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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Heart%20Movies | I Heart Movies (stylized as i ❤ movies) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel owned by GMA Network Inc. The channel was on test broadcast from March 22, 2021, until March 31, 2021, and was officially launched on April 5, 2021. It operates every Monday to Thursday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:20 a.m., Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., Saturday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. and Sunday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m..
Overview
I Heart Movies consists of domestically-originated and Filipino-dubbed international films from various distributors, along with internal studio GMA Pictures. Its film rights do not conflict with those of other film networks.
Programming
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order.
Current programming blocks
Takilya Throwback — a film presentation of Filipino movies released from the 1950s until the early 2000s.
Timeless Telesine — a presentation of television films from the 1990s and early 2000s.
Block Screening — a film presentation of Filipino-dubbed foreign films.
Pinoy Movie Date — a film presentation of contemporary Filipino films.
Programs simulcast from GMA Network
Unbreak My Heart
Newsbreak
GMA Integrated News Bulletin
See also
Cine Mo!
Cinema One
Pinoy Box Office
Viva Cinema
SolarFlix
Global Pinoy Cinema (defunct)
References
GMA Network (company) channels
Filipino-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Television networks in the Philippines
2021 establishments in the Philippines
Movie channels in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20First%20Yaya%20episodes | First Yaya is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from March 15 to July 2, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastfinder | Pastfinder is a vertically scrolling shooter designed by David Lubar and published by Activision in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 and MSX home computers.
Plot
The year is 8878, and the player is a member of an elite legion of planetary explorers known as The Pastfinders. His job is to collect artifacts from a mysterious, irradiated planet and deliver them to bases distributed across the lifeless area. Searing radiation and a deadly, mechanized landscape defense are the player's obstacles: the only remnants of an extinct civilization.
Gameplay
The goal of the Pastfinder is to collect historical artifacts and deliver them to bases scattered around the planet. Two major obstacles stand in the way of this mission. The first is the planet's automated defense system, consisting of multiple hovering barriers, rising and falling columns, opening and closing doors, fixed obstacles, and drones. Some of these can be destroyed, others simply bypassed or jumped over. The other obstacle is the land itself, large areas of which are intensely radioactive. The player is equipped with a radiation meter and alarm, as well as anti-radiation devices.
At the beginning of the game, the player has access to a very small portion of the planet map, which will be revealed as exploration progresses. After selecting a square of the map to explore, the player is presented with a weapons screen and can choose their equipment. To replenish supplies, the player can collect spare parts that are scattered around the planet. The game ends when a player loses all their ships. Additional ships can sometimes be found on the planet's surface and are also earned every 5000 points.
Development
David Lubar began work on Pastfinder with a simple top view. Then one of his colleagues suggested that he try a more 45-degree back view. At first, it was a view of just the main character, but then Lubar began adding obstacles in the background. Using a unique Atari 8-bit hardware feature, he was able to make the 3D collisions very accurate. The program checked to see if the player was in collision with an object and if his shadow collided with the shadow of that object. Lubnar wanted the game to be titled "Shadow Walker" but Activision did not agree.
Pastfinder was released about the same time as David Crane's Ghostbusters and Activision focused all of their advertising efforts on that title.
Reception
Pastfinder received fairly positive reviews. Zzap!64 in its inaugural issue praised the graphics and presentation, but also criticized the game's sound, giving it an 85% overall. The reviewer praised the game's lastability: "[...] it has plenty in store and it takes quite a while to appreciate its more subtle touches." Commodore Computing International found the game "a good traditional style arcade skirmish with some great graphical effects." Bill Kunkel reviewed the game for Electronic Games and warned: "Once the novelty of the perspective, a sort of vertically-scrolling Zaxxon, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Rindfleisch | Jan Rindfleisch is an American artist, educator, author, curator, and community builder. Rindfleisch is known for the programming she initiated and oversaw at the Euphrat Museum of Art; for her book on the history of art communities in the South Bay Area, Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Art Community, and for her role in documenting the careers and legacies of Agnes Pelton and Ruth Tunstall Grant.
Education
Rindfleisch has a BS in Physics from Purdue University and an MFA in sculpture from San José State University.
Career
Curator
Rindfleisch was the executive director of the Euphrat Museum in Cupertino, California from 1979 to 2011. At the Euprhat Rindfleisch established a history of curatorial programming that was uncommon for the time. This included the manner in which exhibitions were curated, which often involved collaboration with community members; the inclusion of community artists with established artists; and exhibition themes and content that were rare or not yet seen in art museums or art galleries. Rindfleisch's exhibition themes have included political quilts, political issues, artwork by refugees, artwork by immigrants, artwork about aging, art and technology, and the art of games.
Hank Baum states in the California Art Review, "Director Jan Rindfleisch presents exhibits that address philosophical and social issues, challenge taboos, and allow artists to be resurrected who have been obscured by the prejudice of their day."
About a 1985 exhibition, Art Collectors in and Around Silicon Valley, Cathy Curtis of the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "Provocative and timely, irreverent and unencumbered by the pompous baggage of so many art exhibits, 'Art Collectors...' is the kind of show that asks more questions than it answers." Rita Felciano noted in her review of the 1987 The Power of Cloth, "The Euphrat... puts together exhibits from the outside—events that usually have some bite to them."
In a 1984 Artweek review of Faces, Sylvie Roder stated: "Leave it to Jan Rindfleisch to come up with something special. She has taken a basic theme and treated it in complex ways."
Roder continued:
In the 1990 book, Art Around the Bay: a guide to art galleries and museums in the San Francisco Bay Area, Paul Monaco and Murwani Davis write about The Euphrat and Rindfleisch, "The changing exhibitions attain national and international stature. Director/Curator Jan Rindfleisch aims for thought-provoking shows that conceptualize art in relation to ideas and cultural developments. Shows include "Art of the Refugee Experience," "Drawing From Experience: Artists Over 50," and a contemporary painting show called "Paintforum."
Author
Notable artists Rindfleisch has exhibited and written about, many early in their careers, include Marjorie Eaton, Mildred Howard, Agnes Pelton, Ruth Tunstall Grant, Mary Parks Washington, Connie Young Yu, Juana Alicia, Jean LaMarr, Paul Pei-Jen Hau, Flo Oy Wong, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and the Muwekma Ohlone pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowerment%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | Empowerment in the field of artificial intelligence formalises and quantifies (via information theory) the potential an agent perceives that it has to influence its environment. An agent which follows an empowerment maximising policy, acts to maximise future options (typically up to some limited horizon). Empowerment can be used as a (pseudo) utility function that depends only on information gathered from the local environment to guide action, rather than seeking an externally imposed goal, thus is a form of intrinsic motivation.
The empowerment formalism depends on a probabilistic model commonly used in artificial intelligence. An autonomous agent operates in the world by taking in sensory information and acting to change its state, or that of the environment, in a cycle of perceiving and acting known as the perception-action loop. Agent state and actions are modelled by random variables () and time (). The choice of action depends on the current state, and the future state depends on the choice of action, thus the perception-action loop unrolled in time forms a causal bayesian network.
Definition
Empowerment () is defined as the channel capacity () of the actuation channel of the agent, and is formalised as the maximal possible information flow between the actions of the agent and the effect of those actions some time later. Empowerment can be thought of as the future potential of the agent to affect its environment, as measured by its sensors.
In a discrete time model, Empowerment can be computed for a given number of cycles into the future, which is referred to in the literature as 'n-step' empowerment.
The unit of empowerment depends on the logarithm base. Base 2 is commonly used in which case the unit is bits.
Contextual Empowerment
In general the choice of action (action distribution) that maximises empowerment varies from state to state. Knowing the empowerment of an agent in a specific state is useful, for example to construct an empowerment maximising policy. State-specific empowerment can be found using the more general formalism for 'contextual empowerment'. is a random variable describing the context (e.g. state).
Application
Empowerment maximisation can be used as a pseudo-utility function to enable agents to exhibit intelligent behaviour without requiring the definition of external goals, for example balancing a pole in a cart-pole balancing scenario where no indication of the task is provided to the agent.
Empowerment has been applied in studies of collective behaviour and in continuous domains. As is the case with Bayesian methods in general, computation of empowerment becomes computationally expensive as the number of actions and time horizon extends, but approaches to improve efficiency have led to usage in real-time control. Empowerment has been used for intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning agents playing video games, and in the control of underwater vehicles.
References
Artificial intelligence
Roboti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement%202021%3A%20DDT%2024th%20Anniversary | was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on March 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall . It was the twenty-fifth event under the Judgement name. The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and globally on DDT's video-on-demand service Wrestle Universe.
Production
Background
DDT held its inaugural event, entitled Judgement, on March 25, 1997. The next year DDT held Judgement 2, starting the annual tradition of the Judgement Anniversary shows that have been held each year, most commonly in March. Over the years, Judgement would become the biggest show of the year until 2009 when the Peter Pan event series started and took that spot.
The theme song of the event was "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance.
Storylines
Judgement 2021 featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On December 27, 2020, Jun Akiyama defeated Konosuke Takeshita in the final of the D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 and thus became the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship then held by Tetsuya Endo. In the group phase of the tournament, Akiyama suffered only two losses: one at the hands of Endo and one against Kazusada Higuchi. Akiyama went on to defeat Endo on February 14, 2021, at Kawasaki Strong 2021 to win the title. He then decided to challenge Higuchi for his first defense, in order to avenge his remaining D-Oh Grand Prix loss.
On March 14, 2021, at Day Dream Believer 2021, Sanshiro Takagi announced he had assembled a surprise team to challenge for the KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship. The team, baptized "Team Thoroughbred" was centered around the concept of nepotism and featured Yukio Naya (son of former sekiwake Takatōriki Tadashige and grandson of former yokozuna Taihō Kōki), (grandson of the "Father of Puroresu" Rikidōzan) and (son of comedian ).
Event
Preliminary matches
In the opening match, Chris Brookes and Toui Kojima faced Yusuke Okada and Yuki Iino. Iino performed a spear on Brookes while Okada submitted Kojima with a Boston Crab for the victory.
Next, Soma Takao faced Hideki Okatani. In the climax, Takao kicked out of a Northern Lights Suplex, countered Okatani with an elbow strike and performed the "Gin Tonic" (a cradle variant of a back-to-belly piledriver) to win the match.
Following the match, the participants of the revived Ultimate Tag League that would take place in May were announced.
Next, Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi and Saki Akai faced Toru Owashi, Akito and Keigo Nakamura. Oishi, now the leader of the Junretsu stable centered around Jun Akiyama, tried to convince Dino and Owashi to have a more serious match than their usual comedic style. Oishi finally gave up on the idea and ended up havi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20Press%20Index%20%28index%29 | The Alternative Press Index (API) is an American bibliographic database that indexes politically progressive publications. Founded in 1969, the journal is committed to providing a comprehensive guide to alternative, leftist, and radical newspapers and magazines. They focus on topics such as feminism, socialism, anarchism, liberation movements, Indigenous peoples, Black Movement, and labor.
API indexes articles of 5 or more paragraphs. The database notably covers international and interdisciplinary materials going back as far as 20 years. It has also been said that 90% of publications indexed by API are not indexed anywhere else.
Alternative Press Index has provided access to works by notable figures such as bell hooks, Angela Davis, and Judith Butler.
References
1969 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Chocolate%20Showdown | Great Chocolate Showdown is a Canadian cooking competition television series that airs on Food Network Canada, themed around chocolate baking and confections. The show is carried in the United States by The CW Network.
The first season of the series officially premiered on February 4, 2020, with judges Steven Hodge, Anna Olson, and Cynthia Stroud. Episode 1, "The World Needs S'more People Like You", received a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award in the category of "Editing in a reality or competition program or series". The second season premiered on February 22, 2021, while the third season debuted on March 1, 2022, retaining the same cast of judges. In May 2022, the CW renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on August 5, 2023.
The show features product placement from Purdy's Chocolates, which is the "official chocolate sponsor" of the show. Some challenges are presented by a representative of the company.
Format
Each season begin with 1 amateur home bakers. After each episode, a contestant is eliminated, until a finale episode to determine the season winner. Episodes typically consist of two challenges: an initial "Technique Test" and a "Chocolate Elimination Challenge". Winners of the skills challenge receive either immunity from elimination, or an advantage in the elimination round. Season winners receive a grand prize of $50,000.
Season 1
Contestants
Fadi Odeh – Dallas, Texas
Casey Hallen – New York City, New York
Craig Taylor – Vancouver, British Columbia
Andrew Keen – Falls Church, Virginia
Renu Mathew – Olds, Alberta
T. Lawrence-Simon – Somerville, Massachusetts
Venessa Liang – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Katie Rochin – Montreal, Quebec
Trinity Andrew – Los Angeles, California
Kathy Choffe — Aurora, Ontario
Episodes
Elimination Table
†The baker(s) that won in the first round.
Season 2
Contestants
Sheldon Taylor-Timothy, 30 – Rehabilitation Assistant and Bouncer, Toronto, Ontario
Richard Martemucci, 56 – Retiree, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tam Truong, 42 – Real Estate Appraiser
Latice Williams, 37 – Dental Office Manager, McKinney, Texas
Jujhar Mann, 21 – Student, Surrey, British Columbia
Raphael Nishida, 32 – Commercial Operations Manager
Saudat (Sabby) Atta, 25 – IT Manager, Vancouver, British Columbia
Abbey White, 34 – Retail Operations Specialist
Atikah Mohamed, 35 – Campus Administrator, Toronto, Ontario
Ginny Lepp, 59 – Civil Servant, Toronto, Ontario
Episodes
Season 3
Contestants
Amber Horn, 43, Bartender, Las Vegas, Nevada
Bri Brown, 33, Office Manager, Detroit, Michigan
Connie Kazan, 42, Stay-at-home Mom, Dearborn, Michigan
Evan Morgan-Newpher, 31, Zoo Guest Services Manager, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Gavan Knox, 44, Stay-at-home Dad, Scarborough, Ontario
Ian Frias, 28, Finance Manager, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Lexi Christiansen, 24, Model, Vancouver, British Columbia
Maile Crewdson, 35, Stay-at-home Mom, Maui, Hawaii
Shyam Rethinavelu, 34, Fashion Stylist, San Francisc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2013%29 | The thirteenth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 19 April 2021 on Network 10. Andy Allen, Melissa Leong, and Jock Zonfrillo returned to the show as judges from the previous season.
Applications for contestants for the 13th series of MasterChef Australia were open between April and August 2020.
Changes
Only three Immunity Pins were up for grabs this season, which all 24 contestants competed for during the first Mystery Box challenge. In addition to being exempt from the first Elimination Challenge, the holders of the Immunity Pins were able to use them at any point during future Elimination Challenges, including right up to the end of a challenge.
The Second Chance Challenge returned as Second Chance Week, with two eliminated contestants being given the chance to return instead of one.
Contestants
Top 24
The Top 24 contestants were announced on 19–20 April 2021.
Future Appearances
In Series 14 Tommy Pham and Minoli De Silva appeared for another chance to win the title. Minoli was eliminated on 17 May 2022, finishing 18th and Tommy was eliminated on 19 June 2022, finishing 10th.
In Series 15 Brent Draper appeared again and won the title.
Guests
Elimination Chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
MasterChef Australia
2021 Australian television seasons
Television series impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Adventure%20Time | Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network, the show premiered on April 5, 2010 and ended on September 3, 2018 with ten seasons and three miniseries. Throughout its run the series received critical acclaim and several awards and nominations, since 2010 the show was nominated every year until 2017 at the Annie Awards, the main award ceremony for animation, winning three awards from nineteen nominations overall. The show won eight Primetime Emmy Awards out of sixteen nominations; additionally, the Distant Lands specials were nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards.
Annie Awards
The Annie Awards are accolades presented since 1972 by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood to recognize excellence in animation shown in cinema and television.
British Academy Children's Awards
The British Academy Children's Awards are presented annually since 1996 by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Critics' Choice Television Award
The Critics' Choice Television Awards are accolades that are presented annually since 2011 by the Critics Choice Association (CCA).
Eisner Awards
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books.
Emmy Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards
The Daytime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.
Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming.
Harvey Awards
The Harvey Awards are given for achievement in comic books.
TCA Awards
The TCA Awards are awards presented by the Television Critics Association in recognition of excellence in television.
Various other awards and nominations
References
External links
Lists of awards by animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Enterprise | Wikimedia Enterprise is a commercial product by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide, in a more easily consumable way, the data of the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. It allows customers to retrieve data at large scale and high availability through different formats like Web APIs, data snapshots or streams.
It was first announced in March 2021 and launched on October 26, 2021.
Google and the Internet Archive were its first customers, although Internet Archive is not paying for the product. A New York Times Magazine article was reporting that Wikimedia Enterprise made $3.1 million in total revenue in 2022.
References
External links
Enterprise
Commercial use of Wikimedia projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mates%20on%20a%20Mission | Mates on a Mission is an Australian travel series which premiered on the Seven Network on 13 January 2022. The series features Shane Jacobson, Todd McKenney, Kris Smith and Brian “B.T” Taylor as they travel the globe taking on challenges to raise awareness for charitable causes including mental health, heart disease and bowel cancer. The foursome previously appeared on charity reality series The Real Full Monty in 2018.
The series originally began filming in early 2019 and was intended to screen either later in 2019 or in 2020. Filming took place in Germany, Japan and Las Vegas. Production was later affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which cut short filming. Seven later announced that it would air the series sometime during the summer of 2021/22.
See also
List of Australian television series
List of programs broadcast by Seven Network
Travel Guides
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
2022 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Nova | Space Nova is an animated television series developed for the Nine Network and Australian Broadcasting Corporation that premiered on 9Go! in Australia on 5 March 2021. A full 13-eps marathon premiered on ABC ME on 2 April 2021 starting from 7:55am. ABC ME and Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum conducted a premiere screening of Space Nova on April 7 2021 from 1 – 2PM at the Powerhouse Theatrette. The show also premiered in Singapore on Mediacorp's MeWATCH.
The 26-episode of 24-minute children's series is screening on Nine, ABC, Super RTL and distributed globally by ZDF Enterprises.
Plot
Production
The series was co-produced by Australia's SLR Productions and Giggle Garage in Malaysia. Voice Director is Jo Boag, Series Director is Pablo de la Torre with Cindy Scharka and Gie Santos as Episodic Directors. The series is produced by Suzanne Ryan, Juhaidah Jeomin and Yasmin Jones. The Head Writer is multi-Australian Writers’ Guild Award winner Thomas Duncan-Watt. The Executive Producers are Suzanne Ryan and Zeno Gabing.
Cast
Zachary Fuller as Jet Nova
Adelaide Tustian as Adelaide Nova
Stephen James King as Hugo Nova
Michelle Doake as Josie Nova
Darren Sabadina as G9
Rae Johnston as Janali Banks
Ash Ricardo as Aubrina Eridani
Christian Charisiou as Sol Erdani
Jason Chong as Andy Ling
Tim Harding as Avery Yu
Mary Lascaris as Jennylyn Chu
References
External links
2020s Australian animated television series
2021 Australian television series debuts
Australian children's animated action television series
Australian children's animated adventure television series
Malaysian children's animated adventure television series
Malaysian children's animated comedy television series
English-language television shows
Nine Network original programming
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Schieber | Baruch M. Schieber (Hebrew: ברוך שיבר; born: December 1958) is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Director of the Institute for Future Technologies.
Early life and education
Baruch Schieber was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Givatayim (a suburb of Tel Aviv). His father was a bank branch manager and his mother a housemaker. He graduated from Zeitlin High School in 1976.
Upon high school graduation, he began his academic studies at the Computer Science department of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1977 and received his B.Sc. in 1980 (summa cum laude). He then started his 5-year military service in unit 8200 of the Israeli Intelligence and reached the rank of lieutenant. While in the army he received his M.Sc. from the Computer Science department of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984. He continued his Ph.D. studies at Tel Aviv University until 1987. His thesis on the design and analysis of parallel algorithms was supervised by Dr. Uzi Vishkin.
From 1987 to 1989 Schieber was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Theory of Computation, Mathematical Sciences Department of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Career
Schieber joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights in 1989 as a Research Staff Member in the Theory of Computation, Mathematical Sciences Department. In 1995 he became the manager of the department. From 2001 to 2015 Schieber served as the manager of the Optimization Center, Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and in 2017 he became Manager of the Center for Optimization, Mathematics, and Algorithms there. In 2017 Schieber became Manager of the Mathematics of AI, IBM Research AI at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
In 2018 he joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology as a Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science (until June 2022). In July 2022 he became Director of the Institute for Future Technologies, a partnership of Ben-Gurion University and NJIT.
Schieber is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Algorithms since the inception of the journal in 2004. He was a Guest Editor of IBM Journal of Research and Development special issue on Business Optimization, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Algorithms from 1998 to 2003. He was also a member of the executive board at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) until 2018, and continues to serve on its executive committee.
Research and publications
Schieber's research work focuses on algorithms, optimization and business analytics. His work includes the development of fast, provably efficient, approximation algorithms for intractable combinatorial optimization problems. For these problems, which defy exhaustive search solutions, searching for near optimal solutions is a pragmatic and viable strategy. Schieber considered such intr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cube%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | The Cube is an Australian television game show competition based on the British series of the same name that premiered on Network Ten on 24 February 2021. It is hosted by comedian Andy Lee.
Format
The game is played in teams of two people with a pre-existing relationship and occurs within a 4m × 4m × 4m transparent Perspex cube. The goal is to complete a series of seven games, each of which awards an increasing amount of prize money, before failing a total of nine times. Games are preselected for each individual contestant before the show to test their mental and physical faculties in various ways. A typical episode consists of two contestants' games; depending on how successful the contestants are and on editing, a contestant's game may split across two episodes.
The contestant begins with nine lives, and loses one for every unsuccessful attempt at a game. The contestant must repeat the game until they either complete it or run out of lives; in the latter case, the game ends and the contestants leave with nothing. When a contestant succeeds, they are shown a preview of the next game and can decide to either stop playing and keep their winnings, or continue and risk the money. During a preview, the game is named and described by a female computer voice and demonstrated by a figure dressed in a full-body jumpsuit and featureless metal mask.
Lee occasionally comments on the difficulty that past contestants have had with a game and notes the average number of lives lost while playing it, in order to help the contestant decide whether to continue or stop. Friends and family members in the audience may offer advice on decision-making and techniques for playing the games. Certain games have specific restrictions added to increase their difficulty, such as a time limit or allowing the use of only one hand. If the contestant violates any such restriction, they immediately lose a life.
The contestant is given two forms of assistance, each of which may be used once. "Simplify" reduces the difficulty of a game, such as by allowing more time or increasing the size of a target zone – though the precise nature of the change is not revealed until after the contestant chooses to use Simplify. Simplify may be used after any unsuccessful attempt. The simplification remains in effect until the contestant either completes that game or runs out of lives. "Swap" allows the contestant to switch places when playing a single-player game. This assistance becomes available after they complete the first game, and can only be used upon the introduction of a new one.
The seventh and final game is worth a jackpot of $250,000; contestants who complete this game are said to have "beaten the Cube".
Production
In December 2020, it was announced that Network Ten had commissioned the series to air in early 2021.
Auditions were open between November 2020 and January 2021. The first series was filmed in January 2021 by ITV Studios Australia. It premiered at 7:30 pm on 24 Febru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin%20%28software%29 | Joplin is a free and open-source desktop and mobile note-taking application written for Unix-like (including macOS and Linux) and Microsoft Windows operating systems, as well as iOS, Android, and Linux/Windows terminals, written in JavaScript. The desktop app is made using Electron, while the mobile app uses React Native.
History
Joplin is named after the ragtime composer and pianist, Scott Joplin.
Laurent Cozic started work on Joplin in 2016, and the first Android version was released on 28 July 2017.
The first public desktop application release was version 0.10.19, on November 20, 2017.
A Web Clipper for Chrome was introduced in December 2017 and the Firefox extension was released in May 2018.
A new Joplin Cloud service was introduced in 2021, along with an on-premises Joplin Server application. Both products can be used to sync notes, to-dos, notebooks and note data across devices, as well as share notes or notebooks with other Joplin users, or even publish content to the web.
Features
Notes in markdown format
Markdown extension plug-ins
Storage in plain-text files
Optional client-side encryption
Organisation in notebooks and sub-notebooks
Tagging system
"Offline-first", notes are always accessible locally, and can be synced on demand
Web clipper for Firefox and Chrome
Note synchronization with Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV, or (networked) file system
Joplin's workflow and featureset is most often compared to Evernote.
See also
Comparison of note-taking software
References
External links
Demonstration videos:
Joplin Is An Open Source Alternative To Evernote
Joplin, a free, open source, self hosted syncing note taking alternative to Evernote and OneNote
Free and open-source Android software
Free note-taking software
Free software programmed in JavaScript
iOS software
Linux software
MacOS software
Windows software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Club%20%28television%20block%29 | Family Club is an Italian TV Block aired every day from 10:00pm to 1:00am on K2 and Frisbee, airing Discovery-branded documentaries like How It's Made and How Do They Do It?.
Programming
The block's current programming is different on both channels. On K2 it's directed at males with documentaries and has programs taken from its sister channels Motor Trend and Animal Planet, while on Frisbee it's directed at women with shows about food and airs shows from Food Network.
Current programming
How It's Made
How Do They Do It?
Come fanno gli animali
La mia nuova casetta dei giochi
Extreme Cake Wars
Kids Baking Championship
Previous programming
Just For Laughs Gags
Wipeout
WWE Afterburn
Parrucchieri per cani
References
Italian television shows
Italian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispo | Dispo (formerly David's Disposable) is an American photo sharing and social networking app owned by Dispo, Inc. and co-founded by CEO Daniel Liss, Slovak YouTuber David Dobrik, and Natalie Mariduena. When the app initially launched on iOS in December 2019, it briefly charted as the most downloaded free app on the App Store, ahead of both Disney+ and Instagram. The app was rebranded and relaunched as Dispo, expanding from a single-player camera to a full social network in March 2021.
History
On December 21, 2019, the app was first launched on the App Store under the name "David's Disposable." In its first week of release, it was downloaded more than a million times, reaching number one among free apps in the App Store.
In June 2020, the team decided to rename the app to Dispo, purchasing the Dispo.fun domain on June 21, 2020. The company announced the change in September 2020. The early Dispo team consisted of Dobrik's longtime friend and business associate Natalie Mariduena as its treasurer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Daniel Liss as chief executive officer, Regynald Augustin as first engineer, and Briana Hokanson as lead designer.
In October 2020, the company raised a $4m seed round with backing from Alexis Ohanian's venture fund Seven Seven Six alongside other investors including Unshackled Ventures, Shrug Capital, and Weekend Fund.
In February 2021, Axios reported that the app had generated US$20 million in its series A round, led by Spark Capital. At this time, the app was valued at US$200 million. A New York Times profile asked, "Are Disposables the Future of Photosharing?"
In March 2021, the app was officially relaunched with new social network features and its invite-only feature was dropped.
On March 21, 2021, it was announced that Spark Capital would sever all ties with Dispo in light of several disparaging allegations against David Dobrik and The Vlog Squad. The same day, it was announced that Dobrik would leave the company and step down from the company's board of directors. On March 22, 2021, Seven Seven Six and Unshackled Ventures announced they would be standing by the company and its remaining employees but donating profits to charity.
In June, 2021, CEO Daniel Liss announced Dispo's official Series A. Investors and advisors in the new Dispo include Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, Unshackled, Endeavor, photographers Annie Leibovitz and Raven B. Varona, NBA stars Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala (through their 35 Ventures and F9 Strategies venture firms, respectively). Other participants include Cara Delevingne, Sofia Vergara, Shade Room CEO Angelica Nwandu, Latin World Entertainment CEO Luis Balaguer, and Amplify Africa co-founders Damilare Kujembola and Timi Adeyeba.
Overview
Dispo has been compared to other image sharing and social networking services, most notably Instagram and VSCO, although users cannot immediately see the photos they have taken using the app. When a user attempts to take a photo, the interfa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TA-DAA%21 | TA-DAA! was a Malaysian English language children's television channel owned by satellite television operator Astro, alongside its sister channel PRIMEtime, Showcase Movies, BOO, and EGG Network.
The channel started broadcasting on 15 March 2021, replacing Disney XD which ceased broadcasting on 1 January 2021 and remains as a free preview channel until 4 April 2021, when it will become a part of the Kids Pack.
TA-DAA! ceased transmission on February 1, 2023, and was replaced by the DreamWorks Channel.
Final Programming
Animated Programs
Polly Pocket
The Deep
Supa Strikas
Inspector Gadget
Johnny Test
Kid vs. Kat
Dr. Dimensionpants
Chuck's Choice
League of Super Evil
Dinocore
Nature Cat
Go Astro Boy Go!
Sonic the Hedgehog
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Chuggington
Sonic Underground
Spectacular Spider-Man
Fruit Ninja: Frenzy Force
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
Spookiz
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Anime Series
Sailor Moon Crystal
Beyblade Series (Moved To Astro Ceria)
Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Beyblade: Metal Masters
Beyblade Burst
Beyblade Burst Evolution
Beyblade Burst Turbo
Beyblade Burst Rise
Beyblade Burst Surge
Beyblade Burst QuadDrive
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Dragon Ball Super
Marvel Anime
Live Action Series
Dino Dana
Oh My English!
Take CTRL
Senduk Swap
Movies series
BoBoiBoy Movie 2
Ejen Ali: The Movie
References
Astro Malaysia Holdings television channels
Defunct television channels
2021 establishments in Malaysia
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Senior%20Citizens%27%20Day | The German Senior Citizens’ Day (German: Deutscher Seniorentag) is a platform for exchange, information and networking around ageing and later life in Germany. It is used by policymakers, civil society and the society at large to discuss current questions regarding older age. Senior citizens' political participation and their encouragement to discuss key social issues in a self-conscious manner is an important task, which is promoted and demonstrated by events like the Senior citizen's days, as Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed in her speech at the German Senior's Day 2012.
The Senior Citizens' Day is organised by the German National Association of Senior Citizens' Organizations (BAGSO) together with its 120 member organisations. The three-day event takes place every three years in another federal state. The patronage of the German Senior Citizens’ Day is in rotation the Federal Chancellor or the Federal President. The president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, appealed in his opening speech at the German Senior’s Day in 2018 in Dortmund to put the situation in geriatric care on the political agenda.
The programme includes more than 150 individual events and a fair where organisations and companies present their work, including many products and services for people aged 50+. One of the outcome documents of the event is a declaration, passed by the member associations of BAGSO. Taking into consideration current challenges, it contains recommendations for decision-makers at all levels as well as individuals on how to improve the living conditions of older people in Germany. In 2021 was published the „Hannover declaration“ (German: Hannoversche Erklärung).
In 2018, 14.200 guests visited the 12th Senior Citizens’ Day taking place in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. The 13th German Senior Citizens‘ Day 2021 took place from November 24th to 26th 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day event was realised virtually.
Weblinks
Website of German Senior Citizens’ Day 2021
11th German Senior Citizens’ Day 2015
References
Gerontology organizations
Lobbying organizations in Europe
Political advocacy groups in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QCode | QCode (sometimes stylized as QCODE) is a podcast network and audio production studio based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded by Rob Herting in 2018 as a partnership between the production company Automatik and the management firm Grandview. The company focuses on producing scripted, narrative podcasts.
History
QCode was founded in 2018 by Rob Herting, a former agent at the Creative Arts Agency. The network was founded as a partnership, with Automatik as the production company and Grandview as the management firm. Sandra Yee Ling, previously an executive producer at Automatik, is the vice president of production at QCode. The company's head of music is pianist and composer Deron Johnson. Michele Zárate, formerly of Sonar Entertainment, is the director of development, and Tess Ryan is one of the company's producers. Steve Wilson, formerly from Apple, is the company's chief strategy officer. David Henning is also on staff.
In 2020 QCode raised $6.4 million in funding by Sonos with participation by venture-capital firm C Ventures to scale up production to more than fifteen original podcasts every year. In 2021, QCode announced plans to launch QCode+ with Apple Inc. QCode+ will be a subscription based service that will offer twelve original shows with no ads and bonus material.
The company uses the Dolby Atmos audio standard, which was not supported yet by most podcast apps in 2021. The company also uses binaural recordings to create 3D audio effects, which is becoming increasingly popular among podcast networks like iHeartMedia or the Paragon Collective. Madeline Wells of SFGate, discussed the company's use of surround sound in their podcast The Left Right Game saying that "the sound is so good — don’t listen to this while driving or the jump-scares could get dangerous," and that the sound production creates a "riveting companion" when going on walks. Similarly, Andrew Liptak of The Verge cautioned against driving a car while listening to Carrier because the surround sound can be overwhelming at times and some sound effects—such as a truck honking its horn—can be alarming if operating a vehicle.
The company launched its first podcast—Blackout—in 2019, which starred Rami Malek. Herting's goal is to create new stories in the podcasting medium that have not been done in film or television. The actors and producers at QCode have a history of working in film and television, and the podcasts created by the company could easily be adapted into films or television series. Miranda Sawyer of The Guardian, noted that—in contrast to small indie productions—well funded audio production companies like QCode have a history of "making queer relationships straight, and (you guessed it) employing big Hollywood celebrities as actors." Rashika Rao of Radio Drama Revival had a similar complaint after listening to The Left Right Game saying, "I think a fundamental misunderstanding is that podcasting is TV lite." Rao went on to address the fact that l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Directorate%20for%20Personal%20Data%20Protection | The National Directorate for Personal Data Protection (NDPDP) (Spanish: Dirección Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales) is the enforcement body for the Argentine Republic's National Personal Data Protection Act (Act 25.326). It is a dependency of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
The directorate is in charge of the National Databases Register, an organized tool that is used in order to understand and control the data bases that circulate throughout the country. The National Databases Register assists and advises those responsible for archives, data banks, registers, and databases with complaints and claims made against them. Such claims are made for violations of rights of information, access, rectification, updating, deletion, and confidentiality in the processing of data. The complaints that are brought before the National Directorate for Personal Data Protection are exclusively about revealing deficiencies or incompliance with applicable standards in the treatment of personal data.
The National Directorate for Personal Data Protection's headquarters is located in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Functions
General:
Investigate whether or not the reported databases are in compliance with the principles established by the Act 25.326 and the regulatory provisions.
Report and assist individual people and organizations that violate the rights of information, access, rectification, updating, deletion, and confidentiality in the processing of data.
The NDPDP Will Report:
The existence of a database.
The target of data collection and their ultimate goal.
The name and address of whoever is responsible for a filed database.
Citizens will be able to exercise the following actions when their rights have been violated:
Deletion of personal data from databases in cases where alleged facts need to be checked.
Correction of personal data in registers of databases.
Access to information.
Updating personal data.
Confidentiality in the processing of data.
Other functions:
Judicial action of Habeas Data. This action can be used by people who wish to take account of the personal data stored in archives, registers, and public and private data that will be used to provide reports. Cases of lies or discrimination being discovered are considered a violation of the individuals rights.
Approval of international transfer of databases.
Control of public and private databases through the National Databases Register.
Inspections of companies and organizations.
Application of the National Do Not Call Register Act.
History
The National Directorate for Personal Data Protection was founded in 2000 as the enforcement organization for the National Personal Data Protection Act (Act 25.236). The National Personal Data Protection Act itself was approved during Fernando de la Rua's administration and was regulated in 2001 by the Decree 1558/01.
In 2003 the European Union (EU) granted Argentine regulations on personal data protection adequa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Arpaci-Dusseau | Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau (also published as Andrea Dusseau) is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Education and career
Arpaci-Dusseau majored in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 1991. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998; her dissertation, Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems, was supervised by David Culler.
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, she joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty as an assistant professor in 2000, and became a full professor there in 2009.
Personal life
Arpaci-Dusseau is married to Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, also a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert on data storage; they are frequent collaborators.
Book
With Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau is the co-author of the free 2018 book Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.
Recognition
In 2018, Arpaci-Dusseau and her husband were the winners of the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, "for outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research". Arpaci-Dusseau was named a 2020 ACM Fellow "for contributions to storage and computer systems".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagbabagang%20Luha%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Flames of Love / () is a 2021 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1988 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Glaiza de Castro and Claire Castro. It premiered on August 2, 2021 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up. The series concluded on October 23, 2021 with a total of 72 episodes. It was replaced by Las Hermanas in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Glaiza de Castro as Maria Theresa "Maita" Ignacio-Montaire
Claire Castro as Cielo Narissa Ignacio
Supporting cast
Rayver Cruz as Alexander "Alex" Montaire
Mike Tan as Aidan "Bien" de Dios-Ignacio
Gina Alajar as Calida Montaire
Allan Paule as Rafael "Paeng" Ignacio
Myrtle Sarrosa as Judy Enriquez
Archie Adamos as Levi de Dios
Royce Cabrera as Sherwin Enriquez
Karenina Haniel as Monina de Castro
Ralph Noriega as Joryl
Bryan Benedict as Lander
Guest cast
Jaclyn Jose as Mercy Ignacio
Production
Principal photography commenced in February 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 6.2% rating, while the final episode scored a 7.5% rating.
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1%20Inc. | H1 Inc. is an global healthcare data technology company founded in 2017, and headquartered in New York City. The company's database is used by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies and related organizations to identify healthcare professionals to partner with on research in order to accelerate development of drugs and other treatments. The company has over 400 employees worldwide and about 100 clients including pharmaceutical companies Novartis and AstraZeneca as of November 2021.
History
The company was founded by Ariel Katz and Ian Sax in November 2017 as H1 Insights. The company started by helping biotech and pharma companies connect with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to advance research, drug development, and other treatments. According to Katz, the company is named for "the statistical representation of a true hypothesis", often expressed as H, as opposed to a null hypothesis, expressed as H.
In 2018, the company launched its first market offering, Da Vinci, and subsequently participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch.
In August 2021, H1 acquired Portland, Oregon startup Carevoyance. By November 2021, H1 had over 100 clients including Novartis and AstraZeneca and over 400 employees worldwide.
In February 2022, H1 acquired London-based Faculty Opinions, a discovery tool for finding relevant published medical research and assessing its quality. Subject matter experts on the platform recommend and share their opinion on the top 1% of the biomedical literature indexed in PubMed. Faculty Opinions currently has over 190,000 individual recommended articles from over 4,000 journals.
Products
H1's primary product is its database which includes 160 million peer-reviewed publications, 350,000 clinical trials, 8 billion medical claims, as well as related data points. Data sources include public databases and contributions by its clients and healthcare providers. Clients include pharmaceutical, biotech, financial, data and healthcare organizations. A companion product, H1 Explorer, was introduced in 2021 allowing healthcare professionals to manage their own profiles in the H1 network.
Its first market offering, Da Vinci, launched in 2018 and is intended to help pharma companies accelerate the market research phase of drug development. H1's Trial Landscape product was introduced in September 2021 to help pharmaceutical companies identify the right sites and physician investigators for a trial.
Funding
H1 has raised more than $200M in funding in three rounds:
Series C: $100 million led by Altimeter Capital in November 2021, and $33 million in an extension round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Menlo Ventures, Transformation Capital and Novartis Pharma AG in 2022.
Series B: $58 million co-led by IVP and Menlo Ventures in December 2020
Series A: $12.9 million led by Menlo Ventures in April 2020
Other investors include Joe Montana, Novartis, Baron Davis, Y Combinator, and Underscore VC.
References
External links
American co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Unplugs | Doug Unplugs is an American children's computer-animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation for Apple TV+. The series is based on the Doug Unplugged children's book series by Dan Yaccarino. The first seven episodes of season one were released on November 13, 2020, with the next six episodes released on April 2, 2021. The second season premiered on September 17, 2021.
Premise
Doug Unplugs follows a robot, Doug, and his human friend, Emma, as they experience and learn how the world works.
Cast and characters
Brandon James Cienfuegos as Doug
Kyrie McAlpin as Emma Pine
Eric Bauza as Bob Bot
Mae Whitman as Becky Bot
Leslie David Baker as Uncle Forknick
Burl Moseley as Laurence Pine
Becky Robinson as Jenny Droneberg
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020–21)
Season 2 (2021–22)
Release
On September 17, 2020, Apple announced Doug Unplugs, along with several new children's television series that would be coming to Apple TV+ later in 2020. The first half of season one was released on November 13, 2020, with the second half released on April 2, 2021. The second season premiered on September 17, 2021.
Accolades
Kyrie McAlpin was nominated for Outstanding Younger Voice Performer in an Animated or Preschool Animated Program at the 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards.
References
External links
2020 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
2020s American children's television series
2020s American animated television series
2020s preschool education television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American computer-animated television series
American preschool education television series
American television shows based on children's books
Animated preschool education television series
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about robots
Apple TV+ original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by DreamWorks Animation
Apple TV+ children's programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia%20arson%20crimew | Maia arson crimew (born August 7, 1999), formerly known as Tillie Kottmann, is a Swiss developer and computer hacker. Crimew is known for leaking source code and other data from companies such as Intel and Nissan, and for discovering a 2019 copy of the United States government's No Fly List on an unsecured CommuteAir server. Crimew was also part of a group that hacked into Verkada in March 2021 and accessed more than 150,000 cameras. She is also the founding developer of the Lawnchair application launcher for Android.
In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used the hashtag "#freetillie" to express support for her in the aftermath of the raid, and the Swiss magazine Republik compared her to Jeremy Hammond and Aaron Swartz.
Early life
Crimew was born on August 7, 1999 in the Bruch district of Lucerne in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. As a teenager, she worked in information technology. She was the founding developer of the popular Android launcher "Lawnchair", which has been maintained by a different development team since February 2021. A member of the Young Socialists Switzerland, crimew was a candidate for Lucerne City Council in 2020.
Early leaks
In July 2020, crimew posted source code from dozens of companies to a GitLab repository. She was credited with originating the Nintendo Gigaleak by Bleeping Computer, but she later told Tom's Guide that Nintendo data was not included in the July leak, and that she had never posted Nintendo code to GitLab because the company was "notorious for quick takedowns". On August 6, 2020, crimew uploaded more than 20 gigabytes of Intel's proprietary data and source code to Mega. She obtained the data from another hacker who claimed to have breached Intel around May 2020, and described it as a first installment which would be followed by more leaks related to Intel. In January 2021, crimew was involved in a source code leak from Nissan, stating that she acquired the leaked code after learning from an anonymous source about a Bitbucket server that was set up with the default username and password.
Crimew said in March 2021 that most of her breaches did not require much technical skill. In addition to leaking data herself, she maintained a Telegram channel called "ExConfidential" where she shared details about leaks by others. In March 2021, Distributed Denial of Secrets created a torrent of data from the channel after crimew's home was raided and her devices were seized.
Verkada hack
On March 8, 2021, a group of hackers including crimew and calling themselves "APT69420 Arson Cats" gained "super admin" rights in the network of Verkada, a cloud-based security camera company, using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibhuti%20Roy | Bibhuti Roy is an engineer and professor. He is a researcher at the University of Bremen at the ITB in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a visiting professor at international universities. His research interests include Computer Based Training, Curriculum development, Biotechnology for sustainable water supply, decentralized energy production and storage and Solar Energy Production Facility and Maintenance.
Early life
Roy was born in East Pakistan. He was a student at University of Rajshahi. He obtained a Bachelor of Science and went on to graduate study at University of Bremen. He received his Ph.D. in engineering after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Simulation as an action-oriented learning medium in professional education".
Career
Roy began his career as Technical Assistant for the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) GmbH in Bremen, designing the wings of fighter jets, later working for Brown, Boveri and Cie (BBC) AG and also as a Technical Draftsman designing electrical circuit diagrams and as a trainee at MBB – ERNO Raumfahrttechnik GmbH to perform feasibility studies on the usage of satellites for educational purposes. He worked as a trainee at the University of Bremen in the department of production engineering to perform feasibility studies on the usage of Electrical Discharge Machines (EDM) in space. He continued to work at the University of Bremen in the field of Concept development, Organization and Management of a practice-oriented Degree Programs for engineers from developing countries.
He was the vice head of department of the Institute Technology and Education (ITB).
Roy was the co-founder of the Bangladesh Entwicklungszentrum in Germany (BEZ) e.V., and founder of the IAQ Bremen, Germany. He was also the co-founder of SUPCONS Ltd. Verden, Germany (an IT Services company that specialized in Portal and Platform development), a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology and later the Khulna University a founding member of the Renewable Energy & Environment Foundation (REEF) in Khulna and a Research advisor to the Daffodil International University in Dhaka.
The most notable projects were a solar training and production facility, constructing hospitals in Bangladesh and creating a sustainable water supply in Africa.
References
External links
Roy's homepage
20th-century German engineers
1956 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Bremen
21st-century German engineers
Academic staff of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande%20Berbers | Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven, vice-dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering, and president of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology.
Berbers became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2014. She was elected president of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) in 2019.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian women computer scientists
Academic staff of KU Leuven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Italy | This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Statistics
Data quality issues
Deaths statistics for Italy include coronavirus victims who died in hospital, as well as those who died outside of hospitals and were tested before or after dying. Post-mortem tests are routinely carried out, and there is no distinction between people who died "with" or "of" coronavirus, including patients with pre-existing conditions, which make up 96% of the total death count. However, in regions where the healthcare system has been overwhelmed by the pandemic (e.g. Lombardy), official death statistics likely missed a portion of deaths outside hospitals. In some areas of northern Italy, a comparison of the average registered deaths over the previous years with the deaths in the first months of 2020 showed a sizeable excess of deaths that were not officially included in the coronavirus toll. In the month of March, 10,900 excess deaths have been estimated, that have not been reported as COVID-19 deaths.
Not all European countries count coronavirus-related deaths with the same criteria. For instance, in some other European countries, a distinction is made between deaths caused by coronavirus and deaths of people infected with coronavirus, thus often excluding deaths of people with pre-existing conditions. In addition to this, some countries only report deaths in hospitals.
Confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries
Charts
The graphs show the development of the pandemic starting from 21 February 2020, the day when the Lombardy and Veneto clusters were first detected.
References-
statistics
Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briquetia | Briquetia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America.
Species:
Briquetia brasiliensis
Briquetia denudata
Briquetia inermis
Briquetia sonorae
Briquetia spicata
References
Malvaceae
Malvaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temiloluwa%20Prioleau | Temiloluwa O. Prioleau is a Nigerian computer scientist, assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. In January 2019, she became the first black woman tenure-track faculty member in computer science at an Ivy League university. Her research work is on the application of data science to human sensing and healthcare. Prioleau has been recognized for her research on harnessing data from wearable medical devices to understand and improve diabetes.
Life
Prioleau's father was an electrical engineer. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, attending a local primary school and later boarding school in Nigeria. She moved to the United States when she was in 11th grade, finishing high school in Texas. She gained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 before completing a Masters and then PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016.
Prioleau was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, after which she became an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, starting in January 2019. She founded and co-directs the Augmented Health Lab at Dartmouth College, and is a faculty affiliate of The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH).
References
External links
Personal website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian computer scientists
Nigerian women computer scientists
Scientists from Lagos
Dartmouth College faculty
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Computer science educators
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet%20Lecture%20Prize | The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded to for contributions to analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, in the fields of theoretical computer science. This prize is named in memory of Philippe Flajolet.
History
The Flajolet Lecture Prize has been awarded since 2014. The Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded in odd-numbered years. After being selected for the prize, the recipient delivers the Flajolet Lecture during the following year. This lecture is organized as a keynote address at the International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA). AofA is the international conference that began as a series of seminars, started by Flajolet and others in 1993. The Selection Committee consists of three members from this field.
Scientific topics
The recipients of the Flajolet Lecture Prize work in a variety of areas, including
analysis of algorithms,
analytic combinatorics,
combinatorics,
communication protocols,
complex analysis,
computational biology,
data mining,
databases,
graphs,
information theory,
limit distributions,
maps,
trees,
probability,
statistical physics.
In the inaugural lecture, Don Knuth discussed five "Problems That Philippe Would Have Loved". Knuth surveyed five problems, including enumeration of polyominoes, mathematical tiling, tree pruning, lattice paths, and perturbation theory. In particular, he discussed the asymptotic enumeration of polyominoes (see OEIS entry A001168 for context and history). Knuth's discussion of forest pruning caused Peter Luschny to observe a connection to Dyck paths (see OEIS entry A091866). The portion of the talk on Lattice Paths of Slope 2/5 focused on a theorem by Nakamigawa and Tokushige. Knuth made a conjecture about the related enumeration of lattice paths, which was subsequently resolved by Cyril Banderier and Michael Wallner. Knuth's discussion of lattice paths also led to the creation of two new OEIS entries, A322632 and A322633.
The 2016 lecture by Robert Sedgewick focused on a topic dating back to one of Flajolet's earliest papers, on approximate counting methods for streaming data. The talk drew connections between "practical computing" and theoretical computer science. As a key example of these connections, Sedgewick emphasized the way that Flajolet revisited the topic of approximate counting repeatedly during his career, starting with the Flajolet–Martin algorithm for probabilistic counting and leading the introduction of methods for Loglog Counting and HyperLogLog counting. Sedgewick's talk emphasized not only the underlying theory but also the experimental validation of approximate counting, and its modern applications in cloud computing. He also introduced an algorithm called HyperBitBit, which is appropriate in applications which involve small-scale, frequent calculations.
Recipients
See also
List of computer science awards
Notes
References
External links
Analysis of Algorithms internatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Hayes | Gillian Rachael Hayes is an American computer scientist. She is the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Irvine.
Early life and education
Hayes completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1997 at Vanderbilt University and her PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Career
Upon completing her PhD, Hayes joined the faculty at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in 2007. While working as an associate professor of informatics, she was named the inaugural holder of the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics. In this role, she received one of three Advanced Research Fellowships awarded by The Jacobs Foundation to develop a framework for designing technologies for and with youth, as well as establish a structure for measuring the outcomes of these technological designs. Upon returning to teaching, she was a finalist for the 2017 Community Engaged Scholar Award.
Hayes was named the third Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division on September 1, 2019, replacing Frances Leslie. In the same year, she was the recipient of the Social Impact Award as someone who "promotes the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs." During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hayes and colleague Sharad Mehrotra were named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery for their outstanding scientific contributions that "propel the digital age."
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Vanderbilt University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Havoc%20Struck | When Havoc Struck is an American documentary television series that is distributed by ITC Entertainment and ran in first-run syndication via the attempted fourth television network Mobil Showcase Network from January 11 until March 15, 1978.
Hosted by Glenn Ford, the program features stories of disasters.
Episodes
"Camille Was No Lady"
"SOS - Disasters at Sea"
"The Bel-Air Fire"
"Bridge Collapses"
"The Great Ohio River Flood"
"The Dust Bowl"
"How Safe is It to Fly"
"Volcanoes"
"Earthquakes"
"Life at the Limit"
"The Children of Aberfan"
"Disaster Airship"
See also
Blueprint for Disaster - similar show from 2003 until 2005
Earth's Fury - similar show from 1997 until 1998
Disasters of the Century - similar show from 2000 until 2005
Seconds from Disaster - similar show from 2004 until 2018
References
External links
1978 American television series debuts
1978 American television series endings
Documentary films about disasters
1970s American documentary television series
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
American documentary television series
Television series by ITC Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20in%20American%20television%20network%20changes | The following are lists of changes to American television networks, including changes of station affiliations, that occurred in 2019.
Launches
Conversions and rebrandings
Closures
Station launches
Stations changing network affiliation
Major affiliation changes
This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish language networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Subchannel affiliation
References
American television network changes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20filter | Network filter may refer to:
Firewall (computing), especially a packet filter, to control inbound and outbound network traffic at the device or local-area-network level
A computer and network surveillance device or software, of a variety of types
An Internet filter, software (or firmware) that performs content control and blockage
A filter (signal processing) of any of several types, as used on a network line or to adjust a wireless network signal, to improve signal quality by removing "noise" (interference)
A line conditioner of any of several types, as used on a network line, especially:
Attenuator (electronics), an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an electronic signal, as used on an Ethernet or other electrical network line
Optical attenuator, an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an optical signal, as used on a fiberoptic network line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Atlas%20of%20Belarus | National Atlas of Belarus (Belarusian: Нацыянальны атлас Беларусі) is a fundamental state scientific publication: a cartographic work (atlas), which highlights modern data about Belarus, it characterizes the natural conditions and resources, demographic, economic, and historical situation in the country.
Description
The atlas consists of 19 sections. It includes more than 120 maps.
The format of the book is 40x47 cm, its weight is about 5 kilograms.
The first representative edition of the book was 2 thousand copies.
History
The prerequisite for the creation of the National Atlas was the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko of May 12, 1999 N 269. The coordinating council consisting of 10 people, most of whom are directors of research institutes and with academic degrees, was established. The customer of the atlas is the State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography under the Council Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. The atlas was created by about 450 specialists from more than 60 organizations. The atlas was published in 2002.
References
Books about Belarus
Maps of Europe by country |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamabainia | Chamabainia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Urticaceae.
Its native range is Tropical and Subtropical Asia.
Species:
Chamabainia cuspidata Wight
References
Urticaceae
Urticaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Shamir | Ariel Shamir () is an Israeli professor of Computer Science.
He serves as dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. and one of the developers of Seam carving.
Biography
Shamir received a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a doctorate in computer science in 2000. He specialized mainly in computerized image and video processing, imaging and machine learning.
He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Computational Imaging at the University of Texas at Austin and then researched at Mitsubishi Electric's research laboratories at Cambridge, Disney Research and MIT.
In 2017, he started serving as a dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya.
Shamir has published dozens of publications on his research topics, and in 2014 he was mentioned as one of the most cited and influential researchers in the field of computer science. Since 2017, Shamir has been an associate editor of several journals like IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and ACM Transactions on Graphics.
As of 2021, Shamir's research has been cited over 11,000 times in academic papers worldwide.
References
External links
The resume of Professor Shamir
1966 births
Living people
Israeli scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Educators from Jerusalem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes%20of%20the%20Golden%20Masks | Heroes of the Golden Masks is a 2023 Canadian computer animated film directed by Sean O'Reilly. It features the voices of Patton Oswalt, Byron Mann, Ron Perlman, Osric Chau and Christopher Plummer in his final film role before his death in 2021.
Voice cast
Patton Oswalt as Aesop
Byron Mann as Jiahao
Christopher Plummer as Rizzo
Ron Perlman as Kunyi
Osric Chau as Zhu
Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Li
Sean Patrick O'Reilly as Thurman
Kiefer O'Reilly as Charlie
Jack Gillett as Brian
Zeus Mendoza as Zuma
King Lau as King Yufu
Kingston Chan as Mei
Jett Wu as Maly
Rickie Wang as Min
Albert Steven Tsai as Zhang
Michelle O'Reilly as Officer Meyers
Production
Plummer completed his voice work before his death in 2021.
Release
Gravitas Ventures released the film on digital on June 9, 2023.
Reception
The film has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews.
References
External links
2023 films
2020s Canadian films
Canadian animated feature films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Scrolls%20of%20Abadon | The Scrolls of Abadon is a maze game designed by Frank Cohen and published in 1984 by Access Software for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 home computers.
Gameplay
The object of The Scrolls of Abadon is to collect all sixteen pieces of magic "amulate", which are spread over four levels of increasing difficulty. The game takes place in an isometric view on a scrolling platform filled with gems, spells, or pieces of "amulate" for the taking. All gems in a location must be collected to activate the "Power Disk", which the player can then use to change the location. Each time the player collects a jewel, an arrow is left behind to indicate the direction they came from, preventing movement in the opposite direction. To complicate matters, a variety of deadly creatures occasionally appear in the maze. Fortunately, there are various spells available in the game that the player can collect. The spell is activated by typing the correct word on the keyboard (provided the player has the corresponding spell).
Points are awarded for collecting gems, a spell, or a piece of "amulate," and extra lives are awarded every 20 000 points.
Development
A pre-release version of the game was titled Hocus Pocus.
Reception
The game received mediocre reviews. Bill Kunkel reviewed the game for Electronic Games and was not impressed: "there is no excuse, in this day and age, for a piece of software this poorly conceived and executed." Zzap!64 was similarly critical in its review and gave the game an overall very poor 28%. Steve Panak was more lenient in his review for ANALOG Computing and stated: "Overall, the Scrolls of Abadon is an interesting game which you can play for a fair amount of time before mastering, the main problem being that there is little motivation to do so."
See also
Other games written by Frank Cohen:
Clowns and Balloons (1982)
Cohen's Towers (1983)
Ghost Chaser (1984)
Ollie's Follies (1984)
References
External links
The Scrolls of Abadon at Atari Mania
1984 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with isometric graphics
Access Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports | The Bally Sports Regional Networks are a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint-venture company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios. The naming rights to the network were sold to casino operator Bally's Corporation.
The networks were formerly known as Fox Sports Networks and operated by News Corporation for most of their existence. They were acquired by Diamond Sports from The Walt Disney Company in 2019, as Disney was required to divest them by the U.S. Department of Justice as a condition of their own acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
Launched on March 31, 2021, the networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams. Through 19 owned-and-operated networks and several other affiliates, Bally Sports programming is available to all or part of at least 45 states, with the only notable lack of coverage existing in the Philadelphia media market, Northern California, and most of New England.
History
Beginnings
The networks of Bally Sports have a long history, with the origins of several of the networks dating to the 1980s and 1990s, as affiliates of the Prime Network (and to a lesser degree SportsChannel). In 1996, News Corporation and Liberty Media (the owner of Prime Network) announced that the Prime Sports networks would be rebranded under the new "Fox Sports Net" brand; the Prime Sports-branded affiliates were officially relaunched as Fox Sports Net on November 1 of that year. In 1997, News Corp and Liberty Media also purchased a 40% stake in Cablevision/NBC's SportsChannel networks which led those networks being rebranded as part of Fox Sports Net in early 1998 and bringing the total number of owned or affiliate networks to 18. In the years that followed, a series of other acquisitions and launches of new networks (along with a few closures) resulted in 22 owned and operated networks.
Acquisition by Diamond Sports Group from Disney
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced their intent to acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion after the spin-off of certain businesses into a new entity (initially dubbed "new Fox", but ultimately named Fox Corporation). While the acquisition was originally slated to include Fox Sports' regional operations (which, presumably, would have been re-aligned with Disney's ESPN division), the Justice Department ordered that they be divested within 90 days of the completion of the acquisition due to the concentration of the market that ESPN would hold.
Sinclair Broadcast Group was mentioned as the most likely buyer for the other FSN networks, but would need the assistance of a private equity firm to help raise the cash needed for the purchase. The group's other sports properties included Stadium—a national sports network distributed via over-the-air digital television and internet streaming, Tennis Channel, as well as Marquee—a then-upcoming RSN devoted t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansad%20TV | Sansad TV is an Indian government television channel, which broadcasts the proceedings of the two Houses of Indian Parliament (Bharatiya Sansad) and other public affairs programming. It was formed in March 2021 by amalgamating the existing house channels, Lok Sabha TV and the Rajya Sabha TV, although separate satellite channels are broadcast for each House.
Provisionally, the channel will have about 35 themes on which programmes will be aired, and the programmes will be similar, but in two languages: Hindi and English. The channel was launched by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu and Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla on 15 September 2021. The TV Channel has experts from diverse fields as guest anchors for some flagship programmes and include Bibek Debroy, Karan Singh, Amitabh Kant, Shashi Tharoor, Vikas Swarup, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Hemant Batra, Maroof Raza and Sanjeev Sanyal.
History
It was formed in the year 2021."During the intersession period and beyond the working hours of Parliament, both will telecast common content to a large extent. The LSTV platform would telecast programmes in Hindi, while RSTV would do so in English. The two language variants, it was felt, enables better branding and increased viewership", a top official said. "The attempt is to go beyond the proceedings of the Houses and show the functioning of Parliament and parliamentarians when the House is not in session."
See also
Lists of television channels in India
References
External links
Legislature broadcasters
Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha
Television channels in India by language
English-language television shows
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Indian government officials
24-hour television news channels in India
Television networks in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Audio%20Network%20Guild%20Awards | The Game Audio Network Guild Awards (shortened to the G.A.N.G. Awards) is an award show that celebrates excellence in video game audio. The awards, which started in 2004, are arranged by the Game Audio Network Guild and held annually during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The first four shows were held at the Fairmont San Jose, before moving to the Moscone Center from the fifth; due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 18th, 19th, and 20th ceremonies were held virtually.
Format
The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Awards are celebrated annually as part of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The awards are split between music, sound design, and voice acting. Submissions must be released between January 1 and December 31 of the preceding year. Members of the Game Audio Network Guild may submit five nominations for free, with each additional submission costing ; public submissions cost per game. Early access games are ineligible. After the submission deadline passes, the Awards Committee sends the data to the Advisors and Awards Committees to select the nominees. Once the final nominations are selected, the Game Audio Network Guild votes for the winners.
Ceremonies
1st (2003)
[[File:Nobuo uematsu 001.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Nobuo Uematsu won Best Original Vocal Song – Choral for "Memoro de la Santono from Final Fantasy XI.]]
The first G.A.N.G. Awards ceremony took place on March 7, 2003, at the Fairmont San Jose. Almost 500 people attended the ceremony. The awards were presented by members of the Game Audio Network guild, including Tommy Tallarico, Clint Bajakian, and Jack Wall, with musical interludes from LoudLouderLoudest!, Orpheus Hanley, the Slackmates, the Ex Lucas Arts Boys, and George "The Fat Man" Sanger.
Overall
Audio of the Year: Medal of Honor: Frontline Best Cinematic/Cut-Scene Audio: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Best Audio – Other: Fisher-Price Pixter Pro Base and Leap Frog Imagination Desk Reading Games (tie)
Best Handheld Audio: Alienators: Evolution Continues Best Website Audio: Blitz Digital Studios
Best Edutainment/Children Audio: Learning 2nd/3rd Grade Music
Music of the Year: Medal of Honor: Frontline Best Live Performance Recording: "Operation Market Garden" — Medal of Honor: Frontline Best Interactive Score: James Bond 007: Nightfire Best Instrumental Song: "Allied Assault Main Theme" by Michael Giacchino — Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Best Original Vocal Song – Choral: "Memoro de la Santono" by Nobuo Uematsu — Final Fantasy XI Best Original Vocal Song – Pop: "Kingdom (Vocal Version)" by Hikaru Utada — Kingdom Hearts Best Use of Licensed Music: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Best Original Soundtrack Album: The Best of LucasArts Best Arrangement of a Non-Original Score: James Bond 007: Nightfire Sound Design
Sound Design of the Year: Medal of Honor: Frontline Best Sound Design in a Sports or Driving Game: FIFA World Cup 2002 Best Use of Multi-Channel Surround in a Game: James Bond 007: N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%20Lowe | Jen Lowe is an American data scientist and professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Lowe has also researched at Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Laboratory, as well as co-founding the School for Poetic Computation in New York. She is a member of the collective Deep Lab.
Lowe's work is primarily focused on human interactions with data technology, most notably her One Human Heartbeat project that visualizes Lowe's own heartbeat. Lowe currently lives in New York.
Notable work
One Human Heartbeat, a project in which Lowe visualized her heartbeat in semi- real time. The data was on a 24-hour delay to allow for data upload, but it played in real time. The piece was described as "hopeful."
Wind Flow
Guayupia, a collaboration with Patricio González Vivo. The two created a map of their son's genealogy and heritage, flipping the typical direction of maps so South was at the top.
The Library Project, a collaboration between Laura Kurgan and the Spatial Information Design Lab, and visualization designers Annelie Berner and Derek Watkins.
Published work
The Book of Shaders
Two-Component Horizontal Aerosol Motion Vectors in the Atmospheric Surface Layer from a Cross-Correlation Algorithm Applied to Scanning Elastic Backscatter Lidar Data
Clearing Space
References
American women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20F.%20Coleman | Thomas F. Coleman is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist who is a Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Ophelia Lazaridis University Research Chair. In addition, Coleman is the director of WatRISQ, an institute composed of quantitative and computational finance researchers spanning several Faculties at the University of Waterloo.
Education
Coleman earned his PhD from University of Waterloo in 1979 with the dissertation A Superlinear Penalty Function Method to Solve the Nonlinear Programming Problem supervised by Andrew Conn. He followed that up with a two-year postdoctoral appointment in the Applied Mathematics Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
Career
From 1981 to 2005, Coleman was a professor of computer science at Cornell University. From 1998 to 2005 he served as the director of Cornell Theory Center, now Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing
From 2005 to 2010, Coleman served as the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. During his tenure as Cornell Theory Center director, Coleman founded and directed a computational finance academic-industry-government venture located at 55 Broad Street in
New York, which shaped into Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan.
Research
Coleman's research is concerned with the design and understanding of practical and efficient numerical algorithms for continuous optimization problems. His work has been applied in many scientific & industrial areas that include finance and risk-management, structural design, logistics and planning, protein structure, data-mining, medical imaging and informatics.
Awards and honors
Coleman was selected a SIAM Fellow in 2016 for his contributions to financial optimization, sparse numerical optimization and leadership in mathematical education and industry engagement.
Coleman has published over 80 journal articles in the areas of parallel computing, optimization, automatic differentiation, computational finance, and optimization applications and is the author of three books on computational mathematics.
References
External links
Living people
1950 births
Canadian mathematicians
University of Waterloo alumni
Cornell University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Hao | Karen Hao is an American journalist and data scientist. Currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic and previously a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and senior artificial intelligence editor at the MIT Technology Review, she is best known for her coverage on AI research, technology ethics and the social impact of AI. Hao also co-produces the podcast In Machines We Trust and writes the newsletter The Algorithm.
Previously, she worked at Quartz as a tech reporter and data scientist and was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google X. Hao's writing has also appeared in Mother Jones, Sierra Magazine, The New Republic, and other publications.
Early life and education
Hao graduated from The Lawrenceville School in 2011. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a minor in energy studies in 2015. She is a native speaker in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
Career
Hao is known in the technology world for her coverage of new AI research findings and their societal and ethical impacts. Her writing has spanned research and issues regarding big tech data privacy, misinformation, deepfakes, facial recognition, and AI healthcare tools.
In March 2021, Hao published a piece that uncovered previously unknown information about how attempts to combat misinformation by different teams at Facebook's using machine learning were impeded and constantly at odds by Facebook's drive to grow user engagement. Upon its release, leaders at Facebook including Mike Schroepfer and Yann LeCun immediately criticized the piece through Twitter responses. AI researchers and AI ethics experts Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell responded in support of Hao's writing and advocated for more change and improvement for all.
Hao also co-produces the podcast In Machines We Trust, which discusses the rise of AI with people developing, researching, and using AI technologies. The podcast won the 2020 Front Page Award in investigative reporting.
As a data scientist, Hao occasionally creates data visualizations that have been featured in her work at the MIT Technology Review and elsewhere. In 2018, her "What is AI?" flowchart visualization was exhibited as an installation at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
She has been an invited speaker at TEDxGateway, the United Nations Foundation, EmTech, WNPR, and many other conferences and podcasts. Her TEDx talk discussed the importance of democratizing how AI is built.
In March 2022, she was hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover China technology and society, while being based in Hong Kong.
Selected awards and honors
2019 Webby Award nominee for best newsletter, as a writer of The Algorithm
2021 Front Page Award in investigative reporting, as a co-producer for In Machines We Trust
2021 Ambies Award nominee for best knowledge and science podcast, as a co-producer for In Machines We Trust
2021 Webby A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Plevritis | Sylvia Katina Plevritis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.
Education
Plevritis holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1985, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1986, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1992, and an M.S. in Health Services Research in 1996. She was a NSF fellow for her pre-doctoral work and her dissertation was titled: "Resolution improvements for magnetic resonance spectroscopic images." After her post-doctoral research, she joined Stanford's Department of Radiology as an assistant professor. In 2013, she became a full professor in the department of Radiology and (by courtesy) Management, Science, and Engineering (MS&E). In 2019, she was appointed as professor and chair of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.
Research and career
Plevritis's primary research interests lie in population cancer screening outcomes and developing computational techniques to solve problems within the field of cancer systems biology. In 2006, she was the first to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of adding MRI to mammography for screening BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
In 2000, Plevritis led the NCI Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Network (CISNET) to understand the effects of screening and adjuvant therapy on breast cancer trends by molecular subtype
In 2004, Plevritis became the Director of the Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and the Director of the Cancer Systems Biology Scholars (CSBS), and the co-Section Chief of the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS). Her lab also focuses on developing computational tools to identify heterogeneous molecular features with the tumor microenvironment, such as SPADE, DRUGNEM, PhenoSTAMP, and REMI.
Awards and honors
Plevritis received the Distinguished Investigator for the Academy of Radiology Research and Inaugural Award for Basic Scientist of the Year in the Stanford Radiology Department. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stanford University faculty
Cooper Union alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | Stealth is a pseudo-3D rail shooter designed by Tracy Lagrone and Richard Sansom. The game was published in 1984 by Broderbund for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 home computers.
Gameplay
The player's mission in Stealth is to pilot a low-level bomber-fighter ship to infiltrate enemy territory and travel a distance of 10,000 miles to reach and destroy the Black Tower (enemy citadel). The ship uses pulse energy for power, so the player must keep an eye on the fuel supply in addition to avoiding obstacles and shooting enemies. Energy fields are randomly scattered around the planet. The yellow ones contain fields of positive energy that can be used to refuel the player's ship. On the other hand, there are also red, negative energy fields that will drain the ship of energy. On the way to the Black Tower, the player has to watch out for enemy bunkers, tanks, rockets, reconnaissance planes and fighters. Additionally, the player must destroy the radar towers, because a failed attempt to destroy them automatically triggers the launch of a homing missile.
The game has five levels, and each successive level is much more difficult.
Development
An early version of the game was called Landscape. Stealth uses excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor as its title music.
Reception
The game has been met with positive-to-mixed reviews. Writing for Commodore Power/Play, Tom Benford praised the game: "Stealth is software par excellence. Everything, and I mean everything, about the game is positively top-notch: sound, color, graphics, breathtaking animation, play action, challenge level, continued interest—I'd really have to give it a "10" in all of these categories." Antics Jack Powell called the game "a welcome fix for the shoot-'em'down arcade freaks who have been wondering where the next serious laser-zap would come from," praising its graphics for "creat[ing] an excellent sense of place and dimension." Gregg Keizer of Compute!'s Gazette called it graphically "outstanding," stating: "It has one of the best 3-D views we've seen." They furthermore described the gameplay as "addicting", stating that "it's hard to tear yourself away from the screen" and calling it "one of the best [shoot-'em-up-arcade games] around."
Steve Panak was less positive in his review for ANALOG Computing and stated: "It is a shame that a game with such nice graphics denies you equally fine playability. Stealth is fascinating the first time around, but you'll tire of it quickly." Likewise, Zzap!64 gave the game an overall score of 56%, largely praising the graphics but criticizing the sound and lastability.
References
External links
1984 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Broderbund games
Commodore 64 games
Rail shooters
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20component%20analysis | Directional component analysis (DCA) is a statistical method used in climate science for identifying representative patterns of variability in space-time data-sets such as historical climate observations, weather prediction ensembles or climate ensembles.
The first DCA pattern is a pattern of weather or climate variability that is both likely to occur (measured using likelihood) and has a large impact (for a specified linear impact function, and given certain mathematical conditions: see below).
The first DCA pattern contrasts with the first PCA pattern, which is likely to occur, but may not have a large impact, and with a pattern derived from the gradient of the impact function, which has a large impact, but may not be likely to occur.
DCA differs from other pattern identification methods used in climate research, such as EOFs, rotated EOFs and extended EOFs in that it takes into account an external vector, the gradient of the impact.
DCA provides a way to reduce large ensembles from weather forecasts or climate models to just two patterns.
The first pattern is the ensemble mean, and the second pattern is the DCA pattern, which represents variability around the ensemble mean in a way that takes impact into account.
DCA contrasts with other methods that have been proposed for the reduction of ensembles in that it takes impact into account in addition to the structure of the ensemble.
Overview
Inputs
DCA is calculated from two inputs:
a multivariate dataset of weather or climate data, such as historical climate observations, or a weather or climate ensemble
a linear impact function. The linear impact function is a function which defines a level of impact for every spatial pattern in the weather or climate data as a weighted sum of the values at different locations in the spatial pattern. An example is the mean value across the spatial pattern. The linear impact function can be generated as the first term in the multivariate Taylor series of a non-linear impact function.
Formula
Consider a space-time data set , containing individual spatial pattern vectors , where the individual patterns are each considered as single samples from a multivariate normal distribution with mean zero and covariance matrix .
We define a linear impact function of a spatial pattern as , where is a vector of spatial weights.
The first DCA pattern is given in terms the covariance matrix and the weights by the proportional expression
.
The pattern can then be normalized to any length as required.
Properties
If the weather or climate data is elliptically distributed (e.g., is distributed as a multivariate normal distribution or a multivariate t-distribution) then the first DCA pattern (DCA1) is defined as the spatial pattern with the following mathematical properties:
DCA1 maximises probability density for a given value of impact
DCA1 maximises impact for a given value of probability density
DCA1 maximises the product of impact and probability density
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20railway%20station | Melbourne railway station may refer to:
Australia
Flinders Street railway station, the main station of Melbourne's suburban railway network
Melbourne Central railway station, a station on Melbourne's suburban network
North Melbourne railway station, a railway station in West Melbourne, Victoria
Southern Cross railway station, terminus of Victoria's regional railway network
United Kingdom
Melbourne railway station (United Kingdom)
See also
List of railway stations in Melbourne
Medbourne railway station, a station in Medbourne, Leicestershire, England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShowBox | ShowBox is an Indian Hindi music channel that is owned by IN10 Media Network. This is free-to-air channel. This channel shows Bollywood, Punjabi and Haryanvi songs.
Programming
Breakless Blockbuster
Yo! Wassup
Chakvi Beat De Wakhra Swag
Trending Tunes
Star Swag
Tau Ki Playlist
1 Se Baje 2
Hangout
Star Selfie
Aashiqui Reloaded
Kadak DJ
Raat Ka Adda
Akaal Talks
Music Box Office
The Weekend Show
Swag Star
The Projection Room
References
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2019
Hindi-language television stations
Television stations in Mumbai
IN10 Media Network
Music television channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres%20Keevallik | Andres Keevallik (born 24 February 1943 in Pärnu) is an Estonian scientist in mechanics.
In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn Polytechnical Institute in computer science (cum laude). In 1974, he graduated from the university in Moscow. Since 1992, he is professor of roads' engineering.
2000-2005 and 2010–2015, he was the rector of Tallinn University of Technology.
In 2003, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class.
References
1943 births
Living people
Estonian engineers
Rectors of universities in Estonia
Tallinn University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
People from Pärnu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Cyber%20Security%20Council | The UK Cyber Security Council is the self-regulatory body for the UK cyber security profession, tasked by the UK Government with "the development of a framework that speaks across the different specialisms, setting out a comprehensive alignment of career pathways, including the certifications and qualifications required within certain levels. The Council will lay the structural foundations of the cyber security profession that will enable it to respond to the evolving needs of industry and the wider economy."
History
In November 2016, the UK Government's National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 policy paper set out "the UK Government’s plan to make Britain secure and resilient in cyberspace". It included ambitions to develop and accredit the cyber security profession by "reinforcing the recognised body of cyber security excellence within the industry and providing a focal point which can advise, shape and inform national policy."
In December 2018, the Government's Initial National Cyber Security Skills Strategy policy paper described an ambition for a new, independent body, named as the UK Cyber Security Council.
In August 2019 the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) appointed the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) as the lead organisation in charge of designing and delivering the new UK Cyber Security Council, alongside 15 other cyber security professional organisations collectively known as the Cyber Security Alliance. The council will be "charged with the development of a framework that speaks across the different specialisms, setting out a comprehensive alignment of career pathways, including the certifications and qualifications required within certain levels."
In February 2021, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport confirmed in a statement that the launch of the council is scheduled for the end of March 2021.
On March 31, 2021, a press release announced that the Government-mandated Council had officially become an independent entity.
See also
National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)
References
External links
Official website
Computer security in the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Tamm | Boris Tamm (23 June 1930 Tallinn – 5 February 2002 Tallinn) was an Estonian cyberneticist.
In 1954, he graduated from Tallinn Polytechnical Institute in cybernetics speciality (cum laude). In 1970, he defended his doctoral thesis in Moscow.
From 1976 to 1991, he was the rector of Tallinn University of Technology.
In 2002, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class.
References
1930 births
2002 deaths
Estonian scientists
Cyberneticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Clo%20Jaaksoo | Ülo Jaaksoo (born 16 April 1939 in Mõisaküla) is an Estonian computer scientist.
In 1969, he graduated from Tallinn University of Technology in engineering.
Since 2013, he is the chairman of Supervisory Board of AS Cybernetica.
In 2004, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class.
References
1939 births
Living people
Estonian computer scientists
Tallinn University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
People from Mulgi Parish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler%27s%20Brother | Whistler's Brother is a platform game designed by Louis Ewens and published in 1984 by Broderbund for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 home computers.
Gameplay
In Whistler's Brother, the player controls not only his character, but also his thoughtless brother. By pressing the fire button, the player character whistles so that his brother (who is not taking his eyes off the map) knows which direction to follow him. Proper timing is important, as failing to whistle will cause the player's brother to go the wrong way and possibly die. The player is tasked with retracing the path of his brother's last expedition and recovering the lost manuscript, artifacts and tools he left behind.
The game consists of 13 chapters, with the first chapter beginning on a pier where the player must board a ship sailing to South America. In each subsequent chapter, the player will find tools or artifacts that, when collected, give a special power: a spinning that will make the player's character immune to all dangers in his path.
Development
The game's main musical theme is a variation on Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in C minor from the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Reception
Whistler's Brother received fairly positive reviews. Zzap!64 reviewer concluded that "Overall this is an excellent game". Commodore Power/Play, Tom Benford praised the longevity of the game: "Each chapter has its own intricacies, idiosyncrasies, dangers and strategies, so Whistler's Brother will sustain your interest for a long, long time. It's not a game you're going to master in an hour – or ten, for that matter." Antics Jack Powell praised the graphics and animation, but complained about the annoying sound and less than adequate documentation.
References
External links
Review in ANALOG Computing
1984 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Broderbund games
Commodore 64 games
Platformers
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljar%20Peep | Viljar Peep (born 9 June 1969 in Tartu) is an Estonian historian and civil servant.
From 2008 to 2018, he was the head of Estonian Data Protection Inspection ().
In 2008, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.
References
1969 births
Living people
20th-century Estonian historians
Estonian civil servants
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class
University of Tartu alumni
Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology
People from Tartu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgenia%20Smirni | Evgenia Smirni is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Sidney P. Chockley Professor of Computer Science and Computer Science Chair at the College of William & Mary. Her research concerns computer performance evaluation, load balancing, dynamic resource provisioning, and the matrix analytic method for Markov chains.
Education and career
Smirni earned a diploma in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras in 1988. She went to Vanderbilt University for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. there in 1995. Her dissertation, Processor Allocation and Thread Placement Policies in Parallel Multiprocessor Systems, was supervised by Larry Dowdy.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, she joined the faculty of the College of William & Mary as an assistant professor in 1997. She earned tenure as an associate professor in 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2008.
At the College of William & Mary, Smirni has been involved in encouraging women to participate in computer science, and although the discipline has proportionately fewer women than other subjects at the college, it is less unbalanced than the national averages. She is the faculty sponsor for the college's chapter of ACM-W, an organization for women in computing.
Recognition
Smirni was named Sidney P. Chockley Professor in 2014. She became an IEEE Fellow in 2020, "for contributions to modeling and performance forecasting of complex systems". Her term as Computer Science Chair began in 2022.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Greek computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
University of Patras alumni
Vanderbilt University alumni
College of William & Mary faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedPAN | The Mediterranean Protected Areas Network (MedPAN) is one of the main non-governmental organizations dedicated to the protection of nature in the Mediterranean.
Mission
Its mission is to promote the establishment, maintenance and operation of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) throughout the Mediterranean for the conservation of its integrity and biodiversity, as well as to ensure that the use of natural marine resources is done in an equitable and sustainable manner. The aim is to federate MPAs from all over the region and to promote the sharing of experience and joint mobilization on common issues at the Mediterranean basin level.
Functioning
Founded in 2008 under the technical coordination of WWF France and with the support of 9 founding members, its gestation was long and goes back to the 1990s. Its headquarters are located in Marseille, France. It brings together 78 organizations managing 110 marine protected areas in 21 countries, and leads a network of experts and scientists. It helps these countries and institutions to prepare and implement strategies for the protection of the sea.
See also
Ecological network
References
European Union and the environment
Protected areas of Europe
Protected areas of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassaman | Sassaman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Len Sassaman (1980–2011), computer programmer and privacy advocate
Nathan Sassaman (born 1963), American military officer
English-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Ros%C3%A9 | Carolyn Penstein Rosé is an American computer scientist who is a Professor of Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research looks to understand human conversation, and use this understanding to build computer systems that support effective communication in an effort to improve human learning. She has previously served as President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences and a Leshner Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Early life and education
Rosé studied computer science at the University of California, Irvine. She moved to the Carnegie Mellon University for her graduate studies, first completing a master's degree in computational linguistics and then her doctorate in language technologies. Rosé worked under the supervision of Lori Levin. After completing her doctorate, Rosé was appointed to the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
Research and career
Rosé returned to Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, where she was awarded tenure in 2014 and made Professor in 2017. Rosé believes that for computer systems to be as useful and efficient as possible, they must be capable of making meaning from conversation. Rosé studies the mechanics of human conversation and uses the findings to computer-supported learning interventions. These programs were shown to improve educational outcomes. At Carnegie Mellon, Rosé directs the Discussion Affordances for Natural Collaborative Exchange (DANCE) programme.
Rosé served as president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences in 2015. In 2020 Rosé was awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Fellowship. The 2020 fellowships supported public engagement in artificial intelligence.
Selected publications
References
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of California, Irvine alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Codice%20Ratio | In Codice Ratio is a research project designed to study and use novel techniques such as Optical Character Recognition and Artificial Intelligence to digitize works in the Vatican Apostolic Archive, most of which is handwritten.
History
In 2017, a project based in Roma Tre University called In Codice Ratio began using artificial intelligence and optical character recognition to attempt to transcribe more documents from the archives. While character-recognition software is adept at reading typed text, the cramped and many-serifed style of medieval handwriting makes distinguishing individual characters difficult for the software. Many individual letters of the alphabet are often confused by human readers of medieval handwriting, let alone a computer program. The team behind In Codice Ratio tried to solve this problem by developing a machine-learning software that could parse this handwriting. Their program eventually achieved 96% accuracy in parsing this type of text.
References
External links
Official site
Research projects
Computer vision research infrastructure
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saher%20System | Saher system is an automated traffic enforcement camera system covering major cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The system uses digital cameras network technology connected to the National Information Center of the Ministry of Interior.
The technology used is a network of digital instantaneous speed measurement and multipurpose cameras connected to an electronic repository of car owners data. Upon checking for and finding violations of speed limits, seat belt laws, texting-while-driving, or other traffic laws, the system requests the vehicle owner's information from the database and then issues fines accordingly. Car owners are momentarily notified by text of the fine's type, date and amount.
History
On Friday, April 9, 2010, the General Directorate of Public Security announced the Saher system in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency, that “the Kingdom will witness, in the coming months, the introduction of advanced global technology, represented in the project of monitoring, controlling and managing traffic automatically named the Saher system". On Monday, April 19, 2010, the first phase of the system began in the capital, Riyadh. In a press conference, Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Governor of Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, announced the start of implementing the Saher system in Makkah and Jeddah in early August 2010.
References
Road traffic management
Transport in Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starring%20the%20Computer | "Starring the Computer" is a website that catalogs computer models that have appeared in movies. The website was started in 2008 by James Carter, a system administrator from York, UK. According to the website, the computers that are most featured in movies are the IBM AN/FSQ-7, Commodore 64, Apple II and the Burroughs B205.
See also
MovieCode
References
External links
Official website
Internet_properties_established_in_2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Crafts%20and%20Folk%20Arts | UNESCO's City of Crafts and Folk Arts project is part of the wider Creative Cities Network, founded in 2004, which designates cities worldwide that have made unique contributions to the field of crafts and folk arts.
The current designated Cities of Crafts and Folk Arts of UNESCO are:
See also
Creative Cities Network
City of Film
City of Gastronomy
City of Literature
City of Music (UNESCO)
Design Cities (UNESCO)
City of Media Arts
References
UNESCO
Lists of cities
Crafts
Folk arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Women%20Engineers%20and%20Scientists | International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) is a current network for women professionals, which was founded in 2002 with the intention to support women and girls in engineering and science across the world. The current (2020-2023) President is Jung Sun Kim, from Dongseo University, South Korea.
According to their mission statement, the network seeks to encourage the education and retention of professional women in these fields through international collaboration. The founding of the network received support from UNESCO. Founding members include Canadian engineers Claire Deschênes, Monique Frize and Gail Mattson, current Immediate Past President of INWES and past president of SWE, Society of Women Engineers, USA. The network currently has over 60 countries involved, including the Association of Korean Women Scientists and Engineers, Women's Engineering Society (UK), the German Association of Women Engineers (DIB), the Society of Taiwan Women in Science and Technology (TWiST) and African Women in Science and Engineering (AWSE).
Management of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
The network took over the management of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which first took place in 1964 in New York and has met every 3–4 years since then. ICWES serves as a meeting point for women practitioners in science and engineering from across the world. Since INWES took over the management of the conference, it has taken place in Ottawa, Canada (2002); Seoul, Korea (2005); Lille, France (2008); Adelaide, Australia (2011); Los Angeles, USA (2014); and New Delhi, India (2017). ICWES 18 will take place in Coventry, UK, in 2021.
INWES archives
The archives of INWES are held in the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections.
Education and Research Institute
The Education and Research Institute (INWES-ERI) is an initiative of INWES.
References
Women in science and technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20operator%20%28digital%20geometry%29 | In solid modeling and computer-aided design, the Euler operators modify the graph of connections to add or remove details of a mesh while preserving its topology. They are named by Baumgart after the Euler–Poincaré characteristic. He chose a set of operators sufficient to create useful meshes, some lose information and so are not invertible.
The boundary representation for a solid object, its surface, is a polygon mesh of vertices, edges and faces. Its topology is captured by the graph of the connections between faces. A given mesh may actually contain multiple unconnected shells (or bodies); each body may be partitioned into multiple connected components each defined by their edge loop boundary. To represent a hollow object, the inside and outside surfaces are separate shells.
Let the number of vertices be V, edges be E, faces be F, components H, shells S, and let the genus be G (S and G correspond to the b0 and b2 Betti numbers respectively). Then, to denote a meaningful geometric object, the mesh must satisfy the generalized Euler–Poincaré formula
V – E + F = H + 2 * (S – G)
The Euler operators preserve this characteristic. The Eastman paper lists the following basic operators, and their effects on the various terms:
Geometry
Euler operators modify the mesh's graph creating or removing faces, edges and vertices according to simple rules while preserving the overall topology thus maintaining a valid boundary (i.e. not introducing holes). The operators themselves don't define how geometric or graphical attributes map to the new graph: e.g. position, gradient, uv texture coordinate, these will depend on the particular implementation.
See also
Boundary representation
Lecture 31 of AML710 Computer Aided Design – Dr S. Hegde of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
References
(see also Winged edge#External links)
Eastman, Charles M. and Weiler, Kevin J., "Geometric modeling using the Euler operators" (1979). Computer Science Department. Paper 1587. http://repository.cmu.edu/compsci/1587. Unfortunately this typo-ridden (OCR’d?) paper can be quite hard to read.
Easier-to-read reference, from a solid-modelling course at NTU.
Another reference that uses a slightly different definition of terms.
Sven Havemann, Generative Mesh Modeling, PhD thesis, Braunschweig University, Germany, 2005.
Martti Mäntylä, An Introduction to Solid Modeling, Computer Science Press, Rockville MD, 1988. .
3D computer graphics
Digital geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanwal%20Naseer | Kanwal Naseer or Kanwal Hameed (January 23, 1943 – 25 March 2021) was a Pakistani journalist at Pakistan Television Network, having the honor of being Pakistan's first female news presenter and anchor.
Early life
Kanwal Naseer was born in 1943 in Lahore, Pakistan. Her mother Mohini Hameed was a broadcaster and actress.
Career
She made her first appearance for PTV on 26th November, 1964.
Kanwal made her media debut at the age of 6 or 7 on radio.
She worked for state-run Pakistan Television Corporation for nearly 50 years.
She was working on FM radio as well till her last.
Awards and recognition
In 2015, she was awarded the Pride of Performance by President of Pakistan.
Death
She died on March 25, 2021, in Islamabad, Pakistan after a brief illness.
References
1943 births
2021 deaths
Pakistani women
Recipients of the Pride of Performance
Journalists from Lahore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnyer%20Beatrys%20Ruiz%20Aylon | Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Aylon is a Brazilian computer scientist known for her work on wireless sensor networks. She is a professor at the State University of Maringá, and the president of the Brazilian Society of Microelectronics (SBMicro).
Education
Ruiz Aylon was born in Cianorte, where her father was a truck driver and later a lawyer. She earned a computer engineering degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in 1993, a master's degree in electrical engineering and industrial informatics from the Federal University of Technology – Paraná in 1996, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2000.
Career
After postdoctoral research and an adjunct professorship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Ruiz Aylon joined the State University of Maringá in 2008.
She was elected president of SBMicro in 2020, for the 2020–2022 term, becoming the first female president of the society.
Recognition
Ruiz was given the IEEE Women in Engineering Award in 2013.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian women computer scientists
Federal University of Technology – Paraná alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEFRTM-AM | XEFRTM-AM is a radio station on 770 AM in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. It is owned by GlobalMedia and is known as W Radio with programming from W Radio. The transmitter site is located southwest of Zacatecas.
History
XEFRTM was awarded in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017 and is one of three stations GlobalMedia companies obtained in the auction. The frequency had previously been occupied by XEIH-AM, which migrated to FM as XHIH-FM 103.3.
References
Radio stations in Zacatecas
Radio stations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladonia%20pyxidata | Cladonia pyxidata or the pebbled cup lichen is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It is host to the lichenicolous fungus Lichenoconium pyxidatae.
References
pyxidata
Lichen species
Lichens described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20Gulch | Multimedia Gulch was an area of San Francisco, California SoMa district which contained many early personal computer multimedia focused companies in the 1990s.
The name was a reference to Silicon Valley which is also in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It was described as "bounded by Market Street to the north, the Embarcadero to the east, Townsend Street to the south and Division Street to the west".
References
South of Market, San Francisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulguru%20%28worm%29 | Wulguru is a genus of acoels belonging to the family Convolutidae.
The species of this genus are found in Eastern Australia.
Species:
Wulguru cuspidata Winsor, 1988
References
Acoelomorphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaurav%20Khanna%20%28physicist%29 | Gaurav Khanna is an Indian-American black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physics, and the founding Director of Research Computing and the Center for Computational Research at University of Rhode Island.
Khanna has authored 100 publications. His work is focused in the areas of gravitational physics, computational physics, black holes, and quantum gravity. He has also made contributions in the area of black hole perturbation theory, loop quantum cosmology, singularities and gravitational wave science. He is the creator of the OpenMacGrid, PlayStation 3 Gravity Grid, and developer of open-source software for scientific computing for the Mac. His work has been featured multiple times in newspapers and blogs, including The New York Times, HPCWire, Physics Buzz, The Verge, Forbes, Wired, Scientific American, among others. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.
Khanna served as a guest editor for a 2018 special issue of IEEE CiSE with a focus on supercomputing.
Education
Khanna studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and completed his B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995. He then moved to United States and earned his Ph. D. degree in Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 2000.
Career
Beginning in September 2000, he held appointment as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Long Island University Southampton. He was then appointed by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Physics. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, and to Full Professor of Physics in 2015. He is currently a Professor of Physics, and Director of Research Computing at the University of Rhode Island. He is the founding Director of Research Computing and the Center for Computational Research at the university.
His career choices were heavily influenced by his father, Dr. Mohinder P. Khanna, a well-known theoretical particle physicist in Panjab University, India.
Research
Khanna's work is focused in the areas of gravitational physics, computational physics, black holes, and quantum gravity. He has also worked on black hole perturbation theory, loop quantum cosmology, singularities and gravitational wave science.
Black Hole Models Related to Gravitational Waves
Khanna is well-known for his research on late-time radiative "tails" in black hole spacetimes, also called "Price tails" named after Richard H. Price. With research collaborators, he was the first to discover the equivalent Price tails formula in the context of (astrophysical, i.e. rotating) Kerr black holes. This formula was later placed on a rigorous mathematical foundation by Aretakis and others.
In another work, Khanna has introduced a reduced-order surrogate model called "EMRISur1dq1e4" for gravitational waveforms. He trained this model on the basis of waveform data generated by point-particle black hole perturbation theory (ppBHPT), and evaluated its applicabilit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Engineers%20Council | The Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC) is a network of professional engineering institutions of the Commonwealth, established to foster cooperation and exchange of information, support the development of indigenous engineering institutions, and foster the education, training and professional development of engineers. The CEC is an affiliated organisation of The Commonwealth.
History
In the autumn of 1945 the Secretary of The Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) suggested to his President and to The Institution of Mechanical Engineers and to the Institution of Electrical Engineers that a conference of representatives of Commonwealth Engineering Institutions should be held in London in 1946 to increase collaboration and co-operation between them. In consequence a meeting was held in London in September 1946 and was attended by representatives of institutions in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK.
Many common problems and matters of common interest were discussed. Moreover it was agreed to establish CEC (it was then called the Commonwealth Engineering Conference) and to meet on a regular basis. Subsequent meetings have been held in
Johannesburg, South Africa 1950
London, UK 1954
Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia (including New Zealand) 1958
Montreal, Canada 1962
London, UK 1966
Delhi, India 1969
London, UK 1973
Accra, Ghana 1975
London, UK 1977
Hong Kong 1979
Trinidad 1981
Harare, Zimbabwe 1983
Colombo, Sri Lanka 1985
Canada 1987
The pattern of meetings changed from a four year interval to a two year interval when the Commonwealth Foundation which had been founded in 1966 recognized CEC as a Commonwealth Professional Association to which it could grant funds so that representatives could attend meetings.
CEC today
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) serves as the Secretariat for the Commonwealth Engineers’ Council. ICE’s ties to CEC have been longstanding, and the current CEC President is ICE Past-president Professor Paul Jowitt.
CEC strives to strengthen the contribution of engineers to the achievement of sustainable and appropriate development solutions, and along with its members, is fully committed to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
CEC is an International member of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO).
The Council’s main aims and objectives are the following:
Foster co-operation and exchange of information among members;
Support the development of indigenous engineering institutions in all member countries, associated states and colonies of the Commonwealth;
Foster the education, training and professional development of engineers;
Encourage and facilitate the transfer of technology between countries;
Promote meetings on engineering and related subjects;
Undertake specific projects and support local programmes;
Support the contribution of engineering to sustainable development and fulfilment of the UN SDGs; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2015 | iOS 15 is the fifteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple for its iPhone and iPod Touch lines of products. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 7, 2021, as the successor to iOS 14, and released to the public on September 20, 2021.
On June 6, 2022, at WWDC 2022, its successor, iOS 16, was announced. iOS 15 was officially succeeded by iOS 16 on September 12, 2022.
iOS 15 is the final version of iOS that supports the iPhone 6S & 6S Plus, first-generation iPhone SE, iPhone 7 & 7 Plus and iPod Touch, as its successor, iOS 16, drops support for those models, including the seventh-generation iPod Touch.
System features
Focus
Focus is a new feature that allows a user to change their "state", such as work, sleep, do not disturb or a custom focus. Based on the selected state, users can set the type of notification they want to receive and from which application. It is also possible to choose which pages and then apps to show on the Home based on the state. The state can change automatically based on where the user is or a time.
Focus also controls the interactions with Contacts, so it is possible to decide which specific contacts can "disturb" the user.
Some Lock Screen settings can be controlled based on the state: for example, the Dim Lock Screen feature, which darkens the lock screen from not showing notifications on that screen, can be automatically turned on or off based on the state.
Focus is synchronized automatically across different iOS and macOS devices on the same iCloud account, as well as any paired watchOS devices.
Notifications
Notifications receive a new look with contact photos for all communication apps and larger app icons. When the notification arrives, the user can mute the corresponding app for one hour or all day.
The Summary allows the user to group and postpone the notifications coming from the chosen apps, delivering them at a scheduled time in a single big notification called summary notification.
Live Text
Devices with an A12 chip or later support Live Text, which uses optical character recognition to recognize text in images, allowing copy-and-paste, look-up, and translation in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, Safari, and Live Preview with Camera. This feature uses artificial intelligence text recognition using the Neural Engine.
Smart stacks with suggested Widgets
The Widgets in iOS 15 are now more dynamic: depending on the context, the system can add or remove widgets to existing stacks. For example, near the start of a certain event in the Calendar, the system can decide to add the Calendar Widget to an existing smart stack, if it is not already present, and then remove it at the end of the event.
Cross-App Drag and Drop
Pictures and text can be dragged from one app and dropped in another. This feature was previously only available in iPadOS.
Home
The various Home screens can be reordered, deleted, hidden, or limited using Focus mode.
Per-Ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%20Asia%20TV | Brit Asia TV Network is a British television channel that is aimed at the British Asian audience. It launched in 2008 and is known for the Brit Asia TV Music Awards. The channel is available on satellite and publishes videos on Dailymotion and YouTube. Between June 2017 and January 2020 the channel was also available on Virgin Media cable. In August 2017 the channel outsourced its playout operations to ABS Broadcasting. In 2017 the channel changed ownership from brothers Jaz and Davy Bal to a consortium with Tony Shergill as CEO.
The new ownership significantly saved the channel's declining ratings by introducing a new vision for the channel and making the channel available to watch in North America (Canada & America), India, Africa and Australia with monthly viewing figures currently averaging 1 million viewers per month.
In 2018 Brit Asia TV established the Punjabi Film Awards to support and acknowledge the contributions made by Punjabi Cinema, the first of its kind to be held outside of India. The event saw some of the biggest names from Punjabi Music and Cinema attend such as Gippy Grewal, Sharry Mann, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Satinder Sartaaj, Tarseem Jassar, Jasmin Sandlas and more.
The JW Mariott Grosvenor House Hotel London played host to the BritAsia TV Punjabi Film Awards (PFA) on Saturday, March 30, 2019.The awards celebrated the very best of Punjabi Films during 2018. There were also awards for special recognition and outstanding achievement on the night.
The event saw the likes of Steel Banglez, Jaz Dhami, Sonam Bajwa, Gippy Grewal, Sidhu Moosewala, Harbhajan Mann, Binnu Dhillon in attendance.
Brit Asia TV Music Awards is an annual event held by the channel which has seen some of the biggest artists perform at some of the biggest venues in the world. In 2018 the awards were held in Wembley Arena which saw Sidhu Moose Wala, Mist (rapper) & Stefflon Don. headline with the track 47 produced by Steel Banglez.
It was reported that both Banglez and Sidhu Moose Wala met at the Punjabi Film awards in 2018 and as a result of being in attendance they confirmed the deal for a collaboration then.
In 2019, Brit AsiaTV has announced an exciting new partnership with the Official Charts Company, in launching the world's first Official Punjabi Chart Show.
Punjabi music consumption has grown exponentially over the last few decades, cementing itself as the dominant South Asian music genre across India. With the roots of modern-day Punjabi music firmly entrenched in the UK, BritAsia TV will be working alongside the Official Charts Company to establish the first Punjabi music chart in the world compiled using official data from all major streaming and download platforms including Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.
References
Television channels in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Bonnetta | Rachel Bonnetta (born 8 October 1991) is a Canadian reporter and a former television host for NFL Network in the United States. She joined Fox Sports in 2016, hosting the @TheBuzzer digital series firstly, then Fox Bet Live (formerly Lock It In) on Fox Sports 1 and Visa Sunday Live Show, a highlights package of weekly NFL game action, on Facebook.
Before moving to the U.S. in 2015, Bonnetta was brand ambassador for MLS club Toronto FC, as well as being the host of children's show The Zone on Canada's YTV from 2012 to 2015. This led to her hosting, at age 23, Major League Soccer daily shows MLS Now and Off Topic with Rachel Bonnetta from New York City in late 2015 and early 2016, before her move to the West Coast six months later.
In August 2021, Bonnetta was announced as the executive producer of a TBS comedy series "loosely based on her real life in the sports broadcasting world". Shortly thereafter, she joined NFL Network as a host on legalized sports betting-focused content, as well as the NFL's digital platforms such as NFL.com and the NFL app. Additionally, she will host, contribute and develop content on a variety of platforms across the NFL Media group, including a role on NFL Network's NFL GameDay Morning, host of NFL GameDay View, fill-in host on Good Morning Football, and a presence at signature events such as Super Bowl, NFL Honors and NFL Red Carpet.
Bonnetta left NFL Network in March 2023, reportedly as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Personal life
Bonnetta is an alumna of Seneca College.
She is the sister of musician Jonas Bonnetta, and has two other brothers. She is also a niece of Bruce Boudreau.
References
External links
Living people
Journalists from Ontario
People from Clarington
1991 births
21st-century Canadian women
21st-century Canadian people
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Fox Sports 1 people
NFL Network people
Seneca College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20Computer%20and%20Telecommunications%20Station%20Guam | Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam (NCTS Guam) is a United States Navy communications facility on the U.S. territory of Guam. It is located on the Naval Base Guam North Finegayan Telecommunications Site along Guam Highway 3 in Dededo, on the northwest coast of the island.
NCTS Guam is under the United States Tenth Fleet's Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) and under the installation management authority of Joint Region Marianas. It has been variously referred to as Naval Communications Station Guam (NCS Guam), NCS or NCTS Finegayan, and North Finegayan.
NCTS Guam provides communications support in the areas of responsibility for the U.S. Third, Fifth, and Seventh Fleets.
History
The facility dates back to 1944, immediately after the 1944 Battle of Guam. It was previously designated Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Western Pacific (NCTAMS WESTPAC), before those responsibilities were merged with NCTAMS EASTPAC to form NCTAMS PAC in Honolulu in 2000, and the Guam facility was redesignated a NCTS.
NCTS Guam previously managed the Navy housing located at the separated but nearby South Finegayan military property. In 2020, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, located adjacent to NCTS Guam, was activated amid its construction.
Base
Assets at NCTS Guam include or included:
The Guam Remote Ground Terminal, one of three ground terminals of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, though controlled remotely by the White Sands Ground Terminal at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
A contingency site for the Common User Digital Information Exchange System in case of congestion with the NCTAMS PAC or NCTAMS EURCENT, or a failure of the Naval Communications Processing and Routing System.
One of the 14 Cold War-era Navy AN/FRD-10 circular "Wullenweber" antenna arrays, shut down in 1999.
The coastline of NCTS Guam includes the NRHP-listed Haputo Beach Site, which lies within the Navy's Haputo Ecological Reserve.
See also
US military installations in Guam
References
External links
Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam
Dededo, Guam
Military installations of the United States in Guam
United States Navy installations
1944 establishments in Guam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofnidan | Ofnidan (), or the Greater Tel Aviv Cycle Network, and sometimes transliterated from Hebrew as Ofneidan, is a infrastructure project under construction to establish a network of long-distance bike paths in the Gush Dan, Israel's largest conurbation and metropolitan area. The network will to connect residential areas and employment centers and reduce the use of motorised private transport and the resulting congestion and pollution. The project was first announced in 2015 and the plan originally included more than 145km of segregated bike paths.
Routes
The network consists of seven routes.
Specifications
The planned bike paths will be at least three meters wide, with bridges facilitating rapid and safe crossing of high-speed roads, where necessary. There will also be resting places, water fountains, maps, and appropriate signage.
Controversy
In March 2021, Ynet reported that just six months after an opening ceremony by the Minister for Transport, a section of the bikeway between the Moshe Dayan and Komemiyot highway interchanges was ripped up and closed to commuters with fences. The Ministry of Transportation claimed a detour was paved, but a visit to the site showed no such detour nor any signage indicating a detour, according to the report.
External links
References
Cycling in Israel
Transport in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv District
Sharon plain
Bat Yam
Petah Tikva
Bnei Brak
Ramat Gan
Herzliya
Ramat HaSharon
Rishon LeZion
Holon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRC-TV | DXRC-TV is a commercial relay television station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Capitol Hill, Brgy. Telaje, Tandag City.
GMA TV-2 Tandag current programs
One Mindanao (simulcast on TV-5 Davao)
At Home with GMA Regional TV (simulcast on TV-5 Davao)
Biyaheng DO30 (simulcast on TV-5 Davao)
References
See also
DXMJ-TV
List of GMA Network stations
GMA Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Television stations in Surigao del Sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristyn%20Care | Pristyn Care is a Gurugram based health-tech company that deals in minimal invasive medical and surgical interventions. The organization has a network of more than 700 partnered hospitals and 100 clinics. The company was started in 2018 and covers proctology, gynaecology, IVF, urology, vascular, otorhinolaryngology, laparoscopy, anaesthetics, and ophthalmology.
History
Pristyn Care was founded in 2018 by Harsimarbir Singh, Dr. Vaibhav Kapoor, and Dr. Garima Sawhney.
In 2019, Pristyn Care had around 70 clinics with over 250 partnered hospitals across 14 cities, and 70 in-house surgeons. Over time, the company expanded the services and acquired more clinics, hospitals, and doctors. Currently, with over 100 clinics, 700 partner hospitals, and 300 in-house super-specialty doctors, the company is present in over 40 cities across India.
Pristyn partnered with Urban Company to provide home-based online medical consultation and supplies in 2020 during COVID-19 Lockdown. It also donated 10,000 masks to Delhi police to support the control of the pandemic.
In December 2021, Pristyn Care underwent a Series E funding round in which Sequoia Capital valued the company at $1.4 billion, giving the company unicorn status.
Funding rounds
As a healthcare delivery startup, Pristyn Care raised $4 million in the Series A round of funding from Sequoia Capital India in June 2019.
In December 2019, the company raised $12 million (₹85 crore) in a Series B funding round again led by Sequoia Capital India, Hummingbird Ventures, Greenoaks Capital, and AngelList.
In September 2020, Series C funding led by Hummingbird Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greenoaks Capital, AngelList, Epiq Capital, and Redwood Trust raised ₹86.4 crores to further support the company's growth and vision.
In April 2021, Pristyn Care got $53 million in the Series D funding round led by Tiger Global Management. This funding increased the company's valuation to more than $550 million.
In the latest Series E funding round led by marquee investors, including Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Epiq Capital, Hummingbird Ventures, and Trifecta Capital, Pristyn Care raised $96 million.
Marketing campaigns
In September 2021, Pristyn Care onboarded Hrithik Roshan for their marketing campaign titled "Surgery Mein Care". The campaign was released directly on Disney+ Hotstar and Star Sports. The campaign was designed by advertising agency BBDO, and Indian film writer and director Siddharth Anand was involved in its production.
Before this campaign, several other campaigns were also run by Pristyn Care starring Boman Irani, Dilip Joshi, Ravindra Jadeja, Chef Ranveer Brar, Anup Soni, Deepak Rathore, Sumeet Raghvan, and Vinay Pathak.
Acquisition
In June 2022, Pristyn Care acquired the health-tech platform Lybrate. As part of the acquisition, 150 employees from Lybrate joined Pristyn Care.
Controversies
In September 2022, Pristyn Care co-founder Harsimarbir Singh faced widespread backlash online following a Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWTR-TV | DWTR-TV is a commercial relay television station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Triple Peak, Sta. Maria, Tablas, Romblon.
GMA TV-7 Romblon programs
Balitang Southern Tagalog - flagship news program in Filipino language, simulcast via GMA TV-12 Batangas
References
See also
List of GMA Network stations
GMA Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television stations in Romblon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAA-TV | DYAA-TV is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Brgy. Poblacion, Brooke's Point, Palawan.
The station has an audio simulcast, which can be heard on the frequency of 87.7 MHz on the FM band.
References
See also
List of GMA Network stations
GMA Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television stations in Palawan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campiglossa%20undata | Campiglossa undata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Campiglossa of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
The species is found in China.
References
Tephritinae
Insects described in 1938
Diptera of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Up%20with%20The%20Hollywood%20Reporter | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter is an American entertainment talk show television series co-produced by Penske Media and AMC Networks. It premiered August 8, 2014 on SundanceTV. The show was also exhibited on The Hollywood Reporter Youtube Channel, focusing on Emmy and Oscar nomination season. Since the roundtables of late 2021, The Hollywood Reporter does not make use of the Close Up name anymore, returning to its previous name, The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable.
Premise
The series majority discusses on creatives in the film and television entertainment industry discussing their work and careers in a roundtable setting, it is based on the popular print and digital featurette of The Hollywood Reporter.
Episodes
Season 1 (2015–2016)
Television
Drama Actresses
Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex)
Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honorable Woman)
Taraji P. Henson (Empire)
Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Ruth Wilson (The Affair)
Drama Actors
Timothy Hutton (American Crime)
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
Clive Owen (The Knick)
David Oyelowo (Nightingale)
Justin Theroux (The Leftovers)
Jon Voight (Ray Donovan)
Comedy Actresses
Lena Dunham (Girls)
Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live)
Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin)
Tracee Ellis Ross (black•ish)
Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer)
Comedy Actors
Fred Armisen (Portlandia)
Don Cheadle (House of Lies)
Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth)
Ricky Gervais (Derek)
Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley)
Jordan Peele (Key and Peele)
Drama Showrunners
Lee Daniels (Empire)
Alex Gansa (Homeland)
Michelle King (The Good Wife)
Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers)
Sarah Treem (The Affair)
Beau Willimon (House of Cards)
Comedy Showrunners
Kenya Barris (black•ish)
Alec Berg (Silicon Valley)
Robert Carlock (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Jay Duplass (Togetherness)
Steven Levitan (Modern Family)
Jill Soloway (Transparent)
Reality
Mark Burnett (Survivor, Shark Tank, The Voice)
Julie Chen (Big Brother)
Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance)
Nigel Lythgoe (So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol)
Craig Piligian (The Ultimate Fighter)
Bertram van Munster (The Amazing Race)
Film
Producers
Steve Golin (The Revenant, Spotlight)
’Ice Cube (Straight Outta Compton)
Scott Cooper (Black Mass)
Simon Kinberg (The Martian)
Stacey Sher (The Hateful Eight)
Christine Vachon (Carol)
Writers
Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs)
Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)
Emma Donoghue (Room)
Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)
Directors
Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs)
Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl)
Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant)
David O. Russell (Joy)
Ridley Scott (The Martian)
Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)
Actresses
Carey Mulligan (Suffragette)
Jennifer Lawrence (Joy)
Cate Blanchett (Carol, Truth)
Jane Fonda (Youth)
Brie Larson (Room)
Helen Mirren (Trumbo, Woman i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20distributed%20by%20ABS-CBN%20Entertainment | The following is a list of programs distributed by ABS-CBN, a Philippine television network. The network is headquartered in ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Diliman, Quezon City.
All programs are currently syndicated to A2Z, All TV, ANC, Cinema One, Cine Mo!, DWPM , GMA Network, GTV, I Heart Movies, Pinoy Hits, GMA Pinoy TV, iWantTFC, Jeepney TV, Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live, Metro Channel, Myx, Netflix, PIE, TeleRadyo Serbisyo, TV5, Kapatid Channel, The Filipino Channel, Amazon Prime Video, Viu, YouTube and other various networks and platforms.
Current original programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
News and current affairs
My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!
News Patrol
Rated Korina
Tao Po!
The World Tonight
TV Patrol
TV Patrol Weekend
Drama
FPJ's Batang Quiapo
Call Me Tita
Can't Buy Me Love
Nag-aapoy na Damdamin
Pira-Pirasong Paraiso
Senior High
Unbreak My Heart
Variety
ASAP Natin 'To
It's Showtime
It's Your Lucky Day
Game
Everybody, Sing! (season 3)
I Can See Your Voice (season 5)
Talk
Magandang Buhay
Religious
Kapamilya Daily Mass
Kapamilya Journeys of Hope
The Healing Eucharist: Sunday TV Mass
Current reruns for original programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Drama
Be Careful with My Heart
Bridges of Love
Doble Kara
Imortal
Juan dela Cruz
Lastikman
La Luna Sangre
Los Bastardos
My Little Juan
Nang Ngumiti ang Langit
Noah
Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Araw-Gabi
Sabel
Sino ang Maysala?: Mea Culpa
Super Inggo
The Greatest Love
Wansapanataym
We Will Survive
Educational
Agos
ATBP: Awit, Titik at Bilang na Pambata
Bayani
Carlo's Blog
Epol/Apple
Estudyantipid
Gab to Go
Hiraya Manawari
Kasaysayan TV
K-High
MathDali
Math-Tinik
Puno ng Buhay
Ready, Set, Read
Salam
Sine'skwela
Wikaharian
Wow!
Game
Minute to Win It: Last Man Standing
Kids-oriented
Team Yey!
Team Yey! Vlogs
Comedy
Goin' Bulilit
Current acquired programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Anime series
The Flying House
Cartoons
Superbook Reimagined
Foreign drama
Semantic Error
The World of a Married Couple
Religious
Tomorrow's World
Current online-based programs
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the year of debut in parentheses.
Commentary
Reality
Game
Musical
Talk
Informative
Digital program
Religious
See also
List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
List of ABS-CBN drama series
List of ABS-CBN specials aired
Notes
References
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Corporation
Lists of television series by network
Philippine television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20New%20Zealand%20Artists | Find New Zealand Artists (FNZA) is a database that was created in 2013 by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. It was compiled from the records held by 12 New Zealand art galleries and libraries and at the outset contained information on over 17,000 New Zealand artists.
The project began as a collaboration between Catherine Hammond of the AAG and Jenny Harper of the CAG and received an initial grant from Te Papa National Services.
As of March 2021, the web-based database holds records on more than 20,000 artists.
References
External links
Identifiers
Artists, New Zealand
Bibliographic databases and indexes
New Zealand digital libraries
2013 establishments in New Zealand
New Zealand Artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacehey | Spacehey (stylized as SpaceHey) is an English-language online social network operated by the German company tibush GmbH and headquartered in Pfullingen. Founded in 2020 by Anton Röhm, the project serves as a homage to social media platform MySpace during its peak in the mid-2000s. However, it is not officially affiliated with MySpace.
History
Spacehey was created in 2020 by 18-year-old German web developer Anton Röhm. Röhm stated that he never personally used MySpace at its peak, due to the fact that he was too young at the time, but added, "Thanks to older friends and the internet, I heard a lot about it. I came to the conclusion that you can't find something like this nowadays, where everyone can be this creative".
On November 26, 2020, Spacehey launched under the domain spacehey.com. Three days later Röhm posted it on Product Hunt where it was awarded #1 Product of the Day on the same day. Röhm stated that the site had over 10,000 registered users by December 2020 and 100,000 users by February 2021. To cope with growing user demand, the site migrated its infrastructure in October 2021. In November 2021, registered users had grown to over 300,000. The website had about 500,000 users by April 2022.
Features
Spacehey can be viewed without registration. However, in order to publish content or interact with other users, a user account must be created. New users only need to enter an email address and password.
Spacehey has many of the same basic functions that Myspace had at its peak, such as profile pages, blogs, bulletins, interest groups, and instant messaging. In a blog post, Anton Röhm stated that it is currently not possible to implement the gallery function that many users want because it would take up too much storage space and the available financial resources could not provide the necessary space as of June 2021.
An aspect of Spacehey that differs it from modern social media, is the ability of users to fully customize the appearance and functionality of their profile pages using HTML and CSS, which was one of MySpace's most notable features. However, this also results in security problems as it did with MySpace; users can use HTML to integrate external content into their profiles that could potentially be harmful to the profile visitor. For this reason, when a user visits someone else's profile page the first time, the website displays a notice to draw attention to these potential risks and refers to Spacehey's privacy policy.
Unlike Myspace, Spacehey allows the user to share posts on other social media platforms. It is also possible to embed content from YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Mixcloud.
Röhm has called Spacehey "privacy-friendly", unlike most other social media platforms. Posts on the user's feed are displayed chronologically.
Spacehey also has verified users on the platform. Verified users are identified by a verification check icon by their names on their accounts. Unlike other social media platforms, clic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump%20flooding%20algorithm | The jump flooding algorithm (JFA) is a flooding algorithm used in the construction of Voronoi diagrams and distance transforms. The JFA was introduced by Rong Guodong at an ACM symposium in 2006.
The JFA has desirable attributes in GPU computation, notably constant-time performance. However, it is only an approximate algorithm and does not always compute the correct result for every pixel, although in practice errors are few and the magnitude of errors is generally small.
Implementation
The JFA original formulation is simple to implement.
Take an grid of pixels (like an image or texture). All pixels will start with an "undefined" color unless it is a uniquely-colored "seed" pixel. As the JFA progresses, each undefined pixel will be filled with a color corresponding to that of a seed pixel.
For each step size , run one iteration of the JFA:
Iterate over every pixel at .
For each neighbor at where :
if is undefined and is colored, change 's color to 's
if is colored and is colored, if where and are the seed pixels for and , respectively, then change 's color to 's.
Note that pixels may change color more than once in each step, and that the JFA does not specify a method for resolving cases where distances are equal, therefore the last-checked pixel's color is used above.
The JFA finishes after evaluating the last pixel in the last step size. Regardless of the content of the initial data, the innermost loop runs a total of times over each pixel, for an overall computational complexity of .
Variants
Some variants of JFA are:
Additional pass at the end: JFA+1 has one additional pass with step size of 1, i.e. the step sizes are N/2, N/4, ..., 1, 1; JFA+2 has two additional passes with step sizes of 2 and 1, i.e. the step sizes are N/2, N/4, ..., 1, 2, 1; JFA has additional passes, i.e. the step sizes are N/2, N/4, ..., 1, N/2, N/4, ..., 1. JFA+1 has much fewer errors than JFA, and JFA+2 has even fewer errors.
Additional pass at the beginning: 1+JFA has one additional pass with step size of 1, i.e. the step sizes are 1, N/2, N/4, ..., 1. 1+JFA has very low error rate (similar to JFA+2) and the same performance as JFA+1.
Half resolution: This variant runs normal JFA at a half resolution, and enlarge the result into the original resolution and run one additional pass with step size of 1. Because most of the passes has only half resolution, the speed of this variant is much faster than the full resolution JFA.
Uses
The jump flooding algorithm and its variants may be used for calculating Voronoi maps and centroidal Voronoi tessellations (CVT), generating distance fields, point-cloud rendering, feature matching, the computation of power diagrams, and soft shadow rendering. The grand strategy game developer Paradox Interactive uses the JFA to render borders between countries and provinces.
Further developments
The JFA has inspired the development of numerous similar algorithms. Some have well-defined error properties which make |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Gevers | Victor Gevers is a Dutch security hacker.
Career
He has been hacking since 1998 and is running the GDI Foundation.
In 2019 he discovered a large data breach of the Chinese surveillance company SenseNets.
He is known for hacking the Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump. He was not convicted for it.
References
External links
Twitter profile of Victor Gevers
Living people
Hackers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Hurriya%20Liberal%20Network | The Al Hurriya Liberal Network (, AHLN) is a network of liberal political parties in the Middle East and North African region (MENA) founded on 20 March 2021.
Starting 2019, several liberal parties started cooperating to spread values such as human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The aim of the founding members is to unify and institutionalize relations between the MENA region liberal parties.
Governance
President: , , Mouvement Populaire
Vice-President: Mustapha Allouch, , Future Movement
Members
Five organisations are the founding members of AHLN.
References
Liberalism in the Arab world
Liberalism in the Middle East
2021 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Robinson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kenneth ("Ken") Arthur Robinson (30 July 1938 – 5 September 2020) was an Australian computer scientist. He has been called "The Father of Formal Methods in Australia".
Early life and education
Ken Robinson was born in 1938. He received his BE degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and a BSc degree in physics and mathematics in 1961, both from the University of Sydney.
Career
Robinson worked at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) from 1965 to 2012, initially in the Department of Electronic Computation under Professor Murray Allen. During 1987–1989 he was Head of the Department of Computer Science and during 1996–2000 he was Head of the Department of Software Engineering. He held visiting positions in the United Kingdom at the University of Southampton (1978–79), the Programming Research Group at Oxford University as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College (1985–86), the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and B-Core (1999), and Royal Holloway College (University of London) and the University of Surrey (2003).
In 1971, Robinson's courses in computer science included ALGOL W (from Stanford University), WATFOR (a student version of FORTRAN from the University of Waterloo), Plago (PL/I for students, from Brooklyn), SNOBOL (from Bell Labs), and IBM System/360 assembly language. The latter used an assembler program written by Robinson since the IBM assembler was too slow for student use.
In 1974, the Department of Computer Science at UNSW had a PDP-11/40 minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation, used for teaching and administration. Ken Robinson wrote to Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs requesting a copy of the Unix operating system. This arrived in 1975, making UNSW the first university outside the United States to run Unix regularly.
Robinson's later research and teaching was especially centred around formal methods, particularly the B-Method, Event-B, and the Rodin tool.
Robinson designed the initial BE Software Engineering program at UNSW and with the program coordinator subsequently. He also initiated the BE Computer Engineering program. In 1990, he received the University of NSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
Personal life and death
Robinson died on 5 September 2020. He was married with a family.
Selected publications
Online
Reasons for Software Engineering Program Proposal (Ken Robinson, UNSW 1990's)
40 Years at UNSW and the Birth of CSE, A Search for a Discipline (Ken Robinson, UNSW, 28 January 28, 2011)
Draft Computer Science and Engineering Timeline 1955 – 2007, Revision date: March 19 19:43 (Ken Robinson, UNSW, 19 March 2007)
Reasons for need for Computer Engineering program (Ken Robinson, UNSW, circa 1988)
See also
UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering
References
1938 births
2020 deaths
University of Sydney alumni
Australian computer scientists
Formal methods people
Software engineering researchers
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20Kanal | Channel 24 () is a Ukrainian 24/7 TV channel. Originally called News Channel 24, it is the part of the Lux Television and Radio Company, a media conglomerate in Ukraine. Channel 24 programming covers politics, the economy, sports and celebrities. The station has been broadcasting continuously in Ukraine since 2006.
The channel is owned by which is controlled by Kateryna Kit-Sadova (the wife of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi).
Ratings
Channel 24 was launched in March of 2006. Its average share of daily viewership in Ukraine is 1.1%, and its Nielsen average is 0.17%.
Schedule
News reports are broadcast daily every hour in the morning and every two hours in the afternoon and evening. On weekends, news reports are broadcast every two hours from 9am until 10pm (UTC+2).
Internet presence
In October 2008, the TV channel launched 24tv.ua, a news and information website. Its editor-in-chief is Olha Konsevych. The website is regularly among the top twenty most visited websites in Ukraine, and among the top five most visited news websites in Ukraine.
Channel 24 has an official app available on Android and iOS devices.
Satellite info
Satellite — Amos 3/7
Orbit position — 4°W
Frequency — 11175 MHz
Polarization — horizontal (H)
SR — 30000
FTA (Free To Air)
FEC — 3/4
References
Television stations in Ukraine
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Ukrainian brands
Ukrainian-language television stations in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen%20Ransom | Kristen Ransom is an American computer engineer and social entrepreneur. She is the CTO and co-founder of IncluDe Web Design and Development, a web design firm offering affordable services to women- and minority-owned organizations.
Early life and education
Ransom was fascinated with engineering from a young age. In 2017, she told Forbes, "From a really young age I loved to take things apart and put them back together, and I didn't know there was a name for that until members of my family started calling me 'The Engineer'."
She earned a B.S. degree in human-factors engineering from Tufts University. During college, she was president of the institution's chapter of the Society of Black Engineers. Ransom received a Master of Science in Engineering Management in 2018 from the Tufts University School of Engineering. Her business education was supported by a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored boot camp and the Epicenter Community Accelerator program.
Career
Before founding IncluDe, Ransom developed hardware and software for Harley Davidson and the MITRE Corporation.
On IncluDe, Ransom has said, "we’re trying to change the face of tech and make it so everyone's included." After founding IncluDe, Ransom also began appearing as a motivational speaker at events and conferences. In 2017, she was named one of Boston Magazine’s Top 30 Rising Tech Stars. In 2021, she created the website for the Boston "All Inclusive" tourism campaign.
References
External links
Kristen Ransom (Official website)
Being Black In The Boston Business World (WBUR interview, February 18, 2021)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American women
American businesspeople
American engineers
African-American engineers
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalia%20Braswell | Khalia Braswell is an American computer scientist, educator, and technologist. She is the founder and executive director of INTech Camp for Girls, to encourage girls of color to pursue learning about technology.
Biography
Khalia Braswell was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and moved to Charlotte in childhood. Braswell earned her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science at North Carolina State University and her Master of Science degree in Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
In 2014, Braswell created INTech Camp for Girls, a program that aims to inspired girls of color to pursue careers in technology. Braswell moved to California after graduate school to work as an engineer at Apple. She resigned in 2018 and returned to Charlotte to run INTech full-time.
As of 2021, Braswell is pursuing a PhD in computer science education at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Awards
Braswell received the Walker’s Legacy Women of Power award in 2018 and was included in The Root's 2018 list of 100 Most Influential African Americans.
See also
Alicia Nicki Washington
Timnit Gebru
Joy Buolamwini
References
Living people
American women computer scientists
University of North Carolina alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American computer scientists
21st-century African-American people
Temple University alumni
People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina
21st-century African-American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anca%20Muscholl | Anca Muscholl (born 1967) is a Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist known for her work on formal verification, model checking, and two-variable logic. She is a researcher at the (LaBRI), a professor at the University of Bordeaux, and a former junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Education and career
Muscholl was born in Bucharest, came to Germany as a teenage refugee in 1984, and won first place in two German national mathematics competitions (the ) in 1985 and 1986. She earned a master's degree at the Technical University of Munich, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Stuttgart in 1994. Her dissertation, Über die Erkennbarkeit unendlicher Spuren, was supervised by Volker Diekert and published by Tuebner in 1996. She also earned a habilitation at the University of Stuttgart in 1999.
After becoming a professor at Paris Diderot University in 1999, she moved to the University of Bordeaux in 2006.
Recognition
Muscholl was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2007 to 2012. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2010.
References
External links
Home page
1967 births
Living people
People from Bucharest
20th-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Romanian emigrants to Germany
Romanian refugees
Theoretical computer scientists
Mathematical logicians
Women logicians
Technical University of Munich alumni
University of Stuttgart alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux
Academic staff of Paris Diderot University
21st-century German mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos%20Patrimonio | La Red Turística de Pueblos Patrimonio ("The Tourism Network of Heritage Towns") is an initiative led by Colombia's Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism, with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture. It is administered by the National Tourism Foundation (FONTUR).
The program seeks to promote tourism in a network of small and mid-sized towns that represent aspects of Colombia's cultural heritage, and to encourage sustainable economic development in these communities. Pueblos Patrimonio are selected from amongst Colombia's inventory of designated Bienes de Interés Cultural (Cultural Heritage Assets) on the merits of their architectural, historical, and environmental characteristics, as well as unique cultural identities, which give them the potential to become "true cultural destinations."
The network was first established in 2010, with an inaugural class of 11 municipalities. As of 1 March 2021, there were 18 designated Pueblos Patrimonio, distributed among 12 of Colombia's 32 departments.
List of Current Pueblos Patrimonio
Potential Additions to the Pueblos Patrimonio Network
In addition to the 18 municipalities that have been accepted into the network to date, several other Colombian towns are actively seeking the Pueblo Patrimonio designation:
See also
Pueblos Mágicos (Mexico)
Pueblos Mágicos (Ecuador)
Pueblos Pintorescos (Guatemala)
References
External links
https://www.pueblospatrimonio.com.co/
https://fontur.com.co/es/programas/red-turistica-de-pueblos-patrimonio
https://fontur.com.co/sites/default/files/2020-12/GUIA_PUEBLOS_PATRIMONIO.pdf
Colombia |
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