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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Final%20Word%20with%20Rico%20Hizon | The Final Word with Rico Hizon (or simply The Final Word) is CNN Philippines' flagship late-night news program. The show first aired on April 20, 2020, as a replacement to the network's 9pm edition of Newsroom. The show is anchored by the network's Senior Anchor and Director for News Content Development, Rico Hizon, who has come home to the Philippines after a 25-year overseas news stint with CNBC Asia and BBC News.
Background
The hour-long newscast, which airs every Monday through Friday from 9:00-10:00 p.m., focuses on the most significant news stories of the day from the Philippines and around the world, as well as segments which also feature the lighter side of the news. Hizon earlier said that the show's formula gives "overall view of what’s happening in the Philippines, around the world, and at the end, give them a sense of hope, inspire them that there is still a light at the end of the tunnel."
The show also features live reports from various CNN and CNN International correspondents from across the globe, with prominent ones going live for the newscast such as Nic Robertson, Richard Quest, Matthew Chance, Will Ripley, David Culver, Joe Johns, and Nadia Romero, to name a few.
Special editions
When warranted, The Final Word would air special editions of the newscast. Its first (and only, so far) special edition was during the July 27, 2020, State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, where the newscast aired a special hour-long edition. Correspondents delivered live and packaged reports about the SONA, while BDO's chief market strategist Jonathan Ravelas provided business analysis. Senator Richard Gordon was also interviewed live on the show.
The edition was on the heels of Hizon anchoring the network's SONA coverage for the first time, and his first SONA coverage in the Philippines since 1995. Hizon anchored a cumulative 7 hours that day – starting with the network's 2pm coverage where he joined Chief Correspondent and Anchor Pia Hontiveros and Senior Anchor and Correspondent Pinky Webb until the President's speech ended and for a post-SONA analysis with ADR Stratbase analyst Dindo Manhit and former Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.
COVID-19 pandemic
On July 7, 2020, production of The Final Word, alongside many other shows, was temporarily halted due to a coronavirus infection in the network's headquarters in Mandaluyong. Hizon took to social media to continue the newscast. The show was brought back on the air by July 13 after thorough disinfection in the network's premises, allowing the show to be broadcast on television once again.
Anchor
Main Anchor
Rico Hizon (2020–present)
Segment Presenter
Andrei Felix (since 2020, Sports Desk)
Substitute Anchors
David Santos (CNN Philippines Senior Correspondent)
Ruth Cabal (CNN Philippines Anchor and Senior Correspondent)
Mai Rodriguez
Menchu Antigua-Macapagal
Segments
Buy. Sell. Hold. (Business)
Sports Desk (Sports)
Hollywood Minute (Entertainment)
Awards
As |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Rugge | Thomas Rugge was a diarist and later compiler of 'Mercurius Politicus Redivivus'. The "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum, corroborates Pepys in many ways.MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS
or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrences and transactions
in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, until
28 March 1672,
serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and
information,
BY THOMAS RUGGE.
Est natura hominum novitatis avida.—Plinius.Thomas Rugge's Diurnall is preserved in the British Library, where it forms Add MSS 10116–10117. It belonged in 1693 to Thomas Grey, second earl of Stamford, and was purchased by the British Museum at Heber's sale in February 1836. It was published as The diurnal of Thomas Rugg, 1659-1661 by William Lewis Sachse ed. in 1961.
The journal is important, early source for the drinking habits of the English of hot drinks, including a strange, new trend that would later have great cultural impact.
According to Thomas Rugge's Diurnall, in London 'Coffee, chocolate and a kind of drink called tee were 'sold in almost every street in 1659'.And theire ware also att this time a Turkish drink to bee sould, almost every street, called coffee, and another kind of drink called tee, and also a drink called Chacolate, which was a very harty drink.Thomas Rugge paid hearth tax for nine hearths when he lived in Covent Garden, Middlesex in 1666. He lived in King Street 1651–c.1663.
«Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality.»
This was the same ancient Norfolk family that William Rugge, Bishop of Norwich, belonged to.
He may have been the Thomas Rugge of St. Paul, Covent Garden whose will was probated on 31 March 1670, though this seemingly predates the end of the journal entries.
That would make him the Thomas Rugge who was buried on 16 March 1669/70 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden.
At St. Paul's, Covent Garden, we find the following baptisms:
Elizabeth, baptised 26 October 1653, daughter to Thomas and Elizabeth Rugg, born on 26 October, the first entry of The registers of St. Paul's church, Convent garden, London
Ann, baptised 11 December 1654, daughter to Thomas and Elizabeth Rugg, born 11 December 1654, buried 9 May 1657 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Anna, daughter of Tho : Rugg
Mary, baptised on 27 June 1659, daughter to Thomas and Eliza : Rugg, born on 26 June 1659, buried 12 October 1659 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Mary, daughter of Tho : Rugg
John, baptised 16 April 1662, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Rugg, buried 17 October 1673 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, John |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ang%20Dalawang%20Mrs.%20Real%20episodes | Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real is a 2014 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from June 2, 2014 to September 19, 2014, replacing Rhodora X.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL%20Creation-class%20container%20ship | The Creation class is a series of similar sized container ships built for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and now operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard and Koyo Dockyard in Japan and have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 8,110 to 8,560 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
See also
MOL Triumph-class container ship
MOL Bravo-class container ship
MOL Maestro-class container ship
MOL Globe-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20ITV%20Sport | This is a timeline of the history of ITV Sport, provider of sports coverage for the British ITV network and ITV Digital Channels.
1950s
1955
22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes.
October–November – The newly launched ITV creates a rugby league tournament called the Independent Television Floodlit Trophy. Played under floodlights at various London football grounds, the tournament was shown live in the London area only because ITV had not launched in the sport's north of England heartlands. The second half of the matches are shown live. The competition was a one-off and did not return the following year.
1956
No events.
1957
No events.
1958
8–29 June – ITV covers the FIFA World Cup for the first time, showing a selection of games live.
13–19 July – ITV shows coverage of the Commonwealth Games. This is the only time that ITV has ever covered the event.
1959
No events.
1960s
1960
ITV agrees a deal worth £150,000 with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the very first live league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road. The match kicked off at 6:50 pm with live coverage starting at 7:30 under the title The Big Game. The game is played in front of a half-empty stadium. TV withdraws from the deal after first Arsenal and then Tottenham Hotspur refused them permission to shoot at their matches against Newcastle United and Aston Villa respectively, and the Football League demanded a dramatic increase in player appearance payments.
1 June – ITV and the BBC both show The Derby because it was a protected event which could not be exclusive to either channel. However, the rest of the Epsom events, including The Oaks, are broadcast exclusively on ITV.
1961
No events.
1962
22 September – ITV moves again into football, albeit tentatively, when Anglia Television launches Match of the Week, which shows highlights of matches from around East Anglia.
1963
ITV shows cricket for the first time, focussing initially on a new one-day event The Gillette Cup.
1964
No events.
1965
2 January – The first edition of World of Sport is broadcast. The new programme sees the start of ITV's coverage of wrestling, usually shown at 4pm, wrestling was a weekly feature through ought the programme's run.
1966
The BBC and ITV share the rights to England's home cricket test matches. This arrangement continues until 1968, after which the full rights transfer back to the BBC.
11–30 July – The BBC and ITV jointly host coverage of the 1966 World Cup. This arrangement continues to this date for both the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship.
1967
No events.
1968
24 June-6 July – The Wimbledon Championships are shown on ITV for the final time.
ITV launches On the Ball, a lunchtime preview of the day's football fixtures. It is shown as a segment within World of Sport.
25 August – The first edition of The Big Match is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellows%20of%20the%20Network%20Science%20Society | Each year since 2018, the Network Science Society (NetSci Society) selects up to 7 members of the network science community to be Fellows based on their enduring contributions to network science research and to the community of network scientists. Fellows are chosen from nominations received by the Network Science Society Fellowship Committee and are announced at the NetSci Conference hosted every year.
2022 Fellows of the Network Science Society
Fan Chung
Vittoria Colizza
Noshir Contractor
Santo Fortunato
Byungnam Kahng
Yamir Moreno
Olaf Sporns
2021 Fellows of the Network Science Society
Lada Adamic
Albert-László Barabási
Peter Sheridan Dodds
Jürgen Kurths
Vito Latora
Marta Sales-Pardo
2020 Fellows of the Network Science Society
Alex Arenas
Alain Barrat
Ginestra Bianconi
Jennifer A. Dunne
Michelle Girvan
Adilson E. Motter
Brian Uzzi
2019 Fellows of the Network Science Society
The 2019 Fellows of the Network Science Society were honored at the 2019 NetSci Conference in Vermont, USA.
Guido Caldarelli
Raissa M. D'Souza
Stuart A. Kauffman
Jon M. Kleinberg
José Fernando F. Mendes
Anna Nagurney
Luís A. Nunes Amaral
2018 Fellows of the Network Science Society
The 2018 Fellows of the Network Science Society were honored at the 2018 NetSci Conference in Paris, France.
Réka Albert
Mark Granovetter
Yoshiki Kuramoto
Mark E. J. Newman
Steven H. Strogatz
Alessandro Vespignani
Duncan J. Watts
References
External links
Network Science Society
Science and technology award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayt%C3%BCl%20Er%C3%A7il | Aytül Erçil (born 14 December 1958) is a Turkish entrepreneur, CEO, and Professor of Computer Vision at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She was the founder of Vistek A.Ş. and a co-founder and CEO of Vispera.
Biography
Aytül Erçil graduated from Boğaziçi University in 1979 with a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. She then obtained a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1983 at Brown University, both in Applied Mathematics. She worked at General Motors Research Laboratories from 1983 to 1988 as senior research scientist and staff research scientist and was a part-time faculty member at Wayne State University.
Upon returning to Turkey, she started teaching at Boğaziçi University's Department of Industrial Engineering in 1988, where she established BUPAM Pattern Analysis and Machine Vision Laboratory, and started her first company, Vistek Ltd. Vistek developed machine vision products like fig sorting machines, glass quality inspection systems, and olive sorting machines. In 2013, Vistek was acquired by ISRA VISION AG.
In 2001, she started teaching at the Electronics Engineering department at Sabancı University. She worked as the founding director of VPALAB Computer vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory at Sabancı until 2013. Erçil co-founded Vispera A.Ş., an image processing/machine learning company, in 2014. Vispera is currently operating in 25 countries, developing solutions for retail execution and customer satisfaction.
Aytül Erçil is a member of the Arçelik International Advisory board, Allianz International Advisory board, Swiss Innovation Park advisory board, and of the joint scientific and industrial advisory board of European Machine Vision Association.
Awards
2003: International Achievement award with the ‘Eureka ST Joseph 2000 Project’.
2003: Vistek A.Ş. received the Interpro R&D Award.
2004: Erçil's project "Eureka Pack 2000" was selected as a Eureka Success story
2004: VPALAB selected as a center of excellence by the European Union
2005: Woman Scientist of the Year by Yeşilköy Rotary Club
2010: Vistek A.Ş. was a finalist in the prestigious Technology Award
2011: Turkey's nominee for International Veuve Clicquot High Impact Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award
2012: First prize in Machines and Accessories Production Technologies Award
2013: Endeavor Entrepreneur
2013: Vistek A.Ş. listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (50 fastest growing technology companies)
2013: ‘Turkey’s Female Entrepreneur’ Award given by Kagider, Garanti BBVA and Ekonomist.
2013: ‘Crystal Tree Woman Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award
2014: ‘ANSIAD Academician of the Year’ Award
2015: “Microsoft Woman Leader in Information Technologies” Award
2019: Selçuk Yaşar “Entrepreneurship, Innovation” Award
2019: Vispera received "Startup of the Year Award" at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Ceremony
References
Living people
Academic staff of Sabancı University
1958 births
Boğaziçi University alumni
Brown U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Marshall%20Islands | The following is a list of the exports of Marshall Islands. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifteen exports are listed.
See also
Economy of Marshall Islands
References
International Trade Centre - International Trade Statistics (2019) - Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc.
Marshall Islands
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXNU-LD | KXNU-LD (channel 10) is a low-power television station in Laredo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside dual NBC/ABC affiliate KGNS-TV (channel 8) and dual CBS/CW+ affiliate KYLX-LD (channel 13). The stations share studios on Del Mar Boulevard (near I-35) in northern Laredo, while KXNU-LD's transmitter is located on Shea Street north of downtown.
History
The station's history traces back to 2008, when KGNS launched a third digital subchannel, affiliated with Telemundo. The station went on the air on July 12, 2011 as K10QK-D, owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting and simulcasting KGNS-TV's third subchannel. It was sold to Gray Television on December 31, 2013, along with KGNS-TV. On October 4, 2018, the station's call sign was changed to KXNU-LD.
Newscasts
Newscasts on the station have existed since 2010, having branded as TeleNoticias Laredo ever since then. In 2015, the newscasts switched to a set of Gray Television graphics and the "Telemundo News" theme from Cacharros Musik. On September 7, 2020, the newscasts switched to a newer set of Gray Television graphics and both "U-Phonix" and "Third Coast" from Stephen Arnold Music.
Subchannels
References
External links
Telemundo Laredo
XNU-LD
Gray Television
Telemundo network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2019
2019 establishments in Texas
XNU |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleritmo | Teleritmo (alternately known as TLR) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The flagship station of Teleritmo is XHSAW-TDT located in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Programming features Mexican regional music and music appeal variety programming.
Teleritmo affiliates
The following is a list of Multimedios Television affiliates that broadcast Teleritmo on its third subchannel 6.3 in Mexico:
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Teleritmo is available across the United States on many cable, satellite and IPTV systems, including DirecTV, Dish/Sling, Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS and Grande Communications. It is carried in both standard definition and high definition versions. In 2016, the network also became available in Costa Rica (the third largest Mexican diaspora behind the United States and Guatemala) through cable.
References
External links
Multimedios
Grupo Multimedios
Television networks in Mexico
Grupo Multimedios
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Mass media in Monterrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rena%20%28given%20name%29 | Rena is a given name.
Notable people with this name
Rena Bakhshi, Dutch computer scientist and mathematician
Rena DeAngelo, American set decorator
Rena Effendi, Azerbaijani photographer
, Japanese voice actress, singer and idol
Rena Karefa-Smart (1921–2019), American religious leader and theologian
, Japanese singer and idol
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, writer and survivor of the Holocaust
Rena Kubota, Japanese female kickboxer
Rena Matsui, Japanese female idol
Rena Mero, American WWE professional wrestler, better known as Sable
Rena Sofer, American actress
Rena Takase, Japanese professional wrestler
Rena Takeda, Japanese actress
Rena Takeshita, Japanese fashion model/actress
Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer
Rena (footballer), Portuguese footballer
Rena Nozawa, Japanese female idol, former member of AKB48
Rena Kang, Korean female rapper from the idol group Pristin
Fictional characters
Cyberdoll Rena in Hand Maid May
Rena Kunisaki in the manga .hack//Legend of the Twilight
Rena Niimi, in the film Battle Royale II: Requiem
Rena Ryūgū in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Rena Sayers in anime series My-Otome
Rena Hirose in the video game Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (Japanese version)
Rena Lanford in the video game Star Ocean: The Second Story
Rena Yanase in Ultraman Tiga
Rena in the video game Sky Punks
See also
Rena (disambiguation)
Japanese feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbug%20Entertainment | Moonbug Entertainment (often abbreviated to Moonbug ) is a British children's media company and multi-channel network headquartered in London, with an overseas office in Los Angeles, United States which creates, produces, and distributes children's video and audio content. It is currently owned by Candle Media, an American media company led by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs. Moonbug distributes children's entertainment intellectual property, including the YouTube channels Cocomelon and Little Baby Bum and YouTube series such as Mia's Magic Playground, Blippi, and My Magic Pet Morphle.
Since being founded in 2018, the company has distributed many series and franchises across animation, live-action and puppet shows. Moonbug shows can also be found on many streaming services. Moonbug programming is distributed on more than 100 platforms and is available in 26 languages around the world.
History
Moonbug Entertainment was co-founded in 2018 by René Rechtman, the former president of international at Maker Studios (now Rogue Rocket and formerly known as Disney Digital Network), and John Robson, the former managing director of WildBrain (now WildBrain Spark). The company was incorporated on 9 February 2018, under the name Project ABC Holdings Limited.
In December 2020, Moonbug appointed former vice president of children's programming for Disney Channels in Europe and Africa/UK & Ireland, David Levine, to head the studio. On 19 October 2021, a company backed by The Blackstone Group is said to be interested in buying Moonbug. Later, on 5 November 2021, Moonbug acquired by an unnamed company led by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs which also backed by Blackstone. Later, in January 2022, it is revealed that the current holding company of Moonbug was named Candle Media.
On 1 March 2023, Moonbug worked with brand agency DixonBaxi to rebrand their logo.
Acquisitions
In September 2018, YouTube channel Little Baby Bum was acquired by Moonbug for an estimated US$9 million. My Magic Pet Morphle (formerly by Morphle TV) was acquired on 11 February 2019, while Supa Strikas on 6 August 2019. On 31 July 2020, Cocomelon and Blippi were purchased together for US$120 million.
In February 2020, South Korean animated series Arpo: The Robot for All Kids created by Toonzip, which first aired on 2012 by MBC TV, was bought by Moonbug. As of 2021 Canary Islands-based studio 3Doubles Producciones produces the show for Moonbug on YouTube. The ownership of Arpo, however, is not really clear since another South Korean animation studio Anyzac (which owns Zombiedumb), founded by former Toonzip executives in 2013, also claimed that series.
On 10 February 2022, Moonbug acquired the YouTube network Little Angel. On 24 May 2022, Moonbug acquired Singapore-based media company One Animation, producer of Oddbods.
Partnerships with Moonbug
On 13 October 2019, Moonbug signed a content deal with Nordic Entertainment Group to create an animated series entitled Mia's Magic Playground. On 24 August |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Renesi%20II | Giovanni Renesi (, 1567-1624) was an Albanian military captain and mercenary. He was involved in the organization of spy networks in the Ottoman Empire in support of the Catholic powers of southern Europe and he participated in several plans for large-scale revolts against the Ottomans.
Early life
Giovanni Renesi was born around 1567 in the town of Zara (modern Zadar). He came from an Albanian Catholic family, which belonged to the Renesi fis of Lezha in northern Albania. They had settled in Zara as refugees after the Ottoman conquest of Albania and joined the stradioti regiments of Venice like many other Albanian refugees in Dalmatia. His family had produced many military captains, administrators and governors in the Stato da Màr. His father and his brother were both military commanders of the Venetian Republic. Renesi served the Venetian Republic as a stradiot until 1607, when he was banished from the Venetian Republic for murder in a blood feud. Following these events, Renesi would regularly inform the Venetians of his future activities, which he probably did in the hope that they would lift the ban pending on him. A Venetian report in 1617-18 describes him as man of pale skin colour who had a lean body, a black beard and who dressed in "French style" (alla francese).
Rebellion and espionage
At the beginning of 1607, Renesi was in Turin and met with Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy. He proposed to the duke to take part in a rebellion against the Ottoman Turks, which was promoted by the voivode Grdan of Nikšić and the patriarch Jovan II of Peć.
Near the end of 1607 and beginning of 1608, Renesi participated in a mission in Mljet, led by Carlo Emanuele who sent out spies to the island and to Ragusa with the intention of supporting rebel leaders who had gathered in order to oppose Ottoman rule. Renesi had as role to negotiate directly with the leaders of the possible uprising rebels.
At the end of the summer of 1608, Renesi arrived in Dalmatia with the envoys of Carlo Emanuele, and informed Grdan about the duke's decision in relation to their previously planned rebellion. Carlo Emmanuele assured his support for the uprising for the months of January or February 1609, depending on the weather conditions.
However, the intervention announced by Carlo Manuele for January-February 1609 did not take place and the duke lost all interest in the Balkans. Renesi together with the other representatives of the uprising villages, were forced to seek support from another prince, the Duke of Mantua, Vincenzo I Gonzaga.
Renesi arrived in Mantua at the end of 1609, accompanied by a Dutch merchant and two noblemen from Ragusa. They presented the plan to the duke and informed him that Maurice of Nassau was also desiring to participate in it. The talks with the Duke of Mentua prevailed until his death on February 18, 1612. Later in the same year, Renesi went to Milan to propose to another governor, Marquis de la Hinojosa, the undertaking of the uprising in Montenegr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexidraw | Flexidraw is a 1985 graphics computer program published by Inkwell Systems.
Gameplay
Flexidraw is a graphics program that allows users to produce drawings using a light pen and print them.
Reception
Roy Wagner reviewed the product for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Of the many graphics programs available Flexidraw is certainly the best supported by parent company."
References
External links
Review in Commodore Magazine
Review in Ahoy!
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Info
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20S.%20Stone | Harold Stuart Stone (born August 10, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist specializing in parallel computer architecture. He is an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993).
Education and career
Stone obtained a bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1960, and his masters and PhD in 1961 and 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley. His PhD advisors were Robert B. Ash and Eugene Wong. He was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1968 until 1974, when he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 1984 onwards was he a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later as a NEC Fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.
Books
Stone's books include:
High Performance Computer Architecture, Addison-Wesley 1987, 2. Edition 1993
Introduction to Computer Architecture, 1975, 2. Edition, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1980
Introduction to Computer Organization and Data Structures, McGraw Hill 1971
Discrete mathematical structures and their applications, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1973
Microcomputer Interfacing, Addison-Wesley 1982
with Daniel Siewiorek Introduction to computer organization and data structures, PDP-11 edition, McGraw Hill 1975
Recognition
Stone received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 1992, the Taylor L. Booth Award in 1999, and the Charles Babbage Award in 1991. He is IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993).
References
1938 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
People from St. Louis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20More%20Than%20Words%20episodes | More Than Words is a 2014 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from November 17, 2014 to March 6, 2015, replacing Ilustrado.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
November 2014
December 2014
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverdance%3A%20The%20Animated%20Adventure | Riverdance: The Animated Adventure is a 2021 computer-animated adventure film inspired by the dance show Riverdance. The film was made by Cinesite for River Productions and Aniventure.
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure was released in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2021, by Sky Cinema, and was made available to stream on Netflix on 14 January 2022 in the United States.
Plot
The animated film follows a young Irish boy named Keegan, who’s been at a heart loss after his grandfather - a well-known dancer - had passed away. He and his Spanish friend Moya go on a journey to a magical world to learn about Riverdance as well as the dangers of the Huntsman.
Cast
Pierce Brosnan as Patrick the Deer and Grandad
Sam Hardy as Keegan
Hannah Herman Cortes as Moya
Lilly Singh as Penny
Jermaine Fowler as Benny
Pauline McLynn as Grandma
John Kavanagh as the Gatekeeper
Aisling Bea as Margot
Brendan Gleeson as the Huntsman
Production and release
In 2016, it was announced that Cinesite Studios was aiming to produce nine animated movies across a five year period, one of which included a film about Riverdance. Cinesite then announced in 2018 that it had secured funding to begin working on a number of films, including Riverdance.
Production of the film began in February 2020, with an estimated budget of €35 million.
After the film received funding, Pierce Brosnan, Aisling Bea, Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McLynn, John Kavanagh and Lilly Singh were announced as joining the cast. It has Dave Rosenbaum and Eamonn Butler as directors, with Brosnan to voice both 'Patrick' and 'Grandad'. According to Deadline Hollywood, Gleeson and Kavanagh are to voice the villains in the film, though Kavanagh was ultimately cast as a benign character.
The film features music by Irish composer, Bill Whelan. Whelan also served as composer for the original tour of Riverdance in the mid-1990s. Whelan also composed two original songs for the film's end credits; "Light Me Up", co-written with Irish singer Lyra, and a remix of the trademark Riverdance music.
The film was released exclusively on Sky Cinema in May 2021 and to streaming platform Netflix on 14 January 2022.
Critical reception
Kevin Courtney of The Irish Times said the actors spoke with good Irish accents. But he worried that the movie only shows Irish people living in perfect villages and dancing all the time. He said the movie is sometimes like a Fáilte Ireland tourism advertisement.
Dierdre Molumby of Entertainment said this movie is "exhaustingly bad".
References
External links
British animated feature films
2021 computer-animated films
2020s English-language films
2020s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf%20Jentzsch | Olaf Jentzsch (born 3 December 1958 in Riesa) is a German former racing cyclist. As a professional rider of team Tulip Computers-KOGA, he rode in the 1992 Tour de France and the 1992 Giro d'Italia. As a citizen of East Germany he was only allowed to ride amateur races before 1990. Jentzsch managed to win a whole series of amateur stage races and stages, of which only a selection is shown below.
Major Results
1981
GDR champion on the road
1983
Overall Vuelta a Cuba
Stage 5a Coors Classic
1984
GDR champion on the road
1985
Overall Tour of Austria
Stage 5 Coors Classic
1986
GDR champion individual time trial on the road
1987
Overall and stage 6 Tour of Greece
Overall Tour of Yugoslavia
1988
Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
1989
Stage 9 Clásico RCN
1990
Stage 1 Giro del Trentino
References
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1958 births
Living people
People from Riesa
People from Bezirk Dresden
German male cyclists
East German male cyclists
Cyclists from Saxony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Grizzy%20and%20the%20Lemmings%20episodes | Grizzy and the Lemmings is a French CGI animated television series created by Antoine Rodelet and Dave Charier. It is produced by for France Télévisions, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang cable and streaming service. The show has been awarded the Best Animated Series Kids Programming at the 2018 Kidscreen Awards and Best Youth Programme at Lauriers de la Radio et de la Télévision 2018.
This is a list of episodes of the series, with their names (in English and French), including series number, the original air date, and an episode synopsis.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2016-2017)
Season 2 (2018–2019)
Season 3 (2021-2022)
Special Event
Short (Season 2S)
A special episode based on the show titled as COVID-19 Alert was aired on March 27, 2020, and October 5, 2020, on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on the COVID-19 pandemic. This video was only created as a warning to children to protect themselves from the Coronavirus disease and to avoid catching it.
Another episode that ran for 54 seconds has no intro and is a subscriber celebration.
References
External links
Lists of French television series episodes
Animated television series without speech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Spain | The following is a list of the exports of Spain. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top thirty exports are listed.
See also
Economy of Spain
References
International Trade Centre - International Trade Statistics (2019) - Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc.
Spain
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una-May%20O%27Reilly | Una-May O'Reilly is an American computer scientist and leader of the Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Early life and education
O'Reilly earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary. She was a graduate student at the Carleton University, where she studied computer science. During her doctorate O'Reilly worked as a graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Her dissertation was one of the first to explore genetic programming. She joined the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 1996.
Research and career
O'Reilly is a principal research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where she leads a team focusing on scalable machine learning. Her research group, Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA), conducts research in cybersecurity, rapid intelligent data analytics and the modelling of medical data. O'Reilly has designed computational models for a variety of different problems, including calculating the financial risk of renewable energy investments and creating a flavor algorithm that replaces taste testers. O'Reilly has developed statistical models to inform the design of renewable energy systems, including predicting wind speed.
In 2013 she was awarded the EvoStar award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe. O'Reilly has received various awards and honours for her work in genetic programming; including being elected to the Executive Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, SIGevo (formerly International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation).
Select publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
Carleton University alumni
University of Calgary alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZCS-LD | KZCS-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Ion Mystery. It is owned and operated by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Pueblo-licensed NBC affiliate KOAA-TV (channel 5). KZCS-LD's transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of ABC affiliate KMGH-TV (channel 7) on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood (the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] considers KMGH-TV as the parent license of KZCS-LD).
History
The station signed on the air in 1994 on analog channel 38 as K38DM, a translator of KMGH-TV, then a CBS affiliate. It moved to channel 23 in 2003, changing its call sign to K23GJ. It assumed the KZCS-LP call sign in 2005, and became an Azteca América affiliate in 2013, relaying KMGH-TV's second digital subchannel. It switched to Escape (which later rebranded to Court TV Mystery, now Ion Mystery since 2022) in 2019, and flash-cut to digital in 2020.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Ion Mystery affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
ZCS-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Colorado
E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Low-power television stations in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordonbahn | The Lordonbahn was a long narrow-gauge railway network with a gauge of from Weiler (Villé) to Chaume de Lusse in the Vosges in France. It was laid and used in World War I to pass a height difference of more than .
History
The light railway was built in early 1915 by German pioneers and Russian prisoners of war.
Name
The Lordonbahn was named after the village of L'Ordon, which is northeast of the Chaume de Lusse. Locals called the light railway Tacot Allemand.
Route
The Lordonbahn light railway network consisted of a long main line from Villé to Chaume de Lusse and three branches from Col d'Urbeis to Lubine, from Wegspinne to Trois Maisons and from Gare du Lusshoff-les-Yraux to the hamlet of La Pouxe.
The route with a gauge of 600 mm ran along the Val de Villé in Alsace to the high Col de Urbeis, where it crossed the border to France. Behind the border a branch branched off to the west to Lubine. At Wegspinne (German for track spider) station, another branch line branched off to the east to Trois Maisons from the main line leading south to Lusshof station (Chaume de Lusse). The Lusshof was above today's Tunnel Maurice-Lemaire at a station of the Eberhardt aerial tramway to Klein Rumbach (Petit Rombach). From Lusshof, a branch line led around an high mountain peak to the Terminale station at La Pouxe near Wisembach with another branch to the top station of a cable car at Les Yraux Fermes.
Operation
On 31 December 1917 five military steam locomotives, eight benzene locomotives and 97 wagons were in use on the Lordonbahn, which were operated and maintained by 193 men. 77 of them belonged to the 24th Bavarian Brigade and 87 were soldiers from other military units. They were supported by 19 civilians and 10 prisoners of war from Russia and Romania. Every day, an average of 160 tons of weapons, ammunition and supplies were transported on 6 round trips with 32 wagons, as well as wounded soldiers in the opposite direction. In addition, a brand-new Borsig steam locomotive with five coupled wheel sets drove on the route (Borsig, 0-10-0, N° 10235/1917).
References
External links
A reminder of the travels on railways that were built or operated by Kodeis B (commander of the railway troops) in the period from 28 May to 3 June 1918, Goswin von Haag, Captain & Commander of the Railway Troops
600 mm gauge railways in France
Railway lines opened in 1917
Railway lines closed in 1918
Railway lines in Grand Est |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clash%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the Philippine television reality competition show, The Clash was broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Rayver Cruz, Julie Anne San Jose, Ken Chan and Rita Daniela, it premiered on October 3, 2020, on the network's Sabado Star Power and Sunday Grande line up.
Christian Bautista, Ai-Ai delas Alas and Lani Misalucha all returned as the judges for this season, until the latter left the show after filming the first round due to health reasons, then Pops Fernandez from the second round to the live shows. Misalucha later returned to the show to perform for the Christmas TV Special on December 25, after the end of the last episode.
The season ended on December 20, 2020, having Jessica Villarubin as the winner.
Changes
Online auditions
In line during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the show held online auditions on April 4 for the season as posted on GMA Network's official website and Facebook page. The auditions had been extended on July 2.
Safety protocol production
Production for the third season resumed on September 16, following the guidelines of health and safety prevention protocols for the cast and crew during taping. Due to the aforementioned restrictions, the show was aired without live audiences.
Music
Marc Lopez continued to serve as the musical director for this season. He began arranging some instrumental tracks provided for contenders, as the live band members did not return to the studio due to the pandemic.
Streaming
The show's online livestream started to include hosts accompanied by the alumni from past seasons, consisting of Garrett Bolden, Anthony Rosaldo, Psalms David, Lyra Micolob, Muriel Lomadilla, Dani Ozaraga, and Thea Astley, as well as the first two winners, Golden Cañedo and Jeremiah Tiangco, respectively.
Top 30
Following strict recommendations in production before filming; the top 30 clashers are announced, instead of the usual total of 60, on September 24 selected by vocal coach Jai Sabas-Aracama and respected personalities from the music industry. Fritzie Magpoc, Niña Holmes, and Princess Vire all have recently competed in the first two seasons, after all three were eliminated in the preliminary rounds before making to the finals.
The 30 clashers were electronically paired to battle it out in a singing duel with the winner advancing to the next round. Originally, the fifteen clashers are selected at the end of the first round until the show announces a wild card challenge called One More Clash in the sixth episode and brought back the fifteen temporarily eliminated clashers for the judges to choose five additional slots in the Top 20.
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
Finalists
Eliminated in the Fifth Round
Eliminated in the Fourth Round
Eliminated in the Third Round
Eliminated in the Second Round
Eliminated in the First Round
Bolded names are returning contestants from previous seasons
Underlined name was the clasher who won the One More Clash round.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Ho | Shirley Ho is an American astrophysicist and machine learning expert, currently at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at Flatiron Institute in NYC and at the New York University and the Carnegie Mellon University. Ho also has visiting appointment at Princeton University.
A cited expert in cosmology, deep learning and its applications in astrophysics and data science, her interests include developing and deploying deep learning techniques to better understand our Universe, and other astrophysical phenomena.
She significantly contributed to the development of several fields, including: cosmic microwave background, cosmological models, dark energy, dark matter, spatial distribution of galaxies and quasars, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, cosmological simulations and applications of machine learning to cosmology and astrophysics.
More recently, Shirley Ho is noted for her work in leading the early adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Astrophysics. In particular, her team at Carnegie Mellon University was the first to apply 3D convolutional neural network in astrophysics, the same team then accelerated astrophysical simulations with deep learning for the first time. Her current team at Center for Computational Astrophysics and Princeton University is the first to combine symbolic regression and neural network to recover physical laws from observations directly. Her team also led the first development and deployment of deep learning accelerated simulation based inference framework for large spectroscopic surveys.
Her team further accelerated physical simulations ranging from fluid dynamics simulations to planetary dynamics simulations using modern deep learning techniques, and developed techniques in interpretable machine learning for science.
Education
Shirley Ho graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Physics and a B.A. in Computer Science at University of California at Berkeley after completing multiple senior thesis projects in both physics and theoretical computer science in 2004. As an undergraduate, she has researched under guidance of Kam-Biu Luk in particle physics for three years, before working on weak lensing of Cosmic Microwave Background under the supervision of Uros Seljak at Princeton. She then wrote two papers in cosmology under the guidance of Martin White as a senior. Shirley Ho moved to Princeton University to pursue her Ph.D. at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University under the supervision of astrophysicist and cosmologist David Spergel. In 2008 she obtained her doctorate in Astrophysical Sciences, with a Thesis entitled "Baryons, Universe and Everything Else in Between".
Career
After her Ph.D., she moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 2008 and 2012, in a postdoctoral position as a Chamberlain and a Seaborg Fellow. Later on, she moved to the Carnegie Mellon University, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate (with indefinite tenure) professor in Phys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenke | Grenke AG is a German manufacturer-independent leasing company which is specialized in office communication-products, including printers, copiers, telephone systems, servers and laptop computers. Besides its leasing-activities, Grenke makes a notable portion of its revenue with factoring services. By acquiring the German private bank Hesse Newman in 2009, the company obtained a banking license. The most important markets for the company are Germany, France and Italy.
History
The company was founded by Wolfgang Grenke in 1978. Internationalization was driven forward, especially since the 2000s. Since June 2019, Grenke is included in the MDAX index on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In early 2009, the company acquired a banking license through the purchase of the former private bank Hesse Newman, which was then renamed Grenke Bank.
On May 3, 2016, the general meeting of Grenkeleasing AG decided to change its name to Grenke AG. This step was justified by the increasing importance of the areas of factoring and banking.
At the end of February 2018, company founder Grenke resigned from the management board after his term of office had expired. His previous deputy, Antje Leminsky, took over as CEO on March 1. Wolfgang Grenke was elected to the supervisory board at the company's annual general meeting on May 3, 2018. Since August 1, 2021, the former capital markets director of Bayern LB Michael Bücker has been CEO of Grenke AG. Wolfgang Grenke left the supervisory board on July 29, 2021.
On June 24, 2019, the Grenke share rose from the SDAX to the MDAX. Due to the slump in the share price as a result of allegations of accounting fraud, Grenke shares were relegated to the SDAX on December 21, 2020.
In 2020, Grenke entered the US-market by establishing a franchising company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
References
Leasing companies
Financial services companies of Germany
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Multinational companies headquartered in Germany
Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Baden
Companies in the MDAX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hiram%20na%20Alaala%20episodes | Hiram na Alaala is a 2014 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from September 22, 2014 to January 9, 2015, replacing Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2014
October 2014
November 2014
December 2014
January 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Stroehlein | Ashley Stroehlein is a sports anchor and reporter for NBC Charlotte, as well as a sideline reporter for ESPN's college football coverage. She previously worked as a sideline reporter for NFL Network's coverage of Conference USA in 2019, a host and reporter for Bristol Motor Speedway's NASCAR coverage and an in-game host for the Charlotte Checkers and Charlotte Knights. Stroehlein also does a weekly segment on Sports Radio WFNZ.
Early life and college
Stroehlein is a native of Council, Virginia. She is a former Virginia High School League Scholar/Athlete of the Year, Wendy's Heisman Finalist, WJHL Female Student/Athlete of the Year, earned All-District Honors in Basketball, Volleyball, Softball, Track, and Cross Country. Stroehlein graduated valedictorian of her class and attended Radford University on an academic scholarship. During her time at Radford she worked in athletics, played intramurals, and went on to graduate with honors, majoring in Mathematics.
Career
After graduation she moved to North Carolina to coach basketball and track, while teaching secondary math at Statesville High School and Hough High School. During this time, she went to the Connecticut School of Broadcasting - Charlotte campus to study broadcasting. Upon completion of her courses at CTSB, Stroehlein was hired as a news editor for WBTV. Shortly later she moved into the role of part-time sports reporter, before being hired full-time as an on-air sports anchor. Stroehlein was there for five years before joining WCNC.
Stroehlein also worked as a freelance reporter for Bristol Motor Speedway during the track's NASCAR Truck, Xfinity and Cup Series races.
Previously, Stroehlein worked for CBS Radio's KISS 95.1 as a morning show producer and as an entertainment reporter for K 104.7, as well as an in game host for the Charlotte Knights and Charlotte Checkers.
References
External links
Ashley Stroehlein profile at WCNC
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
People from Buchanan County, Virginia
Radford University alumni
1987 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20national%20road%2011 | Danish national road 11 () is part of the Danish national road network. It runs along Jutland's west coast from Sæd at the German border to Aalborg.
Its year-round traffic ranged between 3,100 and 16,400 in 2008.
References
Roads in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alice%20Network | The Alice Network is a 2017 historical novel by American author Kate Quinn. It was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
The story is based on the real-life World War I spy ring called the Alice Network, which operated in German-occupied France and Belgium. Three historical figures are used as characters in the novel:
Louise de Bettignies, the ring leader (code name Alice Dubois, called Lili in the book)
Léonie van Houtte, her lieutenant (code name Violette Lameron in the book)
Cecil Aylmer Cameron, a British Intelligence officer (called Captain Cameron and Uncle Edward in the book), who recruited both women.
The novel uses a dual narrative approach, alternating between events that occurred beginning in 1915 and in 1947. The 1915 story involves a fictional character named Eve Gardiner (code name Marguerite Le François), who was selected by Captain Cameron to join the Alice Network in Lille, France, under the direction of Lili.
The primary character in the 1947 story is the fictional American college student Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair. Charlie finds Eve in England and enlists her help to find Rose Fournier, Charlie's French cousin who went missing during World War II. In the end, Eve and Charlie find that they both have reason to hunt down a certain restaurant owner, profiteer and collaborator named René.
Plot
The narrative starts in 1947. American college student Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair is on her way to Switzerland with her mother, who has arranged for her to get an abortion. However, Charlie is more interested in finding her French cousin Rose Fournier, who disappeared during World War II. During a stopover in England, she slips away from her mother and tracks down World War I British spy Eve Gardiner, whose name appeared on a report Charlie's father had received when he was trying to locate Rose.
The story of Evelyn (Eve) Gardiner starts in London in 1915. She is recruited by "Uncle Edward" (Captain Cameron) to join the Alice Network, a group of mostly female spies working against the Germans in northeastern France. The ring is headed by “Lili” (Louise de Bettignies). Using the code name Marguerite Le François, Eve takes a waitress job in Lille at a restaurant named Le Lethe, which caters to German officers and is operated by René Bourdelon, a French collaborator and profiteer.
Eve conceals her fluency in German so she can eavesdrop on conversations at the restaurant and pass on valuable intelligence to Lili and her lieutenant “Violette” (Léonie van Houtte).
Over time, Bourdelon becomes attracted to Marguerite and seduces her. She accepts his advances so she can get even more information to pass on to Lili. Eventually, he discovers that she is a British spy. In attempting to get information from her, he breaks all of the joints of her fingers. When she refuses to tell him anything, he gives her opium and tells her afterwards that, while under the influence of the drug, she betrayed Lili and her network.
Eve and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Second%20Chances%20episodes | Second Chances is a 2015 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from January 12, 2015 to May 8, 2015, replacing Hiram na Alaala.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20embassy | A data embassy is a solution traditionally implemented by nation states to ensure a country's digital continuity with particular respect to critical databases. It consists of a set of servers that store one country's data and are under that country's jurisdiction while being located in another country.
Purpose
Data embassies are regarded as a tool to ensure a government's digital continuity, meaning the survival of critical databases to allow the continuation of government even in a situation where governing from within the country's borders is no longer an option. Among threats that might lead to such situation are natural disasters, large-scale cyberattacks, and military invasion. In the worst-case scenario, a data embassy could enable government to provide its digital services without the national territory under its control. This makes data embassies particularly attractive to countries that have already digitalized their most crucial databases and are situated in the vicinity of the aforementioned threat vectors. Additionally, data embassies can offer additional computing power for heightened server traffic, for example during election season or the period of electronic tax return filing.
History
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia disrupted websites of Estonian organizations including the Estonian parliament as well as newspapers and banks. Furthermore, Estonia has implemented a stringent paperless policy, meaning that many crucial databases only exist in a digital format. Tasked with ensuring the security and immutability of these databases, the ministries looked towards data embassies as a possible solution for digital continuity. This was crucial not just for Estonia's own citizens but also for e-Residents who rely on these services around the world. These efforts were also written down in the Estonian Cyber Security Strategy 2014-2017 which created an outline for ensuring the digital continuity of the state.
In 2013, then-CIO of the Estonian government Taavi Kotka made active efforts to determine, in which constellation a data embassy would be the most useful and effective. The Estonian government also collaborated with Microsoft on two studies to determine the feasibility of virtual data embassies. The government decided against the option of converting selected Estonian embassies into data embassies because embassies did not possess the necessary technical and crisis response competence, were reliant on whatever telecommunications services they would be offered by virtue of their environment, and were not physically constructed according to safety criteria that datacenters could fulfil.
On 14 November 2016, the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and Luxembourgish Ministry of Media and Communications signed a Memorandum of Understanding about the hosting of data and information systems. On 20 June 2017, Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel signed the agreement to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Keshet | Joseph (Yossi) Keshet (Hebrew: יוסי קשת; born: 28 February 1973) is an Israeli professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of the Technion.
Early life and education
Keshet was born in Tel-Aviv. He graduated from the Amal School and began his academic studies at the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and received his B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in 1994. Keshet served in the IDF Unit 8200 from 1995 to 2002 as the head of the speech processing research section in the R&D Center. During his service, he received a national award from the Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (Maf’at). Keshet was award his M.Sc. from the same department after he completed his Israel Defense Force service in 2002. His Dissertation was titled: Stop consonant spotting in continuous speech and was supervised by Dan Chazan from IBM Research Labs, Haifa. He continued his Ph.D. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until 2008. Prof. Yoram Singer supervised his thesis on Large Margin Algorithms for Discriminative Continuous Speech.
Career
Keshet was a Research Associate (postdoc) at IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland in 2007, and joined the TTI-Chicago and Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL in 2009 as Research Assistant Professor.
In 2013 he returned to Israel and joined the Computer Science department at Bar-Ilan University as a senior lecturer and head of the Speech, Language, and Deep Learning Lab.
In 2020 Keshet became a Founding Venture Partner at the Disruptive AI Venture Capital. In the same year, he also joined Amazon in Tel-Aviv as an Amazon Scholar. In 2022, Keshet joined the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion.
Research
Keshet's research work focuses on both machine learning and computational study of human speech and language. His work on speech and language concentrates on speech processing, speech recognition, acoustic phonetics, and pathological speech. In machine learning, Keshet is focused on deep learning and structured tasks.
According to Google Scholar (September 2020), Keshet is one of the 15 most cited researchers in the field of spoken language processing.
The algorithms that were developed in the Speech, Language, and Deep Learning Lab can analyze different pathological conditions in the throat and vocal cords based on the subject's voice. Other algorithms showed that the voice can be used to estimate physical and emotional state of the speaker.
Another research led by Keshet suggested that it is possible to fool structured AI systems (like Google Voice).
Membership in professional societies
Keshet is the founder and chair of the Machine Learning for Speech and Language Processing Special Interest Group (SIGML) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), from 2011. He is a senior member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society since 2018 and a member of ISCA since |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.A.A.F.%20-%20United%20States%20Army%20Air%20Force | U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force is a 1985 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby published by Strategic Simulations.
U.S.A.A.F. won positive reviews but sold poorly. In 1999, it received a spiritual successor under the name Battle of Britain, designed by Grigsby and Keith Brors and published by TalonSoft.
Gameplay
U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force is a game in which the daylight bombing of World War II by the Americans against Germany is simulated.
Development
U.S.A.A.F. was designed by Gary Grigsby and released in 1985, the same year he launched Kampfgruppe and Mech Brigade.
Reception
According to M. Evan Brooks of Computer Gaming World, U.S.A.A.F. sold poorly. He remarked in 1993, "Based upon its commercial success, it would appear that its fans are limited to this reviewer and the designer."
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "it covers well what it sets out to do. As a study of the collapse of Germany's industrial capacity under the weight of American bombs, it is unsurpassed."
In a 1988 Page 6 survey of wargames for Atari computers, writer M. Evan Brooks called U.S.A.A.F. "highly recommended" and "a fascinating product". In a similar 1989 survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play called the game "interesting and a real learning tool" and dubbed it a "recommended" title. In his 1993 survey, Brooks continued his praise for U.S.A.A.F. and upgraded it to a five-star score.
Legacy
In 1995, Computer Gaming World reported that Gary Grigsby had been attempting to pitch "the idea of redoing USAAF for the IBM" to Strategic Simulations, without success. After departing Strategic Simulations for TalonSoft in 1997, Grigsby and his collaborator Keith Brors envisioned a semi-remake of U.S.A.A.F. under the title Battle of Britain. It marked the first time since U.S.A.A.F. that Grigsby had attempted an air-combat title.
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Dec, 1991
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Sep, 1987
Current Notes (Sep 1986)
References
External links
Review in Page 6
Review in Ahoy!
1985 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Combat flight simulators
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Germany
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Playhouse | Global Playhouse, intermittently also known as Bell Canada Playhouse or Bell Canada Global Playhouse, is a Canadian television drama anthology series, which aired on Global Television Network in the 1980s. A coproduction of Atlantis Films and the National Film Board of Canada, the series aired film adaptations of short stories by Canadian writers.
Its most noted episode was The Painted Door, a dramatization of a short story by Sinclair Ross which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985. Other stories adapted for the series included Ross's "One's a Heifer", Mordecai Richler's "Bambinger", Margaret Laurence's "To Set Our House in Order", W. D. Valgardson's "Capital", W. P. Kinsella's "John Cat", Guy Vanderhaeghe's "Cages", Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life" and "A Cap for Steve", David Walker's "A Good Tree", Isabel Huggan's "Jack of Hearts", and Alice Munro's "Connections".
The series produced 26 episodes overall, which aired monthly from 1984 to 1986, and ended production at the discretion of Atlantis Films rather than being cancelled by the network. All 26 episodes were rebroadcast weekly in the 1986-87 television season.
References
1984 Canadian television series debuts
1986 Canadian television series endings
1980s Canadian anthology television series
Global Television Network original programming
Television series by Alliance Atlantis
National Film Board of Canada series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh%20Fleet%20%28video%20game%29 | Seventh Fleet is a 1985 computer wargame published by Simulations Canada.
Gameplay
Seventh Fleet is a computer wargame that simulates the invasion of Vietnam by China. It features elements of board wargaming, such as counters and a physical map, combined with computer play.
Publication history
Seventh Fleet was released by Simulations Canada for the Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari ST and IBM PC.
Reception
Ed Curtis reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "SF is the best simulation of operational level naval warfare currently available. My only doubt concerns its longevity."
In a 1989 survey of computer wargames, J. L. Miller of Computer Play offered Seventh Fleet a positive assessment, noting that it offered "minimal graphics but good play value".
References
External links
Article in Commodore Magazine
1985 video games
Apple II games
Cold War video games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Naval video games
Simulations Canada video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Title%20Bout | Computer Title Bout is a 1983 video game published by The Avalon Hill Game Company.
Gameplay
Computer Title Bout is a game in which 500 boxers are included with the game.
Reception
Antic stated that Computer Title Bout "gives you the excitement and challenge of real professional boxing without the crowds, noise or blood", concluding that the game "is definitely a sleeper of the year". Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Graphically, the game won't astonish you but it will impart enough information and action to let you imagination fill in the gaps. Overall, this is the boxing game that gets the most play in my ring."
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in Commodore Microcomputers
Review in Electronic Games
1983 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Boxing video games
Commodore 64 games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%288th%20generation%29 | The iPad 10.2-inch (officially iPad (8th generation)) is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the successor to the 7th-generation iPad. It was announced on September 15, 2020 and released on September 18, 2020.
Features
The eighth-generation iPad uses the same design as the seventh-generation iPad, with a 10.2-inch screen with 1620 by 2160 pixels at a pixel density of 264-pixel PPI, Touch ID support, and compatibility with the Smart Connector.
It uses the Apple A12 chip, which Apple claims provides a 40% faster 6-core CPU and a 2x faster 4 core GPU compared to the processor of the previous generation. It is the first iPad tablet that includes a Neural Engine, a component introduced with the A11 processor. It is the final iPad tablet available with white bezels on the Silver and Gold models; all iPad (9th generation) tablets come with black bezels.
The eighth-generation iPad is compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil, the Smart Keyboard and keyboard attachments compatible with the Smart Connector.
It was released running iPadOS 14, with iPadOS 15 unveiled later at WWDC 2021. iPadOS 16 announced at WWDC22
Reception
Miles Somerville of 9to5Mac found the tablet to be a good value proposition at its price point. He described it as having a nearly identical appearance to its predecessor, but with improved battery life, enhanced performance owing to the upgrade from the A10 Fusion to the A12 Bionic, and better screen sensitivity for Apple Pencil use, while continuing the poor implementation of Pencil charging on a perpendicular direction from the tablet's Lightning port. He found it sufficient for basic activities, gaming, everyday content consumption, and general multitasking, although not measuring up to the 2020 iPad Pro or the simultaneously released fourth-generation iPad Air, in part due to its display that supports only a 60 Hz refresh rate instead of 120 Hz. He especially faulted Apple's choice of keeping a 1.2-megapixel camera on the front of the tablet, which could be a strong negative factor for an intended audience of students, who might plan to use the device for teleconference classes over platforms such as Zoom.
Scott Stein of CNET rated the tablet 8.1 out of 10. Stein commended it for its faster processing that handled iPadOS better than previous models, better support for Apple Pencil and keyboard cases, and a faster charger included in the box. He faulted it for the large bezels that lead to a cramped feel of its screen during multitasking with two apps open, lack of support for the second-generation Apple Pencil and newer Magic Keyboard cases, the outdated 720p camera that does not function well in landscape mode teleconferencing because of placement, the display limited to a 60 Hz refresh rate and lacking True Tone color temperature auto-adjustment, and the insufficient 32 gigabytes of storage for the entry-level model.
David Price of Macworld UK echoed many of the other critiques while noting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%20Boxing%20%28video%20game%29 | Pro Boxing is a 1985 video game published by Artworx.
Gameplay
Pro Boxing is a game in which the player challenges the computer or another player using boxers with equal capabilities.
Reception
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "For those of you who aren't really sure whether boxing on a computer is for you, this is an inexpensive way to find out. I think you'll like it."
References
External links
Article in Commodore Microcomputers
1985 video games
Artworx games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Belt%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | Black Belt is a 1984 video game published by Earthware Computer Services.
Gameplay
Black Belt is a game in which the record for a boxer improves and gains experience, and he becomes able to use more moves in a match.
Reception
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The graphics are fluid and well-drawn. It is quite easy to see what you're doing and its effect on the other combatant."
References
External links
Review in Tilt (French)
Entry in The Book of Apple Software
1984 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Fighting games
Martial arts video games
Taekwondo
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxsta | Jaxsta is an Australia-based database of official music credits, including performers, artists, engineers, producers and songwriters. Jaxsta's data is content-owner supplied rather than crowd-sourced.
Data
Jaxsta is the world’s only official music credits database, The credits are official as they are provided directly by more than 355 data partners, including record labels, publishers, distributors and industry associations. The database holds more than 340 million music credits, 105 million deep-linked pages and is available as an API providing programmatic access to the data. In November 2022 a new feature was added that matches works to recordings, allowing users of its database to secure lost royalties, source song licenses and syncs.
Awards
Jaxsta was named Master of Metadata at the 2023 Music Business Association Bizzy Awards. The award recognizes significant impact data processing, credit clarification, streamlining and more.
Data Partners
As of June 2023, Jaxsta has more than 355 data partner agreements in place. Data partners include the three major labels, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, the Merlin Network of independent music companies and unions including the American Federation of Musicians and SAG-AFTRA, as well as independent distributors such as CDBaby, DistroKid and SoundCloud Repost. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Recording Academy.
Membership Plans
Jaxsta's business-to-business membership plan was launched on November 21, 2019. It offered music industry specific tools such as chart alerts for artists and non-artists, industry events calendars, market insights and gave members the ability to claim and manage their Jaxsta profile page .
In August 2021, to coincide with the return of paid memberships, Jaxsta introduced two levels of membership: Jaxsta Core, a free introductory membership, and Jaxsta Plus, which for $US49 a year offered members access to a suite of features such as Credit and Chart Alerts, the ability to claim their profile (or the profiles of those they represent), Prioritize Your Credits, and more.
In June 2022 Jaxsta's membership plans evolved to reflect the music industry's demand for accurate metadata, resulting in the introduction of a further two levels of membership: Business and Enterprise. Jaxsta Plus was rebranded Creator, and Jaxsta Core became the free membership level.
Jaxsta One Sheet
In November 2021, Jaxsta introduced the Jaxsta One Sheet in an effort to help music professionals create a "shareable resume". The One Sheet is pre-populated by information on the user's Jaxsta profile, including credits, social media statistics, TikTok plays, contact details, bio, image and more.
Vinyl.com Launch
Vinyl.com went live on Monday 15 May, offering a catalog of vinyl records across all genres with verified creative contributions metadata on every album, ensuring that all parties involved in the creation of the albums are rec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20transport%20in%20Japan | Road transport is an essential element of the Japanese transport network, and vital part of the Japanese economy. Japan's history of having human-made roads ranging from the present to the Jōmon period. The Gokishichidō of the Asuka period and the Edo period kaidō both figured into the government's attempts to centralize their authority. As of April 2012, Japan had a road network of approximately of roads made up of of city, town and village roads, of prefectural roads, of national highways, and of expressways.
Highway systems
As of April 2012, Japan had a road network of approximately of roads made up of of city, town, and village roads, of prefectural roads, of national highways, and of expressways.
Roadside stations
A is a government-designated rest area. Not to be confused with the service areas found along the country's expressways, the roadside stations are found along the national and prefectural highways of Japan. They serve as places for travelers to rest and they are also intended to promote local tourism and trade. Shops within them often sell local produce, snacks, souvenirs, and other goods. All roadside stations provide 24-hour access to parking, public toilets and facilities for sharing information.
As of September 2020, there are 1,180 roadside stations across Japan: 128 in Hokkaido, 165 in the Tōhoku area, 180 in the Kantō region, 82 in the Hokuriku region, 135 in the Chubu area, 149 in the Kinki area, 107 in the Chugoku area, 88 in the Shikoku area, and 146 in the Kyushu region. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism conducted an experiment at 13 roadside stations across the country from 2017 to 2018 to test the feasibility of having self-driving cars carry people and products to and from homes within a range of from roadside stations.
Numbering
Each level of the Japanese road network has its own numbering scheme. For national and prefectural routes, numbers of lower value indicate greater significance to the system. In the national highway network, highways with values 1 to 57 were originally established as the Primary National Highways, routes with three-digit numbers were established later and the earliest of those were originally called Secondary National Highways. The distinction between the primary and secondary highways was dropped in 1965 and now the national highways are all referred to officially as General National Highways. The only highway to be given a two digit number since the creation of the Primary National Highways is National Route 58, which connects the capital cities Kagoshima and Naha of Kagoshima Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture, the latter of which was occupied during the creation of the system. It was added to the system shortly after the handover of the Ryukyu Islands from the United States to Japan.
The national and regional expressways follow their own numbering scheme that was implemented in 2016. The first two group of expressways are numbered with the lett |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20J.%20Mooney | Raymond J. Mooney is an American computer scientist, professor of computer science, and director of the Artificial Intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing.
He was educated at O'Fallon Township High School in O'Fallon, Illinois and earned a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was advised by Gerald DeJong.
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Natural language processing researchers
Machine learning researchers
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissan%20Al-Lazikani | Professor Bissan Al-Lazikani PhD FRSB MBCS is a data scientist and drug discoverer. She applies computational techniques to help solve critical bottlenecks in cancer drug discovery and development. Since 2021 she has been professor of genomic medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Education
She studied as an undergraduate at UCL in molecular biology. Her M.Sc in Computer Science is from Imperial College and she has a PhD in Computational Biology from Cambridge University, where she was supervised by Cyrus Chothia.
Career
Professor Bissan Al-Lazikani is formally trained in molecular biology and computer science: BSc (Hons) in molecular biology from UCL, MSc in Computer Science from Imperial College then PhD in Computational Biology from the Cambridge University. Subsequently, she became a Howard Hughes postdoctoral fellow at the laboratories of Professor Barry Honig in Columbia University, New York, where she focused on structure analysis, prediction and modelling for the purpose of understanding the basis of ligand-receptor interactions. After that, she joined a London-based biotechnology company, Inpharmatica, where she led a team to develop chemogenomics databases and tools to aid target prioritisation and drug discovery. These are now available to the community via a Wellcome strategic award through the ChEMBL resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
She joined the Institute of Cancer Research, London, in 2009 to establish and lead the Computational Biology and Chemogenomics Team in order to innovate and apply computational techniques to cancer drug discovery, in a long-term collaboration with Professor Paul Workman FRS. She then led the creation of the world’s largest cancer knowledge base, canSAR, as well as the novel, Big Data-driven approaches for objective and systematic evaluation of therapeutic targets for cancer. She also led the creation of ProbeMiner, a data-driven Chemical Probe assessment resource. She was appointed head of the Department of Data Science at the ICR. In this role, she led the creation of The Knowledge Hub, a multidisciplinary, AI-enabled environment for clinical research and therapy stratification.
In 2021 she joined MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas, where she is Director of Therapeutics Data Science, Professor in the Department of Genomic Medicine and founding faculty of MD Anderson’s Institute of Data Science for Oncology (IDSO).
She is a joint applicant for the Wellcome Biomedical Resource award as well as the Director of Informatics and Technologies for the Chemical Probes Portal. She is vice-chair of the Cancer Research UK Early Detection and Diagnosis Expert Panel. She serves on numerous scientific advisory boards and funding panels, and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology, and a member of the British Computer Society.
Her published works have specialised in drug discovery, genomics, small molecule drug discovery and new drug discovery. As of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Yagit%20episodes | Yagit is a 2014 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from October 13, 2014 to July 24, 2015, replacing Dading.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
October 2014
November 2014
December 2014
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20%28supercomputer%29 | Aurora is a planned supercomputer, originally contracted to be completed by 2018 but through a series of delays at the prime contractor, Intel Corporation, now planned to be completed in 2023. It was originally planned be the worlds’ fastest supercomputer with over 2 exaflops, however a series of delays have cast that into doubt. It is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Intel and Cray for the Argonne National Laboratory. It will have 2 exaFLOPS in computing power which is approximately a quintillion (260 or 1018) calculations per second and will have an expected cost of US$500 million. It will follow Frontier, which was the world's first exascale supercomputer in 2022 and as of June 2023 the world's fastest. Olivier Franza is the chief architect and principal investigator of this design.
History
In 2013 DOE presented their exascale vision of one exaFLOP at 20 MW by 2020. Aurora was first announced in 2015 and to be finished in 2018. It was expected to have a speed of 180 petaFLOPS which would be around the speed of Summit. Aurora was meant to be the most powerful supercomputer at the time of its launch and to be built by Cray with Intel processors. Later, in 2017, Intel announced that Aurora would be delayed to 2021 but scaled up to 1 exaFLOP. In March 2019, DOE said that it would build the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States in 2021. In October 2020, DOE said that Aurora would be delayed again for a further 6 months and would no longer be the first exascale computer in the US. In late October 2021 Intel announced Aurora would now exceed 2 exaFLOPS in peak double-precision compute. The system has been fully installed.
Planned usage
Planned functions include research on nuclear fusion, low carbon technologies, subatomic particles, cancer and cosmology. It will also develop new materials that will be useful for batteries and more efficient solar cells. It is to be available to the general scientific community.
Architecture
Aurora will have over nine thousand nodes, with each node being composed of two Intel Xeon Max processors, six Intel Max series GPUs and a unified memory architecture, providing a maximum computing power of 130 teraFLOPS per node. It will have around 10 petabytes of memory and 230 petabytes of storage.
The machine is estimated to consume around 60 MW. For comparison, the fastest computer in the world today, Frontier uses 21 MW while Summit uses 13 MW.
See also
ARM supercomputers
El Capitan (supercomputer)
Fugaku (supercomputer)
List of fastest computers
TOP500
External links
References
Supercomputers
Intel products
Cray products
United States Department of Energy
Exascale computers
Intel supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenhua%20Data%20leak | Shenzhen Zhenhua Data Information Technology Co is a big data scraping company that provides open-source intelligence profiling and threat intelligence services. The company is reported to be owned by China Zhenhua Electronics Group, which is owned by China Electronics Corporation (CEC), a state-owned military research enterprise. While the data Zhenhua uses is publicly available data, Zhenhua's usage of that data is a security concern to western countries. The company claims to work with the Chinese government, including Chinese intelligence agencies and the military. Zhenhua Data's CEO has publicly supported "hybrid warfare" and "psychological warfare". Winston Peters, the Foreign Affairs Minister of New Zealand, stated that it would be 'naive' to think there was no connection to the Chinese state.
In September 2020, a data leak revealed that Zhenhua was globally monitoring over 2.4 million people. The databases, collectively called the Overseas Key Information Database (OKIDB), was leaked to an American academic who shared the data with Internet 2.0, an Australian-based cybersecurity consultancy. On 14 September 2020, a consortium of media outlets published the findings. Researchers found out that about 20% of the data was not from open source locations. Investigation by journalists in New Zealand found that some people with no online presence were profiled in the database.
There have been "conflicting assessments" of the value of the data, from it being an entirely "aspirational" venture, to it being a small peek into the world of hybrid warfare and psychological warfare being waged by the Chinese.
Internet 2.0 recovered a quarter of a million people from OKIDB, including about 52,000 Americans, 35,000 Australians and 10,000 Britons. Prominent people in the database include prime ministers Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, the President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen and their families. One of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's children appears on the list as well. Australians in the database include Natalie Imbruglia, Larry Anthony, Emma Husar, Ellen Whinnett and Junaid Thorne. Around 10,000 people and organisations from India were also on the list, including senior India diplomats such as Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Sanjeev Singla, policymakers such as Amitabh Kant, academics such as Romila Thapar, and sportspeople such as Sachin Tendulkar. Numerous Indian think-tanks were also being monitored.
A threat intelligence organisation published a report on Zhenhua Data's operation and found a number of monitoring systems that were publicly accessible. The report found real-time monitoring of social media such as LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and online forums, and discovered an "Internet Big Data Military Intelligence System". This system tracks US warships in real-time and profiles the personnel on board, weapons being carried, LinkedIn profiles etc. This may be related to a previous story published by the NYT titled "How |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass%20Computer | Bass Computer is the second studio album by American Miami bass artist Techmaster P.E.B. It was released on September 1, 1991, through Newtown Records. Recording sessions took place at Midtek Studios in Sarasota, Florida. The album reached number one on the Billboard Heatseekers chart on April 25, 1992, also reaching number 132 on the Billboard 200 on June 13, 1992.
Track listing
References
External links
1992 debut albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Application%20System | Interactive Application System (IAS) was a DEC operating system for the PDP-11. It was a fork from RSX-11D.
The last major release, Version 3.0, began distribution late 1979; the final version, 3.4, came out May 1990.
Overview
DEC's RSX-11A and C were paper tape based, B had limited disk support, "D" was for disk, and the "M" designation was for "small Memory
requirement" /later "Multi-user" (with RSX-11M Plus being a followup). IAS was designed to a mix of "concurrent timesharing, real-time and batch." A looking back described it as "bare basics .. handled interrupts .. scheduled processes, and provided interprocess communications" without being "all things to all people." Another description, rather than focusing on taking away overhead, wrote "IAS (Interactive Application System) was created by adding two things to 11D."
RSX-11's use of a version number as part of a file's identifier: MYFILE.DAT;3 was retained by IAS.
The batch facility's command files used the same syntax as the indirect command files available to interactive users; multiple batch jobs could run concurrently. The system could be tuned to either leave unused CPU cycles to batch, or to guarantee a minimum level (without taking from Real Time requirements).
DEC's Sort/Merge utility program was distributed as part of IAS.
Performance
The system can be operated in one of three modes: Real-Time, Multi-User, and Timesharing.
Multi-User shares the system with Real-Time tasks; Timesharing adds effective concurrent use of batch processing alongside "noncritical real-time tasks" and interactive users. Timesharing also adds Timesharing Control Primitives (TCP), described as a "mechanism for timesharing tasks to invoke and communicate with other timesharing tasks." An evaluation by TRW's Defense and Space Systems Group for Tactical Operations Analysis Support Facility at Langley AFB VA highlighted the "IAS heuristic timesharing scheduler" and "subtasking support at the Kernel Executive level via the SPAWN system directive."
The heuristic timesharing scheduler tracks "history of performance and degree of interaction."
Some failure recovery is built into both the DEC hardware and IAS software.
References
DEC operating systems
PDP-11
1975 software
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallypop%20%28Philippine%20TV%20channel%29 | Hallypop (stylized in lowercase with a 2D Kapuso Heart logo) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel owned by American company Jungo TV in partnership with GMA Network Inc. The channel was on test broadcast from September 6–19, 2020; and was officially launched on September 20, 2020. It operates daily from 6:00 AM to 12:00 MN and goes off-air during Holy Week from Maundy Thursday to Black Saturday.
Overview
Dubbed as the world's first Asian pop culture channel, Hallypop airs contents outsourced from SBS, including reality show (Running Man), music variety (K-pop Star, and JYP’s Party People), KBS' Music Bank, and from Front Row Channel which features live concerts with featured performances from the world's top musical acts.
History
Plans
In 2019, GMA Network Inc. announced its plans to invest for its second phase transition to digital television, including a partnership with U.S.-based global entertainment company Jungo TV and Philippine telecommunications conglomerate PLDT-Smart to distribute content across all of its channels. As part of their ongoing transition and the launch of their own digital television box, the network launched its first subchannel aside from their two main channels via Heart of Asia in the lineup of DZBB-DTV Channel 15.
Launch
On the morning of September 6, 2020, GMA Network made some adjustments on its digital television channels by adding new sub-channels on their digital frequency. The said programs were detected as early as 2:00am of September 6, 2020, at their digital frequency in Batangas, and 6:00am in Mega Manila.
Hallypop began its test broadcast on September 6, 2020, airing music programs such as Music Bank, StarGazeMuzik and HallyStage, while it airs promo plug of the upcoming programs with its assigned blocks. The channel was fully launched on September 20, 2020, with reality shows Running Man and Party People on their first broadcast.
On February 27, 2023, Hallypop, along with other GMA Network-owned channels, switched its broadcast from the original 4:3 format to 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format.
Programming
Current programming
Hallypop & Jungo TV
E-Sports
A8 E-Sports
Music
HallyStage
Hallypop Fresh
Hallypop Hits
Hallypop Lokal
StarGazeMuzik /
K-Drama & Movies
Bubble Up
Jungo Pinoy Presents
Romance Of Dog & Monkey
Scream Flix
Touching You
Previous programs
Arirang Korea
After School Club
Gangnam Insider's Picks
I'm Live
Rolling in KPOP
Simply K-Pop
KBS World
A Style For You
KBS Song Festival
The Return of Superman
K Rush
Music Bank
We K-Pop
You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook
SBS
K-pop Star
JYP's Party People
Running Man
Hallypop & Jungo TV
E-Sport 24
Merry FlixMas
Sidewalk Talk
Upcoming programs
See also
K-pop
Myx
References
External links
GMA Network
GMA Network (company) channels
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television networks in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2020
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongylomorphus%20fontenayi | Gongylomorphus fontenayi is a small species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Mauritius.
References
External links
Reptile Database - Gongylomorphus fontenayi.
Gongylomorphus
Reptiles of Mauritius
Reptiles described in 1973 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plot%20to%20Kill%20Stalin | "The Plot to Kill Stalin" was an American television play broadcast on September 25, 1958, on the CBS television network. It was the first episode of the third season of the anthology television series Playhouse 90. Delbert Mann was the director, and the cast included Melvyn Douglas as Joseph Stalin, Eli Wallach as Stalin's personal secretary, and Oskar Homolka as Nikita Khrushchev. It was nominated for two Sylvania Television Awards: as the outstanding telecast of 1958 and for Douglas as outstanding actor in a television program.
The production, set during the final months of Stalin's life, received generally positive reviews in the American press, but the Soviet Union protested the depiction of Krushchev's alleged role in Stalin's death and retaliated by closing CBS's Moscow news bureau and ordering its Moscow correspondent to leave the country.
Plot
The play opens in Stalin's office on October 4, 1952, on the eve of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After a visit from his principal deputies, Stalin reveals to his personal aide, Alexander Poskrebyshev, his belief that there is a plot against him. In order to derail the plot, Stalin plans to dissolve the Politburo and replace it with a new Presidium.
After Stalin announces the dissolution of the Politburo, the Party's top leaders attend a reception and discuss Stalin's decision. Driving home that evening, Vyacheslav Molotov is urged by his wife to go into hiding. Mrs. Molotov suspects Stalin's intentions, but Molotov declares his continuing loyalty to Stalin.
Back in Stalin's office, Stalin informs Semyon Ignatyev, the Minister of State Security, that a doctors' plot led by Jews is underway to assassinate high-ranking officers in the Red Army. Stalin urges Ignatyev to uncover the plot. On leaving Stalin's office, Ignatyev informs his associate that there is no doctors' plot and that Stalin is instead seeking a reason to purge Lavrentiy Beria. When the play resumes, Ignatyev presents his evidence that Beria is covering up the doctors' plot. Beria learns that he is under investigation and interrogates a prisoner at Lubianka Prison, seeking to learn what information has been furnished to Stalin.
On February 9, 1953, after a wave of arrests, Beria tells Molotov that Stalin intends to liquidate all of the members of the former Politburo. Beria proposes that Stalin instead be liquidated and that Malenkov take Stalin's position. Malenkov agrees to the plan.
Sergei Shtemenko, Chief of Staff of the Soviet armed forces, is informed of the plot against Stalin and vows to assist Stalin in crushing the plot. When Shtemenko informs the other members of the Soviet general staff, Marshall Vasily Sokolovsky reminds Shtemenko of Stalin's purges against the Red Army and insists that the military must remain neutral and not interfere.
Stalin continues to receive reports on the plot and predicts infighting over who will succeed him. The production then cuts to Beria and Nikita Kh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTV%20News%20Tonight | PTV News Tonight is the flagship English late-night news program of PTV, Originally anchored by Joee Guilas and Charms Espina, which was aired from September 7, 2020, through the network's new studio to present, replacing PTV News Headlines. airing weeknights from 9:30 to 10:30 PM PST. Espina, William Thio and Monique Tuzon serves as current anchors.
History
PTV News Tonight started airing as a daily nightly news program replacing PTV News Headlines, as part of programming changes in the network's news division. Originally slated for launch by August 3, 2020, the planned launch was suspended due to coronavirus infections in the PTV main office. This left the network airing hourly newsbreak PTV Balita Ngayon and the 6pm bulletin PTV News until disinfection operations and personnel recovery happened in September.
The launch pushed through eventually on September 7, 2020 with News Headlines anchors Joee Guilas and Charms Espina retained in the lineup while former Ulat Bayan, Daily Info and PTV News anchor Catherine Vital joins Guilas and Espina on March 3, 2021 and left on March 11, 2022, and she was replaced by Monique Tuzon on June 1, 2022. also Joee Guilas left on June 5, 2023, and he was replaced by Former Why News anchor William Thio on September 11, 2023, as rejoins Espina and Tuzon.
It joined Ulat Bayan, the new morning show Rise and Shine Pilipinas, afternoon newscast Sentro Balita and PTV Balita Ngayon in transferring to a revamped Studio B, while updating its graphics, theme music, and title card, leaving PTV Studio A for use of the network's other programs including its public service program Public Briefing: #LagingHandaPH and Digong 8888 Hotline. The newscast also debuted new segments including a pop culture and trends section anchored by Rise and Shine Pilipinas host Gab Bayan, as well as PCSO Lottery Draw report straight from the PCSO's draw studio in Mandaluyong.''
Anchors
Current anchors
Charms Espina
William Thio
Monique Tuzon
Former anchors
Joee Guilas
Catherine Vital
Former segment anchors
Gab Bayan
Champ de Lunas
Segments
Current
Top Stories (since 2023)
Market Trends (since 2020)
Malacañan (2020-2021, 2021, 2022)
PTV Exclusive (since 2020)
World of Business (since 2021)
PCSO Lottery Draw Update (since 2020)
Pop Culture Corner (2020-2021, 2023-present)
PTV InfoWeather (since 2020)
The Nation (since 2020)
The Countryside (2020-2021, 2021, 2022)
The World (since 2020)
PTV Sports (since 2020)
Food for Thought (since 2020)
Former
Rush Hour (2020-2021)
FactBox (2020-2022)
War on Drugs (2020-2022)
ASEAN News (2020-2022)
Meet the Millennials (2020-2021)
Biz 101 (2022-2023)
Reporters
National correspondents and beats
Allan Francisco
Alvin Barcelona
Abby Malanday
Bea Bernardo
Bien Manalo
Catleya Jardenil-Antonio
Cecille Villarosa
Cleizl Pardilla
Daniel Manalastas
Daryl Oclares
Den Macaranas
Dexter Ganibe
Gabbie Natividad
Joshua Garcia
Josh Camo
Karen Villanda
Kenneth Paciente
Khay Asuncion
Louisa Erispe
Meg Siozon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Reiter | Michael Reiter may refer to:
Michael Reiter (computer scientist), professor at Duke University
Michael Reiter (police officer), security advisor and former chief of police of Palm Beach, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20form%20factor | Small form factor (often abbreviated "SFF") is a term for computer components designed to a smaller than usual form factor.
The term is commonly used for:
Small form factor (desktop and motherboard), desktop computers and motherboards with smaller than ATX form factor, including micro ATX ("μATX"), and micro/nano/pico ITX
NVMe, storage device connectors such as SFF-8639 (also known as U.2) and SFF-TA-1001 (also known as U.3)
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), storage device connectors such as SFF-8482, SFF-8484, SFF-8087, SFF-8643, SFF-8470, SFF-8088, and SFF-8644
Networking connectors especially optical fiber connectors, that may be described as small form factor compared to older form factors
See also
Form factor (disambiguation)
Small Form Factor Committee
Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20from%20Earth | Elliott from Earth is an animated television series created by Guillaume Cassuto, Mic Graves and Tony Hull for Cartoon Network. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, it premiered in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2021. In the United States, it aired from March 29 to April 9, 2021.
Premise
Eleven-year-old Elliott and his geologist mother Frankie travel around looking for meteorites on Earth, so that Frankie can further study a 65-million-year-old rock which appears to be from space but lacks a fusion crust. One night, the two accidentally power up the rock, revealing it to be alien technology that can turn into a transport sphere and launch into space. The sphere transports them to another side of the Universe, where they end up on a large space station called the Centrium. There, they meet a dinosaur who names himself Mo, and end up losing the rock in the wilderness of a biosphere. The three of them investigate their new environment and meet its alien inhabitants, eventually making their way into the city on the Centrium where they find a new home for themselves. In Centrium City, the trio continues to get accustomed to the ways of life there and explore the wonders of their new home, while Frankie continues her search for answers about the mysterious rock.
Characters
Protagonists
Elliott (voiced by Samuel Faraci) - An 11-year-old boy who longs to make friends, and finds one in Mo. He is curious and adventurous, and often ends up in strange dilemmas when he does not think things through.
Mo (voiced by Noah Kaye Bentley) - A nearsighted Stegosaurus who can talk and apparently came from Earth as well. He does not know much about himself—or anything for that matter—but learns quickly. He wears a pair of round, blue glasses previously owned and worn by Frankie. Near the start of the series, he names himself after Elliott's aunt, Maureen "Mo".
Frankie (voiced by Naomi McDonald) - A 36-year-old single mother of Elliott who is a geologist hoping to study the existence of extraterrestrials. She wears a pair of round, pink glasses. Though she often has a logical and scientific approach to things, she still acts on impulse from time to time when driven by her determination to explore and discover.
Aliens
105E (voiced by Diane Morgan) - 105E is the first droid Elliott and Frankie meet on the Centrium, as she helps them find out answers as to how they arrived. Dry-witted and impish, she also has the ability to project the memories of others.
Hive Director (voiced by Angelina Ispani) - Although she looks like a child the Hive Director is really much older as her species ages in reverse, giving her more wisdom than most and making her ideal to run the Hive, the hub of learning on the Centrium.
Lord Kallous the Merciless (voiced by Stephen Greif) - Lord Kallous the Merciless, or ‘Mr. K’ to his students, has put his past as an intergalactic tyrant behind him. After the destruction of his homeworld (it was only partially his fault), his new life o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselle%20Zarur | Giselle Zarur Maccise (born 29 May 1987) is a Mexican sports journalist and television reporter for Fox Deportes. She has also worked for the Televisa and Canal F1 Latin America television networks, and has covered a wide variety of sports throughout her career, such as Formula One and NASCAR motor racing, the Liga MX football league, tennis and Super Bowl LIV in Miami.
Biography
Zarur was born on 29 May 1987, in Mexico City, Mexico. She is of Lebanese descent through her parents and grandparents, and is a graduate of the Centro de Estudios en Ciencias de la Comunicación. Zarur began her broadcasting career with mass media company Televisa in 2010, and covered a wide variety of sports such as Formula One motor racing, the Liga MX football league and tennis; Formula One is where she garnered the most recognition for her expertise in the series and reported on the whole season. She also reported on Formula One for Canal F1 Latin America, the network's official Latin American broadcast station. Zarur's work in Mexican football saw her report on major league finals and matches in the country, such as the El Súper Clásico rivalry between the América and Guadalajara clubs.
She did her final broadcast of Formula One for Canal F1 Latin America at the 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In late October 2018, Zarur left Televisia, and subsequently moved to the city of Los Angeles to take up employment with the Spanish-language Fox Deportes network in the United States. She denied media reports Televisa sacked her following the mass media company's decision to dismiss some of its commentators and presenters in April 2019. Zarur had felt her career at Televisa was over, and she began working for Fox Deportes in July 2019. She presents Fox Deportes' weekly broadcast of Liga MX from Mexico and covered Super Bowl LIV in Miami.
In 2022, Zarur became the first Latina to be a broadcaster for the Daytona 500 when she was a pit reporter for the race for Fox Deportes.
Personal life
Zarur became engaged to Harold Rodríguez in October 2018, and married him at a ceremony in San Fernando, California on 19 October 2019. She is a fan of Club América football club.
References
External links
Giselle Zarur at El Universal
Giselle Zarur at Televisa.news
1987 births
Living people
Journalists from Mexico City
20th-century Mexican women
21st-century Mexican women
Mexican sports journalists
Women sports journalists
Women association football journalists
Mexican women journalists
Mexican women television presenters
Mexican television presenters
Formula One journalists and reporters
Tennis commentators
Mexican people of Lebanese descent
Sportspeople of Lebanese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Gammerman | Alexander Gammerman is a British-Soviet computer scientist, and professor at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-inventor of conformal prediction. He is the founding director of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Career
Gammerman's academic career has been pursued in two countries: Russia and the United Kingdom. He started working as a Research Fellow in the Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg. In 1983, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and was appointed as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Together with Roger Thatcher, Gammerman published several articles on Bayesian inference. In 1993, he was appointed to the established chair in Computer Science at University of London tenable at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, where he served as the Head of Computer Science department from 1995 to 2005. In 1998, the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning was established, and Gammerman became the first director of the centre.
Gammerman has published 7 books, more than 150 research papers, and has an estimated h-index of 34.
Honours and awards
In 1996, Gammerman received the P.W. Allen Award from the Forensic Science Society. In 2006, he became a Honorary Professor, at University College London. In 2009, he became a Distinguished Professor at Complutense University de Madrid, Spain. In 2019, he received a research grant funded by the energy company Centrica about predicting the time to the next failure of equipment. In 2020, he received the Amazon Research Award for the project titled Conformal Martingales for Change-Point Detection
Selected books
Measures of Complexity (2016), Springer, .
Algorithmic Learning in a Random World (2005), Springer, .
Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management (1999), Springer, .
Probabilistic Reasoning and Bayesian Belief Networks (1998), Nelson Thornes Ltd, .
Computational Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning (1996), Wiley, .
References
External links
Gammerman's University Website
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Soviet computer scientists
Soviet mathematicians
British mathematicians
British computer scientists
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom
Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society
Artificial intelligence researchers
1949 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Heriot-Watt University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20privacy%20technologies | Hard privacy technologies are methods of protecting data. Hard privacy technologies and soft privacy technologies both fall under the category of privacy enchancing technologies. Hard privacy technologies allow online users to protect their privacy through different services and applications without the trust of the third-parties. The data protection goal is data minimization and reduction of the trust in third-parties and the freedom (and techniques) to conceal information or to communicate.
Applications of hard privacy technologies include onion routing, VPNs and the secret ballot used for democratic elections.
Systems for anonymous communications
Mix networks
Mix networks use both cryptography and permutations to provide anonymity in communications. The combination makes monitoring end-to-end communications more challenging for eavesdroppers, since it breaks the link between the sender and recipients.
Dining Cryptographers Net (DC-net)
DC-net is a protocol for communication that enables secure, uninterrupted communication. Its round-based protocol enables participants to publish one bit message per round unobservably.
The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
ISDN is based on a digital telecommunications network, i.e. a digital 64 kbit/s channel network. ISDN is primarily used for the swapping of networks; therefore it offers effective service for communication.
Attacks against anonymous communications
In order to cope with attacks on anonymity systems, the traffic analysis would trace information such as who is talking with whom, extract profiles and so on. The traffic analysis is used against vanilla or hardened systems.
Examples of hard privacy technologies
Onion routing
Onion routing is an internet-based encrypted technique to prevent eavesdropping, traffic analysis attacks and so on. Messages in an onion network are embedded in the encryption layers. The destination in each layer will be encrypted. For each router, the message is decrypted by its private key and unveiled like a 'onion' and then the message transmitted to the next router.
Tor is a free-to-use anonymity service that depends on the concept of onion routing. Among all the PETs, tor has one of the highest user bases.
VPNs
A virtual private network (VPN) is one of the most important ways to protect personal information. A VPN connects a private network to a public network, which helps users share information through public networks by extending them to their computer devices. Thus, VPNs users may benefit from more security.
Future of hard privacy technology
The future of hard privacy technology include limited disclosure technology and data protection on US disclosure legislation.
Limited disclosure technology offers a mechanism to preserve individuals' privacy by encouraging them to provide information only a little that is just sufficient to complete an interactionor purchase with service providers. This technology is to restrict the data sharing betwe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Can%20See%20You%20%28TV%20series%29 | I Can See You is a Philippine television drama romance anthology broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on September 28, 2020 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on February 4, 2022 with a total of 3 seasons and 58 episodes. It was replaced by Mano Po Legacy: The Family Fortune in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Season 1
Love on the Balcony
Alden Richards as Inigo "Gio" Mapa
Jasmine Curtis-Smith as Lea Carbonel
Pancho Magno as Val Valdez
Denise Barbacena as Deedee Quijano
Shyr Valdez as Connie Mapa
The Promise
Paolo Contis as Frank Agoncillo
Andrea Torres as Ivy Teodoro
Benjamin Alves as Jude Agoncillo
Maey Bautista as Rowena Marquez
Yasmien Kurdi as Clarisse Agoncillo
High-Rise Lovers
Lovi Poe as Samantha "Sam" Alvarez
Winwyn Marquez as Ysabel Ortiz
Tom Rodriguez as Luisito "Luis" Alvarez
Teresa Loyzaga as Greta
Divine Tetay as Ru Paul
Ruru Madrid as Jared
Truly. Madly. Deadly.
Jennylyn Mercado as Coleen De Vera
Dennis Trillo as Andrew "Drew" Rivera / Warren Devira
Rhian Ramos as Abby Lopez
Jhoana Marie Tan as Tere
Ruby Rodriguez as Marge
Ollie Espino as Jerry
Season 2
On My Way to You!
Ruru Madrid as Jerrick Alfonso
Shaira Diaz as Racquel "Raki" Buena-Alfonso
Malou de Guzman as Viviana "Manang Baby" Fajardo
Arra San Agustin as Samantha "Tammy" Razon
Gil Cuerva as Albert Manansala
Ashley Rivera as Lani Paras
Richard Yap as George Alfonso
Gelli de Belen as Rosanna Alfonso
Robert Seña as Rod Buena
Isay Alvarez as Ellie Buena
#Future
Miguel Tanfelix as Vinchie Torres
Kyline Alcantara as Lara Dacer
Aiko Melendez as Menchie Torres
Gabby Eigenmann as Elvin Torres
Mikoy Morales as Royce Carlos
Dani Porter as Analyn Fuentes
J-Mee Katanyag as Kakai
Francis Mata as Walter
The Lookout
Barbie Forteza as Emma Castro
Paul Salas as Marius Penuliar
Christopher de Leon as Robert Penuliar
Adrian Alandy as Jason "Lakay" Bautista
Arthur Solinap as Randy Penuliar
Marina Benipayo as Tessa Penuliar
Elijah Alejo as Christine Penuliar
Ella Cristofani as Joanne Castro
Luis Hontiveros as Dalo
Jana Trias as Minda
Benjie Paras as a captain
Season 3
AlterNate
Dingdong Dantes as Jonathan "Nate" David / Michael Trajano
Beauty Gonzalez as Sheila David
Ricky Davao as Lyndon David
Jackie Lou Blanco as Carmencita "Cita" David
Joyce Ching as Angelica "Angie" Trajano
Bryan Benedict as Joey
Yan Yuzon as Darwin Trinidad
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the final two episodes of the second season of I Can See You earned a 17.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20ProSignia | The Compaq ProSignia is a discontinued computer brand by Compaq for small businesses. It was the mid-range successor to the Compaq SystemPro brand. It was discontinued in 2000.
Desktops
5/60
200
300
330: MidTower - PIII 500 MHz - 128 MB / up to 384 MB
500
600
Laptops
ProSignia 150
Presario based. 1999. 50x313x257 mm; 12.1" (800x600) or 14.1" (1024x768) screen (3.3 or 3.6 kg).
RAGE LT PRO. 32/64 MB soldered, up to 160/192 MB (1 slot). AMD K6-2 (350-475).
ProSignia 155
ProSignia 162
ProSignia 165
ProSignia 170
1999. Low-end version of Armada M700.
314x249x28mm; Pointing stick or touchpad. 2.1+ kg. Pentium II or III (366 or 450-700, instead 650-1000). 13.3 or 14" screen. ATI Mobility P (8 MB). Magnesium top cover. MultiBay. 32 MB (PII version, up to 288 MB) or 64 MB (PIII version, up to 320 MB) RAM.
ProSignia 190
ProSignia 197
References
ProSignia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dading%20episodes | Dading is a 2014 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from June 23, 2014 to October 10, 2014, replacing Innamorata.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20broadcast%20in%20India | Football broadcast in India is dominated by branded sports networks Star Sports, Sony Sports and Sports18 on television and OTT platforms.
Indian competitions
List of current broadcasters:
International club football competitions
List of current broadcasters:
International football competitions
List of current broadcasters:
See also
Sports broadcasting contracts in India
Sports broadcasters in India
References
Football in India
Sports television in India
Lists of association football broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmila%20Mahadev | Urmila Mahadev is an American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for her work in quantum computing and quantum cryptography.
Education and career
Mahadev is originally from Los Angeles, where her parents are physicians. She became interested in quantum computing through a course with Leonard Adleman at the University of Southern California, where she graduated in 2010.
She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
As a student of Umesh Vazirani at Berkeley, Mahadev discovered interactive proof systems that could demonstrate with high certainty, to an observer using only classical computation, that a quantum computer has correctly performed a desired quantum-computing task.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2018, and after continued postdoctoral research at Berkeley, she became an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
Recognition
For her work on quantum verification, Mahadev won the Machtey Award at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science in 2018, and in 2021 one of the three inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes for early-career achievements by women mathematicians.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Quantum information scientists
University of Southern California alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzer%20Faden | Schwarzer Faden was a quarterly anarchist magazine published between 1980 and 2004.
Further reading
External links
Index in Dataspace
1980 establishments in West Germany
2004 disestablishments in Germany
Anarchist periodicals published in Germany
Defunct political magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
Magazines disestablished in 2004
Magazines established in 1980
Quarterly magazines published in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Hits | Fox Hits was an Australian television channel focused on airing comedy shows. It was launched by Foxtel Networks on November 7, 2019, along with Fox One, Crime and Funny. On September 1, 2020, Foxtel announced that it would shutdown, along with The Comedy Channel, to create Fox Comedy, which is not to be confused with the Fox Comedy owned by Disney.
References
External links
Foxtel Website
Defunct television channels in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2019 establishments in Australia
2020 disestablishments in Australia
Comedy television networks
English-language television stations in Australia
Foxtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8%20the%20Infinity | is a Japanese original anime television series produced and animated by Bones that aired from January to April 2021 on ABC and TV Asahi's ANiMAZiNG!!! programming block. A comedy manga spin-off began serialization on the Young Ace Up manga website in January 2021. A manga adaptation of the television series began serialization on the BookLive! e-book store in March 2021. A second season and an original video animation have been announced.
Plot
In Okinawa, a group of hardcore skaters participate in a secret, no-holds-barred competition after midnight known as "S", racing each other on skateboards down a winding road carved out of an abandoned mine and occasionally forming rivalries, also known as "beefs", with each other. Reki, a high school sophomore and hardcore skater, takes new transfer student Langa to S one night, and ends up pulling him into the world of skateboarding.
Characters
A cheerful and energetic high school sophomore who loves skateboarding and is addicted to the "S" races. He works at a local skate shop part-time as a mechanic and creates his own custom decks. He quickly becomes best friends with Langa and introduces him to skateboarding and S.
/ Snow
A half-Japanese student who transferred to Okinawa from Canada, with his mother, and ended up transferring into Reki's class. Growing up as a snowboarder, Langa quickly learns to transfer his skills into skateboarding when he jumps into his first "S" run. Always in a daze, he shows a stubborn side at times.
A cheeky first year junior high school student who has the ability to perform difficult tricks without difficulty and is looking to represent Japan in the Olympics. Loves cats and video games.
/
An "S" racer who wears a cape and heavy metal style makeup, and is a self-proclaimed "dynamite flower". He carries fireworks with him and isn't ashamed to use dirty tactics to win. Outside of S, he is a timid and kind-hearted florist in town.
/ Cherry Blossom
A high-tech "S" racer with pink hair who is a famous artificial intelligence (AI) calligrapher by day. Assisted by his AI partner Carla, he is a calculating and theoretical skater. He is a childhood friend of Nanjo's and often bickers with him.
/
Sakurayashiki's rival in "S" who is the owner and chef of an Italian restaurant by day. He has a cheerful and lustful personality, and his skating style is as dynamic as his body. He and Sakurayashiki have been friends since childhood.
/
The founder of "S" and a legendary skater. His true identity is still a mystery. Underneath his glittering mask, he hides the face of a popular young politician.
/
Ainosuke's secretary. He taught Ainosuke skateboarding. In "S", he is in charge of managing the baseball capped men behind the scenes.
Manager of the skateboard store Dope Sketch. He is also in charge of board adjustment.
The signature fennec fox of the skateboard store Dope Sketch. Only listens to the manager, Oka.
Sakurayashiki's favorite cutting-edge AI.
Langa's mother.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Pictures%20Debut%20Network | The Universal Pictures Debut Network, or simply the Debut Network, was a syndicated movie package that MCA Television sold to independent stations. The service reached agreements with ten stations in larger American markets such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago by late 1984. The Debut Network was a precursor of sorts to the Action Pack, which was also a syndicated package created by Universal Television.
Background
MCA TV (also known as MCA Television Enterprises) was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCA's purchase of American Decca (in 1959) and Universal Pictures (in 1962). For more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. During the 1980s, it distributed both off-network reruns of shows like Kate & Allie and Gimme a Break!, as well as original syndication product like the animated action series Bionic Six (co-produced with TMS Entertainment), The Morton Downey Jr. Show (taped at then-MCA owned WWOR-TV in Secaucus, NJ), The Munsters Today (a revival of the Universal sitcom), and Pictionary, based on the popular board game.
MCA Television attempted several branded TV packages in 1985 to 2001 including an ad hoc film network, a broadcast network and a few syndicated programming blocks. The company launched the Universal Pictures Debut Network, an ad hoc film network with plans to launch in two stages beginning in September 1985.
MCA's motivation for launching the Debut Network was to attempt to make up for lost revenue from the "big three networks", who were at the time, preferring cheaper made for TV movies. Independent stations were specifically targeted since they needed many more hours to fill. MCA set up a barter agreement, wherein each movie featured on the Debut Network would be edited down to 95 minutes, including the credits. (A notable exception was Rear Window, which, with commercials, was given a 2.5 hour block instead of the normal 2 hour block.) Of the 22 minutes for commercials, MCA received , with the local outlets keeping minutes. The remaining three minutes would be devoted to promotion spots for one thing or another.
The end of the Debut Network
MCA TV and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, a joint venture created for the sale of advertising for their existing syndicated programs in September 1989. As a possible outgrowth of this sales joint venture, MCA and Paramount began plans for a new network, Premier Program Service. When Premier Program Service halted, MCA teamed up with Chris-Craft TV for a syndicated programming block, Hollywood Premiere Network, that only lasted for the 1990–1991 season. The Universal Family Network syndicated programming block was launched by the company in the fall of 1993 with a single weekly half hour show, Exosquad, as a counter to The Disney Afternoon.
List of films featured
Beginning in September 1985, affiliated Debut Network stations could program 24 features from the Universal Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Leone | Nicola Leone is an Italian computer scientist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and database theory. Leone is currently the rector of the University of Calabria and a professor of Computer Science. Previously, he was a professor of Database Systems at the TU Wien.
Research work
Leone has published more than 250 scientific articles in the areas of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and database theory.
In the area of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation and reasoning, he is best known for his influential early work on answer set programming (ASP)
and for the development of DLV, a pioneering system for knowledge representation and reasoning, which was the very first successful attempt to fully support disjunction in the datalog language, achieving the possibility to compute problems of high complexity, up to NP.
To the field of database theory he mainly contributed through the invention of hypertree decomposition, a framework for obtaining tractable structural classes of conjunctive queries, and a generalisation of the notion of tree decomposition from graph theory. This work has also had substantial impact in artificial intelligence, since it is known that the problem of evaluating conjunctive queries on relational databases is equivalent to the constraint satisfaction problem
Awards and honours
Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).
Member of the Academia Europaea.
Honorary professor at the TU Wien.
He won many Best-Paper award in logic programming conferences, and he was awarded two Test-of-Time Awards, by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2009), and by the Association for Logic Programming (2018).
References
External links
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Calabria
Academic staff of TU Wien
1963 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20BFF%20episodes | My BFF is a 2014 Philippine television drama comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from June 30, 2014, to October 4, 2014, replacing My Love from the Star.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinCEN%20Files | The FinCEN Files are documents from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), that have been leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and published globally on 20 September 2020. The 2,657 leaked documents include 2,121 suspicious activity reports (SARs) covering over 200,000 suspicious financial transactions between 1999 and 2017 valued at over trillion by multiple global financial institutions.
The BuzzFeed News report concludes that the documents appear to show that both the banks that filed the SARs and FinCEN had this financial intelligence but did little to stop activities such as money laundering. The SARs were generated by financial institutions in more than 170 countries that played a role in facilitating money laundering and other fraudulent crimes. Journalists around the world have criticized both the banks and the US government. The BBC stated it shows how the "world's biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world". BuzzFeed News claimed the files "offer an unprecedented view of global financial corruption, the banks enabling it, and the government agencies that watch as it flourishes."
Background
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyses financial information to combat money laundering, terrorism financing, evasion of economic sanctions and other financial crimes. Financial institutions are required to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) with FinCEN when they suspect their clients are engaging in financial crime. These SARs are not evidence of a crime, but the FinCEN claims they provide vital information to investigate crimes. Unauthorized disclosure of a SAR is a US federal criminal offense, as it could undermine or hamper ongoing investigations, and threaten the safety of financial institutions and those who file the SARs. FinCEN collected more than 2million SARs in 2020, while its staff has decreased by 10% from 2009 to 2019. BuzzFeed News sources also claim that most SARs are not read or acted upon. The BuzzFeed News report claims that besides filing a SAR when they suspect suspicious activity, banks are also required to take action themselves to deal with corruption or money laundering.
Investigative journalism
BuzzFeed News obtained the 2,657 leaked documents, including 2,121 SARs, in 2019 and shared them with the ICIJ. 400 journalists from 88 countries investigated the documents which were brought to the public's attention on 20 September 2020. BuzzFeed News and the ICIJ state that the files flag over 200,000 transactions dating from 1999 to 2017, worth a total of US$2trillion. Furthermore, they noted that the findings may not be representative of all SARs, as the files received are less than 0.02% of the more than 12million SARs that financial institutions filed with FinCEN during this period. The Miami Herald said that t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upgrade%20%28disambiguation%29 | An Upgrade or Upgrading is the process of replacing a product with a newer version of the same product.
Upgrade may also refer to:
Upgrade (film), a 2018 cyberpunk action film
Upgrade, Inc., American financial services company.
Upgrade U, a song by American singer Beyoncé |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2Sum | 2Sum is a floating-point algorithm for computing the exact round-off error in a floating-point addition operation.
2Sum and its variant Fast2Sum were first published by Ole Møller in 1965.
Fast2Sum is often used implicitly in other algorithms such as compensated summation algorithms; Kahan's summation algorithm was published first in 1965, and Fast2Sum was later factored out of it by Dekker in 1971 for double-double arithmetic algorithms.
The names 2Sum and Fast2Sum appear to have been applied retroactively by Shewchuk in 1997.
Algorithm
Given two floating-point numbers and , 2Sum computes the floating-point sum rounded to nearest and the floating-point error so that .
The error is itself a floating-point number.
Inputs floating-point numbers
Outputs sum and error
return
Provided the floating-point arithmetic is correctly rounded to nearest (with ties resolved any way), as is the default in IEEE 754, and provided the sum does not overflow and, if it underflows, underflows gradually, it can be proven that
A variant of 2Sum called Fast2Sum uses only three floating-point operations, for floating-point arithmetic in radix 2 or radix 3, under the assumption that the exponent of is at least as large as the exponent of , such as when
Inputs radix-2 or radix-3 floating-point numbers and , of which at least one is zero, or which respectively have normalized exponents
Outputs sum and error
return
Even if the conditions are not satisfied, 2Sum and Fast2Sum often provide reasonable approximations to the error, i.e. , which enables algorithms for compensated summation, dot-product, etc., to have low error even if the inputs are not sorted or the rounding mode is unusual.
More complicated variants of 2Sum and Fast2Sum also exist for rounding modes other than round-to-nearest.
See also
Kahan summation algorithm
Round-off error
Double-double arithmetic
References
Computer arithmetic
Floating point
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Friend%27s%20Date | Best Friend's Date is an American reality-drama television series. It aired on the Noggin channel as part of its nighttime programming block for teens, The N. In each episode, a teenager goes on a blind date with someone chosen by his or her best friend. The show was hosted by Tika Sumpter and Nick Slatkin. It was filmed from July to August 2004.
The show ran for one season of 12 episodes. It premiered on December 3, 2004, and aired its last episode on February 11, 2005. The show is notable for launching Tika Sumpter's career and for featuring an entire episode, "The Boys' Night Out Date," about a gay relationship. Most episodes featured groups of teenage friends from Los Angeles, while the final two episodes included guest appearances by Drake, Ali Mukaddam, and Stacey Farber.
Format
The show is based on the premise that people's best friends probably know them better than they know themselves. Each episode has a teenager's best friend screen and select their perfect blind date. Their compatibility is tested as cameras accompany each date to find out whether the result is "magic or tragic." Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant likened the show's format to a "less perverse" version of Date My Mom.
The episodes start with a best friend selecting a date for their friend from a pool of four candidates. After they put each prospective date through rounds of interviews and challenges, the choice is made. Next, the best friend introduces their choice to their friend and their friend's parents. The young provisional couple must then cope with first date jitters and a variety of surprise curveballs that the show throws at them, like singing karaoke on street corners or bowling while handcuffed together. Each date ends with a deciding moment where each dater must decide whether it is a budding romance, a mutual "no thanks," or a heartbreaking rejection.
History
Noggin LLC first trademarked the show's name and format on June 15, 2004. The show was officially announced to be greenlit by The Hollywood Reporter on July 13, 2004. It was shot on location in Los Angeles from July 24, 2004, through the end of August. The first episode premiered on December 3, 2004, and new episodes aired until February 11, 2005. The soundtrack for the show was composed by Derek McKeith.
The first ten episodes are self-contained stories, and the last two episodes make up an hour-long special. The special expands on the usual format by holding two dates (a double date) involving two celebrities: Drake (Aubrey Graham) and Ali Mukaddam. The finale aired on February 11, 2005, at 9:30 PM. An encore showing was played on February 13. A week before the finale aired, Multichannel News listed Best Friend's Date as one of the shows that helped to increase Noggin's ratings during its The N block by 15% by the end of 2004.
Cast
Tika Sumpter
Nick Slatkin
Episodes
Noggin aired the episodes slightly out of production order. It featured an episode guide on its The N website.
References
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across%20the%20Rhine | Across the Rhine (known in Europe as 1944: Across the Rhine) is a 1995 computer wargame developed by MPS Labs and published by MicroProse. The game was re-released digitally using DOSBox, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms.
Gameplay
Across the Rhine is a computer wargame with real-time gameplay. It simulates the clash between American and Nazi German forces during World War II.
Reception
In Computer Games Strategy Plus, Mike Robel found Across the Rhine a flawed but interest title, with a "very steep learning curve". Writing for Computer Game Review, Frank Snyder called the game' "an impressive tank simulator that will certainly appease strategy sim fans". The magazine's Tasos Kaiafas was less positive, largely panning the game.
References
External links
1995 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Linux games
MacOS games
Games commercially released with DOSBox
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20A.%20Wallace%20Police%20Crime%20Public%20Database | The Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Public Database is an Internet database open to public queries. The database, built by criminologist and former police officer Philip Stinson of Bowling Green State University, contains more than 10,000 instances in which local police officers in the United States were arrested between 2005 and 2014. According to Stinson, the data reveals that lying by police is fairly common. News outlets including Talking Points Memo, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post have consulted Stinson on topics relating to police misconduct.
"Support for the Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database was provided by the Wallace Action Fund of Tides Foundation on the recommendation of Randall Wallace."
References
External links
Web site
The USA Today Network maintains a database of 30,000 officers investigated for serious misconduct.
Databases in the United States
Police misconduct in the United States
Crime statistics
Bowling Green State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%27s%20law | Huang's law is an observation in computer science and engineering that advancements in graphics processing units (GPU) are growing at a rate much faster than with traditional central processing units (CPU). The observation is in contrast to Moore's law that predicted the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Huang's law states that the performance of GPUs will more than double every two years. The hypothesis is subject to questions about its validity.
History
The observation was made by Jensen Huang, then chief executive officer of Nvidia, at its 2018 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) held in San Jose, California. He observed that Nvidia’s GPUs were "25 times faster than five years ago" whereas Moore's law would have expected only a ten-fold increase. As microchip components become smaller, it became harder for chip advancement to meet the speed of Moore's Law.
In 2006 Nvidia's GPU had a 4x performance advantage over other CPUs. In 2018 the Nvidia GPU was 20 times faster than a comparable CPU node: the GPUs were 1.7x faster each year. Moore’s law would predict a doubling every two years, however Nvidia's GPU performance was more than tripled every two years fulfilling Huang's law.
Huang's law claims that a synergy between hardware, software and artificial intelligence makes the new 'law' possible. Huang said, "The innovation isn't just about chips," he said, "It's about the entire stack." He said that graphics processors especially are important to a new paradigm. Elimination of bottlenecks can speed up the process and create advantages in getting to the goal. "Nvidia is a one trick pony," Huang has said. According to Huang: "Accelerated computing is liberating, ... Let’s say you have an airplane that has to deliver a package. It takes 12 hours to deliver it. Instead of making the plane go faster, concentrate on how to deliver the package faster, look at 3D printing at the destination." The object "... is to deliver the goal faster."
For artificial intelligence tasks, Huang said AlexNet took six days on two of Nvidia's GTX 580 processors to complete the training process but only 18 minutes on a modern DGX-2 AI server, resulting in a speed-up factor of 500. Compared to Moore's law, which focuses purely on CPU transistors, Huang's Law describes a combination of advances in architecture, interconnects, memory technology, and algorithms.
Bharath Ramsundar wrote that deep learning is being coupled with "[i]mprovements in custom architecture". For example, machine learning systems have been implemented in the blockchain world, where Bitmain assaulted "many cryptocurrencies by designing custom mining ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits)" which had been envisioned as undoable. "Nvidia's grand achievement however is in making the case that these improvement in architectures are not merely isolated victories for specific applications but perhaps broadly applicable to all of computer scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highways%20and%20Infrastructure%20Development%20Corporation%20Limited | The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) is a fully owned company of the Government of India, set up in 2014 and is responsible for management of a network of over 10,000 km of National Highways out of 1,15,000 km in India. It is a nodal agency of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Chanchal Kumar (IAS) is the present Managing Director of NHIDCL since 31 January 2022.
History
Highways Connectivity Company Ltd. was set up under Companies Act, 2013. The name of the company was subsequently changed to National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. and started functioning w.e.f. 18 July 2014. It was created to develop, maintain and manage the national highways, strategic roads and other infrastructure of India. It was dedicated to the task of promoting regional connectivity in parts of the country which share international boundaries. It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of National Highways in hilly terrain of North-East part of India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Uttarakhand. It works as a specialised agency in high altitude areas and border areas. Apart from highways, NHIDCL is constructing logistic hubs and transport related infrastructures e.g. multimodal transport hubs such as bus ports, container depots, automated multilevel car parking etc. Sh. Anand Kumar (IAS) was the first Managing Director of NHIDCL in 2014.
Composition
Anurag Jain, (IAS) Secretary (MoRT&H) is the ex-officio Chairman of the company. The Board of Directors consists of one Managing Director, Additional Director General is the ex-officio Director (Tech.), one Director (Finance/Administration), three independent part-time Directors and five Executive Directors (Tech.) to oversee timely completion of the projects.
NHIDCL has 14 Regional Offices (ROs), 47 Project Monitoring Units (PMUs) and about 83 Site Offices (SOs) in 14 States/UTs. Regional Offices are headed by Executive Directors, PMUs are headed by General Managers, and Site Offices are headed by Dy. General Manager/Managers.
Below Manager level are Engineers who are predominantly responsible for carrying out tasks such as designing, planning, and supervising the construction of highways and other infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and resolving technical issues related to construction. They work closely with contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders to resolve any issues related to the design, construction, or maintenance of the projects and also ensure that the project is completed within the budget and the given timeline.
Projects
The NHIDCL (along with BRO) has the task to implement the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North Eastern Region (SARDP-NE) in National Highways portion. The SARDP-NE is under implementation in Phases.
Phase-A: Approved in 2005, it included about 4,099 km length of roads (3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20artificial%20life | Quantum artificial life is the application of quantum algorithms with the ability to simulate biological behavior. Quantum computers offer many potential improvements to processes performed on classical computers including machine learning and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence applications are often inspired by our own brains; this is a form of biomimicry. This can and has been implemented to a certain extent on classical computers (using neural networks), but quantum computers offer many advantages in the simulation of artificial life. Artificial life and artificial intelligence are extremely similar but their ambitions differ; the goal of studying artificial life is to understand living beings better, while the goal of artificial intelligence is to create intelligent beings.
In 2016, Alvarez-Rodriguez et al developed a proposal for a quantum artificial life algorithm with the ability to simulate life and Darwinian evolution. In 2018, the same research team led by Alvarez-Rodriguez, performed the proposed algorithm on the IBM ibmqx4 quantum computer, and received optimistic results. The results accurately simulated a system with the ability to undergo self-replication at the quantum scale.
Artificial life on quantum computers
The growing advancement of quantum computers has led researchers to develop quantum algorithms for simulating life processes. Researchers have designed a quantum algorithm that can accurately simulate Darwinian Evolution. Since the complete simulation of artificial life on quantum computers has only been actualized by one group, this section shall focus on the implementation by Alvarez-Rodriguez, Sanz, Lomata, and Solano on an IBM quantum computer.
Individuals were realized as two qubits, one which represented the genotype of the individual, and one representing the phenotype. The genotype is copied to transmit genetic information through generations, and the phenotype is dependent on the genetic information as well as the individual's interactions with their environment. In order to set up the system, the state of the genotype is instantiated by some rotation of an ancillary state (). The environment is a two-dimensional spacial grid occupied by individuals and ancillary states. The environment is divided into cells that are able to possess one or more individuals. Individuals move throughout the grid and occupy cells randomly; when two or more individuals occupy the same cell they interact with each other.
Self replication
The ability to self replicate is critical for simulating life. Self replication occurs when the genotype of an individual interacts with an ancillary state creating a genotype for a new individual; this genotype interacts with a different ancillary state in order to create the phenotype. During this interaction we would like to copy some information about the initial state into the ancillary state, but by the no cloning theorem, it is impossible to copy an arbitrary unknown quantum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolyAnalyst | PolyAnalyst is a data science software platform developed by Megaputer Intelligence that provides an environment for text mining, data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. It is used by Megaputer to build tools with applications to health care, business management, insurance, and other industries. PolyAnalyst has also been used for COVID-19 forecasting and scientific research.
Overview
PolyAnalyst's graphical user interface contains nodes that can be linked into a flowchart to perform an analysis. The software provides nodes for data import, data preparation, data visualization, data analysis, and data export. PolyAnalyst includes features for text clustering, sentiment analysis, extraction of facts, keywords, and entities, and the creation of taxonomies and ontologies. Polyanalyst supports a variety of machine learning algorithms, as well as nodes for the analysis of structured data and the ability to execute code in Python and R. PolyAnalyst also acts as a report generator, which allows the result of an analysis to be made viewable by non-analysts. It uses a client–server model and is licensed under a software as a service model.
Business Applications
Insurance
PolyAnalyst was used to build a subrogation prediction tool which determines the likelihood that a claim is subrogatable, and if so, the amount that is expected to be recovered. The tool works by categorizing insurance claims based on whether or not they meet the criteria that are needed for successful subrogation. PolyAnalyst is also used to detect insurance fraud.
Health care
PolyAnalyst is used by pharmaceutical companies to assist in pharmacovigilance. The software was used to design a tool that matches descriptions of adverse events to their proper MedDRA codes, determines if side-effects are serious or non-serious, and to set up cases for ongoing monitoring if needed. PolyAnalyst has also been applied to discover new uses for existing drugs by text mining ClinicalTrials.gov and to forecast the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the United States and Russia.
Business management
PolyAnalyst is used in business management to analyze written customer feedback including product review data, warranty claims, and customer comments. In one case, PolyAnalyst was used to build a tool which helped a company monitor its employees' conversations with customers by rating their messages for factors such as professionalism, empathy, and correctness of response. The company reported to Forrester Research that this tool had saved them $11.8 million annually.
SKIF Cyberia Supercomputer
PolyAnalyst is run on the SKIF Cyberia Supercomputer at Tomsk State University, where it is made available to Russian researchers through the Center for Collective Use (CCU). Researchers at the center use PolyAnalyst to perform scientific research and to management the operations of their universities. In 2020, researchers at Vyatka State University (in collaboration with the CCU) performed a s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Clem | Mary A. Clem (née Mary A. McLaughlin; 19051979) was an American mathematician, and a human computer. She was a staff member at Iowa State University, and was recognized for inventing the “zero check” technique for detecting errors.
Biography
Clem was born on October 19, 1905 in the small town of Nevada, in Story County, western Iowa. She completed her high school degree and found employment for several years with the Iowa State Highway Commission and Iowa State College as a computing clerk, auditing clerk, and bookkeeper.
In 1931, she joined the Mathematics Statistical Service of the Mathematics Department of Iowa State College to work as a human computer under the supervision of George Snedecor. Although she complained that mathematics was her poorest subject in high school, she was fascinated with figures and data. Most of her work was done via punch cards, both creating formulas and cards, and running accuracy checks on them. She invented the “zero check” while working in Snedecor’s lab. The “zero check” is a sum that should equal zero if all other numbers had been correctly calculated. These sums helped check for errors in computing algorithms. Clem expressed that her lack of training as a mathematician is what made her notice these sums, as they had often been overlooked by others. In 1940, Clem was advanced to be technician and chief statistical clerk in charge of the Computing Service of the Statistical Laboratory. In 1962, she transferred to the new Computation Center at Iowa State University.
Clem went on the 2nd Allied Mission to Greece in 1946 as a junior statistician, and there she observed the elections. In 1952, she was a statistical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, Japan.
Publications
Homeyer, Paul G.; Clem, Mary A.; and Federer, Walter T. (1947) "Punched card and calculating machine methods for analyzing lattice experiments including lattice squares and the cubic lattice," Research Bulletin (Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station): Vol. 28 : No. 347 , Article 1.
See also
Timeline of women in computing
References
Further reading
Clem, Mary (June 27, 1969). “Interview with Mary Clem by Uta Merzbach”, Smithsonian.
“Mary Clem,” Iowa State University Faculty Newsletter , vol. 25, no. 20. February 2, 1979.
1905 births
1970 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Human computers
Iowa State University people
Mathematicians from Iowa
American women mathematicians
People from Nevada, Iowa
20th-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby%27s%20Dollhouse | Gabby's Dollhouse is an American live-action/computer-animated/interactive preschool television series created by Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey for Netflix which first premiered on January 5, 2021. In the series, Gabby (voiced by Laila Lockhart Kraner) and her cat friends, called the Gabby Cats, go on adventures within her dollhouse.
Premise
Gabby's Dollhouse has built-in silences designed to encourage audience participation.
Each episode begins with the live-action Gabby playing in her bedroom. She then unboxes a miniature that is the catalyst for an adventure inside the animated world of her dollhouse. Gabby puts on her cat ears headband and shrinks down with her stuffed toy, Pandy Paws, who comes alive to surprise Gabby with a “hug attack.” Common rituals may involve an encounter with CatRat, who often randomly appears in one of the rooms in the dollhouse.
The dollhouse has seven key cat-themed rooms where Gabby’s adventures take place with the various Gabby Cats:
Bathroom, where MerCat does science experiments that are “spa” themed
Bedroom, where Pillow Cat tells stories and encourages make believe
Craft room, where Baby Box and her family teach how to make DIY projects
Fairy garden, where Kitty Fairy takes care of magical plants
Kitchen, where Cakey makes snacks and desserts decorated with cats
Music room, where DJ Catnip teaches how to play musical instruments
Playroom, where Carlita joins in physical education games
At the end of each episode is a “Gabby Cat of the Day” segment, where one of the Gabby Cats is selected to guide the viewer one-on-one in crafting, cooking, or singing. Then it goes back to live-action Gabby who closes out the episode.
Characters
Main
Gabby (voiced and portrayed by Laila Lockhart Kraner) is a 15-year-old girl who is the show's host and has a magical cat headband which is able to shrink her down to animated toy-size by singing the incantation "A pinch to the left. Pinch pinch to the right. Grab Pandy's hands and hold on tight".
Floyd is Gabby's real-life tabby cat who makes his only appearance in the live-action sequences.
Pandy Paws (voiced by Tucker Chandler) is a black and white Gabby Cat who is half-kitty/half-panda, and Gabby's sidekick and best friend. He starts off as a stuffed toy, but comes to life when he and Gabby shrink into the dollhouse. He likes ambushing Gabby with "hug attacks" upon them entering the dollhouse.
Carlita (voiced by Carla Tassara) is a purple and teal Gabby Cat who is half-kitty/half-car and drives around the dollhouse and likes playing games.
Cakey (voiced by Juliet Donenfeld) is a small white Gabby Cat who is half-kitty/half-cupcake and makes sweet treats and snacks. He is able to create sprinkles, by either crying when upset or spinning around and yelling, "Sprinkle party!' when excited. He has four little cousins named Bakey, Flakey, Marshapan, and Paddycake.
Daniel James "DJ" Catnip (voiced by Eduardo Franco) is a lavender Gabby Cat who wears a re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXFL | DXFL (88.9 FM) First Love Radio is a radio station owned and operated by First Love Broadcasting Network. The studio's studio is located along Jose P. Rizal Ave. cor. Arellano St., Dipolog, while its transmitter is located at Above Sea Level, Brgy. Gulayon, Dipolog.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this station operates daily from 4:00am to 11:00pm. Since March 18, 2020, the station operates daily from 4:00am to 9:30pm.
Incidents and controversies
On the early morning of May 31, 2013, gunshots were fired piercing the announcer's booth of the station. No one was hurt or killed at that time.
Nick Carbonel, a well-known radio personality in DXFL, was sued by Congressman Rosendo Labadlabad for libel in 2017. Claims on misinformation alleging the representative at the time were unclear.
References
External links
First Love Radio Dipolog FB Page
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Norte
Radio stations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Healing%20Hearts%20episodes | Healing Hearts is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from May 11, 2015, to September 11, 2015, replacing Kailan Ba Tama ang Mali?.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
September 2015
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20Group%20%28video%20game%29 | Battle Group is a 1986 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations. It is a follow-up to Grigsby's earlier Kampfgruppe.
Gameplay
Battle Group is a computer wargame that simulates the Western Front of World War II at the platoon scale, between 1943 and 1945. It features an editor that allows players to create their own combat scenarios.
Development
Battle Group was designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It is a follow-up to Grigsby's game Kampfgruppe, and reuses that title's game engine and mechanics. Battle Group was released in 1986, the same year Grigsby and SSI launched Warship.
Reception
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Just as the title of the game is a translation of the earlier title, the game itself is basically a translation. The system, mechanics, and design are straight from Kampfgruppe; and here even the "feel" of the combat is still very World War II-ish." Commodore Microcomputers named Battle Group one of the top computer wargames of 1986.
In his 1989 survey of computer wargames, J. L. Miller of Computer Play offered the game a middling score.
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #40
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - November 1991
References
External links
Review in Ahoy!
1986 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Europe
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mech%20Brigade | Mech Brigade is a 1985 computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations. It was designed by Gary Grigsby, and is a follow-up to his earlier title Kampfgruppe.
Gameplay
Mech Brigade is a computer wargame that simulates a hypothetical conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact nations.
Development
Mech Brigade was designed by Gary Grigsby. It serves as a follow-up to his title Kampfgruppe, a World War II simulation. Mech Brigade was designed to bring the system into a modern warfare context. He launched both games in 1985, the same year he debuted U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force.
Reception
Author Rusel DeMaria later reported that Mech Brigade was "superior in design but inferior in sales" to Kampfgruppe.
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The addition of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM's), combat helicopters, and all the other trappings of modern combat make Mech Brigade a much more dangerous place to take a Sunday stroll." In Antic, Dr. John Stanoch opined that Mech Brigade is "certainly not a game for beginners".
In his 1989 computer wargame survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play offered Mech Brigade a generally positive score but found that the "weapons systems seem to lack the lethality that they in fact possess".
As it had with Kampfgruppe, Computer Gaming World inducted Mech Brigade into its Hall of Fame. The magazine's Alan Emrich later said that Mech Brigade was "the pre-eminent tank game until the arrival of M-1 Tank Platoon."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - June 1991
References
External links
Article in Tilt (French)
1985 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Cold War video games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
NEC PC-9801 games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%20Three%206 | Zone three 6 is a Ghanaian 24-hour music channel from Zone Three 6 Network Limited. They are focused on curating music and engaging youth in social conversation. They are a multi-genre, multi-platform network that offers breaking music news, videos, artist interviews, exclusive performances, and original programming on Ghanaian Digital platforms.
History
Zone three 6 aired its first episode on 13 October 2013 on GHOne TV, as a 36 minutes edutainment television show.
They champion the youth, nurture their creativity and stand up for the issues they believe in by using the music they youth produces.
Zone Three 6 has represented Ghana on a couple of platforms like Channel O Music Video Awards 2014, MTV Africa Music Awards 15 & 16, IARA 2017, One Africa Music Festival 2017 and 18 in the United Kingdom, New York and Dubai.
In June 2021, Zone three 6 started airing as a free to air satelitte channel which is available to users in Ghana, parts of West Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
AWARDS
Best Campus TV Show in 2015
References
External links
Ghanaian culture
Broadcasting in Ghana
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television stations in Ghana
Mass media in Accra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash%20of%20Wills | Clash of Wills is a computer wargame published in 1985 by Digital Kamp Group for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64.
Gameplay
Clash of Wills is a game in which the Eastern Front and Western Front of Europe during World War II (1940-1945) is simulated.
Reception
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "This reviewer has mixed feelings about the product. The scope of the simulation is laudable; its execution is not. Its failures could well have been corrected with some additional development. The designers did not choose to do so, and the net result is a game with a potential for greatness, but a realization of minimal adequacy, at best."
References
1985 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Death%20%28video%20game%29 | The Black Death is a video game published by Krell Software.
Gameplay
The Black Death is a game in which a deadly epidemic is simulated.
Reception
J. Robert Beck reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The Black Death would be of interest to high school and college students studying epidemiology, as part of a general or population biology course. As a game it's a good example of a cooperative strategy problem.."
References
External links
Review in 80 Microcomputing
Entry in Ace it!: Use Your Computer to Improve Your Grades
1983 video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Krell Software games
Medical video games
Simulation video games
Video games about viral outbreaks
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hits%20Radio%20Pride | Hits Radio Pride is a national digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts across the United Kingdom. It was launched on 28 August 2020 as a pop up Pride station focusing on music for the LGBT community.
The station was sponsored by Cooperative Bank for an initial run of 6 months. Additional content is produced by Reform Radio, as part of a grant awarded by the Audio Content Fund. Tough Talks’; is an 'intimate conversations between contributors from the LGBTQ+ community reflecting on the struggles that they face within society.'
Hits Radio Pride also works with LGBT+ helpline Switchboard (UK) to promote support services.
History
On 29 July 2020, Bauer announced it was to launch a spinoff pop-up station under the Hits Radio brand.
Hits Radio Pride launched at 8:00AM on 28 August 2020. Its output is similar to its sister station Hits Radio UK, with a particular focus on artists and musicians loved by the LGBTQ+ community.
The concept for the station was first proposed in February 2020 by Ross Tilley, working across Bauer's Northern Ireland radio stations.
DAB availability
The service is available on a select number of Bauer owned ensembles including Northern Ireland, Liverpool, Swansea, Bradford and Huddersfield, South Yorkshire, Stoke and London.
References
External links
Official website
Hits Radio
Bauer Radio
Bauer Group (UK)
Radio stations established in 2020
LGBT-related radio stations
2020s LGBT-related mass media
Digital-only radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaela%20van%20der%20Schaar | Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and a Chancellor's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her research involves topics in signal and image processing, communication networks, network science, multimedia, game theory, distributed systems, machine learning, and AI. van der Schaar focuses on medical applications of computer engineering, including AI-enabled personalized medicine.
Education and career
Van der Schaar received a joint Bachelor's/Master's (1996) degree and a Doctoral (2001) degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Upon starting her studies she was the only woman in a class of over 200. She completed her PhD while simultaneously working as a researcher at Philips Research Laboratories.
At Philips, van der Schaar helped develop the first algorithm for video streaming and, as their representative to the International Organization for Standardization from 1999 to 2003, led working groups which determined early standards for streaming.
Since 2005, van der Schaar has been on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2011, she founded UCLA's Center for Engineering Economics, Learning, and Networks, and she directed the group until its dissolution in 2016.
From 2016 to 2018, van der Schaar was the Man Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.
van der Schaar joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2018. In November 2020, van der Schaar was named the director of the new Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, a research collaboration between the University of Cambridge, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to study applications of machine learning to the medical profession.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, van der Schaar's research group was part of a collaboration with the UK National Health Service which used machine learning to predict shortages of ICU beds and ventilators in English hospitals.
As of 2020, van der Schaar has published over 250 academic journal articles and submitted over 275 conference papers, and her work has resulted in 35 US patents and contributed to over 45 international standards.
As of 2022, van der Schaar's work has been cited over 23,000 times.
Honours and awards
van der Schaar was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2009, and she has held a fellowship with the Alan Turing Institute since 2016.
She has also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), the IEEE Darlington Award (2011), and the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018).
In 2019, a Nesta report determined that van der Schaar was the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela%20Ochoa | Gabriela Ochoa is a Venezuelan British computer scientist and Professor at the University of Stirling. Her research considers evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search methods.
Early life and education
Ochoa was born in Venezuela. Her grandfather was a doctor, and she became interested in science at an early age. She earned her bachelor's degree at the Simón Bolívar University, where she remained for her master's degree and worked as a teacher's assistant. She moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, where she joined the University of Sussex as a doctoral student. At Sussex Ochoa worked on genetic algorithms with Hilary Buxton and Inman Harvey. After graduating she returned to Venezuela, where she was made Associate Professor at the Simón Bolívar University.
Research and career
In 2006 Ochoa once again left Venezuela, and moved to Paris to join the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. She worked there for three months with Dr. Evelyne Lutton before joining the University of Nottingham. By 2012, Ochoa had relocated to the University of Stirling, where she was promoted to Full Professor.
Her research considers evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search methods. She has worked on the computational design of medical treatments in an effort to minimise antibiotic resistance in Scotland.
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Ochoa created the website Lon Maps, a space which looks to establish visualisation techniques for computational search spaces. In 2020 Ochoa was awarded the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe.
Academic service
Ochoa has been associate editor and served on many editorial boards, including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation journal and the journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. She is on the Executive Board of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO).
Selected publications
Ochoa, Gabriela; Christie, Lee A.; Brownlee, Alexander E.; Hoyle, Andrew (2020) "Multi-objective evolutionary design of antibiotic treatments". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 102: 101759. doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2019.101759. ISSN 0933-3657
Tinós, Renato; Whitley, Darrell; Ochoa, Gabriela (2020). "A New Generalized Partition Crossover for the Traveling Salesman Problem: Tunneling between Local Optima". Evolutionary Computation. 28 (2): 255–288. doi:10.1162/evco_a_00254. ISSN 1063-6560.
Ochoa, Gabriela; Veerapen, Nadarajen (2018). "Mapping the global structure of TSP fitness landscapes". Journal of Heuristics. 24 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10732-017-9334-0. ISSN 1572-9397.
Ochoa, Gabriela; Veerapen, Nadarajen (2016) "Deconstructing the Big Valley Search Space Hypothesis". Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 58–73. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30698-8_ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20Celebrity%20Poker | Multimedia Celebrity Poker is a 1995 poker video game developed and published by New World Computing.
Gameplay and concept
Multimedia Celebrity Poker is a simulation of the card game poker, in which the player competes with celebrities Joe Piscopo, Morgan Fairchild and Jonathan Frakes. The actors are presented via full-motion video.
Reception
Multimedia Celebrity Poker won a negative review from PC Gamer US, whose writer Michael Wolf called it "just a poker sim with a gimmick" that "wears off as quickly as the video starts repeating itself". Donald St. John of Electronic Entertainment found the game "not good at all". Computer Gaming Worlds Alan Emrich was more positive, writing, "As a purely entertaining experience, which is clearly what New World had in mind for this product, it succeeds, but with considerable limitations."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20library | Shadow libraries are online databases of readily available content that is normally obscured or otherwise not readily accessible. Such content may be inaccessible for a number of reasons, including the use of paywalls, copyright controls, or other barriers to accessibility placed upon the content by its original owners. Shadow libraries usually consist of textual information as in electronic books, but may also include other digital media, including software, music, or films.
Examples of shadow libraries include Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub and Z-Library, which are popular book and academic shadow libraries and may be the largest public libraries for books and literature.
Motivation
One of the primary motivations behind the creation of shadow libraries is to more readily disseminate academic content, especially papers from academic journals. Academic literature has become increasingly expensive, as costs to access information created by scholars have risen dramatically in recent years, especially the cost of books. The term serials crisis has emerged to describe this ongoing trend.
Conversely, the same motivation behind the serials crisis has also given rise to a concerted international political movement to make academic knowledge free or very cheap, known as the Open Access movement. The Open Access movement strives to establish both journals that are free to access (known as open access journals) and free-to-access repositories of academic journal papers published elsewhere. However, many open access journals require academics to pay fees to be published in an open access journal, which disincentives academics from publishing in such journals.
A tertiary motivator for the establishment of shadow libraries is the tacit endorsement by many academics of such efforts. Academics are rarely compensated by publishers for their work, regardless of whether their work is published in an open access journal or a conventionally priced journal. Thus, there is now little incentive for academics to disavow shadow libraries. Furthermore, shadow libraries actually greatly increase the impact of the academics whose work is available within shadow libraries. According to one study from Cornell University, articles that are on Sci-Hub receive 1.72 times as many citations as articles from journals of similar quality that are not available on Sci-Hub.
Legal status
Content hosted by some shadow libraries may be hosted without the consent of the original owners of the material. This may make some shadow libraries illegal; however, as researchers are not required to disclose the means by which they access academic material, it is difficult to monitor for the use of illegally accessed academic papers. Furthermore, not all authors agree with trying to compromise access to shadow libraries, including the Z-Library, and at least one author, Alison Rumfitt, has come to defend maintaining access to such libraries.
The legality of directing individuals t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20data | Biological data refers to a compound or information derived from living organisms and their products. A medicinal compound made from living organisms, such as a serum or a vaccine, could be characterized as biological data. Biological data is highly complex when compared with other forms of data. There are many forms of biological data, including text, sequence data, protein structure, genomic data and amino acids, and links among others.
Biological Data and Bioinformatics
Biological data works closely with Bioinformatics, which is a recent discipline focusing on addressing the need to analyze and interpret vast amounts of genomic data.
In the past few decades, leaps in genomic research have led to massive amounts of biological data. As a result, bioinformatics was created as the convergence of genomics, biotechnology, and information technology, while concentrating on biological data.
Biological Data has also been difficult to define, as bioinformatics is a wide-encompassing field. Further, the question of what constitutes as being a living organism has been contentious, as "alive" represents a nebulous term that encompasses molecular evolution, biological modeling, biophysics, and systems biology. From the past decade onwards, bioinformatics and the analysis of biological data have been thriving as a result of leaps in technology required to manage and interpret data. It is currently a thriving field, as society has become more concentrated on the acquisition, transfer, and exploitation of bioinformatics and biological data.
Types of Biological Data
Biological Data can be extracted for use in the domains of omics, bio-imaging, and medical imaging. Life scientists value biological data to provide molecular details in living organisms. Tools for DNA sequencing, gene expression (GE), bio-imaging, neuro-imaging, and brain-machine interfaces are all domains that utilize biological data, and model biological systems with high dimensionality.
Moreover, raw biological sequence data usually refers to DNA, RNA, and amino acids.
Biological Data can also be described as data on biological entities. For instance, characteristics such as: sequences, graphs, geometric information, scalar and vector fields, patterns, constraints, images, and spatial information may all be characterized as biological data, as they describe features of biological beings. In many instances, biological data are associated with several of these categories. For instance, as described in the National Institute of Health's report on Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology, a protein structure may be associated with a one-dimensional sequence, a two-dimensional image, and a three dimensional structure, and so on.
Biomedical Databases
Biomedical Databases have often been referred to as the databases of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), genomic data in decentralized federal database systems, and biological data, including genomic data, collected from large- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrake | Shrake may refer to:
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Bud Shrake (1931–2009), American journalist
Gordon Shrake (born 1937), Canadian politician
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Shrake–Rupley algorithm for the accessible surface area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arechia | Arechia is an extinct genus of stingaree from the Eocene epoch. It is the oldest known stingaree genus, though molecular data suggests they diverged from Butterfly rays about 75 million years ago or from Deepwater stingrays around the time of the K-Pg transition. The type species, A. arambourgi, is known from isolated teeth found in the Ypresian deposits of Ouled Abdoun, Morocco. It is named for Camille Arambourg, who originally ascribed these teeth to Raja praealba in 1952. Henri Cappetta revised the species in 1983, erecting this genus for those Arambourg called males in this genus and placed the ones he called females in Merabatis. The second species, A. crassicaudata is from the Ypresian-age Bolca Lagerstätte of Italy and is known from several articulated individuals. This species was described in 1818 and was placed in various genera until finally being attributed to this one in 2020. The inferred environment of the Monte Postale site where this species is found matches with the typical warm, shallow environment of extant representatives of this family.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20air%20data%20system | A synthetic air data system (SADS) is an alternative air data system that can produce synthetic air data quantities without directly measuring the air data. It uses other information such as GPS, wind information, the aircraft's attitude, and aerodynamic properties to estimate or infer the air data quantities. Though air data includes altitude, airspeed, pressures, air temperature, Mach number, and flow angles (e.g., Angle of Attack and Angle of sideslip), existing known SADS primarily focuses on estimating airspeed, Angle of Attack, and Angle of sideslip. SADS is used to monitor the primary air data system if there is an anomaly due to sensor faults or system faults. It can also be potentially used as a backup to provide air data estimates for any aerial vehicle.
Functionality
Synthetic air data systems can potentially reduce risk by creating an extra layer of redundancy (analytical redundancy) to the mechanical air data system such as the Pitot-static systems and angle vanes. It can also be used to detect failures of other subsystems through data compatibility checks.
History
The idea of SADS has been around since the 1980s. The basic idea is to use non air data sensors such as Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and GPS fused with vehicle dynamics models to estimate air data triplet airspeed, angle of Attack, and angle of sideslip (either separately or combined). Most of the earlier work used vehicle dynamics models to estimate air data in both aircraft and spacecraft applications. This approach is sometimes referred to as the aerodynamic model-based SADS. However, the aerodynamic model-based SADS is challenging to implement because it is difficult to obtain accurate vehicle dynamics models possessing the fidelity needed to yield the required accuracy in the air data estimates. To address this issue, model-free SADS has been proposed recently. The model-free SADS does not require the vehicle dynamics models. Instead, it relies on the accuracy of the Inertial navigation system (INS) and Three-Dimensional (3D) wind estimates.
SADS has gained a lot of renewed interest after the Air France Flight 447 accident in 2009. Several universities and government agencies such as the University of Minnesota, Delft University of Technology, NASA Langley Research Center, and the Institute of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control at Technische Universität München, have been researching the SADS related topics. Recent patents related to SADS have been filed by the leading air data system producers such as Collins Aerospace and Honeywell. Moreover, the recent two Boeing 737 MAX accidents (Lion Air Flight 610 (2018) and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (2019)) have brought SADS into the spotlight again, which is detailed by the report. In particular, synthetic airspeed has become a focal point to improve Boeing aircraft's safety.
Commercial Aircraft
SADS has been implemented in some of the most advanced modern commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787. The ADS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbykes%3A%20Shadow%20Racer%20VR | Cyberbykes: Shadow Racer VR is a 1995 motorcycle racing game developed by Artificial Software and published by GameTek.
Plot
Cyberbykes is a futuristic motorcycle racing game with car combat elements. It takes place in a dystopian future wherein a group called the World Treaty Organization (WTO) has gained power throughout the world, stockpiling weapons in the process. The player combats the WTO with an armed "cyberbyke" vehicle.
Reception
In PC Gamer US, Steve Poole offered Cyberbykes a negative review, writing, "The single-player game is a bust, and there are plenty of games with network support that are more fun than this." Computer Game Review was similarly negative: the game has "not one shred of originality in game play, design or plot," the reviewers said. Writing for Computer Gaming World, Peter Olafson compared the game unfavorably to other racing titles on the market, and called it "rather woeful and dated". PC Zones Charlton Brooker was harsher still, giving the game a "Pants" award and calling it "horrid".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous%20Things | Dangerous Things is a Seattle-based cybernetic microchip biohacking implant retailer formed in 2013 by Amal Graafstra, following a crowdfunding campaign.
Dangerous Things built the first personal publicly available implantable NFC compliant transponder in 2013. In September 2020, Dangerous Things began another highly successful crowdfunding campaign to realize the world's first titanium encased fully bio-compatible sensing magnet, named the Titan.
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