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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20Tilbury | Dawn Marie Tilbury is an American control theorist whose research topics include logic control, networked control systems, robotics, human–machine systems, and autonomous vehicles. She is a professor of mechanical engineering and (by courtesy) of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and the head of the directorate for engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Education and career
Tilbury majored in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, choosing the subject because her father was an electrical engineer at Honeywell, and despite being told by her adviser that it was "not a good major for women". As a student, she began her work in control theory with a summer internship at Honeywell involving thermostats. She graduated summa cum laude, with a minor in French, in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. Her dissertation, Exterior differential systems and nonholonomic motion planning, was supervised by Shankar Sastry, and concerned the problem of parallel parking for a vehicle towing multiple trailers. Throughout her education, none of her engineering professors were women.
She joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 1995 and became full professor there in 2007. At Michigan, she has also directed the Ground Robotics Reliability Center from 2009 to 2011 and served as associate dean for research from 2014 to 2016.
She was appointed assistant director for engineering at the National Science Foundation in 2017, retaining her professor position at the University of Michigan. She is also vice president of the American Automatic Control Council.
Recognition
Tilbury was named an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2009, affiliated with the IEEE Control Systems Society, "for leadership in networked and logic control systems". She was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2012.
The American Automatic Control Council gave Tilbury their Donald P. Eckman Award, given annually to an outstanding young researcher in control theory, in 2001, "for research exemplifying engineering aspects of control systems and for significant contributions to logic control and networked/distributed control". The Society of Women Engineers named her as the inaugural winner of their Distinguished Engineering Educator award in 2012. In 2014 the ASME gave her their biennial Michael J. Rabins Leadership Award.
Selected publications
Tilbury is the coauthor of Control Tutorials for MATLAB and Simulink: A Web-based Approach (with W. C. Messner, Addison-Wesley, 1998) and Feedback Control of Computing Systems (with J. L. Hellerstein, Y. Diao, and S. Parekh, Wiley, 2004). Other highly-cited publications of Tilbury include:
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American mechanical engineers
American women engineer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Lords | Data Lords is a large-ensemble jazz album by the Maria Schneider Orchestra that was released in 2020.
Summary
The tracks of the album are thematically organized in two sections, which the liner notes call "a story of two worlds" and are much like a two-disk release. The two sections are named "The Digital World" and "The Natural World".
Accolades
2021 - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music
2021 - Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
2021 - The track "Sputnik" won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
2021 - Le Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz for Best Record of the Year
Track listing
Personnel
Greg Gisbert – trumpet, flügelhorn
Tony Kadleck – trumpet, flügelhorn
Nadje Noordhuis – trumpet, flügelhorn
Mike Rodriguez – trumpet, flügelhorn
Marshall Gilkes – trombone
Ryan Keberle – trombone
Keith O'Quinn – trombone
George Flynn – bass trombone
Dave Pietro – alto saxophone, clarinet, piccolo, flute
Steve Wilson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
Donny McCaslin – tenor saxophone, flute
Rich Perry – tenor saxophone
Scott Robinson – baritone, Bb, bass & contrabass clarinets, muson
Gary Versace – accordion
Frank Kimbrough – piano
Ben Monder – guitar
Jay Anderson – bass
Johnathan Blake – drums, percussion
Additional Credits
Producer: Brian Camelio, Maria Schneider, Ryan Truesdell
Associate Producer: Zachary Bornheimer
Engineering: Brian Montgomery, assisted by Charles Mueller and Edwin Huet
Trumpet electronics programming on "CQ CQ, Is Anybody There?": Michael Lenssen
Recording production assistance: Eunha So
Mixing: Brian Montgomery and Maria Schneider
Mastering: Gene Paul at G&J Audio, and Nate Wood
Package Design:
Illustration: Aaron Horkey
Graphic design: Cheri Dorr
Print production: Franklin Press, Inc.
Session photography: Briene Lermitte
Video documentation on ArtistShare: Marie Le Claire assisted by Erin Harper
References
External links
Data Lords page on ArtistShare.com
Trailer
Pre-concert interview
2020 albums
Big band albums
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Jazz albums by American artists
Maria Schneider (musician) albums
Works about the Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred%20Health%20Network | Preferred Health Network is a non-profit network of hospitals that was formed in 1989. That same year, they took over the managing of Brooklyn's Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and Jackson Heights' Physicians Hospital. When several other hospitals were facing a choice between "closing down or seeking protection in a merger" the result was that "Ten hospitals in Nassau and Queens have become Preferred Health Network."
History
Having started in 1989 with one hospital, and shortly thereafter another, they grew to ten. However, by 1996 they were down to four hospitals, and ready for being taken over by New York Hospital; they had also added "more than 20 primary care facilities in Brooklyn and Queens."
In 1996 Crain's New York Business wrote that "the real jewels of PHN are the primary care centers that dot Brooklyn and Queens" and explained that these primary care centers provide "low-cost delivery of health care" and also enable hospitals to "capture more seriously ill patients to fill their beds."
See also
Flushing Hospital Medical Center
References
Medical and health organizations based in New York City
American companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Universal%20Brotherhood | The Universal Brotherhood is an adventure published by FASA in 1990 for the dystopic near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Description
The player characters, based in Seattle, are hired to do a "simple trace and recovery job" to retrieve an "expensive trinket back from a weak-kneed suit's vanished mistress". In the course of the heist, the characters become aware of a national self-help organization called the Universal Brotherhood, and their original objective takes a "nightmarish plunge", bringing them face to face with an evil, existential threat.
The adventure comprises two books:
the actual Shadowrun adventure titled "Missing Blood"
A novella titled "The Universal Brotherhood", supposedly a reporter's account of his investigation into the Universal Brotherhood. The players discover this during their investigation and must read it to discover clues.
Publication history
FASA originally published the cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun in 1989. Over the next few years, FASA published dozens of supplements and adventures, including The Universal Brotherhood in 1990, a 55-page adventure written Chris Kubasik, with interior art by Earl Geier, Jeff Laubenstein, Jim Nelson, and Joel Biske, and cover art by Biske. The adventure was packaged with an 88-page novella written by Nigel Findley.
In the 2014 book Designers & Dragons: The '90s, game historian Shannon Appelcline noted that following the publication of Shadowrun in 1989, "Over the next few years, Shadowrun was supported by over a dozen supplements each year—some of which were quite well-received, such as Seattle Sourcebook (1990), one of the first extensive RPG descriptions of a modern city, and Nigel Findley’s adventure, The Universal Brotherhood (1990). The line would eventually include a second edition of the rules (1992), which cleaned up some of the game systems and updated the timeline to 2053, following three years of metaplot advances detailed in the various supplements."
Reception
Matthew Gabbert examined Universal Brotherhood in Issue 25 of White Wolf Magazine, providing a mixed review, although he did note the adventure was "full of great NPCs, plenty of action, and has the best description of a Matrix run" that he had seen to date. He concluded by giving the adventure an average rating of 3 out of 5.
In the November 1992 edition of Dragon (Issue #187), Allen Varney called the 88-page novella included in the game "brilliantly written", but thought the requirement that the players had to read it was a case of "style overcomes common sense. You’re running the game for your players, their characters find this thing, then you have to stop for a week while everybody reads it." He also noted that the cover of the adventure gave away a large plot twist to the players and recommended that the gamemaster cover it. Varney concluded, "In certain respects, The Universal Brotherhood is the best-presented adventure I’ve ever seen, but it pushes too far beyond the envelope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPSoverIP | GPSoverIP is a proprietary protocol for transmitting geocoordinates of moving objects to the internet. It is a very lean and narrow technology which can be used even in areas where the GSM network bandwidth is no longer sufficient for other transmission paths. The only requirement is a functioning GSM mobile phone network.
History
The GPSoverIP technology was developed by the GPSoverIP GmbH, a spin-off of the Netzwerk GmbH. In 1998, the desire for a solution for the uninterrupted transmission of the geo-positions of vehicles in short intervals to the internet led to an increased focus on the then still young field of expertise. So-called standardized transport protocols (Transport Control Protocol, TCP) are frequently used for the wireless transmission of GPS data of moving objects on the internet. These are universal and data-intensive protocols designed for the wired internet. Their original purpose is to transfer data over the wired internet. Therefore, they are only partially suitable for the transmission of GPS data of moving objects on the internet. On the one hand, this is due to the size of the overheads, a complex and data-intensive confirmation procedure, the sending of unused layers (identification, flags, version, header, checksum, etc.); on the other hand, the fluctuating quality of the bandwidths in the networks of mobile network operators represents a considerable hurdle for the TCP/IP transport protocol. It can no longer be used if the bandwidth is too low. This leads to interruptions during the transmission.
For these reasons, GPSoverIP was developed to improve the systems' performance and is specially adapted to the specific requirements of the mobile internet. The technology was completed and successfully tested in 2004. The patent was filed in the same year. In 2005 GPSoverIP GmbH was established as an independent company on the market and the first product working with the protocol was launched. The protocol is established in the OEM area. The technology is used by equipment manufacturers as well as by institutions such as Deutsche Bahn.
The transmission technology GPSoverIP has been accompanied by another protocol since 2006: DATAoverIP. This is based on the same basic approach to meet the special requirements of the mobile internet. The task of DATAoverIP is to transfer data of different formats to the mobile internet. The background of this development was to transfer not only the GPS position but also other data for general communication (texts, pictures, etc.) as well as vehicle-specific data (FMS/CAN bus, RFID, digital tachographs, etc.).
Functionality
Many systems use the TCP/IP transport protocol for the wireless transmission of GPS data of moving objects on the internet. TCP/IP is a universal transport protocol, which was designed for a wired internet. Its task is to transmit data on the internet, such as texts, sound, photos, or videos. However, it is not suitable for the transmission of GPS data of moving ob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Credit | Sound Credit is a music credits platform with computer software applications for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It includes the Sound Credit Publisher cross-platform desktop application, the Tracker cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) plug-in, physical kiosks, smart card check-in system, and online database.
Sound Credit is used in the music industry through multimodal interaction, with a free user profile option including identifier code generation, data entry and editing software developed for information quality (IQ). It also functions as a data hub and exporter for data transmission throughout the music industry supply chain for royalty payment and attribution purposes.
Music credits are loaded and saved into Sound Credit's DDEX RIN format implementation, as the first software available to the public with this capability. As of 2019, Sound Credit is included with Pro Tools subscriptions.
History
Sound Credit was originally released under the brand Soundways RIN-M. Soundways later renamed as Soundways dba Sound Credit. RIN-M was renamed as the Sound Credit Tracker plug-in during the platform expansion.
In 2019, Sound Credit partnered with Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), a British music copyright collective, for an International Performer Number (IPN) integration as part of its cloud profile services.
Sound Credit also partnered with Avid Technologies, the makers of Pro Tools, and the Sound Credit platform applications are included with Pro Tools subscriptions.
In July 2020, Sound Credit partnered to become an ISO International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) Registration Agency, and released the first fully automated ISNI Registration feature as part of its cloud profile services.
Sound Credit was noted as being used in the delivery of credits and information on Blake Shelton's release God's Country to Warner Music. The release received a GRAMMY Award nomination in 2020 and won Single of the Year for the 2019 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards.
Features and usage
Sound Credit Publisher
The Sound Credit Publisher is cross-platform software for Windows and macOS, allowing users to enter, edit, and export music credits. This software is the primary application of the platform. The Sound Credit Publisher runs natively on desktop computers and powers Sound Credit interactive kiosk hardware installations.
Primary features
Single-window user interface with nested menus, fully scalable
Native DDEX RIN loading and saving
Grouped RIN loading and speed-optimized file switching
Use of single RIN as a template for the creation of additional RINs
International Standard Recording Code Generator
Global Release Identifier Code Generator
Incremental search
Multimodal search
Draft label copy export
CD panel and vinyl sleeve exports
Mastering workstation export (Magix Samplitude/Sequoia and Steinberg WaveLab)
Sound Credit Tracker Plug-in
The Sound Credit Tracker is a plug-in that works with digital audio wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein%20Leben%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mein Leben ('My Life') is a series of biographical documentaries from the French/German TV network Arte. The series, which has been running since 2003, covers artists from all disciplines, including actors, authors, musicians and photographers. Each episode runs approximately 45 minutes.
Episode subjects include
Franziska van Almsick (2003)
Campino (2004)
Paul Auster (2006)
Mads Mikkelson (2006)
Norman Mailer (2007)
Fatih Akın (2007)
Moritz Rinke (2007)
Jim Rocket (2007)
Peter Härtling (2008)
Alexandra Maria Lara and Valentin Plătăreanu (2008)
Nina Hoss (2009)
Carl Djerassi (2009)
Christian Stückl (2010)
Sibylle Bergemann
External links
Mein Leben at IMDb
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ertu%C4%9Frul%20Mavio%C4%9Flu | Ertuğrul Mavioğlu is a Turkish journalist. He worked at a number of newspapers and television networks for 30 years. From 1980 to 1991, he spent eight years imprisoned for political reasons. He received two awards from the Progressive Journalists Association. He is also a documentary filmmaker and co-created the film Bakur (Turkish for "North") in 2015 together with Çayan Demirel. The film was used as evidence to prosecute him under the Anti-Terror Law of Turkey. He has stated that “Any propaganda one can find in this film would be propaganda for peace.”
References
Living people
Turkish male writers
Turkish film producers
Turkish dissidents
Turkish human rights activists
Turkish television journalists
Turkish journalists
20th-century Turkish writers
21st-century Turkish writers
Turkish people imprisoned on charges of terrorism
Year of birth missing (living people)
External links
Bakur on YouTube
Q & A with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu on YouTube |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LipNet | LipNet is a deep neural network for visual speech recognition. It was created by Yannis Assael, Brendan Shillingford, Shimon Whiteson and Nando de Freitas, researchers from the University of Oxford. The technique, outlined in a paper in November 2016, is able to decode text from the movement of a speaker's mouth. Traditional visual speech recognition approaches separated the problem into two stages: designing or learning visual features, and prediction. LipNet was the first end-to-end sentence-level lipreading model that learned spatiotemporal visual features and a sequence model simultaneously. Audio-visual speech recognition has enormous practical potential, with applications in improved hearing aids, medical applications, such as improving the recovery and wellbeing of critically ill patients, and speech recognition in noisy environments, such as Nvidia's autonomous vehicles.
References
Deep learning software applications
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma%20Sudhir | Uma Sudhir is an Indian journalist, who is the executive editor of the South Indian division of the television news network NDTV. Sudhir has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons.
Biography
Born in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Uma spent her childhood in a number of cities around India such as Mumbai and Hyderabad, and eventually completed her schooling and her undergraduate studies in New Delhi. She entered the field of journalism through a one year programme at the Times School of Journalism in 1989 and began her career at The Times of India in New Delhi. She is noted have been the features editor of the newspaper during Miss Universe 1994 and was the one to cover Sushmita Sen winning the peagant. Uma married a peer journalist T. S. Sudhir and moved to the city of Hyderabad around August 1995.
She was responsible for the political coverage of N. Chandrababu Naidu's rebellion against N. T. Rama Rao in the state of Andhra Pradesh which began days after her shifting to its capital of Hyderabad. During her employment at the Times Group, she had also been involved in working with its business news, The Economic Times. In 1998, Uma moved to the new television channel Star News (later renamed to NDTV). Over the following period, she was appointed as the resident editor in the city of Hyderabad and eventually became the executive editor of the South Indian division of the television network of NDTV.
In 2015, she won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in the category of broadcast journalism. On 6 March 2017, she also became the recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons for "[h]er incisive and analytical reports [that] help create awareness of ground realities in various states". She has also been recognised by the Confederation of Indian Industry as an industry leader in her field of work. she is .
References
Indian women journalists
Indian journalists
Indian women editors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Medicines%20Compendium | The Electronic Medicines Compendium is a provider of information on medicines, produced by Datapharm. It lists summaries of product characteristics and patient information leaflets.
References
External links
Pharmacy in the United Kingdom
Professional associations based in the United Kingdom
Medical manuals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%2096%20%28film%29 | Number 96: The Movie is an Australian drama film, released in 1974 and based on the television soap opera of the same title that was then running on the 0-10 network. The film features nearly all the show's regular cast, and was created by the show's creative team, Cash Harmon Productions with the screenplay by David Sale and Johnny Whyte and directed by Peter Benardos and Brian Phillis.
The film's drawcard was that the picture was shot in color, whilst at that time the regular serial was still broadcasting in monochrome. The film also has more revealing nudity than was allowed on TV at the time.
Plot
The film starts with Vera Collins being gang raped by a group of bikers, which affects troubled romance with politician Nick Brent. She starts a new business endeavour with Maggie Cameron and Simon Carr, a character that they had a bitter rivalry over in the regular TV series.
Vera ends up in bed with Simon who is unable to perform. It turns out that he is in fact gay and he has an affair with lawyer Don Finlayson.
Vera falls in love with Nick Brent, but when she meets his son Tony, she realises that he was the leader of the bikies who had raped her. Tony recognises Vera and tries to run her over at Dorrie and Herb's fancy dress party. He hits Simon instead, and whilst making another run at Vera, his car hits a brick wall and explodes. Simon recovers and Vera goes on to marry Nick, who later becomes Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, former Number 96 resident Sonia Freeman (who filmed all of her scenes in just one day) returns after her release from a mental asylum. Sonia is now married to newspaper journalist Duncan Hunter. Her forgetful episodes and hallucinations become increasingly erratic and deranged. This worries Duncan, Sonia's good friend Jack Sellars and his new girlfriend, flight attendant Diana Moore, who has moved into flat 6. It is revealed that Diana and Duncan are secretly scheming to drive Sonia insane. Jack and the police arrive just in time before Diana and Duncan can persuade Sonia to kill herself.
Aldo Godolfus has been fraudulently withholding cash takings from the deli to avoid paying income tax, but loses the money in a fire. He takes a night job at the Connaught Rooms function hall to recoup the losses.
Many of the residents become embroiled in the major plans for Dorrie and Herb's ruby wedding celebrations. After looking at her marriage certificate, however, Dorrie discovers that the best man, Horace Deerman, signed where the groom should have. Believing this means she that she is married actually to Horace, she tracks him down with Herb and Flo; he is revealed as a derelict alcoholic, who, much to her dismay, takes a fancy to her.
Les Whittaker, unbeknownst to his wife Norma, enlists Herb and Alf to assist in his new business venture: a sauna in the building's basement.
Cast
The film featured the majority of actors that starred in the regular serial. Actors marked with an asterisk did not appear in the serial and were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuk%20%28ransomware%29 | Ryuk is a type of ransomware known for targeting large, public-entity Microsoft Windows cybersystems. It typically encrypts data on an infected system, rendering the data inaccessible until a ransom is paid in untraceable bitcoin. Ryuk is believed to be used by two or more criminal groups, most likely Russian, who target organizations rather than individual consumers.
Origin
The Ryuk ransomware first appeared in 2018. Ryuk was initially suspected to be of North Korean origin, then later thought to have been created by only one group or actor. It is now suspected that Ryuk has been created by multiple Russian criminal cartels. The criminal group known as Ryuk seeks primarily to extort ransom payments to decrypt the data that its malware has encrypted and as a result rendered useless. Following an attack on the Baltimore County (Maryland) school system in , a cybersecurity threat analyst said to the Baltimore Sun, the Ryuk criminal group "tends to be all business... they just like to get the job done": to extort a large ransom payoff.
How it works
In the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre notes that Ryuk uses Trickbot computer malware to install itself, once access is gained to a network's servers. It has the capability to defeat many anti-malware countermeasures that may be present and can completely disable a computer network. It can even seek out and disable backup files if kept on shared servers. Emotet is also used by Ryuk hackers to gain access to computers as the initial loader or "Trojan horse".
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) website provides detailed information on how Ryuk infects and takes control of a computer network, saying that access may be initially gained by: "... phishing campaigns that contain either links to malicious websites that host the malware or attachments with the malware. Loaders start the infection chain by distributing the payload; they deploy and execute the backdoor from the command and control server and install it on the victim’s machine". The phishing efforts generally contain malicious documents (or hyperlinks to them). When the victim enables it, a malicious macro or loader starts the infection sequence. Like many other ransomware families, Ryuk deletes shadow copy files and stops processes from the hardcoded list.
Once Ryuk takes control of a system, it encrypts the stored data, making it impossible for users to access unless a ransom is paid by the victim in untraceable bitcoin. In many cases, days or weeks may elapse between the time hackers initially gain access to a system before the massive encryption occurs, as the criminals penetrate deeper into the network to inflict maximum damage. Ryuk is an especially pernicious type of malware because it also finds and encrypts network drives and resources. It also disables the System Restore feature of Microsoft Windows that would otherwise allow restoring the computer's system files, applications, and Windows Registr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20Muslim%20Network | The Labour Muslim Network is a British campaign group associated with the Labour Party, focused on Muslim matters. Labour MP Afzal Khan is the parliamentary chair for the group. The purpose of the group is to promote Muslim engagement and representation in the Labour Party, conduct political training and development activities, and lead on political campaigns. It is the largest Muslim group of Labour members and supporters.
Following on the from establishment of the LabourMuslims Twitter feed in September 2016, and a website in mid-2017, the group had its official launch on 11 December 2017 at the House of Commons, with the stated aim of being an "inclusive organisation which seeks to support British Muslims' engagement in the political process and with the Labour Party, based on shared values of social justice and equality." The launch was attended by party leader Jeremy Corbyn, as well as MPs Andy Slaughter, Wes Streeting, Dawn Butler, Rupa Huq and Afzal Khan. The group brought together a broad coalition of Muslim politicians and activists within the Labour party, including Khalid Mahmood (England's first Muslim MP), local councillors, and grass roots activists. Ali Milani, a former Vice-President of the National Union of Students, chaired the launch as an executive member of the group.
The presence of Milani as an executive member was criticised by The Jewish Chronicle on the basis of alleged anti-semitic social media comments he had made as a teenager (which Milani had later apologised for). Shia news organisation Shafaqna noted the presence of Islamists and neo-conservatives at the launch, and expressed concern about the risks of the group acting in those interests. Milani was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2019 general election, at which he came second to the Conservative incumbent, prime minister Boris Johnson.
The group published the Islamophobia and the Muslim Experience report into prejudice within the Labour Party in November 2020, which revealed that half of respondents to their survey of Muslim members said that they did not trust the party leadership to address Islamophobia, 29% had directly experienced Islamophobia in the party, and that 56% did not believe that the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer represented the Muslim community effectively. Published two weeks after the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, respondents also reported feeling a hierarchy of racism in the party, where other forms of racism were given more attention than Islamophobia.
The group also contains the Muslim Councillor Network initiative, which brings the party's Muslim local representatives together.
The group is separate from the British Muslim Friends of Labour group.
Leadership
Parliamentary chair
Afzal Khan
National executive members
Ibrahim Abdille
Samayya Afzal
Mahamid Ahmed
Mohamed Bux
Huda Elmi (CLP representative on the National Executive Committee of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gacs | Péter Gács (Hungarian pronunciation: ['pe:ter 'ga:tʃ]; born May 9, 1947), professionally also known as Peter Gacs, is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, professor, and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is well known for his work in reliable computation, randomness in computing, algorithmic complexity, algorithmic probability, and information theory.
Career
Peter Gacs attended high school in his hometown, then obtained a diploma (M.S.) at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest in 1970. Gacs started his career as a researcher at the Applied Mathematics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1978. Throughout his studies he had the opportunity to visit Moscow State University and work with Andrey Kolmogorov and his student Leonid A Levin. Through 1979 he was a visiting research associate at Stanford University. He was an assistant professor at University of Rochester from 1980 until 1984 when he moved to Boston University where he received tenure in 1985. He has been full professor since 1992.
Work
Gacs has made contributions in many fields of computer science. It was Gács and László Lovász who first brought ellipsoid method to the attention of the international community in August 1979 by publishing the proofs and some improvements of it. Gacs also gave contribution in the Sipser–Lautemann theorem. His main contribution and research focus were centered on cellular automata and Kolmogorov complexity.
Work on cellular automata
His most important contribution in the domain of cellular automata besides the GKL rule (Gacs–Kurdyumov–Levin rule) is the construction of a reliable one-dimensional cellular automaton presenting thus a counterexample to the positive rates conjecture. The construction that he offered is multi-scale and complex. Later, the same technique was used for the construction of aperiodic tiling sets.
Work on algorithmic information theory and Kolmogorov complexity
Gacs authored several important papers in the field of algorithmic information theory and on Kolmogorov complexity. Together with Leonid A. Levin, he established basic properties of prefix complexity including the formula for the complexity of pairs and for randomness deficiencies including the result rediscovered later and now known as ample excess lemma. He showed that the correspondence between complexity and a priori probability that holds for the prefix complexity is no more true for monotone complexity and continuous a priori probability. In the related theory of algorithmic randomness he proved that every sequence is Turing-reducible to a random one (the result now known as Gacs–Kucera theorem, since it was independently proven by Antonin Kucera). Later he (with coauthors) introduced the notion of algorithmic distance and proved its connection with conditional complexity.
He was one a pioneer of algorithmic statistics, introduc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Paths%20Radio%20Network | The Old Paths Radio Network is a radio network broadcasting a full-service Christian radio format in North Carolina, United States. The network is owned by Church Planters of America, and operates from three transmitters licensed to Madison, Mayodan and Pilot Mountain.
History
The first station in the network, WGHW near Wilmington, was established in 2006. The station was sold in 2019 to Peace Baptist Church of Wilmington.
CPA also owned stations in the Midwest, which were sold off or deleted. KAJF in Ipswich, South Dakota was sold to Agnus Dei Communications in 2011 and is now KSJP. The license for CPA-owned KWOP at Fort Dodge, Iowa, was canceled in 2016 for being off the air for more than a year.
In 2017, Church Planters sold WWFJ near Fayetteville to the Fundamental Broadcasting Network for $55,800.
Transmitters
References
2006 establishments in North Carolina
Radio stations established in 2006
Christian radio stations in North Carolina
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20South%20Africa | This list of amphibians of South Africa contains species that form a part of the class Amphibia (phylum Chordata) fauna of South Africa. The list follows the South African National Bioinformatics Institute listing.
Where common names are given, they are not the only common names in use for the species.
Anura
Order Anura – frogs and toads
Arthroleptidae
Family Arthroleptidae
Genus Arthroleptis:
Arthroleptis stenodactylus Pfeffer, 1893, savannah squeaking frog, endemic to Africa
Arthroleptis wahlbergii Smith, 1849, bush squeaker, syn. Arthroleptis wageri, endemic
Genus Leptopelis:
Leptopelis bocagi (Günther, 1865), endemic to Africa
Leptopelis mossambicus Poynton, 1985, Mozambique tree frog, endemic
Leptopelis natalensis (Smith, 1849), Natal tree frog, Hylambates (Leptopelis) natalensis, endemic
Leptopelis xenodactylus Poynton, 1963, long-toed tree frog, Leptopelis natalensis (Smith, 1849), endemic
Brevicipitidae
Family Brevicipitidae
Genus Breviceps:
Breviceps acutirostris Poynton, 1963, strawberry rain frog, endemic
Breviceps adspersus Peters, 1882, Transvaal short-headed frog, endemic
Breviceps pentheri Werner, 1899, endemic
Breviceps bagginsi Minter, 2003, Bilbo's rain frog, endemic
Breviceps fuscus Hewitt, 1925, black rain frog, endemic
Breviceps gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758), Cape rain frog, endemic
Breviceps macrops Boulenger, 1907, Boulenger's short-headed frog, endemic
Breviceps montanus Power, 1926, mountain rain frog, endemic
Breviceps mossambicus Peters, 1854, flat-face frog, endemic
Breviceps namaquensis Power, 1926, Namaqua rain frog, endemic
Breviceps rosei Power, 1926, Rose's rain frog, endemic
Breviceps rosei vansoni FitzSimons, 1946, endemic
Breviceps sopranus Minter, 2003, whistling rain frog, endemic
Breviceps sylvestris FitzSimons, 1930, forest rain frog, endemic
Breviceps sylvestris taeniatus Poynton, 1963, endemic
Breviceps verrucosus Rapp, 1842, plaintive rain frog, endemic
Bufonidae
Family Bufonidae
Genus Amietophrynus:
Amietophrynus garmani (Meek, 1897), Garman's toad, syn. Bufo garmani Meek, 1897, endemic to Africa
Amietophrynus gutturalis (Power, 1927), guttural toad, syn. Bufo gutturalis Power, 1927, endemic to Africa
Amietophrynus maculatus (Hallowell, 1854), flat-backed toad, syn. Bufo maculatus Hallowell, 1854, endemic to Africa
Amietophrynus pantherinus (Smith, 1828), western leopard toad, syn. Bufo cruciger Schmidt, 1846, Bufo pantherinus Smith, 1828, endemic
Amietophrynus pardalis (Hewitt, 1935), eastern leopard toad, syn. Bufo pardalis Hewitt, 1935, Bufo regularis pardalis Hewitt, 1935, endemic
Amietophrynus poweri (Hewitt, 1935), Kimberley toad, syn. Bufo regularis poweri Hewitt, 1935, Bufo poweri Hewitt, 1935, endemic
Amietophrynus rangeri (Hewitt, 1935), Kei Road toad, syn. Bufo regularis rangeri Hewitt, 1935, Bufo rangeri Hewitt, 1935, endemic
Genus Capensibufo:
Capensibufo rosei (Hewitt, 1926), Cape mountain toad, syn. Bufo rosei, endemic in South Africa
Capensibuf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20E.%20Knudsen | Karen E. Knudsen is Chief Executive Officer of American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. She is the first woman to hold that position in either organization.
Prior to joining ACS, Dr. Knudsen served as Executive Vice President of Oncology Services, Jefferson Health and Enterprise Director of its Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of 71 NCI-designated cancer centers in the United States. Previously she was the Hilary Koprowski Endowed Professor of Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also held secondary appointments in the Departments of Urology, Medical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology.
Education and career
Knudsen received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the George Washington University, her PhD in molecular biology from the University of California at San Diego in 1996, and her MBA with honors from the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego under the mentorship of Dr. Webster K. Cavenee. She joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2000, wherein she became a tenured Associate Professor.
In 2007 she joined the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health, and founded the cancer center’s prostate cancer program. After serving as the Deputy Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and the Vice Provost of Thomas Jefferson University, Knudsen accepted the offer to serve as the Enterprise Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in 2015, leading the cancer care and cancer discovery mission for Jefferson Health. She is also editor-in-chief, Molecular Cancer Research
Dr. Knudsen currently holds leadership roles with some of the most important cancer entities in the nation. She serves on the board of advisors for the National Cancer Institute and on 12 external advisory boards for NCI-designated cancer centers. She is an active member of several committees with the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in addition to serving on other academic and for-profit advisory boards. She previously served as president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), representing the 102 leading cancer centers in North America, and on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Dr. Knudsen was also recognized as one of the 100 Influential Women in Oncology by OncoDaily.
Research
Knudsen is an oncology researcher whose studies are focused on precision medicine in advanced prostate cancer, with an emphasis on understanding therapeutic relapse and designing new means of clinical intervention. Her translational studies have resulted in new clinical trials targeting DNA repair, cell cycle, and hormonal regulation pathways in patients with advanced disease. Knudsen and her colleagues discovered the mechanisms by which androgen sign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra%20Mojsilovic | Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović (born 1968) is a Serbian-American scientist. Her research interests are artificial intelligence, data science, and signal processing. She is known for innovative applications of machine learning to diverse societal and business problems. Her current research focuses on issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI. Mojsilović currently leads Trustworthy AI at IBM Research and is a co-director of IBM Science for Social Good. She is an IBM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Education and career
Mojsilović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. From 1997 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade. From 1998 to 2000, she was a Member of Technical Staff at the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. She joined IBM Research in 2000.
Research
Mojsilović's research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, multi-dimensional signal processing, and data science. She has applied her expertise to diverse application areas, including computer vision, multimedia, recommender systems, medical diagnostics, healthcare, IT operations, business analytics, workforce analytics, drug discovery, disease ecology, and most recently, COVID-19 response. A substantial part of her research is focused on development of ethical, responsible, and beneficial AI systems. In 2015, with Kush Varshney, she created IBM Science for Social Good initiative as a way to promote and direct AI research and development towards applications that benefit humanity. She was among the first researchers to call for transparent reporting on the development and deployment of AI models and systems.
Mojsilović currently leads Trustworthy AI team in IBM Research. The team has created leading open source and product capabilities in support of fair, explainable, robust, transparent, and responsible AI. Most notable contributions include: AI Fairness 360, a toolkit for mitigating bias in machine learning models, AI Explainability 360, a toolkit for supporting explanations in AI models, and AI FactSheets 360, an open research effort to foster trust in AI by increasing transparency and enabling governance.
Awards and recognition
IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award (2001)
European Conference on Computer Vision Best Paper Award (2002)
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research (2010)
IBM Fellow (2014)
IEEE Fellow (2017)
Computing Community Consortium and Schmidt Futures AI for Good Award (2019)
Belfer Center’s Technology and Public Purpose Project Spotlights Outstanding Technologies for Public Good (2020)
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2020)
Tech Spotlight (2021)
Personal
Mojsilović is the creator of the award-winning food blog Three Little Halves, which blends her love of food, photography, and writing. She was nominated for the James Beard Award and receive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Kats | Mikhail A. Kats (born 1986) is an American optics/photonics researcher and applied physicist. He is Jack St. Clair Kilby associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During his studies at Harvard University as a graduate student, Kats developed new nanophotonic and plasmonic technologies.
Early life and education
Kats was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, but his family moved to Kansas when he was a child. He grew up in Overland Park, Kansas where he attended Harmony Middle School and Blue Valley Northwest High School with Arash Ferdowsi. Kats earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering physics in 2008 from Cornell University before enrolling at Harvard University for his graduate degrees. He had originally planned to study computer science at Cornell but was drawn to applied physics, particularly optics and photonics. Kats also pursued undergraduate research in Cornell’s Semiconductor Optoelectronics Group led by Farhan Rana.
While completing his master's degree and PhD, Kats developed new nanophotonic and plasmonic technologies under the direction of Federico Capasso. Together with Nanfang Yu, Patrice Genevet, Zeno Gaburro, and several other members of Capasso’s research group, Kats developed optical metasurfaces based on resonant plasmonic antennas that resulted in the generalization of the laws of reflection on refraction and the development of flat lenses with thickness of tens of nanometers. Kats and colleagues also demonstrated that absorbing films of the thickness of tens of atoms can display thin-film interference effects. In the same year, Kats also co-invented a device which reacts to temperature changes by reflecting dramatically more or less infrared light, making it well suited for use in a range of infrared optical devices.
Career
After spending one year as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, Kats started a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison). When reflecting upon his choice, Kats said he was drawn to the university because of its "high level of research in electrical engineering and physics, its ample supply of excellent students to aid him in his research and its wide range of research topics and interdisciplinary research opportunities." Initially, Kats continued the research he began at Harvard at UW–Madison and led an international team of researchers to develop a way to precisely engineer the temperatures at which vanadium dioxide would undergo its phase transition. In recognition of his accomplishments studying the development of nanoscopic optical devices, Forbes magazine listed him amongst their ’30 under 30′ in 2016.
As an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Kats received funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program to "develop solutions to seemingly intractable modern problems." With this support, he began studying materials that can rapidly switch from transparent to opa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Cadwell | Angela M. Cadwell is a retired United States Air Force major general who last served as the director for cyberspace operations of the United States Northern Command.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals
Major generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadia%20Bashir | Sadia Bashir (Punjabi, ) is a Pakistani computer scientist, game developer and entrepreneur. She is the foundress and CEO of PixelArt Games Academy, the first game training academy in Pakistan. Sadia is also the first Pakistani to represent at the Game Developer's Conference.
Personal life
Sadia was born in a family where education for females was not a priority. However, Sadia wanted to study at an English medium school and she started working to fund her education. She used to give home tuition to children and also used to stitch clothes to fund her educational expenses.
When Sadia joined her new school, she was unable to adjust in because of her different family background. In her school, Sadia started spending time at the library where she learned more about graphics, computers and gaming. Sadia developed an interest in gaming when she used to play video games with her brother's friends. She started designing her own games when she was 13. Sadia had to continue working to fund her education for her university. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science. She also holds a Masters in Computer Science with Artificial intelligence and Software Engineering, Production processes for Video Games from COMSATS university.
Career
Sadia worked as a programmer for a few years before switched to developing games. Her mentor decided to fund Sadia and her colleague to work on games and they started work in a small basement. Sadia worked for seven years in the gaming industry. During her work, she was disappointed with the lack of innovation and less role of women in the gaming industry in Pakistan and so she decided to start an initiative that addressed the problem. Sadia arranged meetups and conferences where she connected local developers with international developers. She also organized workshops at universities. After seeing a positive response for the work, Sadia decided to create PixelArt Games Academy. Her organization now has game developers Ken Levine (founder of Ghost story games, creative director BioShock), Rami Ismail (co-founder Vlambeer), Brie Code (founder Tru Luv Media), and Jonathon Chey (co-founder of former Irrational Games) on the advisory board. They provide mentorship to Pakistani developers.
Sadia's gaming academy provides trainings and research and development in games to students and developers in Pakistan. Her organization is also addressing the gender gap in the gaming industry. Sadia's program has a criterion of at least 33% women in the workplace. Her academy also offers scholarships to women. Sadia aims to bridge the gender gap in the tech industry through her initiative.
Achievements
Sadia was awarded the “Women Can Do” Award from US Embassy at the Women Entrepreneurs Summit in 2016 for her accomplishments. The award is for the recognition of successful women entrepreneurs of Pakistan. She was in the winning team of global entrepreneurship summit 2017. She was also the first speaker from Pakistan to speak at Gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Management%20and%20Analysis%20Centre | The Indian Navy's Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) was approved in 2012 and operationalized in 2014. Located in Gurugram, it is the nodal agency for maritime data fusion that links information from the high seas and Indian's coastline and island territories.
IMAC tracks only non-military shipping, whereas the Directorate of Naval Operations tracks military vessels on another classified network. A multi-agency center named as National Maritime Domain Awareness centre (NDMA centre) is also being considered.
The Information Management and Analysis Centre was conceived after the 2008 Mumbai attacks which took place on 26 November 2008 and is also known as 26/11. The terrorist attacks took place from the sea, being the first recorded act of maritime terrorism in India. In this attack, 10 terrorists from Lashkar e Taiba used the sea route for their journey from Pakistan and infiltrated into Mumbai after hijacking an Indian fishing boat.
The project was approved by the Defence Acquisition Council in 2012 at a cost of ₹450 crore and was inaugurated by the then Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar. It is the nodal centre of the National Command Control Communication and Intelligence (NC3I) Network, which was established to link 51 operational Centres of Indian Navy and the Coast Guard spread across the country’s coastline, including the island territories. The IMAC tracks vessels on the high seas and gets data from the coastal radars, white shipping agreements, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) transponders fitted on merchant ships, air and traffic management system and global shipping databases.
Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean region
The Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean region (IFC–IOR), was set up in the IMAC in 2018-2019, as a regional information coordination body, that coordinates with 21 partner countries and 22 multi-national agencies. The need to set up such a surveillance and information management system was felt following the 2008 Mumbai attacks. While most coordination is done virtually, liaison officers include those from United States, France, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom and Seychelles.
Challenges
In 2020, reports emerged that even 12 years after the Mumbai attacks, around 60 percent (about 150,000) of small fishing boats lack an identification system.
See also
Integrated Coastal Surveillance System
References
External links
Official website of Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean region (IFC–IOR)
Indian Navy
Government agencies established in 2014
2014 establishments in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRTV%20%28TV%20network%29 | MRTV is a television network owned by Myanmar Radio and Television. It was launched on 3 June 1980 and is the first television network in Myanmar.
History
Television service in Myanmar was first introduced in June 1979 as a test trial in Yangon. MRTV was first launched on 3 June 1980, with broadcasts in color beginning on 1 November. Regular television service was formally launched in 1981 using the NTSC standard. In 2005, MRTV had 195 television relay stations throughout the country.
In October 2013, MRTV started broadcasting on digital terrestrial with DVB-T2 System, same as most ASEAN Countries. 18 TV channels and 3 Myanmar Radio channels are on MRTV multiplex system. MRTV plans the news interface, to the modern style of starting sequences and will have well-decorated news room. The broadcasting hours also increased to 18 hours (previously 10 hours). On February 15, 2015, MRTV adding 5 new TV channels to their Multplex Play Out system, such as MRTV-4, Channel 7, 5 Plus, MNTV and Channel 9.
On March 24, 2018, MRTV added 5 new TV channels to their Multiplex Play out System, such as Mizzima TV, DVB TV, Channel K, YTV and Fortune TV.
Programming
Program's broadcast on Main MRTV HD channel.
Digital terrestrial television
Satellite television
In order to counter illegal satellite television channels, MRTV launch its own Free to Air Direct to Home services called MRTV DTH on February 1, 2022. It offers 23 TV channels and 6 Radio channels, using Intelsat 39 (62°E). Which is some of the beams on that satellite are ranted by Government of Myanmar.
See also
MRTV Network
MITV
MRTV-4
MWD
Television in Myanmar
Media in Myanmar
References
External links
Official site of MRTV (Burmese)
Mass media in Myanmar
Television channels in Myanmar
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Mass media in Yangon
Television in Myanmar
Publicly funded broadcasters
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukui%20FM%20Broadcasting | is a radio station in Fukui, Fukui, Japan. It is the flagship station of the Japan FM Network (JFN).
Timeline
This broadcasting station acquired a preliminary radio license on December 19, 1983, and was established as Fukui FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd. on February 20, 1984. The radio was launched on December 18 of that year. FM teletext broadcasting ended on March 31, 2014.
Broadcasting
The callsign for this station is JOLU-FM. The frequency of this station is 76.1 MHz. And the power of this broadcasting station is 1 kW, and the ERP is 4.4 kW. There are six relay stations of this broadcasting station: Ohno relay station, Tsuruga relay station, Mihama relay station, Obama relay station, Takahama relay station, and Mikuni relay station. The frequency of the Ohno relay station is 84.7 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 10W. The frequency of the Tsuruga relay station is 86.4 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 10W.
The frequency of the Mihama relay station is 80.3 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 10W. The frequency of the Obama relay station is 82.5 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 100W. The frequency of the Takahama relay station is 82.0 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 3W. The frequency of the Mikuni relay station is 86.3 MHz, and the power of this relay station is 10W.
Program
This station mainly has a major production program called "Life Is". "Life Is" is a large-scale regular live broadcast program in the morning, and broadcasts a wide variety of information such as sports culture in close contact with the community in addition to living information.
Capital Structure
As of March 2018, the capital was 480 million yen, sales were 399.68 million yen, operating income was 10.97 million yen, ordinary income was 27.02 million yen, net income was 18.07 million yen, and net assets were 800 million yen. It was 9.17 million yen and total assets were 886.16 million yen. The number of employees was 12 as of April 1, 2018. As of March 2019, the capital was 100 million yen, the sales were 559.34 million yen, the operating income was 17.81 million yen, the ordinary income was 23.51 million yen, the net income was 15.55 million yen, and the net assets were 799.87 million yen. Yen and total assets were 887.26 million yen.
Website
References
Radio stations in Japan
Radio stations established in 1984
Mass media in Fukui (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Discovery%20in%20the%20UK | This is a timeline of Discovery, a network of television channels owned by Discovery Inc. that broadcast in the UK.
1980s and 1990s
1989
1 April – Discovery Channel Europe launches. UK viewers could only receive the channel from Intelsat satellites at 27.5° West and via cable systems.
1990
No events.
1991
No events.
1992
9 March – TLC launches as a daytime service, timesharing with the Discovery Channel. As with Discovery, it is only available in the UK via Intelsat and on cable.
1993
22 July – Discovery, but not TLC, starts broadcasting on the Astra satellite.
1 September – Discovery becomes a pay channel when it joins the newly formed Sky Multichannels package. It broadcasts on the platform for eight hours each day, timesharing transponder space with CMT Europe.
1994
5 September – TLC launches on Astra and timeshares with Discovery, broadcasting daily from 9am until 4pm. Discovery extends its broadcast hours by two hours and is now on air between 4pm and 2am.
1995
No events.
1996
No events.
1997
3 April – TLC is relaunched as Discovery Home & Leisure.
1998
1 September – Animal Planet launches on Astra satellite and analogue cable.
1 October – The launch of Sky Digital sees the launch of new channels from Discovery – Discovery Civilisation, Discovery Sci-Trek, Discovery Travel & Adventure and Discovery Channel +1. Discovery Channel and Discovery Home & Leisure expand their broadcast hours to coincide with the launch, now being on air for 18 hours a day.
1999
No events.
2000s
2000
1 February – Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids launch. They are created for the OnDigital platform. Discovery Kids broadcasts during the day with Wings taking over for the evening and are initially exclusive to OnDigital.
1 July – Discovery Health launches.
2001
May – Animal Planet +1 and Discovery Home & Leisure +1 launch.
18 November – Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids are replaced on ITV Digital by the Discovery Channel. Kids and Wings continue as full time channels on other platforms.
The closure of Sky's analogue service sees Discovery ending its part-time analogue transmissions.
2002
No events.
2003
April – Discovery Science replaces Discovery Sci-Trek.
2004
No events.
2005
February – Discovery Travel & Living replaces Discovery Travel & Adventure.
7 May –
Discovery Home & Health and Discovery Real Time replace Discovery Health and Discovery Home & Leisure respectively, the former expanding into a female-orientated lifestyle channel.
Discovery Home & Health +1 launches.
22 August – Discovery Real Time Extra launches.
2006
22 May – Discovery HD launches.
2007
1 March – Discovery Turbo replaces Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids.
25 June – Discovery Channel +1.5 launches.
November – Discovery Knowledge replaces Discovery Civilisation and the schedule expands to also cover programming on engineering, crime and technology.
2008
8 January – DMAX and DMAX +1 launches.
21 April –
DMAX +2 launches.
Discovery Scien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282021%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2021, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 34th season of Home and Away began airing on 1 February 2021. Susie McAllister, Chloe Anderson and Mia Anderson were introduced during the same month. Sienna Blake, Allegra Freeman and Emmett Ellison made their debuts in April. Rachel Young arrived in late May, followed by Cash Newman in June. Logan Bennett and Felicity Newman were introduced in August. Theo Poulos made his debut in September.
Susie McAllister
Susan "Susie" McAllister, played by Bridie Carter, made her first appearance on 4 February 2021. Carter's casting details were announced on 10 August 2020. She began filming during the same week. Carter was pleased to be offered the role during the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it unexpected. She stated "I was astounded and ecstatic at the same time. I am very fortunate and very grateful because I have a lot of friends who are sitting in a very precarious position." Carter has previously appeared in the serial as Toni Jarvis and Brooke Taylor in 1995 and 1999. Susan is a real estate agent who relocates from Western Australia to Summer Bay. Carter described her as "a really fun, dynamic woman" and "fiercely independent". She also said Susan "befriends certain people quite particularly." Daniel Kilkelly of Digital Spy later reported that she would a possible love interest for John Palmer (Shane Withington). The character was killed off in June 2021, starting a whodunnit storyline.
Following her move to Summer Bay, Susie is first required to help Tori Morgan (Penny McNamee) and Christian Green (Ditch Davey) who are in search of a new home. She soon has her eye on John Palmer (Shane Withington) and approaches him while he is dining alone at Salt; the pair initially hit it off and Susie takes keen interest in John's personal life. The two eventually become more involved with one another and when Susie claims she has no place to live, John agrees to let her move in. Susie shows signs of suspicious behaviour when she begins asking questions and searching through John's bank statements, aside from feeling uninterested every time John touches her. Susie then persuades John to run for Surf Club president, much to Alf Stewart's (Ray Meagher) shock as it is unusual for anyone to run against him for president. Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons) confronts John about his sudden change of character since he has started seeing Susie, causing her to clash with Susie on a number of occasions. Fed up with Marilyn's interference, Susie presents Marilyn with divorce papers from John. Following John's appointment as president, Susie persuades him to raise money for the Surf Club's renovation and she attempts to get sponsorship from local businesses such as the diner and the gym.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyne | Paradyne Corporation, also referred to as AT&T Paradyne, was a maker of computer networking and telecommunications hardware, based in Largo, Florida. The company formed in 1969 to supply computer communications systems and expanded steadily through the 1970s and 80s. During these period they operated in the high-end modem market and competed with Motorola Codex, Racal-Milgo, and divisions of AT&T and IBM.
As one of its first major purchases after the 1982 Breakup of the Bell System, AT&T purchased the company for $250 million in 1989. The company grew to become a major supplier in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry as that expanded. When AT&T spun off Lucent in 1996, Paradyne moved to the new company. Lucent quickly sold Paradyne to Texas Pacific Group (TPG Capital) for $175 million where it became Paradyne Networks. The company changed hands several times since then and has been owned by DZS since 2005.
References
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Networking companies of the United States
American companies established in 1969
Former AT&T subsidiaries
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Pythia is an ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. It was created by Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield, and Jonathan Prag, researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford.
To study the society and the history of ancient civilisations, ancient history relies on disciplines such as epigraphy, the study of ancient inscribed texts. Hundreds of thousands of these texts, known as inscriptions, have survived to our day, but are often damaged over the centuries. Illegible parts of the text must then be restored by specialists, called epigraphists, in order to extract meaningful information from the text and use it to expand our knowledge of the context in which the text was written. Pythia takes as input the damaged text, and is trained to return hypothesised restorations of ancient Greek inscriptions, working as an assistive aid for ancient historians. Its neural network architecture works at both the character- and word-level, thereby effectively handling long-term context information, and dealing efficiently with incomplete word representations. Pythia is applicable to any discipline dealing with ancient texts (philology, papyrology, codicology) and can work in any language (ancient or modern).
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Digital humanities projects
Digital humanities
Epigraphy
Ancient history |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Hagness | Susan Carol Hagness is an American electrical engineer and applied electromagnetics researcher. She is the Philip Dunham Reed Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Early life and education
Hagness was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana where she was encouraged by mathematics professor Herb Bailey to pursue a career in STEM. He persuaded Hagness to take computer programming during the summer and entered her in Rubik's Cube competitions. Growing up, she attended high school in the Vigo County School Corporation district where she was a finalist for their Most Valuable Student contest. Hagness completed her PhD at Northwestern University after being inspired by Allen Taflove, who later became her doctoral advisor.
Career
As a graduate student, Hagness was asked to assist with Northwestern's new first-year course called "Engineering First," inspiring her to pursue a career in teaching. After graduating, Hagness chose to accept a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison). Upon joining the UW–Madison's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, she was one of only two women in the department out of approximately 40 faculty. As an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, she began researching the use of microwave radar imaging for breast cancer detection. In recognition of her academic research, Hagness earned a 2000 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineer and was named one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's magazine, Technology Review. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 2009, Hagness was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her "contributions to time-domain computational electromagnetics and microwave medical imaging." She remained at UW–Madison where she was honored with the William R. Kellett Mid-Career Award for outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. She later collaborated with Nader Behdad to seek less invasive therapies for cancer patients after prompting from Joshua Medow. Together, they discovered that high-frequency microwaves offer a comparable ablation area. In recognition of her academic achievements, she received the Sven Berggren prize from the board of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 2015.
As the Philip Dunham Reed Professor at UW-Madison, Hagness and John H. Booske were asked by Ben Tilberg of Ocean Spray Cranberries to develop a more efficient, technologically advanced method to count cranberries. The device they created automated the counting process without having to pick any berries. In the same year, she was also selected by the IEEE to be one of their distinguished lecturers. She was later named treasurer of Electrical and Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Knowledgebase%20of%20Interatomic%20Models | The Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM). is a cyberinfrastructure funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on improving the reliability and reproducibility of molecular and multi-scale simulations in computational materials science. It includes a repository of interatomic potentials that are exhaustively tested with user-developed integrity tests, tools to help select among existing potentials and develop new ones, extensive metadata on potentials and their developers, and standard integration methods for using interatomic potentials in major simulation codes. OpenKIM is a member of DataCite and provides unique DOIs (Digital object identifier) for all archived content on the site (fitted models, validation tests, etc.) in order to properly document and provide recognition to content contributors. OpenKIM is also an eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Science Gateway, and all content on openkim.org is available under open source licenses in support of the open science initiative.
Motivation
Reliability, reproducibility, and accessibility are foundational to the success of science; in computational materials science these can be achieved through documentation of simulation setup, model parameters, and software version/settings information. The NSF actively supports the development of software and cyberinfrastructure that enable the documentation and distribution of this type of critical data or promote open and accessible science as part of the national Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). In solicitations related to the MGI, researchers are encouraged to "leverage existing cyberinfrastructures wherever appropriate and possible," including OpenKIM, The Materials Project and XSEDE
Usage
OpenKIM provides tools for accessing the models and calculations stored in the OpenKIM repository, including the KIM API to allow applications that support the API to gain access to all of the data in a programmatic manner. A number of packages use these tools in order to streamline the process of developing new models, automate calculations of material properties, and develop educational tools for materials simulations. OpenKIM has been directly integrated into various prominent molecular modelling and potential fitting software including LAMMPS, ASE, DL_POLY, GULP, and potfit, and is recognized in the molecular modelling community as being a critical step towards improving accessibility and reproducibility in the field. A key aspect of OpenKIM is that in addition to model parameters, it also stores the complete source code of "portable models" in order improve to ensure complete reproducibility of simulations performed using given models.
Notes
OpenKIM is a founding member of the Materials Science Community Forum, a community-led effort to promote open communication and collaboration in computational materials science and to support users of many of the main scientific software packages used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Woo%20Zeller | Emily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audio book narrator. She voices Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red's 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077. In the Star Wars canon, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama Dr. Aphra and narrated in the 2020 audio production of FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Personal life
Zeller attended UC Berkeley majoring in dance, theater, and performance studies. In her fifth year, she was awarded one of the school's Eisner Awards for creative talent in 2006. After school, she spent some time living on Lamma Island in Hong Kong.
Awards and honors
In 2020, AudioFile Magazine selected Zeller as a Golden Voice narrator.
Awards
"Best of" lists
Filmography
References
External links
Living people
Audiobook narrators
American voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy%20Gumphrey%20Supersleuth | Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth, often known simply as Super Sleuth, is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum by Gremlin Graphics, a software developer based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. It is an action-adventure game: the player controls Grumpy, a store detective and general dogsbody working in a large department store. The game was developed by Shaun Hollingworth with loading-screen graphics by Marco Duroe.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of an ageing store detective, 'Grumpy' Gumphrey, and the aim is for Gumphrey to keep his job. In order to do so, he must fulfil various tasks assigned to him by various shoppers, and by the boss of the store, known only as 'Sir'. Although Gumphrey is described as a 'store detective', he has to complete a number of tasks more associated with a cleaner or engineer, such as spraying bugs in the cafe, repairing the lift, and tidying the storeroom. Some of the tasks verge on the surreal, such as shooting ducks that have entered the store, and caging a gorilla on the loose.
The game is set in a large, traditional department store named 'Mole Bros'; the name is a nod to Wanted: Monty Mole, a 1984 Gremlin Graphics game that had proved a hit as well as a popular Sheffield Department Store "Cole Brothers". The player character in Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth can visit 39 screens, designed to look like the different areas in a department store, with different kinds of merchandise, as well as a cafe, a kitchen, a store room, a boiler room, and the manager's office.
The tasks generally involve puzzles that require Grumpy to acquire certain items and use them in a particular way in certain screens. They may also require dexterous manipulation of the player character. For example, the first task requires Grumpy to steal the handgun from under his boss's chair – a feat that requires careful keyboard or joystick work – in order to shoot the ducks.
Grumpy is hampered by other shoppers (non player characters) in the store, and must work against the clock to complete the tasks on time. Failure to do so will result in a warning letter from the boss; four warning letters lead to game over.
Reception
Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth was well-received when published. Sinclair User gave the game 5/5 stars, while
Crash awarded an 86% rating. Both magazines highlighted the originality of the game, with Sinclair User praising the 'novel plot', and Crash calling Grumpy the 'first geriatric hero to star in a computer game'. Both magazines also praised the game's graphics, animation, and its polish.
References
External links
Review of Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth by Crispin Driver at Retro Gamer, 6 December 2008.
Video walkthrough of Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth on YouTube by RZX Archive, 15 December 2012.
Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth at World of Spectrum
1985 video games
Action-adventure games
Detective video games
Video games about birds
Video games about primates
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Elizabeth%20Hill%20Mclaughlin | Laura Elizabeth Hill Mclaughlin (born September 3, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1991) was a computer, instructor and researcher of astronomy. As an astronomer of the Detroit Observatory for the University of Michigan, she conducted research work alongside her husband, fellow Detroit Observatory astronomer Dean B. Mclaughlin.
Early life and education
Raised within the Methodist Home for Children in Philadelphia, Mclaughlin was the first of the Home ever to attend college. She received a B.A. in Astronomy in 1917 with her thesis, “Proper Motions of Stars from Micrometric Measures” from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She then remained at Northwestern to achieve an A.M in Astronomy. To receive a doctoral degree, Mclaughlin went to the University of Michigan and by 1929 graduated with a Ph.D. in Astronomy with her dissertation, “A Micro-Photometric Study of the Spectrum of Beta Lyrae”. The dissertation was conducted under the direction of Detroit Observatory Director Ralph Hamilton Curtiss. This was the last of her major research publications.
Career
Alongside her education, Mclaughlin also worked in teaching and computer positions. Specifically, while pursuing her bachelor’s degree, Mclaughlin taught physics, mathematics, and German at three high schools in South Dakota and New Jersey. When pursuing a Master’s degree, Mclaughlin worked at the Dearborn Observatory as a computer. Her name and computational works appear in the publication “Stellar Parallaxes: Determined from Photographs made with the 18½-inch Refractor of the Detroit Observatory”. Prior to beginning Ph.D. work at the University of Michigan, she taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Later years and legacy
Mclaughlin married fellow Detroit Observatory Astronomer Dean B. Mclaughlin in 1927. It was that year that Dean joined the U-M Faculty as an assistant professor of astronomy, coming from Swarthmore College where he spent three years as an instructor of mathematics and astronomy. While Mclaughlin assisted her husband in his astronomical research efforts at the Detroit Observatory, she did not publish any independent work after the creation of her dissertation. They had five children: one son (science-fiction writer Dean Mclaughlin Jr.) and four daughters (Elizabeth Schick, Laura Alberta Dawson, Sarah Mclaughlin, and Margaret Farley), and fourteen grandchildren. She remained an active participant in Methodist Church community activities until her death in 1991.
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1893 births
1991 deaths
Scientists from Philadelphia
American women astronomers
Northwestern University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
20th-century American astronomers
20th-century American women scientists
Vassar College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Booske | John Henry Booske is an American electrical and computer engineer. He is the Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include experimental and theoretical study of coherent electromagnetic radiation, its sources and its applications, spanning the RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and THz regimes.
Early life and education
Booske was born to father Henry in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he attended Manheim Township High School. Growing up, Booske swam competitively at the Lancaster County Pool where he set a record for the 17-and-under boys 200-meter freestyle relay team. He also attended Highland Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Eagle Scouts while enrolled in middle school. Booske continued to participate in the Scouts as he entered high school and was the recipient of a National Scholarship Merit Award to pay for his schooling at Pennsylvania State University.
Following high school, Booske graduated with the highest distinction in nuclear engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1980 and immediately began working at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. While attending the university, Booske played on the Penn State water polo team and was a member of the Tau Beta Pi. As a result of his academic achievements, Booske received a full fellowship to attend the University of Michigan College of Engineering for graduate school. He completed his PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1985.
Career
Upon completing his PhD, Booske began working on a research project at the University of Maryland. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. As an assistant professor, Booske studied the properties of electromagnetic fields and waves and was the recipient of a Presidential Young Investigators Award for 1990 from the National Science Foundation. Within his first 10 years at the institution, he was the recipient of their Chancellor award and 2000 Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, Booske collaborated with Keith Thompson, David Larson, and Tom Kelly of Imago Scientific Instruments used Imago's local electrode atom probe microscope to pinpoint individual atoms of boron-a common additive, or dopant, in semiconductors-within a sea of silicon atoms. He published the results in a paper in Applied Physics Letters which demonstrated a way to image these vanishingly small devices by mapping them atom by atom.
By 2011, Booske was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering contributions to the development of coherent radiation sources in the submillimeter wave and terahertz regime." The following year, he helped launch the Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced Learning in two UW-Madison libraries to "transform from a classroom, to a small grou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Helen%20Harper | Margaret Helen Harper (9 February 1919 - 13 October 2014) was an American computer programmer who worked with Grace Hopper at Remington Rand to develop one of the first computer compilers. Harper was born in Michigan, but lived most of her life in Pennsylvania. She attended Wellesley College and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. She worked as a programmer and then as a professor.
Early life and education
Harper was born in Michigan, but grew up in Pennsylvania. Her parents were Paul Harper (b. 1892) and Katharine Harper (b. 1893). Paul worked at an auto dealership, and Katharine was a musician and a stay-at-home mother. Margaret had an adopted younger brother named Richard Irving Harper (13 March 1927 - November 1977). Margaret was encouraged in her studies as a child, but she lamented that she wasn't very artistic. Margaret attended both public and private schools before her college years. For college, Margaret first attended Wellesley College, but then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. Margaret was active in sports, and played on the Wellesley College and University of Pennsylvania women's hockey teams. Margaret graduated in 1940 with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Education where she studied chemistry.
Career
It is not clear how Harper got involved in computer science, but by the 1950s she was working as a developer.
Computer science is by and large a discipline of collaboration, and the development process in the late 1940s and early 1950s was no different in that respect. In the early 1950s when Grace Hopper was developing the first compilers, she was aided by Harper and Richard K. Ridgway. Hopper even stated that "this work is necessarily group research, and this account cannot be published without citing those members…primarily responsible for the achievement of these results". This is important to note, because much of Harper's contribution has been overshadowed by the Matilda Effect of Grace Hopper's fame. In 1952, Harper, Ridgway, and Hopper were all working at Remington Rand on the A series of compilers for the UNIVAC system. Specifically, Harper and Ridgway prepared the manual for and worked on the A-2 compiler.
Harper also published her article "Subroutines: Prefabricated Blocks for Building" in the March 1954 issue of Computers and Automation. In her article, Harper starts off by saying how the 1950s computer programmer has essentially been like a "settler in America" who must make every bit of his house by hand, right down to the pegs that hold the house together! She continues by noting that the times have changed, and now programmers are working together not from the fine pegs of a house, but by using the tools and ideas that others discovered in the past. She stresses the importance of subroutines in computer programming—the idea that larger tasks can be broken down into smaller (sub) segments—but goes on to note that "the absence of a compiler [for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Etienne-Cummings | Ralph Etienne-Cummings is an academic in the field of electrical engineering. He is a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Early life and education
Etienne-Cummings was born on August 20, 1967, in Mahe, Seychelles. At age 12 he entered boarding school in the United Kingdom, then moved to the United States with his family during high school.
Etienne-Cummings graduated from Lincoln University in 1988 with a B.S. degree in physics. He went on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and 1994, respectively. His thesis was on biologically motivated analog VSLI systems for optomotor tasks.
Career and research
After receiving his doctoral degree Etienne-Cummings taught as an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University before moving to Johns Hopkins University in 1998. In 2002 he began teaching at the University of Maryland while founding and directing the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering. He returned to Johns Hopkins and in 2004 was appointed Associate Director for Education and Outreach of the Engineering Research Center on Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. In 2006 he was named a visiting African Fellow and Fulbright Fellowship Grantee for his sabbatical at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In 2008 he became a full professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has served on numerous boards and committees, including his appointment as chairman of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Technical Committee on Sensory Systems and on Neural Systems and Application, and has served as a consulting engineer for several technology firms including Nova Sensors and Panasonic. In 2012 he was recognized by the National Science Foundation as a HistoryMaker for his contributions to electrical engineering. In 2021, he was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's College of Fellows (AIMBE).
Etienne-Cummings currently directs the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. In March 2022, he was appointed appointed vice provost for faculty affairs at the university.
His research spans a range of electrical and computer engineering topics, including mixed-signal VSLI systems, computational sensors, computer vision, neuromorphic engineering, smart structures, mobile robotics, legged locomotion and neuroprosthetic devices. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed articles, 11 books chapters and holds 10 patents and applications on his work.
Selected publications
Etienne-Cummings, Ralph, et al. "A foveated silicon retina for two-dimensional tracking." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing 47.6 (2000): 504-517.
Lewis, M. Anthony, Francesco Tenore, and Ralph Etienne-Cummings. "CPG design using inhibitory networks." Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation. IEEE, 2005.
Yadid-Pec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20Data%20Protection%20Authority | The Turkish Data Protection Authority (, KVKK) is a government organization in Turkey which provides the protection of personal data and works to develop awareness in this respect in the public eye in line with the fundamental rights related with privacy and freedom stated in the Constitution. Turkish Data Protection Authority was established under the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 published in 2016.
References
External links
The Turkish Data Protection Authority – Official website (In English)
Government agencies of Turkey
2017 establishments in Turkey
Organizations based in Ankara
Regulatory and supervisory agencies of Turkey
Data protection authorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gael%20M.%20Martin | Gael Margaret Martin is an Australian Bayesian econometrician, known for her work in simulation-based inference and time series analysis of non-Gaussian data. She is a professor of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, an associate investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Martin has a bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne, and a second bachelor's, master's, and PhD from Monash University, completed in 1997 under the supervision of Grant Hillier. She was an ARC Future Fellow for 2010–2013, and was a keynote speaker at Bayes on the Beach 2017, a biennial Australian statistics conference.
She was the honours supervisor of Huan Yun Xiang, who killed two Monash students in 2002 in the Monash University shooting.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian economists
Australian women economists
Australian statisticians
Women statisticians
Bayesian econometricians
University of Melbourne alumni
Monash University alumni
Academic staff of Monash University
Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Near-Earth%20Object%20Studies | The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) center for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their probability of Earth impact. CNEOS is located at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
CNEOS computes high-precision orbits for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). These orbit solutions calculate NEO close approaches to Earth, and produce assessments of NEO impact probabilities over the next century or more.
CNEOS is the home of JPL's Sentry impact monitoring system, which performs analyses of possible future orbits of hazardous asteroids, searching for impact possibilities over the next century. Similarly, its Scout system monitors new potential asteroid discoveries and computes the possible range of future motions. In the event of a potential impact (known as a virtual impactor), impact time and probability are estimated.
CNEOS also provides the NEO Deflection App, which computes how far a hypothetical asteroid would move if deflected by a known amount at an earlier time.
References
NASA groups, organizations, and centers
Near-Earth object tracking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wav%20%28disambiguation%29 | WAV is a computer file format for waveform audio.
Wav or WAV may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Di WAV (born Daniela Carpio), Guatemalan-Swiss singer-songwriter
WAV 1019 Cebu (DYFM), a Philippine radio station
WAV 1019 Davao (DXFM), a Philippine radio station
Places
Wavertree Technology Park railway station, Liverpool, England (by GBR code)
Wave Hill Airport, Kalkarindji, Australia (by IATA code)
Warbelow's Air Ventures, a regional airline in Alaska, US (by ICAO code)
Vehicles
Nikola WAV, an electric, personal watercraft
UberWAV, Uber's Wheelchair Accessible Van
Other uses
Waka language, spoken in Nigeria (ISO 639 code: wav)
Wide Angle Viewing, see Glossary of military abbreviations
See also
WAVS AM 1170, Davie, Florida, USA
wave (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino%20mass%20hierarchy | The problem of neutrino mass hierarchy is related to the fact that present experimental data on neutrino oscillations allow two possible classes of solutions.
In the first class, called Normal Hierarchy (NH) or Normal Ordering (NO), the two lightest mass eigenstates have a small mass difference, of the order of 10 meV, while the third eigenstate has a mass about 50 meV higher. In the Inverted Hierarchy (IH), also called Inverted Ordering (IO), the lightest mass eigenstate is followed by a doublet of higher mass eigenstates about 50 meV heavier, being again of about 10 meV the mass difference in the doublet. Present data slightly prefer the NO.
References
Neutrino experiments
Neutrinos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Machine learning-based attention is a mechanism mimicking cognitive attention. It calculates "soft" weights for each word, more precisely for its embedding, in the context window. It can do it either in parallel (such as in transformers) or sequentially (such as recurrent neural networks). "Soft" weights can change during each runtime, in contrast to "hard" weights, which are (pre-)trained and fine-tuned and remain frozen afterwards.
Attention was developed to address the weaknesses of recurrent neural networks, where words in a sentence are slowly processed one at a time. Recurrent neural networks favor more recent words at the end of a sentence while earlier words fade away in volatile neural activations. Attention gives all words equal access to any part of a sentence in a faster parallel scheme and no longer suffers the wait time of serial processing. Earlier uses attached this mechanism to a serial recurrent neural network's language translation system (below), but later uses in Transformers large language models removed the recurrent neural network and relied heavily on the faster parallel attention scheme.
Predecessors
Predecessors of the mechanism were used in recurrent neural networks which, however, calculated "soft" weights sequentially and, at each step, considered the current word and other words within the context window. They were known as multiplicative modules, sigma pi units, and hyper-networks. They have been used in long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, multi-sensory data processing (sound, images, video, and text) in perceivers, fast weight controllers's memory, reasoning tasks in differentiable neural computers, and neural Turing machines
Core Calculations
The attention network was designed to identify the highest correlations amongst words within a sentence, assuming that it has learned those patterns from the training corpus. This correlation is captured in neuronal weights through back-propagation from unsupervised pretraining.
The example below shows how correlations are identified once a network has been trained and has the right weights. When looking at the word "that" in the sentence "see that girl run", the network should be able to identify "girl" as a highly correlated word. For simplicity this example focuses on the word "that", but in actuality all words receive this treatment in parallel and the resulting soft-weights and context vectors are stacked into matrices for further task- specific use.
The query vector is compared (via dot product) with each word in the keys. This helps the model discover the most relevant word for the query word. In this case "girl" was determined to be the most relevant word for "that". The result (size 4 in this case) is run through the softmax function, producing a vector of size 4 with probabilities summing to 1. Multiplying this against the value matrix effectively amplifies the signal for the most important words in the sentence and diminishes the signal for les |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention%20network | Attention network may refer to:
Dorsal attention network, a network of brain regions involved in control of attention
Ventral attention network, a network of brain regions involved in detection of stimuli
Artificial neural networks used for attention (machine learning) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-attention | Self-attention can mean:
Attention (machine learning), a machine learning technique
self-attention, an attribute of natural cognition
Self Attention, also called intra Attention, is an attention mechanism relating different positions of a single sequence in order to compute a representation of the same sequence. It has been shown to be very useful in machine reading, abstractive summarization, or image description generation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202020 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2020, the list was published on December 3, calculated with data from November 23, 2019, to November 14, 2020.
Billboards top Hot 100 artist of 2020 was The Weeknd, whose "Blinding Lights" was the number-one Hot 100 song of the year. It was one of two songs he placed on the list.
Year-end list
See also
2020 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2020
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2020
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
2020 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel%3A%20Battles%20for%20North%20Africa | Rommel: Battles for North Africa is a 1988 computer wargame published by Strategic Studies Group.
Gameplay
Rommel: Battles for North Africa is a game in which eight scenarios simulate operational level battles.
Reception
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "That is the essence of Rommel: good scenarios, good development, good system."
Brian Walker reviewed Panzer Battles and Rommel: Battles for North Africa for Games International magazine, and gave them both a rating of 8 out of 10, and stated that "Despite their hard core titles, there is no reason why either of these games should be restricted to the wargames market. In essence, they are resource management games that should appeal to both military freaks as well as the rest of the gaming fraternity."
Reviews
The Games Machine - Dec, 1989
Computer Gaming World - Dec, 1991
References
External links
Review in Info
Review in Joystick Hebdo (French)
Review in Videogame & Computer World (Italian)
Review in Commodore Computing International
1988 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Cultural depictions of Erwin Rommel
DOS games
Macintosh games
NEC PC-9801 games
Strategic Studies Group games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in Australia
Video games set in Egypt
Video games set in Libya
Video games set in Malta
Video games set in Tunisia
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money%20Money%202020%20Part%20II%3A%20We%20Told%20Ya%20So%21 | Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! is the second studio album by American new wave band The Network (a Green Day side project). It was released on December 4, 2020, and was their first new album after seventeen years, following several weeks of subtle teases by the band via social media and several music videos from the promotional EP, Trans Am.
Background
The Network had gained a cult following after their brief two-year tenure, during which they released their debut album Money Money 2020, as well as played a few small club shows. In October 2005, they opened for Green Day at two concerts, by which point it had become known that The Network was the alter egos of Green Day. After those two performances, the band went on a fifteen-year hiatus, reemerging in October 2020 with a YouTube video entitled "The Prophecy" (which would also be the first track for their upcoming album). In the weeks following, a music video was released for the lead single off of Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! entitled "Ivankkka Is a Nazi." On November 19, 2020, the band released an EP of four songs from the album, entitled Trans Am. Following the EP's release, the band also revealed the title for the long-awaited sequel to Money Money 2020, and in the week leading to its release they uploaded four videos, each a minute long, every day before the album was released. Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! was released on all streaming platforms on December 4, 2020, along with a preorder for the album on vinyl and CD as well.
Track listing
The vocals for all songs are performed by their respective writer's alter ego: Billie Joe Armstrong as Fink, Mike Dirnt as Van Gough, and Tré Cool as The Snoo, except for "Pizzagate", which is instrumental, and "Cancer Is the New Black", where both Armstrong and Dirnt perform the vocals.
Personnel
Fink - lead vocals, lead guitar, backing vocals, drums
Van Gough - lead vocals, bass guitar, backing vocals
The Snoo - drums, lead vocals
Balducci - rhythm guitar
Z - keyboards, keytar, backing vocals
Captain Underpants - keyboards
References
2020 albums
The Network albums
Warner Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie%20Lasby%20Tessmann | Jennie Belle Lasby Tessmann (August 23, 1882 – December 9, 1959) was an American spectroscopist and college educator. She was a "human computer" at Mount Wilson Observatory from 1906 to 1913, the first woman research assistant at the observatory. She taught astronomy and history at Santa Ana College from 1919 to 1946.
Early life
Jennie Belle Lasby was born in Castle Rock, Minnesota, the daughter of Walter Lasby and Lavinia C. Freeman Lasby. Her father was born in Ontario, Canada, and her mother was from Wisconsin. She attended Carleton College, completing a bachelor's degree in 1904. She earned a master's degree in astronomy at Mount Holyoke College in 1906.
Career
Lasby taught astronomy and mathematics at Mount Holyoke College during her graduate studies there. She was hired as a computer at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1906. She was the first woman research assistant at Mount Wilson, starting a few months before Cora G. Burwell joined the same department. In 1910, she attended the fourth conference of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research, when it was held at Mount Wilson. She left Mount Wilson in 1913, after co-authoring several scientific publications, including a monograph with Walter Sydney Adams. She became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Science in 1921.
In 1914, Lasby went to work on a spectroscopy project in Germany, but she returned the following year with the start of World War I. She worked briefly at Goodsell Observatory in Minnesota, and was a librarian at Northfield, Minnesota.
From 1919 to 1946, Lasby Tessmann taught history and astronomy at Santa Ana Junior College. She helped develop the Bishop Observatory in Orange County as a teaching facility. She spoke to community groups often, and was president of the City Teachers' League and the Business and Professional Women's Club, both in Santa Ana.
Personal life
Jennie Lasby married German scientist Heinrich Arnold Johannes (John) Tessmann in 1927, in Travemünde, Germany. She died in 1959, in Santa Ana, aged 77 years. In 1967, Tessmann Planetarium at Santa Ana College was named in her memory, and the Jennie Lasby Tessmann House is on the Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties.
References
External links
Dylan M. Almendral, "Jennie Lasby-Tessmann: A Woman of the Stars" (January 19, 2020), a blog post about Lasby-Tessmann.
1882 births
1959 deaths
Carleton College alumni
Human computers
Spectroscopists
People from Santa Ana, California
20th-century American women scientists
Mount Holyoke College alumni
American people of Canadian descent
20th-century American educators
20th-century American women educators
People from Dakota County, Minnesota
Scientists from Minnesota
Educators from Minnesota
20th-century American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 35th Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held from January 9–10, 2021. The show was aired on JTBC network from South Korea. It was held without a live audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee Seung-gi and Park So-dam served as hosts on the first day, Lee Da-hee and Sung Si-kyung on the second.
Criteria
The first part of this two-day award ceremony highlighted the biggest digital releases in 2020. The second part, taking place on January 10, recognized achievements in the category of physical album releases. For judging the awards, music and albums released from November 2019 to November 2020 were considered. Those songs and albums which were excluded from the evaluation due to the judging count deadline in 34th awards were also included in this year's awards.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first in alphabetical order and emphasized in bold.
Listing adapted from Golden Disc Awards.
Genre & Other Awards
References
2021 in South Korean music
Golden Disc
Golden Disc Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Murphy%20VII | Thomas Walter Murphy VII (born September 27, 1979), also known as Tom 7 or by his YouTube handle of suckerpinch, is a computer scientist and YouTuber who is known for various computer-science and engineering projects, including an artificial intelligence to play NES games, "reverse-emulating" the NES to play SNES games, and a recut of Star Wars: Episode IV in alphabetical order. He also contributes papers to annual satirical computer science conference SIGBOVIK.
References
External links
Educational and science YouTubers
Living people
1979 births
YouTube channels launched in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20LTE%20Lite | The LTE Lite was a series of notebook-sized laptops under the LTE line manufactured by Compaq from 1992 to 1994. The first entries in the series were Compaq's first computers after co-founder Rod Canion's ousting and Eckhard Pfeiffer's tenure as the new CEO. The notebooks were co-developed and manufactured by Compaq and Citizen Watch of Japan. They were a hot-seller for Compaq and spanned multiple models, with various processors and liquid-crystal display technologies.
Development
The LTE Lite series was the second generation of LTE, a notebook family introduced three years earlier in 1989. The first two entries in the LTE Lite series, the LTE Lite/20 and the LTE Lite/25, were the first computers released under Eckhard Pfeiffer's tenure as CEO. Pfeiffer assumed the position on October 24, 1991; he replaced Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who was ousted from the company a day after the company posted its first quarterly loss—$70.3 million—leading to Compaq's first ever round of layoffs.
The LTE Lites improved the battery life and quality of its liquid-crystal display panels while reducing weight. The LTE Lite/20 and LTE Lite/25 introduced suspend and hibernation modes, as well as a BIOS password and a Kensington slot for added security. An internal modem, 9600-baud, was made an option for the first time in a Compaq notebook with these two machines. Starting with the LTE Lite/25C and LTE Lite/25E, a trackball was built into the display housing on the right side, with the left- and right-click buttons on the reverse side of the housing.
Manufacturing of the LTE Lites was initially performed at Compaq's plant in Houston, Texas. Compaq used Citizen Watch of Japan as manufacturer for its monochrome passive-matrix LCDs and as a second source for manufacturing of the entire systems. Citizen later became its sole manufacturer. Production of the LTE Lite was again moved from Citizen in Japan to Compaq's overseas plant in Singapore in 1994—Compaq citing wanting to fill vacant production lines in that plant, which also manufactured its Contura line of budget notebooks. The hard disk drives meanwhile were manufactured by Conner Peripherals.
The monochrome passive-matrix LCDs used in the LTE Lites were a co-development between Compaq and Citizen, who developed ways to reduce motion persistence ("ghosting") and crosstalk interference patterns ("bleeding") common in their super-twisted nematic displays. The monochrome -matrix LCDs used in the Lite/25E and Lite 4/25E were manufactured by Hosiden. These were the same LCDs used by Apple in some entries of their PowerBook 100 series. Compaq were the only notebook manufacturer besides Apple to make use of active-matrix monochrome LCDs.
The LTE Lite/20 and LTE Lite/25 (including all submodels) used Intel's low-powered, portable-specific 80386SL processor. Compaq became the first laptop to feature Intel's later portable-specific 80486SL with the announcement of the LTE Lite 4/25 in November 1992.
Reception
Reviewin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiocyte%20Society | The Histiocyte Society is an international network of people that co-ordinate studies of the histiocytoses, which it has divided into Langerhans cell histiocytosis (class I) (previously known as Hand–Schüller–Christian disease and histocytosis-X), non-Langerhans cell histiocytoses (class II), and malignant histiocytosis (class III). They provided the criteria to definitively diagnose Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
References
External links
Histiocytosis
Medical associations
Non-profit organizations based in New Jersey
Rare disease organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20breaches%20in%20India | Data breach incidences in India were the second highest globally in 2018, according to a report by digital security firm Gemalto. With over 690 million internet subscribers and growing, India has increasingly seen a rise in data breaches both in the private and public sector. This is a list of some of the biggest data breaches in the country.
2016 debit card data breach
In October 2016, it was reported that as many as 3.2 million debit cards from major Indian banks were compromised due to a malware injection in the Hitachi Payment Services system. Hitachi provides ATM and Point of sale services in India and the malware enabled hackers to extract money from user accounts. The NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) reported losses of nearly 13 million INR ($195,000 USD in 2016) in fraudulent transactions. The worst hit banks included the State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI, HDFC, YES Bank and Axis Bank among others. The breach went undetected for 6 weeks and banks were alerted only after several international banks reported fraudulent use of cards in China and the United States while the customers were in India. SBI blocked and reissued 600,000 debit cards and was reported to be one of the biggest card replacements in Indian banking.
Aadhar data breach
In early 2018, Indian government's identification database Aadhaar (similar to SSN) was reported to be leaking information on every registered Indian citizens including names, bank details and other private information like biometric data. Managed by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Aadhar is a unique identification number obtained by over 1.1 billion residents or passport holders of India based on their biometric and demographic data. The data leak was first revealed after anonymous sellers over WhatsApp provided unrestricted access to the Aadhar database for nominal costs. The Tribune, an Indian newspaper reported that over 100,000 ex-employees of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology continued to have free access to the UIDAI system and therefore, the Aadhar database. Another data leak was found in the following months wherein a state-owned utility company Indane's (LPG) unprotected system allowed anyone to access private information on all Aadhaar holders. The company had unlimited access to the Aadhar database to verify user accounts and an unprotected API endpoint through the company's system allowed unauthorized queries to the database for potentially all Aadhar holders. Not just indirectly, Aadhar information of over 130 million citizens was breached through state government websites as over 200 government websites erroneously made the database public. The UIDAI has unequivocally denied any data breach in the Aadhar database even though many of the unsecure endpoints and government websites with unauthorized data access were put offline after the reports. UIDAI also filed a case against The Tribune under Sections 419, 420, 468 and 471 of the Indian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20structure%20%28disambiguation%29 | Data structure may refer to:
Data structure, a way of efficiently storing and organizing data in a computer
Data structure (blockchain), a method by which data can be verifiably stored on decentralized peer-to-peer network, where efficiency is not one of the properties achieved |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Loading was a short-lived Brazilian television network. Launched in December 2020, initially had programming focused on attractions about pop and geek cultures, series, movies, animations and esports. Its activities were discontinued in May 2021, no longer on air with unpublished productions. Headquartered in São Paulo, capital of the homonymous state, its concessions and structure belong to entrepreneurs José Roberto Garcia and Paulo Sérgio Garcia.
History
The channel is the brainchild of a group of entrepreneurs led by José Roberto Garcia and Paulo Sérgio Garcia, owners of Kalunga, and José Roberto Maluf, owner of Spring Comunicação and current president of TV Cultura. The Loading project was first announced in October 2020 as a channel with content aimed at pop, geek and Asian cultures, among others. Its licenses and physical structure were inherited from MTV Brasil, whose broadcasts ended in 2013, being replaced by Ideal TV and subsequently acquired in a public auction after a long process of officializing the sale, completed in 2014. Its physical structure consists of a building located in the Sumaré neighborhood (São Paulo), which were the headquarters of the defunct TV Tupi in the 1970s.
In an interview, Loading CEO Thiago Garcia said the channel would be an entertainment solution for a portion of the Brazilian population that does not have access to content via streaming.
At 6 p.m. on December 1, 2020, the website of the channel appeared, at the end of a mysterious countdown, a video in which a character simulating a hacker, under the pseudonym "Mr. 52X", announces that the channel will open on December 7 at 8:30 p.m.
On December 2, the channel announced a partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment to allow the showing of more than 100 titles, including films, television series and anime. On the same day, it was announcedafter an agreement with the Valdemiro Santiago's Rede Mundialthat Ideal TV's signal would continue through the analog signals from the Star One C2 and SES-6 satellites.
On December 3 at 6 p.m., a live video of the channel is posted on its website for the public to follow the start of its operations over the internet. At the same time, a list of cities with the network's digital terrestrial signal was made available, as well as the channel numbers on pay-TV. At 7:59 p.m. on the same day, Ideal TV's terrestrial and subscription TV signals were interrupted and just over a minute later, the character "Mr.52x" appears directly from the station's switcher, speaking to viewers against the recent directions of entertainment on Brazilian terrestrial TV and the control of social media algorithms over the public, followed by the screening of the first episode of the anime Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, with a countdown to the launch of the station in the upper right hand corner. After showing the episode, a "static" sign, inspired by the old Indian-head test pattern, with the message "Please stand by" and the Japanese word i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuraOre%21%20Pride%20of%20Orange | is a mixed-media project produced by CyberAgent and DMM Games about girls playing ice hockey. An anime television series produced by CAAnimation and C2C aired from October to December 2021, while a mobile game developed by EXNOA was released in March 2022.
Characters
Nikkō Dream Monkeys
"Newcomer Set"
Left wing forward for the Dream Monkeys. Her family runs an inn, and she is a member of her school's embroidery club. She becomes inspired to take up ice hockey after coming across a poster advertising it in her school.
Center for the Dream Monkeys; captain of the team. She initially wanted to quit playing ice hockey, but was convinced to pick up the sport again by the Dream Monkeys.
Right wing forward for the Dream Monkeys. She transfers to Manaka's school initially to avoid playing ice hockey at her former school, only to be lured into returning to the sport.
Manaka's younger sister; left defenceman for the Dream Monkeys. She also serves as the team's mascot.
Right defenceman for the Dream Monkeys.
Goaltender for the Dream Monkeys.
"Senior Set"
Left wing forward for the Dream Monkeys.
Center for the Dream Monkeys.
Right wing forward for the Dream Monkeys.
Left defenceman for the Dream Monkeys.
Right defenceman for the Dream Monkeys.
Goaltender for the Dream Monkeys.
"Staff"
Coach for the Dream Monkeys. She aims to combine ice hockey and idols in order to increase the sport's popularity.
Assistant for Yōko Matsunaga.
Kushiro Snow White
Left wing forward for the Snow White.
Center for the Snow White.
Right wing for the Snow White.
Left defenceman for the Snow White.
Right defenceman for the Snow White.
Goaltender for the Snow White.
A Canadian girl who plays center for the Snow White.
West Tokyo Ice Rabbits
Left wing forward for the Ice Rabbits. She was a schoolmate of Manaka and the others, but transferred.
Media
Anime
In December 2020, an anime television series produced by CAAnimation and animated by C2C was announced. The series was directed by Takebumi Anzai, with Touko Machida in charge of series composition, Kii Tanaka designing characters based on Craft Egg's original designs, Takashi Murakami and Hiroshi Takita served as producers, and MONACA and Yōhei Kisara composing the series' music. Funimation licensed the series outside of Asia. Medialink licensed the series in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It aired from October 6 to December 22, 2021 on Tokyo MX and other networks. The seven main cast members, under the name "Smile Princess", performed the series' opening theme song "Fire Fight!", while May'n performed the series' ending theme song "Orange."
The English dub was released on December 30, 2022.
Episode list
Game
A smartphone application game, titled , was developed by EXNOA. It was released on March 15, 2022 for Android, iOS, and PC via DMM Game Player. The game ended service on November 30, 2022.
Reception
The anime series' first episode garnered poor reviews from Anime News |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked-loan | Networked-loan, also known as networked-guarantee loan, is a popular economic phenomenon in some Asia countries. In these countries, if the borrowers do not meet the loan criteria of commercial banks, they are allowed to find guarantors to back their applicants. If the borrowers default on their loans, their guarantors take the legal obligation to repay the loan, which is called guaranteed-loan, or networked-guarantee loan.
In practice, there can be more than one guarantor per loan transaction, and there may be multiple loan transactions for a single guarantor in a given period. Once the loan is approved, the company can usually immediately obtain the full amount of the loan and begin to repay the bank via a regular installment plan, until the end of the agreement.
During the credit expansion period, with more and more enterprises involved, they form complex directed networks, which is called guarantee network, or loan network. However, every coin has two sides. On one hand, these secured loans can help an enterprise to source financing rapidly and promote development during a period of economic growth. On the other hand, it may result in a chain risk and even a systematic crisis. Usually, the guaranteed loan has a debt obligation contract. This means if one corporation fails to repay the bank, the guarantor has to pay for it, and this leads to risk spreading across the guarantee network, which may lead to default contagions. To monitor potential risks and prevent large-scale default, the problem of monitoring and rating contagion risk is receiving increasing attention.
Background
The origin of networked-guarantee loans is as follows. Usually, it's difficult for small and medium businesses to meet the requirements of commercial banks, which are originally designed for large-scale industries. Most of these enterprises in the stage of rapid expansion are difficult to obtain loan funds from the banks. However, they are allowed to seek a guarantee from other businesses in some Asian countries. When more and more enterprises are involved, they form networks with complex structures. In practice, there can be more than one guarantor per loan transaction, and there may be multiple loan transactions for a single guarantor in a given period. Once the loan is approved, the company can usually immediately obtain the full amount of the loan and begin to repay the bank via a regular installment plan, until the end of the agreement.
Procedure
The figure shows a typical procedure for network-guaranteed loans. It includes five modules. First of all, the borrower finds several guarantors to provide credit guarantees and signs the contracts with the banks. Then the banks perform a pre-loan risk assessment, and if passed the borrower receives the funds and repays the interests and principal (or partial) regularly according to the loan contract. The bank monitors the repayment status and conducts a post-loan risk assessment. Suppose the borrower fails to repay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Pengilly | Sylvia Pengilly (born March 23, 1935) is a British-American musician and music professor. She is known for composing music by converting brain waves to electrical data that combines music with graphics. Pengilly continued lecturing and composing after semi-retiring in 1995.
Career
After completing her studies, she taught theory and composition at Western Illinois University for four years. She learned that Lissajous curves could be created with the use of a combined laser and mirror system built by physics professor Richard Peterson. She used the system to compose percussion and electronic music.
Pengilly taught at Loyola University New Orleans from 1980 to 1995 where she was hired to expose students to electronic music. She built a music studio for the students which included a Moog 55, speakers, mixing board, TASCAM tape deck, and a Zenith computer. In 1984, Pengilly added Macintosh computers that ran composition software and included keyboards. She also worked on the integration of graphics with music and herself dancing by using an Amiga computer that was running a software named Mandala. This software allowed her "to create a virtual world, then to have her image enter that world, where it is able to trigger 'events' in realtime by virtually touching previously created icons".
Pengilly worked on the use of brain waves to create compositions in 1983 with an Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyzer. The visual analyzer contains a headband with electrodes that converts brain waves to electrical data. The data is transferred to a computer's receiver through radio frequencies and then converted to MIDI information, later controlling the composition by combining music with graphics that match a performer's brain waves.
Personal life
Sylvia Pengilly was born in London on March 23, 1935. Pengilly's childhood memories include gunfire, rockets, and bombings. Her family would travel to rural Sussex whenever the bombings would be at their worst, except for her father who was in the army. She attended music class each week while in Sussex. She learned about English folk music and her teacher would play the piano to accompany the music. Once the war ended, the entire family moved back to London, where her parents taught her how to play the piano. She enjoyed playing so much that she would often need to be forced away from it. At music class in high school, she was first exposed to a fugue by Bach. This led to her first composition, a fugue based on the C minor fugue from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. She attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the 1950s and took a degree in music education.
Pengilly married Brian Pengilly, a research chemist, in 1956 and they moved to Stow, Ohio in 1957 when he received a job offer from Goodyear Research. Pengilly was an elementary school music teacher for a few years until she pursued a composition degree at Kent State University in 1968. Pengilly became aware of electronic music while attending t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Temptation%20of%20Wife%20episodes | Temptation of Wife is a 2012 Philippine television drama revenge series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2008 South Korean drama series of the same title. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from October 29, 2012 to April 5, 2013, replacing Luna Blanca.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
October 2012
November 2012
December 2012
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calon%20Sarjana | Calon Sarjana ( Bachelor's Candidate) is an Indonesian YouTube channel associated with the Infia network.
At the time of its closure, the channel had over 13 million subscribers. In the years 2019–20, after the channel copied a video by British YouTuber JT, he found out that the channel was stealing videos from numerous other major channels, and eventually got the channel terminated on copyright grounds.
On 22 January 2020, Calon Sarjana's account was removed by YouTube due to several claims of copyright infringement. As a substitute for Calon Sarjana, the manager from the channel uses Calon Ilmuwan instead of Calon Sarjana.
References
Indonesian YouTubers
YouTube channels launched in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahvaz%20TV | Al-Ahvaz TV or AlAhvazTV, (Persian: شبکه الاهواز, Arabic: قناة الأهواز الفضائیة) is an Iranian satellite network in Arabic language (Khuzestani Arabic), belonging to Islamic Republic of Iran, who has been founded/launched in the city of Ahwaz by Seyyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, the representative of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist in Khuzestan province on 5 August 2013.
Peiman-AliNejad, the president of "Amir-al-Mo'menin university of Ahvaz" is the head of this television-channel, and Sakhrawi was the first/previous head; Asqar-Qeibi is the deputy-president of this TV channel. The programs of the AlAhvazTV are broadcast in Arabic language (and Khuzestani Arabic). The television channel is servicing beside other Iranian Arabic channels, among "Al-Alam" and Al-Kawthar, daily in 24 hours.
See also
Media of Iran
Al-Alam News Network
Al-Kawthar TV
Television in Iran
Cinema of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
References
External links
International broadcasters
24-hour television news channels in Iran
Arab mass media
Arabic-language television stations
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFuzz | OneFuzz is a cross-platform free and open source fuzz testing framework by Microsoft. The software enables continuous developer-driven fuzz testing to identify weaknesses in computer software prior to release.
Overview
OneFuzz is a self-hosted fuzzing-as-a-service platform that automates the detection of software bugs that could be security issues. It supports Windows and Linux.
Notable features include composable fuzzing workflows, built-in ensemble fuzzing, programmatic triage and result de-duplication, crash reporting notification callbacks, and on-demand live-debugging of found crashes. The command-line interface client is written in Python 3, and targets Python 3.7 and up.
Microsoft uses the OneFuzz testing framework to probe Edge, Windows and other products at the company.
It replaced the previous Microsoft Security Risk Detection software testing mechanism.
The source code was released on September 18, 2020. It is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.
See also
Test automation
Random testing
American fuzzy lop (fuzzer)
DynamoRIO
Pin (computer program)
References
External links
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale
Free and open-source software
Free software programmed in Rust
Free software testing tools
Security testing tools
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
Software using the MIT license
2020 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kenneth%20Salisbury%20Jr. | John Kenneth Salisbury, Jr. (born July 12, 1951, in Schenectady, New York) is an American Roboticist and Research Professor Emeritus at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department and Stanford School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. Salisbury is a researcher in the fields of robotics, haptics, and medical robotics. He is an inventor of over 50 patents and recipient of the 2011 IEEE Inaba Award for "Commercialization of Products in Medical Robotics, Robotics, and Haptics".
Academic background
Kenneth Salisbury received his Bachelor of Science (1975), Master of Science (1977), and PhD (1982) at Stanford University. His PhD thesis, Kinematic and Force Analysis of Articulated Hands was advised by Professor Bernard Roth. He is an academic descendant of the Father of Modern Kinematics, Ferdinand Freudenstein.
From 1982 through 1997, Salisbury served as Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1997 through 2003, he was Fellow and Scientific Advisor at Intuitive Surgical in Mountain View, CA. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1999 where his research has focused on the design of robots for interaction with and near humans as well as haptics and surgical simulation. He became Professor Emeritus in 2017.
Work
Salisbury's work is organized around the following topics:
Robot Hands:multi-finger hand mechanisms, control systems and perception techniques
Haptics: interfaces and rendering techniques
Robot Arms:force controllable robotic arms
Personal Robotics: robots to work near and with humans, HRI
Medical Robotics: user interfaces and surgical simulation
Selected references
Salisbury, J.K., Jr. (1999). Making graphics physically tangible. Communications of the ACM (Vol. 42, Number 8), pp. 74–81.
Salisbury, J.K., Jr. & Craig, J. J. (1982). Articulated Hands: Force Control and Kinematic Issues. International Journal of Robotics Research, 1(1). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mason, M.T. and J.K. Salisbury, Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985
Awards
IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production for Feb 2011, Contributions to Commercialization of Products in Medical Robotics, Robotics and Haptics.
References
Living people
1951 births
American roboticists
Stanford University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Department%20of%20Innovation%20and%20Technology | The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology is the code department of the Illinois state government that operates the data processing, information technology, and telecommunications operations of the state. The department was created by executive order of former Gov Bruce Rauner in July 2016, and its existence and operations were made official by statuory law in July 2018.
References
Innovation and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Daugherty | Gordon Daugherty is an American computer scientist, business advisor, high-tech executive and author. During his early career, he did research and development work on IP videoconferencing.
Daugherty co-founded Capital Factory, a co-working space, early stage venture fund and tech accelerator based in Austin, Texas. He also founded Shockwave Innovations, a content creation and advisory practice for the benefit of tech startups and entrepreneurs.
Education and career
Daugherty was born in Dallas, Texas, and holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Baylor University. He has worked at firms such as IBM and Compaq.
Daugherty worked at VCON Videoconferencing, which later became a publicly listed company in the Nouveau marché stock market in Paris (now a part of the Euronext Paris stock market) and was later acquired by an Israeli conglomerate named Emblaze. Additionally, Daugherty has worked at Austin-based NetQoS, which was acquired by CA Technologies, for $200million. Through his company Capital Factory and individually, Daugherty has invested in more than 250 early-stage companies.
Daugherty was an advisor for Riskpulse, which was sold to DHL and Columbia Capital in January 2020. He was also an advisor for as technology company MediaMind, which had an IPO in NASDAQ in 2010, and was acquired by Digital Generation Systems in 2011.
Daugherty co-founded Capital Factory, a co-working space and tech accelerator based in Austin, Texas. He also founded Shockwave Innovations, an advisory firm.
Publications and lectures
Daugherty is the author of more than 150 articles and publications. He also frequently speaks at universities and trade shows such as SXSW.
In 2019, Daugherty wrote a book called Startup Success: Funding the Early Stages of Your Venture ().
He is also a contributing writer at Texas CEO Magazine.
Selected publications
2004: MXM: SIP Support Delivering SIP–H.323 Convergence and CoExistence Using a Video PBX Architecture White Paper created for VCON Visual Communications.
2003: The Business Case for Manages Rich Media Conferencing Services, White Paper created for VCON Visual Communications.
2003: Traversing Firewalls with Video over IP: Issues and Solutions, White Paper created for VCON Visual Communications.
2002: Interactive Multicast technology: Changing the Rules of Enterprise Streaming Video, White Paper created for VCON Visual Communications.
Selected lectures, talks, and workshops
Daugherty's lectures, talks, and workshops include the following:
2020: Austin Forum: “From Tech Idea to Technology Impact: Creating Successful Tech Companies That Matter”
2020: Dallas Startup Week: “Funding the Early Stage of Your Venture”
2019: Pflugerville Business Pfirst Conference: "Defense Innovation: A Commanding Presence"
2019: Governor's Small Business forum (Central Texas)
2019: Austin Startup Week
2019: SXSW
2019: University of Texas
2018: Austin Forum: “Investing in Texas from Coasts: A Discussion with Non Texas VCs Wr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Wilson | Christina M. Wilson (born January 15, 1979) is an American chef and reality television personality. She was the winner of season 10 of the FOX Network's reality cooking show Hell's Kitchen. She was awarded the position of chef de cuisine at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris Las Vegas. After 2015, she was the Corporate Executive Chef of Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Group. In 2016 and from 2018 onward, she has also returned to Hell's Kitchen as a Sous-chef. Since 2020, she has been the VP Culinary of Gordon Ramsay North America.
Early life and family
Wilson is from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and in 1997 graduated from Phillipsburg High School, where she played field hockey, basketball and softball. She has three brothers and was inspired to cook by her grandmother. Wilson is openly lesbian.
Wilson earned a basketball scholarship to West Chester University in Pennsylvania but lost the scholarship and waited tables to pay tuition. She transferred to Temple University, graduating with a B.A. in English and Language Arts in 2007.
Career
Wilson never attended culinary school, but instead got her start working at McDonald's. She cites her first real cooking experience as a job at West Chester Country Club in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where she "begged to be allowed in the kitchen to learn." While attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she began working in city restaurants. Prior to her win on Hell's Kitchen in 2012, she was chef de cuisine at Lolita BYOB in Philadelphia. She underwent a six-week training course to prepare for her job at Gordon Ramsay Steak in Las Vegas.
In 2015, Wilson oversaw the U.S. division of the Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Group as Culinary Director, which comprised 10 restaurants at the time.
Since October 2020, Wilson has been the Vice President of Culinary for Gordon Ramsay North America; in addition to the 14 locations that Ramsay has in the United States at this time, Gordon Ramsay North America's CEO, Norman Abdallah, has signaled the company's intention to open 75 new company-owned locations across the United States between 2022 and 2026.
She has made an appearance on every subsequent Hell’s Kitchen season following her initial run, being the red team Sous-chef on seasons 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21. She also made a few appearances on Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, The F Word, and MasterChef Junior. Additionally, in 2017 Wilson hosted a ten-episode YouTube series titled Recipes From Hell's Kitchen.
See also
List of restaurants owned or operated by Gordon Ramsay
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
American women chefs
Reality cooking competition winners
People from Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Participants in American reality television series
Temple University alumni
LGBT people from New Jersey
West Chester University alumni
West Chester Golden Rams athletes
Phillipsburg High School (New Jersey) alumni
Chefs from New Jersey
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women
He |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20hiring | Artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring involves the use of technology to automate aspects of the hiring process. Advances in artificial intelligence, such as the advent of machine learning and the growth of big data, enable AI to be utilized to recruit, screen, and predict the success of applicants. Proponents of artificial intelligence in hiring claim it reduces bias, assists with finding qualified candidates, and frees up human resource workers' time for other tasks, while opponents worry that AI perpetuates inequalities in the workplace and will eliminate jobs.
Background
Artificial intelligence has been a fascination of researchers since the term was coined in the mid-1950s. Researchers have identified four main forms of intelligence that AI would need to possess to truly replace humans in the workplace: mechanical, analytical, intuitive, and empathetic. Automation follows a predictable progression in which it will first be able to replace the mechanical tasks, then analytical tasks, then intuitive tasks, and finally empathy based tasks. However, full automation is not the only potential outcome of AI advancements. Humans may instead work alongside machines, enhancing the effectiveness of both. In the hiring context, this means that AI has already replaced many basic human resource tasks in recruitment and screening, while freeing up time for human resource workers to do other more creative tasks that can not yet be automated or do not make fiscal sense to automate. It also means that the type of jobs companies are recruiting and hiring form will continue to shift as the skillsets that are most valuable change.
Human resources has been identified as one of the ten industries most affected by AI. It is increasingly common for companies to use AI to automate aspects of their hiring process. The hospitality, finance, and tech industries in particular have incorporated AI into their hiring processes to significant extents.
Human resources is fundamentally an industry based around making predictions. Human resource specialists must predict which people would make quality candidates for a job, which marketing strategies would get those people to apply, which applicants would make the best employees, what kinds of compensation would get them to accept an offer, what is needed to retain an employee, which employees should be promoted, what a companies staffing needs, among others. AI is particularly adept at prediction because it can analyze huge amounts of data. This enables AI to make insights many humans would miss and find connections between seemingly unrelated data points. This provides value to a company and has made it advantageous to use AI to automate or augment many human resource tasks.
Uses
Screeners
Screeners are tests that allow companies to sift through a large applicant pool and extract applicants that have desirable features. Companies commonly screen through the use of questionnaires, coding tests, interviews, and resume ana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction%20networking | Refraction networking, also known as decoy routing, is a research anti-censorship approach that would allow users to circumvent a censor without using any individual proxy servers. Instead, it implements proxy functionality at the core of partner networks, such as those of Internet service providers, outside the censored country. These networks would discreetly provide censorship circumvention for "any connection that passes through their networks." This prevents censors from selectively blocking proxy servers and makes censorship more expensive, in a strategy similar to collateral freedom.
The approach was independently invented by teams at the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Raytheon BBN Technologies. There are five existing protocols: Telex, TapDance, Cirripede, Curveball, and Rebound. These teams are now working together to develop and deploy refraction networking with support from the U.S. Department of State.
See also
Domain fronting
References
External links
Official website
Internet privacy software
Anonymity networks
Computer security
Secure communication
Internet censorship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavaj%20railway%20station | Chavaj railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. It serves Chavaj village. Chavaj railway station is 5 km from . Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
References
Railway stations in Bharuch district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasza | Nasza may refer to:
Nasza TV, was a Polish supraregional television network
Nasza Klasa or NK.pl, a Polish school-based social networking service used by alumni and students
Nasza Księgarnia (Our Bookstore), the oldest publisher of children books in Poland
See also
Nasa (disambiguation)
Naza (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothangam%20railway%20station | Gothangam railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. It serves Gothangam village. Gothangam railway station is 10 km from . Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
References
Railway stations in Surat district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosad%20railway%20station | Kosad railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. It serves Kosad town. Kosad railway station is 7 km from . Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
References
Railway stations in Surat district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9%20Congo | Télé Congo, derived from Télévision Congolaise, is the national television of the Republic of Congo. Founded 28 November 1962 it is the oldest television network in sub-Saharan Africa.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1962
Television stations in the Republic of the Congo
Multilingual broadcasters
French-language television stations
Television networks
Publicly funded broadcasters
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathallis%20cuspidata | Anathallis cuspidata is a species of orchid plant native to Panama.
References
cuspidata
Flora of Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directions%202031%20and%20Beyond | Directions 2031 is an overarching strategic plan for the Perth metropolitan area published by the Western Australian Planning Commission. It replaced the draft 2004 Network City and was the first strategic plan to be formally adopted since Metroplan in 1991. Detailed sub-regional planning frameworks were published separately as part of Perth and Peel @ 3.5 million. These frameworks, covering Perth’s Central, North-West, North-East and Southern regions, included specific population targets for each local government areato accommodate 800,000 people by 2030.
Background
Directions 2031 is Western Australia’s fourth major strategic metropolitan development plan since 1955 commencing with the Stephenson-Hepburn plan, the 1970 Corridor Plan and the 1990 Metroplan.
In 2003 work commenced on the preparation of a replacement for Metroplan leading to the draft Network City plan of 2004. This proposed that 60% of population growth be accommodated within the existing built up area with higher density nodes connected by public transport. The draft was never formally adopted but continued to be developed by the Department of Planning. The final version, Directions 2031, reduced the infill density target from 60% to 47%.
See also
Western Australian Planning Commission
Metropolitan Region Scheme
References
Urban planning in Australia
Perth, Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Ontario%20%282020%29 | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario throughout 2020.
Data
Timeline
January
On January 23, the first presumptive case in Canada was admitted to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and placed into a negative pressure chamber. The patient, a male in his 50s who travelled between Wuhan and Guangzhou before returning to Toronto on January 22, contacted emergency services following rapid onset symptoms. The presumption of infection in the patient was made after a rapid test was done at Public Health Ontario's Toronto laboratory, and was announced on January 25. Final testing conducted at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba confirmed the presumptive case on January 27. Authorities said that the patient was experiencing respiratory problems but was in stable condition. His condition later improved and he was released from hospital on January 31.
On January 27, the Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario announced the man's wife as the second presumptive case. Officials reported that she was in good condition and that she was asymptomatic.
On January 31, the third case in Ontario (and the fourth case in Canada) was reported in the city of London. Officials said that the individual, a woman in her twenties and a student at University of Western Ontario, returned from Wuhan on January 23. She was asymptomatic and had tested negative at first, but additional advanced testing confirmed that the woman had low levels of the virus in her system. Officials said that the individual wore a mask during her voyage and she voluntarily entered self-isolation upon her return, making a full recovery after two or three days. On the same day, the Government of Ontario reported that 17 cases were under investigation within its provincial jurisdiction. Officials said that most of the individuals under investigation were awaiting results while in self-isolation at home. As of January 30, the associate medical officer of Ontario said that the province had conducted a total of 67 tests with 38 negative results. Officials said that all possible cases—including previous negative results—were being retested as additional assessments become available.
February
CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ontario was used as a quarantine facility for repatriated Canadians since February 7. By March 24, 13 positive cases for the virus of the repatriated citizens at CFB Trenton were reported.
On February 23, one more presumptive case was confirmed in Ontario. The samples were sent to the National Microbiology Lab for further testing.
On February 24, a fourth presumptive case in Ontario was announced of a woman in her 20s who presented to a hospital on February 21 with symptoms after travelling to Wuhan. The woman was tested locally with a positive test result and the sample was sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. On February 24, health officials in Ontario stated that all three previous cases in Ontario were "re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bmon | bmon is a free and open-source monitoring and debugging tool to monitor bandwidth and capture and display networking-related statistics. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and programmable text output for scripting. bmon allows the user to see:
Network bandwidth real-time visualization
Total amount of transmitted data
CRC errors
Collisions
ICMPv6 traffic packets
References
Linux software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarpura%20railway%20station | Makarpura railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. It serves Makarpura area of Vadodara city. Makarpura railway station is 9 km from . Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
References
Railway stations in Vadodara district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadtal%20Swaminarayan%20railway%20station | Vadtal Swaminarayan railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat. It serves Vadtal town. Vadtal Swaminarayan railway station is 6 km from . Passenger trains start from here.
Vadtal is the pilgrim centre of Swaminarayan Sampraday and well known for Swaminarayan Mandir, Vadtal.
Trains
Following trains start from Vadtal Swaminarayan railway station:
79465/66 Vadtal – Anand DEMU
79467/68 Vadtal – Anand DEMU
References
Railway stations in Kheda district
Vadodara railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne%20Azzopardi | Jayne Azzopardi is an Australian television presenter, reporter and journalist.
She is known for her various positions with the Nine Network, as a reporter for Nine News Sydney and currently a co-host of Weekend Today with Clint Stanaway
Media career
Azzopardi started her career as a journalist at WIN News located in Wagga Wagga.
Before joining Nine, Jayne also worked at international news organisations including ITN, BBC, CNBC & Al Jazeera.
Azzopardi joined the Nine Network's news service Nine News in 2009 as a political journalist located in Canberra. She covered two election and three leadership changes.
In 2011, Jayne joined the Sydney newsroom to cover breaking news stories across Australia and the world. From natural disasters to Hollywood red carpets and royal tours.
She has also hosted Talking Married on the Nine Network sister channel 9Life.
At the end of 2015, it was announced that Azzopardi would replace Wendy Kingston as news presenter for Weekend Today.
In April 2023, Azzopardi was announced as co-host of Weekend Today alongside Clint Stanaway.
Personal life
Jayne resides in Sydney and attended Caringbah High School and later studied journalism at the University of Technology Sydney.
On 31 March 2018, Azzopardi married Trent Butler at Glen Albyn Estate in Tasmania.
On 4 February 2020, she gave birth to her first child named Joey.
References
1980 births
Australian people of Maltese descent
Living people
Nine News presenters
Australian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosing%20Prize | The Rosing Prizes are awarded to people who have made contributions to the Norwegian IT community, it is the Norwegian Computer Society (Den Norske Dataforening) that organizes the award ceremony. The Norwegian Computer Society was established in 1953 in Oslo and has over 8500 members, making it one of the oldest computer societies in Europe. It is also a member of the International Federation for Information Processing, the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPSIS) and the Nordic Data Union (NDU).
The association awarded its first Rosing prize in 1991 and named it after the Norwegian IT-pioneer Fredrik Rosing Bull.
Rosing Prizes are distributed as part of the Norwegian IT industry's own party ceremony. The prizes are available in several different categories, but not all are awarded annually. In 2016, the computer society awarded prizes for such as the year's top manager, IT director, IT security award and an Rosing Honorary Award. Other prizes that have been awarded previously are the usability prize, the creativity prize, and smart IT.
Recipients of the award includes Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, Trygve Reenskaug, Ole-Johan Dahl, Jon Bing and Kristen Nygaard.
Categories
Rosing Honorary Prize
The Rosing honorary prize is awarded to individuals who in a meritorious and significant way have contributed to the development, selection and the embossing of Norwegian IT disciplines in the industry either nationally or internationally over a long period of time. The prize is only awarded in the years in which a worthy candidate has been found.
2016: Erik Fossum was awarded the prize for the creation of Altinn, a public web portal used to submit tax returns and other forms digitally.
2015: Trygve Reenskaug was awarded the prize for groundbreaking work in object-oriented design, such as formulating the MVC.
2014: For their contributions to the development of GSM and SMS, the following people are winners of the Rosing Honorary Prize 2014:
Torleiv Maseng from Sintef Elab for having made important contributions to the development of radio technology in GSM.
Odd Trandem from Sintef Elab as the problem and challenge solver in the development of the GSM standard
Finn Trosby from Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt (TF) who led the work of making the SMS service as we know it today.
Jan Audestad from TF for having led the network side of the GMS standard and put it together in a sensible architecture, as well as developed protocols for the GSM.
Stein Hansen from TF as a GSM pioneer and for its key contribution to the coordination and development of the GSM standard, in particular the UMTS version, voice coding and coordination of modem tests.
Jon Emil Natvig from TF for efforts in the development of digital voice coding (full-rate) for GSM.
2013: Q-Free
2012: Arne Halaas was awarded the prize for founding FAST (now owned by Microsoft) in 1997 at Norwegian University of Science and Technology: "Long before Google and others |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM%20Network%20discography | The discography of the Japanese band TM Network consists of twelve studio albums, twelve compilation albums, and forty one singles released since 1984.
Albums
Studio albums
Extended plays
Live albums
Compilations
Band release
Label release
Remix albums
Box sets
Singles
Videography
Video games
Footnotes
References
External links
(Avex, Inc.)
(Sony Music Entertainment Japan)
Discographies of Japanese artists
Pop music group discographies
Rock music group discographies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20max | R max, also written as Rmax with other variants possible, can refer to:
The Yamaha R-MAX unmanned helicopter
In the high performance LINPACK benchmarks of supercomputers it refers to the performance in GFLOPS for the largest problem run on a machine
Maximal thermal resistance (Rmax), see thermal transmittance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXT%20Super%20Tuesday | NXT Super Tuesday was a two-week long professional wrestling television special episode of WWE's weekly television series NXT, broadcast on the USA Network. It took place on September 1 (taped August 26) and September 8, 2020 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.
Production
Background
Because of a scheduling conflict with the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs on USA Network in NXTs normal Wednesday night time slot, the show was temporarily moved to Tuesday night for a two-week period. As with WWE's other NXT events during the COVID-19 pandemic since mid-March, the two-week event was presented from a behind closed doors set at NXT's home base of Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.
Storylines
NXT Super Tuesday featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
At NXT TakeOver XXX, Karrion Kross successfully defeated Keith Lee to win the NXT Championship. However, after the match, it was learned that Kross had legitimately separated his shoulder at some point during the bout, forcing Kross to relinquish the championship on the August 26th episode of NXT, due to an inability to be medically cleared to compete. Later in the show, NXT general manager William Regal announced a 60 minute Fatal 4-Way iron man match between Johnny Gargano, Finn Bálor, Tommaso Ciampa, and Adam Cole to crown a new champion on Super Tuesday.
Reception
NXT Super Tuesday averaged 849,000 viewers with a 0.26 rating in the 18-49 key demographic for the first week and 838,000 viewers with a 0.22 rating for the second week. The first week was #10 in the top 10 programs watched on cable, while its position fell to #15 for the second week. These were their best viewership and key demo numbers since their last TV special, The Great American Bash.
Results
Iron man match
See also
2020 in professional wrestling
Notes
References
External links
September 2020 events in the United States
Events in Florida
Professional wrestling in Winter Park, Florida
2020 in professional wrestling in Florida
2020 in professional wrestling
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
WWE NXT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Jin%20Hyok | Park Jin Hyok (), is a North Korean programmer and hacker. He is best known for his alleged involvement in some of the costliest computer intrusions in history. Park is on the FBI's wanted list. North Korea denies his existence.
Life and career
Early life
Park attended the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang. He has traveled to China in the past and conducted IT work for the North Korean company "Chosun Expo" in addition to activities conducted on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau.
Lazarus group and computer hacking
Park is a member of a North Korea's government-funded hacking team known as “Lazarus Group (or APT 38)” and worked for Chosun Expo Joint Venture (aka Korea Expo Joint Venture), a North Korean government front company, to support the North Korean government’s malicious cyber actions. Chosun is affiliated with Lab 110, a component of North Korea's military intelligence. Expo Joint Venture had offices in China (PRC) and North Korea.
Sony Pictures hack
In November 2014, the conspirators launched a destructive attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in retaliation for the movie The Interview, a political action comedy film that depicted the assassination of the DPRK’s leader by a CIA spy. North Korea denied allegations of hacking.
WannaCry ransomware attack
The United States Department of Justice has charged Park and other members of Lazarus group for the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017, a computer virus that used encryption to encrypt file on affected systems and affected many businesses throughout the world, including United Kingdom’s NHS, where nonfunctional computer systems led to thousands of appointments being canceled.
See also
Lazarus Group
2013 South Korea cyberattack
July 2009 cyberattacks
Sony Pictures hack
WannaCry ransomware attack
References
Kim Chaek University of Technology alumni
Living people
Hackers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fugitives wanted by the United States
21st-century North Korean people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CybExer%20Technologies | CybExer Technologies is an Estonian cybersecurity company, founded in 2016.
In 2018, the company was one of the ten companies listed as a category winner at the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) Defence Innovation Challenge.
In 2020, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency signed a three-year contract with CybExer Technologies to develop a cybersecurity training ground for the Luxembourg Directorate of Defense. The company also provides cyber security training to Ukrainian police cadets.
References
External links
Information technology companies of Estonia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Riaz | Sara Riaz (died: April 2014, Karachi) was a celebrity chef from Pakistan. She was associated with the Pakistani television network ARY Digital. She died of breast cancer.
Career
Sara had more than 20 years of cooking experience. She was specifically associated with the cooking channel of ARY Digital named ARY Zauq. She was well known nationally as well as internationally. She regularly hosted a morning cooking show 'Khana Pakana' in ARY Zauq fives days a week. She made regular appearances in morning shows to advise on cooking recipes and health and nutrition. Her unique selling point was her easy to follow cooking instructions. She was also the owner of a professional recipes cooking training center in Karachi, Pakistan. Her recipes are hosted numerous websites on the internet.
Death
She died in April, 2014. She left behind a husband and no children. She was suffering from breast cancer.
References
Women chefs
Pakistani television chefs
Pakistani women in television
2014 deaths
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Deaths from cancer in Pakistan
Deaths from breast cancer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Why | The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect is a 2018 nonfiction book by computer scientist Judea Pearl and writer Dana Mackenzie. The book explores the subject of causality and causal inference from statistical and philosophical points of view for a general audience.
Summary
The book consists of ten chapters and an introduction.
Introduction: Mind over Data
The introduction describes the inadequacy of early 20th century statistical methods at making statements about causal relationships between variables. The authors then describe what they term 'The Causal Revolution', which started in the middle of the 20th century, and provided new conceptual and mathematical tools for describing causal relationships.
Chapter 1: The Ladder of Causation
Chapter 1 introduces the 'ladder of causation' - a diagram used to illustrate the three levels of causal reasoning. The first level is named 'Association', which discusses associations between variables. Questions such as 'is variable X associated with variable Y?' can be answered at this level. However, crucially, causality is not invoked. An example of reasoning on this first level is the observation that a crowing rooster is associated with the sunrise. However, this kind of reasoning cannot describe causal relations. For example, we cannot say whether the sunrise causes the rooster to crow, or whether the rooster causes the sun to rise. Many of the early 20th century statistical tools, such as correlation and regression operate on this level.
The second level (or 'rung') on the ladder of causation is labelled 'Intervention'. Reasoning on this level answers questions of the form 'if I make the intervention X, how will this affect the probability of the outcome Y?'. For example, the question 'does smoking increase my chance of lung cancer?' exists on the second level of the ladder of causation. This kind of reasoning invokes causality and can be used to investigate more questions than the reasoning of the first rung.
The third rung of the ladder of causation is labelled 'Counterfactuals' and involves answering questions which ask what might have been, had circumstances been different. Such reasoning invokes causality to a greater degree than the previous level. An example counterfactual question given in the book is 'Would Kennedy be alive if Oswald had not killed him?'
Chapter 2: From Buccaneers to Guinea Pigs: The Genesis of Causal Inference
Chapter 2 starts with a brief summary of the contributions of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson to the development of statistics in the late 19th Century and early 20th Centuries. The authors blame Galton for keeping the study of statistics on the first rung of the ladder of causation and discouraging any discussion of causality in statistics. Causal analysis using path diagrams is then introduced through the explanations of the work of Sewall Wright.
Chapter 3: From Evidence to Causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr Holmes
Chapter 3 provides an introduction to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl%20Goodrich | Daryl Goodrich is a British born creative director, motion graphic designer and filmmaker. He has worked for major television networks specialising in sports production, and was responsible for producing the opening animations for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, Vancouver 2010, London 2012, Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016. He has also produced sports documentaries features including Ferrari: Race to Immortality, True Grit and Make It or Die Trying – the Frank Warren Story, winner of best sports documentary of the year 2021.
Early life
Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire to parents Roy and Myra Goodrich, he is the second child of three, in between brothers Mark and Damon. He was raised in Yorkshire in the market town of Bingley, attending Ladderbanks Middle school in Baildon, then Salts Grammar school in Shipley, where his fascination with film and sports began. He subsequently attended Bradford College of Art and Design before studying graphic design and design communications at Suffolk Art College.
Career
In 1988, Goodrich became a graphic designer for Cheerleader Productions responsible for design and motion graphics, covering all of their broadcast television shows including American Football and Sumo on Channel 4.
In 1994, he joined North One Television, formerly Chrysalis Television, as creative director. Goodrich was responsible for all the design and visual identity for their global television shows including Formula One for ITV for ten years, NBA and Football Italia on Channel 4, Rugby Special on BBC Two.
In 2004, Goodrich was commissioned to design and produce the opening animations for the Athens Olympic Games. This was followed by further commissions for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 2012 London Olympics. Goodrich directed Make Britain Proud and Inspiration - two official London Olympic bid films that helped win the 2012 games. The winning film was noted for its powerful imagery and strong messaging. London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the film Inspiration 'won us the Olympics' and Goodrich and his producer were named among the top ten key players who helped London win the Games (The Observer, 10 July 2005).
Goodrich was commissioned to design and direct the Olympic film Inside The Race, a film exhibited at the Olympic museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. For the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games Goodrich was commissioned by Channel 4 television to direct the story of 7/11 survivor Martine Wright The Journey.
Goodrich also won commissions for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2016 Rio Summer Games, and for Qatar on their successful campaign to host the 2022 World Cup.
Alongside his work as a creative director, Goodrich directs commercials as part of advertising campaigns for global brands. Clients include Adidas, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Sony, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Panasonic, Pepsi and Sony. In 2014, Goodrich left North One to establish his own creative agency, Dunlop Goodrich Creative.
Goodrich has directed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshkin | Peshkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alan Peshkin (1931–2000), American educationalist
Leonid Peshkin (born 1970), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Mode%20social | Founded in 2013, X-Mode Social is a US company based in Reston, Virginia.
X-Mode specializes in the collection of smartphone-location datasets. In August 2021, the company was bought by Digital Envoy and subsequently rebranded as Outlogic.
Company history
Joshua Anton, a student at the University of Virginia, created a mobile application named Drunk Mode to prevent users from dialling phone numbers or texting while inebriated. The application was free and had more than one million downloads. He came up with the idea of collecting data from the application's users and reselling it to advertisers, and he founded X-Mode in 2013.
X-Mode offers a software development kit (SDK), which is a small piece of code that, once embedded into a given application, allows X-Mode to receive copies of the location data of the smartphone (thereby pinpointing the co-ordinates of the person who is carrying the smartphone). In total, X-Mode's SDK is present in the apps from more than 70 developers on more than 300 applications such as games, travel guides, and dating sites. In total, more than 50 million active people per month are sharing their location every 5 to 7 minutes with X-Mode.
The smartphone-location datasets are derived from GPS data, data from Bluetooth signals emitted by the phone and picked up via detection beacons, and data from Wi-Fi routers (especially inside buildings). Users are able to turn off this data-sharing by adjusting the permission settings on their smartphone. X-Mode is one of a number of firms which provide smartphone-tracking capabilities and data collection.
Because X-Mode pays money to developers to incorporate its location-tracking SDK into mobile applications, this provides a source of revenue for developers: $0.03 per U.S user per month, and $0.005 per international user. 25 million active users in the U.S. and 40 million more worldwide are tracked through more than 400 different apps. Another example, in September 2018, the company offered $100,000 to Scruff, a dating site for gay and bisexual men, to integrate its library into the code, which its founder refused.
In spring 2020, the company made a demonstration (using the location-tracking datasets from phones of users) showing how, when social distancing is neglected, Covid-19 infections can spread. In order to facilitate the monitoring of compliance with home quarantine orders, the company shares location data with federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Critics
In November 2020, an article published by Vice reported that data from Muslim Pro, an application for Muslims that had been downloaded 98 million times, were allegedly shared by X-Mode with a U.S. military intelligence contractor. Muslim Pro then announced that it would stop transferring this data to X-Mode and user complaints were filed in France and the United Kingdom.
In December 2020, Google and Apple asked the developers to remove the SDK from any code otherwise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida%20Jones%20%28television%20executive%29 | Rashida Jones (; born ) is the president of the cable news network MSNBC. She is the first Black woman to lead a major cable news network.
Early life and education
Jones was born to Richard and Alice Adkins, the oldest of three children. She grew up in York, Pennsylvania. The family later moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she attended Henrico High School and became editor of the student newspaper.
Jones attended Hampton University, majoring in broadcast journalism. She graduated from Hampton in 2002 with a degree in Mass Media Arts. In 2022, Jones established a scholarship fund at Hampton University for journalism students.
Career
In 2002, while a senior in college, she worked as a morning show producer at WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia. After several years there, she moved to The Weather Channel as a weekend producer, and became director of live programming in 2009.
Jones later worked at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, as news director, then moved to New York City as an executive producer for daytime shows at MSNBC. Later roles included managing editor at MSNBC and senior vice president of specials for NBC News and MSNBC, in which she managed dayside and weekend news programming on MSNBC, as well as leading coverage of breaking news and major events across NBC News and MSNBC. Jones expanded the town-hall concept to a wider audience, including a criminal justice special filmed at Sing Sing correctional facility. While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on COVID-19.
On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network.
Honors and awards
Jones is a member of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame.
In 2020, she was named in Variety's 2020 New York Women's Impact Report
In October, 2022, Jones was the inaugural recipient of the Media Leadership Award from Montclair State University School of Communication and Media.
In February, 2023, Jones was awarded the Achievement of Excellence Award from Scripps Howard School of Journalism & Communications at Hampton University and headlined the institution's 20th anniversary celebration.
Jones received the Radio Television Digital News Foundation's Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award on March 2, 2023.
Personal life
Jones is divorced and has two children, a son and daughter. Her partner is Edward Fisher, the community and government relations executive at American University. She became an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2023.
References
Living people
American television executives
MSNBC people
Women television executives
African-American television producers
American women television producers
American television producers
Hampton University alumni
Henrico High School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-2 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) is a large language model by OpenAI and the second in their foundational series of GPT models. GPT-2 was pre-trained on BookCorpus, a dataset of over 7,000 self-published fiction books from various genres, and trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. It was partially released in February 2019, followed by full release of the 1.5-billion-parameter model on November 5, 2019.
GPT-2 was created as a "direct scale-up" of GPT-1 with a ten-fold increase in both its parameter count and the size of its training dataset. It is a general-purpose learner and its ability to perform the various tasks was a consequence of its general ability to accurately predict the next item in a sequence, which enabled it to translate texts, answer questions about a topic from a text, summarize passages from a larger text, and generate text output on a level sometimes indistinguishable from that of humans, however it could become repetitive or nonsensical when generating long passages. It was superseded by GPT-3 and GPT-4 models, which are not open source anymore.
GPT-2 has, like its predecessor GPT-1 and its successors GPT-3 and GPT-4, a generative pre-trained transformer architecture, implementing a deep neural network, specifically a transformer model, which uses attention instead of older recurrence- and convolution-based architectures. Attention mechanisms allow the model to selectively focus on segments of input text it predicts to be the most relevant. This model allows for greatly increased parallelization, and outperforms previous benchmarks for RNN/CNN/LSTM-based models.
Training
Since the transformer architecture enabled massive parallelization, GPT models could be trained on larger corpora than previous NLP models. While the GPT-1 model demonstrated that the approach was viable, GPT-2 would further explore the emergent properties of networks trained on extremely large corpora. CommonCrawl, a large corpus produced by web crawling and previously used in training NLP systems, was considered due to its large size, but was rejected after further review revealed large amounts of unintelligible content. Instead, OpenAI developed a new corpus, known as WebText; rather than scraping content indiscriminately from the World Wide Web, WebText was generated by scraping only pages linked to by Reddit posts that had received at least three upvotes prior to December 2017. The corpus was subsequently cleaned; HTML documents were parsed into plain text, duplicate pages were eliminated, and Wikipedia pages were removed (since their presence in many other datasets could have induced overfitting).
While the cost of training GPT-2 is known to have been $256 per hour, the amount of hours it took to complete training is unknown; therefore, the overall training cost cannot be estimated accurately. However, comparable large language models using transformer architectures have had their costs documented in more detail; the training pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zammad | Zammad is a free helpdesk or issue tracking system. It offers the connection of various channels like email, chat, telephone, Twitter, or Facebook. Zammad is developed in the programming languages Ruby and JavaScript. The name Zammad comes from the Bavarian language and means "together".
General
Zammad was founded by Martin Edenhofer, who was formerly involved in the development of OTRS.
The project asks for active participation in the development. The source code is free software according to the AGPL-3.0-only license and available via git. For this purpose, the Zammad Foundation was founded to ensure the freedom of the software. Inspiration for the Zammad Foundation are the WordPress Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, and the Mozilla Foundation.
User Interface
The user interface is modern and attractive. It has been redesigned from scratch and can be used by occasional users without training without any problems. Technologically, the user interface is implemented as a web application with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML5 (including WebSockets), which means that the application runs in the browser – only data is exchanged over the network (in REST). Thus the WebApp feels like a native application and is capable of real-time (information is updated in all clients immediately after creation/change without reloading the application/web page). The design of the interface was developed with Zeughaus Design GmbH.
In version 3.0 Zammad was extended by a knowledge base.
Backend
The backend is realized in Ruby on Rails and communicates with the user interface via REST. Zammad relies on Elasticsearch to speed up search queries.
MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL are supported as database servers. Nginx or Apache can be used as a web server or reverse proxy.
Version history
The planned release cycle was 4 weeks, on the 14th of the month.
Awards
Bronze OSBAR (Open Source Business Award 2016), on 7 December 2016, awarded by the Open Source Business Alliance
1st place in the Thomas Krenn Award 2017, on 12 March 2017
DINACon Award in Category 1: Best Open Source Project, on 18 October 2019, which means that Zammad was also nominated for the Digital Economy Award
References
External links
Official Website
Zammad Foundation
Zammad Community
Customer relationship management
Free email software
Ruby (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orr%20Dunkelman |
Orr Dunkelman () is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the University of Haifa Computer Science department. Dunkelman is a co-director of the Center for Cyber Law & Privacy at the University of Haifa and a co-founder of Privacy Israel, an Israeli NGO for promoting privacy in Israel.
Biography
Dunkelman received all his degrees at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree at the age of 25, under the supervision of Eli Biham. Before joining the University of Haifa, Dunkelman held post-doctoral positions at KU Leuven, at École normale supérieure, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Contributions to cryptanalysis
Among his contributions to cryptanalysis are:
Dissection attack – joint work with Itai Dinur, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir, recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Crypto 2012 conference.
Rectangle attack – joint work with Eli Biham and Nathan Keller.
New variants of differential-linear, boomerang, and slide attacks – joint works with Eli Biham, Adi Shamir, and other co-authors.
Breaking (together with Eli Biham, Sebastiaan Indesteege, Nathan Keller, and Bart Preneel) KeeLoq – a block cipher used in remote keyless entry systems by multiple companies.
Devising (jointly with Eli Biham) a practical attack on A5/1 – the cipher used in GSM security mechanisms.
Attacking reduced-round variants of many block ciphers, including AES, Serpent, IDEA, GOST, DES, KASUMI, MISTY1, Camellia, Skipjack and others (in joint works with various coauthors).
New cryptographic primitives
Dunkelman has taken part in the design of several new cryptographic primitives:
HAIFA construction (with Eli Biham) – a cryptographic structure used in the design of hash functions.
KATAN and KTANTAN (with Cristophe De Canniere and Miroslav Knežević) - a family of small and efficient hardware-oriented block ciphers.
SHAvite-3 (with Eli Biham), a hash function which was one of the 14 semifinalists in the NIST hash function competition.
Awards and honors
Dunkelman received the Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation in 2014, and papers he co-authored won the Best Paper Award at the Crypto conference (2012) and at the Fast Software Encryption (FSE) conference (2012).
References
External links
Webpage of the Center for Cyber Law & Privacy at the University of Haifa
1980 births
Israeli computer scientists
Dunkelman Orr
Israeli Jews
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Dunkelman Orr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20of%20Colosseum%20%282021%29 | Kings of Colosseum (2021) was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which aired on January 6, 2021 as a special episode of Fusion on fubo Sports Network and YouTube. It was the second event under the Kings of Colosseum chronology.
Three professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Alexander Hammerstone defended the National Openweight Championship against Mads Krügger, which ended in a double count-out, resulting in Hammerstone retaining the title. On the undercard, The Von Erichs retained the World Tag Team Championship against The Dirty Blondes in a Bunkhouse match and the debuting Lio Rush defeated Myron Reed to capture the World Middleweight Championship.
Production
Background
The first Kings of Colosseum event was held on July 6, 2019 and aired live as a special episode of MLW's weekly television series, Fusion. On December 3, 2020, MLW owner Court Bauer announced in a press conference that the next edition of Kings of Colosseum would be a major event for MLW. The event was original intended to air on pay-per-view, the second PPV event in the promotion's history after Saturday Night SuperFight in 2019. Instead, the event was announced to have become a free television special on December 8.
Storylines
The card consisted of matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by MLW's writers. Storylines were played out on MLW's television program Fusion, and its web series spinoff, Pulp Fusion, produced during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
In November 2020, multiple sources reported that Lio Rush would be making his MLW debut in the near future as part of the middleweight division, which was confirmed by MLW on November 4. On the November 18 episode of Fusion, Myron Reed successfully defended the World Middleweight Championship against Brian Pillman Jr. and then challenged Rush to a match for the title to cement his legacy as the "young GOAT". Reed later challenged Rush to a match for the title on the December 23 episode of Fusion. However, on the December 9 episode of Fusion, Rush refused to wrestle on Reed's terms and instead accepted the challenge for the title at Kings of Colosseum.
On the November 18 episode of Fusion, the National Openweight Champion Alexander Hammerstone defeated enhancement talent Jason Dugan and demanded a title shot for the World Heavyweight Championship against Jacob Fatu, as he was ranked #1 in MLW by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. However, he was instead attacked by the debuting Mads Krügger, the newest member of Fatu's faction Contra Unit. After being injured, Hammerstone returned on the December 16 episode of Fusion, where he engaged in a backstage brawl with Krügger. It was later announced on the same episode that Hammerstone would defend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisive%20Battles%20of%20the%20American%20Civil%20War%2C%20Vol.%202 | Decisive Battles of the American Civil War, Vol. 2 is a 1988 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Studies Group.
Gameplay
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War, Vol. 2 is a game in which five American Civil War battles that took place from the middle of 1862 through the end of 1863 are simulated.
Reception
Jay C. Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "This game is an excellent simulation of Civil War combat."
Jay C. Selover again reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "If my prior review of this game did not put you off completely; you may just have to go out and buy an IBM machine so that you can, at least, properly enjoy the game."
Reviews
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - Sep, 1988
Computer Gaming World - Oct, 1990
References
External links
Article in Computer Games Week
Review in Zzap!
Article in Game Players
1988 video games
American Civil War video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Strategic Studies Group games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Australia
Video games set in Georgia (U.S. state)
Video games set in Pennsylvania
Video games set in Tennessee
Video games set in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailando%202021 | Bailando 2021 is the fifteenth season of Bailando por un Sueño which premiered as a segment on the program Showmatch on May 17, 2021, on the El Trece network following the permanent cancellation of the planned 2020 season. However, the competition will start a day later, on May 18. Marcelo Tinelli returned as host. In addition, the program will feature for the first time a digital host who will be Lizardo Ponce (also a contestant in this edition).
The season was also named as "La Academia" (), because participants must learn and show multiple artistic disciplines —singing, skating, acrobatics, imitation, acting— in addition to performing a dance presentation. There will be new challenges from different artistic manifestations.
A new format change was introduced for the rest of the season: In the duel, the couples will have to make a different presentation (it does not necessarily have to be dance, it can be another discipline).
What is new about this season is that the judges are going to have the power (in some rounds) to eliminate a couple —although this mechanism has been carried out in the previous season in the rounds of "Duels I" and "Duels II"—. Also on some occasions (in the event of a tie), María Laura "Lolo" Rossi and Eugenia López Frugoni, the choreographers chiefs, define the eliminated couple.
Cast
On May 4 was presented the official photo of the cast (celebrities, judges and presenter).
Couples
Initially, 23 teams were confirmed. This season 5 couples made up of celebrities participate, they are: Ezequiel Cwirkaluk & Bárbara Silenzi; Florencia Vigna & Facundo Mazzei; Luciana Salazar & Jorge Moliniers; Pablo Prada & Lourdes Sánchez and Ulises Bueno & Rocío Pardo.
The team number 24 is made up of two celebrities: producer Pablo Prada and dancer Lourdes Sánchez (Prada's girlfriend). They were summoned in the first program by Tinelli.
Due to the low number of couples (15) at this time of year (in August), the production decided to add more couples to the show. On August 10, the new contestants were officially confirmed: Ariel Puchetta, Celeste Muriega (who participated in this edition as a replacement for Bárbara Silenzi), Lionel Ferro, Mariela Anchipi (who replaced Sofía Jiménez for 4 rounds) and Rodrigo Tapari. Nazarena Veléz was confirmed to join the show as a new addition in round 10; but for personal reasons she retired (before her debut).
On September 20, Nazareno Móttola (who was a substitute contestant this season) was confirmed to compete in the show.
On September 21, Agustín Barajas (Hernán Piquín's boyfriend) was confirmed to participate in the competition. In addition, a live casting was held to find the dance partner among the dancers on the La Academias staff: Estefanía Pais, Julia «Juja» Pérez and Loana «Loli» Ruiz were the pre-selected for the position; being latter selected by the judges as a professional from Barajas.
In quotation marks («»), the nicknames.
Choreographers
Alphabetical order
Judges
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Orleans%20Saints%20Radio%20Network | The New Orleans Saints Radio Network is a radio network which carries games of the New Orleans Saints. The flagship stations of the radio network is 870 WWL-AM and 105.3 WWL-FM in New Orleans. Many of the stations that broadcast these games are almost entirely located around the Gulf Coast region, with stations mostly located in Louisiana and Mississippi with a few exceptions.
Network Stations
Louisiana
KZMZ 96.9 FM Alexandria
WDGL 98.1 FM Baton Rouge
WBOX 920 AM Bogalusa
WBOX-FM 92.9 FM Bogalusa
KJIN 1490 AM Houma
KJEF 1290 AM Jennings
KMDL 97.3 FM Lafayette
KPEL 1420 AM Lafayette
KNGT 99.5 FM Lake Charles
KLCL 1470 AM Lake Charles/DeRidder
KMLB 540 AM Monroe
KLIL 92.1 FM Moreauville
KQKI 95.3 FM Morgan City
WWL-FM 105.3 FM New Orleans (Flagship station)
WWL 870 AM New Orleans (Flagship station)
KRLQ 94.1 FM Ruston
KTAL 98.1 FM Shreveport/Texarkana
KVPI 92.5 FM Ville Platte
Mississippi
WCJU 104.9 FM Columbia
WDMS 100.7 FM Greenville
WMXI 98.1 FM Hattiesburg/Laurel
WBBL 96.5 FM Richton
WJDX 620 AM Jackson
WRBE 106.9 FM Lucedale
WAZA 107.7 FM McComb
WALT-FM 102.1 FM Meridian
WQNZ 95.1 FM Natchez
WJDR 98.3 FM Prentiss
Alabama
WNSP 105.5 FM Mobile
Florida
WPNN 790 AM Pensacola
103.7 W279CY Pensacola (translator of WPNN 790)
Arkansas
KWLT 102.7 FM Crossett
References
American radio networks |
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