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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Reckase | Mark Daniel Reckase is an educational psychologist and expert on quantitative methods and measurement who is known for his work on computerized adaptive testing, multidimensional item response theory, and standard setting in educational and psychological tests. Reckase is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at Michigan State University.
Awards and honors
2016: Career Award from the National Council for Measurement in Education for Contributions to Educational Measurement.
2009: Michigan State University Distinguished Professor
Biography
Reckase graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966 with a B.S. in psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Syracuse University in 1972, where his advisor was Eric F. Gardner. His dissertation was titled Development and application of a multivariate logistic latent trait model.
Reckase began his career on the faculty at University of Missouri in 1972. In 1981, he moved on to a position as Assistant Vice President for Assessment Innovations at ACT. In 1998, he left ACT to join the faculty of the College of Education at Michigan State University. He retired in 2015.
Between December 2001 and November 2006, Reckase was chief editor of the academic journal Applied Psychological Measurement. He has served as President of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing (2017) and as President of the National Council on Measurement in Education (2008-2009).
Research
Reckase specializes in the development of educational and psychological assessments, particularly the psychometric theories underpinning the development of such tests. He has worked extensively in multidimensional item response theory since the beginning of his academic career: his dissertation was on the early development of a multidimensional item response model and he went on to write a book on the topic in 2009. He has branched out into other psychometric areas, like standard setting.
Books
Representative publications
Reckase, M. (1979). Unifactor latent trait models applied to multifactor tests: Results and implications. Journal of Educational Statistics, 4, 207–230.
Reckase, M. (1985). The difficulty of test items that measure more than one ability. Applied Psychological Measurement, 9, 401–412.
Reckase, M. (1997). The past and future of multidimensional item response theory. Applied Psychological Measurement, 21, 25–36.
Reckase, M. (2006). A conceptual framework for a psychometric theory for standard setting with examples of its use for evaluating the functioning of two standard setting methods. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 25, 4–18.
Reckase, M. D., & McKinley, R. L. (1991). The discriminating power of items that measure more than one dimension. Applied Psychological Measurement, 15(4), 361–373.
References
External links
Mark Reckase as indexed in EduTree
Psychometricians
21st-century American psychologists
Michigan State Universit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20Halaas | Arne Halaas (born 20 September 1943) is a Norwegian profiled Professor emeritus in computer technology and telematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Halaas was central in the development of the technology that led to Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), which was later acquired by Microsoft for NOK 6.6 billion (or approximately $1.2 billion U.S.) on April 24, 2008.
Biography
Halaas was Head of the Computer and Information Department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim from 1982 to 1984, and from 1993 to 1994.
From 1981 to 1982 he was a visiting professor at the University of Kaiserslautern in Kaiserslautern, Germany. From 1994 to 1995 he was a visiting professor at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) at the University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France.
Since 1981 Halaas has been working on special purpose search engines which has led to the cofounding of the three companies Turbit AS (1987), Fast Search & Transfer ASA (1997) and Interagon AS (2002). His research in algorithm construction and parallel computing was fundamental in the founding of the companies. Interagon specialized in complex search tasks for bioinformatics, and has developed a super-fast microprocessor, a so-called Patent Matching Chip (PMC), for searching biological data to find disease genes and develop new medicines. FAST later became a major global actor on search engines.
The acquisition of FAST has led to more than 1000 jobs in 25 different countries. In addition to making Trondheim Norway's search technology capital, as the acquisition has led several search companies, such as Yahoo!, Clustra, Microsoft and Google, to establish development departments in the city. His research has also led to collaborative solutions for more than 1 billion people in SharePoint and Office 365.
Halaas has since 1983 served on the editorial board of the VLSI Journal Integration and took part in establishing the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
In 2012 he was awarded a Rosing Honorary Prize and in 2014 he received an honorary award from the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Literature
(no) Publications by Arne Halaas in BIBSYS
References
1943 births
Living people
Norwegian computer scientists
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advancing%20Australia | Advancing Australia is an Australian documentary television series that premiered on 27 March 2021 on Network Ten and is hosted by actor Guy Pearce. In each episode, the show focuses on an Australian national issue and how innovators have tried to use their skills to solve the issue, create change and a better place.
The series was sponsored by AGL.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Official website - 10Play
Official website - Production
Production website
Ben Gartland — Advancing Australia
2021 Australian television series debuts
Australian factual television series
Network 10 original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeComputerMuseum | The HomeComputerMuseum is an interactive computer museum specialized in the history of the home computer. The museum is located in the city of Helmond in the Netherlands .
Description
The museum was opened on March 17, 2018, at Kluisstraat 3–5. Due to a lack of space and an expiring rental contract, it was soon necessary to look for another space. On February 2, 2020, the museum moved to its current location on de Noord Koninginnewal 28 in Helmond.
The HomeComputerMuseum presents a chronological representation of the computer as it can be used at home. It is fully interactive where all computers may be used by visitors. The official mission is: Preserve and share the history of the home computer for and with current and future generations.
The original collection is owned by Bart van den Akker, the founder of the museum. Over the years, other (computer) collectors have also exhibited (parts of) their collection at the museum, creating a complete story of the history of the home computer.
Collection
The museum has a clear focus on the history of the home computer. There are hardly any large company computers to be found and the collection starts in the mid-1970s with, among other things, the Altair 8800.
Chronologically, all large and small computer brands pass by and the collection of most brands is complete until 2006. For example, nearly the entire history of Commodore (including all Amigas), Atari, Sinclair, Apple (including the complete Apple II series and the first Apple Lisa in the Netherlands), MSX, Kaypro, Tandy, Philips and Tulip working present. Many smaller brands personal computers are also present.
Some unique items in the museum:
The Commodore Amiga 4000 used for the movie Titanic (1997).
A Commodore Amiga 2500UX from the NASA.
The world's largest collection of boxed PC games.
the world's largest collection CD-i.
Largest collection of Philips computers.
Largest collection Tulip Computers.
Working Aesthedes.
Commodore 64 from Jeroen Tel.
Amiga 1200 from Psygnosis
Oldest IBM PC in the Netherlands.
The museum pays special attention to the (lost) Dutch computer brands such as Tulip, Philips, Holborn, Genisys/G2, Laser Computers and others.
Awards and Social functions
The museum is committed to people with a distance to the labor market, in particular people with an autism spectrum disorder. Within the museum, these are guided to a permanent job where people will also remain employed for a long time. In addition to museum tasks, some commercial tasks are also performed, such as a repair service, digital heritage and appraisals. This makes the non-profit company operating independently and independent of subsidies or sponsors.
This mix of culture (heritage), social and commercial serves as an example for many museums and government bodies, including Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and International Council of Museums. The museum has received several awards for its social commitment:
Heritage Prize 2019 of H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leher | Leher is an Indian social networking service that facilitates audio and video discussion rooms. Leher is an audio-video platform where users can listen to and join conversations, interviews, and discussions between people on various topics. Leher had around 170,000 downloads in March 2021. Leher is a direct competitor to Clubhouse.
History
Leher was launched in August 2018, and it launched the live audio video discussions feature late-2019. The app gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic in India as consumers shifted to social media in quarantine.
Leher was selected for Google India's Google for Startups Accelerator program in 2020.
Notable users on Leher include Nir Eyal, Salman Khurshid, Roopa Ganguly, Keith Teare, Mylswamy Annadurai, and Khushbu.
Features
The app has multiple communication modes like private audio rooms, recorded video and audio rooms, direct messaging, and clubs.
Founders
Leher was created by Vikas Malpani, co-founder of Commonfloor and Atul Jaju, who was a senior executive at Goldman Sachs before creating Leher.
References
External links
Leher app on the App Store
Leher app on the Play Store
Mobile applications
Indian companies established in 2018
Software companies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Network%20%28Organization%29 | Media Network was an American organization from New York. Established in the 1980s, the organization aimed to generate social change by providing information on films, videotapes and slideshows for educators and activists.
Works
One of their most notable works is the Guide to Films on Reproductive Rights (1983), a book they produced with the Reproductive Rights National Network and The Film Fund. In light of new organizations and movements that advocated for the legalization of abortion, the Media Network and the Reproductive Rights National Network were increasingly asked to recommend “a good organizing film.” The two organizations then combined their resources, along with financial support from The Film Fund, and created a comprehensive guide to films, videotapes and slideshows that concerned reproductive rights movements. It included content on abortion, sterilization, contraception, childcare, gay and lesbian rights, teenage sexuality, reproductive hazards and more. The guide also provides considerable advice on how to organize good film screenings, distribute printed information about the films, and generate discussions after the films. Ultimately, their goal was to create a valuable resource for educators and organizers and to encourage media use. They sought films that would clearly explain the issues and encourage audiences to discuss and perhaps start activist work.
Location
Media Network was located in 208 West 13th Street, New York, along with other organizations such as Partnership for The Homeless, Community Health Project, Friends of the Earth, S.A.G.E., and Metropolitan Community Church. The building is now known as The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, or more commonly known as The center.
References
Feminism in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Povey | Daniel Povey is a British researcher in the fields of speech recognition and artificial intelligence. After graduating from Cambridge University, he held research positions at Microsoft and IBM from 2003 to 2012. He worked at Johns Hopkins University as a nontenured associate research professor in the Whiting School of Engineering prior to being fired in August 2019. Later in August 2019, after being fired by Johns Hopkins, Povey was slated to begin working for Facebook, but he rejected Facebook's conditions of employment just days before he would have begun working for them. He was appointed the chief speech scientist at Xiaomi in November 2019, and continued to hold this position as of October 2020. He is also the primary architect and maintainer of Kaldi.
Johns Hopkins protest
By 8 May 2019, protestors at Johns Hopkins University had reached day 35 of a sit-in protest of campus militarization and local police agencies in Garland Hall, restricting access to all faculty and students. Garland Hall, Johns Hopkins University's main administrative hall, was the home location of servers Povey was expected to maintain. According to the university, Povey was denied permission into the building several times prior to 8 May. Led by Povey, counter-protestors entered the building and Povey began removing chains from the doors with a set of bolt cutters. During the chain-removal process, cell-phone footage from the sit-in protestors features a melee between Povey and protestors, as they eventually carry Povey out of the building. Although Povey was adamant that he was the one being attacked in the videos, the university stated that a multitude of Povey's actions, such as leading a group of counter-protestors around campus at 12 am with a set of bolt cutters, threatened the safety of the students and university. Povey would be suspended and ultimately terminated from the university by August 2019.
Recognition
Fellow, IEEE (inducted 2023)
References
External links
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Artificial intelligence researchers
21st-century British engineers
Computer engineers
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitClout | BitClout is an open source blockchain-based social media platform. On the platform, users can post short-form writings and photos, award money to posts they particularly like by clicking a diamond icon, as well as buy and sell "creator coins" (personalized tokens whose value depends on people's reputations). BitClout runs on a custom proof of work blockchain, and is a prototype of what can be built on DeSo (short for "Decentralized Social"). BitClout's founder and primary leader is known pseudonymously as "diamondhands"; his real name is Nader al-Naji.
Under development since 2019, BitClout's blockchain created its first block in January 2021, and BitClout itself launched publicly in March 2021. The platform launched with 15,000 "reserved" accounts - a move intended to prevent impersonation, but which backfired as some people with reserved accounts tried to actively distance themselves. Later, in September 2021, BitClout was revealed to be the flagship product of the DeSo blockchain.
History
Origins (2019 - March 2021)
In early 2019, Nader al-Naji became interested in "mixing investing and social media". He started creating a custom blockchain in May 2019, but didn't tell anyone else until November 2020. However, in the fall of 2020, al-Naji pitched BitClout's own investors under his real name and began posting job listings for a "new operation".
Although BitClout was not originally intended to launch until mid-2021, its development was sped up due to "zeitgeist about decentralized social media" in January 2021.
BitClout's first block was mined on 18 January 2021. Its next block was mined on 1 March 2021.
As BitClout (March - September 2021)
In early March 2021, about fifty investors received links to a password-protected website with the BitClout white paper. They were encouraged to explore the site and send the same link to "two or three other 'trusted contacts'". Within weeks users were spending millions of dollars per day on the platform. The platform's founders said they were "completely unprepared", having planned to have a "soft-launch". The leader went by the name "diamondhands" on the platform.
On 24 March 2021, BitClout launched out of private beta. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm Social Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital Management, Alexis Ohanian, Polychain, Pantera, and Digital Currency Group (CoinDesk's parent company). During its initial launch, BitClout's currency could be bought with bitcoin, but not sold except on Discord servers or Twitter threads. A single bitcoin wallet related to BitClout received more than $165M worth of deposits.
In March 2021, law firm Anderson Kill P.C. sent Nader al-Naji, the presumed leader of the BitClout platform, a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the removal of Brandon Curtis's account and alleging that BitClout violated sections 1798 and 3344 of the California Civil Code by using Curtis's name and likeness without his cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20Hambrusch | Susanne Edda Hambrusch is an Austrian-American computer scientist whose research topics include data indexing for range queries, and computational thinking in computer science education. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Education and career
Hambrusch earned an engineering diploma from TU Wien in 1977, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the Pennsylvania State University in 1982. Her dissertation, The Complexity of Graph Problems on VLSI, was supervised by Janos Simon.
She has been a faculty member at Purdue University since 1982, and was head of the computer science department there from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2018 to 2020. From 2010 to 2013 she took a leave from Purdue to head the Computing and Communication Foundations Division of the National Science Foundation.
Recognition
Purdue University gave Hambrusch their Violet Haas Award, recognizing her contributions to the advancement of women at Purdue.
Hambrusch was named as a 2020 ACM Fellow, "for research and leadership contributions to computer science education".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Austrian computer scientists
Austrian women computer scientists
Computer science educators
TU Wien alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuum | is a Japanese multi-channel network and YouTuber-related label company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
As of April 2020, there are over 10,000 YouTube channels belonging to Uuum, the most famous including HIKAKIN, Hajime Syacho, Tokai On Air, Fischer's, Yuka Kinoshita, and Mizutamari Bond.
Overview
Uuum, co-founded by YouTuber HIKAKIN and Kazuki Kamada in 2013, manages Japanese YouTubers by handling the day-to-day business side of YouTube, such as dealing with brand partnerships. The influencers belonging to Uuum work with many Japanese brands and receive income from creating content around their products. HIKAKIN and Kamada decided to start managing YouTubers having seen the various problems that YouTubers were facing, such as not knowing how to proceed with business negotiations with companies, and not being able to make a contract with an agency without being a juridical person.
In 2014, interest towards YouTube celebrities increased, and Uuum grew alongside this trend. As a result, when the number of the company's clientele was 40 influencers at the beginning of 2014, at the end of the year the number had increased to 2,500.
History
In June 2013, Kazuki Kamada established ON SALE Co., Ltd. for the purpose of online sales business using YouTubers' videos, after meeting HIKAKIN.
The company name was to be changed, and while thinking "うーむ, Ūm" (Japanese equivalent of "Hmm") about a good company name, "Ūm" was chosen as the new company name. Although they wanted a company name that could take the domain ".com", as one U was not possible, the domain was finally set up with three U's, and thus the company became known as "Uuum".
Events
2014
August 28 - Business partnership with Yahoo! JAPAN.
October 1 - Moved the headquarters from Shibuya to Minato, Tokyo.
December 1 - Changed company name to Uuum Co., Ltd..
December 16 - Established MCN:Uuum NETWORK.
2015
April 20 - Business partnership with Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.
July 1 - Business partnership with Gadget News.
August 27 - Transition to a company with an audit and supervisory committee.
2017
March - Moved the headquarters from the 34th floor to the 37th floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (the 34th floor is a studio).
March 5 - Announced business partnership with Shochiku Geino Co., Ltd.
July 27 - Announced approval for listing on the Mothers market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
August 30 - Listed on the Mothers market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
2020
January 9 - Business partnership with LINE Corporation.
April 28 - Announced business partnership with Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. with 800 talent YouTubers transferring to Uuum.
September 4 - Acquired the social media app FOLLOW ME launched by Yusuke Mitsumoto.
References
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Mass media companies established in 2013
Entertainment companies established in 2013
Japanese companies established in 2013
Roppongi
Multi-channel networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Lawrence%20%28activist%29 | Louise Lawrence (1912–1976) was an American transgender activist, artist, writer and lecturer. During the mid-20th Century, she organized a network of gender non-conforming people across the US and abroad, and advocated for transgender issues. She was an early founder of the magazine, Transvestia. Academic and historian Susan Stryker has written, "If there is an unheralded founder of the transgender community in the United States, it’s Louise Lawrence.".
Personal life
Lawrence was born in 1912 and was assigned male-at-birth. She began wearing traditionally feminine clothing at a young age and would wear her mother's clothes. In 1930, she married and, when she was twenty-two, had a daughter named Anne. After the death of her first wife, she married a woman who at first accepted her wearing gender-affirming clothing, but they divorced three years later. After the divorce, circa 1942 to 1944, Lawrence lived full-time as a woman in Berkeley and later in San Francisco.
Of her transition, Lawrence wrote in one of her journals:"I consider Louise to be my true identity even though the birth records say differently. And on this I will stand. For to me, as to most people who know me, I AM Louise."Although she considered gender reassignment surgery, she chose not to pursue it, and instead experimented with hormone treatment, under the guidance of Harry Benjamin. She wrote, "I firmly believe that most transvestites have that same urge [for a sex change] but in varying degrees and areas”.
Lawrence was also an artist, who sold paintings. She wrote a 117-page autobiography entitled “Lawrence Autobiography” and a shorter text entitled, “Lawrence Autobiography 1948-1957”, both of which are unpublished and housed at the Louise Lawrence Collection in the Kinsey Institute Archives.
Community organizing
Throughout her life, Lawrence corresponded with and built an extensive network of transgender people across the Bay Area, the US, and globally, by placing personal ads in magazines and contacting people who had been arrested for cross-dressing. Through Lawrence's network, members connected and collectivized, sharing information about doctors, medical procedures and comparing surgical results. She was known to house transgender people, including those who had traveled to seek surgery in San Francisco. Her network also included gay female impersonators, drag queens, April Ashley and Arthur Corbett.
Lawrence was a member of the Mattachine Society of San Francisco and affiliated with the homophile movement in San Francisco. In 1964, Lawrence, Jose Sarria and four other homophile leaders met with religious leaders to advocate for sexual minorities.
In 1942, Virginia Prince visited Lawrence after Prince attended one of Lawrence's lectures. Lawrence subsequently introduced Prince to her colleagues in transgender-oriented medical research and Prince would later become a leading transgender activist. In 1952, Lawrence helped to publish, along with Prince and others, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Ticket | Prime Ticket may refer to:
Bally Sports West, a regional sports network that was known as Prime Ticket from 1985 to 1995
Bally Sports SoCal, a regional sports network that was known as Prime Ticket from 2006 to 2021
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Ivan%20Clark | Graham Ivan Clark (born January 9, 2003) is an American computer hacker, cybercriminal and a convicted felon regarded as the mastermind behind the 2020 Twitter account hijacking.
Early life
Graham Ivan Clark grew up in Hillsborough County, Florida, with his mother, father, and older sister. His parents divorced when he was 7; as of 2020, his father lives in Indiana. During his teenage years, Clark used various aliases while participating in online communities, gaining notoriety as a scammer in the "hardcore factions" Minecraft community. In 2018, Graham joined OGUsers, a forum dedicated to selling, buying, and trading Twitter accounts, and was banned after four days. This was most likely due to him scamming a fellow user, there is no proof for this though.
In 2019, at the age of 16, Clark was involved in stealing 164 bitcoins from Gregg Bennett, a Seattle-based angel investor, through a SIM swap attack. Clark sent two extortion notes under the alias "Scrim", stating “We just want the remainder of the funds in the Bittrex", referring to the cryptocurrency exchange "Bittrex" that Bennett had used, and “We are always one step ahead and this is your easiest option." The United States Secret Service managed to recover only 100 bitcoins from the heist. In an interview, Bennett said he was told by a Secret Service agent that the person with the stolen Bitcoins was not arrested because he was a minor.
Role in the 2020 Twitter account hijacking
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers. At the time, Sheppard was 19, Fazeli was 22, and Clark was 17. Sheppard and Fazeli specialized in playing the role of brokers in selling the Twitter handles on OGUsers.
The Twitter hack began on June 14 when Sheppard and Fazeli assisted Clark in manipulating employees through social engineering. This involved calling multiple Twitter employees and posing as the help desk in Twitter’s IT department responding to a reported problem with Twitter's internal VPN. From there, Clark directed the employee to a phishing site that was identical in appearance to Twitter's VPN log-in portal. When the employee entered their information into the phishing portal, the credentials were simultaneously entered onto the real log-in page. After one employee account was compromised, it was used to review instructions on Twitter's intranet on how to take over Twitter accounts.
Arrest
On July 31, 2020, Clark was arrested at his home in Northdale, Florida. He faced 30 criminal charges, including 17 counts of communication fraud, 11 counts of fraudulent use of personal information, one count of organized fraud for more than $5,000, and one count of accessing a computer or electronic device without authority. His bai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Bodden | Eric Bodden (born 20 February 1980 in Aachen) is a German computer scientist. He holds the Chair of Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the Paderborn University and is Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM). He is also head of the engineering department in the Collaborative Research Centre 1119 CROSSING at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Career
Bodden's undergraduate studies consist of a computer science degree at RWTH Aachen University. His thesis won the 2005 undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition. From 2006 to 2009, Bodden did a PhD at McGill University.
From 2009 to 2015, Eric Bodden worked at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since the summer of 2013, Bodden has held a cooperative professorship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Since 2016, Bodden has worked at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at the University of Paderborn and been a director for software engineering and IT security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design.
Bodden is a member of the BITKOM Management Club, Distinguished Member of the ACM and the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Awards
In 2014, Eric Bodden received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation. The Technische Universität Darmstadt team placed second in the 2014 German IT Security Award from the Horst Görtz Foundation and the first place in 2016. In 2019, Bodden was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Five of his publications have received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award. Three of his previous doctoral students received the Ernst Denert Prize for Software Engineering.
Weblinks
Personal Website Eric Bodden
Chair for Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute
Research Area of Software Engineering und IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design
References
External links
Homepage Eric Bodden
German computer scientists
Academic staff of Paderborn University
Fraunhofer Society
1980 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos%20M%C3%A1gicos%20%28Ecuador%29 | The Programa Pueblos Mágicos (Spanish: [pweβloˈmaxiko]; "Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Ecuador's Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR). The program seeks to promote tourism in a network of small and mid-sized towns that represent aspects of Ecuador's cultural heritage, and to encourage sustainable economic development in these communities. It is based on the Mexican government's program of the same name.
The network was first established in 2019, with an inaugural class of 5 municipalities. As of 16 March 2021, there were 21 designated Pueblos Mágicos, distributed among 14 of Ecuador's 24 provinces.
List of Current Pueblos Mágicos in Ecuador
See also
Pueblos Mágicos (Mexico)
Pueblo Patrimonio (Colombia)
Pueblos Pintorescos (Guatemala)
References
External links
https://servicios.turismo.gob.ec/pueblos-magicos
https://www.turismo.gob.ec/?s=M%C3%A1gico
Ecuador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20Product%20Information%20Database | The Consumer Product Information Database (CPID), former Household Products Database, is a collection of information about chemical ingredients in a variety of household products marketed in the United States.
Description
The Consumer Health Product Database is a web-based application that allows the public to search for specific products or specific chemical ingredients. It is a collection of publicly available information, mostly from product labels and Safety Data Sheets (former MSDS) provided by the product's manufacturer. It does not cover products whose ingredients are proprietary.
As of 2021, the collection includes more than 23,000 products. The preponderance of these products are marketed for home use in the United States, although some are for commercial settings and some are for customers in European countries. It does not cover food or medicines. It is maintained by DeLima Associates and receives funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the United States National Institutes of Health.
History
The Consumer Product Information Database was initiated by DeLima Associates in 1994. By 2010, it was publicly available on DeLima's web site.
The Household Products Database, or Household Products Safety Database (HPD) for several years provided access to the CPID. The HPD was hosted on the National Library of Medicine's web site and the content was licensed from DeLima Associates. It was initially compiled in 1995, although some sources describe it as being launched in 2003. The National Library of Medicine announced the Household Products Database would be retired in December 2019, and instead directed users to the CPID web site.
See also
Environmental Working Group, which maintains a database of ingredients of cosmetics
DailyMed, drug labels in the USA
References
External links
Consumer Product Information Database
Online databases
Databases in the United States
Consumer organizations in the United States
Product safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20C.%20Foster | Amy Carole Foster (née Turner) is an American engineer who is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her work considers nonlinear optics and silicon-based photonic devices.
Early life and education
Foster studied electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo. She moved to Cornell University for her graduate studies, where she worked with Michal Lipson. Her doctoral research looked at nonlinear optics in silicon waveguides. After earning her doctorate, Foster worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
Research and career
In 2010, Foster joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Her research considers the development of silicon-based photonic devices for new technologies. For the encryption of data, Foster developed a nonlinear photonic crystalline disk with input and output waveguides. This device configuration allows for the reproducible scrambling of signals, which creates specific keys for various information inputs. Such devices are almost impossible to clone, and reliably generate a large number of keys for the secure transmission of data.
Foster has served as an Associate Editor of Optics Express since 2016 and was appointed The Optical Society Siegman International Summer School lecturer in 2018.
Awards and honors
2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2016 Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award
Selected publications
References
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
University at Buffalo alumni
American women scientists
Optical engineers
American electrical engineers
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202022 | Windows Server 2022 is the 10th and current major long term servicing channel (LTSC) release of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft Corporation, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was announced at Microsoft's Ignite event from March 2-4, 2021. It was released on August 18, 2021, almost 3 years after Windows Server 2019, and a few months before the Windows 11 operating system.
Windows Server 2022 is based on the "Iron" codebase. Its updates are incompatible with the Windows 10 operating system, as the "Iron" codebase was not used for it. Like its predecessor, Windows Server 2019, it requires x64 processors.
History
On February 22, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows Server 2022 would release on March 2.
On March 3, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows Server 2022 would release as a preview build on Windows Update. Windows Server 2022 was launched for customer availability on August 18, 2021.
In September 2021, Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 2022, which would later be released in March 2022.
In June 2022, Microsoft released optional "C" updates for users to test upcoming fixes for Windows Server 2022 (KB5014665). While these optional "C" updates address connectivity issues when using Wi-Fi hotspots from the Wi-Fi Alliance after installing Windows NT updates, there have also been reported issues with LLTP/SSTP VPN clients and RDP failing to connect after deploying these optional "C" updates.
Features
Windows Server 2022 has the following features:
Security
TPM 2.0
Secured-core server; Credential Guard and Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI).
UEFI Secure Boot
Boot DMA Protection
DNS-over-HTTPS
AES-256 encryption on SMB
Storage
Storage Migration Service (SMS)
Server Message Block (SMB) compression
Storage security and performance
Cloud
Azure hybrid capabilities
Editions
Essentials
Only available through Microsoft OEM partners.
Intended for small businesses
Supports a maximum of 25 users and 50 devices
No client access licenses (CALs) required
Standard
Intended for physical or weak VCC environments
Only two virtual machines and one Hyper-V host are deemed usable.
Datacenter
Intended for highly virtualized data centers and cloud environments
Azure Datacenter
Designed for the Microsoft Azure platform
Hardware requirements
Minimum
References
External links
Windows Server live at Microsoft
2022
X86-64 operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Sabo | Annie Sabo is a sports reporter and former anchor for Bally Sports North, currently with the Big Ten Network. She covered the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Timberwolves. She hosted the Pre-Game and Post-Game shows for both teams. She later joined Bally Sports Ohio to cover the Cincinnati Reds, her father Chris's former team.
Early life and family
Sabo was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father is Chris Sabo, a three-time All-Star and 1990 World Series Champion with the Cincinnati Reds and former manager of the University of Akron baseball team. She grew up playing soccer and tennis. She has two sisters, Brooke and Olivia. Her father suggested to her to go into sports broadcasting.
College and career
She passed on several Tennis scholarships including one at the University of Dayton to enroll at her Father's Alma mater University of Michigan where she graduated in 2015. She got her first TV job at KRIS in Corpus Christi, Texas and was there for two years before going to WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida where she also worked there for two years before going joining Bally Sports North. While at WFLA-TV, she traveled to Pyeongchang, South Korea to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics and worked with Steve Andrews whose daughter Erin Andrews inspired Sabo to become a sportscaster. In 2019, she became host of Wolves Live replacing Tom Hanneman. In July 2021, Sabo announced she was leaving Bally Sports North to move back to Florida to be closer to her family and to prepare for her wedding. Shortly after leaving Bally Sports North, she joined the Big Ten Network working as a part of B1G Tailgate show for the 2021 season. In 2022, she added pre-game and post-game duties to cover her dad's old team the Reds for Bally Sports Ohio after an Opening Day appearance.
Personal life
Sabo is married to professional golfer Kevin Roy.
References
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
People from Cincinnati
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan alumni
American sports journalists
Women sports journalists
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
Journalists from Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20European%20Song%20Contest%202021 | The Free European Song Contest 2021 was the second edition of the Free European Song Contest, organised by the German television network ProSieben and the production company Raab TV.
The show was broadcast on 15 May 2021 at 20:15 CEST on the television channel ProSieben and on the streaming platform Joyn. It was presented for the second consecutive time by Steven Gätjen and Conchita Wurst.
The winning song was "The One" by Rea Garvey, representing Ireland. It marked Ireland's first victory in the event. For the second consecutive year, the Netherlands finished as runner-up, this year represented by Danny Vera with his 2019 hit "Rollercoaster." Debutant Belgium finished in third place with Milow and his song "ASAP." Although he finished with the same number of points as fellow debuting country Scotland, tiebreak rules put the Belgian entry ahead.
Format
Presenters
For the second consecutive time, the programme was hosted by two presenters: the German television host Steven Gätjen and the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.
Participants
Score sheet
All countries used a jury vote, except Austria, Germany, and Switzerland; whose results were determined via televote.
12 points
Spokespersons
As in 2020, all spokespersons, save for those announcing the votes for the three televoting regions (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland), also served as their country's national juror.
– Johnny Logan
– Eric Kabongo
– Sylvie Meis
– Ofenbach
– Nathan Evans
– Eko Fresh
– Lucas Cordalis
– Lina Kuduzović
– Javi Martínez
– Halina
– Ross Antony
– Pietro Lombardi
– Monica Ivancan
– Fabio Landert
– Sasha
– Christina Stürmer
Notes
See also
Eurovision Song Contest 2021
References
2021 song contests
2021 in German television
2021 in Germany
2021 in music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20des%20Chemins%20de%20fer%20L%C3%A9opoldville-Katanga-Dilolo | The Société des Chemins de fer Léopoldville-Katanga-Dilolo (LKD) was a railway concession owner in the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo.
The network was built, maintained and operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer du bas-Congo au Katanga (BCK).
History
The Société des Chemins de fer Léopoldville-Katanga-Dilolo (LKD) was created through a 16 September 1927 agreement between the government and BCK, and was an administrative and financial vehicle.
The government was its main shareholder, and granted it concessions for the three lines: Bukama–Port-Francqui, Tenke–Dilolo and Port-Francqui–Léopoldville.
Construction and operation of the lines was subcontracted to BCK.
BCK was responsible for all the track, and operated the network and equipment as a whole.
The line from Tenke to Dilolo was completed in 1931.
At Dilolo the BCK network connected to the Benguela railway, which carried goods to the port of Lobito on the Atlantic.
In 1952 LKD merged with Compagnie de Chemin de fer du Katanga CFK to form the Compagnie des Chemins de fer Katanga-Dilolo-Léopoldville (KDL).
KDL held the rail network concessions in Katanga, while BCK was the operator.
Network
Dilolo - Tenke, ()
Dilolo - Kasaji, (), opened | June 1930
Kasaji - Manika, Kolwezi, (), opened 10 March 1931
Manika - Divuma – Tenke , (), opened 26 April 1931
Divuma – Kisenge mines, (), opened in 1931, branch line
See also
Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Citations
Sources
Railway companies of the Belgian Congo
1927 establishments in the Belgian Congo
1952 disestablishments in the Belgian Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie%20des%20Chemins%20de%20fer%20Katanga-Dilolo-L%C3%A9opoldville | The Société des Chemins de fer Katanga-Dilolo-Léopoldville (KDL) was a railway concession owner in the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo.
The network was built, maintained and operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer du bas-Congo au Katanga (BCK).
History
In 1952 the Société des Chemins de fer Léopoldville-Katanga-Dilolo (LKD) merged with Compagnie de Chemin de fer du Katanga CFK to form the Société des Chemins de fer Katanga-Dilolo-Léopoldville (KDL).
The merger of the two companies was the work of Odon Jadot, chairman of the board of both CFK and KDL.
The new company was the sole railway concessionary in the Katanga Province.
KDL held the rail network concessions in Katanga, while BCK was the operator.
In 1960 the company was nationalized and became the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Kinshasa-Dilolo-Lubumbashi (KDL).
In 1970 the company took over BCK.
On 1 July 1974 the Compagnie de chemin de fer de Kinshasa-Dilolo-Lubumbashi was taken over by the state-owned Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Zaïrois, which now owned all the railways in the Congo.
Network
Dilolo - Tenke, ()
Dilolo - Kasaji, (), opened 1 June 1930
Kasaji - Manika, Kolwezi, (), opened 10 March 1931
Manika - Divuma – Tenke, (), opened 26 April 1931
Divuma – Kisenge mines, (), opened in 1931, branch line
See also
Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Citations
Sources
Railway companies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1952 establishments in the Belgian Congo
1974 disestablishments in Zaire
Railway companies of the Belgian Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20sanitization | Data sanitization involves the secure and permanent erasure of sensitive data from datasets and media to guarantee that no residual data can be recovered even through extensive forensic analysis. Data sanitization has a wide range of applications but is mainly used for clearing out end-of-life electronic devices or for the sharing and use of large datasets that contain sensitive information. The main strategies for erasing personal data from devices are physical destruction, cryptographic erasure, and data erasure. While the term data sanitization may lead some to believe that it only includes data on electronic media, the term also broadly covers physical media, such as paper copies. These data types are termed soft for electronic files and hard for physical media paper copies. Data sanitization methods are also applied for the cleaning of sensitive data, such as through heuristic-based methods, machine-learning based methods, and k-source anonymity.
This erasure is necessary as an increasing amount of data is moving to online storage, which poses a privacy risk in the situation that the device is resold to another individual. The importance of data sanitization has risen in recent years as private information is increasingly stored in an electronic format and larger, more complex datasets are being utilized to distribute private information. Electronic storage has expanded and enabled more private data to be stored. Therefore it requires more advanced and thorough data sanitization techniques to ensure that no data is left on the device once it is no longer in use. Technological tools that enable the transfer of large amounts of data also allow more private data to be shared. Especially with the increasing popularity of cloud-based information sharing and storage, data sanitization methods that ensure that all data shared is cleaned has become a significant concern. Therefore it is only sensible that governments and private industry create and enforce data sanitization policies to prevent data loss or other security incidents.
Data sanitization policy in public and private sectors
While the practice of data sanitization is common knowledge in most technical fields, it is not consistently understood across all levels of business and government. Thus, the need for a comprehensive Data Sanitization policy in government contracting and private industry is required in order to avoid the possible loss of data, leaking of state secrets to adversaries, disclosing proprietary technologies, and possibly being barred for contract competition by government agencies.
With the increasingly connected world, it has become even more critical that governments, companies, and individuals follow specific data sanitization protocols to ensure that the confidentiality of information is sustained throughout its lifecycle. This step is critical to the core Information Security triad of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. This CIA Triad is especially rele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never%20Say%20Never%20%282021%29 | Never Say Never (2021) was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which aired on March 31, 2021, as a special episode of Fusion on fubo Sports Network and YouTube. It was the fourth event under the Never Say Never chronology.
Three professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Jacob Fatu retained the World Heavyweight Championship against Calvin Tankman, thus ending Tankman's undefeated streak in MLW. The undercard featured matches between Contra Unit and Injustice, in which Jordan Oliver defeated Simon Gotch and Myron Reed defeated Daivari.
Production
Background
On December 9, 2019, it was announced on MLW's website that the 2020 edition of Never Say Never would take place at the Melrose Ballroom in New York, New York on July 16, 2020. However, MLW postponed all of its tapings due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the AAA vs MLW tapings in March. Never Say Never was postponed to February 4, 2021 at the Melrose Ballroom in New York City.
Storylines
The card consisted of matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by MLW's writers. Storylines were played out on MLW's television program Fusion.
The main storyline heading into Never Say Never was the feud between Injustice and Contra Unit. At the end of the AAA vs. MLW Super Series on the May 10, 2020 episode of Fusion, Contra Unit attacked various wrestlers and MLW staff before ultimately taking over MLW headquarters (a storyline explanation for MLW's hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic). Injustice member Kotto Brazil was severely injured in the attack and doctors rendered him unable to compete (therefore explaining Brazil's legitimate departure from MLW when he opted not to sign a new contract).
In November 2020, a match was set up between Injustice member Jordan Oliver and Contra Unit member Simon Gotch at Kings of Colosseum, but Gotch faked injury and the match was cancelled. Later in the night, Contra attacked Injustice during an interview after Myron Reed lost the World Middleweight Championship to the debuting Lio Rush. Daivari made his MLW debut by joining Contra Unit in the attack and cementing his status as Contra's newest member. A rematch was set between Gotch and Oliver on the January 20 episode of Fusion which ended with Gotch winning the match. On March 18, a match was set up between Reed and Daivari at Never Say Never. On March 19, it was announced that Gotch and Oliver would have a rematch at Never Say Never.
On the March 4 episode of Fusion, the recently debuted Calvin Tankman defeated Laredo Kid and demanded a title shot against Contra Unit member Jacob Fatu for the World Heavyweight Championship on the basis of his undefeated streak since his MLW debut in November. Later in the night, Fatu success |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Chromebook%20Tab%2010 | The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 (D651N) is a tablet computer manufactured by Acer Inc. It is the first ChromeOS tablet that was released. It gets software updates until 2023. The tablet was announced in March 2018.
Specifications
The SoC is a Rockchip OP1. It has 4GiB RAM and 32GiB of storage, which can be extended with a MicroSD card. It has a 9.7" inch display with a resolution of 2048×1536, with a dpi of 264. The code name of the device is scarlet.
It is primarily designed for education.
Reception
TechRadar noted the excellent screen. PCMag noted that ChromeOS without a keyboard poses some problems.
References
External links
Acer.com - Chromebook Tab 10
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liesl%20Folks | Liesl Folks has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona since 2019. Since 2023, she also serves as the Vice President for Semiconductor Strategy at the University of Arizona.
Early life and education
Folks, a native of Australia, holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD, both in physics, from the University of Western Australia, as well as an MBA from Cornell. She earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in physics. Her Ph.D thesis research was related to characterization of ferromagnetic materials by atomic force microscopy (AFM). After graduating Folks joined the Faculty of the University of Western Australia as a postdoctoral research fellow, and conducted research on AFM characterization of nanoscale permanent magnetic materials.
Research and career
After serving as a researcher from 1998 to 2013 at IBM and Hitachi, in 2013 after receiving an MBA from Cornell University, Folks was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. That year she was also appointed in the voluntary role of President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society, a professional society. At the University at Buffalo, she was committed to building educational programs that align with students’ and society’s needs. She served as Dean of Engineering when two new departments were launched at the University of Buffalo; materials design (a joint initiative at UB between to the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences) and engineering education.
Folks has conducted research involving characterization of magnetic materials using atomic force microscopy techniques including magnetic force microscopy. She is a co-inventor on 12 U.S. patents and is a co-author on approximately 60 peer-reviewed articles that have attracted more than 13,300 citations.
Folks is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
She was appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Arizona in 2019 and resigned as Provost in 2023.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women engineers
University of Arizona faculty
Australian women engineers
University of Western Australia alumni
Cornell University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizarail | Sizarail was a railway company formed by foreign investors that briefly operated the railway network in Zaire between 1996 and 1997.
It took over from the state-owned operator in an attempt to revive the railway, which had virtually ceased to operate despite being a critical source of revenue from mineral exports.
Operations quickly improved, and the company earned a small profit in the first year.
However, advancing rebel forces closed it down and re-nationalized the railway.
Creation
In the 1990s the mining company Gécamines almost ceased to produce copper, while the state-owned SNCZ railway network ceased to function.
In 1995 prime minister Léon Kengo wa Dondo allowed foreign investment in some of the railway lines in an attempt to revive them.
Sizarail was formed in response.
It was 51% owned by a joint venture between the state-owned South African company Spoornet and Transurb of Belgium, with 49% held by the state mining companies Gécamines and Societé Minière de Bakwanga, and by Zairean banks.
In November 1995 the state railway SNCZ/Holding was dissolved and operation of the national railways was ceded to Sizarail.
The South African company Comazar, 64% owned by Bolloré of France, operated the Sizarail network.
Spoornet was joint operator
The managing director was Patrick Claes.
Rolling stock consisted of 10 locomotives worth about $5.61 million, 20 railway trucks and 20 passenger carriages.
Operations
Sizarail invested $6 million in repairs to the lines from Lubumbashi to Ilebo and from Kamina to Kalemie.
It earned $66 million gross revenues in its first year, with an profit of $1 million.
Sizarail paid regular salaries to its staff, and journeys by rail took days rather than weeks.
It reopened the lines to southern Africa for export of Zaire's minerals, key to the economy of the country.
Closure
In 1997 the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) began a rebellion, which disrupted Sizarail operations.
The advancing forces of Laurent-Désiré Kabila closed Sizarail on the basis that the operators were friends of president Mobutu Sese Seko.
The result was a backlog of copper and cobalt exports.
On 8 May 1997 Spoornet reported that rail operations had halted.
The rebels led by Kabila had formed the National Railways of the Congo (CNCC) to take over railway operations on Lubumbashi, the copper mining center.
At this stage the rebels were less than from Kinshasa, while president Mobutu was attending an African summity in Gabon and was not expected to return.
Sizarail was dissolved in 1997 and all operations were taken over by the Société nationale des chemins de fer du Congo (SNCC).
On 1 April 1998 it was reported that the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had begun to repay a debt of R136m owed to Spoornet.
This was to compensate for the seizure of the railway and rolling stock by Kabila's regime.
See also
Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Citations
Sources
Rai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama%20Llulla | Ama Llulla is a fact-checking network comprising multiple independent journalism organizations that was created to combat disinformation within Peru. The group primarily focuses on verifying information disseminated by political groups and social media while also providing truthful information to indigenous groups in the nation.
History
The term "ama llulla" or "don't lie" is derived from the ethical code "Ama sua, ama llulla, ama quella" or "don't steal, don't lie, don't be lazy" that is popular among Quechuan speaking individuals found in Peru. This term was adopted by the fact-checking organization.
Inspired by other fact-checking groups such as Verificado of Mexico, Reverso of Argentina and Comprobado of Spain, Ama Llulla was created on 17 January 2021 in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program to detect and fact-check disinformation disseminated in the months leading to the 2021 Peruvian general election. The network is made of Peruvian independent journalism websites including OjoPúblico and IDL-Reporteros alongside eight regional radio stations within Peru.
Services
Inclusion
Information provided by Ama Llulla is presented in Asháninka, Quechuan and Spanish languages. The main target audience are vulnerable populations in Peru, with the network granting indigenous peoples, women and the younger voters both accurate information and increased inclusion in political participation. Programming is also developed based on the location of Ama Llulla's audience; for populations living in remote areas podcasts are recorded to be replayed on local radio stations while those living in urban areas are provided digital audiovisual productions made of videos and illustrations. A virtual newsroom is also hosted by OjoPúblico for journalists from other websites.
Social media
Disinformation disseminated on social media is targeted for verification by Ama Llulla. According to the network, rapid messages spread through WhatsApp are one of the fastest routes of disinformation in Peru.
Workshops
In order to establish improved media literacy in Peru, Ama Llulla has collaborated with universities to create workshops to educate the public and students on critical thinking and verification methods that can be utilized when participating in public discourse.
Support
Ama Llulla is partially funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and the United Nations Development Program.
Controversy
The network has been targeted by far-right groups in Peru. Shortly after the Ama Llulla's founding, a far-right group created a fake Facebook page intended to trick readers and promote disinformation. The group targeted President Francisco Sagasti, the Purple Party and the Together for Peru party while it promoted the TV channel Willax Televisión and Manifiesto Perú website.
See also
FactCheck.org
List of fact-checking websites
Snopes
References
Fact-checking websites
Skepticism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater%20%28TV%20series%29 | Stillwater is a computer-animated children's television series based on Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth. The series premiered on December 4, 2020 on Apple TV+. The second season premiered on March 18, 2022, while the third season was released on May 19, 2023.
Cast and characters
James Sie as Stillwater
Judah Mackey as Karl
Eva Ariel Binder as Addy
Tucker Chandler as Michael
Episodes
Season 1 (2020–21)
Season 2 (2022)
Season 3 (2023)
Release
The six-episode first season of Stillwater was released on December 4, 2020 for Apple TV+. The episode "The Impossible Dream" was submitted to the Annecy Festival on June 14, 2021.
Accolades
In 2021, the show won a Peabody Award, along with the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
References
External links
Official trailer
Excerpt
2020s American animated comedy television series
2020s American children's comedy television series
2020s French animated television series
2020s French comedy television series
2020 American television series debuts
2020 French television series debuts
2020 animated television series debuts
American computer-animated television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American television shows based on children's books
French computer-animated television series
French children's animated adventure television series
French children's animated comedy television series
French children's animated fantasy television series
French television shows based on children's books
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
Peabody Award-winning television programs
Children's and Family Emmy Award winners
English-language television shows
Apple TV+ original programming
Apple TV+ children's programming
Animated series based on books
Television series about pandas
Animated television series about children
Works about friendship
Television series impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Television series by Gaumont International Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sudworth | John Sudworth () is a British journalist. He was previously the Beijing correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and is currently a North American correspondent for the network. He had lived and worked in China for nine years. His wife, Yvonne Murray, is a reporter for the Irish public broadcaster RTÉ. In 2017, Sudworth and his camera crew were attacked and forced to sign a confession in a Chinese village. In 2020, Sudworth won a George Polk Award for his reporting on the Xinjiang internment camps. After suffering pressure and threats from the Chinese government, he left Beijing and moved to Taipei with his wife and three young children in March 2021.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
BBC newsreaders and journalists
British journalists
20th-century British journalists
21st-century British journalists
George Polk Award recipients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction-Based%20Reporting | Transaction-based reporting, or Invoice reporting, sometimes called Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC), is a method of data collection of governmental bodies to reduce fraud and increase compliance. Invoice reporting helps in overcoming the inefficiencies of post audit systems, where the auditors can only check VAT refunds after the facts and mainly needs to use data that is collected by the companies it is auditing. The core of invoice reporting is that all companies within a jurisdiction report their invoices to their tax authority.
History
Invoice reporting was first implemented in Latin America. In most Latin American countries, transaction-based reporting is coupled with electronic invoicing and therefore the Inter-American Development Bank named the system ‘electronic invoicing of taxes’. However, the key principle is the same as it is defined as ‘electronic invoices that are not only valid for all tax purposes but that are also received in their entirety by the tax authority’. Chile and Mexico were the first and soon others followed.
Over time, transaction-based reporting has proved to be efficient in contrasting VAT fraud. For instance, Brazil saw an increase of US$58 billion in tax revenues, while Chile and Mexico reduced their VAT gap by 50%. Furthermore, Colombia estimates that it can achieve the same result if they implement such an invoice reporting system.
Around the same time, China started its Golden Tax Project. Part of this project is the Golden Tax System, which started as a pilot in the 1990s and is soon to be integrated with every company in the country. India, is also implementing e-invoicing to increase compliance. Other countries in the region, such as Israel and Jordan are investigating this possibility as well.
Tunisia has been a pioneer in the African region as they introduced mandatory e-invoicing in 2016. In Tunisia, invoices are reported to the responsible authorities, and therefore can be considered as transaction-based reporting. Furthermore, Egypt is also conducting research in the best model of invoice reporting.
The trend and successes of invoice reporting also reached Europe, though not combined with mandatory electronic invoicing. Countries such as Hungary, Spain, and Italy have implemented a variant of invoice reporting in the second half of the 2010s. The successes of these and other systems made France decide to implement an invoice reporting system combined with e-invoicing from July 2024. The news also reached the European Commission as it stated in their Action Plan for Fair and Simple Taxation Supporting the Recovery Strategy, published in 2020, that by 2022/2023 the Commission ‘will present a legislative proposal for modernising VAT reporting obligations. The EU's Digital Reporting Requirements Directive amendment proposals are due by the end of 2022.
Usage
In countries where a VAT system exists without mandatory invoice reporting, often companies self-report the amount of VAT which they supp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | The 2021–22 network late night television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2021 to August 2022. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2020–21 television season.
PBS is not included at all, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. (PBS does offer its member stations packages of Amanpour & Company and BBC World News to air in late night timeslots Monday–Friday, and optional overnight access to its satellite feed, which rebroadcasts prime time programs shown either the previous evening or earlier in the week.) Ion Television is not included since the network's late-night schedule consists of syndicated drama reruns and paid programming, nor are MyNetworkTV and The CW as neither programming service offer late night programs of any kind.
Fox is not included in the weekday schedule, as it only airs late night network programming on Saturdays, and ABC and CBS are not included in the weekend schedule as both networks only air late night network programming on weekdays. NBC is not included on Sundays as it does not offer any network late night programming on Sundays year-round (outside of overruns of its prime time Sunday Night Football game telecasts into the late night time period during Fall).
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs, and fill timeslots not allocated to network programs with local, syndicated, or paid programming at their discretion. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any overrunning major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in correspondence to U.S. Eastern Time with local and/or overnight programming after game completion.
Weekday late nights
Note:
ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting markets that do not offer encores of the local late news; some stations that air encores of their local late newscasts will air the rebroadcast alongside the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28afternoon%29 | The 2021–22 afternoon network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2021 to August 2022. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2020–21 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV and The CW (as the programming services also don't offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns). Fox is not included on the weekday schedule: Fox only airs daytime programming (in the form of sports on weekend afternoons)
Effective this season, The CW turned over its weekday daytime hour to its affiliated stations on September 6, 2021; as such, The CW will not be listed in any afternoon network schedule articles from this season onward (unless it adds back afternoon programming in future seasons).
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New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (select shows) scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Pacific (for selected shows), Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or primetime programming after game completion.
Weekdays
Notes:
ABC stations have the option of airing General Hospital at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
Depending on their choice of feed, CBS stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern (airtime adjusted by time zone), and/or The Young and the Restless at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time (in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones).
NBC stations have the option of airing Days of Our Lives at varying airtimes (usually between Noon and 2:00 p.m. local time), depending on the station's preference and choice of feed.
Fox aired Fox NFL Thursday on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. ET live in all tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20South%20Florida%20television%20affiliation%20switch | On January 1, 1989, six television stations in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, markets, exchanged network affiliations. The event, referred to in contemporary media coverage as "The Big Switch", was described as "Miami's own soap opera" and at times compared to Dallas and Dynasty because of the lengthy public disputes between multiple parties that preceded it. Approximately three million television viewers in both markets were affected.
The changes were initiated after NBC's January 1987 purchase of WTVJ (channel 4), the market's CBS affiliate. This was the first time that a television network in the United States had purchased an affiliate of one of its competitors; due to existing contractual obligations, WTVJ was taken over by NBC in September 1987 but operated as a CBS affiliate for nearly 16 months. Miami's existing NBC affiliate, WSVN (channel 7), and owner Sunbeam Television protested this transaction, but after Sunbeam president Edmund Ansin failed to come to an affiliation agreement with CBS, CBS purchased the market's Fox affiliate—WCIX (channel 6)—in August 1988, prompting WSVN to join Fox. Due to WCIX's multiple signal and technical deficiencies that prevented them from servicing much of Broward County with a reliable over-the-air signal, West Palm Beach's ABC affiliate WPEC (channel 12) switched to CBS, with existing CBS affiliate WTVX (channel 34) becoming an independent station and WPBF (channel 25) signing on as the new ABC affiliate. WPBF's agreement to join ABC was the first reverse compensation deal in which a station paid a network to affiliate.
The new NBC station, WTVJ, had a mixed ratings performance. On WCIX, CBS struggled in the Miami market for the next six years, with fourth-rated local newscasts despite a major investment in personnel and in additional transmitters to mitigate the coverage issue. Quickly proving to be an influential Fox affiliate, WSVN adopted a tabloid, news-intensive approach that was a ratings success and was duplicated in other markets. In West Palm Beach, WPEC picked up many new Broward County viewers for its CBS network programming but failed to lure them to its newscasts or surpass longtime market leader WPTV. WPBF, the new ABC affiliate, found itself a distant third in the news race and ultimately had to renegotiate the payments it had promised to the network. Without a network affiliation, WTVX's value diminished greatly, and its news department folded in August 1989 after months of cutbacks.
Overview
Prior to January 1, 1989, the "Big Three" network affiliates in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale television market consisted of WTVJ (CBS), WSVN (NBC), and WPLG (ABC), with WCIX as the market's first full-fledged independent and Fox affiliate.
WTVJ was the first television station to sign on in Florida, having done so on March 21, 1949, on channel 4. As the station signed on after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed a freeze on issuing television station lic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias%20van%20den%20Hurk | Tobias van den Hurk is a Dutch curler. He currently plays lead on the Dutch men's curling team skipped by Wouter Gösgens.
Personal life
As of 2018, he was a computer science engineering student at Delft University of Technology.
Teams
References
External links
Living people
Dutch male curlers
Sportspeople from South Holland
People from Zoetermeer
2000s births
Delft University of Technology alumni
21st-century Dutch people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse%20University%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science | The Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science is one of the 13 schools and colleges of Syracuse University. The College offers more than 30 programs (bachelors, masters and PhD) in four departments Biomedical and Chemical Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and The College.
History
The study of engineering at the Syracuse University can be traced back to 1877 when the University began training students in civil engineering. Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering courses were taught beginning in 1897 and 1900, respectively.
In 1900, Lyman Cornelius Smith, innovator and industrialist from Syracuse, donated nearly $750,000 to erect an engineering building. The building was designed by Syracuse architects Gaggin and Gaggin and was completed between 19001902. In the fall of 1901, the Lyman C. Smith College of Applied Science was established and formally occupied the eponymous Smith Hall.
Between 1947 and 1952, the size of the university tripled due to the GI bulge and the department shifted at an expanded facility on Thompson road near the Syracuse Hancock Airport. The property was later sold to the Carrier Corporation and the proceeds were used to build new building on campus.
During the latter half of the 20th century the school continued to break new ground. In 1952, the name of the department was changed to L.C. Smith College of Engineering and it moved into then newly constructed Hinds Hall, then called Engineering building #1
In 1958, the Institute for Sensory Research was established by Jozef J. Zwislocki. The program later led to establishment of an undergraduate program in bioengineering in 1971.
In 1970, the department moved to the newly built Link hall. The building is named after Edwin Albert Link, inventor of flight simulator and the principle donor for the building. The $6 million building was dedicated in presence of Link and his family on October 16, 1970. It currently houses offices, classrooms and laboratories of the Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Syracuse offered degrees in computer engineering in 1971, becoming only the second institution in the country to do so. The School of Computer and Information Science, founded in 1976, later merged to form the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
In 2008, Link Hall was expanded with "Link+" addition on the north side of the building. It was designed by Toshiko Mori of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and constructed by JPW Companies of Syracuse. This addition added five stories of space to the research labs for both the engineering college and the Center of Excellence in Environmental and Engineering Systems.
Academics
The college is organized into four departments:
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical and Aero |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2021–22 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2021 to August 2022. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2020–21 television season.
NBC was the first to announce its fall schedule on May 14, 2021, followed by Fox on May 17, ABC on May 18, CBS on May 19, and The CW on May 25, 2021.
Effective this season, The CW began to air primetime programming on Saturday nights, marking the first time the network aired primetime programming seven nights a week.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Ion Television and MyNetworkTV are also not included since both networks' schedules feature syndicated reruns.
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
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! colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|7:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|7:30 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|8:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|8:30 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|9:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|9:30 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|10:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|10:30 p.m.
|-
! rowspan="5"|ABC
! Fall
| rowspan="5" colspan="2"|America's Funniest Home Videos
| colspan="2"|Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
| colspan="2"|Supermarket Sweep
| rowspan="2" colspan="2"|The Rookie
|-
! Winter
| colspan="4" style="background:magenta;"|American Idol
|-
! Spring
| colspan="4" style="background:#C0C0C0;"|Celebrity Family Feud
| rowspan="2" colspan="2"|The $100,000 Pyramid
|-
! Summer
| rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Celebrity Family Feud
| colspan="2"|The Final Straw|-
! Mid-summer
| colspan="2"|The $100,000 Pyramid| colspan="2"|The Final Straw|-
! rowspan="6"|CBS
! Fall
| style="background:lightgreen"|NFL on CBS
| colspan="2" style="background:cyan;"|60 Minutes
| colspan="2" style="background:yellow;"|The Equalizer
| colspan="2" style="background:magenta;"|NCIS: Los Angeles
|SEAL Team
|-
! Winter
| rowspan="3" colspan="2" style="background:cyan;"|60 Minutes
| colspan="2" style="background:yellow;"|The Equalizer
| colspan="2" style="background:magenta;"|NCIS: Los Angeles
| rowspan="3" colspan="2"|S.W.A.T.
|-
! Mid-winter
| colspan="2"|Celebrity Big Brother
| colspan="2" style= |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitegroup%20Computer%20Systems%20Headquarters | The Elitegroup Computer Systems Headquarters () is a 21-storey skyscraper office building completed in 2007 and located in Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan. One of the most prominent landmarks in the Neihu Science Park along the bank of the Keelung River, the building serves as the corporate headquarters of the Taiwanese electronics firm Elitegroup Computer Systems.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Taiwan
List of tallest buildings in Taipei
Elitegroup Computer Systems
Lite-On Technology Center
References
2007 establishments in Taiwan
Skyscraper office buildings in Taipei
Office buildings completed in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NASCAR%20broadcasters | The following is a historical list of television and radio networks and announcers who have broadcast NASCAR events.
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
See also
List of Daytona 500 broadcasters
List of NASCAR All-Star Race broadcasters
List of Formula One broadcasters
References
External links
Awful Announcing
NASCAR on ABC
ESPN
NASCAR on Fox
FS1
NASCAR on NBC
NBCSN
NASCAR on TNT
NASCAR ratings
Daytona 500 Ratings: Danica Lifts Overnights to Seven-Year High Daytona 500 Ratings: Danica Lifts Overnights to Seven-Year High
NASCAR 'Daytona 500' TV Ratings History + Your Guess For This Year (Poll)
NASCAR All-Star Race - NASCAR Cup Series
All-Star Race | Official Site Of NASCAR - NASCAR.com
NASCAR on Fox website
NASCAR on NBC website
The Daly Planet (Website breaks down TV and Media coverage)
NASCAR on ESPN Media Guide
CBS Sports
NBC Sports
NBCSN
ESPN announcers
ABC Sports
Turner Sports
Speed (TV network)
Fox Sports announcers
USA Network Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifa%20Al-Abdulkarim | Latifa Mohammed Al-Abdulkarim is a Saudi Arabian computer scientist and professor working on AI ethics, legal technology, and explainable AI. She is currently an assistant professor of computer science at King Saud University and visiting researcher in artificial intelligence and law at the University of Liverpool. Al-Abdulkarim has been recognized by Forbes as one of the “women defining the 21st century AI movement” and was selected as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2020.
Education
Al-Abdulkarim earned a PGD in Computer Software Engineering in 2009, a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017 all from the University of Liverpool.
Career and research
Al-Abdulkarim is currently an assistant professor of computer science at King Saud University while also a visiting researcher in AI and law at the University of Liverpool. She researches and studies the application of AI to legal domains, explainable and trustworthy AI, and ethical dimensions of AI.
In 2016 she, Katie Atkinson, and Trevor Bench-Capon published a methodology analyzing legal cases to predict case opinions in the US Supreme Court known as ANGELIC. Abbreviated for "ADF for kNowledGe Encapsulation of Legal Information from Cases", ANGELIC was able to produce programs that decided cases with a high degree of accuracy in multiple domains. She soon worked in collaboration with Thomson Reuters and Weightmans to apply ANGELIC to different legal case domains in the UK. For her research she was awarded the Best Doctoral Consortium at the 26th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.
In addition to her research and teaching, Al-Abdulkarim is a member of the Shura Council has also advised and led the national strategic direction for AI and AI governance for Saudi Arabia's government. She has contributed to G20 AI policy and advised different international organizations including the OECD and ITU. Al-Abdulkarim is also a member in the UNESCO expert group for AI ethics. She serves on the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity in the World Economic Forum focusing on technically oriented solutions for issues of AI fairness.
References
Living people
Saudi Arabian women
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Academic staff of King Saud University
21st-century Saudi Arabian scientists
Saudi Arabian women scientists
Saudi Arabian educators
Women computer scientists
Artificial intelligence ethicists
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Saudi Arabian women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteon | Proteon, Inc. was a pioneering designer and manufacturer computer network equipment based in Westborough, Massachusetts. Proteon created the first commercial Token Ring products and created the first commercially available multiprotocol Internet router as well as the OSPF routing protocol.
History
Proteon designed and manufactured of some of the earliest commercial local area network and TCP/IP Internet Router products. Although founded in 1972 by Howard Salwen as communications consulting firm, Proteon became a manufacturer when they produced the first commercial Token Ring network interfaces and media access units in conjunction with MIT. In 1981, they released the 10Mbit/sec Pronet-10 Token Ring network. and evolved the speeds through 16 MBit/sec, 80 Mbit/sec and 100 Mbit/sec. IBM released a competing Token Ring system in 1984.
In 1986, Proteon released the first commercially available multi-protocol router, the p4200, based on the MIT multi-protocol router, using code developed by Noel Chiappa. Proteon's router products made them one of the key companies producing products to support the growing Internet, among rivals such as Cisco and Wellfleet Communications.
Proteon went public in 1991, issuing 3.1 million shares.
Proteon was renamed and relaunched as OpenROUTE Networks in 1998. OpenRoute Networks merged into Netrix in 1999. The combined company was rebranded as NX Networks. which was acquired by NSGDatacom in 2002, who dropped the NX Networks name in favor of Netrix.
References
External links
Defunct networking companies
Networking companies of the United States
Companies based in Westborough, Massachusetts
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
1991 initial public offerings
Networking hardware companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Atkinson | Katie Marie Atkinson is a professor of computer science and the Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. She works on researching and building artificial intelligence tools to help judges and lawyers. Atkinson previously served as the President of the International Association for AI and Law.
Education and early life
Atkinson received a Bachelor of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems, both from the University of Liverpool.
Career and research
Atkinson joined the faculty at the University of Liverpool after completing her Ph.D. in 2005. She studies computational models of argument, focusing on argumentation in practical reasoning and how it can be applied in legal domains. She has published over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, especially within the fields of AI and law.
Her recent projects have concerned the development of legal reasoning AI technologies for the UK law firm Weightmans, for which she and Trevor Bench-Capon won the Best Use of Technology award at the 2019 Modern Law Awards, and the development of tools to support e-democracy and legal knowledge-based systems. An AI algorithm she developed to judge legal cases had a 96% success rate in judging 32 cases. She said that the technique could become a useful decision support tool to help make judges reasoning “faster, more efficient and consistent”.
Atkinson was Program Chair of the fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. From 2014 to 2015 she served as the Vice President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, before becoming president in 2016–17.
In 2019, Atkinson was named one of ten members of an expert advisory group to advise the senior judges of England and Wales on developments in AI. The advisory group consisted of prominent legal technology experts and judges, including Richard Susskind, Sir Geoffrey Vos, and Kay Firth-Butterfield.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Academics of the University of Liverpool
British women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc1%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bbc1 or BBC1 may refer to:
Bbc1 (gene), coding for 60S ribosomal protein L13
BBC One, British TV network
BBC Radio 1, British radio network
BBC Radio 1Xtra, British sister station of Radio 1
믁 (U+BBC1), unicode character; see List of modern Hangul characters in ISO/IEC 2022–compliant national character set standards
See also
BBC First, international television service
BBCi (disambiguation)
BBC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorand | Algorand is a cryptocurrency protocol providing proof-of-stake on a blockchain. Algorand's native cryptocurrency is called ALGO.
History
Algorand was founded in 2017 by Silvio Micali, a professor at MIT.
The Algorand test network was launched to the public in April 2019, and the main network was launched in June 2019.
Algorand has a negligible energy consumption per transaction.
Governance
Algorand is composed of the company Algorand, a private corporation based in Boston,
and the nonprofit Algorand Foundation Ltd., incorporated in Singapore.
Algorand Foundation Ltd. manages award funding, cryptographic research, on-chain governance, and decentralization of the Algorand network including nodes.
The core development of the Algorand protocol is overseen by Algorand Inc..
Algorand Foundation Ltd. is led by CEO Staci Warden.
Algorand Foundation Ltd. issues quarterly votes for the stakers of ALGO to vote on. These proposals often revolve around the implementation of DeFi within the Algorand community.
Design
Algorand is intended to solve the "blockchain trilemma": the claim that any blockchain system can have at most two of three desirable properties: decentralization, scalability, and security. A system with all three could run on nodes which each have only moderate consumer-grade resources (i.e., does not need a datacenter or large cluster of virtual machines), has transaction processing which scales with the total network resources (rather than the resources available per-node), and could not be subverted by attackers who individually possess a large fraction of the network's total resources.
Consensus algorithm
Algorand uses a Byzantine agreement protocol that leverages proof of stake. As long as a supermajority of the stake is in non-malicious hands, the protocol can tolerate malicious users, achieving consensus without a central authority.
Consensus on Algorand requires three steps to propose, confirm and write the block to the blockchain. The steps are propose, soft vote and certify vote.
The first phase (the block proposal phase) uses proof of stake principles. During this phase, a committee of users in the system is selected randomly, though in a manner that is weighted, to propose the new block. The selection of the committee is done via a process called "cryptographic sortition", where each user determines whether they are on the committee by locally executing a Verifiable random function (VRF). If the VRF indicates that the user is chosen, the VRF returns a cryptographic proof that can be used to verify that the user is on the committee. The likelihood that a given user will be on the committee is influenced by the number of ALGO tokens held by that user (the stake).
After determining a user is on the block selection committee, that user can build a proposed block and disseminate it to the network for review/analysis during the second phase. The user includes the cryptographic proof from the VRF in their proposed block to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Azzano | Christopher P. Azzano is a retired United States Air Force major general who last served as the commander of the Air Force Test Center. Previously, he was the director of air, space, and cyberspace operations of the Air Force Materiel Command.
He retired from active duty on July 16, 2021 (official retirement date is 1 October 2021) after relinquishing command of the Air Force Test Center to Evan C. Dertien the previous day.
Dates of promotion
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal%20heritage%20inquiry%20system | The Aboriginal heritage inquiry system, or AHIS, is a database providing information concerning Aboriginal heritage places in Western Australia.
Aboriginal heritage sites in Western Australia are protected under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972, with information on these sites accessible through the Aboriginal heritage inquiry system.
References
External links
Aboriginal heritage inquiry system database (map)
Aboriginal Heritage Inquiry System User Guide
History of Indigenous Australians
Heritage registers in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-As-Possible%20computer | The Simple-As-Possible (SAP) computer is a simplified computer architecture designed for educational purposes and described in the book Digital Computer Electronics by Albert Paul Malvino and Jerald A. Brown. The SAP architecture serves as an example in Digital Computer Electronics for building and analyzing complex logical systems with digital electronics.
Digital Computer Electronics successively develops three versions of this computer, designated as SAP-1, SAP-2, and SAP-3. Each of the last two build upon the immediate previous version by adding additional computational, flow of control, and input/output capabilities. SAP-2 and SAP-3 are fully Turing-complete.
The instruction set architecture (ISA) that the computer final version (SAP-3) is designed to implement is patterned after and upward compatible with the ISA of the Intel 8080/8085 microprocessor family. Therefore, the instructions implemented in the three SAP computer variations are, in each case, a subset of the 8080/8085 instructions.
Variant
Ben Eater's Design
YouTuber and former Khan Academy employee Ben Eater created a tutorial building an 8-bit Turing-complete SAP computer on breadboards from logical chips (7400-series) capable of running simple programs such as computing the Fibonacci sequence. Eater's design consists of the following modules:
An adjustable-speed (upper limitation of a few hundred Hertz) clock module that can be put into a "manual mode" to step through the clock cycles.
Three register modules (Register A, Register B, and the Instruction Register) that "store small amounts of data that the CPU is processing."
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) capable of adding and subtracting 8-bit 2's complement integers from registers A and B. This module also has a flags register with two possible flags (Z and C). Z stands for "zero," and is activated if the ALU outputs zero. C stands for "carry," and is activated if the ALU produces a carry-out bit.
A RAM module capable of storing 16 bytes. This means that the RAM is 4-bit addressable. As Eater's website puts it, "this is by far its [the computer's] biggest limitation".
A 4-bit program counter that keeps track of the current processor instruction, corresponding to a 4-bit addressable RAM.
An output register that displays its content on four 7-segment displays, capable of displaying both unsigned and 2's complement signed integers. The 7-segment display outputs are controlled by EEPROMs, which are programmed using an Arduino microcontroller.
A bus that connects these components together. The components connect to the bus using tri-state buffers.
A "control logic" module that defines "the opcodes the processor recognizes and what happens when it executes each instruction," as well as enabling the computer to be Turing-complete. The CPU microcodes are programmed into EEPROMs using an Arduino microcontroller.
Ben Eater's design has inspired multiple other variants and improvements, primarily on Eater's Reddit forum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20Tierney | Luke Tierney is an American statistician and computer scientist. A fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1988 and of the American Statistical Association since 1991, Tierney is currently a professor of statistics at the University of Iowa. Through his past work on programming languages such as R and Lisp, Tierney now holds a position on the developing team known as the R Core.
Education
Tierney earned his BA and MA in mathematical sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1977 and later his PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1980. Formerly a statistics faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota, he now serves as the Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Iowa, a position he has held since 2002.
Work
In 1990, Tierney wrote the XLispStat package using C and Lisp and has since published works such as LISP-STAT: An Object-Oriented Environment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) describing its design and use.
Tierney has also made contributions in areas such as reference counting, vectors, and compilation for the R programming language and environment. During his time working with R, he has also become part of the R Core, a team of developers with write access to the R source. His work on Markov chains, Bioconductor, Lisp-stat and the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm have all been highly cited.
Positions, awards and recognition
Current member of the R Core Team
Former editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics from 2004 to 2006
American Statistical Association
Fellow since 1991
Recipient of the 2019 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellow since 1988
Former elected council member from 1995 to 1998
University of Iowa
Ralph E. Wareham Professor since 2002
Former chair of the statistics department from 2004 to 2014
References
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Cornell University alumni
American statisticians
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
University of Iowa faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
R (programming language) people
Computational statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivaji%20Bandyopadhyay | Dr. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay is an Indian academic and is currently the Chairperson and former Director of National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He obtained his B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University and taught there as a Professor before joining NIT Silchar. Formerly, he has been the Dean of Engineering and Technology at Jadavpur University, the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, the Director of the Computer-Aided Design Centre at Jadavpur University and the Coordinator, TEQIP-II at Jadavpur University among other responsibilities.
He is one of the top 50 computer scientists in India and the top 6000 computer scientists around the world with an Indian rank of 40 and a global rank of 5883
During his tenure as the Chairperson and Director of National Institute of Technology Silchar, NIT Silchar has been ranked globally for the 1st time with 201-250 overall Asian rank (19th among Indian universities) by Times Higher Education, Asian University Rankings 2021, 251-300 overall Emerging Universities rank by Times Higher Education, Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021, 275th overall global rank by UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2020, 601-800 global rank in Engineering by Times Higher Education, Engineering Rankings 2021, 601-800 global rank in Physical Sciences by Times Higher Education, Physical Sciences Rankings 2021, 750th global rank by US News Engineering Rankings 2020 and 801-1000 overall global rank (19th among Indian universities) by Times Higher Education, World University Rankings 2021.He was instrumental in digitalizing NIT Silchar by introducing ERP solution.
Professor Bandyopadhyay has supervised over 12 Ph.D. students and a total of 12 Ph.D. scholars are currently working under his supervision. He has published around 49 research articles in reputed journals and 250 research publications in reputed conferences, workshops or symposiums. He has also authored two books. He has completed 4 international research and development projects - with Germany, France, Mexico, Japan as the Principal Investigator in the area of Sentiment Analysis, Question Answering, and Textual Entailment. He was the Chief Investigator of 8 National level consortium mode projects in the areas of Machine Translation - English to Indian languages and Indian language to Indian languages, cross-lingual information access, development of treebank for Indian languages among others. Currently, he is executing three international projects funded by SPARC (MHRD) with Germany, ASEAN (DST) with Indonesia and Malaysia, DST and CNRS with France. The Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP), a research centre has been established at NIT Silchar under his leadership.
Publications
Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis
Selective absorption of H2S from gas streams containing H2S and CO2 into aqueous solu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambuilders | Dreambuilders () is a 2020 Danish computer-animated comedy fantasy film directed by Kim Hagen Jensen, from a screenplay by Søren Grinderslev Hansen.
Plot
Minna is a young girl who lives out in the rural country with her father, John, her mother Karen having left them to pursue her career as a singer. Minna struggles to adjust to the arrival of John's new wife, Helene, and her daughter Jenny, who regularly quarrels with Minna. While dreaming one night, Minna discovers a hole in the sky and notices blue creatures controlling her dream, who abruptly wake her up. Minna investigates the following night, discovering the blue creatures are Dreambuilders, responsible for designing peoples' dreams, and meets Gaff, her Dreambuilder. While hiding from the Inspector, Minna is knocked off her dream stage and into her father's, inadvertently altering his dream when she hands him a can of anchovies instead of the cake as was scripted.
Waking up, Minna discovers that, due to tampering with his dream, John now loves anchovies, and realizes she can influence people through their dreams. When Jenny threatens to have Minna's hamster, Viggo, taken to an animal shelter, Minna appeals to Gaff to help change Jenny's mind. Gaff reluctantly agrees and the pair interfere with Jenny's dream to include a mechanical, giant-sized Viggo. While in the dream world, Minna learns that if a dreamer is out of their dream stage for too long, they cease to exist. Upon waking up, Minna finds that Jenny has now taken a liking to Viggo, but is distraught to learn that Jenny has been mocking Minna's fashion sense to her Instagram followers. Resolving to fix Jenny, Minna again interferes with Jenny's dream, attempting to get her to like Minna's sweater. She's nearly caught by the Inspector, but manages to escape with the help of Milo, a former Dreambuilder who was demoted to janitor after inadvertently destroying a dream stage by altering the script.
Jenny panics upon learning she's wearing Minna's sweater and is wrought with anxiety at her bizarre changes in behavior, causing Helene to decide to move them back to the city. While packing, Jenny discovers Minna's journal containing images of her dream. Realizing Minna is somehow tampering with her dreams, Jenny threatens retaliation and gets Helene to reconsider moving. Jenny deliberately invokes jealousy from Minna by bonding with John, causing Minna to lash out at her family. Furious, Minna constructs a nightmare for Jenny, taking advantage of her arachnophobia by terrorizing her with spiders, including a mechanical, giant-sized one. However, the dream stage collapses, and Jenny plunges into the Dream Trash, where used sets are discarded, much to Minna's horror. The Inspector blames Gaff for the travesty and demotes him to janitor. In the real world, Jenny is placed in a coma. Remorseful, Minna reconciles with John and resolves to save Jenny.
In her dream, Minna meets her mother, who attempts to get her to stay in bed, but sees through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20the%20Bee%3A%20The%20Golden%20Orb | Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb (also called Maya the Bee 3: The Golden Orb) is a 2021 computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by Noel Cleary.
Loosely based on characters from the 1975 anime Maya the Honey Bee and the German children's book The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels, the film is a sequel to the 2018 film Maya the Bee: The Honey Games, and stars the original voice cast of Coco Jack Gillies, Benson Jack Anthony, Frances Berry and Christian Charisiou. The Golden Orb was originally scheduled to be released in Australia on 17 June 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was pushed back to 7 January 2021.
Plot
Maya is full of the joys of spring as she tries to wake the hive and Willy to let them know that spring has finally arrived, but the others went back to sleep. Maya and Willy went to the glow worms, but they took Maya and Willy up to wreck the hive and the precious sunstone, much to the displeasure of the Queen. Maya overhears that she and Willy are to be separated because of their calamitous partnership and she needs no further invitation to get away from the hive ‘to do something special’ in order to prove her and Willy’s worth to stay together.
This opportunity comes in the unexpected guise of a passing green ant who is on the run from the muscle-bound beetle boom-bugs, who are after the golden orb he’s carrying. The ant names him Chomp and hands the golden orb to Maya and Willy. They meet up with Arnie and Barney to take the orb back to Bonsai Peak. It turns out this golden orb is the egg of the ant princess whom she calls herself Smoosh, the heir to the ant kingdom. Willy at first thought Smoosh is too squishy. Maya holds Smoosh to greet him. But Smoosh doesn't understand Maya’s name, until it lets out a fart to Willy as a gift. Meanwhile at the hive, Crawley tries to fix the sunstone, but to no avail, much to his dismay. Miss Cassandra calls out that Maya and Willy has left the meadow.
Smoosh begins to cry so Willy tries to sing in panic until they were frightened by the ants again, Willy doesn’t think they can keep going and decided to stop and rest. Meanwhile, the hive is over the place trying to find Maya and Willy. Arnie and Barney make something to cool them down, Maya sings Smoosh a lullaby while placing a diaper on her, It was too dark and Smoosh was afraid. Willy sings a lullaby to her just like Maya did earlier, but feeling tired.
Chomp knows about Maya and Willy and follows Flip and Miss Cassandra to find Maya and Willy while Crawley stays behind. Arnie and Barney complain about their hatred of spiky trees with Maya joining in until they found Loggy Hollow, but they were caught by the beetles again. Maya and Willy found a wanted poster and Willy is ready to give up. They argued until they saw Smoosh disappeared. Maya throws a ball then grabs Smoosh and quickly flies away, she then found Willy, Arnie and Barney, until the beetles came back. They quickly rode on a leaf to get away un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydni%20Tetro | Cydni Tetro is an American CEO, speaker, and serial entrepreneur.
Tetro obtained a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Master of Business Administration from Brigham Young University.
Career
Tetro was the founder of digital experience company ForgeDX. Tetro was the founder and CEO of 3DplusMe, a 3D printing software platform, that was acquired by WhiteClouds.
Tetro spent four years as an Entrepreneur in residence at The Walt Disney Company building technology businesses from research and development projects and launching those products into theme parks and ESPN properties.
She created a non-profit, the Women Tech Council, to amplify the economic impact of women in technology with more than 10,000 members in its community. As president of the Women Tech Council, she led the launch of the Women Tech Talent Pipeline Alliance along with the Utah's Office of Economic Development, Code in Color, Latinas in Tech Utah, United Way, Utah's Department of Workforce Services and Tech Moms. Tetro was named to the Zenovate board of directors in 2021. She is also faculty for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative.
Personal life
Tetro grew up in Lindon, Utah as the oldest of eight children. She is married with three children and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
References
External links
Women Tech Council Official website
Marriott School Entrepreneurship Founders Board Official profile
Living people
Brigham Young University alumni
Latter Day Saints from Utah
American women chief executives
American technology executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate%20%28book%29 | Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations is a software engineering book co-authored by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim. The book explores how software development teams using Lean Software and DevOps can measure their performance and the performance of software engineering teams impacts the overall performance of an organization.
24 Key Capabilities
The authors outline 24 practices to improve software delivery which they refer to as “key capabilities” and group them into five categories.
Continuous Delivery
Use Version Control for all Production Artifacts
Automate Your Deployment Process
Implement Continuous Integration
Use Trunk-Based Development Methods
Implement Test Automation
Support Test Data Management
Shift Left on Security
Implement Continuous Delivery (CD)
Architecture
Use a Loosely Coupled Architecture
Architect for Empowered Teams
Product and Process
Gather and Implement Customer Feedback
Make the Flow of Work Visible through the Value Stream
Work in Small Batches
Foster and Enable Team Experimentation
Lean Management and Monitoring
Have a Lightweight Change Approval Processes
Monitor across Application and Infrastructure to Inform Business Decisions
Check System Health Proactively
Improve Processes and Manage Work with Work-In-Process (WIP) Limits
Visualize Work to Monitor Quality and Communicate throughout the Team
Cultural
Support a Generative Culture
Encourage and Support Learning
Support and Facilitate Collaboration among Teams
Provide Resources and Tools that Make Work Meaningful
Support or Embody Transformational Leadership
Four Key Metrics
The authors examine 23,000 data points from a variety of companies of various different sizes (from start-up to enterprises), for-profit and not-for-profit and both those with legacy systems and those with modern systems.
DevOps research conducted by the authors and summarized in Accelerate demonstrates four key metrics that are indicators of software delivery performance, leading to higher rates of profitability, market share and customer satisfaction for their respective companies. The authors identified that “highest performers are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals.”
The four metrics identified are as follows:
Change Lead Time - Time to implement, test, and deliver code for a feature (measured from first commit to deployment)
Deployment Frequency - Number of deployments in a given duration of time
Change Failure Rate - Percentage of failed changes over all changes (regardless of success)
Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) - Time it takes to restore service after production failure
The authors further measure how various technical practices (like outsourcing) and risk factors impact performance metrics for an engineering team. These metrics can be crudely measured using psychometrics or using commercial services.
References
Ext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%B1a%20Ni%C3%B1o | Niña Niño is a Philippine television drama comedy series broadcast by TV5. Directed by Thop Nazareno, it stars Maja Salvador and Noel Comia Jr. It premiered on April 5, 2021, on the network's Todo Max Primetime Singko line up replacing Paano ang Pangako?. The series concluded on May 19, 2022. It was replaced by Dear God in its timeslot.
Plot
In the first story, Niña (Maja Salvador) was a girl who does not believe in miracles. She thrived somebody's essentials to benefit her and her Lola Belen (Ruby Ruiz) who was born to Gloria (Lilet) then left for a reason due to poor living. After eight years, she returned to Brgy. Consolacion along with his second child Niño (Noel Comia Jr.). Gloria revealed she was beaten by her own husband and she is trying to get away. After sunset, Lola Belen went missing after long hunting despite that she had died in a collision. Meanwhile, in Belen's demise in the family, they are convinced to start acting as con-artist for their potential income to the siblings, after when Niño had a stomachache, Niña had caught by the tanods of the stealing property and both were run out quickly and they jump on a truck which brings them to Sitio Santa Ynez where they live a new life until an unexpected event changes everything.
While Niña and Niño escaped through the remote area of Sta. Ynez, they had to find ways in receiving true faith for themselves and connected to healing rituals while they found Ka Iking, they had discovered happy thoughts for earning big income and return on the basic act. This little town was ruled by Kapitana Pinang (Dudz Teraña) who was very strict and interested in making more and more money. Later on, they met Kagawad Isay (Moi Bien), who initially lets them stay in her house, until a disagreement between Nina and Isay's brother forced them to leave, but Isay gave them the empty lot she owns as a place to build their house.
Niño meanwhile, acquired healing powers after being accidentally slipped on the brook, hitting his head on a rock. He lays in coma, until he woke up, seemingly acquired the ability to heal sickness and illnesses, becoming a faith healer on the barangay.
On the sequel, the siblings return to Santa Ynez after leaving once again for Manila. They are now more stable as siblings, and they had to face the same situations as they were there once before.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Maja Salvador as Niña Domingo
Noel Comia Jr. as Niño Domingo
Supporting cast
Lilet as Gloria Domingo
Arron Villaflor as Bert
Empoy Marquez as Gardo
Ian Pangilinan as Pol
Sachzna Laparan as Janet
Junyka Santarin as Jen Jen
Moi Bien as Isay
Dudz Teraña as Pinang
Rowi Du as Tanod Orly
Denise Joaquin as Delia
JM Salvado as Kaloy
Rener Concepcion as Ka Iking
Laydee Gasalao as Fe
Pooh as Andie
Yayo Aguila as Yasmin
Kat Galang as Mayumi
Gio Alvarez as Tonio
Miles Ocampo as Honey
Mutya Orquia as Veronica
Giselle Sanchez as Vanessa
Michelle Vito as Michelle
Joey Marquez as Daniel
Izzy Cani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand%20oracle | In algorithmic game theory, a branch of both computer science and economics, a demand oracle is a function that, given a price-vector, returns the demand of an agent. It is used by many algorithms related to pricing and optimization in online market. It is usually contrasted with a value oracle, which is a function that, given a set of items, returns the value assigned to them by an agent.
Demand
The demand of an agent is the bundle of items that the agent most prefers, given some fixed prices of the items. As an example, consider a market with three objects and one agent, with the following values and prices.
Suppose the agent's utility function is additive (= the value of a bundle is the sum of values of the items in the bundle), and quasilinear (= the utility of a bundle is the value of the bundle minus its price). Then, the demand of the agent, given the prices, is the set {Banana, Cherry}, which gives a utility of (4+6)-(3+1) = 6. Every other set gives the agent a smaller utility. For example, the empty set gives utility 0, while the set of all items gives utility (2+4+6)-(5+3+1)=3.
Oracle
With additive valuations, the demand function is easy to compute - there is no need for an "oracle". However, in general, agents may have combinatorial valuations. This means that, for each combination of items, they may have a different value, which is not necessarily a sum of their values for the individual items. Describing such a function on m items might require up to 2m numbers - a number for each subset. This may be infeasible when m is large. Therefore, many algorithms for markets use two kinds of oracles:
A value oracle can answer value queries: given a bundle, it returns its value.
A demand oracle can answer demand queries: given a price-vector, it returns a bundle that maximizes the quasilinear utility (value minus price).
Applications
Some examples of algorithms using demand oracles are:
Welfare maximization: there are n agents and m items. Each agent is represented by a value-oracle and a demand-oracle. It is required to allocate the items among the agents such that the sum of values is maximized. In general the problem is NP-hard, but approximations are known for special cases, such as submodular valuations (this is called the "submodular welfare problem"). Some algorithms use only a value oracle; other algorithms use also a demand oracle.
Envy-free pricing: there are n agents and m items. Each agent is represented by a value-oracle and a demand-oracle. It is required to find a price-vector and an allocation of the items, such that no agent is envious, and subject to that, the seller's revenue is maximized.
Market equilibrium computation.
Learning strong-substitutes demand.
See also
Oracle machine
Demand curve
Robertson-Webb query model - a similar query model in the domain of cake-cutting.
References
Computational economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Stefik | Andreas Stefik is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the creator of Quorum, a computer programming language created with features that improve access for people with visually impairments. Stefik conducts research in the areas of software engineering, accessibility, and computer science education. He is an advocate for increasing access to computer science in K–12 education.
Education
Stefik began his education pursuing a bachelor's degree in music at Central Washington University, but graduated with a Bachelor's in Mathematics as well as Music. Stefik went on to receive his Master's Degree and PhD in Computer Science from Washington State University
Career and research
As a computer science graduate student, Stefik became interested in the resources available for those who are blind or have low vision that wanted to pursue a degree in computer science. He found there was no language currently available accessible to the blind and visually impaired, and decided to create his own. The work began as a project called Sodbeans, and over the course of ten years he developed the language Quorum with his wife, which is also auditory and therefore more accessible to people with visual impairments. In 2016, Stefik received the White House Champion of Change award for Computer Science Education for his efforts.
Stefik has also created a model for computer science education for blind or visually impaired students that as of 2016 has been deployed in almost 20 schools.
Through Stefik's research and works, he has received many grants. Most notably, he received grants from the National Science Foundation to help build Quorum.
Notable work
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax
How do API documentation and static typing affect API usability?
An empirical study on the impact of static typing on software maintainability
Awards
Java Innovation Award, Oracle Corporation, 2011
White House Champion of Change for Computer Science Education, 2016
Code.org Champions of Computer Science, 2018
References
External links
The Quorum Programming Language
Why Aren’t Computer Programming Languages Designed Better? (Fast Company, January 3, 2012)
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
Central Washington University alumni
Washington State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantilly%20Jaggernauth | Chantilly Jaggernauth is an American data analytics and data visualization specialist.
Education
Jaggernauth graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems.
Career
Jaggernauth is the founder and CEO of Millennials and Data. She sits on the Advisory Board for the Data Literacy Project. She currently serves as the Vice President of Training and Data Visualization at Lovelytics in Washington, D.C. Jaggernauth is a Tableau Zen Master, and gives presentations and workshops using the data visualization software Tableau. Formerly, she worked in talent acquisition at Johnson & Johnson, and was a senior data analyst at Comcast.
References
External links
Millennials and Data
American women chief executives
American company founders
Howard University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20Innovation%20Institute | The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is an Abu Dhabi government funded research institution that operates in the areas of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, autonomous robotics, cryptography, advanced materials, digital science, directed energy and secure systems. The institute is a part of the Abu Dhabi Government’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC).
Formation and activities
TII was founded in May 2020 and its first Board meeting took place in August 2020. Ray O. Johnson is currently serving as the CEO of the institute. In April 2020, the institute started Citizen Science, an initiative to address the need for specialized medical equipment, data analysis and related technical support in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. In October 2020, it granted $2.3 million fund to a research group of Purdue University to explore the secure and efficient operations of drones. In December 2020, it announced collaboration with Virgin Hyperloop to explore and implement "localisation of the futuristic transportation method." In March 2021, the institute signed a memorandum of understanding with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence to augment research in Artificial Intelligence.
The institute has ten research centres:
Quantum Research Centre
The quantum research centre has been established with the aim to develop UAE's first quantum computer. In March 2021, it was announced that the first quantum computer will be developed at the Institute's Quantum Research Centre under the supervision of chief researcher Jose Ignacio Latorre and in collaboration with Spanish organization Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech. The area of operations of Quantum Research Centre includes quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms, quantum communications and quantum sensing.
Autonomous Robotics Research Centre
Autonomous robotics research centre deals with the automation and robotics related research and development.
Cryptography Research Centre
The cryptography research centre dealing in the area of cryptography has developed The National Crypto Library, in December 2020, to secure medical records pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic. Najwa Aaraj is presently serving as the chief researcher of the centre. During April 2021, the centre developed its second library, a Post-Quantum Cryptography which is a "collection of algorithms to safeguard confidential data and information" keeping the focus on prospective post-quantum era.
Advanced Materials Research Centre
The AMRC is the department of TII that deals with nanomaterials, self healing materials, smart materials, meta materials, additive manufacturing and energy-absorbing materials and structures. The centre is presently headed by chief researcher Mohamed Al Teneiji.
AI and Digital Science Research Centre
The primary domain of operation of the Digital Science Research Centre is in the field of Data science, Computing science, Telecom Science and Cyber-Security Science. It has three units: the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon%20Harris | Alon Harris is an American clinical scientist, professor of ophthalmology and Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, educator, inventor and researcher in the field of ocular blood flow and its relationship to diseases of the eye. Harris served as the principal or co-principal investigator on more than 60 research grants, published more than 392 peer-reviewed articles, and wrote 23 books and 70 book chapters. As of 2021, he holds two patents. Harris sits on the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board of The Glaucoma Foundation and is the Vice Chair of International Research and Academic Affairs, co-director of the Center for Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Director of the Ophthalmic Vascular Diagnostic and Research Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Career and education
Harris's post-doctorate training in medical science physiology was at Indiana University in 1990. He received an MS in 1985 and PhD in 1988 in human performance/physiology. Subsequently he took positions at Indiana University School of Medicine, including the Lois Letzter Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, and Director, Glaucoma Research and Diagnostic Center, Department of Ophthalmology. He served as Director of Clinical Research at the Glick Eye Institute. Harris was co-chair, World Glaucoma Congress Consensus on Ocular Blood Flow, and was a member of the international faculty board of the PhD program in Experimental Medicine, University of Pavia.
Research
Harris's clinical research focus includes: ocular blood flow; glaucoma; intraocular pressure and hemodynamics related to eye disorders; ophthalmic risk factor assessment; structural and functional progression monitoring; non-evasive imaging of diseases such as glaucoma; brain and eye physiology; modeling for factors that increase or decrease disease susceptibilities in terms of race, gender, and conditions such as diabetes.
In collaboration with mathematicians, Harris uses modeling and artificial intelligence applications to increase precision of diagnostics and disease management.
Grants
Harris has multiyear support from the National Science Foundation, grants from the NIH, American Diabetes Association and National Eye Institute. As of 2020, he has served as co-investigator or principal investigator (PI) on more than 60 grants related to ocular vascular physiology. He was co-PI on The Thessaloniki Eye Study, reportedly ophthalmology's largest population-based study.
Patents
Harris is co-inventor on an international patent application, Methods and systems for patient specific identification and assessment of ocular disease risk factors and treatment efficacy,
He developed and generated data for two patents: "Treatment of Macular Edema" and "Method to increase retinal and optical nerve head blood flow velocity in order to preserve sight."
Public |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Hullman | Jessica Hullman is a computer scientist and the Ginni Rometty associate professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. She is known for her research in Information visualization.
Education
Hullman graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies. She obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writings and Poetics from Naropa University. Hullman received her Master of Science in Information and Ph.D in Information Science from the University of Michigan - School of Information, where she was advised by Eytan Adar. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Department with Maneesh Agrawala.
Hullman started her career as faculty at the University of Washington Information School, where she was also adjunct assistant professor in Computer Science, and affiliated with the Interactive Data Lab and DUB (Design Use Build) group.
Work
Jessica Hullman has published peer-reviewed journal articles on topics including uncertainty visualization, Bayesian cognition, automated design of data visualizations, narrative visualization, and evaluation of visualizations. Her work has contributed new visualization types to help readers develop an intuitive sense of uncertainty, such as hypothetical outcome plots. Notable works include
Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation
Visualization rhetoric: Framing effects in narrative visualization
Why Authors Don't Visualize Uncertainty
Hypothetical Outcome Plots Outperform Error Bars and Violin Plots for Inferences about Reliability of Variable Ordering
Hullman has given many invited lectures and keynote presentations, including "Strategic Communication of Uncertainty" to the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, "How to Visually Communicate Uncertain Data" to the Conference on Global Risk, Uncertainty, & Volatility, "Beyond Visualization: Theories of Inference to Improve Data Analysis & Communication" and "The Visual Uncertainty Experience" at OpenVisConf. Hullman is co-director of the Midwest Uncertainty (MU) Collective at Northwestern University.
In addition to her scholarly work, Hullman has written articles for the popular press related to visualizing uncertainty, including for Wired ("Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?", with Andrew Gelman), Scientific American, The Hill and National Review ("We Need Better Risk Communication to Combat the Coronavirus", with Allison Schrager). She is a contributor to Andrew Gelman's blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science and is the founder and editor of Multiple Views, a blog on visualization research.
Awards
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship - Microsoft, 2019
Best Paper Award - ACM CHI 2023, ACM VIS 2020, ACM CHI 2017
Best Paper Award Honorable Mention - ACM CHI 2023, IEEE VIS 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20Hsu | Angel Hsu (born 23 February 1983) is an American climatologist and environmental scientist. She is the founder and head of the Data-Driven EnviroLab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Education
Hsu's parents immigrated to South Carolina from Taiwan.
Hsu holds bachelor's degrees in biology and political science from Wake Forest University, a master's degree in environmental policy from the University of Cambridge, and a doctorate degree in forestry and environmental studies from Yale University. Her interest shifted from biology to public policy after researching insect-plant interactions in the Costa Rican rain forest.
Hsu has been married to Carlin Rosengarten since 29 May 2016.
Career
Hsu has worked with the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Hsu also worked at Yale-NUS College before becoming an assistant professor of Public Policy and the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hsu is the founder and principal investigator of the Data-Driven EnviroLab (Data-Driven Lab), an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working to strengthen environmental policy, founded in 2015.
Research
Hsu's research deals with environmental decision-making. She has worked to foster cooperation between China and the United States on climate issues, and with corporations and local governments to coordinate reduction of carbon emissions. She uses quantitative methods to study the impact of policy, transparency and accountability and the actions of individuals, companies, cities and countries.
Hsu develops metrics and programs that aggregate "third wave data" and use it to measure and monitor progress towards reducing carbon emissions. For example, the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) can be used to track progress on both environmental conditions and social equity in cities. Her goals include identifying and filling gaps in information, and improving communication between scientists and policy-makers.
Hsu was lead author of a study in 2020 of a study investigating racial disparities in urban heat island exposure, which are exacerbated by redlining and other unfairness in urban planning that lead to the hottest neighborhoods housing predominantly those of low socioeconomic status and people of color.
Hsu was a lead author of the fifth chapter on the role of non-state and sub-national actors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Emissions Gap Report of 2018. In 2021, Hsu testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on “Examining Global Climate Trends and Progress in addressing Climate Change”.
Awards
2016, Inaugural Grist 50 Leader, Grist magazine
2022, Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst.
Selected publications
References
External links
The Data-Driven EnviroLab (Data-Driven Lab)
1983 births
American climatologists
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors
Living pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTC%20Digital%20Television | The VTC Digital Television Network (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền hình Kỹ thuật số VTC), also known as VTC Digital Television or Vietnam Digital Television Network (Đài Truyền hình Kỹ thuật số Việt Nam) is the Vietnamese television network currently owned by Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV). Launched on August 19, 2004, it is the second national television network in Vietnam, and the first television provider to broadcast via digital terrestrial network.
VTC Television was operated-and-owned by Vietnam Multimedia Corporation from its founding day until January 1, 2014, when the operations was transferred to the Ministry of Information and Communications. From June 2, 2015, the VTC operational was transferred to VOV, and remained as one of the VOV's multimedia service until now.
The VTC Digital Television is currently operating 15 channels, the largest number of all Vietnamese commercial television systems. Most of these channels are currently broadcast under the HDTV 1080p picture format, and one channel is broadcast under the 4K resolution upscale.
The logo of the VTC follows the logo style that resembles BBC in United Kingdom.
History
The history of VTC television service and Vietnamese digital television traced back to 2001, when the Vietnam Television Technology Investment and Development Company began the experimental broadcast of eight national and international television programmes on channel 26 UHF. This event has tasked an important implications for the Government to basing, strategic planning and developed the Transmitting digital terrestrial television and Transitioning to digitalised television in Vietnam Strategy until 2020.
On 19 March 2004, to manage and control the content of national and international television programmes, the Editorial Board of Digital Television was founded with the original editorial team only nearly 50 people. This date is reputely considered as the establishment day of the VTC Television Network.
In late 2005, during the 23rd SEA Games in the Philippines, VTC joined in to transmitting every live sporting events and lead-out commentating programmes, marking the first time VTC manufacturing sporting events. After this, VTC gradually become strong point in Vietnamese sporting media as it constantly obtain the rights to broadcast big sporting events of Vietnam and the world, such as SEA Games, Olympics, Premier League, AFC Asian Cup, etc.
On January 4, 2006, the VTC Company was reorganised into corporative and diversive model. The Digital Television Editorial Board and several digital television enterprises of the VTC were merged into a single institution – the VTC Digital Television Network, and remain this name until now.
At the end of 2008, VTC Digital Television launched eight HDTV television channel; three of them were Vietnamese. The numbers of HDTV channels were increase in later years.
From December 12, 2013, to make the VTC Corporation focusing on their main businesses, the operations of VTC Televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Rafiquzzaman | Mohamed Rafiquzzaman is a computer scientist, electrical engineer, academic and author. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Founder and President of Rafi Systems Inc., California a manufacturer of Intraocular (Cataract) lenses.
Rafiquzzaman has published over 40 papers. He has focused his research on microprocessor and microcontroller-based applications. He has also authored 18 books on digital logic, microcontrollers, and microprocessors, which have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and Spanish.
Rafiquzzaman is a chartered member of the 'Sixth Ring' of the US Olympic committee, and served as a manager of the Olympic Swimming, Diving and Synchronized Swimming events in Los Angeles in 1984. He has also served as a co-chair of The President's Forum for the state of California, as an advisor to the US House Policy Committee's Technology Board, and as Computer advisor to the President of Bangladesh. From 2004 till 2008, he was a member of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's economic recovery team for California.
Education
Rafiquzzaman received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1969. He then moved to Canada and earned his Master's and Doctoral Degree from University of Windsor in 1972 and 1974, respectively.
Career
Rafiquzzaman is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona since 1978. Along with this appointment, he also served as adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California from 1982 till 1987. In 1985, he was appointed as a Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University.
In the 1970s, he worked for ESSO (EXXON) and Bell Northern Research. During the 1980s, he held appointment as Vice President of New Bedford Panaromex Corporation, and was also involved in the Space Shuttle project, and designing microprocessor-based Airport Remote Maintenance system for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He is the Founder and President of Rafi Systems Inc. since 1989.
Research
Rafiquzzaman has worked extensively on microprocessor and microcontroller-based applications. He has authored 18 books on digital logic, microcontrollers, and microprocessors which have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and Spanish.
In his book entitled Preparing for an Outstanding Career in Computers, Rafiquzzaman has focused on the principles and basic tools to design typical digital systems such as microcomputers. He has also studied digital logic, computer architecture, and microprocessor-based system design. He based his book upon his previous book entitled Fundamentals of Digital Logic and Microcomputer Design.
Rafiquzzaman has authored a book entitled Fundamentals of Digital Logic and Microcomputer Design, currently in its 5th edition, and discussed computer design a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodele%20Odubela | Ayodele Odubela is a Data Scientist at SambaSafety in Denver, Colorado. Prior to entering the data science industry, Odubela worked in social media marketing for a travel agency company. Outside of her work, Odubela is a hockey fan.
Education
Odubela obtained her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014, majoring in Digital Marketing and Communication. After leaving her digital marketing career, Odubela went back to school and graduated from Regis University (Denver, Colorado) with a Master's degree in Data Science.
Work
Odubela has worked at a variety of companies, including YooLotto, Adistry, Astral, and Mindbody Inc. Currently, she works for SambaSafety, using machine learning models to mitigate driver risk.
Activism
Odubela strives to improve the lives of marginalized people through technology. She is the Founder and CEO of FullyConnected, a platform used to promote inclusion of Black professionals in ML/AI. Odubela spoke on VentureBeat's AI-focused Transform 2020 event with a panel of AI professionals in July, 2020. She expressed concern about biased algorithms excluding marginalized individuals.
Other notable works
Odubela is currently writing a book called Uncovering the Bias in Machine Learning. In the book, she discusses the underlying biases in machine learning models against underrepresented individuals; she also emphasizes developers responsibility in changing the biased models. In addition to her book, Odubela has written blogs and talked on podcasts about her experience of becoming a data scientist and how underprivileged individuals can enter the data science field.
References
Living people
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Regis University alumni
Data scientists
Women data scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist%20%28TV%20network%29 | Twist is an American digital multicast television network owned by Tegna Inc. Launched on April 5, 2021, the network specializes in factual lifestyle and reality television content aimed at females between the ages of 25 and 54, sourcing its programs from the archives of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, with its name coming from the common reality show "twist" in an overall narrative. The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of over-the-air television stations, and on select cable and Internet Protocol television providers in certain markets through local affiliates of the network.
History
Twist was announced on February 24, 2021. The network was given an expected launch date of April 2021. Tegna tapped several of its 46 owned or operated television stations to serve as the network's charter affiliates, in exchange for maintaining a minority ownership stake in the network.
Programming
Twist's lineup of programming includes:
Candice Tells All
Cash and Cari
Clean House
Clean House Comes Clean
Dance Moms
Decked Out
Dr. 90210
Fearless in the Kitchen
Flipping Out
For Better or for Worse
For Rent
It's Just Food
My Floating Home
Paranormal Survivor
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
The Science Zone
Tabatha Takes Over
Tabatha's Salon Takeover
The Unsellables
What's For Sale?
Affiliates
Twist is mostly affiliated with Tegna, HC2/DTV America and Univision/UniMás owned and operated stations around the country.
References
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2021 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Companies based in Atlanta
Tegna Inc.
Twist (TV network)
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive%20Hebbian%20learning | Contrastive Hebbian learning is a biologically plausible form of Hebbian learning.
It is based on the contrastive divergence algorithm, which has been used to train a variety of energy-based latent variable models.
In 2003, contrastive Hebbian learning was shown to be equivalent in power to the backpropagation algorithms commonly used in machine learning.
References
See also
Oja's rule
Generalized Hebbian algorithm
Hebbian theory
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur%20Suzik | Artur Suzik (born 29 November 1967) is an Estonian military personnel (Colonel).
Since 2013 he is the head of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence's Estonian contingency.
In 2006 he was awarded with Order of the Cross of the Eagle, IV class.
References
Living people
1967 births
Estonian military personnel
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%20Lu | Mi Lu is an engineer and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is noted for her contributions in computer arithmetic, parallel algorithms, computer architectures, and computer networks. She has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Texas A&M University since 1987. She is the author of the book Arithmetic and Logic in Computer Systems and book chapters in Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications and Biocomputing.
Education and career
Lu received her MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston in 1984 and 1987, respectively. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Texas A&M University, where she was an assistant professor 1987–93, associate professor 1993-98 and professor 1998 – present.
Activity
Lu is the Chair of Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Foundations Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2021, Conference Chairman, International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, 2003, 2002 and 2000, General Chair, International Conference on Control Engineering and Mechanical Design, 2017, and co-chair, the Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Mechanical Automation, 2017.
Lu has been Guest Editor, Honorable Editor, Topics Editor, and on editorial boards of professional journals including the IEEE Transactions on ITS. She served on the review panel of the National Science Foundation. She has been the chair of 51 research advisory committees for PhD, Masters students and post doctors.
Recognition
Lu was a selected Who's Who of Professional Women. She has been recognized in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in American Education. Lu is the recipient of the Innovative Paper Award, CSCI 2019. She was named Webb Faculty Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002-2003
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Electrical engineering academics
American engineers
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American electrical engineers
Texas A&M University faculty
Rice University alumni
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American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Carpuat | Marine Carpuat is a computer scientist who works on machine translation and natural language processing. She is known for her research connecting cross-lingual semantics with machine translation. She has been recognized with
a NSF Career Award in 2018, a Google Research award in 2016, and Amazon Faculty Awards in 2016 and 2018.
Education
Marine Carpuat obtained her MPhil and PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008 under the supervision of Dekai Wu. Her PhD thesis was on the topic of machine translation, and demonstrated the first results showing that explicit modeling of lexical semantics could improve the accuracy of a machine translation system.
Career
After completing her education, Carpuat worked at the National Research Council Canada as a researcher.
In 2015, she joined University of Maryland as an assistant professor in Computer Science where she is a member of the CLIP lab. Carpuat works in the area of natural language processing with a focus on machine translation and cross-lingual semantics. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers.
Her work is published in the proceedings of computer science conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
Selected honors and distinctions
2016 Google Research Award
2016, 2018 Amazon Research Awards
2018 NSF Career Award
References
External links
Living people
Computer scientists
Natural language processing researchers
Women computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Pendergast | Jane Pendergast is an American biostatistician specializing in multivariate statistics and longitudinal data. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University.
Education and career
Pendergast majored in mathematics at the University of Dayton, graduating in 1974, and went to the University of Iowa for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1976 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979. Her dissertation was Robust Estimation in Growth Curve Models.
After working as research faculty at the University of Florida beginning in 1980, she moved to the University of Iowa as an associate professor in 1999, and was promoted to full professor there in 2005. She moved to her present position at Duke University in 2015.
She was regional president for the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society in 2006, and chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies for 2013–2015.
Recognition
Pendergast was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016 "for advancing statistics within public health and for her skilled, creative and dedicated service to the profession, including effectively advocating for improved recognition of AAAS Sections".
She was a recipient of the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association in 2017, for her service to the association.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Dayton alumni
University of Iowa alumni
University of Iowa faculty
Duke University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamila%20Gordon | Jamila Gordon is a Somali Australian entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of an Australian SaaS company applying AI and Blockchain to food supply channels (Lumachain). After escaping the Somalian Civil War at the age of eighteen, she was a displaced person in Kenya before moving to Australia, where she received a degree in IT from the La Trobe University. Gordon later served as the CIO at Qantas and Leighton Holdings/CIMIC, and as an executive at IBM. She was subsequently named as Microsoft's Global Awardee in the International Women's Entrepreneurship Challenge 2018, Australia & New Zealand Innovator of the Year in the Women in AI Awards 2020, NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year 2021. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.
Early life and education
Jamila Gordon was born to a nomadic family in the hinterland of Somalia and brought up in a small village as one of 16 children. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to play a key role in running the family home from approximately five years old, and these responsibilities took precedence over her education. Her family moved to Mogadishu when she was 11 years old to avoid a drought. Once civil war broke out, she became a displaced person in Kenya. There, Gordon met an Australian backpacker, who helped her move to Australia. After arriving in Australia, Gordon took English courses at TAFE NSW and enrolled in an accounting degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She switched her major to software engineering after taking a programming elective and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Business and Information Technology degree in 1995.
Career
Early
During college, Gordon stated she had worked as a dish washer and a kitchen hand at a local Japanese restaurant during her years in college.
After college
After graduating, Gordon was employed in software development and subsequently project management. She continued her work in software for British Gas and, later, at Emirates Airlines. She was later employed by Deloitte, and after that - as a senior project manager at IBM. In 2001 IBM relocated her to Europe, working across cities in multiple countries where she had led global rollouts at IBM customers including Solectron, AXA Insurance and ABN AMRO Bank. In 2007, she was hired as a Chief Information Officer for Qantas airways, and then for Leighton Holdings/CIMIC.
Lumachain
In April 2018, Gordon founded Lumachain, a company that provides a blockchain and computer vision software for the meat industry, with $3.5 million in seed funding, in a round led by the CSIRO venture capital fund (Main Sequence Ventures). Its stated aim is to add transparency to global food supply chains and provide an auditable record to prove if an item comes from ethically responsible sources (e.g. worker conditions, health code compliance). In 2019, the company partnered with Microsoft, JBS S.A. and CSIRO for a large scale trials.
Awards
2009 La Trobe University Distinguished Alumni Award. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.3173 | Y.3173 is an ITU-T Recommendation building upon Y.3172 specifying a framework for evaluation intelligence levels of future networks such as 5G (IMT-2020). This includes:
Development trend of network intelligence
Methods for evaluating network intelligence levels
Architectural view for evaluating network intelligence levels
The standard addresses issue in Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) of IMT-2020 networks such as:
diversified network deployment scenarios are
diversified terminals, such as in Internet of things (IoT)
manual decision-making mechanisms
mechanisms analysing large amounts of network
network connectivity among UEs
decoupling of software from the hardware in networks
transition towards a service-based intelligent network
Network intelligence is defined as:
Level of application of automation capabilities including those enabled by the integration of artificial intelligence techniques in the network.
References
External links
ITU-T Recommendation Y.3173
ITU-T Y Series Recommendations
ITU-T recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Hawthorn | Paula Birdwell Hawthorn (born 1943) is an American computer scientist. She is recognised as an expert and pioneer in database systems. She has also founded organisations for women in computer science and created affirmative action programs to support students in the field.
Early life and education
Hawthorn was born in 1943 in Oklahoma City. Her parents separated soon after she was born, so she moved around frequently as a child with stints in Oklahoma, California, Texas and Indiana. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Houston with the intention of training as a math teacher. However, she was arrested for her involvement in a civil rights protest, making her ineligible to teach. In 1965, before graduating, she took a course on computers and became very interested in programming.
Career
After completing her degree, she worked at Texaco in maintenance on credit card billing systems. She left the position when her children were born and later was interested in returning in a part-time capacity, but this was not permitted. She decided to return to school, and enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Houston. She was supervised by Steve Sherman. Hawthorn completed her master's in 1974 with a thesis entitled A performance evaluation of a CDC 6600 computer.
Encouraged by her supervisor, she applied to doctoral programs in computer science. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. Her thesis was on the topic of relational database performance. During her studies at Berkeley, she began working with Michael Stonebraker on the INGRES project where she was a key contributor. After graduating, she worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Hawthorn went on to work at Hewlett-Packard as a manager and then at a database startup Britton-Lee, where she became Vice President of Engineering. The company was one of the first to develop specialised standalone database systems for client/server applications. She worked on efficiency comparisons for different types of processors in database machines.
When Britton-Lee started to fail, she returned to HP before being hired as Vice President at Illustra. After Illustra was bought out, she stayed on for a short period before looking for other opportunities. She was hired by Informix, and then by Andromedia in 1997 (which was later acquired by Macromedia). She integrated Andromedia technology with Unicenter TNG and donated software systems to UC Berkeley.
By 2002, Hawthorn was semi-retired, working part-time as a consultant.
Hawthorn has worked on various committees including the Lawler Award Committee and Advisory Panel on Professional Licensing in Software Engineering at the ACM. She was on the Organization Committee for SIGMOD 1987. In 2005, she worked on an ACM Voter Registration Database Study.
Awards and honours
1996 EECS Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Berkeley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawee | Clawee is a claw machine game, played online on real arcade machines controlled remotely through video streaming via a mobile app or computer. The game was invented by the Israeli company Gigantic, which operates the machines in a warehouse in Petah Tikva, Israel.
The name derives from claw machine games, in which players utilize a handle to maneuver a claw trying to catch items.
The company
Gigantic was established in 2017 by Ron Brightman, its CEO, and Oded Frommer. The company has 60 employees, with offices in Tel Aviv.
It has a warehouse in Petah Tikva where 250 arcade machines are stored and being operated 24 hours a day, each day throughout the year.
The machines are handled by a team of employees, who fill them and check for errors.
The company built its own machines and added transmitters, sensors and webcams enabling the players to have a real-time view and control of the machines. Gigantic has raised $9 million, the main investor being Union Tech Ventures and NFX, whose general partner is Gigi Levy-Weiss.
The app
Clawee can be played in fourteen countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States.
According to Sensor Tower, in October 2020, Clawee had over 100,000 downloads with aggregate revenue of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Approximately 70 percent of the players are women. In each moment, there are around 200,000 players on the site, and twofold that number are watching.
As of February 2021, the app has been downloaded 8 million times. The company ships over 100,000 prizes each month from its warehouses in the United States and China.
Clawee won the Samsung Galaxy Store 2020 award in the category of Best Indie Game of the Year.
According to the blogger PatahrakPlays, “This is probably the best game if you are looking to do a lot of wins. In my experience, this game is all about skill and timing… it’s a pretty straightforward game, to be honest, the more you play it, the better you get an idea about its mechanics, and it does seem pretty fair… This game has been a game I have been looking for a long time since it’s a perpetual simulation of playing claw machines.”
The game
Users install the app for free from Google Play, App Store (iOS/iPadOS), or login from the desktop to Clawee's website. They buy tokens, choose an arcade machine and start to play. Each machine has a different prize with different cost.
As beginners, they play simple games for cheap prizes.
When players catch a prize, they can claim it and the prize will be delivered to their home, or they can exchange it for coins to play more games.
They can get coins by inviting friends or if they log in on a daily basis.
Players can become VIP members for 4 dollars and then they will have free shipping for all their wins and the ability to play on the VIP machines, with more expensive prizes and unlock a daily login.
Players can navigate the claw only in two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca%20Oladipo | Francisca Onaolapo Oladipo (born 15 January 1978) is a Nigerian Professor of Computer Science, administrator and author. As of 2022, she is the Vice-Chancellor, Thomas Adewumi University, Nigeria. Prior to her appointment, she was Director of Quality Assurance at Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria. She is the Executive Coordinator, Virus Outbreak Data Network Africa and Asia (VODANA). She was the first woman to serve as a member of the Governing Council at the Federal University, Lokoja, and the first female Head of the Department of Computer Science at the university.
Education
In 2010, Oladipo earned her Doctorate Degree in Computer Science from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. She obtained her Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree from the same university. In 2014, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the TOTAL-MIT Empowering the Teachers Initiative.
Career
She introduced Python programming language into the Computer Science Academic Program at Federal University, Lokoja and founded PyFUL group to promote the learning of the programming language. She shared her work at PyCon, and her work on Python has been cited by others. Oladipo has been an advocate for the need for open data during the COVID-19 pandemic, a topic she has presented in peer-reviewed publications and as a panelist at the United States' National Academy of Sciences 2021 meeting on COVID-19 pandemic and Big data.
Awards and honors
Oladipo was a Grace Hopper Faculty Scholar, and in 2016 her project to teach adolescent girls about reproductive health and self-esteem through an educational mobile application was recognized. In 2020, Oladipo was one of 18 people named as professional fellows of the Nigerian Computer Society.
Selected publications
References
External links
Cartoon of her answers about computer scientists
Living people
Nigerian women computer scientists
Computer programmers
Nnamdi Azikiwe University alumni
Academic staff of the Federal University, Lokoja
21st-century women scientists
21st-century Nigerian educators
21st-century Nigerian women
1978 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja%20Petrovi%C4%87%20%28statistician%29 | Sonja Petrović is a Serbian-American statistician and associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, College of Computing, at Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on mathematical statistics and algebraic statistics, applied and computational algebraic geometry and random graph (network) models. She was elected to the International Statistics Institute in 2015.
Education and career
Petrović did her undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and received her B.S. degree in applied mathematics, magna cum laude in 2003. She minored in music performance at Chattanooga. Petrović did her doctoral work in mathematics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, specializing in commutative algebra. Her dissertation Algebraic and Combinatorial Properties of Certain Toric Ideals in the Theory and Applications was directed by Uwe Nagel. Petrović was awarded her Ph.D. by Kentucky in 2008.
After her doctoral studies, Petrović held a post-doctoral position at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2008 to 2011. She was a research fellow at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, in 2009, participating in the Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics. After holding the position of assistant professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University from 2011 to 2013, Petrović joined the faculty of Illinois Tech as an assistant professor of applied mathematics in 2013. She was promoted to associate professor at Illinois Tech in 2017.
In 2011, Petrović visited the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm, Sweden and participated in the program "Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Applications". In 2016, she was a long-term participant in the "Theoretical Foundations of Statistical Network Analysis Program" at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Petrović was a co-organizer of the “Summer School on Randomness and Learning in Non-Linear Algebra” at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics located in Leipzig, Germany in July 2019.
She received an Illinois Tech College of Science Junior Research Excellence Award in 2015 and an Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Science in April 2018..
References
External links
Sonja Petrović Author Profile at MathSciNet
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Kentucky alumni
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumni
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
American people of Serbian descent
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20Law%20on%20Protection%20of%20Personal%20Data%20and%20Guarantee%20of%20Digital%20Rights | The Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5 on Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (Spanish: Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales y garantía de los derechos digitales) is an organic law approved by the Cortes Generales that has the goal of adapting the Spanish domestic law on the General Data Protection Regulation. This organic law repeals the previous Organic Law 15/1999 on Personal Data Protection, although it still remains in force for certain activities.
This law came into effect on December 7, 2018.
Structure
The law consists of ninety-seven articles structured in ten headings, twenty-two additional provisions, six transitory provisions, a repeal provision, and sixteen final provisions.
Heading I
It relates to the general provisions of the law.
According to the first article, the organic law has two purposes. The first is to adapt the Spanish law from what is contained in the General Data Protection Regulation and "guarantee that the digital rights of the citizen conform with the mandate established in article 18.4 of the Constitution."
Heading II
It relates to the principles of personal data protection. These include accuracy, confidentiality, consent, and the processing of special data such as that of criminals and minors. A minor has to be fourteen years of age before they can give consent.
Heading III
Heading III declares the personal data protection and processing rights that entities have. These are, in conformation with European regulations, the following: access, correction, deletion, opposition, the right to restriction of processing, and the right to portability. Compared to previous regulation, the rights to limitation of processing and the right to portability of data are a change.
Heading IV
In Heading IV provisions for specific treatments are included. These rules should be followed when a responsible party intends to process a specific data set.
This title includes the regulation related to the inclusion and processing of data by credit reporting agencies, known popularly as "defaulter lists."
In recognition of the legality of data processing for credit reporting purposes, this process is subject to certain precautions. Article 20 indicates that only data relating to "debts that are confirmed and overdue, whose existence or amount hasn't been the object of an administrative or judicial claim by the debtor, and that aren't being resolved by alternative agreement between the two parties."
Through this same process, the creditor is required to inform the other party of what personal data might be given to the appropriate entities if they break their contract. This must be communicated before the contract is signed.
The entities that possess the data will be able to process and hold it during the time the contract is unfulfilled. This can occur for up to five years after the contract has been broken, until the data must be deleted.
The sixth additional provision of the law prohibits the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20School%20of%20Lisbon | The British School of Lisbon (alternatively known as BSL) is a British international school in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 2019, it's among the newest in the network of international schools run since 2005 by The Schools Trust, a British non-profit organization.
Overview
The British School of Lisbon (BSL) was established by The Schools Trust, a nonprofit foundation from the United Kingdom, whose Trustees have been operating a number of international schools since 2005. BSL first opened its doors on 12 September 2019. The school is located within the central district of the Lisbon downtown at Rua de São Paulo, in Cais do Sodré, in a historical building built in the second half of the 18th century and renovated in 2010.
In March 2020, following the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions applied by the Ministry of Education and Portuguese authorities for the educational institutions, the school adopted a Distance Learning Program for its students with the teaching provided by a combination of videoconferences and individual lessons.
Academics and administration
The school students follow the National Curriculum for England, which is segmented into phases of Early Years and Primary School. The classes are taught in English language. The learning program includes English language and literature, Math, Sciences, Portuguese language and culture, Physical Education, Music, Humanities and more. The students are required to wear school uniforms. The headteacher of the school is Zoe Hubbard.
Accreditation
The British School of Lisbon is certified and validated by the Institute of Financial Management and Education (IGeFE) in Portugal.
See also
Education in Portugal
References
External links
BSL Portugal official website
Education in Lisbon
International schools in Lisbon
British international schools in Europe
Educational institutions established in 2019
2019 establishments in Portugal
Buildings and structures in Lisbon District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Reben | Alexander Reben (born 1985) is an American artist, researcher and roboticist. He is best known for his artworks created in collaboration with artificial intelligence, and his research in robotics. Reben's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Western Europe, including the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and the Charlie James Gallery. His work is included in permanent collection of the MIT Museum. He currently serves as Director of Technology and Research at Stochastic Labs, a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit incubator for artists, scientists and engineers.
Biography
Alexander Reben studied Robotics and Applied Math at the State University of New York, graduating with a BS in 2008. In 2008 he moved to MIT Media Lab, where he completed an MS in Media Arts and Sciences. He currently lives in California, USA.
Career
While at MIT Media Lab, Reben designed a social robot and autonomous filmmaker Boxie which specialized in interviewing people. and inspired the design of Baymax in Big Hero 6. The idea later led to the establishing of BlabDroid Inc., in 2013, a company specializing in developing social robots to interact with humans around the world and create documentaries based on collected interviews. His BlabDroids filmed interviews at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and gained significant media attention.
Art
A core element of Reben's work lies in the conceptual study of technology's symbiosis with humans, including collaborating with AI during the creation of artworks. His most distinguished artworks include: "amalGAN" which is based on an AI algorithm which reads a human body's signals to produce artistic outputs, that are completed by human painters as oil painted canvases, "AI Am I?" wherein an AI describes artworks that the artist renders in real life, "Robots in Residence" where social robots made autonomous documentaries, and "Deeply Artificial Trees" which combines the “Deep Dream” AI with painting, among others.
Solo exhibitions
2019 - Creative Work as Adversary: The AI Art of Alexander Reben, Emerson Media Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 - Contrasts in Action Still, stARTup Art Fair – Special Project, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - strange/r/evolution, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2017 - wax chromatic, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 - Engineering Psychology, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected group exhibitions
2019 - Hello Robot, V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, Scotland
2018 - Seeing Eye Awareness, Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 - Hello Robot, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2017 - Robots. Work. Our Future, Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
2017 - Hello Robot, MAK Contemporary Art Museum, Vienna, Austria
2017 - Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2017 - The Basilisk, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 - Hello Robot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2013 - Robots in Residence, Storyscapes at t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Riloff | Ellen Riloff is an American computer scientist currently serving as a professor at the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, specifically information extraction, sentiment analysis, semantic class induction, and bootstrapping methods that learn from unannotated texts.
Education
After receiving her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics (computer science) from Carnegie Mellon University, Riloff completed both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she defended her dissertation under the guidance of Wendy Lehnert.
Career
Riloff is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah. She has served as the General Chair for the EMNLP 2018 conference, Program Co-Chair for the NAACL HLT 2012 and CoNLL 2004 conferences, on the NAACL Executive Board (2004-2005 and 2017-2018), the Computational Linguistics Editorial Board, and the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) Editorial Board.
Riloff has served as Faculty Advisor for the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop, and in 2018, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Research
Riloff’s primary research areas include information extraction, sentiment & affective text analysis, semantic class induction, social media analysis, coreference resolution, and medical text processing. She is best known for her work on bootstrapping, which she and Rosie Jones received an AAAI Classic Paper Award for in 2017, and information extraction, which she received an AAAI Classic Paper Honorable Mention for in 2012. Riloff has also worked more broadly on coreference resolution, sentiment analysis, active learning, and even veterinary medicine.
Awards and recognition
ACL Fellow. "For significant contributions to information extraction, and the analysis of sentiment, subjectivity and affect.". Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 12/10/2018
AAAI Classic Paper Award. "Learning Dictionaries for Information Extraction by Multi-Level Bootstrapping". Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99) (2017)
AMIA 2017 Distinguished Paper Award Finalist. "Exploiting Unlabeled Texts with Clustering-based Instance Selection for Medical Relation Classification". AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2017)
AAAI Classic Paper Honorable Mention. "Automatically Constructing a Dictionary for Information Extraction Tasks". Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-93) (2012)
Publications
Riloff has over 140 publications that predominantly cover topics in the natural language processing field. Some of her publication topics include frame semantics, sentiment, events, and information extraction.
Selected publications
Jiang, T. and Riloff, E. (2021) Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification, to appear in Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%27s | Fischer's (Japanese: フィッシャーズ, Fisshāzu) are a Japanese YouTuber group belonging to the multi-channel network UUUM consisting of 6 members: Silk Road, Masai, Ndaho, Motoki, Zakao and Dāma. As of February 2022, Fischer's was the most-viewed YouTube channel in Japan with 13.4 billion views, and the 7th most-subscribed channel in Japan with 7.23 million subcribers.
Overview
The group is based in Katsushika, Tokyo, and was formed in 2010 by eight classmates of the same junior high school. As their first video was of the members playing in a river like fish, their channel was named "Fischer's". Video themes mainly involve scripted skits and comedy, but the group also post vlogs and athletic videos.
Fischer's have gained popularity especially in the younger generations becoming the most-viewed YouTube channel in Japan in 2019. In the recent years, they have started to appear on television and other media outside YouTube. In the meantime, their YouTube videos have often been the subject of criticism both from viewers as well as other YouTubers.
History
Fischer's was formed on February 25, 2010. In October 2015, Daibū left the group stating that he "was unreliable as a friend" and "broke a rule within the members", leaving the group with seven members.
On April 27, 2018, the group made their first appearance on TV Asahi's music program Music Station performing their song Niji. Since 2018, the group has participated in Momoiro Uta Gassen on New Year's Eve, airing on BS Nippon Television, Fuji TV NEXT, Nippon Broadcasting System, etc.
In 2019, Fischer's collaborated with the One Piece series in a manga spin-off series Fischer's×ONE PIECE 7-tsunagi no dai hihō, with its first volume being released on July 4. Fischer's voice acted their own roles in the movie One Piece: Stampede released on August 9 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the original anime series. The same month, the group participated in ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL.
On September 16, 2019, Fischer's set the Guinness world record for the largest game of tag with 10,908 participants at Expo Commemoration Park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. The same month, the cumulative number of views on the channel became number one in Japan, and in December, Fischer's became the 9th most watched YouTuber in the world in 2019 with 1.9 billion views, appearing in YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record. On December 13, Fischer's was awarded the Streamy Award in the International Asia-Pacific Region becoming the first Japanese YouTuber to receive the Streamy Award.
In late 2020, multiple women accused Fischer's member Peketan of extorting sex and money. This resulted in Fischer's coming under fire from the public, ultimately forcing Peketan to leave the group, thus leaving Fischer's with six active members appearing in the videos. Fischer's announced that he would be in charge of video editing after "an inappropriate relationship with a female fan". The group received further widespread criticism as viewers conside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR-401%20%28Brazil%20highway%29 | BR-401 is a federal highway in the state of Roraima in Brazil. The road connects Boa Vista with Normandia and the road network of Guyana.
The over the Branco River was completed on 29 August 1975. The Takutu River Bridge was completed in 2009, and provides access to the road network of Guyana. The bridge switches between left- and right-hand drive automatically.
In 2018, the section between Boa Vista and the border with Guyana was fully paved. As of 2020, a section of almost 80 kilometres between Bonfim and Normandia is still unpaved.
References
External links
Federal highways in Brazil
Transport in Roraima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20container%20port%20traffic | The following list sorts countries and territories by volume of container port traffic in Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) according to data from the World Bank.
References
container port traffic
container port traffic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Wu | Shirley Wu is a data scientist specialized in data art and data visualizations. She is a freelancer based out of San Francisco, California. With Nadieh Bremer, Wu is the author of Data Sketches.
Education
Shirley Wu graduated from Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park, California in 2008. Wu received her Business Administration degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. In Fall 2021, she began a master's degree at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Career
In 2012, Wu worked as a software engineer at Splunk. Wu then worked as a software engineer on a frontend team at Illumio in 2015.
Since 2016, Wu has freelanced as a data visualization contractor and consultant. Wu writes, teaches, and speaks at conferences about her data art and visualization expertise, as well as providing courses on front-end web development, particularly D3. As a data visualization expert, she is a frequent speaker at conferences and guest on data visualization podcasts.
Wu has had an ongoing collaboration with Nadieh Bremer since they met in 2016 at the OpenVisConf in Boston. In late 2017, Wu and Bremer collaborated with The Guardian to enrich the field of journalism research in the project "Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless". This article's cartographic and visual works seamlessly accompanying its storytelling received various accolades and awards. The pair have collaborated with Google and Alberto Cairo on visualizations about popular travel locations and searches. Wu's work focused on the search terms entered from one country that were related to other countries. Bremer and Wu have also co-authored the book Data Sketches together. The book was first suggested by Tamara Munzner, who wanted the book to be part of her data visualization series. Munzner joined the project as its editor.
As a result of her work, Wu was featured in GitHub's ReadME Project, which "amplifies the voices of the open source community."
Notable works
Data Sketches (2021), coauthored with Nadieh Bremer, is a collection of 24 data visualizations.
An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton, The Pudding (part of the Data Sketches series). An interactive data visualization of the dialogue in the musical Hamilton.
Explore Adventure, Google News Lab (part of the Data Sketches series). The visualization explores how Google searches differ between countries. In 2017, it received the Science & Technology award given by Information is Beautiful Awards.
People of the Pandemic: an interactive simulation game. This piece allows readers to localize a simulation of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make the impacts of decisions more intuitive.
Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless, The Guardian This piece won best data visualization from the North American Digital Media Awards, as well as Silver from the Malofiej Awards.
Awards
Best Data Visualization – North American Digital Media Awards (2018) for "Bussed Out: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich%20built-up%20area | The Ipswich built-up area is a statistical unit devised by the UK Office for National Statistics to organise data for an urban area which extends from the town of Ipswich to Kesgrave, Woodbridge, Bramford and Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, England. The area takes in the borough of Ipswich, parts of the East Suffolk and part of the Mid Suffolk. The area was recorded at having a population of 178,835.
According to the 2011 census, the gender makeup of the population was 88,482 male and 90,353 female. The ethnic makeup of the whole urban area was 91% white and 4% Asian. Other ethnic minorities were around 5%. The religious make up of the whole area was:
Sub divisions
In 2001 the built-up-area included the sub divisions of Ipswich and Martlesham Heath, while in the 2011 census it included Ipswich, Bramford, Kesgrave (which included Martlesham Heath), Martlesham and Woodbridge.
References
Ipswich
Geography of Suffolk
Urban areas of England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai%20Ben-David | Shai Ben-David is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Waterloo. He is known for his research in theoretical machine learning.
Biography
Shai Ben-David grew up in Jerusalem, Israel and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was advised by Saharon Shelah. He held postdoctoral positions in mathematics and computer science at the University of Toronto. He was a professor of computer science at the Technion and also held visiting positions at the Australian National University and Cornell University.
He has been a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo since 2004.
Selected publications and awards
Ben-David has written highly cited papers on learning theory and online algorithms. He is a co-author, with Shai Shalev-Shwartz, of the book "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms"(Cambridge University Press, 2014).
He received the best paper award at NeurIPS 2018. for work on sample complexity of distribution learning problems. He was the President of the Association for Computational Learning from 2009 to 2011.
Publications
Understanding machine learning: From theory to algorithms
Authors: Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Ben-David
Publication date
2014/5/19
Publisher
Cambridge university press
A theory of learning from different domains
Authors: Shai Ben-David, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Publication date
2010/5
Journal
Machine learning
Volume
79
Pages
151-175
Publisher
Springer US
Analysis of representations for domain adaptation
Authors: Shai Ben-David, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira
Publication date
2006
Journal
Advances in neural information processing systems
Volume
19
Detecting change in data streams
Authors: Daniel Kifer, Shai Ben-David, Johannes Gehrke
Publication date
2004/8/31
Journal
VLDB
Volume
4
References
External links
Home page at the University of Waterloo.
Citations on Google Scholar.
Canadian computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Mike%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mighty Mike is a computer-animated television series created by Guillaume Hellouin. The series is a co-production between French studio TeamTO and Canadian studio Digital Dimension, produced in association with France Télévisions, Super RTL, UYoung, Radio-Canada and Family Channel, and Cake Entertainment handling worldwide distribution.
Broadcast
The series airs on Boomerang in France. In 2019 it was announced that the show would air on CITV and Boomerang in the United Kingdom, as well as Universal Kids in the United States and ABC Me in Australia
Plot
The series follows Mike, a pug, as he tries to gain the affection of his canine neighbour, whilst clashing with two mischievous raccoons.
Characters
Mike is a refined and sophisticated pug who is responsible for defending his house from two mischievous raccoons and three troublesome turtles. He also needs to protect little Fluffy the Cat from any danger whatsoever.
Fluffy is a small orange kitten who is the second pet of Mike's owners, the Mikkelsen Family. Though he's still a kitten, he is always seen wandering off on his own or causing little havoc around the house, which sometimes leads to Mike's overprotectiveness of him.
Iris is a white female Chinese Crested Dog who serves as Mike's love interest (and his many attempts to impress her). When enraged, Iris uses her tail to swat objects. She uses it on the raccoons when they try to steal things from Mike and herself.
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are three lively turtles who like playing sports, especially baseball, in spite of their species. Their names are a reference to The Three Musketeers.
Freddy and Mercury are two mischievous raccoons who are always causing mischief in every episode. Freddy is the leader of the duo, and always assisting Mercury to do things his own way. Both names are a play on the former British singer-songwriter, Freddie Mercury.
Iris' owner - They play the role of being the owner of Iris and persuading her to look after her stuff while they're gone.
The Mikkelsen Family are a family of unseen humans and the owners of Mike, Fluffy, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. In a few episodes, they are heard and their feet and legs are briefly seen. The family consists of Stephan (the father), Laura (the mother), Louise (eldest child/daughter), and Tom (youngest child/son).
References
External links
Mighty Mike at IMDB
2010s Canadian animated television series
2020s Canadian animated television series
2019 Canadian television series debuts
2010s French animated television series
2020s French animated television series
2019 French television series debuts
Canadian children's animated comedy television series
Canadian computer-animated television series
French children's animated comedy television series
French computer-animated television series
Animated television series about dogs
Animated television series about cats
Animated television series about turtles
Television series about raccoons
Fictional dogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MachEye | MachEye is an American technology company that produces software using natural search and AI-powered analytics. Its software presents data insights as interactive audio-visuals.
The company is based in San Jose, California.
History
MachEye was founded in 2018 by Ramesh Panuganty. Panuganty previously founded Drastin, the conversational analytics platform that was later acquired by Splunk to improve search-based analytics and intuity in Splunk.
In 2020, they launched an AI-powered platform. In October 2020, they raised $4.6 million in seed funding, backed by Canaan Partners and West Wave Capital.
Services
MachEye's platform uses technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, natural language generation, and text-to-speech. MachEye's AI technology generates audio-visual reports based on users' data. MachEye can also generate reports based on an analysis of users' search history on its platform.
MachEye's platform can connect to cloud data sources such as Amazon Redshift, Microsoft's Synapse, Google's BigQuery, and Snowflake Computing's CDP.
References
Companies based in San Jose, California
Software companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Cox%20%28disambiguation%29 | Brad Cox (1944–2021) was an American computer scientist.
Brad Cox may also refer to:
Brad Cox (musician), Australian country singer-songwriter
Brad Cox (physicist), American physicist
Brad H. Cox (born 1980), American racehorse trainer
See also
Bradford Cox, American singer-songwriter and musician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddies%20%28TV%20series%29 | Baddies is an American reality television series that premiered on May 16, 2021, on the Zeus Network. It was developed following an episode of The Conversation, which featured cast members from the former Oxygen series Bad Girls Club, that aired on Zeus in December 2020.
The show documents the interactions between several young women living together while hosting a series of promotional events, which often involve verbal and physical altercations. Many Baddies cast members were previously featured on Bad Girls Club, including executive producers Natalie Nunn and Tanisha Thomas.
Baddies has aired four seasons, which are uniquely named after where they were filmed. The first season Baddies ATL (2021) was filmed entirely in Atlanta, Georgia. Subsequent seasons Baddies South (2022), Baddies West (2023), and Baddies East (2023) were filmed during road trips through the respective regions of the United States.
Development
Talks for a potential reboot of the Bad Girls Club came about in early 2019 when Natalie Nunn announced that a reunion special was in the works. The reunion initially included Nunn, twin sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Victor from Season 8: Las Vegas, Christina Salgado and Erika "Lucci Vee" Jordan from Season 9: Mexico, Raquel "Rocky" Santiago and Shannon Sarich from Season 10: Atlanta, Sarah Oliver from Season 11: Miami, and Jada Cacchilli from Season 12: Chicago. The plan also included Tanisha Thomas from season 2, despite production disputes with Nunn.
The reunion was initially developed for release on the online platform OnlyFans, with uncensored material made available for a particular price. The Victor sisters and Jordan eventually quit and were replaced by Tiana Small from Season 11: Miami, who later exited the project. In December 2020, Cacchilli, Nunn, Oliver, Salgado, Santiago and Sarich appeared together on an episode of The Conversation to confront their issues surrounding the OnlyFans project.
After the former Bad Girls were featured in The Conversation, it was announced that the Baddies series was picked up and in production. On February 14, 2021, Zeus Network released a teaser trailer for Baddies ATL, which would reunite several former Bad Girls Club cast members.
Overview and casting
The first season, Baddies ATL, premiered on May 16, 2021, on the Zeus Network; featuring Seven Craft, Judi Jai, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks and Sidney Starr, alongside producers Natalie Nunn and Tanisha Thomas as main cast members as they resided in a mansion in Atlanta over the course of filming. Mehgan James served in a recurring capacity throughout the season.
The second season, Baddies South, began airing on June 12, 2022; with Nunn and Salgado as the only cast members set to return. The official cast for the second season featured Nunn alongside newcomers Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jela Lanier, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Scotlynd Ryan and Bri Walk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20W.%20Hunt | James Wayne Hunt (August 5, 1952 – March 21, 2021) was an American computer scientist and inventor. He invented the Hunt–Szymanski algorithm and Hunt–McIlroy algorithm algorithms. It was one of the first non-heuristic algorithms used in diff. To this day, variations of this algorithm are found in incremental version control systems, wiki engines, and molecular phylogenetics research software. The research accompanying the final version of Unix diff, written by Douglas McIlroy, was published in the 1976 paper "An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison", co-written with James W. Hunt, who developed an initial prototype of diff.
Early life and education
Wayne was the first born of two to the union of Augustus and Bernyce Hunt on August 5, 1952 in Trenton, NJ. He grew up as a major lover of jazz, funk, and R&B music as well as photography, his quiet and quick witted personality charmed most everyone he met. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and then went on to receive both his M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was part of the original group of students in the school's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
Career
In 1976, he refined and submitted the Hunt-Szymanski algorithm, , a variant that was originally proposed by Harold S. Stone. It is a solution to the longest common subsequence problem. It was one of the first non-heuristic algorithms used in data comparison. To this day, variations of this algorithm are found in incremental version control systems, wiki engines, and molecular phylogenetics research software.
This ingenuity led him to become a department head at A&T Bell Labs, a unit director at UNIX System Laboratories, and finally, the Management Systems Product Realization Vice President of Lucent Technologies. He remained with Lucent for a decade before retiring in 2004.
In 1982, he also published a journal on how to use Programming Languages in IEEE (institution of electrical and electronical engineering) computers.
James W. Hunt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Wall fastener-Patent number: 6004088. Abstract: This invention is a wall fastener to join abutting surfaces such as affixing a bracket to a wall. The L-shape arms of the fastener are attached with hinges to a shell or to a slidable nut enclosed in a shell which is inserted in a preformed hole or aperture in the wall. The fastener with arms attached to the slidable nut is adjustable for use with walls of varying widths. A screw holding the object to be attached is inserted in the shell and threaded through the nut (FIG. 4). The screw then engages the arms of the fastener and forces them to pivot into a clamping position (FIG. 5). The screw is turned until the arms are clampe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Biedron | Sandra Gail Biedron (born 1973) is an American physicist who serves as the Director of Knowledge Transfer for the Center for Bright Beams as well as professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where in 2021 she mentors nine graduate students and two post-doctoral researchers. Her research includes the development, control, operation and use of laser and particle accelerator systems. She is also Chief Scientist of Element Aero, a consulting and R&D company incorporated in 2002. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013.
Early life and education
Biedron grew up in Palos Park, Illinois. Her father, Emil John Biedron, was a data scientist and engineer who calculated the re-entry trajectories for space shuttle missions. Her mother, Gail Jean Biedron, encouraged her early interest in chemistry, biology and antiquity. She lived on a 7-acre property, and spent her childhood riding horses. She attended Carl Sandburg High School.
Biedron started her academic career at a community college: she was a student at Moraine Valley Community College, where she completed her classes in 1992 before moving to Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois where she majored in chemistry and biology. Biedron was often in Sweden for her graduate studies at Lund University.
Her dissertation was in accelerator physics with emphasis in the generation of coherent, laser-like light sources often known as free-electron laser.
Research and career
In 1993, Biedron joined the Argonne National Laboratory. Her research includes the development of coherent, laser-like light sources. Biedron was eventually appointed as an Associate Director of the Argonne Accelerator Institute and the Department of Defense Project Office. At Argonne, Biedron helped to develop the self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser in the visible wavelengths as well as the Advanced Photon Source. She also oversaw and participated in experiments in high-gain harmonic generation free-electron lasers at the Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She worked on the Office of Naval Research free-electron laser and the FERMI@ELETTRA free-electron laser at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste.
Biedron's work on the high-gain harmonic generation free-electron lasers and other coherent devices helped drive the FERMI free electron laser at ELETTRA and other machine architectures.
Biedron moved to Colorado State University in 2011. In 2017, Biedron moved to the University of New Mexico, where she is involved with expanding reach in applied electromagnetism and accelerator technologies. She also serves as the Director of Knowledge Transfer at the Center for Bright Beams.
Her research interests include energy-relevant systems, (particle accelerator systems, laser systems, and their application for materials), the use of artificial intelligence in controls, modelling, and prediction of complex syste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Avner | Elaine Sweital Avner (June 26, 1938 – June 10, 2017) was an American astronomer and computer-assisted instruction developer who worked for many years at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Elaine Sweital was originally from Philadelphia, was the top student in her year at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, and won a Philadelphia City scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She first came to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as a graduate student and Woodrow Wilson Fellow in astronomy, earning a master's degree in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965, and marrying Richard Allen Avner, whom she met when he was a psychology graduate student at the University of Illinois. Her doctoral dissertation was The Influence of The Magellanic Clouds on The Galaxy.
She became a faculty member in astronomy at Troy University, and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1966. She returned to the University of Illinois, in the astronomy department, but in 1967 shifted her interests to educational technology, becoming a research scientist in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory until 1993, when the laboratory closed and she retired. As part of the PLATO project within the laboratory, she developed astronomical simulations as well as software for dialup access to the system. After retiring, she and her husband jointly operated a consulting firm.
Her papers are held in the University of Illinois Archives.
References
1938 births
2017 deaths
American astronomers
American women astronomers
People in educational technology
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Computer-based Education Research Laboratory
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Philadelphia High School for Girls alumni
University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni
Troy University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Driscoll | Charles Thurston Driscoll Jr. is a University Professor of Environmental Systems and distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He is known for his work on environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, environmental engineering, aquatic chemistry, and water quality modeling.
Education
Driscoll earned his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at University of Maine in 1974. He earned his MS and PhD at Cornell University. His 1980 PhD thesis was titled "Chemical characterization of some dilute acidified lakes and streams in the Adirondack region of New York State".
Career
Driscoll began his career as professor in 1980 in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University.
Awards
Driscoll was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for "For leadership in understanding the ecological impact of acid rain and mercury depositions".
In 2017, he was elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "his seminal contributions on the effect of acid rain and mercury deposition on aquatic and terrestrial communities, and for service to the international scientific community".
In 2023, Driscoll was awarded the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize in water science by the National Water Research Institute.
References
External links
Official Website
Cornell University alumni
Environmental scientists
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Syracuse University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maine alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karthik%20Ram | Karthik Ram is a research scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and member of the Initiative for Global Change Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for being the co-founder of rOpenSci. Ram's work focuses on global change, data science, and open research software.
Career
Ram received his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at University of California, Davis. After his PhD, he went on to hold a post-grad position at University of California, Santa Cruz before eventually moving to UC Berkeley. Currently, Karthik Ram is a research scientist at UC University of California, Berkeley for both the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology. His work aims to make it easier for scientists to produce reproducible research.
Projects
Ram co-created rOpenSci in 2011, and is currently the lead of the project. rOpenSci is non-profit with the goal of making data retrieval more accessible through open source R packages. He also a member of the peer-review and editorial staff for the rOpenSci Software Review. Ram is the lead principal investigator for the URSSI (US Research Software Sustainability Institute). Karthik Ram has been the lead of this project since its initial grant in December, 2017. Ram is a founding editor of the Journal of Open Source Software, and an editorial board member of ReScience C and Research Ideas and Outcomes, which are both academic journals focused on open research sustainability.
Awards
Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science (2007)
rOpenSci awarded $2.9M grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Notable works
Among Ram's notable work are the following:
Point of view: How open science helps researchers succeed
Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science
Data carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
University of California, Davis alumni
American ecologists
Data scientists
R (programming language) people
University of California, Berkeley faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Masters%20%28Australian%20season%203%29 | The third season of Australian reality television series Lego Masters premiered on the Nine Network on 19 April 2021. Hamish Blake returned as host along with Ryan "The Brickman" McNaught as judge.
Production
Auditions for the third season opened in May 2020 asking for applicants 15 years old and above. In early September 2020, it was confirmed the third season would begin filming on Monday, October 5 at Melbourne Showgrounds. On 16 September 2020, the third season was officially confirmed at Nine's 2021 upfronts.
Teams
Notes
* Not all teams in the season have a relation (i.e. family or friend), some were paired together during the application process due to single applications.
Elimination history
Series Details
Challenge 1
Airdate - 19 April 2021
Challenge: "Stop In Your Tracks" - Each of the eight teams were tasked with creating a design of their choice in 17 hours that would cause a train to stop.
Advantage - The winner of the challenge received "The Platinum Brick", which they can use at the end of an Elimination Challenge to receive immunity.
The Brick of Doom - A brand new invention this season. Drawing the Brick of Doom means your team will be cursed and punished with a 5-minute delay in starting the builds. The curse can be broken by winning a challenge.
Challenge 2
Airdate - 20 April 2021
Challenge: "Castles and Cannonballs" - The teams had 8 hours to build a castle from a historical time period selected at random. Once finished, they were placed at the end of a bowling lane and smashed by a ball bowled by Hamish. The winner of the challenge received immunity from the next Elimination Challenge - no elimination in this challenge.
Challenge 3
Airdate - 21 April 2021
Challenge: "Snow Globe" - Each team had 10 hours to create a design of their choice that would look beautiful inside a snow globe which had to factor in how the snow would move around the globe and add to their story. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 4
Airdate - 25 April 2021
Advantage Challenge: "Fantastical Beasts" - Teams were given six hours to build a creature with characteristics of two animals decided by what animals they landed on two separate chocolate wheels. The winner of the challenge received an advantage of an extra 30 minutes for the elimination challenge.
Elimination Challenge: "Mission to Mars" - The teams were given eight hours to make a creation on a shelf for a spaceship, choosing what mankind would send to Mars. The team with the weakest design was eliminated.
Challenge 5
Airdate - 26 April 2021
Challenge: "Hero's Quest" - The teams had 12 hours to build an adventure from a map section selected by 'first in best dressed'. The winner of the challenge received immunity from the next Elimination Challenge.
Challenge 6
Airdate - 27 April 2021
Challenge: "Cut in Half" - Each team had 10 hours to make a creation that builds on the other half of an object already cut in half. The team with the weakest design link was el |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanyu%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sanyu is a Ugandan drama television series that premiered on DStv Uganda's Pearl Magic Prime TV on 2 January 2020, at the premiere of MultiChoice Uganda's premium network, Pearl Magic Prime. The series stars Catherine Namugenyi in the lead role as Sanyu, along with Eleanor Nabwiso and Housen Mushema. Sanyu was nominated for Best Television Drama, and Tracy Kababiito was nominated for Best Actress in a Television Drama at the 8th Uganda Film Festival Awards.
Synopsis
Sanyu Batte is an innocent, rural teenage girl. She is forced to leave her family and her pursuit of education to take a maid’s job for a complex, wealthy urban family. Sanyu falls for the young son of her employer, which makes her life even harder.
Plot
Season 1
The Kirunda textile factory where Sanyu's father works is damaged by a fire. Nalweyiso, Sanyu's stepmother, forces Sanyu to sign a contract she hasn't read. It's a contract to work for the Kirunda family as a maid. Little did she know, life with the Kirundas was much more complicated than it appeared.
At the Kirundas', Sanyu finds the complicated family that owns Kirunda House of Designs. The youngest son of the family, Oscar Gume, falls for Sanyu, and she reciprocates his feelings, although she tries to hide them. She later helps troublesome Melissa, the youngest daughter of Linda Kirunda, with her outfit to appear on a magazine cover.
While the other maids, Karungi, Nanziri, and Kakai, enjoy Francis Kirunda's company, Sanyu doubts he's a good husband, as she had seen him in the company of Patience, whom Sanyu suspects to be his mistress. This is later proven right when Francis meets Patience in a hotel room; Patience then threatens to expose the truth to the media. To stop this, Francis takes her home, which annoys Linda, and she fights with Patience, causing her to stress out and leading her to drink. However, Sanyu stops her from consuming alcohol by advising her to draw and take orange juice instead. Patience lies about carrying Francis's baby, but Sanyu overhears her talking to a doctor to forge prenatal scans.
Oscar sees Sanyu's fashion designs, which are of very high quality, and suggests they are used in the Kirunda House of Designs. Later, Sanyu encounters Oscar's fiancée, Kirabo, who, out of insecurity, instantly hates her; Kirabo's brother Pius falls for Sanyu. Kirabo later leaves Oscar at the altar and runs away with business tycoon Steve.
The eldest son of the house, Patrick, and his wife, Lucy, attempt to steal Linda's assets but are unsuccessful. Sanyu and Linda partner and create designs, preparing for a fashion show. With maid Karungi's help, Lucy steals plans from Linda, makes the same clothes, and signs up to compete in the play. Lucy's models go first, and she is devastated when Linda's models wear completely different designs made by Sanyu; hence, Linda wins. But as the police arrest Lucy for theft, she accuses Sanyu of giving the plans to her, causing her imprisonment when not even Linda believe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind%20Krishnamurthy | Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Short-Dooley Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. He is currently serving as the Vice President of USENIX (since 2020), and was named an ACM Fellow in 2020. His primary areas of research are computer networks and distributed systems.
Arvind Krishnamurthy received his bachelor's degree from IIT Madras (1991) and his masters (1994) and doctoral degrees (1999) from University of California, Berkeley.
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IIT Madras alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Abadi | Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park and was named an ACM Fellow in 2020. His primary area of research is database systems. He is known for his contributions to distributed databases, column-store databases, deterministic databases, graph databases, and stream databases. Specifically, he developed the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, which was commercialized by Vertica and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. His HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems was commercialized by Hadapt and acquired by Teradata in 2014.
Abadi was the first to describe the PACELC theorem in a 2010 blog post. PACELC, a response to the CAP theorem, was proved formally in 2018 in a SIGACT News article.
Abadi currently is an advisor for FaunaDB. Abadi was a recipient of the VLDB Test of Time Award for a 2009 publication titled HadoopDB: an architectural hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS technologies for analytical workloads.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy%20minimization | In computer science and operations research, the envy minimization problem is the problem of allocating discrete items among agents with different valuations over the items, such that the amount of envy is as small as possible.
Ideally, from a fairness perspective, one would like to find an envy-free item allocation - an allocation in which no agent envies another agent. That is: no agent prefers the bundle allocated to another agent. However, with indivisible items this might be impossible. One approach for coping with this impossibility is to turn the problem to an optimization problem, in which the loss function is a function describing the amount of envy. In general, this optimization problem is NP-hard, since even deciding whether an envy-free allocation exists is equivalent to the partition problem. However, there are optimization algorithms that can yield good results in practice.
Defining the amount of envy
There are several ways to define the objective function (the amount of envy) for minimization. Some of them are:
The number of envious agents;
The number of envy relations (- edges in the envy graph);
The maximum envy-ratio, where the envy ratio of i in j in allocation X is defined as: ; so the ratio is 1 if i does not envy j, and it is larger when i envies j.
Similarly, one can consider the sum of envy-ratios, or their product.
The maximum, the sum or the product of the envy-difference.
Minimizing the envy-ratio
With general valuations, any deterministic algorithm that minimizes the maximum envy-ratio requires a number of queries which is exponential in the number of goods in the worst case.
With additive and identical valuations:
The following greedy algorithm finds an allocation whose maximum envy-ratio is at most 1.4 times the optimum:
Order the items by descending value;
While there are more items, give the next item to an agent with the smallest total value.
There is a PTAS for max-envy-ratio minimization. Furthermore, when the number of players is constant, there is an FPTAS.
With additive and different valuations:
When the number of agents is part of the input, it is impossible to obtain in polynomial time an approximation factor better than 1.5, unless P=NP.
When the number of agents is constant (not a part of the input), there is an FPTAS for minimizing the maximum envy-ratio, and the product of envy-ratios.
When the number of agents equals the number of items, there is a polynomial-time algorithm.
Distributed envy minimization
In some cases, it is required to compute an envy-minimizing allocation in a distributed manner, i.e., each agent should compute his/her own allocation, in a way that guarantees that the resulting allocation is consistent. This problem can be solved by presenting it as an Asymmetric distributed constraint optimization problem (ADCOP) as follows.
Add a binary variable vij for each agent i and item j. The variable value is "1" if the agent gets the item, and "0" otherwise. The var |
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