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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20G.%20Amoroso | Edward G. Amoroso is an American computer security professional, entrepreneur, author, and educator based in the New York City area. His research interests have centered on techniques and criteria for measuring trustworthy software development. the application of these methods to secure software development for critical projects in the defense and aerospace industries, and redefining trust parameters for improved security in the cloud.
Early on in his career, he was involved with the design of security protections for the Unix operating system in support of the US Government Orange Book security evaluation criteria. This research lead to real-time security design and trusted software protections for the United States Ballistic Missile Defense Program, also known as Star Wars. He has also pioneered concepts related to microsegmentation, a design strategy that allows for the creation of secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments.
During his thirty-one years at AT&T, Amoroso held a variety of research, development, engineering, management, and leadership roles within the company, culminating in 2005 when he became the company's first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Outside of the job, his contributions to the emerging cybersecurity industry include numerous articles, interviews, talks, and videos, as well as six books addressing such topics as internet and intranet firewall strategies, intrusion detection, and the protection of large-scale national, critical infrastructure.
After retirement from A&T in 2016, Amoroso founded TAG Cyber LLC with a goal to “democratize cyber security analysis” by providing greater access to “high-quality, military grade analysis that larger firms pay millions for." The primary vehicle used to meet this goal is the Security Annual, a document available for free by download to enterprise security experts. The document includes research on fifty cybersecurity controls, as well as listings for thousands of commercial cybersecurity vendors.
As a member of the National Security Agency (NSA) Advisory Board (NSAAB), Amoroso worked directly with four Presidential administrations on issues related to national security, critical infrastructure protection, and cyber policy. In 2020, Business Insider tapped him as one of the country’s fifty leaders “who helped lead the cyber security industry through an unprecedented and tumultuous year.”
Education and early career accomplishments
Amoroso was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey and attended the Christian Brothers Academy before completing an undergraduate degree in physics in 1983 at Dickinson College. Upon graduation, he shifted his academic interests to computer science, and went on to receive M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1986 and 1991, respectively, from Stevens Institute of Technology. Several years later, Amoroso completed the Columbia Senior Executive Program (CSEP) at the Columbia Business School.
One of his early technical achievements was writing i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seriousness%20check | The seriousness check is a technique that can be used in online research (also called Internet-based research, Web-based research, Web-based experiments) to improve data quality. Nowadays, many scientific studies with human participants are conducted online and are accessible to a large diversity of participants. Nonetheless, many people just want to look at the different pages of the questionnaire, instead of giving carefully chosen answers to the questions. The seriousness check addresses this problem: In this approach the respondents are asked about the seriousness of their participation or for a probability estimate that they will complete the entire study or experiment. Thus, by using the seriousness check irrelevant data entries can be easily identified and be excluded from the data analysis.
Method
Seriousness checks can be implemented both before and after participation in the study. However, it has been shown that the seriousness check is a good predictor of dropout rates when implemented in the first page of the experiment.
There are Web-based tools, e.g. WEXTOR, that implement the seriousness check by default.
Impact
Several studies have shown that performing a seriousness check at the start of a study best predicts motivation and dropout probability. It was observed that of those answering “I would like to look at the pages only" around 75% will drop, while of those answering “I would like to seriously participate now" only ca. 10-15% will drop during the study. Overall, about 30-50% of visitors will fail the seriousness check, i.e. answer “I would like to look at the pages only". Moreover, it was found that emphasizing seriousness increased information seeking in participants and the time they spent on the study. Following up on this, it was shown that motivation and self-reported seriousness significantly predict several data quality indicators
References
Social sciences
Online research methods
Design of experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinoposthia | Actinoposthia is a genus of acoels belonging to the family Actinoposthiidae.
Species:
Actinoposthia beklemischevi
Actinoposthia biaculeata
Actinoposthia caudata
Actinoposthia longa
Actinoposthia pigmentea
References
Acoelomorphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent%20of%20Code | Advent of Code is an annual set of Christmas-themed computer programming challenges that follow an Advent calendar. It has been running since 2015.
The programming puzzles cover a variety of skill sets and skill levels and can be solved using any programming language. Participants also compete based on speed on both global and private leaderboards.
The event was founded and is maintained by software engineer Eric Wastl.
History
Advent of Code was created by Wastl, who is still the sole maintainer of the project.
The event was initially launched on December 1, 2015. By midnight EST (UTC−05:00), 81 people had signed up for the event, going slightly over Wastl's planned 70-participant capacity. Within 12 hours, about 4,000 people had joined, nearly causing a system crash. After 48 hours, there were about 15,000 people, and by the end of the 2015 event, the total had risen to 52,000.
In 2020, perhaps due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event saw a 50% growth in traffic, with over 180,000 participants worldwide.
On December 4, 2022, Wastl announced that the project had reached 1,000,000 registered users.
Puzzle design
Puzzles consist of two parts that must be solved in order, with the second part not revealed to the user until the first part is solved correctly. Participants earn one golden star for each part they finish, giving a possible total of two stars per day and fifty stars per year.
Each puzzle contains a fictional backstory that is the same for all participants, but each person receives a different piece of input data and should generate a different correct result.
Puzzles are released on a daily schedule from December 1 to December 25 at midnight EST. There is no time limit to complete the puzzles, and puzzles from past years' events remain available to solve.
Some participants have used tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to assist in solving the puzzles. In 2023, Wastl requested that users abstain from using these tools until after the leaderboard has been filled for the day, stating that "the leaderboards are for human competitors".
Preparations
According to a comment in the HTML code on each page of the event's website, Advent of Code runs using custom Perl code. Wastl claims to build almost the entire website himself, including the design, animations, prose, and puzzles. (He relies on other services for authentication, analytics, and social media integrations.)
Each year, Wastl creates and tests the 25 puzzles in advance. This takes 4–5 months of work each year.
References
External links
Programming contests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Languages%3A%20History%20and%20Fundamentals | Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals is a book about programming languages written by Jean E. Sammet. Published in 1969, the book gives an overview of the state of the art of programming in the late 1960s, and records the history of programming languages up to that time.
The book was considered a standard work on programming languages by professionals in the field. According to Dag Spicer, senior curator of the Computer History Museum, Programming Languages "was, and remains, a classic."
Contents
Programming Languages provides a history and description of 120 programming languages, with an extensive bibliography of reference works about each language and sample programs for many of them. The book outlines both the technical definition and usage of each language, as well as the historical, political, and economic context of each language.
Because Sammet was deeply involved in the history of programming language creation in the United States, she was able to give an insider's perspective. The author excluded most programming languages used only outside the US, and excluded those she considered not to be high-level programming languages.
Languages
The book covers both well-known and obscure programming languages. Among the 120 languages included in the book are:
ALGOL
ALTRAN
BASIC
COBOL, co-created by Sammet herself
COLINGO, from the mid-1960s, the name stands for Compile On-LINe and GO
Culler-Fried
FLOW-MATIC
FORTRAN
Klerer-May
Laning and Zierler
JOVIAL
Lincoln Reckoner, an interactive, distributed mathematics program including matrix operations for the TX-2 computer
MATHLAB
Magic Paper, a symbolic mathematics system
OMNITAB
PL/1
Protosynthex, a query language for English text
SIMULA
SNOBOL
History
Sammet pioneered the COBOL language while working at Sylvania and FORMAC (an extension of FORTRAN) while at IBM. While managing IBM's Boston Advanced Programming Department, Sammet began researching programming languages more widely and collecting documentation. Starting in 1967 she published annual reports in Computers and Automation, the first computer magazine, on the languages in use across the field of programming.
Computers were new and rare in the 1960s, and were a subject of fascination that book publishers hoped to profit from. Prentice Hall approached Sammet asking her to write about FORTRAN. Sammet said that she would rather write about every programming language. Prentice Hall and IBM told her to go ahead.
Sammet used her book to advocate for high-level languages at a time when assembly languages were popular and there was widespread doubt about the value of high-level languages in the field of programming.
An image of the Tower of Babel was printed on the dust jacket of the book, with the names of various programming languages printed on the bricks making up the tower. A similar image had appeared on the January 1961 issue of the Communications of the ACM.
See also
The Art of Computer Programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%20Yang | Bin Yang is a professor of computer science the department of computer science, Aalborg University. His research interests include data management and machine learning.
Education and career
Bin Yang received his bachelor and master degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Fudan University in China in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, he worked at the Databases and Information Systems department at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Germany. From 2011 to 2014, he was employed at the department of computer science, Aarhus University. He has been employed at Aalborg University since 2014.
At the present moment, he works on a number of different projects:
Time Series Analytics and Spatio-temporal Data Management, funded by Huawei, 2020 - 2022.
Light-AI for Cognitive Power Electronics, funded by Villum Synergy Programme, 2020 - 2022.
Advance: A Data-Intensive Paradigm for Dynamic, Uncertain Networks, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2019 - 2023.
Algorithmic Foundations for Data-Intensive Routing, funded by The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, 2019 - 2021.
Astra: AnalyticS of Time seRies in spAtial networks, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2018 - 2021.
Distinguished Scholar, funded by The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Aalborg University, 2018 - 2021.
Awards
Bin Yang has received a series of awards throughout his career:
Sapere Aude Research Leader, Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2018.
Distinguished Scholar, The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Aalborg University, 2018.
Early Career Distinguished Lecturer, 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2019.
Distinguished Program Committee Member, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019
Best paper award at IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2013), Milan, Italy
Best demo award at IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2013), Milan, Italy
2015 best paper in Pervasive and Embedded Computing, Shanghai Computer Academy
Selected publications
Sean Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo, Jilin Hu, Jian Tang, and Bin Yang. Unsupervised Path Representation Learning with Curriculum Negative Sampling. IJCAI 2021.
Razvan-Gabriel Cirstea, Tung Kieu, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang, and Sinno Jialin Pan. EnhanceNet: Plugin Neural Networks for Enhancing Correlated Time Series Forecasting. ICDE 2021.
Sean Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo, and Bin Yang. Context-Aware Path Ranking in Road Networks. TKDE 2021.
Simon Aagaard Pedersen, Bin Yang, and Christian S. Jensen. Anytime Stochastic Routing with Hybrid Learning. PVLDB 13(9): 1555-1567 (2020).
Tung Kieu, Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo, and Christian S. Jensen. Outlier Detection for Time Series with Recurrent Autoencoder Ensembles. IJCAI 2019, 2725–2732.
Jilin Hu, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang, and Christian S. Jensen. Stochastic Weight Completion for Road Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guosheng%20Yin | Guosheng Yin (; born in 1976) is a statistician, data scientist, educator and researcher in Biostatistics, Statistics, machine learning, and AI. Presently, Guosheng Yin is Chair in Statistics in Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. Previously, he served as the Head of Department and the Patrick S C Poon Endowed Chair in Statistics and Actuarial Science, at the University of Hong Kong. Before he joined the University of Hong Kong, Yin worked at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center till 2009 as a tenured Associate Professor of Biostatistics.
As an active researcher, he has published two books and over 220 scientific manuscripts in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Education
Guosheng Yin obtained his Bachelor's degree (BS) in Physics at Jilin University (Changchun, China) in 1995, Master's Degree (MA) in Physics at Temple University (PA, USA) in 1997 and earned Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC, USA) in 2003.
Research and career
Yin's research interests include AI, deep learning, machine learning, Bayesian methods, clinical trial methodologies, adaptive designs, survival analysis, high-dimensional data and change-point analysis. He started as an Assistant Professor and worked as a tenured Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Then, he joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor in 2009 and promoted to a tenured Professor in 2014. In 2017-2023, he served as the Head of Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and he became an endowed chair as the Patrick S C Poon Professor in Statistics and Actuarial Science in 2018.
Yin pioneered new statistical techniques to refine precision medicine, design adaptive clinical trials, and facilitate drug development. His versatile designs for clinical trials include adaptive phase I dose-finding methods, drug-combination studies, designs with late-onset outcomes and phase I/II trial designs. His ground-breaking research has ushered in advanced regression models and computational algorithms, enabling statistical modeling and theory application. He developed Bayesian generalized method of moments, established the connection between Bayesian posterior probability and p-value in hypothesis testing and further made a reconcilable interpretation on the well-known Lindley paradox. Yin has included machine learning and artificial intelligence in his research to amplify the precision and applicability of statistical science in solving real-world problems. Recently, he led a research team that integrated radiography and computer vision to develop a digital online diagnostic system for COVID-19 based on chest CT scans.
Awards
He has won recognition from various premier institutions:
Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) (2021)
World's top 1% of scientists by Clarivate Analytics (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconography%20of%20correlations | In exploratory data analysis, the iconography of correlations is a method which consists in replacing a correlation matrix by a diagram where the “remarkable” correlations are represented by a solid line (positive correlation), or a dotted line (negative correlation).
This idea also appears in Gaussian graphic models used in particular in genome mapping. But the iconography of correlations is more general in that it does not make an assumption about the Gaussian distribution, or not, of the variables, and relies only on the geometric aspect of the Correlation coefficient.
The first idea of the iconography of correlations dates back to 1975. Applied first to marine geochemistry, it was the subject of a thesis in 1981, and of an article in Cahiers de l'Analyse des Données in 1982. After that, the application of the method in many branches of the aerospace industry
for about fifteen years, explains, paradoxically, the relative confidentiality in which it remained for a long time, companies not generally wishing to shout their solutions on the roofs. Since the creation in 1997 of a first company distributing software based on the iconography of correlations, and its teaching in some universities, the bibliography has grown widely, particularly in the medical
and astrophysical sectors (mass spectrometry)
See also
The Bayesian Network is a graph in which the cause and effect relationships are "probabilized", unlike the Correlation Iconography, whose principle is "geometric".
References
External links
La représentation multidimensionnelle : une autre façon de présenter l’iconographie des corrélations
Data analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Bernhard | Jennifer Lyn Truman Bernhard (born 1966) is an American electrical engineer. She is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2010, Bernhard was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her development of multifunctional, reconfigurable, and integrated antennas.
Early life and education
Bernhard was born in 1966 and attended Poland Central School in Poland, Herkimer County, New York. After graduating in 1984, she enrolled at Cornell University for her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Following this, she earned her Master's degree and PhD at Duke University.
Career
Upon completing her PhD, Bernhard remained at Duke for a nine-month post-doctoral position and was immediately hired as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She was the only woman among the 14 faculty members in the department. In 1998, she was honored for excellence for college teaching. Bernhard remained at UNH for three years before joining her husband at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I).
U of I
Bernhard joined the faculty at U of I in 2000 and received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project "Intelligent Portable Antenna Systems for High-Speed Wireless Communication." In 2003, Bernhard was promoted to the rank of associate professor on indefinite tenure in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2010, Bernhard was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her development of multifunctional, reconfigurable, and integrated antennas. Following this, she was selected to serve as editor for Artech House's Antennas and Propagation Series.
Bernhard oversaw the first demonstration of 3D printed antennas on curvilinear surfaces. Later that year, she co-developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood, and other surfaces. In recognition of her academic achievements, Bernhard was named the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering in 2012.
In 2016, Bernhard was awarded the Donald Biggar Willett Professorship of Engineering to continue her research into "applications-oriented electromagnetic problems with an emphasis on theoretical analysis and experimental investigation." She was later announced as one of the 2018-19 President's Executive Leadership Fellows and named as the interim director of the Applied Research Institute.
Personal life
Bernhard and her husband Bill Bernhard have two children together.
References
External links
Living people
1966 births
People from Herkimer County, New York
American electrical engineers
Duke University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of New Hampshire faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem%20Rahma | Kareem Rahma is an Egyptian-American comedian, artist, and media entrepreneur.
He is one of the founders of Nameless Network, a media company started by a group of former Vice employees. Rahma is a senior advisor to XTR, a community of documentary filmmakers. Previously, he worked at The New York Times, where his title was Growth Editor.
He has been nominated for three Webby awards including Best Individual Performance alongside Sam Morril and Trevor Noah, Best Longform Comedy, and Best Short Form Comedy alongside Trevor Noah and Ted Lasso.
Early life and education
Rahma was born in Cairo and raised in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and attended the master of business communication program at the University of St. Thomas.
Entertainment and art works
Rahma is known for his comic and creative works. He has served as producer and executive producer for several films, including "Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad," and "Ferguson Rises," both of which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2020, he published a collection of poetry called "We Were Promised Flying Cars," a book of haiku about the future. The book, which has been described as dystopian, was promoted through a series of Cameo appearances by celebrities.
In 2020, he developed and produced "The Revolution Will be Televised," a video installation piece about police violence in the wake of George Floyd's murder. The video piece was projected onto the side of the Mill City Museum for several nights in June 2020.
Since 2022, Rahma has run a popular TikTok series, Keep the Meter Running. In the series, Rahma enters a cab in New York City, asks the driver to take him to their favorite spot in the city, and keep the meter running. The most viral video of the series has almost 8 million views on the app.
Also in 2022, Rahma starred in Nicolas Heller's short film Out of Order, which debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Festival.
Rahma began an Instagram series, Subway Takes, in 2023. In it, Rahma wears a 'big suit' and interviews people in the New York City subway, using a microphone clipped to a MetroCard.
Media career
In 2021, Rahma and Andrew Kuo co-founded the podcast company SomeFriends, which is focused on elevating BIPOC stories and talent, with the mission of entertaining everybody.
As Growth Editor at the New York Times, Rahma produced the outlet's first vertical video, a profile of Ryder Ripps that was available through Snapchat. After leaving the Times, Rahma (along with Alexandra Serio and Max Nelson) started a Kickstarter project called NYC.TV to bring public access TV online. This project brought short documentary films to The New York Times website in a project called Made With Kickstarter. The effort eventually led to the Nameless Network. Prior to working at the New York Times he was the Director of Marketing at VICE.
Rahma created "Museum of Pizza," a pop-up immersive art exhibition foc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Duchon | Deborah A. Duchon (June 24, 1949 – October 14, 2019) was an American anthropologist and Food Network personality. She was also the Director of Nutrition Education for New Americans Project and Director of the Center for Research and Anthropology at Georgia State University.
Early life
Deborah Duchon was born on June 24, 1949, in Covington, Kentucky, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
She graduated from Ohio University in 1971. She received her MA in anthropology from Georgia State University.
Career
Duchon co-founded the company Attorneys' Personal Services with her husband Paul Tamaroff soon after their marriage in 1988. Her later work in Anthropology was described in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as, "work in instructing emergency workers including police and first responders in cross cultural communication, and food related nutritional guidance".
Her academic work as a researcher and teacher at Georgia State University also focused on the Hmong people of Southeast Asia within their expat community in the United States. At the university, she also served as the Director of Nutrition Education for New Americans Project, a joint group hosted by the Geography and Anthropology departments, as well as the Director of the Center for Research and Anthropology. Duchon was also the founder of Culinary Historians of Atlanta.
Duchon gained fame for her recurring role on the Alton Brown's Food Network television series Good Eats. She appeared on NPR's radio show Morning Edition.
Death
Duchon died as the result of brain cancer on October 14, 2019.
References
2019 deaths
1949 births
American anthropologists
American anthropology writers
Academics from Kentucky
Academics from Ohio
People from Covington, Kentucky
Ohio State University alumni
Georgia State University alumni
Georgia State University faculty
Academics from Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Safety%20Review%20Board | The Cyber Safety Review Board (also called the Cybersecurity Safety Review Board) was established by the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, it will meet in cases of significant cybersecurity incidents. The board's creation was announced upon President Joe Biden's signing of Executive Order 14028 on May 12, 2021.
The Board serves a deliberate function to review major cyber events and make concrete recommendations that would drive improvements within the private and public sectors. The Board’s construction is a unique and valuable collaboration of government and private sector members, and provides a direct path to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the President to ensure the recommendations are addressed and implemented, as appropriate. As a uniquely constituted advisory body, the Board will focus on learning lessons and sharing them with those that need them to enable advances in national cybersecurity.
The CSRB is composed of 15 highly esteemed cybersecurity leaders from the federal government and the private sector that make up the inaugural board membership:
Robert Silvers, Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security (Chair)
Heather Adkins, Vice President, Security Engineering, Google (Deputy Chair)
Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator and Co-Founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, Inc.
Chris DeRusha, Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Management and Budget
Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director, Office of the National Cyber Director
Rob Joyce, Director of Cybersecurity, National Security Agency
Katie Moussouris, Founder and CEO, Luta Security
David Mussington, Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Chris Novak, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center
Tony Sager, Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist, Center for Internet Security
John Sherman, Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense
Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kemba Walden, Assistant General Counsel, Digital Crimes Unit, Microsoft
Wendi Whitmore, Senior Vice President, Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks
The first report of the board was published 11 July 2022 and described Log4j and Log4shell.
References
Presidency of Joe Biden
United States executive orders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley%20Shannon | Lesley Shannon is a Canadian professor who is Chair for the Computer Engineering Option in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. She is also the current NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC and Yukon. Shannon's chair operates the Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WWEST) program to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Education
Shannon received her B.Sc., Electrical Engineering with the Computer Option from the University of New Brunswick in 1999 (Canada). She then completed her Masters of Applied Sciences and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2001 and 2006, respectively.
Career
Shannon's primary area of interest is Computing System Design, including architectures, design methodologies, and programming models. Her PhD research focused on developing tools, architectures and methodologies that help reduce the design time of embedded systems, particularly those implemented using FPGAs.
Since her arrival at SFU, she expanded her research to include computing architectures for silicon and non-silicon based technologies (including FPGAs, heterogeneous computing, Networks-on-Chip (NoCs), and Multi-Processors Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs)).
Awards and publications
Shannon was awarded the 2014 APEGBC Teaching Award of Excellence in recognition of her classroom and out-of-class mentoring activities and her contributions in leading a redesign of the School's undergraduate curriculum at SFU.
Her publications include "Odin II - An Open-Source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for CAD Research", "FUSE: Front-End User Framework for O/S Abstraction of Hardware Accelerators", and "Using reconfigurability to achieve real-time profiling for hardware/software codesign". Additionally, she has published articles such as "TAIGA: A new RISC-V soft-processor framework enabling high performance CPU architectural features", and "Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units".
External links
Lesley Shannon publications indexed by Google Scholar
References
Living people
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Canadian women academics
University of Toronto alumni
University of New Brunswick alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getac | Getac () is a Taiwanese multinational technology company that specializes in rugged computers, mobile video systems, mechanical components, automotive parts, and aerospace fasteners. Getac was established on 5 October 1989 as a joint venture with GE Aerospace. A subsidiary of the MiTAC-Synnex Group, Getac has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 3005) since 2002. Getac is one of the major suppliers of rugged computers.
History
Getac was established on 5 October 1989 as a joint venture with GE Aerospace.
In 2009, Getac acquired Waffer Technology Corp., which resulted in Getac becoming the world's third largest aluminum-magnesium alloy producer and the leading supplier of seat belt spindles and spools.
In 2012, the company introduced the Getac Z710, the world's first rugged 7-inch Android tablet.
In 2018, the company expanded its video recording and software businesses with the acquisition of WHP Workflow Solutions Inc. and the formation of Getac Video Solutions.
In 2020, Getac was selected by BMW to provide rugged mobile devices for applications including R&D, production, warehouse logistics and workshop diagnostics.
In 2021, Getac was selected by the United States Air Force to provide rugged computers under the Client Computing Solutions Quantum Enterprise Buy (CCS-2 QEB) Program.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
External links
References
1989 establishments in Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 1989
Manufacturing companies established in 1989
2009 mergers and acquisitions
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Multinational companies headquartered in Taiwan
Taiwanese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigID | BigID, Inc. is an American software company based in New York that produces software for data security, compliance, privacy, and governance. The company sells software for managing sensitive and private data.
BigID was founded by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax in 2016, and as at 2021, it was valued at $1.25 billion.
History
BigID was established in 2016 with seed round funding of $2.1 million.
A Forbes article listed the company as one of the top 100 cloud computing. At the end of the year, the company had reached a valuation of one billion dollars.
In 2021, Inc 5000 listed BigID as the 19th fastest growing private company in America.
References
2016 establishments in New York (state)
Companies based in New York City
Computer security companies
Computer security software companies
Software companies established in 2016
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20programming | Scientific programming may refer to:
Scientific programming language, a family of programming languages
Scientific Programming, an academic journal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Smart%20filmography | Jean Smart is an American actress.
Filmography
Film
Sources: Internet Movie Database and Turner Classic Movies
Television
Sources: Internet Movie Database and TV Guide
Theatre
References
Actress filmographies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Central%20Regional%20Transit%20District | The South Central Regional Transit District operates a network of several local and intercity bus routes in southern New Mexico, serving Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Hatch/Garfield, Anthony, and Sunland Park, with three connections to El Paso, Texas, as well as serving many smaller communities along a network of eight fixed routes. Routes operate Monday through Friday, except the Yellow Line servicing Sunland Park, which operates Monday through Saturday. All routes cost $1 for adults, and $0.50 for children, seniors, students, and people with disabilities. Bus transfers between SCRTD buses are free. The service is supported primarily by federal grants and local funding from membership fees and Doña Ana County funding agreement for services.
History
The South Central Regional Transit District was created in November 2003 via the Regional Transit District Act signed by Governor Richardson.
Bus services launched February 2016. In 2016, the district, with a two-year funding agreement with Doña Ana County initiated transit service on four bus routes from Las Cruces to Sunland Park, Anthony and Chaparral. Later that year, the district secured a 5311 grant to support the operation of bus service in Dona Ana County and a 5310 grant to enhance the Purple route operating from Anthony to Sunland Park with connections to El Paso's Westside Transit Center. In 2018 transit service frequency increased on three of the four routes and ridership grew by 61 percent. Further, the district updated its Five-Year Financial and Service Plan to reflect new services and grant funding programmed or received.
Google Maps
SCRTD has collaborated with Google Maps to allow riders to view bus routes and the bus stops on the routes to make navigating the bus routes easier.
Expansion
In 2017 the District extended service to connect to El Paso County from Chaparral and Sunland Park. With additional funds, service frequency was improved. These actions improved ridership throughout the service area on all bus routes.
In collaboration with the City of Sunland Park, SCRTD began operations in Sunland Park and implemented the Yellow Line servicing Sunland Park and connecting to the Downtown Transfer Center in El Paso, Texas.
Green energy
In 2020, SCRTD purchased two hybrid-electric Gillig buses to service the Yellow Line. These buses are the first hybrid-electric buses to be implemented in Southern New Mexico. They are quiet, reliable, and fuel-efficient buses that provide many benefits. Some of the benefits of hybrid-electric buses are that they significantly reduce carbon emissions, reduce fuel consumption by around 33%, and they require less maintenance. They are also equally reliable as traditional buses, but have the added benefit of a smoother, quieter ride.
In 2020, SCRTD installed bus shelters with solar powered lighting. The solar powered lighting will help to provide an emissions free and safe environment for riders waiting at bus stops.
List of routes
Red Line: Mesil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth/Cybertech%20Sourcebook | Earth/Cybertech Sourcebook is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1989 for the science-fiction role-playing game 2300 AD.
Description
Earth/Cybertech Sourcebook gives a cyberpunk spin to the 2300 AD game. The book describes Earth in the 24th century, Earth's protective shell of defensive spaceships, the orbiting duty-free port called "Gateway", a description of the cyberpunk ethos, a range of personal bionic enhancements, and the concept of cyberspace.
The book includes a complete cyberpunk adventure, "Worm in the Big Apple".
Publication history
GDW created their popular space opera role-playing game Traveller in 1977. Nine years later, GDW released a new and unrelated role-playing game with a hard science theme, Traveller 2300. Although Traveller and Travller 2300 were unrelated games, the similar titles caused confusion, and in 1988, GDW released a second edition of the new game retitled 2300 AD. Perhaps because of the initial confusion, Traveller 2300 / 2300 AD sold poorly compared to Traveller.
About the same time, several competitors released cyberpunk-themed role-playing games which proved to be popular, including R. Talsorian Games's Cyberpunk (1988) and FASA's Shadowrun (1989). In an attempt to ride this wave, GDW published Earth/Cybertech Sourcebook in 1989 to give 2300 AD a cyberpunk theme. The 96-page book was written by Lester W. Smith, with interior art by Rick Harris, Rob Caswell, and Tim Bradstreet, and cover art by Janet Aulisio.
GDW also quickly published several other cyberpunk supplements for 2300 AD, but sales were poor. As games historian Shannon Appelcline noted in the 2014 book Designers & Dragons, "The last few 2300 books supported this darker cyberpunk future, but it wasn't enough to sustain the line, which came to an end in 1990."
Reception
In Issue 19 of The Games Machine (June 1989), John Woods thought most of this book was just okay, but called the 14-page chapter about cybertech "The supplement's most exciting part" and hoped GDW would release more material about this part of the game. Overall, he warned that "Like most of the 2300 AD add-ons, this supplement's emphasis is on ideas for referees to develop further rather than instant action-packed material." He concluded, "There’s plenty here to keep players happy, and with a little referee work and some judicious borrowing from book and film sources, it should provide dozens of adventures for any group, with the Cyberpunk rules adding quite literally a new dimension to roleplaying! Strongly recommended."
In the May 1989 edition of Games International (Issue 5), Paul Mason liked the layout of the book, although he felt some of the art was substandard. He also commented that several geographical errors "undermines the authority of the background material." Mason found the usefulness of the book to vary chapter by chgapter. He thought descriptions of nations in 2300 "were not the most riveting reading" and "don't enhance the usefulness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2020%29 | The twentieth season of American Idol premiered on February 27, 2022, on the ABC television network. Ryan Seacrest returned as host, and Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie returned as judges. Bobby Bones did not return this year as the in-house mentor.
Noah Thompson won the season on May 22, 2022, while HunterGirl was the runner-up, and Leah Marlene finished in third place.
Auditions
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Idol Across America virtual audition program that was launched last season was used again this season. Remote auditions took place from August 5 to October 28, 2021, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.
American Idol introduced the "platinum ticket" during the audition round in celebration of the show's twentieth season. A total of three platinum tickets were awarded, and they gave the recipients the opportunity to advance directly to the second round of Hollywood week as well as choose their partners for that week's duet challenge before the remaining contestants were paired. The platinum ticket recipients were HunterGirl, Kenedi Anderson, and Jay.
Hollywood week
Hollywood week was filmed December 6–9, 2021, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The format remained similar to last season. In the first round, each contestant chose and performed a song from a selection of musical genres (indie folk, pop, rock, R&B, soul, or country). This season, contestants were mentored by American Idol alumni: Lauren Alaina (country), David Cook (rock), Lee DeWyze (indie folk), Haley Reinhart (soul), Jordin Sparks (pop), and Ruben Studdard (R&B). Those who impressed the judges and the producers were advanced to the next round. The contestants were paired up by the judges and performed duets. They were given twelve hours to rehearse, which included consultation with a vocal coach, a stage rehearsal, and advice from one of the judges. Judges could advance either, neither, or both of the contestants to the Showstopper round.
Showstopper round
The Showstopper round featured the top 59 contestants performing for the judges and a live audience at the Orpheum Theatre. This round was aired on April 4, but only 33 contestants were aired. The following day, the judges narrowed the number of contestants down 24. The following is a list of the contestants who reached the top 24 and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 24 (April 10 & 11)
The top 24 contestants were split into two groups of twelve and performed one solo each at the Aulani resort in Kapolei, Hawaii. The first group aired on April 10, and the second group on April 11. Jimmie Allen served as a guest mentor for the first group, and Bebe Rexha for the second group. Two contestants from the first group and one from the second group were eliminated based on the public vote, and the rest advanced to the top 20. Contestants a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20pharmacy | Autonomous pharmacy is an approach to medication management that seeks to create a more automated and data-driven process for medication inventory and dispensing. The main concept behind autonomous pharmacy is to use technology in place of manual medication processes in order to help healthcare providers reduce medication errors, decrease costs and save staff time. Autonomous pharmacy may use a combination of hardware, software and technology-enabled services to allow pharmacists to more effectively manage medication dispersal.
Background
When a physician prescribes a medication, they expect the correct medication to be administered to the patient; however, the medication management process depends on people, who are subject to human error. In a hospital or health system, a mistake in carrying out a medication order can put patient care at risk, and can even be fatal. According to the World Health Organization, medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually in the U.S. Global costs of medication errors are estimated at $42 billion annually. With better automation that includes technologies such as barcoding, there is less chance for human error.
Health-system pharmacists spend only a quarter of their working hours on clinical activities. Automating medication distribution tasks would enable pharmacists to spend more time working with patients to address their medication-use issues and provide clinical support.
The concept of an autonomous pharmacy is compatible with prior work to advance pharmacy practice, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)'s Practice Advancement Initiative 2030 (PAI 2030), whose themes include harnessing data and advancing pharmacy technician roles. Industry leaders, including pharmacy officers from notable hospitals and health systems, have joined to form the Autonomous Pharmacy Advisory Board. The board aims to transform the pharmacy care delivery model through the use of technology to achieve the fully autonomous pharmacy. It has established a five-level framework for achieving the autonomous pharmacy, similar to how levels of driving automation have been defined for autonomous vehicles. Another analog to the autonomous pharmacy framework is the eight-stage Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model developed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to score hospitals regarding their electronic medical records (EMR) capabilities.
Application
Health systems are in various stages of progression along the autonomous pharmacy framework based on the medication management technology and data analytics they have implemented. Stanford Health Care uses robotic devices for storage, retrieval, and packaging of medications in the pharmacy. Texas Children's Hospital uses similar robotics technology in its central pharmacy and a robotic system for preparing intravenous (IV) drugs. This frees up time for the hospital's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milica%20Stojanovic | Milica Stojanovic is an American-Serbian engineer. She is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Stojanovic's work focuses on wireless information transmission through challenging environments and in particular on underwater acoustic communications.
Early life and education
Stojanovic was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, where she completed her Bachelor of Science diploma at the University of Belgrade. Following this, she moved to the United States and enrolled at Northeastern University for her Master's degree in 1991 and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1993. Upon graduation, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Career
Following her fellowship, Stojanovic began working as a Principal Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was affiliated with the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory and also served as an Associate Director for Research at the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Stojanovic eventually joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at her alma mater, Northeastern University, in 2008 but remained affiliated with Woods Hole. As an associate professor, she focused on improving the transmission of acoustical signals underwater. In the same year, Stojanovic was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her contributions to underwater acoustic communications.
By 2012, Stojanovic was appointed an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. She also serves as the Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society Technical Committee for Underwater Communication, Navigation, and Positioning. While serving in these roles, she was recognized for her "sustained contributions towards the development, analysis and development of underwater acoustic communication and sensing networks" with the 2015 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society's Distinguished Technical Achievement Award. Stojanovic was also awarded the 2019 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award for "having done outstanding technical work in the broad field of communications engineering, and for achieving a high degree of visibility in the field." In 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Aarhus University in Denmark and was elected into the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia.
Research
Stojanovic's work focuses on wireless information transmission through challenging environments and in particular on underwater acoustic communications. It addresses the problems of signal transmission and detection, modeling of random variations in the propagation medium, and design of communication networks. Early in her career, Stojanovic designed bandwidth-efficient signal processing methods that contributed to the development of the first phase-coherent high-speed acoustic modem. Subsequently, she focu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20Planet%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20Enterprise%29 | "Rogue Planet" is the eighteenth episode (production #118) of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise airing on the UPN network.
While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting indigenous creatures for recreation.
The episode had a Nielsen rating of 3.3, and received generally negative reviews.
Plot
A planet appears on sensors, adrift and without a solar system, so Captain Archer has Sub-Commander T'Pol scan the planet. Lieutenant Reed detects a ship near the equator, and an away team finds the remains of a campsite two hundred meters from the alien shuttle. T'Pol and Reed return to the shuttle while Archer and Ensign Sato stay. As they walk through the jungle, they are surprised by two aliens. Both parties return to the camp, where they find Archer and Sato with another called Damrus. The Eska call the planet Dakala and they permit the away team to spend the night. Over dinner, Damrus explains that they have been visiting Dakala for nine generations to hunt the wildlife.
As the away team turns in for the night, Archer hears a woman's voice calling his name. He finds a blonde woman in a clearing, but she runs away. Later, no one reports seeing anything unusual. In the morning, T'Pol goes to investigate a geothermal shaft and Archer sees the woman again, looking distressed, but again she disappears. Meanwhile, Damrus and Burzaan detect their quarry, a wraith which attacks Burzaan. Archer has Burzaan sent back to Enterprise for treatment, and Doctor Phlox reports that he has found cellular residue in Burzaan's wound.
By the steam vents, Archer encounters the woman again. She says that her kind can assume the form of anything on the planet, and that her kind want the hunting to stop. Later, Damrus explains that the reason they visit Dakala is because the prey can sense their thoughts, making them challenging to hunt and kill. Back on board Enterprise, Archer asks Phlox if he can find a way for the wraiths to mask their chemical signature, and soon, on Dakala, the hunting party begins having problems detecting them. Damrus wonders why, but Archer merely blames it on bad luck. The Eska depart and Archer encounters the woman one final time. As she moves off into the forest, she assumes her natural form: a large gastropod.
Production
Chris Black was the sole credited writer but noted that many others contributed to creating the episode. The episode began as pitch from science advisor Andre Bormanis who suggested an orphan planet without a sun, that managed to support life because of its extreme geothermal vents. It was combined with other ideas, the premise of doing some kind of a "safari show", and producer Rick Berman added the idea of using a poem by William Butler Yeats called "The Song of Wandering Aengus".
Black explained the episode was not intended to be an anti-hunting story, as his family would hunt, and that it was about finding a way to explore the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202020%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Digital Album Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2020 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one albums of 2020 (Australia)
References
Digital 2020
Australia digital albums
Number-one digital albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Rosa%E2%80%93Tarlac%20Road | Santa Rosa–Tarlac Road, signed as National Route 58 (N58) of the Philippine highway network, is a major primary road in the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Tarlac. It traverses and connects through the municipalities of Santa Rosa, Zaragoza, La Paz and the city of Tarlac.
History
The road is designated as N58 during the assignment of routes.
Route description
The road serves as a major highway when going to La Paz or Zaragoza and Tarlac from Santa Rosa and vice versa.
Santa Rosa to Zaragoza
The road starts at the junction with Daang Maharlika (N1/AH26) and Santa Rosa–Fort Magsaysay Road in Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija. The road continues west and passes to the municipality of Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija.
La Paz to Tarlac City
The road is named as Tarlac–Santa Rosa Road and it reaches La Paz and the province of Tarlac. It reaches the city of Tarlac and makes a junction on Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway, and Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEX). The road meets its western terminus at its intersection with MacArthur Highway (N2) and the unnumbered Juan Luna Street in Tarlac City.
Intersections
References
Roads in Tarlac
Roads in Nueva Ecija |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Service%20Executive%20ransomware%20attack | On 14 May 2021, the Health Service Executive (HSE) of Ireland suffered a major ransomware cyberattack which caused all of its IT systems nationwide to be shut down.
It was the most significant cybercrime attack on an Irish state agency and the largest known attack against a health service computer system. Bloomberg News reported that the attackers used the Conti ransomware. The group responsible was identified as a criminal gang known as Wizard Spider, believed to be operating from Russia. The same group is believed to have attacked the Department of Health with a similar cyberattack.
On 19 May, the Financial Times reviewed private data for twelve individuals which had appeared online as a result of the breach. On 28 May, the HSE confirmed confidential medical information for 520 patients, as well as corporate documents were published online.
Background
The attackers began by sending a malicious email to a workstation on 16 March 2021. The email was opened on 18 March. A malicious Microsoft Excel file was downloaded, which allowed the attackers access to HSE systems. The attackers gained more access over the following weeks. The HSE antivirus software detected activity on 31 March, but could not block it as it was set to monitor mode.
On 13 May the cybersecurity provider for the HSE emailed the Security Operations team that there had been unhandled threats on at least 16 systems since 7 May. The Security Operations team had the server team restart servers.
The HSE was alerted to the attack at 4am on 14 May 2021. The attack affected both national and local systems, involved in all core services, with the HSE taking down their IT system in order to protect it from the attack and to give the HSE time to consider options.
The attack occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ireland's COVID-19 vaccination programme was not affected by the attack and proceeded as planned; however, the COVID-19 general practitioner and close contact referral system was down, requiring these individuals to attend walk-in sites rather than attend an appointment.
The independent TD (Member of Parliament) Cathal Berry stated that the National Cyber Security Centre which is responsible for the state's cyber security, had only 25 members of staff, a budget of €5 million a year, no dedicated premises, and that its position of Director had been vacant for a year due to its salary of €89,000 a year. The National Cyber Security Centre is under the remit of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
Perpetrator & methodology
The National Cyber Security Centre identified the penetration testing tool Cobalt Strike, sold by American IT company HelpSystems, as being used to move through and infect HSE and Department of Health systems, to run executable files, and to deploy a variant of the Conti ransomware. Cobalt Strike Beacon was detected on infected systems, which allowed them to be controlled and for software to be deployed remotely.
The group responsibl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycies | Spycies () is a 2019 Chinese-French computer-animated spy film directed by Guillaume Ivernel and Zhiyi Zhang. It was funded by iQIYI Motion Pictures and produced by Lux Populi. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on 14 June 2019 and at the Shanghai International Film Festival in China on 17 June 2019 (where it was nominated for Best Animated Feature) before being theatrically released in China on 11 January 2020.
Synopsis
Special agent cat Vladimir Willis is not good at obeying orders, so he is sent on a disciplinary assignment to a remote off-shore platform to guard a top-secret cargo, accompanied with timid rookie rat Hector. But when a gang of mysterious figures break into the platform and steal the cargo, Vladimir and Hector must retrieve the cargo.
Voice cast
Kirk Thornton as Vladimir, an chartreux cat who works as a secret agent the main protagonist.
Dino Andrade as Hector, a lazy but timid rat who accompanies Vladmir.
Karen Strassman as Chloe, a rabbit.
Salli Saffioti as Mia, a bee actress.
Jamieson Price as Doc, an grizzly bear scientist and as Kotor, an elderly, hairless woolly mammoth who was rescued from extinction by Doc and plans to get revenge on him with the name of "The Demon of the Cold", the main antagonist.
Lauren Alexandre-Lasseur as Melissa, a female woolly mammoth.
Debi Derryberry as Melinda and Jim, a couple of hippopotamus, a chicken, a pig, and a giraffe.
Barbara Goodson as Antiques Sellers, a spider.
David Lodge as a frog reporter, Dr. Snub-nosed monkey, mole patient, mole doctor, an alligator, a parrot and Thunderbolt a criminal leopard.
John Hasler as Mainim, an elephant calf who is the son of Kotor and Melissa.
Production
In Dragon Hunters, director Guillaume Ivernel developed semi-realistic choices for the characters that integrated into textured and photo-realistic universes. This style offers the viewer an image at the crossroads of animation and live action.
Over 250 to 300 people worked on the film. The character designs, modelling were done in France at the Lux Populi studios in Paris using Maya software. With some parts of the rendering being done at another studio in Paris the Les Androids Associés. Parts of the screenplay was designed by the French team, with the film's animation being done back in France at Jungler along with the modeling of some characters, in China, Lux Populi's facilities in Beijing did the rest alongside the post production.
Release
Spycies premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on 14 June 2019 and at the Shanghai International Film Festival in China on 17 June 2019, before being theatrically released in China on 11 January 2020. It grossed 128 million yuan, becoming the second highest-grossing animated film of 2020 in China and the seventeenth highest-grossing animated film in China overall.
Critical reception
The film received generally positive reviews in China, but received more negative reviews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%2000s | MTV 00s is a pay-TV channel which carries mainly music videos from the 2000s. It was launched on 2 August 2021, replacing VH1 Europe. The network carries no advertising.
History
Temporary and permanent channels
From 29 May to 22 June 2020, MTV OMG was temporarily rebranded to MTV 00s.
Starting from 5 June 2021, the channel VH1 Europe introduced more singles from the 00s era, and partially adapted its programming towards it. 1 August 2021, - the 40th anniversary of MTV - the channel VH1 Europe has stopped an broadcasts of the regular programs, and broadcast only 00s singles with a new grid of an programms MTV 00s and with logo VH1. Since August 2, 2021, the channel MTV 00s broadcasts round the clock, having replaced VH1 Europe.
The network does carry some songs from 1999 which did chart instead in 2000.
References
Music television channels
MTV
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in North Macedonia
2021 establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conti%20%28ransomware%29 | Conti is a is a ransomware that has been observed since 2020, believed to be distributed by a Russia-based group. It operates as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), enabling other cybercriminals to deploy this malware for their own purposes. Conti is particularly known for its utilization of double extortion techniques, where it not only encrypts victim's files but also steals and threatens to publish sensitive data if the ransom is not paid.
All versions of Microsoft Windows are known to be affected. The United States government offered a reward of up to $10 million for information on the group in early May of 2022.
Description
RaaS model
Conti's ransomware as a service (RaaS) model vary in its structure from a typical affiliate model. Conti developers probably pay the deployers of the ransomware a wage rather than a percentage of the proceeds used by affiliate cyber actors and receives a share of the proceeds from a successful attack.
Tactics and Techniques
Conti ransomware employs various stealthy techniques, including the use of BazarLoader, to infiltrate its target systems. The ransomware is designed to encrypt files and render them inaccessible until a ransom is paid. It is often delivered through phishing emails, exploit kits, or compromised websites. Conti has gained notoriety for targeting healthcare institutions, as seen in its attacks on organizations in Ireland and New Zealand.
The Conti group has also been known to sell access to victim organizations that have refused to pay the ransom. This practice not only adds another layer of pressure on victims but also provides an additional source of revenue for the ransomware gang. These tactics, combined with the group's sophisticated techniques, have made Conti one of the most prolific and capable ransomware groups operating in 2021.
The software uses its own implementation of AES-256 that uses up to 32 individual logical threads, making it much faster than most ransomware. The method of delivery is not clear.
The gang behind Conti has operated a site from which it can leak documents copied by the ransomware since 2020. The same gang has operated the Ryuk ransomware. The group is known as Wizard Spider and is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Once on a system it will try to delete Volume Shadow Copies. It will try to terminate a number of services using Restart Manager to ensure it can encrypt files used by them. It will disable real time monitor and uninstall the Windows Defender application. Default behaviour is to encrypt all files on local and networked Server Message Block drives, ignoring files with DLL, .exe, .sys and .lnk extensions. It is also able to target specific drives as well as individual IP addresses.
According to NHS Digital the only guaranteed way to recover is to restore all affected files from their most recent backup.
Membership and structure
The most senior member is known by the aliases Stern or Demon and acts as CEO. Another member known as Mango acts a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Mouse%20Funhouse | Mickey Mouse Funhouse is an American computer-animated preschool television series created by Phil Weinstein and Thomas Hart and is the successor to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures. The series debuted on Disney Junior on August 20, 2021. In October 2021, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on November 4, 2022. In June 2022, the series was renewed for a third season.
Disney Junior created the series to continue its pattern of original pre-school animated series set within the Mickey Mouse universe. Many key members of the creative team of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures developed the series.
Plot
Mickey Mouse returns with his friends Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto. The friends meet Funny, an enchanted, talking and energetic funhouse residing in the Funhouse Forest outside of Hot Dog Hills alongside his pet doghouse Teddy and a sentient weathervane named Windy.
After Mickey and his friends (where they are sometimes referred to as the "Funhouse Friends") climb the Stairs to Anywhere, Funny magically transports them from the Adventure Doors to a range of Adventure Worlds which allows them to embark on adventures unique to the Adventure Worlds that include but aren't limited to Majestica, Sunny Gulch, Halloweenville, the Adventure Sea Islands, the Land of Myths and Legends, and Herotropolis as they assume the outfits associated with each of the Adventure Worlds. It is in these Adventure Worlds where they also meet its inhabitants and alter-egos of characters they know. In addition, they also learn some morals regarding the episode's content.
Characters
Main characters
Mickey Mouse (voiced by Bret Iwan) - The leader of the Funhouse Friends.
Minnie Mouse (voiced by Kaitlyn Robrock) - Mickey Mouse's girlfriend.
Cream Puff (vocal effects provided by Jan Johns) - Minnie's pet puppy.
Donald Duck (voiced by Tony Anselmo) - A duck who is Mickey's short-tempered but good-natured best friend. A running gag after a trip to one of the Adventure Worlds has him ejected from a nearby pipe.
Daisy Duck (voiced by Tress MacNeille in season 1, Debra Wilson in season 2) - Donald Duck's girlfriend.
Goofy (voiced by Bill Farmer) - The dimwitted friend of Mickey. A running gag after a trip to one of the Adventure Worlds is that he would be given a brief ride when his backpack gets hooked up on the backpack hanger.
Pluto (vocal effects provided by Bill Farmer) - Mickey's pet dog.
Funny (voiced by Harvey Guillén) - An enchanted talking funhouse living in the Funhouse Forest who can take anyone to any of the Adventure Worlds upon the Funhouse Friends going up the Stairs to Anywhere and entering one of the Adventure Doors to a specific Adventure World. Funny can also change his shape and appearance to match the new surroundings and project his face on any surface to speak with anyone. When it comes to either traveling on the road, going to Outer Space, or flying t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.3176 | Y.3176 is an ITU-T Recommendation, building upon Y.3172 and Y.3173, specifying a framework for evaluation intelligence levels of future networks such as 5G (IMT-2020).
This Recommendation provides high-level requirements and the architecture for integrating ML marketplaces in future networks including IMT-2020. Based on these requirements, the architecture for the integration of ML marketplaces is described taking into account the architectural framework in Y.3172 as a basis.
Keywords
architecture, federation, future networks, IMT-2020, life-cycle, machine learning, management, marketplace, model, network functions, requirements
References
External links
ITU-T Recommendation Y.3176
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T Y Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka%21%20%282022%20TV%20series%29 | Eureka! is a computer-animated television series created by Norton Virgien and Niamh Sharkey that premiered on Disney Junior on June 22, 2022. It was released the same day on Disney+. The series is produced by animation studio Brown Bag Films. It centers on Eureka, a young prehistoric girl who uses scientific thinking to solve problems.
Premise
In the Stone Age location of Rocky Falls, a prehistoric girl named Eureka enjoys going on adventures and building gadgets to help improve the lifestyles of her family and friends.
Characters
Main
Eureka (voiced by Ruth Righi) is a liberal and open-minded prehistoric girl who is also an inventor way ahead of her time. She was credited as being responsible for inventing the wheel. To make an invention, Eureka would do something called "Thinkering" (a combination of the words thinking and tinkering).
Roxy (voiced by Renée Elise Goldsberry) is Eureka's mother who is the proprietor and chef of Paleo, Rocky Falls' only restaurant.
Rollo (voiced by Lil Rel Howery) is Eureka's father who owns the pottery shop and is an expert potter.
Ohm (voiced by Javier Muñoz) is Eureka's teacher who has an outdoor classroom.
Pepper (voiced by Kai Zen) is one of Eureka's best friends. She's courageous and has super-strength.
Barry (voiced by Devin Trey Campbell) is one of Eureka's best friends. He's an artist and a drummer.
Murphy (vocal effects provided by Fred Tatasciore) is Eureka's pet woolly mammoth. Eureka adopted Murphy after saving him from being trapped under a fallen tree branch.
Dipply (vocal effects provided by Fred Tatasciore) is Pepper's pet diplosaurus.
Recurring
Bog (voiced by Cade Tropeano) is a conservative boy and Eureka's classmate who likes being the leader.
Ump (vocal effects provided by Fred Tatasciore) is Bog's pet Glyptosaurus which evokes the traits of a Glyptodon and an armadillo.
Clod (voiced by Connor Andrade) is a turtle-loving boy and Eureka's classmate who is very loyal to Bog.
Julia (voiced by Madigan Kacmar) is a girl who is one of Eureka's classmates and an expert at playing the flute.
Ember (voiced by Sasha Knight) is a girl with blonde and blue hair who is one of Eureka's classmates.
Sierra (voiced by Ryan Michelle Bathé) is Barry's mother who is Rocky Falls' residential dentist.
Sandy (voiced by Wendell Pierce) is Barry's father who is Rocky Falls' residential handyman.
Dima (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is Barry's grandfather.
Verna (voiced by Cree Summer) is Barry's grandmother.
Wanda (voiced by Loretta Devine) is Eureka's paternal grandmother who is a traveler.
Yonder (vocal effects provided by Fred Tatasciore) is a ground sloth who is Wanda's pet and travel companion.
Yurt (voiced by Sheila E.) is a celebrity drummer whom Barry looks up to.
Rockanne (voiced by Misty Copeland) is a dance instructor.
Chee (voiced by Ellie Kemper) is the school librarian.
Kanga Bird (also known as KB) (voiced by Jack McBrayer) is a dinosaur that evokes the traits of a Kanga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych%203%3A%20This%20Is%20Gus | Psych 3: This Is Gus is a 2021 American mystery-comedy film. A direct sequel to the second film from 2020 and the third installment of the Psych film series, based on the USA Network dramedy series of the same name, the film was released on November 18, 2021 to the streaming service Peacock. James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson, and Corbin Bernsen all reprised their roles from the series and previous two films, with recurring actor Kurt Fuller and previous guest star Curt Smith also appearing. The film was directed by series creator Steve Franks, who co-wrote the script with Roday Rodriguez, and plans to produce three further sequels.
Plot
Prior to Gus and Selene's wedding and the birth of their son, Shawn and Gus must track down Selene's estranged husband, while Gus is in 'groomzilla' mode. After the recovery, Lassiter works to determine the future of his police career.
Cast
Production
On May 13, 2021, Peacock announced the film, with production set to begin in the summer. On October 9, 2021 at New York Comic Con, it was announced the film would premiere on November 18, 2021. Along with the returning main cast, Kurt Fuller reprised his role as Woody Strode and Curt Smith returned as himself.
Reception
TV Guide rated the film a four and a half out of five.
Future
Steve Franks has stated his intent for the Psych film series to consist of at least six films, of which This is Gus serves as the third.
Notes
References
External links
Psych (film series)
American comedy-drama films
American detective films
American sequel films
2020s English-language films
2021 films
2021 comedy-drama films
Peacock (streaming service) original films
Films set in Santa Barbara, California
Films based on television series
Sequel films
Sequel films to television series
Films directed by Steve Franks
2020s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dramas%20broadcast%20by%20Vietnam%20Digital%20Television%20%28VTC%29 | This is a list of dramas released by the Vietnam Digital Television network (VTC).
#B
#C
#Đ
#H
#K
#N
#S
#T
#V
See also
List of dramas broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
List of dramas broadcast by Hanoi Radio Television (HanoiTV)
List of programmes broadcast by VTC
Notes
Cinema for Youth (Vietnamese: Điện ảnh Trẻ, later Tạp chí Điện ảnh Trẻ) is a program for young Vietnamese filmmakers and audiences launched on 18 Feb, 2007. The dramas aired from 12:30 to 13:30 every Sunday (moved to 09:30 to 10:30 in 2008) as a part of the program.
Since June 27, 2015, VTC has become an affiliated units of VOV.
References
External links
VTC.gov.vn – Official VTC Digital Television Website
VTC News – Official VTC Online Newspaper Website
VOV.vn – Official VOV Online Newspaper Website
Vietnam Television original programming
Vietnam Digital Television (VTC)
VTC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Cyber%20Command | This is a list of all commanders, deputy commanders, senior enlisted leaders, and chiefs of staff of the United States Cyber Command.
Current headquarters staff
Paul M. Nakasone, Commander
Timothy D. Haugh, Deputy Commander
Bradley L. Pyburn, Chief of Staff
Matteo G. Martemucchi, Director, Intelligence (J2)
Ryan M. Janovic, Director, Operations (J3)
Ahmed T. Williamson, Deputy Director, Current Operations (J3 DDCO)
Matthew C. Paradise, Deputy Director, Future Operations (J3 DDFO)
Dennis Velez, Director, Plans and Policy (J5)
Joseph R. Buzzella, Director, Capability and Resource Integration (J8)
List of commanders of the United States Cyber Command
List of deputy commanders of the United States Cyber Command
List of senior enlisted leaders of the United States Cyber Command
List of chiefs of staff of the United States Cyber Command since 2013
Notes
See also
United States Cyber Command
Leadership of the United States Africa Command
Leadership of the United States European Command
Leadership of the United States Indo-Pacific Command
Leadership of the United States Northern Command
Leadership of the United States Space Command
Leadership of the United States Strategic Command
Leadership of the United States Transportation Command
References
Lists of American military personnel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20Fran%C3%A7aise%20de%20Hambourg | The École Française de Hambourg Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a French international school in Hamburg, Germany, and is part of the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) network.
The school offers a nursery school (école maternelle) and primary school (école primaire), both in French. Graduates have priority for entering the French-speaking branch of the DFG/LFA Hamburg, a French-German secondary school.
Until August 2020, the École Française was known as Lycée Français de Hambourg Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and also offered secondary education. At that point, the Lycée Français was split into the École Française and the DFG / LFA Hamburg.
The school is private and both approved by the French Ministry of Education and the educational authorities of Hamburg (as an Ersatzschule). It is run financially by a nonprofit German registered association (e.V.), whose board of directors is elected for 2 years. In 2020, the first class of the Franco-German high school opened, temporarily on the site of the French School of Hamburg, as the move of the Franco-German high school to a new school campus in the district of Altona is planned for 2023.
See also
La Gazette de Berlin
References
External links
École Française de Hambourg Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
International schools in Hamburg
Buildings and structures in Eimsbüttel
French international schools in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puavo | Puavo is a management software and a Debian-based operating system for schools. It consists of Puavo Web and Puavo OS.
Puavo Web
Puavo Web manages users and the devices. External applications with LDAP support can be connected to the Puavo database.
Puavo OS
The operating system Puavo OS has an Gnome-Desktop; Firefox and LibreOffice are pre-installed. Older computers are supported. Puavo OS has roots in the Linux Terminal Server Project.
History
Puavo has been developed by Opinsys for Finnish schools since 2005. Individual schools in Germany and Switzerland also use the software.
See also
Edubuntu
Skolelinux
References
External links
Official Website
Github repository
Linux Terminal Server Project
Debian-based distributions
Educational operating systems
Free educational software
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat%20Wombat%20%28film%29 | Combat Wombat is a 2020 Australian 3D computer-animated superhero film directed by Richard Cussó and written by Matthew James Kinmonth. A stand-alone sequel to The Wishmas Tree (2019), it is the second film in Like a Photon Creative's The Tales from Sanctuary City franchise, and was financed by Screen Queensland and Screen Australia. It premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival before being released in Australian theatres on 15 October 2020, distributed by Odin Eye's Entertainment.
Premise
Lazy wombat Maggie Diggins becomes Combat Wombat, Sanctuary City's new superhero after she begrudgingly saves a citizen from falling to his death. However, her rising stardom displeases local superhero Flightless Feather, who hatches a plan for Maggie's demise. But in the process, Maggie uncovers a conspiracy that could put the city in grave danger, and it is up to her to expose it.
Voice cast
Deborah Mailman as Maggie Diggins / Combat Wombat
Ed Oxenbould as Sweetie
Frank Woodley as Flightless Feather
Judith Lucy as PR manager CeCe
George Pullar as Bradley Burrows / Raccoon Bandit
Release and reception
Combat Wombat was released in Australian theatres on 15 October 2020, distributed by Odin Eye's Entertainment. It had a limited release to 42 screens. At the box office it grossed $164,199. It received positive reviews from critics.
References
External links
2020 computer-animated films
2020 films
2020s Australian animated films
2020s superhero films
Animated superhero films
Australian computer-animated films
The Tales from Sanctuary City
2020s English-language films
Screen Australia films
2020s Australian films
Children's films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Quokka%3A%20World%27s%20Scariest%20Animal | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal is a 2020 Australian 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Ricard Cussó and written by Ryan Greaves. Financed by Screen Queensland and Screen Australia, it is the third and final film in Like a Photon Creative's The Tales from Sanctuary City franchise. The plot concerns the unbearably adorable but optimistic quokka named Daisy who has the impossible dream of winning the city's World's Scariest Animal competition. The film opened with a limited release in Australia in January 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and October 29, 2021 in the United States.
Premise
When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible – to win the annual ‘World’s Scariest Animal’ championship, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up, former champion, a grouchy Saltwater Crocodile, to help her achieve her dreams and prove that champions can come in all sizes.
Cast
Angourie Rice as Daisy Quokka
Sharnee Tones as Ronda Saltie
Sam Neill as Frankie Scales
Release and reception
The film had its world premiere at the Children's International Film Festival (CHIFF) in Australia on 28 November 2020. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas, Daisy Quokka opened in Australia with a limited release in January 2021, distributed by Odin Eye's Entertainment. It was released in the United Kingdom on 2 July, making $72,971 in its opening week for a total of $146,172. It has a worldwide total of $174,186.
References
External links
The Tales from Sanctuary City
2020 films
2020 computer-animated films
2020s children's animated films
2020s Australian animated films
Australian children's films
Australian children's animated films
Australian computer-animated films
2020s English-language films
Australian animated feature films
Australian animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Eugen is a masculine given name. It may also refer to:
Christoph Eugen (born 1976), Austrian Nordic combined skier
Eugen Systems, a French video game developer
European Geology Students Network (EUGEN), a German youth organization
See also
German cruiser Prinz Eugen, German World War II heavy cruiser
, Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Navy ships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Tonight | CNN Tonight is the title of several news programs that were broadcast by U.S. cable network CNN. The CNN Tonight branding has primarily been used for transitional programs aired by CNN in the evening and prime time hours as part of changes to its programming lineup—including the departure (either voluntary or via termination) or reassignment of anchors. It was first used for a short-lived program in 2001 anchored by Bill Hemmer.
In November 2009, CNN Tonight temporarily replaced Lou Dobbs Tonight after Lou Dobbs' departure from the network. In April 2014, a third iteration premiered as a 10 p.m. ET program, as part of schedule changes following the cancellation of Piers Morgan Live; this iteration would later become a full-time program hosted by Don Lemon, and was renamed Don Lemon Tonight in May 2021.
In December 2021, the title was reinstated in the 9 p.m. hour as a replacement for Cuomo Prime Time (and produced by that program's staff), after Chris Cuomo was fired from the network over allegations and evidence of sexual misconduct. Don Lemon departed his program in October 2022 to move to CNN This Morning; on October 10, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Jake Tapper became an interim host of the 9 p.m. hour, and Don Lemon Tonight was replaced with hours of CNN Tonight hosted by Alisyn Camerota and Laura Coates.
In late-February 2023, the 9 p.m. hour was replaced with an anthology of special reports and interviews under the branding CNN Primetime. The hour's permanent replacement, The Source with Kaitlan Collins, premiered on July 10. In August 2023, CNN subsequently announced that Abby Phillip and Laura Coates would become permanent hosts of the 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. hours as CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip and Laura Coates Live respectively.
History
As a transitional replacement for Lou Dobbs Tonight
On November 11, 2009, Lou Dobbs abruptly announced his departure from CNN and Lou Dobbs Tonight to "pursue new opportunities". His departure came amid growing controversy over his promotion of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. CNN announced that Lou Dobbs Tonight would be replaced in the 7:00 p.m. ET hour by CNN Tonight, an interim program hosted by a rotation of anchors (which would include John Roberts, Erica Hill, and Tom Foreman), until the premiere of a new program hosted by CNN's chief national correspondent John King.
CNN Tonight ran until January 18, 2010, when The Situation Room was pushed into its timeslot by the premiere of Rick's List. Its permanent replacement, John King, USA, premiered on March 22, 2010.
As a transitional program in 2014, Don Lemon Tonight
On April 10, 2014, after the cancellation of Piers Morgan Live, CNN announced that it would begin to air CNN original series and documentaries in the 9:00 p.m. ET hour to replace Piers Morgan (as part of a larger push towards factual and reality content by new CNN head Jeff Zucker), and premiere the new program CNN Tonight at 10:00 p.m., which would feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Watkins%20%28admiral%29 | John A. Watkins is a United States Navy rear admiral (lower half) who currently serves as the deputy director of command, control, communications and computer systems and information technology of the United States Space Command since June 11, 2021. He previously served as the Deputy Commander of the United States Tenth Fleet and, prior to that, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and United States Tenth Fleet.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Navy admirals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui%20Little | Jacqueline Elise Little (formerly Rimando; born March 10, 1978) is an American former professional soccer player. A fast forward, she played for Bay Area CyberRays and Washington Freedom of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) and trained with the senior United States women's national soccer team. She played in the WUSA championship game in all three seasons of the league's existence and won the WUSA title on two occasions with her two different clubs.
Playing career
College
Little attended Santa Clara University and played college soccer. She graduated in 1999 with a degree in sociology. With the Broncos, Little reached the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship Final Four in each of her seasons with the team. She was appointed to the University's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.
Club
Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first official professional women's soccer league in the United States, began in 2001. Little was a sixth-round draft pick (41st overall in the global draft) by the Bay Area CyberRays. In 2001, Little started three of her 15 regular season appearances, contributing a goal and two assists. She made a brief appearance in the 2001 WUSA Founders Cup as the CyberRays secured the inaugural championship.
In November 2001 Washington Freedom traded their Brazilian forward Pretinha to the CyberRays for Little and a third round draft pick. In Washington, Little joined her twin Skylar Little, who was already on the Freedom roster.
In 2002, Little started 12 of her 20 regular season appearances, scoring three goals as the Freedom improved their seventh-place finish in 2001 to third in 2002. She featured in the championship game but the Freedom lost 3–2 to Carolina Courage. Freedom coach Jim Gabarra praised Little's performances as an impact substitute: "Jacqui really accepted her role of coming off the bench well and provided a spark last year."
Ahead of the 2003 WUSA season, Little kept fit in the off-season but also enjoyed some time away from soccer. Another successful campaign saw Little start 19 of 20 regular season games and play in the 2003 WUSA Founders Cup win.
International
In July 2005 Little was called into a senior United States women's national soccer team training camp in Carson, California.
Personal life
Little and her identical twin Skylar Little were born in the Netherlands, but grew up playing soccer in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Skylar, a defender, played college soccer with UCLA Bruins, while forward Jacqui elected to move further afield with Santa Clara.
In the 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Jacqui's Broncos team beat Skylar's Bruins 7–0. Skylar was drafted by the Washington Freedom and faced Jacqui's Bay Area CyberRays in WUSA's inaugural match, which the Freedom won 1–0.
After the collapse of WUSA, Little took an office job with Reico Kitchen & Bath. Although she liked the job she was sad to no longer be a professional soccer player: "The fact that I was sitting at a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthiola%20tricuspidata | Matthiola tricuspidata, the three-horned stock, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the shores of the Mediterranean. A halophyte, it is found in coastal stable dune grassland and coastal dune scrub, but not on shifting coastal dunes.
References
tricuspidata
Halophytes
Flora of Southwestern Europe
Flora of North Africa
Flora of Albania
Flora of Crete
Flora of Greece
Flora of Italy
Flora of Sicily
Flora of Cyprus
Flora of the East Aegean Islands
Flora of Turkey
Flora of European Turkey
Flora of Lebanon
Flora of Syria
Flora of Israel
Plants described in 1812 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s%20Wonderland%20Bakery | Alice's Wonderland Bakery is an American computer-animated fantasy comedy children's television series created for Disney Junior by Chelsea Beyl, inspired by Alice in Wonderland (1951). The series centers on Alice, a young baker who works at the Wonderland Bakery and is the great-granddaughter of the original Alice Pleasance Liddell. Rosa—the Princess of Hearts—Hattie, and Fergie the white rabbit accompany her on her culinary explorations throughout the kingdom. The show intends to highlight the importance of food, which is used as a form of self-expression and creativity. Libby Rue, Abigail Estrella, CJ Uy, Jack Stanton, Secunda Wood, and Audrey Wasilewski voice the primary characters.
The show is produced by Disney Television Animation and premiered on Disney Junior on February 9, 2022. On the same day of the premiere, the first six episodes were released early on Disney+. In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. Critical reviews of the show have generally been positive. At the 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards, Eden Espinosa (who voices the Queen of Hearts) received a nomination for Outstanding Voice Performance in a Preschool Animated Program.
Plot
The series revolves around Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original Alice Pleasance Liddell, who is a young baker working at the Wonderland Bakery. As she explores the kingdom on various culinary adventures, she is accompanied by Fergie the white rabbit, Hattie, and Rosa—the Princess of Hearts.
The teapot-shaped Wonderland Bakery has a kitchen where some of the equipment are animated, namely the oven and the mixer. The bakery also has a pantry which is vertical tunnel where the ingredients are on shelves on the sides, and anyone who enters will mostly float inside as if they are in space. The desserts (and to a lesser extent foods) the characters make are mostly magical, resulting in either troublesome or pleasant effects.
Cast and characters
Main
Libby Rue as Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original Alice Pleasance Liddell and a promising young baker at the magical Wonderland Bakery.
CJ Uy as Hattie, a "mad hatter" boy and Alice's friend who is extremely silly.
Jack Stanton as Fergie the White Rabbit, Alice's best friend who admires her greatly.
Abigail Estrella as Princess Rosa, the Princess of Hearts and Alice's creative friend.
Secunda Wood as Cookie, a magical cookbook previously owned by Alice's great-grandmother.
Audrey Wasilewski as Dinah, Alice's pet cat who always accompanies her.
Recurring
Craig Ferguson as The Doorknob
Eden Espinosa as Queen of Hearts
Jon Secada as King of Hearts
Vanessa Bayer as Tweedle Do
Bobby Moynihan as Tweedle Don't
Donald Faison as Harry the March Hare
Rich Sommer as Captain Dodo
Max Mittelman as Cheshire Cat
George Salazar as Dad Hatter
Melissa van der Schyff as Jojo
Mandy Gonzalez as Mother Rose
Yvette Nicole Brown as Mama Rabbit
Lesley Nicol as Iris
Ali Stroker as Daisy
Guest
Ana Gasteyer as Ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser%E2%80%93Meyer%E2%80%93Olkin%20test | The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) test is a statistical measure to determine how suited data is for factor analysis. The test measures sampling adequacy for each variable in the model and the complete model. The statistic is a measure of the proportion of variance among variables that might be common variance. The higher the proportion, the higher the KMO-value, the more suited the data is to factor analysis.
History
Henry Kaiser introduced a Measure of Sampling Adequacy (MSA) of factor analytic data matrices in 1970. Kaiser and Rice then modified it in 1974.
Measure of sampling adequacy
The measure of sampling adequacy is calculated for each indicator as
and indicates to what extent an indicator is suitable for a factor analysis.
Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin criterion
The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin criterion is calculated and returns values between 0 and 1.
Here is the correlation between the variable in question and another, and is the partial correlation.
This is a function of the squared elements of the `image' matrix compared to the squares of the original correlations. The overall MSA as well as estimates for each item are found. The index is known as the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) index.
Interpretation of result
In flamboyant fashion, Kaiser proposed that a KMO > 0.9 was marvelous, in the 0.80s, meritorious, in the 0.70s, middling, in the 0.60s, mediocre, in the 0.50s, miserable, and less than 0.5 would be unacceptable. In general, KMO values between 0.8 and 1 indicate the sampling is adequate. KMO values less than 0.6 indicate the sampling is not adequate and that remedial action should be taken. In contrast, others set this cutoff value at 0.5. A KMO value close to zero means that there are large partial correlations compared to the sum of correlations. In other words, there are widespread correlations which would be a large problem for factor analysis.
An alternative measure of whether a matrix is factorable is the Bartlett test, which tests the degree that the matrix deviates from an identity matrix.
Example in R
If the following is run in R with the library(psych)
library(psych)
set.seed(5L)
five.samples <- data.frame("A"=rnorm(100), "B"=rnorm(100), "C"=rnorm(100),
"D"=rnorm(100), "E"=rnorm(100))
cor(five.samples)
KMO(five.samples)
The following is produced:
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin factor adequacy
Call: KMO(r = five.samples)
Overall MSA = 0.53
MSA for each item =
A B C D E
0.52 0.56 0.52 0.48 0.54
This shows that the data is not that suited to Factor Analysis.
See also
Box's M test
Levene's test
Bartlett's test
References
Analysis of variance
Statistical tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianji | Tianji may refer to:
Tianji.com, Chinese social networking website
Tianji, Funan County, Anhui, China
Tianji Subdistrict, Huainan, Anhui, China
Guangxi Tianji F.C., Chinese football club
See also
Tian Ji ( 4th century BC), military general of the state of Qi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayala%3A%20A%20Magical%20Adventure | Bayala: A Magical Adventure (; released in some European countries as The Fairy Princess and the Unicorn) is a 2019 German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated high fantasy adventure film directed by Aina Jarvine and co-directed by Federico Milella from a script by Venessa Walder. The film is based on the toy-line of the same name by German manufacturer Schleich.
Plot
In the land of Bayala, elves and dragons live in harmony, the elves watching over dragon eggs until the Dragon's Feast, where they return the newly-hatched dragons to their parents, their bond strengthening the land's magic. One day, however, Ophira, the queen of the shadow elves, steals the dragon eggs and abducts Surah, princess of the sun elves. With the dragons gone, the land begins to wilt away while Ophira grows in strength. Years later, Surah manages to escape the shadow realm with the help of her friends Jaro and Nuray, Ophira's niece. However, growing up in the shadow realm results in her gaining the wings and magical abilities of a shadow elf.
Years later, on the coronation of Crown Princess Eyela of the sun elves, young elf Marween discovers what she believes to be a talking rock, only for the elves to realize it is a hatching dragon egg. Eyela plans a new Dragon's Feast; however, it is only possible with royalty from all the elven tribes, including the shadow elves. The elves decide that Surah and Jaro will go to the shadow realm to retrieve Nuray, while Surah's twin sister Sera and Marween will take the baby dragon, Nugur, to his parents at Dragon's Peak, while Eyela gathers the other elven royalty to prepare for the feast. As the group travels through the woods, Ophira, growing suspicious of their intentions, summons a storm spell to attack them, but Surah counteracts it with her own storm spell. They arrive at the home of Magus Bilara, who teaches Surah not to view her shadow elf abilities as being evil. Bilara supplies the group with a boat and sends them across the lake to the path to Dragon's Peak. However, Ophira, spying on the group with her ravens, discovers Nugur and sends another storm spell, causing the group to crash on the shore of the shadow realm.
With little options available, Surah resolves to send Marween to take Nugur to Dragon's Peak alone while the rest goes to retrieve Nuray. Using Surah's bird Kuack to distract the ravens, the group manages to escape and splits off. Ophira sends her shadow to contact the group, offering to trade Nuray for Nugur. As the group arrives at Shadow Rock, they are taken prisoner, but Ophira discovers they don't have the dragon and sends her ravens to Dragon's Peak to retrieve him. Meanwhile, Marween takes Nugur to Dragon's Peak and successfully reunites him with his parents. At Shadow Rock, the group defeats Ophira's guards while Surah battles Ophira. While initially overpowered, the magic of the reunited dragons strengthens her magic and allows her to defeat Ophira, turning her to stone. The dragon statues on Shadow R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Foster | Ian Foster may refer to:
Ian Foster (computer scientist) (born 1959), New Zealand–American computer scientist
Ian Foster (footballer) (born 1976), English football player and coach
Ian Foster (musician) (born 1981), Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and filmmaker
Ian Foster (rugby union) (born 1965), New Zealand rugby union player and coach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Silver | Deborah E. Silver is an American computer scientist specializing in information visualization, scientific visualization, and the use of skeletons in identifying the features of shapes. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where she is executive director of the Professional Science Master's Program and former associate dean for continuing and professional education in the School of Engineering.
Education
Silver earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University in 1984, and a master's degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986 and 1988 respectively. Her dissertation, Geometry, Graphics, and Numerical Analysis, was supervised by David P. Dobkin.
Service
She has held many service roles involving visualization in the IEEE, and serves on the 2021–2023 Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. She was vice president of the National Professional Science Master's Association from 2013 to 2017.
References
External links
VizLab, Silver's laboratory at Rutgers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Information visualization experts
Columbia University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Rutgers University faculty
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20Ocean%20Analysis | Lagrangian ocean analysis is a way of analysing ocean dynamics by computing the trajectories of virtual fluid particles, following the Lagrangian perspective of fluid flow, from a specified velocity field. Often, the Eulerian velocity field used as an input for Lagrangian ocean analysis has been computed using an ocean general circulation model (OGCM). Lagrangian techniques can be employed on a range of scales, from modelling the dispersal of biological matter within the Great Barrier Reef to global scales. Lagrangian ocean analysis has numerous applications, from modelling the diffusion of tracers, through the dispersal of aircraft debris and plastics, to determining the biological connectivity of ocean regions.
Techniques
Lagrangian ocean analysis makes use of the relation between the Lagrangian and Eulerian specifications of the flow field, namely
where defines the trajectory of a particle (fluid parcel), labelled , as a function of the time , and the partial derivative is taken for a given fluid parcel . In this context, is used to identify a given virtual particle - physically it corresponds to the position through which that particle passed at time . In words, this equation expresses that the velocity of a fluid parcel at the position along its trajectory that it reaches at time can also be interpreted as the velocity at that point in the Eulerian coordinate system. Using this relation, the Eulerian velocity field can be integrated in time to trace a trajectory,
where is a dummy integration variable. In this equation, is continuous in space – for the integration of trajectories in a Lagrangian ocean model, the velocity field must be evaluable at any point in space. Spatial interpolation is used so that the velocity field can be evaluated at points inside the grid cells outputted by OGCMs.
Time Integration
In some cases, the time integration is performed using explicit time-stepping methods. Lagrangian ocean analysis codes may make use of, for instance, an Euler method, or a higher order method, such as Runge-Kutta 4 or Runge-Kutta 4-5. If the timestep of the integration method is shorter than the time resolution of the Eulerian velocity field used as an input, then the velocity field must be interpolated in the temporal domain, so that there is a velocity value to be integrated for each time.
To ensure volume conservation in integrating the trajectories, symplectic methods, can be used. These methods are generally implicit in nature, requiring extra computation when compared to explicit methods.
Alternatively, if each component of the flow velocity within a spatial grid is assumed to vary linearly along its axis, trajectories can be analytically calculated. If the velocity field is steady-state, then trajectories can be treated as streamlines, and considered together in bundles known as stream tubes, which bound fluid flow in different parts of the spatial domain. If the velocity field provided as the starting point of the La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20sensing%20%28oceanography%29 | Remote sensing in oceanography is a widely used observational technique which enables researchers to acquire data of a location without physically measuring at that location. Remote sensing in oceanography mostly refers to measuring properties of the ocean surface with sensors on satellites or planes, which compose an image of captured electromagnetic radiation. A remote sensing instrument can either receive radiation from the earth’s surface (passive), whether reflected from the sun or emitted, or send out radiation to the surface and catch the reflection (active). All remote sensing instruments carry a sensor to capture the intensity of the radiation at specific wavelength windows, to retrieve a spectral signature for every location. The physical and chemical state of the surface determines the emissivity and reflectance for all bands in the electromagnetic spectrum, linking the measurements to physical properties of the surface. Unlike passive instruments, active remote sensing instruments also measure the two-way travel time of the signal; which is used to calculate the distance between the sensor and the imaged surface. Remote sensing satellites often carry other instruments which keep track of their location and measure atmospheric conditions.
Remote sensing observations, in comparison to (most) physical observations, are consistent in time and have good spatial coverage. Since the ocean is fluid, it is constantly changing on different spatial and temporal scales. Capturing the spatial variation of the ocean with remote sensing is considered extremely valuable and is on the frontier of oceanographic research. The high variability of the ocean surface is also the deterministic factor in the differences between land and ocean remote sensing.
Remote sensing of the ocean
Characteristics
Remote sensing is actively used in various fields of natural sciences like geology, physical geography, ecology, archeology and meteorology but, remote sensing of the ocean is vastly different. Unlike most land processes the ocean, just like the atmosphere, is variable on way shorter time scales over its entire spatial scale; the ocean is always moving. The temporal variability in the object of study determines the usability of specific data and the applicable methods and is the reason why remote sensing methods differ materially between ocean and land surfaces. A single wave on the surface of the ocean can not be tracked by satellites of today. Ocean waves crash or disappear before a new observation is made, features with this time scale are rarer on land. Unlike vegetation, snow and other land covers the ocean is opaque to most electromagnetic radiation (except for visible light) therefore the ocean surface is easy to monitor but it is a challenge to retrieve information of deeper layers. Remote sensing enables temporal analysis over vast spatial scale, since satellites have a constant revisit time, provide a wide image and are often operational for multi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakelands%20railway%20station | Lakelands railway station is a railway station along the Mandurah line on the Transperth network in Western Australia. The station is in the Mandurah suburb of Lakelands, north of Mandurah station and south of Perth Underground station. Construction started in 2021 and it opened on 11 June 2023.
Provisions for the station were made when the Mandurah line was originally built during the 2000s. There were several proposals to build the station during the 2010s, but when the state Labor Party came to power in 2017, it had committed to build the nearby Karnup station but not Lakelands station. Meanwhile, the federal Liberal Party wanted to build Lakelands station, so it committed to funding 80% of the $80 million required to build the station. The federal government refused requests for the funding to be transferred to the Karnup station project, therefore that project was put on hold so that the state could fund Lakelands station. This resulted in accusations that the federal government was pork barrelling as Lakelands station was in Liberal MP Andrew Hastie's seat whereas Karnup station was in a safe Labor seat held by Madeleine King.
In January 2021, ADCO Constructions was awarded the contract for the design and construction of Lakelands station. The design was released in May 2021 and after a few revisions, was approved. Early works began in August 2021 and major works began in late 2021. The station opened on 11 June 2023, $8 million under budget. It has 10-minute train frequency during peak, a 15-minute frequency outside peak and on weekends and public holidays, and a 30 to 60 minute frequency at night. The station has five bus routes and a 400-bay car park.
Description
Lakelands station is located within the northern Mandurah suburb of Lakelands in the state of Western Australia. It will primarily serve Lakelands and the nearby area of Madora Bay. The station is surrounded primarily by low density residential areas, although there is the Lakelands Shopping Centre approximately west of the station, Black Swan Lake immediately east of the station and Paganoni Lake north-east of the station. During the development approval process, the area's urban planning was criticised by Joint Development Assessment Panel member Ian Birch for situating the Lakelands Shopping Centre too far away from the planned station. The adjacent stations are Mandurah station to the south and Warnbro station to the north. Lakelands station is on the Mandurah line of the Transperth network, south of Perth Underground station and north of Mandurah station.
Lakelands station is immediately south of where Lake Valley Drive bridges across the Mandurah line. The station's entrance, where the bus interchange and car park are located, is to the west of the railway. The bus interchange will consist of eight sheltered bus stands and will be accessed from Lake Valley Drive. The car park contains approximately 400 bays and will be accessed via Ashwood Parkway. The train sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webwereld | Webwereld was a Dutch online newspaper about IT by the International Data Group. It was the oldest Dutch technology website until it was discontinued in 2020.
History
Webwereld was founded in 1995 by Oscar Kneppers, who got the idea after visiting Silicon Valley in the summer of that year. Another Dutch tech website Tweakers.net was founded in 1998 after Femme Taken concluded that the moderation on Webwereld was too strict.
In August 2011, Webwereld published about court documents in the Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. lawsuit. In October 2011, Webwereld started Lektober (portmanteau of leak and October in Dutch) where they publicized about software vulnerabilities in well known Dutch websites. In 2011, Trans Link Systems considered suing Webwereld because they sold RFID writers that could be used for free traveling in Dutch public transport.
Journalists
Brenno de Winter
References
External links
Computing websites
Dutch-language websites
Dutch news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawkes%20%28image%20cloaking%20software%29 | Fawkes is a facial image cloaking software created by the SAND (Security, Algorithms, Networking and Data) Laboratory of the University of Chicago. It is a free tool that is available as a standalone executable. The software creates small alterations in images using artificial intelligence to protect the images from being recognized and matched by facial recognition software. The goal of the Fawkes program is to enable individuals to protect their own privacy from large data collection. As of May 2022 Fawkes v1.0 has surpassed 840,000 downloads. Eventually the SAND Laboratory hopes to implement the software on a larger scale to combat unwarranted facial recognition software.
History
The Fawkes program was named after the fictional protagonist from the movie and comic V for Vendetta, who drew inspiration from historical figure Guy Fawkes. The Fawkes proposal was initially presented at a USENIX Security conference in August 2020 where it received approval and was launched shortly after. The most recent version available for download, Fawkes v1.0, was released in April 2021 and is still being updated in 2022. The founding team is led by Emily Wenger and Shawn Shan, PhD students at the University of Chicago. Additional support from Jiayun Zhang and Huiying Li, with faculty advisors Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng, contributed to the creation of the software. The team cites nonconsensual data collection, specifically done by such companies as Clearwater AI, as being the prime inspiration behind the creation of Fawkes.
Techniques
The methods that Fawkes uses can be identified as similar to adversarial machine learning. This method trains a facial recognition software using already altered images. This results in the software not being able to match the altered image with the actual image as it does not recognize them as the same image. Fawkes also uses data poisoning attacks, which change the data set used to train certain deep learning models. Fawkes utilizes two types of data poisoning techniques: clean label attacks and model corruption attacks. The creators of Fawkes identifies that using sybil images can increase the effectiveness of their software against recognition softwares. Sybil images are images that do not match the person they are attributed to. This confuses the facial recognition software and leads to misidientification which also helps the efficacy of image cloaking. Privacy preserving machine learning uses techniques similar to the Fawkes software but opts for differentially private model training which helps to keep information in the data set private.
Applications
Fawkes image cloaking can be used on images and apps that are used everyday. However, the efficacy of the software wanes if there are cloaked and uncloaked images that the facial recognition software can utilize. The image cloaking software has been tested on high-powered facial recognition software with varied results. A similar facial cloaking software to Fawkes is cal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Whitton | Nicola Whitton is an academic, author, and speaker.
Academic career
Nicola Whitton is Professor of Digital Learning and Play in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Northumbria University Newcastle. Prior to this role Nicola was the Director of Durham Centre for Academic Development and a Professor of Education at Durham University. Prior to joining the University Whitton worked as a Professor of Professional Learning at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Whitton holds a doctorate in the use of educational games for learning and her research focuses on the play in adulthood, in particular games and learning in the context of Higher Education, and the potential of play in teaching, research, and academic practice.
Whitton's most recent projects have focused on the potential of escape room design for learning. Whitton has also published many books and articles in the field of playfulness, games and learning. Whitton was the founder of the Playful Learning Network and former co-chair. Whitton also co-created the Playful Learning Conference which she co-chaired for the first 5 years (2016-2022).
Whitton's most recent publication (2022) Play and Learning in Adulthood: Reimagining Pedagogy and the Politics of Education available at Amazon. This book has been described as "the perfect gift for someone you don't like terribly much but want to spend a silly amount on".
Bibliography
Whitton, N. (2022). Play and Learning in Adulthood: Reimagining Pedagogy and the Politics of Education. London: Palgrave.
Whitton, N. (2014). Digital games and learning: research and theory. New York: Routledge.
Whitton, N. (2012). The place of game-based learning in an age of austerity. European Journal of E-Learning. 10/2, 249–256.
Whitton, N. & Moseley, A. (2012). Using games to enhance learning and teaching. Education. New York: Routledge.
Whitton, N. (2011). Game engagement theory and adult learning. Simulation & Gaming, 42/5, 597–610.
Whitton, N. (2010). Learning with Digital Games: A Practical Guide to Engaging Students in Higher Education. New York: Routledge.
References
External links
Nicola Whitton's Playful Learning Blog - Play Think Learn
Nicola Whitton Homepage at the Northumbria University
British women non-fiction writers
1972 births
Living people
Academics of Durham University
People educated at Boroughmuir High School
British women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagh%27s%20problem | Pagh's problem is a datastructure problem often used
when studying lower bounds in computer science named after Rasmus Pagh.
Mihai Pătrașcu was the first to give lower bounds for the problem.
In 2021 it was shown that, given popular conjectures, the naive linear time algorithm is optimal.
Definition
We are given as inputs subsets over a universe .
We must accept updates of the following kind:
Given a pointer to two subsets and , create a new subset .
After each update, we must output whether the new subset is empty or not.
References
Problems in computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALP%20Network | The CALP Network is an organisation originating in 2005 and officially launched in 2009 as The Cash Learning Partnership, with the objectives of increasing the scale and quality of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) employed by humanitarian agencies around the world to deliver aid. CVA encompasses aid delivered as cash (as physical currency or e-cash), or vouchers exchangeable for goods and services, directly to recipients, and represents an increasingly significant aid modality amounting to 17.9% of total international humanitarian assistance expenditure in 2019. CALP works to build CVA capacity within aid organisations, especially by providing training and e-learning; coordinates the use of CVA by agencies; compiles and shares knowledge and research; and contributes to the development of policy environments encompassing CVA.
CALP members include national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, donors, specialist social innovation, technology and financial services companies, researchers and academics, and individual practitioners.
CALP uses evidence to promote better humanitarian action and supports change through training, learning and policy engagement. Among others, CALP is known for the production of periodical State of the World's Cash reports, most recently in 2020.
History
The CALP Network originated in the Overseas Development Institute Humanitarian Policy Group Tsunami Cash Learning Project, convened in 2005 after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and involving five humanitarian organisations – the British Red Cross Society, Concern Worldwide, Mercy Corps, Oxfam GB, and Save the Children UK – interested in sharing lessons arising out of the use of cash support in the Tsunami's aftermath and with a view to supporting capacity building and developing training material; conducting research and gathering evidence; and advocating for coordination, contingency planning, and preparedness to encourage the appropriate use of CVA.
The partnership was formalised in 2008–2009 as the Global Learning Partnership in Cash-based Responses in Humanitarian Responses (later shortened to The Cash Learning Partnership, as known until November 2021) by founding members Save the Children UK, the British Red Cross Society, Oxfam GB, Action Against Hunger, and the Norwegian Refugee Council. The newly founded organisation received an initial £150,000 funding from the EU Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (EU ECHO); Oxfam, NRC and AAH hosted a dedicated CALP staff team. From 2010, with new funding from Visa Inc. and additional funds from EU ECHO, it built a team of coordination, communication and country-level (from 2012 regional-level) focal point staff.
Activities
CALP undertakes original research, and acts as a forum for the sharing of the knowledge and research of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). As well as the producti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeo%20festival | The Eyeo Festival is a yearly conference for artists who work with data and code. It takes place in Minneapolis. The conference began in 2011, and has taken place yearly since then, typically at the Walker Art Center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was put on pause for 2020 and 2021. Eyeo returned to Minneapolis in 2022, but was later put back on hiatus for 2023. There have been no updates on if/when Eyeo will be return.
Organizers and speakers
The event is organized by Dave Schroeder, Jer Thorp, Caitlin Rae Hargarten, and Wes Grubs.
The conference features speakers who work in data visualization, creative coders and hackers. Past speakers include Amanda Cox, Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi (who met at eyeo in 2013), Mike Bostock, Nicholas Felton, Adam Harvey, Paola Antonelli, Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, Lillian Schwartz, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry, Rachel Binx, Moritz Stefaner, Jenny Odell, Lauren McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Samuel Sinyangwe, Zachary Lieberman, Golan Levin, Everest Pipkin, Meredith Whittaker, Catherine D'Ignazio, Nadieh Bremer.
References
Conferences in the United States
Annual events in Minnesota
Computer conferences
Technology conferences
Festivals in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard%20Spider | Wizard Spider, also known as Trickbot, is a cybercrime group based in and around Saint Petersburg in Russia. Some members may be based in
Ukraine. They are estimated to number about 80, some of them may not know they are employed by a criminal organisation.
The group has been a target of Europol, Interpol, FBI and also the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom.
Key figures are suspected of being involved with online attacks using Dyre software.
History
In 2018 the groups began using Trickbot, Ryuk and Conti ransomware as their primary tools.
They have also developed espionage software Sidoh which only gathers information and does not hold it to ransom.
Modus operandi
PRODAFT wrote a technical report on them that described their attacks and organisation.
Attacks usually begin by sending large amounts of spam to targets in order to trick victims into downloading malware. They use Qbot and SystemBC malware, as well as writing their own. A separate team pinpoints valuable targets and uses Cobalt Strike to attack them. If they gain control of the system, they deploy ransomware.
They have simultaneously transferred Bitcoin from Ryuk and Conti ransomware attacks into their own wallets, implying they are carrying out several attacks using different malware.
They are very security conscious and do not openly advertise on the darknet. They will only work with or sell access to criminals they trust. They are known to belittle their victims via a leak site. The leak site is also used to publish data they have stolen.
Intelligence agencies say that the group does not attack targets in Russia, nor do key figures travel outside the country for fear of being arrested. Their software is programmed to uninstall itself if it detects that the system uses the Russian language or if the system has an IP address in the former Soviet Union.
Russia is suspected of tolerating Wizard Spider and even assisting them.
Suspected attacks
They are suspected of being behind the Health Service Executive cyberattack in the Republic of Ireland. It is the largest known attack against a health service computer system.
Associates
They are linked to UNC1878, TEMP.MixMaster, and Grim Spider.
According to a report by Jon DiMaggio entitled Ransom Mafia: Analysis of the world's first ransomware cartel the group is part of a collections of criminals known as the Ransom Cartel or Maze Cartel. They are the largest of the groups active in the cartel. The other members are: TWISTED SPIDER, VIKING SPIDER, Lockbit gang and SunCrypt gang. All use ransomware to extort money. SunCrypt have since retired.
The PRODAFT report authors found that Wizard Spider sometimes backed up data to a server and that the server contained data from systems that had also been attacked by REvil, though the authors could not conclude which of the two groups had taken the data.
References
External links
Wizard Spider Group In-Depth Analysis - report by PRODAFT, 16 May 2022
Cyberattack gangs
Hacking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20de%20la%20Wo%C3%ABvre | The Réseau de la Woëvre was a long metre-gauge rail network that operated from 1914 to 1938 in France. A branch line to Commercy branched off from the 61 km Verdun-Montmédy main line at Vaux-devant-Damloup.
History
The network operator of the Réseau de la Woëvre was granted a concession for non-profit operation by a law of 13 June 1907, and began operating it in 1914.
The Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques (SE) took over the operation in 1922. The company had opened its own network in 1914, shortly before the start of the First World War.
Route
The Réseau de la Woëvre, with a gauge of , was a railway network built in the department of Meuse and operated between 1914 and 1938 by the Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques (SE). It comprised a series of lines with a total length of .
There were four sections:
Metre gauge
Verdun - Vaux-devant-Damloup - Montmédy (61 km), opened in 1914, closed in 1938
Vaux-devant-Damloup - Commercy (66 km), opened 1914, closed 1938
Standard gauge
Robert-Espagne - Haironville (11 km), opened 1933, closed 1971
Aubréville - Varenne-en-Argonne (11 km), opened in 1918, closed in 1937
Stations and bridges
References
Metre gauge railways in France
Railway lines in Grand Est |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Antonietta%20Perino | Maria Antonietta Perino is an Italian engineer who is Director International Network Opportunities Development at the Thales Alenia Space. She has previously served as Director for Advanced Exploration Programs, in which capacity she oversaw the ExoMars research programme. In 2019, she was awarded the Stella al Merito del Lavoro by the President of Italy.
Early life and education
Perino is from Italy. She attended the Polytechnic University of Turin, where she majored in nuclear engineering. Perino took part in the first International Space University summer school, and was appointed to the faculty soon after.
Career
In 1986, Perino joined the Thales Alenia Space, where she was responsible for Italian Space Agency and European Space Agency research missions including ExoMars and the Mars sample-return. She investigated the feasibility of fabricating solar cells on the moon to facilitate space exploration. Silicon, which is used in the manufacture of solar panels, is abundant on the moon, and Perino argued that these solar panels would significantly reduce the cost of transporting power to space destinations. Thales Alenia Space was responsible for building over 50% of the pressurised volume of the International Space Station.
Perino was named Director of Advanced Exploration in 2010. She focusses on supporting early career scientists in the space industry.
Awards and honours
2010 Association Imprenditrici E Donne Dirigenti D'Azienda (AIDDA) Woman of Excellence
2019 President of Italy Stella al Merito del Lavoro
Selected publications
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Italian aerospace engineers
Italian women engineers
Polytechnic University of Turin alumni
European Space Agency
Women engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Trinidad and Tobago:
Data
2020
March
On 12 March, Trinidad and Tobago recorded its first case of COVID-19. It was a 52-year-old man who had recently been to Switzerland. He was self-isolated before he began experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. Contact tracing for the passengers of the patient's flight is being conducted.
On 13 March, a second case of COVID-19 was recorded by Trinidad and Tobago. The patient, a 66-year-old male with an unknown travel history, presented himself at a health facility and was soon isolated. Others who may have been exposed to the patient are also being quarantined.
Two more cases were confirmed on the night of 15 March, bringing the total to 4 cases. A fifth case was confirmed on 16 March. On 17 March, another two cases were confirmed. Another two cases were confirmed on 19 March.
On 21 March, 40 more cases were confirmed. Sixty eight (68) nationals left for a 7-day cruise on the Caribbean sea on 5 March. After a suspected outbreak of COVID-19 on board, the Costa Favolosa was forced to anchor off the coast of Guadeloupe for several days. The nationals returned to Trinidad and Tobago on 17 March via a chartered flight from Guadeloupe. They were immediately screened and tested at Piarco International Airport and later taken to a quarantine facility. On 21 March it was confirmed that 40 of the 68 persons that were quarantined tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 49. Also, National Security Minister Stuart Young announced the closure of all borders to everyone (including nationals & non nationals) effective midnight on March 22.
On 25 March, the first COVID-19 death occurred in Trinidad.
He was a seventy-seven-year-old male with known pre-existing medical conditions.
On 26 March, the second reported COVID-19 death was an eighty-year-old male with pre-existing medical conditions. He was among the rescued cruise ship passengers quarantined at Camp Balandra. The Ministry of Health also reported that one of the patients who tested positive, was quarantined and treated has since been discharged. Also, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced during a post Cabinet press conference in Port of Spain that non-essential workers were to stay home from March 30 to April 15.
April
On April 3, National Security Minister Stuart Young said during a virtual press conference that provisions made under the public health ordinance on March 22 would be extended until 30 April 2020, preventing bars, betting houses, clubs and religious congregations from operating.
On 5 April, Tobago recorded its first death, an elderly male with pre-existing conditions. By that date, the island had performed 74 tests of which three were positive. Overall the country had submitted 797 tests to CARPHA for testing, of which 104 were positive, resulting in seven deaths and one recovery.
On April 6, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced in a Press Conferenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Bruce | Kim B. Bruce is an American computer scientist. He is the Emeritus Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College, and was previously the Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at Williams College. He helped establish the computer science departments at both institutions. His work focuses on the design of programming languages.
Early life and education
Bruce attended Pomona College. He then received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
Bruce was the Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at Williams College for 28 years. He then moved to teach at his alma mater, Pomona.
References
External links
Faculty page at Pomona College
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pomona College faculty
American computer scientists
Williams College faculty
Pomona College alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishorechandra%20Wangkhem | Kishorechandra Wangkhem is an Indian journalist based in the north eastern state of Manipur. He is associated with a cable TV network.
Career
Wangkhem was initially an anchor and a desk-editor in ISTV Network, Imphal. In 2018, Wangkhem was arrested and put in prison for four days for two posts in which he mocked the BJP as a 'Budhu Joker Party' (a party of fools). The same year, National Security Act was invoked against Wangkhem after he posted a video on Facebook and criticized Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In Meitei language, Wangkhem had severely condemned N. Biren Singh on a video he uploaded on social media in which he called Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, a “puppet of Modi and Hindutva” for organising a function in Manipur to mark the birth anniversary of Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, who he claimed had “nothing to do with Manipur”. He condemned Biren Singh for attempting to link Lakshmibai to the freedom movement of Manipur and termed the Chief Minister’s comments and the function an “insult to the freedom fighters of Manipur”. Wangkhem had reportedly used foul language against the BJP-led government and the RSS, the ideological fountainhead of the party. He was released from Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa,in the outskirts of Imphal in April 2019, after spending 133 days in prison. Later, Wangkhem spent more than three months in prison on charges of sedition, for quoting and commenting on an Instagram war between a wife and an alleged lover of a local minister, Okram Henry Singh (nephew of former Chief Minister of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh), which went viral in Imphal social media.
In May 2021, Wangkhem was arrested for their Facebook post alluding the death of Manipur BJP President Saikhom Tikendra Singh due to COVID-19, saying cow urine and cow dung were no cures for COVID-19. He was also charged under NSA. Wangkhem was charged under NSA after getting bail. Another political activist Leichombam Erendro (founder of People's Resurgence and Justice Alliance, a political party whose candidate in 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election included rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila.) was also arrested in this case. Wangkhem's arrest over this issue sparked public outrage.
Personal life
Wanghem is married to Elangbam Ranjita and the couple has two daughters, aged five and one.
See also
Erendro Leichombam
References
Journalists from Manipur
Activists from Manipur
Political repression in India
Meitei people
People from Manipur
1979 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary%20Culture%20Index | Contemporary Culture Index (ccindex) is a multidisciplinary international database which provides access to publications in "architecture, art, cinema, cultural studies, design, literature, music, philosophy, photography and social sciences". It was founded in 2002 by Javier Anguera Phipps, serials librarian at the library of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, and in 2013 it received a grant from the Graham Foundation.
The database is updated daily and is maintained by a team of librarians based in the United States (Somerville, Massachusetts and Manhattan) and Spain (Barcelona). It is described as "address[ing] two tendencies in current scholarship: a homogenization of research sources due to the “search engine effect” (i.e., to believe that what exists and is known is what is retrieved by a commercial search engine) and a multiplicity of modes of access to online materials."
A reviewer for the Art Libraries Society of North America criticised "the deliberately amateurish look and feel of the website" while agreeing that it "responds well on mobile devices", and said that "The true value to this collection is the access to the lesser-known and out-of-print publications that can be found within this index."
It has .
References
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Scholarly databases
Arts databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera%20Chat | Libera Chat, stylized Libera.Chat, is an IRC network for free and open-source software projects. It was founded on 19 May 2021 by former Freenode staff members, after Freenode was taken over by Andrew Lee, founder of Private Internet Access.
History
Freenode
In 2017, Christel Dahlskjaer, then the head of staff at Freenode, incorporated a new company called Freenode Limited and transferred ownership to technology entrepreneur Andrew Lee. In February 2021, Dahlskjaer added the logo of Shells, a company co-founded by Lee, to the Freenode website. Following criticism from staff, Dahlskjaer resigned from the leadership of Freenode, and Freenode staff elected Tom Wesley as the new head of staff. Lee allegedly removed a blog post explaining the leadership changes and, on 11 May, appointed a new person to oversee the Freenode infrastructure. Freenode staff members resigned en masse, and some published statements outlining their view of what happened and claiming that Lee had been applying legal pressure to Wesley.
Lee denied these claims, and said that he had provided Freenode with millions of dollars and was entitled to Freenode's servers as the owner of Freenode Limited. Lee also accused Wesley of harassing Dahlskjaer and of attempting a "hostile takeover."
Libera Chat
After resigning from Freenode, the former staff created Libera Chat on 19 May 2021. They have described the network as a successor to Freenode, which they intend to focus around "free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours". Many major projects like Bitcoin, FrOSCon, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, the Free Software Foundation and Wikimedia have since moved their channels from Freenode to Libera Chat and to other IRC networks.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2021
Internet Relay Chat networks
Free software
Organizations based in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega%20Station | Vega is a station on the Stockholm commuter train network, located in the neighbourhood of Vega within Haninge municipality on the Nynäs line.
The station opened in April 2019, and was built in conjunction with the development of the surrounding area. It is located between the stations Skogås and Handen, and has a central island platform. The ticket hall is located at the southern end of the station and preparations have been made for an entrance also at the northern end.
The station has a normal weekday about 1700 boarding passengers, and it is anticipated that once Vega district is fully developed, there will be approximately 4200 boarding passengers each day. About 90 parking spaces for have been created, and bicycle parking is available, opposite the station entrance.
Travel time between Vega station and Stockholm City is approximately 25 minutes. At the station there is an artistic decoration Flos Solis Maior by artist Ulla Fredriksson.
Connecting Transport
Vega station is also served by a number of SL's bus lines.
History
Previous Station
Between 1929 and 1973, there was a small stop called Vega on the then single-track Nynäs line, however this was in the different location to the current station.
Current Station
Construction of the new station was started on 5 May 2015, with traffic starting on 1 April 2019.
Gallery
Exterior
Interior
Platform
References
Haninge Municipality
Railway stations in Stockholm County
Railway stations opened in 2019
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20%28New%20Zealand%20radio%20network%29 | Gold is a New Zealand radio station playing classic hits and classic rock of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s targeting an audience of listeners above 45 years of age.
Gold broadcasts as a network on AM and FM frequencies across New Zealand and is owned and operated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME). Its head office and studios are in central Auckland, alongside NZME's seven other radio networks.
History
Gold went to air on 1 July 2020, taking over the FM frequencies held by Mix and the AM and low power FM frequencies previously used to broadcast Radio Sport.
Gold is a pure music format, while the AM/LPFM version carries a hybrid talk/music format aimed at the rural market.
On 17 June 2022, NZME announced that, after nearly two years, Gold AM would change its name to Gold Sport from 27 June 2022. The name change reflects what is currently broadcast on the station which includes live sport commentary, The Country with Jamie Mackay and The Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly.
Programmes
Gold and Gold Sport carry the majority of the same shows.
The AM/LPFM version of Gold referred to as Gold Sport does carry different programmes at times. These are mainly sport and rural programmes that previously broadcast on Radio Sport, including The Country with Jamie Mackay and live sport commentary including Super Rugby, All Black tests, and netball.
Weekdays
Andrew Dickens hosts the morning show on Gold each weekday morning from 6am – 12pm.
Brian Kelly hosts The Country Sport Breakfast on Gold Sport from Tauranga each morning. This show is a mixture of sport and rural interviews as well as music.
Each weekday morning between 9am - noon Gold features "No Ads 'Till Noon", a commercial free three hours.
Tracey Donaldson hosts afternoons from 12pm - 6pm, with The Country with Jamie Mackay, presented from the Dunedin studios, airing between 12-1pm on Gold Sport only.
Rick Morin hosts the night show from 6pm - 11pm.
Weekends
Weekend hosts on Gold include Grant Kereama and Dan Bernstone.
Gold Sport also broadcasts live international and domestic sports commentaries.
Stations
Gold broadcasts on AM and FM frequencies as a network across New Zealand and streams on iHeartRadio.
Gold frequencies
Northland – 89.2 FM
Auckland – 105.4 FM
Tauranga – 99 FM
Gisborne – 88.3 FM
Wellington – 93.7 FM
Nelson – 104 FM
Greymouth – 91.5 FM / 97.1 FM
Reefton - 99.9 FM
Westport – 92.5 FM
Christchurch (Sumner) – 91.7 FM
Wānaka - 104.2 FM
Gold Sport frequencies
Whangarei – 729 AM
Auckland – 1332 AM
Waikato – 792 AM
Tauranga – 1521 AM
Rotorua – 1350 AM
Taupō – 107.7 FM (low power)
New Plymouth – 774 AM / 87.8 FM (low power)
South Taranaki −1557 AM / 88.2 FM (low power)
Napier – 1125 AM
Whanganui – 1062 AM
Manawatu – 1089 AM
Masterton – 87.6 FM (low power)
Wellington – 1503 AM
Nelson – 549 AM
Christchurch – 1503 AM
Ashburton – 702 AM
Timaru – 1494 AM
Dunedin – 693 AM
Southland – 558 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling%20Friends | Smiling Friends is an adult animated television series created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack for Cartoon Network's night-time programming block Adult Swim, which revolves around a small company dedicated to spreading happiness.
The pilot episode aired April 1, 2020, unannounced as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' Day event alongside the premiere of Cusack's other series, YOLO. On May 19, 2021, Adult Swim ordered a full season that was initially set to premiere in late 2021. A panel dedicated to the series was held during the Adult Swim Festival on November 12, 2021, where co-creator Zach Hadel mentioned the show will premiere "within a few months", pushing the release schedule ahead to 2022. The first season contains 9 episodes, including the pilot and an 11-minute special. The first season eventually premiered on January 10, 2022, with Adult Swim airing all episodes of the season, except for the special, in one night despite initial plans for a weekly release.
Smiling Friends has become a critical and ratings success, receiving praise for its writing, visuals, tone and humor. The series was renewed for a second season on February 9, 2022, and is set to premiere in 2024.
Premise
The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of a business dedicated to bringing happiness to its customers. A pair of employees, cynical Charlie and cheerful, optimistic Pim, try to help out the troubled people who call their company's hotline, though this task usually proves to be more challenging than anticipated due to the often deep-seated nature of their clients' problems.
Voice cast
Main
Michael Cusack as Pim Pimling / Allan / Mr. Pimling / Bliblie / Demon / Fairies / Grim / Ketchup / Mr. Frog / Pepper / Amy Pimling / Mrs. Pimling / Rex / Warren Buffett
Zach Hadel as Charlie Dompler / Glep / Bliblie / Boss Baby / DJ Spit / Desmond's Mum / Gnarly / Mip / Mr. Frog Fan / Mr. Peanut / Ronald Reagan / Salt / The Century Egg / The Devil / Charlie’s Grandma / Glep's Grandchild
Marc M. as Mr. Boss / Guy at Airport / additional voices
Recurring
David Dore as Party Bro / Forest Demon
Mick Lauer as Bug / Guy at the Gym / Crazy Cup / Elf / additional voices
Erica Lindbeck as Assistant / Jennifer the Barista / Mustard / The Princess
Chris O’Neill as Smormu / Mr. Frog Auditionee
Hans van Harken as Jimmy Fallon / Priest / Hell Faces / Billy additional voices
Rodrigo Huerta as Guy In Line / Jacob the Goblin / additional voices
Joshua Tomar as Centaur / Grandpa Glep / Cop / additional voices
Harry Partridge as Smormu Announcer / Grease / 3D Squelton
Guest
Mike Stoklasa as Desmond / himself
Finn Wolfhard as Man Living in Wall / various Bliblies
Nick Wolfhard as Graham Nelly / various Bliblies
Tom Fulp as Alpha
Jane Badler as Celebrity Show Host
David Firth as Shrimp
Dylan "Chills" as Patron
Jason Paige as Dream Singer
Perry Caravello as Simon S. Salty
Monica Franco as Charlie's girlfriend / Waitress
Jim Knobeloch as Mystery Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turu%2C%20the%20Wacky%20Hen | Turu, the Wacky Hen () is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine computer-animated film directed by Eduardo Gondell and Víctor Monigote. The title comes from the popular children's song La gallina Turuleca, itself a Spanish version of the song A galinha magricela by Brazilian songwriter Edgard Poças, and popularized by Los Payasos de la Tele. The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on 21 September 2019, and was theatrically released in Spain on 1 January 2020 by Filmax and in Argentina on 14 July 2022 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Star Distribution label. It received mixed reviews, but won Best Animated Film at the 35th Goya Awards and 8th Platino Awards.
Premise
A hen unable to lay eggs finds her life changed when she is sold to an old lady, who discovers the hen can sing.
Voice cast
Eva Hache as Turuleca
José Mota as Armando Tramas
Ana Ángeles as Isabel
Álvaro de Juana Pecos as Matías
Paula Coria Portilla as Lucía
Alejandro García as Antonio
Lorenzo Beteta as Rudy
Eva Lorenzo as Nurse
Release
Turu, the Wacky Hen had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain on 21 September 2019, and premiered in Argentina at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival on 10 November 2019. It was theatrically released in Spain on 1 January 2020 by Filmax and it was theatrically released in Argentina on 14 July 2022 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Star Distribution label. The film had a worldwide gross of $1,360,825.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics, but won Best Animated Film at the 35th Goya Awards– as the only nominated film – and 8th Platino Awards.
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2019 3D films
2019 comedy films
2019 computer-animated films
2010s Argentine films
2010s Spanish films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s musical comedy films
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Argentine animated films
Argentine children's films
Argentine musical comedy films
Spanish 3D films
Spanish computer-animated films
Spanish children's films
Spanish musical comedy films
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Animated musical films
3D animated films
Animated films about chickens
Circus films
Films set in 2019
Films distributed by Disney
Spanish animated feature films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%20Monosson | Adolf F. "Sonny" Monosson (c. 1927 - 2003) was known for having established a market in leasing Digital Equipment Corporation
(DEC) computer hardware at a time when DEC preferred that it be purchased. He also was "author of a newsletter on Digital" systems.
Early life
He enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at age 16, left for two years in the Navy, then graduated from MIT in 1948
and "earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1950." Monosson worked for his father's clothing manufacturing business for about six years, and then left "to start Berkeley Finance Co., a provider of commercial credit."
Career
His computer hardware business was named American Used Computers; his newsletter was titled Monosson on DEC. His writings also appeared on the Digital Business pages of Digital News
The photos atop his writings were notable for "his signature bow tie;" his "Turning Problems into Profit -- and Other Life Lessons"
book was published posthumously.
Family
"He married Gloria Haskins, the daughter of a Brookline doctor" the day after receiving his MBA. They named their daughters Susan, Debbie, Judith and Emily. He was survived by his wife, four daughters, and four grandchildren.
References
1920s births
2003 deaths
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Review | Digital Review was a trade magazine focusing on the market created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), at the time the second largest computer company; IBM was number one.
History
They were published independently from October 1983 thru August 1992 by Ziff-Davis. At that point, they were acquired and merged with Digital News; the new title was Digital News & Review. The Boston Globe had described the situation between the prior publication owners as "The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff, McGovern empires." The combined Digital News & Review periodical was printed from 1992 to 1996 by Reed Business Information. That title ceased publishing "due to the lack of an advertising base."
See also
Terry Shannon (IT)#Writing career
References
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines disestablished in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20skimming | Web skimming, formjacking or a magecart attack is an attack where the attacker injects malicious code into a website and extracts data from an HTML form that the user has filled in. That data is then submitted to a server under control of the attacker.
Mitigation
Subresource Integrity or a Content Security Policy can be used to protect against formjacking, although this does not protect against supply chain attacks. A web application firewall can also be used.
Prevalence
A report in 2016 suggested as many as 6,000 e-commerce sites may have been compromised via this class of attack. In 2018, British Airways had 380,000 card details stolen via this class of attack. A similar attack affected Ticketmaster the same year, with 40,000 customers affected by maliciously injected code on payment pages.
Magecart
Magecart is software used by a range of hacking groups for injecting malicious code into ecommerce sites to steal payment details. As well as targeted attacks such as on Newegg, it's been used in combination with commodity Magento extension attacks. The 'Shopper Approved' ecommerce toolkit utilised on hundreds of ecommerce sites was also compromised by Magecart as was the conspiracy site InfoWars.
According to Malwarebytes, the Magecart software has tried to avoid detection by using the WebGL API to check whether a software renderer such as "swiftshader", "llvmpipe" or "virtualbox" is used. That would indicate that the software is running in a virtual machine probably used to detect the malware rather than make a purchase.
In October 2023 a Magecraft version was reported to be inserted into all the 404 error pages of infected Web sites. The default '404 Not Found' page is used to hide and load the card-stealing code. The site visitor enters sensitive details into, for example, an order form, then sees a fake "session timeout" error, while the information is sent to the attacker.
References
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Web security exploits
Internet fraud
Carding (fraud)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psiguria | Psiguria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.
Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America.
Species:
Psiguria pedata
Psiguria racemosa
Psiguria ternata
Psiguria triphylla
Psiguria umbrosa
Psiguria warscewiczii
References
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Cucurbitaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIE%20SA | SPIE SA, corporately styled Spie, is a French company specializing in the fields of electrical, mechanical and climatic engineering, energy and communication networks. Its business is the production, operation and maintenance assistance for industrial equipments. Spie is listed on the stock exchange with the code SPIE.
The company is located in Cergy-Pontoise, close to Paris.
References
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Cergy-Pontoise
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1900
CAC Mid 60
Companies listed on Euronext Paris
French companies established in 1900 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20G.%20Fernandes | Cristina Gomes Fernandes is Professor of Computer Science at the University of São Paulo.
Fernandes has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (1987), a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo (1992) and a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1997), the title of her thesis was Approximation Algorithms for Planar and Highly Connected Subgraphs.
Her research focus lies in the research of combinatorial optimization, with emphasis on approximation algorithms, algorithm analysis and computational complexity.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Georgia Tech alumni
Brazilian women computer scientists
University of São Paulo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean%20Boat%20Report | Aegean Boat Report (ABR) is a Norwegian NGO that monitors and shares data about the movement of people in the Aegean Sea. As well as sharing data with aid organisations working directly with men, women and children seeking safety, Aegean Boat Report works to ensure the safety and security of those people, and shares regular updates with the public, to ensure the widest possible group of people are aware of what is happening to people attempting to reach safety from war, terrorism, violence and other oppression. ABR uses its data to lead on advocacy and legal challenges to promote and safeguard international law, and to protect the lives of men, women and children crossing to the EU.
Advocacy and Pushbacks
Although pushbacks – the practice of forcing men, women and children back from Greek territory without giving them the opportunity to apply for asylum, or the equally-illegal practice of forcing people out of Greece into countries in which there is good reason to believe they will be persecuted, tortured, or killed – were being carried out by the Greek almost from the beginning of the Aegean refugee response, in March 2020, the practice accelerated
From 1 March 2020 to 30 April 2021, 12,741 men, women and children were pushed back from Greek waters or the Aegean islands by the Greek government. In the same period, just 4,974 people were registered by the government as ‘new arrivals’
In most cases, those people were forced onto inflatable life rafts and set adrift at sea. Many were beaten, all were robbed of their possessions, some died, and all had their lives deliberately put at risk by the Greek government. The government, for its part, argues that all claims that pushbacks have taken place are 'fake news' developed by the Turkish government, and that all NGOs, national or international media and the UN, which have reported pushbacks, have either been fooled into doing so, or are engaged in a conspiracy against Greece. Simultaneously, the government has repeatedly told Greek media it is 'Greece's right' to prevent people landing in Greece, and to remove those who do, despite this being in direct breach of international law.
Aegean Boat Report has become an outspoken advocate on this illegal practice, including in national and international media, as well as in legal debates on issues related to people-movement. Its work is also central to an upcoming case to be heard at the European Court of Human Rights, after two children were allegedly told they would be taken to quarantine after arriving on Samos on 18 September 2020, and were instead forced into a life raft and set adrift by Greek uniformed officers.
Greek government response
The Greek government's response to Aegean Boat Report's work to protect the rights and lives of men, women and children seeking safety after fleeing war, terror, chaos and oppression, has been negative.
In early December 2020, during the global Coronavirus pandemic's second wave and in the midst of a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20sanctions | Cyber sanctions are defined as the economic and financial measures intended to change the behaviors of targets using malicious cyber activities and/or intrusions. Since cyber sanctions regimes are used by countries, these instruments are used predominantly by countries. Thus, the units of analysis are the countries in the international system. In other words, countries, rather than the non-state actors including companies, are the main actors and decision-makers when it comes to the threat and/or use of cyber sanctions at the international level. The concept of cyber sanctions is relatively new area in the world politics. Today, we have few countries took measures and enacted legislation by involving cyber-related regulation to secure their information technology. On the other hand, there are many countries, including developed countries, have not updated their legislation according to this new security area, i.e., cyber-crimes.
Origins of the concept
Cyber sanctions can be considered as an extension of the economic sanctions’ regimes. Thus, although the use of cyber sanctions and its introduction in the international relations is relatively new, the historical background of the sanctions goes deeper in the historical trajectory. First economic sanctions were used during the times of Ancient Greece, which is known as the Megarian Decree issued by the Athenian for the undesired trade behaviors of the Megarians. Later on, the economic sanctions between these two city-states because of the Megarian Decree led to the Peloponnesian War, which was fought between the Athenians and Spartans. Historical records show that economic power is important for the military power, and, thus, the influence of economic sanctions in world politics increased dramatically with the technological improvements since the industrial revolution that started in the 18th century. Especially with the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the use of economic sanctions increased exponentially and became the most important foreign policy instruments since the beginning of the 21st century.
Economic sanctions: the relationship with the cyber-related sanctions
It is important to understand the concept of economic sanctions before examining cyber sanctions because cyber sanctions are the extension of economic sanctions, and the goal of the both instruments is to use economic/financial instruments to change the target state's undesired behaviors. According to David Baldwin, economic sanctions are the options that have dynamic nature, meaning that they can escalate to interstate wars or deescalate to diplomatic negotiations. Thus, we can categorize economic sanctions as choice of options between the use military or negotiations. In the first category, the conflicting parties confront in the war theater, and in the second category the conflicting parties meet at the tables. However, when it comes to the economic sanctions, there is no need for the conflictin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Picturebook%20Research | The European Network of Picturebook Research is a pioneering network of European-based scholars researching picture books from around the world.
The Network was founded in Barcelona in 2007, at the suggestion of Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. Its core group includes children's literature scholars Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colomer, Elina Druker, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Maria Nikolajeva, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz. Since 2007, it has held a biannual international conference.
1st Conference, 2007
Conference theme: New Impulses in Picturebook Research: Aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picturebooks
Location and organisers: University of Barcelona (organised by Teresa Colomer and Cecilia Silva-Díaz)
2nd Conference, 2009
Conference theme: Beyond Borders: Art, narrative and culture in picturebooks
Location and organisers: University of Glasgow (organised by Evelyn Arizpe and Maureen Farrell
3rd Conference, 2011
Conference theme: History and Theory of the Picturebook
Location and organisers: University of Tübingen (organised by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
4th Conference, 2013
Conference theme: Picturebooks as Meeting Places: Text, image, ideology
Location and organisers: University of Stockholm (organised by Elina Drucker)
5th Conference, 2015
Conference theme: Picturebooks, Democracy and Social Change
Location and organisers: University of Gdansk (organised by Malgorzata Cackowska)
6th Conference, 2017
Conference theme: Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Present
Location and organisers: University of Padova (organised by Marnie Campagnaro)
Publications:
Ricerche Di Pedagogia E Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10029
7th Conference, 2019
Conference theme: Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks
Location and organisers: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (organised by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen and Anne-Stefi Teigland
8th Conference, 2021
Conference theme: Picture Books in Time
Location and organisers: Tel Aviv University (organised by Yael Darr)
See also
Picture book
External links
Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
Planet Picture Book (picture books from around the world)
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)
References
Books by type
Picture books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Byrne%20%28author%29 | Emma Byrne is a contemporary British writer and scientist, working in the fields of swearing, artificial intelligence and robotics.
Career
Scientist
Byrne completed her PhD in Expectation Violation Analysis at the University College London, UCL, Department of Computer Science in 2005. Her work showed how it is possible to automatically identify and rank unexpected, and therefore interesting, news from the large volumes of news are available around the clock and around the world.
She later worked at the University of Aberystwyth as part of a team that created a robot scientist. This robot used artificial intelligence to generate functional genomics hypotheses about the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and experimentally tested these hypotheses by using laboratory automation. During this time, she also won the British Computer Society AI group's annual machine intelligence award.
As part of her work in medical informatics, she studied the introduction of the summary care record, a centrally stored, shared electronic patient record and made recommendations about the implementation of large scale information technology projects in health care.
Writer
Byrne has written about science, business and culture for Wired, the FT, The Guardian and many others.
Her first book was a popular science book called Swearing is Good for You, published in 2017. The book outlines the science behind swearing: how it affects us both physically and emotionally, and how it is natural and beneficial. She concludes that often, including swear words in our language can actually help us gain credibility and establish a sense of camaraderie. The book has been described as "entertaining and often enlightening" and has been translated into multiple languages.
Her second book is called How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood. This reviews what science can teach about childhood and Byrne suggests that parents can adopt the methods of science to help raise their children. This includes focusing on the variance, as well as the average, of behaviours and characteristics, rather than following prescriptive instructions for parenthood.
Media and events
As an expert in swearing, robotics and artificial intelligence, Byrne has made numerous appearances on Sky News, BBC news and radio, and at science festivals and literary festivals. She was featured in the documentary "Holy F***" presented by Ardal O'Hanlon on RTE One, where she discussed gender differences in swearing.
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Living people
21st-century British scientists
21st-century British writers
Alumni of University College London
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Trip | The Big Trip (; also released as The Big Trip 3D and Mission: Panda) is a 2019 Russian computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Vasily Rovensky (who also acted as a writer and producer) and Natalya Nilova. The plot concerns a bear and a hare who must return a baby panda to its rightful parents after a stork mistakenly delivers it to them instead. The film was released in Russia on 27 April 2019, and was a commercial “success”, but received negative reviews saying that they “wish to give it zero stars” worldwide.
Premise
When a stork accidentally delivers a panda cub to the wrong parents, which leads bear Mic-Mic and hare Oscar to take the panda to its rightful parents. Along their journey, they meet several animals.
Voice cast
Dmitry Nazarov as Mic-Mic the grumpy Asiatic black bear
Maxim Galkin as Oscar the talkative hare
Vasily Rovensky Jr. as baby panda
Philip Kirkorov as Duke the clumsy pelican
Diomid Vinogradov as Janus the cowardly wolf, Father panda, and a trio of Golden snub-nosed monkeys
Alexey Vorobyov as Amur the poetic Siberian tiger
Tatiana Navka as Mother panda
Irina Kireeva as the red squirrel and duck #1
Anastasia Reshetnikova as duck #2
Sergey Smirnov as Carl the stork, mole and Phyton the evil Reticulated Python
Vasily Rovensky as the storks and Houston the insane moose
English Dub Cast
Daniel Medvedev as Mic-Mic, Janus, Janus' Fear
Pauly Shore as Mic-Mic (redub)
Stephen Thomas Ochsner as Oscar, Duke
Drake Bell as Oscar (redub)
Timothy John Joseph Sell as Amur
Bernard Carl Jacobsen as Mr. Panda
Katherine Marie Rommel as Mrs. Panda
Brodey Evan Milburn as Python and Houston
David Andrew Grout as Mole Stevie Rai, Carl
Jonathan Salway as Cameo Role Characters
Release
The film had its world premiere in Turkey on 12 April 2019, and was released theatrically in Russia on 27 April. It was a commercial success, grossing $2.2 million in Russia and $7.1 million worldwide. The top earning European country was the Netherlands with $1.8 million. The film was released on DVD in the United States by Lionsgate on January 14, 2020, with an English dub featuring Pauly Shore and Drake Bell in the main roles.
Sequel
A sequel, titled Big Trip 2: Special Delivery (also known as Little Bear's Big Trip), was released on 13 October 2021 in Russia. Lionsgate has acquired US distribution rights, and plans to release the film in American theatres in 2022. Pauly Shore reprises his role as Mic-Mic in the Lionsgate dub, while Jesse McCartney replaces Drake Bell as Oscar.
References
External links
The Big Trip at Film.ru, a Russian film database (in Russian)
Russian animated feature films
2019 computer-animated films
2019 films
Animated adventure films
Russian animated films
Animated films about animals
Animated films about bears
Animated films about wolves
Films about babies
Animated films about giant pandas
Films set in China
Animated films about monkeys
Animated films about snakes
Animated films about tigers
Russian children's films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Yeh | Emerald Yeh (born May 1956) was the mid-day anchor for the local news broadcast on KRON in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1984 to 2003, when KRON discontinued its local news programming.
Personal life and education
Yeh was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Zuei-Zong (sometimes romanized as Rui Zong) and Suchu Yeh, immigrants from Taiwan. Her father Zuei-Zong Yeh was pursuing his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University. After her father completed his studies the family (including Emerald's younger brother, Elm) traveled to Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Macau before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father taught mathematics at the University of Hawaii. Yeh was raised in Hawaii. She is named for her birth stone.
Yeh graduated from Kaimuki High School and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Hawaii with a major in journalism and a minor in political science, then earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Yeh married Ron Blatman in December 1993; the couple welcomed twin boys in April 1997. Larry Ching sang at Yeh's wedding.
Career
Yeh began her broadcast career as an intern for KITV (the ABC affiliate in Honolulu) in 1977, while still attending the University of Hawaii and working for the school newspaper; she ended up graduating a semester late and continued working at KITV for an additional six months before starting graduate school at Columbia in 1979. After she graduated in 1980, Yeh moved on to KPTV in Portland, Oregon for nearly three years. After KPTV, Yeh was the co-anchor for CNN Daybreak on CNN in 1983. When interviewing with CNN, she was asked why she couldn't style her hair like Connie Chung.
She moved to the Bay Area in 1984, joining KRON as the weekend co-anchor. While at KRON, Yeh gave up the 11 PM co-anchor spot to begin reporting on social issues and human interest stories in 1991; she was named the co-anchor of "Midday" and began working as the "Contact 4" consumer reporter in 1994. Nearly two decades and nine Emmy Awards later, Yeh was let go by KRON in 2003 to cut costs.
Yeh is a longtime philanthropist and advocate for Asian American issues, including serving as a founding board member for the Asian Pacific Fund.
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American women journalists of Asian descent
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Living people
People from Princeton, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady%20Makanin | Gennady (or Gennadii or Gennadiy) Semenovich Makanin (1938–2017) was a Russian mathematician, awarded the 2010 I. M. Vinogradov Prize for a series of papers on the problem of algorithmically recognizing the solvability of arbitrary equations in free groups and semigroups.
Education and career
At Moscow State University he received his undergraduate degree and in 1967 his Russian Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD). His dissertation К проблеме тождества в конечно-определённых группах и полугруппах (On the identity problem in finitely-presented groups and semigroups) was supervised by Andrey Markov Jr. and Sergei Adian.
Makanin spent his career (since 1966) working at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (since 2013 as a freelance employee). From the Steklov Institute of Mathematics he received in 1977 his Russian Doctor of Sciences degree (similar to habilitation) with dissertation Проблема разрешимости уравнений в свободной полугруппе (The problem of solvability of equations in a free semigroup). On the basis of his 1977 dissertation he was an invited speaker at the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki.
He gained international recognition for his research on combinatorial group theory and algorithmic problems in the theory of semigroups. Zlil Sela, Eliyahu Rips, and others have made important applications of Makanin-Razborov diagrams to geometric group theory.
In 1982 Makanin published a complete solution (an algorithm with proof of validity) to the problem of recognizing the solvability of equations in a free group. An English translation was published in 1983. In 1984 (followed by English translation in 1985) he published a proof, using techniques similar to those in his 1982 paper, of the decidability, for any free group, of two different formal theories generated by that free group.
Remarks on Makanin's research
Martin Davis and Julia Robinson worked unsuccessfully on the problem which was eventually solved in 1977 by Makanin:
Yuri Matiyasevich published a generalization of what he called the "celebrated theorem of G. S. Makanin about decidability of word equations".
Selected publications
References
External links
Маканин Геннадий Семёнович (Russian full list of publications)
Makanin, Gennadiy Semenovich (English full list of publications)
http://www.mathnet.ru/person/13873
1938 births
2017 deaths
Mathematical logicians
Soviet logicians
Russian logicians
Russian philosophers
Soviet mathematicians
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20in%20Telugu-language%20television | This is a list of events taking place in 2021 relating to Telugu-language television of India.
Television programmes
Shows debuting
Shows returning
Shows ending
Changes of network affiliation
Continuing television programmes
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
2021 in Indian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymyrrhine | Oxymyrrhine is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Myrtaceae.
Its native range is Southwestern Australia.
Species
Species:
Oxymyrrhine cordata
Oxymyrrhine coronata
Oxymyrrhine gracilis
Oxymyrrhine plicata
References
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae genera
Endemic flora of Southwest Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SamSam%20%28film%29 | SamSam is a 2019 3D computer-animated superhero film directed by Tanguy de Kermel based on the children's television series of the same name created by Serge Bloch. Produced by Folivari, the film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 7 December 2019, and was released theatrically in France on 5 February 2020 by StudioCanal.
Plot
SamSam lives a rich life with an array of friends, but the one thing he has yet to attain are actual superpowers. While he tries to figure it out, he must prepare to fight monsters and learn what it means to be a hero.
Voice cast
Isaac Lobé-Lebel/Tucker Chandler] as SamSam
Lior Chabbat/Lily Sanfelippo as Mega
Jérémy Prevost/Dino Andrade as King Marthial the 1st
Sébastien Desjours/Michael Yurchak as SamTeddy
Léopold vom Dorp/Connor Elias Andrade as SweetPea
Victoire Pauwels/Faith Graham as SuperJulie
Léovanie Raud/Michelle Deco as Lady Fathola
Laurent Maurel/Cam Clarke as Marthientist
Damien Boisseau/Evan Smith as SamDaddy
Marie-Eugénie Maréchal/Karen Strassman as SamMummy
Philippe Spiteri/Kellen Goff as MuckyYuck
Simon Brunner/Addie Chandler as Sumojo
Françoise Pavy/Karen Strassman as GrannyPea
Magali Rozensweig/Caitlin Prennace as Miss Bridget
Julien Crampon/Micheal Yurchak as Tuffy
Emmylou Homs/Caitlin Prennace as Catty
Martin Spinhayer/Kellen Goff as GloomyGlob Monster/The Wettabeds
Philippe Roullier as the television presenter
Release
SamSam premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 7 December 2019, and was released theatrically in France on 5 February 2020. It was distributed by StudioCanal. The film opened with $532,953 in France for a total gross of $2,315,818, and a worldwide total of $3,197,240. Outside of France, Poland had the largest number of admissions for SamSam with over 35,500, amounting to $171,672 at the Polish box office.
Reception
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 20% based on 5 critical reviews. The SamSam film was a critical failure, but a commercial success.
References
External links
Belgian animated films
2019 films
2010s French-language films
French-language Belgian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20India%20data%20breach | The 2021 Air India cyberattack was a cyberattack that affected more than 4.5 million customers of Air India airlines.
Cyberattack
On 21 May 2021, it was reported that Air India was subjected to a cyberattack whereas the personal details of about 4.5 million customers around the world were compromised including passport, credit card details, birth dates, name and ticket information.
Air India's data processor, SITA which is a Swiss technology company known for offering passenger processing and reservation system services reported the data breach to Air India in around February 2021. The data breach involved all information which was registered in the SITA data processor between 26 August 2011 and 20 February 2021. It was also revealed that the cyberattackers gained access to the systems for a period of 22 days.
It was reported that the compromised servers by the hackers were later secured and Air India took steps by engaging external data security specialists. Air India also guaranteed its passengers that there was no conclusive evidence on whether any misuse of the personal data has been reported. The airlines also urged and encouraged the passengers to immediately change their passwords.
References
See also
EasyJet hack
2018 British Airways cyberattack
List of security hacking incidents
List of data breaches
Cybercrime in India
Computer security
Air India
Cyberattacks on airlines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20and%20Topological%20Inference | Geometric and Topological Inference is a monograph in computational geometry, computational topology, geometry processing, and topological data analysis, on the problem of inferring properties of an unknown space from a finite point cloud of noisy samples from the space. It was written by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Frédéric Chazal, and Mariette Yvinec, and published in 2018 by the Cambridge University Press in their Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics book series. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has suggested its inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries.
Topics
The book is subdivided into four parts and 11 chapters. The first part covers basic tools from topology needed in the study, including simplicial complexes, Čech complexes and Vietoris–Rips complex, homotopy equivalence of topological spaces to their nerves, filtrations of complexes, and the data structures needed to represent these concepts efficiently in computer algorithms. A second introductory part concerns material of a more geometric nature, including Delaunay triangulations and Voronoi diagrams, convex polytopes, convex hulls and convex hull algorithms, lower envelopes, alpha shapes and alpha complexes, and witness complexes.
With these preliminaries out of the way, the remaining two sections show how to use these tools for topological inference. The third section is on recovering the unknown space itself (or a topologically equivalent space, described using a complex) from sufficiently well-behaved samples. The fourth part shows how, with weaker assumptions about the samples, it is still possible to recover useful information about the space, such as its homology and persistent homology.
Audience and reception
Although the book is primarily aimed at specialists in these topics, it can also be used to introduce the area to non-specialists, and provides exercises suitable for an advanced course. Reviewer Michael Berg evaluates it as an "excellent book" aimed at a hot topic, inference from large data sets, and both Berg and Mark Hunacek note that it brings a surprising level of real-world applicability to formerly-pure topics in mathematics.
References
Mathematics books
Computational geometry
Computational topology
Geometry processing
2018 non-fiction books
Cambridge University Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Floyd%20and%20Anti-Racist%20Street%20Art%20database | The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database functions as a free virtual art library. It was launched on June 5, 2020, by Dr. Todd Lawrence and Dr. Heather Shirey, professors at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The project began with Dr. Shirey seeing graffiti that read "mama" on the side of a building in Minneapolis and has grown into a collection of more than 2,000 images of street art from around the world, including Syria. A prominent mural from the Black Lives Matter art in Portland, Oregon, by indigenous artist Xochilt Ruvalcaba, also served as inspiration. The artwork expresses rage, pain, mourning, and trauma.
The collection aims to be deeply moving; each piece is unique to the community where it was created. The works memorialize victims of police brutality and are intended to inspire conversation about police accountability. Each artwork is identified with the artist, the story behind its creation, and where it is located. In addition to collecting snapshots, the archive documents changing artwork's evolution. Updated pictures of art at different points in time capture a piece's transient nature.
The collection is intended to preserve the artwork for future generations. "This database will serve as a resource to show people that there was this powerful movement and an articulation of anti-racist messages and art that came out of this movement," Dr. Todd Lawrence, one of the project creators, says. "People can try to paint over and wash it off, but we hope that because of our database, it can't be washed over completely."
Most images were collected and submitted to the project by crowdsourcing - people on the street uploading and emailing their photos. "The smallest tag or a beautiful mural... we want every picture of every piece of art," said Dr. Todd Lawrence.
Urban Art Mapping
The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Archive is the work of Urban Art Mapping, a multiracial and multi-generational team of researchers based at the University of St.Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The project launched the Covid-19 Street Art database (March 16, 2020) and the George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database (June 5, 2020).
Art historian Dr. Heather Shirey, one of the three faculty directors of the team, had the idea to map COVID-19 pandemic-related street art for future education and research, and launched the database, which includes images from around the world, and became a model for the George Floyd and Antiracist Street Art database.
See also
List of Black Lives Matter street murals
Memorials to George Floyd
References
External links
George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database
Covid-19 Street Art database
Urban Art Mapping
Resources (all media coverage of the Urban Art Mapping Project)
2020 establishments in the United States
Anti-racism in the United States
Memorials to George Floyd
Street art
Black Lives Matter art
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie%20J%20Pilato | Herbert James Pilato (born October 9, 1960) is an American writer and talk show host best known for his books about classic television programming in the United States.
Biography
Early life and education
Herbert James Pilato was born on October 9, 1960, in Rochester, New York to Frances Mary Pilato (née Turri) and Herbert Pompeii Pilato. His parents were of Italian descent. He completed a bachelor's degree from Nazareth College of Rochester, and also attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
An aspiring actor, he applied in late 1983 to become an NBC page, and was accepted six months later. He made uncredited appearances in several television shows, but never landed a breakthrough role. In 1989, he returned to Rochester to care for his aging parents and to write.
Pilato's all-time favorite TV show, the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, was the subject of his first book, The Bewitched Book, published in 1992. He followed it with a companion guide to the early 1970s television series Kung Fu. Writing for AsianWeek, Gerald Lim described The Kung Fu Book of Caine (1993) as, "everything and anything one could possibly want to know – and not want to know" on the subject, and "an overly heroic portrait of Caine". A second book about the series, The Kung Fu Book of Wisdom, followed in 1995. Given Pilato's subject expertise, he was hired to consult on the 2005 film Bewitched, a re-imagining of the original series. A revised edition of his first book, retitled Bewitched Forever, was published in 2004.
Pilato told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that his usual practice when researching a show is to interview as many people involved with it as possible, and that directors, writers, and producers are often "more open to interviews as they don't get the chance to talk about themselves as much as actors". He also hires a team of fans to help with trivia. He started writing a book about The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman in 1993, and finished it two years later, but it was not published until 2007, after he found a new publisher. Nearly half of the book is devoted to an episode-by-episode guide. Brett Taylor, of Video Watchdog, wrote that the volume, "earns its definitive title hands down; even for those with only a casual interest, it proves more diverting than one might expect". Another pop-culture/media tie-in book, about Life Goes On, quickly followed, as did as a book drawing on his experience as an NBC page.
In 2012, Pilato returned to Bewitched and its star Elizabeth Montgomery with his first biography, Twitch Upon a Star. Based to a great extent upon his four interviews with Montgomery, who died in 1995, Pilato's work explores her complicated life. A year later, he followed with The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery.
In 2019, Pilato published a biography of television star Mary Tyler Moore.
As of 2021, Pilato hosts Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, a talk show on Amazon Prime about classic TV.
Works
References
1960 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikato%20District%20Health%20Board%20ransomware%20attack | In mid-May 2021 hospital computer systems and phone lines run by the Waikato District Health Board (DHB) in New Zealand were affected by a ransomware attack. On 25 May, an unidentified group claimed responsibility for the hack and issued an ultimatum to the Waikato DHB, having obtained sensitive data about patients, staff and finances. The Waikato DHB and New Zealand Government ruled out paying the ransom.
Background
According to the Stuff journalist Dileepa Fonseka, the Ministry of Health had entered into negotiations with information technology industrial vendors in 2019 to purchase a more advanced cybersecurity system for the country's district health boards. However, these negotiations were abandoned since the Ministry lacked the budget to purchase the proposed system.
Incident
The cyber attack on the Waikato District Health Board that began on 19 May 2021 brought down all IT systems and phone lines. Kevin Snee, chief of Waikato DHB, said that he did not know who was responsible for the attack or if it was related to the Health Service Executive cyberattack.
On 25 May 2021, The New Zealand Herald reported that an unidentified group had claimed responsibility for the hack. This group had reportedly accessed confidential patient notes, staff details, and financial information. The group also claimed that they had given the Waikato DHB seven days to contact them following the cyber attack. The group reportedly deleted most of the backup files but offered to help restore the systems if the Waikato DHB responded to their communications. In response, the Waikato DHB chief executive Snee refused to confirm or deny whether the DHB had been in contact with the hackers. Snee also stated that the DHB would not be paying any ransom.
On 27 May, senior Waikato DHB officials confirmed that hackers had seized patient and staff details and that files sent to several media including The New Zealand Herald contained genuine information. These files have been handed to the Police. DHB chief executive Snee confirmed that the body was working with privacy experts and providing affected patients with support. Snee stated that the Waikato DHB's COVID-19 vaccination programme had not been affected by the cyberattack and was ten percent ahead of its rollout target. Emsisoft cybersecurity expert Fabian Wosar speculated that the hacker's ransom demand for the Waikato DHB's hacked data was likely in the millions or even tens of millions of dollars; potentially making it the biggest Zepellin data breached if confirmed.
Impact
Some surgeries were postponed as a result of the attack, but most went ahead as planned.
Two Air New Zealand flights were cancelled after the airline was unable to get a negative COVID-19 certificate for a crew member who was to work on both flights.
On 26 May, an unidentified doctor claimed that seriously ill cancer patients could be flown to Australia for treatment due to the disruption and potential data breach caused by the Waikato DHB cyb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Centre%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | The National Cyber Security Centre in New Zealand is a branch of the Government Communications Security Bureau. They have been assisting the Waikato District Health Board with the May 2021 attack on their IT systems.
References
External links
National Cyber Security Centre homepage
New Zealand intelligence agencies
New Zealand Public Service departments
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%2040 | The Cal 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by Bill Lapworth as an offshore racer and first built in 1963.
The boat became an acclaimed racer and was also a commercial success. Sailboatdata terms it, "one of the most influential designs and successful racing boats ever".
Production
The design was commissioned by George Griffith, a successful racing sailor, who was a member of Los Angeles Yacht Club. It is said that Griffith sketched the design on the back of a napkin and showed it to Bill Lapworth who designed the boat. The design was offered to a number of builders, who declined to build it. Griffith agreed to back the building of the first ten boats constructed, which convinced Jack Jensen to start production.
The design was built by Jensen Marine in the United States, from 1963 until 1971, with 108 boats completed, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Cal 40 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a spooned, raked stem; a raised counter, transom; an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast.
The flat-bottomed hull design allows sustained wave surfing and commiserate high speeds.
A raised-deck version was also designed, but, despite orders, only one was built and later orders were cancelled.
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4108 diesel engine of for docking and maneuvering.
The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settee berths and two pilot berths in the main cabin and two berth aft. The galley is located on the port side at the companionway ladder. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.
The design has a hull speed of .
Operational history
The design has won many races, including the 1964 Southern Ocean Racing Conference, Newport Bermuda Race and the Transpacific Yacht Race, among others. Tom Burden notes, "Cal 40s have twice achieved the record of being the biggest one-design fleet ever in the biennial Transpac Race, with 14 boats in 1966 and 2005."
In a 2020 review Tom Burden wrote, "today the Cal 40 has attained true 'cult' status as a design that is sought after, restored and passed down through multiple generations of families. Try searching for Cal 40s that are for sale on Yachtworld and other sites, and you'll likely come up empty. Folks spend multiple years and a quarter of a million dollars restoring Cal 40s and fitting them out with the latest sails, gear and electronics ... The Cal 40 has endured because it is not only a relatively quick downwind raceboat, but also a sweet-sailing light cruiser that, in the words of Cal 40 owner Stan Honey, 'has no bad habits. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn%20blocking | Porn blocking or porn blocker can refer to:
Internet censorship, when performed at the network level
Content-control software, when performed at the device level |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchclub | Lunchclub is an American social platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect users with common interests and objectives. Lunchclub operates remote-first, and lacks an official physical headquarters. The platform is accessible through a mobile app or a web browser.
History
Lunchclub was established in November 2017. The parent company of Lunchclub is Elliot Technologies, Inc. The platform started its services in cities across the United States and United Kingdom and, as of 2021, it is available worldwide.
Lunchclub received $4 million in a seed funding round from a16z to connect professionals offline. In 2020, Lunchclub raised a $24 million series A round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners. After the series A funding, the company's estimated valuation is above $100 million. Investors including Michael Ovitz, Max Levchin, Adam D’Angelo, Vlad Tenev, and Ruchi Sanghvi have also helped fund the company.
In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lunchclub added video chat to the platform, using the same technology.
Features
Lunchclub uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect people that share similar interests, values, and goals. The user defines their interests including career, funding, partnerships, new business ideas, and more. Then, its machine learning and AI process create profiles from user information and their public data sources. They then match people up, using this data, based on their interests and objectives.
References
Social media companies
American companies established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhipu%20Road%20station | Zhipu Road station () is a metro station on Line 6 of the Hangzhou Metro in China. It was opened on 29 April 2021. It is located in the Xihu District of Hangzhou.
References
Coordinates on Wikidata
Railway stations in China opened in 2021
Hangzhou Metro stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra%20Glide | Elektra Glide is a futuristic motorcycle racing game developed by designer Adam Billyard for the Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 home computers. It was published in 1985 by English Software. Mastertronic also published the game in the US.
Gameplay
The objective of Elektra Glide is to stay on the track, and reach the tunnel leading to the start of the next section before time runs out. Many strange obstacles stand in the way of achieving this goal, such as spinning prisms, bouncing globes, and airships that drop columns in the player's path. There are three different zones to race across: America, Australia and the British mainland with each zone having different landscape graphics.
Reception
Elektra Glide was a commercial success in Europe, selling around forty to fifty thousand units. The game received very positive reviews in the contemporary press. Computer and Video Games reviewer praised the game and rated it as "the second best Atari game released this year" Computer Gamer magazine review was also very positive and summed up: "One of the best Atari/Commodore games that I have seen for a long time - go out and buy it now!"
References
External links
1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Science fiction racing games
Motorcycle video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Australia
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the United States
Mastertronic games
English Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pudding | The Pudding is a digital publisher which produces data journalism for storytelling. Articles in the publication are visual essays which emphasize data visualizations and use fewer words than conventional journalism.
The publication does not have central editorial planning, and instead invites its journalists to publish according to their interests and expertise.
The organization was founded in 2017 and as of January 2021 had 8 full time journalists on staff.
The organization won a Peabody Award in 2017 and an Online Journalism Award in 2023.
References
External links
Data journalism
2017 establishments in the United States
Internet properties established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Bouyer-Decitre | Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (published as Patricia Bouyer, born 1976) is a French theoretical computer scientist known for her research on timed automata, model checking, and temporal logic. She is a senior researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and director of the Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles (Formal Methods Lab) of CNRS and the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
Education and career
Patricia Bouyer was born in 1976. She became a student at ENS Paris-Saclay (known at that time as ENS Cachan) in 1996, earning a maîtrise (master's degree) in mathematics in 1997, a second maîtrise and diplôme d'études approfondies in computer science in 1998, and passing the agrégation in mathematics in 1999.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification of CNRS and ENS Cachan; her dissertation, Modèles et Algorithmes pour la Vérification des Systèmes Temporisés (Models and Algorithms for the Verification of Timed Systems), was supervised by . She completed a habilitation at Paris Diderot University in 2009, with the habilitation thesis From Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis of Timed Systems.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University in 2002, and also in 2002 became a junior researcher for CNRS. She was promoted to senior researcher in 2010.
Contributions
Bouyer is known for several significant results on timed automata. In work beginning in 1997, and culminating in a 2003 publication with Luca Aceto, Augusto Burgueno and Kim Larsen, Bouyer characterized the properties that can be described in terms of reachability in timed automata. With Petit and Denis Thérien, she found analogues of Kleene's theorem for timed automata, showing their equivalence with certain classes of formal languages. With Catherine Dufourd, Emmanuel Fleury and Antoine Petit, she introduced updatable timed automata, extensions of timed automata with operations that update the timing variables rather than merely resetting them to zero, and found several important subclasses of these automata for which the emptiness problem is decidable.
In temporal logic, Bouyer worked with Fabrice Chevalier and Nicolas Markey to prove the greater expressiveness of one form of temporal logic, timed propositional temporal logic, over another, metric temporal logic. Other topics in her research include the application of timed automata to fault detection, the addition of costs and energy constraints to timed automata, and the existence of Nash equilibria in timed versions of game theory.
Recognition
Bouyer-Decitre won the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2007. She was the 2011 winner of the Presburger Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Selected publications
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
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