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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-personal%20data | Non-Personal Data (NPD) is electronic data that does not contain any information that can be used to identify a natural person. Thus, it can either be data that has no personal information to begin with (such as weather data, stock prices, data from anonymous IoT sensors); or it is data that had personal data that was subsequently pseudoanonymized (for example, identifiable strings substituted with random strings) or anonymized (such as by irreversibly removing all personal data). NPD is part of the overall Data Governance Strategy of a region or country. While personal data are covered by Data Protection Legislation such as GDPR, other kinds of data would fall under the scope of NPD Regulation.
Importance of Non-personal Data
It has been pointed out that the future is data-driven. What this means is that much of the present innovation taking place in domains such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is fueled by data, which is needed for calibrating the complex models (comprising neural network-based as well as other kinds). The larger the volume, diversity and quality of the data, the higher is the quality of the model, leading to better predictions and explanations.
However, there is a flip-side to data availability. The newly-emerging awareness of privacy and the consequent need for powerful Data Protection Regulations (such as GDPR) makes it increasingly difficult or impossible to obtain data in the quantities required. This is a contradiction, and the only way out would be to remove all personal data from data sets (either by Data anonymization or Pseudonymization coupled with noise injection, at which point it becomes NPD.
Therefore, many innovation-friendly countries are coming out with regulatory regimes that would ensure that personal data is protected, while, at the same time, non-personal data can be extracted from personal data so that innovation is fostered. In other words, NPD 'unlocks' value that was locked away in data sets that have personally-identifiable information. It is expected that multiple NPD data sets will begin to be available on free or commercial basis from different providers once the regulations are in place.
Emerging Regulatory Frameworks
Non-Personal Data has significant uses that may be economic, social, political or security-related. Several countries and regions are in the process of regulating the use of NPD. In May 2019, the European Union operationalized its Regulation of the Free Flow of NPD. India announced a nine-member expert committee to make recommendations on the regulation of NPD in 2019, which published its first report in mid-2020. The report was opened for public comments, after which it was revised and published in December 2020.
Objectives of the Proposed Indian NPD Regulatory Framework
The following were the objectives of the proposed Indian regulation as per the revised report:
Sovereignty: India has rights over the data of India, its people and organisations.
Benefit India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Neutral%20Data%20Centre%20Pact | The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact is a pledge of industry players and trade association of cloud infrastructure services and data centres in Europe to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. It is supported by the European Commission and Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal.
The European Green Deal expects Europe to be climate neutral by 2050.
The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact pledge addresses 5 areas: Prove energy efficiency with measurable targets; purchase 100% carbon-free energy; water conservation; Reuse, repair and recycle servers; look for ways to recycle heat.
Metrics to be achieved by 2025 and 2030 will have to be certified by an independent auditor, except for SMEs.
One of the originality of the pledge is that if a data centre operator signatory of the pledge does not meet the expected metrics, the company would be expelled by all trade association signatories of the Pact.
A first Board of Directors of the Pact was appointed for a 2 year term 24th February 2021. it is composed by 6 members. First directors are Alban Schmutz (OVHcloud representing CISPE and co-founder of the Pact), Michael Winterson (Equinix representing EUDCA co-founder of the Pact), Stijn Grove (Dutch Data Centre Association), Emma Fryer (TechUK), Lex Coors (Interxion) and Fabrizio Garrone (Aruba).
The Pact has been referenced by the European Commission as "instrumental in setting up the European Green Digital Coalition"
Engagement of signatories (metrics)
By signing the Pact, Data Centre Operators agree to have all their data centres operated within the European Union fulfilling several metrics. All data centre larger than 50KW of maximum IT power are considered in the perimeter of the Pact to consider. If one of the data centres of an operator fails to meet the thresholds, a 60 days period is granted to propose a remediation plan to the board of directors of the Pact, and this plan must be executed within 6 months. If failing to meet the thresholds, the operator would be expelled from the Pact.
Metrics to achieve are the following:
By January 1, 2025 new data centres operating at full capacity in cool climates will meet an annual PUE target of 1.3, and 1.4 for new data centres operating at full capacity in warm climates. Existing data centres will achieve these same targets by January 1, 2030.
Data centre electricity demand will be matched by 75% renewable energy or hourly carbon-free energy by December 31, 2025 and 100% by December 31, 2030.
Data centres will assess for reuse, repair, or recycling 100% of their used server equipment, and operators will increase the quantity of server materials repaired or reused and will create a target percentage for repair and reuse by 2025.
Interconnection with district heat systems to reuse heat of data centres will be envisaged where practical, environmentally sound and cost effective.
Some metrics remains undefined like targets on water conservation, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned%20Davis%20%28analyst%29 | Nathan E. "Ned" Davis (born 1945/1946, Nashville), is an American financial analyst, finance author, and co-founder of the Ned Davis Research Group (NDRG), a data-driven investment research company based in Venice, Florida.
Early life and education
Davis was born in Nashville, went to school at the University School of Nashville graduating in 1963, and did his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in French.
Career
He dropped out of Harvard Business School as he found he was more interested in finance and investment than management, and returned to Nashville to spend 12 years working at the regional investment bank, J.C. Bradford & Co. At J.C. Bradford, Davis met Ed Mendel, and the two became interested in the idea of using computers to analyze investment data, however, their request in 1979 to the company for US$30,000 to buy a mainframe computer was declined. At the time, Davis was a partner in the firm, and his investment views were covered nationally in publications such as The Washington Post.
Ned Davis Research (1980–)
In 1980, Davis and Mendel co-founded the Ned Davis Research Group (NDRG) in Venice, Florida starting with 5 employees, to focus on computer data analysis driven investment research and advice for trading firms. Davis focused on the analysis, and Mendel focused on the business model and business management. In 2011, NDRG was sold to the global financial publishing company Euromoney for circa 173 million; Davis remained with the company after the transaction. As well as its Venice headquarters, NDRG had branches in Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, and London, with over 1,000 global institutional investment clients, including Fidelity Investments and the Charles Schwab Corporation.
Davis (and NDRG), is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, CNBC, Barron's, and other financial publications. Their quantitative and technical research on various long-term data series in markets is used as reference in publications such as The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, as well as in their own publications.
In April 2013, finance author Barry Ritholtz said, "Ned Davis may be the single most highly respected Technical Analyst working today", and interviewed Davis for the Bloomberg: Masters in Business (MiB) series, where Davis said: "We are in the business of making mistakes. The only difference between the winners and the losers is that the winners make small mistakes, while the losers make big mistakes".
Davis has been described as a follower of contrarian investing, who warns against situations of very strong consensus or herd mentality.
Published works
Davis has published a number of books on finance, which have been re-published in subsequent editions:
See also
Technical analysis
Fed model
References
External links
Ned Davis Research (official website)
Profile of Ned Davis (BCA Research)
Ned Davis Profile (CMT Association)
Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20News%20Network | Baltic News Network (BNN) is a Baltic news website.
It was founded on September 1, 2010, providing online news portals, mainly reporting for and about the Baltic region, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. It is published by Latvia Baltic News Network.
The Baltic News Network GmbH is registered in Austria. It was founded by Fred Zimmer.
The Baltic News Network is a member of the Independent Media Association.
History
BNN was founded on 1 September 2010 by Fred Zimmer to counter perceived Russian disinformation, and emerged as a respected news source for the Baltic region. Based around predominantly selling stories to newspapers in the Baltic region, it has come to be recognized as an important political news source.
References
External links
Mass media companies of Latvia
Baltic states |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20Arcade | Shooting Arcade is a fixed shooter written by Mark Riley for the Atari 8-bit family and published in 1982 by Datasoft. It was later released under Datasoft's Gentry Software budget label as Target Practice. It was ported to the TRS-80 Color Computer by James Garon and released as Shooting Gallery. The game is similar to the 1980 Sega arcade game Carnival.
Gameplay
Shooting Arcade is based on an amusement park shooting gallery. The player controls a pistol which moves along the bottom of the screen. Targets moving right and left appear in six rows before the player, and the goal of the game is to shoot them all down before the player runs out of bullets. The directions in which the rows of targets move alternate from row to row. The targets move off one edge of the screen and reappear on the other edge. Each target has a different point value and some also have special features: the diamonds give an extra bullet when hit, the bull's eyes change the direction targets are moving and the frowning faces cause an extra rabbit to appear making the player waste an additional bullet.
Once the player has cleared all the targets, a large brown bear appears. Each time the player hits the bear he is awarded with 50 points. If the player is unable to hit the bear it moves off the screen and the next round starts.
Reception
David Plotkin writing for SoftSide called Shooting Arcade "the finest implementation I've seen of a shooting gallery for the Atari. This program exhibits the DataSoft hallmarks of fine color and music, as well as excellent animation."
See also
O'Riley's Mine
References
External links
Shooting Arcade at Atari Mania
Review in Compute!
1982 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Datasoft games
Fixed shooters
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in amusement parks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Pentecost | David John Pentecost (born 1940) is a British composer, videographer, writer, a retired information technology specialist, and a retired British computer industry history researcher. He is a Certified Information Technology Professional, a Life Member and Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, and also a Member of the Computer Conservation Society.
Early life and education
David Pentecost was born in London. He was educated privately in piano playing for seven years, from age 6, and on the violin for two years from age 9. He attended Christ's College, Finchley (a grammar school in north London), until age 18, and then studied mathematics at Brunel College of Technology. Pentecost passed three examinations at the London College of Music, up to Intermediate level. He then taught himself a large repertoire of classical piano music, during subsequent years.
Significant information technology projects
Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd
1960 – 1962 Pentecost worked as a computer programmer at computer manufacturer Elliott Brothers in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire – the first British company to become seriously involved with digital computer technology. Pentecost wrote software on the Elliott 405 computer to measure the precise execution time taken by another computer program running simultaneously on the same computer. This software was used to demonstrate that Elliott's employee Tony Hoare’s new sorting techniques method Quicksort was faster than previous sorting techniques. The Quicksort method, or a version of it, now forms the basis of most computer sorting programs.
Mills Associates Ltd
In 1962, Pentecost moved to Mills Associates Ltd, where he headed a small team of programmers to implement a unit trust administration system, believed to be the first of its kind.
Unit Trust Services Ltd
In 1967, Pentecost joined Unit Trust Services Ltd in the City of London, and in 1972 he was appointed as a director. He designed and implemented what was thought to be the first fully computerised unit trust contract note production system. He chose Honeywell’s new H316 industrial process control mini-computer, having persuaded Honeywell that it would be the first of its type to be used for commercial applications in the UK.
Coward Chance (later Clifford Chance)
In 1980, Pentecost joined Coward Chance as Business Systems Manager. In 1985 Pentecost designed and implemented a system on a large Burroughs Corporation mainframe computer, to revolutionise the administrative aspects of the office, replacing typewriters with word processors, all linked to the central computer, for accounting, billing and other purposes. The system was called the Office Automation System, and it incorporated an internal electronic mail system, before electronic mail over the Internet became widely available to the general public.
Computer industry history research
In 2003, Pentecost learned that Simon Lavington, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Wallach | Wendell Wallach (born April 21, 1946) is a bioethicist and author focused on the ethics and governance of emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence and neuroscience. He is a scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, a senior advisor to The Hastings Center, a Carnegie/Uehiro Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where he co-directs the "Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative" with Anja Kaspersen. Wendell Wallach is also a fellow at the Center for Law and Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. He has written two books on the ethics of emerging technologies.: "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong" (2010) and "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control" (2015). Wallach speaks eloquently about his professional, personal and spiritual journey, as well as some of the biggest conundrums facing humanity at the wake of the bio/digital revolution in this podcast published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (CCEIA).
Early life
Wallach was born in Torrington, Connecticut. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1968. In 1971 he received his master's degree in education from Harvard University, and afterwards did a stint in India where he explored spirituality and processes of cognition. In 1978 he published his first book, Silent Learning: The Undistracted Mind (Journey Publications, 1978).
Career
Computer consulting
In the 1980s and 1990s, Wallach worked in computer consulting as founder and president of Farpoint Solutions LLC and Omnia Consulting Inc. These groups served clients such as the State of Connecticut, PepsiCo International, and United Aircraft. He sold his interests in both companies in 2001.
Machine ethics
In 2004 and 2005, Wallach taught undergraduate seminars at Yale University about robot ethics, and in 2005 he became chair of the Technology and Ethics Study Group at Yale University ISPS Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. In 2009, Wallach published Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong (co-authored with Colin Allen, Indiana University), which discusses issues in AI ethics and machine morality. It is considered the "first book to examine the challenge of building artificial moral agents." In 2015 Wallach became a senior advisor on synthetic biology to The Hastings Center, which is an "independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute" focused on "social and ethical issues in health care, science, and technology." Wallach received the World Technology Network award for ethics in 2014. He also won the World Technology Network award for media and journalism in 2015, in recognition of his second book, A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from slipping beyond our control, which discusses the ethics and governance of various emerging technologies. In this book, Wallach argues that "technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glance%20%28company%29 | Glance is an Indian artificial intelligence based software company that delivers personalised content to the lock screens of smartphones. Co-founded in 2019 by Naveen Tewari, Abhay Singhal, Mohit Saxena, and Piyush Shah and headquartered in Bangalore, Glance is owned by InMobi, a multinational technology company.
History
In September 2019, Glance raised $45 million funding from the United States-based venture capital firm, Mithril Capital. In December 2020, Glance raised $145 million from Google and Mithril Capital, increasing its valuation to over $1 billion. It is the second company from the InMobi group to have become a unicorn.
In June 2022, Glance launched a three-day digital event called Glance LIVE Fest, with Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao starring in their marketing campaign to promote it.
Acquisitions
Glance acquired Roposo, a short-video platform, in November 2019, for an undisclosed amount to add vernacular video content to its platform. In June 2021, it acquired Shop101, a social e-commerce platform, for an undisclosed amount to integrate celebrity and influencer-led commerce on Glance and Roposo. In March 2022, it acquired Gambit, an Indian gaming company, for an undisclosed amount to accelerate Glance’s ambition of building the biggest platform for NFT-based live gaming experiences for Gen-Z, across markets.
References
External links
Companies based in Bangalore
2016 establishments in Karnataka
Indian companies established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramin%20Bhandaran%20Yojana | Gramin
Yojana, or Rural Godown Scheme, is an Indian government initiative to offer subsidies to individuals or organizations which build or repair rural godowns.
Introduction
The network of rural storage will increase the holding capacity for small farmers, to sell their produce at a reasonable price, not by selling them in thunderstorms. Accordingly, the Rural Storage Scheme was started in 2001-02 under the Capital Investment Subsidy Scheme for the construction / renovation of rural warehouses.
Rural storage scheme capacity
Capacity under this scheme will be decided by the entrepreneur. But to get the subsidy, the capacity of the warehouse should be minimum 100 tonnes and maximum of 30,000 tonnes. If the capacity is more than 30,000 tonnes or less than 100 tonnes then subsidy will not be given under this scheme. Subsidies will also be provided in some special cases up to 50 tonnes capacity. Subsidy will also be provided to rural warehouses with a capacity of 25 tonnes in hilly areas. The loan repayment period under this scheme is 11 years.
Other agriculture schemes launched by Modi regime
Agriculture initiatives schemes launched by the Narendra Modi regime are:
2020 Indian agriculture acts
Atal Bhujal Yojana
E-NAM for online agrimarketing
Gramin Bhandaran Yojana, for local storage
Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF)
National Mission For Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
National Scheme on Fisheries Training and Extension
National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKSN) for minimum support scheme
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) for irrigation
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) for organic farming
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for crop insurance
See also
Agriculture in India
Agricultural insurance in India
Irrigation in India
Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
References
Modi administration initiatives
Government schemes in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Three-Body%20Problem%20in%20Minecraft | The Three-Body Problem in Minecraft () is a Chinese network animated series based on the science fiction novels The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin. Initially, the animation was a doujin work, but from the second season onwards, it became an official adaptation.
Production
The animation's director, Li Zhenyi (李圳宜), is a student studying at the University of Pau and the Adour Region and a fan of the Three-Body Problem. As he was often asked about the novel, he decided to use Minecraft to make an animated adaption of the work. When he made the first episode, he was the only person involved aside from the voice actors, so he needed to adapt the screenplay, perform auditions, and design the levels. Due to technical, experience and financial constraints, the first season was relatively unprofessional, but nevertheless managed to attract others to help work on the production. After the fourth episode, the creators set up a production team, and after the ninth, they all converted to animation production.
With the debut of the second season, quality was further increased, with the addition of lighting and character expressions. It also became an official adaptation, allowing the team to receive financial support and official licensing from the publishers of the original novel.
Seasons
The average episode lasts about 20 minutes.
During the first season, there was a six-month gap between episodes 10 and 11. After the second episode of season two, updates were discontinued for a long time, before broadcasting began again in January 2018.
Reception
Critical reception was largely positive. On the Chinese social website Douban and video website Bilibili, the animation received an overall rating of 9.7/10.
According to the People's Daily, the creators' animation, voice-over work, scene design, and editing manages use the video-game-style pixel art into a production with a quality similar to sci-fi movies. They also commended the quality of the animation, especially in the third season. The Paper also praised it, stating that since the production team were fans of the original novel, they could preserve the details that made it appealing, and make the adapted plot compelling and rich.
In 2015, the production team was awarded the Silver Prize of the Xingyun Awards.
Outside of China, users have uploaded the series onto YouTube, putting each season onto a playlist.
References
Minecraft in popular culture
2014 Chinese television series debuts
Chinese animated television series
Television shows based on Chinese novels
Machinima works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6n%C3%B6 | Rönö () is an island in Lake Kallavesi and also a district in the city of Kuopio, Finland. It is located about 2,5 kilometers southeast of Kuopio Market Square, measured along the street network. Since 1988, the island has been connected to Väinölänniemi by a bridge. Rönö is a sought-after residential area and is one of the most expensive areas in Kuopio, along with the archipelago estates in Saaristokaupunki. Only detached, semi-detached and terraced houses have been built there. Most of the island was built during the boom of art in the 1980s and 1990s, but houses have also been built in the 2000s, and a few estates are still completely undeveloped. By the decision of the city council, tenant houses were once built on the highest point of Rönö.
Rönö is the only areas in Kuopio where the average annual income of households exceeds €100,000. On the southwest coast of the island, the average income is up to €230,000. There are few elderly people living in the area, but there are many small families. The average size of households is 2,2–2,9 people.
In addition to the main island, the Rönö district includes islands called Honkasaari, Lehtosaari, Varvisaari and Tiilissaari, as well as a few smaller islands. Of these, there is a bridge connection to Varvisaari from Rönö. On January 1, 2008, there were only 15 jobs in Rönö and its neighboring islands. This illustrates the emphasis of the area almost entirely on residential and recreational use, so there are no stores or kiosks in the area. The nearest similar, summer and bespoke restaurant called Peräniemi Casino, is located on the edge of Väinölänniemi opposite Rönö. Bus traffic to the area is limited to daytime, between 7 and 16 p.m. With the exception of Rönö Island, the district is part of the Kuopio National City Park, established in December 2017.
Sources
Literature
Tiina Mertanen & Taru Heikkinen: Silta Rönöön, pappilan torpasta luksuslähiöksi. 1990. Kuopion kulttuurihistoriallisen museon julkaisuja 9. (in Finnish)
References
External links
1529/2015 Government Decree on archipelago municipalities and archipelago parts of other municipalities to which the provisions concerning the archipelago municipality apply at Finlex Data Bank (in Finnish)
Minna Halonen & Teppo Tossavainen: Nature trails in the center (PDF) (in Finnish)
Districts of Kuopio
Lake islands of Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICT%20Association%20of%20Suriname | The ICT Association of Suriname (Dutch: ICT Associatie van Suriname) is a Surinamese trade association for companies whose core business is related to Information technology and computing. Members are required to be registered with the Suriname Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The association was founded on 20 January 2011 by five companies. It grew to 49 members by 2016, and to 60 members by 2021.
In addition to representing its members, the ICT-AS also organizes public events to promote computer science education. In cooperation with the ITU and the Telecommunications Authority of Suriname, it has held an annual Girls in ICT Day in Paramaribo and similar events in other parts of Suriname.
In June 2013, together with the Suriname Association of IT Professionals (SVI), the ICT-AS organized the first international IT Summit in Paramaribo. The IT Summit, with participants from the Netherlands, the United States and the Caribbean, was repeated in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The conferences addressed industry developments, trends, and opportunities. Datasur launched the first cloud hosting service based in Suriname at the 2014 summit.
In January 2020, a new board of directors was elected, with Anuskha Sonai as the chair. The new board plans to work toward a digital economy for the country to increase opportunities for technology entrepreneurship.
References
Technology trade associations
Business organisations based in Suriname
Information technology organizations based in the Caribbean
2011 establishments in Suriname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavola%20Strozzi | The Tavola Strozzi is a painting made using tempera on wood and attributed to Francesco Rosselli, datable to 1472-1473 and kept in the National Museum of San Martino in Naples. It represents a view of Naples from the 15th century.
References
External links
Official site
Paintings in Naples
1472 paintings
Cityscape paintings
Cities in art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suansu%20language | Suansu is an Tangkhulic language of Manipur, India, first reported in 2019. It is spoken by approximately 2,000 people in several villages of Ukhrul District, Manipur.
Resources
Lexibank data (GitHub)
Lexibank data (Zenodo)
References
Tangkhulic languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20Bangla | Republic Bangla (stylized as R. বাংলা) is a free-to-air Indian Bengali-language news channel, launched on 7 March 2021, by Arnab Goswami's Republic Media Network. The channel was announced with the slogan "Kotha Hobey Chokhe Chokh Rekhe" (কথা হবে চোখে চোখ রেখে) (we will now see eye to eye).
The channel is the third launched by Goswami, after the launches of Republic TV in English and Republic Bharat in Hindi. Goswami himself has spoken of his ambition to launch channels in all states and regional languages across India.
Hosts
The main hosts of this channel are Arnab Goswami, Mayukh Ranjan Ghosh, Swarnali Sarkar, Meenakshi Dev Biswas, Samadrita Mukherjee, Renaissance Chakraborty
References
External links
Bengali-language television channels in India
Television news in India
24-hour television news channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Television stations in Kolkata
2021 establishments in West Bengal
Republic Media Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geppetto%20%28software%29 | Geppetto is a web-based platform that allows its user to build neuroscience applications that let the user explore, visualize and simulate neuroscience data and models. It gets used by the OpenWorm project, Virtual Fly Brain project, Open Source Brain and NEURON-UI. It's licensed under the MIT license.
References
Neuroscience software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throughline | Throughline is a historical podcast and radio program from American public radio network NPR. The podcast aims to contextualize current events by exploring the historical events that contributed to them. Its episodes have outlined the history of modern political debates, civil rights issues, and domestic and international policy. The show is NPR's first history podcast.
Hosts and program
Throughline is hosted by Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah, radio producers who previously worked on NPR programs such as TED Radio Hour and How I Built This. Arablouei is Iranian-American and Abdelfatah is Palestinian-American; both have spoken about the importance of Middle Eastern representation in American media.
The podcast focuses on the relationship between the latest news and historical events - "go[ing] back in time to understand the present." Its sound design incorporates discussion between the two hosts, as well as interviews with historians and audio clips from historical newscasts and recordings. The show also aims to tell the histories of underrepresented and forgotten people in the United States, often airing stories about racial and religious minorities.
History
Throughline launched on February 7, 2019. It gained notability in 2020 and 2021 with episodes that addressed the history of policing in America, the development of the N-95 mask, the establishment of the electoral college, and the rise of the modern white power movement.
Starting on January 15, 2021, NPR has made Throughline episodes available to local public radio stations as a radio show.
Awards and reception
In 2019, Throughline was included in both TIME and The Atlantic lists of the 50 Best Podcasts of the year. It was also included in lists of the best political or historical podcasts by Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, and GQ in 2020.
Throughline was nominated for Best History Podcast in the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, and won the award in 2022.
Throughline won a Peabody Award for a 2021 episode about the history and culture of Afghanistan.
See also
List of history podcasts
References
External links
Official website
Throughline on iTunes
Throughline on Twitter
2019 podcast debuts
News podcasts
History podcasts
Educational podcasts
Works about American history
NPR programs
Audio podcasts
American news radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivo%20X60 | Vivo X60 is a line of Android-based smartphones developed and manufactured by Vivo, it featured the Zeiss co-engineered imaging system.
Notes
References
External links
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2021
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Vivo smartphones
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Mobile phones with 8K video recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Wave%20III%20s8600 | The Samsung Wave III S8600 (or "Samsung Wave III") is a smartphone running the Bada 2.0 operating system designed by Samsung, which was commercially released on August, 2011. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by "Scorpion" CPU, which includes 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-8 CPU and a powerful graphics engine, "Super LCD" screen and 720p high-definition video capture capabilities. Shortage of Super AMOLED screens was one of the primary reasons for the release of this model.
Hardware features
Design
The phone is made of mostly metal alloy and is measured at 12.9 mm thick. In terms of form factor, it is a slate style featuring 3 physical buttons on the front: call, reject/ shutdown, and main menu button.
Screen
The screen is a capacitive touchscreen Super LCD with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass (Gorilla Glass Display) touch panel which has been shown to be capable of resisting extreme friction (scratch-resistant). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA and an area of 45.5 cm^2 (~233 ppi).
Processor
The phone features a Scorpion processor Qualcomm S2 MSM8255T 1.4 GHz SoC, which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core.
Camera
The phone features a 5 megapixel which supports 2592 × 1944 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face, blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus, etc. Other than these features it has various shooting modes such as beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to shoot 720p HD recording (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash.
Other features
Other feature include A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, Social Hub and it is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0.
In addition to Bluetooth 3.0, the phone also features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s.
This phone is available with both European/Asia 3G bandings and the North American 3G bandings.
Software features
User interface
The phone is one of the few smartphones to feature the Samsung bada 2.0 operating system platform.
Applications
By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer which is capable of reading. pdf and Microsoft Office file formats.
As for Samsung apps, users can also download applications, games and widgets from the application store.
Media support
Audio
MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC
Video
MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV
Android porting
There are many Android Custom ROMs on this mobile, they go up to Android 4.4
See also
Exynos
AMOLED
Samsung Wave Y
References
Bada (operating system)
S-8530
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeis | Homeis is the first social networking app for immigrants. The app networks foreign-born peoples based on location and language, primarily focusing on South Asian, South American, French-speaking African, and Israeli immigrants.
Homeis connects users with paid Homeis staff or volunteers in their area who speak the same language and can offer assistance with their transition to living in the US, Canada, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Users can also interact based on shared interests.
Homeis was co-founded by Ran Harnevo and Hanan Laschover in January 2017. Harnevo previously created 5Min Media, an online video distributor created in 2007 that was purchased by AOL in 2010. He acted as president of video at Oath, owned by AOL, until 2015. Laschover was the head of AOL Israel until he left in 2015.
The inspiration for Homeis came from Harnevo’s own experience of struggling to make his way around New York City after immigrating to the United States from Tel Aviv, Israel in 2008 to build 5Min Media. Harnevo and Laschover initially focused the app on Israeli immigrants in New York City before broadening to include French-speaking African, Indian, and South American communities.
The Homeis app shut down in Summer 2021 with the promise of re-opening in Fall 2021. However, it remains offline, as of December 21, 2022.
References
Social networking mobile apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters | ShinyHunters is a criminal black-hat hacker group that is believed to have formed in 2020 and is said to have been involved in numerous data breaches. The stolen information is often sold on the dark web.
Name and alias
The name of the group is believed to be derived from shiny Pokémon, a mechanic in the Pokémon video game franchise where Pokémon have a rare chance of being encountered in an alternate, "shiny" color scheme, with such Pokémon considered elusive to players. The avatar of a Twitter profile tied to the group contains a picture of a shiny Pokémon.
Notable data breaches
AT&T Wireless: In 2021, ShinyHunters began selling information on 70 million AT&T wireless subscribers, which contained user's phone numbers, personal information and social security numbers. AT&T denied the breach stating the information came from a partner service and not directly from them .
Tokopedia: On 2 May 2020 Tokopedia was breached by Shinyhunters, which claimed to have data for 91 million user accounts, revealing users' gender, location, username, full name, email address, phone number, and hashed passwords.
Wishbone: Also in May 2020, ShinyHunters leaked the full user database of Wishbone, which is said to contain personal information such as usernames, emails, phone numbers, city/state/country of residence, and hashed passwords.
Microsoft: In May 2020, ShinyHunters also claimed to have stolen over 500 GB of Microsoft source code from the company's private GitHub account. The group published around 1GB of data from the hacked GitHub account to a hacking forum. Some cybersecurity experts doubted the claims until analyzing the code; upon analysis, ShinyHunters' claims were no longer in question. Microsoft told Wired in a statement that they are aware of the breach. Microsoft later secured their GitHub account, which was confirmed by ShinyHunters as they reported being unable to access any repositories.
Wattpad: In July 2020, ShinyHunters gained access to the Wattpad database containing 270 million user records. Information leaked included usernames, real names, hashed passwords, email addresses, geographic location, gender, and date of birth.
Pluto TV: In November 2020, it was reported that ShinyHunters gained access to the personal data of 3.2 million Pluto TV users. The hacked data included users' display names, email addresses, IP addresses, hashed passwords and dates of birth.
Animal Jam: It was also reported in November 2020 that ShinyHunters was behind the hack of Animal Jam, leading to the exposure of 46 million accounts.
Mashable: In November 2020, ShinyHunters leaked 5.22GB worth of the Mashable database on a prominent hacker forum.
Pixlr: In January 2021, ShinyHunters leaked 1.9 million user records from Pixlr.
Nitro PDF: In January 2021, a hacker claiming to be a part of ShinyHunters leaked the full database of Nitro PDF — which contains 77 million user records — on a hacker forum for free.
Bonobos: Also in January 2021 it was reported that S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Lost%20Recipe%20episodes | The Lost Recipe is a 2021 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA News TV and GTV. It aired from January 18, 2021 to March 31, 2021 on the network's evening line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV.
Series overview
Episodes
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Zee%20Telugu | This is a list of the programmes broadcast by Zee Telugu, an Indian Telugu-language general entertainment network.
Current programming
Spiritual shows
Drama series
Reality shows
Former programming
Soap operas
Aamani
Agnipariksha (2021–2022)
Attarintlo Akka Chellellu (2019–2021)
America Ammayi (2015–2018)
Amma Naa Kodala (2014–2017)
Aparadhi (2004)
Arundathi (2010–2012)
Bangaru Gajulu (2019–2020)
Bava Maradallu (2018–2019)
Bhama Sathyabhama
Brindavanam (2013–2014)
Chinna Kodalu (2010–2013)
Devathalara Deevinchandi (2022-2023)
Dr. Chakravarthy (2010–2012)
Edadugulu
Evare Nuvvu Mohini (2017–2018)
Ganga Manga (2018–2020)
Gangatho Rambabu (2013–2015)
Geethanjali (2016)
Goranta Deepam (2013–2014)
Gruhapravesam (2017–2019)
Happy Days (Season 1 and 2) (2010–2011)
Hitler Gari Pellam (2020–2022)
Iddaru Ammayilu (2015–2017)
Inti Guttu (2020–2022)
Inspector Kiran (2017–2020)
Itlu Prematho Amma
Kalyana Vaibhogam (2017-2023)
Kalavari Kodallu (2011–2014)
Kanyadanam (2011–2012)
Kodallu Meeku Joharlu (2022-2023)
Kalyanam Kamaneeyam (2022–2023)
Khushi (2004)
Kitiki
Krishna Tulasi (2021-2022)
Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2014–2016)
Krishnavatharalu Unlimited (2010–2011)
Logili
Maate Mantramu (2018–2020)
Maha Devi (2010)
Malleshwari (2006–2007)
Mangamma Gari Manavaralu (2013–2017)
Manoharam
Meenakshi (2019)
Mithai Kottu Chittemma (2021-2023)
Mounaraagam
Mr. Romeo
Muddha Mandaram
Muddu Bidda (2009–2014)
Muga Manasulu (2014–2017)
Mutyala Muggu (2016–2019)
Muthyamantha Muddu (2021–2022)
My Name is Mangatayaaru (2008–2009)
Na Kodalu Bangaram (2017–2019)
Naga Bhairavi (2020–2021)
Nako Kodalu Kavali (2004–2005)
Neneu Aayana Aaruguru Attalu (2014)
Ninne Pelladatha (2018–2021)
Nishabdham (2005)
No.1 Kodalu (2019-2022)
Pakkinti Ammayi (2016–2017)
Pasupu Kumkuma (2010–2014)
Peddarikam (2004)
Pelli Nati Paramanaalu (2012–2014)
Police Diary (2013–2018)
Prema (2018–2020)
Priyadarshini
Punnaga (2017–2018)
Raama Seetha Ekkada (2014–2017)
Rama Sakkani Seetha (2019-2021)
Radha Kalyanam (2011-2013)
Raktha Sambandham (2018–2021)
Rowdy Gari Pellam (2021-2022)
Sandade Sandadi (2010)
Shirdi Sai Katha
Sriram Weds Janakiraghuram (2008–2009)
Suryavamsham (2017–2020)
Swarna Palace (2021)
That is Mahalakshmi (2017–2018)
The Agencie (2004)
Tholi Prema (2009)
Thoorpu Padamara (2020)
Trishulam
Ummadi Kutumbam
Vaidehi Parinayam (2021-2023)
Varudhini Parinayam (2013–2016)
Vijay Samrat (2004)
Dubbed soap operas
Aame
Anveshana
Ardhangi
Attarintlo Aiduguru Kodallu
Bandham Leni Anubandham
Bhethala Vikramarka
Brahmarakshas
Charandasi
Durga
Gangaa (Telugu)
Jai Ganesha
Jai Santoshi Mata
Jaya Krishna Mukunda Murari
Jodha Akbar (Telugu)
Kumkuma Bhagya
Maa Vaaru
Mangalya Bhagyam
Mayavi
Meena
Meera
Oka Raju Oka Rani
Pournami
Prema Sankellu
Punar Vivaaham
Ramayanam
Rudra
Sahana
Shivaranjini
Shree (Telugu)
Sri Raghavendra Vaibhavam
Tenali Ramakrishna
Thulasi
Veernaari Jhansi Laks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Vietnam%20protests | The 2018 Vietnam protests, June 10 Events, or Protests against the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law (Vietnamese: Biểu tình phản đối Luật đặc khu kinh tế và Luật An ninh mạng), are a series of both violent and nonviolent protests that erupted across Vietnam in June 2018, chiefly in response to two drafted pieces of legislation: the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law.
The Special Zone Act (also known as the Special Zones Law or the Special Economic Zones Law) proposes the opening of three special economic zones (SEZs) across Vietnam, where foreign investors would be allowed to lease land for up to 99 years. Despite no specific mention of China within the lines of the bill, many Vietnamese feared that the SEZs would be dominated by China, leading to worries about the loss of national sovereignty. On 9 June 2018, the Vietnamese authorities eventually yielded under enormous public pressure and postponed voting on the law indefinitely. This is considered the most serious riot in Vietnam since the 2014 riots.
The Cybersecurity Law seeks to give the government full authority to strictly police the Internet, scrutinize personal information, censor online discussion, and punish or even jail online dissidents. It has been described as “largely a copy-and-paste version” of the Chinese Cybersecurity Law that commenced a year prior. The National Assembly of Vietnam passed the law on 12 June 2018 despite local and international opposition and it has been in effect since 1 January 2019.
Context
Protest culture in Vietnam
To mainstream media and many nongovernmental organizations, Vietnam is often perceived as harsh and uncompromising regarding the right to freedom of assembly. Reports from Human Rights Watch and the US State Department depict the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as extremely illiberal and unforgiving of political dissent of any kind. Freedom House’s report on Vietnam in 2020 scores the country at 1 out of 4 for freedom of assembly, specifically citing the arrests and convictions as a result of the 2018 protests as the reason for its score, and 0 out of 4 for freedom for nongovernmental organizations and trade unions or similar professional organizations. Amnesty International also reports harassment, assault, prosecution, torture, and executions towards pro-democracy activists, independent journalists, authors, and publishers in its Vietnam 2020 review. According to Human Rights Watch, in April 2018 the chief judge in Hanoi sentenced political activists to 7 to 12 years of imprisonment each under Article 79 of the Criminal Code for political activism.
Scholars and observers of Vietnam, however, have a different outlook. Many agree that the country has actually been exercising a responsive-repressive strategy since the 1990s, taking certain measures to show its responsiveness and tolerance to criticism from its citizens and exercising repression only as a last resort. Political scientist and Emeritus Professor at the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Blair%20%28computing%29 | Gordon Blair is a Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. He is also the co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science (CEEDS).
Gordon Blair is co-author of Distributed systems: concepts and design, a popular textbooks on distributed systems. His research focuses on reflective and adaptive middleware, and model-driven engineering. His research, with over 300 papers published, has been cited over 19,000 times. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications.
Education
Gordon Blair received a BSc and PhD in Computer Science, in 1980 and 1983, respectively, and both from Strathclyde University.
Selected works
References
Date of birth missing (living people)
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Academics of Lancaster University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGN%20America | WGN America was an American subscription television network, owned by the Nexstar Media Group - the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel. The channel in its final form under the WGN branding ran a mixture of entertainment programming (consisting of comedy and drama series, and theatrical feature films) for most of the broadcast day and a straight-news format—via a daily national prime time newscast, NewsNation—during the evening and early overnight hours.
WGN America traces to its founding by United Video Inc. as a superstation feed of Chicago independent station WGN-TV, and the channel's operational history from its November 1978 launch to its current ownership by Nexstar Media Group, up to its relaunch as general news channel NewsNation, which occurred on March 1, 2021.
Early years
WGN America traces its origins to WGN-TV, a broadcast television station in Chicago, Illinois that began operating over VHF channel 9 on April 5, 1948 as the second commercial television station to sign on in both the Chicago market and the state of Illinois – after WBKB-TV (channel 4, now CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV on channel 2), which began experimental operations as W9XBK in 1940 and converted into a commercially licensed independent station on September 6, 1946 – and the 19th commercial station to sign on in the United States. The station – which, until January 1948, had initially planned to use the call sign WGNA – was founded by WGN, Incorporated, the broadcasting subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune Company (owned by Robert R. McCormick, then the editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune), which had also owned local radio stations WGN (720 AM) and WGNB (98.7 FM; frequency now occupied by WFMT). WGN America and its Chicago-based broadcast television and radio siblings borrow the three-letter "WGN" initialism from the "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan used by the Tribune from August 29, 1911 until December 31, 1976. (The calls were initially obtained by the Tribune in 1924 for use on the former WDAP radio station, which it had then recently acquired from Zenith-Edgewater Beach Broadcasting, by permission of the owners of the then-under-construction SS Carl D. Bradley.)
Initial programming on WGN-TV consisted of local newscasts and various other local programs (including children's programs and music series), older feature films and sporting events from Chicago-area professional and collegiate teams (including Chicago Cubs baseball games, the only local sports franchise to have aired consistently on the station from launch until the station's broadcasting relationship with the Cubs concluded in September 2019). By the end of 1948, network programs from CBS (later shared with WBKB-TV, beginning in September 1949) and the DuMont Television Network joined the schedule; WGN served as a production hub for several DuMont programs during the late 1940s and the first half of the 1950s (including The Al Morgan Show, Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20in%20jazz | This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2021.
Events
January
January 14 – The 2020 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll rates Maria Schneider's Data Lords as the best album of 2020.
February
March
March 14 - The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards occur. Jazz winners include:
Kurt Elling wins Best Jazz Vocal Album for his 2019 album Secrets are the Best Stories
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade win Best Jazz Instrumental Album for their 2021 album Trilogy 2
The Maria Schneider Orchestra wins Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for its 2020 album Data Lords
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra win Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Four Questions
April
May
June
July
July 30 - Shabaka Hutchings from Sons Of Kemet founds a new UK Jazz record label, "Native Rebel Recordings"
July 30-August 1 – The Newport Jazz Festival takes place in the US state of Rhode Island. Performers include Gerald Clayton, Charles Lloyd, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty, Kamasi Washington and Brandee Younger.
August
September
October
October 21 - Takuya Kuroda releases "Midnight Crisp"
November
December
December 4 - Promises (Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra album) is named album of the year 2021 by TIME magazine
Albums
Deaths
January 6 – Bobby Few, 85, American jazz pianist
January 17 – Sammy Nestico, 96, American composer and arranger
January 20 – Keith Nichols, 75, British instrumentalist and bandleader (COVID-19)
January 23 – Jonas Gwangwa, 83, South African jazz trombonist
February 9 – Chick Corea, 79, American pianist, composer and bandleader
February 12 – Milford Graves, 79, American drummer and polymath
March 2 – Chris Barber, 90, British bandleader and trombonist
March 7 – Josky Kiambukuta, 72, Congolese singer (TPOK Jazz)
March 8 – Julien-François Zbinden, 103, Swiss composer and jazz pianist
March 10 – János Gonda, 89, Hungarian jazz pianist
March 19 – Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, Chilean jazz trumpeter (COVID-19)
March 28 – Malcolm Cecil, 84, British jazz bassist and record producer
April 7 – Sonny Simmons, 87, American jazz saxophonist
May 8 – Curtis Fuller, 88, American jazz trombonist
May 15 – Mario Pavone, 80, American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader
June 21 – Nobuo Hara, 94, Japanese saxophonist
July 4 – Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz bassist (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
July 31 – Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, 93, Polish jazz musician and composer
August 28 – Francesc Burrull, 86, Spanish musician and composer
September 16 –George Mraz, 77, Czech-American jazz bassist
September 28 - Dr. Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz Hammond B3 organist
October 18 – Franco Cerri, 95, Italian jazz guitarist.
November 1 – Pat Martino, 77, American jazz guitarist.
November 18 - Slide Hampton, 89, American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
December 8 - Barry Harris, 91, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator
See also
List of 2021 albums
List of jazz festivals
List of years in jazz
202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marieke%20Huisman | Marieke Huisman (born 3 May 1973, Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch Computer Scientist and a professor of Software Reliability at the University of Twente, where she leads the Formal Methods and Tools Group.
Career
Huisman graduated from Utrecht University in 1996. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen in 2001; her dissertation, entitled Reasoning about Java programs in higher order logic using PVS and Isabelle, was supervised by Henk Barendregt.
From 2001 to 2008 she worked at the INRIA Sophia Antipolis Research Centre in France, before joining the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Huisman received an ERC Starting Grant in 2010 and an NWO Vici Grant in 2017. She was awarded the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research in 2013 and the Professor De Winter prize in 2014.
Since July 2017, Huisman is a full professor at the University of Twente. She held her inaugural lecture, Software Reliability for Everyone, on 26 January 2021.
Huiman is chair of VERSEN (VEReniging Software Engineering Nederland), the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering, chairperson of The Ambassadors Network, which advises the executive board of the University of Twente on diversity policies, and board member of Stichting Digitaal Burgerschap Nederland, the Netherlands Digital Citizenship Foundation
Awards and honours
References
External links
Profile page (University of Twente)
Homepage Marieke Huisman (University of Twente)
Living people
1973 births
Dutch women academics
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women_computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20SQL | A distributed SQL database is a single relational database which replicates data across multiple servers. Distributed SQL databases are strongly consistent and most support consistency across racks, data centers, and wide area networks including cloud availability zones and cloud geographic zones. Distributed SQL databases typically use the Paxos or Raft algorithms to achieve consensus across multiple nodes.
Sometimes distributed SQL databases are referred to as NewSQL but NewSQL is a more inclusive term that includes databases that are not distributed databases.
History
Google's Spanner popularized the modern distributed SQL database concept. Google described the database and its architecture in a 2012 whitepaper called "Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database." The paper described Spanner as having evolved from a Big Table-like key value store into a temporal multi-version database where data is stored in "schematized semi-relational tables."
Spanner uses atomic clocks with the Paxos algorithm to accomplish consensus with regards to state distributed between servers. In 2010, and earlier implementation, ClustrixDB (now MariaDB Xpand) moved from a hardware appliance to a Paxos-based software database and was later acquired by MariaDB and added to a SaaS cloud offering called SkySQL. In 2015, two Google engineers left the company to create Cockroach DB which achieves similar results using the Raft algorithm without atomic clocks or custom hardware.
Spanner is primarily used for transactional and time-series use cases. However, Google furthered this research with a follow on paper about Google F1 which it describes as a Hybrid transactional/analytical processing database built on Spanner.
Architecture
Distributed SQL databases have the following general characteristics:
synchronous replication
strong transactional consistency across at least availability zones (i.e. ACID compliance)
relational database front end structure meaning data represented as tables with rows and columns similar to any other RDBMS
automatically sharded data storage
underlying key–value storage
native SQL implementation
Following the CAP Theorem, distributed SQL databases are "CP" or consistent and partition-tolerant. Algorithmically they sacrifice availability in that a failure of a primary node can make the database unavailable for writes.
All distributed SQL implementations require some kind of temporal synchronization to guarantee consistency. With the exception of Spanner, most do not use custom hardware to provide atomic clocks. Spanner is able to synchronize writes with temporal guarantees. Implementations without custom hardware require servers to compare clock offsets and potentially retry reads.
Distributed SQL implementations
Compared to NewSQL
CockroachDB, YugabyteDB and others have at times referred to themselves as NewSQL databases. Some of the NewSQL databases like Citus and Vitess have fundamentally different architectures, but |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20number%20of%20doctorates%20awarded | This is a list of countries by the number of PhD degrees awarded in 2014 as per data available with the OECD.
* indicates "Research in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Universities in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
References
Countries
Doctorates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabix | Tabix is a bioinformatics software utility for indexing large genomic data files. Tabix is free software under the MIT license.
References
External links
File format specification
Command-line utility manual page
Free bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadhwani%20Institute%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence | Wadhwani AI, based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, is an independent, non-profit institute. Founded in 2018, it is dedicated to developing Artificial intelligence solutions for social good. Their mission is to build AI-based innovations and solutions for underserved communities in developing countries, for a wide range of domains including agriculture, education, financial inclusion, healthcare, and infrastructure.
History and funding
The institute was founded with a $30 million philanthropic effort by the Wadhwani brothers, Romesh Wadhwani and Sunil Wadhwani. The institute was inaugurated and dedicated to the nation by Narendra Modi, the 14th Prime Minister of India.
In 2019, the institute received a $2 million grant from Google.org to create technologies to help reduce crop losses in cotton farming, through integrated pest management. The United States Agency for International Development awarded $2 million to the institute in 2020 to develop tools, using mathematical modeling techniques and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, to forecast COVID-19 disease patterns, estimate resources needed, and plan interventions.
References
Artificial intelligence
Research institutes in Mumbai
Non-profit organisations based in India
Research institutes established in 2018
2018 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubbare%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Gubbare TV is an Indian multilanguage ( Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English) kids entertainment channel that was owned by IN10 Media Network. This channel targets the kids from the age of 2–14 years.
Programming
Current programming
Roro Aur Hero, Bhoot Mast,Zabardast
ViR: The Robot Boy
Kicko & Super Speedo
Fred Kismatwala
Guru Aur Bhole
Mighty Raju
Akki Jaanbaaz
Marcus Khiladi Former programming
Appu- The Yogic Elephant Atchoo Billa Jasoos Dabang Girls Krishna Balram Leo & Tig Luv Kushh My Bhoot Friends Akul Nakul The Asuras Angry Birds''
References
External links
Official Website
2020 establishments in Maharashtra
Children's television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Television stations in Mumbai
Indian animation
Hindi-language television channels in India
IN10 Media Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRT%20EBA%20TV | TRT EBA TV is a Turkish world educational television network, owned by state broadcaster TRT. It was launched on 20 March 2020 as a test broadcast and was officially launched on 23 March 2020. The channel was founded following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey which resulted in all schools moving to distance learning on 16 March. The channel focuses on education and broadcasts school lessons for primary, secondary and high school students through separate channels, which are supported by the digital Eğitim Bilişim Ağı (EBA) system.
The channel is free-to-air and available on Türksat, as well as the Digitürk, D-Smart, Cable TV and Tivibu digital broadcasting platforms.
External links
Official EBA Website
Watch TRT EBA TV Primary School live Online
Watch TRT EBA TV Secondary School live Online
Watch TRT EBA TV High School live Online
TRT EBA TV İlkokul at LyngSat
TRT EBA TV Ortaokul at LyngSat
TRT EBA TV Lise at LyngSat
References
Television stations in Turkey
Turkish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Turkey
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXMG-FM | DXMG (88.7 FM), broadcasting as 88.7 Radyo BisDak, is a radio station owned by Ipil Broadcasting News Network, a media outlet run by former Mayor Francisco Pontanar, and operated by Times Broadcasting Network Corporation. The station's studio is located in Brgy. Poblacion, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay.
It was formerly a community radio station from its inception in the late 90s until 2016, when Bisdak Media Group took over the station's operations and became part of the Radyo BisDak network.
References
Radio stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20by%20median%20home%20price | This article contains a list of U.S. states and the District of Columbia by median home price, according to data from Zillow and Business Insider.
List U.S. states and D.C. by median home price
See also
Cost of rent by state and county in the United States
References
home price
home price
United states, home price |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Kewe | Crystal Kewe is a web and app developer based in Papua New Guinea and the CEO and CTO of Crysan Technology Ltd.
Early life and education
Kewe's interest in programming started with an interest in video gaming, and around age 12, she started teaching herself to program software writing in python. She attended Paradise High School in Papua New Guinea up until grade 10, in 2014, after which she stopped going to school and continued pursuing a self-created education in programming.
Kewe intends on seeking a college degree in New Zealand in 2022.
Advocacy
Kewe has been a guest lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, and she currently serves as on the academic advisory board for Papua New Guinea's International Training Institute. She says that the supportive infrastructure is the most important part of successful educational systems, and that institutions do not fairly support different groups of people, highlighting girls as a marginalized group in scientific and technical education.
Career
In 2014, Kewe and her father co-founded the technology company Crysan when she was 15, making her one of the world's youngest CEO's of a software development company. The company has since expanded to include a team of over 20 employees, some of whom are based in Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America, and has partnered with the Papua New Guinea government on education initiatives as well as building a platform designed to provide transparency surrounding public development funding.
Apec App Challenge
Kewe and her father won first prize in the 24-hour hackathon which is a partnership between Apec, The Asia Foundation, and Google. The challenge was to “build an app that would help bilum artisans and entrepreneurs in Papua New Guinea," as bilum makers often face difficult hurdles selling their crafts. The team won for the conception and development of an app called Biluminous which is an e-commerce platform that features bilum makers and highlights their process while connecting them directly with customers, and is one of the first mobile payment providers in Papua New Guinea.
Awards
2018 APEC Digital Prosperity Award
2019 Papua New Guinea Security Congress Award for Excellence in Individual Achievement
Coral Sea Cable System Repeater Dedicatee, Dec 2019
2019 Westpac Outstanding Women Awards - IBBM Young Achievers Award
References
Living people
2000s births
Papua New Guinean women in business
Software engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20previously%20broadcast%20by%20Kapamilya%20Channel | Below is a partial list of shows that were previously aired on the Philippine pay television network, Kapamilya Channel. For the currently aired shows of the network, see the list of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Channel.
Previous original programs
Newscast, current affairs, public service
G Diaries
Gising Pilipinas!
Iba 'Yan!
KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan
Paano Kita Mapasasalamatan?
Kabayan
Sakto
Radyo Patrol Balita Alas-Siyete
TeleBalita
TeleRadyo Balita
Re-runs
Kuha Mo!
S.O.C.O.: Scene of the Crime Operatives
Drama
2 Good 2 Be True
A Family Affair
A Soldier's Heart
Almost Paradise
Ang sa Iyo Ay Akin
FPJ's Ang Probinsyano
Bagong Umaga
Bawal Lumabas: The Series
Beach Bros
Bola Bola
The Broken Marriage Vow
Dirty Linen
Drag You & Me
Mars Ravelo's Darna
Flower of Evil
The Goodbye Girl
He's Into Her
Hello, Heart
Hinahanap-Hanap Kita
Huwag Kang Mangamba
Init sa Magdamag
La Vida Lena
Love in 40 Days
Love Thy Woman
Lyric and Beat
Maalaala Mo Kaya
Marry Me, Marry You
Misis Piggy
My Sunset Girl
Run To Me
Saying Goodbye
Tara, G!
Teen Clash
The Iron Heart
Unloving U
Walang Hanggang Paalam
Viral Scandal
Re-runs
Asintado
Bagani
Be My Lady
Dolce Amore
The General's Daughter
The Good Son
Hiwaga ng Kambat
Kadenang Ginto
Magpahanggang Wakas
Nang Ngumiti ang Langit
Parasite Island
Starla
Kids-oriented
Pop Babies
Educational
Epol/Apple
Sine'skwela
Reality
Pinoy Big Brother: Balikbahay Edition
Pinoy Big Brother: Connect
Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10
The Voice Teens (season 2)
Your Face Sounds Familiar (season 3)
Game
Everybody, Sing! (season 1)
Everybody, Sing! (season 2)
I Can See Your Voice (season 1)
I Can See Your Voice (season 3)
I Can See Your Voice (season 4)
Comedy
Banana Sundae
Hoy, Love You!
My Papa Pi (season 1)
Talk
Lucky Tulong
Real Talk: The Heart of the Matter
We Rise Together
Informative
Swak na Swak
Infomercial
O Shopping
Previous acquired programs
Anime series
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Charlotte
Legends of Dawn: The Sacred Stone
Cartoons
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
The Garfield Show
Kongsuni and Friends
Masha and the Bear
Max Steel
Pororo the Little Penguin
Rob the Robot
Robocar Poli
Variety
Tropang LOL
Reality
Dream Maker
Foreign drama
100 Days My Prince
2gether: The series
A Love So Beautiful
Because This Is My First Life
Black
Code Name: Terrius
Come and Hug Me
Count Your Lucky Stars
Criminal Minds
Encounter
Ever Night: War of Brilliant Splendours
F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers
Familiar Wife
Flower Crew: Dating Agency
Gangnam Beauty
Go Back Couple
Goodbye Mr. Black
Hana Nochi Hare
Hotel Del Luna
Hyde, Jekyll, Me
Hwayugi
I Have a Lover
I am Not a Robot
Live Up to Your Name
Love in Sadness
Melting Me Softly
Meow, The Secret Boy
Meteor Garden (2018 version)
Mother
Something in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Pileggi | Lawrence Pileggi (born Lawrence Pillage, March 14, 1962) is the Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a specialist in the automation of integrated circuits, and developing software tools for the optimization of power grids. Pileggi's research has been cited thousands of times in engineering papers.
Education
Pileggi received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1989. His thesis work was the development of the Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation (AWE) algorithm. The published paper that described this work received the 1991 IEEE Transactions on CAD Paper Award.
Career
Pileggi worked as an IC design engineer at Westinghouse Research and Development, Pittsburgh, PA, from 1984 to 1986.
After receiving his PhD, Pileggi became an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. There he and his students developed the open source software tool, RICE, or Rapid Interconnect Circuits Evaluation. RICE was recognized with a 1993 Semiconductor Research Corporation Invention Award. Most of his early research at UT Austin focused on RICE and various aspects of timing analysis, including the concept of effective capacitance for delay calculation purposes.
In 1996, Pileggi returned to CMU as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. While at CMU, Pileggi and his students developed new methods of model order reduction such as the PRIMA algorithm, based on Krylov subspace methods, which further extends model order reduction of circuits. His paper about PRIMA was awarded the 1999 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.
Based on predictions that lithography for ICs was fast approaching fundamental limits, Pileggi led the development of design methods for regular fabrics that could accommodate the nanoscale patterning for integrated circuits. The MARCO/DARPA Gigascale Research Center honored him with their inaugural Richard A. Newton Industrial Impact Award in 2007 for his regular fabrics work. His regular fabrics research was also the catalyst for launching a startup company, Fabbrix, with five of his former students, which was acquired by PDF Solutions in 2007.
In 2005, Pileggi co-founded Xigmix, a startup that was focused on statistical design methods for analog and mixed-mode circuits. In 2007, Xigmix was acquired by Extreme DA, another startup company founded by Pileggi and former students and colleagues; it focused on the development of new methods for statistical timing analysis of digital circuits and was acquired by Synopsys in 2011.
From 2009 to 2013, Pileggi served as the director of the Center for Circuit and System Solutions (C2S2), one of six national centers for advanced research funded by the Semiconductor Research Corpora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Cipolla | Roberto Cipolla (born 3 May 1963) , FREng, is a British researcher in computer vision and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Cipolla was born in Solihull, England and attended Langley School in Solihull and Solihull Sixth Form College. He studied engineering at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1984. He obtained an Master's (MSE) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and then was a visiting researcher at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, studied Japanese at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and gained a second master's degree (MEng) from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. Cipolla returned to England in 1988 and studied at the University of Oxford (Balliol College). In 1991 he was awarded a D.Phil. (Computer Vision) for his work on 3D reconstruction from smooth 2D contours.
Career
From 1991 to 1992 Cipolla was a Toshiba Fellow and engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, Japan.
In 1992, he returned to the UK and joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as a lecturer and a Fellow of Jesus College. He became a Reader in Information Engineering in 1997 and a professor in 2000.
From 2007 Cipolla has also been the Director of Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory and the director of the International Computer Vision Summer School which is held every year in Sicily to train young computer vision researchers.
Research and impact
Cipolla is known for his research contributions to the reconstruction, registration and recognition of three-dimensional objects from images. These include novel algorithms for the recovery of accurate 3D shape, visual localisation and tracking, and semantic segmentation and their practical application.
He has authored two books: Active Visual Inference of Surface Shape in 1995 and Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces (with Peter Giblin) in 2000; edited twelve books on computer vision and published over 400 articles in computer vision and related fields.
Computer vision technology from Cipolla's research has been exploited in new products by Toshiba (face recognition for access control in varying illumination and a gesture interface for laptops) and Wayve (semantic segmentation for autonomous driving).
Four companies have also been directly spun-out from Cipolla's research team: Metail (3D reconstruction and visualisation of body and clothes for online fitting room) in 2008, Zappar (tracking for Augmented Reality) in 2011, Trya (Snapfeet - 3D modelling of feet for virtual trying on of shoes and size recommendation), and Cambridge Heartwear (Atrial fibrillation detection in wearable ECG) in 2017.
Cipolla became a professor at the Royal Academy of Art Schools, London in 2004, and since 2005 has also worked with artists and sculptors including Anthony Gormley, whose Exposure used his algorithms to convert a small scale solid form into a geometrical sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20Mellon%20University%20Africa | Carnegie Mellon University Africa, in Kigali, Rwanda, is a global location of Carnegie Mellon University. CMU-Africa offers master's degrees in Information Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Artificial Intelligence. CMU-Africa is part of the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering. The College of Engineering is top-ranked. In U.S. News & World Reports 2023 graduate rankings, the College of Engineering was ranked #4.
History of Carnegie Mellon University
The existence of Carnegie Mellon University began with Andrew Carnegie. A self-educated "working boy" who loved books, Andrew Carnegie emigrated from Scotland in 1848 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. Attending night school and borrowing books, Carnegie went from a factory worker in a textile mill to successful entrepreneur and industrialist. He rose to prominence by founding what became the world's largest steel-producing company by the end of the 19th century. At one point the richest man in the world, Carnegie believed that "to die rich is to die disgraced." He turned his attention to writing, social activism, and philanthropy, determined to establish educational opportunities for the general public where few existed.
In 1967, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute, a science research center founded by the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, to become known as Carnegie Mellon University. The merger built upon a long history of support from the Mellons.
History of Carnegie Mellon University Africa
In 2011, Carnegie Mellon University and the Government of Rwanda signed an agreement to establish a new Carnegie Mellon location in Kigali, Rwanda. This partnership was designed to respond to the critical shortage of high-quality engineering talent required to harness Africa’s potential as home to the fastest-growing workforce in the world.
CMU-Africa, located in Kigali Innovation City, is a regional ICT center of excellence.
On September 8, 2022, the Mastercard Foundation announced a $275.7 million donation to CMU, with $175 million going to CMU Africa's endowment and $100.7 million going to grow and establish technological universities throughout Africa.
Academics and Rankings
CMU-Africa offers master's degrees in Information Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Artificial Intelligence. CMU-Africa currently has over 290 students and 400 alumni from 21 different nationalities.
CMU-Africa is part of the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering. The College of Engineering is top-ranked among its peers. In U.S. News & World Reports 2023 graduate rankings, the College of Engineering was ranked #4.
Research
CMU-Africa faculty, students, and alumni are actively engaged in projects that respond to the challenges and opportunities of the digital transformation of Africa. These projects have resulted in published journal and conference papers, raising the profile of Rwanda as a country where academic research is being pursued.
Location
CMU-Afr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia | This article documents suicide in Saudi Arabia.
As of 2016, the country had a suicide rate of 3.4 per 100,000 people, ranked 163rd in the world. However, due to the laws against suicide, the data may be under reported.
Legislation
Suicide is a crime in Saudi Arabia.
By group
Women
Discrimination, severe social restrictions, and forced marriages are motivators for women's suicides.
Migrants
In a study conducted in the Dammam region, the suicide rate was found to be disproportionately higher for migrants.
References
Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Security%20Network | The Eastern Security Network (ESN) is the paramilitary organization of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a pro-Biafra separatist movement.
Background
The Biafran people lost the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, during which they attempted to secede from Nigeria and establish an independent government in Biafra. There remains residual support for the independence of Biafra among the Igbos. Many Igbos, who are mostly Christian, consider that they are disadvantaged under the current, Muslim-dominated Nigerian government. Biafra secessionism is also attributable to the Nigerian police abuses and arbitrary arrests in the southeastern states.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), founded by Nnamdi Kanu, is a currently active separatist movement. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, "[t]he federal government, recalling the civil war, is bitterly opposed to Igbo separatism, as is most of the Igbo establishment. The government has long sought to defang the IPOB and silence Kanu, sometimes through illegal or quasi-legal methods". Since 2017, the IPOB is designated by the Nigerian government as a terrorist organization.
Since August 2020, violence has been escalating between the IPOB and the Nigerian government. In August 2020, Nigerian police forces executed 21 IPOB members at a meeting, with two police officers dead and both siding accused each other of firing the first shot. Violence escalated during the following months, leading to a region-wide insurgency.
History
Formation
IPOB launched the 'Eastern Security Network' in December early 2020, as a reaction to the Igbo's perception that they are targeted by Muslim Fulani herders, whom they accuse of grazing on farmlands and committing crimes like raping and killings against local residents. The movement then morphed into a paramilitary unit with broader functions because the paramilitary forces was incapacitated..
The Nigerian government saw the ESN as a threat to its authority and deployed the army to locate and destroy ESN bases. In January 2021, intense fighting broke out in the town of Orlu, in Imo State. The military confrontation lasted for seven days, until ESN declared a unilateral ceasefire and both sides withdrew from the city.
Shortly after the Orlu Crisis, IPOB gave all the governors of southeast Nigeria 14 days to ban open grazing, threatening to deploy the ESN to enforce a ban if the authorities did not do so. However, the ESN did not wait 14 days; a few days later, ESN operatives attacked a Fulani camp in Isuikwuato, Abia State, killing their livestock and burning down their houses.Following the raid, some governors responded by heeding the ESN's call and banning open grazing.
IPOB accused the Nigerian Army of working in collaboration with the governor of Imo state to continue the harassment and intimidation of civilians in Orlu and environs, especially the arrest of a Rabbi and his family members, whom it was reported were being tortured. Beginning from 15 February |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%2B | AMC+ is an American subscription video on demand streaming service owned by AMC Networks that was launched on June 11, 2020. The service is a premium bundle that includes the live feeds and program libraries of the company's television networks and streaming brands along with its own exclusive content.
History
AMC+ was first launched in June 11, 2020 for Xfinity customers, and included content that was previously exclusive to subscribers of the AMC cable channel through its TV Everywhere AMC Premiere app. On October 1, 2020, AMC+ launched on Amazon Prime Video Channels and Apple TV Channels, and became available to Dish Network and Sling TV customers. On November 23, 2020, AMC+ launched on Roku. On April 6, 2021, AMC+ became available on YouTube TV. On the same month, AMC+ launched on DirecTV. In August 2021, AMC+ finally launched on TV, computer and mobile devices.
Former BBC America executive director Courtney Thomasma was named general manager of AMC+ on April 8, 2021. Thomasma reports to Miguel Penella, AMC Networks’ President of Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD).
Content
AMC+ primarily features content from channel brands owned and operated by AMC Networks, most notably its flagship channel AMC. Other cable channels include BBC America, IFC, and Sundance TV as well as the VOD streaming services Acorn TV, Shudder and Sundance Now. The service features early access to original series (such as AMC's The Walking Dead franchise), with new episodes offered up to a week before their cable television premieres. The service also includes exclusive films from the aforementioned channels and services as well as the film production companies HIDIVE, IFC Films and RLJE Films.
Exclusive programming
Original programming
Gangs of London (2020–present)
Ultra City Smiths (2021)
Kin (2021–present)
Show Me More (2021–present)
Ragdoll (2021)
Firebite (2021–2022)
La Fortuna (2022)
That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
Slippin' Jimmy (2022)
Cooper's Bar (season 1) (2022)
This Is Going to Hurt (2022)
Moonhaven (2022)
Pantheon (2022)
Acquired programming
The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)
Cold Courage (2021)
Spy City (2021)
Too Close (2021)
The North Water (2021)
Happy Valley (2021–2023)
Broke (2021)
Anna (2021)
Anne Boleyn (2021)
The Ipcress File (2022)
Slo Pitch (2022)
Exclusive films
A Banquet
Apex
Archenemy
Barbarians
Catch the Fair One
Clean
Dangerous
Dual
Happening
I Am Mortal
Last Looks
No Man of God
Paris, 13th District
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Revealer
Rogue Agent
Section Eight
Silent Night
South of Heaven
Spin Me Round
Stowaway
Survive the Game
The Reef: Stalked
The Tax Collector
Warning
White Elephant
Simulcast programming
Simulcast with AMC
61st Street
Better Call Saul
Dark Winds
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Fear the Walking Dead
Friday Night In with The Morgans
Interview with the Vampire
Kevin Can F**k Himself
Lucky Hank
Mayfair Witches
NOS4A2
Ride with Nor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20Transitions%20Research%20Consortium | The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) was established in January 2011. The ITRC provides data and modelling to help governments, policymakers and other stakeholders in infrastructure make more sustainable and resilient infrastructure decisions. It is a collaboration between seven universities and more than 55 partners from infrastructure policy and practice.
During its first research programme, running from 2011 to 2016, ITRC developed the world's first national infrastructure system-of-systems model, known as NISMOD (National Infrastructure Systems Model) which has been used to analyse long-term investment strategies for energy, transport, digital communications, water, waste water and solid waste. This work is described in the book 'The Future of National Infrastructure', an introduction to the NISMOD models and tools describing their application to inform infrastructure planning in Britain.
The second phase of this programme (2016-2021) is called ITRC-MISTRAL where MISTRAL stands for Multi-Scale Infrastructure Systems Analytics. MISTRAL allowed ITRC to develop the national-scale modelling in ITRC to simulate infrastructure at city, regional and global scales.
Based in the University of Oxford 's Environmental Change Institute, ITRC is led by Director Jim Hall who is also Professor of Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford.
Funding: The ITRC is funded by two programme grants from the UK Engineering and Physical Science and Research Council (EPSRC). The 2011-2016 ITRC programme grant was £4.7m and the 2016-2021 grant, for ITRC-MISTRAL, is £5.4m.
Consortium: The seven universities making up the ITRC consortium are: University of Southampton, University of Oxford, Newcastle University, Cardiff University, University of Cambridge, University of Leeds and University of Sussex.
Partners: ITRC's partners are from across the infrastructure sector. They include infrastructure investors such as the World Bank, consultancies including Ordnance Survey and KPMG, providers such as Siemens, High Speed 2 (HS2), Network Rail and National Grid, policy-makers (i.e. Environment Agency) and regulatory bodies (OFCOM).
References
Climate action plans
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Infrastructure
Infrastructure by country
Sustainability
Technology consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insup%20Lee | Insup Lee is the Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. He is also the Director and co-founder of the PRECISE Center.
Lee obtained his B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. That same year, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor. Lee's research is predominantly focused on cyber-physical systems (CPS), real-time computing, high-confidence medical devices, formal methods and tools, and run-time verification. Much of his recent work has been related to CPS security, particularly for medical devices. Lee is also a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Awards and honors
Runtime Verification Test-of-Time Award, issued 2019 for ENTCS 2001 paper "Jav-MaC: Run-time Assurance Tool for Java Programs" (with Oleg Sokolsky, Sampath Kannan, Moonzoo Kim, and Mahesh Viswanathan).
IEEE TC-RTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award, issued Dec 2008.
The Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation, issued by CIMIT in 2007 for the Medical Device “PnP” Interoperability Team - Julian Goldman (leader), Dave Arney, Insup Lee, et al.
References
External links
Insup Lee homepage
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Formal methods people
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-particle%20trajectory | Single-particle trajectories (SPTs) consist of a collection of successive discrete points causal in time. These trajectories are acquired from images in experimental data. In the context of cell biology, the trajectories are obtained by the transient activation by a laser of small dyes attached to a moving molecule.
Molecules can now by visualized based on recent super-resolution microscopy, which allow routine collections of thousands of short and long trajectories. These trajectories explore part of a cell, either on the membrane or in 3 dimensions and their paths are critically influenced by the local crowded organization and molecular interaction inside the cell, as emphasized in various cell types such as neuronal cells, astrocytes, immune cells and many others.
SPTs allow observing moving molecules inside cells to collect statistics
SPT allowed observing moving particles. These trajectories are used to investigate cytoplasm or membrane organization, but also the cell nucleus dynamics, remodeler dynamics or mRNA production. Due to the constant improvement of the instrumentation, the spatial resolution is continuously decreasing, reaching now values of approximately 20 nm, while the acquisition time step is usually in the range of 10 to 50 ms to capture short events occurring in live tissues. A variant of super-resolution microscopy called sptPALM is used to detect the local and dynamically changing organization of molecules in cells, or events of DNA binding by transcription factors in mammalian nucleus. Super-resolution image acquisition and particle tracking are crucial to guarantee a high quality data
Assembling points into a trajectory based on tracking algorithms
Once points are acquired, the next step is to reconstruct a trajectory. This step is done known tracking algorithms to connect the acquired points. Tracking algorithms are based on a physical model of trajectories perturbed by an additive random noise.
Extract physical parameters from redundant SPTs
The redundancy of many short (SPTs) is a key feature to extract biophysical information parameters from empirical data at a molecular level. In contrast, long isolated trajectories have been used to extract information along trajectories, destroying the natural spatial heterogeneity associated to the various positions. The main statistical tool is to compute the mean-square displacement (MSD) or second order statistical moment:
(average over realizations), where is the called the anomalous exponent.
For a Brownian motion, , where D is the diffusion coefficient, n is dimension of the space. Some other properties can also be recovered from long trajectories, such as the radius of confinement for a confined motion. The MSD has been widely used in early applications of long but not necessarily redundant single-particle trajectories in a biological context. However, the MSD applied to long trajectories suffers from several issues. First, it is not precise in part beca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlado%20Keselj | Vlado Keselj (Vlado Kešelj) is a Serbian-Canadian computer scientist known for his research in natural language processing and authorship attribution. He is a professor at Dalhousie University.
Education
As a high school student in Yugoslavia, Keselj competed in the 1987 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a bronze medal. He earned his Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Waterloo, with the dissertation Modular Stochastic HPSGs for Question Answering supervised by Nick Cercone.
Awards
Vlado Keselj is a recipient of the 2019 CAIAC Distinguished Service Award, awarded by the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC).
Selected publications
Kešelj, V., Peng, F., Cercone, N., & Thomas, C. (2003, August). N-gram-based author profiles for authorship attribution. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2003 (Vol. 3, pp. 255–264).
References
External links
Canadian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Natural language processing researchers
Serbian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20ABC%20News | The following is a list of presidents of the news division for the American Broadcasting Company television network.
References
ABC News people
Presidents of ABC News
American Broadcasting Company executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov%20Serebryansky | Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky (Russian: Яков Исаакович Серебрянский) (born 11 December 1891 – died 30 March 1956) was an agent of the Soviet security who created the first Soviet spy network in Palestine, and conducted special operations including the kidnapping and murder in Paris of a former Russian General Alexander Kutepov.
Early career
Yakov Serebryansky was born in Minsk, in present-day Belarus, the son of a Jewish apprentice watchmaker. His date of birth is various given as 8 December (26 November old style 1891, 11 December (29 November old style) or 1892 He joined a student revolutionary group as a schoolboy in 1907, and in 1908 joined the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Party. In 1909, he was arrested as a suspected accomplice in the assassination of the head of the Minsk prison. He was held in prison in 1909–1910, then exiled to Vitebsk. Drafted into the Russian Imperial army in 1912, Serebryansky was seriously wounded at the start of the war with Germany, in August 1914, and was demobilised after long treatment in hospital. In 1915, he obtained a job as an electrician in Baku. After the February Revolution in 1917, he rejoined the SR Party. He moved to Moscow in spring 1920, and joined Cheka, but was dismissed in 1921, and arrested as a member of the SR party. In October 1923, he applied to join the Communist Party and was enrolled by the foreign department of the OGPU (previously known as Cheka), and sent to Palestine, where he infiltrated the underground Zionist movement and recruited a group of operatives known as "Yasha's Group". In all, he is credited with recruiting more than 200 agents, in Palestine and western Europe. In 1925–28, he was an 'illegal' OGPU resident, based in Brussels and Paris. In 1929, he was appointed head of a section whose mission was to prepared sabotage and terrorism abroad, in the event of war. In 1929, he was appointed head of the 'special group' answering directly to the Chairman of the OGPU, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky.
Foreign operations
On 26 January 1930, Serebryansky carried out the sensational kidnapping on a street in Paris of Alexander Kutepov, leader of a group of exiled Russian officers who were planning sabotage operations in the Soviet Union. According to Serebryansky's former colleague, Pavel Sudoplatov:
A different version is that Kutepov was stabbed to death during the struggle, by the police agent working with Serebryansky's.
Serebryansky also organised the theft of an archive held in Paris by Leon Sedov, son of Leon Trotsky. He also planned to kidnap Sedov, but was prevented by Sedov's sudden death.
During the Spanish Civil War, Serebryansky smuggled arms to the Republicans. This included getting 12 military aircraft across the French border, in defiance of an embargo of arms sales.
Arrest and later career
In 1938, Serebryansky was recalled to Moscow and arrested. Lavrentiy Beria had recently taken charge of the security apparatus, now renamed the NKVD, and suspected Serebryansky of l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY | LBRY (pronounced "library") is a blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network that powers decentralized platforms, primarily social networks and video platforms. LBRY's creators also created Odysee, an open-source video-sharing website that uses the network, which was split into a separate company on October 1, 2021. Video platforms built on LBRY, such as Odysee, have been described as decentralized, fringe alternatives to YouTube. Odysee lightly moderates content based on community guidelines; its web site delists videos containing pornography and the promotion of violence and terrorism, although delisted videos remain available on the platform's blockchain data store.
LBRY, Inc.'s CEO was Jeremy Kauffman, a libertarian activist who was inspired to create LBRY to "provide people with choices for content", implicitly critical of the curated choices provided by YouTube. The company closed in July 2023 after losing a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which found that LBRY had sold unregistered securities.
History
The LBRY protocol is a decentralized file-sharing and payment network built using blockchain and BitTorrent technology. It allows anyone to create an account and register content that cannot be deleted by the company. LBRY uses BitTorrent technology to serve content without relying on their own servers by using peer-to-peer file-sharing. Creators can record video content to the LBRY blockchain, as well as other digital content including music, images, podcasts, and e-books. The LBRY projects are open source.
In October 2017, LBRY, Inc. released a media hosting site built atop the protocol called spee.ch. It stopped being supported in December 2019, in favor of LBRY, Inc.'s LBRY.tv website. Odysee, another video website built by LBRY, Inc. using their LBRY protocol, entered beta in September 2020 and officially launched that December. Odysee was split into a separate corporate entity with its own CEO on October 1, 2021 as LBRY faced a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Company
LBRY, Inc., which built the LBRY protocol and the platform based upon it, was founded in May 2015 by Jeremy Kauffman and Jimmy Kiselak. The company was based in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Through 2015 and 2016, Kauffman and Kiselak were joined by Mike Vine, Josh Finer, and Alex Grintsvayg, who they also described as co-founders. Kauffman, Kiselak, and Grintsvayg all attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where they played ultimate frisbee together. Kauffman was LBRY's chief executive officer, Grintsvayg was chief technology officer, and Finer was the director of operations and analytics. Julian Chandra was the company's chief marketing officer.
LBRY, Inc. maintained their own cryptocurrency, "LBRY credits" (LBC), which they used as a part of a digital store they built on the LBRY blockchain. Using this currency, creators could charge viewers to stream their content or earn tips. Users of the platform e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20of%20Yoga | The European Union of Yoga (EUY) is an international non-profit organisation which co-ordinates a network of yoga teachers, training schools and yoga federations. It was founded in 1971, and has since 1973 held an annual congress at Zinal, Switzerland where yoga teachers and practitioners can meet in a multi-lingual, cross-cultural environment and hear from invited Indian yoga teachers.
History
The European Union of Yoga (EUY) was founded in 1971 by the entrepreneur Gérard Blitz and the yoga teacher and author André Van Lysebeth, with representatives of National Federations who met in Switzerland to create the European Union of Yoga Federations (UEFNY), which became the EUY in 1975. In 1973, the first UEFNY Congress was held at Blitz's Club Mediterranee in Zinal, Switzerland, at the suggestion of Claude Peltier. The Yoga teacher training program has a minimum duration of 4 years and a minimum 500 hours of tuition. This must include tutorials with course tutor(s), seminars, and extra-mural courses approved by the Training School.
The multilingual Zinal Congress, attended by hundreds of yoga teachers and practitioners, is held annually. It seeks to network across cultures with invited Indian teachers such as T. K. V. Desikachar, who came to influence the British Wheel of Yoga through the Congress.
Analysis
The Austrian yoga scholar Karl Baier describes the EUY as an international yoga association representing a secularised variant of the "modern denominational yoga" defined by Elizabeth De Michelis, a category he finds too narrow to be workable. The EUY in his view is not a neo-Hindu faith community, but it does draw on traditional yoga literature from India; postural yoga and meditation are practised, while devotional practices are largely absent.
Member organisations
The EUY's member organisations are:
Austria: BYO Berufsverband der Yogalehrenden in Österreich
Belgium: ABEPY Association Belge des Enseignants et des Pratiquants de Yoga
FBHY Fédération Belge d'Hébertisme et de Yoga
YFNB Yoga Federatie van de Nederlandstaligen in België
Finland: SJL/YFF Yoga Federation of Finland Suomen Joogaliitto ry
France: FIDHY Fédération Inter-enseignements de Hatha Yoga
FYT Fédération de Yoga Traditionnels
IFY Institut Francais De Yoga
FVI Fédération Viniyoga Internationale
Germany: BDY Berufsverband der Yogalehrenden in Deutschland
Ireland: IYA Irish Yoga Association
Italy: FIY Federazione Italiana Yoga
FMY Federazione Mediterranea Yoga
Netherlands: VYN Vereniging Yogadocenten Nederland
YV Stichting Yoga & Vedanta (associate)
Portugal: FPY Portuguese Yoga Federation
Romania: GNSPY Groupe National d’Etude et de Pratique du Yoga
Slovakia: SYA Slovenska Asciacia Jogy
YSadhana Federación Nacional de Yoga Sadhana
Switzerland: SYV Schweizer Yogaverband
YCH Yoga Schweiz Suisse Svizzera
Ukraine: UAAY Ukrainian Association Ayurveda-Yoga
United Kingdom: BWY British Wheel of Yoga
See also
Yoga in Sweden
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ%20Editor | VZ Editor (VZ, ) is a commercial text editor developed by a computer programmer for DOS. It was initially developed for the Japanese PC-98 computer series, and published as EZ Editor by PC World Japan in 1987. It was rebranded as VZ Editor by Village Center, Inc, in 1989, and added support for other Japanese computer platforms. Its features include small size, smooth scrolling, file manager, enhancements for a command-line, advanced customizing and automated macro operations.
History
In 1984, Hyodo went work for Hitachi after graduating the Nagoya Institute of Technology, and developed a text editor for the Hitachi S1 personal computer. In 1985, he purchased the NEC PC-9801 U2, and developed a text editor for himself to write programs on that machine. After Hitachi dissolved the development team of S1, Hyodo left the company, and worked for video game development. In 1987, he released his text editor as EZ Editor which was sold by a computer magazine publisher, PC World Japan. In 1989, the publisher faced financial problems, so Hyodo requested another publishing company, Village Center, to distribute his software.
VZ Editor offered a reasonable price in comparison with other commercial softwares. It priced at 9,800 yen while the biggest competitor, MIFES, priced at 38,000 yen. ASCII magazine wrote in 1991 that "Its TSR mode and file manager are useful. Also, its operability and functions are refined". VZ Editor was entirely written in assembly language because Hyodo was used to writing in assembly language rather than C language. This enhanced speed of program operations. He stated it was not his intention but an inevitable result of minimal coding.
VZ Editor sold 175,000 copies by 1992. It was voted the best PC software in Japanese computer magazines, ASCII (Best 5 Softwares Recommended by Subscribers; 1992 and 1993) and Nikkei Byte (The Best Utility Software; 1991 and 1992, The Best Editor Software; 1993 and 1994).
Despite its popularity, Hyodo stated in 1993 that he wouldn't offer a new major version nor an Windows version. If the program size become bigger, the macro buffer become smaller, and existing macros cannot run. He concluded there was no way to add a new function. Also, he stated "Anyone casually say they want the Windows version of VZ, but I never plan to bring VZ to Windows. To achieve it, I think it should break its past. VZ is designed for DOS". In January 1994, the last version of VZ Editor was released. He stated in an interview that "The development of VZ has already become my past job. If I create a new software in the future, I need to learn Windows and C++. At present, I don't have the energy to do that".
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1987 software
DOS text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Veduta | Nikolay Ivanovich Veduta (; 6 February, 1913 – 25 April, 1998) was a Soviet Belarusian cybernetic economist, macroeconomist, mechanical engineer and Marxist, Doctor of Economic Sciences (1966), Full Professor (1968), Corresponding Member of the NASB (1969). He is the founder of the Scientific School of Strategic Planning. Author of over 100 scientific papers, including 5 monographs.
In 1998, the publishing house IBC (Cambridge) included the biography of Nikolay Veduta in the book “2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 20th century”. Currently, active interest in the dynamic model of Strategic Planning developed by him is observed in China, Germany and other countries.
Early life and education
Born on 6 February, 1913 in the city of Starobelsk, Kharkov Governorate, into the family of a Don Cossack – doctor Ivan Veduta and noblewoman Lyubov Barbe. In 1938, he graduated from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (1933‒1938). He started his career as a master of a machine tractor station (MTS).
Career
During the war
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to Stalingrad to rebuild the Stalingrad Tractor Plant named after Felix Dzerzhinsky for the production of tanks. After Stalingrad, he was sent to Chelyabinsk to rebuild the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant named after Joseph Stalin for the production of tanks, and in 1943 – to Barnaul to build a new Tractor Plant.
After the war
Nikolay Veduta returned to Kharkiv and became the Chief Designer of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. In 1952, he entered graduate school at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
In 1957‒1962, he was Deputy Director and head of the Sector of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR. In 1962‒1967, he was the Director of the Central Research Institute of Technical Management and member of the Board of the Ministry of Instrumentation, Automation and Control Systems of the Soviet Union. He led the implementation of the country's first ICS at machine-building enterprises.
In 1967, Nikolay Veduta was the first head of the Department of Economic and Mathematical Methods and Programming at the Belarusian State Institute of National Economy named after Valerian Kuybyshev. In 1967‒1977, he was the head of the Sector of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR and at the same time the head of the Department of the Belarusian State Institute of National Economy.
In 1977‒1989, he was a senior researcher, head of the Sector of the Research Institute of Electronic Computing Machines. In 1978‒1982, he was a professor at the Republican Intersectoral Institute for Advanced Training of Managers and Industry Specialists. He worked as the ChEng of the Minsk Tractor Plant, and then as the head of the long-term planning department in the State Planning Committee of Belarusian SSR.
Awards and honors
The Order of the Badge of Honour (1966).
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerised%20Pilot%20Selection%20System | The Computerised Pilot Selection System is used for screening candidates into the flight branch of the Indian Air Force. It replaced the earlier pilot selection test named Pilot Aptitude Battery Test (PABT). It was originally conceived by then Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam with a view to adopt a better tool for conducting pilot aptitude test in consonance with the modern aircraft of the IAF. It has been developed jointly by Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore and Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi.
References
Indian Air Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood%20%282019%20TV%20series%29 | Sherwood is a computer animated science fiction streaming television series created by Diana Manson and Megan Laughton that premiered on March 6, 2019, on YouTube Premium. It is a new telling of the Robin Hood legend. Some reviewers have noted the focus on socioeconomic class, as Robin lives among "the impoverished 99%," leading rebels who will overthrow the Sheriff, who lives in an Upper City housing "the wealthy citizens of Sherwood." Others also noted the focus on class difference, with Robin and her comrades trying to "overcome inequality and fight for justice." Apart from this, others said the series has a cyberpunk feeling to it.
The show had a world premiere in Sydney, Australia, in March 2019. In April 2020, Sherwood was one of the originals that Google decided to make freely available in light of the pandemic. Even though the show's season one episodes aired in March 2019, official accounts on Twitter and Instagram regularly post content about the show.
Premise
In the year 2270, in the dystopic 23rd century, 14-year-old hacker Robin Loxley and her friends battle the Sheriff of Nottingham in a Britain devastated by environmental disaster.
Characters
Main
Robin Loxley (voiced by Anya Chalotra) is the main protagonist of the series. She often has to fight and steal from the Sheriff of Nottingham, to protect Sherwood. She is called "Insurgent Hood" by the Sheriff and his allies, also once takes the alias of "Marian Johns."
Iniko (voiced by Tyler Posey) is one of the main protagonists, the pilot of the submarine Amphy, and a self proclaimed Sea Pirate.
Gisbourne (voiced by Aneurin Barnard) is the son of the Sheriff of Nottingham and is the Head of Security of the Regime. He often commands the Drobos and attempts to catch the Insurgents.
Sheriff Nottingham (voiced by Joseph Fiennes) is the main antagonist of the Sherwood series and rules the Upper City. He is the head of the Regime, with Gisbourne as his Head of Security (and son).
Supporting
Tui (voiced by Rachel House) is like a mother to Robin, and helps her around the Kelp Farm.
Gripper (voiced by Adetokumboh M'Cormack) is part of Robin's crew and acts like a father to Juba.
Rose Trefgarne (voiced by Jamie Chung) is a protagonist, often helping out the main cast. Formerly a resident of The Upper City, she now resides in Sherwood.
Thomas Loxley (voiced by Darrill Rosen) is a scientist and inventor, and is the father of Robin Loxley.
Juba (voiced by Neneh Conteh) is a small girl with dark skin and light blonde hair like Gripper and who is a refugee before she came to Sherwood.
Production
The idea for the series was originally posed by Diana Manson and Megan Laughton, of a New York company named Baby Octopus, in 2016, to Justin Trefgarne. Additionally, the show is, according to Trefgarne, aimed at "the pre-teen market," and is focused "on positive female empowerment." The production company, Baby Octopus, worked with the Computer Science in Media team of Google to help imagine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Informatics | Maritime Informatics is a thematic topic within the broader discipline of informatics. It is based on the use of information systems, data sharing and data analytics to increase the efficiency, safety, resilience and ecological sustainability of the world's shipping industry.
Beginnings of maritime informatics
As a result of the increasing levels of digitalisation occurring in the maritime sector starting around 2010 and stimulated by the EU-endorsed MonaLisa project for sea traffic management (STM), a number of academics and shipping industry leaders recognised that the maritime transportation sector would benefit from a specific field of study and application to be known as Maritime Informatics - the use of information systems, data sharing and data analytics in the business and operations of maritime transportation. They considered that it would lead to improvements in efficiency, safety, resilience, and ecological sustainability - all of which are currently lacking for many aspects of sea transport.
One of the first public airings of the concept of Maritime Informatics was a presentation delivered on 11 September 2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden. A proposal for an inaugural minitrack on Maritime Informatics was accepted for the 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems in Puerto Rico where three papers were presented. Since then numerous publications has been brought forward captured at www.maritimeinformatics.org and in late 2020 the first reference book on Maritime Informatics was co-written by 81 expert contributors (47 practitioners and 34 researchers) from 20 countries.
Background
The shipping industry has several particular organisational aspects that are recognised and taken into account in maritime informatics:
It is predominantly a self-organising ecosystem
Many activities are undertaken as part of episodic tight coupling
There is a so-called maritime stack
There is increasing pressure to balance capital productivity and energy efficiency
There is the potential virtuous interplay between different types of systems
Data sharing
Digital data sharing is key to the all-important, arguably fundamental, data analytics aspects of maritime informatics because it opens the way for better access to relevant and reliable data.
As in land-based commerce, digital data sharing is a growing phenomenon in maritime operations - though there is a way to go. It is enabling greater transparency for all those involved in the transportation of goods and passengers, not least being the end-customer. This leads to better and more informed decision-making and planning by all those involved. The push for digitalisation and data sharing is being pursued both by governments and the commercial sector. For example, the Member States of the IMO agreed a mandatory requirement for their governments to introduce electronic information exchange between ships and ports as from 8 April 2019. Meanwhile, commercial operators, particularly in the container lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Catholic%20Legislators%20Network | The International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN) is a private non-partisan association founded in Trumau, Austria in 2010. It serves as a network for Christian legislators on an international level.
The ICLN international conference
The annual ICLN international conference is mostly held in Rome. The 4-day conference includes a private audience with the Pope at the Vatican. The event aims at supporting and networking within the community of Christian lawmakers worldwide. There have been local and regional ICLN events which have the objective of educating and networking. All meetings and conferences of the ICLN are in camera meaning that the public and the press are not allowed to attend the events. This is to ensure that the invited politicians are able to debate and exchange their thoughts freely. In addition to this, the Chatham House Rule applies to all events.
According to its own statement, to receive an invitation, the politician in question has to meet the following requirements:
Starting in 2020, regular video conferences for legislators and experts were organised by the ICLN.
Beliefs and objectives
The ICLN's foundation of belief is based on Holy Scripture and the teachings of the Catholic Church.
The ICLN amongst many other topics highlights the following excerpts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on its website:
Protection of Life
Abortion:
"§ 2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable."
"§ 2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life."
Euthanasia: "It is morally unacceptable."
Contraception: pro calendar-based contraception methods
"'every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible' is intrinsically evil"
Marriage and the Family
Family structure:
"A man and a woman united in marriage, together with their children, form a family. This institution is prior to any recognition by public authority, which has an obligation to recognize it. It should be considered the normal reference point by which the different forms of family relationship are to be evaluated."
Divorce: "[A] ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death.", "Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law."
Pornography: "It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. [...] It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials."
Biotechnology and Life Sciences
"§ 2376 Techniques that entail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalyxOS | CalyxOS is an operating system for smartphones based on Android with mostly free and open-source software. It is produced by the Calyx Institute as part of its mission to "defend online privacy, security and accessibility."
CalyxOS preserves the Android security model, using Android's Verified Boot system of cryptographic signing of the operating system, and running with a locked bootloader, partly thanks to an installer that guides the user through the process of unlocking and then re-locking the bootloader.
History
The Calyx Institute annual reports state CalyxOS was publicly launched during their 2018–2019 fiscal year. Inspiration included Tails and Qubes OS, and goals were said to be "completely open source", removing proprietary Google tracking, and including apps Tor, Signal and CalyxVPN for increased privacy.
CalyxOS supports Google Pixel smartphones Pixel 3 and newer. CalyxOS supports Fairphone 4. In September 2023, CalyxOS announced support for Fairphone 5.
In April 2022, CalyxOS announced support for OnePlus 8T, 9, and 9 Pro. However, in May 2022, CalyxOS announced OnePlus builds were pulled because of a bootloader "relock issue". As of July 2022, according to CalyxOS the OnePlus relock issue had not been resolved.
Software
CalyxOS ships with MicroG as an open-source alternative to the Google Mobile Services, including Mozilla Location Services as an optional replacement to the location services provided by Google, but gives the user the option to disable microG and its location services.
Reception
In October 2020, Moritz Tremmel reviewed CalyxOS. A month later, Tremmel explained why he preferred CalyxOS over LineageOS. A year later in September 2021, Tremmel further explained how CalyxOS was different from other ROMs because it did not require as much "fiddling". Rahul Nambiampurath, writing for MakeUseOf in March 2021, termed CalyxOS, "[one of the] best [Android] ROMs for privacy ... offers the perfect middle ground between convenience and privacy". In August 2021, Android Authority wrote CalyxOS "puts privacy and security into the hands of everyday users."
In 2022, the book c't Sicher ins Netz: How to block out monitors and attackers, said "CalyxOS is one of the youngest custom ROMs, it will only celebrate its second birthday in summer 2022. With a built-in Datura firewall, VPN and Cloudflare DNS, Calyx promises more security than some other mobile systems."
In 2023, CalyxOS was the one alternative phone operating system recommended by Carey Parker in the book "Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons".
In a review in February 2023, the Kuketz Security blog said CalyxOS "offers a coherent overall package that should give users who want to (strongly) reduce their dependency on Google a good start" and said the integrated Datura Firewall works well. However, it criticized some previous delayed security updates and said the website does not "quite match what the present analysis revealed" regarding the information given to Google.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20Singler | Beth Victoria Lois Singler, born Beth Victoria White, is a British anthropologist specialising in artificial intelligence. She is known for her digital ethnographic research on the impact of apocalyptic stories on the conception of AI and robots, her comments on the societal implications of AI, as well as her public engagement work. The latter includes a series of four documentaries on whether robots could feel pain, human-robot companionship, AI ethics, and AI consciousness. She is currently the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
Education
Singler completed an undergraduate degree in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge, focusing on religious studies and the sociology and anthropology of religion. After graduating, she spent nine years working in London as a freelance scriptwriter and developer, which included completing a postgraduate diploma in Script Development with the National Film and Television School in 2007.
Singler returned to Cambridge in 2010 to begin an MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies, completing a master’s thesis on the religious interpretations of anorexia amongst the Pro-Ana Movement. Her subsequent PhD thesis was the first ethnography of the Indigo Children, a New Age idea with online communities and discourse. Her thesis was published as a monograph in 2017, as The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science.
Academic career
In 2016, Singler joined the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion (St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge) as a post-doctoral research associate on the ‘Human Identity in the Age of Nearly Human Machines’ project on the implications of AI on our understanding of what it means to be. She embarked on a film making project with DragonLight Films, producing four short documentaries over the next two years. The first, Pain in the Machine, won the Best Research Film of the Year award from the AHRC’s Research in Film Awards in 2017.
She was made an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence in 2016. She was a founding member of the AI Narratives research project with the LCFI and the Royal Society, which led to a Royal Society report in 2018. She was one of the Co-Principal Investigators for the Global AI Narratives project, funded by the Templeton World Charitable Foundation and Google DeepMind, until 2019.
In 2018 she was appointed Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
She was a member of the UK Advisory Board for “Citizenship in the Digital Age”, a Templeton project. She co-chaired the advisory committee for the Royal Society for the Arts/Google DeepMind Forum on Ethical AI.
She was one of the speakers in the Hay Festival’s Cambridge Series in 2017, as well as being one of the ‘Hay 30’, as a part of the festival’s 30th anniversary celebrations. Sections of her talk have been used in a Hay Fe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpinus%20cordata | Carpinus cordata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Betulaceae.
Its native range is Primorye, China, Korea, Japan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia%20J.%20Jones | Antonia Jane Jones (1943 – 2010) was a British mathematician and computer scientist. Her research considered number theory and computer science.
Early life and education
Jones was born in 1943 in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. She was the first member of her family to attend university. Jones contracted polio as a child and lost both of her legs at the age of ten. Jones attended the University of Reading, where she studied mathematics and physics and graduated both with first class honours. She was a doctoral student in number theory at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in 1969. Jones joined the University of Nottingham after earning her doctorate, before joining Imperial College London as a Senior Lecturer. She spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, after which she joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Research and career
Jones returned to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where she became a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her interest switched from mathematics to computing and she started to explore acoustic pattern recognition. Whilst Jones struggled with the early computers, when technology became more accessible for people with physical disabilities she launched her own firm creating random access video controllers.
In 1983 Jones joined Brunel University London at a lecturer in Information Technology. Jones later served as Professor of Evolutionary and Neural Computing at Cardiff University. She exposed various security loopholes in banking infrastructure, including identifying significant potential fraud at HSBC.
Alongside her scientific research, Jones was involved with science communication and public engagement. She served as an electronic data consultant on the 1986 film Rocinante. She contributed to the 1998 British Science Association Festival of Science. In 2007, Jones retired from Cardiff University.
Selected publications
Personal life
Antonia Jones spent many years with her partner Barbara Quinn at their shared farmhouse in the Brecon Beacons. Upon her retirement in 2007, Jones moved to St. Augustine, Florida. Jones died on 23 December 2010. She is survived by Quinn and her sister Jenny Carrl.
References
British mathematicians
1943 births
2010 deaths
Academics of Cardiff University
Alumni of the University of Reading
Number theorists
British LGBT scientists
21st-century British LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20network | Tensor networks or tensor network states are a class of variational wave functions used in the study of many-body quantum systems. Tensor networks extend one-dimensional matrix product states to higher dimensions while preserving some of their useful mathematical properties.
The wave function is encoded as a tensor contraction of a network of individual tensors. The structure of the individual tensors can impose global symmetries on the wave function (such as antisymmetry under exchange of fermions) or restrict the wave function to specific quantum numbers, like total charge, angular momentum, or spin. It is also possible to derive strict bounds on quantities like entanglement and correlation length using the mathematical structure of the tensor network. This has made tensor networks useful in theoretical studies of quantum information in many-body systems. They have also proved useful in variational studies of ground states, excited states, and dynamics of strongly correlated many-body systems.
Diagrammatic notation
In general, a tensor network diagram (Penrose diagram) can be viewed as a graph where nodes (or vertices) represent individual tensors, while edges represent summation over an index. Free indices are depicted as edges (or legs) attached to a single vertex only. Sometimes, there is also additional meaning to a node's shape. For instance, one can use trapezoids for unitary matrices or tensors with similar behaviour. This way, flipped trapezoids would be interpreted as complex conjugates to them.
Connection to machine learning
Tensor networks have been adapted for supervised learning, taking advantage of similar mathematical structure in variational studies in quantum mechanics and large-scale machine learning. This crossover has spurred collaboration between researchers in artificial intelligence and quantum information science. In June 2019, Google, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and X (company), released TensorNetwork, an open-source library for efficient tensor calculations.
The main interest in tensor networks and their study from the perspective of machine learning is to reduce the number of trainable parameters (in a layer) by approximating a high-order tensor with a network of lower-order ones. Using the so-called tensor train technique (TT), one can reduce an N-order tensor (containing exponentially many trainable parameters) to a chain of N tensors of order 2 or 3, which gives us a polynomial number of parameters.
See also
Tensor
Tensor diagrams
Tensor contraction
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
Tensor rank decomposition
Einstein Notation
References
Applied mathematics
Concepts in physics
Quantum states
Applications of artificial intelligence
Lattice field theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray.com | Pray.com is a Christian social networking service and mobile app that serves as a social media platform for religious communities. The Pray platform includes social media, daily prayers, sermons, biblical content, and podcasts. Pray.com was founded in 2016 by Steve Gatena, Michael Lynn, Ryan Beck and Matthew Potter.
Pray.com platform
Social media
Pray.com serves as a social media platform for religious communities. Congregations can create their own groups on the platform, where members and leaders can engage in discussions, livestream services, and solicit and receive donations. The social media communities on Pray.com allow members to participate in “prayer communities” where Pray users are able to ask for and answer prayer requests.
Biblical content
A paid subscription includes access to premium audio content, such as biblically-inspired meditations and bedtime stories, and Bible stories for children. Pray.com produces Radio drama style with actors voicing stories from the bible. Some of the actors have been Kristen Bell and Blair Underwood.
History
Funding
In June 2017, Pray.com announced it had raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Science Inc. with participation from Greylock Partners and Spark Capital. In March 2018, Pray.com announced it had raised an additional $14 million in a Series A round led by TPG Growth with participation from Science Inc. and Greylock Partners. Gatena, in an interview with Bloomberg News, recalled a mixed reception to faith-based technology from a few venture capital firms: “A few were very disrespectful and borderline discriminatory against our customers."
COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic's limitations on religious gatherings, Pray.com has experienced major growth in active users, subscribers, and downloads. Downloads for Pray.com increased by 955% during the pandemic. During the pandemic, Pray.com partnered with churches to provide a platform for their ministries while in-person services were restricted by law.
National Day of Prayer
Pray first hosted a National Day of Prayer event in 2020 when it streamed to nearly one million viewers on Facebook.
In 2021, Pray hosted a virtual event for the National Day of Prayer in the United States. The event featured remarks from public figures including United States President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence. President Biden spoke of his faith and prayed for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden remarked: “It means the world to me to know that there are people across the country who include Jill and me in their prayers. And I hope you know that you and your families are in our prayers as well. Today I am praying for the end of this great COVID crisis.” The event featured musical performances from Gary Valenciano, Brooke Ligertwood from the Christian band Hillsong Worship, Lecrae, Heather Headley and Michael Neale. Other notable speakers included Ronnie Floyd, Ed Young (pastor), Mark Driscoll, and Samuel Rodriguez. Pray.com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy%20Chief%20of%20Staff%20for%20Intelligence%2C%20Surveillance%2C%20Reconnaissance%2C%20and%20Cyber%20Effects%20Operations%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Air%20Force | The Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations of the United States Air Force is a position in the United States Air Force tasked with the development and implementation of policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight and leadership of Air Force intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations capabilities. Commonly referred to as the A26, it is held by a lieutenant general who also serves as the representative of the Air Force to the intelligence community. The position is one of among the ten same positions in the Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force. As such, the officeholder of this position serves in the Air Staff. The current holder of this position is Lieutenant General Leah G. Lauderback.
Organization
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects Operations: Lt Gen Leah G. Lauderback
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Maj Gen Daniel L. Simpson
Director of Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Airborne ISR Capabilities: Brig Gen Stewart A. Hammons
Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations: Brig Gen Max E. Pearson
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Cyber Effects Operations: Maj Gen David W. Snoddy
Director of Cyberspace Operations and Warfighter Communications:
Director of Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority:
List of Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the United States Air Force
References
See also
Air Staff
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
United States Air Force generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%20filter | The Bellman filter is an algorithm that estimates the value sequence of hidden states in a state-space model. It is a generalization of the Kalman filter, allowing for nonlinearity in both the state and observation equations. The principle behind the Bellman filter is an approximation of the maximum a posteriori estimator, which makes it robust to heavy-tailed noise. It is in general a very fast method, since at each iteration only the very last state value is estimated. The algorithm owes its name to the Bellman equation, which plays a central role in the derivation of the algorithm.
References
Control theory
Nonlinear filters
Signal estimation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Health%20%28Bahrain%29 | The Ministry of Health is responsible for providing integrated preventive and curative health services, through a network of primary, secondary and tertiary health care facilities, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. These healthcare services are provided in coordination with other ministries, private sector and the community.
The current Minister of Health is Dr. Jaleela bint Sayed Jawad Hassan since June 2022. Earlier to this role, she was the Chief Executive Officer of primary health care centers.
The former Minister was Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh serving in this position from 1 October 2015. She had also served earlier in Bahrain's Cabinet, as the Minister of Social Development during 2014–2015. Earlier to that, she was the Assistant Secretary General of the League of Arab States (LAS) – Head of Social Affairs Sector.
Types of Healthcare
All three forms of healthcare, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary, is available in Bahrain along with highly specialized services. Primary healthcare in Bahrain is mostly provided from 23 health centres distributed across the four governorates of Bahrain. Free treatment is provided for all Bahrainis, while foreigners are required to pay seven Dinars (US$18) per visit. Citizens and Residents can book their medical appointments online for the General Clinics at the Health Centers.
The health centers provide a range of support services including the following,
Lab
Pharmacy
Radiology
Social Search
Health and Transformational Services
Medical Records
Physiotherapy
Primary and secondary healthcare is also provided by many private hospitals, including American Mission Hospital, the oldest in the country and the region.
Secondary and tertiary healthcare is provided for citizens and residents, from the following government hospitals.
Salmaniya Medical Complex
Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services
King Hamad University Hospital
Directorates
The following directorates come under the Ministry of Health, as per the ministry's organization structure.
Public Health Directorate
Health Promotion Directorate
Human Resource Directorate
Financial Resource Directorate
Information and Planning Directorate
Backup Services Directorate
Communication Directorate
Ministers
Ms. Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh - 1 Oct 2015 to 14 June 2022
Dr. Jaleela bint Sayed Jawad Hassan - 15 June 2022 -
Recent activities
In its fight against Covid-19, Bahrain's Ministry of Health and the National Health Regulatory Authority approved the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine of China, in December 2020, and began administering it, to its citizens and residents. After Britain, Bahrain also became the second nation in the world to approve the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the same month.
In January 2021, Bahrain announced the approval of a third vaccine, the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, from Serum Institute of India, among the choices of vaccines that the people of Bahrain can opt for, when getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Delgado-Olson | Andrea Delgado-Olson is a computer scientist, founder of Native American Women in Computing (NAWiC), and a member of the Ione Band of Miwok Indians. She is the chief operating officer of technology startup ZaaWink.
Early life
Delgado-Olson grew up in Orinda, California, near Oakland, and is the daughter of a financial business manager and the Director of the San Francisco Bay Area field office for the Office of Special Counsel. She looked up to her mother, who served a role model to her as an attorney in a male-dominated field. Beginning her education at a community college, Delgado-Olson got her teaching certificate and taught preschool for 15 years. After going on to complete her bachelor's degree she continued at Mills College to obtain her master's degree in computer science.
Career and impact
Delgado-Olson founded Native American Women in Computing (NAWiC) in 2014, a community supporting indigenous women in tech. She is currently the Program Manager for Systers and GHC Communities at Anita B.org, an online community for women in computing.
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People from Orinda, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%AB%C5%86u%20Nature%20Reserve | Grīņu Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve, located in Saka Parish, South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. Founded in 1936, it belongs to the European Conservation Network Natura 2000. 1,505 hectares of natural habitat are under protection. The Grīņu Reserve is subordinated to the Regional Council for Nature Conservation Courland.
The nature reserve was created to protect a very rare for Latvia plant - cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix), as well as it inherent special biotope locally called grīnis. In addition, significant thickets of sweet gale (Myrica gale) have been preserved, an endangered species of shrubs, source of raw materials to make the famous Riga Black Balsam. Other rare plants, in particular, several species of orchids, have been found in the flora of the reserve.
History
The oldest information about the lands of Grīnis is contained in folklore. According to legend, Baron Osten-Sacken, who lived here in the 17th century, divided the estate between two sons, one bequeathed the fields, and the other - forests. The owner of the forests became wealthy, and the owner of the fields became poor and set fire to the forest out of envy. Thus appeared the first heather wasteland - grīnis.
In the nineteenth century, attempts to seize these lands by fire did not stop. Locals burned grass to increase fertility, but after several years of use, such fields ceased to yield, and villagers again set fire to the forest to capture new land. Despite the irrationality of such use of nature, even foresters resorted to piles when they wanted to replace low-growing crooked forests with cultivated forest plantations. Sometimes fires broke out due to steam locomotives running on the paved railway line. In summer, the grīnis was extremely dry, so one spark from under the wheels was enough to spread the fire.
However, all human efforts to develop local lands were unsuccessful. Grīņu remained barren, and as soon as people stopped cultivating the land, they quickly overgrown with wild vegetation. Until the 1930s, the core of the modern Grīņu Reserve (about 750 hectares) was a small, but not very productive forest, bordered by unforested swamps. This area belonged to the Strautini forestry, subordinated to the Land Fund, which sold individual plots to anyone. However, due to the infertility of local lands, they were bought by only 60 poor Latgalian families, who lived by cutting down trees for sale.
Documents from the Latvian Forest Department for 1936 contain information that large thickets of cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix) were found in the Strautini forestry. Since the main area of this species is in Western Europe, this kind of find has become a sensation in the circles of Latvian botanists. Scientists University of Latvia opposed the economic use of Grīņu's forests, and all land reclamation work and tree felling were immediately stopped. In the same year the territory was bequeathed, thus Grīņu became the third protected |
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Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.1 million downloads of the city map. According to Planet Minecraft statistics, Greenfield is the third-most downloaded Minecraft map of all time.
Greenfield is designed to resemble the West Coast of the United States, heavily inspired by Los Angeles, and is built to a one-to-one scale, with each block's size being one cubic meter. It has various features of an actual city, such as industrial areas, ports, public transportation, suburbs, a downtown area, and the most recent addition: an airport, added in the 0.5.4 release. With thousands of builds, Greenfield is continuously being worked on with an increasing standard of build quality. Almost every building has elaborate interiors, which are inspected for functionality each time a new build is published. A group of 10 people supervise the city, and more than 400 people have helped build the city.
As of the latest release, Greenfield has 39 districts.
Critic response
Gina Lees, writing for PCGamesN, listed Greenfield as one of the best Minecraft cities, writing that it has "incredible city detail" and that one "can spend ages wandering through the different areas". Stephany Nunneley of VG247 called the city "amazing", and Chris Carter of Destructoid described it as a "living and breathing" city. According to Bryan Lawver of Screen Rant, Greenfield's level of detail makes it resemble more of "a screenshot from SimCity than a blocky Minecraft creation when viewed from above". Dmitry Lapunov, also writing for Screen Rant, stated that the city's features make it "look believable", calling the city "a project of sincere passion". Nate Crowley of Rock, Paper, Shotgun found the terraforming of the landscape to be more impressive than the city itself, saying that it reminded him of planet builders in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.
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External links
Planet Minecraft page
Minecraft
Fictional populated places in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasi%20Sainti%20Baffoe-Bonnie | Kwasi Sainti Baffoe-Bonnie (1950 – 1 February 2021) was a Ghanaian media administrator and politician. He was the founder and CEO of Network Broadcasting Company Limited which served as a mother company for Radio Gold.
Early life and education
Baffoe-Bonnie was born in 1950 in the Western North region of Ghana. He studied at University of Cape Coast where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons) Ed in History in 1978/79. In 1980/81, he further had his Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from Ohio University in New York in USA.
Career
Baffoe-Bonnie established the Network Broadcasting Company Limited which runs Radio Gold, TV Gold and Montie FM where he was the CEO from 1995 to 2008. He was the board chairman of Ghana Air Catering Services from 2006 to 2007.
Politics
Baffoe-Bonnie was a member of the National Democratic Congress. He served as a Senior Political Advisor to the then Vice President of the Republic of Ghana; John Dramani Mahama, from 2009 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016, Baffoe-Bonnie also served as a Presidential Staffer and Senior Advisor on Political Affairs to John Dramani Mahama when he was the President of the Republic of Ghana.
Personal life
He was married with three children namely Ama Aniwaa Baffoe-Bonnie, Kweku Agyeman Baffoe-Bonnie, and Kwaku Amoa Baffoe-Bonnie. He was the brother of Supreme Court Judge, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie.
Death
He died on 1 February 2021 in Accra. According to some reports, the cause of his death was unknown. but other reports also claimed he died after battling a short illness. however other reports claimed he died after contracting COVID-19.
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National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians
2021 deaths
Ghanaian mass media people
1950 births
Ohio University alumni
University of Cape Coast alumni
People from Western Region (Ghana)
Ghanaian presidential advisors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa%20Suzuki | Larissa Suzuki, also known as Lara Suzuki, is a Brazilian-Italian-British University Professor, computer scientist, former CEO, angel investor, Government Advisor, chartered engineer, inventor, scientist, author and entrepreneur. She is also a pianist and violinist.
Suzuki works at Google as a Technical Director in the Google's Office of the CTO bringing technical expertise in the advancements and future of Artificial Intelligence and Interplanetary Internet on Cloud Computing under the supervision of Vint Cerf. She is a Visiting Researcher at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her continuing academic work is as a professor at University College London and University of Quebec, and as a lecturer at Oxford University and Harvard University.
Suzuki is neurodivergent and has the diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder and ADHD. Since 2003 she has been working towards increasing the representation of people of all kinds in engineering and technology.
Early life and education
Suzuki grew up in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo to a family of engineers, scientists and academics. At the age of 15 she went to the Universidade de Ribeirão Preto to pursue a career in music. After one year of studies she dropped from the course and went on pursuing a degree in Computer Science. Suzuki was honoured by the Brazilian Computer Society as the best student of her class. Suzuki started a MPhil degree in Electrical Engineering at the Universidade de São Paulo in the city of Sao Carlos. Her MPhil thesis created new technologies for early detection of breast cancer in women of all ages, and have paved the way to reduce radiation exposure in cancer patients by 20% – 30%. In 2015, Suzuki earned a PhD in Computer Science from University College London in a joint program with Imperial College Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her research on smart cities supervised by Anthony Finkelstein.
Career
Suzuki is based at Google working as a member of the Office of the CTO, is also a Google AI Principles Ethics Fellow, and is a Visiting Researcher at Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was part of the team who made the historical feat connecting clouds with Delay-tolerant networking. Her continuing academic work is at UCL where she serves as an Honorary Associate Professor in Computer Science. She was previously the UK Head of AI, Analytics and Data Management for Google, was a Director of Product Management at Oracle, and held appointments at Arup Group, City Hall, London, IBM. She served as Head of Data Science for Founders4Schools and is on its Technical Advisory Board of Workfinder supporting Sherry Coutu with the organisation's technical endeavours in Machine Learning and AI.
Suzuki's PhD thesis pioneered Data Infrastructures for Smart Cities, and she created the City Data Market Strategy of the Mayor of London, and her work was used to design Urban Platforms for over 40 European cities.
In 2012 Suzuki founded the UCL Society of Women Engineer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | Hegemony is a series of computer strategy games developed by Canadian studio Longbow Games. The games combine historical grand strategy with real-time battles on a seamless map. The title references the concept of hegemony, i.e. the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.
Gameplay
The games revolve around empire management, conquests and resource management with a focus on the planning of military campaigns. The player can zoom in and out at any time between a 2D strategy map and a 3D tactical map, while the game progresses in (pausable) real time. A unique mechanic is the creation of supply chains that connect to supply centres via the player's infrastructure, thus providing supplies for their armies. Designer Jim McNally recaps: "Hegemony sets itself apart by having all gameplay on one big continuous, satellite based, 3D map with a movement and supply system that focuses strategic and empire building decisions as the logical extensions of local geography." Besides historical scripted campaigns (e.g. Philip of Macedon, Julius Caesar, Pyrrhus of Epirus), the games include a sandbox mode, in which the goal is to collect "hegemony points". Victory may be achieved through a combination of cultural, military, and economic superiority.
Seamless Zoom
The Hegemony games feature a fully zoomable map that lets players direct troops and manage cities both on the grand strategic map as well as zoom in to the more granular tactical battlefield map to lead units into battle, individually defining their stances and manoeuvres. This provides a level of flow to warfare that is unique to the series and differentiates it from all other ancient wargames. On the tactical map troops are represented in 3D and can move freely through plains, rolling hills, deciduous forests, valleys, narrow passes and engage in battle. When zooming out, the game world will cross fade to the stylized board-game-like strategy map, where units, cities, and buildings are represented as fully interactive coloured miniatures and map markers display given objectives.
Unit Tactics
Tactical manoeuvring as well as positioning of units on a map dotted with rivers, river crossings and narrow valleys is key to warfare in Hegemony. A wide range of different units - phalanxes, legions, light and heavy cavalry - will try to flank each other or charge directly into the enemy battlelines. Each unit has a level of morale, food supply and strength to fulfill its special role in combat. The player can assign a stance to specialize a unit, usually at the cost of another attribute. In the later Hegemony games, units will gain experience which can be used to promote officers and upgrade the unit's abilities. High-tier officiers can even be drawn from the unit and create a new leader unit which moves independently across the battlefield or be assigned to govern a city.
Supply Lines
Hegemony effectively models the role of supply and logistics making management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai%20P%C4%83tra%C8%99cu | Mihai Pătrașcu may refer to:
Michael the Brave (or Mihai Viteazu), born Mihai Pătrașcu, prince of Wallachia and Romanian national hero
Mihai Pătrașcu (computer scientist), Romanian-American computer scientist
See also
Mihai Viteazu (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miros | Miros may refer to:
Anna Miros (born 1985), Polish volleyball player
MirOS BSD, operating system
MirOS Licence, content licence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shihori%20Railway%20Station | Shihori Railway Station is a Banaskantha, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network.
Shihori Railway Station is 33 km far away from Patan railway station, One Passenger, two Express, and two Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby Stations
Major Trains
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ahmedabad railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobalos%20%28malware%29 | Kobalos is a type of backdoor malware that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The malware has been targeting supercomputers, especially those used in academia and scientific institutions, by stealing SSH credentials.
Artifacts in the code may show that it may have once run on AIX, Windows 95, and Windows 3.11.
References
Linux malware
Trojan horses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Burhans | Molly Burhans (born 1989) is an American cartographer, data scientist, and environmental activist. She is the founder of GoodLands, an organization which aims to mobilize the Catholic Church to use its land for environmental and social justice purposes. Burhans was the Chief Cartographer for the first unified digital global map of the Catholic Church in history, which was premiered in the Vatican in 2016. She has further led the development of global Catholic analyses, such as the Church's carbon footprint and conservation potential. She was awarded Young Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2019. She is one of Encyclopædia Britannica's 2022 20 Under 40 Young Shapers of the Future in category of academia and ideas. In 2021 the Sierra Club honored Burhans with their EarthCare Award, previously awarded to the likes of Wangari Maathai and Sir David Attenborough. In 2018 she was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship for her innovations in applying new technology to respond to climate change. She was also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in the class of 2021.
Early life
Burhans was born in New York City, New York to Debra, a professor of computer science, and William, a researcher in molecular oncology, who died in 2019. Although she attended church as an adolescent, she did not become a practicing Catholic until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree. While visiting a monastery in northwestern Pennsylvania during a weeklong service trip, she observed that the monastery lacked comprehensive land management plans, and began researching the ways that improved land management of worldwide Catholic landholdings could aid environmentalism.
Education
In 2015, Burhans received a Master's Degree in Ecological Design from the Conway School, where she was a Sustainable Communities Initiative Fellow, and an undergraduate liberal arts degree from Canisius College. She became increasingly interested in the environmental possibilities of mapping and ecologically activating the Catholic Church's global landholdings. She attended high school at City Honors School in Buffalo, NY. She spent time at the GIS software company Esri as a visiting researcher and received a grant from them. Her company, GoodLands, now uses a variety of mapping, planning, and design technologies.
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Living people
1989 births
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GIS software
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Christianity and environmentalism
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Women cartographers
Canisius University alumni
Activists from New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Invasive%20Species%20Database | The Global Invasive Species Database is a database of invasive species around the world run by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It publishes the list 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species.
References
External links
Ecological databases
Online taxonomy databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Cagney | Michael 'Mike' Cagney is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of financial services company Figure Technologies, a member of the founding team of Provenance Blockchain and the co-founder and former CEO of SoFi. Cagney is also co-founder and was the managing member of hedge fund Cabezon Investment Group.
Career
Cagney grew up in Southern California and received a degree in applied economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the 1990s, Cagney worked as a trader with Wells Fargo before leaving in 2000 to start Finaplex, a wealth management software company that was acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions. He then founded Cabezon Investment Group, a global macro hedge fund that manages money from family offices, before taking a Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2010.
In 2011, Cagney and four fellow graduate students at Stanford Graduate School of Business created SoFi as a way to lower loan costs while providing a way for alumni to invest in students. Stanford ran a pilot SoFi program, seeded with $2 million from 40 alumni and disbursed to 100 graduate business students. By 2013, the company had funded $200 million in loans to 2,500 borrowers at 100 eligible schools. By 2015, the company was offering mortgages in more than 20 states and had funded more than $4 billion in loans.
In 2016, Cagney was named to Business Insider’s Creators list of top 100 business visionaries creating value for the world. By 2017, SoFi had a valuation of over $4 billion and had extended more than $20 billion in loans. The company had also expanded its services to include mortgages, personal loans, wealth management services and life insurance.
In September 2017, Cagney left SoFi after several workplace controversies, including allegations of sexual misconduct and presiding over a toxic work environment. At the time of his resignation, Cagney said that the litigation and ensuing media coverage made his presence a distraction to the company’s mission.
In 2018, Cagney and his wife, June Ou, co-founded fin-tech startup Figure Technologies, which creates and packages financial assets. As of 2019, the company had raised over $225 million and was valued at $1.2 billion. By 2020, the company had funded loans in excess of $1 billion, and begun offering securitizations backed by Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC), including the largest bond backed by a HELOC in over a decade. In August 2021, Figure Technologies agreed to merge with mortgage lender Homebridge Financial Services.
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21st-century American businesspeople
American technology chief executives
American technology company founders
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20Classification%20of%20Protein%20Domains | The Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains (ECOD) is a biological database that classifies protein domains available from the Protein Data Bank. The ECOD tries to determine the evolutionary relationships between proteins.
Similar to Pfam, CATH, and SCOP, ECOD compiles domains instead of whole proteins. However, ECOD focuses on evolutionary relationships more heavily: instead of grouping proteins by folds, which may simply represent convergent evolution, ECOD groups proteins by demonstratable homology only.
References
Protein structure
Protein classification
Biological databases
Protein superfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20block%20storage | Distributed block storage is a computer data storage architecture that the data is stored in volumes (known as blocks:) across multiple physical servers, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and object storage which manages data as objects. A common distributed block storage system is a Storage Area Network (SAN).
Distributed storage
Distributed storage, as opposed to centralized storage, typically takes the form of a cluster of storage units, with a mechanism for data synchronization and coordination between cluster nodes. Distributed storage has several advantages.
Scalability: support to scale the storage system horizontally by adding or removing storage units to the system.
Redundancy: store the replication of the same data across multiple servers, for high availability, backup, and disaster recovery purposes.
Cost saving: it is possible to use cheaper, commodity servers to store large volumes of data at low cost.
Performance: offer better performance than a single server in some scenarios, for example, it can store data closer to its consumers, or enable massively parallel access to large files.
Block storage
Block storage decouples data from the user’s environment and allows the data to be spread across multiple environments. The storage is organized as blocks with unique identifiers by which they may be stored and retrieved as individual hard drives, and operating systems can connect to. It is an efficient and reliable way to store, use and manage data. The block storage can almost be used for any kinds of application, including but not limited to database storage and virtualization platform storage.
Storage blocks are generally accessed by iSCSI, Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols. Block storage provides high performance for mission-critical applications and can provide high I/O performance and low latency. it is commonly used in Storage Area Network environments in place of file storage.
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Computer data storage
Distributed data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhuck%2010 | iPhuck 10 is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2017.
Porfiry Petrovich is a literary-police algorithm. He investigates crimes and simultaneously writes detective novels about them, earning money for the Police Department.
Maruha Cho is an art historian with a lot of money and a woman with balls according to her official gender. Her specialty is the so-called "cast," the art of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. She needs an assistant to analyze the market. A rented Porfiry becomes that person.
"iPhuck 10" is the most expensive love gadget on the market and simultaneously the most famous of Porfiry's 244 detectives. It is a true masterpiece of algorithmic police prose at the end of the century, an encyclopedic novel about the future of love, art, and everything else.
Plot
A literary-police algorithm named Porfiry Petrovich (the essence of his job is to investigate crimes and, in parallel, to write detective novels about them-the proceeds of which fill the coffers of the Police Department) hopes to obtain a murder case that might launch his literary career, but instead finds himself rented out to a private client. The hero narrator is a writing mind devoid of bodily embodiment. He says of himself that he is "a typical Russian artificial intelligence of the second half of the 21st century," a "police-literary robot ZA-3478/PH0 bilt 9.3" with the Dostoevsky name Porfiry Petrovich. He lives only in the network space, and his character, according to his own apt definition, "is painted in the contrasting tones of our historical and cultural memory" and combines both "Radishchev and Pasternak and as if an interrogator in their joint case".
His temporary landlady, an art historian and curator known by the pseudonym Maruha Cho (real name Mara Gnedikh), uses Porfiry to scout the contemporary art market. The police algorithm must help her find out everything possible about the transactions associated with the so-called "Age of Plaster" - the most important (and most expensive) period in modern art history, which occurs around our time, which is the beginning of the twenty-first century, and which is eighty years removed from the events described in the novel.
Porfiry takes up the work, deftly packing all the materials of the case into the format of the next novel, but soon enough he realizes that Mara is not quite honest with him, and the true role of his much more complex and ambivalent than it first seems... Porfiry tries to outplay Mara, but the man is still smarter than the machine, and soon Porfiry finds himself confined in the space of half an X-exabyte.
Russia's politics in this novel have changed significantly: the Russian Federation is now called the Russian Empire, it is a monarchy (restored in the late 2030s), and it is ruled by a cloned sovereign (38 percent of biological material was taken from Nikita Mikhalkov's left mustache and dosed with genomes from European, Chinese and Abyssinian dynasties). If somet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri%20Luik | Lauri Luik (born on 23 April 1982 in Haapsalu) is an Estonian politician. He has been member of XI, XII and XIII Riigikogu.
In 2004 he graduated from Tallinn University of Technology in computer and systems engineering.
Since 2000 he has been a member of Estonian Reform Party.
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Living people
1982 births
Estonian Reform Party politicians
Members of the Riigikogu, 2007–2011
Members of the Riigikogu, 2011–2015
Members of the Riigikogu, 2015–2019
People from Haapsalu
Tallinn University of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam%20Wong | Liam Wong is a Scottish photographer and games designer. He was Artistic Director of Ubisoft Montreal and was involved in the design of game series like Crysis and Far Cry. He is known for his cyberpunk, sci-fi style of photography. Wong is the author of the book To:ky:oo.
Biography
Wong is from Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied Computer Arts at Abertay University, Dundee, graduating in 2010. His first game, Colour-Coded, made in the final year of his degree was nominated for two BAFTA awards. He emigrated to Canada after graduating and became artistic director at Ubisoft Montreal, where he worked for six years. He bought his first DSLR camera in 2015, a Canon 5D mark III and, during a trip to Japan, started his Tokyo Nights series of photography, taking aesthetic influence from science fiction films like Blade Runner, Akira and Ghost in the Shell. He was named in Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017. His debut photobook, To:ky:oo, is the most successful crowd funded book in the UK, having raised four times its intended target. In 2022 he joined Ikumi Nakamura's video game development studio: Unseen Inc. as visual director.
Bibliography
AFTER DARK (2022). Thames & Hudson, London.
TO:KY:OO (2019). Thames & Hudson, London.
Games
References
British game designers
Photographers from Edinburgh
Living people
Alumni of Abertay University
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISC%20architecture | In computing, VISC (Virtual Instruction Set Computing) architecture is a processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture developed by Soft Machines, which uses the Virtual Software Layer (translation layer) to dispatch a single thread of instructions to the Global Front End which splits instructions into virtual hardware threadlets which are then dispatched to separate virtual cores. These virtual cores can then send them to the available resources on any of the physical cores. Multiple virtual cores can push threadlets into the reorder buffer of a single physical core, which can split partial instructions and data from multiple threadlets through the execution ports at the same time. Each virtual core keeps track of the position of the relative output. This form of multithreading can increase single threaded performance by allowing a single thread to use all resources of the CPU.
The allocation of resources is dynamic on a near-single cycle latency level (1–4 cycles depending on the change in allocation depending on individual application needs. Therefore, if two virtual cores are competing for resources, there are appropriate algorithms in place to determine what resources are to be allocated where.
Unlike the traditional processor designs, VISC doesn't use physical cores, instead the resources of the chip are made available as 'virtual cores' and 'virtual hardware threads' according to workload needs.
References
Digital electronics
Electronic design
Electronic design automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20philosophy | Computational philosophy or digital philosophy is the use of computational techniques in philosophy. It includes concepts such as computational models, algorithms, simulations, games, etc. that help in the research and teaching of philosophical concepts, as well as specialized online encyclopedias and graphical visualizations of relationships among philosophers and concepts. The use of computers in philosophy has gained momentum as computer power and the availability of data have increased greatly. This, along with the development of many new techniques that use those computers and data, has opened many new ways of doing philosophy that were not available before. It has also led to new insights in philosophy.
See also
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PhilPapers
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
References
External links
Centre for Digital Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario
PhiloComp.net at the University of Oxford
Philosophical methodology
Computational fields of study |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Star%20%28Disney%2B%29%20original%20programming | Star is a hub within the Disney+ streaming service for television and film content intended for a general audience. The hub is available in a subset of countries where Disney+ operates. Programs released exclusively on Star are branded as "Star Originals". During The Walt Disney Company Investor Day 2020, it was announced that content from Disney-owned networks such as Hulu, ABC and FX, along with other Disney-owned programming would premiere exclusively on Star internationally as well. It was also announced that Star would produce original local content which will be exclusively released on the platform.
Original programming
Star Originals
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Non-English language
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Spanish
Turkish
Other
Co-productions
Continuations
Exclusive international distribution
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Anime
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Continuations
Non-English language
Indonesian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
Other
Original films
Star Originals
Feature films
Documentaries
Specials
Shorts
Exclusive international distribution
Feature films
Documentaries
Specials
Upcoming original programming
Star Originals
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Non-English language
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Turkish
Other
Co-productions
Exclusive international distribution
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Anime
Unscripted
Non-English language
Upcoming original films
Regional original films
Exclusive international distribution
See also
List of Hulu original programming
List of Hulu original films
List of Disney+ original programming
List of Disney+ original films
List of Disney+ Hotstar original programming (original films)
List of Star+ original programming, for the streaming service in Latin America
List of Disney+ Hotstar original programming, for the streaming service in India and Southeast Asia
Notes
References
Internet-related lists
Lists of television series by network
Lists of television series by streaming service
Television lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasamin%20Mostofi | Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.
Education and career
Yasamin got her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She is a major contributor to two research areas:
RF Sensing, such as sensing and learning about the environment with WiFi signals. In 2009, Yasamin Showed it possible to image details of objects with WiFi signals. Since then her work has contributed to this area by showing how WiFi signals can be used for different through-wall sensing applications, such as occupancy analytics, person identification, activity recognition, localization/tracking and 3D Xray vision for drones.
Communication-Aware, Path Planning, and Control
Yasamin’s early work in these two areas won her the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer (PECASE) from President Obama in 2011.
Selected honors/awards
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer (PECASE) from President Obama, 2011.
IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, 2016 Yasamin is the first woman to receive this award.
IEEE Fellow, 2020
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, 2009
Mostofi’s accomplishments are highlighted in the book “Daughters of Persia, Pioneering Women of the World” by Mansoureh Pirnia, which is a historic account of high-impact Iranian women throughout history.
Selected news appearances
Sample press coverage of her research lab includes BBC Digital Planet 2019, TechCrunch 2018, BBC 2017, Engadget 2017, Huffington Post UK 2015, BBC 2014, Engadget 2014, among others.
References
Iranian computer scientists
20th-century Iranian physicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Iranian women scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Network%20for%20Free%20Elections | The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) is an independent and nonpartisan non-governmental organization working to ensure free and fair elections in Asia, on the basis of universal and equal suffrage. ANFREL is based in Bangkok, Thailand.
The alliance was established in November 1997, and includes 27 member organizations across 17 Asian nations, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Timor-Leste.
ANFREL is aligned with the principles enshrined in Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ANFREL routinely shares expertise in election monitoring through capacity building programmes and dispatches international election observation missions (EOMs). From its founding in 2007 to 2012, ANFREL carried out 50, averaging 3.5 EOMs per year.
References
External links
Election and voting-related organizations
Elections in Asia
2007 establishments in Thailand
International organizations based in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhadyr%20Khoussainov | Bakhadyr M. Khoussainov () is a computer scientist and mathematician, who was born and educated in the Soviet Union, works in the fields of mathematical logic, computability theory, computable model theory and theoretical computer science. With Anil Nerode, he is the co-founder of the theory of automatic structures, which is an extension of the theory of automatic groups.
Biography
Khoussainov received his undergraduate degree from the Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University in 1984. In 1988, he received his Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent to a PhD) in Algebra and Logic from Novosibirsk State University with the supervision of an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
In 1991 Khoussainov joined Cornell University and held an Ｈ.C. Wang Assistant Professorship at the Mathematics Department from 1995 to 1997.
In 1996 Khoussainov joined the University of Auckland, and remained until 2021 when he moved to the UESTC.
Khoussainov has held visiting positions at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the National University of Singapore, Kyoto University, JAIST and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Awards and recognition
Khoussainov is a co-winner (together with Cristian Calude, Sanjay Jain, Wei Li and Frank Stephan) of the STOC 2017 best paper award for a quasi-polynomial time algorithm deciding parity games. For this work, Khoussainov and this paper's co-authors were awarded the 2021 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize. In 2023 while working in the UESTC, China, Khoussainov has also been elected as a foreign member of The Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, Humanities, Letters, and Law.
A fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Khoussainov has also received:
the 2020 Humboldt prize;
the 2019 Aitken Lecturership;
multiple JSPS Invitation Fellowships (2001, 2012, and 2014);
multiple Marsden Fund grants (2001, 2004, 2008 and 2012);
the 2002 Research Excellence Award of the New Zealand Mathematical Society.
References
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Uzbekistani scientists
Cornell University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of Marsden grants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20for%20the%20Investigation%20of%20Gender%20Incongruence | The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is a collaborative multicenter prospective cohort study on gender incongruence which started in 2010 and is being conducted by several transgender clinics in Europe. The clinics that have been involved in the initiative include the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria (CEGD) at Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location VUmc in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Center for Sexology and Gender at Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, the Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet in Oslo, Norway, and the University Hospital of the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. The clinics in the ENIGI initiative developed a common study and treatment protocol and maintain a shared database. The study includes an endocrine part to evaluate the effects of transgender hormone therapy in transfeminine and transmasculine people.
See also
Study of Transition, Outcomes, and Gender (STRONG)
References
Cohort studies
Endocrinology
Transgender and medicine
Transgender studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%27s%20Towers | Cohen's Towers is a platform game written by Frank Cohen and released by Datamost in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 home computers. It was re-released in 1986 by Databyte in the United Kingdom.
Gameplay
In Cohen's Towers the player plays the part of Allen, starting his new job as a mail boy. He has to collect mail parcels one at the time from different floors and deliver them to any of the three available 'mail drops'. To move up and down between the floors the player can use different elevators, but if he stays on one for too long a falling plant pot will knock him off. The player's work is also hindered by a dog pursuing him on most of the floors, or a sleepwalker.
Once the player collected and deposited all the parcels in the building, the Boss shows up and takes him to the next one. There are three different buildings in the game – Fanda, Datamost, and Cohen's Tower – each one harder to complete.
Music
The game's music is one of the first examples of adaptive music. Different tunes accompany unusual occurrences: a dog chasing the player, a sleepwalker appearance, the Boss checking on the player's work. The main theme is an arrangement of Scott Joplin's "Elite Syncopations".
Reception
Steve Panak wrote in his column in the 1984 ANALOG Computing holiday issue, "don't even consider buying it. Cohen's Towers gives big business a bad name, and all copies should be piled up and turned into a towering inferno." In a 1985 review for Page 6 Jim Short wrote: "it is an original and highly addictive game with great graphics and even better sound. [...] Cohen's Towers is an excellent little game that I can highly recommend." Lloyd Davies, writing in Ahoy!, praised the "colorful scrolling screens and clever visual effects" and the game's learning curve, calling it "an arcade-quality piece of software."
Writing for InfoWorld in March 1984, Scott Mace called it "one of the most humorous video games ever," joking that: "Now, for every mail clerk, everywhere [...], there's a video game that sums up what a fun job it can be." In the journal Education, Research and Perspectives, Michael Scriven called it a "novelty" game whose "whimsy is central though not oppressive."
See also
Other games written by Frank Cohen:
Clowns and Balloons (1982)
Ghost Chaser (1984)
Ollie's Follies (1984)
The Scrolls of Abadon (1984)
References
External links
Game manual at the Internet Archive
1983 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datamost games
Fictional postal workers
Platformers
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Mars | Jason O. Mars (Born May 27, 1983) is an American computer scientist, author, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his research into computer architecture and artificial intelligence, particularly in the design and deployment of conversational AI. The best-selling author of Breaking Bots: Inventing a New Voice in the AI Revolution, he has been involved in multiple AI initiatives and startups over the course of his career, including ZeroShotBot, Jaseci, Clinc, Myca, and ImpactfulAI.
Mars holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia(UVA), and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan(U-M). He is also acting co-director of U-M's Clarity Lab alongside his wife, Professor Lingjia Tang. There, Mars helps direct advanced research within artificial intelligence, large-scale computing, and coding. Among the lab's most notable projects is the open source Sirius, later rebranded as Lucida.
A virtual assistant capable of understanding both visual and auditory queries, Lucida was intended by Mars and his colleagues as a sandbox that would help programmers explore the complexities of speech recognition. Mars also hoped that it would act as a foundation for the development of hardware better-suited for conversational AI. The project was supported by Google, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Science Foundation.
Jason Mars was one of ten individuals celebrated at the 28th Annual Caribbean American Heritage (CARAH) Awards. Mars received the Vanguard Award from the Institute of Caribbean Studies for his technological impact and "contributions to America and the world." Other winners include Pfizer Principal Scientist for Viral Vaccines Vidia Roopchand and Grammy-winning songwriter Gordon Chambers. Past honorees of the CARAH Awards include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young and Olympian Usain Bolt.
Early life
Childhood and Family
His father, Pairadeau "Perry" Mars, held a Master's Degree in International Affairs and a Ph.D in Political Science.
By his own admission, Mars was often viewed as the "black sheep" of the family. Growing up, he had little interest in academia, instead wanting to do nothing more than code. His brother, Pairadeau Mars Jr., on the other hand, was frequently viewed as a genius, receiving an above-average score on the SAT in eighth grade.
Mars would later be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Mars was thirteen when he first discovered his love of programming. At the time an avid gamer, he was fascinated by the knowledge that there were programs that would allow him to edit the base code of his games. He taught himself everything he could about C++, and created his first AI when he was a high school freshman.
This would eventually lead Mars into the world of hacking and hacker culture. At one poin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler%20%28disambiguation%29 | Parler is a social networking service known for hosting right-wing content.
Parler may also refer to:
Music
"Parler à mon père", a 2012 song by Celine Dion
"Parler tout bas", a 2001 song by Alizée
People
Parler family, a family of German architects and sculptors from the 14th century
Heinrich Parler (c. 1300 – c. 1370), German architect and sculptor
Peter Parler (1333–1399), son of Heinrich
Wenzel Parler (1360–1404), son of Peter
Johann Parler (1359–1400s), son of Peter
Other uses
6550 Parléř, a minor planet
See also
Parlour (disambiguation)
Parlay (disambiguation)
Parle (disambiguation)
Parley (disambiguation)
Parly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin-Stevenage%20Fibre%20Optic%20trial | In 1977 a technical trial took place between Hitchin and Stevenage in Hertfordshire, UK, to demonstrate that optical fibre was capable of transmitting high speed data over large distances.
The idea of fibre optics as a communication medium was a topic that many physicists worldwide had been discussing. A theoretical publication in 1966 by Charles Kao and George Hockham, who were both part of a team of scientists in the Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (STL) in Harlow, Essex, defied conventional wisdom at the time predicting that glass could be made with enough purity to send signals over hundreds of kilometres. A collaboration between STL scientists and the British Post Office set out to transform the theoretical predictions into a practical demonstration. The technology trial was successful, and eventually adopted by the British Post Office.
The Hitchin-Stevenage trial demonstrated to the world that fibre optics was a viable technology, and was an important step in the development of modern fibre-optical telecommunications, ultimately leading to a Nobel Prize in Physics for Charles Kao.
Technical Trial
To demonstrate the technology, an agreement was reached with the Post Office to use existing ducts to connect the telephone exchanges of two medium-sized English towns of Hitchin and Stevenage. STL scientists developed components and optimised the design of optical fibres in association with STC (Standard Telephones and Cables) Ltd. They sought a route that presented above average installation difficulties and demonstrate operation of a link operating at 140MB/s which was the highest digital transmission rate at the time (The European PDH E4 line rate).
The installation of the equipment between Hitchin and Stevenage started in April 1977. The total length of the route was 9 km with repeaters at 3 km spacing, and connected the exchange equipment between the two towns. The team encountered many challenges, including flooded manholes, and tight bends round which the fibre cables had to be carefully eased. The route also happened to cross a railway line and a Motorway, which gave further credence to the robustness of optical fibres. After deployment was completed, it was soon proved that the technology worked, and the transmitted signals could clearly be received at the far end of the link.
The successful outcome of the Hitchin-Stevenage trial was a pivotal moment in the history of optical communications.
References
Optical telecommunications cables
Hertfordshire
Hitchin
Stevenage
Optical Transport Network
History of science and technology in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Tunnels | Cosmic Tunnels is a space-themed action game written by Tim Ferris and published by Datamost in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit family and in 1984 for the Commodore 64. Datamost also sold the game with Cohen's Towers as a "twin pack". It was re-released in 1986 by Databyte in the United Kingdom.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to collect energy bars from four different asteroids. To do this the player needs to complete four different stages. The first stage expects the player to maneuver his spacecraft from its home base to one of the four gates at the top of the screen, while avoiding falling meteors. Once through the gate, the ship enters a space warp, where the player is confronted with mines that must be shot, or they will drain the ship's energy. This stage of the game lasts 25 seconds, with the mines progressively moving faster.
After leaving the tunnel, the player must successfully land on the asteroid's landing platform, while avoiding missiles fired by the enemy bases. Once on the asteroid the last stage begins: the player must navigate enemy creatures to collect energy bars and place them in the ship. When energy bars are safely stored in the ship, the player can start his journey back to his base.
The player starts with three astronauts and a full tank of energy, but if he runs out of either the game ends.
Reception
David H. Ahl writing for the Creative Computing concluded his 1984 review: "The graphics of Cosmic Tunnels are stunning, but the sound effects are mediocre. Nevertheless, the game is a real challenge that will keep you coming back for more, and more, and more." Tracie Forman agreed in a review for Electronic Games : "Cosmic Tunnels is a well-planned, enjoyable game with a cohesive plot line, nice visuals and sound, and varied play-action."
Steve Panak wrote in his column in the 1984 ANALOG Computing holiday issue, "I found the entire game juvenile and insulting to anyone of above average intelligence. I cannot recommend this game to anyone who is not my enemy."
References
External links
Cosmic Tunnels at Atari Mania
Cosmic Tunnels at Gamebase 64
1983 video games
Action games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datamost games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Social%20Networks | {{Infobox political party
| name = Progressive Social Networks
| native_name = Redes Sociales Progresistas
| abbreviation = RSP
| colorcode =
| logo = RSP logo (Mexico).svg
| logo_size = 225px
| president = José Fernando González Sánchez
| founder = Juan Iván Peña Neder
| foundation = January 19, 2019
| dissolution = August 30, 2021
| membership = 445,000
| membership_year = 2020
| ideology = Social democracyReformismEnvironmentalismProgressivism
| position =
| colours = Red
| slogan = Por un México hacia delante' (For a Mexico looking forward)
| website =
| country = Mexico
}}
Progressive Social Networks (, RSP) was a Mexican center-left political party formed in 2020.
History
RSP was founded on January 19, 2019, as a civil association, by Juan Iván Peña Neder. Over the course of the year, it worked to obtain registration as a political party; by December 2019, they had signed up 262,000 party members and held assemblies in 20 of 32 states, which allowed them to meet the requirements set by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE).
However, a change in legal representative on October 9, 2019, less than a year after its foundation, portended a shift in the party's power base, after the executive committee replaced Peña Neder with José Fernando González Sánchez, son-in-law of powerful—but corrupt—teacher's union leader Elba Esther Gordillo. González Sánchez and René Fujikawa, a former federal deputy for the defunct New Alliance Party that was also tied to Esther, had been present at RSP's first official act. That same week, the party moved its national headquarters. The shift, which briefly left two competing leadership teams claiming to run the party, threatened the party's ability to hold the remaining state assemblies necessary to obtain registration.
In February 2020, the party held a national assembly in Mexico City and announced that they had surpassed the INE registration requirements, with 445,000 party members and 23 state assemblies. However, on September 3, the INE voted 8–3 to deny registration to the aspiring party, due to its concerns over the extensive participation of leaders of the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), the teacher's union that Esther had once headed, in its organization and allegations that the SNTE had provided gifts to assembly attendees. Party leader González Sánchez decried what he saw as last-minute changes in the INE's own requirements and imposing additional ones relating to finances; he noted that political observers would find such an arrangement "unthinkable". In January 2021, González Sánchez noted that Esther is not a member of RSP or any other political party.
On October 14, 2020, the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF) reversed the INE's decision and granted registration to RSP; the tribunal's judges stated in their decision that they were not able to prove the involvement of the SNTE itself in the party's organization.
To manage its internal p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SJ%20%C3%96resund | SJ Öresund was a division of SJ AB responsible for the operations of Øresundståg in Sweden. Øresundståg is a passenger train network in the transnational Øresund Region of Denmark and Sweden.
On 13 December 2020 SJ Öresund replaced the previous operator Transdev. In addition to operations, the company was responsible for the maintenance of the fleet of 77 Swedish owned Öresund trains at a depot in Hässleholm.
The agreement was for 8 years but in April 2022 it was announced that SJ Öresund was going to back out of the agreement in December 2022 due to issues regarding the maintenance of the trainsets.
References
External links
Official website. (in Swedish)
Railway companies of Sweden
History of the Øresund Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aclypea%20undata | Aclypea undata is a species of beetle belonging to the family Silphidae.
It is native to Europe.
References
Silphidae |
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