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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science%20education%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Computer science education in the United Kingdom is carried out in the UK mostly from the age from 11, with most computer scientists needing a university degree also; from 11 and beyond, it is a predominantly male subject.
In their teenage years, around 3% of girls are interested in computing as a career, as opposed to 17% of boys.
History
1980s
Secondary schools taught logic, hardware and binary up to the age of 16 together with the programming language BASIC.
1990s
Computer science was taught much less across schools up to 16. Computer science was largely only taught from 16 to 18.
2000s
Computer science was infrequently taught in schools up to the age of 16.
2010s
The 2010 general election would result in a swift change in education policy on computer science education across England. The subject had not been taught as widespread as it could have been, and much more emphasis would now be placed on developing hard-core computing skills, and for primary schools too.
In January 2012 the Royal Society published a report entitled Shut down or restart? The way forward for computing in UK schools. Also in 2012, Code Club was founded; another group initiative is CoderDojo.
From 2014 a new PGCE in Computing has been offered by UK universities.
From September 2014 in England, computing teaching was now compulsory from the age of 5. Computer science GCSE and A levels have been made more rigorous. From around 2014 the new Computing GCSE has been taken.
In November 2018 the government-funded National Centre for Computing Education was founded at the University of York, to coordinate training for computing teachers in England.
The Institute of Coding was launched in 2018.
Nations
England
Computing teaching is mandatory at English schools from ages 5-16. There are around 438,000 teachers in England, with around 18,000 computing teachers; only around 35% have a relevant degree.
Scotland
Education Scotland introduced its Curriculum for Excellence -Technologies in 2010. Secondary school starts at the age of 12 in Scotland.
Wales
Wales introduced its Curriculum for Life in September 2018.
Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Curriculum features computer science to a lesser extent than now found in England.
Primary education
There are around 21,000 primary schools across the UK.
Teaching applications at primary level are Scratch, PICAXE, Micro Bit and Kodu Game Lab.
Secondary education
There are approximately 4,000 secondary schools throughout the UK.
Secondary schools develop applications most (21%) in Python, followed by Scratch (19%).
There are around 20% female candidates of Computing GCSE, with around 65,000 total candidates in 2017. Four times the proportion of girls choose computing GCSE at girls schools, as opposed to girls at co-educational secondary schools.
Computing teachers
Teacher development is offered through the Computing At School Network of Excellence, run by universities.
Sixth form
9% of Computing A-level candid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsiao-Wuen%20Hon | Hsiao-Wuen Hon (Chinese: 洪小文; born: May 31, 1963) is a Taiwanese-US researcher in speech technology, and coauthor of the book Spoken Language Processing. He is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and Chairman of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific R&D Group.
Life
Hon is a U.S. citizen born in Taiwan. Hon represented Taiwan in the International Mathematics Olympiad in high school. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1985. In 1986, he entered Carnegie Mellon University to study under professor Raj Reddy, and later received a PhD in computer science.
Career
After earning his PhD in 1992, Hon joined Apple, where he led research and development for the company's Chinese Dictation Kit. In 1995, he joined Microsoft as a senior researcher in their SAPI and speech engine technologies.
Hon was involved in the creation of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, the firm's first R&D operation in China. He was transferred to Microsoft's Seattle headquarters in 1998, promoted to Microsoft Voice Products Chief Technology Architect, then returned to Beijing in 2004 as Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon founded and managed Microsoft Search Technology Center from 2005 to 2007 and led development of Microsoft's Bing search product in Asia-Pacific. He was named managing director in 2007. In 2014, Hon was appointed Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group and in October 2015, he became Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation.
Hon has served on the Ambarella board of directors since 2017. He is a faculty member of the Schwarzman Scholars program and an adjunct professor with the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.
Selected publications
R. Song, Q. Guo, R. Zhang, G. Xin, J. Wen, Y. Yu, H.W. Hon, "Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance", Information Processing & Management, Volume 47, Issue 1, Elsevier, January 2011, page 37–52.
R. Song, Z. Luo, J. Nie, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon, "Identification of ambiguous queries in web search", International Journal on Information Processing and Management, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2009, page 216–229.
B Erol, J Luo, S.F. Chang, M Etoh, H.W. Hon, Q. Lin, V. Setlur, "Mobile Media Search: Has Media Search Finally Found its Perfect Platform?", in ACM Multimedia 2009, Oct. 19–23, 2009.
J Cohen, M Etoh, H.W. Hon, J Luo, J. Schalkwyk, "Mobile Multimedia Search", in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 19–24, 2009.
Y. Cao, C.Y. Lin, Y. Yu, and H.W. Hon. "Recommending Questions Using the MDL-based Tree Cut Model", in Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China, April 21–25, 2008.
R. Song, M. J. Taylor, J. Wen, H.W. Hon, and Y. Yu. "Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective", Book chapter in book: Advances in Information Retrieval by Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, page 346–357.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Lives%20Matter%20Global%20Network%20Foundation | The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGN or BLMGNF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to promoting the Black Lives Matter movement. The organization is often mistaken for other organizations within the Black Lives Matter movement because it often solely employs the phrase "Black Lives Matter" as its name and it also owns the domain name "blacklivesmatter.com" as its official website. While BLMGN often simply calls itself "Black Lives Matter," it is not the sole organization within the broader Black Lives Matter social movement. It is, however, the largest and most well-funded, and it also claims to speak on behalf of the movement. Efforts which were started in late 2020 by its then Executive Director Patrisse Cullors began to centralize its operations.
The organization was founded in 2013 by three female activists. International but largely based in the United States, the organization advocates for the eradication of systematic racism and the prevention of police violence. Among its core beliefs is that the entire US legal system, mainstream media, and society is inherently white supremacist; and that "policing at-large is an irredeemable institution" and should be defunded.
The organization has been criticized for its statements in support of Marxism, its handling of its finances, and for using its influence with media platforms to suppress negative stories about itself and investigating journalists who publish such stories. The BLMGNF has also been accused of long-term financial mismanagement such as the purchase of mansions, providing lucrative contracts to companies owned by relatives of its founders and a lack of transparency in their fundraisers.
Organization
The organization exists as a decentralized network of local-based chapters. According to its website , there are over 40 chapters. Each local chapter is expected to embrace the set principles of the BLMGN, but it is allowed to internally organize itself in any way it pleases. Each chapter can form its own agenda, so some chapters are more radical than others. Local chapters are mostly funded via direct donations, but they can also apply for more funding from the BLMGN.
BLMGN was initially created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013. Garza and Tometi have since left the organization, but still speak at events and keep in contact with Cullors.
On October 9, 2020, the establishment of two new BLM organizations was announced to the public: the Black Lives Matter Political Action Committee (BLM PAC), and BLM Grassroots. Under this new organizational structure, the BLMGN is supposed to serve as the "fundraising body, the grantmaking entity, the amplifier, and the action-oriented think tank of the movement," while BLM Grassroots will continue to perform the actions of its chapters and the BLM PAC will push for political change. In November 2020, Patrisse Cullors, the sole BLMGN board member, was appointed executive director |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOLports%20in%20Norway | The Norwegian STOLport network (in Norwegian kortbanenettet i Noreg (Nynorsk) or kortbanenettet i Norge (Bokmål)) is a network of STOLports, meaning that they are airports with short runways. The standard length of these runways is 800 m, compared to around 2500 m for a normal airport with 6-seat wide jetliners. In addition to shorter length, these airports are also narrower, with a standard width of 30 m compared to that of 60 m, respectively. They can only be used with small propeller aircraft. As of 2020, 26 of these airports are in use and 4 have been closed.
The Norwegian STOLport network is a result of political decisions in the 1960s and start of the 1970s. The goal was to meet the requirement for better infrastructure out in the countryside, where there was a great desire for the establishment of airports. The network was officially opened 30 June 1968 by minister of transport Håkon Kyllingmark together with mayors, county governors and representatives of the airlines. Together they flew the route Trondheim–Namsos–Brønnøysund–Sandnessjøen–Mo i Rana–Bodø, with ribbon-cutting opening ceremonies at each stop. Most of the airports were subsequently built in the period 1968–1975.
Background
The ministry of transport with Håkon Kyllingmark from the Conservative Party was a promoter for the work of developing new airports, especially in the northernmost counties of Norway. By the start of the 1970s, oil revenues had not yet taken hold in the Norwegian economy, so it was important to keep costs down. The result of this work was a standard for short airports, where the runway, approach equipment, terminal buildings, et cetera, was standardized and simple.
In Sweden, a network of regional 1500 meter long runways was built during the same time.
Remote control towers
On 20 October 2020, Avinor opened a remote control tower situated in Bodø as a cost effective solution intended for STOLports in Norway with little traffic. The remote tower technology is planned to be rolled out to a total of 15 airports in Norway by the end of 2022.
Airplanes
The largest airplanes utilizing the Norwegian STOLport network today are Bombardier DHC-8 Dash-8 and ATR 42. During the first years, airlines such as Widerøe mostly used the DHC-6 Twin Otter with 13 seats.
Future
Avinor, the Norwegian airport authority worries about the future availability of aircraft for runway, in future when older aircraft currently used retires. Currently, DHC-8-100 aircraft, manufactured in the early 1990s, are used. Avinor has found that after 2010, no new aircraft can be bought which has more than 20 seats and is able to use such short runways. For this reason there are plans to extend runways to or in some cases to build new airports, and to close some combined with road improvements. To extend them to above requires wider runway and greater space between the runway and buildings. This means a much higher cost, probably totally new runway, or new airport buildings. The least |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20social%20platforms%20with%20at%20least%20100%20million%20active%20users | This is a list of social platforms with at least 100 million monthly active users. The list includes social networks, as well as online forums, photo and video sharing platforms, messaging and VoIP apps.
Integrated services
Notes
References
Internet-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20routes%20of%20Costa%20Rica | This list of the National Road Network of Costa Rica contains every national route in Costa Rica. It is generated from the official maps from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.
List of national routes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Public%20Affairs | GMA Public Affairs is the public affairs division of GMA Network Inc. that currently produces and airs documentary, magazine, anthology, infotainment and other public affairs genre programs and content for free-to-air TV channels (GMA Network and GTV) and online platforms.
History
GMA's Public Affairs division was established in 1987 when Tina Monzon-Palma, then head of GMA News, recognized that a 30-minute newscast was not adequate and sufficient to inform the general Filipino public on what is happening to the recently established Aquino government after the historic People Power Revolution in February 1986.
The public affairs division started with five news personnel including Marissa La Torre Flores (who would later lead GMA News and Public Affairs as its senior vice president until 2022) and held office inside the cameramen's locker room before moving into the state-of-the-art GMA Network Center with no experience, equipment, camera and an improvised set broadcasting at the old GMA building in EDSA with only a passion-to-work attitude. Today this division, with more than 500 news personnel—both locally based and with international assignments—and producing 16 of the most awarded programs on Philippine television today, is one of the more active.
Weekend with Velez was the first network-produced public affairs program on GMA, afterward renamed Velez This Week and was hosted by Jose Mari Velez.
From a makeshift and improvised set, the once GMA News garnered several honors and recognitions from local and international award-giving bodies, including two gold medals in the New York Festivals and their first Peabody Award in 1999.
Coinciding with its 20th anniversary in broadcasting excellence, GMA News and Public Affairs aired a documentary entitled 20: Dalawampung Taon ng GMA Public Affairs (20: Twenty Years of GMA Public Affairs) on October 28, 2007.
On April 27, 2020, GMA News and Public Affairs Digital launched a podcast channel available on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
Accolades
In 1999, George Foster Peabody Award recognized the documentaries "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao" by Jessica Soho and the I-Witness team and Jay Taruc's child labor story on Brigada Siete. On December 9, 2003, the Philippine House of Representatives 12th Congress commended GMA News and Public Affairs through Resolution 787 authored by Rep. Rodolfo Plaza for its efforts in uplifting the standards of the Philippine broadcast industry by receiving the first Peabody Award for television news awarded to an Asian country in 1999.
In 2010, Kara David's I-Witness documentary, "Ambulansiyang de Paa," won GMA News and Public Affairs second Peabody Award. GMA News TV's documentary program Reel Time'''s "Salat" episode received a Peabody Award in 2013. In 2014, Peabody awards recognized GMA News' State of the Nation with Jessica Soho, 24 Oras, Saksi, 24 Oras Weekend and Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho'' for its coverage of the Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
Programs
Currentl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Combat%3A%20Invasion%3A%20Normandy | Close Combat: Invasion: Normandy is a 2000 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Mattel Interactive for Windows. It is the fifth game in the Close Combat series. A remake, Close Combat: The Longest Day was released in 2009.
Gameplay
Close Combat: Invasion: Normandy is a computer wargame with real-time gameplay, which focuses on military conflict in World War II.
Development
Atomic Games began working on Close Combat: Invasion: Normandy in early 2000, following the release of the fourth Close Combat title, Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge. The previous game had been made for Mindscape's Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) label, and Invasion: Normandy began under that publisher. However, Mindscape had since been sold to Mattel when that company bought The Learning Company, Mindscape's parent, for $3.5 billion in 1999. As a result, Close Combat V was published by Mattel Interactive, a financially unstable company. Computer Games Magazines Robert Mayer noted in September 2000 that "the future of [Close Combat] is up in the air—Mattel Interactive is perennially on the trading block, and Atomic ... has lost some key staff members in recent months".
Late in September, Mattel sold The Learning Company at a bargain price to The Gores Group. A spokesman for the new managers announced that they expected to make it "profitable within six months." Invasion: Normandy was released in October 2000.
Reception
According to Metacritic, Close Combat: Invasion: Normandy received "generally favorable reviews" from critics.
References
External links
2000 video games
Computer wargames
Real-time tactics video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in France
World War II video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Atomic Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%2010%2C%20version%201511 | Windows 10 November Update (also known as version 1511 and codenamed "Threshold 2") is the first major update to Windows 10 and the second version of the operating system. It carries the build number 10.0.10586.
PC version history
New features in this version of Windows 10 include:
Pre-installed Skype video, messaging, and phone apps
Tab previews and syncing in Microsoft Edge
Visual and functional tweaks
The first preview was released on August 18, 2015. The final release was made available to Windows Insiders on November 3, 2015, followed by a public release on November 12, 2015. Unlike the initial release of Windows, this branch was also made available to existing Windows Phone 8.1 devices and the Xbox One and as a preview release to Windows Server 2016, and was pre-installed on new Windows 10 Mobile devices. Support of this version for users of the Current Branch (CB) and Current Branch for Business (CBB) ended on October 10, 2017.
The update reached end of service after the release of build 10586.1540 on April 10, 2018.
Mobile version history
See also
Windows 10 version history
Windows 10 Mobile version history
References
Windows 10
History of Microsoft
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRogues | CyberRogues is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the cyberpunk near-future science fiction role-playing game Cyberspace.
Contents
CyberRogues is a supplement which details 30 non-player characters that the gamemaster can add to a Cyberspace campaign. The description of each character includes a complete personal background, attitude, appearance, skills, languages, and game statistics. The product is 40 pages.
Publication history
I.C.E. published the cyberpunk role-playing game Cyberspace in 1989. CyberRogues was published the following year, a 40-page softcover book written by Steve Bouton, with art by Janet Aulisio.
Reception
Stephan Wieck reviewed the product in the October–November 1990 issue of White Wolf. He noted it provided limited utility, stating that "CyberRogues has some good NPCs, but generally it isn't too useful. Gamemasters who don't have time to flesh out their own NPCs for their campaigns may find the supplement to be a good purchase." Wieck rated it at 2 of 5 points.
References
Cyberspace (role-playing game)
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1990
Science fiction role-playing game supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawlgangs%20%26%20Megacorps | Sprawlgangs & Megacorps is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the cyberpunk near-future science fiction role-playing game Cyberspace.
Contents
Sprawlgangs & Megacorps is a supplement describing 20 street gangs known as "sprawlgangs", 16 ruthless megacorporations that wield enormous power, five organizations, and seven notable non-player characters.
Publication history
I.C.E. published the cyberpunk role-playing game Cyberspace in 1989. The game's first supplement, Sprawlgangs & Megacorps, is a 64-page book written by Terry Amthor and Kevin Barrett, with both interior and cover art by Janet Aulisio.
Reception
Stephan Wieck reviewed the product in the October–November 1990 issue of White Wolf. He stated that the product "is a good sourcebook filled with stuff that can be thrown right into a cyberpunk campaign, and while providing a gamemaster with specific elements for his campaign, the book also gives the reader an overview of many elements of the Cyberspace game world." Wieck rated it at 4 of 5 points.
Reviews
Games Review, Issue 9 (June 1990, p. 60)
References
Cyberspace (role-playing game)
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1990
Science fiction role-playing game supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve%20O%27Rourke | Maeve O'Rourke is an Irish human rights lawyer. She is known for her involvement in seeking access for survivors and adopted people to their own personal data, and the publication of appropriately anonymised administrative files, contained in 'historical' abuse archives in Ireland including the archives of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, the Ryan Commission that investigated Industrial and Reformatory Schools, and the 'McAleese' Committee that inquired into Magdalene Laundries. As of 2020, she lectures in Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUIG. She is a member of Justice for Magdalenes Research. O'Rourke campaigns on behalf of unmarried mothers and their children. She has represented victims before the Irish Human Rights Commission, and numerous United Nations human rights treaty bodies. In October 2020, she was critical of the Government's statement that it intended to 'seal' information regarding Ireland's mother and baby homes for 30 years.
Her father is broadcaster Sean O'Rourke. She married Labour Party 2020 General Election candidate and employment solicitor Ciarán Ahern on 4 January 2020.
References
Living people
21st-century Irish lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Irish women lawyers
21st-century Irish women lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast%20News | "Podcast News" is the sixth episode of the thirty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 15, 2020. In the episode, Grampa Simpson is accused of murdering his girlfriend, and Kent Brockman creates a podcast about it. Brockman's podcast is able to convince the town that Grampa was guilty of the crime, including Grampa himself, who confesses to the police. However, after the discovery that Grampa's girlfriend is still alive, he is exonerated and set free.
"Podcast News" was directed by Matthew Faughnan and written by David X. Cohen. The episode marked the first time that Cohen had written for the series since 1998. The episode guest stars Morgan Fairchild as Grampa's girlfriend, Christine Nangle as Tabitha Shingle, and Stellan Skarsgård as himself. Series cast member Yeardley Smith, who voices Lisa Simpson, also makes an appearance as herself in the episode. "Podcast News" features numerous references to real-life podcasts, including Doughboys, Serial, and My Favorite Murder. The title of the episode is a reference to the film Broadcast News.
In its original broadcast, "Podcast News" was watched live in the United States by 3.50 million viewers. It generally received positive reviews from television critics.
The episode was dedicated in memory of Alex Trebek, who died on November 8, 2020.
Plot
While Marge and Lisa become addicted to true crime podcasts, Homer and Bart go to visit Grampa at the Springfield Retirement Castle and find that he has a new girlfriend named Vivienne St. Charmaine, a former TV star.
Later, during a romantic getaway cruise, Vivienne is reported dead from a fall aboard the cruise ship, and Grampa, who does not remember what happened, is the top suspect. After noticing the popularity of podcasts in Springfield, Kent Brockman decides to create a podcast called Guilty Grampa about the incident in order to stay relevant. The podcast convinces Springfield, the Simpson family, and even Grampa himself that he is guilty of the crime.
Kent discovers that Vivienne had left all her money to Grampa in her life insurance policy, giving him a motive for murder. Grampa confesses and gets locked away in jail, though later, Dr. Hibbert reveals to the Simpsons that Vivienne is alive: he had been tracking both hers and Grampa's movements via GPS chips he had implanted during their colonoscopy, and she had faked her death and fled to a Mexican resort. Hibbert and the Simpsons then confront Kent with the information ahead of the Guilty Grampa live finale, and successfully pressure him to reveal the truth. Though Grampa is released from prison, he is upset as he believed that Vivienne was the last love of his life.
In the final scene, Grampa encounters Vivienne, who reminds him that he was supposed to meet her in Mexico with the insurance money as they had earlier planned. The pair decide to hide out unnoticed together in the Springfield |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia%20saluenensis | Camellia saluenensis is a species of Camellia native to southcentral China. A large bush, it is a parent of a number of garden hybrids. 'Cornish Snow' (C. cuspidata × C. saluenensis) which flowers in midwinter, and 'Inspiration' (C. reticulata × C. saluenensis) have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
References
saluenensis
Endemic flora of China
Plants described in 1933 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Grigsby%27s%20War%20Between%20the%20States | Gary Grigsby's War Between the States is a 2008 computer wargame developed by 2 by 3 Games and published by Matrix Games. It simulates the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Development
War Between the States was released on June 12, 2008.
Reception
According to Joel Billings of 2 by 3 Games, War Between the States was "not a financial success for us". He attributed its performance to competition from rival wargames set during the American Civil War, which had launched not long before War Between the States. It received a "bronze" prize in Usenet's "War-Historical Wargame of the Year" award category.
References
External links
Official page (archived)
2008 video games
American Civil War video games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Matrix Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201970%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1970 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1970
1970 in American cinema
1970-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Netravali%20filters | The Mitchell–Netravali filters or BC-splines are a group of reconstruction filters used primarily in computer graphics, which can be used, for example, for anti-aliasing or for scaling raster graphics. They are also known as bicubic filters in image editing programs because they are bi-dimensional cubic splines.
Definition
The Mitchell–Netravali filters were designed as part of an investigation into artifacts from reconstruction filters. The filters are piece-wise cubic filters with four-pixel wide supports. After excluding unsuitable filters from this family, such as discontinuous curves, two parameters and remain, through which the Mitchell–Netravali filters can be configured. The filters are defined as follows:
It is possible to construct two-dimensional versions of the Mitchell–Netravali filters by separation. In this case the filters can be replaced by a series of interpolations with the one-dimensional filter. From the color values of the four neighboring pixels , , , the color value is then calculated as follows:
lies between and ; is the distance between and .
Subjective effects
Various artifacts may result from certain choices of parameters B and C, as shown in the following illustration. The researchers recommended values from the family (dashed line) and especially as a satisfactory compromise.
Implementations
The following parameters result in well-known cubic splines used in common image editing programs:
Examples
See also
Ringing artifacts
Anisotropic filtering
Kernel (image processing)
References
Digital_signal_processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer%20B.%20Davidson | Mayer B. Davidson is an American physician and author who is an expert on diabetes and the algorithmic dosing of insulin. A Professor of Medicine at both the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Davidson has studied algorithmic dosing of insulin as a means of controlling diabetes in insulin-using patients.
Education
Davidson holds an AB in chemistry from Swarthmore College and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
Career
In 1996, Davidson proposed that the level of a person’s HbA1c—a measure of average blood glucose—could be used to diagnose diabetes mellitus. The American Diabetes Association and the World Health Organization agreed in 2010 and recommended its use for diagnosis.
Davidson is a past president of the American Diabetes Association, a past Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Care and the founding editor of Current Diabetes Reports. He is the author of more than 170 scientific articles.
Wiley Medical Education published Davidson’s first book, Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnosis and Treatment, in four editions beginning in 1981. Saunders (now Elsevier) published a fifth edition co-authored by Anne Peters Harmel and Ruchi Mathur, in 2003, renaming the book Davidson’s Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnosis and Treatment. The American Diabetes Association published Meeting the American Diabetes Association Standards of Care: An Algorithmic Approach to Clinical Care of the Diabetes Patient in 2010. The title is in its second edition, published in 2017.
With Debra L. Gordon, Davidson wrote two editions of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Type 2 Diabetes.
In 1970, Philip Rossman and Mayer Davidson founded the Venice Family Clinic, a free clinic in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. By the mid-1990s, it had grown to be the largest free medical clinic in the country. It is now a UCLA-affiliated community clinic with 12 locations.
He is now Chief Medical Officer of Mellitus Health.
References
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty
Swarthmore College alumni
Harvard Medical School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201971%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1971 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1971
1971 in American cinema
1971-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20London | William M. London is an American professor of public health and a consumer advocate. He is the editor of the Quackwatch network's weekly electronic newsletter Consumer Health Digest and has written for both professional and general audiences. Health fraud figures prominently among his writing and research interests.
Academic career
Attending the University at Buffalo, London holds undergraduate degrees in biological sciences and in geography, an Ed.M. in educational psychology and an Ed.D. in health education. He also obtained a M.P.H. from Loma Linda University.
He taught at a variety of universities (Kent State, Saint Elizabeth, Charles Drew), before landing at California State University, Los Angeles for the 20062007 school year, in the health science program. While at Charles Drew, he established the university's Master of Public Health in Urban Public Health, which aims at training public health professionals in disease prevention and health promotion "for culturally diverse and medically underserved urban communities".
He is a founding member of the board of associate editors of the journal Health Behavior and Policy Review, a section editor of the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, and a member of the Review Board of the American Journal of Health Behavior. He is a former senior editor for the journal Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies and a former contributing editor for The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and Aberrant Medical Practices.
While living in Ohio, he planned and delivered training programs in drug abuse prevention for school personnel, for a period of four years. Arguing that the American Government's "war on drugs" during the 1990s has more to do with a moral panic than with public health, London has publicly called for an end to the strong emphasis law enforcement agencies have placed on the prohibition of drugs during that period. His interventions on drug policy include testimonies to legislative committees, notably the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights of the United States House Committee on Education and Labor in 1993.
Consumer advocacy
With Stephen Barrett and others, London co-authored several editions of Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions.
He is a former president of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), a nonprofit aimed at providing science-based information to consumers so that they can recognize fraud and misinformation on health matters. As the group's representative, he delivered a statement to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, in which he asked the Commission to recognize "the need to identify health fraud and quackery masquerading as "complementary" and "alternative" medicine" and made four recommendations to that effect.
He started assisting Stephen Barrett in editing NCAHF's electronic newsletter Consumer Health Digest in 2002 and has served as the editor since 2018. The publication wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie%20Campbell%20Severino | Carrie Campbell Severino (born 1976/1977) is an American lawyer and conservative political activist. She is the head of the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), where she supported the Supreme Court nominations of Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. She is the coauthor (with Mollie Hemingway) of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.
Background and early career
Severino, born Carrie Campbell, grew up in Michigan. Her father is an oncologist, and her mother is a nurse.
Severino attended Duke University, graduating in 1999 with a B.A. in biology. In 2001 she received a master's degree in Linguistics from Michigan State University.
While attending Harvard Law School, she met her future husband Roger Severino, two years ahead of her there. Both were active with the law school's Society for Law, Life and Religion, a conservative anti-abortion group.
In 2004, after receiving her JD from Harvard Law School, Severino worked as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
She was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a year (2007–2008). She later spent time at Georgetown University Law Center with an Olin/Searle Fellowship, an award funded by the Federalist Society that "offers top young lawyers with a scholarly bent the opportunity to spend 1-2 years to write and develop their scholarship with the goal of entering the legal academy."
Judicial Crisis Network
On March 22, 2010, the Judicial Crisis Network hired Severino as their policy director and chief spokesperson.
The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) is an American conservative advocacy organization, described in 2020 by OpenSecrets as having "unmatched influence in recent years in shaping the federal judiciary." JCN has worked closely on judicial appointments with conservative Catholic activist Leonard Leo and with the Federalist Society, which is in the same hallway of a DC office building. In 2022, JCN's "About" page describes her role as "chief counsel and policy director."
Severino and the JCN have played a prominent role in several political battles related to the United States Supreme Court. In 2016, Mother Jones described Severino as "a leader of the current conservative campaign to block any Obama Supreme Court nominee." Under her leadership, the Judicial Crisis Network spent more than $5 million on the campaign to oppose Obama's 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court.
During the 2016 Presidential election Severino and the Judicial Crisis Network made filling the seat to which Garland had been nominated a central issue. Asserting that Trump's victory reflected voters' wish for conservatives on the Supreme Court, Severino announced JCN's plan to spend $10 million campaigning for Neil Gorsuch's appointment. Severino attended the White House swearing-in ceremony for Gorsuch.
Severino also played a prominent role in the Judicial Crisis Network campaign to su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%2085%20Fund | The 85 Fund, also known as the Honest Elections Project, and formerly known as the Judicial Education Project, is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington D.C. It is among a network of conservative organizations associated with Leonard Leo, a longtime prominent figure in the Federalist Society, that are funded mostly by anonymous donors. The 85 Fund had revenue of over $65 million in 2020 and, with the Concord Fund, acts as a funding hub for other organizations in the Leo network.
As the Honest Elections Project, it participated in lawsuits during the 2020 United States presidential election and ran advertisements against mail-in voting. It is a proponent of the independent state legislature theory that posits state legislatures have sole authority to establish and enforce state election laws and rules. Leo has said that the fund-raising prowess of Arabella Advisors, a liberal consulting firm, was an inspiration for the 85 Fund to serve a similar function on the right.
Organization and finances
The secretary of The 85 Fund is Carrie Severino, who is the president of the Judicial Crisis Network. The 85 Fund is closely connected to Leonard Leo, the vice president of the Federalist Society. The group's 2017 tax return listed a payment of $675,000 to the BH Group, an employer of Leo. Neil Corkery formerly served as president of the group.
Between 2012 and 2017, the group raised $46 million. In 2018, more than 99% of the group's funding came from a single $7.8 million donation from Donors Trust, a donor-advised fund. In 2020, The 85 Fund received $20 million in donations from Donors Trust.
Leo is a powerful figure in fund-raising and expertise for the American conservative movement. He has said that the 85 Fund was inspired by the fund-raising of Arabella Advisors, a liberal consulting firm that advises donors.
Politico reported in August 2023 that Attorney General for the District of Columbia Brian Schwalb was investigating Leo and his network of nonprofit groups. Schwalb's office did not confirm or deny the existence of a probe.
Expenditures
The group donated $300,000 to the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative nonprofit organization.
In 2011 and 2012, Leonard Leo arranged for Liberty Consulting, a firm owned by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, to be paid $80,000 by Kellyanne Conway and her firm The Polling Company, billed to the Judicial Education Project. Leo directed Conway not to mention Ginni Thomas in the paperwork. Leo told The Washington Post, "As an advisor to JEP I have long been supportive of its opinion research relating to limited government, and The Polling Company, along with Ginni Thomas's help, has been an invaluable resource for gauging public attitudes." He also said "Knowing how disrespectful, malicious and gossipy people can be, I have always tried to protect the privacy of Justice Thomas and Ginni."
In 2020, The 85 Fund provided $750,000 in funding to the Mercatus Center, a thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESNE%20Radio | ESNE Radio is a Spanish-language Catholic radio network based in the United States, owned by El Sembrador Ministries. Headquartered in Chatsworth, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, ESNE broadcasts on 14 stations in the United States, Mexico and Spain. ESNE also broadcasts a Spanish-language television channel, ESNE TV, launched in 2002.
History
On March 1, 2003, El Sembrador, led by founder Noel Díaz, began programming KHPY (1670 AM) in Moreno Valley, California, under a time brokerage agreement; it purchased that station in 2008. Díaz had previously started a weekly Catholic radio program, Dimensión de Fe (Dimension of Faith), in 1990.
In 2013, the network acquired KRXA, serving Monterey, California; the next year, it began brokering time on KURS in San Diego, later buying that station in 2016. A second southern California signal was acquired in 2015 when it picked up KTYM after Immaculate Heart Radio instead bought another Los Angeles outlet.
El Sembrador expanded into Utah by buying Ogden's 1430 AM—then KLO—for $260,000 in 2020. A third station in the Central Coast region of California will be added when the ministry closes on its purchase of KKMC (880 AM) in Gonzales, California, from Monterey County Broadcasters. Additionally, in September 2020, El Sembrador filed to buy KDCO (1340 AM) in Denver—though not its associated FM translator—for $420,000.
Stations
United States
Mexico
XEBBB-AM 1040, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Spain
88.2 FM, Almonaster La Real
104.9 FM, Gibraleón
Notes
References
2003 establishments in California
American radio networks
Catholic radio
Christian mass media companies
Companies established in 2003
Chatsworth, Los Angeles
Organizations based in Los Angeles
Catholic Church in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushua%C3%AFa%20TV | Ushuaïa TV is a French television channel, owned by Groupe TF1. The network carries programming about nature.
History
Ushuaïa TV was launched on 14 March 2005 by Groupe TF1, inspired by the TF1 popular show Ushuaïa Nature.
Ushuaïa TV and TF1 other pay-TV channels were initially available exclusively on Canalsat and cable providers, until 2 January 2012 when they joined ISP optional packages. Ushuaïa TV arrived on Freebox TV on 1 January 2015, replacing Stylia.
In December 2012, Discovery Communications acquired 20% of TF1 pay-TV thematic channels for €170 million for Eurosport and €14 million for Ushuaïa TV, Histoire, Stylia and TV Breizh.
On 17 July 2015, TF1 sold its remaining 49% stake in Eurosport to Discovery Communications for €492 million. At the same time, the French group bought out the 20% stake held by the American group in its pay-TV channels (TV Breizh, Histoire and Ushuaïa) for 14.6 million euros.
On 5 December 2019, TV Breizh, Ushuaïa TV and Histoire were rebranded with a "TV" logo common between them.
Programming
Ushuaïa TV concentrates on nature, but also airs reruns of old TF1 programmes such as Ushuaïa Nature.
References
Television networks in France
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in France
Television stations in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201972%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1972 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1972
1972 in American cinema
1972-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeromy | Jeromy may refer to:
Jeromy Burnitz, American former professional baseball player
Jeromy Carriere, Canadian computer software engineer
Jeromy Cox, American colorist
Jeromy Farkas, American politician
Jeromy James, Belizean footballer
Jeromy Miles, American football safety
See also
Jeremy (disambiguation)
Jeremiah (disambiguation)
Jeremie (disambiguation)
Jerome (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Eliassi-Rad | Tina Eliassi-Rad is an American computer scientist and the inaugural President Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University. Her research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence (namely, data mining and machine learning), network science, and applied ethics. In 2023, she won the Lagrange Prize for her work on ethical approaches to artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
Eliassi-Rad studied computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned a bachelor's degree with distinction in 1993, before moving to Illinois to begin graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She returned to Wisconsin for her doctoral research, where she worked on intelligent agents. After graduating, Eliassi-Rad joined the research team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Research and career
Eliassi-Rad joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in 2010. She moved to Northeastern University in 2016, where she was made Professor in 2020. She is part of the Northeastern University Network Science Institute. She currently teaches the honors inquiry course "Algorithms That Affect Lives."
Awards and honors
2010 United States Department of Energy Office of Science Outstanding Mentor Award
2019 Elected Fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange
2021 One of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
2022 Northeastern University Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award
2023 Lagrange Prize-CRT Foundation
2023 Network Science Society Fellow
Selected publications
References
External links
American computer scientists
Northeastern University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20International%20Film%20Festival%20NETPAC%20Prize | The Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize is an annual film award, presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema to honour the best film from the Asia-Pacific region screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The award was presented for the first time in 2012.
Winners
References
NETPAC
Asian film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201973%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1973 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1973
1973 in American cinema
1973-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20deepfake | An audio deepfake (also known as voice cloning) is a type of artificial intelligence used to create convincing speech sentences that sound like specific people saying things they did not say. This technology was initially developed for various applications to improve human life. For example, it can be used to produce audiobooks, and also to help people who have lost their voices (due to throat disease or other medical problems) to get them back. Commercially, it has opened the door to several opportunities. This technology can also create more personalized digital assistants and natural-sounding text-to-speech as well as speech translation services.
Audio deepfakes, recently called audio manipulations, are becoming widely accessible using simple mobile devices or personal computers. These tools have also been used to spread misinformation using audio. This has led to cybersecurity concerns among the global public about the side effects of using audio deepfakes, including its possible role in disseminating misinformation and disinformation in audio-based social media platforms. People can use them as a logical access voice spoofing technique, where they can be used to manipulate public opinion for propaganda, defamation, or terrorism. Vast amounts of voice recordings are daily transmitted over the Internet, and spoofing detection is challenging. Audio deepfake attackers have targeted individuals and organizations, including politicians and governments. In early 2020, some scammers used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate the voice of a CEO to authorize a money transfer of about $35 million through a phone call. According to a 2023 global McAfee survey, one person in ten reported having been targeted by an AI voice cloning scam; 77% of these targets reported losing money to the scam. Audio deepfakes could also pose a danger to voice ID systems currently deployed to financial consumers.
Categories
Audio deepfakes can be divided into three different categories:
Replay-based
Replay-based deepfakes are malicious works that aim to reproduce a recording of the interlocutor's voice.
There are two types: far-field detection and cut-and-paste detection. In far-field detection, a microphone recording of the victim is played as a test segment on a hands-free phone. On the other hand, cut-and-paste involves faking the requested sentence from a text-dependent system. Text-dependent speaker verification can be used to defend against replay-based attacks. A current technique that detects end-to-end replay attacks is the use of deep convolutional neural networks.
Synthetic-based
The category based on speech synthesis refers to the artificial production of human speech, using software or hardware system programs. Speech synthesis includes Text-To-Speech, which aims to transform the text into acceptable and natural speech in real-time, making the speech sound in line with the text input, using the rules of linguistic description of the tex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Barton%20Live | Rosemary Barton Live is a Canadian television Sunday morning talk show, which premiered November 1, 2020 on CBC News Network and CBC Television. Hosted by Rosemary Barton, it is a live news and talk show covering political topics.
The series is a replacement for The Weekly with Wendy Mesley and also is a successor to The Sunday Scrum, a Sunday political segment which aired on CBC News Network in the 2000s and 2010s. The Sunday Scrum was hosted by a variety of CBC journalists over the course of its run, including Nancy Wilson, Ben Chin, Carole MacNeil, Reshmi Nair, Asha Tomlinson and John Northcott, and continues to air as a segment within Rosemary Barton Live rather than a standalone program.
The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, for Best Talk Program or Series and Best Host in a Talk or Entertainment News Series.
References
External links
Canadian Sunday morning talk shows
CBC News Network original programming
CBC Television original programming
Television shows filmed in Ottawa
2020 Canadian television series debuts
2020s Canadian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Rees%20%28scientist%29 | Anthony J. J. ("Tony") Rees (born 1953) is a British-born software developer, data manager and biologist resident in Australia since 1986, and previously a data manager with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. He is responsible for developing a number of software systems currently used in science data management, including c-squares, Taxamatch, and IRMNG, the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. He has also been closely involved with the development of other biodiversity informatics initiatives including the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), AquaMaps, and the iPlant Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS).
Biography
Rees was born in Coventry, UK to an academic family and studied for a degree in Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds from 1971-1974, publishing one paper on the description of a new chrysophyte alga from his undergraduate work. Subsequently he obtained a Ph.D. from the same University, with a thesis entitled "The phytoplankton of a eutrophic lake: community dynamics and ultrastructural studies". In the 1980s he worked for the Micropalaeontology Unit of the Geology Department at University College London<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lord |first1=A.R. |last2=Cooper |first2=M.K.E. |last3=Corbett |first3=P.W.M. |last4=Fuller |first4=N.G. |last5=Rawson |first5=P.R. |last6=Rees|first6=A.J. |date=1987 |title=Microbiostratigraphy of the Volgian Stage (Upper Jurassic), Volga River, USSR |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte |volume=1987 |issue= 10|pages=577–605 |doi= 10.1127/njgpm/1987/1987/577}}</ref> before migrating to Australia where he managed the electron microscope facility for the CSIRO Division of Fisheries until that facility's closure in 1996, whereupon he transitioned into the area of marine data management for the same science agency. In that position he combined oceanographic and marine biological data management and developed an interest in the emerging field of biodiversity informatics, also including a role assisting the technical development of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) being developed by J. Frederick Grassle in the U.S.A. From 2009-2014 he managed the Australian node of OBIS, located at CSIRO, and also collaborated with other national and international biodiversity informatics and data sharing initiatives including the Encyclopedia of Life, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Atlas of Living Australia, the Open Tree of Life project, FishBase, and others. Rees left CSIRO in 2014, since when his Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera project has been hosted on data infrastructure at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Belgium, with which he continues an involvement as at 2022.
Development of data management tools
In 2002 Rees devised a grid-based identification system "c-squares" for units of geographic space to which areas of scientific operation by particular research projects in his agency could be allocated; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20detection%20and%20response | Extended detection and response (XDR) is a cybersecurity technology that monitors and mitigates cyber security threats.
Concept
The term was coined by Nir Zuk of Palo Alto Networks in 2018.
According to Chapple, Stewart and Gibson, XDR is not so much another tool as the collection and integration of several concepts into a single solution, the components varying from vendor to vendor and often including NTA (network traffic analysis), NIDS and NIPS.
According to Gartner :
The system works by collecting and correlating data across various network points such as servers, email, cloud workloads, and endpoints. The data is then analyzed and correlated, lending it visibility and context, and revealing advanced threats. Thereafter, the threats are prioritized, analyzed, and sorted to prevent security collapses and data loss. The XDR system helps organizations to have a higher level of cyber awareness, enabling cyber security teams to identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities.
The XDR improves the malware detection and antivirus capabilities over the endpoint detection and response (EDR) system. XDR improves on the EDR capabilities to deploy high-grade security solutions by utilizing current technologies which proactively identifies and collects security threats, and employs strategies to detect future cyber security threats. It is an alternative to reactive endpoint protection solutions, such as EDR and network traffic analysis (NTA).
See also
Endpoint security
Data loss prevention software
Endpoint detection and response
Network detection and response
References
Security technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20valuation | Data valuation is a discipline in the fields of accounting and information economics. It is concerned with methods to calculate the value of data collected, stored, analyzed and traded by organizations. This valuation depends on the type, reliability and field of data.
History
In the 21st century, exponential increases in computing power and data storage capabilities (in line with Moore's law) have led to a proliferation of big data, machine learning and other data analysis techniques. Businesses increasingly adapt these techniques and technologies to pursue data-driven strategies to create new business models. Traditional accounting techniques used to value organizations were developed in an era before high-volume data capture and analysis became widespread and focused on tangible assets (machinery, equipment, capital, property, materials etc.), ignoring data assets. As a result, accounting calculations often ignore data and leave its value off organizations' balance sheets. Notably, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, a number of businesses lost significant amounts of data. They filed claims with their insurance companies for the value of information that was destroyed, but the insurance companies denied the claims, arguing that information did not count as property and therefore was not covered by their policies.
A number of organizations and individuals began noticing this and then publishing on the topic of data valuation. Doug Laney, vice president and analyst at Gartner, conducted research on Wall Street valued companies, which found that companies that had become information-centric, treating data as an asset, often had market-to-book values two to three times higher than the norm. On the topic, Laney commented: "Even as we are in the midst of the Information Age, information simply is not valued by those in the valuation business. However, we believe that, over the next several years, those in the business of valuing corporate investments, including equity analysts, will be compelled to consider a company's wealth of information in properly valuing the company itself." In the latter part of the 2010s, the list of most valuable firms in the world (a list traditionally dominated by oil and energy companies) was dominated by data firms – Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook.
Characteristics of data as an asset
A 2020 study by the Nuffield Institute at Cambridge University, UK divided the characteristics of data into two categories, economic characteristics and informational characteristics.
Economic characteristics
Data is non-rival. Multiple people can use data without it being depleted or used up.
Data varies in whether it is excludable. Data can be a public good or a club good, depending on what type of information it contains. Some data can reasonably be shared with anyone who desires to access it (e.g., weather data). Other data is limited to particular users and contexts (e.g., administ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage%20%28disambiguation%29 | Metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, in logic and linguistics, as well as metaprogramming.
Meta language may refer to:
ML (programming language)
Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon
See also
Natural semantic metalanguage, a linguistic theory reducing lexicons to sets of semantic primitives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20R.%20Mead | Nancy Rose Mead (born in 1942) is an American computer scientist. She is known for her contributions to security, software engineering education and requirements.
Background and education
Mead spent her childhood in New Jersey, growing up in a 2nd generation Armenian immigrant family. She had an early interest in mathematics. This led to a mathematics major at New York University. from which she received a BA in mathematics and French (Honors) in 1963, and an MS in mathematics in 1967. Mead received her PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering). Her thesis, "Complexity Measures for System Design", was supervised by Stanley Preiser.
Career
Mead spent a significant part of her career at IBM (1966-1990), in software development and management of large real-time systems, software engineering technology, and software engineering education. She was named a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in 1988.
Mead’s research at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (1990-2018) was primarily in the study of software engineering and cybersecurity engineering, particularly software and security requirements, and the development of software assurance and software engineering curricula. She was the Principal Investigator and primary developer of the SQUARE method
for security requirements engineering, and led the Software Assurance Curriculum Project, which included the Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum recognized by IEEE and ACM. At present, her interests are in threat modeling and supply chain risk management.
Awards and honors
She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006,
and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM in 2009.
The Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education, given by the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T) since 2010, is named for her in honor of her leading role in establishing that conference. She was named a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 2013. In 2015 she received the Distinguished Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). In 2019 she was awarded the Parnas Fellowship
by Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. In 2020 she was selected for the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program.
Publications
Mead has more than 150 publications. She has co-authored two books:
Software Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2008)
Cyber Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2016).
The following are a selection of her most-cited
papers:
R Wieringa, N Maiden, N Mead, C Rolland. "Requirements engineering paper classification and evaluation criteria: a proposal and a discussion", Requirements engineering 11 (1), 102-107
NR Mead, T Stehney, "Security quality requirements engineering (SQUARE) methodology", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 30 (4), 1-7
RJ Ellison, DA Fisher, RC Linger, HF Lipson, TA Longstaff, N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Austria | This is a list of ecoregions in Austria as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Austria is made up of four terrestrial ecoregions and two freshwater ecoregions. Austria's ecology is largely influenced by the Alps and the water which flows from them. The central western part of Austria is home to these mountains, and the eastern and northern portions of the nation are less extreme in their elevations. The country is home to diverse terrestrial and marine fauna. These ecoregions are descriptions of the areas in their natural state; many are home to farms and urban populations.
Terrestrial
Austria is part of the Palearctic realm, one of the eight biogeographic realms that cover the earth's land surface. By Köppen climate classification, the flatter parts of eastern Austria has a warm temperate humid climate (Cfb), the west and central foothills have a humid snow climate (Dfb), and the mountainous areas are classified as subarctic (Dfc), tundra (ET), or ice-cap (EF). The following are the four terrestrial ecoregions of Austria:
The cold and high elevation Alps conifer and mixed forests (PA0501) ecoregion which makes up most of western Austria is made of deep valleys covered with oak trees; an outer mountainous area with beech, fir, spruce, and pine; and an interior with larch and pine trees. It is a biodiverse region with many vascular plants, large and small mammals, birds, and herptiles.
A slice of north eastern Austria is part of the Central European mixed forests (PA0412) ecoregion. This area is naturally flat and forested or marshy (though most marshes have been drained). It is notably home to some at risk species including lynx, european bison, black grouse, white-tailed eagle, and the greater spotted eagle, among many other species.
Much of north Austria belongs to the Western European broadleaf forests (PA0445) ecoregion. This region is defined by its hilly lands and beech forests. Various animals including wild boar, deer, wolf, and many types of birds live in this habitat.
Pannonian mixed forests (PA0431) make up the easternmost area of Austria. This region is the depression surrounded by the Carpathian, Alps, and Dinaric Mountain ranges. It is made of mostly oak forests. Wolves, european rabbits, the endangered European mink, and various reptiles occupy this region.
Freshwater
Austria has two freshwater ecoregions. Much of Austria's freshwater has its origins from the Alps.
Almost all of Austria lies within the Upper Danube (417) freshwater ecoregion, which is made of various rivers flowing through valleys and many lakes. The Danube, and hence water from this area drains to the Black Sea. Within this ecoregion in Austria, there are many alpine and subalpine lake, including Lake Attersee and Lake Traunsee. Many salmonid fish along with some pikes, sanders, aps, tenchs, and catfish are native to this region. Carps have been introduced by humans.
The far west of its panhandle b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20J.%20Stokes | Harvey J. Stokes (born 1957) is an American composer and oboist. As of 2020, he is Professor of Music at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he founded and directs a Computer Music Laboratory. Stokes earned his PhD from Michigan State University, where he studied with Jere Hutcheson and Charles Ruggerio, his MM from the University of Georgia, and his BM from East Carolina University. His previous teaching appointments include Miami University, Christopher Newport University, and the College of William and Mary.
Stokes is a highly-prolific composer, whose output includes 11 piano sonatas, 8 string quartets, at least 4 symphonies, and many other works for ensembles large and small. His style could be described as neoclassical, with tonal centers and a focus on polyphony.
His work has been programmed by numerous prominent organizations, including the Richmond Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Virginia Beach Symphony, the Oxford String Quartet, and the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble.
A respected educator, Stokes received the 2017-18 Edward L. Hamm Sr. Distinguished Teaching Award at Hampton University, and has been a consultant for The College Board, the Educational Testing Service, and the Educational Policy Improvement Center for the Advanced Placement (AP) in Music program.
Stokes has also written two books, A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Italian Serial Composers (Lewiston, ME: E. Mellen Press, 1989) and Compositional Language in the Oratorio The Second Act: The Composer as Analyst (Lewiston, ME: E. Mellen Press, 1992).
References
External links
Dr. Stokes's faculty page at Hampton University
The composer's page on the website of the Southeastern Composers League
Harkie Music: Music of Harvey Stokes
Ars Nova Press: Harvey J. Stokes
1957 births
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
African-American classical composers
American classical composers
African-American male classical composers
American male classical composers
East Carolina University alumni
Hampton University faculty
Living people
Michigan State University alumni
University of Georgia alumni
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
20th-century African-American musicians
21st-century African-American musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Front%20%28video%20game%29 | East Front is a 1997 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft.
East Front was TalonSoft's most commercially successful game by early 1999, with sales near 90,000 units. It began the Campaign series, the successor to TalonSoft's Battleground franchise, and was followed by West Front, East Front II, Rising Sun and Divided Ground.
Gameplay
East Front is a turn-based computer wargame that simulates the Eastern Front of World War II.
Development
East Front was the first game developed on TalonSoft's Campaign game engine. It was announced in 1996 for a late-1997 release.
Reception
According to TalonSoft head Jim Rose, East Front was the company's biggest commercial success by early 1999. Its sales neared 90,000 units by that time. By February 2000, the overall Campaign series had achieved global sales above 250,000 copies.
William R. Trotter of PC Gamer US called East Front "a shaky start for TalonSoft's new line, but a must-have game for any Russian Front fan."
Legacy
The first game in the Campaign series, East Front was followed by West Front (1998), East Front II: The Russian Front (1999), Rising Sun (2000) and Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict 1948–1973 (2001).
References
External links
1997 video games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games set in the Soviet Union
Windows games
Windows-only games
World War II video games
Video games developed in the United States
TalonSoft games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KinderVentures | KinderVentures is a series of classroom software and multisensory programs developed in the 1990's by Optical Data Interactive (aka Optical Data School Media).
Kinderventures contains "four-module, multi-sensory, interdisciplinary kindergarten curriculum for Windows on Science, including videodisc adventures, manipulative kits, Wanderoo Boogie music collection, and three multi-media CD-ROM games using the characters."
Wanderoos
Wanderoos consists of two titles: The Wanderoos Go to Town (1994) and The Wanderoos Go Exploring (1994). The games were developed by Optical Data Interactive, for 3-8 year olds, and The Wanderoos CD-ROMs grew out of Kinderventures, a video-disk-based science program designed for kindergarten classes. The two titles were Optical Data's first ventures into the consumer market. The series was released onto Mixed Mode dual-format CD-rom for Windows and Macintosh computers.
The games see Pocket and Tails, two kangaroos, guide the user through Wanderooville to explore a doctor's office, a grocery store, a museum, a school and an auto shop. The games covered human biology, the senses, exercise, personal care, people, food and nutrition. Educational content includes matching games with numbers, shapes, colors, and picture puzzles. Players have to find 6 Wanderoos and the difficulty increases as they do. Meanwhile, the games contained over 100 full-motion Quicktime video clips and 350 digitized pictures. Go To Town includes four songs on the CD-ROM.
Kits
Windows on Science created an accompanying kit called Feed Me! Investigating the Need of Living Things, in English and Spanish. Amazing Me: How the Body Works and Maths and Science Are Around are other kit within KinderVentures.
Critical reception
Mac User gave both Wanderoo titles a score of 4 stars out of 5. Seattle Times deemed Go To Town "One of the nicest programs for the kindergarten", praised the animation voices, sound effects, and screen art as design with "the audience in mind". THE KIDS' COMPUTING CORNER questioned whether young players would engage with the educational content while on the seeking Wanderoos. PC Gamer lamented "Kids can't manipulate the [education] information [delivered by video], so most of the exploration and discovery is centered around the interface itself.
References
Classroom management software
Educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewdney%20%28surname%29 | Dewdney is an old English name, going back to pre 1500.
List of people with the surname
Alexander Dewdney (born 1941), Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher
Anna Dewdney (1965–2016), American author and illustrator of children's books
Christopher Dewdney (born 1951), Canadian poet
Edgar Dewdney (1835–1916), Canadian surveyor, engineer, politician, and provincial Lieutenant-Governor
Selwyn Dewdney (1909–1979), Canadian author, illustrator and artist, father of Alexander and Christopher
Tom Dewdney (born 1933), West Indian cricketer
Surnames
English-language surnames
Surnames of English origin
Surnames of British Isles origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAMCO%20Educational%20Software | GAMCO Educational Software was an American educational computer game developer located in Texas. From 1995 it a wholly owned subsidiary of Siboney Learning Group, a division of Siboney Corporation.
History
Siboney was founded as Siboney-Caribbean Petroleum in 1955 by Jerry Tegeler. After the 1960s, the company evolved into the industries of coal properties, plastics production and domestic oil exploration. In 1968, Siboney purchased Gamco Inc., a company that manufactured and sold educational products. In 1992, Siboney granted options to purchase 175,000 shares to employees of Gamco Industries. In 1995, Jerry's son Tim took control of the company and sold off all the operating divisions except Gamco, a small educational systems company in west Texas. Bodie Marx, then working for a French trade publisher, was brought in to take over software operations via Siboney Learning division. By this point, Gamco had released 17 titles, the most popular one being Touchdown Maths.
Touchdown Maths had been developed after "tests revealed that both girls and boys enjoy learning math in connection with the game of football." The series sees pairs of students compete in maths problems, the winner gaining yardage on the field. The series was released on Mac Color Classic, LC Series, Roman Numeral II series and Proforma 400 and 600 series. Touchdown Maths had recently been accused of being societally and technologically outdated; "too boy-oriented", and only running on Apple II / DOS systems. Marx paid a Ukrainian software developer $350,000 update the games to run on Windows and Macintosh computers; meanwhile he tasked Siboney software staff of 8 programmers to create more titles. They debuted in October 1997.
Of Gamco's total sales for the quarter ended March 31, 1997, approximately 94% was generated by proprietary software. In 1997, Siboney Learning Group launched Orchard: Teacher's Choice Software, which offered schools a curriculum-based solution with universal management by tracks student scores on all Siboney programs; this included Gamco products. Gamco dealers' sales grew 14.4% in 1998. Gamco had ann "on approval" policy where products shipped subject to customer approval were not billed for and could. be returned within 45 days. Gamco's R&D budget was $403,000, $440,000 and $412,000 in 1998, 1997 and 1996.
As of 2001, Siboney employed around 60 people at its Kirkwood headquarters, Hanley Industrial Court fulfillment center and other offices throughout the United States. In 2005, sales of GAMCO and Teacher Support Software decreased 33% compared to 2004. In 2009, Siboney signed a latter of intent to sell Siboney Learning Group to an affiliate of educational software company EdOptions.
Series
Maths
Math Concepts One... Two... Three!
Math Concepts in Motion
Math Concepts Step-by-Step
Skillbuilders
Paws and Pyramids
Word Problem Square Off Series
Touchdown Math Series
Number Facts Series
Money Challenge/Discover Time
Reading
Phonic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoops%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Hoops is a college basketball-themed 1986 video game published by Hoops for IBM PC compatible computers written by Jeff Sagarin and Wayne Winston, with additional coding done by Jeff Klopfenstein. Billy Packer, the CBS basketball analyst, also provided defensive rating statistics for the game. The publisher ("Hoops") was run by Sagarin and Winston, and the game was sold only by mail order.
Gameplay
Hoops is a game in which over 200 college basketball teams are playable in a text-only game, with strategy being changeable during the game by key-inputs. The teams featured in the game included historical teams starting from the 1950 CCNY basketball team to the 43 best rated college basketballs teams of 1986. The player selects teams to play against each other and players from each team that would be picked for the game, and then follow the game via a text-based play-by-play and scoreboard. In-game options include giving one team a home-court advantage or playing on a neutral court.
In later editions of the game, the number of teams is increased to 428, fatigue was added as a factor in game-play, and 3-point field goals had also been enabled.
Development
The game began as a table-top game played using cards and dice developed by Winston, but this version proved laborious and time-consuming to play. When Sagarin, a friend of Winston's who worked rating basketball teams for a number of newspapers, bought a computer in 1985, Sagarin suggested converting Winston's table-top game into a computer game. Winston then enlisted Klopfenstein to program the game, and Packer was brought in to provide defensive statistics.
Reception
Reception of the game was broadly positive. Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The game is full of flavor, full of teams and full of options that should delight even the most demanding fan of the cage sport. Hoops is steadfast in its perspective." Ed Burns, writing in Sports Illustrated in 1987, described the game as "extremely sophisticated yet marvelously easy to play", though he also criticised the fact that players did not get tired in the version he reviewed, and that the play-by-play notices were insufficiently tailored to individual players.
Writing in March 1990 for Strat-O-Matic's Strat-O-Matic Review magazine, Bart Ewing gave the game a negative review, stating that the game was boring, had too many fouls, and no way of keeping statistics from game to game, would be better with player cards, and that the player playing as coach has too little control over the game. A later May 1990 review in the same magazine written by Patrick E. Clark disagreed with this view, stating that Hoops was "a better game than I could ever imagined".
Legacy
Winston went on to become a Professor Emeritus of Decision and Information Systems at Indiana University, and Sagarin became a well-known sports statistician.
References
1986 video games
Basketball video games
DOS games
DOS-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201974%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1974 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1974
1974 in American cinema
1974-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Museum%20of%20America | The Computer Museum of America is located in Roswell, Georgia and opened in July 2019 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing. It is the largest technology museum on the East Coast with the opening of Phase I and when completed will be among the largest in the world.
The museum was founded by Lonnie Mimms, who originally operated an Apple pop up museum, and includes rare artifacts including a Cray-1, Apple I, Apple Lisa, a Pixar Image Computer, an Enigma, a Xerox Alto, a MITS Altair 8800 and more. The collection includes the contents of the former Bugbook Historical Computer Museum. While the museum shows many items, they are only a fraction of his 300,000 plus in the collection.
References
External links
Museums in Fulton County, Georgia
Computer museums in the United States
Museums established in 2019
History museums in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo%20data%20breach | Vastaamo was a Finnish private psychotherapy service provider founded in 2008. On 21 October 2020, Vastaamo announced that its patient database had been hacked. Private information obtained by the perpetrators was used in an attempt to extort Vastaamo and, later, its clients. The extorters demanded 40 bitcoins, roughly 450,000 euros, and threatened to publish the records if the ransom was not paid. To add pressure to their demands, the extorters published hundreds of patient records a day on a Tor message board.
After extortion of the company failed, the extorters sent emails to the clients whose data they had obtained, demanding that they pay ransoms in order to avoid publication of their sensitive personal data. These ransom demands were sent to roughly 30,000 victims. The company's security practices were found to be inadequate: the sensitive data was not encrypted and anonymized and the system root did not have a defined password. The patient records were first accessed by intruders in November 2018, while the security flaws continued to exist until March 2019.
In December 2021, the Finnish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Vastaamo 608,000 euros for violating the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This cyber-attack became the biggest criminal case in Finland history. It also turned into an international scandal and a cyber-attack unprecedented in its scope due to the tactic called double extortion applied by the cyber criminals.
On October 28, 2022, the National Bureau of Investigation named the suspect behind the breach as 25-year-old Aleksanteri Julius Kivimäki. Kivimäki was charged in absentia at Helsinki District Court for aggravated data breach, aggravated attempted extortion, aggravated distribution of information infringing private life, blackmail, breach of confidentiality and falsification of evidence. A warrant was filed with Europol and Interpol against Kivimäki, who has said he was in Dubai. In 2015, Kivimäki, then a member of Lizard Squad, was found guilty on over 50,000 counts of computer crime.
Julius Kivimäki, a suspect in the Vastaamo data breach, was arrested in France on 3 February 2023. He was extradited to Finland on 24 February.
Background
Vastaamo was a Helsinki-based private psychotherapy center founded in 2008 that provided private mental-health services to its patients. It was a firm with twenty-five therapy centers throughout the Nordic country of 5.5 million people. Vastaamo operated as a sub-contractor for Finland's public health system. Ville Tapio, ex-CEO of Vastaamo first heard from the hacker on 28 September 2020. He immediately notified various government authorities, including the police. On 21 October 2020, Vastaamo announced that its confidential treatment records of approximately 36,000 psychotherapy patients and 400 employees had been compromised. The psychotherapy center received a ransom demand for 450,000 euros in Bitcoin. The leaked patient database contained ps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistica%20Sinica | Statistica Sinica is an international journal publishing papers in all areas of statistics and data science, including theory, methods, and applications. First issued in 1991, this journal published semiannually in January and July from 1991 to 1995. From 1996 onward, it became quarterly in January, April, July, and October. It is co-sponsored by the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, and International Chinese Statistical Association.
Abstracting and indexing
Statistica Sinica has been indexed and abstracted in Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, maintained by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and Current Contents (CC) from 1998. It is the first journal in statistics that is included in SCI in Asia. In 2000, it has been indexed in Current Index to Statistics (CIS). The journal is also included in JSTOR database.
Awards
In 1997 to 2004, Statistica Sinica has been awarded "Excellent Academic Research Journal" for 8 consecutive years by National Science Council, R.O.C.
External links
Official Website
International Chinese Statistical Association
References
Statistics journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miren%20Guti%C3%A9rrez%20Almazor | Miren Gutiérrez Almazor (born in Pamplona in 1966) is a Spanish journalist, activist, scholar, and university lecturer. Her research focus has to do with data activism or how people and organizations use data infrastructure, in combination with other technologies, for social change, environmental conservation, and equality.
Biography
Graduated in Hispanic Philology, specialized in Linguistics, from the University of Navarra, Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Deusto. She began her career in 1990, in Hong Kong, as a correspondent for the EFE, leading a network of contributors covering Southeast Asia, the Korea peninsula, and the Pacific for the leading Spanish-speaking international news agency. At the end of 1996, she was appointed Editor of the Business section of the Panama newspaper La Prensa, where she wrote and coordinated numerous investigative stories into corruption and irregularities, some with significant environmental and legal consequences.
Due to these investigations and the attacks she suffered in her profession’s exercise, in 2000, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists included her in its report "Attacks against the press". Former Attorney General José Antonio Sossa filed a criminal complaint for libel against four Prensa journalists in 2000, including business editor Miren Gutierrez, and journalists Monica Palm and Rolando Rodriguez. The complaint cited a series of stories the paper published in 1999 reporting that a drug trafficker had donated to one of Sossa’s political campaigns. In 2004, Sossa also filed a complaint against Eisenmann, who had questioned his work as a public servant. Set in the investigation on the demise of celebrity money-launderer Marc Harris, she wrote a novel titled “La ciudad de las cigarras.”
In 1997, her report "From Uncle Sam to Uncle Chang", in collaboration with Gustavo Gorriti, won the Journalists Forum Award for Freedom of Expression and Information
In 2003, she was appointed Editorial Director of Inter Press Service (IPS), an international news agency specializing in the environment, human rights, civil society, and development, where she coordinated 420 collaborators in 330 locations around the world.
She has also written for El Mundo, El País, The Nation, Wall Street Journal Americas, UPI, Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), and Transparency International, among other organizations. She currently writes a column focused on data activism, the environment, and human rights for eldiario.es.
In 2010, she was elected executive director of Green Peace Spain, a position she holds until 2011. She then became the Editorial Director of Index on Censorship. And in 2012, she started working for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) of the United Kingdom to become a Research Associate working on big data projects focused on illegal fishing, including one on China’s distant water fishing fleet.
She is a lecturer in the Communication Studies and International Rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20personhood | Proof of personhood (PoP) is a means of resisting malicious attacks on peer to peer networks, particularly, attacks that utilize multiple fake identities, otherwise known as a Sybil attack. Decentralized online platforms are particularly vulnerable to such attacks by their very nature, as notionally democratic and responsive to large voting blocks. In PoP, each unique human participant obtains one equal unit of voting power, and any associated rewards.
The term is used in for cryptocurrency and blockchains as a parallel to proof of work, proof of stake, and other consensus mechanisms which attempt to distribute voting power and rewards to participants proportionately to an investment of resources.
Background
The problem of Sybil attacks using many virtual identities has been recognized for decades as a fundamental challenge for distributed systems that expect each human user to have only one account or identity. CAPTCHAs attempt to rate-limit automated Sybil attacks by using automated Turing tests to distinguish humans from machines creating accounts or requesting services. Even when successful in this goal, however, CAPTCHAs allow one human to obtain multiple accounts or shares of a resource simply by solving multiple CAPTCHAs in succession, and thus do not satisfy the one-per-person goal in proof of personhood. Aside from CAPTCHAs allowing people to obtain multiple users, there are additional complications. Many users who are visually impaired or have learning disabilities may struggle to complete the puzzles. Additionally, some recently developed AI has succeeded in solving the CAPTCHA issue.
Distributed systems could require users to authenticate using strong identities verified by a government or trusted third party, using an identity verification service or self-sovereign identity system for example, but strong identification requirements conflict with the privacy and anonymity, and increase barriers to entry. One approach proposed to create anonymous but one-per-person credentials for use in distributed systems is pseudonym parties, in which participants gather periodically at in-person events and leverage the fact that humans can physically be in only one place at a time.
In 2014, Vitalik Buterin proposed the problem of creating a "unique identity system" for cryptocurrencies, which would give each human user one and only one anti-Sybil participation token. In 2017, the term "proof of personhood" was proposed for an approach based on pseudonym parties.
Approaches
A variety of approaches to implementing proof of personhood have been proposed, some in experimental deployment.
In-person events
The approach originally proposed by Borge et al. was to use in-person pseudonym parties as a basis to create anonymous one-per-person tokens periodically without requiring any form of identity verification. The encointer project adapts this approach by asking participants to meet in small groups simultaneously at randomly-chosen places, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20L.%20Hayworth | Michelle L. Hayworth is a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. She is the current Director of Command, Control, Communications and Cyber Systems, for U.S. Transportation Command, at Scott AFB.
Dates of promotion
References
External links
Living people
United States Air Force generals
University of Nebraska alumni
Women in the United States Air Force
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Poon | Joyce Poon is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, where her research focuses on developing new optical devices for applications in neurotechnology. She is also an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin. She is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society), and has been serving as a Director-At-Large for the society since January 2021.
Early life and education
Poon was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Toronto. She obtained a B.A.Sc. in engineering from the University of Toronto in 2002 and an M.S. in Electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2007. She stayed at Caltech to carry out her PhD under the supervision of Professor Amnon Yariv. Her thesis studied ways to control slow light in optical waveguides and was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize. During her graduate studies, she founded Caltech's Student Chapter of Optica.
Research and career
In 2007, Poon moved back to the University of Toronto, where she is now Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her early research continued investigating waveguide resonators. While at Toronto, she built a research team focused on studying silicon-based integrated photonic technologies for applications in telecommunications. Her research group also focuses on neurotechnology, and investigate how integrated photonic devices can be used to develop new brain imaging techniques.
Poon became an honorary professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin in 2018. She is also principal investigator at the Neurotech Alliance and the Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA) at the University of Toronto.
Awards and honours
Poon was elected as a Fellow of Optica in 2018 "for outstanding contributions to the research and development of silicon-based integrated optics, including microresonators, electro-optic modulators and integrated hybrid photonics". She is a Director-At-Large at Optica.
She was awarded the University of Toronto's McCharles' Prize for Early Career Distinction in 2013, and named one of the world's Top 35 IT innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2012. Poon is a two-time recipient of the IBM Faculty Award (2010, 2011), and also received the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Award (2009) and a University Faculty Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (2008).
References
Living people
Women in optics
University of Toronto alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
21st-century women scientists
21st-century women engineers
Fellows of Optica (society)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Geoscience%20Database%20of%20Iran | The National Geoscience Database of Iran or in brief NGDIR is a scientific and research government agency in Iran which works in the field of Geology of Iran and centrally manages Geoscience data. This center was established in 1999 in the field of data collection authority with the aim of managing, preserving and sharing Geoscience data.
History
The core of the National Geoscience Database of Iran (NGDIR) was established in 1999 at the Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration of Iran and its main activities until 2000 is limited to collecting mineral information in the library of the organization and creating the first mineral database and collection and unification of map information in the Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration of Iran. In the same year, the creating of Geoscience Database task was assigned to the Ministry of Industries and Mines (Iran). Since then, the National Geoscience Database of Iran's structure became more independent and thematic development of its databases in the fields of Geology, Geography, Mining, Risk, etc. was put on its agenda. As the amount of information increased, the only way to provide the proper provision of information was to create a fully dynamic website. As a result, the site was designed so that it is possible to enter, edit and even manage information on the site without specifying the time and place on the Internet. In 2015, according to paragraph b, Article 157 of the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on launching a comprehensive database of geosciences and simultaneously increasing the activity of the Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration of Iran in interdisciplinary sciences and expanding its activities, objectives and procedures of the National Geoscience Database of Iran (NGDIR) were reviewed.
Organization chart
National Geoscience Database of Iran (NGDIR)
Recognition and standardization of geoscience data
Database Center
Geoscience information presentation system
Administrative structure
The National Geoscience Database of Iran (NGDIR) consists of the following administrative sections:
Information presentation system
Data cognition and standardization
Database Center
Information Technology Affairs
Administration and services
Geosciences Library
Management Affairs
Strategic goals
The National Geoscience Database of Iran (NGDIR) pursues the following strategic goals:
Focus on database maintenance cycles on making the most of available resources
Maintenance of data and supply of geoscience of the country
Prepare standards for data, products and processes in various fields of geoscience
Validation and evaluation of data and products of geoscience
Presenting data and products of geoscience from different portals and in line with modern technology in accordance with the needs of their stakeholders
Research, compilation and dissemination of analytical and decision-making data models from geoscience data
Implementing service orient |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPARES%20Project | The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES Project) is a "major international research initiative in which archival scholars, computer engineering scholars, national archival institutions and private industry representatives are collaborating to develop the theoretical and methodological knowledge required for the permanent preservation of authentic records created in electronic systems." As a global consortia that works to develop preservation strategies, the project focuses on "developing the knowledge essential to the long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form and providing the basis for standards, policies, strategies and plans of action capable of ensuring the longevity of such material and the ability of its users to trust its authenticity."
The InterPARES Project was initiated in 1999 by Professor Luciana Duranti at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (since 2020, School of Information), at The University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Employing an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, the project has relied on the principles of “interdisciplinarity, transferability, open inquiry, and multimethod design” and has utilized a variety of methodologies, including case studies, surveys, prototyping, diplomatic and archival analysis, text analysis, statistical analysis, digital forensics, and visual analysis.
The Project developed in four phases, each focusing on key issues regarding the authenticity, reliability, and accuracy of records. Phase 1 (1999-2001) centered on the long-term preservation of records created and maintained in databases and document management systems. Phase 2 (2002-2007) focused on records produced in dynamic and interactive systems in the course of scientific, artistic, and governmental activities. Phase 3 (2007-2012) concentrated on the application of findings from the first two phases in small to medium-sized archival institutions. Phase 4 (2013-2018) focused on digital records entrusted to the Internet.
Major funding contributions to the InterPARES Project have been provided by Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the American National Historical Publications and Records Commission (HPRC), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States, UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program, and the Italian National Research Council. In fact, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become one of the principal supports of the InterPARES Project. Universities and archival institutions from around the world have participated in the project, including institutions in Canada, the United States, Italy, Croatia, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Ireland, Australia, Malaysia, and China. Individual researchers from other countries, such as Russia, Chile, and Per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%3A%20The%20Great%20War%20in%20the%20East%201941%E2%80%931945 | Russia: The Great War in the East 1941–1945 is a 1987 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Studies Group.
Gameplay
Russia: The Great War in the East 1941–1945 is a game in which the Eastern Front of World War II is simulated.
Reception
Advising casual players to avoid it, Computer Gaming World described Russia as "a perfect gift for the frustrated strategy gamer who needs a fresh design concept and challenging computer opponent". The magazine's M. Evan Brooks stated that "In conclusion, Russia is the most playable simulation of the Eastern Front on the market. Innovative and interesting, any problems it has are obviated by its successes".
Reviews
Zzap! - Dec, 1987
Computer Gaming World - Dec, 1991
Commodore User Nov 1987
Jeux & Stratégie #47
See also
War in Russia
References
External links
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
1987 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Strategic Studies Group games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in Australia
Video games set in the Soviet Union
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip-Boy | The Pip-Boy is a fictional wearable computer in the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game franchise. Manufactured in-universe by RobCo Industries prior to the devastating nuclear Great War, it is capable of numerous functions depending on the model. In the Fallout games, it functions as a diegetic way for the player to access the menu and manage their inventory.
The Pip-Boy has been called one of the most iconic tools of Fallout and video games as a whole, and praised for its design, as well as compared with real-world wearable computers. Many working replicas of the Pip-Boy have been built by fans of the series, and Bethesda, developers of Fallout 3, 4 and 76, has released a Pip-Boy replica alongside editions of Fallout 4 that can be used alongside a phone app, in limited quantities. And a D.I.Y. Pip-Boy replica as a package sold separately from Fallout 76.
Characteristics
In the Interplay Fallout titles, the Pip-Boy serves as a menu screen. For the Bethesda games, it appears attached to the player character's arm and is looked at from a first-person perspective. The newer Pip-Boy contains a map, quest tracker, a radio, and a light.
Development
Leonard Boyarsky, one of the lead designers of Fallout at Interplay, stated that he designed the Pip-Boy more towards his personal preference for "old, clunky technology" than any trend towards retrofuturism. The design was meant to seem like it "wasn’t all that dependable" and "kind of hacked together" to show that "the world wasn’t quite working". The user interface was meant to feel like an in-universe object, which was rare at the time. Anthony Postma, another Interplay designer, created the device’s layout.
When Bethesda Softworks acquired the franchise, they increased its retrofuturistic themes. The redesigned Pip-Boy 3000 reflected the Streamline Moderne aesthetic, and looked sleeker and more polished, while still being relatively bulky. The new Pip-Boy also lacked the drawn mascot and exposed vacuum tubes of the original, in order to make it fit on the player's arm. These elements, however, make a return with Fallout 76's Pip-Boy 2000 Mark VI.
Reception
The Pip-Boy is a defining symbol of the Fallout series. Khee Hoon Chan of USgamer called the Pip-Boy "one of the most iconic tools in video game history", also stating that "the gadget’s transformation is [...] emblematic of the series’ divergence."
Much of the notoriety of the Pip-Boy has stemmed from its design, which has reflected the rise of later real-world wearable technology, and has also directly inspired the creation of functioning devices, both by fans and engineers. In 2010, Sean Hollister of Engadget compared the General Dynamics Itronix GD300 wrist-mounted GPS unit with the design of the Pip-Boy, saying, "no word on whether it will pick up post-apocalyptic radio stations as your mission unfolds". Similarly, the prototype wrist-mounted OLED screens developed by L-3 Display Systems for use in the United States Army were compared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Danforth | Chris Danforth is a computer scientist and a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Vermont. He is known for his work with the Hedonometer, a tool developed for measuring collective mood with sentiment analysis.
Danforth directs the Computational Story Lab at Vermont Complex Systems Center. His research job is focused on exploring human behavior through social media data.
In 2007, Danforth collaborated with Peter Sheridan Dodds to develop a tool to measure happiness that they called a "hedonometer." For creating it, a team directed by Danforth surveyed speakers of several languages to rate words on a scale of happiest to saddest.
In collaboration with social psychologist Andrew Reece, Danforth found that depressed people post photos on Instagram whose colors are cooler and darker than those of non-depressed people. In 2020, he found evidence that analyzing social media techniques might identify viral outbreaks.
References
University of Vermont faculty
Living people
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Bates College alumni
Complex systems scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
Graph drawing people
Information visualization experts
Network scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami%20Nashashibi | Rami Nashashibi is a Palestinian-American activist, community organizer, sociologist, and Islamic studies scholar. He founded the nonprofit organization Inner-City Muslim Action Network in 1997, working as its executive director for many years, and has been involved in a number of efforts to improve the welfare of residents of the South Side of Chicago. He has also worked as a sociologist and religious studies scholar at universities, and as a musician. Nashashibi was a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
Early life and education
Nashashibi attended Saint Xavier University for the first year of his university education, where he held a soccer scholarship. After his freshman year he transferred to DePaul University, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1995. Nashashibi then attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, obtaining an A.M. degree in 1998. While working as an activist, Nashashibi continued to study sociology at the University of Chicago, and he completed a PhD in 2011. His scholarship and his activism both involved identifying or building connections between African American and Muslim immigrant communities.
Career
In 1997, while still a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Nashashibi founded the nonprofit Inner-City Muslim Action Network, which aims to address systemic injustices affecting communities of color living on the South Side of Chicago. He continued to work as the executive director of the organization for many years after it was incorporated in 1997. The MacArthur Foundation described Nashashibi's work with the organization as involving organizing a coalition of African American Muslims and Muslim immigrants to advance social justice for residents of the South Side who are vulnerable to such problems as housing foreclosure, unemployment, and violence. The nonprofit also lobbies for socially progressive policies, and converts vacant properties into housing for lower-income residents. Though the Inner-City Muslim Action Network is informed by Muslim social ethics, a major emphasis of the organization has been to build coalitions both within and outside of the Muslim community in Chicago, reflecting the diversity of the Marquette Park neighborhood in which it is based.
Nashashibi's activism on the South Side of Chicago has also included drives to make healthy food available in areas where stores do not typically carry affordable healthy groceries, both through the Inter-City Muslim Action Network and through the Muslim Run Corner Store Campaign. The Inter-City Muslim Action Network also hosts cultural events, such as the Takin' It To The Streets festival in Marquette Park, and has opened a second chapter in Atlanta.
In addition to his activism, Nashashibi has worked as an academic, teaching subjects related to sociology and Islamic studies at universities and colleges. This includes working as a visiting professor at the Chicago Theological Seminary in the Sociology of Religion and Muslim Studies.
In 2016, Nash |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Bushnell | Linda Grace Bushnell is an American expert on networked control systems who works as a research professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington and as a program director for the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) programs at the National Science Foundation.
Education and career
Bushnell majored in electrical engineering at the University of Connecticut, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1987. After earning a second master's degree in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley in 1994. Her dissertation, Motion Planning for Wheeled Nonholonomic Systems, was supervised by Shankar Sastry. She also has an MBA, earned in 2010 through the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a program manager in the Army Research Office of the United States Army Research Laboratory from 1994 to 2000, while also holding an adjunct associate professor position at Duke University. She moved to the University of Washington in 2000.
Recognition
Bushnell is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, elected in 2020 "for contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Control theorists
University of Connecticut alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Washington alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Guthrie%20Ferguson | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law.
He specializes in predictive policing, big data surveillance, and juries.
Ferguson is also a Technology Fellow at the New York University School of Law's Policing Project.
Education and career
Ferguson received his BA from Williams College in 1994 and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.
Ferguson clerked for Carolyn Dineen King who is currently the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Ferguson was a supervising attorney for seven years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Books
Ferguson's book The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement looks at the role of surveillance technology and predictive analytics in modern policing.
His first book Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action is meant for jurors on jury duty.
References
External links
Living people
American legal scholars
Williams College alumni
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201975%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films, which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1975, per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1975
1975 in American cinema
1975-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201976%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1976 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
Chronology
1976
1976 in American cinema
1976-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAST%20Data | VAST Data is a technology company that focuses on data storage, specifically flash memory. Founded in 2016, VAST has offices in the United States, UK, France, Germany, Australia. VAST Data was founded with the aim of replacing multiple storage tiers with one solid state platform.
VAST Data is being used by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as by Ginkgo Bioworks for genomic studies.
History
VAST was founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, a former engineer of R&D at XtremIO, Shachar Fienblit, formerly at Kaminario and Jeff Denworth, formerly at CTERA Networks. Mike Wing of Dell is a part of the leadership team at VAST Data.
VAST Data's launch was supported by Dell and Goldman Sachs.
As of April 2020, the company had 145 employees, most of which were remote workers.
In April 2021, VAST moved to a software licensing model called Gemini that enables customers to separate the hardware purchasing cycle from the software licensing cost.
Technology
VAST Data uses Intel's Optane (or 3D Xpoint-based) NVMe SSDs. 3D XPoint non-volatile memory is integrated into VAST Data's architecture, as hardware mechanism to handle computational storage software tasks such as erasure coding, large stripe write shaping, and other software mechanics, so that lower cost, high density NAND Flash-based SSDs can be effectively used behind the 3D XPoint high performance SSDs.
VAST Data's technology allows for collapsing multiple storage tiers into one that has decoupled compute nodes, which are accessed using NVMe-oF. After data reduction occurs, around 2PB of space is available. The single VAST Data tier uses wide data stripes, with the purpose of global erasure coding. NVMe-linked Databoxes contain flash drives for data and Optane XPoint for metadata. VAST storage enclosures are connected to servers through NVMe-oF, using either 100Gbit/s Ethernet or Infiniband.
VAST Data, with regard to universal storage, uses Flash-QLC and 100 percent persistent global namespace. It supports artificial intelligence applications along with more classical applications such as Web Content or Search.
Its Year 2020 storage architecture release, known as LightSpeed, combines three core elements to deliver parallel and higher scalable performance for AI and HPC. These elements are:
RDMA for NFS version 3.
nconnect to create multiple network paths to a single NFS mount.
NVidia GPUDirect available for NVIDIA GPU
References
External links
VAST Data
Technology companies of the United States
Technology companies of Israel
Computer storage companies
Companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl%20Scientific%20Computing | Owl Scientific Computing is a software system for scientific and engineering computing developed in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.
The System Research Group (SRG) in the department recognises Owl as one of the representative systems developed in SRG in the 2010s.
The source code is licensed under the MIT License and can be accessed from the GitHub repository.
The library is mostly designed and developed in the functional programming language OCaml. As a unique functional programming language, OCaml offers runtime efficiency, flexible module system, static type checking, intelligent garbage collector, and powerful type inference. Owl inherits these features directly from OCaml. With Owl, users can write succinct type-safe numerical applications in a concise functional language without sacrificing performance. It speeds up the development life-cycle, and reduces the cost from prototype to production use. The system serves as the de facto tool for computation intensive tasks in OCaml.
History
Owl was developed when Dr. Liang Wang was working as a Post-Doc in the OCaml Labs.
Owl originated from a research project which studied the design of synchronous parallel machines for large-scale distributed computing in July 2016.
Back then the libraries for numerical computing in OCaml ecosystem were very limited and the tooling was fragmented at that time. In order to test various analytical applications, many numerical functions had to be implemented, from very low level algebra and random number generators to the high level stuff like algorithmic differentiation and deep neural networks. These code snippets started accumulating. These functions were later taken out and wrapped into a standalone library named Owl.
Owl's architecture undertook at least a dozen of iterations in the beginning, and some of the architectural changes are quite drastic. After one-year intensive development, Owl was capable of doing many complicated numerical tasks (e.g. image classification). Dr. Liang Wang held a tutorial at the CUFP 2017 to demonstrate data science in OCaml.
In 2018, Prof. Richard Mortier gave a talk about Owl in the Alan Turing Institute.
To further promote OCaml and functional programming in data science, Owl provides abundant learning materials in the form of a details manual.
Design and Features
Owl has implemented many advanced numerical functions atop of its implementation of n-dimensional arrays. Compared to other numerical libraries, Owl is unique in many perspectives, e.g. algorithmic differentiation and distributed computing have been included as integral components in the core system to maximise developers' productivity. The figure below gives a bird view of Owl's system architecture. The subsystem on the left part is Owl's Numerical system. The modules contained in this subsystem fall into three categories.
The first is core modules contains basic data structures, i.e., N-dimensional array (Ndar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201977%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1977 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Number-one films
See also
List of American films — American films by year
Lists of box office number-one films
References
External links
Domestic Box Office Weekends For 1977 (Box Office Mojo)
Theatrical Weekly Box Office Chart Calendar for 1977 (The Numbers)
Chronology
1977
1977 in American cinema
1977-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuda/Hitachi%20HT-3 | The Fukuda/Hitachi HT-3 glider was a detailed 3/5 scale model of a proposed airliner, the Hitachi HT-3. Aerodynamic data gathered under tow was expected to be more reliable than that from wind tunnel testing.
Design and development
Until the development of high pressure wind tunnels the aerodynamics of models and full scale structures could differ markedly because of the much higher Reynolds number of the latter. To avoid possible problems the Aviation Bureau, who were sponsoring Hitachi's eight seat civil airliner, asked Fukuda to build a towed, 3/5 scale glider to investigate the design's aerodynamics. The modelling was detailed, including the glazing of the cockpit, the twin inline engine nacelles and the retracted landing gear.
The glider had a wooden structure, covered with plywood and fabric. It was flown from within the enclosed model cockpit, though by only one pilot rather than the two who would have piloted the full sale airliner. After measurements had been made the glider was released from the tow and landed normally.
Its first flight was made on 17 December 1940, piloted by Isamu Oda who was a well known glider pilot. It is not known how many more flights were made before the HT-3, still at the mock-up stage, was abandoned as Japanese aircraft development refocused on military aviation.
Specifications
References
External links
Glider aircraft
Japanese experimental aircraft
1940s Japanese civil aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20package | R packages are extensions to the R statistical programming language. R packages contain code, data, and documentation in a standardised collection format that can be installed by users of R, typically via a centralised software repository such as CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network). The large number of packages available for R, and the ease of installing and using them, has been cited as a major factor driving the widespread adoption of the language in data science.
Compared to libraries in other programming language, R packages must conform to a relatively strict specification. The Writing R Extensions manual specifies a standard directory structure for R source code, data, documentation, and package metadata, which enables them to be installed and loaded using R's in-built package management tools. Packages distributed on CRAN must meet additional standards. According to John Chambers, whilst these requirements "impose considerable demands" on package developers, they improve the usability and long-term stability of packages for end users.
Repositories
Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)
The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is R's central software repository, supported by the R Foundation. It contains an archive of the latest and previous versions of the R distribution, documentation, and contributed R packages. It includes both source packages and pre-compiled binaries for Windows and macOS. , more than 16,000 packages are available. CRAN was created by Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch in 1997, with the name paralleling other early packing systems such as TeX's CTAN (released 1992) and Perl's CPAN (released 1995). , it is still maintained by Hornik and a team of volunteers. The master site is located at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is mirrored on servers around the world.
The "Task Views" page (subject list) on the CRAN website lists a wide range of tasks (in fields such as finance, genetics, high performance computing, machine learning, medical imaging, meta-analysis, social sciences and spatial statistics) for which R packages are available. Another way to browse CRAN packages is provided by Metacran, which also maintains lists of featured, most downloaded, trending or most depended upon packages.
The number of CRAN packages has grown exponentially for many years, and an average of 21 submissions of new or updated packages were made every day. Since each submission is manually reviewed by a small team of CRAN maintainers, many of whom, according to R core developer Peter Dalgaard, are "approaching pensionable age", there is a concern that this system is not sustainable in the long term. The growth of CRAN has exposed limitations of its dependency management infrastructure, particularly the fact that it assumes that dependencies always refer to the latest version of a package, meaning that new releases of CRAN packages must always be backwards compatible, and that CRAN packages cannot have depende |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20ITV%20News | This is a timeline of the history of ITV News on the British television network ITV.
1950s
1955
January – A consortium of the initial four Independent Television broadcasting companies launch ITN which will provide ITV with its news service.
22 September – The first news bulletin is broadcast at 10pm on ITV's launch night.
1956
6 January – The first edition of current affairs programme This Week is broadcast.
17 February – ITV begins broadcasting in the Midlands.
3 May – ITV starts broadcasting across the north of England.
1957
31 August – ITV starts broadcasting in central Scotland.
1958
14 January – ITV begins broadcasting in South Wales and the West of England.
30 August – ITV begins broadcasting across southern England.
1959
15 January – ITV commences transmissions across north east England.
8 October – ITV broadcasts its first election results programme to provide ITV with live coverage of the results of the 1959 United Kingdom general election.
27 October – ITV starts broadcasting across to east England.
31 October – ITV launches in Northern Ireland.
1960s
1960
31 January – ITV begins broadcasting to south east England. following the Independent Television Authority granting Southern the right to broadcast to South East England.
1961
29 April – ITV starts broadcasting to south west England.
1 September – ITV begins broadcasting to the Scottish Borders.
30 September – ITV begins broadcasting across northern Scotland.
1962
1 September – ITV begins broadcasting to the Channel Islands.
14 September – The final part of the UK gets an ITV service when Wales (West and North) Television launches in West and North Wales.
1963
7 January – The first edition of World in Action is broadcast.
1964
No events.
1965
26 March – ITV begins broadcasting to the Isle of Man.
1966
No events.
1967
3 July – News at Ten is launched as a 13-week trial of a nightly 30 minute bulletin. The programme is an immediate success with the audience and is soon made permanent.
1968
No events.
1969
No events.
1970s
1970
No events.
1971
No events.
1972
1 October – The UK's first Sunday politics programme Weekend World is broadcast on ITV.
16 October – Following a law change which removed all restrictions on broadcasting hours, ITV is able to launch an afternoon service. As part of the new service ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown.
1973
No events.
1974
7 September – First Report is moved to a 1pm start time.
1975
No events.
1976
6 September – News at One replaces First Report and the teatime news bulletin programme is extended by five minutes and renamed News at 5.45.
1977
No events.
1978
ITV's teletext service ORACLE launches with ITN providing the news pages.
1979
No events.
1980s
1980
No events.
1981
No events.
1982
ITV provides extensive coverage of the Falklands War with newsflashes supplemented by additional and extended news bulletins.
1983
1 Feb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Dalgaard | Peter Dalgaard (born 1959) is a Danish statistician and one of the core developers of the R statistical programming language. He is a professor at Copenhagen Business School and was previously a professor of biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen, where he obtained his MSc in 1985 and PhD in 1991.
Selected publications
References
External links
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
1959 births
Danish statisticians
R (programming language) people
University of Copenhagen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Academic staff of Copenhagen Business School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20forest%20area%20%28percentage%29 | This article is a list of countries by forest area (percentage). Types of places listed include the entire planet, continents, regions, countries, provinces, states, and territories. Percentage data was calculated using information from the CIA's World Factbook 2011.
Planet, continents and regions
Countries
https://www.ccfm.org/healthy-forests/vast-and-abundant-forests/
Provinces, states and territories
See also
Deforestation by region
European countries by forest area
Forest cover by state and territory in the United States
Forest cover by state in India
Forest cover by federal subject in Russia
Forest cover by province or territory in Canada
Forest cover by state or territory in Australia
References
External links
Official environment statistics by country - Detailed country level environment statistics by unstats.un.org
Turkey General Directorate of Forestry - Official Web Site of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Environment and Forestry General Directorate of Forestry
Countries With Largest Forest Area by FRA2010 -The FRA 2010 Country Reports have been compiled by officially nominated country correspondents in collaboration with FAO staff.
Forest area
Geography-related lists
List of countries
Forestry-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki%20Lee | Suki Lee is an American video game designer and computer programmer. She was one of the few female developers at Atari, Inc. in the early 1980s where she wrote the educational game Math Gran Prix for the Atari 2600 (1982) and Obelix (1983) for the same system. Afterward she worked as a project manager at Apple Computer.
Education
Lee received her bachelor's degree at San Jose State University with a major in general engineering.
Career
Lee was hired by Atari after college in August 1981. She was there until 1984, when she started working for Cadtrak Corporation developing software user interfaces for petroleum plant layout. She also worked for Apple from 1986 to 1997, then later went to work at Palm, eCircle and WebTV until 1997. In late 2002, she resigned and continued working at Apple.
Games
Math Gran Prix (Atari 2600, 1982)
Obelix (1984)
Unreleased
Donald Duck's Speedboat (1982)
Miss Piggy's Wedding (1983)
Cultural impact
The artwork “Suki Lee: The Hidden Past” by Linda Lai, Yifan Lin and Amanda Zhu was inspired by the game Donald Duck's Speedboat.
References
External links
Suki Lee at AtariWomen
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American video game designers
American video game programmers
Women video game designers
Women video game programmers
Atari people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20Autheman | Jean-Pierre Autheman (17 December 1946 – 26 October 2020) was a French comic book author and teacher in art, computer graphics school. He was also occasionally a novelist, illustrator, and cartoonist.
Biography
After studying arts and letters, Autheman moved from Arles to Paris to try his luck as a designer. He made his debut in 1972 with the self-published comic strip Mémoires d'un Gardien de Phare. His friend, Georges Wolinski, who worked for Hara-Kiri, helped him publish comics in Charlie Mensuel, L'Écho des savanes, and Pilote. At the end of the 1970s, he became involved in the Rencontres d'Arles.
In 1979, Autheman created the characters Condor and Vic Valence, whose first title, Une nuit chez Tennessee won Best Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1987. He then began writing comics with more scarcity, with his last written comic coming in 2006, titled Zambada and illustrated by Éric Maltaite. He then became a professor of narrative image and screenplay design at the École des Nouvelles Images (formerly Supinfocom) in Avignon.
Jean-Pierre Autheman died in Arles on 26 October 2020, at the age of 73. According to Guy Vidal, Autheman was a "great screenwriter". Pierre Desproges complimented his warm character.
Publications
Newspaper Comic Strips
Escale à Nacaro in Charlie Mensuel (1978–1979)
Les Déserteurs (1981–1983)
Condor in Pilote
L'Otage (1982-1983)
Alerte en Afrique (1984)
L'Empire du Pacifique (1986–1987)
Le Testament de Marius Casanova (1989)
Vic Valence in Circus
Une nuit chez Tennessee (1985–1986)
La Passagère silencieuse (1987)
Le Voyage du bâteleur : La Dame de Dorfgrau (1987)
Comic Strip Albums
Mémoires d'un gardien de phare (1974)
Les Déserteurs (1983)
Condor
Escale à Nacaro (1979)
L'Otage (1984)
Alerte en Afrique (1985)
L'Empire du Pacifique (1987)
Le Testament de Marius Casanova (1990)
Opérette marseillaise (1993)
Le Rendez-vous de Yu-Moon (1998)
Les Sirènes de Balarin (1984)
Ma zone (1984)
Vic Valence
Une nuit chez Tennessee (1986)
La Passagère silencieuse (1987)
La Lune des fous (1989)
Le Voyage du bâteleur t. 1 : La Dame de Dorfgrau (1987)
Le Filet de Saint-Pierre (1992)
L'Arlésien (1992)
Place des hommes (1993)
Qu'est-ce qu'elles ont les filles? (1993)
Le Pet du Diable (1994)
Dérangez-pas mémé (1995)
La Passe du manchot (1996)
Exotissimo (1997)
Les Nanas (1998)
L'ombre de Moi-Même (1999)
Le Passage de Vénus (1999–2000)
Zambada
Les Vagues de la mer (2001)
La Maison de l'ange (2002)
Menace sur Zambada (2003)
Double jeu (2006)
Le Trésor d'Alazar (2001)
Co-Authorship
Fripons (Collectif Humanos) (1992)
Demain l'an 3000 (1999)
En images et en bandes dessinées (2001)
Novels
L'Homme du général (1990)
Recipe Book
Cinquante Omelettes (2001)
Awards
Best Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for Une nuit chez Tennessee (1987)
Prix Jacques-Lob (1994)
Biography
1946 births
2020 deaths
French comics writers
20th-century French novelists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Marie%20Watkins%20Garraway | Annie Marie Watkins Garraway (born 1940) is an American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission. She is also a philanthropist.
Biography
Garraway was born Annie Marie Watkins in Parsons, Kansas, the oldest daughter of Levi Watkins (1911–1994) and Lillian Bernice Varnado (1917–2013) who met when they were both high school teachers.
Annie Marie attended Booker T. Washington High School and then enrolled in S. A. Owen Junior College, which her father had founded and served as the first president. As a freshman in 1957, she intended to major in engineering, but a math teacher at Owen, Juanita R. Turner, suggested that Annie Marie consider a different course of study. As Garraway recalled later, Turner taught math full-time at Manassas High School while also teaching college algebra at the junior college.In 1959, her family moved to Montgomery, Alabama where her father was an administrator and then the sixth president of Alabama State College, a historically black college, from 1962 to 1983. That college is known today as Alabama State University (ASU).
Garraway continued her studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she earned a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics. In 1967, she completed a Ph.D. in math from University of California at Berkeley with her dissertation titled Structure of some cocycles in analysis.
She had a successful career at AT&T Labs and its spinoff company, Lucent Technologies. According to one of her brothers, "Her pioneering mathematical algorithms and inventions for Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies paved the way for the modern era of telecommunications and the electronic transmission of data around the world."
She married Michael Oliver Garraway in 1965. In 2004, she married Ira W. Deep, Jr., professor emeritus at The Ohio State University and the first chair of the university's Department of Plant Pathology. Her three children together have earned three doctorates and two medical degrees.
Philanthropy
Vanderbilt University
Garraway's 2017 gift to Vanderbilt, was made in honor of her brother Levi Watkins Jr. who died in 2015, for "his transformative leadership and service, his historical medical inquiry and the tremendous imprint he left on students and faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM). He was the first African-American to graduate from the university's school of medicine as a member of the Class of 1970. According to the school, "When Watkins walked through the doors of VUSM in 1966, he broke new ground by becoming the school's first African-American student. When he graduated four years later after being elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society, he was still the only one."
Johns Hopkins University
In 2019, Garraway created a scholarship at Johns Hopkins, also in memory of her brother, Levi Watkins Jr. who was the first African American to become the university's chief resident in cardiac surgery. In 1979, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cowboy%20Way%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Cowboy Way is an INSP original reality series, filmed in Alabama. It originally aired on the INSP TV network in the US. After its linear run, it was available for streaming on Amazon Prime from July 16, 2016. In November 2019, Roku made the first five seasons available on its streaming platform.
In July 2020, it was renewed for a seventh season, and would contain 12 episodes.
Plot
The reality series follows three modern-day cowboys, Bubba, Cody and Booger in Alabama. The series follows the three building their cattle business, herding cattle and breaking horses. It follows the strict codes of practice, passed down from the days of the Old West.
Main cast
Bubba Thompson as himself
Cody Harris as himself
Booger Brown as himself
Episodes
Season 1 (2016-2017)
Season 2 (2018)
Season 3 (2018)
Season 4 (2018)
Season 5 (2019)
Season 6 (2020)
Season 7 (2020)
References
Amazon Prime Video original programming
2017 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2020s American reality television series
2020 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20regional%20news%20on%20ITV | This is a timeline of the history of regional news on the British television network ITV.
1950s
1955
22 September – The first news bulletin is broadcast at 10pm on ITV’s launch night.
1956
17 February – ITV begins broadcasting in the Midlands - ATV Midlands launches ITV in the Midlands and the following day the Midlands’ weekend contractor ABC Weekend TV broadcasts for the first time.
3 May – Granada Television launches ITV across the north of England.
7 May – The first broadcast of ATV Midlands News takes place. It is a short daily summary of regional news with stories often sourced directly from the Birmingham Evening Dispatch, a local newspaper. Film footage is later added with footage shot by Birmingham Commercial Films. It wasn’t until 1959 that ATV set up its own film unit for its regional news service.
1957
31 August – ITV starts broadcasting in central Scotland – Scottish Television (STV) is the franchise holder.
1958
14 January – Television Wales and the West (TWW) starts broadcasting to South Wales and the West of England.
30 August – Southern Television launches.
1959
15 January – Tyne Tees Television launches.
8 October – ITV broadcasts its first election results programme to provide ITV with live coverage of the results of the 1959 United Kingdom general election.
27 October – Anglia Television launches, bringing ITV to east England.
31 October – ITV launches in Northern Ireland when Ulster Television starts broadcasting.
1960s
1960
31 January – Southern Television's broadcast area expands when it begins broadcasting to Kent and East Sussex following the Independent Television Authority granting Southern the right to broadcast to South East England.
2 June – About Anglia launches as a twice-weekly programme accompanying the 10-minute regional evening news bulletin on weekdays. Its success prompted it to be extended to four nights a week the following September and then, every weeknight.
1961
Southern opens studios in Dover and launches localised news opt-outs for the east of the region, becoming the first broadcaster in the UK provide such a service.
4 April – Southern launches a weeknight 30-minute regional news programme called Day By Day.
29 April – Westward Television launches, bring ITV to south west England.
1 September – Border Television launches and the opening day sees Border broadcast the first edition of its regional news magazine Lookaround.
30 September – Grampian Television launches.
1962
1 September – Channel Television launches.
14 September – The final part of the UK gets an ITV service when Wales (West and North) Television launches in West and North Wales as Teledu Cymru.
1963
No events.
1964
26 January – Wales (West and North) Television stops broadcasting after going bankrupt. It is replaced by TWW. However the Teledu Cymru on-air identity is retained.
30 March – Tyne Tees introduces a nightly regional news programme called North East Newsview. Previously, regional new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Networks | Global Networks: A journal of transnational affairs is a quarterly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal dedicated to the study of globalization and transnationalism. Its focus spans multiple disciplines within social science, including geography, anthropology, and political economy. It was established in 2001 and is published by Wiley. The founding editors-in-chief were Robin Cohen, Alasdair Rogers, and Steven Vertovec. The current editors-in-chief are Megha Amrith (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Zachary P. Neal (Michigan State University), and Johanna Waters (University College London). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.927, ranking it 14th out of 93 journals in the category "Anthropology" and 36th out of 85 journals in the category "Geography".
Editors-in-chief
Past editors-in-chief have been:
Robin Cohen (2001–2019)
Alasdair Rogers (2001–2019)
Steven Vertovec (2001–2019)
Jonathan Beaverstock (2019–2022)
Megha Amrith (2022–Present)
Zachary P. Neal (2022–Present)
Johanna Waters (2022–Present)
Special Issues
Global Networks regularly publishes special issues addressing a specific topic and organized by guest editors. Recent special issues have included:
Elites in Transnational Policy Networks. Guest edited by Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke (Volume 21, Issue 2, April 2021)
Multinational Migrations. Guest edited by Anju Mary Paul and Brenda S. A. Yeoh (Volume 21, Issue 2, January 2021)
After Trust. Guest edited by Magnus Marsden and Paul Anderson (Volume 20, Issue 4, October 2020)
Theorizing Transnational Labour Markets: Economic-Sociological Approaches. Guest edited by Ursula Mense-Petermann (Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2020)
Methodological Cosmopolitanism Across The Socio-Cultural Sciences. Guest edited by Anders Blok and Sabine Selchow (Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2020)
References
External links
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2001
Multidisciplinary social science journals
English-language journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
Geography journals
Anthropology journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Dogs%3A%20Return%20to%20Earth | Space Dogs: Return to Earth () also known as Space Dogs: Tropical Adventure is a 2020 Russian 3D computer-animated comedy fantasy family film written by Danil Trotensko, Artem Milovanov, Mike Disa, Olga Nikiforova, Viktor Strelchencko and directed by Inna Evlannikova. The film was produced by Moscow studios KinoAtis and Gorky Film Studio. The creators from one of Russia's first national 3D animation studio rejoined to continue to animate the latest adventure of the canine heroes, Belka and Strelka.
The film is the third installment in the Space Dogs franchise, a sequel to the 2013 film Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon and a trequel to the original record breaking film Space Dogs. The film is the final installment that marks the establishment of the Space Dogs trilogy. Based on true history, the film depicts Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka, who are the world's first animals who were sent into space and survived the trip (on board the Korabl-Sputnik 2 mission in 1960). The film portrays the historical characters in a lighthearted comedy animation film.
Set in outer space and planet Earth, the Soviet command sends Belka and Strelka on a reconnaissance mission to the island of Cuba, where a mysterious tornado begins to pull in water off the coast of the island. The astronauts dive into the Caribbean Sea to find the true mystery.
The movie was released in Russia on 24 September 2020 and the UK on 11 December 2020 with its international title Space Dogs: Return to Earth. Epic Pictures distributed the film in North America on 2 April 2021. Critics from domestic and international countries had generally positive reviews for the film.
Plot
In the Hurricane Alley, a strange whirlpool spins out of control. Meanwhile, brave cosmonauts Belka and Strelka are in their spaceship. They see rare mineral samples somewhere in the asteroid belt near Saturn. They risk their lives to extract the samples when a call receives from Soviet command. The director reports a mysterious phenomenon in the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean. Strelka is promoted as pilot because the space command director found Belka's steering to be lacking. As the ship changes course both cosmonauts become distanced due to the promotion. But the space explorers realize that this new mission will require teamwork, making them friends again.
The spaceship's trajectory veers to planet Earth. Meanwhile, their best friend, rat Lenny is looking to get to the cyclones too, traveling to Cuba in an attempt to solve the mystery. Lenny will be accompanied by cricket Thomas. They spot the anomaly that appears to be a cyclone. As they venture down into the swirling ocean depths, their Soviet module crash lands into the Caribbean Sea. Rat Lenny hears of this misfortune. He decides to embark on a journey to find the missing cosmonauts.
Belka and Strelka perform a heroic mission to save themselves from the depths of the sea but also investigate the mysterious whirlpool effect. However, an unexpected enem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Front%20%28video%20game%29 | West Front is a 1998 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It is the sequel to East Front and the second game in the Campaign series.
In 1999, West Front was followed by East Front II: The Russian Front.
Gameplay
West Front is a computer wargame that simulates conflict during the Western Front of World War II and the North African campaign.
Development
West Front was created with an updated version of the game engine from East Front, its direct predecessor. It is the second entry in TalonSoft's Campaign series.
Reception
According to TalonSoft head Jim Rose, West Front early sales were strong, and were on track to surpass the roughly 90,000 units sold by its predecessor. By February 2000, the overall Campaign series had achieved global sales above 250,000 copies.
The editors of GameSpot nominated West Front for their 1998 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to TalonSoft's The Operational Art of War Vol. 1: 1939–1955. They called West Front "much improved" over its "disappointing" predecessor.
Legacy
The second game in the Campaign series, West Front was followed by East Front II: The Russian Front, Rising Sun and Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict 1948–1973.
See also
Western Front: The Liberation of Europe 1944–1945
References
External links
Official page (archived)
1998 video games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Windows games
Windows-only games
World War II video games
Video games developed in the United States
TalonSoft games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Happos%20Family | The Happos Family is a 3D CGI animated series developed by Patricia Hidalgo and produced by Ferrero, Spider Eye Productions, and Cyber Group Studios for Turner Broadcasting System EMEA.
Synopsis
The series is about a family of hippos called Happo. This family lives in a safari park in Africa. They just laze and rumble during the day, but once they arrive at closing time and each visitor leaves the park, the Happo family begins the real fun. Members of the family include Astro Happo, who wants to travel to the Moon at all costs, Stunt Happo, who draws attention to himself with his accident-prone stunts, and Party Happo, who is there to party.
Episodes
References
External links
https://www.boomerangtv.co.uk/shows/the-happos-family
https://www.cartoonito.co.uk/tv-show/the-happos-family
2010s British animated television series
2016 British television series debuts
2018 British television series endings
2010s French animated television series
2016 French television series debuts
2018 French television series endings
2016 Italian television series debuts
Animated television series about families
Animated television series without speech
Boomerang (TV network) original programming
British children's animated comedy television series
British computer-animated television series
Cartoonito original programming
Fictional hippopotamuses
French children's animated comedy television series
French computer-animated television series
Italian children's animated comedy television series
Italian computer-animated television series
Television shows scored by Natalie Holt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Snail%20and%20the%20Whale%20%28film%29 | The Snail and the Whale is a 2019 British-South African short computer-animated TV film, directed by Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon, and produced by Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic Light Pictures, in association with Triggerfish Animation Studios where the film was animated.
The short film is based on the 2003 picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The voices of the main characters include Dame Diana Rigg, Sally Hawkins and Rob Brydon. The special premiered on BBC One in the U.K. for Christmas 2019.
Plot
The Snail and the Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a ride on the tail of a friendly humpback whale. A joyous, empowering story about the natural wonders of the world and discovering that no matter how small you are, you can make a difference.
Voice cast
Diana Rigg as Narrator.
Sally Hawkins as Snail.
Rob Brydon as Humpback whale.
Cariad Lloyd as Teacher.
Arnold Brown and Emma Tate as the snail flock.
Max Lang as the Fish in the Sea.
William Barber, David Cummings, Charlotte-Davis Black, Emmy Dowers and Mia Wilks as the school children.
Broadcast
The special premiered on BBC One at 2:30 PM in the UK on Christmas Day 2019 and was watched by 4 million viewers.
Accolades
References
External links
Trailer
2019 television films
2019 animated films
2019 computer-animated films
2019 short films
South African animated films
British animated television films
2019 films
Animated films based on children's books
Annie Award-winning films
Films directed by Max Lang
Animated films about animals
Animated films about whales
British animated short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Cheng | Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation. Her research interests include cyber security and Machine Learning.
Education and career
Cheng has a bachelor's and master's degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 2003 from the University of Minnesota.
After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of computer science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She moved to the Martin Tuchman School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2016, and moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2018, and she was promoted to full professor in 2020.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese mathematicians
Chinese women mathematicians
American women computer scientists
Applied mathematicians
Beihang University alumni
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
21st-century American women
Chinese women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaela%20Cardei | Mihaela Cardei is a Romanian-American computer scientist known for her research on wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, where she is also associate dean for graduate studies.
Education and career
Cardei earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in 1995 and 1996, respectively, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of Ding-Zhu Du.
She joined Florida Atlantic University as an assistant professor in 2003, was promoted to professor in 2014, and became associate dean in 2018.
Recognition
Florida Atlantic University named Cardei their researcher of the year at the assistant professor level for 2006–2007.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Romanian computer scientists
Romanian women computer scientists
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Florida Atlantic University faculty
American women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20value%20network | An Open Value Network (OVN) is a new organizational framework designed to support commons-based peer production. Inspired by the value network concept introduced by Verna Allee.
This organization is by nature and from birth transnational (i.e. operating beyond the influence of states).
OVNs rely on technology (digital infrastructures) to support their operations. They have no (or very few) formal mechanisms of power to allow centralization of control over the platform (the technological infrastructure) that enables the activities of the network, although it is evident that they exhibit informal power structures. Examples are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Sensorica, etc.
Background
The model was first proposed, developed and implemented by Sensorica affiliates. Sensorica was created in February 2011. Initially, the model evolved from the Discovery Network model proposed by Sensorica's co-founder, Tibi between, 2008 and 2010. Between 2011 and 2012, the model drew from the work of Verna Allee, Yochai Benkler, Michel Bauwens, Clay Shirky, and others. After the summer of 2012, the network resource planning and contribution accounting system (NRP-CAS) was influenced by Bob Haugen, who has been developing enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) since 1995. From May 2013 to May 2014, Yasir worked on a framework for open value network in collaboration with other Sensorica affiliates. The OVN model was extended to network of networks, in the context of the Open Alliance initiative also led by Sensorica, an attempt to federate fablabs and makerspaces in Montreal, Canada.
The OVN work has input directly into international ISO standards development, namely, ISO/IEC 15944-15 "Information technology - Business Operational View - Part 15: Open Value Networks(OVN): Integrated perspective on Open-edi, eBusiness, blockchain and distributed transactions". The lead international ISO Project Editor : Prof. William McCarthy, with Jake Knoppers as one of two Co-Project Editors. The international ISO standards committee responsible here is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG1 (where JTC1 = Joint ISO, IEC = Technical Committee on Information technology, SC = Data Management & Interchange, WG1 = eBusiness)
Main characteristics
Openness: barrier to entry for participation, access to resources
Transparency: access given to the public to information, processes
Reliability: defines the reliability of the network components and the connectivity between them. Mean time between failures (MTBF) is commonly used to measure reliability.
Resilience: includes the protection of the network components and the data/information they contain, and/or the data transmitted between them.
Scalability: defines how well the network can adapt to new growth, including new users, applications, and network components.
Topology: describes the physical layout and the logical way data and information moves between functional components.
Adaptability: describes how well the network responds to changes in the envir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLX | RLX may refer to:
Acura RLX, an automobile produced by Honda for the US market
RLX Technologies, a computer hardware company
RLX Technology, a Chinese e-cigarette company founded by Kate Wang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20Law%20of%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | The Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中华人民共和国网络安全法), commonly referred to as the Chinese Cybersecurity Law, was enacted by the National People’s Congress with the aim of increasing data protection, data localization, and cybersecurity ostensibly in the interest of national security. The law is part of a wider series of laws passed by the Chinese government in an effort to strengthen national security legislation. Examples of which since 2014 have included a Law on National Intelligence, the National Security of the People’s Republic of China (not to be confused with the Hong Kong National Security Law) and laws on counter-terrorism and foreign NGO management, all passed within successive short timeframes of each other.
History
This law was enacted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on November 7, 2016, and was implemented on June 1, 2017. It requires network operators to store select data within China and allows Chinese authorities to conduct spot-checks on a company's network operations.
Cybersecurity is recognized as a basic law. This puts the law on the top of the pyramid-structured legislation on cybersecurity. The law is an evolution of the previously existent cybersecurity rules and regulations from various levels and fields, assimilating them to create a structured law at the macro-level. The law also offers principal norms on certain issues that are not immediately urgent but are of long-term importance. These norms will serve as a legal reference when new issues arise.
Provisions
The law:
Created the principle of cyberspace sovereignty
Defined the security obligations of internet products and services providers
Detailed the security obligations of internet service providers.
Further refined rules surrounding personal information protection
Established a security system for key information infrastructure
Instituted rules for the transnational transmission of data from critical information infrastructures.
The cybersecurity law is applicable to network operators and businesses in “critical sectors.” By critical sectors, China roughly divides the domestic businesses into networking businesses that are involved in telecommunications, information services, energy transport, water, financial services, public services, and electronic government services. Some of the most controversial sections of the law include articles 28, 35, and 37.
Article 28 compels vaguely defined "network operators", (interpreted to include: social media platforms, application creators and other technology companies), to cooperate with public security organs such as the Ministry of Public Security and hand over information when requested.
Article 35 is targeted at purchases of foreign software or hardware by government agencies or other "critical information infrastructure operators", requiring any hardware of software purchased to undergo review by agencies such as China's SCA or State Cryptography Ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Australian drama television series Prisoner (commonly known as Prisoner: Cell Block H) premiered on Network Ten on 4 February 1981. It consists of 81 episodes and concluded on 11 November 1981.
The season is notable for the conclusion to the tunnel escape storyline which ended the previous season; the departure of Vera Bennett ("Vinegar Tits") when she accepts the position of governor of Barnhurst; the kidnapping of Erica Davidson; the arrival of new prisoners Sandy Edwards, Kate Peterson and former inmate and top dog of H Block – Marie Winter; Bea Smith's amnesia, and later, her mysterious illness which sees her step down as top dog, only to be replaced by Sandy Edwards.
Cast
Main
Patsy King as Governor Erica Davidson
Fiona Spence as Vera Bennett
Val Lehman as Bea Smith
Elspeth Ballantyne as Meg Morris
Colette Mann as Doreen Burns
Sheila Florance as Lizzy Birdsworth
Gerard Maguire as Jim Fletcher
Betty Bobbitt as Judy Bryant
Judith McGrath as Colleen Powell
Special guest
Mary Ward as Jeanette "Mum" Brooks
Central supporting
Amanda Muggleton as Chrissie Latham
Serge Lazareff as David Andrews
Olivia Hamnett as Kate Petersen
Louise Le Nay as Sandy Edwards
Kate Sheil as Janet Conway
Wayne Jarratt as Steve Falkner
Maggie Millar as Marie Winter
Recurring
Julia Blake as Evelyn Randall
Mary Charleston as Linda Golman
Jane Clifton as Margo Gaffney
Tommy Dysart as Jock Stewart
Susannah Fowle as Lori Young
Caroline Gillmer as Helen Smart
Brian Hannan as Terry Harrison
Anthony Hawkins as Bob Morris
Leila Hayes as Jeannie Baxter
Edward Hepple as Sid Humphrey
Bethany Lee as Andrea Hennessy
Alan Hopgood as Albert "Wally" Wallace
Sue Jones as Kathy Hall
Fay Kelton as Alison Page
Nina Landis as Michelle Parks
Michael Long as Mick O'Brien
Tracey Mann as Georgie Baxter
Ned Manning as Nick Clarke
Tom Oliver as Ken Pearce
Candy Raymond as Sandra Hamilton
Wynn Roberts as Stuart Gillespie
Gael Andrews as Sister Johnson
Paul Bertram as Mr. Williamson
Ernie Bourne as Peter Hope
John Bowman as Henry
Aileen Britton as Florence Marne
Christine Calcutt as Mrs. O'Reagan
Paul Colombani as Martin Richards
Deborah Coulls as Micki Wallace
Peter Cummins as Hartman
Belinda Davey as Hazel Kent
Peter De Salis as Mr. Martin
Stefan Dennis as Peter Richards
Rod Densley as Gerry
Sue Devine as Tracey Morris
Laurie Dobson as Paul Tranter
Beverly Dunn as Mrs. Mitchell
Marion Edwards as Mrs. Reid
Maureen Edwards as Officer Bailey
Jennifer Finch as Susan Page
Simon Finch as Chris Page
Stuart Finch as Don Page
John Frawley as James Marne
Bill Garner as Det. Sgt. Ross
Jon Geros as Mike the Bike
Terry Gill as Det. Insp. Grace
Vince Gill as Wayne Bradshaw
Paul Glen as John Fitzwater
Hannah Govan as Mrs. Dyson
Kirsty Grant as Samantha
Gary Gray as Dr. Marsden
Diane Greentree as Sister Franklin
Liddy Holloway as Sister Hainer
Denzil Howson as Mr. Muirhead
Tim Hughes as Bazza
Amanda Irving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFL%20Championship%20Football | GFL Championship Football is a 1986 video game published by Activision. An exclusive sequel, GFL Championship Football II, was released for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 in 1988.
Gameplay
GFL Championship Football is a game in which the player receives a view from inside the helmet.
Reception
Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Whatever one's feelings about the game, when the plus yardage and minus yardage is added together, this action/strategy game is a watershed design." The magazine said that the game's unique pespective helped players understand the difficult job of running backs and quarterbacks.
Reviews
Computer and Video Games - Jul, 1987
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Family Computing
Review in Ahoy!
Review in Crash
Review in Your Computer
Review in Current Notes
Article in InCider
Review in Zzap!
Review in Commodore Magazine
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
1986 video games
Activision games
American football video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
First-person video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Pro%20Football | Mac Pro Football is a 1986 video game published by The Avalon Hill Game Company.
Gameplay
Mac Pro Football is a game in which three levels of coaching skill are available, and the computer opponent remembers previous plays and can change the game plan in the second half of the game.
Reception
Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Minus yardage must be tabulated for the only thing missing, sound effects. The plus yardage described is due to get better as additional Team Data
Disks are released."
References
External links
Review in MacUser
Review in MacWorld
Review in Washington Apple Pi
1986 video games
American football video games
Avalon Hill video games
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Sports management video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Delphi%20%28software%29 | This page details the history of the programming language and software product Delphi.
Roots and birth
Delphi evolved from Borland's Turbo Pascal for Windows, itself an evolution with Windows support from Borland's Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal with Objects, very fast 16-bit native-code MS-DOS compilers with their own sophisticated integrated development environment (IDE) and textual user interface toolkit for DOS (Turbo Vision). Early Turbo Pascal (for MS-DOS) was written in a dialect of the Pascal programming language; in later versions support for objects was added, and it was named Object Pascal.
Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested the Delphi codename in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. One of the design goals of the product was to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package at the time was Oracle database; hence, "If you want to talk to [the] Oracle, go to Delphi".
As development continued towards the first release, the Delphi codename gained popularity among the development team and beta testing group. However, the Borland marketing leadership preferred a functional product name over an iconic name and made preparations to release the product under the name Borland AppBuilder.
Shortly before the release of the Borland product in 1995, Novell AppBuilder was released, leaving Borland in need of a new product name. After much debate and many market research surveys, the Delphi codename became the Delphi product name.
Early Borland years (1995–2003)
Borland Delphi
Delphi (later known as Delphi 1) was released in 1995 for the 16-bit Windows 3.1, and was an early example of what became known as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Delphi 1 features included:
Visual two-way tools
Property Method Event (PME) model
TObject, records, component, and owner memory management
Visual Component Library (VCL)
Runtime Library (RTL)
Structured exception handling
Data-aware components live at design time
Database support via BDE and SQL Links
Borland Delphi 2
Delphi 2, released in 1996, supported 32-bit Windows environments and bundled with Delphi 1 to retain 16-bit Windows 3.1 application development. New Quickreport components replacing Borland ReportSmith. Delphi 2 also introduced:
Database Grid
OLE automation
Visual form inheritance
TDataModule
Long strings (beyond 255)
Borland Delphi 3
Delphi 3, released in 1997, added:
New VCL components encapsulating the 4.71 version of Windows Common Controls (such as Rebar and Toolbar)
TDataset architecture separated from BDE
DLL debugging
Code insight technology
Component packages, and templates, and integration with COM through interfaces.
DecisionCube and Teechart components for statistical graphing
WebBroker
ActiveForms
MIDAS three tier architecture
Inprise Delphi 4
Inprise Delphi 4, released in 1998, completely overha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa%20Guerra | Elisa Guerra is a Mexican educator, writer, and speaker. Founder of the international network of schools Valle de Filadelfia volunteer director for Latin America of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, author of educational books and textbooks and member of UNESCO's International Commission Futures of Education.
Education
Guerra graduated with honors in Early Childhood Education and finished first in Mexico's national teacher exams. She holds a master's degree in education with a specialization in the Teaching-Learning process from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, graduating with honors. As of 2020, Guerra was an Education Master candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Professional life
Dissatisfied with the academic offerings in Aguascalientes, Guerra founded Colegio Valle de Filadelfia. In the beginning, its educational offer was limited to preschool, however, the school currently has programs for primary and secondary students.
To develop the educational proposal of her schools, Guerra created the Philadelphia Method, inspired by Glenn Doman's philosophy. Her methodology stems from the fundamental premise that young children have enormous potential and that it is easier to learn anything the younger you are. The goal of Colegio Valle de Filadelfia has been to help children reach their potential by providing a learning environment rich in stimulation and opportunity. Since there were no books or teaching materials to suit her innovative methods, Guerra created her own. In 2014, Pearson published the series for preschool children, a total of 12 books. At the end of 2017, an additional 12 were published, developed for elementary school children. The program includes early reading, violin, art, global citizenship, languages, and physical development. Her model has been franchised and there are now schools in six Mexican cities and a seventh in Costa Rica.
According to Guerra, the program consists of very short sessions, using tons of enthusiasm and a playful approach, without pressure on the children. Play is an integral part of the program. The intent is to enrich the learning environment, as much as possible, with high-quality, exciting stimuli and plenty of opportunities for movement. In Guerra's words: learning should never be a boring task to complete, but the greatest adventure to enjoy.
At school, the time for extracurricular activities has been optimized, developing children's skills. The program places great importance on children appreciating and valuing different cultures, in addition to teaching art, music, and physical activity, activities that develop the cerebral cortex. The program is based on the theory that children can play and learn at the same time, according to Guerra it is designed to adapt to how the brain learns. Learning to play the violin is a very important part of the program. It aims to help children with their concentration, brain development, and fine mot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Maurice | The Amazing Maurice is a 2022 computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Toby Genkel and co-directed by Florian Westermann, from a screenplay by Terry Rossio, based on the 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. The film stars Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, Joe Sugg, Ariyon Bakare, Julie Atherton, Rob Brydon, Hugh Bonneville and David Tennant. The story follows Maurice, a streetwise ginger cat who befriends a group of talking rats by coming up with a money-making scam.
An animated film adaptation of Pratchett's novel was announced in June 2019, with Rossio writing the screenplay. Most of the lead cast members were hired in November 2020, with additional cast being added in May 2021. Animation was provided by Studio Rakete and Red Star 3D.
The Amazing Maurice had its premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022, and was released in the United Kingdom on 16 December, by Sky Cinema. It was released on 3 February 2023 by Viva Pictures in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Maurice tells a town of people that they have a plague of rats, illustrated by various rats terrorizing the townsfolk and convinces them to pay for Keith, the pied piper, to lead them outside of the town. Outside the town, the rats are revealed to be sentient and literate, working with Keith and Maurice to defraud towns.
They are heading to the town of Bad Blintz next which suffers from a lack of food and where rat catchers have been unable to find the reason of the disappearing food. Trying to infiltrate the tunnels under the city, the rats notice that there are no local rats despite traces of them. They find a trap that captures rats alive and Darktan, their leader, is trapped inside. Meanwhile, Maurice has entered the mayor's house and when Keith tries to find him, they meet the mayor's daughter, Malicia, who quickly deduces - after seeing tap-dancing rat Sardines - that they are behind the recent plague of rats in nearby towns and enlists them to help discover the reason behind the city's food shortage.
Their quest leads them to the local rat catchers' headquarters where they find a secret passage to the basement filled with food. They also find Darktan and the other rats coming from the tunnels with the trap they found. Maurice correctly guesses that the rat catchers are trying to catch the rats alive to use them for entertainment, pitting dogs in rings with rats and betting on how fast they are killed. The rat catchers catch Sardines and use him for the ring but he is rescued by the others.
Poisoning the food with laxatives, Maurice, Keith and Malicia manage to force the rat catchers to admit that they created a rat king when eight rats they left in a bucket got their tails knotted and developed an evil sentience, capable of controlling other rats. Maurice flees from the rat king while Keith and Malicia head to the wood |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Media%20Networks | Disney Media Networks was a business segment of The Walt Disney Company that oversaw the company's television networks, cable channels, television production and distribution studios, and owned-and-operated television stations. The segment's primary divisions were Walt Disney Television and A&E Networks (50% stake).
History
1977–1983: Origins
In 1977, Walt Disney Productions executive Jim Jimirro brought forth an idea of a cable television network that would feature television and film material from the Walt Disney Studios. Since the company was focusing on the development of the Epcot Center at Walt Disney World, Disney chairman Card Walker turned down the proposal of the network. Instead, they made a deal with HBO to air a select number of Disney films, cartoons, and specials, including a live production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Radio City Music Hall. However, Disney revived the idea in November 1981 to create Disney Channel, entering into a joint venture with the unit of Group W (which had sold its 50% ownership stake in one of The Disney Channel's early rivals, Showtime, to Viacom around the same time); however, Group W would ultimately drop out of the intended partnership that September following disagreements over the channel's creative control and financial obligations that would have required Group W to pay a 50% share of the channel's start-up costs.
Despite losing Group W as a partner, The Disney Channel continued on with its development – now solely under the oversight of Walt Disney Productions, and under the leadership of the channel's first president Alan Wagner, Walt Disney Productions formally announced the launch of its family-friendly cable channel in 1983. Disney later invested United States dollar11 million to acquiring space on two transponders of the Hughes Communications satellite Galaxy 1, and spent US$20 million on purchasing and developing programming. The concept of a premium service aimed at a family audience – which Walt Disney Productions would choose to develop The Disney Channel as – had first been attempted by HBO, which launched Take 2 in 1979 (the service, which was HBO's first attempt at a spin-off niche service (predating Cinemax's launch in August 1980), would shut down after only a few months on the air), and was followed by the 1981 launch of the Group W-owned Home Theater Network (which was the only premium channel that strictly competed with The Disney Channel for that demographic for much of the 1980s, until the 1987 launch of Festival).
1983–1995: The Disney Channel and expansion to Europe
Disney launched nationally The Disney Channel as a premium channel at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on April 18, 1983. The channel – which initially kept for a 16-hour-per-day programming schedule from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 pm. Eastern and Pacific Time – would become available on cable providers in all 50 U.S. states by September 1983, and accrue a base of more than 611,000 subscribers by December of that ye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Cottage | Bear Cottage is a children’s hospice located in Manly, Australia and is part of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. It provides long-term care to children, including nursing care, music, play and art therapy, and food, cleaning, and counseling services. Bear Cottage is designed to be like a home away from home and as far removed from a hospital environment as possible. Staff do not wear uniforms, and no medical procedures are carried out in the bedrooms, which are designed to be like a normal bedroom.
It opened on St Patrick's Day 17 March 2001 after $10 million had been raised from the community to build it. In 2017 its operational costs were approximately $3.7 million per year, with funding coming from the government, clubs and private sector. It is one of only three children’s hospices in Australia. Since 2016 the Cottage has been managed by Narelle Martin. Professor Les White is the Patron.
History
Bear Cottage was conceived in the 1990s by Dr John Yu and Dr Michael Stevens from The Children's Hospital at Westmead to enhance the hospital's palliative care program and proposed to be developed on the site of the former St Patrick's College estate on North Head above Manly.
The hospice saw a huge increase in growth from 2008.
A community icon
In 2021 radio announcer Ben Fordham publicly thanked Bear Cottage for their care for sick children.
In 2020 Sydney coffee roasters Seven Miles launched a new coffee blend, Bear and the Beard, donating proceeds of sales to the hospice.
In 2014 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited, where the Duchess (who is patron of UK children’s hospice, the East Anglia Children’s Hospice) made a speech. They were reportedly brought to the verge of tears by the plight of a nine-month old baby who had only days to live following a six-week battle with bacterial meningitis.
In 2005 competitors in the City to Surf running race raised funds for the cottage.
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Hospital buildings completed in 2001
Children's hospitals in Australia
Hospitals in Sydney
Hospitals established in 2001
2001 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Bowrey | Sally Bowrey is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and weather presenter for the Seven Network, based in Sydney, Australia.
Bowrey is currently news and sports presenter on the Seven Network breakfast program Weekend Sunrise.
Early life and education
Bowrey was born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales . She earned a degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst in 2003.
Career
She began her career at Foxtel, anchoring Arena News Updates. In 2004 she became a weather presenter at The Weather Channel, where in 2005 she became the host of the morning programme, Your Weather Today.
For four years beginning in 2009, she worked at TVW in Perth, an affiliate of the Seven Network, as the weekend news presenter and as a reporter for the network's Western Australian news bulletin.
In 2012, Bowrey returned to Sydney, where she filled in as a weather presenter for Sarah Cumming whilst she was on maternity leave, and the following year, when Seven News began a live evening news bulletin, Seven News at 7, became the presenter for the Western Australia version. That programme was ended in April 2014; at the end of 2015 she again replaced Cumming during her maternity leave, as the weather presenter for the news bulletins at 4pm and 7pm, and she has since presented both weather and news on Sunrise, hosted coverage of the Queensland floods, and since 2016 been a presenter on ''Weekend Sunrise]', where she is the news and sport presenter.
Personal life
Bowrey married Richard Seddon, a property development manager, in 2010; they have a son and a daughter.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian television journalists
Australian women television presenters
Australian women journalists
Journalists from Sydney
Charles Sturt University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanLotus | OceanLotus, also known as APT32, is a hacker group associated with the government of Vietnam. It has been accused of cyberespionage targeting political dissidents, government officials, and businesses with ties to Vietnam.
History
In 2020, Bloomberg reported that OceanLotus had targeted China's Ministry of Emergency Management and the Wuhan municipal government in order to obtain information about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the accusations unfounded.
In 2020, Kaspersky researchers disclosed that OceanLotus had been using the Google Play Store to distribute malware. In November 2020 Volexity researchers disclosed that OceanLotus had set up fake news websites and Facebook pages to both engage in web profiling and distribute malware. According to reports, Facebook traced the group's activities to an IT company called CyberOne Group in Ho Chi Minh City.
In February 2021, Amnesty International reported that OceanLotus had launched a number of spyware attacks against Vietnamese human rights activists, including Bui Thanh Hieu.
In March 2021, it was reported that the group's operations were impacted by a fire at an OVH data center in France.
References
Vietnamese advanced persistent threat groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clean%20Network | The Clean Network was a U.S. government-led, bi-partisan effort announced by then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August 2020 to address what it describes as "the long-term threat to data privacy, security, human rights and principled collaboration posed to the free world from authoritarian malign actors." Its promoters state that it has resulted in an "alliance of democracies and companies," "based on democratic values." According to the Trump administration, the Clean Network is intended to implement internationally accepted digital trust standards across a coalition of trusted partners.
In December 2020, the United States announced that more than 60 nations, representing more than two thirds of the world's gross domestic product, and 200 telecom companies, have publicly committed to the principles of The Clean Network. This alliance of democracies includes 27 of the 30 NATO members; 26 of the 27 EU members, 31 of the 37 OECD nations, 11 of the 12 Three Seas nations as well as Japan, Israel, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, New Zealand, Vietnam and India.
The term "Clean Network" was coined by U.S. Undersecretary of State Keith Krach, who initially led the initiative, which includes officials in the Treasury Department, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the National Security Council, and the Commerce Department. According to Bloomberg, Krach is credited with coordinating a variety of national and regional approaches to shape a more unified international project, relying on trust more than compulsion—a notable change in tone after years in which the Trump administration pursued a go-it-alone, "America First" strategy. On April 22, 2021, David Ignatius of the Washington Post stated that Krach's Clean Network provides continuity with the Biden administration's desire to get democracies together on the same playing field on technology.
Krach described the Huawei effort as a “beachhead” in a wider battle to unite against Chinese economic pressure in everything from investment to strategic materials that bears the hallmarks of 'good old fashioned' diplomacy, in contrast to a somewhat more confrontational style at the beginning of the administration. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the Clean Network will be perhaps the "most enduring foreign-policy legacy" of the last four years. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian referred to the Clean Network as a "US surveillance network" and "consolidation of US digital hegemony".
Researchers have noted that the announcement of the Clean Network was met with indifference in many major European countries, among concerns that the initiative would fragment the internet, with many also skeptical of US claims that Huawei poses an uncontrollable security threat. Several European countries in the Clean Network have since allowed Huawei to build their non-core 5G networks. A December 2021 op-ed by historian Arthur L. Herman and former U.S. national security advisor Rob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONiC%20%28operating%20system%29 | The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud or alternatively abbreviated and stylized as SONiC, is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. It was originally developed by Microsoft and the Open Compute Project. In 2022, Microsoft ceded oversight of the project to the Linux Foundation, who will continue to work with the Open Compute Project for continued ecosystem and developer growth. SONiC includes the networking software components necessary for a fully functional L3 device and was designed to meet the requirements of a cloud data center. It allows cloud operators to share the same software stack across hardware from different switch vendors and works on over 100 different platforms. There are multiple companies offering enterprise service and support for SONiC,.
Overview
SONiC was developed and open sourced by Microsoft in 2016.
The software decouples network software from the underlying hardware and is built on the Switch Abstraction Interface API. It runs on network switches and ASICs from multiple vendors. Notable supported network features include Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), remote direct memory access (RDMA), QoS, and various other Ethernet/IP technologies. Much of the protocol support is provided through inclusion of the FRRouting suite of routing daemons.
The SONiC community includes cloud providers, service providers, and silicon and component suppliers, as well as networking hardware OEMs and ODMs. It has more than 850 members.
The source code is licensed under a mix of open source licenses including the GNU General Public License and the Apache License, and is available on GitHub.
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External links
Computing platforms
Debian-based distributions
Free and open-source software
Linux
Microsoft free software
Microsoft operating systems
Network operating systems
Software using the Apache license
Software using the GPL license
2017 software
Linux Foundation projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%20Den | Hell Den is an adult animated sketch comedy series that premiered on May 10, 2019 on the internet platform DrinkTV and later moved to Syfy's late-night programming block, TZGZ. The second season premiered on November 7, 2020.
Plot
After an Uber-Apocalypse wipes out civilization, only one person miraculously survives: 12 year-old Andrew. With the last working TV and VCR in existence, he invites a motley group of apocalyptic creatures into his house to watch weird cartoons and old movies.
Cast and characters
Sean Cowhig as Fleek
Neil Garguilo as Andrew
Brian James O'Connell as Giantic
David F. Park as Kenneth
Justin Ware as Bet-C
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
References
External links
2019 web series debuts
2010s American adult animated television series
2010s American animated comedy television series
2010s American sketch comedy television series
2020s American adult animated television series
2020s American animated comedy television series
2020s American sketch comedy television series
American adult animated comedy television series
Syfy original programming
TZGZ
Animated television series about children
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Madan%20Babu | M. Madan Babu is an Indian-American computational biologist and bioinformatician. He is the endowed chair in biological data science and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Previously, he served as a programme leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
Early life and education
Babu grew up in Chennai, India. He became interested in learning to program as a young child when his father brought home a personal computer. Babu was introduced to biotechnology as a high school student. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree from Anna University, where he was introduced to the field of computational biology. Babu obtained his PhD in computational genomics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Sarah Teichmann in 2004.
Career and research
After his PhD, Babu was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland with Aravind L. Iyer. In 2006, he became a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. In July 2020, Babu joined the faculty of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as the endowed chair in biological data science in the structural biology department and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery.
Babu's research focuses on understanding the regulation of cellular systems at varying scales, including molecular, system, and genomic levels. He also studies the effects of such regulation on genome evolution. In particular, his research group studies G protein-coupled receptors and intrinsically disordered proteins using a combination of computational biology and experimental biology approaches.
Babu serves as chief editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology.
Awards and honours
2009: EMBO young investigator, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2010: Won the Early Career Research Award from the Biochemical Society
2011: Awarded the Balfour Lecture by the Genetics Society
2011: Won the Royal Society of Chemistry Molecular BioSystems Award
2014: Awarded the Colworth Medal by the Biochemical Society
2014: Awarded the research prize by the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
2014: Won the Protein Society Protein Science Young Investigator Award
2015: Awarded the Francis Crick Lecture by the Royal Society
2016: Elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
2017: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2018: Won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences
2018: Won the ISCB Innovator Award from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2019: Won the EMBO Gold Medal
2021: Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
2023: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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Computational biologists
Indian bioinformaticians
Living people
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Fellows of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eun-Ah%20Kim | Eun-Ah Kim (born 1975) is a Korean-American condensed matter physicist interested in high-temperature superconductivity, topological order, strange metals, and the use of neural network based machine learning to recognize patterns in these systems. She is a professor of physics at Cornell University.
Education and career
Kim was born in Jeonju in 1975. She graduated from Seoul National University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics, and earned a master's degree there in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, Quantum Hall Tunnel Junctions: Luttinger Liquid Physics, Quantum Coherence Effect and Fractional Quantum Numbers, was supervised by Eduardo Fradkin.
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Kim joined the Cornell University faculty in 2008, and was promoted to full professor in 2019.
Recognition
In 2020, Kim was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for broad contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, including new conceptual frameworks for interpreting experiments". In 2022 she was awarded a Simons Fellowship.
References
External links
Home page
1975 births
Living people
People from Jeonju
South Korean physicists
South Korean women scientists
American condensed matter physicists
American women physicists
Seoul National University alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20Automatic%20Installation | Fully Automated Installation is a group of Shell and Perl scripts that install and configure a complete Linux distribution quickly on a large number of computers.
It's the oldest automated deployment system for Debian.
FAI allows for installing Debian and Ubuntu distributions. But it also support CentOS, Rocky Linux and SuSe Linux.
In the past it supported Scientific Linux Cern.
By default a network installation is done, but it's easy to create an installation ISO for booting from CD or USB stick.
There's a web service for FAI which is called FAI.me, which allows creating customized installation images without setting up your own FAI server.
This service supports Debian and Ubuntu.
Debian's cloud team uses FAI for creating their official cloud images.
Similar software exists for Red Hat (kickstart), SuSE (YaST and alice), Solaris (Jumpstart) and likely other operating systems.
References
External links
Official website
FAI.me web service
System administration
Network management |
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