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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-traced%20ambient%20occlusion | Ray-traced ambient occlusion is a computer graphics technique and ambient occlusion global illumination algorithm using ray-tracing.
References
Shading
Computer graphics
3D computer graphics
Global illumination algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Address%20Register | The Danish Address Register (DAR; Danish: Danmarks Adresseregister) is the authoritative registry of all streets and addresses in Denmark.
The data is maintained by the local municipalities, and the central IT platform is provided by the Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency, a part of the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities.
Data is provided free of charge for any purpose via download or web services.
External links
The Danish Address Register. Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency.
References
Geography of Denmark
Society of Denmark
Government databases in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGTR%20%28Massachusetts%29 | WGTR was a pioneer commercial FM radio station, which was the first of two mountain-top stations established by the Yankee Network. It began regular programming, as experimental station W1XOJ, in 1939. In 1941 it was licensed for commercial operation from studios in Boston, initially with the call sign W43B, which was changed to WGTR in 1943. In 1947, its designated community of license was changed to Worcester, Massachusetts.
During the station's entire existence, its transmitter site was located atop Asnebumskit Hill near Paxton, Massachusetts. WGTR was deleted in July 1953.
History
Experimental broadcasts
In the 1930s, investigations were begun into establishing radio stations transmitting on very high frequency (VHF) assignments above 30 MHz, well above those used by the standard AM broadcast band. These stations were informally known as "Apex" stations, because their coverage tended to be limited to line-of-sight distances, so there was a premium in locating transmitter towers at high altitudes. The Yankee Network, a regional network of AM radio stations located in the northeastern United States, began its own investigation of the potential for operation on the new frequencies. In late 1935, it was issued a license for an experimental station, W1XER, originally located in Boston. In early 1936 three Yankee Network engineers attended a demonstration by Edwin Howard Armstrong of his recent invention of "wide-band frequency modulation" (FM) transmissions. In 1937 a plan was developed envisioning that 90% of New England could be provided with FM programs by building a 50-kilowatt station on a mountaintop at Paxton (Mount Asnebumskit), plus 5-kilowatt stations on Mount Washington in New Hampshire and on Mount Mansfield in Vermont. (Later plans dropped the proposed Mount Mansfield station.)
A construction permit for W1XOJ was granted on August 18, 1937, although construction did not start until August 1938. The station began broadcasting with a regular daily schedule of 8 a.m. to midnight on July 24, 1939, transmitting on 43.0 MHz with 2,000 watts. Programming was relayed from the studios of the Yankee Network's AM station in Boston, WNAC, to the transmitter site away by an FM relay station, W1XOK, transmitting on 133.03 MHz with 250 watts. In August 1939, W1XOJ was reported to be one of only four FM facilities "in actual operation". It was also described as "the first commercial station to be built outside of Major Armstrong's own transmitter, W2XMN at Alpine, New Jersey". In early 1940, it was reported that a 50-kilowatt transmitter had been installed but was currently operating at only 30 kilowatts, as a January 15, 1940 wind storm had destroyed the station's antenna.
The Yankee Network inaugurated the first FM radio network in the United States, beginning with a January 4, 1940 demonstration of an FM over-the-air inter-city relay, which originated in Yonkers, New York, and was received and relayed in turn by Armstrong's W2XMN in Alpine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNE%20%28Portland%2C%20Maine%29 | WMNE was a pioneer commercial FM radio station, which was the second of two mountain-top broadcasting stations established by the Yankee Network. It began regular programming, as experimental station W1XER, in December 1940. In 1941 it was licensed for commercial operation from studios in Boston, initially with the call sign W39B, which was changed to WMTW in 1943. In late 1946 the station's designated community of license was changed to Portland, Maine, and its call letters became WMNE.
WMNE was deleted in October 1948. During the station's entire existence its transmitter site was located at the summit of Mount Washington in Sargents Purchase, New Hampshire.
History
Experimental broadcasts
In the 1930s investigations were begun into establishing radio stations transmitting on "Very High Frequency" (VHF) assignments above 30 MHz, well above those used by the standard AM broadcast band. These stations were informally known as "Apex" stations, because their coverage tended to be limited to line-of-site distances, so there was a premium in locating transmitter towers at high altitudes.
The Yankee Network, a regional network of AM radio stations located in the northeastern United States, began its own investigation of the potential for operation on the new frequencies. In late 1935 it was issued a license for an experimental station, W1XER, originally located in Boston. In early 1936 three Yankee Network engineers attended a demonstration by Edwin Howard Armstrong of his recent invention of "wide-band frequency modulation" (FM) transmissions. In 1937 a plan was developed envisioning that 90% of New England could be provided with FM programs by building a 50 kilowatt station on a mountain top at Paxton, Massachusetts (Mount Asnebumskit), plus 5 kilowatt stations on Mount Washington in New Hampshire and on Mount Mansfield in Vermont. (Later plans dropped the proposed Mount Mansfield station). This also proposed converting W1XER from AM transmissions to FM.
In order to provide better coverage, in 1937 W1XER was moved from Boston to the top of Mount Washington, where it was used as a link to report meteorological information from a weather observatory located there. The process of converting the station for FM broadcasting turned out to be an arduous undertaking, and W1XER did not start broadcast programming on a regular schedule until December 19, 1940. The Yankee Network inaugurated the first FM radio network in the United States, which officially made its debut in December 1940 when W1XER was permanently linked to over-the-air transmissions from W1XOJ in Massachusetts. Because of their superior audio quality, the FM stations became known for broadcasting live classical music concerts.
Commercial operation
In May 1940, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band operating on 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz. On October 31, 1940, the FCC awarded the first fifteen construc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Civil%20Aviation%20Safety%20Investigation%20Authorities | The European Network of Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authorities (ENCASIA) is a network of civil aviation accident investigation authorities of the European Union.
History
ENCASIA was created by Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 in January 2011.
Members
Accident Investigation Board Denmark (Denmark)
Administration for Technical Investigations (Luxembourg)
Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo (Italy)
Air Accident and Incident Investigation Board (Cyprus)
Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board (Greece)
Air Accidents Investigation Institute (Czech Republic)
Air Accident Investigation Unit (Ireland)
Air Accident Investigation Unit (Belgium)
Air Accident Investigation Unit (Bulgaria)
Air, Maritime and Railway Traffic Accidents Investigation Agency (Croatia)
Air, Maritime and Railway Accident and Incident Investigation Unit (Slovenia)
Austrian Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Authority (Austria)
Aviation and Maritime Investigation Authority (Slovakia)
Bureau of Air Accident Investigation (Malta)
Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (France)
Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (Spain)
Civil Aviation Safety Investigation and Analysis Authority (Romania)
Dutch Safety Board (Netherlands)
Estonian Safety Investigation Bureau (Estonia)
Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves e de Acidentes Ferroviários (Portugal)
German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (Germany)
Safety Investigation Authority (Finland)
State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation (Poland)
Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (Sweden)
Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Bureau (Latvia)
Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Division (Lithuania)
Transportation Safety Bureau (Hungary)
See also
European Union Aviation Safety Agency
National Transportation Safety Board (United States)
Air Accidents Investigation Branch (United Kingdom)
References
External links
https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/encasia_en
European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93artificial%20intelligence%20collaboration | Human-AI collaboration is the study of how humans and artificial intelligence (AI) agents work together to accomplish a shared goal. AI systems can aid humans in everything from decision making tasks to art creation. Examples of collaboration include medical decision making aids., hate speech detection, and music generation. As AI systems are able to tackle more complex tasks, studies are exploring how different models and explanation techniques can improve human-AI collaboration.
Improving collaboration
Explainable AI
When a human uses an AI's output, they often want to understand why a model gave a certain output. While some models, like decision trees, are inherently explainable, black box models do not have clear explanations. Various Explainable artificial intelligence methods aim to describe model outputs with post-hoc explanations or visualizations, these methods can often provide misleading and false explanations. Studies have also found that explanations may not improve the performance of a human-AI team, but simply increase a human's reliance on the model's output.
Trust in AI
A human's trust in an AI agent is an important factor in human-AI collaboration, dictating whether the human should follow or override the AI's input. Various factors impact a person's trust in an AI system, including its accuracy and reliability
Why is humanizing AI-Generated text important?
Here are the reasons why humanizing AI-generated content is important:
Relatability: Human readers seek emotionally resonant content. AI can lack the nuances that make content relatable.
Authenticity: Readers value a genuine human touch behind content, ensuring it doesn't come off as robotic.
Contextual Understanding: AI can misinterpret nuances, requiring human oversight for accuracy.
Ethical Considerations: Humanizing AI content helps identify and rectify biases, ensuring fairness.
Search Engine Performance: AI may not consistently meet search engine guidelines, risking penalties.
Conversion Improvement: Humanized content connects emotionally and crafts tailored calls to action.
Building Trust: Humanized content adds credibility, fostering reader trust.
Cultural Sensitivity: Humanization ensures content is respectful and tailored to diverse audiences.
References
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Welle | A-Welle, more formally known as the Tarifverbund A-Welle or sometimes the Tarifverbund Aargau, is a Swiss tariff network covering the canton of Aargau, with the exception of the districts of Laufenburg and Rheinfelden, together with the eastern part of the canton of Solothurn.
The Tarifverbund A-Welle was created on 12 December 2004, when the previous tariff associations for Olten and Aargau merged. Initially the tariff network applied only to season tickets and passes, but it was expanded on 13 December 2009 to include single tickets as well as day and multi-trip tickets.
Operators
The operators which make up the network are:
Aare Seeland mobil (asm)
Aargau Verkehr (AVA)
Busbetrieb Aarau (BBA)
Busbetrieb Olten Gösgen Gäu (BOGG)
PostBus Switzerland
Regionalbus Lenzburg
Regionale Verkehrsbetriebe Baden-Wettingen (RVBW)
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe
References
External links
A-Welle web site (in German)
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Solothurn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20Coverston | Harriet Coverston is an American computer scientist and software developer focused on large-scale secondary storage environments, who has previously participated to various kernel developments in HPC systems. Harriet is an expert in large scale archiving systems, having participated to several large projects and product developments.
Career
She started her career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1967 working on CDC 7600 Livermore Timesharing System within a team of 5 people. She stayed until 1974 and then moved to Control Data Corporation for 12 years to collaborate on the Cyber 205 Operating System and CDCNET.
In January 1986, she co-founded LSC (Large Scale Configurations) where she was vice-president of technology more than 15 years. LSC was a ISV developing SAM-QFS and QFS, two software dedicated to manage cold and archived data. QFS is a high performance file system and SAM is advanced storage management.
In 2001, Sun Microsystems acquired LSC and Harriet Coverston became distinguished engineer at Sun, a position she occupied until 2010. Oracle closed the acquisition of Sun early 2010.
She co-founded Versity in March 2011 with Bruce Gilpin and acts as its CTO since its inception. Versity is a storage ISV developer of archiving software.
Education
Harriet Coverston received a BA in Mathematics from Florida State University.
Patents
Harriet participates and co-owns 15 patents:
File archiving system and method
Delegation in a file system with distributed components
File system with distributed components
Method and system for collective file access using an mmap (memory-mapped file)
Dynamic routing of I/O requests in a multi-tier storage environment
Dynamic data migration in a multi-tier storage system
File archiving system and method
Delegation in a file system with distributed components
File system with distributed components
Method, system, and program for providing data to an application program from a file in a file system
Method, system, and program for managing files in a file system
Archiving file system for data servers in a distributed network environment
Method and apparatus for insuring recovery of file control information for secondary storage systems
Method and apparatus for file storage allocation for secondary storage using large and small file blocks
References
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhare%20and%20the%20Hamster%20of%20Darkness | Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness is a 2022 computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by nWave Pictures, written by David Collard and directed by Benjamin Mousquet (in his directorial debut) and Ben Stassen; it is based on the graphic novel Chickenhare by Chris Grine. The film follows the adventures and coming-of-age journey of Chickenhare, a one-of-a-kind hero born half chicken and half hare, who is eager to fit in and become an adventurer despite his differences. It is one of Brad Venable's final film roles.
Plot
Twenty years ago, hare brothers Peter and Lapin are on a quest to find the mystical Hamster of Darkness, to no avail. However, they find a chicken-hare hybrid baby whom Peter adopts and names Chickenhare. As he grows up, Chickenhare is enamored with plans to follow his father's footsteps.
In the present day, Chickenhare attempts to pass the Royal Adventure Society trials to become an adventurer, but his disguise used to cover his chicken features weighs him down, causing him to fail the test. Undeterred, he decides to search for the Hamster of Darkness to prove himself as an adventurer and visits Lapin, who has been imprisoned after attempting to overthrow Peter as King of Featherbeard but has information on the artifact. Lapin escapes using one of Chickenhare's feathers and sets off with a crew of prisoners to find the artifact as well. Determined to stop Lapin, Chickenhare, joined by his tortoise servant Abe, follow him.
The duo arrive at a desert city to find a guide to get through the Desert of Death but are intercepted by two of Lapin's goons. The pair are rescued by skunk explorer Meg, who agrees to guide them through the desert.
The group is later captured in a bamboo forest by Pigmies, tribal pig-like creatures who mistake Chickenhare for a god and the leader commands them to prepare a feast, to which meg replies "See, Me problem". the pigmies cage meg, Chicken hare and Abe. Abe remarks that the pigmies know how to throw a sacrifice. While caged, Chickenhare blames his appearance on his misfortune, but Meg snaps him out of it by telling how she embraced her skunk nature in the past and encourages Chickenhare to do the same as they continue their journey.
At the Frosty Mountains, Chickenhare, Meg, and Abe enter the temple and go through three trials to find the Hamster of Darkness, instead discovering an ice scepter in the tomb of the long-extinct hamsters. Lapin and his crew arrive and take the scepter, summoning the hamsters' ghosts to take over Featherbeard and leaving the trio stranded in the temple. Meg reminds Chickenhare how his unusual features led them to the temple, and he uses his innate flight abilities to save Meg and Abe and catch up to Lapin.
Back in Featherbeard, Lapin has taken over the kingdom with the help of the ghost hamsters. With the help of Abe and Meg, Chickenhare gets the scepter back from Lapin, but the scepter's power only responds to the one who first uses it. Chickenhare decides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Heide | Felix Heide is a German computer scientist working primarily in the fields of computational imaging, computer vision, computer graphics and deep learning. He is the head of the Princeton University Computational Imaging Lab and the Chief Technology Officer at Algolux.
Education
Heide received his Msc (Computer Science) from the University of Siegen. In 2016, he received his PhD from the University of British Columbia under the advisement of Professor Wolfgang Heidrich. His doctoral dissertation won the Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award (best Canadian PhD dissertation in computer graphics) and the ACM SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award (best PhD dissertation in computer graphics and interactive techniques). He then attended Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar.
Career
In 2015, Felix Heide co-founded Algolux, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence company developing perception technology. He is now the company Chief Technology Officer.
Research
Heide has co-authored close to 50 publications and has received over 2,600 citations. In 2020, six of his papers were accepted at CVPR including three orals. One of them, “Seeing Around Street Corners: Non-Line-of-Sight Detection and Tracking In-the-Wild Using Doppler Radar” was picked up by numerous publications.
Additionally, he has filed for 16 patents, and 7 of them have been granted as of yet. The last one, “Method and apparatus for joint image processing and perception” was granted in July 2020.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Princeton University faculty
German computer scientists
Prix Alain-Fournier winners
University of British Columbia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Nixdorf%20MuseumsForum | The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn, Germany, is a computer museums named after the Paderborn computer pioneer and entrepreneur Heinz Nixdorf.
History
In 1977, Heinz Nixdorf received numerous gifts in the form of historic office machines at the celebrations for the company anniversary of 25 years of Nixdorf Computer AG, which gave him the idea of expanding them into a collection for a computer museum. The museum idea became more concrete in 1983/1984 through purchases with the support of the Cologne office machine expert Uwe Breker. In 1985, the entrepreneur had his first exhibition concept drawn up by Prof. Ludwig Thürmer and his partners, but it was still undecided on the location. In 1986, Heinz Nixdorf died unexpectedly. The Nixdorf employee Willi Lenz, also a member of the "Computermuseum" working group, had the idea of a museum in discussion with the city of Paderborn and in 1990 obtained a positive city council resolution to establish it.
Between 1992 and 1996, the HNF was designed and built on the premises of the former headquarters of Nixdorf Computer AG by the Berlin architects Ludwig Thürmer and Gerhard Diel, and a scientific team led by the mathematician Norbert Ryska. In the presence of the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the museum was opened on 24 October 1996. has an average of over 110,000 visitors annually. The institution is supported by the Westphalia Foundation and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, formed from the estate of Heinz Nixdorf.
Exhibits
In its permanent exhibition space, the museum presents 5,000 years of information and communications technology (ICT). In a historical journey through time, the story is presented from the origin of writing in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BC to current topics such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, and robotics. In the 6,000 square meters available, more than 5,000 exhibits can be seen, organized on two floors. The museum stores around 25,000 objects in total. Some museum objects are available for access via an online database.
Further reading
References
External links
1996 establishments in Germany
Nixdofr, Heinz, MuseumsForum
Buildings and structures in Paderborn (district)
Computer museums
Museums established in 1996
Paderborn
Technology museums in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20D.%20Lee | Stuart Dermot Lee (born 3 February 1966) is a British specialist in information technology at Oxford University Computing Services and a Reader in E-learning at Oxford University, but is best known for his scholarly books on J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also an award winning playwright.
Biography
Lee was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Bancroft's School, Essex. He read English and Economics at the University of Keele. He gained an M.A. in English literature at King's College London, and gained his PhD in Old English literature there in 1992, with a thesis on "Judith, Esther, and the Maccabees". He then obtained a postgraduate certificate in Education.
Lee briefly lectured at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College before moving to the University of Oxford, where he worked on the use of information technology for teaching. In 1996 he became Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing there. In 2001 he became head of the university's Learning Technologies Group, in 2005 director of computing systems and services for Oxford University Computing Services, and in 2012 Deputy CIO. He is also the University's Reader in Digital Libraries and eLearning, and a senior member of the Faculty of English where he lectures in Old English, Tolkien, and the poetry of the First World War.
In 2004 he completed his first play The Ghosts May Laugh, set in the trenches of the First World War. This was produced in Oxford and Edinburgh. His other plays include The Attic, Dev's Army, Quiz Night at the Britannia, The Intricate Workings of a Sherbet Lemon, An Academic's Progress, Leaf-mould.
Reception
A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso, reviewing A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien for Tolkien Studies, described Lee as "one of the outstanding names of recent Tolkien critical scholarship and co-author of one of the most imaginative books on the relationships between Tolkien’s fiction and medieval English literature (Lee & Solopova [2005])". Of the book, he wrote that it brought order to the morass of publications on Tolkien, and noted that it finally brought Tolkien into the canon of Anglo-American studies as it was one of the "prestigious" Blackwell Companion series. He described the challenge of making a brief 25-page overview of Tolkien's life, undertaken by John Garth in the volume, "an ", ("a work of giants").
Andrew Higgins, reviewing the book for the Journal of Tolkien Research, welcomed the "eminent line-up" of authors (naming Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi, John D. Rateliff and Gergely Nagy) of the work's 36 articles, and called it "joyous indeed that after many years of polite (and not so polite) disdain and dismissal by establishment “academics” and the “cultural intelligentsia”" that Tolkien had reached the "academic pantheon" of Blackwell Companions. Higgins applauded Lee for "the overall thematic structuring of this volume, which offers a progressive profile of Tolkien the man, the student and scholar, and the mythopo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upon%20the%20Magic%20Roads | Upon the Magic Roads is a 2021 Russian live-action/computer-animated fairy tale fantasy film directed by Oleg Pogodin from a screenplay by Aleksey Borodachyov. Produced by CTB Film Company, Russia-1, and CGF Company, the film is an adaptation of the 1850s Russian fairy tale The Humpbacked Horse (ru) by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov as well as elements from Slavic folk tales. The film follows other adaptations of the fairy tale including the 1941 live-action feature-length film and the 1947 animated film of the same name filmed in the Soviet Union. The film stars Anton Shagin as Ivan the Fool, and Paulina Andreeva as The Tsar Maiden with the voices of Pavel Derevyanko, Lyasan Utiasheva, and Aleksandr Semchev.
The principal photography took place near Saint Petersburg in 2018. The set pieces tried to recreate the fantasy world by Yershov, filming in an exact copy of the fairy tale city. The film was a film making exhibition requiring professional assistance from costume designers and set designers, a production team, software engineers with background visual effects, actors, actresses and cameramen.
The style used in the film was intended to recreate the Tsarist period of time described in Yershov's fairy tale, using a combination of Russian Art Nouveau and fairy-tale elements. The film tells about John - who is neither a prince, nor a hero, nor a handsome man, but his older brothers even consider him a fool. But everything changes when John has a friend and faithful assistant - the Little Humpbacked Magic Foal. John and the Foal will have to test their friendship, face an insidious adversary and overcome incredible trials to find the Cloud Princess.
Initially, the film was planned to be released on wide screen on 5 March 2020, but later its release was postponed first to 22 October 2020. Upon the Magic Roads was finally released theatrically on February 18, 2021 in Russia by Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing. The film received critical acclaim and commercial acclaim, with critics calling it an extraordinary continuity of cinematic creativity from past to present. The film became a blockbuster and was noted as the highest-grossing film adaptation of Russian literature, amounting to almost a billion rubles. The film is the 51st highest grossing film of 2021.
Plot
The story begins with a father calling his three sons and showing them a trampled field of wheat. The father instructs his sons to stand guard at night, so that they will find out who trampled the wheat, and the brothers, in turn, send the younger, Ivan the fool (John), there.
At night, John, sweetly chatting with the hedgehog, which he had previously saved, sees the outline of the mare and throws the rope into a misty cloud. Suddenly the rope tightens, and the mare begins to carry him across the fields and meadows. They fall into a swamp, and John pulls out the drowning mare using the windmills. Being bound, she cries, and the hero, feeling sorry for her, lets her go free, taking th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTV%20%28Philippine%20TV%20network%29 | GTV (Good Television,
and stylized as Gtv), is a Philippine free-to-air television network owned and operated by the Citynet Network Marketing and Productions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. It was launched on February 22, 2021, replacing GMA News TV on its flagship station, UHF Channel 27 Metro Manila and its provincial relay stations. It is a sixth overall secondary television brand of GMA Network since its inception in 1995 as Citynet Television. The network produces programmes from studios located at the GMA Network Center, EDSA corner Timog Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. The network's primary transmitter facility is located at the GMA Tower of Power site, Tandang Sora, Barangay Culiat, Quezon City and it operates Monday - Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 12:10 am (the following day) and on Saturday and Sunday from 5:30 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. (the following day), as well as on truncated hours during the Paschal Triduum. However, starting Holy Week 2023, it continues to sign off from Maundy Thursday at 12:10 am to Easter Sunday at 5:30 am.
History
As GMA News TV (2011–2021)
GTV was first known as GMA News TV, a channel which primarily focuses on all-news and public service, as part of GMA News and Public Affairs' plans to expand its presence on free-to-air television as well as retaining some lifestyle and public affairs program from its predecessor, QTV/Q Channel 11. The channel was unveiled on February 7, 2011, on 24 Oras, GMA's flagship nightly newscast., The news channel launched on February 28, 2011, with its tagline, Oras-Oras, Alam Ko! (lit. Everytime, I Know).
It launches wide variety of news and public affairs and entertainment-produced programs to serve its audience, such as existing programs that carried over from QTV, including Balitanghali, Live on Q (which rebranded as News TV Live and later News Live), Day Off!, Tonight with Arnold Clavio, and Ang Pinaka, as well as new programs that been launched and introduced to the channel, including Dobol B sa News TV, State of the Nation with Jessica Soho, News to Go, Balita Pilipinas (both Primetime and weekday edition, dubbed as Balita Pilipinas Ngayon), Kape at Balita, News TV Quick Response Team, On Call: Serbisyong Totoo. Ngayon., Bawal ang Pasaway kay Mareng Winnie, Mars, Personalan, Pop Talk, Wagas, Investigative Documentaries, Motorcycle Diaries, Power House, In the Limelight, Reel Time, Front Row, May Tamang Balita and more. The channel became popular to the audience, and just a few months, the channel became The Philippines' No.1 News Channel.
From its launch to 2019, ZOE Broadcasting Network (now under blocktime agreement with ABS-CBN as A2Z after the former's shutdown and legislative franchise denial) served as an originating affiliate and flagship station of GMA News TV, as a result of a blocktime lease agreement between ZOE Broadcasting and GMA's subsidiary Citynet Network Marketing and Productions in 2005, allowing the latter to lease the entire airtime of DZOE- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Max%20exclusive%20international%20distribution%20programming | These series are programs that have aired on other networks where Max has bought exclusive distribution rights to stream them in alternate regions on its own platform, although Max lists them as Max Originals.
TV series
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Continuations
Films
Feature films
Documentaries
Specials
Upcoming
TV series
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Unscripted
Films
Feature films
Documentaries
Notes
References
Internet-related lists
HBO Max
Warner Bros. Discovery-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20jiggler | A mouse jiggler is a software used to simulate the movement of a computer mouse. It can also be a mechanical device moving the physical computer mouse. In all cases, it prevents sleep mode, standby mode or the screensaver from activating. Mouse jigglers are also known as mouse movers.
Implementations
Mechanical mouse jigglers are small devices onto which a user places their computer mouse. They work by using a full rotating platform or rotating disc underneath the mouse. The movement is subtle but enough to move the user's cursor on their screen.
Software driven mouse movers install a program on the user's machine that also moves the mouse cursor across the screen.
Online monitoring of remote workers
The demand for mouse jigglers is being driven by employers or line managers indirectly monitoring their employees who are remote workers. Communication applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Skype, as well as Slack show the working status for everyone within a group. The online status displays work in a traffic light system to show others within the team if someone is available, away, offline, or busy. If these applications are used through a desktop computer (instead of a mobile device), and the user doesn't interact with their mouse for a said period of time, the status will display as inactive. In terms of the traffic light system, the available status will change to inactive. This is the mechanism that provides indirect monitoring of employees. Should someone appear to be inactive or away for a lengthy period of time, it could indicate that the individual is not working. This online monitoring of remote employees is causing a trust issue and employees are searching for ways to overcome the monitoring. Mouse jigglers enable users to keep their screen active while undertaking other tasks. This keeps the status set to available instead of showing a user to be inactive or away.
References
Computing input devices
Business software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMKC | SMKC may refer to:
Kai Chung Secondary School (), in Sarawak, Malaysia
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Cyberjaya, a school in Selangor, Malaysia
, a Czech political party which is a member of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Carrell | James Carrell may refer to:
James B. Carrell (born 1940), American and Canadian mathematician
James P. Carrell (1787–1854), minister, singing teacher, composer and songbook compiler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda%20Ferreira%20%28psychologist%29 | Maria Fernanda Ferreira (born 22 September 1960) is a cognitive psychologist known for empirical investigations in psycholinguistics and language processing. Ferreira is Professor of Psychology and the Principal investigator of the Ferreira Lab at University of California, Davis.
In 1995, Ferreira was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology for cognition and human learning by the American Psychological Association. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
Biography
Ferreira received her BA (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1982. She went on to complete postgraduate work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, obtaining degrees in Linguistics (MA 1986) and Psychology (MS 1985, PhD 1988). At U Mass Amherst. Ferreira worked under the supervision of Charles (Chuck) Clifton, Jr investigating relationships between syntactic processing and phonology. Her dissertation, "Planning and Timing in Sentence Production: The Syntax-to-Phonology Conversion," provided evidence that phonological structures and representations, rather than syntactic structures, impact the timing of sentence-level speech.
Ferreira served as Programme Director for Linguistics for the National Science Foundation from 1996-1997. From 2004 until 2006, Ferreira was the Director of the Center for the Integrated Study of Vision and Language at Michigan State University. She was Chair of Language and Cognition and Professor in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh from 2006 until 2010.
Ferreira is an editor of Collabra: Psychology, an open access psychology journal published by the University of California Press. She is also an associate editor of the journal Cognitive Psychology. She previously served as an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology (1997–2000) and the Journal of Memory and Language (2001–2004).
Ferreira was born in Portugal, and raised in Manitoba, Canada. She is married to John Henderson, a frequent collaborator and fellow professor at the University of California, Davis. They met whilst they both read at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her younger brother, Victor Ferreira, is also a psycholinguist, and a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
Research
Ferreira's research seeks to investigate the processes which allows for efficient comprehension and production of speech. One of Ferreira's theoretical contributions to the field of syntactic processing and representation is the Good Enough theory of sentence processing. Good Enough theory posits that listeners, when processing linguistic input, engage in satisficing rather than constructing fully detailed representations. That is, the language processing system develops partial or superficial representations, which are "good enough" for the task they are meant to perform. Further, these r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Net%20Yaroze%20games | The Net Yaroze is a development kit for the PlayStation developed and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment as a promotion to computer programming hobbyists, first released in Japan in June 1996 and later across Europe and North America in 1997. The following list contains games and demos developed and/or released for the Net Yaroze.
Conceived by PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, the kit was retailed at around £550 in Europe and US$750 in North America; The package contained a special black-colored debugging PlayStation unit, a serial cable for connecting the unit to a PC and a CD containing PlayStation development tools, among other items. However, the Net Yaroze lacked many of the features an official PlayStation SDK provided and its primary RAM size was the same as the consumer model; Game code, graphics, audio samples and run-time libraries were limited to fit in the 2MB of primary RAM, 1MB of VRAM and 0.5 MB of sound RAM, since the unit will not play user-burned CDs, a necessary restriction to prevent piracy and ensure that the Yaroze program would not compete with the official PlayStation SDK. The Yaroze could only be purchased via mail order, although Sony also provided it to universities worldwide. Though it lacked regional lockout, three regional variations exists: The European/Australian version boots in PAL mode, while the Japanese and North American versions boot in NTSC mode.
Around 1000 units were sold in Europe and North America respectively but more were sold in Japan. Many games and demos made by hobbyists on the Net Yaroze were released on various demo discs that came along with magazines such as the Official UK PlayStation Magazine and PlayStation Underground. Sony set up an online forum where users could share their homemade games, programming tips and ask questions to Sony's technical support staff. Dedicated Usenet groups, with access restricted to Yaroze members, were maintained by Sony and homepage hosting was also provided. The access was restricted according to the kit's region of origin, which made collaboration between users in different territories impractical. Other games were also distributed online by their authors.
Games and demos
There are currently games and demos on this list.
See also
List of PlayStation games (A–L)
List of PlayStation games (M-Z)
Lists of video games
Notes
References
Homebrew software
Net Yaroze |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupelix | Eupelix is a genus of true bug belonging to the family Cicadellidae.
The genus was first described by Germar in 1821.
The species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
Eupelix cuspidata (Fabricius, 1775)
References
Cicadellidae
Hemiptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupelix%20cuspidata | Eupelix cuspidata is a species of true bug belonging to the family Cicadellidae.
It is native to Europe.
References
Cicadellidae
Insects described in 1775 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Goudie | Mark Goudie (born 1991 ) is a Scottish electrical engineer based in Glasgow. He worked as an engineer for Atkins and currently works as the Distribution System Operation Manager for SP Energy Networks, part of ScottishPower. He was elected as one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is a passionate supporter of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics initiatives in the UK. This is highlighted through his positions as a Trustee of the Glasgow Science Centre, VisitScotland Young Legend for the Energy Sector and as the Chair of the IET Engineering Horizons bursary
Early life and education
Mark grew up in East Kilbride and studied an MEng in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. During his time at university he was a sponsored student with Atkins through the IET Power Academy programme and completed a number of summer placements across the UK.
Career
Mark joined the Atkins graduate scheme in 2015. In 2015, Mark was also recognised for designing the innovative Wind Energy Reservoir Storage (WERS) system that would seek to repurpose aging oil & gas infrastructure. In 2020, he became a Chartered Engineer and Fellow with the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He subsequently became the Distribution System Operation Manager for SP Energy Networks.
Awards
2015: Telegraph UK STEM Awards - Energy Category Winner 2015
2017: IET Paul Fletcher Award
2018: Finalist – Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Awards
2019: Young Legend - Energy Sector
2020: Elected one of the youngest Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
References
British electrical engineers
1991 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
electrical engineers
Scottish engineers
Scottish electrical engineers
21st-century British engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Muschik | Christine A. Muschik is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo as well as a part of the Institute for Quantum Computing.. She completed her PhD in 2011 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck and the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels. As of 2020, she has over 2000 citations on over 50 publications. She has also been featured in several articles in Nature magazine, MIT Technology Review, and Physics World.
Awards and honours
2020-2022 Azrieli Global Scholar by CIFAR
2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow of Physics
2018 Emmy Noether Fellowship to launch her investigation into quantum simulations of Lattice Gauge Theories
Selected bibliography
Below is a list of the most commonly cited articles co-authored by Muschik, ordered by date of publication.
According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 142 times
According to Google Scholar, it has been cited 511 times.
According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 102 times
References
External links
Canadian women physicists
Living people
Quantum information scientists
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMIL%2050 | The SAMIL 50 is a 4x4 6-ton (load) truck.
Description
Dimensions
Data are based on SAMIL 50 cargo version:
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase:
Ground Clearance:
Track (Front):
Track (Rear):
Angle of approach: 36°
Angle of departure: 33°
Fuel tank capacity: 2x
Weights
Gross vehicle mass:
Front axle rating:
Rear axle rating:
Payload:
Specifications
Drive: 4×4
Engine: Mk I: Deutz F6L 413F
Configuration: 6 Cylinders V6
Engine capacity: 9572 cc
Cooling: Air-cooled
Power: 141 kW (188 hp) @ 2500 rpm
Torque: 632 Nm @ 1600 rpm
Engine: Mk II: ADE409
Configuration: 6 Cylinders V6
Engine capacity:
Cooling: Water-cooled
Power:
Torque:
Clutch
Type: Single dry plate
Size:
Gearbox
Make/Model: ZF S6-65
Forward gears: 6 Speed Synchromesh
Transfer case
Make/Model: ZF Z65
Type: 2 Speed, Permanent 4×4
Differential Lock: Pneumatically operated
Axles
Front: Banjo housing
Differential Lock: Pneumatically operated
Rear: Banjo housing
Differential Lock: Pneumatically operated
Wheels:
Single wheel all-round
Tyre size: 14.0 x 20” – 12 Ply
Steering type: Rhd – Power Assisted
Brakes
Service Brakes: Dual Circuit – Full air
Park Brake: Pneumatically operated spring
Suspension
Springs: Semi elliptical leaf springs
Shock absorbers: Double acting telescopic hydraulic (Ft & Rr)
Torsion Bar: Fitted to rear axle
Electrical
Voltage: 24V
Batteries: 2 x 12V 120 A/h
Cab
Type: Forward Control with Canvas Roof
Seating: Driver + 1 Assistant
Access to Engine: Cab tilts forward
Steering: Left-hand Drive
Standard hard cab
Variants
Cargo/Personnel Carrier – it has a canvas cover over a steel framework around the cargo area; seats for up to 40 passengers may be installed along the sides or down the center, back to back.
Communications vehicle
Battery-charging vehicle
Bridge transporter
Field kitchen vehicle
Field office
Flatbed container transporter with ISO locks
Fuel tanker
Mobile shower unit vehicle
Mobile welding shop vehicle
Radio bin
Refrigerator pantry Unit
Refuse collection vehicle
Technical bin
Water tanker
Recovery vehicle
Kwevoel – Armoured Mine Resistant cargo vehicle
Citations and References
Citations
Bibliography
Cold War military equipment of South Africa
Military vehicles introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Forte | Adrian Forte is a Jamaican-Canadian celebrity chef and author based in Toronto, Ontario. He was a semi-finalist on Food Network Canada's Top Chef Canada, a judge on Chef in Your Ear, and a contestant on Chopped Canada. He was also featured on Netflix's Restaurants on The Edge as the culinary expert on Caribbean cuisine.
Early life
Forte was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to New York City in 2003 to live with his grandmother, where he attended high school and played football. He was introduced to the culinary arts by his grandmother who was a former chef in their native country of Jamaica. After her untimely passing, he then moved to Ontario, Canada.
Career
Forte studied culinary arts at George Brown College in Toronto. Upon graduating, he pursued entrepreneurship and became the executive chef at Gangster Burger and Rock Lobster, one of the co-founders of Dirty Bird Chicken & Waffles and founder of AF1 Caribbean. He is the author of YAWD, A modern Caribbean cookbook, an international private chef and culinary consultant In August 2020, he appeared as a guest chef at Café Boulud at the Four Seasons Hotel, where he featured signature dishes that are now featured in his first cookbook YAWD.
References
Living people
People from Kingston, Jamaica
Canadian male chefs
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20House%20Armed%20Services%20Subcommittee%20on%20Cyber%2C%20Information%20Technologies%2C%20and%20Innovation | House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives. It was created for the 117th United States Congress.
The Chair of the subcommittee is Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, and the Ranking Member is Democrat Ro Khanna of California.
Jurisdiction
Cyber Security, Operations, and Forces
Information Technology, Systems, and Operations
Science and Technology Programs and Policy
Defense-Wide Research and Development (except Missile Defense and Space)
Artificial Intelligence Policy and Programs
Electromagnetic Spectrum Policy
Electronic Warfare Policy
Computer Software Acquisition Policy
Members, 118th Congress
References
External links
House Armed Services Committee
Subcommittee page
Armed Services Air and Land Forces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog%20Nagari%20Rishikesh%20railway%20station | Yog Nagari Rishikesh railway station is a railway station serving the city of Rishikesh in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It lies in the Northern railway network zone of Indian Railways. The station code is YNRK.
History
The Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line is a new railline runs from Yog Nagari Rishikesh railway station in Rishikesh to Karnaprayag. It is Indian Railways' proposed route for the Char Dham Railway to connect to the Chota Char Dham.
Location
The railway station is located in Rishikesh in Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India.
Signage
The station signage is predominantly in English, Hindi and Sanskrit.
Train
Indian railways had extended few trains to the station.
Kalinga Utkal Festival Special
Yoga Express
Yog Nagari Rishikesh–Prayagraj Sangam Express
Yog Nagari Rishikesh–Jammu Tawi Express
Udaipur City–Yog Nagari Rishikesh Express
Doon Express
See also
Rishikesh railway station
Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2021
Railway stations in Dehradun district
Moradabad railway division
Transport in Rishikesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20CyberSecurity | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit aimed at supporting the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity. It is a global community of women and men dedicated to bringing talented women and under-represented groups together to fill the cybersecurity jobs gap and make the field of cybersecurity more inclusive.
History
Women in CyberSecurity was founded in 2013 by Ambareen Siraj from Tennessee Tech University through funding from the National Science Foundation. In less than ten years, the organization has grown into a leading alliance between academia, government, and industry. WiCyS is working to improve diversity and pipeline in the cybersecurity workforce and it does so through numerous initiatives supported by Strategic Partners and more than 500 volunteers.
Women in CyberSecurity' executive director is Lynn Dohm.
Annual Conference
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is recognized for the annual cybersecurity conference supporting women in computer sciences. The first conference took place in Nashville, Tenn. in 2014. The conference was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and provided funding for 100 attendees but had approximately 350 attendees due to an extension that was sponsored by 28 organizations.
This flagship conference is the largest cybersecurity conference with equal representation from industry professionals, academia, and students. It is consistently listed in the top cybersecurity conferences to attend each year. The conference is focused on recruiting, retaining, and promoting women in cybersecurity, providing an opportunity to network and learn from each other and presents research on cybersecurity and technical topics, as well as diversity.
In 2023 the conference grew to over 2,100 attendees and was sponsored by Bloomberg, Fortinet, Raytheon Technologies, Optum, Amazon Web Services, Google, Cisco, Deloitte, SentinelOne, GE, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Security Agency. The organization continues to gain support from notable names in technology as additional companies choose to commit to solving gender gaps.
Initiatives
Women in CyberSecurity has a variety of initiatives and resources to help women aspiring to a career in cybersecurity or those already in the field. Initiatives include professional affiliates, student internship programs, veterans assistance, mentor/mentee programs and apprentice programs.
Student Chapters
Women in CyberSecurity has over 215 student chapters in sixteen countries. Student chapters work in their school's community to promote the recruitment, retention and advancement of women students in cybersecurity. At least one Chapter representative is awarded a student scholarship to attend the WiCyS Annual Conference each year. A partnership with Microsoft will expand the number of countries participating in student chapters to 23.
Training Programs
In partnership with (ISC)2, Women in CyberSecurity offers a Certified in Cyb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ann%20Mansigh | Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen (born 1932) is a computer programmer who was active in the 1950s in the use of scientific computers.
Biography
Mansigh attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship from 1950 to 1954, where she studied physics, chemistry and mathematics. In 1955, she took a position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a software engineer, where she would remain until she retired in 1994, working on over 13 generations of supercomputers from the UNIVAC (1955) to the Cray I (1994).
At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she worked with Berni Alder and Tom Wainwright in the implementation of molecular dynamics in the mid twentieth century, ultimately working exclusively with Alder for over twenty-five years. She is regarded as a pioneer in programming and computing, particularly molecular dynamics computing, whom Dutch computational physicist Daan Frenkel noted as being one of the very few notable female computer programmers, with Arianna W. Rosenbluth, that were active in the 1950s and 1960s.
Initially forgotten, except in annotations and oral transcripts, she has received increased attention in recent times, with events and talks on her legacy. In 2019, she had a lecture series at the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM) named in her honour. Modern academics have noted her unfair absence as an author in published academic papers describing the results of computer programmes designed with her pioneering molecular dynamics computing code.
See also
Mary Tsingou
References
External links
Computer Pioneer Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen (Livermore Library and the American Association of University Women, March 2017)
Mary Ann Mansigh series: Almost famous, the woman behind the codes (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM), May 2020)
Picture of Alder, Mansigh & Wainwright, in the Niels Bohr subssection of the AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. (University of Chicago)
Flowchart template (Object has "Mary Ann Mansigh" handwritten in red on lower edge) (Computer History Museum, Catalogue Number: 102678315)
1932 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scientific computing researchers
Computer programmers
Nationality missing
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff
20th-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip%20Media | Whip Media Group is a private American company selling enterprise software for content distribution, as well as TV- and film-related user data. It operates physical offices in the US, the UK, and the EU.
Background
Whip Media Group is the result of a merger of TV Time, a tracking platform for user data about TV shows and films, and Mediamorph, a data tracking and content distribution company operating in the video on demand market. It was founded following the former's acquisition of the latter in October 2019. As of its founding its CEO was Richard Rosenblatt.
Whip Media Group also operates TheTVDB, a user-generated TV show database.
As of January 2020 the company employed 155 people.
Funding
In January 2020 Whip Media raised $50 million from Eminence Capital and Raine Ventures, making the total amount of money raised by the company to $115 million at time of this deal.
References
American companies established in 2019
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AssemblyScript | AssemblyScript is a TypeScript-based programming language that is optimized for, and statically compiled to, WebAssembly (currently using , the reference AssemblyScript compiler). Resembling ECMAScript and JavaScript, but with static types, the language is developed by the AssemblyScript Project with contributions from the AssemblyScript community.
Overview
In 2017, the availability of support for WebAssembly, a standard definition for a low-level bytecode and an associated virtual machine, became widespread among major web browsers, providing web developers a lower-level and potentially higher-performance compilation target for client-side programs and applications to execute within web browsers, in addition to the interpreted (and in practice dynamically compiled) JavaScript web scripting language. WebAssembly allows programs and code to be statically compiled ahead of time in order to run at potentially native-level or “bare-metal” performance within web browsers, without the overhead of interpretation or the initial latency of dynamic compilation.
With the adoption of WebAssembly in major web browsers, Alon Zakai, creator of Emscripten, an LLVM/Clang-based C and C++ compiler that targeted a subset of JavaScript called asm.js, added support for WebAssembly as a compilation target in Emscripten, allowing C and/or C++ programs and code to be compiled directly to WebAssembly.
While Emscripten and similar compilers allow web developers to write new code, or port existing code, written in a high-level language such as C, C++, Go, and Rust to WebAssembly to achieve potentially higher, native-level execution performance in web browsers, this forces web developers accustomed to developing client-side web scripts and applications in ECMAScript/JavaScript (the de facto client-side programming language in web browsers) to use a different language for targeting WebAssembly than JavaScript. AssemblyScript, as a variant of TypeScript that is syntactically similar to JavaScript, allows developers accustomed to JavaScript to use a familiar language for targeting WebAssembly, potentially reducing the learning curve of a separate language that can be compiled to WebAssembly. Furthermore, because AssemblyScript was designed to be an optimal source language for WebAssembly, the language’s type system closely reflects that of WebAssembly, and the language provides standard low-level functions (typically implemented as macros) that map directly to WebAssembly instructions that mirror instructions available on modern processors such as SIMD and vector instructions and more specialized instructions such as clz (count leading zero bits), ctz (count trailing zero bits), and popcnt (population count), used in applications such as encryption and cryptographic libraries.
, the reference AssemblyScript compiler, is based on Binaryen, a back-end compiler toolchain developed by Alon Zakai that compiles to WebAssembly and is a component of Emscripten (which Zakai als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20online%20fauna%20%26%20flora%20databases | Australian online fauna & flora databases: Both the Commonwealth of Australia and its various states maintain a number of online databases which encompass both native and naturalised fauna and flora. Some are taxonomic. Some are descriptive. Some are both. Some indicate threatened or nuisance species. The list below is incomplete.
Australian databases
ABRS (Australian Biological Resources Study) online resources lists:
Australian Faunal Directory lists Australian fauna and gives the AFD ID used for finding information about Australian fauna, and appearing on the taxonbar for species such as Koala.
Australian Fresh Water Algal Name Index (not yet used in wikidata)
Flora of Australia used for the id FoAO2 and found on the taxonbar for e.g., Boronia. This database gives a full description of the plant (for plants which have so far been included).
Australian Weeds gives the wikidata ID, Australian Weed ID.
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants which gives the wikidata ATRF id, seen for example in the taxonbar for Acacia celsa. The home site includes a lucid key which allows identification of Australian Tropical Rainforest plants, via a multi-access key.
Species Profile and Threats database which gives the wikidata ID, Sprat ID, seen for example in the taxonbar for Albert's lyrebird, and Acacia ammophila.
and numerous other databases.
Supported by Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian Plant Name Index: a taxonomic & name database for plants
Fungi database: gives the AusFungiID, for native and naturalised fungi. (This is a taxonomic and name database.)
Lichen database: gives the wikidata ID, AusLichenID for native and naturalised lichen.
AusMoss (not yet used in wikidata)
State databases
The majority of these are curated by state herbaria (but Queensland produces a government originated database).
Queensland biota includes both fauna and flora found in Queensland (and is useful for this fact), and gives the taxon's status under the Queensland conservation act. Taxon names do not necessarily match current usage. This database is used for Queensland Biota ID in wikidata (not currently included in the taxonbar).
Flora NT: Northern Territory Flora online gives the wikidata id, NT Flora ID, seen for example in the taxonbar for Lysiphyllum cunninghamii.
PlantNET, FloraBase, efloraSA, VicFlora are all state herbaria curated databases which are both descriptive and taxonomic. Each supplies IDs to wikidata which are seen in the taxonbar. See, e.g., Newcastelia cephalantha, and Muellerina eucalyptoides.
Databases in Australia
Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spohrer | Sporher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jim Spohrer (born 1956), American computer scientist
Lauren Spohrer, American radio producer
Al Spohrer (1902–1972), American baseball player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrepMod | PrepMod is a web application for vaccine management that helps vaccinators process patients and data. It is developed by Maryland Partnership for Prevention, a non-profit organisation in Massachusetts, USA. PrepMod co-ordinates waiting lists and inventory as well as sends email proof of vaccinations to patients.
How PrepMod is used
A vaccine distributor deploys a copy of PrepMod on a web server. A patient visits that website that is running PrepMod, to search for a vaccine clinic and complete registration. The information is transferred to the clinic who will administer the vaccine. The patient's data is transferred to the state / government. The system can automatically send appointment reminders using email and text message.
Deployment
PrepMod had been running for four years at public health departments throughout the US, for flu and other mass vaccinations.
In September 2020, Massachusetts became the first US state to adopt PrepMod for deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. It has since been used by 27 states in the US, including California, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
People in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have shared a COVID-19 vaccine registration link to those not yet eligible for vaccination, even though it was not meant to be shared.
Intellectual property litigation
Tiffany Tate, executive director of Maryland Partnership for Prevention and creator of PrepMod, is seeking damages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Deloitte. Tate alleges the two organizations copied ideas from PrepMod and implemented them in their own Vaccine Administration Management System (VAMS) following a March 2020 presentation to the groups, along with the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA).
References
Medical software
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk%20Koppelaar | Hendrik (Henk) Koppelaar (born February 1953) is a Dutch computer scientist and emeritus professor at the Delft University of Technology, knows for his work in knowledge engineering.
Koppelaar started his studies at the Utrecht University in 1971, where he graduated in Physics in 1976. In 1981 he started his graduate study at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained his PhD in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services in 1984. Under supervision of Gideon J. Mellenbergh and J.K. de Vree (1938-2017) he wrote his thesis on the theory and new ways of data processing in modeling in the social sciences.
Koppelaar was appointed Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1986. In 1986 he moved to Delft University of Technology, where he served as Professor of the Computer Science until 2004. In 1986 he was founder of the Dutch Artificial Intelligence Association, which merged into the Belgian Dutch Artificial Intelligence Association in 1988. In the 1970s he had joined the Dutch Systems Group, where he served as editor of its newsletter from 1973 to 1988.
Early research of Koppelaar focussed on automatic recognition of handprinted characters, where they had developed a method of syntactic pattern recognition using fuzzy set theory. Their research had focussed on handwritten capitals. Later in the 1980s his research had focussed the application of chaos theory in the social science. In 1994 he published a methodological analysis of these applications.
Selected publications
Koppelaar, Henk. Twee nieuwe wegen voor modelbouw in de sociale wetenschappen: theorie- en dataverwerking. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1986.
Articles, a selection
Kickert, Walter JM, and Henk Koppelaar. "Application of fuzzy set theory to syntactic pattern recognition of handwritten capitals." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2 (1976): 148–151.
Faber, Jan, and Henk Koppelaar. "Chaos theory and social science: a methodological analysis." Quality and Quantity 28.4 (1994): 421–433.
References
1953 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Utrecht University alumni
University of Amsterdam alumni
Delft University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppelaar | Koppelaar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Frans Koppelaar (born 1943), Dutch painter
Henk Koppelaar (born 1953), Dutch computer scientist
Rutger Koppelaar (born 1993), Dutch athlete
Dutch-language surnames
Surnames of Dutch origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20AI | Document AI or Document Intelligence is a technology that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to train computer models to simulate a human review of documents.
NLP enables the computer system to grasp the relations between contents of documents, including the contextual nuances of the language within them, before extracting the information and insights contained in the documents. The technology can then categorize and organize the documents themselves.
Document AI is used to process and parse forms, tables, receipts, invoices, tax forms, contracts, loan agreements, financial reports, etc.
One of the applications of Document AI is in real estate. A model that unifies existing approaches and leads to the development of a document classification standard and automated information extraction through AI will become instrumental for enhanced and innovative business models and products in real estate. The availability of up-to-date and complete documentation for transactions, such as real estate investments, can help reduce safety margins due to better estimated risks.
Key Features
Document AI utilizes machine learning to extract information from documents in digital and print forms. Document AI is able to accurately identify text, characters, and images in different languages, thus enabling users to gain insights from unstructured documents. Using the data from the documents allows Document AI users to make better and faster decisions regarding the documents. The technology makes the process of analyzing documents more efficient by automating and validating the data for the workflows.
Common Uses
Freeing up employees for higher-value tasks.
Using AI to check for anomalies in new invoices from old customers.
Spotting fake currency and fraudulent checks.
Fast-tracking the mortgage workflow process.
Automating the monitoring of loan portfolios to manage credit risks.
Enabling firms to automate the impact assessment of regulatory changes on their contracts.
Analyzing previously inaccessible data siloed in documents to make informed business decisions.
Streamlining the consumption of receipts on a worldwide scale.
Increasing the reliability of business information by decreasing errors resulting from manual data entry.
References
Enterprise software
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehti | Lehti may refer to:
People
Alexandra Lehti (born 1996), Finnish singer, known as Lxandra
Eero Lehti (born 1944), Finnish businessman
Newspaper
C-lehti, Finnish computer magazine
ET-lehti, Finnish general interest magazine
Kansan Lehti, Finnish former socialist newspaper
Ruijan Suomenkielinen Lehti, Finnish language weekly newspaper
Virallinen lehti, Finnish official newspaper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina%20Vu%C5%A1kovi%C4%87 | Kristina L. Vušković (, born 6 May 1967) is a Serbian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist working in graph theory. She is Professor in Algorithms and Combinatorics in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, and a professor of computer science at Union University (Serbia).
Education and career
Vušković was born on 6 May 1967 in Belgrade. She graduated summa cum laude from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University in 1989, majoring in mathematics and computer science, and completed her PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Her dissertation, supervised by Gérard Cornuéjols, was Holes in Bipartite Graphs.
After postdoctoral research as an NSERC Canada International Fellow at the University of Waterloo, she became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Kentucky, in 1996. She moved to Leeds in 2000, and was given the chair of algorithms and combinatorics at Leeds in 2011. Since 2007 she has also been a professor of computer science at Union University (Serbia).
Research
Vušković's research in graph theory concerns the structure and algorithms of hereditary classes of graphs. Her results include the recognition of perfect graphs in polynomial time; she has also worked in combinatorial algorithms for graph coloring of perfect graphs.
References
1967 births
Living people
British mathematicians
British women mathematicians
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Serbian mathematicians
Serbian women scientists
Serbian computer scientists
Serbian women computer scientists
Graph theorists
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academics of the University of Leeds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggelos%20Kiayias | Aggelos Kiayias () FRSE is a Greek cryptographer and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Chief Science Officer at Input Output Global (formerly IOHK), the company behind Cardano.
Education
Kiayias received his PhD in 2002 at the City University of New York; his advisors were Moti Yung and Stathis Zachos.
Career and research
Kiayias is the chair in cyber security and privacy, and director of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a member of its Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science. He is also the chief scientist at the blockchain technology company IOHK (IOG). Previously he worked at the University of Connecticut and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2017, Kiayias started a blockchain course, making Edinburgh “one of the first big European universities to launch a blockchain course”, according to the Financial Times. The Blockchain Technology Laboratory is based in the Bayes Centre at the university. It investigates decentralized systems in collaboration with industry and government bodies. By 2021, the laboratory listed nine staff and 21 researchers and PhD students. In that year Kiayias was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
Kiayias has worked in a number of cryptographic areas:
Primarily, he investigated and designed algorithms in the area of cryptocurrency: developing the Cardano (cryptocurrency platform) and the Ouroboros (protocol) for the proof of stake mechanism.
In addition, he has worked on topics such as group signatures, traitor tracing, anonymity, and key generation (see some selected publications below and ).
He has also worked on cryptographic voting systems.
Kiayias has served on program committees and organizing committees of numerous cryptography conferences. In particular, within forums organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research, he served as the general chair of Eurocrypt 2013, and as the program chair of Public Key Cryptography (PKC) 2020, and served on the steering committee of the Real World Crypto Symposium during 2013–21. He chaired the blockchain session at the IACR conference Crypto 2022.
Blockchain research
Kiayias has described how the problem of debt-ridden banks in Greece inspired him to concentrate his research on creating a blockchain to widen access to financial services using a digital "parallel currency". The excessive computer processing power needed for proof-of-work blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin led him to work on ‘proof-of-stake’ blockchain protocols.
In 2016, he led a team that published an ePrint paper (number 889, dated September 12) describing the Ouroboros blockchain consensus protocol.
In 2017 Kiayias began teaching a blockchain course at the University of Edinburgh.
In 2019, Kiayias published a paper with Emilios Avgouleas of Edinburgh's law school, on blockchain technology and systemic risk.
In 2021, New Scientis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo%20%28social%20network%29 | Koo is an Indian microblogging and social networking service, owned by Bangalore-based Bombinate Technologies. It was co-founded by entrepreneurs Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. The app was launched in early 2020; it won the government's Atmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge which selected the best apps from some 7,000 entries across the country.
As of November 2022, the company is valued at over $275 million. Investors in Bombinate Technologies include Tiger Global, Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital and Accel Partners India, and former Infosys CFO TV Mohandas Pai's 3one4 Capital.
History
Initial growth
According to statistics provided by analytics provider Sensor Tower, Koo saw 2.6 million installs from Indian app stores in 2020, compared to 2.8 crore (28 million) installs observed for Twitter. From February 6 to February 11, the installations of Koo increased rapidly. The app increased in popularity after a weeklong standoff between Twitter and the Government of India over Twitter's refusal to block accounts during the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest. The government demanded that Twitter block the accounts of hundreds of activists, journalists, and politicians, accusing them of spreading misinformation. Twitter complied with a majority of the orders, but refused some, citing freedom of expression. Following this standoff, many Cabinet Ministers such as Piyush Goyal and various government officials moved to Koo and urged supporters to follow. This led to a surge in Koo's user base. In April 2021, Ravi Shankar Prasad became the first minister with 2.5 million followers on Koo.
Koo in Nigeria
Koo was the go-to alternative to Twitter in Nigeria after the country indefinitely banned Twitter for deleting a tweet by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. The tweet had threatened a crackdown on regional separatists "in the language they understand". Twitter claimed the post was in violation of Twitter rules, but gave no further details. Twitter was officially banned in Nigeria on June 5, 2021. The Government of Nigeria created their official Koo account five days later on June 10. In 2022, it was reported that Nigerian government officials had stopped using Koo after the ban on Twitter was lifted.
Koo in Brazil
After crises involving the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, Koo became an attractive social network for Brazilian users. According to one of the founders, Aprameya Radhakrishna, until the 16th of November, only two thousand Brazilian users used Koo, which placed Brazil in position 75 on the list of countries with the most lifetime unique users. On the 18th alone, more than a million Brazilians registered on the social network, which placed Brazil in second place on the list. The app featured at number 1 in the Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store in Brazil. Soon Portuguese support was added in the App. Koo received so many submissions and comments that the site became unstable. Personalities such as Felipe Neto, Casimir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rein%20Loik | Rein Loik (born 30 July 1950 in Kehra) is an Estonian politician, mountain climber and sports figure.
In 1973 he graduated from University of Tartu in economic cybernetics.
From 1975 to 2003 he was active in alpinism, and was also a member of Estonian team of alpinism.
From 1989 to 1992 and from 1996 to 1997 he was Estonian Minister of Education. On 17 January 2017, he was elected mayor of Viimsi. On 7 April 2020, Rõuge rural municipality council elected him as the deputy mayor.
References
Living people
1950 births
Estonian mountain climbers
Government ministers of Estonia
Mayors of places in Estonia
Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class
Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 4th Class
People from Kehra
University of Tartu alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ZEE5%20original%20programming | ZEE5 is an Indian on-demand Internet streaming media provider run by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched in India on 14 February 2018 with content in 12 languages. The service has distributed a number of original programs, including original series, specials, miniseries, documentaries and films.
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
See also
List of Amazon India originals
List of Hotstar original films
List of Disney+ Hotstar original programming
List of SonyLIV original programming
List of Netflix India originals
JioCinema
References
ZEE5 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramalina%20baltica | Ramalina baltica is a species of lichen in the family Ramalinaceae. The lichen was formally described as a new species by Georg Lettau in 1912. It was proposed for inclusion in the red data book of Belarus. It is also found in North America, where it occurs in fog zones of Central California.
References
baltica
Lichen species
Lichens of Europe
Lichens of North America
Lichens described in 1912 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Little%20Pony%3A%20A%20New%20Generation | My Little Pony: A New Generation is a 2021 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Robert Cullen and José L. Ucha (both in their feature directorial debuts), and co-directed by Mark Fattibene with Cecil Kramer and Peter Lewis as producers. It was written by Gillian Berrow and Tim Sullivan from a story by Cullen, Ucha and Sullivan. Based on Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise, the film marks the beginning of the fifth incarnation of the franchise, which is set to serve as the official sequel to the previous generation, a first for the franchise. The film also marks Boulder Media's first feature film.
It features the voices of Vanessa Hudgens, Kimiko Glenn, James Marsden, Sofia Carson and Liza Koshy. A New Generation is set many years after the events of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, in a magic-less era where the story of Twilight Sparkle and her friends is considered a myth, and the three pony kinds – earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns – have grown apart, living separated from one another in paranoia and prejudice. The film follows Sunny Starscout, an earth pony who, after meeting the unicorn Izzy Moonbow, embarks on a quest to reunite all pony kinds and restore magic to the land.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2021. Originally set to be released theatrically by Paramount Pictures, it was instead released in most countries on Netflix on September 24, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while still being theatrically released in several Asian countries. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics for its message, though its pacing and writing received some criticism, and was the most-viewed film on Netflix in October 2021.
A tie-in video game titled My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 27, 2022, and for Google Stadia on June 28, 2022. A follow-up television series, My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, was animated by Atomic Cartoons and produced by Entertainment One. It debuted on Netflix on May 26, 2022. A singalong version of the film was released on Netflix on July 18, 2022.
Plot
In the earth pony town of Maretime Bay, Argyle Starshine teaches his daughter Sunny Starscout about tales of old Equestria when earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns lived in harmony. Although most earth ponies dismiss these ideas as myths and now live in fear of the other races, Sunny hopes that all races can make amends and live in harmony.
Years later, Sunny continuously tries to change the minds of the other earth ponies, disrupting a showcase of anti-pegasi and unicorn technology by factory owner Phyllis Cloverleaf. Hitch Trailblazer, Sunny's childhood friend and sheriff of Maretime Bay, pulls her away and prepares to send her back home with the warning that she is jeopardizing their friendship with her activities. Suddenly, a unicorn named Izzy Moonbow wanders into the town. While most of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Smash | Monster Smash (stylized in-game as Monster Smash!) is an action game written by Dave Eisler and published by Datamost in 1983 for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family. A Commodore 64 port followed in 1984. The Atari version features music written by Gary Gilbertson that was praised by reviewers. An earlier version of the game was published by The Software Farm in 1982 as Monster Mash.
Gameplay
The aim of Monster Smash is to capture all the monsters that are roaming around a local graveyard. The player must trap the monsters by opening and closing various gates and then smash them using the gravestones. If any monster reaches the right side of the screen it escapes, and if the player lets too many of them escape, as shown by a meter, the game ends. Once a certain number of monsters have been captured the player moves to the next level. In higher levels human visitors are introduced and the player must allow them to safely pass through a graveyard, while busy smashing the monsters.
Music
A title theme of the Atari 8-bit version of Monster Smash was composed by Gary Gilbertson using Philip Price's Advanced Music Processor. Price and Gilbertson later collaborated on the Alternate Reality games.
Reception
Steven A. Schwartz writing for Electronic Fun with Computers & Games praised the graphics and sound of the Apple II version but concluded: "All the features aside, however, it's mostly a test of manual dexterity and often an exercise in frustration." Jim Short in issue 15 of Page 6 praised the music of the Atari 8-bit version of a game: "The outstanding thing about Monster Smash is the opening title tune. It is, without any shadow of doubt, the best musical score I've ever heard in a computer game. It is almost worth purchasing the game just to listen to the music. Yes, it is that good!"
References
External links
Review in Ahoy!
Review in Electronic Games
Review in InCider
Review in Creative Computing
1983 video games
Action games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Video games set in cemeteries
Commodore 64 games
Datamost games
Horror video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20%28deep%20learning%29 | A layer in a deep learning model is a structure or network topology in the model's architecture, which takes information from the previous layers and then passes it to the next layer.
Layer Types
The first type of layer is the Dense layer, also called the fully-connected layer, and is used for abstract representations of input data. In this layer, neurons connect to every neuron in the preceding layer. In multilayer perceptron networks, these layers are stacked together.
The Convolutional layer is typically used for image analysis tasks. In this layer, the network detects edges, textures, and patterns. The outputs from this layer are then feed into a fully-connected layer for further processing. See also: CNN model.
The Pooling layer is used to reduce the size of data input.
The Recurrent Layer is used for text processing with a memory function. Similar to the Convolutional layer, the output of recurrent layers are usually fed into a fully-connected layer for further processing. See also: RNN model.
The Normalization layer adjusts the output data from previous layers to achieve a regular distribution. This results in improved scalability and model training.
Differences with layers of the neocortex
There is an intrinsic difference between deep learning layering and neocortical layering: deep learning layering depends on network topology, while neocortical layering depends on intra-layers homogeneity.
See also
Deep Learning
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Cool%20%28video%20game%29 | Mr. Cool is an action game designed by Peter Oliphant and published in 1983 by Sierra On-Line for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 home computers. The ports for the IBM PC (as a self-booting disk) and Apple II were written by John Redekopp and released the same year. The game is heavily inspired by the 1982 arcade video game Q*bert.
Gameplay
The player controls an ice cube (titular Mr. Cool) starting each game at the top of a seven-tiered pyramid of hot plates. He must jump diagonally from plate to plate and turn them all to the same color. At first only one touching of each plate is required, but on subsequent levels two or more landings on each plate are needed. The many obstacles the player must avoid include fireballs and hot springs dropping from the top and bouncing to the bottom of a pyramid. Once on any level the player can activate "Supercool Time" lasting for fifteen seconds. Then he can turn the fireballs into snowballs and cool down hot springs.
There are fifteen rounds in every level, and the levels become faster as the player progresses.
Development
After finishing his first game for Sierra On-Line, Wall War, Peter Oliphant became interested in Q*bert. He identified some problems with that game—a certain repetitiveness. Mr. Cool was a response to that: "a game like Q*bert, but better". He had the Atari 8-bit version finished three weeks after he first started thinking about it.
Reception
Softline wrote in a 1983 review: "Although Mr. Cool lacks Q*Bert's Escheresque assault on the eyes, it’s a no less addicting game. [...] Mr. Cool deserves to be a sizzling hit for Sierra On-Line." In Creative Computing, Arthur Leyenberger had a similar response to the game's inspiration: "This game resembles the popular arcade game Q-Bert, but without the beautifully colored screen. That is not to say the game is not fun or challenging enough." He found that some players had difficulty using the joystick diagonals to control the character.
The Addison-Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 gave the game an overall mediocre rating (C) and concluded: "It does require some strategy, for like Pac-Man you must take the offensive for brief periods of time. In sum, it is a well-made clone."
References
Bibliography
External links
Mr. Cool at Atari Mania
Review in Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
Review in PC Magazine
1983 video games
Action games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Platformers
Sierra Entertainment games
Video game clones
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListenBrainz | ListenBrainz is a free and open source project that aims to crowdsource listening data from digital music and release it under an open license. It is a MetaBrainz Foundation project tied to MusicBrainz.
ListenBrainz takes submissions from media players and services such as Music Player Daemon, Spotify, and Rhythmbox in the form of listens. ListenBrainz can also import Last.fm and Libre.fm scrobbles in order to build listening history. As listens are released under an open license, ListenBrainz is useful for music research for industry and development purposes.
ListenBrainz can also generate recommendations and playlists based on individual listening.
References
External links
ListenBrainz
MusicBrainz
Free-content websites
Recommender systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessi%20Slaughter%20cyberbullying%20case | The Jessi Slaughter cyberbullying case was an American criminal case that revolved around an 11-year-old named Jessica Leonhardt (known online as "Jessi Slaughter" and "Kerligirl13"), whose profanity-laden videos went viral on Stickam and YouTube in 2010. The videos were made in response to accusations that a friend had raped Leonhardt, and that Leonhardt had a sexual relationship with the lead singer of the electropop band Blood on the Dance Floor, a man named Dahvie Vanity (real name Jesus David Torres) while Leonhardt was a minor. This resulted in a campaign of telephone and internet harassment against Leonhardt and their family, chiefly attributed to the Blood on the Dance Floor fanbase on 4chan as well as alleged members of the internet-based group Anonymous. It began a debate about the dangers of anonymity on the Internet, and whether or not the Internet is a safe environment for minors, and all people in general.
Leonhardt told The Independent in 2016: "I wouldn't even call what happened to me cyberbullying, it was straight up harassment and stalking. It started out as cyberbullying but it quickly evolved." Vanity has repeatedly denied all of the allegations against him. He has also denied knowing Leonhardt or any of the other victims that have accused him of sexual assault, rape, and child molestation and has stated that Leonhardt had a mental illness. The song "You Done Goofed" from the Blood on the Dance Floor album Epic is about Leonhardt and Vanity's alleged experiences with them.
Leonhardt later came out as transgender and non-binary, now going by the name Damien Leonhardt. In 2018, they accused Vanity of child sexual abuse and rape in a post on social media site Tumblr during their alleged relationship, when Leonhardt was 10 years old. One year later, an additional 21 women accused Vanity of sexual assault, child molestation, and rape, with many of them saying the attacks took place while they were under the age of consent.
Videos
Leonhardt began making YouTube videos when they were 10 years old, discussing "fashion, clothes and local drama that was happening within the party scene" which were uploaded on their friend's webcam. Leonhardt posted their first popular video just before their twelfth birthday in response to two claims made on StickyDrama and MySpace: the first being that they were a victim of rape, and the second being that they were having an underaged sexual relationship with the lead singer of the electronic band Blood on the Dance Floor, a man by the name of Dahvie Vanity (real name Jesus David Torres). The video was eventually linked to by users of 4chan, who then found and distributed Leonhardt's real name, phone number and address. Leonhardt also responded to comments that their relationship with Vanity constituted statutory rape with anger.
The harassment intensified after Leonhardt uploaded a video that included their father, Gene Leonhardt, insulting and threatening the 4chan users that had posted informat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsisoft | Emsisoft Ltd. (est. 2003) is a New Zealand-based anti-virus software distributed company. They are notable for decrypting ransomware attacks to restore data.
History
Emsisoft is an anti-malware and cybersecurity software and consulting company founded in Austria in 2003 by Christian Mairoll. The company makes anti-malware software and decryption tools used by companies and individuals to help them recover computer files encrypted in ransomware attacks. It also tracks and generates studies on ransomware attacks.
Mairoll, who serves as CEO, relocated to rural New Zealand in 2014, moving Emsisoft’s headquarters to the country, while its employees across Europe, Asia and the United States remained remote.
In 2019, Emsisoft donated decryption tools to Europol's No More Ransom project. The company’s decryption tools were also used to help resolve the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack, DarkSide and BlackMatter ransomware attacks against dozens of companies across the U.S., Europe and Britain in 2021.
Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre used Emsisoft’s decryption tools in May 2021 to help the country's health service department recover from a ransomware attack.
In early 2021 Emsisoft suffered a system data breach due to a configuration error, leading to the release of a database containing log records, including email addresses, generated by Emsisoft, and were accessed by at least one unauthorized individual. After detecting the attack, Emsisoft implemented security mechanisms, including disconnecting the compromised system and investigated the incident using forensic analysis. Customers were notified and Emsisoft issued a public apology for the incident.
Technology
Emsisoft's anti-malware technology is called Emsisoft Anti-Malware and has three versions: Anti-Malware Home, Business Security and Enterprise Security. The company also makes an extension for the web browsers Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge that enables blocking access to malicious and phishing websites.
References
New Zealand companies established in 2003
Nelson, New Zealand
Computer security companies
New Zealand brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUMI | LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) is a petascale supercomputer located at the CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland. , the computer is the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
The completed system consists of 362,496 cores, capable of executing more than 375 petaflops, with a theoretical peak performance of more than 550 petaflops, which places it among the top five most powerful computers in the world. The November 2022 TOP500 ranks LUMI at number three, with a measured performance of 309.1 PFLOPS.
Architecture
The system is being supplied by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), providing an HPE Cray EX supercomputer with next generation 64-core AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs. LUMI is a GPU based system, and the majority of its computing power comes from its GPU cores, an architecture which was chosen primarily for its cost/performance advantage. The system is equipped with 1.75 petabytes of RAM, and storage includes a 7-petabyte partition of flash storage, combined with 80-petabytes of traditional storage, both based on the Lustre parallel file system, as well as a 30-petabyte data management service based on Ceph. This gives the system a total of 117 petabytes of storage with an aggregated I/O bandwidth of 2 terabytes per second.
Funding
LUMI is co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the LUMI Consortium, which is composed of the following countries: Finland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. The total budget is €144.5 million.
Energy
The computer uses 100% hydroelectric energy, and the heat it generates will be captured and used to heat buildings in the area, making LUMI one of the most environmentally efficient supercomputers in the world. The former UPM paper mill where LUMI is located had only a single 2 minute power outage during its 38 years of operations thanks to the site's reliable connection to the national grid.
Operation
Half of LUMI's capacity belongs to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, 20% of which is reserved for industry and SME use. The other half is shared among the LUMI Consortium countries, according to each country’s financial contribution.
By June 2021 pilot projects had been selected for the first run of the CPU partition, scheduled for September 2021, with full operations including the GPU partition planned for 2022.
Naming
The word "lumi" means "snow" in Finnish.
See also
Leonardo, another EuroHPC supercomputer under construction in Bologna, Italy
EuroHPC (European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking).
References
Cray products
Petascale computers
Supercomputing in Europe
Kajaani
Information technology in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Owe%20My%20Love%20episodes | Owe My Love is a 2021 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from February 15, 2021 to June 4, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishara%20TV | Ishara TV is an Indian Hindi language free-to-air general entertainment television channel owned by IN10 Media. The network's programming consists of family dramas, mythological shows, family dramas, romantic serials, thriller and crime serials. The channel is also available on DD Free Dish from 1 April 2022 on LCN 9.
Current Programming
Acquired shows
Animated Shows
ViR: The Robot Boy
Akul Nakul
Fred Kismat Wala
Former broadcasts
Original Series
Acquired shows
Siyaasat
Rabindranath Tagore Ki Kahaaniyan
Tyohaar Ki Thaali
Raja Rasoi Aur Andaaz Anokha
Gujrat Bhawan
Yam Kisi Se Kam Nahi
Shrimaan Shrimati
Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai
Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai
Kaajjal
Animated Shows
Raat Hone Ko Hai
Krishna Balram
Akki Jaanbaaz
Marcus Khiladi
References
External links
Television stations in Mumbai
Hindi-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Hindi-language television channels in India
IN10 Media Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanspeter%20M%C3%B6ssenb%C3%B6ck | Hanspeter Mössenböck (born January 20, 1959 in Schwanenstadt, Austria) is an Austrian computer scientist. He is professor of practical computer science and systems software at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and leads the institute of systems software.
Life
From 1978 to 1983 Mössenböck studied computer science at the JKU and did his doctorate 1987 "sub auspiciis Praesidentis" supervised by Peter Rechenberg. From 1987 to 1988 he was postdoc at the Universität Zürich and from 1988 to 1994 assistant professor at the ETH Zürich. He worked with Niklaus Wirth on the Oberon programming language and the Oberon system. He was founder and first president of the CHOOSE, the Swiss Group for Object-oriented Software Engineering with the Swiss Informatics Society (SI).
1994 Mössenböck became professor for Informatik (Systemsoftware) at the JKU. In the summer of 2000 he did his sabbatical at Sun Microsystems JavaSoft group in California. A long term research cooperation resulted, with Sun, now Oracle. Since 2002 he presides the study commission Informatik, since 2004 he is leading the department of system software, since 2008 he is member of the Technischen Universität Graz university council.
2006 he became honorary doctor of the Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest. From 2006 to 2013 he also led the Christian Doppler laboratory for automated software engineering at the JKU.
Work and research interest
Mössenböcks research interests include programming languages, compiler construction, and automate software development.
In compiler construction Mössenböcks research group works the following topics. First, dynamic compilation, with areas like static single assignment form, feedback directed optimisation, dynamic redefinition of programs. Second, they work on allocation of registers of processors and ways to optimize dynamic compilation, like escape analysis, object inlining. Research results of the research group, e.g. register allocation, static single assignment form, escape analysis landed in Sun Microsystems java compiler. Mössenböck is the author of the open source compiler generator Coco/R which is used in quite a number of universities and companies.
In the software engineering domain the research interest is on object oriented and component based systems, especially on composing software dynamically via plug-ins. Further areas of work are domain specific language and tools.
Honours
Ehrensenator at Technischen Universität Graz (2018)
Ehrendoktorat der Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest (2006)
Unterrichtspreis des Departements Informatik der ETH Zürich (1989)
Promotion „sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae“ (1987)
Richard-Büche-Preis der Sparkasse Oberösterreich (1978)
References
External links
Informationen about Hanspeter Mössenböck
Compiler Generator Coco/R
Christian Doppler Labor für Automated Software Engineering
Publikationen by Hanspeter Mössenböck
The Programming Language Oberon-2 H. Mössenböck, N. Wirth, Institut fü |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Riley%27s%20Mine | O'Riley's Mine is an action game designed by Mark Riley and published in 1983 by Datasoft for the Atari 8-bit home computer. The game was ported to Apple II by Larry Lewis and to Commodore 64 by Al Rubin. Both ports were also released in 1983.
Gameplay
O'Riley must travel through his mine to capture all the buried treasure and return safely home again at the top of the mine shaft. He can be drowned by the onrushing water or eaten by the river monsters. Dynamite charges can be used to block the monsters' pathway, but it will be cleared again by the incoming water. Explosions can be timed so that a monster is blown away to gain extra points. The number of dynamite charges is dependent on the level of difficulty.
There is no time limit, but the speed of water increases in higher levels. When the moon rises the monsters move faster through the mine shafts. The oncoming water rises to the highest level the player digs in the mine, so it is possible the water will block the player from returning home.
There are 6 types of treasure to collect, 4 of which come in small and large versions.
Reception
Softline reviewed O'Riley's Mine positively in September–October issue of 1983: "The graphics display is full of color, the mountains and multicolored mine shaft are particularly well done, and the play of the game, within its scope, is excellent." The Addison-Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 gave the game an overall weak rating (D+) and didn't like the price: "Despite its simplicity, it might be worth looking at, but not at $29.95."
Computer and Video Games, reviewing the Commodore 64 version, praised the graphics and called the water sounds "quite realistic". While they called the game "very playable" and "quite fun", they also felt it lacked challenge, calling the early levels "quite easy" and stating they "wouldn't imagine it taking too long to complete the game". Joaquin Boaz, writing for InfoWorld, drew comparisons between the Atari arcade game Dig Dug and stated O'Riley's Mine, "makes excellent use of both water and the fear of it." Boaz also noted the package's inclusion of both a floppy disk and a cassette tape as "a nice touch".
See also
Boulders and Bombs
Chopper Hunt
References
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1983 video games
Action games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datasoft games
Fiction about mining
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKT-FM | DXKT (103.1 FM), broadcasting as Magic 103, is a radio station owned by Westwind Broadcasting Network and operated by EMedia Productions. The station's studio is located in Brgy. Poblacion, Titay, Philippines.
On April 5, 2010, the station was bombed by riding in tandem men, leaving one injured.
References
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20%26%20Friends%3A%20All%20Engines%20Go | Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go is an animated comedy children's television series created by Britt Allcroft and developed by Rick Suvalle that premiered on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito block in the United States on September 13, 2021, and on Treehouse in Canada on September 18, 2021. It is produced by Mattel Television, with animation provided by Nelvana.
The series serves as a reboot of the original Thomas & Friends series that ran from 1984 until 2021. It was originally believed to be a continuation of the original series (with the two seasons labeled as series 25 and 26), but Mattel Television later confirmed it to be a separate series. It introduces "an entirely new approach to Thomas & Friends content," with a new animation style and story structure.
In October 2022, the series was renewed for two more seasons of 26 episodes each, to premiere in 2023.
Plot
The series follows the adventures of Thomas and the other young engines, as they learn many life lessons and solve problems while going around on their daily lives doing jobs with help from each other and the other residents and visitors of the Island of Sodor.
Characters
Production
In October 2020, Mattel Television formed a new co-production partnership with Corus Entertainment's Nelvana Studio and greenlit two new seasons for the Thomas & Friends series, consisting of 104 11-minute episodes and two hour-long specials. The new episodes were said to be produced using 2D animation and include more physical comedy and music than before.
The new series was officially announced on February 5, 2021. Executive producer Christopher Keenan said it was, "crafted to appeal to contemporary audiences' sensibilities while maintaining Thomas' core brand ethos".
On October 11, 2022, Mattel announced that the series was renewed for a third and fourth season, each consisting of 26 episodes and a special, set to premiere in 2023.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2021–22)
Season 2 (2022–23)
Specials
Shorts
Release
Cartoon Network and Netflix have the broadcast and streaming rights to the series in the United States. The series premiered on September 13, 2021, as part of Cartoon Network's Cartoonito preschool programming block. The series was made available to stream on Netflix on October 29, 2021.
Channel 5 acquired the UK broadcast rights to the series and began airing it on their Milkshake! pre-school block on November 8, 2021, redubbed with British voice actors. On the same day, the first hour-long special, titled Race for the Sodor Cup was confirmed for a theatrical release on September 17, 2021, in order to introduce the series and the new look in the country. The series premiered in Canada on Treehouse on September 18, 2021.
In October 2021, Mattel Television announced they had pre-sold the series to many broadcasters around the world, including Nick Jr. for British pay-TV rights, TF1 in France and WarnerMedia for MENA and Latin American regions.
Home media
North America
On Augus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Yalouh | Mohamed Yalouh is a Moroccan inventor known for his works in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Engineering. He won the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) in 2020. Yalouh’s Hexa-Stroke Engine was named the invention with the best design and conceptualized representation. He won numerous other titles from innovation expositions and contests around the world, such as the International Innovation & Invention Competition in Taiwan. Yalouh was recently recognized on IFIA’s list of notable inventors for his innovations.
Early life
Yalouh was born in Tetuan, Morocco and currently lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where he attends the American Community School of Abu Dhabi.
He co-founded Waind, a student-led research and development project aimed at exploring innovative solutions to global problems through Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. The startup aims to build a R&D network of student communities worldwide to explore new hard-tech innovations.
Career
At 14 years old, Mohamed learned about different elements of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering. At 15 years old, he drafted his own patent application for “The Hexa-Stroke Engine” (H.R.R.E). This invention is a 6-stroke and multi-powerstroke diesel automotive engine, predominantly relating to Felix Wankel’s Triangle Rotary Engine from 1954. Yalouh’s H.R.R.E stands distinctive with few similar models. Some of the features it possesses include low fuel consumption, powerful coordinated power strokes, lighter in weight, environment friendly, lower weight-to-power ratios, neutral temperature across its housing, and so on. These were set to bring a conceptual, innovative solution to minimize emissions and reduce the carbon footprint, and yet perform more efficiently with an overall far exceeding performance than its previous versions.
References
Living people
Social entrepreneurs
2005 births
People from Tétouan
21st-century inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Wilde | Mark McMahon Wilde is an American quantum information scientist. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and he is also a Fields Member in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics and the Department of Computer Science at Cornell.
Wilde's research spans quantum information theory (including communication trade-offs, quantum rate-distortion), network quantum information, quantum error correction, quantum optical communication, quantum computational complexity, and quantum entropy inequalities. His research results on quantum entropy inequalities, time travel and quantum cloning, trade-offs in quantum communication, and quantum entanglement measures have been communicated in popular science media.
He has written or coauthored two textbooks on quantum information theory. The first textbook utilizes the von Neumann entropy and its variants and the notion of typical subspace to present the capacities of quantum communication channels. The second textbook utilizes the Renyi entropy and its variants, the hypothesis testing relative entropy, and the smooth max-relative entropy to present the capacities of quantum communication channels. It also has a part dedicated to foundational concepts in quantum information and entanglement theory and another part to feedback-assisted capacities, representing more recent developments from 2013 and on.
Education
Wilde graduated from Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1998. He received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University in 2002, with support from the Thomas Barton Scholarship. He received his Master's degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Southern California in 2008, under the supervision of Todd Brun and with support from a School of Engineering Fellowship. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Quantum Coding with Entanglement" and contributed to the theory of entanglement-assisted quantum error correction. During this time, he also received the Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering at USC. After his Ph.D. studies, he conducted postdoctoral work in the School of Computer Science at McGill University from 2009–2013 under the supervision of Patrick Hayden, focusing on the topics of quantum information theory, quantum error correction, and quantum computational complexity.
Career
During the summer of 2013, he was a visiting scholar at Raytheon BBN Technologies and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In August 2013, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University (LSU). In August 2018, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure. He is also affiliated with the Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics at LSU.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoinformatics | Psychoinformatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses principles from computer science for the acquisition, organization, and synthesis of data collected from psychology to reveal information about psychological traits such as personality and mood. The term may also be used in context of affective computing or character computing.
Psychology has historically relied on experiments and questionnaires in order to collect data. These methods face several disadvantages, namely that experiments often consist of a small quantity of users (who must be incentivized to participate) and self-reported questionnaires and interviews are subject to bias and unreliable memory. Psychoinformatics solves these problems by storing Big Data related to psychology (such as communications on smartphones or social media websites) and then data mining for relevant psychological information.
See also
affective computing
Bioinformatics
Neuroinformatics
Psychometrics
Quantitative psychology
References
Computer science
Interdisciplinary branches of psychology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Aniplus%20Asia | This is a list of television programming that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on Aniplus and Aniplus Asia in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.
Current and former programming
References
External links
Aniplus Asia
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Transcribe | Live Transcribe is a smartphone application to get realtime captions developed by Google for the Android operating system. Development on the application began in partnership with Gallaudet University. It was publicly released as a free beta for Android 5.0+ on the Google Play Store on February 4, 2019. As of early 2023 it had been downloaded over 500 million times. The app can be installed from an .apk file by sideloading and it will launch, but the actual transcription functionality is disabled, requiring creation of an account with Google.
Development
Researchers Dimitri Kanevsky, Sagar Savla and Chet Gnegy at Google developed the app in collaboration with researchers at Gallaudet University, an American university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The app uses machine learning to generate captions, similar to YouTube's auto-generated captions.
Features
The app uses automatic speech recognition to generate live captions in over 80 languages with varying accuracy. The app, which requires connection to the Internet to function, is available to download on the Google Play Store.
A later update to the app displayed information on sounds such as clapping, laughter, music, applause, and whistling.
In August 2019, Google made the code for Live Transcribe open-source.
In May 2020, the app started supporting transcription in Albanian, Burmese, Estonian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Punjabi, and Uzbek, supporting 70 languages.
In March 2022, the app was updated with support to transcribe offline, without Internet connection, so long as the appropriate language pack has been installed. The offline mode is only available for devices with 6GB of RAM and certain Google Pixel devices.
References
External links
Application software
Google |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewala%27s%20Typing%20Adventure | is a 1996 Australian educational typing-themed video game, featuring a koala protagonist named Kewala. It was developed by Sydney-based software company Typequick, and localised by Japan Data Pacific for the Japanese market. The game was renamed Typequick for Students in 1997 and, by 2002, was called Success With Typing for Students.
The game sees the player follow the true blue (authentically Australian) koala protagonist Kewala on an adventure through Australian landscapes to the magical Kingdom of Eaz, learning how to type through tutorials on where to place fingers and touch-typing practice through sentences that advance Kewala's movements.
The game has received a positive reception from critics. Consistent praise was given to how the game's educational qualities were masked behind a highly entertaining adventure, as well as the rare showcase of local Australian landmarks. Additionally, the game has received various awards including the Software Product of the Year in the Social/Life skills category at Japan's 1997 SOFTIC Award ceremony.
Premise and gameplay
The game features a 10 to 15-hour interactive adventure about a true blue (authentically Australian) koala named Kewala as he treks through Australia on an emu, then surfs with whales to the magical Kingdom of Eaz, as the player masters their typing skills. The game records the player's progress and typing speed and will return them to the next lesson upon re-entering. The game begins with a tutorial on where to place fingers, and then with nonsense words like "assa" and "saas", with players soon progressing to complete sentences. The CD-ROM came with a hardcover binder with details of each typing lesson for teachers. The game emphasizes the importance of posture and finger positioning for typing. According to Typequick, the game helps children with dyslexia and other special needs overcome writing difficulties.
Development
Prior to this game's release, Sydney-based software company Typequick had been a successful Australian software company for 15 years; its software was widely used across Australian universities, TAFEs and schools and was the biggest selling typing program in Japan. Founded by Noel McIntosh in 1982, the company had sold $25 million worth of typing programs, with over half its gross profits from overseas sales, by 1997. The Australian Financial Review reported in 1990 that the United States Department of Defense had bought 1600 copies of the original title, while the company would win the 1992 CODiE Award for Best Special Needs Program for another title, Talking TypeQuick for the Blind.
Kewala's Typing Adventure was designed for 11 to 25 year olds. It was written in the Borland C++ integrated development environment and includes 64 background scenes, 2500 animated images, and 20 talking characters. While the product was at the higher end of the pricing scale, Typequick assessed that retailers like Harvey Norman would funnel in-store promotion toward the product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlmaLinux | AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a 501(c) organization, to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The name of the distribution comes from the word "alma", meaning "soul" in Spanish and other Latin languages. It was chosen to be a homage to the Linux community.
The first stable release of AlmaLinux was published on March 30, 2021, and will be supported until March 1, 2029. AlmaLinux is built using publicly-viewable and reproducible methods using the AlmaLinux Build System (ALBS), which is a customized build system whose source code, like the distribution itself, is publicly distributed and licensed under open-source licenses.
History
On December 8, 2020, Red Hat announced that development of CentOS, a free-of-cost downstream fork of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), would be discontinued and its official support would be cut short to focus on CentOS Stream, a stable LTS release without minor releases officially used by Red Hat to preview what is intended for inclusion in updates to RHEL.
In response, CloudLinux – which maintains its own commercial Linux distribution, CloudLinux OS – created AlmaLinux to provide a community-supported spiritual successor to CentOS Linux, aiming for binary-compatibility with the current version of RHEL. A beta version of AlmaLinux was first released on February 1, 2021, and the first stable release of AlmaLinux was published on March 30, 2021. AlmaLinux 8.x will be supported until 2029. Numerous companies, such as ARM, AWS, Equinix, and Microsoft, also support AlmaLinux. On March 30, 2021, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation was created as a 501(c) organization to take over AlmaLinux development and governance from CloudLinux, which has promised $1 million in annual funding to the project.
Following the release of AlmaLinux 8.6, on June 20, 2022, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation released the AlmaLinux Build System (ALBS).
In September 2022, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation held its first election, announcing a board of 7 community-elected members on September 19.
On December 7, 2022, it was announced that CERN and Fermilab would be providing AlmaLinux as the standard operating system for their experiments.
Build system
The AlmaLinux Build System, commonly shortened to "ALBS", is the build system of AlmaLinux. It was first used to release version 8.6 (Sky Tiger), and has the capability of automating builds for the x86-64, AArch64, ppc64, and S390x architectures. The ALBS consists of five components: the Git Service, Release System, Sign Server, Test System, Build Node. Each component is governed by an overarching component known as the "Master Service", which is intended to be controlled via its own API.
Git Service
AlmaLinux's source code is directly sourced from Git code repositories of software packages that comprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasim%20Akhtar%20%28professor%29 | Nasim Akhtar is the 1st Vice Chancellor of Chandpur Science and Technology University, previously worked as a professor in the Department of CSE and the director of the Computer Center, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur. Currently, he writes about Bangladesh's socioeconomic conditions and how it can be improved and how Bangladesh's education sector play a role in uplifting itself from a developing country to a developed one.
Bibliography
Bangladesh Open University Diploma in Computer Application (DCSA), 2nd semester "Operating Systems"
Swapno O Safollyer Rosayon (স্বপ্ন ও সাফল্যের রসায়ন).
See also
Md. Akhtaruzzaman
List of vice-chancellors of Bangladeshi universities
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Anisul Hoque
References
1973 births
Living people
Chandpur Science and Technology University
Bangladeshi non-fiction writers
Bengali-language writers
Bangladeshi academics
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moove%20It | Moove It is a software engineering company based in Austin, Texas, with offices in San Francisco, Montevideo and Cali. The company specializes in design, development and implementation of technology applications in several areas like education, health, financial technology, entertainment and telecommunications. Its clients include companies like Disney Streaming Services, Hulu, Ripple, Shopify, Unilever and Bancard, among others.
History
Moove It was founded in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2006 by Martín Cabrera, a systems engineer graduated from the University of the Republic, as a small business selling IP cameras. Later, they started to focus on consulting and software development.
In 2008, systems engineers Ariel Ludueña (from the software development company Boutique), and Conrado Viña (creator of the Feng Office application), joined the company. A year later they were hired by an american company called Staton and decided to focus most of their operations in the United States, initially developing applications with Ruby on Rails, an open source framework. Gradually they included other types of development technologies to expand their portfolio.
In 2014 the company created StartUp House, a hostel for entrepreneurs that offered cooperative workspace and web hosting. In 2015 Moove It experienced financial growth with the arrival of internationally recognized clients and two years later established its headquarters in Austin, Texas. In 2018 it made a $150,000 investment in brand modernization.
In 2019 it started operations in the city of Cali, Colombia. By that year, Moove It had achieved an average growth of 30% and, although 70% growth was expected in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow reaching those numbers. In June 2020 Moove It invested in Marvik, an uruguayan company specialized in machine learning.
Services
Moove It specializes in the design, development and branding of software applications using programming technologies such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS and Node.js, among others. 40% of its turnover comes from companies in the healthcare industry such as Catapult Health, PrescribeWellness and Tabula Rasa. Another 20% comes from fintech and entertainment companies such as Disney Streaming Services, Shopify, Ripple and Hulu, and the remaining from other types of educational, telecommunications and banking companies such as Bancard, Banco de Crédito de Bolivia and Banco de Crédito del Perú, among others.
The company was certified by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers with an NPS of 82.02 and in November 2020 obtained the Great Place to Work certificate.
References
External links
Software companies of Uruguay
Software companies of the United States
American companies established in 2006
Development software companies
Companies based in Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Want | Roy Want is a computer scientist born in London, United Kingdom in 1961. He received his PhD from Cambridge University (UK) in 1988 for his work on multimedia Distributed Systems; and is known for his work on indoor positioning, mobile and ubiquitous computing, automatic identification (e.g. RFID and wireless beacons) and the Internet of Things (IoT). He lives in Silicon Valley, California, and has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and articles on mobile systems, and holds 100+ patents. In 2011 he joined Google as a senior research scientist, and is in the Android group. Previous roles include senior principal engineer at Intel, and principal scientist at Xerox PARC...
Projects
Among his earliest contributions (circa 1988) was the Active Badge system that identified individual mobile users, and their location, to the computing infrastructure inside a building. This pioneering work was done at the Olivetti Research Ltd (ORL) in Cambridge, United Kingdom and its seminal publication has been recognized with the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award (2016). Over 1000 Active Badges were deployed outside Olivetti, at laboratories including DEC SRC, and Xerox PARC. These deployments sparked the creation of the first generation of context-aware software systems in the larger research community.
Want was a central figure in the earliest realization (at Xerox PARC) of Mark Weiser’s vision of Ubiquitous Computing. The PARC program involved three devices: PARC-Tab, PARC-Pad, and LiveBoard. Today, these form-factors map directly to smartphones, tablets and smart-TVs. In the early 1990s, Want was the principal architect and implementer of PARC-Tab, the world’s first context-aware mobile computer in a smartphone form-factor. It could adapt the behavior of applications, depending on the user’s context, a decade before the emergence of the iPhone (2007). A key technology that made the PARC-Tab context-aware was the use of an infrared network, both connecting the device to the local area network, and localizing it to a room using a diffuse infrared-network transceiver.
In the late 1990’s at PARC, Want also pioneered extending the classic notion of a mobile UI to incorporate inertial sensors, taking advantage of the new MEMS technologies, and designed the Hikari handheld digital organizer. It would automatically change from portrait to landscape format as you rotated it; now a commonplace capability for smartphones. Lists could also be scrolled and items selected using a tilt and clutch mechanism, and photos selected from a 2D grid using a ball-in-a-maze puzzle style of user interface.
By the end of 1990s, Want led PARC’s electronic tag project, “Bridging Physical and Digital worlds”, based on passive RFID. It was the first comprehensive published vision that electronic tags (inexpensive, and battery-free), could link the then new mobile platforms with a location, and related digital web content/control; another example of context-aware computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20data | Trade data, or import and export statistics, consist of statistical data about international trade, typically organized by time period, country, and commodity (using HS codes).
Uses
Governments, corporations, manufacturers, law firms, trade associations, and international organizations all use trade data to monitor the commodity markets relevant to their interests.
Trade data can be used to assess supply and demand for particular commodities in particular countries, which is useful not only to analysts but to companies seeking suppliers and customers.
Trade data can also reveal how international trade responds to, and has an impact on, world events such as the China–United States trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic
Trade data can reveal general trends in world trade and impact on particular regions and industries.
Trade data can inform government assessments of national trade partners and government regulatory decisions about international trade.
Data coverage and detail
Different sources of trade data may provide more or less complete data coverage, and more or less detail:
reported vs. mirrored: One key distinction in trade data is between the reporting country (the country that provides data) and the partner country (the country listed as an export partner or import partner in the data provided by a reporting country). Usually, the official sources of a reporting country provide the best data about the country's own imports and exports. If this information is not available, trade data analysts often rely on "mirrored" data: data about the country as a partner country listed by other reporting countries. In other words, analysts attempt to reconstruct information about a country's imports and exports based on what other countries have reported exporting to and importing from it. The disadvantages are that truly complete "mirrored" data would require data from every other country (not all countries provide trade data), and also that because of methodological differences, "country X’s reported exports to country Y rarely match country Y’s reported imports from country X."
countries, etc.: Different sources include different numbers of countries, because not all countries report trade data at all, and for many other countries trade data is not publicly available. Some sources provide trade data for groups of countries (such as the European Union), and some provide trade data for parts of countries (such as states in the United States and provinces in China).
commodity detail: HS codes for commodities are of different lengths, with shorter codes indicating broader categories of commodities and longer codes indicating more specific subcategories. The first two digits indicate the broadest categories of commodities (e.g., 01 indicates live animals), the first four digits indicate subcategories (e.g., 0101 indicates horses, donkeys, and their hybrids, mules and hinnies), and the first six digits indicate sub-subcategories (e.g., 010121 indicates pur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Partnership%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI, pronounced "gee-pay") is an international initiative established to guide the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in a manner that respects human rights and the shared democratic values of its members. The partnership was first proposed by Canada and France at the 2018 44th G7 summit, and officially launched in June 2020. GPAI is hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
GPAI seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice by supporting research and applied activities in areas that are directly relevant to policymakers in the realm of AI. It brings together experts from industry, civil society, governments, and academia to collaborate on the challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence.
History
The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence was announced on the margins of the 2018 G7 Summit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron. It officially launched on June 15, 2020 with fifteen founding members: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosts a dedicated secretariat to support GPAI's governing bodies and activities. UNESCO joined the partnership in December 2020 as an observer. On November 11, 2021, Czechia, Israel and few more EU countries also joined the GPAI, bringing the total membership to 25 countries. Since the November 2022 summit, the list of members stands at 29.
Austria, Chile, Finland, Malaysia, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland were invited. The seven, however, are pending membership approval.
Membership
The following 29 members of the GPAI are:
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Republic of Korea
Senegal
Serbia
Singapore
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
European Union
Invited members:
Austria (pending membership approval)
Chile (pending membership approval)
Finland (pending membership approval)
Malaysia (pending membership approval)
Norway (pending membership approval)
Slovakia (pending membership approval)
Switzerland (pending membership approval)
Organization
GPAI's experts collaborate across several Working Groups themes: Responsible AI (including an ad-hoc subgroup on AI and Pandemic Response), Data Governance, Future of Work, and Innovation & Commercialization. GPAI's Working Groups are supported by two Centres of Expertise: one in Montreal that supports the first two Working Groups, and one in Paris that supports the latter two. It also has a Steering Committee, the elected chair of which has also been to date elect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffer%20%28protocol%20analyzer%29 | The Sniffer was a computer network packet and protocol analyzer developed and first sold in 1986 by Network General Corporation of Mountain View, CA. By 1994 the Sniffer had become the market leader in high-end protocol analyzers. According to SEC 10-K filings and corporate annual reports, between 1986 and March 1997 about $933M worth of Sniffers and related products and services had been sold as tools for network managers and developers.
The Sniffer was the antecedent of several generations of network protocol analyzers, of which the current most popular is Wireshark.
Background
The Sniffer was the first product of Network General Corporation, founded on May 13, 1986 by Harry Saal and Len Shustek to develop and market network protocol analyzers. The inspiration was an internal test tool that had been developed within Nestar Systems, a personal computer networking company founded in October 1978 by Saal and Shustek along with Jim Hinds and Nick Fortis. In 1982 engineers John Rowlands and Chris Reed at Nestar’s UK subsidiary Zynar Ltd developed an ARCNET promiscuous packet receiver and analyzer called TART (“Transmit and Receive Totaliser”) for use as an internal engineering test tool. It used custom hardware, and software for an IBM PC written in a combination of BASIC and 8086 assembly code. When Nestar was acquired by Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) of Plano, Texas in 1986, Saal and Shustek received the rights to TART.
At Network General, Saal and Shustek initially sold TART as the “R-4903 ARCNET Line Analyzer (‘The Sniffer’)”. They then reengineered TART for IBM’s Token Ring network hardware, created a different user interface with software written in C, and began selling it as The Sniffer™ in December 1986. The company had four employees at the end of that year.
In April 1987 the company released an Ethernet version of the Sniffer, and in October, versions for ARCNET, StarLAN, and IBM PC Network Broadband. Protocol interpreters were written for about 100 network protocols at various levels of the protocol stack, and customers were given the ability to write their own interpreters. The product line gradually expanded to include the Distributed Sniffer System for multiple remote network segments, the Expert Sniffer for advanced problem diagnosis, and the Watchdog for simple network monitoring.
Development
Nestar ARCNET Sniffer
The ARCNET Sniffer developed as an internal test tool by Zynar used the IBM PC ARCNET Network Interface Card developed by Nestar for the PLAN networking systems. That board used the COM9026 integrated ARCNET controller from Standard Microsystems Corporation, which had been developed in collaboration with Datapoint.
There was no promiscuous mode in the SMC chip that would allow all packets to be received regardless of the destination address. So to create the Sniffer, a daughterboard was developed that intercepted the receive data line to the chip and manipulated the data so that every packe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Guzzoni | Didier Guzzoni (born 1970 in Geneva) is a Swiss computer scientist and senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team. He was a founding member and chief scientist at the start-up company Siri Inc. that was later acquired be Apple Inc.
Career
Guzzoni studied electrical engineering at the Geneva State Engineering School, followed by studies in computer science at EPFL, where obtained a master's degree in 1996. He then worked with Charles Baur on medical robotics application at EPFL's Virtual Reality and Active Interface group. In 1997, he moved to Silicon Valley to join the SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center to work with Luc Julia and Adam Cheyer at on artificial intelligence and robotics. Then he was involved in multiple start-ups ranging from mobile robotics to AI-powered B2B platforms, where he collaborated among others with Rajiv Gupta and Shamik Sharma.
In 2004, he returned to EPFL to join Charles Baur's laboratory as a PhD student. His research aimed at facilitating the access on complex artificial intelligence techniques by software developers.
After his graduation in 2007, together with Tom Gruber and Dag Kittlaus he cofounded and became chief scientist Siri Inc., a start-up company developing a mobile intelligent assistant. The company was acquired in 2010 by Apple Inc., and its technology has been incorporated with most Apple products since 2011. He is a senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team.
Selected works
Journal papers
Thesis
Patent
References
External links
Website of Apple Inc.
1970 births
Living people
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Swiss computer scientists
Apple Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20cyberattacks%20on%20Sri%20Lanka | The 2021 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of cyberattacks on at least 10 Sri Lankan national websites including Google.lk domain.
First Cyber-Attack
The first cyber-attack was launched on The LK Domain Registry website on 6th February 2021. The investigations are currently carried out by Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team along with the Information Technology Society of Sri Lanka (ITSSL). Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka were also tweeted regarding the Cyberattack as public alert.
Second Cyber-Attack
The second cyber-attack was carried out on 18 May 2021. The website of the Chinese Embassy operating in Sri Lanka, The websites of the Health Ministry, Energy Ministry and the Rajarata University websites were affected by this cyberattack. This cyber attack conducted by a group called 'Tamil Eelam Cyber Force'.
Cyber attack on Prime Minister Mahinda's website
The official website of Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was hacked on June 3, 2021.
The Information Technology Society Sri Lanka - ITSSL said the PM’s website was hacked in a manner in which any visitor to the website would be redirected to another website which displays content related to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
References
Hacking in the 2020s
2021 in computing
Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks
Terrorist incidents in Asia in 2021
Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20system | Discovery system can mean:
Discovery system (bibliographic search), a type of bibliographical search system
Discovery system (AI research), an artificial intelligence system that attempts to discover new scientific concepts or laws |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20system%20%28AI%20research%29 | A discovery system is an artificial intelligence system that attempts to discover new scientific concepts or laws. The aim of discovery systems is to automate scientific data analysis and the scientific discovery process. Ideally, an artificial intelligence system should be able to search systematically through the space of all possible hypotheses and yield the hypothesis - or set of equally likely hypotheses - that best describes the complex patterns in data.
During the era known as the second AI summer (approximately 1978-1987), various systems akin to the era's dominant expert systems were developed to tackle the problem of extracting scientific hypotheses from data, with or without interacting with a human scientist. These systems included Autoclass, Automated Mathematician, Eurisko, which aimed at general-purpose hypothesis discovery, and more specific systems such as Dalton, which uncovers molecular properties from data.
The dream of building systems that discover scientific hypotheses was pushed to the background with the second AI winter and the subsequent resurgence of subsymbolic methods such as neural networks. Subsymbolic methods emphasize prediction over explanation, and yield models which works well but are difficult or impossible to explain which has earned them the name black box AI. A black-box model cannot be considered a scientific hypothesis, and this development has even led some researchers to suggest that the traditional aim of science - to uncover hypotheses and theories about the structure of reality - is obsolete. Other researchers disagree and argue that subsymbolic methods are useful in many cases, just not for generating scientific theories.
Discovery systems from the 1970s and 1980s
Autoclass was a Bayesian Classification System written in 1986
Automated Mathematician was one of the earliest successful discovery systems. It was written in 1977 and worked by generating a modifying small Lisp programs
Eurisko was a Sequel to Automated Mathematician written in 1984
Dalton is a still maintained program capable of calculating various molecular properties initially launched in 1983 and available in open source since 2017
Glauber is a scientific discovery method written in the context of computational philosophy of science launched in 1983
Modern discovery systems (2009–present)
After a couple of decades with little interest in discovery systems, the interest in using AI to uncover natural laws and scientific explanations was renewed by the work of Michael Schmidt, then a PhD student in Computational Biology at Cornell University. Schmidt and his advisor, Hod Lipson, invented Eureqa, which they described as a symbolic regression approach to "distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data". This work effectively demonstrated that symbolic regression was a promising way forward for AI-driven scientific discovery.
Since 2009, symbolic regression has matured further, and today, various commercial and open sourc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20time%20%28software%29 | In software engineering, cycle time is a software metric which estimates development speed in agile software projects. The cycle time measures how long it takes to process a given job - whether it's a client request, an order, or a defined production process stage. The crucial aspect of measuring the cycle time is considering only the active, operating processing time and discarding any idle, waiting, or service times occurring mid-process.
According to the PMBOK (7th edition) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), cycle time is the "total elapsed time from the start of a particular activity or work item to its completion."
The cycle time is a useful metric. In contrast to lead time, which measures the time that the customer waits for their request to be realized, cycle time only counts the time the team spends actively working on the request. The core use of cycle times is to identify the average development times for specific teams or given request types. This lets the software engineering manager predict team engagements and better schedule work.
See also
Software quality
Statistical quality control
Further reading
What is waste? (Agile Alliance)
Takt time - Cycle time (The Lean Thinker)
Lead time versus Cycle Time – Untangling the confusion
Citations
References
Rates
Clock signal
Instruction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20Me%20Out%20Philippines | Catch Me Out Philippines is a 2021 Philippine television reality talent competition show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is based on the British version of the same name. Hosted by Jose Manalo, it premiered on February 6, 2021 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up. The show concluded on September 4, 2021.
Format
Every week, two amateur performers will undergo training for a month under their mentors to master a certain skill. After which, each of them will perform alongside professional performers in front of ten celebrity catchers, including the show's regular celebrity spotters, Derrick Monasterio and Kakai Bautista.
At the end of episode, the impostor who managed to trick the most members of the show's celebrity catchers will be hailed as the winner and will be tagged as the episode's Great Pretender.
Cast
Host
Jose Manalo
Judges
Derrick Monasterio
Kakai Bautista
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series
Philippine television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Invaders%20%28TV%20series%29 | Space Invaders is an Australian lifestyle television program which first aired on the Nine Network on 27 February 2021. The series transforms the homes and lives of those who have found themselves in mess and clutter. The series first featured presenters Peter Walsh, Cherie Barber and Lucas Callaghan.
In May 2021, the series was renewed for a second season. The second season began airing on 19 February 2022. In August 2022, Lucas Callaghan was confirmed not return to the series third season and will be replaced by Angie Kent. The third season premiered on 4 February 2023.
The Team
Peter Walsh - Organisation and decluttering
Cherie Barber - Renovations
Angie Kent - Treasure hunting and upcycling (season 3-)
Lucas Callaghan - Treasure hunting (season 1-2)
Episodes
Season One (2021)
Season Two (2022)
Season Three (2023)
See also
Your Life on the Lawn
List of Australian television series
References
Nine Network original programming
2021 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Life%20on%20the%20Lawn | Your Life on the Lawn is an Australian lifestyle television program, which screened on the Seven Network in 2003. The series transforms the homes and lives of those who have found themselves in mess and clutter. The series featured Pascall Fox, Simon Fenner and Lissanne Oliver.
See also
Space Invaders
List of Australian television series
References
Seven Network original programming
2003 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9riou | Bériou, a pseudonym of Jean-François Matteudi, is a French videographer and visual artist born in 1952. Some of his computer generated short films, produced by Canal+ and released in many countries, were widely broadcast in the 1990s.
His work mainly explores questions of hybridization, combinatorics and networks, creating a labyrinthine aesthetic that is difficult to classify but rooted in contemporary concerns.
He has also made documentaries for television and numerous videos involving a wide range of generally marginalized groups.
Bériou holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology.
Filmography (main films in computer generated images)
Digitaline (1990)
Video and 35 mm film. Duration: 1:30. AGAVE production.
Awards
United States: Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH, Chicago (1991)
Canada: 1st prize Art, Production 92, Montreal (1991)
Austria: Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica, Linz (1992)
Ex memoriam (1992)
Video and 35 mm film. Duration: 5:10. AGAVE Production, with the participation of CANAL+ and the Centre National de la Cinématographie (Nouvelles Technologies et Compte de soutien), and the support of the PROCIREP Television Commission.
Awards
United States: Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH, Chigago (1992)
Japan: Multimedia Grand Prize "Computer Graphics", Nicograph, Tokyo (1993)
Monaco: 1st Prize "Art", Imagina (1993)
Quebec: 1st prize "Art", Images of the Future, Montreal (1993)
Austria: Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica, Linz (1993)
France: "Research" Prize, Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand (1993)
Germany: 2nd prize, Videofest, Berlin (1993)
France: "Troisième Dimension" Prize, SCAM (1993)
France: Quality Award, Centre National de la Cinématographie (1994)
Germany: Prisma Preis, Hamburg (1993)
Poland: 3rd prize, Wro Festival (1993)
Nominations
France: Nomination for the César for best short film (1994)
Tableau d’amour (1993)
Video and 35 mm film. Duration: 5:25. Coproduction AGAVE, CANAL+ and Club d'Investissement Media (Media Programme of the European Community), with the participation of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (Nouvelles Technologies et Compte de Soutien)
Awards
Monaco: 1st prize "Art" and special mention of the CST for the soundtrack, Imagina (1994)
Japan: Multimedia Grand Prize "Computer Graphics", Nicograph, Tokyo (1994)
Quebec: 1st prize "Art", Images of the Future, Montreal (1994)
Austria: Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica, Linz (1994)
Portugal: Espinho City Prize and Special Jury Prize, Animation Film Festival, Espinho (1994)
Italy: 1st prize in the "Video Graphics Workstation" section, Bit Movie, Riccione (1994)
Spain: Accessit Animación Infografica, Anima, Terruel (1994)
Finland: "Video" section prize, Jazz Bit', Pori (1995)
Turkey: Art and Cultural Foundation Video Award, Golden Orange, Antalya (1996)
Limbes (1995)
Video. Duration: 5:25. Coproduction AGAVE and CANAL+, with the participation of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (Nouvelles Technologi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Femme | The Science Femme, Woman in STEM was a hoax in which Craig Chapman, a white male university professor, adopted a persona of "Science Femme" for the purpose of engaging in cyberbullying. Science Femme claimed to be a scientist and woman of color who immigrated to the United States after experiencing childhood poverty. Through this persona, Chapman protested Black Lives Matter, used anti-LGBT rhetoric, and sought to disrupt the research and careers of various female scientists. Another commentator remarked on Science Femme's Islamophobic activities. The connection between the two identities was discovered in October 2020. In February 2021, Chapman resigned from his university position.
Activities
The Science Femme Twitter account was created in January 2019. At the time of the hoax discovery in October 2020 it had 19,000 followers. The account operator claimed to have been born into poverty where they slept on a dirt floor. Later they immigrated to the United States and now were a woman of color and professor.
In October 2020, after the discovery of the hoax, various women scientists came forward to share stories of how the account operator sought to disrupt their research or careers.
The local New Hampshire Public Radio described the activities as misogynist, transphobic, anti-Black Lives Matter. Also activities included redistribution of revenge porn of a politician.
Discovery
In October 2020, The New Hampshire, which is the University of New Hampshire's student newspaper, reported the connection between the Science Femme and professor Craig Chapman teaching chemistry at the university. A month later the newspaper noted that the university's investigation was ongoing.
The chair of the chemistry department confirmed that Chapman and the Science Femme were the same person. Chapman admitted to operating the account.
In February 2021, the university concluded its investigation confirming that the professor's conduct did not meet university expectations. At the same time Chapman resigned from the university.
Response
Writers for Inside Higher Ed and The Daily Beast described the events as greatly disrupting civil conversation about social problems, and as harming women scientists, and for being one of several such instances of where white academics pretended to be members of minority communities to the harm of those communities.
Media outlets reflected on the harm of the story of a university professor countering activism at their school.
The activities seemed to be a response to activities at the University of New Hampshire to promote more diversity and inclusion.
See also
Academic dishonesty
BethAnn McLaughlin
References
Further consideration
Racial hoaxes
Hoaxes in the United States
University of New Hampshire
2019 hoaxes
2020 hoaxes
Cyberbullying |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Experimental%20Algorithms | The International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA), previously known as Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (WEA), is a computer science conference in the area of algorithm engineering.
Notes
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Syncretic%20Religions | Brazil had a profound racial miscegenation, Brazilians have the most diverse physical characteristics. Research indicates that 44% of Brazilians have two religions. Official data from the Brazilian census indicate that 1,011,507 Brazilians have two religions or follow a syncretic religion. Because to miscegenation it is common for a person to have a father of one race and religion and a mother of another race and another religion, naturally that person can adopt the two beliefs or follow a religion that mixes the two beliefs.
Many Afro-Brazilian religions are called Macumba, but generally macumba is a vague word for any religion from Africa. Tambor de Mina is a highly syncretic religious tradition, combining cultural elements of colonial Brazil and Portuguese culture with elements of the religious culture of the first Brazilian African slaves. Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that mixes African beliefs with Catholic art and visuals. Many criticize that candomble is considered a syncretic religion, arguing that slaves needed to adopt Catholic elements so as not to be reprimanded by slave owners.
Santo Daime, is a religion founded by Raimundo Irineu Serra known as Mestre Irineu, Raimundo was a Catholic who served as a soldier in the Brazilian Amazon, during that period he had contact with indigenous cults involving the sacred ayahuasca plant, used by the natives of the Brazilian Amazon. Santo Daime is a religion that mixes Marianism with native Brazilian beliefs. Daime is an abbreviation of the Portuguese phrase 'give me love' (Dai-me Amor). The Santo Daime religion has managed to reach other countries, it is possible to consider that it is a world religion. Umbanda is a Kardecist Spiritism, Afro-Brazilian and Brazilian Shamanist religion, it emerged after a Kardecist medium Zélio Fernandino de Moraes came to accept the spirits of Natives and Blacks, Umbanda broke with traditional spiritism.
Pentecostalism in Brazil has ritualistic characteristics of Afro-Brazilian religions, it is also very popular among black Brazilians, although Pentecostals deny that there is a syncretism between criticism and Afro-Brazilian religions. One of the most popular Pentecostal churches in Brazil, the IURD(Igrja Universal do Reino de Deus), has an open relationship of syncretism with Judaism. Brazilian Jewish authorities reject this syncretism.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%E2%80%93Webb%20query%20model | In computer science, the Robertson–Webb (RW) query model is a model of computation used by algorithms for the problem of fair cake-cutting. In this problem, there is a resource called a "cake", and several agents with different value measures on the cake. The goal is to divide the cake among the agents such that each agent will consider his/her piece as "fair" by his/her personal value measure. Since the agents' valuations can be very complex, they cannot - in general - be given as inputs to a fair division algorithm. The RW model specifies two kinds of queries that a fair division algorithm may ask the agents: Eval and Cut. Informally, an Eval query asks an agent to specify his/her value to a given piece of the cake, and a Cut query (also called a Mark query) asks an agent to specify a piece of cake with a given value.
Despite the simplicity of the model, many classic cake-cutting algorithms can be described only by these two queries. On the other hand, there are fair cake-cutting problems that provably cannot be solved in the RW model using finitely many queries.
The Eval and Cut queries were first described in the book of Jack M. Robertson and William A. Webb. The name "Robertson–Webb model" was coined and formalized by Woeginger and Sgall.
Definitions
The standard RW model assumes that the cake is an interval, usually the interval [0,1]. There are n agents, and each agent i has a value measure vi on the cake. The algorithm does not know vi, but can access it using two kinds of queries:
An eval query: given two real numbers x and y, Evali(x,y) asks agent i to report the value of the interval [x,y], i.e., vi ([x,y]).
A mark query (also called a cut query): given two real numbers x and r, Marki(x,r) asks agent i to report some value y such that vi([x,y]) = r.
Example
The classic Divide and choose algorithm, for cutting a cake between two children, can be done using four queries.
Ask Alice an Eval(0,1) query; let V1 be the answer (this is Alice's value of the entire cake).
Ask Alice a Mark(0, V1 / 2) query; let x1 be the answer (this is Alice's mark which yields two pieces equal in her eyes).
Ask George an Eval(0, x1) and an Eval(x1, 1) queries.
If the former value is larger, give (0,x1) to George and (x1,1) to Alice; else, give (0,x1) to Alice and (x1,1) to George.
Results
Besides divide-and-choose, many cake-cutting algorithms can be performed using RW queries whose number is polynomial in n (the number of agents). For example: Last diminisher can be done by O(n2) RW queries and Even–Paz protocol can be done by O(n log n) RW queries. In parallel, there are many hardness results, proving that certain fair division problems require many RW queries to complete. Some such hardness results are shown below.
Proportional cake-cutting requires Ω(n log n) RW queries when either
the pieces must be connected, or
the protocol is deterministic, or
the precision of cutting the cake is finite.
The only protocol which uses O(n) RW quer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Sumy | The Sumy trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network serving Sumy, in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
The owner of the trolleybus network is the Sumy city council, the passenger transportation is provided by KP SMR "Elektroavtotrans" (Sumyelektroavtotrans).
The trolleybus system in Sumy is one of the main types of public transport, covering both the central part and some remote neighborhoods.
History
Trolleybus traffic in Sumy was opened on August 25, 1967. The first city trolleybus was "Khimmistechko – Railway Terminal". At the opening there were 25 used MTB-82 trolleybuses from Moscow and 10 new Kyiv-4 trolleybuses.
During the period from the day of opening of trolleybus traffic through the present time the enterprise was headed by 16 directors, from them O. F. Ivanov worked the most, for a period of 11 years (1987–1998).
Inventory number of trolleybuses in Sumy:
1980 — 128 (84 working).
1985 — 127 (88 working).
1990 — 145 (101 working).
2010 — 69 (52 working).
2015 — 68 (65 working).
2016 — 68 (60 working).
2017 — 68 (54 working).
2018 — 69 (59 working).
2019 — 73 (64 working).
In the crisis of 1990 Sumy managed to preserve the Sumy trolleybus network as a whole, but since 1991 no trolleybuses have been overhauled, and repair work has been carried out only to restore the hull and chassis. Given that half of the trolleybuses have a service life of 20–28 years, the condition of electrical equipment in Sumy is a matter of serious concern.
In 2009–2010, the company carried out purposeful work to stabilize the trolleybus fleet. Along with the optimization of the production process, the company has achieved that in 2009 to early 2010 there were 46–48 trolleybuses (in 2008 this figure was 38–30) on the line daily, of which due to breakdowns in the depot returns only 5–6 instead of 10–12 against last year's figures. The rolling stock use ratio at Sumyelektroavtotrans (according to its director) is one of the best in Ukraine.
Material and technical base and reorganization of the repair service allows Sumyelektroavtotrans to independently carry out medium and major repairs of trolleybuses, including electrical equipment. Currently, Sumyelektroavtotrans has developed a system of capital and medium repairs, taking into account the replacement of electrical wiring, or its restoration, where it is economically feasible.
From 2010 to 2015, 8 cars managed to pass the CWR. There were no purchases of the new RS in 2011–2014.
In 2015, Sumyelektroavtotrans purchased 12 Bogdan T70117 trolleybuses.
On January 25, 2020, Oleksandr Perchakov, director of the organization that operates the Sumy trolleybus network, Sumyelektroavtotrans, retired. There is currently a competition for the vacant position.
On March 12, 2020, a new director, Vitaliy Odnorog, was appointed. Also in 2020, the company received a license for the right to train trolleybus drivers.
In December 2021, KP "Elektroavtotrans" received 10 new trolleybuses, those same ones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tennessee%20Star | The Tennessee Star is a conservative news and commentary website founded in 2017 and based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was cofounded by talk show host Steve Gill, and is part of a network of similar websites in multiple states.
The Tennessee Star was launched on February 6, 2017 by Steve Gill, Michael Patrick Leahy, and Christina Botteri, all of whom were supporters of the Tea Party movement. The trio went on to found similar publications in other states, which were consolidated into Star News Digital Media, Inc.
The publication has been compared to Breitbart, which Leahy also writes for, as well as NewBostonPost. It is partially funded by multiple influential Republican donors. Despite this, The Tennessee Star claims to be neutral. Neil W. McCabe, formerly Washington bureau chief of One America News Network, serves as the publication's national political correspondent.
References
External links
Newspapers published in Tennessee
2017 establishments in Tennessee
American conservative websites
American news websites
American political blogs
Mass media in Williamson County, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySilk%20Cloud%20Services | SkySilk Cloud Services is an American web infrastructure company based in Los Angeles. According to Data Center Dynamics, SkySilk has points of presence in both Los Angeles and New York. SkySilk appears to be hosted by a facility in Los Angeles operated by data-center provider QuadraNet.
In February 2021, they took over the hosting of the controversial social media network Parler. In relation to their hosting of Parler, SkySilk representatives said that "Skysilk does not advocate nor condone hate, rather, it advocates the right to private judgment and rejects the role of being the judge, jury, and executioner."
According to Ars Technica, Parler's traffic from SkySilk passes through an ISP based in Ohio called CloudRoute. Ars Technica reported that "CloudRoute and SkySilk seem to be connected in some way and may ultimately be part of the same company", though they noted the CEO of CloudRoute denied such a connection.
References
External links
Official website
Cloud computing providers
Information technology companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized%20web | The decentralized web is a research program which proposes to reorganize the Internet using peer-to-peer or federated infrastructure rather than centralized data hosting services. Interest in the decentralized web arose due to the lack of trust in network maintenance organizations, due to scandals involving widespread espionage and content control. Proposed mechanisms include decentralized identifiers and distributed ledgers.
Decentralized identifiers
Decentralized identifiers are an important part of decentralized web applications. Decentralized identifiers are sometimes encapsulated in "decentralized identifier documents" (referred to as "DIDs"). Decentralized web applications frequently rely on URLs to decentralized identifier documents. The World Wide Web Consortium has several recommendations regarding DIDs. These identity documents are intended to identify any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies.
Cryptocurrency
A decentralized currency can be a helpful element in a decentralized web platform. A "cryptocurrency" (or crypto currency or crypto for short) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange wherein individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger. The ledger is a form of computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, to control the creation of additional coins, and to verify the transfer of coin ownership. It typically does not exist in physical form (like paper money) and is typically not issued by a central authority. Cryptocurrencies typically use decentralized control as opposed to centralized digital currency and central banking systems.
When a cryptocurrency is minted or created prior to issuance or issued by a single issuer, it is generally considered centralized. When implemented with decentralized control, each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database. The gaming industry has embraced blockchain technology, which offers a powerful solution to various challenges. Some decentralized web applications require cryptocurrency.
See also
ActivityPub - A standard for federated social media platforms
Certificate authority - A service that cryptographically ties the domain name portion of a URL to a legal entity.
Freenet
Identity provider - A service that provides identity documents
Mastodon - A federated social media platform
Self-sovereign identity - central paradigm of the decentralized web
Silicon Valley (season 6), in fiction
Web3 - a concept for a new WWW iteration
Wireless mesh network
References
Decentralization
World Wide Web Consortium
Peer-to-peer computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAP%20Sports | TAP Sports (stylized as tap Sports) is a Philippine pay television network of sports channels owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on April 14, 2019, under two separate channels carried by Sky Cable, and was later relaunched the following year.
The TAP Sports network has four channels: the main channel itself, and the Premier Sports channels.
History
On April 14, 2019, TAP Sports was launched by TAP DMV on cable provider Sky Cable. Back then, it used to be broadcast on two separate channels covering all live tennis events: TAP Sports 1 (airing the men's ATP tournaments) and TAP Sports 2 (airing the women's WTA tournaments).
On February 17, 2020, the TAP Sports network was relaunched, this time as a general sports channel replacing TAP Sports 1. On the same day, it launched 4 new sister channels: TAP W (women-centric sports; replacing TAP Sports 2), TAP Edge (action/adventure/outdoor sports; including EDGEsport programming), Premier Tennis (ATP and WTA), and Premier Football (soccer).
On September 20, 2021, TAP DMV launched Premier Sports, a complimentary channel of TAP Sports.
Programming
List of sports broadcasting rights
Note: Some sporting rights are sublicensed from DAZN and FITE TV.
Auto racing
IndyCar Series
FIA World Rallycross Championship (WRC)
Formula E
W Series
Badminton
Badminton World Federation
Basketball
EuroLeague
Chinese Basketball Association
Sinag Liga Asya
Boxing
Golden Boy Promotions
Premier Boxing Champions
Superbouts
Cycling
Tour de Suisse
Union Cycliste Internationale
eSports
Arena eSports
ELEAGUE
Football
2022 FIFA World Cup
Combat sports
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship
Multi Sports
Paralympic Games
Volleyball
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB)
Shakey's Super League
Wrestling
WWE
WWE Raw
WWE SmackDown
WWE NXT
WWE NXT UK
WWE Main Event
WWE Bottom Line
WWE Afterburn
This Week in WWE
Heroes of Lucha Libre
Other sports
EDGEsport
EDGEsportstories
Non-sports programming
Action Sports World
Badminton Unlimited
BattleBots
Caffeine and Octane
Drive
FIBA Weekly
Jay Leno's Garage
The Mike and Cole Show
MotorClub
OnPoint
Straight Up Steve Austin
Previous programming
National Basketball League (Australia)
B.League
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL)
Enfusion
Professional Fighters League
ONE Warrior Series Philippines
Impact Wrestling
Impact!
Impact Wrestling Pay-per-view events
References
Sports television networks in the Philippines
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Sports television in the Philippines
Television networks in the Philippines
2019 establishments in the Philippines
TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Watters | Paul Watters is an Australian academic. He is Academic Dean at AAPoly, and Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. Professor Watters has made significant research contributions to cybercrime detection and prevention, including phishing, malware, piracy and child exploitation.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of Macquarie University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20Storyy | {{Infobox television
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}}His Storyy (alternatively titled His Story) is an Indian, Hindi-language romantic drama web series directed by Prashant Bhagia. It is an ALTBalaji and ZEE5 original, released on 25 April 2021. It stars Satyadeep Mishra, Priyamani Raj, and Mrinal Dutt in the lead roles. The series was produced by Tanveer Bookwala and Ding Entertainment, and was written by Suparn Verma and Ritu Bhatia. The series revolves around the life of Sakshi, Kunal and his lover Preet and the social issue of acceptance of homosexuals by the society and family.
Plot
Sakshi and Kunal are a South-Bombay power couple who are running a business together. Sakshi is the head chef and Kunal takes care of the business end of the restaurant. They have two children, Shlok and Shivaay. Things fall apart for Sakshi when she realizes that her 20 years of familial and marital bliss was nothing but a pack of lies. Kunal has an extra-marital affair with a man called Preet and this destroys Sakshi. The couple decide to separate and end the marriage. Kunal moves in with Preet; but the family, especially his eldest son Shivaay, doesn't take this very well. He is homophobic and abuses his father as well his friend Ved, who is discovering his sexuality in his adolescence. Shlok and Sakshi accept the truth and decide to move on. But due to various events that occur, the story does not have a happy ending.
Cast
The prime cast of the show is:
Satyadeep Mishra as Kunal
Priyamani as Sakshi
Mrinal Dutt as Preet
Nitin Bhatia as Shivaay, elder son of Kunal and Sakshi
Mikhail Gandhi as Shlok, younger son of Kunal and Sakshi
Charu Shankar as Rafia
Rheanne Tejani as Jhanvi, daughter of Rafia
Rajeev Kumar as Nihal
Parinitaa Seth as Loveleen, Nihal's wife
Anmol Kajani as Ved, son of Nihal and Loveleen
Shruthy Menon as Rati, works with Sakshi
Episodes
Soundtrack
The series has an original soundtrack consisting of 5 songs. In their review of the series, Amar Ujala appreciated the work of music directors Kartik Shah, Abhiruchi Chand and Abhishek Arora for their original scores and of playback singer Sukanya Purkayasth for her rendering of song "Naina Kahe Bhar Aaye".
Release and reception
On 9 April 2021, the promo video and poster of the series were released. However, the released poster that showed Mishra and Dutt spooning, was criticized for similarities with the poster of 2015 film Loev dir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSC%20Orion-class%20container%20ship | The Orion class is a series of 8 container ships built for Zodiac Maritime. The first 4 ships are operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and the remaining ships are operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 14,952 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
References
Container ship classes
Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL%20Bravo-class%20container%20ship | The Bravo class is a series of 10 container ships built for Seaspan Corporation. They were initially chartered to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and later to Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding in China. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 10,100 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
See also
MOL Triumph-class container ship
MOL Creation-class container ship
MOL Maestro-class container ship
MOL Globe-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL%20Maestro-class%20container%20ship | The Maestro class is a series of 10 container ships originally built for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and later operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their Kobe and Nagasaki shipyards in Japan. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 6,724 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
See also
MOL Triumph-class container ship
MOL Bravo-class container ship
MOL Creation-class container ship
MOL Globe-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL%20Globe-class%20container%20ship | The Globe class is a series of 10 container ships originally built for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and later operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 5,605 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
See also
MOL Triumph-class container ship
MOL Bravo-class container ship
MOL Creation-class container ship
MOL Maestro-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20El%20Khoury | Ibrahim E. El Khoury (; July 20, 1936 – July 28, 2013) was a Lebanese director and producer who was chairman of the Télé Liban television network from 1999 until his death.
Early life
He started at CLT (Compagnie libanaise de Télévision ex-Tele Liban) in 1959 with the rise of the Lebanese television as a studio supervisor at the Lebanese national TV, he was at the same time producer and presenter of a variety show on the same channel.
Career
Selected productions:
El Khoury directed the Arabic version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo"الاخرس" (number of episodes:13) along with the TV series "عليا وعصام" (number of episodes:13) which he also produced. Another big French novel that he has re-adapted to the Lebanese and Arab-speaking screens, is the French novel Colomba by Prosper Mérimée which he turned into a Lebanese TV series "كولومبا" (number of episodes:7).
El Khoury has also directed and produced "حنين في الليل" a Lebanese TV series that won two awards for Best Director and Best Acting. (Haneen in the night).
He has also directed a very big majority of the episodes of the famous Lebanese TV series "ابو ملحم". (Abou Melhem) which, for many, is the best Lebanese production to ever be on the screen; But that was not his only contribution to the Lebanese blockbusters, he directed many episodes of the TV series "ابو سليم". (Abou Saleem).
Along with the TV series El-Khoury directed and produced, he has also worked on many TV shows like the famous Lebanese TV show "سهره مع الماضي" presented by the prestigious Leila Rustom. (Evening with the past) and the TV show "بيروت في الليل". (Beirut at night).
All the previous TV series and shows have produced and appeared on Télé Liban one of the only Lebanese TV channel at the time.
Professional occupations
Other than his work at Télé Liban as a Producer and Director between 1959 and 1980, El-Khoury also worked in the following sectors:
1976-1984: El Khoury was a program supervisor at the Voice of Lebanon.
1984-1989: He became the CEO of the Lebanese national radio.
1994-1999: El Khoury was an advisor at the Ministry of Information for subject related to audiovisual.
1999-2013: El Khoury was nominated as the new CEO and chairman of the Lebanese national TV channel, Télé Liban.
2003-2008: El Khoury taught audio-visual at the Beirut Arab University.
Awards
In November 2007, El Khoury was awarded the National Order of the Cedar, given to him by the President at the time Émile Lahoud.
Chairman position after 2013
After El Khoury's death on July 28, 2013, the position of chairman was very unclear, until now no permanent chairman has succeeded El Khoury; from 2014 to 2017 Talal Makdessi was a temporary head chief of the TV until a committee from the new Council of Ministers appointed a new board but before that, Makdessi was dismissed after judicial decision on May 26, 2017
Personal life
El Khoury was married to television presenter Charlotte Wazen. They had two daughters.
El Kh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet%20Transit%20Database | The Exoplanet Transit Database (ETD) is a database operated by the Variable Star and Exoplanet Section of the Czech Astronomical Society. The database came online in September 2008 and consists of three sections: transit prediction, processing, uploading data. The ETD gives information about mid-transit time, duration, and depth of transit, among other parameters.
Together with the NASA Exoplanet Archive, it is considered one of the main databases that allows astronomers to predict transit events and schedule observation sessions. The database includes transit light curves of exoplanets that are suitable for ground‐based observations.
References
Astronomy in the Czech Republic
Exoplanet catalogues
2008 establishments in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen%20Tze%20Lo | Yuen Tze Lo (; January 31, 1920 – May 10, 2002) was a Chinese American electrical engineer and academician. He was a professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is best known for his contributions to the theory and design of antennas. He is the editor of the textbook series, Antenna Handbook.
The Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Research Award at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is named after him.
Biography
Lo was born on January 31, 1920, in Hankou, Republic of China. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Southwestern Associated University in 1942. Between 1946 and 1948, he worked at the National Tsing Hua University in Kunming as an instructor; he worked briefly at the Yenching University as well. He obtained his M.S. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana in 1949 and 1952, respectively.
Between 1952 and 1956, Lo worked at Channel Master Corporation at Ellenville, New York, as an engineer. In 1956, Lo joined University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as faculty member, conducting research at the Antenna Laboratory. Lo stayed as faculty member at University of Illinois until his retirement in 1990. He was also the director of the Electromagnetics Lab from 1982 to 1990.
Lo had served as a distinguished lecturer in microstrip antenna theory. In 1986, Lo was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "for inventions and innovative ideas which have advanced significantly the theory and design of antennas and arrays." In 1996, he received IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society's Distinguished Achievement Award for "fundamental contributions to the theory of antenna arrays."
Lo was married to Sara de Mundo and had two children. He died on May 10, 2002.
Research
Lo's research interests included antenna theory, design and applications. He is regarded as the inventor of the broadband television-receiving antenna. In 1959, he designed the University of Illinois's radio telescope, Vermilion Observatory Radio Telescope; the structure was considered to be the largest antenna of the world at that time, prior to the completion of Arecibo Telescope. In the late 1970s, he introduced the cavity-model theory for microstrip-patch antennas. His research work and expertise also involved other microwave structures such as microwave resonators and artificial materials.
In 1958, Lo introduced an early version of method of moments in a course on electromagnetics at University of Illinois.
Selected publications
Articles
Books
Book chapters
References
1920 births
2002 deaths
People from Wuhan
Chinese emigrants to the United States
American electrical engineers
American telecommunications engineers
Microwave engineers
National Southwestern Associated University alumni
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoonito%20%28American%20programming%20block%29 | Cartoonito (also known as Cartoonito on Cartoon Network) is a programming block that airs on weekday mornings. It premiered on September 13, 2021, on Cartoon Network, and a dedicated section on the streaming service Max. Cartoonito targets a preschool audience around two to six years old. Cartoonito marks the first dedicated preschool block on Cartoon Network in over fifteen years.
History
Background
In 1996, Cartoon Network created a Sunday morning block of preschool programs. It featured series such as Big Bag, a live-action/puppet television program by the Children's Television Workshop, Small World, and Cave Kids. However, Big Bag ran until 1998, while Small World ran until 2002. Once Big Bag left Cartoon Network's lineup in 2001, Baby Looney Tunes, along with Pecola, Sitting Ducks, and Hamtaro, filled that space in 2003. The block moved to weekday mornings afterward.
On August 22, 2005, Cartoon Network USA debuted Tickle-U, the network's first official attempt at weekday-morning preschool programming block. The block aired 2 hours from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. It featured domestic and foreign-imported series targeted at preschool-age children like its competitors Nick Jr. (on Nickelodeon) and Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior on Disney Channel). The hosts were two animated CGI characters: a red butterfly-like creature named Pipoca and a yellow rabbit-like creature named Henderson.
Programs on the lineup included Firehouse Tales (the only original series), Gerald McBoing-Boing, Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs (both from Teletoon/Treehouse TV and both co-productions), and British series such as Gordon the Garden Gnome, Little Robots, Peppa Pig and Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!, some of which were re-dubbed for American audiences. The block came under criticized by the CCFC, for its marketing strategies. Tickle-U closed on January 13, 2006, some of its programmings still aired on Cartoon Network until 2007 and as part of the schedule of the British variation of Cartoonito.
Launch
On June 14, 2021, new idents of the block appeared on videos (which includes Esme & Roy, Mush-Mush & the Mushables, Care Bears: Unlock the Magic, and Love Monster) on Cartoonito's YouTube channel, and a newsletter was announced, with a new banner and avatar on the Cartoonito YouTube Channel in July. A trailer for the block was released on July 29, 2021.
On August 16, 2021, the launch date was announced for September 13, 2021; Baby Looney Tunes would be the first show to air on the block. The television block initially ran for 8 hours (6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET/PT) on weekdays and 2 hours (6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. ET/PT) on weekends.
On November 16, 2021, the weekday schedule decreased to seven hours (ending at 1:00 p.m. ET/PT). It later dropped another hour (ending at 12:00 p.m. ET/PT) on December 20, 2021. The block ceased airing on weekends on January 29, 2022, while the weekday schedule dropped yet another hour (ending at 11:00 a.m. ET/PT), reducing Cartoonito to a |
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