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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Torczon | Virginia Joanne Torczon is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on nonlinear optimization methods including pattern search. She is dean of graduate studies and research, and chancellor professor of computer science, at the College of William & Mary.
Education and career
Torczon majored in history as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University. She earned her Ph.D. in mathematical sciences in 1989 from Rice University. Her dissertation, Multi-Directional Search: a Direct Search Algorithm for Parallel Machines, was supervised by John E. Dennis.
Before becoming dean of graduate studies and research at William & Mary, she was the first female chair of the computer science department there.
Recognition
Torczon's paper "On the Convergence of Pattern Search Algorithms" won the inaugural Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Outstanding Paper Prize for the best paper published in a SIAM journal in 1999.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Wesleyan University alumni
Rice University alumni
College of William & Mary faculty
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliergonella | Calliergonella is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Pylaisiaceae.
The genus was first described by Loeske.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
Calliergonella cuspidata
Calliergonella lindbergii
References
Hypnales
Moss genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD%20Win%203 | The GPD Win 3 is a Windows-based handheld computer that is the successor to the GPD Win 2 and GPD Win MAX. It is manufactured by Chinese company Gamepad Digital (GPD), and crowdfunded.
Specifications
History
Following the GPD Win 2 in 2017 and GPD Win Max in 2020, GPD announced the GPD Win 3.
The Indiegogo campaign started in January 2021 and ended in March 2021.
Performance
The GPD Win 3 can run Fallout 4 at 720p60 or 1080p30 with Ultra settings
The I7-1165G7 (28W) have same performance as I7-8700H in multi-thread and 20-45% better performance in single thread.
See also
Comparison of handheld game consoles
GPD Win
GPD Win 2
GPD XD
PC gaming
Handheld game console
References
External links
(English)
(中文)
Handheld gaming computers
Indiegogo projects
Windows 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Select%20%28streaming%20service%29 | BBC Select is a streaming service in North America launched in February 2021. The service is owned by the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Studios, and features documentaries and factual programming previously shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and shows from other British broadcasters, such as Channel 4's Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip. It is available as an Amazon Prime Video Channel, and via Apple TV and Roku.
BBC Select was one of the first BBC properties to use the 2021 logo in Reith font, just before its official debut on 20 October 2021.
References
External links
BBC
Subscription video on demand services
2021 establishments in the United States
Internet properties established in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Kenny%20Everett%20Video%20Show%20episodes | The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) was a British television comedy and music programme produced by Thames Television for the ITV network from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.
This is a list of episodes including its four series and three Christmas / New Year specials. Dates listed are original airdates.
Series
Episodes
Series 1 (1978)
The first episode of The Kenny Everett Video Show aired at 6:45pm on Monday 3 July 1978. The eight-part series consisted mostly of musical performances, alongside Hot Gossip routines, Captain Kremmen cartoons, archive clips and occasional OB segments.
Series 2 (1979)
Prior to the second series, the programme returned on New Year's Day 1979 in most ITV regions (except Scottish Television, which aired the special on 7 January 1979) with the Didn't Quite Make it in Time for Christmas Video Show, which also aired in a shortened version on 18 April 1979 - as ITV's entry for the Golden Rose of Montreux.
Series Two began at 7:00pm on Monday 19 February 1979 with an extended ten-episode run (30 minutes per episode) and a greater reliance on comedy material.
Series 3 (1980)
The Video Show returned at 11:00pm on New Year's Eve 1979 with an hour-long special, Will Kenny Everett Make it to 1980? on most of the ITV network. Scottish Television aired it the following afternoon while Grampian Television opted out of the final part on its original transmission.
Series 3 ran for eight episodes, starting at 7:00pm on Monday 18 February 1980.
Series 4 (Video Cassette, 1981)
Everett's last New Year's special, The Kenny Everett New Year's Daze Show aired at 11:50pm on New Year's Eve 1980 over most of the ITV network. Ulster Television never aired this special, while Grampian and Scottish broadcast it two days later.
The final series, renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette, saw the show moved to Thursday evenings at 7:30pm in a bid to compete with BBC1's Top of the Pops. Unhappy with the scheduling of the series, among other issues, Everett left Thames and moved to BBC Television.
Specials
References
Lists of British non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of British comedy television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirothrips | Chirothrips is a genus of insects belonging to the family Thripidae.
The genus was first described by Haliday in 1836.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution in florets of Poaceae.
Species
Data from
Chirothrips aculeatus (Bagnall, 1927)
Chirothrips africanus Priesner, 1932
Chirothrips ah Girault, 1929
Chirothrips alexanderae Stannard, 1959
Chirothrips andrei zur Strassen, 1974
Chirothrips atricorpus (Girault, 1927)
Chirothrips azoricus zur Strassen, 1981
Chirothrips capensis zur Strassen, 1958
Chirothrips choui Feng & Li, 1996
Chirothrips cuneiceps Hood, 1940
Chirothrips cypriotes Hood, 1938
Chirothrips egregius zur Strassen, 1957
Chirothrips falsus Priesner, 1925
Chirothrips faurei zur Strassen, 1957
Chirothrips frontalis Williams, 1914
Chirothrips guillarmodi (Hood, 1954)
Chirothrips hamatus Trybom, 1895
Chirothrips hemingi Nakahara & Foottit, 2012
Chirothrips insolitus Hood, 1915
Chirothrips insularis Hood, 1938
Chirothrips kurdistanus zur Strassen, 1967
Chirothrips longispinus Pelikan, 1964
Chirothrips loyolae Ananthakrishnan, 1959
Chirothrips manicatus (Haliday, 1836)
Chirothrips maximi Ananthakrishnan, 1957
Chirothrips medius zur Strassen, 1965
Chirothrips meridionalis Bagnall, 1927
Chirothrips molestus Priesner, 1926
Chirothrips mongolicus zur Strassen, 1963
Chirothrips orizaba Hood, 1938
Chirothrips pallidicornis Priesner, 1925
Chirothrips patruelis Hood, 1940
Chirothrips praeocularis Andre, 1941
Chirothrips pretorianus Hood, 1953
Chirothrips productus Hood, 1927
Chirothrips propinquus zur Strassen, 1967
Chirothrips ruptipennis Priesner, 1938
Chirothrips secalis Moulton, 1936
Chirothrips spinulosus Andre, 1941
Chirothrips tenuicauda zur Strassen, 1963
Chirothrips tibialis (Blanchard, 1851)
Chirothrips watanabei Ishida, 1931
References
Thripidae
Thrips genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality%2C%20religion%2C%20and%20language%20data%20for%20the%20provinces%20of%20Thailand | In its 1970 and 2000 censuses, Thailand collected nationality data by province, whereas in its 1990 and 2000 census, Thailand collected both religion and language data by province.
In both 1970 and 2000, almost every Thai province's population was 95.0% or more Thai nationals. Bangkok was the only exception to this rule in 1970, and just barely, whereas Chiang Rai, Tak, Ranong, and Mae Hong Son (but not Bangkok) were the only exceptions to this rule in 2000. In both 1970 and 2000, almost every Thai province's population was Buddhist-majority (indeed, many Thai provinces in both 1990 and 2000 even had Buddhist percentages of 99.0% or more), with the only exceptions being Narathiwat, Pattani, Satun, and Yala, all of which are both Muslim-majority and located in southern Thailand–specifically near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Indeed, both Narathiwat and Pattani were over 80.0% Muslim in 2000, albeit (barely) not in 1990. Meanwhile, Krabi had a Buddhist majority in both 1990 and 2000 but nevertheless had a huge Muslim minority of over one-third of its total population in both of these years. Other than Chiang Mai, no Thai province had a Christian population of 2.0% or more in either 1990 or 2000, with Chiang Mai's Christian percentage almost doubling from 3.3% to 6.0% between 1990 and 2000.
Mae Hong Son's population was composed of a majority of hill tribe language speakers in both 1990 and 2000 whereas hill tribe language speakers also made up 10.0% or more of the population in Tak in 1990 and in Tak along with Nan, Chiang Rai, and Chiang Mai in 2000. Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat all had Malay-speaking majorities of over 60.0% in both 1990 and 2000 but no other Thai province actually had anything close to a Malay-speaking majority in either of these two Thai census years. In fact, no other Thai province even had a Malay-speaking percentage in the double-digits in either of these two census years, though Satun did come extremely close in 2000, with it being 9.9% Malay in that year–an absolutely gigantic increase from 1990, when it was only 2.8% Malay. Both Sisaket and Surin had Khmer-speaking percentages of over 25.0% in both 1990 and 2000, with Surin even having a Khmer-speaking majority of over 60.0% in 1990, albeit with it falling just short of a Khmer-speaking majority in 2000. Meanwhile, Buriram had almost no Khmer speakers in 1990 but saw its Khmer percentage explode and increase to over 25.0% of its total population by 2000. Some Thai provinces also had Vietnamese-speaking, Laotian-speaking, Burmese-speaking, Peguan-speaking, Chinese-speaking, and/or Japanese-speaking minorities in 1990 and/or 2000, but these minorities were always a single-digit percentage or less of these provinces' total population in both of these years. For instance, no Thai province had a Burmese- and Peguan-speaking minority of 5.0% or more in 1990, though Ranong–located on the southern edge of Thailand's border with Burma–did have a Burmese- and Peguan-speaking m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%2012 | Android 12 is the twelfth major release and 19th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. The first beta was released on May 18, 2021. Android 12 was released publicly on October 4, 2021, through Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and was released to supported Google Pixel devices on October 19, 2021.
As of July 2023, Android 12 was the 2nd most widely-used version of Android, with 682 million of devices. The first phones to have Android 12 were the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro.
History
Android 12 (internally codenamed Snow Cone) was announced in an Android blog posted on February 18, 2021. A developer preview was released immediately, with two additional ones planned the following two months. After that, four monthly beta releases were planned, beginning in May, the last one of them reaching platform stability in August, with general availability coming shortly after that.
The second developer preview was released on March 17, 2021, followed by a third preview on April 21. The first beta build was then released on May 18, 2021. It was followed by beta 2 on June 9, which got a bug-fix update to 2.1 on June 23. The third beta was released on July 14, getting a bug-fix update to 3.1 on July 26. Beta 4 was released on August 11, 2021. A fifth beta, not planned in the original roadmap, was released on September 8, 2021. Android 12's stable version was released on the Android Open Source Project on October 4 before getting its public over-the-air rollout on October 19, coinciding with the launch event for the Pixel 6.
Android 12.1/12L
In October 2021, Google announced Android 12L, an interim release of Android 12 including improvements specific for foldable phones, tablets, desktop-sized screens and Chromebooks, and modifications to the user interface to tailor it to larger screens. It was planned to launch in early 2022. Developer Preview 1 of Android 12L was released in October 2021, followed by Beta 1 in December 2021, Beta 2 in January 2022, and Beta 3 in February 2022. The stable version of Android 12L was released for devices with large screens on March 7, 2022, and was released as "Android 12.1" for Pixel smartphones on the same date, besides the Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro.
Features
User interface
Android 12 introduces a major refresh to the operating system's Material Design language branded as "Material You", which features larger buttons, increased use of animation, and a new style for home screen widgets. A feature, internally codenamed "monet", allows the operating system to automatically generate a color theme for system menus and supported apps using the colors of the user's wallpaper.
The smart home and Wallet areas added to the power menu on Android 11 have been relocated to the notification shade, while Google Assistant is now activated by holding the power button. Android 12 features native support for taking scrolling screenshots.
The screen magnifier feature now allow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Run%20%28video%20game%29 | Home Run is a 1978 sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed to the Atari 2600). It was the first baseball-themed game released for an Atari platform. The game received mostly negative critical reception due to its unrealistic portrayal of the sport. It was one of the games used by console competitor Mattel to show the quality improvement of Intellivision sports games over the Atari VCS.
Atari replaced Home Run with RealSports Baseball in 1982.
Gameplay
The game only vaguely resembles actual baseball as it lacks fly balls or independent fielders. Teams have only one to three players, and the fielders must run with the ball to tag players out, with throwing of the ball to force players out not being possible. There is no pitcher's mound, with the pitcher instead standing at second base. Depending on the selected game mode, only zero to two infielders are present in the game, and when either the pitcher or one of the infielders catches the ball everyone but the baserunners and the ball-catcher instantly disappears from view. The home team has to bat at the bottom of the 9th inning regardless of whether they are winning or not, and there is no extra innings if the game is tied.
Development and marketing
Home Run was designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead, who went on to found Activision, and David Rolfe. The cover art was designed by Cliff Spohn.
According to a 1978 New York Times interview with Nolan Bushnell, the engineer who was first assigned to develop the game didn't know the rules of the sport of baseball. As a result, in an initial version of the game if the player failed to hit the ball they were awarded a ball rather than a strike.
A television advertising campaign for the game (and the Atari VCS as a whole) was fronted by Pete Rose.
The game was one of the games used in advertisements by console competitor Mattel to show the quality improvement of Intellivision sports games over the Atari VCS.
Reception
A review in the December 1982 issue of JoyStik magazine was heavily critical of the game, stating that it was "nothing like real baseball", and describing the graphics as "primitive". The 1984 Software Encyclopedia published by Electronic Games magazine was similarly critical of the game, saying that it lacks "the "feel" of real sports action", and giving it an overall rating of 4/10. Writing in The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games, Electronic Games editors Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel called the game, "so pared down from the original sport that it only barely qualifies as a baseball simulation," stating that, "it might more accurately be called 'Video Stickball'."
A December 2000 review by Patrick Wong in Classic Gamer magazine panned the game, describing it as (together with Atari's Golf) "two of the worst games ever made". Wong criticised the "boring" graphics, the small number of fielders deployable in the game, and the unrealistic gameplay, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Mitchell%20%28scientist%29 | Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use.
Education
Mitchell obtained a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Reed College, Portland, Oregon, in 2005. After having worked as a research assistant at the OGI School of Science and Engineering for two years, she subsequently obtained a Master's in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington in 2009. She enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Aberdeen, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the topic of Generating Reference to Visible Objects, graduating in 2013.
Career and research
Mitchell is most well known for her work on fairness in machine learning and methods for mitigating algorithmic bias. This includes her work on introducing the concept of 'Model Cards' for more transparent model reporting, and methods for debiasing machine learning models using adversarial learning. Margaret Mitchell created the framework for recognizing and avoiding biases by testing with a variable for the group of interest, predictor and an adversary.
In 2012, Mitchell joined the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral researcher, before taking up a position at Microsoft Research in 2013. At Microsoft, Mitchell was the research lead of the Seeing AI project, an app that offers support for the visually impaired by narrating texts and images.
In November 2016, she became a senior research scientist at Google Research and Machine intelligence. While at Google, she founded and co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team together with Timnit Gebru. In May 2018, she represented Google in the Partnership on AI.
In February 2018, she gave a TED talk on 'How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us'.
In January 2021, after Timnit Gebru's departure from Google, Mitchell reportedly used a script to search through her corporate account and download emails that allegedly documented discriminatory incidents involving Gebru. Mitchell's corporate account was then locked by an automated system. When the media covered the story, Google claimed that she "exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts". After a five-week investigation, Mitchell was fired. Prior to her dismissal, Mitchell had been a vocal advocate for diversity at Google, and had voiced concerns about research censorship at the company.
In late 2021, she joined AI start-up Hugging Face.
Leadership
Mitchell was a co-founder of Widening NLP, group seeking to increase the proportion of women and minorities working in natural language processing, and a special interest group within the Association for Computational Linguistics.
References
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
American women com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapr |
Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is a free and open source runtime system designed to support cloud native and serverless computing. Its initial release supported SDKs and APIs for Java, .NET, Python, and Go, and targeted the Kubernetes cloud deployment system.
The source code is written in the Go programming language. It is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.
See also
Microservices
Service mesh
References
Further reading
External links
Serverless computing
Microsoft free software
Software using the Apache license
Software using the MIT license
2019 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Pozar | David Michael Pozar (born January 15, 1952) is an American electrical engineer, educator and professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests concentrate mainly on antenna theory and design. Pozar is also the author of the textbook, Microwave Engineering.
Biography
David Michael Pozar was born on January 15, 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Akron in 1975 and 1976, respectively. He completed his PhD. studies under the supervision of Carlton H. Walter in 1980 at Ohio State University.
Pozar joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1980; he was promoted to the full professorship in 1989. In 1988, he worked at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as a visiting professor during his sabbatical. He served as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in between 1983 and 1986, as well as between 1989 and 1992. He became a Distinguished
Lecturer for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 1993 and retired in 2004. He is an IEEE fellow.
Pozar's research interests focus on the design and analysis of microstrip antennas and phased arrays. He has authored multiple books on antenna and microwave engineering, including Antenna Design Using Personal Computers (1985), Microwave Engineering (1990) and Microwave and RF Design of Wireless Systems (2000). Pozar introduced the widely used printed antenna feed techniques of aperture coupling in 1984 and proximity coupling in 1987. He is also the author of PCAAD, computer-aided design package for antennas.
Selected publications
Books
Articles
References
External links
Living people
1952 births
American electronics engineers
American telecommunications engineers
Microwave engineers
Electrical engineering academics
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of Akron alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Academics from Pennsylvania
Scientists from Pittsburgh
Fellow Members of the IEEE
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American engineering writers
Educators from Pennsylvania
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
20th-century American educators
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Engineers from Massachusetts
Educators from Massachusetts
American textbook writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Dertien | Evan Carleton Dertien is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the commander of the Air Force Test Center. He most recently served as the director for air, space, and cyberspace operations of the Air Force Materiel Command and prior to that served as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. In February 2021, he was confirmed for promotion to major general and assigned to become the commander of the Air Force Test Center, replacing Maj Gen Christopher Azzano. He assumed his present assignment on July 15, 2021.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodenia%20inundata | Goodenia inundata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is an erect, annual or ephemeral herb with narrow egg-shaped stem-leaves and panicles of purple or maroon flowers with a yellow centre.
Description
Goodenia inundata is an erect annual or ephemeral herb that typically grows to a height of . The stem-leaves are narrow egg-shaped with the base extending down the stem, long and wide. The flowers are borne in leafy panicles long, the sepals narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped, long and the corolla long, purple or maroon with a yellow centre. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from May to June and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.
Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia inundata was first formally described in 2001 by Leigh William Sage and Julian Patrick Pigott in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near the Kalumburu Road in 1993. The specific epithet (inundata) means "flooded", referring to the seasonally inundated habitat of this goodenia.
Distribution and habitat
This goodenia grows in seasonally wet places in the north-west of the Northern Kimberley biogeographic region of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Goodenia inundata is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.
References
inundata
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 2001
Endemic flora of Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20M.%20Wood | Helen M. Wood is an American computer scientist who worked for many years at the National Bureau of Standards, directed the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and served as president of the IEEE Computer Society.
Education and career
Wood is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in mathematics. She joined the National Bureau of Standards (later to be renamed the National Institute of Standards and Technology) while she was still a student there. While in government service, she also completed a master's degree in computer science, from American University.
By 1988 she had become Deputy Director of the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology in the Bureau. In that year, she moved to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to direct the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution. While with the NOAA, she also chaired the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council. She was president of the IEEE Computer Society for the 1990 term.
Recognition
Wood is a two-time recipient of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal, and has also been awarded the Department of Commerce Silver Medal, Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, and Meritorious Presidential Rank Award. In 1993 she was elected as an IEEE Fellow, "for leadership and contributions to computing and communications standardization". In 1994 the IEEE Computer Society gave her their Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service, "for outstanding and sustained contributions and leadership to the society and the institute, particularly in the area of standards, publications, and information services."
References
Further reading
External links
Helen Wood Art, Wood's personal site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
American University alumni
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
National Institute of Standards and Technology people
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Department of Commerce Gold Medal
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Nations%20Australia%20Writers%20Network | The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) is the peak advocacy body for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers and poets in Australia.
History
The seeds for the organisation were sown at the Guwanyi Indigenous Writers Festival in March 2011, although the idea had been discussed much earlier, at a 1993 writers' workshop in Brisbane by Anita Heiss, Jared Thomas, and Kerry Reed-Gilbert. In 2012, a working party established to work towards the goal, comprising Thomas, Reed-Gilbert, Philip McLaren, Jackie Huggins, Sam Watson Snr, Jim Everett (aka puralia meenamatta, Tasmanian writer, playwright, and poet), Alexis West (dancer, choreographer, performer, writer, filmmaker), John Harding (playwright), Peter Minter (poet and editor), Marcus Waters (Kamilaroi screenwriter and academic, and Marie Munkara (Darwin-based writer of Rembarrnga and Tiwi descent).
First Nations Australia Writers Network was established in 2013, with Reed-Gilbert as the first chair. Cathy Craigie was a co-founder and became executive director of the organisation.
Description
FNAWN serves as an advocacy body and resources service for emerging and established Indigenous Australian writers, poets and storytellers, helping to develop skills and provide development opportunities, "to sustain and enhance First Nations Australians writing and storytelling".
It is registered as a charitable organisation based in Canberra, with all of its funding coming from government grants.
, Jackie Huggins is patron and poet Yvette Holt is chair. Board members are Jeanine Leane, Samantha Faulkner, John Harding, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Rachel Bin Salleh.
Activities and events
In May 2013, FNAWN organised its first national workshop, a three-day-event in Brisbane attended by 120 Indigenous writers, poets and storytellers, as well as non-Indigenous literary, agents, publishers and individuals. The second workshop, held in Melbourne in 2015, was an opportunity to demonstrate the work of its members and the success of the organisation, both within Australia and internationally. A third workshop was held in Canberra in August 2018.
FNAWN was one of the main organisers of the first trip by Aboriginal writers to the US, to attend a book fair to showcase their work. It has hosted guests from Canada, New Zealand and the US at various events.
In 2014, the FNAWN worked with Australian Poetry on the management of the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry.
In September 2015, in a collaboration with Poets House in New York, a recording of six FNAWN members reading their work was presented at a special event, and recorded for posterity. Introduced by Craigie, the six readers were: Jeanine Leane, Dub Leffler, Melissa Lucashenko, Bruce Pascoe, Jared Thomas and Ellen van Neerven.
Submissions consisting of poems of up to 40 lines for a volume entitled FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021 closed in December 2020. The project is overseen by FNAWN publisher, Yvette Holt, in association with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet%20Network%20of%20India | The Millet Network of India supports millet farmers. It was created by one hundred women who realised the qualities of the traditional crop. The group have helped village farmers to grow millet with low water usage and organic fertiliser while highlighting the injustice of government subsidies which encourage competitor crops like rice. It has received both the Nari Shakti Puraskar and the Equator Award.
Background
Millet is a traditional grain in India and the Millet Network of India promotes it because the crop will grow with less water than other crops. This is particularly apparent when it is compared with rice which enjoys a subsidy in India. Millet will grow on poor soil, it suffers from few diseases and the harvested crop can be kept for a long time. Millet can be fed with natural fertilisers, but not many farmers still grow it, stopping because there is little demand. White rice is more popular and rice growing attracts a government subsidy.
In 2016, the network was campaigning and lobbying government to get millet recognised by legislation which currently excludes it. They wanted the National Food Security Act amended so that millet would be included in the subsidised food that is made available to the poor. The month long campaign was designed to end on World Food Day.
By 2018, the network had 5,000 members and Moghulamma received the Nari Shakti Puraskar on behalf of the network on International Women's Day in 2018. This is the highest civilian honour for women, given for an outstanding contribution to women's empowerment and presented by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind on 8 March 2018. The network was one of 39 recipients from all over India. Moghulamma, who collected the award, was aged 36 and had become a full time farmer after her husband and his mother died. It was her mother-in-law who had got her involved with the Millet Network and she has gained attention for her success at organically growing millet. The network supplies advice on pest control and the organic use of vermicompost, manure and panchgavya. In 2019 she went to New York to receive the Equator Award from UNESCO.
References
Organisations based in India
Organizations with year of establishment missing
Nari Shakti Puraskar winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heng%20Ji | Heng Ji is a computer scientist who works on information extraction and natural language processing. She is well known for her work on joined named entity recognition and relation extraction, as well as for her work on cross-document event extraction. She has been coordinating the popular NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has been recognised as one of AI's 10 to watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, and has won multiple awards, including a NSF Career Award in 2009, Google Research awards in 2009 and 2014, and an IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012.
Education
Heng Ji obtained a Bachelor's and master's degree in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University. She subsequently obtained a MSc, then PhD in Computer Science from New York University in 2008 under the supervision of Ralph Grishman. Her PhD thesis was on the topic of information extraction, with a particular focus on joint training of multiple components in the information extraction pipeline, as well as cross-lingual learning.
Career
Upon graduating with a PhD from New York University, Ji took up a position as assistant professor at Queens College, City University of New York, where she founded the BLENDER Lab, which focuses on research on cross-lingual, cross-documents, cross-media information extraction and fusion. In 2013, she joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair and Tenured associate professor in Computer Science.
Since 2019, she has been a full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, as well as an Amazon Scholar.
Research
Heng Ji works in the area of natural language processing, machine learning and information extraction. She has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers.
Her work is published in the proceedings of computer science conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, The Web Conference, and the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
Ji is a leading researcher in information extraction, having coordinated the popular NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population shared task since 2010. She is most recognised for her work on modelling interactions between subtasks in information extraction, which was also the topic of her PhD thesis, and for her work on event detection using cross-document signals.
Selected honors and distinctions
2009 NSF Career Award
2009 Google Research Award
2012 IBM Watson Faculty Award
2013 IEEE AI's 10 to Watch
2014 Google Research Award
2016 World Economic Forum, 'Young Scientist'
2017 World Economic Forum, 'Young Scientist'
2020 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, best demonstration paper
References
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Natural language processing researchers
New York University alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Chinese women computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Data miners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav%20Nakov | Preslav Nakov (born on 26 January 1977 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria) is a computer scientist who works on natural language processing. He is particularly known for his research on fake news detection, automatic detection of offensive language, and biomedical text mining. Nakov obtained a PhD in computer science under the supervision of Marti Hearst from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first person to receive the prestigious John Atanasov Presidential Award for achievements in the development of the information society by the President of Bulgaria.
Education
Preslav Nakov grew up in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, where he attended primary and secondary school, obtaining a Diploma in Mathematics from the Secondary School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 'Vassil Drumev' in 1996. He then obtained a MSc degree in Informatics (Computer Science) with specialisations in Artificial Intelligence and Information and Communication Technologies from Sofia University in 2011. During his MSc studies, he worked as a teaching assistant at Sofa University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as a guest lecturer at University College London during a visit in Spring 1999. Subsequently, he enrolled into the PhD program at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, partly supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. Under the supervision of Marti Hearst, he wrote a thesis on the topic of text mining from the Web, and graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2007.
Career
Upon graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Nakov started work as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Since 2012, he has been a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). He maintains a position as an honorary lecturer at Sofia University.
Research
Preslav Nakov works in the area of natural language processing and text mining. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers.
Preslav Nakov's early research was on lexical semantics and text mining. He published influential papers on biomedical text mining, most prominently on methods to identify citation sentences in biomedical papers.
He is though most well-known for his research on fake news detection, such as his work on predicting the factuality and bias of news sources, as well as for his research on the automatic detection of offensive language. Nakov also previously led the organisation of a popular evaluation campaign on sentiment analysis systems as part of SemEval between the years of 2015 and 2017.
He currently coordinates the Tanbih News Aggregator project, a large project with partners at the Qatar Computing Research Institute and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which aims to uncover stance, bias and propaganda in news.
Selected honors and distinctions
2003 John Atanasov Presidential Award for achievements in the development of the infor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello%20%281980%20video%20game%29 | Othello is a 1980 video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for its Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600). It is based on the variant of Reversi of the same name, originally created in 1971. The VCS game was programmed by Ed Logg and Carol Shaw.
Gameplay
The game broadly resembles the game originally developed by Parker Brothers in that it is set on an 8x8 board on which the player must capture squares by sandwiching their opponent's counters between their own. The game has four skill levels. Both one-player and competitive two-player modes are included in the game. The player can create their own problem by depositing pieces on the board, and select whether to go first or not.
Development
The game was programmed by Ed Logg, who had studied artificial intelligence at the Stanford University AI Lab, and Carol Shaw, who later created River Raid. Shaw programmed the visuals for Othello. The cover-art for the cartridge was created by Steve Hendricks.
Reception
A review in the Autumn 1983 edition of UK magazine TV Gamer criticised the AI, saying that, "the computer can manage only average ability even at its highest level of play", and that by that point the game was showing its age, but also said that the game would suit those who enjoyed that kind of strategy game. Electronic Games editors Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel assessed the game as "moderately challenging", calling the AI "a fair, if unexceptional, opponent." Conversely, a review in the 1983 Book of Atari Software described the game as "a very sophisticated and challenging game" and gave the game a rating of "A" overall.
A review in the January 1983 issue of Tilt, the French video-games magazine, was broadly positive, particularly praising the ability to set up a problem before starting the game as an advantage over other electronic games of Othello, though it noted that the "expert" difficulty setting merely equated to the level of a good beginner. Conversely, a review in the Autumn 1983 issue of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games was praising of the AI, describing the opponent on "Expert" setting as "capable of beating the pants off of you".
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
References
External links
Othello at Atari Mania
1980 video games
Atari 2600 games
Reversi software
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Sparrow%20%28malware%29 | The Silver Sparrow computer virus is malware that runs on x86- and Apple M1-based Macintosh computers. Engineers at the cyber security firm Red Canary have detected two versions of the malware in January and February 2021.
Description
Two versions of the malware were reported. The first version (described as the "non-M1" version) is compiled for Intel x86-64. It was first detected in January 2021. The second version contains code that runs natively on Apple's proprietary M1 processor, and was probably released in December 2020 and discovered in February 2021. The virus connects to a server hosted on Amazon Web Services. The software includes a self-destruct mechanism.
As of 23 February 2021, information about how the malware is spread and what system may be compromised is sparse. It is uncertain whether Silver Sparrow is embedded inside malicious advertisements, pirated software, or bogus Adobe Flash Player updaters. Red Canary has theorized that systems could have been infected through malicious search engine results that might have directed them to download the code. The ultimate object of the malware's release is also still unknown.
Silver Sparrow is the second malware virus observed to include M1-native code.
Impact
As of 23 February 2021, Internet security company Malwarebytes has discovered over 29,000 Macs worldwide running their anti-malware software to be infected with Silver Sparrow. Silver Sparrow infected Macs have been found in 153 countries as of February 17, with higher concentrations reported in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany, according to data from Malwarebytes. Over 39,000 Macs were affected in the beginning of March 2021.
On 23 February 2021, a spokesperson of Apple Inc. stated that "there is no evidence to suggest the malware they identified has delivered a malicious payload to infected users." Apple also revoked the certificates of the developer accounts used to sign the packages, thereby preventing any additional Macs from becoming infected.
References
2021 in computing
Cyberattacks
Cybercrime
Hacking in the 2020s
February 2021 crimes
Computer security exploits
MacOS malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarita%20Schoenebeck | Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan, where she serves as Director of the Living Online Lab. Her research considers human–computer interactions, social media and social computing. She was awarded the University of Michigan School of Information Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award in 2017 for her work on LGBTQ+ families and online communities.
Early life and education
Schoenebeck is from California. She was an undergraduate student in engineering at Dartmouth College. As an undergraduate student played tennis, and earned first team all-ivy honours three times. She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, where she completed a Master's in information management. She was selected as the 2006 UC Berkeley School of Information Class Speaker. Schoenebeck was a doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, where she studied ways that parents could support young people's use of social media.
Research and career
Schoenebeck was appointed to the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Information in 2012, first as an Assistant then Associate Professor. At the University of Michigan, she serves as Director of the Living Online Lab. Her research considers how social media platforms can contend with the negative impacts their users experience. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Schoenebeck studied how the principles of justice can play a role in reducing online harassment. As part of this work, she evaluated how internet users experience, assess and respond to online abuse, as well as developing restorative justice interventions that looked to reduce online harassment. She demonstrated that community-centred approaches, including active bystander training, were effective in mitigating online harassment. These findings informed a series of workshops that sought to educate young people about ways to tackle online harassment. She found that the public shaming of online harassers was not enough to address the injustice experienced by victims. Schoenebeck has also studied what young people expect of their parents when it comes to social media use. She found that children wanted their parents to moderate their use of technology and be present (i.e. to put phones away when talking to one another), to supervise their children's use (establish ground rules for their children) and not to share photographs of their children without their permission.
In 2017, Schoenebeck was awarded the University of Michigan School of Information Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award in 2017 for her work on LGBTQ+ families and online communities. She was supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to investigate ways that digital platforms can reduce harms such as hate speech and harassment. Schoenebeck proposed that this could be achieved by expanding Section 230, forcing digital platforms to stop prioritising engagement over the protection of users. She also currently serv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prathima%20Agrawal | Prathima Agrawal is an Indian-American computer engineer known for her contributions to wireless networking, VLSI, and computer-aided design. She is a professor emerita and the former Samuel Ginn Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University.
Early life and education
Agrawal's father was a chemical engineer; she studied engineering in the 1960s at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, as the only female engineering student there at the time. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees there, she began doctoral study at the University of Rochester in 1967, again as the only woman. She married engineer Vishwani Agrawal after a year, had a son, and left the program, instead earning a second master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for work on the ILLIAC IV program.
She returned to India with her new family, but after two years as a housewife, became a doctoral student at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1974, temporarily leaving her husband in India and her son with a sister in New York. She completed her Ph.D. at USC in 1977, under the supervision of Melvin Breuer.
Career
Agrawal became a researcher at Bell Labs in 1978, working on the simulation of large electronic circuits, a problem that led her to the design of single-chip multiprocessors to perform these simulations. In 1992, she became the founding director of a laboratory on networked computing, shifting her interests from circuit design to networking. She moved to Bellcore in 1998, and moved again to Auburn as Samuel Ginn Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center in 2003. She retired as a professor emerita in 2014.
Book
With Santosh Kulkarni, Agrawal is the author of Analysis of TCP Performance in Data Center Networks (Springer, 2014). She has also edited several edited volumes.
Recognition
Bell Labs named Agrawal a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1985. She was named an IEEE Fellow in 1989 "for contributions to computer-aided design and testing of integrated circuits", and the IEEE gave her their Third Millennium Medal in 2000. The Indian Institute of Science named her a distinguished alumna in 2008.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electronics engineers
American women engineers
Indian electronics engineers
Indian women engineers
Indian Institute of Science alumni
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Auburn University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Wuppertal | The Wuppertal tramway network served Wuppertal, Germany for 114 years until its closure in 1987.
History
The first horse-drawn tram line opened between what were then the twin cities of Barmen and Elberfeld in 1873. The network was expanded and electrified with overhead wires starting in 1896. The tram network was operated by a number of companies and starting in 1901 had to compete with the Wuppertal Suspension Railway for passengers travelling east-west through the region. In 1925 Barmen and Elberfeld merged to form the city of Wuppertal and in 1940 the numerous tram operators were consolidated into a single system. By 1948, Wuppertal's tram network was the 6th most extensive in all of Germany and had a total route length of .
After the introduction of public buses, tram lines in Wuppertal were gradually discontinued until the entire system was closed on May 30, 1987.
Routes
In its last decade in operation, the Wuppertal tram network consisted of 5 tram lines as outlined below.
References
External links
Tram transport in Germany
Wuppertal
1873 establishments in Germany
1987 disestablishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Life | Fox Life, now to be rebranded as Star Life, is an international pay television network, launched by the Fox Networks Group in 2004. The network has been discontinued in several markets over time, and is currently active in the Middle East, Portugal, and India.
The network's scheduling has varied with each version, ranging from traditional entertainment programming, including television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, original programming in certain regions, and instructional and aspirational reality television on some other variations; in North America for instance, the network carried mainly Spanish language dubbed versions of American reality shows and instructional programming. The channel has been owned by International Operations division of The Walt Disney Company since March 2019.
History
Fox Life was first launched in Italy on May 13, 2004, in Portugal on May 19, 2005, and Bulgaria on September 8, 2005. For Latin America, it started in July 2006, when it was launched in Brazil. The channel also has versions in other countries around Europe. It launched in the Netherlands and Flanders on September 7, 2009. Fox Life launched in the United States on November 4, 2013.
Flemish version
As of 22 November 2011, Fox had to change the programming for Fox Life in Flanders due to television rights issues in Belgium. From then on, a separate Flemish version was airing in Belgium. It used to air the Dutch version. The provider of satellite television in the Netherlands, Canal Digitaal, had to replace Fox Life with the Finnish version as well because it shared the Fox Life feed with the Belgium provider of satellite television, TV Vlaanderen Digitaal.
Launch in Southeast Asia
On October 1, 2017, the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian version of Star World was rebranded to Fox Life.
Rebranding/closing in Europe
From 22 September 2015, Fox Life has been replaced by 24Kitchen for satellite viewers in the Netherlands. The Finnish Fox Life was rebranded as Fox.
Fox Networks Group Benelux announced that Fox Life would officially close in the Netherlands on December 31, 2016.
Rebranding/closing in Latin America
On 27 November 2020, Fox announced that they would be renaming the Fox branded channels in Latin America to Star Life on 22 February 2021. The networks closed on 31 March 2022, along with the American version.
Closing in Southeast Asia
From 1 September 2021, FOX Life along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels (Fox Crime, Fox, FX, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Nat Geo People, Fox Movies, Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, and five of its sports channels) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission on Now TV Hong Kong.
After 11 years of broadcasting, FOX Life, along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (Fox Crime, Fox, FX, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Nat Geo People, Fox Movies, Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sope%20Willams%20Elegbe | Sope Williams is a Nigerian professor of Law, public procurement scholar and anti-corruption champion.
She is known for being an advocate for and speaker on Open Governance, Blockchain, Gender responsive public procurement, integrity and anti-Corruption, and sustainable development.
Sope is a consultant for different governments, the World Bank and is currently on the anti-corruption sub-committee of the International Bar Association in charge of exclusion and debarment
In December 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani International Excellence Award for Anti-Corruption Research and Education in recognition of her research, education and training on anti-corruption law. https://aceaward.com/en/news/details/89
Life
She was born in Geneva, to Chief and Mrs F.O Williams. She attended Geneva English School and later Home Science Primary School, Ikoyi, for her early education. She went on to Queen’s College, Yaba, and the University of Lagos. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999 after which she went to the London School of Economics where she obtained an LLM with distinction in 2000.
Career
Sope Williams started her career at the University of Stirling, Scotland, as a lecturer in business law in 2000. In 2003, moved to the University of Nottingham and joined the School of Law. In 2008 she was co-opted to work on a project on the World Bank’s expert group that helped the Bank reform its procurement process which lasted till 2011. She obtained a PhD in public procurement and anti-corruption law in 2011 from the University of Nottingham.
Sope was the Head of Research at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Lagos from 2014 till 2016. In 2016, she moved to South Africa and was appointed a professor of law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. From 2018 to 2021, she was the Head of the department of Mercantile law, and is currently the Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit. She is also on the Board of the international NGO- SlaveFree Trade and counter-corruption institute- the Pavocat-Stellenbosch Academy.
Life and work
Her research work is the area of public procurement, anti-corruption, digitalization of the public sector and sustainable development law, with a focus on human rights and sustainable public procurement and the impact of corruption on sustainable procurement. She is the author of over 4 books and over 60 peer reviewed academic papers. She has consulted for governments within and outside Africa and is the author of several influential policy reports on open government, on anti-corruption and gender responsive procurement.
On February 15, 2016, she trained Nigerian Lawmakers in the House of Assembly on Nigerian public procurement law. Her training highlighted that Nigeria has been defrauded because of the loopholes in the public procurement act and the failure of agencies to enforce the law. Sope Williams, said that a solution was to engage legislative, institutional and or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarketCast | MarketCast is an American company specializing in fandom, market research and data analytics. Based in Los Angeles, it was founded in 1987 and is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company. It offers research and data science to companies ranging from Hollywood studios through streaming media services, video game publishers and lifestyle businesses to sports leagues. It has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, London, Pune and Reading.
MarketCast has been described as the "leading provider of iterative testing and benchmarking services that underpin the development of worldwide marketing campaigns."
History
MarketCast was founded by Joseph Helfgot when he presented positioning studies to Orion Pictures to help its marketing team with Dances with Wolves and The Silence Of The Lambs. It had been acquired by Reed Business Information in 2000 and was then sold to Shamrock Holdings in 2012. In 2016, it was bought from RLJ Equity Partners and State Street Global Advisors. In August 2015 MarketCast acquired the Insight Strategy Group. In August 2017, MarketCast acquired Fizziology, a data analytics company based in Indianapolis, and in 2018 it bought Turnkey Intelligence, a sports research firm. As a result of these four acquisitions MarketCast began to operates through four consumer insights branches. In September 2020 it acquired data science company Deductive. In March 2022, MarketCast acquired the New York-headquartered company, Phoenix Marketing International - a research and analytics provider specialising in advertising measurement.
References
External links
Official website
Market research organizations
Fandom
Companies based in Los Angeles
Companies established in 1987
Market research companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20One%20Karma | Phase One Karma is an IT company that devises products based on artificial intelligence technologies. The company produced Unicheck (a part of Turnitin since 2020), a cloud-based plagiarism detection software, and Loio, a document optimization add-in for legal professionals.
History
Phase One Karma was founded in 2014 to create a meaningful impact through developing innovative software products. In 2014 Unicheck (Unplag until 2017) became the company's first machine Learning (ML) and natural language processing based product to confront student plagiarism in schools and universities. In 2019 Unicheck became a thriving technology product, reaching over 1 million users in more than 90 countries. In 2020, Unicheck was acquired by Turnitin to improve innovative technologies in education and administration.
As part of the internal R&D department, the P1K team developed EMMA, an authorship verification algorithm, to combat plagiarism. EMMA is based on Natural language understanding (NLU) technology, determining authorship through the writing style verification. The algorithm was integrated into Unicheck. EMMA defines the authorship of the text with a probability of 92%, using only three texts of 300 to 1000 words each. At the development stage, EMMA was tested on texts in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, and others
From 2019 onwards, Phase One Karma is working on the development of different AI projects that would become just as significant and applicable. The company is producing Loio, a legal technology MS Word add-in for legal professionals, to transform the routine tiresome digital paperwork for lawyers. Loio offers the features of legal document styling, numbering, tracking of contract versions, and up-to-date AI-analysis. Its mission is to eradicate any errors and plagiarism that is viable to take place due to the ongoing work stress in legal professions.
Corporate identity and acknowledgments
Phase One Karma has a distinct corporate culture and an integrated community of coworkers. The company's main asset is its team. Phase One Karma's corporate values are representatives of synergy for dynamic work and effective HR-management. The company is focused on being ecologically aware and sends aid to the local rescue services. During the 2020 global pandemic's lockdown, the company implemented the required preventive measures and transferred the team to remote work with the necessary equipment.
Phase One Karma Research and Development department has been acknowledged as highly professional and supportive while devising, testing, and implementing of AI paraphrase identification method.
See also
Educational technology
References
External links
Phase One Karma official website
Software companies of Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement%20dysfunction | Measurement dysfunction describes a situation or behavior where actual data metrics, statistics and especially their meaning (or communicated meaning), can become problematic due to misuse. Specifically, in areas such as Human Resources (Performance measurements), Technology (Safety), Finance or Health, measurement dysfunctionality are critical, as it can lead to negative outcomes, wrong predictions or forecasts.
Practices to avoid:
Reward of wrong behavior (also persons who manipulate)
Measuring the wrong things
Measuring either not enough or too much
Cheating or data manipulation (intentional or unintentional due to wrong calculation models, systematic errors, human errors, etc.)
On eliminating dysfunctional measurement:
Establish, and monitor the move to and adherence to ‘policies’ for good, functional measurement
Support technical correctness
Periodically evaluate the information need and value delivered by measurements
Trivia
"What gets measured gets manipulated."
See also
Measurement uncertainty
Leadership
Performance measurement
Plagiarism
OKR
Corporate culture
Verification and validation
Scientific rigor
References
Measurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaundra%20Daily | Shaundra Bryant Daily (born May 29, 1979) is an American professor and author known for her work in the field of human-centered computing and broadening participation in STEM. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University.
Early life and education
Growing up, Daily was interested in math and science and loved to dance and do gymnastics. Daily received her B.S. in Engineering from Florida State University in 2001, her M.S. from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2003, and her S.M. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. At the Media Lab, she worked with the Affective Computing and Future of Learning Groups.
Career
After graduating from the Media Lab, Daily joined Clemson University's School of Computing in the Human-Centered Computing Division as an assistant professor. There she was promoted to associate professor and served as co-chair of the division.
In 2012, Daily was involved in a controversial project to measure galvanic skin response in classrooms using bracelets from startup Affectiva. The project was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was criticized by Diane Ravitch of New York University.
Daily's work at Clemson focused on the use of dance to teach programming. Students used block programming to choreograph dances in a virtual environment. The aim of the research was to help bridge the gender gap in computer science and engineering.
In 2015, she joined the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at the University of Florida as an associate professor, before moving to Duke University where she serves as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As Faculty Director of Duke Technology Scholars Program, QuadEx lead Faculty Fellow, and faculty representative of the executive committee for the Pratt School of Engineering Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Community Committee, Daily continues working for equity in education.
Daily's accomplishments have been documented in articles, web series and podcasts. She was featured in news sources for her work fusing dance and a virtual environment to teach computer programming as well as The Washington Post for her work exploring privacy and trust issues of affective computing in the classroom. Daily was featured alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mayim Bialik on the PBS web series The Secret Life Of Scientists And Engineers.
Honors and awards
2022 Black STEM Leader, Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina
2020 Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, Duke University
2015 Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning Early Career Research Award given by the American Education Research Association.
2015 Delta Alpha Pi, Extraordinary Educator Award for outstanding work which impacts students with disabilities.
2013 BDPA Most Promising Technologist Epsilon Award
2013 Diverse Issues and Higher Education, Emergin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Bacon | Eugen Bacon is an African-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction.
She has been nominated for national and international awards, including the World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award, Bridport Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards, British Fantasy Award, and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans. She also writes nonfiction. She is a professional editor registered with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), and has been a judge in various competitions including the Aurealis Awards, Norma K Hemming Awards and Australian Shadows Awards.
Early life
She was born Eugen Matoyo in Tanzania, and she speaks English and Swahili. She lived in the UK before moving to Melbourne, Australia.
Education
Eugen Bacon has a Master of Science with distinction in distributed computer systems from the University of Greenwich, UK. She also holds a Master of Arts in creative writing and a doctorate in writing, both from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. She worked in ICT in a service provider role before becoming a writer.
Writing
She has published short fiction and novels in various genres within the literary speculative fiction field, including black speculative fiction and afrofuturism. She also writes nonfiction including essays, scholarly articles, book chapters and books.
Bibliography
Novels
Mage of Fools (2022)
Novellas
Broken Paradise. Luna Press Publishing. 2023
Ivory's Story. NewCon Press. 2021
Short fiction
Collections
Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction (2020, with Milton Davis)
Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction 2020)
Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories (2020)
Danged Black Things (2021)
Saving Shadows (2021)
Chasing Whispers (2022)
Stories
Anthologies (edited)
Poetry
Saving Shadows (2021)
Speculate: A Collection of Microlit (2021), with Dominique Hecq
Frame of Reference (2021)
Black Moon (2020)
Her Bitch Dress (2020)
It's Folking Political (2020)
Non-fiction
Books
An Earnest Blackness (2022)
Writing Speculative Fiction (2019)
Articles
Crafting Stories within a Story 2013
Peaches and Lemons – Peter Temple and Michael Ondaatje 2016
The Writer 2013
Hang Him When He's Not There 2016
Chewing Over the Trials of Unemployment 2011
Crossing genre - exemplars of literary speculative fiction 2017
What is AfroSF? 2018
Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction 2019
The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction 2020
Dark Fiction 2020
Southerly review 2014
Journaling - a path to exegesis in creative research 2014
Review of Angela Meyer's Captives 2015
Being Marcus 2015
Push—a prototype of displaced fiction in the YA literature debate: Breaking the circle of silence 2015
Creative practice - finding the right mentor 2015
Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel 2017
Scholarly exegesis as a memoir 2017
The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman's The Sha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kitten%20from%20Lizyukov%20Street%202 | The Kitten from Lizyukov Street 2 () is a 2017 Russian computer-animated short film produced by Wizart Animation and directed by Alexey Zamyslov.
The adaptation is the sequel to Kitten from Lizyukov Street that also features the previous film's themes of nostalgia to the native homeland. The dialogues and script is written by the author of the first part of the cartoon Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin. The short film was made with feature-film quality standards and is a continuation of the Soviet Union classic film into the Russian era.
Plot
In Voronezh, Vasiliy the kitten and Bulka the puppy are rying to attract the attention of passers-by. Suddenly he notices Vasily and rushes in pursuit of him. Fortunately, Vasiliy climbs into a dog sculpture, where he sits until the evening. When the frost intensified, Bulka and Vaska became friends. Vasily expresses a desire to “live somewhere where it’s summer all year round.” They are overheard by the Crow, who decides to help Vasily and Bulka and fulfill their wish. Remembering her grandmother's magic word, the crow takes Vasiliy and Bulka to a beach in Australia. Where they ended up at the finals of the volleyball league (in which the players were kangaroos and ostriches while the coach is a wombat)
Suddenly, the ball jumps off the tree and falls into the mouth of a sleeping crocodile. Then Bulka and Vaska try together to save the ball, but the Crocodile wakes up and, being angry, intends to eat them. While the kangaroo and Bulka are running to look for the ball, Vasily, seeing the wombat wakesurfing , asks the kangaroo for permission to take paint from him. He agrees, and Vasiliy starts to practice his surfing skills, but is overtaken by a shark.
Vasily then ends up stuck in a tree with a koala, as he watches from above Bulka running to the Outback. Some of the Australians and Bulka accidentally step on a gopher . Vasily begins to drink milk, but inadvertently knocks over one of the koalas, and it almost falls into the mouth of the crocodile. Vasily manages to hold her, but soon the crocodile grabs a branch with its mouth, and the kitten and koala are ejected. Soon the puppy Bulka finds himself near the tree with Vasily and the koalas, pinched by the approaching Australians. On time, Vasily jumps from the tree and says that this is not accepted in Voronezh, after which he talks about the streets in his hometown. Suddenly, the crow then takes them back to Voronezh.
Voice cast
Dmitriy Kurta as Vasiliy
Olga Shorokhova as Bulka
Irina Ponomaryova as Crow
Lina Ivanova as Kangaroo
Alexander Noskov as Crocodile
Yekaterina Semyonova as Mama Kangaroo
Production
In 2017 there were plans for the continuation of the Soviet Union animation classic Kitten from Lizyukov Street. Wizart Animation was proposed as the animation studio for production. Governor Alexey Gordeev in 2017 at a meeting assured Wizart Animation, who received support of the Voronezh Region in carrying out the task of adapting the Soviet Uni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud%20Molavi | Masoud Molavi Vardanjani (; 28 April 1968 – 14 November 2019) was an Iranian scientist killed by Iranian intelligence in Istanbul, Turkey. It was claimed he was part of Iranian cyber defense program part of IRGC and Iranian defense ministry, then turned critic of the government he had a Telegram channel titled blackbox which released informational documents about corruption in office of the supreme leader, Iranian judicial system and Iranian armed forces, before migrating from Iran he was called a genius inventor. Reuters had reported that Iranian diplomatic officers of Iranian consulate in Turkey helped assassinate him.
Academic life
He had a BS Bachelor of Science in construction engineering from Islamic Azad University Najaf Abad Branch and Artificial Intelligence and robotics from Tehran University.
Killing
According to Iran wire citing TRT journalist, Azari Jahromi, Iranian telecommunications minister had threatened him before he was killed.
In 2020, an Iranian embassy in Ankara staff member was arrested in this assassination case.
References
External links
Iranian expatriates in Turkey
University of Tehran alumni
Arizona State University alumni
Islamic Azad University alumni
Assassinated Iranian people
Scientists from Isfahan
1968 births
2019 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20Argentina | In Argentina, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only five major commercial national terrestrial networks until 2018. These were Televisión Pública, El Nueve, El Trece, Telefe and América. Since 2018, Net TV became the sixth major commercial network, with Televisión Pública being the national public television service. Local media markets have their own television stations, which may either be affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network. Stations may sign affiliation agreements with one of the national networks for the local rights to carry their programming.
Transition to digital broadcasting began in 2009, when the Secretary of Communications recommended the adoption of the ISDB-T standard for digital television, with the "Argentine Digital Terrestrial Television System" being created. Digital television has reached 80 percent of Argentina as of December 2013. The country was expected to end all analogue broadcasts in 2019, but the date was later delayed to August 31, 2021.
As of 2019, household ownership of television sets in the country is 99%, with the majority of households usually having two sets.
Major broadcast networks
National over-the-air commercial television networks
The following are the television networks with a presence throughout the national territory, via the "Televisión Digital Abierta" service (Open Digital Television in English).
Over-the-air stations by area
Greater Buenos Aires
Operating since April 21, 2010 from the Ministry of Public Works Building in Buenos Aires, since October 1, 2010 from La Plata and Luján, since March 29, 2012 from Villa Martelli and since April 4, 2012 from San Justo.
Buenos Aires Province
Mar del Plata
Operating since February 1, 2011 from Mar del Plata.
Trenque Lauquen
Operating since August 16, 2012 from Trenque Lauquen.
Chaco
Greater Resistencia
Operating since September 1, 2010 from Puerto Tirol.
Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
Operating since February 18, 2018 from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña.
Chubut
Comodoro Rivadavia
Operating since April 15, 2013 from Comodoro Rivadavia.
Córdoba
Greater Córdoba
Operating since January 1, 2011 from Cerro Mogote and since February 14, 2012 from Córdoba.
Río Cuarto
Operating since February 14, 2012 from Río Cuarto.
Villa María
Operating since May 1, 2011 from Villa María.
Corrientes
Greater Corrientes
Operating from Corrientes. Also available in Greater Resistencia.
Entre Ríos
Paraná
Operating since June 1, 2011 from Paraná.
Formosa
Clorinda–Laguna Blanca
Operating since February 8, 2013 from Clorinda and since January 29, 2014 from Laguna Blanca.
Formosa
Operating since December 1, 2010 from Formosa.
Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy
Operating since May 1, 2011 from San Salvador de Jujuy.
La Pampa
Santa Rosa
Operating since October 6, 2011 from Santa Rosa.
La Rioja
La Rioja
Operating since February 1, 2011 from La Rioja.
Mendoza
Greater Mendoza
Operating since December 19, 2011 fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy%20Bengio | Samy Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple, and a former long-time scientist at Google known for leading a large group of researchers working in machine learning including adversarial settings. Bengio left Google shortly after the company fired his report, Timnit Gebru, without first notifying him. At the time, Bengio said that he had been "stunned" by what happened to Gebru. He is also among the three authors who developed Torch in 2002, the ancestor of PyTorch, one of today's two largest machine learning frameworks.
Education
Bengio obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1993 with a thesis titled Optimization of a Parametric Learning Rule for Neural Networks from the Université de Montréal. Before that, Bengio got an M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1989 with a thesis on Integration of Traditional and Intelligence Tutoring Systems from the same university, together with a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 1986.
Scientific contributions
According to DBLP, Samy Bengio has authored around 250 scientific papers on neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, statistics, computer vision and natural language processing. The most cited of these include some of the early works sparking the 2010s deep learning revolution by showing how to explore the many learned representations obtained through deep learning, one of the first deep learning approaches to image captioning, efforts to understand why deep learning works leading to many follow-up works. He also worked on the first evidence that adversarial examples can exist in the real world, i.e. one can really change a physical object such that a machine learning system would be fooled and one of the first works on zero-shot recognition, i.e., recognizing classes never seen during training.
Professional activities
Bengio worked at the IDIAP Research Institute and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, from 1999 to 2007.
He was General Chair of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 2018 served as program chair of NeurIPS in 2017 and is currently a board member. He was also program chair of ICLR (2015-2016) and sits on its board (2018-2020).
Bengio is also an editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Personal life
Samy Bengio was born to two Moroccan Jews who emigrated to France and Canada. He is the brother of Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio. Both of them lived in Morocco for a year during their father's military service there. His father, Carlo Bengio, was a pharmacist who wrote theatre pieces and ran a Sephardic theatrical troupe in Montreal that played Judeo-Arabic pieces. His mother, Célia Moreno, is also an artist who played in one of the major theatre scenes of Morocco that was run by Tayeb Seddiki in the 1970s.
References
1965 births
Living people
Moroccan-Jewish diaspora
Machine learning researchers
Apple Inc. employees
Université de Montréal alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichaeta | Dichaeta is a subgenus of flies belonging to the family Ephydridae.
Species
Notiphila caudata (Fallén, 1813)
References
Ephydridae
Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen
Insect subgenera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri%20Van%20De%20Ville | Dimitri Van De Ville (born 1975 in Dendermonde) is a Swiss and Belgian computer scientist and neuroscientist specialized in dynamical and network aspects of brain activity. He is a professor of bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Medical Image Processing Laboratory at EPFL's School of Engineering.
Career
Van De Ville studied computer sciences at Ghent University and received his Master's degree suma cum lauda in 1998. He then pursued a PhD at the same institution and graduated in 2002 with a thesis on "Linear, nonlinear, and fuzzy image interpolation techniques" (Lineaire, niet-lineaire en vaaglogische beeldinterpolatietechnieken) that was supervised by Ignace Lemahieu and Wilfried Philips. He joined the EPFL as a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Unser's Biomedical Imaging Group. In 2005, he became group leader of the Signal Processing Core Geneva at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging.
In 2009, enabled by a SNSF Professorship Grant, he founded the Medical Image Processing Laboratory that is jointly held by EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering and the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine, and that is currently situated at the Campus Biotech in Geneva. In 2015, he was appointed tenured associate professor at EPFL with an adjunct appointment at the University of Geneva. Since 2015 he has been the head of the CIBM's Signal Processing Section, and since 2020 he has been the ad-interim head of CIBM's Animal Imaging & Technology Section.
Research
Van De Ville's research focuses on functional neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to measure dynamical and network aspects of human brain activity. He develops analysis methods at the interface of signal processing, data and network science, statistics, and applies them to investigate brain function.
Van De Ville’s research interests through to the end of his post-doctoral studies were dedicated to wavelets and splines, specifically to hex-splines, isotropic polyharmonic B-spline wavelets, and operator wavelets. This research also found application in neuro-imaging by inspiring adaptation such as activelets and wavelet-based statistical parametric mapping.
Since 2009, Van De Ville has dedicated his research to computational neuroimaging with the aim to study brain functions related to behavior in health and disorder by employing fMRI and EEG data. He provides an explanation why fast EEG neural correlates (milliseconds timescale) can be correlated with slow fMRI hemodynamic fluctuations (seconds timescale) by demonstrating that sequences of EEG micro-state topographies represent scale-free organization. He also introduced machine learning methods to functional connectivity measures, and thereby initiated the field of connectivity decoding.
In describing both the method and the application for imaging-based biomarkers, he was among the first to describe the dynamic functio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Ink%20Library | The International Ink Library and its Digital Ink Library are an FBI forensic database of inks. It is used to identify writing instruments, makes, models, ink types, and document authenticity. It contains over 15,000 samples of pen, marker, and printer inks dating from the 1920s. As part of the FBI Questioned Documents Branch, it is used to investigate criminal and terrorist cases, fraudulent documents, forgeries, checks, money orders, and threats to persons. It uses high-performance thin-layer chromatography, electrophoresis, ultraviolet spectra, electrospray ionization and mass spectrometry. It also analyzes chemical date tags expressly inserted by ink manufacturers. The database originated in the 1960s from the collection of Antonio Cantu, former Chief Forensic Chemist at the Secret Service, which dedicated the lab in his honor.
There is no cost to access, but is limited to U.S. Secret Service directorates, students through coordinated research initiatives, and law enforcement entities. It handles over 500 cases per year. It has been used in such cases as the Jasper Johns forged documents, the Martha Stewart conviction, as well as the 9/11 attacks. It was also used in the D.C. Sniper attacks in which the sniper had written "Call me God" on tarot Death cards.
References
Forensic databases
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diura | Diura is a genus of insects belonging to the family Perlodidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.
Species:
Diura bicaudata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Diura chronus Gray, 1833
References
Perlodidae
Plecoptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy%20K.%20Brown | Quincy K. Brown is an American computer scientist and former Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is a published academic and co-founder of blackcomputeHER.org, NationOfMakers.org and Black In Computing.
Early life and education
Brown graduated from Bronx High School of Science and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in 1995. She earned a master of science degree (2007) and doctor of philosophy degree in computer science (2009) from Drexel University.
Brown's research focused on mobile Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and Broadening Participation in Computing. Her work studied how children used touch and gesture on mobile devices for learning, how first responders used mobile devices in emergency situations, and inquiry behaviors for mobile devices.
Career and research
Brown was an assistant professor at Bowie State University from 2010 to 2016. She left academia to pursue careers in the government and non-profit organizations after earning tenure.
Brown founded Girl Who Will, a summer program for middle and high school girls, in 2011.
Brown served as senior policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2016 and program director for STEM Education Research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 2016 to 2019. In these roles, she worked on computer science education and broadening participation in STEM. Brown was one of 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration to sign the June 26, 2019 Washington Post op-ed titled We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly by.
In 2020, Brown launched the organization blackcomputeHER.org with Jamika D. Burge and Jakita Thomas. The organization's mission is to support workforce development, computing education and technology education for Black women and girls through research, programs, and events. In the same year, Brown worked with colleagues to form Black In Computing, a nonprofit organization that supports its members in their pursuit to affect change in the computing community. She is also the co-founder of NationOfMakers.org, a non-profit organization to encourage an inclusive and diverse community of makers and Games+MobilePlay, Learn, Live Lab.
Brown is currently Director of Engagement and Research at AnitaB.org.
Awards and Fellowships
In 2009, Brown received the National Science Foundation's Computing Community Consortium CI Fellows Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and GK-12 Fellow award. She was also a NSF Bridges to the Doctorate Fellow.
Selected publications
Brown, Q., R. G. Tull, L. Medina, M. Beadle-Holder, and Y. Medina. "Factoring Family Considerations into Female Faculty Choices for International Engagement in Engineering, IT, and Computer Science." In ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pet%20Rescuers | The Pet Rescuers is an Australian observational documentary series first screened on the Nine Network in 2021. It follows the work of a team on a mission to give abandoned pets a second chance. The 10 part series was created by Gillian Bartlett and produced by Gillian Bartlett and Euan Jones for Silverfox Network.
After a successful first series, Nine Network commissioned 20 episodes for the second season, which was delivered in July 2022 and scheduled for broadcast on 18th February 2023. As well as featuring daily life at Second Chance Animal Rescue in Melbourne, the second season also features dog trainer Laura V and Wildlife Xposure front man Xavier Morello.Website
See also
Silverfox Network
Pet Rescue
Second Chance Animal Rescue Inc
RSPCA Animal Rescue
The Dog House
Bondi Vet
References
External links
Pet Rescuers
Nine Network original programming
Discovery Channel original programming
2021 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhanjeri | Jhanjeri is a village in the SAS Nagar district and comes under Kharar Tehsil as per the latest records total of 3269 people (mainly Sikhs and Hindus) are living here as per 2011 census data, also some Muslim families are living there. Its pin code or better known as postal code is 140307. The official language of communication is native Punjabi. It is known for Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Jhanjeri, a college group affiliated with Punjab Technical University. The Village is also having another college called Quest Group of Institutions. The Village is facing untidy surrounding due to urban mess and swear water issues as reported in 2017.
References
Punjab, India
Villages in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district
Mohali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20S.%20Wang | Paul S. Wang is a Chinese-American computer scientist, researcher, author, consultant, and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Kent State University.
Wang's expertise lies in automation of mathematical computation. He has conducted over forty research projects. His research mainly focuses on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC), automatic code generation, Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation (IAMC), polynomial factoring and GCD algorithms, enabling technologies and classroom delivery of Web-based Mathematics Education (WME), and parallel and distributed SAC. He has also authored several books of Computer Science including Mastering Modern Linux, From Computing to Computational Thinking, An Introduction to Web Design and Programming, Mastering Linux, An Introduction to Web Design and Programming, and Standard C++ with Object-Oriented Programming.
Wang also writes articles for his blog on Comutational Thinking (CT).
Early life and education
Wang was born in Xi'an, China in 1944. He graduated from Taiwan National Zhongxing University in 1967 and then immigrated to the United States on receiving a graduate scholarship to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1971, he earned a Doctoral degree in computer science from MIT. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Joel Moses, is entitled "Evaluation of Definite Integrals by Symbolic Manipulation".
Career
Following his Doctoral degree he became faculty at MIT (1971-1977). Wang joined Kent State University in 1977 and began to establish the computer (CS) subject in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. In 1981, he held an appointment as Computer Science professor, and then served as Director at the Institute for Computational Mathematics from 1986 till 2011. He retired in 2012 and became Professor Emeritus at Kent State University.
In 1980s, he established sofpower, a consultancy in the field of information technology. In 2001, he established webtong.com. He taught Web design and programming for more than ten years. During this time period, he published two textbooks entitled An Introduction to Web Design and Programming and Dynamic Web Programming and HTML5 in 2003 and 2012. In 2015, he published From Computing to Computational Thinking.
Since 2017, Wang has been writing articles on his own blog computational thinking (CT).
Research
As a young graduate student Wang joined Project MAC, the research lab that led to the MIT LCS (Laboratory for Computer Science) which later became the CSAIL at MIT. Wang began to work on automation of mathematical computation under the Macsyma project. His research primarily focuses on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC also known as Computer Algebra), Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation (IAMC), polynomial factoring and GCD algorithms, enabling technologies for and classroom delivery of Web-based Mathematics Education (WME), automatic code generation, and parallel and distributed SAC.
Polynomial factorization
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Resilient%20Networks%20and%20Applications | Center for Resilient Networks and Applications, CRNA. is owned by Simula Research Laboratories (SRL) and Oslo Metropolitan University. The center was established in 2014 as a response to modern society's increasing dependability on applications running on top of the Internet and the serious societal consequences of outages. CRNA is a culmination of earlier research undertaken between 2006 and 2014 in projects called Resilient Networks and Resilient Networks II.
The center receives its base funding from the Norwegian government, initially from the Ministry of Transport and Communications but has from 2019 been moved under the Ministry of Digitalisation.
CRNA's mandate includes operating a country-wide infrastructure for monitoring the reliability and performance of mobile networks, the NorNet Edge. So far seven annual reports have been published tracking the evolution of Norwegian mobile operators and highlighting points with scope for improvements.
The research undertaken at CRNA is informing the Norwegian Government's policy on communications infrastructure, and the importance of the work is expressed in the Government's Digital agenda.
References
Telecommunications
Internet in Norway
Mobile technology
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20computing | Soft computing is a set of algorithms,
including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary algorithms.
These algorithms are tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth and approximation.
It is contrasted with hard computing: algorithms which find provably correct and optimal solutions to problems.
History
The theory and techniques related to soft computing were first introduced in 1980s. The term "soft computing" was coined by Lotfi A. Zadeh.
See also
Emergence
Synthetic intelligence
Watson (computer)
Notable journals
Soft Computing
Applied Soft Computing
References
Soft computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physopsis%20spicata | Physopsis spicata is a plant in the Lamiaceae family, first described in 1849 by Nikolai Turczaninow/
It is found in Western Australia.
References
External links
Physopsis spicata occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1849
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow
Lamiaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeraj%20Suri | Neeraj Suri is an American-Austrian computer scientist. He is a Distinguished University Professor at Lancaster University (UK) and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He holds a MS and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on Trustworthy Computing, notably the experimental validation of software including quantification of dependability and security. He is a member of the IFIP WG10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, Microsoft and IBM faculty awards
Most-cited publications
Saxena D, Raychoudhury V, Suri N, Becker C, Cao J. Named data networking: a survey. Computer Science Review. 2016 Feb 1;19:15-55. (Cited 202 times, according to Google Scholar )
Kopetz H, Suri N. Compositional design of RT systems: A conceptual basis for specification of linking interfaces. InSixth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2003. 2003 May 16 (pp. 51–60). (Cited144 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Hiller M, Jhumka A, Suri N. An approach for analysing the propagation of data errors in software. In2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks 2001 Jul 1 (pp. 161–170). (Cited 136 times, according to Google Scholar.)
References
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Lancaster University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20Nepal | The busiest airports in Nepal are based on the data from Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).
In graph
International Airport
Domestic Airports
2019
The traffic in the airport in 2019 is shown in table below.
2018
The traffic in the airport in 2018 is shown in table below.
2017
The traffic in the airport in 2017 is shown in table below.
2016
The traffic in the airport in 2016 is shown in table below.
2015
The traffic in the airport in 2015 is shown in table below.
References
Airports in Nepal
Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20waterfalls%20in%20Washington | There are over 3,000 catalogued waterfalls in the U.S. state of Washington, according to the World Waterfall Data Base This is more than any other U.S. State and includes Colonial Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the continental United States and the tallest in any U.S. National Park, at 2,568 feet in height. The second tallest is Johannesburg falls (not named after the South Africa City, but after the names of historical settlers.) Its total height is 2,465 feet. Both waterfalls are in North Cascades National Park.
See also
List of lakes of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness
References
Washington
Waterfalls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20Legion | Lenovo Legion is a line of consumer-oriented laptops and desktop computers designed, developed and marketed by Lenovo, targeting gaming performance. The first Legion brand laptops, the Legion Y520 and the Legion Y720, were revealed at CES 2017. On June 6, 2017, a high-performance model, the Legion Y920, equipped with Intel's seventh-generation quad-core i7-7820HK and Nvidia GTX 1070 discrete graphics, was launched.
At E3 2018, Lenovo announced three new laptops with new redesigned chassis, Y530, Y730 and Y7000.
In 2019, Lenovo introduced the Legion Y540, Y740 with the new GeForce 20 series.
In 2020, Lenovo launched the Legion 3, 5, and 7 laptops, where Legion 7 is the highest specification of the series.
Models
This table lists all the existing models, their availability depends on the country.
See also
Lenovo ThinkPad
Lenovo IdeaPad
HP Omen
Dell Alienware
Intel Core
AMD Ryzen
Nvidia GeForce
Lenovo gaming laptops with an Intel Core i7 processor
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14: The Ultimate Gaming Beast Unveiled
References
External links
Official Website
Legion
Consumer electronics brands
Computer-related introductions in 2017
Products introduced in 2017
Gaming computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversified%20Technical%20Systems | DTS (Diversified Technical Systems) is an American manufacturer of miniature, rugged, data acquisition systems and sensors for product and safety testing in extreme environments. DTS products, made in the U.S., are used in multiple industries including automotive, aerospace, military and defense, industrial, and sports and injury biomechanics. DTS was founded in 1990 by three crash test engineers: Mike Beckage, Steve Pruitt, and Tim Kippen. The company is headquartered in Seal Beach, California, with technical centers in Michigan, Europe, Japan, China, Korea, and Asia Pacific.
History
DTS founded their Roller Coaster Testing Services (RSTE) in 1994 and in 1996 became an S-Corporation and introduced production of a modular DAS system, developed for KARCO Engineering (acquired by Applus+ IDIADA). Two years later they introduced their first major DAS product line TDAS PRO.
One year later in 1999 DTS won the Worldwide Side Impact Dummy contract to develop in-dummy DAS. DTS developed and introduced the first centralized in-dummy DAS solution in 2000 and in 2007' expanded beyond the automotive crash market. They also fielded their first helmet sensors in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corp. In the same year DTS introduced new technology in their product line of SLICE, TSR, and angular rate sensors, and also proposed Worldwide Side Impact Dummy WorldSID with SLICE in-dummy DAS.
DTS awarded their first Small Business Innovation Research Award (SBIR) in 2006 from the Department of Defense to develop a small, self-powered Impact Event Recorder (IER) that could be easily added to head protective equipment.
Inc. Magazine named DTS one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. in 2009- DTS SLICE (miniature modular DAS) was used to collect data for new world record when Professor Splash dives from 35' 9" into 12" of water and one year later DTS grew to 50 employees with 6 global offices and 350+ customers. At the end of 2010 the first production version units of HEADS, Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems was delivered, a helmet mounted shock recorder that collects field data to help soldiers determine if they should seek immediate attention for mild traumatic brain injury. In 2011 the first HEADS production lot shipped and the first units were fielded by U.S. Army.
In 2012 NHTSA/Dept. of Transportation selected DTS’ TDAS G5 for 640 channels in new Crash Barrier Load Walls. They introduced the new flexible force sensor and the U.S. Army named DTS helmet sensor (HEADS) one of “The greatest inventions of 2011.” DTS DAS was utilized in the world's biggest remote-controlled plane crash featured on The Discovery Channel "Curiosity." On CBS This Morning and CBS Nightline DTS DAS was featured in “Smart Dummies” about General Motors and “Brace for Impact.” and delivered the 40,000th helmet recorder to the U.S. Army. Inc. Magazine named DTS one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the 2nd tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byeong%20Park | Byeong Uk Park is a South Korean statistician working in structured nonparametric regression, semiparametric inference and non-Euclidean data analysis. He is Professor of Statistics at the Seoul National University.
Park received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 working with Peter Bickel. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He has received the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Carver Medal in 2018 and, as the first statistician, the Inchon Memorial Foundation Inchon Award in 2019.
Park was the Laplace Lecturer at the 9th World Congress in Probability and Statistics in 2016 in Toronto. He was also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
Professor Park is the President of the Korean Statistical Society 2021-2022, a Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute 2019-2023, and served as Scientific Secretary of the Bernoulli Society 2015-19. Since 2017 he is co-editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. He has published over 150 scientific articles in refereed journals.
References
South Korean statisticians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCR%2029 | Lambton Colliery Railway No.29 is a preserved 0-6-2 tank locomotive built by Kitson and Company for the Lambton Colliery network in 1904. It was the first 0-6-2T to be employed on that system, and it was later joined by No.5. No.29 was designed to work between Philadelphia and Sunderland. In February 1969, No.29 was withdrawn from service and placed into dead storage. The following year, the locomotive was purchased by volunteers from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and it was restored to working order. As of 2023, the locomotive remains operational on the NYMR.
History
Original service life
The Lambton Colliery was a privately owned colliery, in County Durham, England. In the early 1900s, the company had a need for larger and more powerful locomotives than their existing 0-6-0 tender locomotives from the 1850s. In 1904, they approached Kitson and Company in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and they bought their first 0-6-2 tank locomotive, which was No.29. 0-6-2 tank locomotives were previously introduced and proven their worth in hauling coal loads. With a tractive force of 23,500 pounds, as well as a boiler pressure of 165 pounds per square inch, the LCR decided to purchase two identical locomotives to No.29 for their roster in 1907, Nos 30 and 31. In 1909, two more 0-6-2s were bought by the LCR, Nos.5 and 10, but this time, by Robert Stephenson and Company with a slightly different design. Two more 0-6-2s followed for the railway in 1920 and 1934, Nos.42 and 57. Some Ex Taff Vale Great Western Railway 0-6-2s would also soon follow.
No.29 and its classmates were used for shunting and pulling wagon loads of coal on LCR's rail lines, particularly between the pitheads near Philadelphia and the quayside coal staithes at Sunderland. In the late 1950s, (Under the ownership of the National Coal Board (NCB)) the Durham Coal field was being wound down, and a further spate of closures occurred in 1967 with Lambton Staithes being closed in January and the line to Pallion closing in August of the same year. The following year, the NCB was making steps to transition to diesel power, thus making the steam locomotives redundant even in the smaller railways of the country. In spite of an overhaul being completed in October 1968, No.29 was withdrawn only three months later on 15 February 1969, and it was placed into storage in Philadelphia shortly thereafter.
Preservation
In January 1970 three volunteers went to Philadelphia to examine Nos.5 and 29 with a view to purchase them. All the other withdrawn locomotives remained inside Philadelphia Works. During May, they were informed that their bids for Nos.5 and 29 had been successful, so they commenced preparing them for their journey to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The initial plan was that the locomotive would be hauled by BR Class 46 diesel locomotive No.D186. However, the steam locomotive was allowed to haul the train to Thornaby, and when it arrived there, No.29 was fitted with a London, Midland and Sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Conry | Susan E. Conry is an American computer engineer and engineering educator known for her efforts in higher education accreditation, including leading the merger of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board into ABET (the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) in the late 1990s. Her research concerns multi-agent systems; she is a professor emerita and former Distinguished Service Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University.
Education and career
Conry majored in mathematics at Rice University, graduating in 1971; she continued at Rice for graduate study in electrical engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 1975. She joined the Clarkson University faculty in 1975, and chaired the Clarkson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1996 to 2001, the first female chair of an engineering department at Clarkson. She retired as professor emerita in 2015.
She was president of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board in 1997–1998, and it was in her term that the CSAB and ABET agreed to merge.
Recognition
Conry was named a Fellow of ABET in 2005, and won the 2005 IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award "for contributions to computer science and engineering accreditation, to the development of Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (now CSAB, Inc.), for leadership in the integration of ABET and CSAB, and the development of model curricula". She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011 "for contributions to engineering education". Clarkson University named her Distinguished Service Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Ehrig | Hartmut Ehrig (born 6 December 1944 in Angermünde; died 17 March 2016) was a German computer scientist and professor of theoretical computer science and formal specification. He was a pioneer in algebraic specification of abstract data types, and in graph grammars.
Vita
In 1969, Ehrig received his diploma in mathematics from the Technical University (TU) of Berlin.
In 1971, he earned his doctorate, and in 1974 his habilitation from the same university.
Subsequently, he had research stays at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, among others.
In 1976, he became a lecturer at the TU Berlin, and the director of its Institute for Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science.
In 1984, he was appointed full professor at the TU Berlin.
Between 1981 and 1991, he was also Dean of its Department of Computer Science for several periods.
He was EATCS Vice President from 1997 to 2002.
He retired on 1 October 2010.
Selected publications
References
External links
Vita at TU Berlin — contains a portrait photo
1944 births
2016 deaths
German computer scientists
Technical University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonie%20Bears%3A%20The%20Wild%20Life | Boonie Bears: The Wild Life () is a 2021 Chinese Computer animated fantasy comedy film, and the seventh feature film in the Boonie Bears series. The story follows Logger Vick who participates in a contest with Bramble and Briar, when guests who have been transformed into animals. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
Synopsis
At the Mountain Pine area, Logger Vick visits a amusement park named the Wild Life that he learned from his old friend. The visitors uses bracelets that can transform humans to an animal of your choice upon, as well as a super-transforming version. Contestants then compete with a range of other groups through an elimination round and a finals round. The winner group then receives one million dollars. With the belief that this price will be the solution to his problems, after taking a selfie with a guinea pig-turned visitor, Vick starts to have fun at the place. However, the bear brothers Bramble and Briar also secretly entered the park, and they teamed up together with a mysterious man named Leon. Vick then receives a sample package of the various animal choices he can change into. This choices can range from a bear, a chameleon and a lion.
During the first round, the team struggled to earn their spot at the finals, but succeeded in a down-to-the wire contest. Nevertheless, the team secured the spot and that the 'Wild Life' was originally conceived by Tom and Leon, the latter of which inventing most technologies and constructed the park to bring happiness due to that his deceased daughter Lily who was thrilled by his invention. As a result, Leon attempted to shut the park since that the super-transforming technology is unsafe and results in savage animal states. Hence, those animal states, along with Bramble and Briar, were captured, while Tom is transformed into a chimera and fought Leon debating with him if the park is safe. Subsequently, Vick destroys the artificial intelligence, which resulted in a explosion that ended up killing Tom as Vick, the bears and Leon successfully escaped.
At the end of the day, everybody is freed and Vick talks to a news anchor about happiness, in which he believed that the primitive state drives happiness and uses this to deceive staff of the Wild Life.
Cast
Production
According to the filmmakers, animating the Wild Land contest venue was an extremely complex process that required 3,000 computers to render simultaneously every day. In one three-minute sequence in particular, the average time for a machine to render a frame was 20 hours – equivalent to 120 machines rendering for 30 days, 24 hours a day. Boonie Bears: The Wild Life is the first Chinese animated film in which humans transform into other animals. According to Daisy Shang, president of Fantawild Animation, this required a "special rigging system" to animate realistically.
The producers stated that film is focused on the theme of happiness. It explores the essence of happiness and how happiness influence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterr10%20Television%20Network | Enter 10 Television Private Limited (also known as Enterr10 Television, formerly Enterr10 Television Network) is an Indian mass media company headquartered at Mumbai.
History
The network launched on October 15, 2004.
In 2009, another channel named Dangal launched as a Bhojpuri entertainment channel. In 2019, it had the highest viewership numbers in its category.
In 2016, Fakt Marathi launched as a Marathi movie channel that in 2019 changed to general entertainment.
Bengali entertainment channel Enterr10 Bangla started in 2019.
The network launched a Kannada entertainment channel Dangal Kannada on September 23, 2020 with Kannada film actress Hariprriya as the brand ambassador and a Bhojpuri entertainment channel, Enterr10 Rangeela
Channels
On air channels
Defunct channels
Enterr10
Enterr10 is a Hindi/Bhojpuri language 24x7 Entertainment and Movie channel that was owned by Enterr10 Television Network.
Current shows
Current Animated Series
The Jungle Book
The Psammy Show
Former shows
Acquired shows
Original series
Animated shows
Anmol Kahaniyan
Rochak Kahaniyan
Panchtantra Ki Kahaniyan
Bablu Dablu
Gattu
Invention Story
Pat & Mat
Kung fu Master of the Zodiac The Jungle BookReality/Non-scripted programmingBindaas Hits (2020)
Dangal Play
Dangal Play is an Indian subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Enterr10 Television Network. It was launched on 6 November 2022, by Manish Singhal, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Enterr10 Television Network.
The app combines the offerings of Dangal TV, Dangal 2, Bhojpuri Cinema TV and Enterr10 Bangla. It is an on-demand video streaming platform providing entertainment and movies exclusively in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Bengali language. Dangal Play is currently available on Web, Android, iOS,LG Smart TV (WebOS), Samsung TV (Tizen) and Google Chromecast.
The service follows a freemium business model. Some of the content will be available for users to stream for free, and the rest shall require a subscription to be accessed.Dangal Play's content includes Hindi and Bangla shows and Bhojpuri Movies.
Programming Pardes Mein Mila Koi ApnaJamuna PaarJamuniaThe Sword of Tipu SultanDehleezChand Ke Paar ChaloVijay: Desh Ki AankhenSeeta Aur GeetaEk Packet UmeedThe Great MarathaSarvggun SampannaRaaz Pichle Janam KaRaaz Pichle Janam Ka Season 2Ghar Ki Baat HaiLooteri DulhanMe Aajji Aur SahibArmanon Ka Balidaan-AarakshanRaju Haazir HoGyan Guru''
Other assets
Enterr10 Music Bhojpuri is a film distribution and Music unit.
Films Produced
Films Distributed
Controversy
On October 8, 2020, the owner of Fakt Marathi, Shirish Pattanshetty, was arrested for manipulating television ratings.
References
External links
Official Website
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Mass media companies based in Mumbai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Esparza | Francisco Javier Esparza Estaun (born 27 April 1964 in Pamplona, Spain) is a Spanish computer scientist. He is a professor at the Technische Universität München.
Education
Javier Esparza Estaun received his Master of Science degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Zaragoza (1987). He earned his Doctoral degree (PhD) in Computer Science (1990, on free-choice Petri nets) from the same university. He habilitated 1994 at the University of Hildesheim on the subject of Petri net unfoldings.
Career
During his habilitation and in the period afterwards, Javier Esparza's focus was on concurrency theory and the theory of Petri nets. He made important contributions to Petri net structure theory and to the unfolding approach, initially proposed by Kenneth L. McMillan, and he is the co-author of two books on these subjects.
After his habilitation, he was employed as an associate professor at Technische Universität München (1994–2001). He was then successively Chair of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2003) and Chair of Software Reliability and Security at the Universität Stuttgart (2003–2007). Since 2007, he holds the chair for Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science, again at Technische Universität München.
He has also made contributions to the automata-theoretic approach to software model checking, to program analysis, and to the verification of infinite-state systems. More recently, his work has focused on the verification of parametrised and stochastic systems. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the aforementioned fields, as well as lecture notes on an algorithmic approach to automata theory. Multiple software verification tools have been developed by his group, such as Moped and jMoped, Rabinizer, Strix, and Peregrine.
He received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2018 and has been Principal Investigator of more than 20 research projects, most of them collaborative in an international context. He has frequently been invited as a speaker at Computer Science conferences and has served as a Chair or a member of various professional Program, Steering and Selection Committees.
Awards and honours
Javier Esparza has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Informatics from the Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic, in 2009, and he is an elected member of Academia Europaea since 2011. He received the CONCUR Test-of Time Award 2021 for his paper Reachability Analysis of Pushdown Automata: Application to Model-checking (co-authored with Ahmed Bouajjani and Oded Maler); several best paper awards at conferences; multiple times a Best Teaching prize at the Technische Universität München; and a Dissertation Prize of Universidad de Zaragoza (1990).
References
External links
Official page of Javier Esparza at the Technische Universität München (Lehrstuhl 7 / Theoretische Informatik)
Javier Esparza on Google Scholar and at DBLP
Javie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us%20Again%20%28film%29 | Us Again is an 2021 American 3D computer-animated short film directed and written by Zach Parrish and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It follows Art, a grumpy old man, and Dot, his energetic wife, in a vibrant city of dance. The two enjoy themselves in a rainstorm that makes them young until it disappears and reverts them back to old age. Parrish conceived Us Again after noticing that he was growing older and took inspiration from his grandparents. Its score, composed by Pinar Toprak, was written before storyboarding and animation, unlike the typical filmmaking process. For dance reference, Disney hired choreographers Keone and Mari Madrid. Us Again was released on March 5, 2021, preceding theatrical showings of Raya and the Last Dragon. The short has received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
As the people of a vibrant city dance to the beat of the music, the elderly Art stays in his apartment and grumpily watches TV. His wife, Dot, enters, and tries to have him get out and enjoy the day. He refuses, leaving her heartbroken. Art soon regrets this decision and looks upon a photo of himself and Dot when they were young and full of life. He steps out on his fire escape when it suddenly begins to rain. The rain makes him younger and rejuvenates him, prompting him to set out to look for Dot.
Art encounters Dot, who has also become young through the rain. The two begin to dance vibrantly through the streets. When the rain clouds begin to move, they revert to old age. Art begins dragging Dot through the city in an attempt to remain young. They flee to Paradise Pier, and as Art continues to chase the rain clouds, Dot willingly falls behind. Eventually, the clouds leave completely and the two revert to their old age.
As he walks back, Art sees Dot sitting by herself and joins her. The two look into each other's eyes and wordlessly acknowledge their love for one another. Art and Dot proceed to dance together, though not as vibrantly as before, as the rain puddle beneath them reflects their younger selves.
Production
Development
In February 2021, it was announced that theatrical showings of Raya and the Last Dragon would be accompanied by Us Again, the first original theatrical short film produced by Disney since Inner Workings in 2016.
Zach Parrish, who previously helmed the short film Puddles (2020), which is part of the Short Circuit series, and Big Hero 6 animation, wrote and directed Us Again. He conceived the film after he noticed he was beginning to grow older and yearned for a younger body. Parrish said: "It made me realize that if I spent all my time focused on what I thought I was missing, then I was going to miss the beauty in the present". He was also influenced by his grandparents' differing attitudes to aging; one set traveled far distances in a recreational vehicle while the other "watched life". Arthur and Dorothy, his paternal grandparents, inspired the names Art and Dot. In addition, Art represents one of Parri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20collaboratives | Data collaboratives (sometimes called “corporate data philanthropy”) are a form of collaboration in which participants from different sectors—including private companies, research institutions, and government agencies—can exchange data and data expertise to help solve public problems.
Types
Data collaboratives can take many forms. They can be organized as:
Public Interfaces: Private firms publish select data assets to be public for use by external parties. Firms typically present this information as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or data platforms.
Trusted Intermediary: Private sector firms share data with partners from public, civil society actors, and academia. Data can be brokered by third parties, who provide valuable data under fixed terms and time limits to non-private organizations. It can also be run through third-party analytics, which shares data with data stewards to run analysis and share those findings with external actors, providing the outcomes of the data without exposing the sensitive information.
Data Pooling: Multi-sectoral stakeholders join “data pools” to share data resources. Public data pools allow partners to openly access and independently use the data, while private data pools limit access and contribution to the information.
Research and Analysis Partnership: Organizations share data and “proprietary data assets with public and academic institutions to analyze and advance a public objective. Through these data transfers and data fellowships, access to and terms for use of data are highly controlled.
Prizes and Challenges: Organizations make data available to qualified applicants through competition for innovative use or platform design to add value to the firm. Open innovation competitions, like LinkedIn’s Economic Graph Challenge, allow for open and broader use of data by many independent users, while selective innovation challenges give limited data access, narrowing the scope of its application to a specific situation. Oftentimes, competition members are bound to data responsibility guidelines.
Intelligence Generation: Companies use data to build shareable tools and release them for public use. Although no formal, direct cross-sector sharing occurs, it lays the foundation for knowledge transfer and a culture of open, data-driven analysis.
Reasons for data collaboratives
The big data boom has demonstrated the power of data to inform and design public projects in an accountable and iterative manner. However, unequal access to certain data across sectors limits the ability of groups to find, access, or be made aware of valuable information, hindering social innovation. Data collaboratives create networks that bridge access and knowledge gaps by bringing different sectors together to share data to address social challenges.
The GovLab argues data collaboratives wherein a private sector data holder shares data with other groups tend to be motivated by a desire for:
Reciprocity: Sharing data with othe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20animation | This is a list of events in animation in 2022.
Events
January
January 1:
We Baby Bears, a prequel/spin-off series to We Bare Bears, premiered on Cartoon Network.
A new anime series based on Urusei Yatsura was announced.
January 10: Smiling Friends premiered on Adult Swim to critical acclaim.
January 14:
Dark anthology stop-motion film The House premiered on Netflix.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, the final Hotel Transylvania film, premiered on Amazon Prime Video after numerous delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 23: Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness made its world premiere at the Gaumont Champs-Élysées theater in Paris, followed by its Netflix debut on June 10.
January 28:
Mitsuo Iso's The Orbital Children was released simultaneously as a theatrical film in Japan and as a 6-episode miniseries on Netflix internationally, with the last 3 episodes being released on February 11.
The Legend of Vox Machina premiered on Amazon Prime Video.
January 31: After more than 10 years on the air, the NickRewind block aired for the final time on TeenNick.
February
February 1: The fourth season of Gabby's Dollhouse premiered on Netflix.
February 2: The first episode of Mike Salcedo's animated webseries, Alphabet Lore, "A", was released on Youtube.
February 8: Liden Films' Child of Kamiari Month started streaming on Netflix worldwide.
February 9
Alice's Wonderland Bakery, a spin-off of the 1951 Disney film Alice in Wonderland, premiered on Disney Junior.
The final 10 episodes of season 2 of Disenchantment premiered on Netflix.
A second revival of Futurama was announced for Hulu.
February 17: Big Nate premiered on Paramount+.
February 18: The Cuphead Show!, based on the video game Cuphead, premiered on Netflix to generally positive reviews.
February 21: The series finale of Arthur aired on PBS and PBS Kids, concluding the show's run after 25 years.
February 23: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, the revival to The Proud Family, premiered on Disney+.
March
March 6: Toei Animation's systems are hacked, leading to a temporary shutdown of their systems and delays of their series such as One Piece, Digimon Ghost Game, and Delicious Party Pretty Cure, as well as the next Dragon Ball Super film.
March 11: Turning Red was released on Disney+ instead of being released theatrically.
March 12: 49th Annie Awards.
March 13: The Simpsons episode "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" premieres, being the first episode to have all-female creative leads.
March 17: The Fifteenth and final season of Curious George premiered on Peacock.
March 27: 94th Academy Awards
Encanto, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
The Windshield Wiper, directed by Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
March 29: Finale Episode is Muzikal Kampung Durian Runtuh of Upi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Liu | Jane Win-Shih Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her work on real-time computing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Shun Hing Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, a distinguished visiting fellow of the Academia Sinica, and the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Education and career
Liu majored in electrical engineering at Cleveland State University, and completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation, Reliability of Quantum Mechanical Communication Systems, was supervised by Robert Spayde Kennedy.
She was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1972 until her retirement in 2000. During this time, she was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1996 to 1999. She worked for Microsoft from 2000 to 2004, when she joined the Academia Sinica.
Books
Liu is the author of the book Real-Time Systems (Prentice-Hall, 2000), and co-author with C. L. Liu of Linear Systems Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1975).
Recognition
Liu was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1995 "for contributions to real-time task scheduling methods for computing systems". The IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems gave her their Technical Achievement Award in 2005. In 2008, the Taiwan Institute of Information and Computing Machinery gave her their Information Science Honorary Medal.
Personal life
Liu was married to Dave C.-L. Liu (1934–2020), with whom she founded and co-directed the Real Time and Embedded System Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Cleveland State University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha%20Datar | Isha Datar (born January 6, 1988) is the executive director of New Harvest, known for her work in cellular agriculture, the production of agricultural products from cell cultures.
Early life and education
Datar was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her mother worked at a dairy farm, where Datar spent much of her childhood growing vegetables alongside her mother. Her mother was also a sculptor and her father was a doctor. After an elementary school field trip to a landfill, she became invested in reducing global waste and the impact of climate change. Datar received a B.S. from the University of Alberta in 2009. During her time as an undergraduate, Datar took a meat science class that challenged her idealistic vision of the sustainability of the animal agriculture industry and introduced her to cellular agriculture. Datar received her M.Biotech from the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2013.
Career
In 2009, Datar published "Possibilities for an in-vitro meat production system" in Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, which detailed the progress of cellular agriculture. The paper was sent to Jason Matheny – founder and then-director of New Harvest – who forwarded the paper to those who were mentioned in it. In 2013, Datar became the chief executive officer at New Harvest. Datar also co-founded Muufri (now Perfect Day) and Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company). In 2021, Robert Downey Jr. funded Datar's work through his 'fast grants' project. Datar has been profiled in media venues including USA Today, the magazine Toronto Life, the Calgary Herald. She has spoken with NPR's Science Friday, The New Republic, Food & Wine magazine, and the National Observer.
Awards and honors
Canadian Business spotlighted her work as a 2016 Change Agent. In 2019, Datar was named one of 25 Food and Agriculture Leaders to Watch by FoodTank.com.
Maclean's listed Isha Datar in its "The Power List: Top 10 Food Titans", where she is credited with coining the term cellular agriculture.
References
External links
, April 27, 2013
Isha Datar: How we could eat real meat without harming animals at TEDMonterey, July 2021
Living people
Canadian women in business
University of Toronto alumni
Biotechnologists
University of Alberta alumni
1988 births
Canadian people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Settlers | Imperial Settlers is a 2014 city-building themed card-driven strategy board game published by Polish company and designed by Maciej Obszański and .
The game was inspired by the computer game series The Settlers that Trzewiczek played when he was young.
It won the 2014 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game, 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Best Card Game and 2015 Gra Roku Advanced Game of the Year Winner awards.
Reviews
Casus Belli (v4, Issue 12 - Nov/Dec 2014)
References
External links
Board games introduced in 2014
City-building games
Polish board games
Card games introduced in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible%20by%20Verizon | Visible by Verizon (stylized as v˙s˙ble and also known simply as Visible) is an American mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by Verizon Communications. Visible competes primarily against T-Mobile's Metro by T-Mobile, AT&T's Cricket Wireless and Dish's Boost Mobile as part of the prepaid wireless service provider brands.
History
Visible was launched by Verizon on May 10, 2018 without any prior announcement. At launch, the service was only available by invitation only, and at the time, required users to register via the Visible app or its website. Once registered, Visible would send users a SIM card the next day and once installed, can access the network. In addition, only unlocked phones were available to be used at launch. Then in 2021 a new CEO named Angie Klein joined the wireless prepaid service.
About
Visible is an all-digital wireless carrier in the United States, offering unlimited text, talk, data, and hotspot, on Verizon’s 4G LTE and 5G NR Networks. It is owned by Verizon and was founded in 2018. The service supports Apple and Android devices. The service is less expensive than Verizon—customers choose which plan they want and pay to receive a month of service. The company's standard Visible plan may be deprioritized based on network traffic, while the Visible Plus plan includes premium network access that is not deprioritized for the first 50GB.
As of May 2021, Angie Klein is CEO.
Visible was named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2020, and was named Best Telecom Brand by Adweek in 2021. Visible has also won a Shorty Social Good Award for its #VisibleActsofKindness campaign.
In June 2022, Visible was rebranded as Visible by Verizon.
In November 2022, Visible became part of the Verizon Value organization, led by Angie Klein. The organization is part of Verizon's Consumer Group and houses its value and prepaid brands, including Tracfone, Straight Talk, Total by Verizon, Safelink, and Verizon Prepaid.
Customer complaints
The company has faced numerous complaints since its inception related to its lackluster or non-existent customer support, which is only available via chat through their Android or iOS app, and social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. The company has no phone number, and thus no customer support via telephone. Customer complaints range from weeks long waits for porting in / out to complete, SIM / eSIM provisioning issues, loss of service for multiple days, failing to honor promotional deals, and charges to credit cards without services provided.
On April 28, 2021, the Better Business Bureau issued an alert posted for the company, citing a pattern of consumer complaints that the company was unresponsive to their request for assistance regarding cellular service and billing and advising consumers to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection. The company's score with the Better Business Bureau is B-, with a rating of 1.38/5 stars.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball%27s%20Festival%20of%20Stars | Netball's Festival of Stars was a series of celebrity netball matches organised by Network Ten and the ANZ Championship. It featured two teams representing two Australian charities, Beyond Blue and the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Matches featured two halves of fifteen minutes and were played before an ANZ Championship regular season match.
2009
The inaugural Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 21 June 2009, before the 2009 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between New South Wales Swifts and West Coast Fever. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Network 10 commentators, Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. Team Beyond Blue, coached by Julie Fitzgerald, won the game following a penalty shoot-out between the two captains. The match was viewed by a television audience of 345,164 viewers.
Match summary
Teams
2010
The second Festival of Stars was hosted at Hisense Arena on 6 June 2010, before the 2010 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between Melbourne Vixens and Adelaide Thunderbirds. Once again Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. The match featured two fifteen minute halves and was umpired by Natalie Medhurst and Wendy Fleming, a former Australia under-21 international. ANZ donated $1,000 for the first goal scored in each half and $100 for every other goal scored in the match. This raised $20,000 for the two charities.
Match summary
Teams
2011
The third Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 20 March 2011, before the 2011 ANZ Championship Round 6 match between New South Wales Swifts and Queensland Firebirds. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by comedians, Charlie Pickering and Adam Spencer, respectively. This was the third time Spencer played for Team NBCF. The show was hosted by Kelli Underwood and Liz Ellis with Sue Gaudion as the courtside expert. The event raised $13,800 for the two charities. Kerri Pottharst's nine goal tally helped Team NBCF win the match for the first time. Other notable performers included Iron Men Shannon Eckstein, who scored seven goals for Team Beyond Blue, and Matt Poole, who was named Player of the Match.
Match summary
Teams
References
Netball competitions in Australia
2009 ANZ Championship season
2010 ANZ Championship season
2011 ANZ Championship season
Charity events in Australia
10 Sport
2009 establishments in Australia
Sports festivals in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharth%20Garg | Siddharth Garg is a cybersecurity researcher and associate professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He is also a member of NYU WIRELESS. Garg is known for his research leveraging machine learning to securely manufacture computer chips so they are less prone to hacking. In 2016, he was named one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10."
Education
Garg attended Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received his Bachelor of Technology degree in 2004. He then attended Stanford University for his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering 2005. For his doctoral research, he attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his PhD in 2009. His doctoral advisor was Diana Marculescu and his dissertation, entitled System-level modeling and mitigation of the impact of process variations on digital integrated circuits, received Carnegie Mellon's Angel G. Jordan Award for outstanding thesis contribution.
Career
Following Garg's postdoctoral work, he became an assistant professor at University of Waterloo from 2010 to 2014, before moving to New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests bridge machine learning and cybersecurity. His research group has investigated how artificial intelligence can be exploited by malicious actors. They found that it is possible to embed behavior in artificial intelligence algorithms, for example those used for speech recognition, that can emerge in response to certain signals. Garg and his team showed that they could train an image recognition algorithm to interpret a stop sign as a speed limit signal by placing a post-it note over it. When such behavior is programmed by malicious actors, it's known as a "backdoor." They are working to understand different backdoors in order to develop ways to proactively detect them. Garg has also worked to develop manufacturing protocols for computer chips to make them resistant to hacking attempts.
Awards and honors
Brilliant 10, Popular Science, 2016
National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, 2015
References
Data scientists
New York University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
IIT Madras alumni
1980s births
Stanford University alumni
Indian LGBT scientists
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNR%20South%20Long%20Haul | The PNR South Long Haul Project, also known as PNR Bicol is a proposed inter-city rail line in southern Luzon, Philippines. It is part of the larger Luzon Rail System, a network of long-distance standard-gauge lines being built by the Philippine National Railways throughout Luzon. It is one of the two lines that will reconstruct the historic PNR South Main Line, along with the electrified North–South Commuter Railway South section to Calamba, Laguna.
The line will initially begin at Banlic station in Calamba, Laguna and terminate at Daraga, Albay. There will also be additional extensions, infill stations, and branch lines. The masterplan line shall connect passengers from Sucat station in Muntinlupa to either the Batangas International Port, Legazpi, Albay, or Matnog, Sorsogon. Freight trains will also serve the line and there will be an eventual extension of the line to the Port of Manila.
The project is estimated to cost ₱175 billion (US$3.45 billion) and financing for the line will be supported by Chinese official development assistance. Construction for the line has been delayed for various reasons, with the latest expected start of construction being in March 2022. The line will be partially operable between San Pablo and Lucena by 2025, and the first phase between Banlic and Daraga will be fully opened by 2027.
History
Background
The South Main Line was first proposed in 1875 as part of the plan for the Luzon railway network. The line was first opened as the Main Line South in 1916 and its first named service was the Lucena Express to Lucena, Quezon. The Bicol Express opened three years later in 1919. Several more segments were constructed into Quezon province and the Bicol Region, including a new line called the Legazpi Division. The two sections were then connected by a train ferry until the completion of the line in 1938. On May 8, 1938, the two sections were officially linked with President Manuel L. Quezon hammering the golden spike at Del Gallego, Camarines Sur.
Around those same years, the first standard-gauge railway in the Philippines was opened in Camarines Norte by the Dahican Lumber Company. The company used three geared steam locomotives acquired second-hand from the United States. Therefore, this was not under the Manila Railroad network which ran on narrow gauge which is still in intermittent use today.
During its peak in 1941, the line also had branches in Batangas as the Batangas City line and eastern Laguna province as the Pagsanjan line. The line was also known to carry mixed trains as late as 1968, when PNR operated a short-lived refrigerated car service carrying produce with the 1968 eruption of the Mayon Volcano being the cause of its cancellation. According to the PNR, post-war services peaked between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, and the South Main Line enjoyed a daily ridership of 7,560 passengers being carried by 36 passenger railcars.
Ridership eventually declined as buses became the favored transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTJ | 94.5 Radyo Bandera Sweet FM (DYTJ 94.5 MHz) is an FM station owned by Tagbilaran Broadcasting System and operated by 5K Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its studios and transmitter are located at Brgy. Bachao Sur, Kalibo.
The station was formerly known as Drive FM under GSM Broadcasting Services from July 10, 2019, until September 2022, when 5K Broadcasting took over its operations.
References
External links
Sweet FM Kalibo FB Page
Drive FM Website
Radio stations in Aklan
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairong%20Qi | Hairong Qi (born 1970) is a Chinese computer scientist known for her work in image processing, computer vision, signal processing, sensor networks, and visual sensor networks. She is Gonzalez Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee.
Education and career
Qi studied computer science at Northern Jiaotong University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1992 and a master's degree in 1995. She came to the US for doctoral study at North Carolina State University, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1999. Her dissertation, A High-Resolution, Large-Area, Digital Imaging System, was supervised by Wesley Snyder.
She joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 1999, and was named Gonzalez Family Professor in 2014.
In 2022, Qi was a part of a team using a $1 million grant to produce and implement a computer vision system to monitor poultry production. The project aims to create a computer vision system to monitor animal-based measures in real time. The grant was funded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. Although similar projects have been undertaken for larger animals, researchers state that poultry are more difficult due to their smaller size and higher populations. The team for this project includes Yang Zhao, Robert Burns, Hao Gan, Shawn Hawkins, Daniel Berckmans, Maria Prado and Hairong Qi.
Books
Qi is the coauthor, with Wesley Snyder, of two books in computer vision: Machine Vision (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Fundamentals of Computer Vision (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Recognition
Qi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 "for contributions to collaborative signal processing in sensor networks".
References
External links
Home page
1970 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Beijing Jiaotong University alumni
North Carolina State University alumni
University of Tennessee faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muwatin%20Media%20Network | Muwatin Media Network is an Arabic non-profit media network founded in Oman in 2013 by Mohammed Al-Fazari. It is an independent media platform that publishes content in Arabic about a range of issues dealing with democracy, politics, civil and political rights, social and cultural rights, gender rights, sexuality and may others.
After the arrest of its Executive director and Editor in Chief Mohammed Al-Fazari in Oman in 2014 for his political activism, and his escape to the UK seeking political asylum, Muwatin, a magazine published by the network, was forced to cease publishing on 14 January 2016 after the arrests and interrogations of its contributing journalists living in Oman.
Muwatin was officially back to publishing on May 3, 2017 on World Press Freedom Day after it was registered in London.
History
Muwatin (مواطن) means "citizen" in Arabic. The name was chosen because Muwatin is concerned with citizen issues in the Gulf and the Arab world and it seeks to establish a state of citizenship.
Mohammed Al-Fazari founded Muwatin on June 6, 2013, to create a space for freedom of expression for the Omani and Arab voices. The work began on a voluntary basis, as funding could not be obtained inside Oman due to the network's editorial policy, and funding from abroad was prohibited by the Omani law due to Muwatin's content dealing with issues of freedom and human rights.
After Muwatin called for political reform in Oman and the Gulf countries, its Editor in Chief Al-Fazari was arrested in August 2014 and was held incommunicado for six days. He was arrested again on 22 December 2014 at Muscat International airport by security authorities who informed him that a travel ban had been issued against him. After appearing before the Special Division of the Omani Police in Muscat for an investigation, he was arrested and released on the same day without his official documents (his passport and ID card), even though no charges were brought against him.
Muwatin'''s founder and editor-in-chief left Oman and settled in the United Kingdom as a political refugee in July 2015. The media network's journalists and writers were threatened and arrested, forcing the team to permanently cease the publishing of Muwatin on January 14, 2016.Muwatin was officially back to publishing on 3 May 2017 on World Press Freedom Day after it was registered in London. However, on the same day the site was blocked in Oman, followed by the rest of the other Gulf countries, which led the team to take several measures to enable citizens in Oman and the Gulf region to browse the site in cooperation with Reporters Without Borders.
Content and Sections
Muwatin monitors Arab society's events and is concerned with citizen issues in the Gulf region and the Arab world. It's an independent media institution, which publishes content in Arabic about a range of issues dealing with democracy, politics, civil and political rights, social and cultural rights, gender rights, sexuality and may ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Campania | The geography of Campania illustrates the geographical characteristics of Campania, a region of Italy.
General data
From the gulfs of Gaeta, Naples, Policastro and Salerno to the most notable elevations of the Campania Apennines, Campania extends over a morphologically very varied territory. To the north it borders Lazio and Molise; to the east, Apulia and Basilicata, which it also borders to the south; to the west the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Areas
From a physical point of view, the Campania region can be divided into two areas: one mountainous and one flat:
The mountainous area includes the Campania Apennines, formed by a series of elevations, acrocores and plateaus (of Sannio, of Irpinia and of Cilento), between which open numerous and easy passes (the most important is the Sella di Ariano) and there flows the river Calore Irpino (left tributary of the Volturno) with its tributaries: Ufita ( in the center of the homonymous valley), Tammaro and Sabato.
The flat area is not a single surface, but is divided into many plains divided by many reliefs of the antiappennine; that is from the volcanic relief of Roccamonfina, of the Campi Flegrei, from Vesuvius and from the chain of Monti Lattari (which constitutes the Sorrento peninsula).
Therefore the flat area is divided into the plains: of Sessa Aurunca, bathed by the river Garigliano; of Capua the widest, crossed by the river Volturno; of Naples, which surrounds Vesuvius, one of the main Italian volcanoes; the countryside nocerino - sarnese close to the Lattari Mountains; of Paestum which opens onto the Gulf of Salerno and is bathed by the rivers Sele, Calore Lucano and Tanagro; of Alento which occupies a narrow portion between Monte Stella and Monte Gelbison.
Coasts and rivers
The coasts of Campania are high and jagged and low and sandy in the plains. The main rivers are: the Volturno, which bathes Capua and flows into the Gulf of Gaeta; the Sele, which flows into the Gulf of Salerno; the Garigliano, which flows along the border with Lazio and flows into the Gulf of Gaeta; and the Ofanto, which originates in Irpinia and flows into the Adriatic Sea.
Mountains
Monte Iulio
Monte Litto
Monte Nero (Picentini)
Pizzo San Michele
References
Campania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Wenzel%20Pollak | Leo Wenzel Pollak (September 23, 1888 in Prague – November 24, 1964 in Dublin) was a geophysicist, meteorologist and pioneer in scientific data processing. His career was spent at the Geophysical Institute in Prague, where he rose to the rank of professor and director (1911-1939), the Irish Meteorological Service (1939-1947), and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1947-1963).
In 1950, he was credited as the second author of the second edition of Victor Conrad's 1944 book, "Methods in Climatology."
Life and career
His parents were the writers Simon Pollak and Dorothea Glück. In 1890, his father received patent no. 55433 for a telephone conversation counter.
From 1906 to 1910 he studied physics and geophysics at the German University in Prague and in 1910 received his doctorate under Rudolf Spitaler with the thesis "The duration and intensity of sunshine on the Douneuberge near Mileschau".
In 1911 he became a private lecturer at the Geophysical Institute in Prague and became friends with Albert Einstein who was a professor there. When Pollak sent a circular in August 1911 to look for astronomers who had observed the light deflection effect predicted by Einstein in the gravitational field, Erwin Freundlich accepted the challenge.
In 1922 he completed his habilitation and in 1927 he became an associate professor. In February 1929 he became, as Spitaler's successor, full professor and director of the Geophysical Institute in Prague and also director of the Meteorological Observatory in Milesovka, 20 miles south of Teplitz-Schönau.
In 1939 he emigrated to Ireland , where he worked for the Irish Meteorological Service. From 1947 to 1963 he taught as a professor at the School of Cosmic Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).
In the 1940s he worked with P. J. Nolan, A. L. Metnieks and others to develop the first condensation nucleus counters.
Pollack's interest in condensation nuclei, cloud formation and atmospheric physics led him to make predictions about atmospheric warming. In the 1950s he gave a statutory public lecture at DIAS on global warming–even saying that someday "bananas will grow in Dublin."
Data processing
In 1934 Pollak and F. Kaiser published a paper showing how punch card machines could be used to perform scientific calculations. Pollak was an early pioneer in "big data" and what we would now call data mining–he was an early adopter of Hollerith punched cards and automated tabulation for analyzing meteorological data. One aspect of this was searching for periodicities and trends in noisy data sets. He spent a lot of time and energy using mechanical calculators and tables to assist in Fourier analysis.
Selected publications
1930 Die Rationalisierung und Mechanisierung der Verwaltung und Verrechnung geophysikalischen Zahlenmaterials. Das Lochkartenverfahren Naturwissenschaften (in German), 18 (16), pp. 343–349
1934 Neue Anwendungen des Lochkartenverfahrens in der Geophysik. (New applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%20Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87 | Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born 27 February 1978 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content. He published modules for the German role-playing game The Dark Eye.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.
Education
Vrandečić attended the in Stuttgart and from 1997 he studied computer science and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He received his doctorate in 2010 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he was a research associate in the Knowledge Management Research Group at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Languages (AFIB), with Rudi Studer, from 2004 to 2012. In 2010, he visited the University of Southern California (ISI).
Career and research
Vrandečić is involved in knowledge bases, data mining, massive web-based collaboration, and the Semantic Web. In 2012/2013, he was project manager for Wikidata (Wikipedia sister project) at Wikimedia Germany. Together with Markus Krötzsch (who was also at KIT in the Knowledge Management group), he is co-developer of the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), which was also the inspiration for Wikidata.
In 2013 Vrandečić worked as an ontologist at Google on the Knowledge Graph, the knowledge base used by Google to compile its search engine results with semantic information from various sources. In September 2019, Vrandečić announced that he was taking on a new role in Google's development department as Wikimedian in Residence, which consisted of explaining Wikimedia projects to other employees.
In July 2020, he left Google to join the Wikimedia Foundation, where he has since been involved in building Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. It aims to use structured data from Wikidata to create a multilingual, machine-driven knowledge platform. In his essay contribution to Wikipedia's 20th anniversary publication, Wikipedia @ 20 - Stories of an Unfinished Revolution, he elaborates both technical and personal reasoning on urgencies for smaller and even for bigger language Wikipedia editions.
Vrandečić is one of the founders and administrators of Croatian Wikipedia. In 2008, he served as head of the scientific program of Wikimania. Vrandečić served on the Board of Trustees from 2015 to 2016.
Publications
Vrandečić's publications include:
Personal life
Vrandečić holds both Croatian and US citizenship. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Bay Area.
References
Wikipedia people
Google employees
Wikimedia Foundation staff members
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century Croatian scientists
1978 births
Living people
Computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Nations%20Information%20Governance%20Centre | The First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) is an Ontario, Canada-based non-profit organization working in the field of First Nations data sovereignty. The organization is known for its comprehensive national surveys, which include the First Nations Regional Health Survey (FNRHS), and focus on the health and socio-economic conditions of First Nations people in Canada.
History
In 1996, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) provided a mandate for a national First Nations and Inuit health survey. A National Steering Committee (NSC) was thus formed. In 2000, the NSC transitioned into the First Nations Information Governance Committee at the AFN. In 2009, the AFN Chiefs-in-Assembly passed a resolution (Resolution #48, December 2009) which mandated the creation of the First Nations Information Governance Centre, an independent non-profit to replace the First Nations Information Governance Committee. On April 22, 2010 the First Nations Information Governance Centre was incorporated as a non-profit entity.
Work
FNIGC has ten First Nations regional partners that collectively conduct the First Nations Regional Health Survey (FNRHS), the First Nations Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey (FNREEES), the First Nations Community Survey (FNCS), and the First Nations Labour and Employment Development Survey (FNLED). These surveys look at physical and mental health, employment and income, housing, and other socio-economic factors influencing the health and well-being of First Nations people in Canada and have been widely cited in academic publications and policy documents.
FNIGC also provides a variety of education and training services related to the First Nations principles of OCAP (ownership, control, access and possession), a foundational set of guidelines that establish how First Nations data and information will be collected, protected, used, or shared.
Further reading
References
External links
History of indigenous peoples of North America
Indigenous organizations in Canada
Non-profit organizations based in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20television%20ratings%20for%202020 | The following is a list of Australian television ratings for the year 2020.
Network shares
Most Watched Broadcasts in 2020
Weekly ratings
From the week beginning, 9 February 2020.
Weekly key demographics
From the week beginning, 9 February 2020.
Key demographics shares
See also
Television ratings in Australia
References
2019
2019 in Australian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Krek%C3%B3 | Béla Krekó (29 September 1915 – 7 December 1994) was a Hungarian mathematician. His main research interests were linear programming and matrix ring. He was a university professor in Károly Marx University of Economics
Biography
Krekó's parents were Ferenc Krekó and Terézia Princz. He married his wife Katalin Kovács (1919-2010) in 1944. His children are Béla (1945), István (1946), Ágnes (1948), and László (1951). In 1940, he obtained a degree in mathematics at the Pázmány Péter University, then in 1948 he also obtained a qualification in economics and a doctorate from the József Nádor University of Technology and Economics. From 1949 to 1954 he was a college teacher at the Academy of Commerce and then the Academy of Economic Engineering. From 1954 he was an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Károly Marx University of Economics. In 1957, he wrote his book, "Introduction to Linear Programming." Author of additional books that serve as a foundation for generations. In 1959, he was the head of the department at the Department of Mathematics at the university, where he began the reform of mathematics education and the integration of the most important areas of operations research into education. From 1967 to 1980, he was director of the University Computer Center. He was appointed university professor in 1969. He played a prominent and decisive role in the 1961 launch of the plan-mathematical economist program. In 1975 he defended his dissertation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the organizer and regular speaker of the first computer science education conferences. Until his death in 1994, he took part in the modernization of university education.
The National Memorial and Commemorative Committee decided to declare the resting place of Béla Krekó, economist, mathematician, part of the national cemetery by its decision No. 85/2022 (Budapest, Óbuda cemetery, 20-0-1-225)
Notable works
Bacskay Zoltán-Krekó Béla. Kombinatorika és valószínűségszámítás. A közgazdasági technikumok számára. Tankönyvkiadó. Bp., 1953.
Krekó Béla–Bacskay Zoltán: Bevezetés a Lineáris programozásba; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1957.
Einige Fragen der linearen Programmierung. Wiss. Z. :de:Technische Universität Dresden 1961. 10: 1073-1075. (In German)
Lineáris programozás; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1962.
Ein neues Modell in der Verkehrsprogrammierung. Wiss. Z. :de:Universität Rostock. 1962. 11:447-451. (In German)
Krekó Béla–Berend Miklós: Kereskedelmi számtan; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1962.
Bacskay Zoltán–Krekó Béla: Matematikai alapismeretek; Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, Bp., 1963.
Matrixszámítás; Közgazdasági és Jogi Kiadó, Bp., 1964 és 1966.
Lehrbuch der linearen Optimierung; Berlin, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1964. (in German)
Über das stetige Optimierungproblem. Mathematik und Kybernetik in der Ökonomie. Akademie Verlag. Berlin. 1965. 285-295. (In German)
Lineáris programozás (a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiculimermis | Spiculimermis is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Mermithidae.
Species:
Spiculimermis acaudata Rubzov, 1976
Spiculimermis angusta Rubzov, 1972
References
Mermithidae
Enoplea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandidierina%20rubrocaudata | Grandidierina rubrocaudata is a species of skink endemic to Madagascar.
References
Reptiles of Madagascar
Reptiles described in 1869
Grandidierina
Taxa named by Alfred Grandidier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20R.%20Berger | Paul R. Berger (born 8 May 1963) is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University and physics (by courtesy), and a distinguished visiting professor (Docent) at Tampere University in Finland, recognized for his work on self-assembled quantum dots under strained-layer epitaxy, quantum tunneling based semiconductor devices and solution processable flexible electronics.
Berger was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011 and was elected into the IEEE Electron Devices Society board of governors in 2020 Berger was general chair of the 2021 IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) in August 2021, which pivoted from Columbus, Ohio to fully virtual. Also in 2021, Berger was selected as the founding editor-in-chief of the new IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (J-FLEX), and editor-in-chief for 2023–2024.
Education
Born in Midwestern United States, but raised in the Greater Boston, Massachusetts area, Berger attended Phillips Academy in Andover,_Massachusetts. Berger received his B.S. in engineering physics, M.S in electrical and computer engineering, and Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering, all from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus in 1985, 1987 and 1990, respectively, under the supervision of Pallab Bhattacharya.
In 1987, Berger discovered the self-assembly of III-V semiconductor quantum dots during molecular-beam epitaxy strain engineering with Bhattacharya for the formation of high-quality quantum dot laser device manufacturing. This method has made optical communication and optical networking practical for many applications, including optical data links in enterprise networks and data centers.
Career
In 1998, as part of a Quantum MOS team under a DARPA Ultra project, Berger invented Si/SiGe resonant interband tunneling diodes, the first viable Si-based negative differential resistance with the potential of being fully integrated into the mainstream Si CMOS integrated circuits technology.
And in 2011, Berger was elevated to IEEE Fellow for "contributions to the understanding, development, and fabrication of silicon-based resonant interband tunneling devices and circuits."
In 1999, Berger entered the field of solution-processable flexible electronics with sabbatical visits to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany and Cambridge Display Technology, then in Cambridge, England, where he generated patents on organic light-emitting diodes (OLED).
Awards
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1996)
DARPA ULTRA Sustained Excellence Award (1998)
Faculty Diversity Excellence Award (2009)
Outstanding Engineering Educator for State of Ohio (2014)
Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies Award (2020),
IEEE Region-2 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award (2023),
References
1963 births
Living people
Ohio State University faculty
Tampere University
Fello |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Hartley | Alice Hartley may refer to:
Alice Maud Hartley (1864–1907), convicted in 1895 of killing Nevada state senator Murray D. Foley by gunshot
Alice K. Hartley (1937–2017), American computer scientist and businesswoman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catrobat | Catrobat is a block-based visual programming language and Open Source Software non-profit project. The first release dates back to 2010 and was initiated by Wolfgang Slany from the Technical University Graz in Austria. The multidisciplinary team develops the programming language and free apps for teenagers to create their own games, animations, music videos, or all other kinds of apps directly on a smartphone based on the catrobat framework.
The visual programming language used for coding is very similar to the one used in Scratch except with Catrobat, no laptop or PC is needed. Every aspect of development can be covered solely on a smartphone and therefore over the years the usage of Catrobat and the Apps spread all over the world. Some activities of Catrobat are targeted directly at female and male teenagers to close the gender gap in STEM-Studies. Other activities are especially for less developed countries because native language support is provided directly in Catrobat's apps, without the need to be supported on the operating systems language level.
History
Catrobat started with the name Catroid in 2010 and the name was inspired by Scratch's cat mascot and the android operating system. The first public version of the free app was published in 2013 on Google Play. Currently, there are more than 74 releases of the main coding app as of November 2020. The first version for iOS has been published in 2018. The mobile apps currently have more than 5 million users in 180 countries, are natively available in 50+ languages (including several languages not directly supported by the underlying operating system), and have been developed so far by over 1,300 volunteers from around the world.
License
The Catrobat project is under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) in version 3 and is hosted publicly on GitHub.
Vision
The aim of Catrobat is to introduce young people to the world of coding, using only their smartphones and bypassing traditional education. With a playful approach, young people can be engaged and game development can be promoted with a focus on design and creativity. When used in schools the project often refers to the approach of constructionism.
To make it even more accessible to young people in less developed countries, Catrobat decided to not rely on the operating system language and implemented the possibility to switch to one of over 50 native languages directly in the user interface. The translations are contributed by the community based on Crowdin and the process makes it easy for volunteers to help adapt to new languages or to increase the quality.
Development environment, mobile apps, share platform
Catrobat Framework
The development environment for Catrobat is part of the mobile apps and these can be downloaded for free on Android from the Google Play Store, HarmonyOS AppGallery or Apple's App Store. Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and HarmonyOS AppGallery are currently actively supported. Variants for Windows Mobi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Anderson | Monica Anderson is an American computer scientist who is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. Anderson works on robotics, with a focus on multi-agent systems, multi-robot systems, and user interfaces. Anderson received the UPE Excellence in Instruction Award in 2008, and co-organized the AAAI 2008 Workshop on Mobility and Manipulation at the Twenty-Third (23) AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Education
Anderson earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Chicago State University in 1990, and a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2006.
Research
Anderson is director of the Distributed Autonomy Lab at the Computer Science Department at the University of Alabama, which includes several projects related to multi-agent and multi-robot systems and user interfaces, and their effect on trust. Outcomes from these projects include identification of mitigating factors on operator's trust of autonomous systems, mechanisms for increasing self-efficacy in computer science introductory courses using robotics, and approaches on improving the design of autonomous device frameworks.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Alabama faculty
African-American engineers
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Chicago State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American computer scientists
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom%20U.S.A.%20Inc.%20v.%20Data%20East%20Corp. | Capcom U.S.A. Inc. v. Data East Corp., 1994 WL 1751482 (N.D. Cal, 1994) was a 1994 legal case related to the copyright of video games, where Capcom alleged that Data East's game Fighter's History infringed the copyright of Capcom's game Street Fighter II. It was revealed that the design documents for Fighter's History contained several references to Street Fighter II, leading Capcom to sue Data East for damages, as well as a preliminary injunction to stop the distribution of the infringing game. In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom's copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright. Judge William H. Orrick Jr. applied a legal principle known as the merger doctrine, where courts will not grant copyright protection where it would effectively give someone a monopoly over an idea.
Although early cases such as Atari v. Philips ruled against a game for infringing on the copyright of Pac-Man, they also noted that any standard elements of a game could not be protected by copyright. Courts would later expand on this principle, establishing that copyright did not protect generic concepts, functional rules, and scènes à faire. This included an earlier legal dispute, where Data East lost their case against an alleged video game clone of their game Karate Champ because none of the similarities were protected under copyright. Now years later, Data East found themselves on the other side of a similar dispute, and the court determined that the contents of Fighter's History were legally permissible. This trend of a more permissive approach to copyright continued until 2012, when rulings such as Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. and Spry Fox, LLC v. Lolapps, Inc. ruled that more specific forms of copying are unlawful.
Background
Facts
In 1991, Game developer Capcom released Street Fighter II. Its popularity led to an explosion of interest in the fighting game genre. Other companies rushed to capitalize, and Data East released their own one-on-one fighting game called Fighter's History in 1993. Even compared to other fighting games, there were many similarities between Fighter's History and Street Fighter II, with both games having similar character designs and artwork, as well as similar special moves and controls. As it was later revealed, Data East created design documents that referred to Street Fighter II several times. Several people noticed the similarities and raised the issue with Capcom, reaching the president, Kenzo Tsujimoto. Capcom soon sued Data East for copyright infringements, in both America and Japan. Capcom sought 623 million yen in damages, as well as a preliminary injunction to stop Data East from distributing Fighter's History.
Law
This dispute would depend on whether the copied elements of Street Fighter II were actually protected by copyright. Data East called on expert witness Bill Kunkel, a game journalist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Dautenhahn | Kerstin Dautenhahn (born 1964) is a German computer scientist specializing in social robotics and human–robot interaction. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, where she holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics and directs the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory.
Her main research areas include human–robot interaction, social robotics, assistive technology, and artificial intelligence, with an aim to further study topics such as social learning, human-robot collaboration, autobiographic memory, narrative, cooperation and coordination. In the application of these research areas, she has notably been interested in uses of companion robots to support independent living for the elderly, and in the therapy and education of children with autism.
Education and career
Dautenhahn studied biology at Bielefeld University, earning a diploma there in 1990 and completing her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1993. She was a researcher with the German Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD) from 1993 to 1996, and in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Reading in 1997. She moved to the University of Hertfordshire in 2000, and became a full professor there in 2003. She took her present position as Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Waterloo in 2018, where she is Director of Social and Intelligent Robotics Labortatory (SIRRL), and she remains a Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.
Contributions
Dautenhahn is founding editor and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.
She is also an editorial board member of Adaptive Behavior, Sage Publications; Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics; associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems; associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, as well as editor of the book series Advances in Interaction Studies.
She is also the editor of multiple edited volumes including Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology (1999), Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots (with Alan H. Bond, Lola Cañamero, and Bruce Edmonds, 2002), Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (with Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, 2002), and New Frontiers in Human Robot Interaction (with Joe Saunders, 2011).
She is on the advisory board of the journal AI and Society (Springer), ACM, SSAISB, and the German organisations GI and GK, as well as a lifelong fellow of AISB, executive board member of the International Foundation for Responsible Robotics. Since 2006 she has also been a member of the Standing Steering Committee of the IEEE conference RO-MAN (Human and Robot Interactive Communication).
Recognition
Dautenhahn was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computer%20Graphics%20Techniques | The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques is a diamond open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computer graphics. It was established in May 2012 when a large part of the editorial board resigned from the now-defunct Journal of Graphics Tools. The editor-in-chief is Marc Olano (University of Maryland, Baltimore County).
The Journal of Graphics Tools was a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computer graphics. It was established in 1996 and published by A K Peters, now part of Taylor & Francis. From 2009 to 2011 the journal was published as the Journal of Graphics, GPU, & Game Tools. In 2012, a large part of the editorial board resigned to form the open access Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. The last editor-in-chief was Francesco Banterle (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione). Previous editors-in-chief have been Andrew Glassner, Ronen Barzel, Doug Roble, and Morgan McGuire. The final volume was released in 2013 and the journal formally ceased with its final issue in 2015.
References
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Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
former Journal of Graphics Tools
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 2012
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1996
Quarterly journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Publications disestablished in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Preparation%20of%20Programs%20for%20an%20Electronic%20Digital%20Computer | The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (sometimes called WWG, after its authors' initials) was the first book on computer programming. Published in 1951, it was written by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill of Cambridge University. The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world.
Contents
Overview
It was the first book to describe a number of important concepts in programming, including:
the first account of a library of reusable code
the first API
the first explanation of using a memory dump for debugging a program, which the book called a "post-mortem routine"
the first use of the term "assembly" in programming, though with a somewhat different meaning than the modern use of the term
Much of the book is dedicated to explaining the library. This consisted of eighty-eight subroutines implementing mathematical operations like the calculation of trigonometric functions and arithmetic operations on complex numbers. The library was a physical collection stored in a filing cabinet containing punched paper tape encoding the subroutines. This included a "library catalog" describing how a programmer could use each subroutine; today this is called API documentation.
Part one
Chapter 6 - Debugging
This chapter extensively investigates "proofreading" and location of the mistakes in the programs. It also advises against frequent refactoring as it introduces more mistakes as programmer tries to improve the program.
Chapter 7 - Examples of programs for EDSAC
Includes examples of calculations of formula and definite integral, integration of ordinary differential equitation, and evaluation of the Fourier transform by using EDSAC programs.
Chapter 8 - Automatic programming
discusses an assembling (compiling) and interpretation of a program, it also discusses motivation behind "floating addresses" which are, in modern terms, are variable references (akin to C++ variable references) which are replaced by compiler by a real memory addresses on the fly every time the subroutine is invoked.
Part two
This part contains mostly specification on the EDSAC's standard library's subroutines. Among included are subroutines for floating-point, complex numbers, debugging, exponential calculations, integration, differential arithmetic equations, logarithms, quadrature, and trigonometric subroutines.
Publication history
The 1951 book was a mass-printed version of a report titled Report on the Preparation of Programmes for the EDSAC and the Use of the Library of Subroutines written in September 1950 for private circulation and distributed to no more than 100 people. Though written in England, the book was published by Addison-Wesley in the United States.
At the time WWG was published there were very few digital computers in the world. EDSAC, on which the book was based, was the first computer in the world to provide a practical computing servi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sports%20podcasts | This is a list of sports podcasts.
Entries are ordered by their released dates of the first episode.
List
=== 2004 ===
The Penalty Box - Xtrera Podcasting Network (August)
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (September 1)
2005
2006
Football Weekly (May 11)
The Game (September)
2007
Fantasy Focus
The Football Ramble (April)
The Dan Patrick Show (October 1)
2010
Men in Blazers
Roker Report (December)
2011
Me1 vs Me2 Snooker with Richard Herring (December)
2012
The Tennis Podcast
2013
The Dale Jr. Download (February 18)
2014
Low Blows (April)
The Bill Simmons Podcast
2015
Fantasy Footballers
The Fighter and the Kid
Dear Hank & John (June 7)
Dinner with Racers (November 18)
2016
The Nine Club
Pardon My Take (February 29)
Athletico Mince (March 8)
drei90 (May 27)
Set Piece Menu (December 9)
2017
The Totally Football Show
30 for 30 Podcasts (June 27)
The Indy Football Podcast (July 31)
Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? (February 23)
2019
The Anfield Wrap
See also
List of skateboarding podcasts
References
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2005-03-20-0503200540-story.html
Lists of podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNu%20Labs | QNu Labs (or QuNu Labs Private Limited) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. It is credited to be the first firm in India to successfully develop commercial cybersecurity products using quantum physics. It has a subsidiary called QNu Labs Inc, which was set up in Massachusetts, US in 2019.
The company was founded in 2016 by Sunil Gupta, Srinivasa Rao Aluri, Mark Mathias, and Anil Prabhakar. It was incubated at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and later began operations in Bengaluru.
After conducting field trials for its quantum key distribution product, QNu Labs received support from Cisco Launchpad in 2018. Subsequently, it launched two products—a quantum key distributor called Armos and a quantum random number generator called Tropos—for national and international markets in 2020.
References
External links
Company Website
DRDO tests quantum key distribution tech for secure communication between two facilities
Budget 2020 announces Rs 8,000 crore national mission on quantum technologies and applications
India’s billion-dollar quantum push
The Race Is On
Quantum cryptography
Indian companies established in 2016
Companies based in Karnataka
Technology companies of India
Technology companies established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Chibuogu%20Nneji | Victoria Chibuogu Nneji is a Nigerian-born American computer scientist, design and innovation strategist, and a lecturing fellow, known for her research on robotics, automation, human-centered design, and autonomous transportation.
Biography
Victoria Chibuogu Nneji was born in Lagos, Nigeria; at age 5 she and her family immigrated to the United States and was raised in Durham, North Carolina. Nneji attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) starting her junior year of high school.
She has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Columbia University, being one of the first in her family to pursue post-secondary education, and studying under Adam Sobel. Here, she performed a quantitative analysis on how changes in financial aid would impact a student's performance and the duration of their completion of an associate's degree. Nneji herself had an Anita Borg scholarship to support her attendance to Columbia University. While attending Columbia University, she served as a consultant for the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) in Washington Heights, and conducted user research in order to make improvements to EcoMundo, the women's domestic violence recovery group within the NMIC.
Nneji received a master’s degree in engineering management from Duke University and a PhD in 2019 in Mechanical Engineering from the Robotics Center at Duke University. Post-graduation she has served as a robotics lecturing fellow at Duke University.
The research paper, Exploring Concepts of Operations for On-Demand Passenger Air Transportation (2017), by co-authors Nneji, Alexander Stimpson, and Mary Cummings from Duke University, and Kenneth H. Goodrich, from NASA Langley Research Center determined that the technology in order to create "on-demand passenger air travel" and related regulatory framework will take more than a decade to create.
Nneji has also done research on human-robot interaction. The research paper, Tell Me More: Designing HRI to Encourage More Trust, Disclosure, and Companionship (2016), by co-authors Nikolas Martelaro, Wendy Ju, and Pamela Hinds, found that vulnerability and expressivity may improve peoples' relationships with robots. In this study, Nneji and her team engaged high school students with robots with low/high vulnerability and low/high expressivity in a learning activity. They found that students were more trusting of vulnerable robots and more communicative with expressive robots.
In 2019, Nneji was appointed to Uber's self-driving safety and responsibility advisory (SARA), alongside five others, in order to review, advise, and suggesting changes to Uber's autonomous vehicle development.
See also
List of Nigerian Americans
African-American women in computer science
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Duke University alumni
Duke University fellows
People from Durham, North Carolina
North Caroli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Yaroshevsky | Alexey Yaroshevsky (; born 13 June 1984) is a Russian reporter, television host and commentator. Worked on RT network since 2005 until 2022, now he is the English voice commentator of the Russian Premier League, and also a former host at the Okko Sport Channel in Russia.
Career
Alexei's father had over 45 years of experience as a journalist, as did his uncle and grandfather (who worked in the Soviet television for almost 50 years). In his childhood Alexey wanted to be a lawyer, but eventually, when he had to choose a university, he decided to enter the Moscow State Linguistic University. He thought that learning languages was always useful and with knowledge of languages he could specialize in various fields. In the second year of studying he was sent for an internship and his parents offered him an internship on the REN TV television network, where they worked at the time, in the international department. Alexey worked for REN TV as a web editor and then news reporter from 2002 to 2005.
Yaroshevsky joined RT in 2005.
In 2007 he made a documentary about North Korea. In 2009–2012, Yaroshevsky served as the head of RT's bureau in Eastern Europe, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was nearly killed during a report of the Maiden Revolution. He was then sent to be RT's new reporter in New York City before moving to Washington, D.C. In 2015 and focused on reporting investigations for RT America in the areas of environmental hazards and key geopolitical stories.
Having returned to Moscow in 2017, Alexey started working solely on sports coverage - including the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and Euro-2020. In 2020, Alexey became the first English-speaking commentator of the Russian Premier League. Same year, he launched "Спик Изи" project aimed at helping Russian-speaking people to master different accents and dialects of English. Alexey can freely speak English (in 30+ dialects), Russian, Chinese and Ukrainian.
References
1986 births
Living people
Russian expatriates in the United States
Mass media people from Moscow
RT (TV network) people
21st-century Russian journalists
Russian male bloggers
Russian bloggers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Genatempo | Anthony W. Genatempo is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the director of the C3I Networks Directorate at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. He previously commanded the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from 2020 to 2022.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang%20Victims%20Database | The Xinjiang Victims Database is a database which attempts to record all currently known individuals who are detained in Xinjiang internment camps in China. The database has documented over 16,000 victims. It was founded by Gene Bunin, who started the database in September 2018.
The database contains the names and biographical details of people who are thought to be detained in the camps. Many of the profiles also contain personal testimonies by the families and friends of the detainees.
Origin
Gene Bunin is a Russian-American linguistic researcher, who lived in Xinjiang until 2018, when Chinese police forced him to leave. He created the database to “have one place" to store detailed information of people interred in prison camps or disappeared after only "limited attempts" had been made to identify detainees.
Controversy
In January 2023, SCMP reported that two of the alleged police officers whose names and likenesses were listed in the database bore strong resemblances to Hong Kong actors Andy Lau Tak-wah and Chow Yun-fat. After it drew attention on social media and after it was mocked by Chinese state media, the Xinjiang Victims Database later responded and it also claimed that the data was sourced from "the file cache of a Urumqi database" obtained by the US news organisation, The Intercept, which had included a photo of Andy Lau, and added that some of the photos of the police officers “aren’t always of themselves”. The gallery had also contained a cartoon portrait, which aroused suspicion of the gallery's authenticity.
See also
China Cables
Xinjiang papers
Xinjiang Police Files
References
External links
Person databases
Xinjiang conflict |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidong%20Zhang | Aidong Zhang is a computer scientist whose research topics include machine learning and bioinformatics. She is William Wulf Faculty Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where she also holds affiliations with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science.
Education and career
Zhang earned her PhD in 1994 at Purdue University. She joined the department of computer science of the University at Buffalo as an assistant professor in 1994, became full professor in 2002, and was named University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor in 2012 and SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2014. She chaired the department from 2009 to 2015. After taking a leave from the department from 2015 to 2018 to serve as a program director for the National Science Foundation, she moved to the University of Virginia in 2019. She continues to be listed by the University at Buffalo as professor emerita.
Zhang was the founding chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics, and served as its chair from 2011 to 2015. She has been the editor-in-chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics since 2017.
Books
Zhang is the author of books including Advanced Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data (World Scientific, 2006) and Protein Interaction Networks: Computational Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Recognition
Zhang was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2009 "for contributions to multimedia data indexing". She was named an ACM Fellow in 2017, "for her contributions to bioinformatics and data mining".
References
External links
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Purdue University alumni
University at Buffalo faculty
University of Virginia faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century women scientists
21st-century women scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lassner | David Lassner (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and academic administrator. He is the 15th president of the University of Hawaiʻi System and its flagship campus, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Early life and education
Lassner was born in 1954 in Stamford, Connecticut before his family moved to Rochester, New York and Brockton, Massachusetts. By the time he reached middle school, his family settled in the south suburbs of Chicago until the end of high school. Following this, he graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During graduate school, Lassner was trained on the PLATO computer system and was soon recruited to work at the University of Hawaiʻi for one year. He completed graduate school while still in Hawaii and chose to remain there.
Career
Lassner began his doctorate degree in communication and information sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi while working as a contractor. After three years of renewed contracts, he was given an entry-level staff position. He was a computer specialist until 1989 before being appointed the director of Information Technology. During this time, he was also actively involved in the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication (WCET) and received their Richard W. Jonsen Award for Service to the Educational Telecommunications Community. In 1994, Lassner was charged with creating the information technology organization across the University of Hawaiʻi system. In 2004, Lassner was elected Chair of the WCET and chairman of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council, where he also served on their board of trustees. While serving in these roles, he served as the principal investigator for Maui High Performance Computing Center and for the Pacific Disaster Center. He also led projects in collaboration with the Hawai‘i Education and Research Network through funding from the National Science Foundation. As a result of his academic efforts, he was also elected to the Board of Directors of EDUCAUSE for a four-year term.
Following the resignation of President M. R. C. Greenwood, Lassner was approached by the board of regents to assume the position. He was formally elected to his first full term in 2014 with a vote of 11 to 2 with 2 abstentions. In his first year as president, Lassner was invited by United States President Barack Obama to attend the White House College Opportunity Summit. He was the 2018 recipient of the Christine Haska Distinguished Service Award from the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. In July 2019, the Department of Land and Natural Resources reported at least 33 kupuna were arrested by police on Mauna Kea. As a result of the arrests, members of the UH faculty and staff from various departments asked him to halt the Thirty Meter Telescope construction and faculty from the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies called for his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20International%20Network%20News | Women's International Network (WIN) News was an American feminist newsletter published in Lexington, Massachusetts from 1975 until 2003. The publication wrote news articles and segments about women and health, media, environment, violence, human rights, development, and much more. The newsletter listed international career opportunities for women, as well as published direct reports from around the world.
According to the publication's first issue, purpose of WIN News is: "To establish a world-wide open communication system by, for and about women of all backgrounds, beliefs, nationalities, and age-groups. To serve the general public, institutions and organisations by transmitting internationally information about women and women's-groups."WIN News. ProQuest.
References
Feminist magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Sewell%20%28Australian%20neo-Nazi%29 | Thomas Sewell is a New Zealand-born Australian neo-Nazi. He is the leader of the National Socialist Network, the European Australian Movement, and founder of the Lads Society. The groups led by Sewell focus on promoting White supremacy and far-right activism in Australia. He is known for associating with other prominent neo-Nazis and for controversial public stunts.
In 2017 Sewell attempted to recruit the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings into the Lads Society.
He was featured in the 2022 documentary Revealed: Amongst Us – Neo Nazi Australia, exploring the rise in Neo-Nazism in Australia.
In December 2022, Sewell was found guilty of affray and recklessly causing injury after punching a security guard multiple times in the face at the Nine Network owned-and-operated station GTV in Melbourne. The force and repetition of the punches caused the security guard to fall to the ground and smash his head into the pavement, where Sewell continued to punch him repeatedly in the face. In January 2023, Sewell was sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order with 150 hours of community service.
In August 2023, Sewell and Jacob Hersant (former leader of the National Socialist Network) pleaded guilty to one charge of violent disorder, following their arrest earlier in May 2021 by counter-terrorism police, after they attacked hikers at Victoria's Cathedral Range. In October 2023 Sewell was sentenced to a prison term of one month and seven days, which he had already served.
Political views
Sewell is a neo-Nazi. He is associated with other well-known far-right neo-Nazi extremists, including Neil Erikson of the United Patriots Front and the Lads Society, the latter of which Sewell was a founding member.
In 2017, Thomas Sewell asked Brenton Harrison Tarrant (the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings) to join the Lads Society, but Tarrant refused. In an interview in which Sewell confirmed that he tried to recruit Tarrant he was quoted as saying that he would see violence against minorities as an option "if the state continues its persecution of our people for wanting to preserve their culture and heritage".
Videos leaked to the press in November 2019 revealed Sewell's aim to attract and recruit members from mainstream society under the guise of a men's fitness club. His White supremacist agenda was clearly shown as he outlined plans which included the creation of “Anglo-European” enclaves in Australian cities, encouraging the “speed and ferocity of the decay” of society to help foment a "race war" by tactics including exploiting issues raised by politicians.
Activities
Sewell served in the Australian Defence Force.
Sewell was the founder of the Lads Society, a now-defunct far-right White nationalist group, and is the leader of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network as well as the European Australian Movement.
Australia Day get-together
In January 2021, over the Australia Day weekend, 38 members of Sewell's Euro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Left%20My%20Heart%20in%20Sorsogon | I Left My Heart in Sorsogon is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Heart Evangelista, Richard Yap and Paolo Contis. It premiered on November 15, 2021 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Legal Wives. The series concluded on February 11, 2022 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by First Lady in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Heart Evangelista as Celeste Diesta
Richard Yap as Antonio "Tonito" Wenceslao III
Paolo Contis as Michael Angelo "Mikoy" Macedonio
Supporting cast
Kyline Alcantara as Tiffany "Tiff" Wenceslao
Mavy Legaspi as Sebastian "Basti" Estrellado
Rey Abellana as Patricio Estrellado
Shamaine Buencamino as Isadora "Adora" Estrellado
Isay Alvarez as Lucinda Diesta-Estrellado
Marina Benepayo as Vivian Wenceslao
Debraliz Valasote as Ericka "Ikay" Macedonio
Michelle Dee as Hazelyn "Hazel" Pangan
Issa Litton as Aurelia Limjoco
Jennie Gabriel as Mylene "May-May" Regor
Jeniffer Maravilla as Jamaica Figueroa
Zonia Mejia as Claudette "Clau" Pangan
Elias Point as James Figueroa
Victor Sy as Winston Wenceslao
Guest cast
Bryce Eusebio as young Mikoy
Dayara Shane as young Celeste
Production
Principal photography commenced in Sorsogon on July 19, 2021.
Episodes
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References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Sorsogon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil%20Ali | Nabil Ali Mohammed Abd AL Azeez (Arabic:نبيل علي) (3 January 1938 – 27 January 2016) was an Egyptian scientist, writer, and intellectual who worked in the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. Ali is considered a pioneer of Arabic language computing, making significant innovations in early computational linguistics.
Education and career
Ali earned a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1960, and a master's degree in 1967. In 1971, he earned a PhD in Aeronautics. From 1961 to 1972 Ali worked as an engineering officer in the Egyptian Air Force, specializing in maintenance and training.
In 1972, he shifted focus to computing, and from 1972 to 1977 he worked as a computer manager at Egyptair. While in this position, Ali introduced the first automated reservation system for airlines in the Arab world. He later held various computing positions in Egypt, Kuwait, Europe, Canada and the US.
Ali started working for Sakhr Software, an Arabic language technology company, in 1983. From 1985 to 1999, he was vice president of Sakhr's council for Research and Development. As a director of the Multilingual Advanced Systems Foundation and project manager at the Egyptian National Company for Scientific and Technical Information, Ali did extensive research on information culture and artificial intelligence relating to the Arabic language.
Over the course of his career, Ali developed more than 20 educational programs relating to computational linguistics. He developed the first Arabic lexical database and the first knowledge base for Arabic poetry, as well as many other pieces of Arabic language software.
Awards
1994: General Book Authority Award for Best Book (in the field of future studies).
2003: General Book Authority Award for Best Culture Book (in the field of "Challenges of the Information Age").
2007: General Book Authority "Innovation in Information Technology" Award.
2012: King Faisal International Award, with Professor Ali Helmy Mousa, in the field of computer processing of the Arabic Language.
Works
Arabic Language and Computer (Research study), Dar Localization, 1988.
Al Arab and the Information Age, Knowledge World Series No. 184, April 1994.
Arab Culture and the Information Age: A Vision for the Future of Arab Culture Discourse, World of Knowledge Series, No. 265 January 2001.
The Digital Gap: an Arab Vision for a Knowledge Society (in partnership with Dr. Nadia Hegazy), World of Knowledge Series, No. 318 August 2005.
The Arab Mind and the Knowledge Society: Manifestations of the Crisis and Suggestions for Solutions, Part 1, The World of Knowledge Series, No. 369, November 2009.
The Arab Mind and the Knowledge Society: Manifestations of the Crisis and Suggestions for Solutions, Part 2, The World of Knowledge Series, No. 370, December 2009.
Tribute
On 3 January 2020, Google Doodle celebrated Nabil Ali Mohamed’s 82nd Birthday.
References
External links
Arab Sites and Their Place in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang%20Data%20Project | The Xinjiang Data Project is a China-focused Australian research project created and managed by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The project states that it has identified grave human rights violations in Xinjiang, including the mass detention of minorities, and compulsory sterilizations.
The researchers found that one out of every three mosques have been demolished in Xinjiang since 2017.
Launch and funding
The ASPI launched the Xinjiang Data Project in September 2020 as a part of its International Cyber Policy Centre. According to the project's website, initial funding for the project came from the United States Department of State.
Publication of information from Xinjiang
According to the project, satellite data has allowed it to locate "380 suspected detention facilities" in Xinjiang, and to estimate that 35 % of mosques in the region have been demolished, including a pilgrimage town, Ordam Mazar. The project says that it has also used interviews from former inmates to collect information. The project has promoted research by Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, who says that China has embarked on a program of mass sterilization in Xinjiang.
According to the researchers, development in the region is being used as a "facade for cultural erasure and desecration of religious sites."
The Chinese government has responded that the camps are vocational training and re-education programs meant to alleviate poverty and counter terrorism.
See also
2020s in political history
Human rights in China
Australia–China relations
Australia–United States relations
China–United States relations
Australia-Taiwan relations
Xinjiang Victims Database
Citations
References cited
External links
Australian defence policies
2020 establishments in Australia
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in Australia
International relations
Australian foreign policy
Japanese foreign policy
United States foreign policy
Politics of Southeast Asia |
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