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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-as-you-use | Pay-as-you-use (or pay-per-use) is a payment model in cloud computing that charges based on resource usage. The practice is similar to the utility bills (e.g. electricity), where only actually consumed resources are charged.
One major benefit of the pay-as-you-use method is that there are no wasted resources (that were reserved, but not consumed), which can be a source of significant losses for the companies. Users only pay for utilized capacities, rather than provisioning a chunk of resources that may or may not be used.
Payment model concept evolution
Cost efficiency is one of the most distinctive and advertised benefits of cloud computing alongside the ease of use. Due to cloud computing rapid development, the utilized payment model is also evolving.
Subscription is the most basic payment model that provides periodic access to a product or service. The main benefit is a predictable fixed cost, which is independent of the consumption rate or whether the service is used at all. The downside of the model is that it is difficult to forecast the consumption beforehand, which leads to overallocation.
Pay-as-you-go (also may be referred to as pay-as-you-run, pay-as-you-allocate, etc.) is the most frequently used payment model at the moment. The main idea is that users only pay for the provisioned server (virtual machine) when it is running (going). However, in terms of resources pay-as-you-go approach charges fully for the allocated resources (i.e. VM limit) regardless of the actual consumption.
Pay-as-you-use is the most recent payment model in cloud computing that emerged after integration and popularization of the containers in the clouds. It is centered on the containers' ability to dynamically scale the amount of provided resources without downtime (vertical scaling). As a result, the charges can be made based on the actual consumption during the specific time.
Role in solving the right-sizing problem
Right-sizing is a process of reserving the cloud computing instances (containers, VMs, or bare metal) with enough resources (RAM, CPU, storage, network) to achieve a sufficient performance at the lowest cost possible.
Right-sizing aims to solve two problems in cloud computing:
Overallocation, which leads to inefficient utilization of the cloud infrastructure and overpayment for resources that are not actually used.
Underallocation, which results in resource shortage that causes performance issues or even downtime of the hosted projects, leading to the poor end-user experience, missed clients, and revenue losses.
Currently, the pay-per-use model is the most efficient answer to the right-sizing problem. It allows avoiding manual prediction on the required server size by shifting this responsibility to the precise tools offered by modern cloud hosting providers. As a result, applications are automatically provided with the exact amount of resources to serve the on-going load.
Discrepancy in Terminology
Due to lack of unified terminology and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Allan%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | James Allan is the Chair of Faculty and Professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst and was named an ACM Fellow 2020, for his research and contributions to the area of information retrieval. His research has been cited more than 20,000 times (April 2021). In 2019, James Allan was elected to be the treasurer of the Computing Research Association for a term of two years.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suman%20Banerjee | Suman Banerjee is an Indian computer scientist and businessman working as the David J. DeWitt Professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Education
Banerjee earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1996, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Career
Banerjee worked as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2004 to 2014. He was the CTO and co-founder of StratusWorX, a company that developed cloud workspace software. In July 2020, Ericsson acquired StratusWorX and the company's patent portfolio.
Banerjee was named an ACM Fellow in 2020 for his contributions to research in the area of wireless systems and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 for his contributions to the "development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems". He has been cited more than 28,000 times (April 2021).
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Living people
University System of Maryland alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ni%C3%B1a%20Ni%C3%B1o%20episodes | Niña Niño is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by TV5. It aired from April 5, 2021 to May 19, 2022 on the network's Todo Max Primetime evening line up, replacing Paano ang Pangako?.
The show Originally aired every weekday until the start of the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers, in which after the 2021 PBA season started, the show stopped airing episodes on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Series overview
Episodes
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Richards%20Adrion | William Richards Adrion is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was named an ACM Fellow in 1996 and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995. He was a founding member and the first Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, and was also a founding member of the Computing Research Association.
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20and%20the%20Aliens | Luis and the Aliens is a 2018 English-language computer-animated science-fiction comedy film written and directed by Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein, and co-directed by Sean McCormack. The film premiered at the Luxembourg City Film Festival on 2 March 2018 and was released in Germany on 24 May 2018, North America on 17 August, and the UK on 24 August 2018.
Plot
On his 12th birthday, Luis has no friends, and his father, the ufologist Armin Sonntag, constantly does not have enough time for him. He does not even know that those whom he is so eager to find are right in front of his nose. On his birthday, Luis becomes the only witness to the crash landing of three aliens near their home. They have a special ability - eat people hair to transform into anything they want. Louis had never had more fun than being around them. But he quickly realizes that if his father finds out about his secret, it will not end well. He decides to help them fix their mothership and fly away with them to the Winters' house.
Marlon later takes the family's SUV. As the rest of his family returns from his younger sister's play, Armin Sontag walks in and tries to force them to assume the guise of aliens. But after the words of their neighbor, Armin Sonntag, Mr. Winters and Ms. Dieckendacker) set off in pursuit in a courier van.
On the way, Luis reveals the truth to Marlon - in fact, the aliens are traveling with them with Marlon, from which he almost broke the sack. After arriving at Dragon's Peak, the aliens and Luis prepare to take off back to her mothership that hovers over the peak. Soon the others arrive there. At the last moment, Ms. Dieckendacker takes away Armin Sonntag's homemade freezer gun, as Luis tries to stop her but falls off a cliff. The monster and prepares to shoot Luis, but is stopped by Agent Stu who is an member of the Intergalactic Police that was disguised as a ice cream man. Suddenly, Dieckendacker transforms into a large dinosaur-like creature called Tontonian. Luis emerges from under the pushed stone. He runs away from the Tontonian, who falls off a cliff. Luis negotiates a plan with Wabo, Nag and Mog. In the course of a difficult duel in which the three aliens pretend to be Luis, gradually leading the Tontonian to the real Luis, who is quickly frozen by him. After that, Stu later sends Dieckendacker to his cooling house, and the aliens take the "NubbiDubbi" rug ordered by them and they go back to their mothership.
Voice cast
Callum Maloney as Luis Sonntag
Dermot Magennis as Armin Sonntag and Wabo
Ian Coppinger as Mog
Paul Tylak as Nag, Mr. Winter, Ice Cream Man and Bill
Lucy Carolan as Jennifer Yeng
Eoin Daly as Marlon Winter
Aileen Mythen as Mrs. Winter, Valentina and Ms. Diekendaker
Simon Toal as the principal
Release
The film had its premiere at the Luxembourg City Film Festival on 2 March 2018, and premiered in Germany at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film on 27 April. It was released in cinemas in Germany on 24 May, the US and C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%204 | The Surface Laptop 4 is a laptop computer made by Microsoft. It is the fourth generation of Surface Laptop which launched on 13 April 2021. It succeeds the Surface Laptop 3, which was released in 2019.
Surface Laptop 4 keeps the same form design and ports as its predecessor. The machine ships with an Intel 11th gen or AMD processor. There are models with an aluminum finish alongside models with the traditional Alcantara fabric covering.
The displays are also the same as the previous models. The 13.5 inch model comes with a 2256 x 1504 resolution and the 15 inch model comes with a 2496 x 1664 resolution. Both models have the same 3:2 aspect ratio and 201 ppi.
Configuration
Features
An 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processors
An AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 Surface Edition processors
Storage options are 1 TB, 512 GB and 256 GB, removable
Windows Hello with IR camera for facial recognition login
A headphone jack, a USB-C port
Up to 19 hours battery life for either model
427 nits screen brightness
i7 processor laptop
Timeline
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Computer-related introductions in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx%20Telecomputer%20Bus | The Manx Telecomputer Bus was a Manx government initiative to teach IT to children at a time when access to computers was limited in schools. A converted bus was equipped with 23 Macintosh computers and acted as a mobile classroom. Operating from 1998 to 2020, the bus toured the Isle of Man to teach children about the internet and technology. The bus on occasion made trips to England also. Approximately 100,000 schoolchildren made use of the service during its lifetime.
History
The project was first devised by Alex Townsend in the 1990s- then a teacher at St. Ninian's High School. He envisioned a mobile classroom in the form of a converted bus to teach children about the internet.
The 1977 Leyland National bus- previously in service on the island for public transport- was purchased by the Department of Education for £5,000 and underwent an extensive conversion over nine months, partially funded by a grant from Manx Telecom. It was described at the time as a "state-of-the-art facility to take computer education into the 21st century".
It was first put into operation on September 11, 1998 at Sulby Primary School, and from there circulated around all primary schools on the island. The original configuration featured Macintosh G3s, flat screen monitors and an interactive whiteboard. A press release from the time of the launch indicated that the flat screen monitors offered a “CRT-equivalent picture”. Students from St. Ninian's and Ballakermeen High School accompanied the bus on a visit to London in 1999, to attend the BBC Tomorrow's World Live Exhibition.
The technology on the bus evolved over time. It received 3G access in 2003, and the computers were all replaced during a 2008 relaunch. In 2015, the bus was provided with four 4G receivers by Manx Telecom.
By the late 2010s, the increased availability of computers and mobile tablets in schools rendered the service largely obsolete. A final unplugging ceremony in Sulby on March 3, 2020 marked the end of the service. The event was attended by those who had used the bus over its 22-year lifespan.
Awards and recognition
The project came second in the Contribution to Civic Society category at the 2003 ‘’New Statesman’’ New Media Awards.
In 2014, founder Alex Townsend was recognised on a list of pioneers and innovators by Apple, with a spokesperson describing the concept as a "stroke of brilliance".
References
Education in the Isle of Man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Cuthill | Elizabeth Hahnemann Cuthill (October 16, 1923 – January 11, 2011) was an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her work on sparse matrix algorithms, on block iterative methods for the numerical approximation of differential equations, and on the development of computer simulations of nuclear reactors. She was a researcher for the United States Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin. The Cuthill–McKee algorithm and reverse Cuthill–McKee algorithm are heuristics for permuting matrices into forms with small bandwidth and for associated problems in graph bandwidth, named for the work of Cuthill with James McKee.
Education and career
Cuthill was born on October 16, 1923, in Connecticut, the daughter of Paul Richard Hahnemann and Barbara Baumann Hahnemann.
She earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1946, with a master's thesis "On the velocity distribution and stability of flow through a two-dimensional channel" supervised by Chia-Chiao Lin. After this, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1951; her dissertation, Integrals on Spaces of Functions which are Real and Continuous on Finite and Infinite Intervals, was supervised by Robert Horton Cameron. While completing her doctorate, she became an instructor at Purdue University. In 1953, she became a researcher for the United States Navy, working at the David Taylor Model Basin, where she became Numerical Analysis Coordinator for the Computation, Mathematics, and Logistics Department.
She died on January 11, 2011, in Frederick, Maryland.
Recognition
Cuthill was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1963. In 1976, she won the David W. Taylor Award of the US Navy "for her valuable contributions in the development and exploitation of mathematical and computational techniques for significant Navy applications".
Selected publications
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2011 deaths
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American women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Brown University alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
Female United States Navy civilians
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Urban%20Database%20and%20Access%20Portal%20Tools | The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is a global initiative of tools to create local climate zone maps for a given city using a standard methodology. It has both a database and a portal. The database has hierarchical layers of increasing detail, with data acquired via crowdsourcing methods such as Geo-Wiki.
The framework was first introduced in a 2015 publication, which identified shortcomings in how climate and weather were mapped in urban areas. Despite accounting for about 3% of the Earth's land surface, urban areas account for a majority of the world's population. Additionally, cities are known to influence the local climate and weather, leading to the identification of the urban heat island effect. It was based on the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT), which was an initiative sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency that initially hosted data for 33 US metropolitan areas, including building height, human population during both day and night, land surface temperature, radiation, and vegetation data. The WUDAPT has been used to create local climate zone maps for all of Europe and to analyze the spatial occurrence of heat waves in Guangdong, China.
See also
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER): freely available satellite imagery of Earth used to create detailed maps of surface temperature of land, emissivity, reflectance, and elevation
List of GIS data sources
References
External links
Official website
International geographic data and information organizations
Collaborative mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade1Up | Arcade1Up is a computer hardware production company that specializes in the production of working 3/4 scale arcade video games using modern components and emulation.
History
Arcade1Up was established as a subsidiary of Tastemakers, Inc. in 2018 by its CEO Scott Bachrach. In June 2017, Bachrach had been involved in a meeting discussing the growing interest in retrogaming. The topic of retro arcade gaming had come up, and while the members had identified efforts to recreate arcade cabinets, these typically cost thousands of U.S. dollars and were heavy, a form that would not be suitable for smaller consumers at home or offices, or use in locations like arcade bars. Bachrach decided to launch Arcade1Up as to provide an alternative solution to these custom recreations.
Arcade1Up opted for crafting 3/4-scale versions of arcade cabinets as to make them more amenable to fit into homes and businesses. The cabinets were prepared as ready-to-assemble kits for the consumer to complete at home, providing pre-cut fiberboard frame components for the cabinet's sides including stickers for the game marquees, a 17" LCD screen, controller panel, and emulation hardware and power componentry to run the game. A basic unit has an MSRP of about through major retailers and Arcade1Up's own website. These cabinets typically are about high and weigh under once assembled. As this can be a bit short for playing while standing, Arcade1Up also provided optional risers to lift the cabinet by about . Their initial production had some reported quality control issues, which the company used to improve future products.
Initially, the company sought licenses for the early 1970s and 1980s arcade games from Namco, Midway, and Atari, then later added games from the 1990s and beyond. Most systems ship with between two and twelve games from the same family or genre of games that shared the same control set; for example, their Pac-Man cabinet includes Pac-Man Plus, while Centipede includes three other Atari games that used trackball controls, Millipede, Missile Command, and Crystal Castles. The control panels are modeled based on the original games. For multiplayer fighting and brawler games that support more than two players, such as the four-player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the smaller scale of the cabinet had initially created problems with players crowding around the controls. Arcade1Up created special full-size controller decks to give enough room for each player to have space at the cabinet. Where possible, Arcade1Up has added remote multiplayer functionality over Wi-Fi connections.
The company has since branched to other product offerings. It offers smaller sized "counter-cades" that can be set on a bar or table, typically which ship with between two and five games. It also offers sit-down table cabinets for head-to-head games.
In June 2020, Arcade1Up in partnership with Zen Studios announced the first in its line of 3/4th-scale replica pinball machines, using Zen Studi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A5r%20Stenvik | Bår Stenvik (born 18 November 1976) is a Norwegian non-fiction writer.
He hails from Namdalseid. He wrote the children's non-fiction books Dataspill (2011) and Ti utrulege oppfinningar (2020), the non-fiction books Skitt (2011), Bløff (2014) and Å bli en annen (2016). In 2011 he also issued the novel Informasjonen, whose movie rights were bought by Bulldozer Film. He followed up with Det store spillet (2020).
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1976 births
Living people
People from Nord-Trøndelag
Norwegian non-fiction writers
Norwegian novelists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Zyda | Michael Zyda (or Michael J. Zyda or Mike Zyda) is an American computer scientist, video game designer, and Professor of Computer Science Practice at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2019 and an ACM Fellow in 2020 for his research contributions in video game design and virtual reality. He is also the founding director of the Computer Science (Games) degree programs at USC Viterbi. Michael received his bachelor's degree in bioengineering from University of California, San Diego, master's degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts Amherst and doctoral degree in computer science from Washington University.
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University of California, San Diego alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
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Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%20Easterly | Jen Easterly is an American intelligence and former military official who is serving as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration. She was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on July 12, 2021.
Early life and education
Raised in Potomac, Maryland, Easterly attended Winston Churchill High School and graduated as valedictorian in 1986. She earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy in 1990 and a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Pembroke College, Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Career
Easterly served in the United States Army for twenty years and was an assistant professor of social sciences at the United States Military Academy. She was approved for promotion to major in 2000, lieutenant colonel in 2006 and colonel in 2012.
From 2002 to 2004, she was executive assistant to the National Security advisor. From 2004 to 2006, she was a battalion executive officer and brigade operations officer in the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade, a subordinate unit of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. Easterly was deployed to Baghdad as chief of the cryptologic services group for the National Security Agency. She also worked for NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations.
From 2009 to 2010, Easterly served on the United States Cyber Command, which she helped establish. From 2010 to 2011, Easterly was a cyber advisor for the NSA stationed in Kabul. After retiring from the Army as a lieutenant colonel, she served as deputy director of the NSA for counterterrorism from May 2011 to October 2013. From October 2013 to February 2016, Easterly was a special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council. After the end of the Obama administration, Easterly joined Morgan Stanley as global head of the company's cybersecurity division.
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
An uncontroversial nominee, Easterly received general praise for her qualifications from senators and media and was confirmed by voice vote after being temporarily held up for outside reasons. She was sworn into office on July 13, 2021.
Awards
Bronze Star (multiple awards)
2018 James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award
Personal
Easterly is the daughter of Noel Clinton Koch and June Quint Koch. She married attorney Jason Tighe Easterly in Potomac, Maryland on April 3, 2004. They have a son. Judge Catharine Easterly of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is her sister-in-law.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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United States Army officers
American Rhodes Scholars
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
George W. Bush administration personnel
Obama administration personnel
Biden administration personnel
United States Department of Homeland Security officials
Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism%20On%20Our%20Own%20Terms | Judaism On Our Own Terms (JOOOT) is a national network of independent Jewish communities on college campuses in the United States. It is affiliated with Open Hillel, and was established in April 2019 motivated by opposition to Hillel International's prohibition on collaboration between campus Hillel chapters and any groups that endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. JOOOT does not take a position on most political topics and does not limit the types of programming member communities can organize. Member communities are self-governed.
History
In 2019, many JOOOT groups held Passover seders as alternatives to the ones offered by Hillel at their schools.
In September 2019, JOOOT held its second national conference. The conference took place at Brown University, with about 80 students attending from 27 different schools.
In December 2020, JOOOT produced a zine for Hanukkah after soliciting contributions from the JOOOT community on social media.
References
External links
Jewish organizations based in the United States
Jewish organizations established in 2019
Progressivism in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Zhang%20%28whistleblower%29 | Sophie Zhang is an American data scientist and whistleblower who formerly worked at the Facebook Site Integrity fake engagement team, created to deal with bot accounts, often controlled by authoritarian governments' entities.
From 2018 to 2020, while investigating those fake engagements, Zhang uncovered abusive political manipulation and opposition harassment networks in 25 countries. She testified that Facebook negligence allowed those authoritarian regimes to manipulate public discourse. Zhang reported that most of these subversive networks use Facebook's organization pages, configured with human names and photographs to mimic human accounts in order to successfully evade Facebook's emerging efforts to counter fake users.
The British newspaper The Guardian dedicated a series, The Facebook Loophole, based on Zhang's resources and accounts, to report on these Facebook-based political manipulations. Following later whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony on Facebook's impact on children, interest toward Zhang's testimony increased with investigation from European and American legislative bodies ongoing.
Career
Sophie Zhang worked at Facebook for two years as a data scientist until September 2020. She was in the "Fake Engagement" team, a sub-division of the "Spam team" assigned to look for abuses of the platform. Zhang investigated “fake engagement” such as inauthentic likes, comments, shares, and reactions. There was no Facebook team dedicated to investigating and rooting out these fake or abusive organization pages.
Unveiled government abuses
She found series of "multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, [which] caused international news on multiple occasions". Most notably, these included:
Honduras, 2018: President Juan Orlando Hernández - From June to July 2018, 78% of Hernández’s Facebook posts received likes that were not from real people, artificially boosting his apparent popular support by a factor of five. The social manager of Hernández's official Facebook pages, for both Hernández and his late sister who had served as communications minister, was directly controlling several hundreds of fake entities. This campaign used Facebook's Organization Pages, configured with human names and photographs, to add support and to lure unaware readers.
Azerbaijan, 2019: Zhang found the ruling party to be using thousands of Organization Pages to harass opposition parties. The network of pages was still active as of June, 2021.
India, USA, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iraq, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and more.
Departure from Facebook
Zhang was fired from Facebook in September 2020. She declined a $64,000 severance package attached to a non-disparagement agreement restricting her ability to s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Horn%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Christopher J. Horn is an Irish academic and businessperson, co-founder and CEO of Ireland's first NASDAQ-listed company, IONA Technologies, once one of the world's top ten software-only companies by revenue. He also led fundraising for, and became founding chairperson of, Dublin's Science Gallery, and later its international spinoff projects. Horn, an electronics engineer and holder of a PhD in computer science, has also written extensively on technology and business innovation, and on privacy, including for The Irish Times. A former president of Engineers Ireland, and later made a Fellow of that body, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin, and a Gold Medal of the Royal Dublin Society. He has been chairperson or member of multiple commercial and voluntary boards, including those of Trinity College Dublin and Science Foundation Ireland.
Early life and education
Christopher J. Horn was born in the UK and his family moved to Bray, County Wicklow when he was very young. He grew up in Blackrock, Dublin, attending the local Newpark Comprehensive School. His first job was as an attendant at the Butlin's Mosney holiday camp north of Dublin.
He took his first degrees in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), graduating with BA and BAI (Engineering) in 1978, with a specialism in electronic engineering. He continued study at Trinity, completing a PhD in Computing and Control Science and Technology in 1983, the thesis for which, entitled Dada - the language and its implementation, was published in 1984.
Career
Academic career
Horn was hired as a junior lecturer at TCD in 1979, working on a new BA moderatorship in Computer Science. After completion of his PhD, he worked for a year as a consultant for Chaco, which later became part of Baltimore Technologies, as a contracted civil servant ("functionary") at the European Commission principal offices in Brussels, dealing with the ESPRIT programme. He then continued as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at TCD, where he worked full-time until 1991.
IONA
In 1981 Horn had visited Stanford University, where he met Andy Bechtolsheim, inventor of the Stanford University Network (SUN) workstation, and Bill Joy, and when they later went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, he began to talk to fellow academics about starting their own venture. Eventually, in 1991, Horn, Sean Baker and Annrai O’Toole, all then academics in the Department of Computer Science at TCD, put in each to found IONA Technologies. The company aimed to produce object-oriented software, specifically seeing a market demand for middleware. IONA received limited support from Trinity College, including an office in a TCD innovation centre on Westland Row. Horn took up the role of CEO, and was also the lead architect for at least one major product. The agreement with Trinity College did allow for Horn and one of his colleagues to work part-time for 2–3 years after launching IONA. The firm's main object-oriented middlewa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pharo is an open source programming language.
Pharo may also refer to:
a German name for Faro, a card game
Pharo Management, a hedge fund established in 2000
Helge Pharo (born 1943), Norwegian historian
Kgakgamotso Pharo (born 1982), Botswana footballer
See also
Pharo House, Middletown, Delaware, United States, a home on the National Register of Historic Places
Palais du Pharo, a palace in Marseille, France
Faro (disambiguation)
Pharos (disambiguation)
Pharaoh (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovon | Sovon (official name: Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland; English name Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology) is the national data management organisation for ornithology in the Netherlands. It coordinates bird monitoring and research at a national level according to standardised scientific criteria, and encourages the participation of as many volunteers as possible in bird monitoring. The association is headquartered in Nijmegen.
History
Sovon was founded in 1973 by three biologists who were at the time involved in research on birds (Luit Buurma, Jan Wattel and Herman Klomp), with the name Stichting Ornithologisch Veldonderzoek Nederland (SOVON). It was modelled on the British example of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) which was founded with similar objectives forty years earlier. The first major SOVON project was the (first) Dutch Breeding Bird Atlas, which was published in 1979.
In 1984 the SOVON foundation became an association, at first as Samenwerkende Organisaties Vogelonderzoek Nederland, but eventually the exact meaning of the acronym SOVON was abandoned. The official name of the association is: Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland (Sovon Bird Research Netherlands).
The most recent Dutch Breeding Bird Atlas (Vogelatlas van Nederland) was published by Sovon in 2019, in cooperation with partner organisations including Vogelbescherming Nederland.
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Organizations established in 1973
Organisations based in the Netherlands
Ornithology in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Crall | Dennis A. Crall (born ) is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who last served as the director for command, control, communications, and computers/cyber and chief information officer of the Joint Staff. He previously was the senior military advisor for cyber policy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
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Place of birth missing (living people)
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United States Marine Corps personnel of the Iraq War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20TransNote | The IBM ThinkPad TransNote is a notebook computer by IBM.
Features
The TransNote consists of a leather-like folio case which contains a computer on one side and a paper notebook on the other side.
The technology is comparable to the CrossPad, which used a similar design as the TransNote.
Specifications
The TransNote comes equipped with:
10.4" TFT FlipTouch display (800x600 resolution)
600MHz Intel Mobile Pentium III
ATi Rage Mobility M 4MB
10GB or 20GB HDD
64MB PC-100 memory standard, 320 MB max
CompactFlash dock
CardBus slot (type 2)
PC Card slot.
Two audio controllers:
Intel AC'97 Audio with a CS4297A codec
Crystal Semiconductor CS4281
MiniPCI slot with one of the following:
3Com 10/100 Ethernet Mini-PCI Adapter with 56K Modem
Xircom 10/100 EtherJet Mini PCI Adapter with 56K Modem
ThinkScribe digital notepad
The battery pack uses flat Samsung 103450 cells.
Reception
Computerworld called it a "failed design" because it tried to blend a large 3M digitized pad with a tiny underpowered laptop in the same product. PCQuest viewed it as an attractive choice for people who travel a lot. TechRepublic called it one of the 25 "unique and bizarre breakthroughs" in laptop innovation.
Awards
The TransNote won a Gold iF Product Design Award in 2002 in the product discipline. The TransNote was the winner in the PC category of the PC Magazine Awards for Technical Excellence in 2001.
Further developments
IBM announced the discontinuation of the TransNote in February 2002, intending to discontinue it at the end of the year.
References
External links
Laptop.pics
Japanese TransNote brochure
IBM Hardware Maintenance Manual
IBM laptops
ThinkPad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20S.%20Jensen | Christian S. Jensen (born 1963) is a Danish computer scientist who is a professor at Aalborg University.
Jensen's research focuses on temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal, geo-textual, and multidimensional data; data management, analytics, machine learning; data models, query languages, database design, query and update processing and optimization, and indexing.
Education
Jensen obtained his bachelor's degrees in mathematics (1985) and computer science (1986) and a master's degree in computer science (1988) at Aalborg University. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maryland (USA) and defended it at Aalborg in 1991. In 2000, he obtained the Danish Dr. Techn. degree from Aalborg .
Career
Jensen has been a visiting scholar (1991–1992), visiting associate professor (1994–1995), and visiting professor (1999) at the University of Arizona. He has also been a visiting scientist at Google in Mountain View, California (2008–2009). From 2001 to 2011, he was Professor II at University of Agder in Norway; and from 2010 to 2013, he was professor at Aarhus University.
Jensen was a distinguished visiting professor at Sa Shixuan International Research Center for Big Data Management and Analytics, Renmin University of China (2012–2017) and honorary professor at Renmin (2013–2016) and Cardiff University, Department of Computer Science (2001–2006).
Jensen is an ACM Fellow (2011) and an IEEE Fellow (2008). He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2001-), the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2010-), and Academia Europaea (2013-). Jensen is president of the steering committee of the Swiss National Research Program on Big Data (2015–2021).
In Norway, Jensen chairs the scientific advisory board of NorwAI, the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (2020-); and in Germany, he serves on the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken (2019–2023). Finally, he serves on the board of directors of VILLUM FONDEN (since 2018).
Jensen has been editor-in-chief for The VLDB Journal (2008–2014) and ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2014–2020).
Awards
2022 SIGMOD Contributions Award
The 2019 IEEE TCDE Impact Award
Knight, Order of Dannebrog (Ridder af Dannebrog), appointed by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 2016
The Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2011 (award accompanied by DKK 2,500,000)
Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 (theme: "Mobility and wireless access to the Internet—technologies, new services, and applications;" award accompanied by NOK 250,000)
Director Ib Henriksen's Research Award 2001 (award accompanied by DKK 250,000)
Publications
Christian S. Jensen has published over 500 publications and is cited frequently.
Selected publications
X. Cao, G. Cong, and C. S. Jensen, Efficient Processing of Spatial Group Keyword Queries, in ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 40(2), article 13, 48 pages, June 2015.
X. Cao |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20Hubaux | Jean-Pierre Hubaux is a Swiss-Belgian computer scientist specialised in security and privacy. He is a professor of computer science at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and is the head of the Laboratory for Data Security at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences.
Career
Born in Belgium, Hubaux grew up in Italy. He studied computer science and obtained his Laurea/Dr.-Eng degree in engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. He then joined the French telecom company Alcatel, where he dedicated his work during the following 10 years primarily to switching systems, architecture, and software.
He joined EPFL as an associate professor in 1990 and was made full professor in 1996. Since 1990, he has been the head of what is now known as the Laboratory for Data Security at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication sciences. In visiting positions, he worked at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and at the University of California, Berkeley.
Since 2017, Hubaux has been the founding academic director of the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). The C4DT addresses contemporary trust issues observed on the Internet. It promotes joint research projects, educational programs, and public events, and it comprises 35 EPFL affiliated laboratories and a dozen of external partners.
Hubaux is a co-founder of start-up Tune Insight.
Research
Hubaux's research is currently dedicated to issues of data sharing and protection in personalized healthcare. Formerly, he worked on privacy and security in mobile and pervasive networks, and on inter-personal privacy problems.
His work in data protection in personalized healthcare led to the development of a system able to train and perform inference with neural networks on decentralized data-sets while preserving the privacy of the data and protecting the model. He is coordinating the development of a novel technique for the efficient bootstrapping in fully homomorphic encryption and in advancing this technique for practical implementation. He has also led efforts to show that combining secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption makes partial results of federated learning anonymous in accordance to GDPR. This research, was carried out in the framework of the MedCo and Data Protection for Personalized Health projects.
Previously, Hubaux's research was dedicated to the security and privacy of wireless networks. In the field of mobile ad hoc networks, he developed denial-of-service attacks to assess the impact caused by difficult-to-detect attacks. Furthermore he conducted research in the security and privacy vulnerabilities of vehicular ad hoc networks, in the quantification of location privacy in cellular networks, in the application of game theory to wireless networks in order to anticipate network behavior in case wireless nodes depart from the prescribed protocol, and in the robustness of sensor networks; he also showed how sensor nodes can evade jamming attacks by exploiting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly%20Godwin | Kimberly Godwin is an American television executive. In April 2021, Godwin was named president of ABC News making her the first Black woman to lead a major American broadcast news network.
Education
Godwin graduated from Florida A&M with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Career
Godwin has held newsroom-leadership roles in various cities including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
Godwin joined CBS News in 2007. While with the network, she served as senior broadcast producer of CBS Evening News, executive director for development and diversity, and executive vice president of News.
In April 2021, Godwin was named president of ABC News. She is the first Black woman to lead a major American network's broadcast news division.
Awards
Godwin has won six National News and Documentary Emmy Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the National Association of Black Journalists' Ida B. Wells Award.
References
External links
Living people
Women television executives
American television executives
Florida A&M University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Presidents of ABC News
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
African-American business executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refik%20Anadol | Refik Anadol (born 1985) is a Turkish-American new media artist and designer. His projects consist of data-driven machine learning algorithms that create abstract, dream-like environments. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Early life and education
Anadol was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and video and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bilgi University in Istanbul. After his studies in Turkey, he moved to the United States to attend the Design Media Arts program at the University of California in Los Angeles where he received a second Master of Fine Arts degree. Anadol currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where Refik Anadol Studio and RAS LAB are based. RAS LAB is dedicated to researching and cultivating “new ways to data narratives and artificial intelligence”.
Work
Anadol started his career creating permanent public art commissions such as the Virtual Depictions (2015) project in San Francisco and the Wind of Boston (2017) data painting in South Boston, both of which used digital data.
Other permanent public art installations are Interconnected (2018), a 2,147 square feet of animated art screen at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Virtual Applique at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, or Data Chrystal a large-scale, 3-D printed, A.I. data sculpture installed at the Portland Building in Portland, Oregon.
Further commissions include temporary installations such as the 'Infinity Room' project at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center during the 2015 Istanbul Biennial where he created an immersive environment transforming all surfaces of the room into an abstract infinite moving space. The 'Infinity Room' project was subsequently exhibited at the SXSW in Austin, Texas.
In 2018, Anadol was commissioned to project works onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall, as part of their anniversary celebration, with a 12-minute data sculpture animation named 'WDCH Dreams'. The animation featured an array of digitally abstracted photographs, audio and video recordings found inside concert halls archive.
In 2019, he designed 'Machine Hallucination' an immersive audiovisual installation, on view at Artechouse, a digital art space in New York's Chelsea Market. The project processed datasets of publicly available images of New York City including over 300 million photos, and 113 million other raw data points. In the same year, Anadol created 'Seoul Haemong', a 16-minute projection onto the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) building in Seoul, South Korea by architect Zaha Hadid, celebrating the Korean year-end holiday season.
In 2020, his work was part of the Melbourne's NGV Triennial in Australia. His project "Quantum Memories" consisted of a screen measuring 35 ft by 35 ft.
In 2021, Anadol was commissioned by the Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul to create "Machine Memoirs: Space".
As of 2021, Anadol is on the faculty at the Design Media Arts School at UCLA.
In 2021 he participated in Venice's Archi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikisha%20Jariwala | Nikisha B. Jariwala (born 14 November 1985; , ) is an Indian professor and computer science researcher known for her work in devising a computer model for converting Indian text into Braille. She is a Professor of Computer Science at Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science.
Education and research
Jariwala is a post graduate from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. She completed her masters in computer application at Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application in Bardoli, Gujarat, and her Ph.D. in computer science and information technology at Uka Tarsadia University in Bardoli. Her work on translating Indian regional languages in Braille was supported through a grant from The Gujarat Council on Science and Technology.
Selected publications
Awards
2016: Trend Setter Award by GIS (Gujarat Innovation Society)
References
1985 births
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Academic staff of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
Women educators from Gujarat
21st-century Indian women educators
21st-century Indian educators
Indian women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Archaeology | Wild Archaeology is a Canadian documentary television series, which premiered in 2016 on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. The series profiles various archaeological projects to investigate and recover the ancient history of the indigenous peoples of Canada.
The series received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Factual Program or Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.
References
External links
2016 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian documentary television series
2020s Canadian documentary television series
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network original programming
First Nations television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClinVar | ClinVar is a public archive with free access to reports on the relationships between human variations and phenotypes, with supporting evidence. The database includes germline and somatic variants of any size, type or genomic location. Interpretations are submitted by clinical testing laboratories, research laboratories, locus-specific databases, UniProt, expert panels and practical guidelines.
References
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptojacking | Cryptojacking is the act of exploiting a computer to mine cryptocurrencies, often through websites, against the user's will or while the user is unaware. One notable piece of software used for cryptojacking was Coinhive, which was used in over two-thirds of cryptojacks before its March 2019 shutdown. The cryptocurrencies mined the most often are privacy coins—coins with hidden transaction histories—such as Monero and Zcash.
Like most malicious attacks on the computing public, the motive is profit, but unlike other threats, it is designed to remain completely hidden from the user. Cryptojacking malware can lead to slowdowns and crashes due to straining of computational resources.
Bitcoin mining by personal computers infected with malware is being challenged by dedicated hardware, such as FPGA and ASIC platforms, which are more efficient in terms of power consumption and thus may have lower costs than theft of computing resources.
Notable events
In June 2011, Symantec warned about the possibility that botnets could mine covertly for bitcoins. Malware used the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs built into many modern video cards. Although the average PC with an integrated graphics processor is virtually useless for bitcoin mining, tens of thousands of PCs laden with mining malware could produce some results.
In mid-August 2011, bitcoin mining botnets were detected, and less than three months later, bitcoin mining trojans had infected Mac OS X.
In April 2013, electronic sports organization E-Sports Entertainment was accused of hijacking 14,000 computers to mine bitcoins; the company later settled the case with the State of New Jersey.
German police arrested two people in December 2013 who customized existing botnet software to perform bitcoin mining, which police said had been used to mine at least $950,000 worth of bitcoins.
For four days in December 2013 and January 2014, Yahoo! Europe hosted an ad containing bitcoin mining malware that infected an estimated two million computers using a Java vulnerability.
Another software, called Sefnit, was first detected in mid-2013 and has been bundled with many software packages. Microsoft has been removing the malware through its Microsoft Security Essentials and other security software.
Several reports of employees or students using university or research computers to mine bitcoins have been published. On February 20, 2014, a member of the Harvard community was stripped of his or her access to the university's research computing facilities after setting up a Dogecoin mining operation using a Harvard research network, according to an internal email circulated by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing officials.
Ars Technica reported in January 2018 that YouTube advertisements contained JavaScript code that mined the cryptocurrency Monero.
In 2021, multiple zero-day vulnerabilities were found on Microsoft Exchange servers, allowing remote code execution. These vulnerabilities were e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTA | Sunshine 99.9 (DYTA 99.9 MHz) is an FM station owned by Wave Network and operated by Local Community Outreach Philippines. Its studios and transmitter are located at 2nd Floor, TS Bldg., Villa Ruiz, Brgy. Marasbaras, Tacloban.
References
External links
Sunshine 99.9 FB Page
Sunshine 99.9 Website
Radio stations in Tacloban
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum%20Mrtvol | Muzeum Mrtvol is a 1993 Czech text-based interactive fiction adventure game developed by Vladimír Peníška and Oldřich Křivánek of Computer Experts and published by Vochozka Trading. This genre, known in Czech as "Textovky" were abundant at the beginning of the local video gaming industry, and gradually developed into point and click adventures. The game was released at the same time as another text-based adventure Stíny noci.
References
1993 video games
Adventure games
1990s interactive fiction
Vochozka Trading games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing%20Pilch | Lansing Robert Pilch is a retired United States Air Force major general who last served as the Director of Air and Cyberspace Operations of the Pacific Air Forces, as well as the commander of the Thirteenth Expeditionary Air Force. Previously, he was the Commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Stockton, New Jersey
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals
Military personnel from New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting%20Organizations%20for%20Regional%20Disease%20Surveillance | The Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) is a "regional infectious disease surveillance network that neighboring countries worldwide are organizing to control cross-border outbreaks at their source." In 2012, CORDS was registered as a legal, non-profit international organization in Lyon, France. As of 2021, CORDS was composed of "six regional member networks, working in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe."
Synopsis
CORDS are "distinct from more formal networks in geographic regions designated by the World Health Organization (WHO)... Some of these regional networks existed before the sudden 2003 outbreak of SARS," for example:
the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) (1996),
the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) network (1999), and
the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) (2000)
the Southeastern European Health Network (SEEHN) (2001)
the Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (APEIR) (2006)
the SACIDS Foundation for One Health (SACIDS) of the Southern African Development Community (2008)
the Southeast European Center for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (SECID) (2013)
History
The CORDS grew out of the 1960s-era Organisations de Coordination et de Cooperation pour la lutte contre les Grandes Endemies (OCCGE) which was an African network, reformed in 1987 to add the West African Health Community (WAHC) and give birth to the West African Health Organisation (WAHO).
The PPHSN was formed in 1996 in order to "streamline" members' "disease reporting and response". In 1997, the PPHSN set up PacNet, in order to "share timely information on disease outbreaks" and "to ensure appropriate action was taken in response to public health threats."
In 2000, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network was formalized by the WHO.
In 2001, was formed the Southeastern European Health Network (SEEHN) which grouped the governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
In 2003, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority established the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS).
The growth of the CORDS can be categorised into several overlapping phases:
from 1996 to 2007, the effort was to train and connect people to contain local epidemics
from 2003 to 2009, the effort was aimed to enhance "cross-border and national surveillance systems to address regional threats", including a particular focus of EAIDSNet on zoonotic diseases
from 2006 to at least 2017 the focus was to strengthen "preparedness for pandemics and other public health threats of regional and global scale.
In 2005, the International Health Regulations (IHR) mandated official reporting of certain types of disease outbreaks to WHO.
In 2007, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) used funds from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to convene in B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag%20Sj%C3%B8berg | Dag I.K. Sjøberg (born 24 January 1961) is a Norwegian computer scientist, software engineer, and politician. He is a professor of software engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. From 2001 to 2008 he was Research Director at Simula Research Laboratory and headed the Department of Software Engineering.
Life
Sjøberg took his master's degree in Computer Science (cand.scient.) at the University of Oslo in 1987, and a doctorate (PhD) in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in 1993.
In 1999, Sjøberg established the research group Industrial System Development (ISU) at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. In 2002 Sjøberg was awarded The Simula Researcher of the Year Award by Managing Director Aslak Tveito. Sjøberg has also been Deputy Chair of the Urban Development, Environment and Transport Committee for The Green Party in Nordstrand since 2016.
Publications
D.I.K. Sjøberg, A. Johnsen and J. Solberg. Quantifying the Effect of Using Kanban versus Scrum: A Case Study. IEEE Software, 29(5):47-53, September/October 2012.
D.I.K. Sjøberg. Confronting the Myth of Rapid Obsolescence in Computing Research, Contributed Article, Communications of the ACM 53(9):62-67, 2010.
B.C.D. Anda, D.I.K. Sjøberg and A. Mockus. Variability and Reproducibility in Software Engineering: A Study of four Companies that Developed the same System, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 35(3):407-429, 2009.
D.I.K. Sjøberg, T. Dybå and M. Jørgensen. The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research, In: Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07), side 358-378, IEEE-CS Press, 2007.
E. Arisholm, H.E. Gallis, T. Dybå and D.I.K. Sjøberg. Evaluating Pair Programming with Respect to System Complexity and Programmer Expertise, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 33(2):65-86, 2007.
D.I.K. Sjøberg, J.E. Hannay, O. Hansen, V.B. Kampenes, A. Karahasanovic, N.K. Liborg and A.C. Rekdal. A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 31(9):733-753, 2005.
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Norwegian computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Glasgow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Grandchild%27s%20Guide%20to%20Using%20Grandpa%27s%20Computer | "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" is a humorous poem composed by Gene Ziegler in 1994. It was widely plagiarized on the internet and in print under the title "If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer".
Composition
In 1994, Gene Ziegler, then a professor at Cornell University, faced a calamity when his young grandson and the boy's older brother "significantly rearranged" the resources on his Macintosh computer. He composed "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" in an hour that evening.
Publication history
Ziegler has stated that he wrote the poem for his internet friends and it was disseminated through emails, newsgroups and websites, quickly going viral in several countries. It was first published in NetGuide magazine in March 1995 and in the Seattle Times later that year, and has generated more than a thousand requests to be reproduced.
Early in the poem's history, an unidentified person edited the poem, halving its size, and spread it under the title "If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer" attributed to "Anonymous". Ziegler wrote to numerous webmasters to remove the plagiarized version but soon abandoned this as it was spreading faster than he could hope to deal with it. Instead, he responded with the 26-line poem "Hang the Information Highwayman!" as a general appeal to respect the works of others. The plagiarized version of the poem, erroneously believed to be in the public domain, has been widely reproduced in humour and technical publications, such as the July 1995 issue of Network World.
Ziegler's version has been used by teachers, journalists, and speech therapists, and is often cited in discussions of internet publishing ethics. It was twice set to music – once by a rapper, and once in a Gilbert and Sullivan style by a music teacher – and part of it is recited in the closing credits of Canadian TV show Dotto's Data Café.
References
External links
Poetry index at Gene Ziegler's official website
"A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" at Gene Ziegler's official website
English-language poems
Humorous poems
Works originally published in magazines
1994 poems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Diego%20Cable%20Sports%20Network | San Diego Cable Sports Network was a pay-per-view service offered by Cox Communications. It was established in 1984 to provide telecasts of San Diego Padres games, initially offering 40 games a season. Games could be purchased separately or as a package. In addition to Cox, Sun Cable and American Cable Television also provided the service. The 1993 season would be the Padres last on the San Diego Cable Sports Network, as they would sign a deal with Prime Ticket to appear on a new subfeed of that network in 1994.
References
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1984
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1993
Cox Communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries%20and%20Marine%20Ecosystem%20Model%20Intercomparison%20Project | The Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (Fish-MIP) is a marine biology project to compare computer models of the impact of climate change on sea life. Founded in 2013 as part of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP), it was established to answer questions about the future of marine biodiversity, seafood supply, fisheries, and marine ecosystem functioning in the context of various climate change scenarios. It combines diverse marine ecosystem models from both the global and regional scale through a standardized protocol for ensemble modelling in an attempt to correct for any bias in the individual models that make up the ensemble. Fish-MIP's goal is to use this ensemble modelling to project a more robust picture of the future state of fisheries and marine ecosystems under the impacts of climate change, and ultimately to help inform fishing policy.
Background
Ensemble modelling
Ensemble modelling is combining the outputs of multiple models that are all working on the same question. This allows researchers to analyze the different vulnerabilities of each individual model, and weigh the impact of particular inputs. Aggregating all the outputs and then using the outputs with the highest frequency across the models minimizes the error in the projection.
Fish-MIP
Ensemble modelling is generally difficult because of the variety of possible inputs and outputs, which makes it challenging to run different models on the same data and compare results. The Fish-MIP protocols standardize input variables, as well as the names of files and data stores. The inputs are collected from simplified fishing scenarios, models of the climate and how much greenhouse gas will be in the atmosphere. These standardized inputs and scenarios can then be used to drive multiple ecosystem models, and the outputs are then combined through an ensemble modelling approach. The Fish-MIP standardizing protocol allow for these diverse inputs to be collated, thus minimizing projection error.
Some of the models used:
Global
Apex Predators ECOSystem Model (ApeCOSM)
BiOeconomic mArine Trophic Size-spectrum (BOATS)
Regional
Atlantis
Ecopath
OSMOSE
Use in studies
Although at an earlier stage than the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, as of 2021 studies suggest that larger fish species and the tropics are most affected by climate change.
Gómara et al. (2019) used it to predict tropical Pacific fisheries
du Pontavice et al. (2021) used it to examine the impacts of climate on predators and ecosystems
Bryndum-Buchholz et al. (2018) examined the impacts of climate change on animal biomass and ecosystem structure
Bryndum-Buchholz et al. (2020) used the model outputs to investigate the relationship between North Atlantic fisheries and climate change impacts
Boyce et al. 2020 used the modelling outputs to examine socioeconomic gaps that would result from climate induced biomass losses amongst fisheries
Lotze et al. al. 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20T%2C%20Lone%20Star%20Vet | Dr. T, Lone Star Vet is an American television series on the Nat Geo Wild network. It premiered on October 13, 2019, and follows Lauren Thielen, the titular Dr. T, and the veterinarians and staff of the Texas Avian & Exotic Animal Hospital located in Grapevine, Texas.
The show's Dr. T was previously featured on the Nat Geo Wild show titled Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER, before leaving to open her own clinic in her home state.
Cast
Source:
Veterinarians
Dr. Lauren Thielen, Diplomate ABVP (Avian Practice) ("Dr. T.")
Dr. Caeley Melmed, D.V.M., Internal Medicine
Dr. Bruce Nixon, D.V.M., Practice Manager
Dr. Georgia Altom, D.V.M., Emergency Veterinarian
Dr. Tannetjė Crocker, Emergency Veterinarian
Dr. Alyssa Freeman, D.V.M., Emergency Veterinarian
Dr. Megan Turner, D.V.M., Chief of Medicine
Dr. Debra Nossaman, D.V.M., FAVD, DAVDC, Veterinary Dentist
Dr. Quentin Brands, D.V.M., Emergency Veterinarian
Dr. Nick Di Girolamo, D.V.M.
Dr. Libby Ramirez, D.V.M., Chief of Operations
Dr. Katherine Wells, D.V.M., Veterinary Surgeon
Dr. Jacqueline Gimmler, D.V.M., Veterinary Dermatologist
Veterinary staff
Maryanne Farmer, Lead Veterinary Technician
Tonya Green, Veterinary Technician
Hollie Hibbard, LVT, Veterinary Dentistry Technician
Courtney Mixon, Veterinary Technician
Narrator
Chris Payne Gilbert
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
References
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
Nature educational television series
2019 American television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20NCAA%20Men%27s%20Gymnastics%20Championship | The 2021 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships were held from April 16-17, 2021 at the Maturi Pavilion in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both of the qualifying sessions were broadcast live on Big Ten Network+, while the championship finals were televised live on Big Ten Network.
National qualifier sessions
Session 1
The first national qualifier session of the 2021 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships took place on April 16, 2021 at 2 PM. The following teams competed in Session 1.
No. 1 Oklahoma
No, 4 Nebraska
No. 5 Ohio State
No. 8 Illinois
No. 9 Navy
No. 12 William & Mary
Session 2
The second national qualifier session of the 2021 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships took place on April 16, 2021 at 8 PM. The following teams competed in Session 2.
No. 2 Michigan
No. 3 Stanford
No. 6 Penn State
No. 7 Iowa
No. 10 Minnesota
No. 11 California
NCAA Championship
The top three teams from each session advanced to the National Championship, which were televised live on the Big Ten Network on April 17 at 8 PM.
Standings
National Champion: Stanford – 414.521
2nd Place: Oklahoma – 411.591
3rd Place: Michigan – 410.358
Individual event finals
The top-three all-around competitors and top-three individuals on each event who are not members of one of the qualifying teams advanced from each pre-qualifying session to the finals session to compete for individual titles. Finals competition took place on April 17.
Medalists
References
NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship
2021 in American sports
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship
Sports competitions in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Training%20Network | Radio Training Network, Inc. is an American non-profit broadcasting organization that operates several networks of Christian radio-formatted stations, mostly in the Southeast. The network's footprint includes stations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina. The network is based in Port Richey, Florida. Some stations are programmed as "The JOY FM" and several are known as "His Radio."
History
In May 1976, Jim and Ruth Campbell took over the management and programming of WCIE 91.3 FM, a non-commercial station in Lakeland, Florida, which was owned by the Evangel Christian School. The station quickly became a financial success, raising more than enough listener support to keep it on the air. (The station later moved to 91.1 MHz and is now WKES, owned by the Moody Bible Institute.)
The ministry expanded outside of Lakeland with the construction of its second and third stations, WLFJ-FM in Greenville, South Carolina, and WJIS in Bradenton, Florida, which began in 1983 and 1986. Radio Training Network was formed in 1989 to purchase these stations from the Evangel Christian School amidst strife within the involved church, with the aid of Bill Watkins, who underwrote the transaction.
The 1990s saw several new stations join RTN. In 1991, RTN acquired the former WSRX of Fort Myers, and relaunched it as WJYO. However, the Fort Myers station was sold two years later to Toccoa Falls College. It was essentially traded for a frequency held by the college in Belvedere, near Augusta, Georgia.
A return to the Tampa Bay area was foreshadowed in 1995 with the purchase of WLPJ in New Port Richey. That station is now known as WCIE and considered the company flagship. In the 2010s, RTN acquisitions included an upgrade from a translator to a full-power station in the Columbia, South Carolina area; a station in Gainesville, Florida; and a lease agreement that allowed RTN to enter the Jacksonville market.
In 1995, RTN made its first expansion outside of the Southeast when it purchased and relaunched KWND "The Wind" in Springfield, Missouri. The network would double its holdings in the market when it acquired KWFC (89.1 FM) in 2014.
RTN has expanded in several of its longtime markets with the addition of further Christian formats beyond Christian adult contemporary. In 2019, the former WTOB-FM in the Greenville area was purchased and became WSHP-FM "His Radio Praise", airing contemporary worship music.
RTN entered Orlando on April 19, 2021, with the launch of The JOY FM on WNUE-FM 98.1, which the organization concurrently filed to buy from Entravision Communications for $4 million. The next month, RTN reached a deal to purchase stations serving Tallahassee (WTSM) and Port St. Lucie (WHLG) from Horizon Broadcasting Company for $1.3 million.
Stations
RTN groups its stations by region. For more information on the relevant stations, see the main article page and the supplemental pages for applicable individual stations.
The JOY FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ninjago%20characters | The following is a list of fictional characters from the Danish-Canadian computer-animated television series Ninjago and its sequel, which were produced by The Lego Group. The series features a large ensemble cast of recurring characters. The list includes the main protagonists, major and minor villains and other supporting characters that have appeared within the Ninjago universe. The list is mainly organised into groups of fictional beings based on the chronological order of season release.
Ninjago focuses on a group of six teenage ninja, named Lloyd Garmadon, Kai, Cole, Jay, Zane and Nya, and their wise sensei, Master Wu. The ninja team's purpose is to battle against the forces of evil, including Wu's brother, Lord Garmadon. The series is mainly set on Ninjago Island, centred around the large metropolis of Ninjago City, which is inhabited by a large cast of supporting characters and villains, such as Nindroid armies and ghosts. The series was created to coincide with the Lego Ninjago line of construction toys, which is based on the characters and events of the series. It was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen, two Danish film producers.
Main
Lloyd Garmadon
Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon (voiced by Jillian Michaels in Seasons 1–7 and Sam Vincent in Seasons 8-Crystalized) is the Green Ninja and Elemental Master of Energy, which grants him the ability to manipulate energy. He is the current leader of the ninja, son of Garmadon and Misako, nephew of Master Wu and the grandson of the First Spinjitzu Master. He frequently wields either a katana or dual katanas. Lloyd makes his debut in the first season as a mischievous child wanting to be an evil warlord like his father, which results in childish schemes that are foiled by the original four ninja. Lloyd is reformed by the ninja and Master Wu, before discovering his destiny as the prophesied Green Ninja. While initially mischievous and naive, Lloyd is tempered by experience over the course of the series to become a mature, wise and skilled ninja. Although he is depicted as the youngest member of the team, Lloyd's character has been developed to be its natural leader.
Kai
Kai (voiced by Vincent Tong) is the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire. Like Lloyd, he frequently wields either a katana or dual katanas. His elemental power grants him limited pyrokinesis and heat resistance. Kai is fiercely loyal to his friends and family, often willing to do anything to ensure their safety. He often acts on emotion instead of reason, causing him to be hotheaded, cocky, and rash. He also has a strong sense of responsibility towards his friends. Kai is the older brother of Nya and son of Ray and Maya. His love interest is Skylor Chen.
Jay Walker
Jay Walker (born Jay Gordon) (voiced by Michael Adamthwaite) is the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning. He frequently wields nunchucks and more recently, a kusarigama. His elemental power grants him limited electricity manipulation. He is also a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov%20Chess | Kasparov Chess is a commercial internet chess server, internet forum and social networking website. The former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is affiliated with this online chess club.
Early history
KasparovChess.com domain was first used to launch Garry Kasparov's chess website in early 2000. To commemorate its opening, Kasparov played a simul with around 30 junior players from around the world, many of them online on his own chess server in 2000. Later, KasparovChess.com hosted a tournament of junior players. Sometime after, the site became inactive, until this domain was used again in 2021.
Financing
Kasparov Chess is financed by private investors and Vivendi, through its subsidiary Keysquare, a media conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France. In October 2019, Keysquare was allocated a capital investment of €3.5 million Euros from Vivendi to start the project.
Kasparov Chess has a freemium business model with a free option for some chess content coupled with a premium option charge of $13.99 monthly or $119.99 for a yearly subscription for all the available chess content.
Chess content
Kasparov Chess offers chess puzzles, online chess, tutorials, articles, documentaries, podcasts and a chess masterclass taught by Kasparov; however, some of these features are only available to members with a paid subscription. At the launch of the company in April 2021, there will be available 50,000 exercises, 700 lessons and 400 hours of videos.
Competition
In order to establish itself as a mainstream chess platform and a profit-making venture, Kasparov Chess will have to compete against many well-established Internet chess servers. These include entirely free online chess servers, such as Lichess and Free Internet Chess Server, and the several commercial chess communities including Chess.com, Chess24, FIDE Online Arena, Internet Chess Club and Playchess offering similar freemium subscriptions for chess content as Kasparov Chess.
In 1999, Garry Kasparov and Israeli investors attempted to establish a commercial online chess club called Kasparov Chess Online that never reached a profitable status and became defunct in 2002.
See also
List of Internet chess servers
External links
Kasparov Chess - Homepage
References
2021 establishments in France
2021 in chess
French social networking websites
Android (operating system) software
Chess databases
Chess in France
Garry Kasparov
Internet chess servers
Internet properties established in 2021
iOS games
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Online video game services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20Game%20Reviews | Clint Basinger (born December 20, 1986), better known as LGR (originally an initialism of Lazy Game Reviews), is an American YouTuber who focuses on video game reviews, retrocomputing, and unboxing videos. His YouTube channel of the same name has been compared to Techmoan and The 8-Bit Guy. Basinger is known for building, restoring and reviewing many vintage computers (including the Hot Wheels PC) and reviewing mainly PC games. The channel is funded through YouTube advertising, and through Patreon.
Output
His video series include LGR Thrifts, Tech Tales, and Oddware. In LGR Thrifts, Basinger visits thrift stores around his area (mainly Goodwill stores), where he purchases used games, computers or any other product that has his interest.
In July 2016, on the 7th year anniversary of the channel, Basinger built an I486 based computer he named the "Woodgrain 486", mainly to run early to mid 90s DOS games on it for review purposes. The computer had many modifications over the years.
In July 2018, Basinger rebuilt his Windows 98 computer with different parts, which he named it the "Lazy Green Giant" since he repainted its case to green. However in January 2020, he decided to replace the original case with a Lian Li case, among other upgrades and modifications, he named it the "Megaluminum Monster".
For many years, one of the most popular and prominent series on LGR was reviews of games and downloadable content (DLC) from The Sims franchise, beginning with a "Quick Review" of The Sims 3 in 2009. In total, the LGR channel features over a hundred videos on the franchise, mostly involving reviews, but also "LGR Plays" let's-play videos. In 2021, reviews of new DLC for The Sims 4 was halted on the channel, however in August 2022, a review of new DLC for The Sims 4 was released.
Basinger had also made LGR Foods, a channel dedicated to him making various types of sandwiches, hamburgers and noodles.
References
External links
1986 births
Gaming-related YouTube channels
YouTube channels launched in 2006
Gaming YouTubers
YouTube critics and reviewers
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Technology YouTubers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina%20Gruber | Malvina Gruber, née Hofstadterova (born 6 December 1900 in Jamborkretz, Czechoslovakia) was a Jewish Comintern agent, who was part of a Soviet intelligence network in Belgium and France, that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle") by the Abwehr, during Nazi regime. Gruber worked as a cutout, but her specialism was couriering people across borders. From 1938 to 1942, Gruber worked as assistant to Soviet agent Abraham Rajchmann, a forger, who provided identity papers, e.g. the Kennkarte, Carte d'identité and travel permits, for the espionage group. At the beginning of 1942, she was arrested in Brussels by the Abwehr.
Life
Malvina Gruber, née Hofstadjerova, was married to the Czech-Hungarian Adolphe Gruber and had six children. Her husband Adolphe had been a businessman in Czechoslovakia but fled to Britain as a Jewish refugee in 1939 via Belgium.
World War II
Trepper group
In 1939, Gruber was recruited by Leopold Trepper who was the leader of a Soviet espionage group in Europe.
In May 1940, after the occupation of Belgium, Gruber worked as a courier between Leopold Trepper in Paris and Rajchmann in Brussels. In July 1941, Gruber escorted Soviet agent and secret writing specialist Anton Danilov from France to Belgium where he became part of the espionage network run by Anatoly Gurevich. In October 1941, she escorted Ann-Marie Van Der Putt, from Brussels to Paris to work for Trepper. Van Der Putt had been trained by Gurevich in enciphering/deciphering procedures. On the way back, Gruber escorted Sophia Poznańska back to Brussels. In 1941, Gruber escorted Greta Barcza,the wife of Gurevich and her son to Paris. According to Gruber, during the period 1941-1942, she crossed the Swiss border ninety-eight times.
Arrest
Rajchmann was arrested by Abwehr officer, Harry Piepe, on the 2 September 1942. Rajchmann also decided to cooperate with the Abwehr resulting in his betrayal of his mistress, who was arrested in Paris on the 12 October 1942 at the Cafe de la Paix. Gruber immediately decided to cooperate with the Abwehr, in an attempt to avoid intensified interrogation, i.e. torture. Together with Rajchmann, she enthusiastically collaborated in betraying several agents in the network both in Brussels and later in Paris, that surprised German officials. She admitted the existence of a Soviet agent Anatoly Gurevich and his probable location, as well as exposing several members of the Trepper espionage network in France.
As a member of the Red Orchestra, it would have been expected that she and Rajchmann would have been executed. However, the fact that she survived was not due to their service to the Sonderkommando, but due to a Gestapo officer, Rudolf Radke, who became friendly with Gruber, saving Gruber from death on the pretext that the investigation was not completed.
After being released, Gruber was allowed to return to Brussels.
After World War II
After the war, Gruber was deported by Belgian authorities and she left to move to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaushik%20Roy | Kaushik Roy is a researcher and educator in the area of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy is the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC).
Education
Roy earned his B.Tech. degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the IIT, Kharagpur India in 1983. He earned his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Jacob Abraham in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990.
Career
From 1990-1993, Roy was a member of the technical staff in the Semiconductor Process and Design Center at Texas Instruments in Texas. He joined Purdue University in the College of Engineering in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering on the West Lafayette campus in Indiana. In 1997, he was promoted to associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2001 and was named the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 2012, he was named the Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor.
He has supervised 100 Ph.D. dissertations and co-authored two books on Low Power CMOS VLSI Design (John Wiley & McGraw Hill).
As of April 2021, Roy had 20 patents and more than 800 publications in books, journals and conferences that have been cited more than 59,000 times.
Honors and awards
His research was recognized with the Purdue University Arden L. Bement Jr. Award for significant accomplishments in pure and applied science and engineering.
References
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Purdue University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Electrical engineering academics
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Texas Instruments people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBD%20algorithm | The KBD algorithm is a cluster update algorithm designed for the fully frustrated Ising model in two dimensions, or more generally any two dimensional spin glass with frustrated plaquettes arranged in a checkered pattern. It is discovered in 1990 by Daniel Kandel, Radel Ben-Av, and Eytan Domany, and generalized by P. D. Coddington and L. Han in 1994. It is the inspiration for cluster algorithms used in quantum monte carlo simulations.
Motivation
The SW algorithm is the first non-local algorithm designed for efficient simulation of ferromagnetic spin models. However, it is soon realized that the efficiency of the algorithm cannot be extended to frustrated systems, due to an overly large correlation length of the generated clusters with respect to the underlying spin system. The KBD algorithm is an attempt to extend the bond-formation rule to the plaquettes of the lattice, such that the generated clusters are informed by the frustration profile, resulting in them being smaller than the SW ones, thereby making the algorithm more efficient in comparison. However, at the current stage, it is not known whether this algorithm can be generalized for arbitrary spin glass models.
Algorithm
We begin by decomposing the square lattice down into plaquettes arranged in a checkered pattern (such that the plaquettes only overlap vertex-wise but not edge-wise). Since the spin model is fully-frustrated, each plaquette must contain exactly one or three negative interactions. If the plaquette contains three negative interactions, then no bonds can be formed. However, if the plaquette contains one negative interaction, then two parallel bonds can be formed (perpendicular to the negative edge) with probability , where is the inverse temperature of the spin model.
The bonds will then form clusters on the lattice, on which the spins can be collectively flipped (either with the SW rule or the Wolff rule ). It can be shown that the update satisfies detailed balance, meaning that correctness is guaranteed if the algorithm is used in conjunction with ergodic algorithms like single spin-flip updates.
Topological features
At zero temperature, or the limit, all the plaquettes will contain exactly one negative edge. In this case, on each checkered plaquette, the KBD algorithm will always open two parallel bonds perpendicular to the negative edge, meaning that the bond will be closed on the negative edge along with the edge opposite to it. If we were to track the closed bonds in the dual lattice, by drawing a straight/bent line inside each plaquette such that it intersects with the closed bonds, then it can be shown that a path following the lines must form a cycle.
Furthermore, it can be shown that there must be at least two such cycles, and that the cycles cannot intersect. Most importantly, each cycle cannot be contracted to a point in the underlying surface that the lattice is embedded in. On a periodic lattice (or a torus), this means that the cycles of closed bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 48th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honored the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2020. It took place on June 25, 2021, as a remotely-produced special due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actress and television host Sheryl Underwood hosted the ceremony for the fifth consecutive time, though this was her first time hosting solo.
Ceremony information
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced in December 2020 that they plan to have the Daytime Emmy Awards remain virtually for a second consecutive year due to uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April 2021, CBS signed a two-year deal to televise the Daytime Emmys, also allowing the ceremonies to be streamed on Paramount+ both in 2021 and 2022.
Winners and nominees
The standard nominations were announced on May 25, 2021. Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.
Programming
Acting
Hosting
Directing/Writing
References
048
2021 in American television
2021 television awards
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
June 2021 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Emmy%20Awards | 2021 Emmy Awards may refer to:
42nd Sports Emmy Awards, held on June 8, 2021, honoring sports programming.
48th Daytime Emmy Awards, held on June 25, 2021, honoring daytime programming.
73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 19, 2021, honoring primetime programming.
42nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards, held on September 28–29, 2021, honoring news and documentary programming
49th International Emmy Awards, held on November 22, 2021, honoring international programming.
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica%20cluster%20move | Replica cluster move in condensed matter physics refers to a family of non-local cluster algorithms used to simulate spin glasses. It is an extension of the Swendsen-Wang algorithm in that it generates non-trivial spin clusters informed by the interaction states on two (or more) replicas instead of just one. It is different from the replica exchange method (or parallel tempering), as it performs a non-local update on a fraction of the sites between the two replicas at the same temperature, while parallel tempering directly exchanges all the spins between two replicas at different temperature. However, the two are often used alongside to achieve state-of-the-art efficiency in simulating spin-glass models.
The Chayes-Matcha-Redner representation
The Chayes-Matcha-Redner (CMR) representation is a graphical representation of the Ising spin glass which extends the standard FK representation. It is based on the observation that the total Hamiltonian of two independent Ising replicas α and β,
can be written as the Hamiltonian of a 4-state clock model. To see this, we define the following mapping
where is the orientation of the 4-state clock, then the total Hamiltonian can be represented as
In the graphical representation of this model, there are two types of bonds that can be open, referred to as blue and red. To generate the bonds on the lattice, the following rules are imposed:
If , or when the interactions on edge are satisfied on both replicas, then a blue bond is open with probability .
If , or when the interaction on edge is satisfied in exactly one replica, then a red bond is open with probability .
Otherwise, a closed bond is formed.
Under these rules, it can be checked that a cycle of open bonds can only contain an even number of red bonds. A cluster formed with blue bonds is referred to as a blue cluster, and a super-cluster formed together with both blue and red bonds is referred to as a grey cluster.
Once the clusters are generated, there are two types of non-local updates that can be made to the clock states independently in the clock clusters (and thus the spin states in both replicas). First, for every blue cluster, we can flip (or rotate ) the clock states with some arbitrary probability. Following this, for every grey cluster (blue clusters connected with red bonds), we can rotate all the clock states simultaneously by a random angle.
It can be shown that both updates are consistent with the bond-formation rules, and satisfy detailed balance. Therefore, an algorithm based on this CMR representation will be correct when used in conjunction with other ergodic algorithms. However, the algorithm is not necessarily efficient, as a giant grey cluster will tend to span the entire lattice at sufficiently low temperatures (e.g. even at paramagnetic phases of spin-glass models).
Houdayer cluster move
The Houdayer cluster move is a simpler cluster algorithm based on a site percolation process on sites with negative spin overlaps. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD%20terminology | This is a glossary of terms common in multi-user dungeon (MUD) multiplayer virtual worlds.
A–Z
See also
Glossary of video game terms
References
Bibliography
Computing terminology
Video game terminology
Video game lists
Glossaries of computers
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG%20Cyberster | The MG Cyberster is a battery electric roadster produced by SAIC Motor under the MG marque since 2023. It was previewed as a concept car with the same name 2021.
Overview
Concept car
The MG Cyberster concept car was unveiled in pictures on 30 March 2021 and then presented at the Auto Shanghai on 19 April. It was to be presented in 2020, but following the COVID-19 pandemic its presentation was postponed.
The Cyberster receives rear lights incorporating the United Kingdom flag (Union Jack) and interactive "Magic Eye" headlights that would pop up when turned on. It is electrically powered and has a range of .
The MG Cyberster is a "gaming style" EV concept that is inspired by the legendary MGB Roadster of the 60s. The Cyberster concept was first shown at the Shanghai Auto Show in 2021. It was unveiled at the 38th Motor Expo in December 2021.
Production model
A pre-production version of the production car was revealed to UK press in April 2023 showing the popup headlights have been dropped and showing the scissor doors. MG also released a video interview with Carl Gotham, Advanced Design Director at SAIC Motor UK discussing the design philosophy of the car.
The red right-hand drive pre-production car and a red left-hand drive model (also pre-production but with slight differences such as the door handles), made the car's world public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 13-16 July 2023, including runs up the hill.
Photographs of the production interior were released by MG in China in July 2023. Specifications were detailed in August 2023. The Cyberster is based on the Modular Scalable Platform, with two powertrain options. The most powerful version adopts a dual-motor all-wheel drive setup, producing and of torque. It is equipped with a 77 kWh battery with a CLTC-rated range of . MG claimed a figure of 3.2 seconds. A lighter rear-wheel drive version will be offered with a smaller 64 kWh battery and power output.
The Cyberster will be equipped with Bose-branded speakers and an infotainment system powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip and Unreal Engine 4.0 graphics engine.
References
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Cars introduced in 2023
Electric sports cars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20Speedway | Turbo Speedway is a 1995 Czech racing video game developed by World Spy Software and published by Space Interactive for DOS compatible operating systems.
It bears no relation to the 1994 German racing game of the same name.
The game, a remake of the 1983 title Rally Speedway was sold for CZK 300. It was the first Czech racing game, and one of two games published by Space Interactive in 1996, along with Oil Empire by 88 Panzer Division. The game made a marginal profit.
The Hrej! newspaper wrote that Turbo Speedway was "one of the most daring [games] that has ever hit stores from Czech production". Score's Petr Slunéčko wrote the game was "characterized by its ugliness and lifelessness" and offered a scathing rating of 1/10.
iDNES commented that the game's only value from a modern perspective is that it illustrates the "spartan conditions in which the development of games took place in our country at that time".
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Europe-exclusive video games
Racing video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodus%20Domini | Nodus Domini was a planned Czech video game by Cybernetic Cinema, in development from 1996 to 1997.
References
Video games developed in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Masters%20of%20Spinjitzu%20%28pilot%20episodes%29 | The pilot episodes (also known as the pilot season) are the first installments of the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu computer-animated television series (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was co-created by Tommy Andreasen. It focuses on the adventures of four teenage ninja who live in the fictional world of Ninjago and fight against the forces of evil.
In the United States, the two pilot episodes of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, later split into four episodes in total, were shown on Cartoon Network on January 14, 2011. They were released in Europe on January 24, 2011. Following the popularity of the pilot episodes, the first season titled Rise of the Snakes was launched from December 2011 to April 2012. The pilot episodes were released on DVD in March 2011, and the first season became available on DVD in Region 1 on June 26, 2012. Each pilot episode has a runtime of 11 minutes, totalling 22 minutes when combined into two episodes. The 22-minute format remained consistent throughout the series until the release of the eleventh season titled Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu, when it was reduced to 11 minutes.
The pilot episodes introduce five of the show's six main teenage ninja characters named Kai, Cole, Jay, Zane and Nya and their wise master, Sensei Wu that would remain the central characters of the series. The storyline focuses on the ninja team's efforts to stop the villainous Lord Garmadon from obtaining the four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu.
Voice cast
Main
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Mark Oliver as Lord Garmadon, the main antagonist of the pilot episodes
Recurring
Michael Kopsa as Samukai, the Skulkin leader
Brian Drummond as Nuckal and Kruncha
Production
Development
The pilot episodes were released after two years of planning following a concept drawing by co-creator Tommy Andreasen that featured five elemental ninjas. Within the first year of development, further concept art was created that depicted the Skulkin and Lord Garmadon as the main antagonists. The concept work also included the idea of a fictional martial art that was initially called "Spinjago" and later renamed as "Spinjitzu". Brothers Dan and Kevin Hageman developed the storyline as a serialised drama set within a fantasy world that would be similar to "one giant movie or a miniseries". The pilot episodes introduce skeletons as the main antagonists, which was the result of extensive research with children conducted by The Lego Group during the development of the Lego Ninjago brand. Skeletons were chosen as the preferred option, as the children considered them to be "real" fantasy villains.
Animat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Legacy%20of%20the%20Green%20Ninja | Legacy of the Green Ninja is the second season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 18 July to 21 November 2012, following the first season titled Rise of the Snakes. It is succeeded by the third season, titled Rebooted.
The second season was originally intended as the final season of the series. The show and its associated Lego Ninjago product line had been planned as a three-year project. However, due to the strong performance of the television series and the product line combined with positive feedback from online forums, the series was continued past the end of 2013.
Legacy of the Green Ninja follows the storyline of the ninja training their new team member Lloyd Garmadon in order to prepare for a prophesied battle. Lord Garmadon returns as an antagonist whose devious plans result in Lloyd being magically aged up to a teenager. The season also introduces Lloyd's mother Misako for the first time. It also reveals the Overlord as the main season antagonist and culminates in the final battle.
Voice cast
Main
Jillian Michaels as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Mark Oliver as Lord Garmadon
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Scott McNeil as the Overlord/Dragon Overlord
Supporting
Alan Marriott as Captain Soto
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Paul Dobson as General Kozu
Colin Murdock as Ed
Jillian Michaels as Edna
Kirby Morrow as Lou
Mark Oliver as Dr. Julien
Ian James Corlett as Skales
Brian Drummond as Nuckal/Kruncha
Andrew Francis as Lloyd (Older)
Michael Kopsa as Samukai
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Mackenzie Gray as Fangpyre General/Museum Curator/Mystake
John Novak as Constrictai General
Paul Dobson as Venomari General/Mother Doomsday/Garmatron
Cathy Weseluck as Patty Keys
Kathleen Barr as Brad
Production
Direction
The Legacy of the Green Ninja episodes were directed by Martin Skov, Michael Helmuth Hansen, Peter Hausner, Trylle Vilstrup and Thomas Østergaard Poulsen.
Animation
The animation for the second season was produced at Wil Film ApS in Denmark.
Release
The first episode of the season titled Darkness Shall Rise was released on 18 July 2012 on Cartoon Network. The subsequent episodes were released in July, August, October and November 2012. The season finale titled Rise of the Spinjitzu Master was released on 21 November 2012.
Plot
The ninja begin training Lloyd so that he can face his father in battle. Meanwhile, Garmadon recruits the Serpentine, rebuilds the Destiny's Bounty as the Black Bounty a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Palm%20Top%20PC%20110 | The Palm Top PC 110 is a handheld personal computer that was developed jointly by IBM's Japanese subsidiary and Ricoh. It was released exclusively in Japan in September 1995. It used the Intel 80486SX microprocessor and was available in three different configurations. It used a Japanese keyboard, could be used in a docking station, and had a modem connection. During the development phase, the size was decreased. After the release, it was received positively for the number of features, but negatively for the small keyboard.
Specifications
The Palm Top PC 110 measured . Despite the chassis being constructed out of duralumin, the PC 110 weighed with the battery inserted. Unlike other handheld PCs in its range, the battery of the PC 110 was a standard 7.2 V lithium-ion pack (NP500 series) commonly used by Video8 camcorders manufactured by companies such as Sony and Panasonic. The 89-key keyboard was laid out in the JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) format for the Japanese market. Above it is a small digitizer that allows the user to make handwritten notes on the computer with a stylus or ballpoint pen. On both sides of the digitizer are mouse buttons for left- and right-clicking. IBM provided only one TrackPoint pointing stick, however, on the left side.
Two PC Card slots, both Type I and II—the two could be combined into one Type III slot for cards occupying both slots—were put on the main unit. IBM offered an expansion dock that added the standard suite of ports for the time, including those for keyboard, mouse, parallel and serial. As the PC 110 lacks an internal 3.5-in floppy disk drive, IBM offered an external drive; however, this drive could only be inserted into the optional expansion dock.
The PC 110 ran on the Intel 486SX which was based on the i486 that was released in 1989, with a clock speed of 33 MHz. The dual-scan passive-matrix LCD measured 4.7 inch (11.9 cm) diagonally with a resolution of 640 × 480 and was capable of displaying 256 colors. The Chips and Technologies 65535 display controller supported a resolution of 800 × 600 with 16 colors when supplied an external monitor. In lieu of a traditional hard disk drive, the PC 110 contained 4 MB of flash memory, preinstalled with the Japanese version of PC DOS 7.0 and Personaware, a basic graphical operating system developed by IBM Japan exclusively for the PC 110. In addition to this internal flash chip, the PC 110 included one Compact Flash card slot for external storage.
IBM offered the PC 110 in three configurations. The first and least expensive configuration supplied 4 MB of RAM, while the last two doubled that amount. The last and most expensive configuration supplied a 260 MB hard drive with a Type III PC Card header that occupied both PC Card slots in the unit. Manufactured by Integral Peripherals, this hard drive initially came preinstalled with the Japanese version of Windows 3.1; IBM later configured it with Windows 95.
The PC 110 came equipped with a speaker and mic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience%20fragmentation | Audience fragmentation describes the extent to which audiences are distributed across media offerings. Traditional outlets, such as broadcast networks, have long feared that technological and regulatory changes would increase competition and erode their audiences. Social scientists have been concerned about the loss of a common cultural forum and rise of extremist media. Hence, many representations of fragmentation have focused on media outlets as the unit of analysis and reported the status of their audiences. But fragmentation can also be conceptualized at the level of individuals and audiences, revealing different features of the phenomenon. Webster and Ksiazek have argued there are three types of fragmentation: media-centric, user-centric, and audience-centric
Media-centric fragmentation
The diffusion of audiences across outlets has been most pronounced in electronic media. Initially, a limited number of broadcast channels, in both commercial and state-owned systems, dominated public attention. But as cable television and online media became more prevalent, each new arrival claimed a sliver of the audience. The widespread availability of on-demand digital media has further fragmented audiences.
Media-centric representations use discrete media offerings (e.g. movies, channels, websites, etc.) as the units of analysis, and associate each with some measure of audience size. These data are typically reported as either a time series or a long tail distribution.
A time series can show how the audience for an outlet or category of outlets has changed over time. For example, in 1985 the three major US networks (i.e., ABC, CBS & NBC) accounted for almost 70% of all prime-time television viewing. By the early twentieth-first century, their combined share of audience dipped below 30%. Such time series are usually done by arranging discrete cross-sectional data in chronological order.
A long tail representation takes data from a point in time (e.g., a month, season or year) and arranges the offerings by audience size from largest to smallest. For example, websites can be organized by their monthly unique visitors. Long tail distributions are akin to power law and Pareto distributions. These graphic representations can be reduced to statistics such as Gini coefficients and Herfindahl–Hirschman Indices. All forms of media consumption invariably show that, even with abundant choices, a relatively small number of offerings tend to dominate the audience, indicating that audience fragmentation does not increase in direct proportion to competition. Persistent audience concentration may be attributable to structural disparities in distribution systems, preferential attachment, recommender systems, social desirability and quality.
Although media-centric studies of fragmentation are common, they have two limitations. First studies are typically confined to a single medium. Second, we cannot see how people move across offerings within a medium or from on med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20Railroad%20in%20Harrisburg%2C%20Pennsylvania | The Underground Railroad in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was a critical hub of the American Underground Railroad network, which helped men, women and children to escape the system of chattel slavery that existed in the United States during the nineteenth century.
This UGRR hub was successful largely because there was a significant population of free Black men and women in the Harrisburg area who were able to help runaways reach and traverse the many UGRR routes that were located throughout the region.
Background
Harrisburg was an inviting place to settle because there were opportunities for employment here that were not available elsewhere. In addition, the community's long history of diversity made it possible for individuals fleeing enslavement to become part of an African American community in which they were free to socialize, marry and educate their children. A school was established here for Black children by Thomas Dorsey.
As a result, African Americans made their way to Harrisburg from farms in and around Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and from Virginia and Maryland. Some were individuals who had been born into free Black families while some escaped enslavement on plantations. Others were freed by manumission.
Beginning in 1817, churches and schools were established in the area by Black men and women, sometimes with financial help from white residents. By 1820, however, some city residents began looking for ways to institute greater control over the growing free Black population in the region. Proposals were initiated that would have required free Black men, women and children to register with the city and a citizens' patrol was formed to monitor and harass people of color. Agitation also increased in area newspapers.
In January 1836, the first Anti-Slavery Society of Harrisburg was formed by John Winebrenner. A year later, in 1837, the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society was established in Philadelphia. Delegates subsequently traveled from Harrisburg to Philadelphia to participate in anti-slavery conventions. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison were invited to Harrisburg to speak in front of the courthouse. The American Colonization Society auxiliary was also formed. Its goal was to promote the emigration of formerly enslaved Black men, women and children to Africa.
Despite the rising tension, there were nine hundred free Black men, women and children living in the Harrisburg area by 1850; by 1860, the population had grown to roughly 1800.
A key hub
Harrisburg became a key hub of the UGRR because it was close to the Mason–Dixon line which separated the slave states from the free states. Over time, multiple UGRR routes were established to connect the city to other key hubs within Pennsylvania and beyond. Roads, canals, ferries and a robust railroad system made it easy to move people to and through the area on routes north to New York or east to Lancaster and Philadelphia. Harrisburg also became an important hub because of the n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay%20Protected%20Memory%20Block | A Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) is provided as a means for a system to store data to the specific memory area in an authenticated and replay protected manner, and can only be read and written via successfully authenticated read and write accesses. The data may be overwritten by the host, but can never be erased.
Use in computing systems
Since RPMB is tamper-resistant, it can be used as a storage medium for a variety of data-critical purposes on an embedded system:
A place to write "permanent" and/or "pre-programmed" data on a system without any programmable ROM storage, or if the data is too large for it.
Along with encryption and hardware fuses, it can also be used to build a trusted storage solution for a trusted execution environment
Anti-rollback protection for versioned data (keys, encrypted files, software, etc).
Storage for a Trusted Application
Some operating systems, such as Linux may provide a generic driver for accessing an RPMB device attached to an eMMC. However, in other cases the access to RPMB is controlled through a proprietary driver; this may require use of a Trusted Application instead of a normal application to access the data.
Logical unit addressing
The UFS specification allocates a "Well-Known LUN" identifier of 44h for the RPMB device. This can be represented as:
UFS LUN: WLUN_ID (80h) | UNIT_NUMBER_ID = C4h
64-bit SCSI LUN: WLUN_ID (C1h) | UNIT_NUMBER_ID = C1h 44h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h
Memory layout
An RPMB device supplies the following memory sections:
* This is the minimum defined by the specification, the actual block size depends on the flash vendor's implementation.
References
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byre%20%28YouTuber%29 | Byre is a Spanish YouTuber who uploads videos about sneakers and fashion. In addition to uploading videos to YouTube he also creates content on other social networks such as Instagram, Twitter, Twitch or TikTok.
Biography
Oliver was born on December 29, 1998. He started his YouTube channel on September 16, 2013, and at the end of 2019 he launched a clothing brand called classified.
Career
YouTube Channel
Byre started on YouTube by uploading videos of games like Call of Duty or Clash Royale, with which he surpassed 100,000 subscribers. After a one-year hiatus due to studies and work he changed the content of his channel and is what has led him to the more than 550,000 subscribers he has now.
The most outstanding series of his channel are the batallas de outfits, which the Spanish press has echoed on several occasions.
Social media
In addition to YouTube, Byre creates content on other social networks such as Twitch, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok. In which, as in his channel, he revolves around the topic of sneakers and fashion.
References
External links
Byre's website
Spanish YouTubers
Spanish-language YouTubers
Living people
21st-century Spanish people
YouTube vloggers
Spanish Twitch (service) streamers
1998 births
Fashion YouTubers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainlink%20%28blockchain%29 | Chainlink is a decentralized blockchain oracle network built on Ethereum. The network is intended to be used to facilitate the transfer of tamper-proof data from off-chain sources to on-chain smart contracts. Its creators claim it can be used to verify whether the parameters of a smart contract are met in a manner independent from any of the contract's stakeholders by connecting the contract directly to real-world data, events, payments, and other inputs.
Despite issuing a controversial token, which was entirely premined and offered to retail investors, Chainlink has not formally registered as a security, nor does it offer its investors any disclosures or filings and remains on the legal peripheries of capital markets.
History
Chainlink was created in 2017 by Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis, who co-authored a white paper introducing the Chainlink protocol and network with Cornell University professor Ari Juels the same year. Chainlink acts as a "bridge" between a blockchain and off-chain environments. The network, which services smart contracts, was formally launched in 2019.
In 2018, Chainlink integrated Town Crier, a trusted execution environment-based blockchain oracle that Juels also worked on. Town Crier connects the Ethereum blockchain with web sources that use HTTPS.
Chainlink's trademark was registered in the Cayman Islands on 2019-03-12, the corporation created being Smartcontract Chainlink Sezc, Ltd.
In 2020, Chainlink integrated DECO, a Cornell project co-created by Juels. DECO is described by its authors as a protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to allow users to prove information is true to a blockchain oracle without revealing sensitive information, such as birth dates.
Chainlink published a second white paper in April 2021. That paper, Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks, detailed a vision for expanding the role and capabilities of decentralized oracle networks to include hybrid smart contracts, which utilize on-chain code and off-chain services provided by oracle networks.
Technology
Chainlink's decentralized oracle network is an open-source technology infrastructure that allows any blockchain to securely connect to off-chain data and computation resources. The network nodes fetch, validate, and deliver data from multiple sources onto blockchains to execute smart contracts.
In addition to the transfer of external information to a blockchain, Chainlink can also be used for several different off-chain computation functions, including a verifiable random function (VRF) and data feeds. The data feeds have been used to bring election data on-chain.
Chainlink's VRF can be used for random number generation which can be used in decentralized gaming. ZDNet reported the verifiability of the random number generation ensures the in-game results are tamper-proof.
Link token
Node operators are compensated with the network's native cryptocurrency, LINK. Chainlink's LINK token is an ERC67 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Romanian%20census | The 2021 Romanian census () was a census held in Romania between 1 February and 31 July 2022, with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021. The census was supposed to be done in 2021, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania in order to avoid census takers from getting infected when coming into contact with ill or quarantined people. It was the first census held in Romania in which data was collected online, something that had support among Romanian youth.
The census was divided into three phases: one in which personal data of the Romanian population was collected from various sites; another in which the population was to complete more precise data such as religion, in which town halls would help the natives of rural areas to answer the census; and a third one in which census takers would go to the homes and households of those who did not register their data online.
Data for this census was planned not to be collected on paper, but instead with tablets so as to maintain social distancing between citizens. The entire data collection process was also relatively long, spanning about 6 months. People who did not provide data by themselves in the early stages of the census were not fined, but those who refused to give or gave false information could be fined between 1,000 and 3,000 Romanian lei.
On 1 August 2022, it was officially announced by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) that as many as 18.15 million Romanian citizens were registered at the RPL2021. Subsequently, the head of the INS announced the first data of the RPL2021 on 5 August 2022, stating that Romania had inhabitants.
The final results regarding demographic characteristics of the RPL2021, published on 31 May 2023, showed a resident population in Romania of 19,053,815 people.
See also
Demographics of Romania
Notes
References
Censuses in Romania
Census
Census
Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered-node%20cycle%20network | The numbered-node cycle network (; [formal] and ["bike-by-numbers", informal]) is a wayfinding system. It spans the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of France and Germany, and parts of Croatia, and is expanding rapidly, . Each intersection or node is given a number, and the numbers are signposted, so the cyclist always knows which way to go to get to the next node.
Numbers are not unique, but nodes with the same number are placed far apart, so that they can't be confused. To find a route, the cyclist uses a list of node numbers (the sequence of intersections they will pass through). The list is generated with a website, or a downloaded, roadside or paper map. Intersection numbers need little translation.
Bike networks are, by nature, more distributed than car routes, with more junctions; they do not gather all cyclists onto arterial bike routes. The numbered-node network makes long-distance bike travel simpler (by making it harder to get lost), and faster (by making frequent stops to check a map needless). Areas on the numbered-node network cite substantial economic benefits, including revenues from increased bike tourism.
The numbered-node network is more flexible than previous signage systems, which only indicated long, pre-determined routes. The numbered-node network signage can be used to plan and follow any arbitrary route through the network. This makes for more flexible bicycle touring, and is more usable for utility cycling.
History
The system was designed by the Belgian . Bollen worked as a mine engineer from 1971 to 1990, and then joined Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (RLKM). RLKM did not ask Bollen to design the scheme; he volunteered it. The idea of labelling each intersection was inspired by his annoyance at having to stop at each intersection to read the map, when out biking with his wife; he personally describes himself as more of a hiker than a biker. Rumours notwithstanding, the numbering was not inspired by a wayfinding system from the mines, nor by the London Underground. Bollen said in a 2017 interview that the choice was straight logic: he needed to label each intersection, and using town names would have caused chaos, and there weren't enough letters in the alphabet, so he used numbers. He wanted something short; he felt it was important that the signage not contain too much information.
Initially Tourism Limburg did not have much faith in the scheme, saying that Limburgers didn't want to bike by numbers, but they came to support it. The first signage was installed in 1995, and the network has grown rapidly since. RLKM estimates that the network brings 16.5 million euros of revenue to Kempen (Campine) in Maarsland annually. Bollen has said he was surprised by the system's success.
The Flemish Prize for Merit in Sports was awarded to the system in 2009. The system won the Paul Mijksenaar Award for functional design in 2013.
Areas
The system was first introduced in the Netherlands in 1999, and by 2014, the entire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20Sports%20Network%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Wisconsin Sports Network was a short-lived regional sports network that served the state of Wisconsin. The network was created in 1996 when Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W) gained broadcast rights to both the Milwaukee Bucks and Milwaukee Brewers.
History
The Bucks games were first broadcast in January 1996 under the name Bucks Network, but the name was changed to Wisconsin Sports Network a few months later once the broadcast rights to the Brewers were obtained. 25 Brewers games were carried during the 1996 season. When not broadcasting live games, the schedule was filled with programming from NewSport. In 1997, Midwest Sports Channel (owned by CBS, which had just purchased Westinghouse) assumed responsibility for producing and distributing games on the network. The network briefly became known as the Wisconsin Sports Channel before being folded into Midwest Sports Channel at the end of the year.
References
Westinghouse Broadcasting
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1997
Fox Sports Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5vard%20Fj%C3%A6r%20Grip | Håvard Fjær Grip is a Norwegian cybernetics engineer and robotics technologist. He was the Chief Pilot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, and led the development of Ingenuity’s aerodynamics and flight control system. Grip successfully flew Ingenuity's first flight on Mars on April 19, 2021, which made history as the first extraterrestrial helicopter flight. He is currently Chief Engineer of the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters, part of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign.
Life
From 2001 to 2006 Grip took a five-year engineering cybernetics master's degree, and from 2006 to 2010 a PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). During his studies he was awarded for outstanding academic performance in engineering studies, as well as having the best master's thesis in 2006 in Norway within the field of control and automation.
After having been awarded and having achieved his five-year master's degree with almost only A's, Grip handed in his master's thesis Nonlinear vehicle velocity observer with road-tire friction adaptation. The dissertation focused on real-time estimation of dynamic variables for use in safety systems in cars, such as anti-lock brakes (ABS brakes) and electronic stability program (ESP). Out from the thesis the car giant Daimler AG showed great interest in Grip's work. As a result, he was hired on a contract project at the Daimler Group Research & Advanced Engineering while employed as a Scientific Researcher at SINTEF ICT from 2007 - 2008. Here he continued researching anticollision systems for safer cars in the automotive industry.
In 2010, Grip started working as an adjunct assistant professor for the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University. Here he conducted an independent research project from a personal research grant by the Research Council of Norway while employed as a Senior Research Fellow for the council. His research interests topics is nonlinear control and observer design, navigation and vehicle state estimation, decentralized control of heterogeneous systems, and structurally based design techniques for stability and robustness of nonlinear systems.
Grip has since 2013 worked as a robotics technologist in the Guidance and Control Analysis Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He led the Mars Helicopter Guidance, Navigation, and Control team, where he designed algorithms and software that helps control and guide the Martian helicopter. Grip's role as Chief Pilot included planning the flight, constructing command sequences and analyzing the flight data for the helicopter. Other team members taking part in the helicopter project includes Program Executive Dave Lavery, Chief Engineer Bob Balaram, and Project Manager MiMi Aung.
The Martian helicopter was launched from Earth with the rover Perseverance through NASA's Mars 2020 mission as a part of NASA's Mars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Tournament%20of%20Elements | Tournament of Elements is the fourth season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 23 February to 3 April 2015, following the third season titled Rebooted. It is succeeded by the fifth season, titled Possession.
The fourth season follows the storyline of the ninja searching for Zane by competing in Master Chen's Tournament of Elements. The season introduces Master Chen as the main antagonist and also several Elemental Masters into the series, who each have individual elemental powers, such as amber, shadow and smoke. The season marked the first time that two seasons were released in one year, replacing the previous schedule of one season released per year.
Voice cast
Main
Jillian Michaels as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white/titanium ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Mark Oliver as Sensei Garmadon
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Ian James Corlett as Master Chen/Tox
Supporting
Heather Doerksen as Skylor
Scott McNeil as Karlof/General Arcturus
Doron Bell Jr. as Griffin Turner
Kirby Morrow as Paleman/Gravis (episode 37)
Andrew Francis as Shade (Shadow)
Scott McNeil as Clouse
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Mark Oliver as Mistaké/Gravis
Michael Dobson as Pythor P. Chumsworth
Michael Adamthwaite as Bolobo
Brent Miller as Ash
Paul Dobson as Jacob Pevsner/Warden Noble/Rufus McCallister/Neuro
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
Brian Drummond as Nuckal/Kruncha
Alan Marriott as Dareth/Captain Soto
Maryke Handrikese as Camille
Alessandro Juliani as Kapau
Ian Hanlin as Chope
Michael Donovan as Eyezor
Brian Dobson as Sumo Zumo
Production
Development
Writers Dan and Kevin Hageman have stated that the season was inspired by the 1973 martial arts film Enter the Dragon. The director of the film Robert Clouse was also the inspiration for the character Clouse, an antagonist in the season.
Animation
The animation for the fourth season was produced at Wil Film ApS in Denmark.
Direction
The Tournament of Elements episodes were directed by Jens Møller, Michael Helmuth Hansen, Peter Hausner, Per Düring Risager and Trylle Vilstrup.
Release
The season premiered on Cartoon Network on 23 February 2015 with the release of The Invitation. The subsequent episodes were released across March and April 2015 until the release of the season finale titled The Corridor of Elders on 3 April of the same year.
Plot
Following the loss of Zane, the team splits apart, but Lloyd seeks to rebuild it. The ninja are reunited at Chen's Noodle House, where they discover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius%20Lindauer | Marius Lindauer (born December 25, 1985, in Berlin, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor of machine learning at the institute of artificial intelligence of the Leibniz University Hannover. He is known for his research on Automated Machine Learning and other meta-algorithmic approaches.
Life
Marius Lindauer studied computer science at the University of Potsdam from 2005 to 2010. Under the supervision of Torsten Schaub and Holger Hoos, he received his Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Potsdam in 2015. In 2014, he joined the Machine Learning research lab led by Frank Hutter as the first postdoctoral researcher and helped to build up the group. He then joined the Leibniz University Hannover as a professor in 2019 to lead the Machine learning research lab. He founded the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the Leibniz University Hannover in 2022. Additionally, he is the co-head of the automl.org research group., co-founder of the COSEAL research network, where he currently serves as an advisory board member. He is also a supporting member of CLAIRE, and a member of ELLIS. His research is published in renowned journals and conferences.
Achievements
During his Ph.D., Marius won several international competitions in the fields of solving hard combinatorial optimization problems, including 1st place in the NP-track of the answer set programming competition 2011 with claspfolio, the Hard Combinatorial SAT+UNSAT of the SAT challenge 2012 with clasp-crafted and two tracks of the configurable SAT solver challenge 2013 with clasp-cssc. During his PostDoc and later on, he was involved in winning tracks of the first and second AutoML challenge with auto-sklearn and the black-box optimization challenge for machine learning at NeurIPS'20.
Research Directions
Marius has delved into many research topics, all of which are unified under the umbrella of automating parts of the Machine Learning pipeline. His research touches many different aspects:
Hyperparameter Optimization
Multi-Fidelity Optimization
Automated Reinforcement Learning
Interactive AutoML
Green AutoML
Explainable AutoML
References
External links
His website at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence -- Leibniz University Hannover
1985 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Machine learning researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Possession | Possession is the fifth season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 29 June to 10 July 2015, following the fourth season titled Tournament of Elements. It is succeeded by the sixth season, titled Skybound.
The season introduces the ghost of Morro as the main season antagonist, who possesses the central character Lloyd Garmadon. Possession is the first season to include the character of Nya in the ninja team as the Elemental Master of Water. It also introduces Airjitzu, a new ability that is shown to be similar to the show's fictional martial art of Spinjitzu, but allows the ninja characters to levitate off the ground.
Voice cast
Main
Jillian Michaels as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white/titanium ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Andrew Francis as Morro
Brian Dobson as Ronin
Supporting
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Mark Oliver as Sensei Garmadon
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Brian Dobson as Soul Archer
Kathleen Barr as Bansha
Michael Adamthwaite as Wrayth
Paul Dobson as Ghoultar
Paul Dobson as Fenwick
Michael Donovan as Sensei Yang
Cathy Weseluck as Patty Keys
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
Heather Doerksen as Skylor
Ian James Corlett as Master Chen
Scott McNeil as Clouse
Production
Animation
The animation for the fifth season was produced at Wil Film ApS in Denmark.
Direction
The episodes for the fifth season were directed by Jens Møller, Michael Helmuth Hansen, Peter Hausner, and Trylle Vilstrup.
Release
The season trailer was released on 8 June 2015 on YouTube. The season premiered on 29 June 2015 on Cartoon Network. The episodes were released throughout June and July 2015 until the season finale, which was released in two parts. Curseworld Part 1 was released on 9 July 2015 and Curseworld Part 2 was released on 10 July of the same year.
Plot
When Lloyd is possessed by the spirit of Morro, the ninja realise that they have lost their elemental powers. Morro attacks Wu and the ninja to obtain Wu's staff, which has three symbols engraved upon it. Morro successfully takes the staff, but Wu has made an imprint of the symbols. Wu explains that Morro was his first pupil and the Elemental Master of Wind. Morro believed that he would become the Green Ninja and was enraged to find out that he was not. He had set out to find the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master but never returned. Morro and his three ghost warriors begin their search for the Realm Crystal, which will all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%285th%20generation%29 | The fifth-generation iPad Pro, colloquially known as the M1 iPad Pro, is a line of iPad tablet computers developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Announced on April 20, 2021, it was available with the same screen size options as its predecessor: and . Preorders began on April 30, 2021, and the product was released worldwide on May 21, 2021. It comes in two colors: Silver and Space Gray.
Significant upgrades over the previous generation include the new Apple M1 processor, the addition of 5G support in cellular models, support for Thunderbolt 3 and USB4, and for the 12.9-inch model, a new mini LED Liquid Retina XDR display.
History
The tech community was divided on whether Apple would use the M1 chip or a hypothetical A14X chip for its fifth generation iPad Pro. After Apple announced that it would use the M1, speculation surfaced that it might run macOS. The iPad's general availability was temporarily constrained by an ongoing chip shortage of 2020 and 2021.
General
In spite of minor differences in weight and thickness due to hardware upgrades, the tablet is virtually identical to its predecessor. Weight of the 12.9-inch model has increased from 641 grams to 682 grams, while that of the 11-inch model has decreased from 471 grams to 466 grams. It is compatible with the second generation Apple Pencil and the Magic Keyboard; Apple designed a revised variant of Magic Keyboard for the 12.9-inch model due to its change in thickness.
The iPad Pro uses 100% recycled aluminum and sources at least 98% recycled rare earth element supplies. It is free of any harmful substances, as defined by Apple's proprietary "Apple Regulated Substances Specification".
Features
Hardware
The fifth generation iPad Pro uses an Apple M1 SoC, which is the first iPad to utilize an M-series processor (found on the first Apple silicon Mac desktops and notebooks released in the late 2020) rather than an A-series processor. The M1 features an eight-core CPU in a hybrid configuration with four high-performance and four high-efficiency cores, an eight-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. The cellular model supports mmWave 5G and allows speeds up to 4 Gbit/s in ideal conditions. Internal storage options include 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. The 128, 256, and 512 GB versions includes 8 GB of RAM, while the 1 and 2 TB versions are bundled with 16 GB of RAM.
The fifth generation iPad Pro debuted support of Thunderbolt 3 and USB4 with its USB-C port. The latter can transfer data at up to 40 gigabits per second and can be used to connect external displays, such as the Pro Display XDR. The 11-inch model has a Liquid Retina display with a peak brightness at 600 nits, which is the same as the 11-inch model of the 3rd and 4th generations. The 12.9-inch model, in contrast, boasts a mini LED HDR display called the Liquid Retina XDR display built in with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, full-screen brightness of 1,000 nits and a peak brightness of 1,600 nits (HDR). Both models suppor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyema%20arthrocaulis | Amyema arthrocaulis is a species of mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae native to New Guinea.
References
External links
Amyema arthrocaulis occurrence data from GBIF
arthrocaulis
Flora of New Guinea
Parasitic plants
Epiphytes
Taxa named by Bryan Alwyn Barlow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscum%20exile | Viscum exile is a species of mistletoe in the family Santalaceae. It is a parasitic plant native to Sulawesi.
References
External links
Viscum exile occurrence data from GBIF
exile
Parasitic plants
Taxa named by Bryan Alwyn Barlow
Plants described in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Bradstreet | Kyle Bradstreet (born 1979/1980) is an American television writer and producer. From 2015 to 2019, Bradstreet worked on the USA Network series Mr. Robot. He is the creator and the executive producer of the Disney+ miniseries Secret Invasion.
Career
While attending Buffalo State College, he met television writer Tom Fontana, and upon graduating Bradstreet moved to New York City to work for Fontana, writing for his shows The Philanthropist, Copper, and Borgia. He also worked on Berlin Station as a consulting producer.
Bradstreet wrote and executive produced on the USA Network series Mr. Robot from 2015 to 2019, and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2016.
In September 2020, Bradstreet was announced to be the creator and executive producer of a Nick Fury television series for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, eventually revealed to be Secret Invasion. Bradstreet worked on the series for a year before a creative overhaul of the project.
He will write and executive produce Alice Isn't Dead, a television series based on the podcast of the same name. He will also serve as showrunner.
Personal life
Bradstreet was raised in Palmyra, New York. His mother, Lauren, is a reading specialist at Palmyra-Macedon High School, which Bradstreet graduated from in 1998. He also attended Buffalo State College, initially planning to become an English teacher. He currently lives in New York City.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Living people
American television writers
People from Rochester, New York
Buffalo State College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Groen | Michael S. Groen is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who last served as the Commander of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Previously, he was the Deputy Chief of Computer Network Operations of the National Security Agency.
Early life and education
Groen is a 1986 graduate of Calvin College (now Calvin University) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, graduating with Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He attended the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Intelligence Officer Course and was a distinguished graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Groen is a native of Michigan and is married with three sons.
Military career
As a junior officer, Groen served in Camp Pendleton, California, and Okinawa, Japan with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).
In 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom I, Lieutenant Colonel Groen participated in combat operations as the 1st Marine Division’s Deputy G-2 and intelligence planner. Groen was further designated as the G-2 for Task Force Tripoli, operating in north-central Iraq. In 2004, Groen returned to Iraq as the 1st Marine Division G-2, where he was a principal in the redesign of Marine Intelligence. He was reassigned to United States European Command where he served as Chief of Intelligence Planning for Europe and Africa. There, he planned intelligence operations in the Balkans, Northern Iraq, Central Africa, and the Trans-Sahara region. He was instrumental in transitioning intelligence processes into the newly formed Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC).
In 2006, Groen assumed command of the 3rd Radio Battalion, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. During this time, the Battalion conducted its first deployment to the Southern Philippines in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines and continued its support to the 31st MEU. After command, he reported to the College of Naval Warfare, (Naval War College) in Newport, Rhode Island. While there, he was selected as the Marine Fellow for the Stockdale Group, assisting the United States Navy program to develop joint and operational leaders. Promoted to colonel, he graduated with distinction in June 2008. He assumed command of Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division in Camp Pendleton, California. In 2010, he was given additional duties as the division’s Chief of Staff and the Commanding Officer for the 1st Marine Division (Rear).
In August 2010, Groen served under the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration. There, he led the Marine Corps' Amphibious Capabilities Working Group, which reviewed naval relationships, doctrine, concepts, and capabilities. In that capacity, he formed and served as the initial director of the "Ellis Group", refining concepts for naval power projection and expeditionary operations. He was reassigned as the Director of the Marine Corps Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG), directly support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzucchi | Mazzucchi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972), Italian composer and musician
Andrea Mazzucchi (born 1966), Italian American entrepreneur, network architect, and computer specialist
Massimiliano Mazzucchi (born 1980), Italian diver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wishmas%20Tree | The Wishmas Tree is a 2019 Australian 3D computer-animated adventure film written and directed by Ricard Cussó from a story by Peter Ivan. Financed by Screen Queensland and Screen Australia, it is the first film in Like a Photon Creative's The Tales from Sanctuary City franchise. The film stars Miranda Tapsell and Ross Noble. It had its world premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival on 5 October 2019, and was released in Australian cinemas on 27 February 2020.
Premise
A young possum's misguided wish for a white Wishmas freezes her entire hometown of Sanctuary City and threatens the lives of all who live there. Before the magical Wishmas Tree dies, she must undertake a journey into The Wild in order to reverse the damage she caused and save the city.
Cast
Miranda Tapsell as Kerry
Ross Noble as Yarra
Kate Murphy as Petra and Bernard the Drop Bear
Ricard Cussó as Augustus
Ryan Renshaw as Kerry and Petra's father
Release and reception
The film had its world premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival on 5 October 2019. It had a limited release, and grossed $874,049 worldwide. It was distributed theatrically by R & R Films in Australia and New Zealand, and by various other companies internationally and on home media.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews.
References
External links
The Tales from Sanctuary City
2019 films
2019 computer-animated films
2010s children's animated films
2010s Australian animated films
Australian children's films
Australian children's animated films
Australian computer-animated films
2010s English-language films
Screen Australia films
Australian animated feature films
Australian animated drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Hands%20of%20Time | Hands of Time (sometimes referred to as The Hands of Time) is the seventh season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 15 to 26 May 2017, following the television special titled Day of the Departed. It is succeeded by the eighth season titled Sons of Garmadon. Hands of Time was the only season released in 2017 and was the last season to be produced before the release of The Lego Ninjago Movie.
The season introduces the two main antagonists called the "Hands of Time" (also known as the "Time Twins"), two brothers who are Elemental Masters and have the ability to control time. The storyline follows the Hands of Time as they retrieve four time blades scattered across Ninjago and involves the main ninja characters Kai and Nya following the Time Twins back through time. The season ends with a cliffhanger that involves Sensei Wu being lost in time, which was not resolved until the release of Sons of Garmadon.
Voice cast
Main
Jillian Michaels as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Michael Daingerfield as Krux/Dr. Saunders
Ian Hanlin as Acronix
Supporting
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Kathleen Barr as Machia
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
Brian Dobson as Ronin
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Vincent Tong as Ray
Jillian Michaels as Maya
Release
On 19 December 2016, a 60-second trailer to promote the season was released on the Lego YouTube channel. The season premiered on Cartoon Network on 15 May 2017 with the release of the first episode titled The Hands of Time. The subsequent episodes were released throughout May 2017 until the release of the season finale titled Lost in Time on 26 May of the same year.
Plot
Acronix emerges from the time vortex, after being trapped for 40 years, and Master Wu challenges him in combat. During the fight, the Forward Time Blade arrives through the vortex and Acronix uses it to hit Wu with a time punch that accelerates his aging. Acronix reunites with his brother Krux. Wu relates the history of the Hands of Time, twin brothers, who were once allied with the Elemental Masters, but betrayed them. Ray and Maya had forged four Time Blades, which Wu and Garmadon used to absorb the twins' elemental powers, before banishing them into the vortex. Krux had emerged from the vortex years ago and disguised himself as Dr. Sander Saunders, curator of the Ninjago History Museum.
The Hands of Time proceed with their master plan. Krux has bred an army of Vermillion w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanti%20Pulse%20Connect%20Secure%20data%20breach | On April 20, 2021, it was reported that suspected Chinese-state backed hacker groups had breached multiple government agencies, defense companies and financial institutions in both the US and Europe after the hackers created and used a Zero-day exploit for Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure VPN devices. A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alert reported that the attacks using the exploited started in June 2020 or earlier. The attacks are believed to be the third major data breach against the U.S. in the past year behind the 2020 United States federal government data breach and the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach.
Impact
A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alert reported that the attacks affected "U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations." A spokesperson for Ivanti said that only a "limited number" of customers had been compromised. Mandiant's chief financial officer Charles Carmakal said that while the hack had only a small indication of having a large number of victims. He said the breach was significant because it had allowed unauthorized access to federal and corporate systems for months.
Responses
A spokesperson for Ivanti said that while mitigations are in place a patch to fix the vulnerabilities was not expected until May. With the patch finally being released on May 3, 2021. The CISA issued an emergency directive requiring that federal agencies install product updates. China has denied being behind the attack and accused the U.S. of being the "biggest empire of hacking and tapping."
See also
Cyberwarfare by China
2020 United States federal government data breach
2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach
References
2021 in computing
Internet security
Computer security exploits
Cyberattacks
Data breaches
Hacking in the 2020s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontotext%20GraphDB | Ontotext GraphDB (previously known as BigOWLIM) is a graph database and knowledge discovery tool compliant with RDF and SPARQL and available as a high-availability cluster. Ontotext GraphDB is used in various European research projects.
As of April 2021, Graph DB is ranked as the 4th most -popular RDF store and 6th most-popular Graph DBMS system. Some categorize it as a NoSQL database. In 2014 Ontotext acquired the trademark "GraphDB" from Sones.
As for a typical graph DB, ontologies are an important input for the databases. The underlying idea is a semantic repository.
Architecture
GraphDB is used to store and manage semantic Knowledge Graph data.
It is built on top of the RDF4J architecture implemented through RDF4J's Storage and Inference Layer (SAIL). The architecture is made of three main components:
The Workbench is a web-based administration tool. The user interface is based on RDF4J Workbench Web Application
The Engine consists of a query optimizer, reasoner, storage and plugin manager. The reasoner in GraphDB is Forward chaining with the goal of total materialization. The plugin manager supports user-defined indexes and can be configured dynamically during run-time. These include:
RDF Rank, which is an algorithm that identifies the most relevant entities, similar to Google's PageRank by evaluating their interconnectedness
GeoSPARQL, which is the standard for geographical linked data. The plugin is able to convert between coordinate reference systems into the default, which OGC specifies as CRS84 format
Lucene, which supports full-text search capabilities. This provides a variety of indexing options and the ability to simultaneously use multiple, differently configured indexes in the same query using Apache Lucene, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
The Connectors: The performance of search such as full-text search and faceted search can be vastly improved via the connectors by enabling the implementation by an external component or service. GraphDB has a connector for both well-known open-source search engines, Solr and Elasticsearch.
There is also a connector enabling MongoDB integration, providing the scalability and performance advantages.
Relational data virtualization (Ontology-Based Data Access, OBDA) is provided by integration of ontop
SQL Access over JDBC is provided for traditional analytics tools such as Tableau and PowerBI
Kafka Sink Connector for ingesting large amounts of data.
GraphQL access to knowledge graphs and semantic search based on Elasticsearch and exposed through GraphQL.
Features and Integrations
According to Ontotext, Graph DB supports:
GraphDB uses RDF4J as a library, utilizing its APIs for storage and querying.
It supports the GraphQL, SPARQL and SeRQL languages and RDF (e.g., RDF/XML, N3, Turtle) serialization formats.
It supports custom reasoning rulesets, as well as RDFS, RDFS-plus, OWL 2 RL and QL.
It integrates OpenRefine for the ingestion of tabular data and provid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyema%20dolichopoda | Amyema dolichopoda is a species of mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae native to Western Australia.
References
External links
Amyema dolichopoda occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
dolichopoda
Flora of Western Australia
Parasitic plants
Epiphytes
Taxa named by Bryan Alwyn Barlow
Plants described in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker%20Studio | Looker Studio, formerly Google Data Studio, is an online tool for converting data into customizable informative reports and dashboards introduced by Google on March 15, 2016 as part of the enterprise Google Analytics 360 suite. In May 2016, Google announced a free version of Data Studio for individuals and small teams.
Looker Studio is part of the Google Marketing Platform.
Rebrand from Google Data Studio
Google announced the rebrand of Google Data Studio to Looker Studio in October 2022.
Google had previously announced its acquisition of Looker, then an independent analytics startup, in June 2019. The acquisition was completed in February 2020.
Initially, Google Data Studio and Looker operated as separate products within Google. Google Data Studio's offering was simple, low-cost, and provided an easy way to connect data sources and create dashboards, while Looker offered a more enterprise-focused solution with robust support for transformations and permissions.
In October 2022, Google announced at its Cloud Next conference that Google Data Studio would rebrand as Looker Studio. This name change was also accompanied by more integrated functionality. Google added the ability to support Looker models to Looker Studio. Google also launched a new tier offering, Looker Studio Pro, with enhanced features for enterprise team collaboration and management.
Plan offerings
Google continues to offer both Looker Studio and Looker Studio Pro plans. Looker Studio is available for free, while Looker Studio Pro requires an upgrade to a paid plan.
Basic operation
In Looker Studio, users have the option to create a report from scratch or to use a report template from the Looker Studio Report Gallery. Similar to templates available on other Google applications, these templates are created to make it easier for users to build their reports while still allowing for customization of design elements and other alterations. Once a user has created a report, they will be prompted to then add a data connector to their report. These connectors connect with their data, allowing for Looker Studio to automatically retrieve this data instead of requiring the user to upload exports of data to create reports. Looker Studio offers over 600 partner connectors for users to choose from. Connectors for Google platforms such as Google Analytics or Google Ads are free to use, while others require a subscription from an outside platform. Users are also able to create their own connectors to any "internet accessible data source". Individuals can learn how to do this within Google Codelabs with this step-by-step tutorial.
Customization & interactivity
Along with offering many template options for users, Looker Studio also has customization controls for users. For example, users can edit the layout, color options, font, and canvas size of a dashboard so that it showcases their data more effectively, and corresponds with the company's branding. Users can also app up to 10 widge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberStrike%202 | Cyberstrike 2 is a mech simulation game developed by Simutronics and published by 989 Studios for Microsoft Windows in 1998. It is the sequel to CyberStrike.
Development
The game was in development as early as July 1997.It was originally scheduled to release on January 15, 1998.
Reception
The game received average reviews from critics.
CyberStrike 2 was named as a finalist by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for "Online Action/Strategy Game of the Year" at the 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, which ultimately went to Starsiege: Tribes.
References
External links
1998 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer online games
Simutronics games
Vehicle simulation games
Video game sequels
Video games about mecha
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Sons%20of%20Garmadon | Sons of Garmadon is the eighth season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 16 April to 25 May 2018, following the seventh season titled Hands of Time. It is succeeded by the ninth season titled Hunted.
The eighth season was the first season to be produced following the release of the 2017 film The Lego Ninjago Movie, which had significant impact on its development. The season adopted the new character designs from the movie, including face and hair alterations for the main ninja characters that differed significantly from the previous seasons. This was a particularly controversial move for existing fans of the show. The central character Lloyd Garmadon was given a new voice actor Sam Vincent, replacing Jillian Michaels.
The season introduces the character Princess Harumi as the season's main antagonist, who is revealed to be the leader of a criminal biker gang called the Sons of Garmadon. The storyline follows Harumi's plan to steal three Oni masks in order to resurrect Lord Garmadon in a purely evil form. The season also resolves a cliffhanger that occurs at the end of the previous season titled Hands of Time, in which the main character Master Wu is seemingly lost in the time vortex. The eighth season sees the return of the character, who has been aged backwards to appear as a baby. The season ends with the return of Lord Garmadon and the defeat of the ninja, resulting in a cliffhanger that is resolved in the subsequent season.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Britt McKillip as Princess Harumi
Supporting
Mark Oliver as Lord Garmadon
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Caleb Skeris as Wu (baby)
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Tabitha St. Germain as Mystake
Michael Donovan as Samurai X
Garry Chalk as Killow
Maggie Blue O'Hara as Ultra Violet
Ellen Kennedy as the Empress
Richard Newman as the Emperor
Alan Marriott as Hutchins/The Mechanic
Brent Miller as Mr. E
Michael Adamthwaite as Luke Cunningham
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Production
Character design
Sons of Garmadon was the first season to be produced following the release of the 2017 film The Lego Ninjago Movie, which was the third film in The Lego Movie franchise. The season title and opening scene were revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2017. The eighth season adopted new designs for the main ninja characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Hunted | Hunted is the ninth season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 11 to 25 August 2018, following the eighth season titled Sons of Garmadon. It is succeeded by the tenth season titled March of the Oni.
The ninth season is a direct continuation of the storyline from Sons of Garmadon, and introduces one of the 16 fictional realms in the Ninjago universe: the Realm of Oni and Dragons. The plot is split into two parts that take place simultaneously, with one storyline following the stranded ninja, Kai, Cole, Jay, Zane, and Wu in the Realm of Oni and Dragons, and the other focusing on Lloyd Garmadon, Nya, and their allies surviving in Ninjago City following its takeover by Lord Garmadon (now holding the title of "Emperor"). The season features two main antagonists: the Iron Baron, leader of a group of Dragon Hunters in the Realm of Oni and Dragons, who attempts to capture the marooned ninja; and Garmadon, who, alongside the Sons of Garmadon, seeks to eliminate Lloyd and his allies so that no one will oppose his reign. Hunted also depicts the rapid aging of Wu from a child to eventually his former old self, allowing him to return to his previous role of the ninja's mentor. The season culminates in a final battle between Lloyd and Garmadon, in which the latter is defeated but warns Lloyd of an incoming threat, resulting in a cliffhanger that is resolved in the following season.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Madyx Whiteway as Wu (kid)
Mark Oliver as Lord Garmadon
Britt McKillip as Princess Harumi
Brian Drummond as Iron Baron
Recurring
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Tabitha St. Germain as Mistaké
Alan Marriot as Dareth
Kathleen Barr as Faith/Heavy Metal
Garry Chalk as Killow
Maggie Blue O'Hara as Ultra Violet
Brent Miller as Mr. E
Doron Bell as Griffin Turner
Heather Doerksen as Skylor
Scott McNeil as Karlof
Paul Dobson as Neuro
Andrew Francis as Shade
Kirby Morrow as Mr. Paleman
Maggie Blue O'Hara as Ultra Violet
Garry Chalk as Killow
Michael Adamthwaite as Luke Cunningham
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Kai Emmett as Young Garmadon
Jim Conrad as the First Spinjitzu Master
Brian Dobson as Ronin
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Paul Dobson as Mother Doomsday
Supporting
Ian James Corlett as Daddy No Legs
Rhona Rees as Jet Jack
Scott McNeil as Chew Toy
Michael Donovan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Saif%20Islam | M. Saif Islam is a Bangladeshi-American engineering professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
Early life and education
Islam earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Middle East Technical University and his first Master's degree from Bilkent University. Islam then traveled to the United States and received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Upon completing his formal education, Islam remained in California and worked for the Optical Networking Research group of JDS Uniphase Corporation and the Quantum Science Research group of the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories during 2001–04. Subsequently, he accepted a faculty position at the University of California, Davis in 2004. As a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Islam and his research team demonstrated the first 3D transistor array based on horizontally suspended silicon nano-bridges. He co-founded two start-up companies based on his inventions with the support of UC Davis, UC Office of the President, and Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC). He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his role as the co-founder of Atocera, a start-up that plans to bring its silicon surgical and razor blades to market as a less expensive alternative to ceramic and diamond blades. Atocera received Sacramento Regional Innovation Award for Advanced Manufacturing in 2018. He also demonstrated the conversion of vertically oriented light waves into an ensemble of laterally oriented collective guided light beams in semiconductor thin films by integrating a 2D periodic array of nanoscale holes and implemented such slowly propagating trapped-light to enhance photon material interaction in ultrafast and highly efficient photodetectors.
Islam has authored and co-authored more than 250 scientific papers, chaired 33 scientific conferences and symposiums sponsored by MRS, SPIE, and IEEE; and holds 42 US, and international patents as an inventor/co-inventor. He received NSF Faculty Early Career Award, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and Mid-Career Research Faculty Award, IEEE Professor of the Year, and the University of California, Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award- the highest teaching honor the university bestows on its faculties.
In 2018, Islam was elected to three academic societies; the Engineering Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the Optical Society of America (OSA) and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The following year, he was also elected to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the development of novel sensors and ultra-fast photodetectors.
Islam served as the Chair of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of UC Davis during 2017–20 and as the Director of the Northern California Nanotechnology Center durin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danijela%20Cabric | Danijela Branislav Cabric is an American electrical engineer. She is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cabric was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her "contributions to theory and practice of spectrum sensing and cognitive radio systems."
Early life and education
Cabric completed her Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and her PhD in the same subject from the University of California, Berkeley. As a graduate student, Cabric's first project was to design a high-speed frequency-hopping system, which resulted in the fastest frequency-hopping system ever built.
Career
Upon completing her formal education, Cabric accepted a faculty position at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science as an assistant professor in 2007. In this role, she continued her research into physical and network layer design for cognitive radios for opportunistic spectrum sharing; cognitive radio algorithms and architectures for spectrum sensing; adaptive transmission and spatial processing; and the development of wireless testbeds to support physical and network experiments. Her work was recognized by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and she was the recipient of $500,000 seed contract to improve the safety of large-scale information systems. Cabric was also recognized for her efforts with the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Throughout her tenure at UCLA, Cabric had led the Cognitive Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (CORE) research laboratory that focuses on the "theoretical modeling, algorithmic development, system implementation and experimental validation of the emerging wireless technologies including 5G millimeter-wave communications, distributed communications and sensing for Internet of Things, and machine learning for wireless networks co-existence and security." As a result of her efforts, Cabric appeared in the 2017 documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. In 2018, she selected to serve as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer and later received their Best Paper Award.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cabric and two of her graduate students received the Best Paper Award for their paper mRAPID: Machine Learning Assisted Noncoherent Compressive Millimeter-Wave Beam Alignment at 4th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems. She was also the recipient of the 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award. In 2021, Cabric was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her "contributions to theory and practice of spectrum sensing and cognitive radio systems."
References
External links
Living people
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook%20Air%20%28Intel-based%29 | The Intel-based MacBook Air is a discontinued line of notebook computers developed and manufactured by Apple Inc. from 2008 to 2020. The Air was originally positioned above the previous MacBook line as a premium ultraportable. Since then, the original MacBook's discontinuation in 2011, and lowered prices on subsequent iterations, made the Air Apple's entry-level notebook.
The MacBook Air was introduced in January 2008 with a 13.3-inch screen, and was promoted as the world's thinnest notebook, opening a laptop category known as the ultrabook family. Apple released a redesigned MacBook Air in October 2010, with a redesigned tapered chassis, standard solid-state storage, and added a smaller 11.6-inch version. Later revisions added Intel Core i5 or i7 processors and Thunderbolt. The Retina MacBook Air was released in October 2018, with reduced dimensions, a Retina display, and combination USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports for data and power.
The Intel-based MacBook Air was discontinued in November 2020 following the release of the first MacBook Air with Apple silicon based on the Apple M1 processor.
Original (2008–2009)
Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air during Apple's keynote address at the 2008 Macworld conference on January 15, 2008. The original MacBook Air was a 13.3" model, initially promoted as the world's thinnest notebook at 1.9 cm (a previous record holder, 2005's Toshiba Portege R200, was 1.98 cm high). It featured a custom Intel Merom CPU and Intel GMA GPU which were 40% as big as the standard chip package. It also featured an anti-glare LED backlit display, a full-size keyboard, and a large trackpad that responded to multi-touch gestures such as pinching, swiping, and rotating. Since the release of Snow Leopard, the trackpad has also supported handwriting recognition of Chinese characters.
The MacBook Air was the first subcompact notebook offered by Apple after the 12" PowerBook G4 discontinued in 2006. It was also Apple's first computer with an optional solid-state drive. It was Apple's first notebook since the PowerBook 2400c without a built-in removable media drive. To read optical disks, users could either purchase an external USB drive such as Apple's SuperDrive or use the bundled Remote Disc software to access the drive of another computer wirelessly that has the program installed. Either option can also be used to reinstall the system software from the included installation DVD. Remote Disc supports booting over a network, so the Air can boot from its installation DVD in another computer's drive if Remote Install Mac OS X is running on that computer. The software does not allow playing video DVDs or audio CDs, or installing Windows: for these capabilities, an external USB drive is required. More recent versions of OS X replaced the installation DVD with a USB flash drive containing the software, eliminating the need for remote installation. The MacBook Air also does without a FireWire port, Ethernet port, line-in, and a Kensingto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian%20Idol%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Nigerian Idol premiered on 14 March 2021 on Africa Magic Network on DStv channel 198. The show host is IK Osakioduwa, while Obi Asika, Seyi Shay and DJ Sose as judges. On 3 February 2021, the show, was made available for streaming in United Kingdom, Italy, France, Australia and 23 other countries, through the online streaming network Showmax. On 9 May 2021, the first live show kicked-off featuring the 11 contestants, who made it to the finals, as public voting opens to the fans for 10 weeks.
Weekly Results And Songchoices
Top 11:The Classics (9 May)
Top 9 (16 May)
Top 8 (23 May)
Top 7: Birth year songs (30 May)
Top 6: Fela week (4 June)
Top 5: Morden Pop&Jazz (13 June)
Audition
On 28 November 2020, Nigerian Idol announced an online auditions to be held from 29 November to 13 December. The online audition participants are to record their 30 seconds video of them singing and to be uploaded on Africa Magic website.
Contestant
Theatre week
On 24 April 2021, 68 contestants head to theatre week. On 30 April 2021, at the end of the day, out of the 68 contestants that made it into theatre week, and 39 to the group selections, only 21 contestants progressed to the next round.
On 3 May 2021, during the third theatre week, contestants were assessed based on the strength of their voices and their overall stage performance. Out of 21 contestants who made the theatre week, only 11 made it to the finals. On 11 July 2021, Kingdom Kroseide emerged as the winner of the sixth season of the tvshow.
Nigerian Idol (season 7)
Finalists
Finalists
(ages stated at time of contest)
Elimination Chart
Colour key
References
2021 Nigerian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Inventories%20Programme | The International Inventories Programme (IIP) is an international research and database project for investigating objects pertaining to the cultural heritage of Kenya that are held in cultural institutions like ethnographic museums across the globe. The programme is jointly run by the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne and the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt a. M., both in Germany. To establish a direct relation to contemporary cultural activities both in Kenya and in Germany, the multi-disciplinary arts groups The Nest Collective (Kenya) and SHIFT Collective in Germany and France are further members of the IIP. - The programme and its projects are supported by the Goethe-Institut - German cultural centre in Kenya - and the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Background and international cooperation
The IIP was publicly launched in 2018, and was described by Quartz Africa magazine as "a movement to investigate the cultural artifacts stolen and kept outside the country’s borders (...) exploring where in the West they are actually housed, who holds the agency to demand their repatriation, and how their historical and cultural legacy can be harnessed for sustainable and creative development.”
As much of Kenya's cultural heritage is inaccessible both for the Kenyan public as well as for academics worldwide, the IIP aims to narrow gaps relating to knowledge about such cultural objects. Regarding object inventories in Western collections, the programme noted "that some of these inventories sometimes lack information or contain data errors with regards to acquisition modalities, provenance, context and purpose of the objects. Due to lack of a sharing framework between institutions, researchers and collectors, these data errors perpetuate misrepresentation and mis-attribution of these cultural objects."
Resulting from collaboration between researchers and museum staff in Kenya and Germany, some of the objects in German museums have been documented online, including new information about their provenance and original use.
Njoki Ngumi, a member of Nest collective, was quoted in an article by the magazine Artnet News: “A lot of the research was written as though Black people would never look at it, or dare to have opinions about it. - We’ve had to sift through a lot of idly racist opinions and thoughts, then have to reflect on them in order to find even shreds of information about our ancestors and their contemporaries.”
Aims and activities
In the context of the larger debates on colonial histories, the overarching aim of the IIP is to "decolonize the discourse on restitution by distributing African perspectives and positions underrepresented in international discussion."
As stated on the programme's webpage, the IIP strives to accomplish the following aims:
"Build exchange relations and strengthen collaboration and cooperation between NMK and key cultural institutions and collectors who possess and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20March%20of%20the%20Oni | March of the Oni is the tenth season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired on April 19, 2019, following the ninth season, Hunted. It is succeeded by the eleventh season, Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu. The tenth season consists of just four episodes, making it the shortest season at the time of release since the original pilot season. The four episodes when combined form a feature-length movie with a runtime of 90 minutes.
The tenth season was the final season to be animated by Wil Film ApS in Denmark before the release of the eleventh season, which marked a significant change in the format of the show. From the eleventh season onwards, the series was animated by WildBrain Studios in Canada and the "Masters of Spinjitzu" subtitle was dropped. The runtime for each episode also changed from 22 minutes to 11 minutes.
March of the Oni marks the conclusion of the Oni storyline that started with the eighth season, Sons of Garmadon, and picks up directly from the ending of the previous season, in which Lord Garmadon warned his son Lloyd of an incoming threat to Ninjago: the Oni. The storyline of the tenth season follows the main ninja characters and their allies, including Garmadon, as they fight the advance of the invading Oni army, who are trying to cover all of Ninjago in darkness. The season concludes with the ninja successfully vanquishing the Oni threat, and Lloyd briefly meeting his grandfather, the First Spinjitzu Master, in a vision, which marks the latter's first present day appearance in the series.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Mark Oliver as Lord Garmadon
Recurring
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Zach LeBlanc as The Omega
Jim Conrad as the First Spinjitzu Master
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Kathleen Barr as Faith
Paul Dobson as Mother Doomsday / Warden Noble
Daniel Doheny as Jimmy
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Production
Animation
March of the Oni was the last season to be animated in Denmark by Wil Film ApS. With the production of the eleventh season titled Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu, the show took a new format and was animated in Canada by WildBrain Studios. The Lego Group announced the changes in May 2019 with the trailer for the eleventh season by stating, "Ninjago: 'March of the Oni''' marks the conclusion to an epic storyline which started in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Forbidden%20Spinjitzu | Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu is the eleventh season of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 22 June 2019 to 1 February 2020, following the tenth season titled March of the Oni. It is succeeded by the twelfth season titled Prime Empire.
The eleventh season marked a significant change in the format of the show. From the eleventh season onwards, the series was animated by WildBrain Studios in Canada and the "Masters of Spinjitzu" subtitle was dropped. The runtime for each episode also changed from 22 minutes to 11 minutes. The eleventh season also marked the use of new 2D anime-style segments that were included to add new creativity to the show.
Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu is split into two parts titled The Fire Chapter and The Ice Chapter, with each chapter consisting of 15 episodes. Each half follows a separate plot, which combine to form an entire story arc. The Fire Chapter focuses on the threat of a new antagonist named Aspheera and her army of Pyro Vipers. The season introduces a new power called "Forbidden Spinjitzu" which is wielded by both Aspheera and the main ninja characters. Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu also introduces the character Clutch Powers into the Ninjago universe, which was a pre-existing Lego character from the 2010 animated film Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers. The first half of the season ends in a cliffhanger, in which the character Zane is lost in another realm and the ninja characters decide to travel across the realms to find him. The Ice Chapter continues the storyline from the first half of the season. It introduces one of the 16 fictional realms in the Ninjago universe, the Never-Realm, and follows the storyline of the ninja and their search for Zane.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja, Elemental Master of Fire and Nya's Brother.
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja, Elemental Master of Lightning, and Nya's Yang/Boyfriend.
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water, Kai's sister, and Jay's Yin/Girlfriend.
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Pauline Newstone as Aspheera
Tabith St Germain as Akita
Supporting
Brian Drummond as Char
Michael Kopsa as Vex
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Paul Dobson as Warden Noble
Ian James Corlett as Clutch Powers
Gary Chalk as Killow/Director
Paul Dobson as Cecil Putnam
Michael Adamthwaite as Smythe
Brian Drummond as Shippleton
Sam Vincent as Dwayne
Brynna Drummond as Antonia
David Raynolds as Nelson
Ian Hanlin as Dan Vaapit
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Bill Newton as Fred Finely |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Prime%20Empire | Prime Empire is the twelfth season of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 19 July to 30 August 2020, following the eleventh season titled Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu. It is succeeded by the thirteenth season titled Master of the Mountain.
The theme of the twelfth season is video games, with the introduction of a fictional video game world in the Ninjago universe named "Prime Empire". The plot follows the main ninja characters as they search for the video game's creator following its re-emergence in Ninjago City. When players begin getting trapped inside the game, including the main character Jay, the ninja must enter the game to find their friend. The storyline involves the ninja characters having to compete in various games within Prime Empire before facing the main game boss named Unagami.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning, and Nya's Yang.
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister, and Jay's Yin.
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Dean Redman as Unagami
Supporting
Mark Hildreth as Milton Dyer/Game Voice
Michael Antonakos as The Mechanic
Adrian Petriw as Scott
Alessandro Juliani as Okino/Shifty
Shannon Chan-Kent as Racer Seven/Hostess
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Sharon Alexander as Ultra Violet
Paul Dobson as Warden Noble
Bill Newton as Fred Finely
Adrian Petriw as Fugi Dove
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Colin Murdock as Bob the Intern
Sam Vincent as Ritchie
Mary Black as Mrs Dyer
Vincent Tong as Sushi Chef
Michael Daingerfield as Tony the Bartender
Zion Simpson as Child Unagami
Development
Co-creator Tommy Andreasen stated on Twitter that Prime Empire was inspired by the urban legend Polybius, a fictitious 1980s arcade game.
Release
A 30-second teaser trailer was released on 5 February 2020 on the Lego YouTube channel to promote the season. This was followed by the release of an official trailer on 10 March 2020. The season premiered on Cartoon Network on 19 July 2020 with the first episode titled Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire? The subsequent episodes were released throughout July and August 2020 until the release of the season finale titled Game Over on 30 August of the same year.
Plot
When the old, legendary video game Prime Empire resurfaces, players begin to disappear into the game, including Jay (who loves playing video games). The ninja discover that the game's creator, Milton Dyer, has also disappeared and nobod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Master%20of%20the%20Mountain | Master of the Mountain is the thirteenth season of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 13 September to 25 October 2020, following the twelfth season titled Prime Empire. It is succeeded by The Island.
The thirteenth season follows the ninja as they travel to the fictional kingdom of Shintaro. The focus of the season is the ninja character Cole as he discovers the dungeons that lie beneath Shintaro Mountain. The season introduces two tribes named the Geckles and the Munce who dwell in the mountain and the season's main antagonist named the Skull Sorcerer. The season finale ends with Cole unlocking a new ability that is described as the "Spinjitzu Burst" and defeating the Skull Sorcerer, reavealed to be Shintaro's ruler, King Vangelis.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja, the Elemental Master of Fire, and Nya's brother
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Deven Mack as King Vangelis/the Skull Sorcerer/Korgran's Axe
Sabrina Pitre as Princess Vania
Supporting
Michael Adamthwaite as the Skull of Hazza D'Ur/Murt
Brian Drummond as Hailmar/Gleck/Mino
Tabitha St Germain as Queen Murtessa
Andrew McNee as Chancellor Gulch
Ian James Corlett as Fungus
Paul Dobson as Korgran
Adam Trask as Plundar
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Bill Newton as Gliff
Peter New as Groko
Sabrina Pitre as Garpo
Tabitha St Germain as Ginkle
Mark Oliver as Korgran's father
Erin Mathews as Lilly
Release
The season was first revealed in a 30-second teaser trailer, which was released on the Lego YouTube channel on 17 June 2020. This was followed by an official trailer on 22 June 2020. Master of the Mountain premiered on Cartoon Network on 13 September 2020 with the release of the first episode titled Shintaro. The subsequent episodes were released throughout September and October 2020.
Plot
The Ninja and Master Wu are invited to the Kingdom of Shintaro. They meet King Vangelis and his daughter Vania, who takes an interest in Cole. That night, a Geckle enters Cole's room, who discovers that the creature has his mother's necklace. Vania takes Cole to a secret entrance that leads into the Dungeons of Shintaro. They discover the Geckles and the Munce, two tribes forced to work in the mines by the evil Skull Sorcerer, but Cole is taken prisoner.
Vania leads the ninja to the dungeons, but they are captured by the Awakened Warriors, who can be revived by the sorcerer's Skull of Hazza D'ur. One of the Geck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartful%20Caf%C3%A9 | Heartful Café is a 2021 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Julie Anne San Jose and David Licauco, it premiered on April 26, 2021 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing I Can See You. The series concluded on June 18, 2021 with a total of 40 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Julie Anne San Jose as Heart Fulgencio
David Licauco as Ace Nobleza
Supporting cast
Edgar Allan Guzman as Uno Ynares
Zonia Mejia as Soledad "Sol" Fulgencio
Jamir Zabarte as Salvador "Buddy" Portales
Ayra Mariano as Marcelina "Mars" Sawingsawing
Victor Anastacio as Roco
Angel Guardian as Charity
Guest cast
Shyr Valdez as Chona
Ina Feleo as Zowie
Kate Valdez as Diana
Migo Adecer as Max / Charles
DJ Durano as Jeremiah
Barbie Forteza as Cors
Jak Roberto as Jasper
Richard Reynoso as Raffy
Rosemarie Sarita as Belen
Nicole Chan as Virgo
Klea Pineda as Ivy
Jeric Gonzales as Warren
Gold Aceron as Garci
Nikki Co as Sebastian / Seb
Candy Pangilinan as Andi
Camille Prats as Bettina
Production
Principal photography commenced in April 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Heartful Café earned a 14.1% rating.
References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series set in restaurants
Television shows set in the Philippines
Philippine romantic comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Sembroski | Christopher Sembroski (born August 28, 1979) is an American data engineer, Air Force veteran, and commercial astronaut, currently living in Gig Harbor, Washington, United States. He flew to orbit on Inspiration4, a private spaceflight funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman.
Sembroski is a Blue Origin employee and was a crew member on the Inspiration4 mission. The spaceflight position was given to Sembroski by his friend Kyle Hippchen, as he was unable to accept the prize because he exceeded the weight limit of the Dragon vehicle.
Sembroski has long had an interest in space, being an amateur astronomer and rocketeer. Sembroski received the call sign "Hanks" during training.
He is featured on the cover of a Time magazine double issue with the rest of the crew of Inspiration4 in August 2021.
Career
Sembroski grew up in Kannapolis, North Carolina. During college, Sembroski volunteered for ProSpace, a nonprofit organization advocating for private spaceflight. Sembroski also was a counselor at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama which promotes science, technology, engineering, and math to children and teenagers. After college, Sembroski joined the United States Air Force as an Electro-Mechanical Technician stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, MT. Sembroski worked as a data engineer for Lockheed-Martin. He has since moved to work as an avionics engineer at Blue Origin.
He is a member of the Association of Space Explorers.
References
External links
SpaceFacts.de: Tourist Biography: Christopher Sembroski
Inspiration4 Crew Page
1979 births
Living people
Space tourists
United States Air Force airmen
Inspiration4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20The%20Island | The Island is a miniseries of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The miniseries aired in March 2021, following the thirteenth season titled Master of the Mountain. It is succeeded by Seabound. It consists of four episodes of 11 minutes each, similar to the pilot episodes.
The miniseries follows the storyline of the main ninja characters travelling to an island inhabited by an ancient tribe called the Keepers, who swore to protect an amulet linked to a sea-dwelling creature named Wojira. When Wojira is seemingly awakened from her slumber, the ninja must uncover the truth if they hope to return home safely. The miniseries introduces an artifact called the Storm Amulet, which would return as an important plot element in Seabound, along with Wojira. It also sees the return of Clutch Powers, a character introduced in the eleventh season of the television series.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Supporting
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Brian Drummond as Twitchy Tim/Zippy
Paul Dobson as Chief Mammatus, the Keeper's leader
Brian Dobson as Ronin
Ian James Corlett as Clutch Powers
Paul Dobson as Cecil Putnam
Sam Vincent as Dwayne
Release
An official poster for The Island was revealed on 14 January 2021, which depicted the ninja characters and an armed totem pole. A sneak peek trailer was released on the Lego YouTube channel on 5 February 2021. This was followed by a full-length official trailer, which was released on 12 February 2021. A short clip introducing the new character Timothy "Twitchy Tim" Batterson was released on 2 March 2021 on YouTube titled Ninjas Meet Twitchy. On 16 May 2021, lead writer Bragi Schut confirmed on Twitter that Seabound is the fourteenth season of the series, but on 10 June of the same year, he clarified that he considers the fourteenth season to be both The Island and Seabound. However, co-creator Tommy Andreasen previously stated on 18 May 2021 that he considers The Island and Seabound to be two different installments.
Plot
An expedition led by Sensei Wu, Misako, Clutch Powers and his assistants goes missing while exploring an uncharted island in the storm belt. The ninja must pick up their trail with the help of Twitchy Tim. Having journeyed to the island years ago, Tim is still scared to go back due to being struck by lightning twelve times on the island. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. After sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching%20order%20of%20bacterial%20phyla%20%28Genome%20Taxonomy%20Database%2C%202018%29 | There are several models of the branching order of bacterial phyla, one of these is the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB).
The GTDB is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny, primarily funded by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. The genomes used to construct the phylogeny are obtained from RefSeq and Genbank, and GTDB releases are indexed to RefSeq releases, starting with release 76. Importantly and increasingly, this dataset includes draft genomes of uncultured microorganisms obtained from metagenomes and single cells, ensuring improved genomic representation of the microbial world. All genomes are independently quality controlled using CheckM before inclusion in GTDB.
The GTDB taxonomy is based on genome trees inferred with FastTree from an aligned concatenated set of 120 single copy marker proteins for Bacteria, and with IQ-TREE from a concatenated set of 53 (since RS207; 122 before) marker proteins for Archaea. Additional marker sets are also used to cross-validate tree topologies including concatenated ribosomal proteins and ribosomal RNA genes.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy was initially used to decorate the genome tree via tax2tree. The 16S rRNA-based Greengenes taxonomy is used to supplement the taxonomy particularly in regions of the tree with no cultured representatives. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is used as the primary taxonomic authority for establishing naming priorities. Taxonomic ranks are normalised using PhyloRank and the taxonomy manually curated to remove polyphyletic groups.
Phylogeny
Cladogram was taken from GTDB release 08-RS214 (28th April 2023).
General note:
The GTDB data only includes domain and phylum names. Any larger groupings are added by Wikipedia editors by matching to known taxonomic names on a best-effort basis.
GTDB normalizes rank differences by genomic divergence, creating new names. Comments may be added after these names to indicate other names for such clades in literature.
Due to the directness of conversion, quotations mark for proposed names are not provided.
Archaea
Bacteria
See also
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Woese, 1987)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Rappe and Giovanoni, 2003)
Branching order of bacterial phyla after ARB Silva Living Tree
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Ciccarelli et al., 2006)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Battistuzzi et al.,2004)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Gupta, 2001)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Cavalier-Smith, 2002)
External links
Genome Taxonomy Database
References
Bacteria phyla
Bacteriology
Systems of bacterial taxonomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afua%20Bruce | Afua Bruce is an American engineer, data executive, professor, and former U.S. government official who has held appointments at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and on President Joe Biden’s transition agency review team at the Department of Justice. In 2021, a statue was erected in Bruce's honor in Dallas, Texas by the American Association for Advancement of Science. Bruce is a public interest technologist.
Education
Bruce received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. At Purdue, Bruce was one of two recipients of the BP Amoco merit-based scholarship.
Career
Bruce began her career as a software engineer at IBM. She then joined the FBI where she served in various strategy and program management roles.
In 2015, she was appointed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House as the Executive Director of the National Science and Technology Council where she led over 100 different Federal inter-agency working groups across topics that included: environment, and sustainability, homeland and national security, science, technology, and STEM education.
Bruce then became the first Director of Engineering and a Fellow in the newly formed Public Interest Technology program at New America. In this program, Bruce oversaw the Public Interest Technology University Network, and worked with technologists working with state and local government, and NGOs, to develop technology and policy.
In February 2020, it was announced that Bruce would be the new Chief Program Officer at DataKind. Bruce also holds a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University. Bruce was among 29 people named to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s agency review team for the Department of Justice in November 2020.
In 2020, Bruce gave a Ted Talk on Tech Equity and Serving the Community.
Bruce is the co-author of the 2022 book, The Tech That Comes Next, a non-fiction analysis of how technology can play a role in an equitable world.
Honors
Bruce was named an American Association for Advancement of Science If/Then Ambassador in recognition of her work to interest girls in STEM careers and featured in the If/Then Statue Exhibit.
References
Living people
Office of Science and Technology Policy officials
Purdue University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Dattelbaum | Dana Dattelbaum is an American physicist and scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She leads NNSA’s Dynamic Materials Properties portfolio at LANL, which provides experimental data, platforms and diagnostics for materials behaviors relevant to nuclear weapons performance, ranging from plutonium to high explosives.
Dattelbaum is internationally recognized for her research on shock and detonation physics, the shock initiation of energetic materials, static to time-resolved spectroscopies, and studying materials at extreme conditions.
Education
Dattelbaum completed her Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1996 at James Madison University and participated in NSF-REU and departmental internships at the University. She completed an honors these on nitrogen ylide chemistry under Gary Crowther. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Thomas J. Meyer in 2001. Her work elucidated excited state electronic structures in Re, Ru, and Os polypyridyl complexes and she was the first to develop time-resolved near infrared spectroscopy using step-scan Fourier transform interferometry.
Research and career
Dattelbaum is an R&D Scientist within the Dynamic Experiments (M) division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has over 175 publications (h-index of 31), and is Past-Chair of the American Physical Society’s Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. Recent awards and honors include E. O. Lawrence Award (2020), Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow (2019), Laboratory Fellow’s Prize for Leadership (2016), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014), over 7 DOE/NNSA Defense Program Awards of Excellence, 2016 New Mexico Technology Council Women In Technology Finalist, and a 2007 LANL Star award. She is the LANL representative for the Stockpile Stewardship Academic Alliance, a steering committee member for the Chicago-DOE Alliance Center (CDAC), LANL’s elector for NSF’s COMPRES consortium, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Dynamic Behavior of Materials. She also serves on the Committee on Careers and Professional Development for the American Physical Society (2019-2021). Dattelbaum makes extensive use on X-ray Light Sources in her research. She pioneered work on Shock-dissipating fractal cubes based on Menger geometry.
Awards and recognition
2014 Fellow, American Physical Society
2016 Fellow’s Prize for Leadership, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2019 Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2020 Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence award
References
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American physicists
American women physicists
Living people
James Madison University alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Unintelligence%3A%20How%20Computers%20Misunderstand%20the%20World | Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World is a 2018 American book, a guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. It won the 2019 Prose Award in the Computing and Information Sciences category, and has been widely reviewed.
Overview
Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. Broussard has published features and essays in many outlets including The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Slate Magazine.
Broussard has published a wide range of books examining the intersection of technology and social practice. Her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, published in April 2018 by MIT Press, examines the limits of technology in solving social problems. A review in Times Higher Education states that
Reception
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World won the 2019 Prose Award in the Computing and Information Sciences category.
Positive reviews appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, American Scientist, ZDNet, and in the Royal Society of Chemistry's publication, Chemistry World. Dr. Broussard has given talks based on her book at the international meeting of the History of Science Society and, on a lecture series inspired by her work, as the keynote speaker for "AI: The Future is Now" at Central Washington University.
References
2018 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Artificial intelligence publications
Works about security and surveillance
MIT Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Palau | Time in Palau is given by Palau Time (PWT; UTC+09:00). Palau does not have an associated daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
The IANA time zone database gives Palau one time zone, Pacific/Palau.
References
Time in Palau |
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