. For h-parameters the condition is and for the ABCD parameters it is . These representations mix voltages and currents in the same column vector and therefore do not even have matching units in transposed elements.
Example
An example of reciprocity can be demonstrated using an asymmetrical resistive attenuator. An asymmetrical network is chosen as the example because a symmetrical network is self-evidently reciprocal.
Injecting six amps into port 1 of this network produces 24 volts at port 2.
Injecting six amps into port 2 produces 24 volts at port 1.
Hence, the network is reciprocal. In this example, the port that is not injecting current is left open circuit. This is because a current generator applying zero current is an open circuit. If, on the other hand, one wished to apply voltages and measure the resulting current, then the port to which the voltage is not applied would be made short circuit. This is because a voltage generator applying zero volts is a short circuit.
Proof
Reciprocity of electrical networks is a special case of Lorentz reciprocity, but it can also be proven more directly f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan%20Liu%20%28geographer%29 | Yan Liu is an Australian geographer known for her use of cellular automata and particle systems to model patterns of urban development. Her work has also involved using electronic transit pass data to compare the transportation patterns of residents of Australian and Chinese cities.
Liu has a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, and an associate professor of human geography and deputy head of school in the University of Queensland School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. She is the author of the book Modelling urban development with geographical information systems and cellular automata (CRC Press, 2009).
References
External links
Australian geographers
Australian women social scientists
Women geographers
Cellular automatists
University of Queensland alumni
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Al-Faqi | Ibrahim Al-Faqi or Ibrahim Elfiki (August 5, 1950 – February 10, 2012) was a human development and neuro-linguistic programming expert, was the CEO of the Canadian Training Centre for Human Development, and the founder of Ibrahim Elfiky International Enterprises Inc.
Early life
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Saied Elfiki in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a table tennis player and the champion of Egyptian Table Tennis League for many years, and represented Egypt in the World Table Tennis Championships in Munich 1969. Married to Amal Atieh and had two daughters, Nancy and Nermin.
In his professional life, he was promoted to the department director in the hospitality industry in the Helnan Palestine Hotel Alexandria. He immigrated to Canada to study management, and worked there as a dishwasher and a guard for a restaurant and porter in a hotel.
Bibliography
He has many visible and audio content from his lectures, and had written tens of books, some of them have been translated into English, French, Kurdish, and Indonesian.
Some of his self-help book titles:
10 Keys To Ultimate Success
Way to Success and Rich
On The Road To Sales Mastery: The Ultimate Sales Guide
The Path of Excellence
Life without Tension
Awaken Your Abilities and Make Your Future
Successful personal secrets
Control Your Life: To Be More Successful and Happy
Neuro-linguistic Programming & Unlimited Communication Power
12 Keys of Highly Successful Managers
Death
In Friday morning of February 10, 2012, Ibrahim Elfiki, his sister, and their housekeeper have been found dead after a fire break out at his apartment. The fire has started in the Ibrahim Al-Faqi Center for Human Development on the third floor and extended to the rest of the property's floors owned by Al-Faqi and resides in it, which cause to death of Elfiki, and his sister Fawqiyah Muhammad ElFiki (62 years old) and Nawal (The housekeeper).
References
1950 births
2012 deaths
Self-help writers
Neuro-linguistic programming writers
Canadian people of Egyptian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Bercovier | Michel Bercovier (Hebrew: מישל ברקוביאר; born: 10 September 1941) is a French-Israeli Professor (Emeritus) of Scientific Computing and Computer Aided Design (CAD) in The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bercovier is also the head of the School of Computer Science at the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem.
Early life and education
Michel Bercovier was born in Lyon, France. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics from Paris University in 1964. He was from 1964 to 1965 vice president of Union of French Jewish Students and co-principal editor of its magazine Kadima.
During the years 1965-67 he served in the French Army. He earned his D. Es Sc. in 1976 at the Faculté des Sciences de Rouen. Bercovier authored the thesis Régularisation duale des problèmes variationnels mixtes (Dual regularization of mixed variational problems), under the supervision of Jacques-Louis Lions. He belongs to the second generation of Lions' students.
Career
Bercovier was an assistant professor at the University of Rouen (1969 - 1972) where he created the Computation Center.
He emigrated to Israel in 1973 and was director of applications and services at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Computer Center (1973 - 1976). He joined the School of Applied Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Lecturer in 1977, becoming an associate professor in 1983, and moved to its Institute of Computer Science in 1986.
From 1997 until 2006 he held the Bertold Badler Chair of Computer Science as a full professor. In 1996-1998 Bercovier set up the Computer Science department of a new university at Paris-La Defense (Pôle universitaire Léonard de Vinci). From 1999 to 2007 he was in charge of the W3C office in Israel, and thus very active in the development of the Internet.
He retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007 as an emeritus professor. From 2010 he is also a professor and head of the school of Computer Science at the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem.
Bercovier has advised more than 30 M.Sc. and 16 Ph.D. students.
Research
Professor Bercovier's research work focuses on Computer Aided Design and in Scientific Computation.
He developed new Finite Element Methods for fluid flows and incompressible materials based on penalty and reduced integration methods that are universally implemented.Together with Pironneau, Olivier he proved the optimality of the Hood Taylor finite element for incompressible fluids. He has made contributions to the integration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Analysis, developed new methods in surface design, integrated optimal control methods in CAD and cloth simulation for animation.
He has been involved in multidisciplinary research, teaming with surgeons, biologists and pharmacologists (artificial heart valve modeling, Ca+ discharge in axons, keratotomical surgery, drug release models).
Bercovier carries joint research with INRIA, Pierre and Marie Curie Unive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Guix%20System | GNU Guix System or Guix System (previously GuixSD) is a rolling release, free and open source Linux distribution built around the GNU Guix package manager. It enables a declarative operating system configuration and allows system upgrades which the user can rollback. It uses the GNU Shepherd init system and the Linux-libre kernel, with support of the GNU Hurd kernel under development. On February 3, 2015, the Free Software Foundation added the distribution to its list of endorsed free Linux distributions. The Guix package manager and the Guix System drew inspiration from and were based on the Nix package manager and NixOS respectively.
Architecture support
The following CPU architectures are supported: IA-32, x86-64, ARM7, AArch64, POWER9.
Features
System services
System services, defined in Guile Scheme, enable the user to declaratively compose the configuration of daemons and background services and specify configurations. This enables the user, within a single configuration file or modularized configuration, to configure the whole operating system (e.g., to have a tor proxy, an sshd server, and a webserver serving guix-web via nginx on a specific port at bootup). They can:
generate files in the filesystem (needed by some applications e.g. files in /etc)
run any code for setting up daemons
create specific user and group accounts (e.g. a database user for postgresql)
GNU Shepherd init system
The Guix System uses the GNU Daemon Shepherd, formerly known as "dmd" ("Daemon managing Daemons"), as its init system, which is developed in tandem with Guix and is written and configurable in Guile. It supplies user-space functionality asynchronously as services, which under Shepherd are generic functions and object data types which it uses to extend the base operating system in a defined way. In contrast to systemd, a userspace shepherd process runs as the user. Central to the Shepherd model of user space initialization is the concept of the extension, a form of composability whereby services are designed to be layered onto other services, augmenting them with more elaborate or specialised behaviours as desired. This expresses the instantiation-based dependency relationships found in many modern init systems, making the system modular, but also allows services to interact variadically with other services in arbitrary ways, e.g. a service which extends two other services, requiring only one to be present, but readily extending the second one if it is later instantiated without the need for any further reconfiguration or setup.
Shepherd also provides virtual services which allow dynamic dispatch over a class of related service objects, such as all those which instantiate a mail transfer agent (MTA) for the system. A system governed via the Shepherd daemon can represent its user space as a directed acyclic graph, with the "system-service," which is responsible for early phases of boot and init, as its root, and all subsequently initialized service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph-class%20container%20ship | The Triumph class is a series of 6 container ships that now operated by the Japanese shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 20,182 TEU.
The ships were ordered by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) in 2015. Four ships were built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The remaining two were built by Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan and are chartered from Shoei Kisen Kaisha.
List of ships
See also
MOL Bravo-class container ship
MOL Creation-class container ship
MOL Maestro-class container ship
MOL Globe-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%2090s | MTV 90s is an international music television channel from Paramount International Networks that plays music videos from 1990 until 1999. The channel is available in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia (excluding Malaysia), and is a commercial-free network.
History
2016 pop-up channel
From 27 May to 24 June 2016, MTV 90s was originally broadcast as a temporary pop-up channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which it replaced MTV Classic during that time period. The idents and promos from the pop-up channel would later be reused four years later, when MTV 90s was launched as a standalone channel in Europe on 5 October 2020.
History
MTV 90s was launched as a dedicated channel in Europe on 5 October 2020 at 05:00 CET, replacing MTV Rocks.
On 1 March 2021, MTV 90s expanded its broadcast area to the Middle East and North Africa via beIN Channels Network.
On 26 May 2021, MTV 90s was launched in the Netherlands, replacing MTV Music 24.
As part of restructuring at Paramount Global UK & Australia, MTV Base was replaced by MTV 90s in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 31 March 2022, and replaced MTV Asia on 1 September 2022.
References
MTV channels
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television stations in Malta
Classic television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex%20brachystachys | Carex brachystachys is a species of sedge found in the mountains of central and southern Europe.
References
External links
Carex brachystachys - SEINet Portal Network
Carex brachystachys Schrank - Encyclopedia of Life
Taxonomy browser (Carex brachystachys) - NCBI
brachystachys
Flora of Austria
Flora of Czechoslovakia
Flora of France
Flora of Germany
Flora of Italy
Flora of Poland
Flora of Romania
Flora of Spain
Flora of Switzerland
Flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Flora of Croatia
Flora of Kosovo
Flora of Montenegro
Flora of North Macedonia
Flora of Serbia
Flora of Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Federation%20of%20Tertiary%20Services%20Networks | The Italian Federation of Tertiary Services Networks (, FIRST) is a trade union representing workers in the finance sector in Italy.
The union was founded on 5 May 2015, when the Italian Federation of Bank and Insurance Employees, an affiliate of the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL), merged with DirCredito, an independent trade union representing managers and senior staff in the industry. The new union also affiliated to CISL.
The union was initially led by Giulio Romani, and then from 2019 by Riccardo Colombani.
External links
References
Finance sector trade unions
Trade unions established in 2015
Trade unions in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Computing | Network Computing is an online technical news publication that began as a printed magazine. During that period, Advertising Age ranked it among the Top 300 print magazines. and advanced in 1995 from #146 to #133 with a circulation of 38,500. It still has trade show affiliations.
History
The print magazine's resources including six evaluation labs.
May 1997 through 2000 – The worldwide regional publications of LAN Magazine were renamed to the already existing Network Magazine. Networkmagazine.com and lanmag.com now redirect to informationweek.com
June 2004 - All security-related topics centralized within CMP under Network Computing umbrella.
July 2004 - The print magazine was one of approximately 1,500 included on a US Postal Rate Commission survey regarding postal rates.
September 2005 – Network Magazine (networkmagazine.com) was renamed IT Architect (itarchitect.com). The offline publication was shut down after the March 2006 issue. ITarchitect.com now redirects to InformationWeek.
June 2006 – The company announced that offline publication of Network Computing would be merged with Information Week. Online, Network Computing (networkcomputing.com) would provide technical content, whereas informationweek.com would provide news. UBM renamed CMP Media to CMP Technology.
2008 – CMP Technology was restructured into four independent operating divisions under the common banner of UBM.
2009 - Network Computing given own (revived) online identity
2013 – Parent UMB announced that "print publications will end production as of July 1."
2018 - Network Computing owner UBM (since 2008) merged with London-based Informa.
2020 - web site cookie analytics for Network Computing to be handled by internal UBM unit named informationweekanalytics.com
Affiliations
Although Network Computing has its own editorial/content unit
Marketing/Advertising functions for Network Computing are handled by Informa'''s Informationweek unit.
it also has an affiliated conference, InteropOnline
Their Twitter account began in December 2008. A 2009 headline in Advertising Age'' announced "TechWeb revives 'Network Computing' online."
Awards
The magazine gives awards for companies, products and services in various categories.
References
Business magazines published in the United States
Online magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Magazines established in 1997
Magazines disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Survived | I Survived may refer to:
I Survived..., a documentary television series produced by NHNZ that airs on Lifetime Movie Network and on Court TV
I Survived (book series), children's historical fiction novels by American author Lauren Tarshis
I Survived: Hindi Sumusuko Ang Pinoy (English: I Survived: Filipinos Don't Give Up), a reality drama program aired by ABS-CBN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Zenou | Yves Zenou is a French-Swedish economist. He is a professor at Monash University and holds the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics.
Zenou's main research focus is in the field of network economics. He has applied his research to crime, labor, development and other issues in economics. He is the author of ‘Urban Labor Economics’ and ‘Economic Analyses of Social Networks’ and has published various research articles.
He was a co-editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics for ten years, between 2007 and 2017. He has been an Associate editor of many journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Urban Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Journal of Public Economic Theory. He has also obtained many research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Vetenskapsrådet, the Norface Research Program, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Education
Zenou completed his master's degree in economics and econometrics in 1987 from the Paris Nanterre University. In 1991, he earned his PhD in economics from Panthéon-Assas University. In 1998, he completed the "Agrégation des Facultés de Droit et de Sciences Economiques", the exam for becoming a professor in France.
Career
Zenou started his career as an assistant professor at Panthéon-Assas University in 1992. Then, he became a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, from 1994 to 1996. He became an associate professor from 1996 till 1998 at Pantheon-Assas University. Then, he became a professor of economics at the Université du Maine, Le Mans, France in 1998 until 2000. He was a professor of economics at the University of Southampton in the UK from 2000 till 2003, a senior research fellow at Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) from 2003 till 2007, and a professor of economics at Stockholm University from 2007 until 2016.
In 2016, Zenou joined Monash University as a professor and was appointed the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics. Zenou has research associations with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
Research
Zenou has been working in different areas in economics such as urban economics, labor economics, development economics, game theory, network economics, crime, segregation, discrimination, etc. both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. He developed the concept of ‘key player’ in network economics to help determine the individuals/agents that are the key actors in an economy. In crime, key players are the criminals who, once removed, lead to the highest reduction in total criminal activity. Originally developed for analyzing criminal activity, the key player theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boxcar%20Children%3A%20Surprise%20Island | The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island is a 2018 American computer-animated adventure film featuring the voices of Joey King, Talitha Bateman, Griffin Gluck, Carter Sand, Gil Birmingham, Stephen Stanton, Dane DeHaan, J. K. Simmons and Martin Sheen. It is the sequel of the 2014 film The Boxcar Children. The film premiered on May 8, 2018 in theatres.
Plot
Voice cast
Joey King as Jessie Alden: Jessie is the older sister. She was first shown in The Boxcar Children. She likes to take care of all her family members, including grandfather and Henry (they are older than her). She did all the cooking and housework when the kids were spending their summer in the barn in Surprise Island.
J. K. Simmons as Dr. Moore: Dr. Moore was an old friend of the Alden family. He was first shown in The Boxcar Children, but made cameo appearances in this movie. In The Boxcar Children, he helped the children meet with their grandfather, whom the children thought was mean and ran away from him.
Martin Sheen as James Henry Alden: James Henry Alden is the grandfather of the children. He is a kind and wealthy man. He made his first appearance in The Boxcar Children. In The Boxcar Children, the children thought he was mean and had run away from him, but Dr. Moore helped to solve the misunderstanding.
Gil Birmingham as Lonan Browning: Lonan Browning is an old friend of Joe, or John Joseph Alden. Joe used to work for him. Lonan was first introduced in this film.
Dane DeHaan as John Joseph Alden: John Joseph Alden, or simply Joe, is the cousin (or sometimes shown as uncle, because Joe's father was the children's grandfather's brother) of the children. He made his first appearance in this movie. At first, he did not reveal that he is from the Alden family, because he was afraid of James Henry Alden because Joe had made James Henry Alden believe that Joe had died when he fell from a cliff. He helped Captain Daniel with chores around, and liked to spend time with the children. At last, when his identity was revealed to everyone, James Henry Alden made Joe the director of the Alden Museum.
Griffin Gluck as Henry: Henry is the older brother and the oldest sibling. He was first shown in The Boxcar Children. He is very protective of his younger siblings. Henry is very good at making paper birds and wooden things. He worked to make arrangements in the barn. Henry was voiced by Zachary Gordon in the first film.
Talitha Bateman as Violet: Violet is the younger sister. She was first shown in The Boxcar Children. She likes to do painting and art and craft. She also knows how to play the violin – Joe taught her. Violet also helped Jessie to cook in the barn. Violet was voiced by Mackenzie Foy in the first film.
Stephen Stanton as Captain Daniel: Captain Daniel is a good friend of grandfather. He is shown to sail the motorboat from the mainland to Surprise Island. His first appearance is in this movie. He also helped Joe to hide from grandfather.
Carter Sand as Benny: Benny is the younger br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearby%20Share | Nearby Share is a functionality developed by Google that allows data to be transferred between devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It is available on their mobile and desktop operating systems, Android and ChromeOS, as well as Microsoft's Windows. Nearby Share uses Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, WebRTC, UWB, and peer-to-peer Wi-Fi to allow users to share files and links between devices. It was first released on August 4, 2020.
Nearby Share is not to be confused with Microsoft's similarly-named "nearby sharing" feature, which is only available for PCs running Windows 10 or later and uses Microsoft's own proprietary protocol.
History
Before Nearby Share, Google launched Android Beam in 2011. By 2017, ComputerWorld included Android Beam in a list of "once-trumpeted features that quietly faded away", observing that "despite the admirable marketing effort, Beam never quite worked particularly well, and numerous other systems for sharing stuff proved to be simpler and more reliable."
Nearby Share was officially released for devices running Android Marshmallow and later on August 4, 2020. The program worked much like Apple's AirDrop, allowing users to select "Nearby Share" on the share menu and then to wait for a nearby phone to appear.
In June 2021 with the rollout of ChromeOS 91, Nearby Share was released for ChromeOS with the same features and options as the Android version. During CES 2022, Google announced Nearby Share for Windows. On March 31, 2023, the beta version of the Nearby Share App was released for Windows PCs allowing cross-platform file transfers.
Usage
On Android and ChromeOS, Nearby Share is enabled by going to Connected Devices > Connection preferences > Nearby Share (or Google > Devices & sharing > Nearby Share) in the settings app and enabling "Use Nearby Share." On Windows, Nearby Share is downloaded from android.com. Once the setup program is done installing Nearby Share, or from the Nearby Share settings menu Android, the user will be able to choose who is able to see their device. The available options are:
Everyone
Contacts
Your devices
Hidden
When sharing a file via Nearby Share, the user will be presented with a list of available devices to share with. Choosing a device from the list sends a prompt to the recipient that requires them to confirm the transfer. When sharing amongst devices linked to the same Google Account, it is not required to wake the receiving devices or confirm the file transmission.
Nearby Share allows for the sharing of files and links, such as images, videos, text, contact info, directions, YouTube videos, and other data. It uses Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, WebRTC, and peer-to-peer Wi-Fi to share content. It can be configured to only share content offline, restricting it to Bluetooth only operation.
Availability
Nearby Share is available on Android 6 and later, ChromeOS 91 and later, and Windows 10 and later. On Windows, Nearby Share must be installed manually, as opposed to its imple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Thurow | Kerstin Thurow (born October 3, 1969, in Rostock) is a German engineer specializing in automation technology. She has been Professor of Automation/Life Science Automation at the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock since 1999.
Life
Thurow gained her Abitur in 1988, matriculating to the University of Rostock to study chemistry. In 1992, she entered the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for her doctoral degree in chemistry and pharmacy, completing her initial doctorate in 1994 (Promotion). She returned to the University of Rostock, where she was employed as a research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering until 1997 and as managing director of the Institute for Measuring and Sensor Systems from 1997 to 1999.
In 1999, Thurow completed her habilitation in engineering sciences, aged 29, and was appointed to Germany's first chair for laboratory automation, still at the University of Rostock. Since 2000, she has been director of the Institute for Automation Technology at the University of Rostock. She was promoted to full professor in 2004.
Prizes and awards
Member acatech, 2005
Entrepreneur of the Year, Entrepreneur Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock, 2005
Joachim Jungius Award of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences Hamburg, 2004
Founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, 2004
References
21st-century German engineers
Academic staff of the University of Rostock
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
21st-century German chemists
1969 births
Living people
21st-century German women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foter | Foter is one of the largest sources of information and inspiration to interior designings. It also provides a searchable database of 355 million free-to-use royalty-free collections of photos. The website was founded in 2006 by Stawarz Brothers.
History
In 2006, Foter was established as a source of high-quality royalty-free photos and inspiration for journalists and graphic designers. It has a database of 335 million free stock images that can be downloaded by the users. The images are licensed under Creative Commons and free to use, but require attributions. The website offers tools to embed the images and WordPress plugin for integration on various platforms.
Database
Starting in 2012, interior design inspiration photos from thousands of interior designers (link to about) started to appear on the website. In 2020, the photo database consisted of 6 thousand ideabooks containing 1.5 million photos selected by professional interior design curators.
References
Internet properties established in 2006
Multilingual websites
Image-sharing websites
Photography websites
Stock photography
Public domain databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenan%20Moussa | Jenan Moussa (; born 14 April 1984, Beirut) is an investigative reporter of the Dubai-based Al Aan TV network.
Early life and education
She graduated from the American University of Science and Technology (AUST) and began to work for Al Aan, first in the office, but soon she was deployed as a field reporter in several countries such as Libya, Mali, Syria or Germany.
Journalistic career
She published several reports which made worldwide headlines such as:
A report about the juridical situation in Timbuktu, Mali, during the rule of the Islamists in 2012–2013.
An interview of the imprisoned Alexanda Kotey in Syria, who is a member of the so-called "The Beatles", a British group from the Islamic State (IS).
And the research about Omaima Abdi, the widow of Deso Dogg, a German rapper who joined ISIL. She obtained her cellphone and traced her to Hamburg, Germany, where Omaima Abdi was detained in and prosecuted following her research.
In October 2020, Omaima Abdi was issued a verdict condemning her to 3 years and 6 months imprisonment.
Her reporting about ISIL came again to the news in September 2020, as the Combined Joint Task Force against the Islamic State reported that Moussa has investigated the detention of the current leader of IS (September 2020) Mohammed Said Abd Al Rahman Al-Mawla in 2008 in Iraq by the United States, and has come to the conclusion that he has been betraying members of IS and Al-Qaeda at the time.
In January 2021, she was presented as the host of the new TV show from the Al Aan network.
Awards
In 2008, while still a student at the AUST, she was honored with the Ghassan Tueni Award.
In 2019, she received the Shifa Gardi International Award.
References
1984 births
Living people
Lebanese journalists
Lebanese women journalists
People from Beirut
American University of Science and Technology alumni
Investigative journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo%20Calzolari | Giacomo Calzolari (August 5, 1969) is an economist and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. His research focuses on competition policy, artificial intelligence, economics of regulation, industrial organization, banking regulation and supervision and the economics of incentives.
Academic career
Calzolari studied economics at the University of Bologna where he received both his B.A. and doctorate. In 1998, he received a Master in Advanced Economics at the University of Toulouse, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2001. From 2000 to 2018 he was a professor of economics at the University of Bologna. During this time, he was also a visiting professor at Boston University from 2013-2014 and visiting professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in November 2015. In 2018, he joined the European University Institute as a professor in the Department of Economics.
Calzolari is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has received the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association and in 2014 received, with Vincenzo Denicolò, the Best paper award by the Association of Competition Economics for their paper “Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts”.
He is the main editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, co-editor of European Economy – Banks, regulation, and the real sector, and former editor of Labour: Review of labour economics and industrial relations. Calzolari has published in top international journals such as American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Economic Theory.
He is member of the executive committee of the European Association of Industrial Economics, the Association of Competition Economics and the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission.
He speaks English, Italian, and French.
Selected publications
Calvano, Emilio, Calzolari, Giacomo, Denicolò, Vincenzo, Pastorello, Sergio. Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion, American Economic Review, forthcoming 2020.
Calzolari, Giacomo, Denicolò, Vincenzo. Exclusive contracts and market dominance, American Economic Review, 2015, Vol.105 No. 11, pp. 3321–3351
Calzolari, Giacomo, Vincenzo Denicolò. Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts. American Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2384–2411.
Calzolari, Giacomo, Colliard, Jean-Edouard, Loranth, Gyongyi, Multinational banks and supranational supervision, The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 2997–3035
Calzolari, Giacomo, Pavan, Alessandro. On the Optimality of Privacy in Sequential Contracting, Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, Vol. 130, No. 1, pp. 168–204
References
External links
Home page
Giacomo Calzolari on EUI Cadmus
1969 births
Living people
Ita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Wish%20I%20May%20episodes | Wish I May is a 2016 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from January 18, 2016 to May 20, 2016, replacing The Half Sisters.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%20Smith%20%28academic%29 | Lyndon Neal Smith (born 26 December 1964) is an English academic who is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the University of the West of England. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
Early life
Smith was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 26 December 1964 to Lionel Alfred Smith and Dorothy Smith. He received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from the University of Wales in 1986, a Master of Science (MSc) from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of the West of England in 1997. His PhD thesis was entitled A knowledge based system for powder metallurgy technology. He completed a secondment at the Pennsylvania State University which lasted for a year.
Career
Smith is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the University of the West of England. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
He has developed a technique for the simulation of the packing densities of particles with irregular morphologies.
He helped develop 3D face recognition technology which he said was "on the verge of becoming really big" in 2017.
Smith has been involved in plans to replace turnstiles on the London Underground with a facial recognition system. He said that facial recognition technology under development could replace train tickets, and have applications in stores, train stations and banks.
Personal life
Smith lives in Wedmore, Somerset.
Selected publications
Books
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
20th-century British engineers
21st-century British engineers
Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
People from Stroud
People from Sedgemoor (district)
Alumni of the University of Wales
Alumni of Cranfield University
Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Third%20Courier | The Third Courier is a 1989 video game developed by Manley & Associates and published by Accolade.
Gameplay
The Third Courier is a game set during Cold War Germany.
Reception
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) reviewed the game in their January 1990 issue and called it "a disappointment", and in their July 1990 issue gave it a rating of 65% and commented that "If you think living in an oppressed society is romantic and exciting, you probably deserve to play this game."
Dennis Owens reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World and commented that "The Third Courier should have been the sophisticated rock and rolling superspy story that it wants to be (indeed, its fiction is strong and its puzzles are tricky). Instead, its mechanics make it awkward and slow."
Zzap! reviewed the game in their June 1990 issue and gave it a rating of 43% overall, and stated that "If exploring Berlin, talking to drunks and visiting every accessible establishment on every street in an effort to find the odd clue sounds like fun to you, well, I recommend this sleuthing RPG. Otherwise, forget it."
Amiga Action reviewed the game in their July 1990 issue and gave it a rating of 62% overall, describing it as a merely average game.
John Scott for Games International said "I was disappointed - The Third Courier is a different type of game altogether. I expect that this format of game must appeal to some people, since it keeps reappearing in various guises, but it does nothing for me, other than give me an overwhelming urge to go watch some paint dry."
Reviews
White Wolf #19 (Feb./March, 1990).
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Dec, 1989
The Games Machine - Mar, 1990
References
External links
The Third Courier at Atari Mania
German magazine articles
Review in Compute!
1989 video games
Accolade (company) games
Adventure games
Amiga games
Apple IIGS games
Atari ST games
Cold War video games
DOS games
Manley & Associates games
Spy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Conquest is a play-by-mail game that was published by Earnshaw Enterprises.
Publication history
Conquest was a computer-moderated play-by-mail game. The game did not have turn deadlines or schedule. Earnshaw Enterprises used the computer-moderated Instantreply system to process turns received and mail out replies the following day.
Description
Setting
The game is set in a feudal kingdom of ten provinces, with five towns in each province. Each game starts with ten players, each of whom controls one province.
Gameplay
Finances and combat are the two primary elements of gameplay.
Finances
Towns generate varying levels of revenue every turn. This can be spent on troops, spies, counterspies, emissaries, fortifications, agricultural investment, and feeding the people.
Combat
Players can hire up to six troop types every turn, with varying costs and effectiveness.
Victory conditions
The first player to control all ten provinces wins the game.
Reception
In the February–March 1990 issue of White Wolf, Stephen and Stewart Wieck called it "a game of rapid action and aggressive tactics. There is little room for diplomacy and interplayer communication." They suggested that because of the lack of turn deadlines or a schedule, a player who submitted turns very quickly might gain an unfair advantage. They thought the game was good for beginners due to its "low complexity and relatively low cost", but believed it was a game that experienced player would also enjoy due to "the speed of the game and its processing efficiency." They concluded by giving the game an average rating of 3 out of 5, saying, "Between the computer moderation, fantastic Turn Sheets, and consistent service, Conquest is a very smooth running game which doesn't require much busy work from its players. Despite its shortcomings in realism, it's a fun game to play which, in the end, is really all that matters."
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Final%20Campaign | The Final Campaign is a play-by-mail space-based wargame that was published by Blue Panther Enterprises beginning in 1989.
Publication history
The Final Campaign was a closed end, computer moderated play-by-mail game. Blue Panther Enterprises officially released the game on July 1, 1989. The publisher provided players with a rulebook of over eighty pages.
Gameplay
The Final Campaign juxtaposed the large scale of many play-by-mail games by pitting two players against each other. A reviewer in 1991 described the game as "down-and-dirty, planetary warfare between two warring races" where diplomacy was not a factor. Gameplay occurred on a 15 × 15 grid. Each player designed alien armies with associated equipment, weapons, and troops. Players were limited to 30 units and designed their armies with their role or victory condition in mind (e.g., defender). Players assigned rankings for units in the following areas: "attack, defense, mettle, weaponry, status, equipment, experience and leadership". The publisher provided a disk to assist IBM users in the "rather lengthy calculations" associated with army creation. This disk was called the "Army Construction Toolkit".
Once created, players employed their armies in player-vs-player warfare. According to the publisher, "Once in the battle, [players] must contend with firing modes, movement modes, all types of terrain, line-of-sight, morale, weather and an enemy that never stays still."
Players received detailed turn reports which included intelligence on the adversary's army. Players then returned a one-page order sheet to the game moderator providing simple moving and firing instructions without the use of codes. The gaming computer kept track of gameplay on an 11 x 17 hex map.
Reception
Stephan and Stewart Wieck reviewed The Final Campaign in the February–March 1990 issue of White Wolf Magazine. They provided the game low marks for materials and diplomacy and high marks for game moderation and strategy, rating the game overall a four out of a possible five. The reviewers noted that little to no diplomacy was required for the game and the strategy aspect primarily derived from army creation. Chris Arnold reviewed the game in a 1991 issue of Flagship, stating that it was "a fine example of a wargame for the PBM market".
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Tactical wargames
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20American%20Broadcasting%20Company | The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by The Walt Disney Company through the Disney Entertainment. Along with NBC and CBS, ABC is one of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks.
ABC was founded as a radio network in 1943 as the successor to the NBC Blue Network. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, NBC, and the lesser-known DuMont. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres (UPT), a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80 percent interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's corporate parent, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, television, and radio stations. Most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by Disney in 1996.
Blue Network (1927–1945)
In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies: the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which owned two radio networks that each ran different varieties of programming, NBC Blue and NBC Red. The NBC Blue Network was created in 1927 for the primary purpose of testing new programs on markets of lesser importance than those served by NBC Red, which served the major cities, and to test drama series.
In 1934, Mutual filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its difficulties in establishing new stations in a radio market that was already being saturated by NBC and CBS. In 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue. At that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Having no power over the networks themselves, the FCC established a regulation forbidding licenses to be issued for radio stations if they were affiliated with a network which already owned multiple networks that provided content of public interest.
Once Mutual's appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, and gave the mandate to do so to Mark Woods. RCA converted the NBC Blue Network into an independent subsidiary, formally divorcing the operations of NBC Red and NBC Blue on January 8, 1942, with the Blue Network being referred to on-air as either "Blue" or "Blue Network". The newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Between 1942 and 1943, Woods offered to sell th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20tagging | Automated tagging may refer to:
Various techniques in Object recognition and categorization
Automatic image annotation
Various techniques in text processing and natural language processing
Document classification
Part-of-speech tagging
Named entity recognition
Latent semantic indexing
Automated indexing
Automated music categorization
Automated semantic annotation, i.e. semantic tagging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strand%2C%20Auckland | The Strand is a street in Auckland, New Zealand's most populous city. It connects the Ports of Auckland to the Auckland motorway network, and is the eastern end of .
Demographics
The Strand statistical area, which covers the area between The Strand and the railway line to the north, and extends west to Alten Street, covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
The Strand had a population of 1,353 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 129 people (−8.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 165 people (13.9%) since the 2006 census. There were 450 households, comprising 705 males and 648 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.09 males per female. The median age was 28.0 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 63 people (4.7%) aged under 15 years, 741 (54.8%) aged 15 to 29, 501 (37.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 48 (3.5%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 45.7% European/Pākehā, 3.3% Māori, 2.7% Pacific peoples, 40.1% Asian, and 14.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 68.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 52.1% had no religion, 26.6% were Christian, 5.8% were Hindu, 4.2% were Muslim, 2.2% were Buddhist and 4.4% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 561 (43.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 33 (2.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $28,500, compared with $31,800 nationally. 201 people (15.6%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 663 (51.4%) people were employed full-time, 258 (20.0%) were part-time, and 90 (7.0%) were unemployed.
History
The Strand was one of Auckland's earliest streets, existing by 1843. It was formed to provide road access between the city and Parnell, New Zealand. It formed part of the eastern boundary of the Town of Auckland in 1848 but received poor funding for its formation: £1,200 per mile compared to £2,000 per mile for Queen Street.
Motorway access began with the Auckland Southern Motorway gaining on and offramps to Grafton Road between 1975 and 1978.
The Strand originally met Parnell Rise at what is now Shipwright Lane, but was realigned to provide a direct junction with Stanley Street with a new bridge taking the railway over it as part of the Grafton Gully motorway project in 2001–2004.
Notable locations
Railway bridge and viaduct, Parnell Rise, 1866, one of the oldest remaining railway bridges in the North Island.
Swan Hotel, 31-35 Parnell Rise, before 1856, one of the earliest timber hotels in Auckland.
The Strand Station, Beach Road, 1930, formerly the main Auckland Railway station, now a terminus for long-distance trains.
References
Streets in Auckland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei%20Lin%20%28chef%29 | Mei Lin (born November 29, 1985) is a Chinese-born American chef and television personality, best known as the winner of the twelfth season of the Bravo television network's reality television series, Top Chef. After winning Top Chef in 2014, Lin worked as a personal chef for Oprah Winfrey before going on to open her first restaurant, Nightshade in Los Angeles in 2019. She became engaged to her fiancé Andrew Skala on January 14, 2023. On April 9, 2023, Lin won the fourth season of Food Network's Tournament of Champions.
Early life and education
Lin was born in Guangdong, China before moving to Dearborn, Michigan at three months-old. She attended Fordson High School and attended Schoolcraft College.
Career
After receiving her certification from Schoolcraft College, Lin worked as a cook for the Detroit Lions. Following her time with the Lions, Lin was part of the opening team for chef Michael Symon's Roast in Downtown Detroit, before working at Wolfgang Puck's Las Vegas location of Spago. Following her tenure at Spago, Lin joined the opening team for Top Chef Michael Voltaggio's ink. in Los Angeles, where she worked as a sous chef until her appearance on Top Chef. After winning Top Chef, Lin worked as a personal chef for Oprah Winfrey and contributed recipes to Winfrey's cookbook, Food, Health & Happiness. In 2019, Lin opened her first restaurant, Nightshade, in Los Angeles. In 2020, Nightshade was named a James Beard Foundation Award finalist for Best New Restaurant.
In March of 2021, following delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Lin opened her second restaurant Daybird in Los Angeles. Lin describes it as the first fast-casual Sichuan hot chicken restaurant in the United States.
Top Chef: Boston
Lin competed in the twelfth season of Bravo's Top Chef in 2014. In the series finale, filmed on-location in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, Lin faced off against challenger Gregory Gourdet. Lin's fourth course, strawberry lime curd with toasted yogurt, milk crumble and yogurt-lime ice, was particularly noteworthy. During the Judges Table segment, judge Tom Colicchio hailed it as "the best dessert I have ever had on Top Chef, period, and one of the best desserts I've had in my life." Colicchio's fellow Top Chef judge Hugh Acheson echoed his sentiments, calling the dish "blow-you-away amazing" and declaring Lin "a chef's chef."
Tournament of Champions
Lin competed in the fourth season of Food Network's Tournament of Champions in 2023. After an initial round where her dish scored 84, Lin went on to garner judge's scores of 90 points or more in the final four rounds of the contest. In the final round, she defeated Season 2 Champion Maneet Chauhan by a score of 91-89. Lin's four dishes that garnered 90 points or greater from the judges represented four of the top six scores in the competition.
Awards
James Beard Foundation Awards
2020 James Beard Foundation Award Best New Restaurant Nomination for Nightshade
2020 James Beard Foun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microparallelism | Microparallelism is the use of software to exploit fine-grained parallelism within standard computer processors, by writing code that allows the full use of existing parallel units within superscalar processors.
References
Parallel computing
Superscalar microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PineTab | The PineTab is a low-cost tablet developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64. The PineTab was announced in May 2020, with shipping beginning in September 2020. It is based on the platform of the existing Pine A64 single board computer, with the platform being used in related devices, such as the Pinebook and PinePhone.
History and editions
In May 2020, Pine64 announced the PineTab tablet at a starting price of $99, alongside an optional detachable backlit keyboard. Pre-orders began shortly after the announcement. Devices were first shipped to developers and early adopters, though shipping was delayed until September 2020 for consumers. It then later experienced shipping delays and shortages for components due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which made Pine64 decide to allocate more resources for the then-released PinePhone, creating varying availability.
In December 2022, Pine64 announced a successor to the original device, dubbed the "PineTab 2".
Hardware
The PineTab uses an Allwinner A64 SoC, which has four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.152 GHz, alongside a Mali-400 MP2 GPU, together with 2GB LPDDR3 of RAM and a 6000mAh battery. It has 64GB of eMMC flash memory, alongside a M.2 slot for optional expansion with a solid-state drive or cellular modem. Storage capacity can also be expanded with a microSD, which is bootable.
It supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0, has one USB 2.0 port, a micro USB 2.0 port with OTG, Mini-HDMI for external display output and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The device also contains stereo speakers, a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front facing camera. The display is a 10" IPS LCD with a resolution of 1280×800. It weighs 575 grams (1.3 pounds).
Software
The PineTab aims to be an open platform for the development of free and open source software for Linux on mobile devices. Operating systems include Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, Mobian (Debian ARM) and Arch Linux ARM.
See also
Pine64
Pinebook
PinePhone
Linux for mobile devices
References
External links
PineTab official page
PineTab - PINE64 Wiki
Tablet computers introduced in 2020
Linux-based devices
Ubuntu Touch devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick%20J.%20A.%20Little | Roderick Joseph Alexander Little is an academic statistician, whose main research contributions lie in the statistical analysis of data with missing values and the analysis of complex sample survey data. Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he also holds academic appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research.
Education
Little was born near London, England, and attended secondary school at Glasgow Academy in Scotland. He received a BA in Mathematics from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and an M.Sc. in Statistics and Operational Research and Ph.D. in Statistics at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. His doctoral dissertation was on the analysis of data with missing values, and was supervised by Professors Martin Beale and Sir David R. Cox.
Career
After a two-year post-doc in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago in 1974-76, Little worked at the World Fertility Survey from 1976–80, under the leadership of Sir Maurice Kendall. In 1980-82 he joined a group formed by Donald Rubin at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC, and in 1982-3 he was an ASA/Census/NSF Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau and an Adjunct Associate Professor at George Washington University. In 1983-93 he was Associate Professor and later Professor in the Department of Biomathematics at UCLA. He was appointed Professor and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the University of Michigan in 1993 and chaired the department for 11 years between 1993 and 2009, a period of intensive departmental growth.
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
Little’s primary research interest is the analysis of data sets with missing values. Many statistical techniques are designed for complete, rectangular data sets, but in practice many data sets contain missing values, either by design or accident. In 1987, Little co-authored a book with Donald Rubin that was one of the earliest systematic treatments of the topic; the 2nd edition was published in 2002 and the 3rd edition in 2019. As detailed in that book, initial statistical approaches to missing values were relatively ad-hoc, such as discarding incomplete cases or substituting means. The main focus of the book is on likelihood-based inferential techniques, such as maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, based on statistical models for the data and missing-data mechanism. The 1st edition focused mainly on maximum likelihood via the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, but later editions emphasize Bayesian methods and the related technique of multiple imputation. Little and Rubin were awarded the prestigious Karl Pearson Prize in 2017 by the International Statistical Institute (ISI), the leading international statistics society, for a research contribution that has had “profound influence on statistica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly%20%28app%29 | Slowly (stylized as SLOWLY) is a geosocial networking application that allows users to exchange delayed messages or "letters". The time taken by a message to be delivered depends on the distance between the sender and the recipient.
History
Slowly was released on iOS in 2017 and on Android a year later. It was featured as App Store's "App of the Day" in over 30 regions worldwide. It was also awarded 2019's "Best Breakthrough App" by Google Play. By January 2019, it had reached 1 million users.
The Slowly web application was launched in version 5.0, in mid-September 2019. In 2020, features such as Dark Mode, the ability to exchange audio notes and to pass a letter without it affecting the user's sent/received ratio were introduced in version 6.0 of the app. A paid membership feature called SLOWLY PLUS was also launched that allows members to double their quotas for the number of friends, excluded topics and regions, and photo sharing.
Operation
Users are required to create a nickname and an avatar for themselves to get started. They can either manually browse user profiles or be "auto-matched" using an algorithm. It lets users search for people using various filters such as common interests or people from particular countries. The app establishes several "House Rules" that must be agreed to before a user can use the app. The "letters" take anything from 30 minutes to 60 hours to "slowly" reach their destination, depending on how far apart the sender and the recipient live. Virtual stamps are collected and attached to the "letters" before mailing them.
A large variety of virtual stamps can also be obtained for free on special days (Holidays, International Days, etc.) or bought in the app's "Stamp Store", and paid by "SLOWLY Coins". These coins can be purchased with local currencies, or obtained as free rewards by watching short in-app video ads. Messages may also include photos and audio notes with the recipient's consent.
Slowly users can also use a "Web Version", which runs on a web browser in their PC or laptop. First-time Web users can login by using a QR code, generated through the web app and scanned/verified by their mobile device's Slowly app. The Web Client offers easier and faster writing and is generally preferred by users composing longer "letters".
See also
Pen pal
References
External links
Web App
Mobile applications
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Cross-platform software
Communication software
2017 software
Software companies of Hong Kong
Computer-related introductions in 2017
Geosocial networking
Mobile social software
Proprietary cross-platform software
Social networking websites
Social networking mobile apps
Social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary%20of%20a%20Wimpy%20Kid%20%282021%20film%29 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a 2021 computer-animated comedy film directed by Swinton Scott (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jeff Kinney, based on his 2007 book of the same name. It is the second film adaptation of the book, following the 2010 live-action film, while serving as the first fully-animated reboot in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, and the fifth installment overall. The film stars the voices of Brady Noon, Ethan William Childress, Chris Diamantopoulos, Erica Cerra, and Hunter Dillon.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Bardel Entertainment, with the latter providing animation services, and was released on Disney+ as a Disney+ original film on December 3, 2021. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the voice acting (particularly Noon's and Childress'), humor, animation, positive messages, and charm, but criticized its short runtime and the absence of elements from the original book; some critics and fans deemed it an improvement over the live-action adaptations after the critical and commercial failure of the final adaptation, but the responses from the audiences were mixed.
A sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, was released on December 2, 2022.
Plot
Best friends Greg Heffley and Rowley Jefferson are about to enter middle school. Greg gets advice from his older brother Rodrick on how to "survive", putting emphasis on avoiding the Cheese Touch, which supposedly makes one incredibly unpopular. Figuring that Rowley's childish tendencies will cause them to be bullied, Greg tries to urge Rowley to grow up, almost telling him about the cheese, but decides against it, not wanting to scare him too much. Before long, the first day of school arrives, and Greg tries to help Rowley adjust, though both end up shunned by the majority of the students, mostly due to Rowley's somewhat childish antics, which include the use of the word "play" over "hang out." Nevertheless, they manage to avoid scraping the bottom of the school hierarchy.
On Halloween night, Greg and Rowley are forced to take the former's younger brother Manny with them. While at first annoyed, Greg realizes that Manny's adorable pirate costume allows them to acquire a large amount of candy. Eventually, Manny and Rowley become tired, but Greg insists that they continue on and take a shortcut through Snake Road, despite his mother Susan forbidding it. They encounter a trio of teenage boys who begin to mock and chase them with water balloons down the road. The younger boys manage to evade them by tricking them into driving their truck into a ditch and making it home right on time, only to be soaked by Greg's father Frank, who mistook them for teenagers. Manny then outs the Snake Road incident to Susan, who puts Greg on a weeklong video game ban as punishment.
Later on, while playing "rumble trike", Greg accidentally breaks Rowley's arm. Susan discovers this but chooses not to punish Greg any further |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20%28Arab%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central is the Arabic-language version of Comedy Central. It was launched on May 7, 2016. The channel shows international and local shows. It is under license from Paramount Networks EMEAA and broadcasts exclusively on OSN.
Content
Local shows
Some of the local shows:
Block 13
Comedy Al-Wagef
Menna W Fina
Ridiculousness Arabia
Comedians Solve World Problems - Arabia
Bad Snappers
Comedians In Quarantine
International shows
Arabian Comedy Central also airs shows from Comedy Central such as:
The Daily Show
Impractical Jokers
Roast Battle
Lip Sync Battle
Catch a Contractor
Friends
Comedy Central Roast
Hungry Investors
Tosh.0
South Park
Comedians Solve World Problems
Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
Workaholics
Awkward
Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied
Real Husbands of Hollywood
Takeshi's Castle
Friendzone
Disaster Date
Inside Amy Schumer
Nathan for You
Falcon Dash
References
External links
Comedy Central
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Diamond | Ronald J. Diamond (born July 30, 1958) is an American film producer from Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder of Acme Filmworks, the Animation Show of Shows and the co-founder of Animation World Network.
Diamond has lectured at animation schools, served as a juror and a guest speaker at film festivals. He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Shorts Films and Feature Animation branch since 2002, and is a collaborator with the LA Opera creative team.
Diamond has contributed to the restoration and preservation efforts of films that are in the permanent collections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Film Archive, UCLA Film and Television Archive and Library of Congress.
Early life and education
Diamond was born in Covina, California and was raised in Ontario, California. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.
Career
Ron Diamond has had two primary producing, distributing and curating careers in live-action film making (1980–1990), and in animation film production (1990–present). Diamond spent nine years producing live action films including, The Chocolate War and The Dark Backward before refocusing his career towards animation.
In 1983, Diamond's first professional producing credit for The Disney Channel was one episode of a series entitled, Future Tense, The Disney Showcase Series. It was composed of two original short films: one film written by Ed Bryant, Prairie Sun and Ron Clements, Solitaire Creature.
Animation Show of Shows
In the 1980s, Diamond produced and post-produced numerous compilations of short films for festivals such as: the International Tournées of Animation, The Animation Celebration. The Outrageous Animation Show, The Computer Animation Show, Streams of Consciousness: New American Animation, Liquid Television, The Oscar Showcase Tour, and Will Vinton's Festival of Claymation.
In 1998, Diamond founded the Animation Show of Shows (ASOS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. He recognized an absence of animated short films in the theatrical circuit, "so he set out to curate a collection of new, significant, artistic, narrative and experimental animated shorts from those he had seen during the past year at major animation festivals."
Diamond has presented ASOS and his annual Oscar Showcase Tour to students and industry professionals alike at venues such as Harvard University, DreamWorks, Pixar, and the Walt Disney Family Museum. As of 2020, 41 films featured in the ASOS have gone on to receive Academy Award Nominations with 11 Oscar wins.
Acme Filmworks
Diamond founded the commercial animation company Acme Filmworks in 1990. It has produced animated commercials for companies including: Levi's Jeans for Women, United Airlines, AT&T, Microsoft, Charmin, Ad Council and the Alzheimer's Association. Acme Filmworks has produced logos and main title sequences including: the Scott Free Productions log |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens-B%C3%A9thune%20bus%20network | The Lens-Béthune bus network, more commonly known as Tadao, is a bus network in northern France, centered around the towns of Lens and Béthune. It is the network of the Syndicat Mixte des Transports Artois-Gohelle and services the agglomeration communities of Lens – Liévin, Hénin-Carvin and Béthune-Bruay, comprising a total of 114 communes. Most of its services are operated by Transdev Artois-Gohelle, part of the company Transdev.
Services
Tadao operates standard bus services as well as numerous shuttle bus services, telebus services, services for passengers with limited mobility, services for work commuters and school bus services.
References
Public transport operators in France
Bus companies of France
Transport in Pas-de-Calais
Transdev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Magkaibang%20Mundo%20episodes | Magkaibang Mundo is a 2016 Philippine television drama fantasy romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from May 23, 2016 to September 16, 2016, replacing Wish I May.
Mega Manila and Urban Luzon ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
Notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Network%20Intelligence | NNI (Neural Network Intelligence) is a free and open-source AutoML toolkit developed by Microsoft. It is used to automate feature engineering, model compression, neural architecture search, and hyper-parameter tuning.
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.
See also
Machine learning
ML.NET
References
Further reading
External links
Neural Network Intelligence - Microsoft Research
Applied machine learning
Applications of artificial intelligence
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
Open-source artificial intelligence
Software using the MIT license
2017 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VENN | VENN (short for The Video Game Entertainment & News Network) was an American streaming television network based in Playa Vista, California. Launched on August 5, 2020, the network was dedicated to gaming and pop culture content geared towards Millennial and Generation Z audiences.
History
VENN was co-founded in 2019 by former EA Brand Marketer Ben Kusin and Riot Games' former Head of Esports Content Ariel Horn. The network raised $17 million in a seed funding round led by Bitkraft Esports Ventures and private investment firm Eldridge Industries.
VENN was officially announced in April 2020 as a gaming TV network that provides a "mix of gaming, news, entertainment, and music, as well as original series featuring creators and influencers." The network built a studio in Playa Vista, California with another one being constructed in New York City, located inside 3 World Trade Center. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the completion and opening of the New York studio was delayed until further notice.
VENN beta launched on August 5, 2020, featured over 30+ hours of new content weekly, and was available on Twitch and YouTube. The network is broadcast on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook Gaming, Xumo, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel, Vizio, Plex, Distro TV, and Stirr. All of its programming prioritize live community interaction, either through polls or the hosts reading comments and answering questions from the Twitch chat or the official Discord server.
On October 20, 2020, it was announced that VENN had raised over $26 million during its Series A round of financing. The added investments bring its company total to $43 million and will be used to further expand its business. The company also announced the hiring of former MTV employee Jeff Jacobs as their new EVP and general manager.
In 2021, Horn announced a recalibration of VENN's content creation and distribution. These include a heavy focus on its Esports coverage, a simulcasting deal with Fan Controlled Football, the launch of two new YouTube channels (VENN Download and VENN Esports, with its main channel being rebranded as VENN Plays), and the retooling of The Download and Guest House into more short-form series. Horn also revealed they are in talks with linear television outlets for syndication deals and plan on producing more content for streaming platforms. In July, VENN retained accounting firm Armanino LLP to seek a possible acquisition. The following month, the network cut half of their staff and Facecheck, a show that was acquired for its 3rd Season by Venn, then became acquired by G4 for its 4th Season. VENN's YouTube and social media accounts have since been inactive, with the network's website taken offline. VENN has since been considered defunct.
One May 5, 2022, an article from the outlet Input revealed allegations from former VENN employees that claim that mismanagement led to the company shutting down.
See also
G4 – A similar network owned by Comcast Spectacor that announced its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hary%20Gunarto | Hary Gunarto is an Indonesian computer engineer and scientist, writer, researcher and professor emeritus at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan who is recognized for his research and major publications ranging from computer network, computer programming/computer simulation and applications of ICT (digital media technology) in business and social science. One of his books on information technology presented to help Indonesian-Malay speaking people (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei) and to serve the needs for common understanding of new and specific computer terms appeared in most ICT-related information and Internet news in those countries. In the field of factory and manufacturing computer networks his research contributions in particular were in the development and simulation of prioritized system of messages' protocol which were great importance to interrupt and quickly response to any urgent/dangerous messages coming from factory robots or from security measuring devices/sensors. Commonly recognized as Prioritized Token Bus Protocol (IEEE 802.4), its features are crucial not only to Flexible manufacturing system and CIM (Computer-integrated manufacturing) but also to current technology of smart Internet of Things networks.
Biography
Hary Gunarto was born in 1954 in Solo, Indonesia. He graduated from Gadjah Mada University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in Physics. He completed his master's in electrical engineering in 1984 from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and achieved his doctorate in 1988 from Washington State University. He worked in academia, as lecturer at Washington State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1988 to 1989, and as faculty member at Gadjah Mada University in 1989–2007, and then at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan 2007 – 2020. At Ritsumeikan APU Univ., he developed computer programming (courses) curriculum for Business and Social Science students (who did and didn't have math background knowledge), where he became a full professor.
Gunarto was considerable important and instrumental in developing the first nationwide Library automation Systems known as Pusyandi-Net connecting 50 university libraries in Indonesia (1991–1994). He also went on to become the chair of Research and Development in the Computer Center at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Gunarto also spent time as head of Electronic and Instrumentation Lab. and also involved on various national and university committee for scientific research, education and community services. He was a research affiliate in the ICTP Trieste, Italy, a UNESCO-supported research center dedicated to enhancing research activities for scientists in developing countries. With partial support and funding from ICTP, he led summer school program for ASEAN scientists, and organized Asia Pacific Faraday Meeting in 1991.
Gunarto was visiting professor at KFUPM (Saudi Arabia) and also at AKAMIGAS, State-owned oil company tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill%20in%20the%20Bank | Fill in the Bank is a Philippine game show broadcast on TV5, presented by comedians Jose Manalo and Pokwang. The program premiered on the network's Todo Max Panalo block on August 15, 2020, originally airing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7:30 pm alternating with its companion program, Bawal Na Game Show, also a blocktime production of Archangel Media.
From October 12 to December 10, 2020, Fill in the Bank moved to its new timeslot in primetime at 7 p.m. preceding Bawal Na Game Show at 8 p.m., both airing back-to-back episodes on a Monday-Tuesday-Thursday schedule to make way for the influx of new programming at TV5 (and the coverage of the 2020 PBA season) which will take over the primetime timeslot for Wednesdays and Fridays.
From December 14, 2020 to February 17, 2021, the show extends to five nights from Mondays to Fridays.
On February 22, 2021, the show was aired every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (which was returned to the original airtime, four months ago) starting on an earlier timeslot at 5:00 PM alternating with its companion program Bawal Na Game Show which will be aired every Tuesdays and Thursdays before Frontline Pilipinas.
On March 31, 2021, the program concluded and was replaced by Sing Galing!
Cast
Hosts
"Manedyer" Jose Manalo as the CEO, Chief Echuserong Officer
"Madam Poky" Pokwang as the CFO, Chismosang Falakang Officer
Featuring
Alexa Miro as Bank Teller Alexa
Hershey Neri as Bank Teller Hershey
CJ Hirro as Sirit
Tuesday Vargas as Teller Trainee
Benjie Paras as Delivery Guy Tiny
Gardo Versoza as Eggpie / Cupcake
Wilma Doesnt as Wilma Does
Teri Onor as Terri Yakki
Sam YG as Samir Samir
Boobsie Wonderland as Boobsie
Jerald Napoles as Tom Gutz
Kris Bernal
Format
Two contestants vie for the chance to win big bucks in the "Juan Bank" and make it all the way to the jackpot round in order to keep their earnings. The four rounds of games the contestants go through are the following:
Enter Your Pin Code - Correctly go through the process of withdrawing money at the ATM (Ayuda 'Teh Machine) within two minutes, with the correct debit card of their choice and corresponding pin. The cards are divided into three pools: 1 out of 4 bronze cards worth P10,000, 1 out of 6 silver cards worth P20,000, and 1 out of 8 gold cards worth P30,000. The maximum prize possible is P60,000.
Deposit Silip - A guessing game in which contestants try to guess the amount of the money banks by each person or owner presented as close as they can without going overboard. The maximum prize is set at P50,000.
Coin/Gold Rush - Similar to Eat Bulagas former segments such as Hakot All You Can and Hakot Pa More!, the contestants try to race against time while gathering as much coins as they can using only their hands and arms. After one minute, the weight of their gathered coins (in kilograms) will be multiplied by P1,000 and added to their earnings. If either one goes a rare special variable, he/she will has his money doubled.
Jackpot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawal%20Na%20Game%20Show | Bawal Na Game Show () is a Philippine game show broadcast on TV5, presented by comedians Paolo Ballesteros and Wally Bayola. The program premiered on the network's Todo Max Panalo block on August 15, 2020, and internationally via Kapatid TV5 on November 7, 2020 on a delayed basis. The show originally aired Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm and Saturdays at 7:00 pm alternating with its companion program, Fill in the Bank, both blocktime productions of Archangel Media.
From October 12, 2020 to December 10, 2020, Bawal Na Game Show moved to its new timeslot in primetime at 8 p.m. following Fill in the Bank at 7 p.m., both airing back-to-back episodes on a Monday-Tuesday-Thursday schedule to make way for the influx of new programming at TV5 (and the coverage of the 2020 PBA season) which will take over the primetime timeslot for Wednesdays and Fridays.
From December 14, 2020 to February 17, 2021, the show extends to five nights from Mondays to Fridays.
On February 23, 2021, the show was aired every Tuesdays and Thursdays (which was returned to the original airtime except Saturdays, four months ago) starting on an earlier timeslot at 5:00 PM alternating with its companion program Fill in the Bank which will be aired every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays before Frontline Pilipinas.
On March 30, 2021, the program concluded and was replaced by Sing Galing!
Cast
Hosts
Paolo Ballesteros as Barby Ghorl
Wally Bayola as Bebe Ghorl
Echo Calingal as Birit Ghorl
Featuring
Brion James Lim as Bawal Officer Byron
Gringo Baring, Jr. as Bawal Officer Gringo
Mark Benson Pelota as Bawal Officer MacMac
Richard Jonathan de Claro as Bawal Officer RJ
Kim Whamos Cruz as Pambansang Poser Whendell Wamos
Ricky Luzano as himself
Madam Jinky P. as himself
Format
Four contestants, deemed as "pasaway" compete in challenging parlor games in order to become the "Pasa-wais" of the day and have the chance to win the daily jackpot. The three elimination and lone jackpot rounds consist of the following Bawal, or don't challenges:
Bawal ang Mag-Emote - Don't emote; four contestants test the flexibility and balance that they stood in the face booth where there were emotion icons behind them. the emotion icons will advance behind them whenever they are caught by hanging.
Bawal ang Lumusot - Don't infiltrate; three contestants try to jumping some of the boxes selected by the color randomizer at the signal of the hosts.
Bawal ang Slow - Don't slow; two remaining contestants rolls the number dices to find out how many times they must do this before they can run over the obstacle cones carrying their marker chips. they put the chips on the giant tic-tac-toe floor. they have to go back to the starting point where they will again throw the dice do the task and run over the obstacle cones.
Bawal ang Sumuko - Don't quit; the remaining contestant, or "pasa-wais" completes the three various challenges as they navigate the plexiglass maze in the jackpot round.
The winning conte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usapang%20Real%20Life | Usapang Real Life () is a Philippine talk show and news magazine broadcast by TV5, presented by veteran journalist Luchi Cruz-Valdes. The show premiered on August 15, 2020 on the network's Saturday primetime block at 9:00 pm, following Bangon Talentadong Pinoy and its international debut on Kapatid TV5 on November 7, 2020, albeit on a delayed basis. The talk-oriented program is a blocktime production of ContentCows Company, Inc. for TV5 and Cignal cable channel Colours, on which it airs the following evening as part of its weekend lineup.
Host
Luchi Cruz-Valdes
Episodes
Season 1
See also
List of programs broadcast by TV5
Kapatid Channel
References
External links
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Philippine television talk shows
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
Filipino-language television shows
Television series by Cignal Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightGBM | LightGBM, short for light gradient-boosting machine, is a free and open-source distributed gradient-boosting framework for machine learning, originally developed by Microsoft. It is based on decision tree algorithms and used for ranking, classification and other machine learning tasks. The development focus is on performance and scalability.
Overview
The LightGBM framework supports different algorithms including GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM, MART and RF. LightGBM has many of XGBoost's advantages, including sparse optimization, parallel training, multiple loss functions, regularization, bagging, and early stopping. A major difference between the two lies in the construction of trees. LightGBM does not grow a tree level-wise — row by row — as most other implementations do. Instead it grows trees leaf-wise. It chooses the leaf it believes will yield the largest decrease in loss. Besides, LightGBM does not use the widely used sorted-based decision tree learning algorithm, which searches the best split point on sorted feature values, as XGBoost or other implementations do. Instead, LightGBM implements a highly optimized histogram-based decision tree learning algorithm, which yields great advantages on both efficiency and memory consumption. The LightGBM algorithm utilizes two novel techniques called Gradient-Based One-Side Sampling (GOSS) and Exclusive Feature Bundling (EFB) which allow the algorithm to run faster while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
LightGBM works on Linux, Windows, and macOS and supports C++, Python, R, and C#. The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.
Gradient-based one-side sampling
Gradient-based one-side sampling (GOSS) is a method that leverages the fact that there is no native weight for data instance in GBDT. Since data instances with different gradients play different roles in the computation of information gain, the instances with larger gradients will contribute more to the information gain. So to retain the accuracy of the information, GOSS keeps the instances with large gradients and randomly drops the instances with small gradients.
Exclusive feature bundling
Exclusive feature bundling (EFB) is a near-lossless method to reduce the number of effective features. In a sparse feature space many features are nearly exclusive, implying they rarely take nonzero values simultaneously. One-hot encoded features are a perfect example of exclusive features. EFB bundles these features, reducing dimensionality to improve efficiency while maintaining a high level of accuracy. The bundle of exclusive features into a single feature is called an exclusive feature bundle.
See also
Machine learning
ML.NET
Data binning
Gradient boosting
XGBoost
CatBoost
scikit-learn
References
Further reading
External links
GitHub - microsoft/LightGBM
LightGBM - Microsoft Research
Applied machine learning
Applications of artificial intelligence
Data mining and machine learning software
Free and open-source so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Cyber%20Crime%20Coordination%20Centre | The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C; ) is a government initiative to deal with cybercrime in India, in a coordinated and effective manner. It is affiliated to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The scheme was approved in October 2018 with a proposed amount of .
History
The scheme to set up the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre was approved in October 2018 by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India). It was inaugurated in New Delhi in January 2020 by Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India.
In June 2020, on the recommendation of I4C, the Government of India banned 59 Chinese origin mobile apps.
In October 2023 Google launched DigiKavach to protect Indian users from online fraud, to work with Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre .
Overview
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre has 7 components which are
National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit (TAU)
National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal
National Cyber Crime Training Centre
Cyber Crime Ecosystem Management Unit
National Cyber Crime Research and Innovation Centre
National Cyber Crime Forensic Laboratory (NCFL) Ecosystem
Platform for Joint Cyber Crime Investigation Team
See also
National Cyber Coordination Centre
Cybercrime in India
References
External links
Details about Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) Scheme (Ministry of Home Affairs)
Ministry of Home Affairs (India)
Internet in India
2018 establishments in India
Cybercrime in India
Government agencies established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20high-rise%20facade%20fires | This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade.
The original dataset used to create this list was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English speaking reporting.
Plot showing the number of large façade fires worldwide every five years from 1990 to November 2019. Data found from news articles and online.
References
High-rise
Skyscrapers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tales%20of%20Arcadia%20cast%20members | Tales of Arcadia is a trilogy of American computer-animated science fantasy television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You. It follows the inhabitants of the small suburban town of Arcadia Oaks, which is secretly home to various supernatural creatures and the teenage heroes who fight against the forces of evil that lurk in the shadows.
The following is a list of cast members who have appeared.
Cast and characters
See also
List of Tales of Arcadia characters
References
Tales of Arcadia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20Micro | Morse Micro is a Sydney-based developer of Wi-Fi HaLow microprocessors; chips that enable high data rates, with long range and low power consumption. Amongst all Wi-Fi HaLow systems on a chip, Morse Micro processors are reported to be the smallest, fastest, longest-range with lowest-power-use.
The main application of the technology is machine-to-machine communications. With the Internet of things expected to extend to 30 billion devices by 2025, this represents a steeply growing number of users of the technology. The founders plan to be part of "expanding Wi-Fi so it can go into everything, every smoke alarm, every camera."
The firm has its global HQ in Sydney, which is also its main base for R&D, with additional centres in India, China and the United States. As of 2022, Morse Micro was producing more semiconductors than any other Australian-based tech company.
Technology
After eight years' development, the company's Wifi HalLow processor was reported to deliver 10 times the range of conventional Wi-Fi technology, and able to function for several years before needing battery change.
Data rates and range
The microprocessor allows for a range of data rates, depending on the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used. This can be as low as 150 kilobytes per second using MCS10 with BPSK modulation, to a top rate of 4 megabytes per second using MCS9 at 256 quadrature amplitude modulation.
The chip uses low-bandwidth wireless network protocols, operating in the 1 GHz spectrum, while providing a communications range of 1,000 metres. In one field test, researchers found the technology could sustain high speed data transmission between a device placed by the north end of Sydney Harbour Bridge and a device across the harbour at Sydney Opera House. The company claims their chip provides 10 times the range, 100 times the area and 1000 times the volume of data offered by traditional wi-fi.
Connectivity and energy
To enable networked communications between machines, a single Wi-Fi HaLow Access Point can securely connect up to 8,191 devices. Applications for the WiFi HaLow technology includes the Internet of things, which may include solutions for in the home (such as lighting, monitoring and smart door locks) and in industry (such as vehicle management, high-end security and supply chain asset tracking. Looking at its scalability, one American technical review made this assessment:That's ample capacity to connect every LED bulb, light switch, smart door lock, motorized window shade, thermostat, smoke detector, solar panel, security camera, or any imaginable smart-home device for the foreseeable future. Physically, the company's microchip is one-fifth the size of a traditional Wi-Fi processor. It uses very little energy, consuming a fraction of the power consumed by traditional chips, which is achieved by periodically waking and reporting. As such, the chips can operate for several years on a single coin-size battery. In 2020, the first generation of Mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Frick | Laurie Frick is a data artist who uses self-tracking information gathered from personal devices to create hand-built works and installations.
Early life and education
Laurie Frick began her career in technology, most notably heading up the emerging markets group in consumer products at Compaq in 1996, before switching her focus to visual arts. After spending twenty years in the technology sector, Frick switched career paths. In 2007, Frick presented her MFA thesis exhibition at the New York Studio School and received her degree.
Career
According to NPR's Laurie Sydell, Frick's use of sleep tracking devices inspired her to consider data as a possible medium. She used watercolor drawings to help her see patterns in the data. This began a decade-long exploration where Frick has used data about wellness, exercise, and personality and turned it into colorful artworks using watercolors, leather, and glass.
Style
Laurie Frick creates geometric styled sculptures, paintings and installations. The work frequently employs grids as an underlying organizational structure and according to Wired Magazine, achieves through paint, "a warmth not possible to achieve with technology alone." NPR's Laurie Sydell describes the work as looking "a bit like a spreadsheet composed by Mondrian." Barbara Purcell similarly mentioned the artist Piet Mondrian as an antecedent in Sight Lines
Themes
Self tracking data becomes medium in the hands of Frick. The artist has said she wants to "understand how it feels to see yourself through your own data", and that her paintings are "data portraits" that give form to the invisible rhythms of our lives. In May 2020, she cited as a touchstone, Ben Lipkowitz, a member of the Quantified Self community, who life-logged all of his daily time, tracking his every movement. “He believes if you collect enough data about yourself, you can create a future version of yourself. An avatar that goes beyond you.”
Frick told the Atlantic that data art allows the viewer to understand who she is more clearly and to discover things around herself she may have forgotten or even never known. An example of these discoveries appeared in the Huffington Post, when Sarah DiGiulio interviewed Frick about the art she made using sleep tracking software. According to Frick, her husband's sleep score was twice as a high as hers, a finding she did not expect. “He didn’t remember his good sleep. He just remembered his bad sleep and when he had trouble sleeping. It was so him,” Frick told the Huffington Post. “That was what struck me. Measuring sleep is like measuring your personality. Sleep is like a signature. It’s a fingerprint. It’s very identifiable.”
Reception
Frick's art work has been featured in mass media publications including NPR’s All Things Considered, The Atlantic, and The Los Angeles Times along with online industry magazines such as Artnet and Hyperallergic. In 2011, Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times praised Frick's exhibition at Edward |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Service%20Mesh | Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a free and open source cloud native service mesh developed by Microsoft that runs on Kubernetes.
Overview
OSM is written in the Go programming language and designed to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes. The software is based on the Envoy proxy server and allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub. Microsoft plans to donate OSM to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to ensure that it is community-led and has open governance.
See also
Consul (software)
Envoy (software)
Helm (software)
Linkerd
Istio
References
External links
GitHub - openservicemesh/osm
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Software using the MIT license
2020 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina%20H%C3%B6%C3%B6k | Kristina Höök (born 1964) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction and known for her work in somaesthetics. She is a professor in interaction design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Höök earned a bachelor's degree in 1987 from Uppsala University, completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Stockholm University, and earned a habilitation in 2002 from Stockholm University.
She has been a researcher for the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) since 1990, and became a professor at Stockholm University in 2003. She moved to KTH in 2012.
Books
Höök is the author of the book Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design, published in 2018 by the MIT Press.
Her edited volumes include Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach (with David Benyon and Alan J. Munro, Springer, 2003) and Social Navigation of Information Space (with Munro and Benyon, Springer, 1999).
Recognition
Höök was the 1997 winner of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award. In 2005, she was named to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
In 2020 she was elected to the CHI Academy.
References
External links
Home page
1964 births
Living people
Swedish computer scientists
Swedish women computer scientists
Uppsala University alumni
Stockholm University alumni
Academic staff of Stockholm University
Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28Middle%20Eastern%20and%20North%20African%20TV%20channel%29 | Nick Jr. is an Arab television channel in the Middle East and North Africa operated by a joint venture between Paramount Networks EMEAA and OSN. The channel is aimed at pre-school children, Similar to the French version of the channel is known as “Nickelodeon Junior” in promos but still uses the shortened logo used on other feeds. Until 2011, it was the last remaining Nick Jr. to retain the 2D-3D animated pop-up-book-style ident package that was used from 2005 to 2010 internationally.
History
Programming block on Nickelodeon (2008–2011)
Nick Jr. was first introduced to Arab viewers on 23 July 2008 as a programming block on Nickelodeon. By 2011, it was the only international Nick Jr. worldwide that had not changed its logo from the 2D-3D animated pop-up-book-style ident package to the orange and blue text after the mother company's 2009 rebrand. On 8 September 2011 when Nickelodeon's Arab feed was closed down & all programs (expect for Oobi) were moved to MBC3.
Re-launch & start as full-time channel (2015–present)
Nick Jr. was re-introduced to the Arab world along with Nickelodeon on 5 January 2015 on the Emirati provider OSN.
Shows
Some of the shows:
Dora the Explorer
Dora and Friends: Into the City!
Go, Diego, Go!
Baby Shark's Big Show!
Santiago of the Seas
Anna & Friends
Max and Ruby
Bubble Guppies
Barbapapa: One Big Happy Family!
Paw Patrol
Becca's Bunch
Shimmer and Shine
Nella the Princess Knight
Kiva Can Do!
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Blue's Clues & You!
Peppa Pig
Deer Squad
Top Wing
Abby Hatcher
Butterbean's Café
Rusty Rivets
Sunny Day
See also
Nickelodeon (Middle Eastern and North African TV channel)
Nicktoons (Middle Eastern and North African TV channel)
References
Arabic-language television stations
Children's television networks
MENA
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television stations in the United Arab Emirates
Television stations in Saudi Arabia
Television stations in Egypt
Television stations in Morocco
Television channels in Jordan
Television stations in the State of Palestine
Television stations in Iraq
Television stations in Algeria
Television stations in Libya
Television stations in Lebanon
Television stations in Kuwait
Television stations in Yemen
Television channels in Syria
Television channels in Mauritania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony%20%28operating%20system%29 | Harmony is an experimental computer operating system (OS) developed at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa. It is a second-generation message passing system that was also used as the basis for several research projects, including robotics sensing and graphical workstation development. Harmony was actively developed throughout the 1980s and into the mid-1990s.
History
Harmony was a successor to the Thoth system developed at the University of Waterloo. Work on Harmony began at roughly the same time as that on the Verex kernel developed at the University of British Columbia. David Cheriton was involved in both Thoth and Verex, and would later go on to develop the V System at Stanford University. Harmony's principal developers included W. Morven Gentleman, Stephen A. MacKay, Darlene A. Stewart, and Marceli Wein.
Early ports of the system existed for a variety of Motorola 68000-based computers, including ones using the VMEbus and Multibus backplanes and in particular the Multibus-based Chorus multiprocessor system at Waterloo. Other hosts included the Atari 520 or 1040 ST. A port also existed for the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX.
Harmony achieved formal verification in 1995.
Features
Harmony was designed as a real-time operating system (RTOS) for robot control. It is a multitasking, multiprocessing system. It is not multi-user. Harmony provided a runtime system (environment) only; development took place on a separate system, originally an Apple Macintosh. For each processor in the system, an image is created that combines Harmony with the one multitask program for that processor at link time, an exception being a case where the kernel is programmed into a read-only memory (ROM).
Although the term did not appear in the original papers, Harmony was later referred to as a microkernel. A key in Harmony is its use of the term task, which in Harmony is defined as the "unit of sequential and synchronous execution" and "the unit of resource ownership". It is likened to a subroutine, but one that must be explicitly created and which runs independently of the task that created it. Programs are made up of a number of tasks. A task is bound to a specific processor, which may be different from that of the instantiating task and which may host many tasks. All system resources are owned and managed by tasks.
Intertask communication is provided mostly by synchronous message passing and four associated primitives. Shared memory is also supported. Destruction of a task closes all of its connections. Input/output uses a data stream model.
Harmony is connection-oriented in that tasks that communicate with each other often maintain state information about each other. In contrast with some other distributed systems, connections in Harmony are inexpensive.
Applications and tools
An advanced debugger called Melody was developed for Harmony at the Advanced Real-Time Toolset Laboratory at Carleton University. It was later commercialized as Remedy.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20Combinatorics%20on%20Partial%20Words | Algorithmic Combinatorics on Partial Words is a book in the area of combinatorics on words, and more specifically on partial words. It was written by Francine Blanchet-Sadri, and published in 2008 by Chapman & Hall/CRC in their Discrete Mathematics and its Applications book series.
Topics
A partial word is a string whose characters may either belong to a given alphabet or be a wildcard character. Such a word can represent a set of strings over the alphabet without wildcards, by allowing each wildcard character to be replaced by any single character of the alphabet, independently of the replacements of the other wildcard characters. Two partial words are compatible when they agree on their non-wildcard characters, or equivalently when there is a string that they both match; one partial word contains another partial word if they are compatible and the non-wildcard positions of contain those of ; equivalently, the strings matched by are a subset of those matched by .
The book has 12 chapters, which can be grouped into five larger parts. The first part consists of two introductory chapters defining partial words, compatibility and containment, and related concepts. The second part generalizes to partial words some standard results on repetitions in strings, and the third part studies the problem of characterizing and recognizing primitive partial words, the partial words that have no repetition. Part four concerns codes defined from sets of partial words, in the sense that no two distinct concatenations of partial words from the set can be compatible with each other. A final part includes three chapters on advanced topics including the construction of repetitions of given numbers of copies of partial words that are compatible with each other, enumeration of the possible patterns of repetitions of partial words, and sets of partial words with the property that every infinite string contains a substring matching the set. Each chapter includes a set of exercises, and the end of the book provides hints to some of these exercises.
Audience and reception
Although Algorithmic Combinatorics on Partial Words is primarily aimed at the graduate level, reviewer Miklós Bóna writes that it is for the most part "remarkably easy to read" and suggests that it could also be read by advanced undergraduates. However, Bóna criticizes the book as being too focused on the combinatorics on words as an end in itself, with no discussion of how to translate mathematical structures of other types into partial words so that the methods of this book can be applied to them. Because of this lack of generality and application, he suggests that the audience for the book is likely to consist only of other researchers specializing in this area. Similarly, although Patrice Séébold notes that this area can be motivated by applications to gene comparison, he criticizes the book as being largely a catalog of its author's own research results in partial words, without the broader the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%20Sky%20Geeks | Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG), previously known as the Arab Developer Network Initiative, is the first and only tech hub and startup accelerator in Gaza in Palestine. It was founded in 2011 with the backing of the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps and Google, after Google executives, led by then Google.org and Google[X] head Megan Smith, visited Gaza. GSG has since then been supported by other Silicon Valley companies, such as Microsoft, and by international donors such as the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
The stated purpose of GSG is to create a stage for young talents to grow while improving their skills through receiving professional mentoring and performing hands-on work. It encourages female startup members within the IT community to engage in business and software engineering activities. It provides start-up grants for young IT entrepreneurs to begin their businesses. GSG hosts up to 140 people a day, with almost half of those being women. A second location opened in Hebron in 2018. Representatives from large tech companies like Uber, Google, SoundCloud, Microsoft, 500 Startups, Endeavor Global, Udacity, Hitachi, and more have visited the tech hub.
History
In 2008 and 2009 employees of Google tried to enter Gaza as part of their developer outreach program but were unable to do so because of the blockade of the Gaza Strip. In 2011 they gained access thanks to Mercy Corps which carried out humanitarian work in Gaza. Google contributed a one-time seed grant of $900,000 which Mercy Corps used to launch the Arab Developer Network Initiative to stimulate tech and entrepreneurship in the isolated enclave. In 2013 the tech hub developed into an accelerator. In 2014, GSG ran a crowdfunding campaign bringing in $279,000. In 2017, GSG launched two new programs: the Gaza Code Academy and the Freelancing Academy.
A major obstacle for Palestinian freelancers is handling online payments as PayPal is unavailable to Palestinians. In March 2018, MasterCard began researching e-payment solutions for Palestinians.
Programs
Gaza Sky Geeks runs three main programs: Code Academy, GeeXeleator and Skylancer Academy. These were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine.
Code Academy
The Code Academy is a six-month long web development bootcamp with 16 students in each cohort (half female), hosted on campuses in Gaza City and Hebron, launched in partnership with a UK-based bootcamp, Founders & Coders International in 2017. The curriculum covers test-driven development, JavaScript, relational databases, UX design, and project management.
GeeXelerator
GeeXelerator is GSG's 16-week pre-seed startup accelerator program. It helps teams build minimum viable products and to validate them with users. In 2018, 34 teams participated in the program. Access to co-working space, fiber internet, and other amenities in the GSG's facilities are provided along with $2,000 in grant money per team that is accepted into the program. Participants are exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone%20Australia | Vodafone Australia is an Australian telecommunications brand providing mobile and fixed broadband services. Vodafone’s mobile network covers more than 23 million Australians, and Vodafone has commenced the rollout of its 5G mobile network. Vodafone NBN fixed broadband services are available in capital cities and selected regional centres. Vodafone is the third-largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 5.8 million subscribers as of 2020.
Vodafone Australia became a subsidiary of TPG Telecom after the merger between Vodafone Hutchison Australia Limited and TPG Corporation Limited, in July 2020.
History
Ownership Structure
3-Vodafone merger
VHA was created on 10 June 2009, after shareholders and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission approved a merger between Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (owner of the Three network) and Vodafone Australia.
During the merger, Vodafone Hutchison Australia announced it would buy out its Vodafone branded stores, previously run by the retail management groups Digicall, First Mobile, Inside Mobile and GSM. The new retail structure lifted VHA's current headcount by 1,400 to 5,100 staff, and added over 170 stores. Three-branded stores were already owned by VHA.
Before the merger with 3:
Vodafone Group plc owned Vodafone Australia Limited (which runs the Vodafone network)
Hutchison Whampoa owned 52% of Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited, which owned Hutchison 3G Australia ("H3GA") (which operated the 3 network)
After the merger, Hutchison 3G Australia was renamed Vodafone Hutchison Australia, and 50% was sold to Vodafone Group.
The merger created Australia's third largest mobile telecommunications provider behind Telstra and Optus (27% market share)
Between 2009 and 2012 VHA experienced a series of major failures on their mobile network - 'Vodafail'. (a term used widely in the media and by users on social media networks to describe the outages). More than two million customers left VHA over the period from 2010 to 2013.
VHA began phasing out the 3 brand in mid-2011, with the 3 network was shut down completely on 30 August 2013.
VHA-TPG merger
On 30 August 2018 VHA announced plans to merge with TPG, the second-largest internet service provider in Australia, with Vodafone Group and Hutchison Telecommunications Australia to own a combined 50.1% of the combined group and TPG shareholders the remaining 49.9%.
In December 2018, the merger plans were called into question by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which expressed 'concerns' regarding a potential reduction in competition if the merger were to proceed. In particular, the regulator signalled its concern that the merger would essentially remove Vodafone from the fixed-line broadband market and remove TPG (an 'aggressive' low-cost competitor) from the mobile market. This ultimately led the ACCC to block the proposal in May 2019.
The ACCC's decision was overturned by the Federal Court of Australia in February 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Sauron | Project Sauron, also named Remsec is a computer malware discovered in 2016.
It has been spying computers at government and organizations for five years. It can steal encryption keys, collect information from air-gapped computers, and record someone’s keystrokes without being detected.
See also
Flame (malware)
Duqu
Stuxnet
References
Windows trojans
Espionage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20iWantTFC%20original%20programming | iWantTFC is a Philippine over-the-top content streaming video on demand service owned and operated by ABS-CBN. It offers original series and movies, exclusive on-demand content based on ABS-CBN's entertainment productions, content from ABS-CBN's library, and live streams of ABS-CBN's broadcast properties.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Docuseries
Reality/unscripted
Animation
Original films
Live programming
Channels
Current
A8 ESports
ABS-CBN News Channel
Black Belt TV
Cine Mo!
Cinema One
FashionTV
GMA Life TV
GMA Pinoy TV
GMA News TV
Kapamilya Channel
Knowledge Channel
MOR Entertainment
Myx America
Myx Philippines
Scream Flix
TeleRadyo Serbisyo
The Filipino Channel
Toro TV
UAAP Varsity Channel
Former
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Regional Channel
O Shopping
S+A
Available only on iWant TV (2010–2018)
Al Jazeera
Asian Food Channel
AXN
Basketball TV
Bloomberg Television
Cartoon Network
CNN
Colours
E!
Food Network
FYI
History
HITS
Jack TV
KIX
Lifetime
Living Asia Channel
MOR 101.9 Manila
National Geographic Channel
Nickelodeon
RTL CBS Entertainment
Solar Sports
WarnerTV
Thrill
Toonami
Travel Channel
Shows
Specials
Exclusive distributions
Filipino dubbed series
Non-Filipino dubbed series
Concerts
Acquired films
Notes
References
iWant
iWant
ABS-CBN Digital Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitique%201990 | Geopolitique 1990 is a 1983 video game published by Strategic Simulations.
Gameplay
Geopolitique 1990 is a game in which the player controls the United States against the USSR played by the computer.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Geopolitique 1990 is not only an excellent game, it is an innovative one. It would be nice if it were more detailed (less abstract), it would be nice if you could play either side, it would be VERY nice if there were a two-player version. But I'm not finding fault with what is there; just wishfully thinking of what I'd like to see added to an already full disk."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1992
Jeux & Stratégie #24
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
References
External links
Review in Softline
Review in Softalk
Review in Commodore Power/Play
Review in Family Computing
Review in Happy Computer (German)
Review in Washington Apple Pi
Review in "Run" (German)
Article in Tilt (French)
1983 video games
Apple II games
Cold War video games
Commodore 64 games
Government simulation video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 1990
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Francine%20Moens | Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (born 1957) is a Belgian computer scientist known for her research in natural language processing, argument mining, sentiment analysis, and information retrieval. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven.
Education and career
Moens earned a master's degree in computer science at KU Leuven in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1999. Her dissertation was Automatically Indexing and Abstracting the Content of Document Texts. She was a researcher in the Centre for Law and ICT at KU Leuven beginning in 1992, took an assistant professor position in the centre in 2002, and moved to the computer science department as an associate professor in 2007. She was promoted to full professor in 2011.
Books
Moens is the author of books including:
Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts (Kluwer, 2002)
Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (Springer, 2006)
References
External links
Home page
1957 births
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian women computer scientists
Academic staff of KU Leuven
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%20Planet%21 | is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's Data Carddass line of machines, which launched in December 2020. Unlike the previous series of arcade games, it revolves around using collectible swing cards for the idol battle stage.
A hybrid live-action Tokusatsu drama/anime television adaptation by BN Pictures aired from January 10 to June 27, 2021.
A sequel film, Aikatsu Planet! The Movie was released on July 15, 2022.
Plot
An ordinary first-year student at the private academy Seirei Private High School named Mao Otoha is in a place of Meisa Hinata, who suddenly disappeared, taking the avatar of Aikatsu Planet!'s top idol Hana to begin her idol activities However, Mao's new role as Hana is a secret kept from everyone else.
In the adored virtual world of "Aikatsu Planet!", real life idols can become an avatar. Mao, who assume the role as Hana, uses "Swing Card" with her chosen "Dressia" to put on a dress, and begins the world of intense Battle Stages with her rivals. Along with her best friend Shiori Motoya, model Ruli Tamaki, as well as senior Kyōko Umekōji, they aim to be top idols together.
Production
On 10 August 2020, Aikatsu Planet! was officially announced during a press conference of Bandai x BN Pictures Festival alongside its cast. The series was originally set to premiere in October 2020, but the series was delayed to January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The series aired from January 10 to June 27, 2021.
Episodes
Media
Video games
Aikatsu Planet! (Data Carddass, 2020)
Aikatsu Planet! Unit Stage (Data Carddass, 2022)
Music
The anime uses two pieces of theme songs. The opening theme is "Bloomy Smile" by Mao, Ruli, Kyōko and Shiori from Starry Planet, while the ending theme is by all members of Starry Planet.
Insert songs
- Meisa (Episode 1), Mao and Ruli (Episode 2), Ayumi(Episode 5), Mao and Ann (Episode 12), Mao, Ruli, Kyōko, and Shiori (Episode 12)
Flying Tip - Ruli and Ayumi (Episode 6), Mao and Ayumi (Episode 13)
Magical Door - Ruli and Shiori from Starry Planet (Episode 9)
- Mao and Shiori (Episode 10), Ayumi and Kyōko (Episode 14)
Inner Voice - Ruli and Meisa (Episode 15), Ruli and Kyōko (Episode 20)
- Ann and Sara (Episode 17), Shiori and Sara (Episode 18)
- Mao and Shiori
Film
A film, simply titled Aikatsu Planet! The Movie, was released in theaters in Japan on July 15, 2022.
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2021 Japanese television series debuts
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Aikatsu!
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Bandai Namco games
Bandai Namco Pictures
Japan-exclusive video games
Japanese idols in anime and manga
TV Tokyo original programming
Video games developed in Japan
Tokusatsu television series
Japanese television series with live action and animation |
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